Nothing is better than listening to new tunes, and 2022 has been an immaculate year for music. As miserable as the average day is, at least we have a plethora of records to digest. Fun! I still have many records on my list to check out, but for now, here are the best albums of 2022 so far, the October edition (albums I’ve enjoyed that were released from January to October 2022).

700 Bliss – Nothing to Declare

Alabaster dePlume – Gold – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love

Aldous Harding – Warm Chris

Alex Cameron – Oxy Music

Alex G – God Save the Animals

Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep

Animal Collective – Time Skiffs

Ari Lennox – age/sex/location

Artificial Brain – Self-Titled

Axel Boman – LUZ / Quest for Fire

Beabadoobee – Beatopia

Beach House – Once Twice Melody

Beth Orton – Weather Alive

Benny the Butcher – Tana Talk

Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There

Black Thought & Danger Mouse – Cheat Codes

Black Midi – Hellfire

Boris – W

Boris – Heavy Rocks

Chat Pile – God’s Country

Charlotte Adigéry / Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer

Cheekface – Too Much to Ask

CLOAKROOM – Dissolution Wave

Conway The Machine – God Don’t Make No Mistakes

Daniel Rossen – You Belong There

Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Destroyer – Labyrinthitis

Duster – Together

Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!

EarthGang – Ghetto Gods

Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter

FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS

Florence + the Machine – Dance Fever

Florist – Florist

Foxtails – fawn

Freddie Gibbs – $oul $old $eparately

Gospel – The Loser

Grace Ives – Janky Star

Haru Nemuri – Shunka Ryougen

Hatchie – Giving the World Away

Huerco S. – Plonk

Iannis Xenakis – Electroacoustic Works

Jid – The Forever Story

Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B

Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers

Kilo Kish – American Gurl

Krallice – Crystalline Exhaustion

Leikeli47 – Shape Up

Lobsterfight – Sun Soaking

Lupe Fiasco – Drill Music in Zion

Machine+ – Variations On…

Metric – Formentera

MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs

Nilüfer Yanya – Painless

OFF! – Free LSD

Oso Oso – Sore Thumb

Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon

Perfume Genius – Ugly Season

Petrol Girls – Baby

Porridge Radio – Back to the Radio

Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry

Quelle Chris – Deathfame

Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing

Ravyn Lenae – HYPNOS

Rex Orange County – Who Cares?

Roc Marciano / The Alchemist – The Elephant Man’s Bones

Rosalía – MOTOMAMI

Saba – Few Good Things

Sadness – Tortuga

Sam Prekop / John McEntire – Sons Of

SAULT – Air

Silvana Estrada – Marchita

Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever

Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems

Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful

Sports – Get A Good Look

Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights

Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen

Sweet Trip – Seen / Unseen

The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie

The Chats – Get Fricked

The Cool Kids – Before Sh!t Got Weird

The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention

Tomberlin – I don’t know who needs to hear this…

Toro y Moi – Mahal

Viagra Boys – Cave World

Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens – In Common III

Wet Leg – Wet Leg

Wormrot – Hiss

Yard Act – The Overload

yeule – Glitch Princess