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2022 Music

The Alternative: Top 50 Albums of 2022

28 December 2022

Blue Rev - Alvvays

The Alternative: Top 50 Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
  2. Hallelujah Hell Yeah
    String Machine
  3. Pool Kids
    Pool Kids
  4. Boat Songs
    MJ Lenderman
  5. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
  6. Cave World
    Viagra Boys
  7. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
  8. Muna
    Muna
  9. The Hum Goes on Forever
    The Wonder Years
  10. New Preoccupations
    Caracara
  11. Hygiene
    Drug Church
  12. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
  13. Little Green House
    Anxious
  14. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
  15. Prince Daddy & The Hyena
    Prince Daddy & the Hyena
  16. MTV
    Mo Troper
  17. Sweet Tooth
    Mom Jeans.
  18. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
  19. Emotional Creature
    Beach Bunny
  20. OUTOFBODY
    Dazy
  21. Love Me Forever
    Pinkshift
  22. A Place For Owls
    A Place For Owls
  23. God Save the Animals
    Alex G
  24. Get In Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation
    Forests
  25. Angel in Realtime
    Gang of Youths
  26. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  27. Havasu
    Pedro the Lion
  28. Heal My Head
    Valleyheart
  29. ILYSM
    Wild Pink
  30. Stew
    A Will Away
  31. Suckerpunch
    Chloe Moriondo
  32. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
  33. Please Have a Seat
    Nnamdï
  34. I'm Scared That's All There Is
    Ben Quad
  35. In My Car
    Rat Tally
  36. Un Verano Sin Ti
    Bad Bunny
  37. Unaltered Perspective
    Inclination
  38. Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again
    Mt. Oriander
  39. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
  40. New Low
    Greet Death
  41. Please Don't Take Me Back
    Martha
  42. Giving the World Away
    Hatchie
  43. The Long Way, The Slow Way
    Camp Trash
  44. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
  45. 40 oz. to Fresno
    Joyce Manor
  46. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
  47. Glory Days
    snow ellet
  48. Cleanse
    Joywave
  49. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
  50. For Nasal Use Only
    Carpool

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