Year-End Lists

Hanif Abdurraqib: 100 Favorite Albums of 2022, posted with links to good writing and a list of favorite EPs

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Broken Hearts Club
   Syd
2. Where the Heart Is
   Sweet Pill
3. Freakjet
   Vel Nine
4. Endure
   Special Interest
5. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
6. Lies About the War
   Jacob Banks
7. Back Home
   Big Joanie
8. Prism
   Say She She
9. Black graffiti
   Unruly
10. After Dinner We Talk Dreams
    Michelle
11. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
12. Cometa
    Nick Hakim
13. Save the Baby
    Enumclaw
14. $/He Who Feeds You...Owns You
    The Brother Moves On
15. The New Faith
    Jake Blount
16. Muna
    Muna
17. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
18. Zeal & Ardor
    Zeal & Ardor
19. The Hum Goes on Forever
    The Wonder Years
20. JúJú & The Flowerbug
    Sunni Colón
21. Building Something Beautiful For Me
    Loraine James
22. Days Pass Strange
    Aloe Vera & Steel Tipped Dove
23. Love Me Forever
    Pinkshift
24. Onwards!
    Contour
25. Running with the Hurricane
    Camp Cope
26. Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
    Mavi
27. Self Help
    Future Teens
28. Spirituals
    Santigold
29. The Forever Story
    JID
30. Angels & Queens – Part I
    Gabriels
31. Luv 4 Rent
    Smino
32. The Long Way, The Slow Way
    Camp Trash
33. Nothing's Ever Fine
    Oceanator
34. Grief
    Samora Pinderhughes
35. raja's sun
    iblss
36. Regards to the End
    Emily Wells
37. Frank
    Fly Anakin
38. DEATHFAME
    Quelle Chris
39. It Was a Home
    KAINA
40. Summer At Land's End
    The Reds, Pinks & Purples
41. More Black Superheroes
    Westside Boogie
42. Fawn
    foxtails
43. They Fear Us
    Ithaca
44. Dirt Femme
    Tove Lo
45. Heterosexuality
    Shamir
46. Jazz Codes
    Moor Mother
47. The Loser
    Gospel
48. Spirit Roaming
    AKAI SOLO
49. I Told Bessie
    Elucid
50. Black Girl Magic
    Honey Dijon
51. Bigg Perrm
    Psalm One X Custom Made
52. The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
    PUP
53. Fall In Love Not In Line
    Kids On A Crime Spree
54. Heaven Come Crashing
    Rachika Nayar
55. The Loneliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
56. Meet Me at the Gloaming
    A.O. Gerber
57. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
58. Blue Skies
    Dehd
59. Dimensional Bleed
    Holy Fawn
60. can you see me?
    Maro
61. God's Country
    Chat Pile
62. Support Your Local Nihilist
    Frances Chang
63. Cyberkiss
    Blackstarkids
64. Shape Up
    Leikeli47
65. Tortured in the Name of God's Unconditional Love
    Vinnie Paz
66. Great News!
    daddy's boy
67. When Do We Get Paid
    Staples Jr. Singers
68. Human Capital
    Bad Breeding
69. Remember Your North Star
    yaya bey
70. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
71. As The Moon Rests
    A.A. Williams
72. Hypnos
    Ravyn Lenae
73. Breaking The Thermometer
    Leyla McCalla
74. Bring Me Back When The World Is Cured
    Sadistik x Kno
75. Breakfast in Phantasia
    Clouds in a Headlock
76. Z1
    Zora
77. Blue Water Road
    Kehlani
78. Thirteen Moons
    Did You Die
79. Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
    Bob Vylan
80. Could We Be More
    Kokoroko
81. Survivor's Guilt
    Mozzy
82. I paint you, I paint you, I paint you
    Goth Lipstick
83. Grapefruit Radio
    Rhys Langston
84. Snofall
    Jeezy & DJ Drama
85. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
86. Black Radio III
    Robert Glasper
87. Ivory
    Omar Apollo
88. Houston Riots
    Fade 'Em All
89. The Last Thing Left
    Say Sue Me
90. Harry's House
    Harry Styles
91. Audio Adults
    Honestly Same
92. Inshallahlaland
    Saint Abdullah
93. a tape called component system with the auto reverse
    Open Mike Eagle
94. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
95. For All Debts Public and Private
    Defcee and BoatHouse
96. Fuse
    NicFit
97. When Flowers Bloom
    Adria Kain
98. Please Don't Take Me Back
    Martha
99. In Babylon!
    SB the Moor
100. Zhigeist
     Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow