Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2022

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1. Dear Scott
   Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
2. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
3. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
4. Midnight Rocker
   Horace Andy
5. The Car
   Arctic Monkeys
6. Autofiction
   Suede
7. YTI⅃AƎЯ
   Bill Callahan
8. Fear of the Dawn
   Jack White
9. Stumpwork
   Dry Cleaning
10. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
11. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
12. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
13. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
14. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
15. Cruel Country
    Wilco
16. I Survived, It's Over
    Rich Ruth
17. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
18. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
19. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
20. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
21. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
22. Carry Me Home
    Levon Helm and Mavis Staples
23. Welcome 2 Club XIII
    Drive-By Truckers
24. Reset
    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
25. Angels & Queens – Part I
    Gabriels
26. The Spur
    Joan Shelley
27. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
28. Tresor
    Gwenno
29. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
30. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
31. Timbuktu
    Oumou Sangaré
32. Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
33. Forfolks
    Jeff Parker
34. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
35. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
36. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
37. Ali
    Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
38. Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
39. The Boy Named If
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
40. The Mars Volta
    The Mars Volta
41. Breaking The Thermometer
    Leyla McCalla
42. Heartmind
    Cass McCombs
43. Gold
    Alabaster DePlume
44. Fear Fear
    Working Men's Club
45. The Overload
    Yard Act
46. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
47. Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4
    Johnny Marr
48. For The Sake of Bethel Woods
    Midlake
49. Anaïs Mitchell
    Anaïs Mitchell
50. Jazz Codes
    Moor Mother
51. (watch my moves)
    Kurt Vile
52. All Of Us Flames
    Ezra Furman
53. Heart Is Strange
    Xpropaganda
54. Good and Green Again
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
55. Dentures Out
    Proclaimers
56. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
57. Shebang
    Oren Ambarchi
58. Most Normal
    Gilla Band
59. Fossora
    Björk
60. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
61. See You in the Stars
    Lightning Seeds
62. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
63. Riderless Horse
    Nina Nastasia
64. Loggerhead
    Wu-Lu
65. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
    Brian Eno
66. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
67. Spencer Gets It Lit
    Jon Spencer & the HITmakers
68. The Bible
    Lambchop
69. Dropout Boogie
    The Black Keys
70. For McCoy
    Eiko Ishibashi
71. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
72. The Line Is A Curve
    Kae Tempest
73. Recordings from the Åland Islands
    Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
74. LP.8
    Kelly Lee Owens
75. I Got a Love
    Elizabeth King