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2022 Music

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

07 December 2022

Preacher's Daughter - Ethel Cain

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

  1. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
  2. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
  3. ILYSM
    Wild Pink
  4. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
  5. I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This...
    Tomberlin
  6. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
  7. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
  8. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
  9. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
  10. Endure
    Special Interest
  11. Motomami
    Rosalía
  12. Florist
    Florist
  13. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
  14. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
  15. God Save the Animals
    Alex G
  16. Ugly Season
    Perfume Genius
  17. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
  18. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
  19. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
  20. Glitch Princess
    yeule
  21. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
  22. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
  23. Fossora
    Björk
  24. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
  25. Heaven Come Crashing
    Rachika Nayar
  26. Visitor
    Empath
  27. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
  28. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
  29. God's Country
    Chat Pile
  30. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
  31. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
  32. Janky Star
    Grace Ives
  33. Angel in Realtime
    Gang of Youths
  34. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
  35. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
  36. Labyrinthitis
    Destroyer
  37. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
  38. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
  39. Hyaline
    Maria BC
  40. Boat Songs
    MJ Lenderman
  41. Animal Drowning
    Knifeplay
  42. Hellfire
    black midi
  43. Pool Kids
    Pool Kids
  44. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
  45. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
  46. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
  47. Two Ribbons
    Let’s Eat Grandma
  48. Quiet the Room
    Skullcrusher
  49. Arkhon
    Zola Jesus
  50. Giant Palm
    Naima Bock

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