Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2022

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1. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
2. The Spur
   Joan Shelley
3. Dear Scott
   Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
4. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
5. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
6. Cruel Country
   Wilco
7. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
8. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
9. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
   Brian Eno
10. The Boy Named If
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
11. The Sea Drift
    The Delines
12. How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
    The Weather Station
13. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
14. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
15. The Bible
    Lambchop
16. The Ruby Cord
    Richard Dawson
17. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
18. Tresor
    Gwenno
19. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
20. (watch my moves)
    Kurt Vile
21. Hellfire
    black midi
22. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
23. The Car
    Arctic Monkeys
24. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
25. Heartmind
    Cass McCombs
26. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
27. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
28. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
29. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
30. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
31. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
32. Midnight Rocker
    Horace Andy
33. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
34. You Belong There
    Daniel Rossen
35. Reset
    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
36. Teeth Marks
    S.G. Goodman
37. Bajascillators
    Bitchin Bajas
38. Loose Future
    Courtney Marie Andrews
39. Ali
    Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
40. "Hello, Hi"
    Ty Segall
41. Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
42. Optimism
    Jana Horn
43. Revelators
    Revelators Sound System
44. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
45. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
46. Fossora
    Björk
47. I Survived, It's Over
    Rich Ruth
48. Still Life
    Carson McHone
49. YTI⅃AƎЯ
    Bill Callahan
50. Welcome 2 Club XIII
    Drive-By Truckers
51. Good and Green Again
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
52. Mil Coisas Invisíveis
    Tim Bernardes
53. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
54. Autofiction
    Suede
55. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
56. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
57. Ghosted
    Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
58. Let's Emerge!
    Pye Corner Audio
59. Dropout Boogie
    The Black Keys
60. Two Sisters
    Sarah Davachi
61. The Overload
    Yard Act
62. Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval
63. Shufflemania!
    Robyn Hitchcock
64. Ghost Power
    Ghost Power
65. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
66. Sorrows Away
    The Unthanks
67. The New Faith
    Jake Blount
68. for you who are the wronged
    Kathryn Joseph
69. Entering Heaven Alive
    Jack White
70. I Ran Down Every Dream
    Tommy McLain
71. The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
    Angeline Morrison
72. The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
    Širom
73. Protector
    Aoife Nessa Frances
74. Evolution Here We Come
    Chris Forsyth
75. Hiding in Plain Sight
    Drugdealer