Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 by Arthurknight

2022 was a really pleasant year for music. I think that sense of post-Covid energy shines through a lot of the albums that have come out and I for one like this as a nice change from the trend of bored artists making boring lockdown recordings which were continually dolled out as low-stakes releases throughout 2020 and 2021. Musically, the 2020s continue to not be particularly radical – nobodies making anything daringly "new" – but I think a set of sounds that distinguish the decade are beginning to emerge: It's the return of softcore, the "rock band", the concept album, and political music being cool again. Meanwhile, Tiktok looms over us all as the cultural behemoth which will eventually consume the entire industry and convert all artists into short-form vloggers peddling portable smoothie blenders.

Top 15 Songs of 2022:
1. Black Country, New Road: The Place Where He Inserted The Blade
2. Bluetile Lounge: Easterly
3. Blackwinterwells, 8485: halo3
4. Yo La Tengo – Fallout
5. Rachika Nayar, Maria BC – Heaven Comes Crashing
6. julie: pg. 4 a picture of three hedges
7. Kendrick Lamar - The Heart, Part 5
8. Horsegirl: Anti-glory
9. Julia Holter: Heloise
10. Uboa, vi a: Dead Time's Broken Arrow
11. Saya Gray: If There's No Seat In the Sky (Will You Forgive Me???)
12. Sons Of: A Yellow Robe
13. Enablers: Year Of The Dog
14. Jessie Ware: Free Yourself
15. Oiseaux-Tempête: A Man Alone - In A One Man Poem

Additional "Significant" reviews (Written reviews in album comments):
Ethel Cain – Preacher's Daughter: 6
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous: 6
Sault – Air: 6
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems: 6
Nouns – While of Unsound Mind: 6
Desire – Escape: 6
Pusha T – It's Almost Dry: 6
Wet Leg – Wet Leg: 6
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum: 6
Pinegrove – 1111: 6
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs: 6
Leikeli47 – Shape Up: 6
Earl Sweatshirt – Sick!: 6
Yard Act – The Overload: 5.5
Father John Misty – Chloë And The Next 20th Century: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever: 5.5
Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal: 5.5
Black Star – No Fear of Time: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Somtimes, Forever: 5.5
The Weeknd – Dawn FM: 5
Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa: 5
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn: 5
Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel: 4.5
070 Shake – You Can't Kill Me: 4
Arcade Fire – We: 4
Arctic Monkeys – The Car: 2

Unsurprisingly, Muse released the year's worst album: a crass and masturbatory exercise in fantasised hubris masquerading as music. Will Of The People is the closest Muse have got to creating music that can work like the "Killer Joke" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and after listening to it I could only wish that they had succeeded. Solid attempts at releasing worse music this year were made by Drake, Jack Harlow, and most-daringly Avril Lavigne, but it's hard to actively criticise the sausage factory for the junk it pumps out. Instead, Muse claim to be making art.

• Chart updated: 02/02/2024 04:15
• (Created: 02/07/2022 05:58).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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Glitch Princess 

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7.5/10

Glitch Princess is basically 3 records from my POV: the first half is a quite boring and rather shallow attempt at conceptualising the record. The second half from "Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty" onwards is incredible post-pop music – perhaps the best to come out of this genre since Oblivion. Lastly: a 4 hour ambient piece mostly consisting of vocal harmonies that I didn't listen to in it's entirely but rather flicked around in case something of note came up (it didn't.) Granted, this is not listed in the formal bandcamp tracklist so I'm treating it as a "bonus" track.

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

54 charts

Rank Score:

168

Rank in 2022:

84

Rank in 2020s:

332

Overall Rank:

7,491

Average Rating:

 70 (61 votes)

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Air Guitar 

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6.5/10

Sobs have put together a fun ditty of an album. Burn Book is in particular a good track, but nothing here is excellent It's safe, but safe is okay.

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

17 charts

Rank Score:

32

Rank in 2022:

454

Rank in 2020s:

1,768

Overall Rank:

27,123

Average Rating:

 72 (14 votes)

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Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Congotronics International	1	1%
Kali Malone	1	1%
Ravyn Lenae	1	1%
Porridge Radio	1	1%
Smino	1	1%
Oso Oso	1	1%
Foxtails	1	1%
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	20	20%
	6	6%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	2	2%
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100/100	07/24/2022 13:50	ForegroundNoise	475	87/100
100/100	07/16/2022 22:16	travelful	209	99/100
95/100	07/10/2022 20:39	ghosttomost	56	85/100
100/100	02/09/2022 19:47	DJENNY	4,408	100/100

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From cestuneblague 01/07/2023 01:55

Great chart and love all the reviews- keep it coming!

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From ForegroundNoise 01/05/2023 12:39

Went to give this a 100/100 and praise your writing when I noticed I'd got there already! Interested to hear your thoughts on my own top 20 – got a piece on Ants From Up There coming out soon too

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From ForegroundNoise 07/24/2022 13:51

Another class year chart!! Genuinely a better standard of journalism than most 'Best of 2022 So Far' lists I've seen from major publications; looking forward to checking back on what it looks like in December!

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