Best Albums of 2022

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31.

God Save The Animals 

 Alex G

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"Wow, what a beautiful listen. ‘God Save The Animals’ sounds both starkly original yet familiar at the same time, sporting thirteen deeply expressive and poignant tracks of indie rock/ folk."  Reply

- jbentley3997 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

153 charts

Rank Score:

484

Rank in 2022:

31

Rank in 2020s:

161

Overall Rank:

3,123

Average Rating:

 75 (113 votes)

Comments:

5

32.

Big Time 

 Angel Olsen

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"This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shi...""This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shift work, only the end-product isn't especially impressive; it's a facile project in that nothing new to the genre is offered expect for the fact Angel Olsen is doing it. Go Home is an oasis in the tracklisting where the sound is very signature Angel Olsen but with just a twist of country – this should have been pursued more and on more fleshed out songs. Lastly, mixing is too quiet here, and we really miss out on some much needed crescendo moments."  [+]  Reply

- Arthurknight | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

182 charts

Rank Score:

482

Rank in 2022:

32

Rank in 2020s:

163

Overall Rank:

3,136

Average Rating:

 74 (136 votes)

Comments:

7

33.

Fear Of The Dawn 

 Jack White

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"A few of the songs are jams that can sound a bit unfocused at times and White occasionally sounds like a caricature of himself, but he does it in a way that welcomes reinvention and I love the high energy here. There are some weirder more experimental moments that threw me for a loop and were ver...""A few of the songs are jams that can sound a bit unfocused at times and White occasionally sounds like a caricature of himself, but he does it in a way that welcomes reinvention and I love the high energy here. There are some weirder more experimental moments that threw me for a loop and were very cool. Sometimes the funky rhythms and melodies hit just right and it sounds really nice. A good amount of guitar power, too. I am starting to appreciate this album more as I keep listening. I like this one and Boarding House Reach more than his first two solo albums (although I prefer most of the stuff from The White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather over any of his solo material). I would say this is experimental but not quite as much as Boarding House Reach and the overall sound is about as heavy as Jack White has ever been. My favorite song is the final track. It has a nice groove, awesome lyrics, and the guitar and vocals are very intense."  [+]  Reply

- pctrooper | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

136 charts

Rank Score:

471

Rank in 2022:

33

Rank in 2020s:

166

Overall Rank:

3,201

Average Rating:

 75 (140 votes)

Comments:

8

34.

The Overload 

 Yard Act

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"I thought I'd like this when I first heard about it but I just found a lot of the album to sound too silly at times and the vocals in my opinion are annoying. Didn't work for me sadly"  Reply

- SD100852 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

470

Rank in 2022:

34

Rank in 2020s:

167

Overall Rank:

3,203

Average Rating:

 72 (142 votes)

Comments:

7

35.

Midnights 

 Taylor Swift

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"I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I w...""I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I was harder on Folklore & Evermore on the time which mostly seemed to be about the ballyhooed "I can't believe Taylor INVENTED indie folk music!" overpraise, but it actually felt like a positive exercise to move away (at least for the most part) from all the first-person taylor drama and actually rejigger her interest in character-based songwriting which has always been a much more engaging style than her attempts at meta self-reflection. And again the Songwriting is key, because these often aren't even really full songs, just coasting on the modern snippet-based music trend that a 30-second mood stretched out to the brim is a full idea on it's own right. A lot of it is ressurecting already-dated trends (the endless vocoder use, purring baselines, moody Odd Future and 808 cast-off riffs) as well as some of her own old sounds (particularly the steely synths of 1989, though intentionally fragmented here to emphermal results), which doesn't help that most of the songs still are all Taylor, all the time- a whole lot of humble brags about how personal fallouts and media scrutiny made her the better person, and more record-industry drama BS (which leads to the most tedious attempt at a noirish revenge song anyone could imagine). I donno, there are some highlights, the end couple of songs are pretty solid vintage Taylor with some modern trimmings and "You're On Your Own Kid" is a lyrically strong, more outward look on how the earnest romantic teenage longing of her earliest work has fractured as time passes and pleasing enough I'll completly forgive it rips off the sound of Melodrama's masterpiece "Hard Feelings" (and no blaming Antonoff here, I doubt he was even in the studio here considering the complete auto-pilot production job). Obviously an album that would look more towards the growth of her now adult fanbase and how her music has affected them rather than herself would've been a more interesting prospect, instead we get an album that coasts on what we've heard all Before, both from Taylor and much of the styles that were popular in her heyday. It's not terrible by any means, but perhaps the worst thing Taylor could do is make a terminally uninteresting album that even when spinning you can forget you're even listening to it and realize there's better things to do with your time."  [+]  Reply

- cestuneblague | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

156 charts

Rank Score:

467

Rank in 2022:

35

Rank in 2020s:

170

Overall Rank:

3,224

Average Rating:

 67 (168 votes)

Comments:

12

36.

Labyrinthitis 

 Destroyer

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"Pretty sure this is the most I've enjoyed Destroyer. Loved the singles and the album has a great flow. Has like a similarity to early Brian Eno which includes Another Green World and like a hint of Talking Heads so like that Eno/Byrne album or something? I dunno it's super cool and exciting music...""Pretty sure this is the most I've enjoyed Destroyer. Loved the singles and the album has a great flow. Has like a similarity to early Brian Eno which includes Another Green World and like a hint of Talking Heads so like that Eno/Byrne album or something? I dunno it's super cool and exciting music so yeah.. :-P"  [+]  Reply

- ExTeaSea | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

117 charts

Rank Score:

445

Rank in 2022:

36

Rank in 2020s:

174

Overall Rank:

3,353

Average Rating:

 74 (117 votes)

Comments:

5

37.

Laurel Hell 

 Mitski

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"The overall theme of the “Laurel Hell” seems to be emotional vulnerability. Mitski sings about expectations, not feeling loved, and anxiety fairly earnestly. “Stay Soft” embraces the topic best with its scared but very affirming discussion of sex. A limitation is many of the songs feel underwritt...""The overall theme of the “Laurel Hell” seems to be emotional vulnerability. Mitski sings about expectations, not feeling loved, and anxiety fairly earnestly. “Stay Soft” embraces the topic best with its scared but very affirming discussion of sex. A limitation is many of the songs feel underwritten. It’s not what is written is not well put together but more verses would flesh out the topics better. Instrumentally, Peter Gabriel like synths coat the album. The synths are antiquated in the best way possible. Their slight awkwardness adds to the topical assailability. The unfortunate exception to this is “That's Our Lamp”. It sounds so goofy that it completely negates the conflict of the lyrics. “Laurel Hell” is not overwhelming in quality, but it has a charming heart to it. "  [+]  Reply

- titansaurs28 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

183 charts

Rank Score:

441

Rank in 2022:

37

Rank in 2020s:

178

Overall Rank:

3,373

Average Rating:

 72 (184 votes)

Comments:

10

38.

Chloë And The Next 20th Century 

 Father John Misty

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"I know this album has left a bad taste for a lot of long time fans and it’s by no means his best album I personally really enjoy the new direction. I love the jazzy roaring 20s kind of vibe. I feel like this album had a lot of potential but came out half baked. Not great but an interesting new so...""I know this album has left a bad taste for a lot of long time fans and it’s by no means his best album I personally really enjoy the new direction. I love the jazzy roaring 20s kind of vibe. I feel like this album had a lot of potential but came out half baked. Not great but an interesting new sound that I hope he builds on. 7.5/10"  [+]  Reply

- Toffuey | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

135 charts

Rank Score:

440

Rank in 2022:

38

Rank in 2020s:

179

Overall Rank:

3,379

Average Rating:

 71 (139 votes)

Comments:

4

39.

No Thank You 

 Little Simz

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"Feels like a slightly stripped down and perhaps more immediate piece of work from Simz in comparison to the epic conceptual heights of her previous album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert', mixed with a dash of SAULT-esque rootsiness via the occasional inclusion of traditional percussion or gospel ...""Feels like a slightly stripped down and perhaps more immediate piece of work from Simz in comparison to the epic conceptual heights of her previous album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert', mixed with a dash of SAULT-esque rootsiness via the occasional inclusion of traditional percussion or gospel choir vocals. Resulting in a tasty sandwich of UK hip hop goodness. Mmmmm."  [+]  Reply

- jbentley3997 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

148 charts

Rank Score:

433

Rank in 2022:

39

Rank in 2020s:

180

Overall Rank:

3,426

Average Rating:

 76 (131 votes)

Comments:

9

40.

SOS 

 SZA

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"Come on, what on earth is the point of clogging up these comment sections with a copy paste of the album's tracklist? With or without your personal rating of each song, it just goes against the design of the website."  Reply

- lylecatcliffe | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

138 charts

Rank Score:

425

Rank in 2022:

40

Rank in 2020s:

186

Overall Rank:

3,483

Average Rating:

 73 (118 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of 2022 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	6	1%
Tedeschi Trucks Band	4	0%
Sault	4	0%
Iannis Xenakis	3	0%
Zach Bryan	3	0%
Weezer	3	0%
Ryan Adams	3	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	453	45%
	192	19%
	50	5%
	32	3%
	32	3%
	26	3%
	23	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	984	98%
Yes	16	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	979	98%
Yes	21	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	3	0%