My Favorite Albums of 2022

 

Top ten, ranked

1. Wilco - Cruel Country
2. Camila Cabello - Familia
3. David Ford - Love & Death / May You Live in Interesting Times
4. Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
5. Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island
6. Kyla La Grange - While Your Heart's Still Beating
7. Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
8. Lissie - Carving Canyons
9. Titus Andronicus - The Will to Live
10. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Rest of list, unranked:

• Amenra / Cave In / Marissa Nadler - Songs of Townes Van Zandt Vol III
• Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell
• Ashley McBryde - Lindeville
• Bear's Den - Blue Hours
• Benjamin Clementine - And I Have Been
• Blaudzin - Lonely City Exit Wounds
• Bonny Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy
• Buck 65 - King of Drums
• Buddy Guy - The Blues Don't Lie
• The Cactus Blossoms - One Day
• caroline - caroline
• CMAT - If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
• Dedicated Men of Zion - The Devil Don't Like It
• Gabriels - Angels & Queens - Part I
• Ghost - IMPERA
• Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live on Earth
• John Fullbright - The Liar
• Joyride - Miracle Question
• Kamaiyah - Divine Timing
• Let's Whisper - The In-Between Times
• Los Bitchos - Let the Festivities Begin!
• Lumbematz - Nichts Perfekt
• Lykke Li - EYEYE
• Medicine Singers - Medicine Singers
• Messa - Close
• Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods
• Mitski - Laurel Hell
• The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
• Noah Kahan - Stick Season
• Pup - The Unraveling of PupTheBand
• Quiet Hollers - Forever Chemicals
• Say Sue Me - The Last Thing Left
• Shearwater - The Great Awakening
• Shilpa Ray - Portrait of a Lady
• Sorcha Richardson - Hot Fuss
• Starcrawler - She Said
• The Weeknd - Dawn FM
• Wet Leg - Wet Leg
• WILLOW - <COPINGMECHANISM>
• V/A - Stór agnarögn