Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
2. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
3. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
4. Caprisongs
   FKA twigs
5. Once Twice Melody
   Beach House
6. Motomami
   Rosalía
7. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
8. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
9. Bad Mode
   Hikaru Utada
10. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
11. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
12. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
13. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
14. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
15. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
16. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
17. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
18. Midnights
    Taylor Swift
19. Cherry
    Daphni
20. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
21. God Save the Animals
    Alex G
22. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
23. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
24. Crash
    Charli XCX
25. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
26. Crest
    Bladee and Ecco2K
27. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
28. Mata
    M.I.A.
29. Honestly, Nevermind
    Drake
30. Lyfë
    Yeat
31. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
32. Antidawn
    Burial
33. De todas las flores
    Natalia Lafourcade
34. Asphalt Meadows
    Death Cab for Cutie
35. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
36. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
37. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
    The 1975
38. Fossora
    Björk
39. Arkhon
    Zola Jesus
40. A Beautiful Time
    Willie Nelson
41. Age/Sex/Location
    Ari Lennox
42. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
43. Premonition
    White Lung
44. World Record
    Neil Young with Crazy horse
45. Hellfire
    black midi
46. Old-Time Folks
    Lee Bains + The Glory Fires
47. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
48. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
49. Un Verano Sin Ti
    Bad Bunny
50. Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval