Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012]

1. Bunch One
   Selo i Ludy Performance Band
2. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
3. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
4. A Beautiful Time
   Willie Nelson
5. I Walked With You A Ways
   Plains
6. Lindeville
   Ashley McBryde
7. King Of Drums
   Buck 65
8. Scorpion Kings
   DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small
9. Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined By Stro Elliot
   Stro Elliot/James Brown
10. Live: Return Of The Storyteller
    Todd Snider
11. Uwami
    DJ Black Low
12. Harry's House
    Harry Styles
13. Archeology
    Montparnasse Musique
14. I Thought I Was Fine
    Tommy Womack
15. I Can't Sell These
    Homeboy Sandman
16. For Executive Meeting
    The Paranoid Style
17. Palomino
    Miranda Lambert
18. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
19. Slum of Legs
    Slum of Legs
20. Solidaritine
    Gogol Bordello
21. De Kaboul A Bamako
    Sowal Diabi
22. Love for Sale
    Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
23. to hell with it
    PinkPantheress
24. Língua Brasileira
    Tom Zé
25. Comfort To Me
    Amyl and The Sniffers
26. Folk And Great Tunes From Siberia and Far East
    various artists
27. Bleed Out
    The Mountain Goats
28. That's My Idea
    My Idea
29. Narrow Line
    Mama's Broke
30. Welcome 2 Club XIII
    Drive-By Truckers
31. Good Luck, Take Care
    Terry Klein
32. When That Really Old Cat Dies
    Jeffrey Lewis
33. The Lakes of Zones B and C
    Emperor X
34. Sanguine Truth
    The Casual Dots
35. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
36. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
37. Don't Feed The Monster
    Homeboy Sandman
38. Mata
    M.I.A.
39. Just Like That...
    Bonnie Raitt
40. A Legacy of Rentals
    Craig Finn
41. TV Baby
    Pony
42. Ama Gogela
    Phelimuncasi
43. We Are
    Jon Batiste
44. No Thank You
    Little Simz
45. Bamanan
    Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee
46. It Wasn't Hard To Love You
    Fanfare Ciocarlia
47. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
48. Timbuktu
    Oumou Sangaré
49. Special
    Lizzo
50. Burkina Hakili
    Kady Diarra
51. Spirituals
    Santigold
52. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
53. Cry Mfer
    My Idea
54. Hata Unacheza: Sub​-​Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s
    various artists
55. Breaking The Thermometer
    Leyla McCalla
56. Co-Starring Too
    Ray Wylie Hubbard
57. The Big Five​--O
    Derek Senn
58. Peculiar, Missouri
    Willi Carlisle
59. N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
    Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
60. Dollar Menu 4
    Mach-Hommy
61. Wild Loneliness
    Superchunk
62. All Is Ours, Nothing Is Theirs
    Dan Ex Machina
63. Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
    various artists
64. Agadez
    Etran de L'Aïr
65. Things Happen That Way
    Dr. John
66. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
67. There's No Fight We Can't Both Win
    Mammoth Penguins
68. Planet Her
    Doja Cat
69. Flood
    Stella Donnelly
70. The Overload
    Yard Act
71. Lifetime Achievement
    Loudon Wainwright III
72. Sakidila
    Pongo
73. A Gift to Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All Stars
    various artists
74. Bahil Weg
    Kassmasse
75. Home, Before and After
    Regina Spektor
76. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
    Vince Staples
77. There In Spirit
    Homeboy Sandman
78. Holy Souls
    Fox Green
79. King's Disease II
    Nas
80. I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore
    $ilkmoney
81. Good Morning Gorgeous
    Mary J. Blige
82. Lunar Tredd
    Fimber Bravo
83. Half God
    Wiki
84. Bra-Less
    Doechii

The Globe and Mail: Top 10 Favourite Podcasts of 2022, selected by the hosts and producers of The Globe and Mail's podcasts

• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• Welcome to Paradise
• Shameless Acquisition Target
• Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
• Another Russia
• Maintenance Phase
• Normal Gossip
• Hard Fork
• WorkLife with Adam Grant
• Sweet Bobby

Fiona Sturges: Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• Dead Eyes
• Bible John: Creation of a Serial Killer
• This Is Dating
• Invaded: Voicemails from Ukraine
• The Rest Is Politics
• Operation Morning Light
• The Superhero Complex
• From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast
• Case 63
• Mattan: Injustice of a Hanged Man

Northern Transmissions: Top 50 Albums of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Skinty Fia
   Fontaines D.C.
2. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
3. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
4. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
5. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
6. Ants From Up There
   Black Country, New Road
7. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
8. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
9. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
10. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
11. Boat Songs
    MJ Lenderman
12. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
13. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
14. Labyrinthitis
    Destroyer
15. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
16. Household Name
    Momma
17. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
18. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
19. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
20. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
21. Free LSD
    OFF!
22. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
23. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
24. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
25. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
26. Ugly Season
    Perfume Genius
27. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
28. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
29. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
30. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
31. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
32. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
33. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
34. Finally, New
    They Hate Change
35. God's Country
    Chat Pile
36. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
37. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
38. The Car
    Arctic Monkeys
39. Hellfire
    black midi
40. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
41. Cave World
    Viagra Boys
42. Revealer
    Madison Cunningham
43. Moss
    Maya Hawke
44. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
45. The Overload
    Yard Act
46. Deep in View
    Cola
47. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
48. All Of Us Flames
    Ezra Furman
49. Surely Travel
    Status/Non-Status
50. ILYSM
    Wild Pink

Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
4. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
5. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
7. Nope
   Jordan Peele
8. We're All Going to the World's Fair
   Jane Schoenbrun
9. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
9. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
10. Armageddon Time
    James Gray

David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2022, this year's installment of his video countdown, as witty, tuneful, and emotional as ever

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
4. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
5. Descendant
   Margaret Brown
6. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
7. We're All Going to the World's Fair
   Jane Schoenbrun
8. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
9. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
10. Nope
    Jordan Peele
11. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
12. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
13. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
14. After Yang
    Kogonada
15. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
16. Benediction
    Terence Davies
17. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
18. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
19. Ahed's Knee
    Nadav Lapid
20. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
21. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
22. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
23. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
24. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
25. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg

The San Francisco Chronicle: Favorite Books of 2022

[see also 100 Recommended Books of 2018 • Top 10 Books of 2018 • 100 Recommended Books of 2016 • Top 10 Books of 2016 • Top 10 Books of 2015]

Fiction

• On the Rooftop
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Be Brief and Tell Them Everything
  Brad Listi
• Little Rabbit
  Alyssa Songsiridej
• Properties of Thirst
  Marianne Wiggins
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Brother Sleep
  Aldo Amparán
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Animal Life
  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Stella Maris
  Cormac McCarthy
• Run and Hide
  Pankaj Mishra
• A Woman Of Endurance
  Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
• The Presence of Absence
  Simon Van Booy
• The Hero of This Book
  Elizabeth McCracken
• Shit Cassandra Saw
  Gwen E. Kirby

Nonfiction

• The Klamath Mountains

  A Natural History
  Michael Kauffmann and Justin Garwood
• Essential Labor

  Mothering as Social Change
  Angela Garbes
• I'm Not Broken
  Jesse Leon
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts

  A Confessional
  Isaac Fitzgerald
• Inciting Joy

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• Crying in the Bathroom
  Erika L. Sánchez
• Shine Bright

  A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
  Danyel Smith
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• The Method

  How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
  Isaac Butler
• Still No Word from You

  Notes in the Margin
  Peter Orner
• Our Red Book

  Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing Changing
  Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (editor)
• Screaming on the Inside

  The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
  Jessica Grose

Nina Metz: The Best TV of 2022, as published by The Chicago Tribune, in alphabetical order

• Abbott Elementary
• Bust Down
• Couples Therapy
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Lost Ollie
• Rap Sh!t
• Slow Horses
• The Bear
• The Ipcress File
• The Lincoln Lawyer

Jennifer Lucy Alan: The Best Music of 2022, as published by The Quietus where she also has a list of reissues and archivals

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Music For Four Guitars
  Bill Orcutt
• Broken Gargoyles
  Diamanda Galás
• Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore
  Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker
• The Afrorack
  Afrorack
• American Rituals
  Cheri Knight
• The House Rabbit of Jesus Green
  Richard Thomas
• Languoria
  Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka
• Bridge Variations (or The Song of Stokholm)
  Jon Collin
• Chasing the Phantom
  Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat
• Hrdy-Grdy
  Jem Finer

Kevin Fallon: The 22 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Daily Beast

[see also 2020]

1. What We Do in the Shadows
2. Better Things
3. The Good Fight
4. Somebody Somewhere
5. The White Lotus
6. Reservation Dogs
7. Barry
8. Severance
9. Bad Sisters
10. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
11. Fleishman Is in Trouble
12. Abbott Elementary
13. Better Call Saul
14. This Is Going to Hurt
15. I Love That for You
16. The Bear
17. The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans
18. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
19. We Own This City
20. Bluey
21. The Boys
22. A League of Their Own