Year-End Lists

The Alternative: Top 50 Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Alvvays
   Blue Rev
2. String Machine
   Hallelujah Hell Yeah
3. Pool Kids
   Pool Kids
4. MJ Lenderman
   Boat Songs
5. Ethel Cain
   Preacher's Daughter
6. Viagra Boys
   Cave World
7. Black Country, New Road
   Ants From Up There
8. Muna
   Muna
9. The Wonder Years
   The Hum Goes on Forever
10. Caracara
    New Preoccupations
11. Drug Church
    Hygiene
12. Big Thief
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
13. Anxious
    Little Green House
14. Billy Woods
    Aethiopes
15. Prince Daddy & the Hyena
    Prince Daddy & The Hyena
16. Mo Troper
    MTV
17. Mom Jeans.
    Sweet Tooth
18. Soul Glo
    Diaspora Problems
19. Beach Bunny
    Emotional Creature
20. Dazy
    OUTOFBODY
21. Pinkshift
    Love Me Forever
22. A Place For Owls
    A Place For Owls
23. Alex G
    God Save the Animals
24. Forests
    Get In Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation
25. Gang of Youths
    Angel in Realtime
26. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
    Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
27. Pedro the Lion
    Havasu
28. Valleyheart
    Heal My Head
29. Wild Pink
    ILYSM
30. A Will Away
    Stew
31. Chloe Moriondo
    Suckerpunch
32. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
33. Nnamdï
    Please Have a Seat
34. Ben Quad
    I'm Scared That's All There Is
35. Rat Tally
    In My Car
36. Bad Bunny
    Un Verano Sin Ti
37. Inclination
    Unaltered Perspective
38. Mt. Oriander
    Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again
39. The Beths
    Expert in a Dying Field
40. Greet Death
    New Low
41. Martha
    Please Don't Take Me Back
42. Hatchie
    Giving the World Away
43. Camp Trash
    The Long Way, The Slow Way
44. Spoon
    Lucifer on the Sofa
45. Joyce Manor
    40 oz. to Fresno
46. Bartees Strange
    Farm to Table
47. snow ellet
    Glory Days
48. Joywave
    Cleanse
49. Denzel Curry
    Melt My Eyez See Your Future
50. Carpool
    For Nasal Use Only