Year-End Lists

Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
   Vince Staples
3. Un Verano Sin Ti
   Bad Bunny
4. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
5. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
6. Gemini Rights
   Steve Lacy
7. Age/Sex/Location
   Ari Lennox
8. Painless
   Nilüfer Yanya
9. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
10. Immutable
    Meshuggah

Honorable Mention

• Dawn FM
  The Weeknd
• Caprisongs
  FKA twigs
• Sick!
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Few Good Things
  Saba
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Once Twice Melody
  Beach House
• Timewave Zero
  Blood Incantation
• This World Is Going To Ruin You
  Vein.fm
• Crash
  Charli XCX
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• Gifted
  Koffee
• Aethiopes
  Billy Woods
• Church
  Billy Woods
• learn 2 swim
  redveil
• It's Almost Dry
  Pusha T
• Palomino
  Miranda Lambert
• Mahal
  Toro y Moi
• Some Nights I Dream of Doors
  Obongjayar
• DEATHFAME
  Quelle Chris
• Hypnos
  Ravyn Lenae
• Forest in the City
  Umi
• Big Time
  Angel Olsen
• Sometimes, Forever
  Soccer Mommy
• You Still Here, Ho?
  Flo Milli
• God's Country
  Chat Pile
• Bleed Out
  The Mountain Goats
• The Elephant Man’s Bones
  Roc Marciano and The Alchemist
• Soul Sold Separately
  Freddie Gibbs
• The Will to Live
  Titus Andronicus
• Fossora
  Björk
• Into the Blue
  Broken Bells
• a tape called component system with the auto reverse
  Open Mike Eagle
• Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
  Mavi
• Midnights
  Taylor Swift
• 5 to the Eye with Stars
  R.A.P. Ferreira
• And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
  Weyes Blood