Year-End Lists

Esquire: The 25 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2010s]

• The 1975
  Being Funny in a Foreign Language
• Larkin Poe
  Blood Harmony
• Alvvays
  Blue Rev
• Gang of Youths
  Angel in Realtime
• Willow
  Coping Mechanism
• Tyler Childers
  Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
• Brockhampton
  The Family
• Florence + The Machine
  Dance Fever
• Omar Apollo
  Ivory
• Maggie Rogers
  Surrender
• Beyoncé
  Renaissance
• Banks
  Serpentina
• Harry Styles
  Harry's House
• The Weeknd
  Dawn FM
• Eddie Vedder
  Earthling
• Maren Morris
  Humble Quest
• FKA twigs
  Caprisongs
• Big Thief
  Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
• Tears for Fears
  The Tipping Point
• Charli XCX
  Crash
• Mitski
  Laurel Hell
• Earl Sweatshirt
  Sick!
• Frank Turner
  FTHC
• Nilüfer Yanya
  Painless
• Superchunk
  Wild Loneliness