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2022 Music

KCRW: The 22 Best Albums of 2022

14 December 2022

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

KCRW: The 22 Best Albums of 2022, as selected by staff

[see also 2020 • 2018]

  1. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
  2. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
  3. Mahal
    Toro y Moi
  4. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
  5. Excess
    Automatic
  6. Some Of Us Are Brave
    Danielle Ponder
  7. Prism
    Say She She
  8. Black Radio III
    Robert Glasper
  9. Reset
    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
  10. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
  11. Thee Sacred Souls
    Thee Sacred Souls
  12. Multitude
    Stromae
  13. Kumoyo Island
    Kikagaku Moyo
  14. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
  15. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
  16. When the Lights Go
    Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
  17. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
  18. A Wonderful Letter
    J.Rocc
  19. Marchita
    Silvana Estrada
  20. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
    Meridian Brothers
  21. YTI⅃AƎЯ
    Bill Callahan
  22. Cometa
    Nick Hakim
  23. Shape Up
    Leikeli47

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