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2022 Music

Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2022

14 December 2022

Lucifer on the Sofa - Spoon

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
  2. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
  3. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
  4. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
  5. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
  6. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
  7. I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This...
    Tomberlin
  8. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
  9. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
  10. Crystal Nuns Cathedral
    Guided By Voices
  11. Tremblers And Goggles By Rank
    Guided By Voices
  12. The Bible
    Lambchop
  13. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
  14. Into the Blue
    Broken Bells
  15. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
  16. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
  17. Labyrinthitis
    Destroyer
  18. I Walked With You A Ways
    Plains
  19. Asphalt Meadows
    Death Cab for Cutie
  20. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
  21. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
  22. How Do You Burn?
    The Afghan Whigs
  23. Unison Life
    Brutus
  24. Reason in Decline
    Archers of Loaf
  25. Motomami
    Rosalía
  26. Cruel Country
    Wilco

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