Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Alvvays
   Blue Rev
2. Big Thief
   Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Jockstrap
   I Love You Jennifer B
4. Beach House
   Once Twice Melody
5. Nilüfer Yanya
   Painless
6. Special Interest
   Endure
7. Black Country, New Road
   Ants From Up There
8. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
9. The Smile
   A Light for Attracting Attention
10. Sudan Archives
    Natural Brown Prom Queen
11. Alex G
    God Save the Animals
12. Chat Pile
    God's Country
13. Viagra Boys
    Cave World
14. Soul Glo
    Diaspora Problems
15. Yaya Bey
    Remember Your North Star
16. Horsegirl
    Versions of Modern Performance
17. Spoon
    Lucifer on the Sofa
18. The Weeknd
    Dawn FM
19. Billy Woods
    Aethiopes
19. Billy Woods
    Church
20. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Endless Rooms
21. Spiritualized
    Everything Was Beautiful
22. Oso Oso
    Sore Thumb
23. Weyes Blood
    And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
24. Rosalía
    Motomami
25. Sharon Van Etten
    We've Been Going About This All Wrong
26. Danger Mouse and Black Thought
    Cheat Codes
27. Beyoncé
    Renaissance
28. Shygirl
    Nymph
29. Destroyer
    Labyrinthitis
30. Fontaines D.C.
    Skinty Fia
31. Soccer Mommy
    Sometimes, Forever
32. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
    Reset
33. Carly Rae Jepsen
    The Loneliest Time
34. The Linda Lindas
    Growing Up
35. Pusha T
    It's Almost Dry
36. 2nd Grade
    Easy Listening
37. Martin Courtney
    Magic Sign
38. Enumclaw
    Save the Baby
39. Say Sue Me
    The Last Thing Left
40. Beth Orton
    Weather Alive
41. Cloakroom
    Dissolution Wave
42. Confidence Man
    Tilt
43. Courting
    Guitar Music
44. Florist
    Florist
45. Porcupine Tree
    Closure / Continuation
46. Dry Cleaning
    Stumpwork
47. OFF!
    Free LSD
48. Drug Church
    Hygiene
49. Superorganism
    World Wide Pop
50. The 1975
    Being Funny in a Foreign Language