Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2022

1. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
2. Weyes Blood
   And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
3. Beach House
   Once Twice Melody
4. Alvvays
   Blue Rev
5. The Smile
   A Light for Attracting Attention
6. Nilüfer Yanya
   Painless
7. Big Thief
   Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
8. Sharon Van Etten
   We've Been Going About This All Wrong
9. The Beths
   Expert in a Dying Field
10. Ezra Furman
    All Of Us Flames
11. Mitski
    Laurel Hell
12. Death Cab for Cutie
    Asphalt Meadows
13. Dry Cleaning
    Stumpwork
14. Black Country, New Road
    Ants From Up There
15. Angel Olsen
    Big Time
16. Hatchie
    Giving the World Away
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Cool It Down
18. Yard Act
    The Overload
19. Destroyer
    Labyrinthitis
20. Stella Donnelly
    Flood
21. The 1975
    Being Funny in a Foreign Language
22. Kendrick Lamar
    Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
23. Alex G
    God Save the Animals
24. Fontaines D.C.
    Skinty Fia
25. Spoon
    Lucifer on the Sofa
26. Julia Jacklin
    Pre Pleasure
27. Phoenix
    Alpha Zulu
28. Soccer Mommy
    Sometimes, Forever
29. Suede
    Autofiction
30. Jockstrap
    I Love You Jennifer B
31. Father John Misty
    Chloë and the Next 20th Century
32. Horsegirl
    Versions of Modern Performance
33. Charli XCX
    Crash
34. Bartees Strange
    Farm to Table
35. Spiritualized
    Everything Was Beautiful
36. Cate Le Bon
    Pompeii
37. Beyoncé
    Renaissance
38. Tears for Fears
    The Tipping Point
39. Viagra Boys
    Cave World
40. Black Midi
    Hellfire
41. The Linda Lindas
    Growing Up
42. Aldous Harding
    Warm Chris
43. Metric
    Formentera
44. Sorry
    Anywhere But Here
45. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Endless Rooms
46. Marlon Williams
    My Boy
47. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
    Reset
48. Florist
    Florist
49. Beabadoobee
    Beatopia
50. Taylor Swift
    Midnights
51. Ethel Cain
    Preacher's Daughter
52. Björk
    Fossora
53. Animal Collective
    Time Skiffs
54. Arctic Monkeys
    The Car
55. Dehd
    Blue Skies
56. MJ Lenderman
    Boat Songs
57. Daniel Rossen
    You Belong There
58. Frankie Cosmos
    Inner World Peace
59. Bill Callahan
    YTI⅃AƎЯ
60. SASAMI
    Squeeze
61. Carly Rae Jepsen
    The Loneliest Time
62. Harry Styles
    Harry's House
63. Cass McCombs
    Heartmind
64. The Mountain Goats
    Bleed Out
65. Toro y Moi
    Mahal
66. Kevin Morby
    This Is A Photograph
67. Sudan Archives
    Natural Brown Prom Queen
68. Everything Everything
    Raw Data Feel
69. Perfume Genius
    Ugly Season
70. Porridge Radio
    Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
71. Shearwater
    The Great Awakening
72. Belle and Sebastian
    A Bit of Previous
73. Gwenno
    Tresor
74. C Duncan
    Alluvium
75. Let’s Eat Grandma
    Two Ribbons
76. Wild Pink
    ILYSM
77. Kurt Vile
    (watch my moves)
78. alt-J
    The Dream
79. Beth Orton
    Weather Alive
80. Hot Chip
    Freakout/Release
81. First Aid Kit
    Palomino
82. Danger Mouse and Black Thought
    Cheat Codes
83. Sunflower Bean
    Headful of Sugar
84. Foals
    Life Is Yours
85. Maya Hawke
    Moss
86. Sondre Lerche
    Avatars Of Love
87. Jenny Hval
    Classic Objects
88. Plains
    I Walked With You A Ways
89. Andrew Bird
    Inside Problems
90. Lambchop
    The Bible
91. Katy J Pearson
    Sound Of The Morning
92. Oceanator
    Nothing's Ever Fine
93. The Big Moon
    Here Is Everything
94. Editors
    EBM
95. Built to Spill
    When the Wind Forgets Your Name
96. Rina Sawayama
    Hold the Girl
97. Sea Power
    Everything Was Forever
98. Momma
    Household Name
99. Bonny Light Horseman
    Rolling Golden Holy
100. Superorganism
     World Wide Pop