Year-End Lists

Josh Terry: The 60 Best Albums of 2022, "according to some guy in Chicago"

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023]

• God Save the Animals
  Alex G
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Made in America
  Brad Goodall
• Eddy
  Charlie Reed
• OUTOFBODY
  Dazy
• Blue Skies
  Dehd
• Great American Painting
  The Districts
• Last Spa on Earth
  Divino Niño
• Lighten Up
  Erin Rae
• Bummer Year
  Good Looks
• Versions of Modern Performance
  Horsegirl
• Life on Earth
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Extra Medium
  Izaak Opatz
• Rama
  Joshua Virtue
• It Was a Home
  KAINA
• This Is A Photograph
  Kevin Morby
• Bell Bottom Country
  Lainey Wilson
• Bigger Sprout
  Lawn
• Dark Matters
  Maneka
• Pocket Fantasy
  Mamalarky
• Malign Hex
  Meat Wave
• Boat Songs
  MJ Lenderman
• Cometa
  Nick Hakim
• Please Have a Seat
  Nnamdï
• Bar Mediterraneo
  Nu Guinea
• Painless
  Nilüfer Yanya
• Tableau
  The Orielles
• The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
  PUP
• Hypnos
  Ravyn Lenae
• Picnic in the Dark
  Renata Zeiguer
• Few Good Things
  Saba
• Here Comes the Devil
  Smidley
• Luv 4 Rent
  Smino
• Finally, New
  They Hate Change
• How It Ends
  Toledo
• Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
  Tyler Childers
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg
• Spark
  Whitney
• Male Models
  Wilder Maker
• American Heartbreak
  Zach Bryan

Other favorites

• A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing
  Tenci
• Remember Your North Star
  yaya bey
• Emotional Creature
  Beach Bunny
• Wherever You Aren't
  Elizabeth Moen
• Nothing's Ever Fine
  Oceanator
• Love the Stranger
  Friendship
• Grow Your Hair Long If You’re Wanting To See
  Field Medic
• Back on the Music!
  Paul Cherry
• Cruel Country
  Wilco
• Blue Rev
  Alvvays
• Farm to Table
  Bartees Strange
• Janky Star
  Grace Ives
• Crowd Can Talk
  Lifeguard
• A Better Ghost
  Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
• Radiator
  Sadurn
• Whenever Forever
  Friko
• Nothing You Do Matters
  Ganser
• rainbow music
  ghost orchard
• Stay In Touch
  Georgia Harmer
• Gemini Rights
  Steve Lacy