Year-End Lists

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

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2020 • 2018]

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