Year-End Lists

Sheldon Pearce: Top 20 Albums of 2022, as posted by NPR

[see also 2025 • 2020]

• Caprisongs
  FKA twigs
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• Reason to Smile
  Kojey Radical
• Meeting with a Judas Tree
  Duval Timothy
• Preacher's Daughter
  Ethel Cain
• Renaissance
  Beyoncé
• The Elephant Man’s Bones
  Roc Marciano and The Alchemist
• ¡Ay!
  Lucrecia Dalt
• a tape called component system with the auto reverse
  Open Mike Eagle
• In These Times
  Makaya McCraven
• Gifted
  Koffee
• DEATHFAME
  Quelle Chris
• Evergreen
  Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet
• The 7th Hand
  Immanuel Wilkins
• Not Tight
  Domi and JD Beck
• I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore
  $ilkmoney
• Two Ribbons
  Let’s Eat Grandma
• Three Dimensions Deep
  Amber Mark
• Sick!
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief

The Next 10

• EA Monster
  Young Nudy
• Painless
  Nilüfer Yanya
• Sometimes, Forever
  Soccer Mommy
• Nymph
  Shygirl
• Blue Rev
  Alvvays
• Natural Brown Prom Queen
  Sudan Archives
• Warm Chris
  Aldous Harding
• Bad Mode
  Hikaru Utada
• Blue Water Road
  Kehlani
• Aethiopes
  Billy Woods

This list contributes to:

• Best Albums of 2022 NPR · NPR Music