Year-End Lists

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

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

The Next 10

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