My favorite albums of 2022

No pre-amble necessary. Here are my favorite albums of 2022.

1. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field
2. Pool Kids – Pool Kids
3. Rat Tally – In My Car
4. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
5. Momma – Household Name
6. Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loneliest Time
7. King Princess – Hold On Baby
8. Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
9. SZA – SOS
10. Camp Trash – The Long Way, The Slow Way
11. Maren Morris – Humble Quest
12. alexisonfire – Otherness
13. Taylor Swift – Midnights (3am Edition)
14. PUP – THE UNRAVELING OF PUP THE BAND
15. Sadurn – Radiator
16. Tomberlin – I don’t know who needs to hear this…
17. girlpuppy – When I’m Alone
18. Alvvays – Blue Rev
19. Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature
20. Sabrina Carpenter – emails I can’t send
21. Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace
22. Pinkshift – Love Me Forever
23. Mom Jeans. – Sweet Tooth
24. Chastity – Suffer Summer
25. Wet Leg – Wet Leg

26. Grace Ives – Janky Star
27. Foushee – softCORE
28. Ben Quad – I’m Scared That’s All There Is
29. Stella Donnelly – Flood
30. Leanna Firestone – Forward / Slash
31. oso oso – sore thumb
32. Syd – Broken Hearts Club
33. Short Fictions – Every Moment of Every Day
34. MAVI – Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
35. Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter
36. Sweet Pill – Where the Heart Is
37. Nina Nesbitt – Alskar
38. Maggie Rogers – Surrender
39. Joyce Manor – 40 Oz. to Fresno
40. Skullcrusher – Quiet the Room
41. Freddie Gibbs – $oul $old $eparately
42. Future Teens – Self Help
43. Chloe Moriondo – Suckerpunch
44. Vince Staples – RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART
45. yard rat – Fingerpost
46. Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti
47. Mitski – Laurel Hell
48. Hatchie – Giving The World Away
49. yeule – Glitch Princess
50. Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!

Honorable Mention (51-100, in alphabetical order)
ANORAK! – ANORAK!
Arkells – Blink Twice
Arm’s Length – Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
Backxwash – HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING
Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
beabadoobee – Beatopia
Beyonce – Renaissance
BLACKPINK – Born Pink
carolesdaughter – please put me in a medically induced coma
Chad Price – Introvert
Combat – Text Me When You Get Back
Florence + The Machine – Dance Fever
Gang of Youths – angel in realtime.
Ghost – IMPERA
Gladie – Don’t Know What…
Harry Styles – Harry’s House
JID – The Forever Story
Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons
Machine Gun Kelly – Mainstream Sellout
Mamalarky – Pocket Fantasy
Michelle Branch – The Trouble with Fever
MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs
MUNA – MUNA
Nilufer Yanya – PAINLESS
NNAMDI – Please Have A Seat
NOBRO – Live Your Truth, Shred Some Gnar
Pale Waves – Unwanted
Petrol Girls – Baby
Pkew Pkew Pkew – Open Bar
Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Prince Daddy & The Hyena
Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry
Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left
Sigrid – How To Let Go
Silverstein – Mistery Made Me
Skye Wallace – Terribly Good
Slipknot – THE END, SO FAR
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – I’M GOOD, HBU?
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
Special Interest – Endure
Tegan and Sara – Crybaby
The Linda Lindas – Growing Up
The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes on Forever
Tree River – Time Being
Westside Gunn – Peace “Fly” God
Wet – Pink Room
WILLOW – <COPINGMECHANISM>
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down
Yumi Zouma – Present Tense

Honorable Mention (EPs)
Chloe Moriondo – puppy luv
GAYLE – a study of the human experience volume one
Jobber – Hell In A Cell
Kate Bollinger – Look At It In The Light
Khruangbin and Leon Bridges – Texas Moon
London Mars – Soundtrack to My Destruction
Nina Nesbitt – No Time (For My Life To Suck)
Poppy – Stagger
Rosie Darling – Golden Age
Winnetka Bowling League – pulp

My favorite live performances of 2022

Rage Against the Machine
alexisonfire (multiple)
Wu-Tang Clan
Coheed and Cambria
Nas
The OBGMs
PUP (multiple)
Run the Jewels
Pinkshift
Free Throw
Freddie Gibbs
Mom Jeans.
My Chemical Romance
Alkaline Trio

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