The Best of Albums of 2022 (So Far)

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We’re now a little over halfway through the year, but some staff commitments (and a COVID infection) ended up delaying the publication of our mid-year lists. Below, you will find both our combined staff top 30, as well as individual lists from our contributors and moderators. We hope you find something new to love.

Note: You can share your own list in our music forum.

The Top Albums of 2022 (So Far)

1. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
2. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
3. Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
4. MUNA – MUNA
5. Cold Years – Goodbye to Misery
6. Dashboard Confessional – All the Truth That I Can Tell
7. Joyce Manor – 40 oz. to Fresno
8. Silverstein – Misery Made Me
9. Underoath – Voyeurist
10. Avril Lavigne – Love Sux
11. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
12. Gang of Youths – Angel in Realtime
13. Anxious – Little Green House
14. Caracara – New Preoccupations
15. Alexisonfire – Otherness
16. Valleyheart – Heal My Head
17. Charli XCX – CRASH
18. PUP – The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND
19. A Wilhelm Scream – Lose Your Delusion
20. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
21. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
22. Maren Morris – Humble Quest
23. Mandy Moore – In Real Life
24. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
25. Sigrid – How to Let Go
26. Saba – Few Good Things
27. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces, Etc.
28. Jack White – Fear of the Dawn
29. Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
30. Perfume Genius – Ugly Season

The Playlist

Looking for an easy way to check out all of the albums in our top thirty? We’ve got a playlist for that. You’ll find one on Apple Music and one on Spotify with one great song from each great album.

The Nerd Stat Stuff

Our final compiled list was put together using our ranking algorithm. There were 8 contributors and 129 unique albums across all of the lists. In total, 39 albums out of the 129 were on more than one list with the number one album appearing on 6 of the 8 lists.

Contributor Lists

Jason Tate

1. Cold Years – Goodbye to Misery
2. Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis II: A window of the Waking Mind
3. Dashboard Confessional – All the Truth That I Can Tell
4. MUNA – MUNA
5. Underoath – Voyeurist
6. Gang of Youths – Angel in Realtime
7. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
8. Caracara – New Preoccupations
9. A Wilhelm Scream – Lose Your Delusion
10. Anxious – Little Green House
11. Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps
12. Sigrid – How to Let Go
13. Stand Atlantic – FEAR
14. Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
15. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
16. Sasha Alex Sloan – I Blame the World
17. Olivver the Kid – Puke Blue
18. Valleyheart – Heal My Head
19. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
20. Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Prince Daddy & The Hyena
21. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Etc.
22. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
23. Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory
24. Elway – The Best of All Possible Worlds
25. Harry Styles – Harry’s House
26. Charli XCX – CRASH
27. Hippo Campus – LP3
28. Vein.fm – This World is Going to Ruin You
29. Hatchie – Giving The World Away
30. Charlie Simpson – Hope is a Drug

The Stats: For the first half of the year, I’ve listened to 935 albums, 403 artists, and 7,949 songs (14,887 scrobbles). My most played album so far has been Cold Years’ Goodbye to Misery, which I loved so much I actually wrote a long-form review for it. My most played artist has been The Ataris (I went on a huge rediscovery in March), and if you’d like to follow my weekly listening habits, please subscribe to my newsletter.

Craig Manning

1. Gang of Youths – angel in realtime
2. Maren Morris – Humble Quest
3. Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa
4. Zach Bryan – American Heartbreak
5. Valleyheart – Heal My Head
6. Ken Yates – Cerulean
7. MUNA – MUNA
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love
9. Mandy Moore – In Real Life
10. Anxious – Little Green House
11. Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
12. Sigrid – How to Let Go
13. Jillian Jacqueline – Honestly
14. Tree River – Time Being
15. Avril Lavigne – Love Sux
16. Cold Years – Goodbye to Misery
17. Tyler Meacham – Into the Fray
18. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
19. Anais Mitchell – Anais Mitchell
20. Miranda Lambert – Palomino
21. Wilco – Cruel Country
22. Jack Johnson – Meet the Moonlight

EPs:
Caitlyn Smith – High
Maddie & Tae – Through the Madness, Vol. 1
Donovan Woods – Big Hurt Boy
Tenille Townes – Masquerades

Garrett Lemons

1. Underoath – Voyeurist
2. Alexisonfire – Otherness
3. Joyce Manor – 40 oz. to Fresno
4. Silverstein – Misery Made Me
5. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces, Etc.
6. Gang of Youths – angel in realtime
7. Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
8. Mandy Moore – In Real Life
9. Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
10. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
11. Emery – Rub Some Dirt On It
12. Cold Years – Goodbye to Misery
13. Avril Lavigne – Luv Sux
14. Maren Morris – Humble Quest
15. A Wilhelm Scream – Lose Your Delusion
16. Saba – Few Good Things
17. Carrie Underwood – Denim & Rhinestones
18. The Lumineers – Brightside
19. MUNA – MUNA
20. The Weeknd – Dawn FM

Mary Varvaris

1. The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
2. Placebo – Never Let Me Go
3. Jaguar Jonze – Bunny Mode
4. Nilüfer Yanya – Painless
5. Alexisonfire – Otherness
6. Warpaint – Radiate Like This
7. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
8. Northlane – Obsidian
9. Rosalía – Motomami
10. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
11. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
12. Tasman Keith – A Colour Undone
13. Momma – Household Name
14. HEALTH – DISCO4 :: PART II
15. Petrol Girls – Baby
16. Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter
17. Crows – Beware Believers
18. Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
19. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
20. Perfume Genius – Ugly Season
21. Porcupine Tree – Closure / Continuation
22. Midnight Oil – Resist
23. Aurora – The Gods We Can Touch
24. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
25. Wet Leg – Wet Leg

Adam Grundy

1. Bartees Strange – Farm To Table
2. Charli XCX – Crash
3. Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
4. Cold Years – Goodbye To Misery
5. Silverstein – Misery Made Me
6. Eliza and the Delusionals – Now & Then
7. Caracara – New Preoccupations
8. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
9. Avril Lavigne – Love Sux
10. Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
11. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
12. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb
13. Underoath – Voyeurist
14. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
15. Out of Service – The Ground Beneath Me
16. Riverby – Absolution
17. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
18. Aunt Kelly – Remember
19. MUNA – MUNA
20. Hippo Campus – LP3
21. The Injured List – Blue 32
22. Mitski – Laurel Hell
23. Father John Misty – Chloe and the Next 20th Century
24. Beach House – Once Twice Melody
25. Bad Suns – Apocalypse Whenever
26. Dead American – New Nostalgia
27. Simple Plan – Harder Than It Looks
28. Wild Rivers – Sidelines
29. Wallows – Tell Me That It’s Over
30. Papa Roach – Ego Trip

Trevor Graham

1. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
2. Caracara – New Preoccupations
3. Japanese Heart Software – Soft
4. fanclubwallet – You Have Got To Be Kidding Me
5. Tobi Lou – Non-Perishable
6. Yumi Zouma – Present Tense
7. Charli XCX – CRASH
8. redveil – learn 2 swim
9. Sadurn – Radiator
10. Saba – Few Good Things
11. Murkage Dave – The City Needs A Hero
12. Bartees Strange – Farm To Table
13. Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!
14. Valleyheart – Heal My Head
15. Ivy Sole – Candid
16. Day Wave – Pastlife
17. SOAK – If I Never Know You Like This Again
18. Bread Pilot – New To You
19. UMI – Forest In The City
20. MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs
21. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – IV
22. Widowspeak – The Jacket
23. Ravyn Lenae – HYPNOS
24. All Get Out – Kodak
25. A Wilhelm Scream – Lose Your Delusion
26. Anxious – Little Green House
27. Che Noir – Food For Thought
28. Young Prisms – Drifter
29. Horse Jumper Of Love – Natural Part
30. Stray Fossa – Closer Than We’ll Ever Know

Brett Bodner

1. Cold Years – Goodbye to Misery
2. Silverstein – Misery Made Me
3. PUP – THE UNRAVELING OF THE PUPTHEBAND
4. Joyce Manor – 40 Oz. to Fresno
5. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
6. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
7. Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
8. Jack White – Fear of the Dawn
9. Gregor Barnett – Don’t Go Throwing Roses in My Gave
10. Avril Lavigne – Love Sux
11. MUNA – MUNA
12. Alexisonfire – Otherness
13. Dashboard Confessional – All the Truth That I Can Tell
14. Camp Cope – Running With the Hurricane
15. Papa Roach – Ego Trip
16. Arcade Fire – WE
17. Underoath – Voyeurist
18. Prince Daddy & the Hyena – Prince Daddy & the Hyena
19. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
20. Simple Plan – Harder Than it Looks
21. State Champs – Kings of the New Age
22. Oso Oso – Sore Thumb
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love
24. Motionless in White – Scoring the End of the World
25. Bowling for Soup – Pop Drunk Snot Bread
26. Lit – Tastes Like Gold
27. Eddie Vedder – Earthling
28. Grin & Bear – Naturally Goes
29. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
30. Gang of Youths – angel in realtime

Drew Beringer

1. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
2. Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
3. Undeath – It’s Time…To Rise From The Grave
4. Joyce Manor – 40oz to Fresno
5. Praise – All in a Dream
6. Tomberlin – i don’t know who needs to hear this…
7. PUP – The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND
8. Angel Olsen – Big Time
9. Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
10. Drug Church – Hygiene
11. Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave
12. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
13. Anxious – Little Green House
14. Perfume Genius – Ugly Season
15. MUNA – MUNA
16. Father John Misty – Chloe and the Next 20th Century
17. Vein.fm – This World Is Going to Ruin You
18. CANDY – Heaven is Here
19. Forests – Get in Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation
20. Jack White – Fear of the Dawn

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