Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2022

Published: December 15, 2022 05:01 Source

# 1

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief

Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Indie Folk Folk Rock

# 2

Aethiopes by Billy Woods

Album • Apr 08 / 2022 Abstract Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 3

Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road

Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Art Rock Post-Rock Chamber Pop

# 4

PAINLESS by Nilüfer Yanya

Album • Mar 04 / 2022 Indie Rock

# 5

Topical Dancer by Charlotte Adigéry + Bolis Pupul

Album • Mar 04 / 2022 Art Pop Tech House

# 6

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar

Album • May 13 / 2022 Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop

# 7

I Love You Jennifer B by Jockstrap

Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Art Pop Glitch Pop

# 8

RENAISSANCE by Beyoncé

Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Dance-Pop House Contemporary R&B

# 9

Diaspora Problems by Soul Glo

Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Hardcore Punk

# 10

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood

Album • Nov 18 / 2022 Baroque Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 11

A Light for Attracting Attention by The Smile

Album • May 13 / 2022 Art Rock

# 12

HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING by Backxwash

Album • Oct 31 / 2022 Industrial Hip Hop Horrorcore

# 13

Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning

Album • Oct 21 / 2022 Post-Punk Indie Rock

# 14

God's Country by Chat Pile

Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Noise Rock Sludge Metal

# 15

Cool It Down by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Indie Rock

# 16

God Don't Make Mistakes by Conway the Machine

Album • Feb 25 / 2022 East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop Boom Bap Hardcore Hip Hop

# 17

Hellfire by black midi

Album • Jul 15 / 2022 Avant-Prog Brutal Prog

# 18

God Save the Animals by Alex G

Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Indie Rock Indie Folk

# 19

Natural Brown Prom Queen by Sudan Archives

Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Alternative R&B Art Pop

# 20

Florist by Florist

Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 21

CAPRISONGS by FKA twigs

Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Alternative R&B

# 22

SOS by SZA

Album • Dec 09 / 2022 Contemporary R&B Pop

# 23

Most Normal by Gilla Band

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Noise Rock Industrial Rock Experimental Rock

# 24

Blue Rev by Alvvays

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Indie Pop Shoegaze Noise Pop

# 25

Fossora by Björk

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Art Pop Electronic Post-Industrial

# 26

Melt My Eyez See Your Future by Denzel Curry

Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Conscious Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop

# 27

Weather Alive by Beth Orton

Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 28

Endure by Special Interest

Album • Nov 04 / 2022 Dance-Punk Post-Punk

# 29

Big Time by Angel Olsen

Album • Jun 03 / 2022 Americana Singer-Songwriter Country

# 30

Antidawn EP by Burial

EP • Jan 06 / 2022 Ambient

# 31

We've Been Going About This All Wrong by Sharon Van Etten

Album • May 06 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 32

i don’t know who needs to hear this... by Tomberlin

Album • Apr 29 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 33

CRASH by Charli XCX

Album • Mar 18 / 2022 Dance-Pop

# 34

I Walked with You a Ways by Plains

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Americana Alt-Country

# 35

Nymph by Shygirl

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Alternative R&B UK Hip Hop UK Bass

# 36

YTI⅃AƎЯ by Bill Callahan

Album • Oct 14 / 2022 Americana Singer-Songwriter

# 37

BADモード by Hikaru Utada

Album • Jan 19 / 2022 J-Pop Contemporary R&B

# 38

Church by Billy Woods

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 39

MOTOMAMI by ROSALÍA

Album • Mar 18 / 2022 Neoperreo Art Pop

# 40

LABYRINTHITIS by Destroyer

Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Art Rock New Wave

# 41

There Will Be No Super-Slave by Ghais Guevara

Album • Jul 16 / 2022 Political Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop Chipmunk Soul

# 42

Together by Duster

Album • Apr 01 / 2022 Slowcore

# 43

HYPNOS by Ravyn Lenae

Album • May 20 / 2022 Contemporary R&B Neo-Soul

# 44

Only Love From Now On by Carmen Villain

Album • Feb 25 / 2022 Ambient Tribal Ambient

# 45

Visitor by Empath

Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Noise Pop

# 46

Pompeii by Cate Le Bon

Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 47

Storm Queen by Grace Cummings

Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 48

Versions of Modern Performance by Horsegirl

Album • Jun 03 / 2022 Slacker Rock

# 49

SICK! by Earl Sweatshirt

Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Abstract Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop

# 50

Earthing by TENGGER

Album • Mar 21 / 2022 Ambient