Paste's 50 Best Albums of 2022

This marks the 20th time Paste has released a Best Albums of the Year list, and as always, it's an opportunity for…

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# 1
Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Indie Folk Folk Rock
# 2
Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Indie Rock Indie Folk
# 3
Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Indie Pop Shoegaze Noise Pop
# 4
Album • Apr 08 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 5
Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Art Rock Post-Rock Chamber Pop
# 6
Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Hardcore Punk
# 7
Album • Jun 03 / 2022 Americana Singer-Songwriter Country
# 8
Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Dance-Pop House Contemporary R&B
# 9
Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 10
Album • Apr 29 / 2022 Slacker Rock Alt-Country
# 11
Album • Jun 17 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 12
Album • May 12 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Dream Pop Slowcore
# 13
Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Alternative R&B Art Pop
# 14
Album • Sep 16 / 2022 Power Pop Indie Rock
# 15
Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 16
Album • Jun 24 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 17
Album • May 20 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 18
Album • Aug 26 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock
# 19
Album • Jun 10 / 2022 Synthpop Indietronica
# 20
Album • Oct 14 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 21
Album • Apr 22 / 2022 Gangsta Rap Southern Hip Hop
# 22
Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Chamber Pop Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk
# 23
Album • Jun 17 / 2022 Art Pop Experimental
# 24
Album • Nov 18 / 2022 Baroque Pop Singer-Songwriter
# 25
Album • Apr 29 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk
# 26
Album • Mar 18 / 2022 Neoperreo Art Pop
# 27
Album • Jun 03 / 2022 Slacker Rock
# 28
Album • Jul 01 / 2022 Indie Rock Alternative Rock
# 29
Album • May 13 / 2022 Art Rock
# 30
Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Noise Rock Sludge Metal
# 31
Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Neo-Psychedelia Psychedelic Pop
# 32
Album • May 13 / 2022 Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop
# 33
Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Art Pop Glitch Pop
# 34
Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Art Rock New Wave
# 35
Album • Jan 07 / 2022 Synthpop Dance-Pop
# 36
Album • Mar 04 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 37
Album • Oct 21 / 2022 Post-Punk Indie Rock
# 38
Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Art Rock
# 39
Album • Feb 18 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock
# 40
Album • Oct 21 / 2022 Alt-Pop
# 41
Album • May 13 / 2022 Pop Rock Art Pop Indie Pop
# 42
Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter
# 43
Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Alternative R&B
# 44
Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Glitch Pop Art Pop
# 45
Album • Feb 18 / 2022 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 46
Album • May 06 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock
# 47
Album • Aug 02 / 2022 Indie Rock
# 48
Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Abstract Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop
# 49
Album • May 13 / 2022 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop
# 50
Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Art Pop Electronic Post-Industrial