Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2022

From New York to Berlin to Iceland, these are the RA staff's top LPs of 2022.

Source

# 1

Nothing To Declare by 700 Bliss

Album • May 27 / 2022 Experimental Hip Hop Deconstructed Club

# 2

Mutate by Abadir

Album • Jul 22 / 2022 Hard Drum Deconstructed Club

# 3

Opal by Batu

Album • Apr 29 / 2022 UK Bass

# 4

Sicko by Beast Nest

Album • Jan 28 / 2022 Electroacoustic

# 5

Fossora by Björk

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

# 6

Black Rave Culture, Vol. 2 by Black Rave Culture

Album • Jun 03 / 2022

# 7

Only Love From Now On by Carmen Villain

Album • Feb 25 / 2022 Ambient Tribal Ambient

# 8

Functional Designs by Deepchord

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Dub Techno Ambient Techno

# 9

Meeting With The King by DJ Lag

Album • Feb 18 / 2022 Gqom

# 10

Neurotelepathy by Dopplereffekt

Album • Apr 15 / 2022 Electro IDM

# 11

CAPRISONGS by FKA twigs

Album • Jan 14 / 2022 Alternative R&B

# 12

Textures by Hagan

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Gqom Amapiano

# 13

Cry Sugar by Hudson Mohawke

Album • Aug 12 / 2022 Electronic Dance Music Trap [EDM]

# 14

Plonk by Huerco S.

Album • Feb 25 / 2022 IDM Ambient Techno

# 15

Thanks 4 the Tracks U Lost by Jamal Moss

Album • May 06 / 2022 Outsider House Acid House

# 16

Spaces and Places by Kerri Chandler

Album • Sep 26 / 2022 Deep House

# 17

Escapology by Kode9

Album • Jul 15 / 2022 IDM Experimental

# 18

What I Breathe by Mall Grab

Album • Aug 05 / 2022 Breakbeat House

# 19

Fear of Programming by Marcel Dettmann

Album • Nov 25 / 2022 Techno

# 20

Pripyat by Marina Herlop

Album • May 20 / 2022 Glitch Pop Avant-Folk

# 21

What Do the Stars Say to You by Ron Trent

Album • Jun 24 / 2022 Jazz Fusion Downtempo

# 22

Edge of Innocence by D. Tiffany + Roza Terenzi

Album • May 19 / 2022 Techno

# 23

Apocalyptic Decadence by Schacke

Album • Jul 15 / 2022 Industrial Techno

# 24

Nymph by Shygirl

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

# 25

Asakusa Light by Soichi Terada

Album • Jan 07 / 2022 Deep House

# 26

The Red Hunter by Steffi

Album • Nov 07 / 2022 Ambient Techno Electro

# 27

Natural Brown Prom Queen by Sudan Archives

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

# 28

Tongues by Tanya Tagaq

Album • Jan 21 / 2022 Post-Industrial Experimental

# 29

Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz by Waajeed

Album • Nov 25 / 2022 Deep House

# 30

Whatever the Weather by Whatever The Weather

Album • Apr 08 / 2022 Ambient IDM