Sputnikmusic's Top 50 Albums of 2022

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# 1

Preacher’s Daughter by Ethel Cain

Album • May 12 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Dream Pop Slowcore

# 2

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief

Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Indie Folk Folk Rock

# 3

19 MASTERS by Saya Gray

Album • Jun 09 / 2022 Indie Folk Psychedelic Folk

# 4

Blue Rev by Alvvays

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Indie Pop Shoegaze Noise Pop

# 5

Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road

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

# 6

The Hum Goes on Forever by The Wonder Years

Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Alternative Rock Pop Punk

# 7

God's Country by Chat Pile

Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Noise Rock Sludge Metal

# 8

Mystic Sisters by City of Caterpillar

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Post-Hardcore Post-Rock

# 9

Glitch Princess by yeule

Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Glitch Pop Art Pop

# 10

Where Myth Becomes Memory by Rolo Tomassi

Album • Feb 04 / 2022 Post-Metal

# 11

angel in realtime. by Gang of Youths

Album • Feb 25 / 2022 Indie Rock Chamber Pop

# 12

THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND by PUP

Album • Apr 01 / 2022 Indie Rock

# 13

Mirage by Gaerea

Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Black Metal

# 14

MOTOMAMI by ROSALÍA

Album • Mar 18 / 2022 Neoperreo Art Pop

# 15

Classic Objects by Jenny Hval

Album • Mar 11 / 2022 Art Pop Ambient Pop

# 16

ILYSM by Wild Pink

Album • Oct 14 / 2022 Indie Rock

# 17

Immutable by Meshuggah

Album • Mar 31 / 2022 Djent

# 18

Aethiopes by Billy Woods

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

# 19

Quiet the Room by Skullcrusher

Album • Oct 14 / 2022 Indie Folk Psychedelic Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 20

Life After Football by The Smith Street Band

Album • Nov 25 / 2022 Indie Rock Pop Punk

# 21

Threshold by Cloud Rat

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Grindcore

# 22

Celebrity Therapist by The Callous Daoboys

Album • Sep 02 / 2022 Mathcore

# 23

Diaspora Problems by Soul Glo

Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Hardcore Punk

# 24

Innate Passage by Elder

Album • Nov 25 / 2022 Heavy Psych Progressive Rock Stoner Rock

# 25

The Loser by Gospel

Album • May 13 / 2022 Post-Hardcore Progressive Rock

# 26

You Belong There by Daniel Rossen

Album • Apr 08 / 2022 Progressive Folk Chamber Folk

# 27

CLOSURE / CONTINUATION by Porcupine Tree

Album • Jun 24 / 2022 Progressive Rock

# 28

The Sun Still Seems to Move by Shannen Moser

Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 29

Spirit Of Ecstasy by Imperial Triumphant

Album • Jul 22 / 2022 Avant-Garde Metal Dissonant Death Metal

# 30

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood

Album • Nov 18 / 2022 Baroque Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 31

The Long Road North by Cult of Luna

Album • Feb 11 / 2022 Atmospheric Sludge Metal

# 32

A Eulogy for Those Still Here by Counterparts

Album • Oct 07 / 2022 Metalcore Melodic Metalcore

# 33

All The Stories Left To Tell by Domestic Terminal

Album • Jul 23 / 2022 Indie Rock Midwest Emo

# 34

Peculiar, Missouri by Willi Carlisle

Album • Jul 15 / 2022 Americana Country Progressive Country

# 35

Electric Elite by Riot City

Album • Oct 05 / 2022 Heavy Metal

# 36

The Buried Storm by Darkher

Album • Apr 15 / 2022 Ethereal Wave Dark Folk

# 37

False Light by White Ward

Album • Jun 17 / 2022 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 38

Perfect Light by 40 Watt Sun

Album • Jan 20 / 2022 Slowcore

# 39

Pain Remains by Lorna Shore

Album • Oct 14 / 2022 Deathcore

# 40

American Heartbreak by Zach Bryan

Album • May 20 / 2022 Country Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 41

Thought Form Descent by Wake

Album • Jul 22 / 2022 Black Metal

# 42

Expert in a Dying Field by The Beths

Album • Sep 16 / 2022 Power Pop Indie Rock

# 43

Leave Me for the Crows by Somewhere South of Here

Album • Sep 14 / 2022 Emo Pop Punk

# 44

Dreamkiller by Sumerlands

Album • Sep 16 / 2022 US Power Metal Heavy Metal

# 45

In These Times by Makaya McCraven

Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Jazz Fusion

# 46

Fossora by Björk

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

# 47

The Forever Story by JID

Album • Aug 26 / 2022 Southern Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 48

New Preoccupations by Caracara

Album • Mar 25 / 2022 Indie Rock Midwest Emo

# 49

Bronco by Orville Peck

Album • Apr 08 / 2022 Contemporary Country

# 50

Banefyre by Crippled Black Phoenix

Album • Sep 09 / 2022 Post-Rock Progressive Rock