Best of 2022 Album Collections
Ghost, Grohl, Glo and more
Published: June 13, 2022 13:59 Source
From 'Impera' to 'Pain Remains'
Published: November 24, 2022 13:00 Source
The best albums of 2022 include Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Banks, Sondre Lerche, Ghost, The Black Keys, Alice Merton, Omar…
Published: December 04, 2022 05:00 Source
Contributors: Charlie Brock, Caitlin Chatterton, Kate Eldridge, Matt Ganfield, Fran Hall, Jen Rose & Olivia Stock. 20. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever // Endless Rooms During the world’s longest lockdown (245 days to be precise), Rolling Blackouts CF’s
Published: January 11, 2023 16:45 Source
Rob Sheffield's Top 20 Albums of 2022. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Harry Styles
Published: December 22, 2022 18:50 Source
The best albums released this year: Renaissance, Un Verano Sin Ti, Midnights, Harry's House, Motomami, It's Almost Dry and more
Published: December 01, 2022 14:00 Source
The Best Metal Albums of 2022 with Ozzy Osbourne, Slipknot, Ghost, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Megadeth, Undeath, Soul Glo, Chat Pile and Dead Cross.
Published: December 20, 2022 14:00 Source
The best country music and Americana albums released this year: Zach Bryan, Willie Nelson, Kane Brown, and more.
Published: December 18, 2022 15:36 Source
The best rap albums released this year: JID, Smino, Earl Sweatshirt, Nas, Pusha T
Published: December 15, 2022 16:08 Source
From Wet Leg to Bad Bunny, here are the best albums of 2022 — so far.
Published: June 16, 2022 13:02 Source
Discover our favourite albums including vinyl exclusives from Yard Act, Rina Sawayama, Fontaines D.C., Kelly Lee Owens, Jack White, Mitski and more.
Published: November 15, 2022 15:12 Source
With an industry in a constant state of flux, the battered-but-not-beaten album format still reigns supreme.
Published: December 07, 2022 16:00 Source
If the best albums of 2022 so far are any indication, it seems clear that pop music can’t just go back to what it was before.
Published: June 27, 2022 15:00 Source
As 2022 comes to a close, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot reveal their Best Albums of the Year, music they loved and couldn’t stop listening to. They also hear selections from their production staff and pay tribute to the late, great Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac.
As 2022 comes to a close, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot reveal their Best Albums of the Year, music they loved and couldn’t stop listening to. They also hear selections from their production staff and pay tribute to the late, great Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac.
If nothing else, 2022 was a wild one. We started the year with a surprise release by a major artist (The Weeknd's Dawn FM) and bookended it with another
Published: December 22, 2022 15:19 Source
The following acts released quality albums in May 2022 alone: Radiohead off-shoot The Smile, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, The
Published: June 07, 2022 13:30 Source
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In September, the shit really hit the fan(s). Brittany Aldean, wife of country star Jason Aldean and owner of her own fashion brand, posted a video of herself getting her hair and makeup done, and she punctuated it with some transphobic bullshit. She thanked her parents for not changing her gender when she went through her tomboy phase. Pushback was swift and merciless. Country singers Cassadee Pope and Joy Olakodun called Aldean out on her ignorance, but the most damning response came from Maren Morris, who tweeted, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” In response, the former tomboy complained to Fox News, and non-country person Tucker Carlson slapped Morris with the sickest burn he could come up with: “lunatic country music person.”
Published: December 15, 2022 16:17 Source
No genre list is easy to put together, but I have to imagine that electronic is among the harder ones to write. After all, where does one begin to draw the line with a style whose boundaries are so nebulous? Google “best electronic albums 2022” and you’re in for a truly disparate array of results: pop bangers from Charli XCX, Vegas-ready EDM by Diplo, heady ambient techno courtesy of Huerco S. Hell, even Kali Malone’s Living Torch comes up, and that album is mostly centered on neoclassical techniques and ancient tones.
Published: December 09, 2022 16:35 Source
Oneohtrix Point Never produces the Weeknd, A.G. Cook links up with Beyoncé, and Rosalía, well, sounds like Rosalía. Pop music sizzles with electronic noise, R&B holds the most wave-making avant-garde around, and contemporary rap music stretches rhythm like a putty no longer anchored to a pocket. All of which begs the question, “What exactly counts as Experimental Music in 2022?” The answer is, of course, “Who cares, the world is on fire, no one reads introductions to music lists, please just shut the fuck up and tell me about some good drone albums.”
Published: December 08, 2022 19:15 Source
I’m never going to forget the feeling: Thousands of people, a sea of humanity, just losing its collective mind the moment that the “Holiday” riff kicked in. This year, Turnstile were everywhere: Taco Bell ads, Sunday Night Football ad bumpers, every poster for every big 2023 festival. Eventually, that omnipresence might dull the feeling. But when Turnstile toured huge venues in 2022, they proved conclusively that hardcore shows can work on a grand, world-altering scale. Looking around in the crowd at their DC gig, I saw plenty of people who were experiencing that sense of group catharsis for the first time. It was magical.
Published: December 09, 2022 18:08 Source
2022 started off really well. A bunch of great albums came out in January, including alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’ The 7th Hand; bassist Luke Stewart’s The Bottom; the Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio duo Flow Of Everything; 2 Blues For Cecil by the trio of trumpeter Enrico Rava, bassist William Parker, and drummer Andrew Cyrille; John Zorn and Bill Laswell’s first collection of duos, The Cleansing; and Historic Music Past Tense Future, an archival recording by Peter Brötzmann, Parker, and Milford Graves. I hosted a streaming event on New Year’s Day, the Burning Ambulance Festival, that included performances from bassist William Parker, saxophonists Muriel Grossmann, Rodrigo Amado, and Patrick Shiroishi, pianist Lisa Ullén, drummer Gard Nilssen’s trio Acoustic Unity (see the list below), and many other musicians from the worlds of jazz, avant-garde improv, noise, and electronic music. In February, my book Ugly Beauty: Jazz In The 21st Century, which I’d spent most of 2021 writing, came out. The year held incredible promise.
Published: December 13, 2022 18:15 Source
Welcome to the Black Market’s 2022 favorite metal albums extravaganza. As always, we’re sponsored by sleep deprivation, depression, and an insatiable need to hear heavy metal to make it all go away. We have 10 of the finest slabs of steel released this year on the docket for you today. But first, an intro that neatly sums up the state of metal and the years ahead.
Published: December 12, 2022 19:00 Source
As a music writer, I don’t actually sit around much comparing current years to previous years — I don’t even do that very much in life. I’m more interested in looking ahead to whatever is coming next. So when I do look back, it’s mostly just to savor standout songs and/or albums that came out X number of years ago, and there are always plenty of those, regardless of whether they came out last year or 30 years ago. This is just my long-winded way of saying that I love every year’s music output equally. That said: 2022 unleashed some damn good pop albums.
Published: December 12, 2022 15:20 Source
Midway through 2022, it seemed like hip-hop was bland and headed for a disappointing year. Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers confused people with its insularity and inherent selfishness. Gone were sweeping records about Black Americana; say hello to a record about choosing yourself in the midst of rising fascism and cataclysmic unhappiness. There wasn’t a DaBaby of the year, in other words, someone who was seemingly everywhere over the radio. Looking back at these past 12 months, nothing stands out, but there’s an abundance of quality. If there is a MVP of this year, it might be Baton Rouge’s YoungBoy Never Broke Again – the quantity-over-quality superstar whose fame comes from his music and also his sometimes bizarre antics.
Published: December 16, 2022 16:31 Source
Spanning indie, rap, country, metal, pop, hardcore, emo, and avant-garde weirdness.
Published: December 06, 2022 14:30 Source
It was unusually difficult to list only 50 this year.
Published: June 07, 2022 13:10 Source
The Alternative staff's top 50 releases of the year and our yearly awards
Published: December 20, 2022 17:24 Source
Ten of the best albums of the year, as selected by The Associated Press entertainment journalists. BEYONCÉ, “RENAISSANCE”
Published: December 14, 2022 00:04 Source
The year in music was a party.
Published: December 15, 2022 12:00 Source
Ten records that The Economist’s music critics enjoyed this year, from pop to hardcore punk | Culture
Published: December 01, 2022 12:20 Source
From Bad Bunny to Freddie Gibbs and Rachika Nayar to Jockstrap, these are the albums that soundtracked the past year.
Published: December 13, 2022 16:02 Source
The best albums of 2022 as voted by The Forty-Five team. What has been your favourite album of 2022? Dive into our list of albums of the year
Published: December 01, 2022 14:08 Source
In an unprecedented year of change in music, albums of all genres confounded expectations – from vulnerable rap to pop with gravitas. Listen your way to our No 1 album of the year
Published: December 23, 2022 09:59 Source
From yacht-rock atmospherics to portraits of disaffected Britain, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year
Published: June 07, 2022 10:00 Source
There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown pick their favourites
Published: December 14, 2022 10:09 Source
We rank the 50 most outstanding records of 2022, including Björk, Taylor Swift, Jockstrap, and Ethel Cain.
Published: December 05, 2022 00:00 Source
The most effective artists of the year weren’t afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and the beauty of their discoveries.
Published: November 30, 2022 10:00 Source
The most effective artists of the year weren’t afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and the beauty of their discoveries.
Published: November 30, 2022 10:00 Source
The most effective artists of the year weren’t afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and the beauty of their discoveries.
Published: November 30, 2022 10:00 Source
Non-stop dance parties, retro beats and dreamy vignettes vied with slacker rock, flamenco-inflected R&B and no end of heartbreakThe Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full
Published: December 18, 2022 11:00 Source
The best albums exploded with creative energy, from Rosalía's "Motomami" and Beyoncé's "Renaissance" to artists like Sault and Zach Bryan who needed more than one album to fully express themselves.
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