Here's my personal selection of my favourite albums released in 2022, from the 270 I've listened to. As even, the criteria are simply how much pleasure, comfort, or escape they've given me during the year.
1) Warpaint Radiate Like This
2) Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
3) Anais Mitchell self-titled
4) Florence + The Machine Dance Fever
5) Courtney Marie Andrews Loose Future
6) Christine and the Queens Redcar les adorables étoiles
8) Zola Jesus Arkhon
9) The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention
10) The Weeknd Dawn FM
11) Hurray for the Riff Raff Life on Earth
12) The Comet is Coming Hyperdimensional Expansion Beam
13) The Big Moon Here is Everything
14) Plains I walked With You A Ways
15) Goose Dripfield
16) Imarhan Aboogi
17) The Weather Station How is it that I look at the Stars
18) Bonobo Fragments
19) Dawes Misadventures of Doomscroller
20) Royskopp Profound Mysteries III
15 Honourable Mentions
- Amanda Shires Take It Like a Man
- Angel Olsen Big Time
- Bonnie Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy
- Calexico El Mirador
- Daphni Cherry
- Fara Energy Islands
- First Aid Kit Palomino
- FKA Twigs Caprisongs
- Gabriels Angels and Queens Part 1
- Gretchen Peters The Show Live from the UK
- Jesse Tabish Cowboy Ballads Pt. 1
- Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway Crooked Tree
- Sharon van Etten We've Been Going About This All Wrong
- Weyes Blood And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow
- Wild Pink ILYSM
