The 40 Best Albums of 2022
The gallery on this page contains Metacritic's list of the 40 best-reviewed albums of 2022, ranked by Metascore. This list only includes new albums receiving at least 7 reviews from professional critics.
Otherwise, all full-length studio albums (or mixtapes) released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 are eligible, though reissues, live albums, box sets and other compilations are excluded. (Those excluded titles are included in a separate list at the end of the gallery.) Albums are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding based on scores as of December 19, 2022.
(#12) In singer-songwriter Angel Olsen's impressive discography, only 2019's All Mirrors has a higher Metascore than her follow-up 2022 effort Big Time, which finds her veering into country music territory more overtly than in the past. The new album also finds Olsen drawing inspiration from her recent coming-out as well as the loss of both of her parents, and its release was accompanied by a 27-minute film directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch.
“The album as a whole is a strong argument for Olsen being her generation’s finest songwriter.” —The Skinny
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