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.
(#18) Originally releasing music under the name Smog but sticking to his own name for the past 15 years, singer-songwriter Bill Callahan continues to be one of the more prolific indie-folk artists working today. And, somehow, he seems to keep getting better: YTILAER (technically "REALITY" printed backwards, but our system won't let us display it that way) is his fourth straight release to score 82 or higher.
“This is a sumptuous and rewarding way of spending 60 minutes. YTILAER shows how he keeps raising the bar creatively, consolidating his place in the upper echelons of alternative rock in the process.” —musicOMH
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