McQ's Best Of will be updating its best of 2022 album rankings throughout 2022 and 2023, and also updating which albums are in the listening pool below.
Alvvays' intricate jangle pop offering Blue Rev, and Suede's passionately rocking, lived-in Autofiction are the latest additions to our rankings.
Highest Recommends
None To Date.
Strong Recommends
1b. This Is A Photograph - Kevin Morby
3. RENAISSANCE - Beyonce
4. Wet Leg
5. Bleed Out - The Mountain Goats
6. Heart Under - Just Mustard
7. Lucifer On The Sofa - Spoon
11. Life On Earth - Hurray For The Riff Raff
Solid Recommends
12. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief
13. Diaspora Problems - Soul Glo
15. Feeding The Machine - Binker and Moses
16. Colder Streams - The Sadies
17. Live At The El Mocambo - The Rolling Stones
18. Big Time - Angel Olsen
19. Electricity - Bibio Sound Machine & Hot Chip
20. Dawn FM - The Weeknd
21. The Overload - Yard Act
22. A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile
23. Blue Rev - Alvvays
24. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
25. I Am The Moon: I. Crescent - Tedeschi Trucks Band
26. Florist
27. Ants From Up Here - Black Country, New Road
28. Autofiction - Suede
Mild Recommends
29. Tilt - Confidence Man
30. Anais Mitchell
31. I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap
32. In These Times - Makaya McCraven
2022 Albums In The Pool (# listens in/• strong early impression)
1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love (And Free Hugs) (1) - Kula Shaker
A Bit Of Previous (1) - Belle & Sebastian
A Foul Form (1) - Osees
A Legacy Of Rentals (1•) - Craig Finn
Aethiopes (1) - Billy Woods
Alpha Zulu (1) - Phoenix
American Heartbreak (1•) - Zach Bryan
And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2) - Weyes Blood
angel in realtime (1•) - Gang Of Youths
Angels & Queens - Part 1 (1) - Gabriels
Asphalt Meadows (2•) - Death Cab For Cutie
Being Funny In A Foreign Language (1) - The 1975
Blue Skies (2•) - Dehd
Boat Songs (1) - MJ Lenderman
CAPRISONGS (1) - FKA Twigs
Carry Me Home (1) - Levon Helm/Mavis Staples
Cheat Codes (2•) - Danger Mouse & Black Thought
Chloe And The Next 20th Century (1) - Father John Misty
Classic Objects (1•) - Jenny Hval
Cool It Down (2) - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Covers (1) - Cat Power
Crash (1) - Charli XCX
Cruel Country (1) - Wilco
Dear Scott (2•) - Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band
El Mirador (1•) - Calexico
Emotional Creature (1) - Beach Bunny
Endless Rooms (1) - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Endure (1) - Special Interest
Expert In A Dying Field (2) - The Beths
Farm To Table (2•) - Bartees Strange
Fear Fear (1) - Working Men's Club
Fear Of The Dawn (2•) - Jack White
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (1) - Brian Eno
for you who are the wronged (1•) - Kathryn Joseph
Fossora (1) - Bjork
Gemini Rights (1) - Steve Lacy
God Save The Animals (2) - Alex G
God's Country (1) - Chat Pile
Growing Up (1) - The Linda Lindas
Harry's House (1) - Harry Styles
Heartmind (1) - Cass McCombs
Hellfire (2•) - Black Midi
Hideous Bastard (1) - Oliver Sims
Hold The Girl (1) - Rina Sawayama
hugo (1) - Loyle Carner
I Am The Moon: II. Ascension (3) - Tedeschi Trucks Band
I Am The Moon: III. Ascension (3) - Tedeschi Trucks Band
I Am The Moon: III. Farewell (3) - Tedeschi Trucks Band
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (1•) - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (1•) - CMAT
Is It Going To Get Any Deeper (1•) - The Soft Pink Truth
IMPERA (1) - Ghost
It's Almost Dry (1) - Pusha T
Labrynthitis (2) - Destroyer
Laminated Denim (1) - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Laurel Hell (1) - Mitski
LP3 (1) - Hippo Campus
Melt My Eyez See Your Future (1) - Denzel Curry
Midnight Rocker (1) - Horace Andy
Midnights (2) - Taylor Swift
MUNA (1)
Natural Brown Prom Queen (2•) - Sudan Archives
Never Let Me Go (1•) - Placebo
Nymph (1) - Shygirl
Oh Death (2•) - Goat
Overwintering (1•) - Lightning In A Twilight Hour
Painless (1) - Nilufer Yanya
Past Life Regression (1) - Papercuts
Pompeii (1) - Kate Le Bon
PRE PLEAURE (1) - Julia Jacklin
Preacher's Daughter (2•) - Ethel Cain
Reason In Decline (1•) - Archers Of Loaf
Reeling (1) - The Mysterines
Reset (2•) - Panda Bear
Riderless Horse (1) - Nina Nastasia
Rolling Golden Holy (1•) - Bonny Light Horseman
Running With The Hurrican (1•) - Camp Cope
See Through You (2•) - A Place To Bury Strangers
Shufflemania (1) - Robyn Hitchcock
SICK! (1) - Earl Sweatshirt
Sometimes, Forever (1•) - Soccer Mommy
Songs Of The Recollection (1) - Cowboy Junkies
Steady (1•) - Sloan
Stumpwork (2) - Dry Cleaning
Summer At Land's End (1•) - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
Supernova (1) - Nova Twins
Surrender (2•) - Maggie Rodgers
Take It Like A Man (1) - Amanda Shires
The Alien Coast (1) - St. Paul And The Broken Bones
The Boy Named If (1) - Elvis Costello
The Car (1) - Arctic Monkeys
The Spur (1•) - Joan Shelley
The Theory Of Whatever (1) - Jamie T
The Tipping Point (1) - Tears For Fears
THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND (1) - PUP
Things Are Great (1•) - Band Of Horses
Time Skiffs (1) - Animal Collective
Topical Dancer (1) - Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul
Tresor (1) - Gwenno
Ugly Season (1) - Perfume Genius
Ultra Truth (1) - Daniel Avery
Un Verano Sin Ti (1) - Bad Bunny
Versions Of Modern Performance (2) - Horsegirl
Warm Chris (1) - Aldous Harding
Water Slide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky (2) - Porridge Radio
We (1) - Arcade Fire
Weather Alive (2•) - Beth Orton
We've Been Going About This All Wrong (2•) - Sharon Van Etten
When The Wind Forgets Your Name (1) - Built To Spill
Where I'm Meant To Be (1•) - Ezra Collective
White Jesus Black Problems (1) - Fantastic Negrito
Words & Music, May 1965 (1) - Lou Reed
You Belong There (1•) - Daniel Rossen
YTILAER (1) - Bill Callahan
!Ay! (1) - Lucreatia Dalt
Last Updated 03.24.23
