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.
CMAT's humorous, catchy If My Wife New I'd Be Dead leads the latest batch of additions to our rankings.
Highest Recommends
NONE
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. A Legacy Of Rentals - Craig Finn
19. Big Time - Angel Olsen
20. Weather Alive - Beth Orton
21. We've Been Going About This All Wrong - Sharon Van Etten
22. Electricity - Bibio Sound Machine & Hot Chip
23. Dawn FM - The Weeknd
24. The Overload - Yard Act
25. A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile
26. I Am The Moon - Tedeschi Trucks Band
27. Blue Rev - Alvvays
28. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
29. See Through You - A Place To Bury Strangers
30. Running With The Hurricane - Camp Cope
31. Asphalt Meadows - Death Cab For Cutie
32. Harry's House - Harry Styles
33. Natural Brown Prom Queen - Sudan Archives
34. Florist
35. Farm To Table - Bartees Strange
36. Blue Skies - Dehd
37. Is It Going To Get Any Deeper - The Soft Pink Truth
38. Cheat Codes - Danger Mouse & Black Thought
39. Ants From Up Here - Black Country, New Road
40. Summer At Land's End - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
41. If My Wife New I'd Be Dead - CMAT
42. angel in realtime - Gang Of Youths
43. 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love (And Free Hugs) - Kula Shaker
44. Dear Scott - Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band
45. for you who are the wronged - Kathryn Joseph
46. Endure - Special Interest
47. Autofiction - Suede
48. Never Let Me Go - Placebo
49. Things Are Great - Band Of Horses
50. Angels & Queens - Part 1 - Gabriels
51. Hideous Bastard - Oliver Sims
52. Rolling Golden Holy - Bonny Light Horseman
53. Cool It Down - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
54. Chloe And The Next 20th Century - Father John Misty55
55. The Spur - Joan Shelley
56. LP3 - Hippo Campus
57. Fear Fear - Working Men's Club
58. Water Slide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky - Porridge Radio
59. It's Almost Dry - Pusha T
60. Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
61. Alpha Zulu - Phoenix
62. Boat Songs - MJ Lenderman
63. Versions Of Modern Performance - Horsegirl
64. Fear Of The Dawn - Jack White
65. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood
Mild Recommends
66. Tilt - Confidence Man
67. Anais Mitchell
68. Once Twice Melody - Beach House
69. Hellfire - Black Midi
70. Oh Death - Goat
71. Midnights - Taylor Swift
72. I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap
73. ILYSM - Wild Pink
74. hugo - Loyle Carner
75. Sometimes, Forever - Soccer Mommy
76. THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND - PUP
77. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE - Brian Eno
78. Shufflemania - Robyn Hitchcock
79. Riderless Horse - Nina Nastasia
80. Pompeii - Kate Le Bon
81. Labrynthitis - Destroyer
82. White Jesus Black Problems - Fantastic Negrito
83. Nymph - Shygirl
84. Tresor - Gwenno
85. Painless - Nilufer Yanya
86. Supernova - Nova Twins
87. Stumpwork - Dry Cleaning
88. A Foul Form - Osees
89. Warm Chris - Aldous Harding
90. MUNA
91. In These Times - Makaya McCraven
92. SICK! - Earl Sweatshirt
93. Fossora - Bjork
2022 Albums In The Pool (# listens in/• strong early impression)
A Bit Of Previous (1) - Belle & Sebastian
Aethiopes (1) - Billy Woods
American Heartbreak (2•) - Zach Bryan
Being Funny In A Foreign Language (1) - The 1975
CAPRISONGS (1) - FKA Twigs
Carry Me Home (1) - Levon Helm/Mavis Staples
Classic Objects (1•) - Jenny Hval
Covers (1) - Cat Power
Crash (1) - Charli XCX
Cruel Country (1) - Wilco
El Mirador (1•) - Calexico
Emotional Creature (2•) - Beach Bunny
Endless Rooms (2) - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Gemini Rights (1) - Steve Lacy
Get On Board (1) - Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
God Save The Animals (2) - Alex G
God's Country (1) - Chat Pile
Growing Up (1) - The Linda Lindas
Heartmind (1) - Cass McCombs
Hold The Girl (1) - Rina Sawayama
Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (1) - The Comet Is Coming
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (1•) - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
In/Out/In (1) - Sonic Youth
IMPERA (1) - Ghost
Laminated Denim (1) - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Laurel Hell (1) - Mitski
Melt My Eyez See Your Future (1) - Denzel Curry
Midnight Rocker (1) - Horace Andy
Overwintering (1•) - Lightning In A Twilight Hour
Past Life Regression (2•) - Papercuts
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
Songs Of The Recollection (1) - Cowboy Junkies
Sonnacy (1•) - Loop
Steady (1•) - Sloan
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 Theory Of Whatever (1) - Jamie T
The Tipping Point (1) - Tears For Fears
Time Skiffs (1) - Animal Collective
Topical Dancer (1) - Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul
Two Ribbons (1) - Let's Eat Grandma
Ugly Season (1) - Perfume Genius
Ultra Truth (2) - Daniel Avery
Un Verano Sin Ti (2) - Bad Bunny
We (1) - Arcade Fire
When The Wind Forgets Your Name (1) - Built To Spill
Where I'm Meant To Be (1•) - Ezra Collective
Words & Music, May 1965 (1) - Lou Reed
You Belong There (1•) - Daniel Rossen
YTILAER (1) - Bill Callahan
!Ay! (1) - Lucreatia Dalt
Last Updated 09.05.23
