McQ's Best Of has now completed its rankings of 153 of 2022's most significant popular releases.
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
14. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
16. Feeding The Machine - Binker and Moses
17. Colder Streams - The Sadies
18. Live At The El Mocambo - The Rolling Stones
19. A Legacy Of Rentals - Craig Finn
20. Big Time - Angel Olsen
21. Preacher's Daughter - Ethel Cain
22. Weather Alive - Beth Orton
23. We've Been Going About This All Wrong - Sharon Van Etten
24. YTILAER - Bill Callahan
25. Electricity - Bibio Sound Machine & Hot Chip
26. Dawn FM - The Weeknd
27. The Overload - Yard Act
28. A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile
29. I Am The Moon - Tedeschi Trucks Band
30. Blue Rev - Alvvays
31. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar
32. See Through You - A Place To Bury Strangers
33. Running With The Hurricane - Camp Cope
34. Asphalt Meadows - Death Cab For Cutie
35. Harry's House - Harry Styles
36. Natural Brown Prom Queen - Sudan Archives
37. Florist
38. Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny
39. American Heartbreak - Zach Bryan
40. Farm To Table - Bartees Strange
41. Blue Skies - Dehd
42. Is It Going To Get Any Deeper - The Soft Pink Truth
43. Emotional Creature - Beach Bunny
44. Two Ribbons - Let's Eat Grandma
45. Reason In Decline - Archers Of Loaf
46. Surrender - Maggie Rodgers
47. Cheat Codes - Danger Mouse & Black Thought
48. Ants From Up Here - Black Country, New Road
49. Summer At Land's End - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
50. Reeling - The Mysterines
51. If My Wife New I'd Be Dead - CMAT
52. angel in realtime - Gang Of Youths
53. 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love (And Free Hugs) - Kula Shaker
54. Dear Scott - Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band
55. for you who are the wronged - Kathryn Joseph
56. Endure - Special Interest
57. Autofiction - Suede
58. Never Let Me Go - Placebo
59. Laminated Denim - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
60. Overwintering - Lightning In A Twilight Hour
61. Classic Objects - Jenny Hval
62. Things Are Great - Band Of Horses
63. Heartmind - Cass McCombs
64. Angels & Queens - Part 1 - Gabriels
65. Growing Up - The Linda Lindas
66. God Save The Animals - Alex G
67. Hideous Bastard - Oliver Sims
68. Rolling Golden Holy - Bonny Light Horseman
69. Bronco - Orville Peck
70. Gemini Rights - Steve Lacy
71. Ultra Truth - Daniel Avery
72. The Boy Named If - Elvis Costello
73. The Tipping Point - Tears For Fears
74. El Mirador - Calexico
75. God's Country - Chat Pile
76. Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama
77. Cool It Down - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
78. Chloe And The Next 20th Century - Father John Misty
79. The Theory Of Whatever - Jamie T
80. IMPERA - Ghost
81. When The Wind Forgets Your Name - Built To Spill
82. The Spur - Joan Shelley
83. Water Slide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky - Porridge Radio
84. Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths
85. Carry Me Home - Levon Helm/Mavis Staples
86. Steady - Sloan
87. Reset - Panda Bear
88. LP3 - Hippo Campus
89. Fear Fear - Working Men's Club
90. It's Almost Dry - Pusha T
91. Past Life Regression - Papercuts
92. Sonnacy - Loop
93. Melt My Eyez See Your Future - Denzel Curry
94. Alpha Zulu - Phoenix
95. Boat Songs - MJ Lenderman
96. Topical Dancer - Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul
97. Where I'm Meant To Be - Ezra Collective
98. Versions Of Modern Performance - Horsegirl
99. Fear Of The Dawn - Jack White
100. !Ay! - Lucreatia Dalt
101. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood
Mild Recommends
102. Tilt - Confidence Man
103. Anais Mitchell
104. Entering Heaven Alive - Jack White
105. Songs Of The Recollection - Cowboy Junkies
106. Time Skiffs - Animal Collective
107. Once Twice Melody - Beach House
108. Hellfire - Black Midi
109. Oh Death - Goat
110. Midnights - Taylor Swift
111. I Love You Jennifer B - Jockstrap
112. ILYSM - Wild Pink
113. hugo - Loyle Carner
114. We - Arcade Fire
115. Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
116. Sometimes, Forever - Soccer Mommy
117. You Belong There - Daniel Rossen
118. A Bit Of Previous - Belle & Sebastian
119. Endless Rooms - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
120. PRE PLEAURE - Julia Jacklin
121. Aethiopes - Billy Woods
122. Laurel Hell - Mitski
123. THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND - PUP
124. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE - Brian Eno
125. Shufflemania - Robyn Hitchcock
126. Riderless Horse - Nina Nastasia
127. In/Out/In - Sonic Youth
128. Cruel Country - Wilco
129. Pompeii - Kate Le Bon
130. The Car - Arctic Monkeys
131. Midnight Rocker - Horace Andy
132. Labrynthitis - Destroyer
133. White Jesus Black Problems - Fantastic Negrito
134. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam - The Comet Is Coming
135. Covers - Cat Power
136. Crash - Charli XCX
137. Nymph - Shygirl
138. Tresor - Gwenno
139. CAPRISONGS - FKA Twigs
140. Get On Board - Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
141. Painless - Nilufer Yanya
142. Take It Like A Man - Amanda Shires
143. Supernova - Nova Twins
144. Stumpwork - Dry Cleaning
145. A Foul Form - Osees
146. Warm Chris - Aldous Harding
147. Ugly Season - Perfume Genius
148. MUNA
149. In These Times - Makaya McCraven
150. SICK! - Earl Sweatshirt
151. Fossora - Bjork
152. The Alien Coast - St. Paul And The Broken Bones
153. Words & Music, May 1965 - Lou Reed
Last Updated 11.26.23
