Sunday, September 18, 2022

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2022

McQ's Best Of has now completed its rankings of 153 of 2022's most significant popular releases.


Highest Recommends
NONE

Strong Recommends

1a. Skinty Fia - Fontaines D.C.
1b. This Is A Photograph - Kevin Morby
3RENAISSANCE - Beyonce
5. Bleed Out - The Mountain Goats
6. Heart Under - Just Mustard
7. Lucifer On The Sofa - Spoon
8. Cave World - Viagra Boys
9. Dance Fever - Florence + The Machine
10. MOTOMAMI - Rosalia
11. Life On Earth - Hurray For The Riff Raff

Solid Recommends

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
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
52. angel in realtime - Gang Of Youths
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
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
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
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
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
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


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