💽 » My 40 Favorite Albums of 2022

These are my 40 favorite albums of 2022, in chronological order by release date:

💽 The Weeknd - Dawn FM

🎶 pop, r&b, soul • 16 songs • 52 minutes

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💽 Bonobo - Fragments

🎶 electronic • 12 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Modern Error - Victim Of A Modern Age

🎶 alternative rock, metal • 14 songs • 49 minutes

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💽 Lady Wray - Piece of Me

🎶 r&b, soul, pop • 12 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Mitski - Laurel Hell

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 11 songs • 33 minutes

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💽 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

🎶 indie-rock, folk • 20 songs • 80 minutes

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💽 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer

🎶 electro-pop, dance, art-pop • 13 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Nilüfer Yanya - Painless

🎶 alternative • 12 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 Terno Rei - Gêmeos

🎶 indie-rock, brazilian • 12 songs • 35 minutes

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💽 Rosalía - Motomami

🎶 pop, reggaeton, latin • 16 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 Lizzy McAlpine - Five Seconds Flat

🎶 singer-songwriter • 14 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather

🎶 electronic, ambient • 11 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century

🎶 chamber-pop, folk-rock • 11 songs • 51 minutes

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💽 Samora Pinderhughes - Grief

🎶 indie, pop • 15 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Haru Nemuri - Shunka Ryougen

🎶 J-rock, alternative • 21 songs • 62 minutes

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💽 Sweet Pill - Where The Heart Is

🎶 emo, rock • 10 songs • 29 minutes

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💽 Fado Bicha - Ocupação

🎶 fado, alternative, indie • 12 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Tim Bernardes - Mil Coisas Invisíveis

🎶 singer-songwriter • 15 songs • 58 minutes

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💽 Bartees Strange - Farm to Table

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 10 songs • 34 minutes

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💽 MUNA - MUNA

🎶 indie-pop, synth-pop • 11 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Lizzo - Special

🎶 pop, r&b, rap • 12 songs • 36 minutes

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💽 Black Midi - Hellfire

🎶 experimental rock, jazz fusion, math-rock • 10 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Pool Kids - Pool Kids

🎶 emo, rock • 12 songs • 47 minutes

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💽 DOMi & JD BECK – NOT TiGHT

🎶 jazz, experimental • 15 songs • 44 minutes

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💽 King Princess - Hold On Baby

🎶 singer-songwriter, indie-pop • 12 songs • 41 minutes

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💽 Beyoncé - Renaissance

🎶 pop, r&b, disco • 16 songs • 62 minutes

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💽 STRR - Quando Tudo Era Novo

🎶 electronic • 9 songs • 24 minutes

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💽 Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar

🎶 electronic, alternative • 19 songs • 63 minutes

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💽 Odeon - Game

🎶 rock, alternative • 14 songs • 40 minutes

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💽 Electric Callboy - TEKKNO

🎶 metalcore, electronic • 10 songs • 31 minutes

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💽 Cigana - Estrago

🎶 indie, alternative • 4 songs • 12 minutes

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💽 Marrakesh - Timeskip

🎶 alternative • 10 songs • 30 minutes

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💽 Björk - Fossora

🎶 art-pop, electronic, experimental • 13 songs • 54 minutes

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💽 Willow - <COPINGMECHANISM>

🎶 alternative rock, pop-punk • 11 songs • 29 minutes

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💽 Arctic Monkeys - The Car

🎶 indie-rock • 10 songs • 37 minutes

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💽 Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die

🎶 progressive rock, metal, fusion • 12 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Phoenix - Alpha Zulu

🎶 indie-rock, alternative • 10 songs • 35 minutes

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💽 Joji - SMITHEREENS

🎶 alternative pop • 9 songs • 24 minutes

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💽 Dingo - A Vida é Uma Granada

🎶 rock, indie-pop, brazilian • 11 songs • 41 minutes

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💽 Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

🎶 alternative • 10 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 » My 35 Favorite Albums of 2021

These are my 35 favorite albums of 2021, in chronological order by release date:

💽 Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood

🎶 acoustic guitar, instrumental, folk • 10 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Supercolisor - Viagem ao Fim da Noite

🎶 alternative rock, brazilian • 10 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Hayley Williams – FLOWERS for VASES / descansos

🎶 alternative, pop • 14 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 SG Lewis - times

🎶 electronic, pop, disco • 10 songs • 40 minutes

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💽 Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist

🎶 rock, metalcore • 15 songs • 58 minutes

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💽 Really From - Really From

🎶 indie rock, emo, math rock, jazz • 9 songs • 34 minutes

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💽 Djonga - NU

🎶 rap, brazilian • 8 songs • 30 minutes

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💽 Sheep, Dog & Wolf - Two Minds

🎶 alternative rock, jazz • 8 songs • 41 minutes

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💽 Selton - Benvenuti

🎶 indie-rock, pop, alternative • 13 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Porter Robinson - Nurture

🎶 electronic, indie-pop • 14 songs • 59 minutes 

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💽 Duda Beat - Te Amo Lá Fora

🎶 brazilian music, pop • 11 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God

🎶 alternative rock, indie-rock • 11 songs • 46 minutes

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💽 Rodrigo Y Gabriela - The Jazz EP

🎶 acoustic guitar, jazz, instrumental • 3 songs • 20 minutes

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💽 Erika de Casier - Sensational

🎶 r&b, pop, soul • 13 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

🎶 alternative pop, pop-rock • 11 songs • 34 minutes

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💽 Jonathan Ferr - Cura

🎶 jazz, brazilian, piano • 9 songs • 40 minutes

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💽 Black Midi - Cavalcade

🎶 experimental rock, jazz fusion, math-rock • 8 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 Tuyo - Chegamos Sozinhos em Casa

🎶 r&b, pop, soul, brazilian • 19 songs • 66 minutes

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💽 Amaro Freitas - Sankofa

🎶 jazz, brazilian, piano • 8 songs • 45 minutes

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💽 Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

🎶 r&b, jazz, soul • 12 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

🎶 r&b, soul • 10 songs • 38 minutes

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💽 Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound

🎶 r&b, soul • 11 songs • 36 minutes

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💽 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

🎶 alternative pop • 16 songs • 56 minutes

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💽 Foxing - Draw Down the Moon

🎶 indie-rock, emo, post-rock • 10 songs • 39 minutes

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💽 Ty Segall - Harmonizer

🎶 indie-rock, psychedelic-rock / 10 songs • 35 minutes

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💽 Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen

🎶 pop-punk, emo • 6 songs • 19 minutes

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💽 Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

🎶 indie-folk, alternative • 15 songs • 65 minutes

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💽 CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

🎶 synth-pop, indie, alternative • 10 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 1

🎶 alternative rock • 13 songs • 42 minutes

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💽 Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

🎶 metalcore, rock, metal • 12 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Jenny Kern - I Never Thought That You Were Listening

🎶 singer/songwriter, alternative • 4 songs • 15 minutes

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💽 AXTY - Helpless

🎶 metalcore, rock, metal • 12 songs • 38 minutes

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💽 Alice Caymmi - Imaculada

🎶 brazilian music, pop • 10 songs • 26 minutes

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💽 Caetano Veloso - Meu Coco

🎶 brazilian music, singer/song-writer • 12 songs • 43 minutes

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💽 Fresno - Vou Ter Que Me Virar

🎶 rock, emo, brazilian • 11 songs • 43 minutes

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Favorite Albums of 2020

Over the past year, I’ve listened to 118 albums released in 2020. Not as many as a music critic for sure, but more than the average person, I’d guess? So here’s a quick list of my 20 favorite albums from the year, in alphabetical order:

Adrienne Lenker - songs (listen on Spotify)

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror (listen on Spotify)

Caribou - Suddenly (listen on Spotify)

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (listen on Spotify)

Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters (listen on Spotify)

Fleet Foxes - Shore (listen on Spotify)

HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III (listen on Spotify)

Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song (listen on Spotify)

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas (listen on Spotify)

Marcelo D2 - Assim Tocam os Meus Tambores (listen on Spotify)

NEEDTOBREATHE - Out of Body (listen on Spotify)

Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace (listen on Spotify)

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (listen on Spotify)

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA (listen on Spotify)

saudade - jardim entre os ouvidos (listen on Spotify)

Scalene - Fôlego (listen on Spotify)

Tame Impala - The Slow Rush (listen on Spotify)

The Killers - Imploding The Mirage (listen on Spotify)

The Weekend - After Hours (listen on Spotify)

Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind (listen on Spotify)