The best albums of 2022 (update May 31)
The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 33 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Dansende Beren; Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: Clash; DIY; God Is In The Tv; Load And Quiet; Music OMH; NME; The Guardian; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny
USA + Canada: Allmusic; Beats Per Minute; Consequence Of Sound; Exclaim!; Nothern Transmissions; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spectrum Culture; Under The Radar
Highlights: Rob makes the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, etc…
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
Out:
None
50 - Charli XCX: Crash - 74,2 (73,5 / 23)
Highlights: Good Ones – Beg for You - Lightning
Dance Pop
49 - Saba: Few Good Things – 74,3 (77,6 / 11)
Highlights: Fearmonger - Survivor’s Guilt - Few Good Things
Conscious Hip Hop
48 - Rammstein: Zeit – 74,6 (76,6 / 15)
Highlights: Zeit – Armee der Tristen – Zick Zack
Industrial Metal
47 - Caroline: Caroline - 74,7 (77,4 / 13)
Highlights: Good Morning (Red) – Iwr – Skydiving onto the Library Roof
Post-Rock
46 - Vince Staples: Ramona Park Broke My Heart – 74,8 (76,8 / 15)
Highlights: When Sparks Fly - Aye (Free the Homies) - The Beach
West Coast Hip Hop
45 - Animal Collective: Time Skiffs - 74,9 (72,2 / 29)
Highlights: Prester John - Dragon Slayer - Walker
Psychedelic Pop
44 - Ibibio Sound Machine: Electricity - 75,1 (78,5 / 11)
Highlights: All That You Want – Protection from Evil – 17 18 19
Afro-Funk
43 - Gang of Youths: Angel In Realtime - 75,2 (78,2 / 12)
Highlights: The Angel of 8th Ave. - In the Wake of Your Leave - Forbearance
Indie Rock
42 - Arcade Fire: WE - 75,3 (72,0 / 31)
Highlights: Age of Anxiety I – The Lightning II – Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
Art Rock
41 - FKA Twigs: Caprisongs – 75,4 (75,0 / 22)
Highlights: tears in the club - meta angel - darjeeling
Alternative R&B
40 - Daniel Rossen: You Belong There – 75,8 (76,3 / 17)
Highlights: It’s a Passage – Shadow in the Frame – Unpeopled Space
Progressive Folk
39 - Harry Styles: Harry's House - 75,9 (76,3 / 20)
Highlights: As It Was – Late Night Talking – Satellite
Synthpop
38- Florence + The Machine: Dance Fever – 75,9 (75,3 / 23)
Highlights: Free – Dream Girl Evil - Cassandra
Alternative Rock
37 - Stromae: Multitude – 76,5 (79,2 / 13)
Highlights: Santé - L’enfer – La solassitude
Dance Pop
36 - CMAT: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead - 76,8 (81,4 / 7)
Highlights: I Don’t Really Care for You - No More Virgos - 2 Wrecked 2 Care
Indie Pop
35 - Pusha T: It's Almost Dry - 77,3 (79,3 / 15)
Highlights: Call My Bluff - Diet Coke – Neck & Wrist
Hardcore Hip Hop
34 - Alt-J: The Dream – 77,4 (75,4 / 27)
Highlights: U&ME – Hard Drive Gold – Get Better
Art Pop
33 - Jenny Hval: Classic Objects – 77,4 (77,0 / 22)
Highlights: Year of Love – Jupiter - American Coffee
Art Pop
32 - Kae Tempest: The Line Is A Curve – 77,7 (79,0 / 17)
Highlights: No Prizes – Salt Coast – More Pressure
Conscious Hip Hop
31 - Tomberlin: i dont know who needs to hear this… - 77,7 (80,1 / 14)
Highlights: happy accident – easy - idkwntht
Singer-Songwriter
30 - Porridge Radio: Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky - 77,8 (79,5 / 16)
Highlights: Back to the Radio – The Rip – End of Last Year
Indie Rock
29 - Aurora: The Gods We Can Touch - 77,9 (78,2 / 20)
Highlights: Exist for Love – Giving In To the Love – Everything Matters
Folk Pop
28 - Earl Sweatshirt: SICK! - 78,3 (78,7 / 20)
Highlights: Tabula Rasa – 2010 – God Laughs
Abstract Hip Hop
27 - Ethel Cain: Preacher’s Daughter - 78,4 (82,8 / 8)
Highlights: American Teenager – Gibson Girl – Strangers
Singer-Songwriter
26 - Hurray For The Riff Raff: Life On Earth – 78,5 (80,9 / 14)
Highlights: Rhododendron – Pierced Arrows – Wolves
Singer-Songwriter
25 - Let's Eat Grandma: Two Ribbons - 78,7 (78,7 / 21)
Highlights: Levitation – Insect Loop – Happy New Year
Electropop
24 - Sharon Van Etten: We've Been Going About This All Wrong - 78,9 (77,9 / 24
Highlights: Home to Me – Born – Come Back
Indie Rock
23 - Shamir: Heterosexuality - 78,9 (80,9 / 15)
Highlights: Cisgender – Abomination - Stability
Indie Rock
22 - Nilüfer Yanya: Painless - 79,1 (76,8 / 28)
Highlights: Midnight Sun - Stabilise – The Dealer
Indie Rock
21 - Denzel Curry: Melt My Eyez See Your Future – 79,2 (82,2 / 12)
Highlights: Walkin – Zatoichi – The Last
Conscious Hip Hop
20- Destroyer: Labyrinthitis – 79,3 (80,3 / 18)
Highlights: It Takes a Thief – Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread - June
Art Pop
19 - Aldous Harding: Warm Chris – 79,4 (77,1 / 28)
Highlights: Lawn – Fever – Tick Tock
Singer-Songwriter
18 - Father John Misty: Chloe and The Next 20th Century – 80,0 (77,0 / 30)
Highlights: Buddy’s Rendezvous – Goodbye Mr. Blue – The Next 20th Century
Singer-Songwriter
17 - Just Mustard: Heart Under – 80,0 (84,4 / 8)
Highlights: Still – Seed – In Shade
Shoegaze
16 - Spoon: Lucifer On The Sofa – 80,1 (79,8 / 22)
Highlights: The Hardest Cut – Wild – Held
Indie Rock
15 - Mitski: Laurel Hell - 80,1 (77,4 / 29)
Highlights: Working for the Knife – The Only Heartbreaker – Stay Soft
Art Pop
14 - Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful - 80,5 (79,8 / 23)
Highlights: Always Together With You - The Mainline Song/ The Lockdown Song - The A Song (Laid in Your Arms)
Space Rock
13 - Cate Le Bon: Pompeii – 80,6 (78,9 / 26)
Highlights: Running Away - Harbour - Moderation
Art Pop
12 - Soul Glo: Diaspora Problems - 80,8 (85,4 / 7)
Highlights: Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!) ((By the Future)) – Driponomics – Coming
Hardcore Punk
11 - The Weeknd: Dawn FM - 80,8 (79,4 / 25)
Highlights: How Do I Make You Love Me – Take My Breath - Sacrifice
Synthpop
10 - Yard Act: The Overload – 81,6 (79,6 / 27)
Highlights: The Overload – Payday – Pour Another
Post-Punk
09 - Beach House: Once Twice Melody - 81,7 (79,7 / 27)
Highlights: Superstar – Masquerade – Through Me
Dream Pop
08 - Kevin Morby: This Is A Photograph - 81,8 (83,8 / 15)
Highlights: This Is a Photograph – Bittersweet, TN – A Random Act of Kindness
Folk Rock
07 - Wet Leg: Wet Leg - 81,8 (78,8 / 30)
Highlights: Chaise Lounge - Wet Dream - Angelica
Indie Rock
06 - The Smile: A Light For Attracting Attention – 72,1 (80,5 / 26)
Highlights: You Will Never Work in Television Again – Free in the Knowledge – The Opposite
Art Rock
05 - Fontaines D.C.: Skinty Fia - 83,6 (81,9 / 26)
Highlights: Jackie Down the Line - I Love You - Skinty Fia
Post-Punk
04 - Rosalía: Motomami – 84,0 (84,0 / 21)
Highlights: La fama – Saoko – Delirio de grandeza
Neoperreo
03 - Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You – 85,0 (82,0 / 30)
Highlights: Little Things – Simulation Swarm – Change
Art Pop
02 - Black Country, New Road: Ants From Up There – 87,0 (85,0 / 27)
Highlights: Chaos Space Marine – Concorde – Snow Globes
Art Rock
01 - Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers – 88,8 (86,8 / 27)
Highlights: N95 - We Cry Together – Mother I Sober
Conscious Hip Hop
MCCh 2022 (09) May 31
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MCCh 2022 (09) May 31
Last edited by Otisredding on Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:56 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: MCCh 2022 (09) May 31
51 - Orville Peck: Bronco - 73,8 (76,1 / 14)
52 - Bob Vylan: Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life - 73,8 (78,1 / 8)
53 - Bonobo: Fragments - 73,8 (72,4 / 25)
54 - Burial: Antidawn EP - 73,7 (76,4 / 13)
55 - Yeule: Glitch Princess - 73,6 (75,6 / 15)
56 - Kurt Vile: Watch My Moves - 73,6 (72,2 / 25)
57 - Elvis Costello & The Imposters: The Boy Named If - 73,5 (75,2 / 16)
58 - Dehd: Blue Skies - 73,3 (77,6 / 8)
59 - Ghost: Impera - 73,3 (75,9 / 13)
60 - Sea Power: Everything Was Forever - 73,2 (75,8 / 13)
61 - Placebo: Never Let Me Go - 73,0 (72,6 / 22)
62 - The Weather Station: How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars - 72,9 (73,6 / 19)
63 - Warpaint: Radiate Like This - 72,9 (73,2 / 20)
64 - Bad Bunny: Un verano sin ti - 72,8 (77,1 / 8)
65 - Everything Everything: Raw Data Feel - 72,7 (76,7 / 9)
66 - Superchunk: Wild Loneliness - 72,7 (75,7 / 12)
67 - PUP: The Unraveling Of Puptheband - 72,6 (75,2 / 13)
68 - Cat Power: Covers - 72,6 (72,2 / 22)
69 - Orlando Weeks: Hop Up - 72,5 (76,9 / 8)
70 - Sunflower Bean: Headful Of Sugar - 72,4 (76,1 / 10)
71 - Koffee: Gifted - 72,3 (76,3 / 9)
72 - Anaïs Mitchell: Anaïs Mitchell - 72,2 (76,2 / 9)
73 - Craig Finn: A Legacy Of Rentals - 72,2 (76,2 / 9)
74 - Röyksopp: Profound Mysteries - 72,1 (74,4 / 14)
75 - Hatchie: Giving The World Away - 72,0 (73,6 / 16)
76 - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Endless Rooms - 71,7 (74,1 / 14)
77 - Tears For Fears: The Tripping Point - 71,7 (72,7 / 18)
78 - Amber Mark: Three Dimensions Deep - 71,7 (73,3 / 16)
79 - Belle And Sebastian: A Bit Of Previous - 71,5 (71,5 / 21)
80 - Boris: W - 71,4 (74,7 / 11)
81 - A Place to Bury Strangers: See Through You - 71,3 (74,6 / 11)
82 - Kelly Lee Owens: LP.8 - 71,3 (72,9 / 16)
83 - SOAK: If I Never Know You Like This Again - 70,9 (74,9 / 9)
84 - Alice Glass: Prey//IV - 70,7 (71,7 / 18)
85 - Grace Cummings: Storm Queen - 70,6 (74,3 / 10)
86 - Midlake: For The Sake Of Bethel Woods - 70,5 (74,2 / 10)
87 - Calexico: El Mirador - 70,3 (74,6 / 8)
88 - Pillow Queens: Leave The Light On - 70,2 (74,9 / 7)
89 - The Linda Lindas: Growing Up - 70,1 (72,1 / 15)
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Re: MCCh 2022 (09) May 31
Halfway unto the top 100!
After last update's list of big names, this was is relatively small, despite Harry Styles. The playlist is still getting better and better, though:
After last update's list of big names, this was is relatively small, despite Harry Styles. The playlist is still getting better and better, though:
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Re: MCCh 2022 (09) May 31
Hi Otisredding, how come 06 - The Smile: A Light For Attracting Attention has only 72,1 points? Ursus
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