The Top 20 Albums Of 2022
1 – Endangered – Tomas Doncker And The True Groove Allstars
2 – SOS – SZA
3 – African Baddie – Yemi Alade
4 – I Woke Up Alive – April Rose Gabrielli
5 – Super Champon – Otoboke Beaver
6 – Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
7 – Truth Hurts – Regina Bonelli
8 – Chris – Ryan Adams
9 – The Line Is A Curve – Kae Tempest
10 -Misadventures Of Doomscroller – Dawes
11 – Slut Pop – Kim Petras
12 – Alpha – Shenseea
13 – Harold And Maude (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Cat Stevens
14- Everyday People Change Into Someone We Never Knew – Hodgy
15 – Pier Pressure – Aardee
16 – Wish For You – Allison Moorer
17 – dawn fm – The Weeknd
18 – Dissolution Wave – Cloakroom
19 – Caprisongs -fka twigs
20 – Sopranista – Samuel Mariño
21 – The Temptations
23 – Kingman – Ras I
January: very quiet for albums, though not so much for singles where albums on the horizon make an early landing. I try to end up with no more than 20 and last year had 26 albums by the end of the year -which means some of these won’t make it. But The Weeknd should…
February: all top three albums are new to this month, Regina Bonelli is going to be difficult to better, but then again I said that about The Weeknd…
March: Three new albums in the top five, Arrdee is his debut mixtape and Shenseea is a new and wonderful dancehall performer from Jamaica
April: Kae Tempests best in years and Hodgy, the Odder Odd future, with an excellent EP
May: three more, the Venezuelan opera singer Samuel Marino, the new Tomas Doncker (but not the last, we are awaiting Endangered) and the sublimely badass Otoboke Beaver
June: the first shake up of the year sees three albums fall off and a new # 1
July – two major r&b albums near the upper reaches, Lil Uzi Vert and Lizzo
August – April’s debut album vaults to # 2
September – the shake up at the top continues with Otokobe Beaver leaping into the top three after months on the bubble, and my favorite Dawes album also making n apperance while Drake drops off entirely.
October: the Kodak Black (and Baby Keems come to think of it) dropped a great album as we reel from the ridiculous murder of Takeoff… why would a 28 year old superstar be shooting dice in a bowling alley? To what end? Anyway, four rap albums here…
November: Yes, the Kodak album was a goodie but it didn’t repay listening with revelation and found itself off the best of the best replaced by the Queendon come of Afrobeats, the irreproachable Yemi Alade.. only Doncker could’ve have kept her off the first place in 22.
December: The SZA album is a major release and a giant album though Endangered -a multi media work of extended agitprop is the best of the best
