The Best Albums of 2022

Bill Coughlin
3 min readDec 23, 2022

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Here’s a list of ten(ish) albums that I enjoyed listening to in 2022.

Honorable Mentions

Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (A Companion) / I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning (A Companion)

Standout tracks: Arc of Time (Companion Version) / We Are Nowhere And It’s Now (Companion Version)

Into It. Over It. & Malegoat, Into It. Over It. & Malegoat — EP

Standout track: Akron, OH

PUP, The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND

Standout track: Waiting

10. Kevin Devine, Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong

Standout track: Albatross

9. Their / They’re / There, Their / They’re / Three

Standout track: Living Will or Living Well

8. Joyce Manor, 40oz. To Fresno

Standout track: Don’t Try

7. Christian Lee Hutson, Quitters

Standout track: Strawberry Lemonade

6. Soccer Mommy, Sometimes, Forever

Standout track: Shotgun

5. Pool Kids, Pool Kids

Standout track: That’s Physics, Baby

4. Coheed and Cambria, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind

Standout track: Shoulders

3. Beach Bunny, Emotional Creature

Standout track: Oxygen

2. Mom Jeans., Sweet Tooth

Standout track: What’s Up?

1. Taylor Swift, Midnights

Standout track: Bejeweled

Bonus: The Boy’s Top 5

These are the songs that took over our stereo whenever he was around.

5. Various, Puppy Dog Pals

Standout tracks: Going on a Mission

Captain Dog

Dog Washin’

4. Various, Pokémon

Standout tracks: Pokémon Theme

PokéRap

2. Patrick Stump, Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends

Standout tracks: Time to Spidey Save The Day

Glow Webs Glow

Webs Up

1. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Standout tracks: We Don’t Talk About Bruno

Surface Pressure

The Family Madrigal

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