Best of 2022: Individual Writers’ Lists

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Best of 2022 individual writers' lists

This week, we revealed our Top 50 Albums of 2022. (And our Top 100 Songs of 2022.) And next week, we’ll be sharing our favorite albums in Electronic, Jazz and Hip-Hop. Last week we did the Best Metal of 2022 too, in case you missed it. But for right now, here’s our list of individual top 10s from each participating writer at Treble.

Jim Beviglia

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief
I Walked With You A Ways by Plains
We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong by Sharon Van Etten
Palomino by First Aid Kit
Love Songs for Losers by The Lone Bellow
Alpenglow by Trampled By Turtles
Break Me Open by S. Carey
The Tipping Point by Tears for Fears
Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C.
A Light for Attracting Attention by The Smile

Adam Blyweiss

1. µ-Ziq – Magic Pony Ride
2. Italo Brutalo – Heartware
3. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release
4. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes
5. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
6. Yann Tiersen – 11 5 18 2 5 18
7. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up
8. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon
9. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
10. The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention

Ed Brown

1.    Wet Leg (s/t)
2.    Expert in a Dying Field – The Beths
3.    Prince Daddy & the Hyena (s/t)
4.    OUTOFBODY – Dazy
5.    Bleed Out – The Mountain Goats
6.    The Hum Goes On Forever – The Wonder Years
7.    Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo
8.    Wild Loneliness – Superchunk

Casey Burke

10. Ugly Season – Perfume Genius
9. Aethiopes – billy Woods
8. I Never Liked You – Future
7. DFTK – Yung Kayo
6. In the Spirit of Ntu – Nduduzo Makhathini
5. (watch my moves) – Kurt Vile
4. The 7th Hand – Immanuel Wilkins
3. God Save the Animals – Alex G
2. Pigments – Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
1. Fast Trax 3 – 454

Elliot Burr

10. Wormrot – Hiss
9. Freddie Gibbs – $oul $old $eparately
8. Alex G – God Save the Animals
7. Kehlani – blue water road
6. Drug Church – Hygiene
5. Kendrick Lamar – Mr Morale & the Big Steppers
4. Birds In Row – Gris Klein
3. Chat Pile – God’s Country
2. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
1. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems

Virginia Croft

1. Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia
2. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
3. Post Animal – Love Gibberish
4. Alvvays – Blue Rev
5. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
6. Stella Donnelly – Flood
7. Weyes Blood – And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
8. Alex G – God Save the Animals
9. Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
10. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum

Tyler Dunston

1. Once Twice Melody – Beach House
2. Belladonna – Mary Halvorson
3. Florist – Florist
4. DJ-Kicks: Theo Parrish: Detroit Forward – Theo Parrish / Various Artists
5. Blue Rev – Alvvays
6. Whatever the Weather – Whatever the Weather
7. Renaissance – Beyoncé
8. Caprisongs – FKA twigs
9. Natural Brown Prom Queen – Sudan Archives
10. Pigments – Dawn Richard / Spencer Zahn

Ben Easton

Aldous Harding – Warm Chris
Alvvays – Blue Rev
Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous
Cat Power – Covers
Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia
Joe Rainey – Niineta
Laura Jean – Amateurs
MUNA – s/t
Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS
Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania!

Liam Green

1. Angel Olsen – Big Time
2. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
3. Burial – Antidawn
4. Tyler Childers – Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
5. Chat Pile – God’s Country
6. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez
7. Roc Marciano/Alchemist – Elephant Man’s Bones
8. Russian Circles – Gnosis
9. KEN Mode – Null
10. Megan Thee Stallion – Traumazine

Langdon Hickman:

  1. Bjork – Fossora
  2. SUMAC/Keiji Haino – Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never
  3. Drug Church – Hygiene
  4. Shamir – Heterosexuality
  5. Dawn Richard/Spencer Zahn – Pigments
  6. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
  7. Beach House – Once Twice Melody
  8. Black Midi – Hellfire
  9. Krallice – Psychagogue/Crystalline Exhaustion
  10. Billy Woods – Aethiopes

Forrest James

1. Mizmor & Thou – Myopia
2. Cloud Rat – Threshold
3. Chat Pile God’s – Country
4. Nilüfer Yanya – Painless
5. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
6. Conway the Machine – God Don’t Make Mistakes
7. Black Dresses – Forget Your Own Face
8. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
9. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Life On Earth
10. foxtails – fawn

Wil Lewellyn

1- Taylor Swift – Midnights
2- Birds in Row – Gris Klein
3 -(16)- Into Dust
4- Zola Jesus – Arkhon
5- Wormrot – Hiss
6- Brutus – Unison Life
7- Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
8- The Mars Volta – s/t
9- Tension Span – The Future Died Yesterday
10- Vision Video – Haunted Hours

Tom Morgan

1. Drug Church – Hygiene
2. Gwenno – Tresor
3. Chat Pile – God’s Country
4. Viagra Boys – Cave World
5. billy woods – Aethiopes
6. Show Me The Body – Trouble The Water
7. Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
8. High Pulp – Pursuit Of Ends
9. Praise – All In A Dream
10. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia

Adam P. Newton

Alvvays – Blue Rev
Angel Olsen – Big Time
billy woods – Aethiopes
Burial – Antidawn
Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments
Drug Church – Hygiene
Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay!
Mizmor & Thou – Myopia
The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?

Jacob Nierenberg

1. Beyonce – Renaissance
2. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Rosalía – MOTOMAMI
4. Beth Orton – Weather Alive
5. Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful
6. FKA twigs – Caprisongs
7. Makaya McCraven – In These Times
8. Angel Olsen – Big Time
9. Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There
10. Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen

Konstantin Rega

Barbara by Barrie
New Gospel Revisted by Marquis Hill
Weather Alive by Beth Orton
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
Hyper Dimensional Expansion Beam by The Comet is Coming
Big Time by Angel Olsen
Centrifics by Maria Allen
Picnic in the Dark by Renata Zeiguer
Laurel Hell by Mitski
Once Twice Melody by Beach House

Emily Reily

Nnamdi: Please Have a Seat
Black Midi: Hellfire
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down
Meat Wave: Malign Hex
Nora Brown: Long Time To Be Gone
billy woods: Aethiopes
Beyonce: Renaissance
Zola Jesus: Arkhon
Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Medicine Singers: s/t

Joshua Seawell

1. Renaissance, Beyoncé
2. Motomami, Rosalia
3. Sometimes Forever, Soccer Mommy
4. Multitude, Stromae
5. Nymph, Shygirl

John-Paul Shiver

Kaidi Tatham – Trust The Process
Jimetta Rose and The Voices of Creation – How Good It Is
Makaya McCraven – In These Times
Anteloper – Pink Dolphins
Automatic – Excess
Los Bitchos – Let The Festivities Begin
Black Thought & Danger Mouse – Cheat Codes
Charles Stepney – Step on Step
Loraine James – Building Something Beautiful for Me
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork

Noah Sparkes

1. BCNR – Ants From Up There
2. Roc Marciano – The Elephant Man’s Bones
3. Billy Woods – Aethiopes
4. Mabe Fratti – Se Ve Desde Aquí
5. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
6. Nduduzo Makhathini – In the Spirit of Ntu
7. The Weeknd – Dawn FM
8. Alvvays – Blue Rev
9. ELUCID – I Told Bessie
10. Perfume Genius – Ugly Season

Jeff Terich

1. Lucrecia Dalt – !Ay!
2. High Vis – Blending
3. billy woods – Aethiopes
4. Alvvays – Blue Rev
5. Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
6. Beth Orton – Weather Alive
7. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
8. Cloud Rat – Threshold
9. Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future
10. Drug Church – Hygiene


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