50 Album Recommendations For 2022 – joshbalogh
Written by ADMIN on 20/12/2022
It’s my favorite time of the year! Thanksgiving and Christmas yes, but also end-of-the-year list season. Whoop whoop! So in my annual attempt to be helpful to those out there who also like lists and may be looking for some suggestions, I present this post. Here are my Top 50+ Album Recommendations from 2022.
My list will lean toward faith-based music, with a heavy emphasis on the independent scene, but there should be some here for most music fans. Among these fifty recommendations I’ve chosen five genres and picked what I think are the best ten albums in Pop/Rock, Rock/Heavy, Worship, Folk/Singer Songwriter, and Hip-Hop. They are in alphabetical order and will be the list I will be choosing from for my annual Top 20 that I post around Christmas time.
We’ll get to the albums soon enough, but how about a warm up mention of ten EPs that I think we top-notch and worth your time. Plus, you may not have the silly “no EP” in the AOTY rule that I do. Although that’s a loose, rule and begs to be broken some day.
Top 10 EPs Recommendations:
Anberlin – Silverline
Chase Tremaine – My Heart Settled in the Middle (full album coming in Jan. 2023)
Darling We’re Dancing We’ve Been Liberated – Dancing in the Moonlight
GFM – Framing My Perception
Homeplate – Welcome to Breitenstein
Jonah Project – Night
Levvy – Bury
Peabod – Growing Up Pt. 2
The New Respects – Don’t Panic
Tenielle Neda – Love Cause We’re Loved
Top 50 Albums:
Top 10 Pop/Rock Album Recommendations:
Anne Wilson – My Jesus
Ben Rector – Joy of Music
For King & Country – What Are We Waiting For?
Gable Price & Friends – The Consequence of Being Alive
Half*Alive – Conditions of a Punk (Out Dec. 2)
John Van Deusen – I Am Origami: Marathon Daze
John Van Deusen – In The Bleak Midwinter
Kings Kaleidoscope – Baptized Imagination
Tobymac – Life After Death
Wild Earth – Weary Hymns Along the Way
Bonus: Caedmon’s Call – Self Titled (re-recording with a few minor re-imaginations of classic songs!)
Top 10 Rock Album Recommendations:
Becoming the Archetype – Children of the Great Extinction
Chagall Guervara – Halcyon Days
Light the Way – Long Story Short
Norma Jean – Deathrattle Sing for Me
Plead the Widows Cause – Pain Split
Rusty Shipp – Dark Side of the Ocean
Seventh Day Slumber – Death By Admiration
Skillet – Dominion
Terry Scott Taylor – Beautiful Mystery
Wolves at the Gate – Eulogies
Top 10 Worship Album Recommendations:
Brooke (Fraser) Ligertwood – Seven (Live)
Colorvault – Faint
Elevation Rhythm – Growing Pains
Keith & Kristin Getty – Christ Our Hope in Life and Death
Kirk Franklin & Maverick City – Kingdom Book 1
Kristene DiMarco – The Field
Mission House – Live From Raleigh
The Porters Gate – Climate Vigil Songs
Taya – Self Titled
Young Oceans – Subjects in Motion
Top 10 Folk/Singer Songwriter Album Recommendations:
Andy Zipf – How to Build a Paper Airplane
Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Coming Home
Drew Miller – There Will Be Surprises
Jetty Rae – Time Traveler
Joshua Leventhal – All Ye Lepers
Madison Cunningham – Revealer
Sandra McCracken – Light in the Canyon
The Riverside – Mythos and Petra
Tyson Mostenbocker – Milk Teeth
Various Artists – Bellsburg: The Songs of Rich Mullins
Top 10 Hip-Hop Album Recommendations:
1K Phew – As I Am
Derek Minor – Nolan and Zane’s Lo-Fi Adventures
Lecrae – Church Clothes 4
Miles Minnick – Holographic
Peabod – Growing Up Pt 2. EP
Social Club Misfits – Everyone Loves a Comeback Story
Tedashii – This Time Around 2
Trip Lee – The End.
Various Artists – 116 Summer 2022 Mixtape
WHATUPRG – New Hollywood
Bonus: Nobigdyl – 5 singles in 2022
Extra Bonus Bonus:
Here are 10 mainstream albums I’ve either liked or Have been recommended to me. Im still sorting out my feelings on them currently.
Jack White – Fear of the Dawn
No Devotion – No Oblivion
The Lone Bellow – Love Songs for Losers
Daisy the Great – All You Need is Time
Beach House – Once Twice Melody
Tiny Moving Parts – Self Titled
S. Carey – Break Me Open
Weezer – SZNZ Eps
Father John Misty – Chloe and the Next 20th Century
Arcade Fire – WE
What about you? Anything egregious that I missed and need to check out before I finalize my list? Hit me up in the comments!
Last years post if you’re REALLY behind: 2021 Music Recommedations
