• Soul Glo 'Diaspora Problems' • JID 'The Forever Story' • Robert Glasper 'Black Radio III' • Sam Prekop & John McEntire 'Sons Of' These are some of nprmusic's favorite albums of the year.
A year like this one makes hand-wringing about the death of the album seem silly . Musicians gave usin 2022. Immersive, ambitious, focused, sprawling, explosive, swerving albums expressed their power in any number of ways: Vibes to make summer stretch on into the year's cold months.
Bottomless layers of invention. History lessons that sparkled like the best party you could imagine. There were too many great albums to count, let alone narrow down to a round number. But here are 50 that made us feel awe, ache or adoration, selected and ranked by the contributors, public radio partners and staff of NPR Music.
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