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MaxSounds 2022 Top 20

1. Jack White • Fear of the Dawn
2. Porcupine Tree • Closure/Continuation
3. Metric • Formentera
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs • Cool It Down
5. Sea Power • Everything Was Forever
6. Florence + the Machine • Dance Fever
7. Wet Leg • Wet Leg
8. The Beths • Experts In A Dying Field
9. Broken Bells • Into the Blue
10. Father John Misty • Chloë and the Next 20th Century
11. Eddie Vedder • Earthling
12. Sharon Van Etten • We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
13. Spoon • Lucifer on the Sofa
14. Porridge Radio • Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to Sky
15. Alvvays • Blue Rev
16. Warpaint • Radiate Like This
17. Shearwater • The Great Awakening
18. The Afghan Whigs • How Do You Burn
19. Dry Cleaning • Stumpwork
20. Jack White • Entering Heaven Alive

Bonus Albums

• Beach House • Once Twice Already
• Big Thief • Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

More Notable LPs & Late Discoveries

• Arcade Fire • WE
• Aurora • The Gods We Can Touch
• Beth Orton • Weather Alive
• Bjork • Fossora
• Joy Formidable • Into the Blue
• Stars • From Capelton Hill
• Stereolab • Pulse of the Early Brain
• Will Sheff • Nothing Special

INDIE • POP • PUNK

• Beach Bunny • Emotional Creature
• Horsegirl • Versions of Modern Performance
• Momma • Household Name
• The Regrettes • Further Joy
• Soccer Mommy • Sometimes, Forever

ROCK: Hard • Classic • Prog • Post • Metal

• Envy of None • Envy of None
• Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs • External Combustion
• Muse • Will of the People
• Ozzy Osbourne • Patient Number 9
• The Warning • Error

POP MATTERS

• Brimheim • Can’t Hate Myself Into a Better Shape
• Cate LeBon • Pompeii
• Wolf Alice • Blue Weekend

ELECTRONIC

• Brian Eno • Foreverandevernomore
• Röyksopp • Profound Mysteries

Notable LPs from OG Artists

• Altered Images • Mascara Streakz
• Erasure • Day-Glo
• Simple Minds • Direction of the Heart
• Tears for Fears • The Tipping Point