The 20 best albums of 2022
In a year when we inched that much closer to streaming's eternal now, the music of 2022 felt suffused with temporality — looking back to a better time, anticipating tomorrow's promise, taking stock of the present in 15-second snippets.
1. Beyoncé, "RenaissancePop's deepest-thinking superstar doesn't really deal in anything but Big Important Statements. Yet the textural scope and intellectual rigor — not to mention the emotion and the pure pleasure — of this loving tribute to dance music's
