Best electronic music albums of 2022: an introduction

 

Welcome to the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022.

2022 was a year which saw poverty go through the roofs no-one can afford, war writ ugly and large across our TV screens, and Twitter implode into a chasm of patriarchal billionaire sludge. The last thing we need is someone waffling about his favourite albums of the year, right?

You're wrong! We need this kind of blather more than ever. My best-of album countdown returns. I'm about to plonk 36 blog posts on your computer / Nokia / abacus screen. Here's what you can expect.

This is a list of my favourite electronic music albums of the year. I will mention 75+ albums, although the list is not complete nor authoritative. I will omit obvious choices, and I will make mistakes. I'm writing this within minutes of the first blog post going online, and it's all pretty much written (a) as live and (b) as a first draft. Expect it to be an absolute cack-pot of steaming gunk, and we can take it from there.

I will present you with the following sexy selections. Within each section, I won't rank each album in order. Gone are the days of sorting these numerically. What's the point: if I was blogging this next week, the whole order would shuffle anyway.

Commended Electronic Music Albums – albums that didn't make my final top 50

Top 50 Electronic Music Albums – what would have otherwise been numbers 50 to 21

Top 20 Electronic Music Albums – what would have otherwise been numbers 20to 11

Top 10 Electronic Music Albums – what would have otherwise been numbers 10 to 2

The number one best electronic music album of 2022

This will be laid out as 36 blog posts publishing between now and 9pm today, then resuming on New Year's Eve starting in the morning and ending at around 6pm. Plenty of time after that for you to get all dressed up for Jool's Hootenanny. Holland loves his glad rags.

It's important that this album countdown doesn't take over my entire life, so I will probably do fewer graphics and slightly shorter write-ups. It was a bit stressful last year. If a review is "written in speech marks, like this", the text is taken from my Electronic Sound magazine review of that album.

This all said, every album on this countdown is something I have properly liked or appreciated in 2022, so it's all pucker and brilliant and thank you in advance for wiping your reading eyes across my hastily written words.

Let's go. See the full countdown progress here.

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.