Lists

2022 has been a dark year in many ways, but fortunately it has also been a year full of incredible art. Art that has gotten us all through these tough times. These are our favorite albums of 2022––so far.

New Year, New Tunes, right? The beginning of a new year means that there are countless possibilites for what can be coming down the pike and one of our favorite things to do at The Alternative is to speculate about what we'll be getting as the year unfolds. Our staff put together a list of our most anticipated albums of 2022!

After a long year of difficult times and great music, our staff voted and put together our top 50 releases of the year, along with the winners of our 4 awards: AOTY, Best Debut, Most Underrated and Best Non LP. We are all so proud of our picks and we are sure you will find some incredible records that you had missed.

It has been a wild first half of 2021. Vaccines, a new president, live music returning, and an avalanche of releases that were delayed from 2020. These are our staff's favorite records from the first half of the year. Take a look at the list and a listen to the playlist and you will find all the gems you had missed.

Bineet wrote about some of her favorite records of May 2020 and our staff compiled yet another killer playlist full of material.

Our favorite albums of the year (complete with a playlist), plus the winners of our 4 yearly awards (AOTY, Best Debut, Best Non-LP, and Most Underrated)

Our staff put together a list of the 50 albums we are most excited for in 2019! Looks like a good year for new music ahead. Take a look and get hyped!

Tyler hits us with his 30 favorite releases of the year!

The Alternative staff rank their 50 top releases of the year!

Sarah joined our staff this at the beginning of the year as a photographer and writer, and from day 1 has been kicking ass and recommending great music. Check out her top 20 releases of 2018.

Henderson makes the case for his favorite releases of 2018 featuring Just Friends, Mitski, Slow Mass, Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt and more!

Editor Eli Enis writes about his 10 favorite songs of 2018, featuring Gouge Away, Playboi Carti, Lucy Dacus, Lil Wayne, and more.