Best Album Covers of 2022

by neekafat

Another year, another grid! Yes, yes, half a year late, but I couldn’t live with myself if there was a gap year, and I couldn’t risk letting such beautiful (or decidedly not beautiful) album covers go unnoticed. As always, this list is neither ranked nor listed in any logical order, but rather ordered through an aesthetic progression of color, framing, and connective imagery. This is by no means an exhaustive (though it was exhausting) list of 2022’s best album artwork, but I did do my best to provide covers of varied styles, genres, and backgrounds. I’m sure some will let me know if I didn’t succeed! For now, I’ll let the artworks speak for themselves.

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The Albums:

Melody’s Echo Chamber // Emotional Eternal

Alexisonfire // Otherness

Julia Jacklin // PRE PLEASURE

Soccer Mommy // Sometimes, Forever

Tate McRae // I Used To Think I Could Fly

BLACK MIDI // Hellfire

More Eaze // oneiric

Tenci // A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing

Birds in Row // Gris Klein

Camila Cabello // Familia

Witch Fever // Congregation

Highly Suspect // The Midnight Demon Club

Hatchie // Giving The World Away

lorelei k // Swimming Pool Eternity

Thornhill // Heroine

Perfume Genius // Ugly Season

Daniel Avery // Ultra Truth

Faceless Entity // The Great Anguish of Rapture

conjurer // Páthos

Interpol // The Other Side of Make-Believe

Deliluh // Fault Lines

Andrew Bird // Inside Problems

Rico Nasty // Las Ruinas

Palaye Royale // Fever Dream

Christine and the Queens // Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue)

Loyle Carner // hugo

Alvvays // Blue Rev

Sunflower Bean // Headful of Sugar

Charli XCX // CRASH

yunè pinku // Bluff

The Oklahoma Kid // Tangerine Tragic

Valborg // Der Alte

Pillow Queens // Leave The Light On

Muse // Will Of The People

Incandescence // Le Coeur De L’homme

Counterparts // A Eulogy for Those Still Here

Ella Mai // Heart On My Sleeve

Weyes Blood // And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Cate le Bon // Pompeii

Fit for a King // The Hell We Create

 
Dorothy // Gifts From The Holy Ghost

Blood Command // Praise Armageddonism

Spoon // Lucifer On The Moon

Halestorm // Back From the Dead

Diamanda Galás // Broken Gargoyles

Mamaleek // Diner Coffee

Tsha // Capricorn Sun

Fontaines D.C. // Skinty Fia

Ganser // Nothing You Do Matters

Terzij De Horde // In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy

KMRU & Aho Ssan // Limen

Deserta // Every Moment, Everything You Need

Haru Nemuri // Shunka Ryougen

Cave In // Heavy Pendulum

Let’s Eat Grandma // Two Ribbons

Fousheé // softCORE

Beth Orton // Weather Alive

Bendrix Littleton // LP2

Epitaphe // Epitaphe II

Syd // Broken Hearts Club

Circa Survive // Two Dreams

Orville Peck // Bronco

Cavetown // worm food

Röyksopp // Profound Mysteries III

Sasami // Squeeze

Lights // PEP

Wo Fat // The Singularity

Sadistic Ritual // The Enigma, Boundless

Blut aus Nord // Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard // Omnium Gatherum

Organ Tapes // Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jin De Ge Yao

Anna Mieke // Theatre

Arctic Monkeys // The Car

Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena // West Kensington

Caroline // Caroline

Yves Jarvis // The Zug

Kojey Radical // Reason to Smile

Yeah Yeah Yeahs // Cool It Down

KMFDM // HYËNA

The Mountain Goats // Bleed Out

Jeshi // Universal Credit

The Callous Daoboys // Celebrity Therapist

Rachika Nayar // Heaven Come Crashing

Katia Krow // Julfar

Black Country, New Road // Ants From Up There

Phoenix // Alpha Zulu

Danger Mouse & Black Thought // Cheat Codes

Bleed from Within // Shrine

The Same River // Weight of the World

Archive // Call to Arms & Angels

Scarcity // Aveilut

Madison Cunningham // Revealer

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn // Pigments

Will Sheff // Nothing Special

Titus Andronicus // The Will to Live

Cremation Lily // Dreams Drenched in Static

Walt Disco // Unlearning

Amber Mark // Three Dimensions Deep

Monuments // In Stasis

Skullcrusher // Quiet the Room