The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador |
| 2 | I Don’t Live Here Anymore | The War on Drugs | Atlantic |
| 3 | The Dream | Alt-J | Atlantic |
| 4 | The Boy Named if | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Universal |
| 5 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 6 | Laurel Hell | Mitski | Dead Oceans |
| 7 | Things Take Time, Take Time | Courtney Barnett | Mom+Pop |
| 8 | Glowing Lantern | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose |
| 9 | My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 10 | Covers | Cat Power | Domino |
| 11 | Dreamland | Glass Animals | Polydor |
| 12 | This is a Photograph | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans |
| 13 | (watch My Moves) | Kurt Vile | Verve |
| 14 | In Heaven | Strand of Oaks | Thirty Tigers |
| 15 | Texas Moon | Khruangbin | Columbia |
| 16 | Cool It Down | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Secretly Canadian |
| 17 | Follow Your Heart | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Thirty Tigers |
| 18 | Sympathy for Life | Parquet Courts | Rough Trade |
| 19 | Time Skiffs | Animal Collective | Domino |
| 20 | The Million Masks of God | Manchester Orchestra | Loma Vista |
| 21 | Colder Streams | The Sadies | Yep Roc |
| 22 | External Combustion | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs | BMG |
| 23 | WE | Arcade Fire | Self-Release |
| 24 | Skinty Fia | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan |
| 25 | When You See Yourself | Kings of Leon | RCA |
| 26 | Manticore | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone |
| 27 | Wilderness of Mirrors | The Black Angels | Partisan |
| 28 | Asphalt Meadows | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic |
| 29 | Love & Algorhythms | Seratones | New West |
| 30 | Fear of the Dawn | Jack White | Third Man |
| 31 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord |
| 32 | The Overload | Yard Act | Zen F.C. |
| 33 | Obviously | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch |
| 34 | Medicine at Midnight | Foo Fighters | Roswell |
| 35 | PRE PLEASURE | Julia Jacklin | Polyvinyl |
| 36 | This Machine Still Kills Fascists | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck |
| 37 | Extreme Witchcraft | Eels | PIAS |
| 38 | Daddy's Home | St. Vincent | Loma Vista |
| 39 | Entering Heaven Alive | Jack White | Third Man |
| 40 | Fun Machine: the Sequel | Lake Street Dive | UMG |
| 41 | Leave the Light on | Pillow Queens | Royal Mountain |
| 42 | In Plain Sight | Neal Francis | ATO |
| 43 | A Light for Attracting Attention | The Smile | Self Help Tapes |
| 44 | Mahal | Toro Y Moi | Dead Oceans |
| 45 | Bleed out | The Mountain Goats | Merge |
| 46 | No Rules Sandy | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista |
| 47 | Blue Skies | Dehd | Fat Possum |
| 48 | Ants from Up There | Black Country, New Road | Ninja Tune |
| 49 | Omnium Gatherum | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW |
| 50 | LABYRINTHITIS | Destroyer | Merge |
| 51 | NOESTÁSAQUÍ | Caramelo Haze | Nacional |
| 52 | A Bit of Previous | Belle & Sebastian | Matador |
| 53 | Observatory | Aeon Station | Sub Pop |
| 54 | Everything Was Beautiful | Spiritualized | Fat Possum |
| 55 | Marriage | Deap Vally | Cooking Vinyl Limited |
| 56 | See Through You | A Place to Bury Strangers | Dedstrange |
| 57 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG |
| 58 | Soberish | Liz Phair | Chrysalis |
| 59 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious |
| 60 | Havasu | Pedro the Lion | Polyvinyl |
| 61 | Grizzly Peak | The Dodos | Polyvinyl |
| 62 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra |
| 63 | Ain't It Tragic | Dead Sara | Atlantic |
| 64 | Black Pumas (Deluxe) | Black Pumas | ATO |
| 65 | This is for the Barbarians | Mondo Cozmo | Last Gang |
| 66 | Bummer Year | Good Looks | Keeled Scales |
| 67 | Reason in Decline | Archers of Loaf | Merge |
| 68 | Physical Thrills | Silversun Pickups | WMG |
| 69 | Excess | Automatic | Stones Throw |
| 70 | Projector | Geese | Partisan |
| 71 | Doggerel | Pixies | BMG |
| 72 | Breaking Point | Jackson+Sellers | Anti |
| 73 | My Other People | TV Priest | Sub Pop |
| 74 | Old Dead Young (B-Sides & Rarities) | Broken Social Scene | Arts & Crafts |
| 75 | Holiday | Jennah Barry | Forward Music |
| 76 | Success | Oneida | Joyful Noise |
| 77 | Lonely Beach | Miynt | B3SCI |
| 78 | Expert in a Dying Field | The Beths | Carpark |
| 79 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny |
| 80 | CRAWLER | IDLES | Partisan |
| 81 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers |
| 82 | Artificial Countrysides | Elf Power | Yep Roc |
| 83 | Chopper | Kiwi jr. | Sub Pop |
| 84 | Extend | Robot Slide | Aura Vortex |
| 85 | Happening | Launder | Ghostly International |
| 86 | The Waterfall II | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 87 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE |
| 88 | The Golden Casket | Modest Mouse | Epic |
| 89 | Super Natural | King Ropes | Big and Just Little |
| 90 | A Higher Place | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Kitten Robot |
| 91 | Monte Carlo | Abraxas | Suicide Squeeze |
| 92 | "Hello, Hi" | Ty Segall | Drag City |
| 93 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman | ATO |
| 94 | Hellfire | black midi | Rough Trade |
| 95 | Apocalypse Love | The Black Lips | Fire |
| 96 | The Jacket | Widowspeak | Captured Tracks |
| 97 | The Gold Album | Golden Dawn Arkestra | Spaceflight |
| 98 | Shapes of the Fall | Piers Faccini | No Format! |
| 99 | Into the Blue | Broken Bells | 30th Century |
| 100 | Hour of Green Evening | Goon | Self-Release |
| 101 | Butterfly 3000 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW |
| 102 | The Webstirs | The Webstirs | Presmark |
| 103 | Heartmind | Cass McCombs | Anti |
| 104 | Dark in Here | The Mountain Goats | Merge |
| 105 | How Do You Burn? | The Afghan Whigs | Royal Cream |
| 106 | Versions of Modern Performance | Horsegirl | Matador |
| 107 | Broken Equipment | Bodega | MERLIN - What's Your Rupture? |
| 108 | Beginners | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
| 109 | Weather Alive | Beth Orton | Partisan |
| 110 | Nightmare Daydream | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 111 | Peacock Pools | Pink Mountaintops | ATO |
| 112 | PAINLESS | Nilufer Yanya | ATO |
| 113 | Don't Talk to Me | Dropper | Dirt Dog |
| 114 | Steady | SLOAN | Yep Roc |
| 115 | Self Made Man | Larkin Poe | Trick-Woo |
| 116 | Welcome Break | Pip Blom | Heavenly |
| 117 | Smiling with No Teeth | Genesis Owusu | House Anxiety |
| 118 | Inner World Peace | Frankie Cosmos | Sub Pop |
| 119 | Can't Get There from Here | Eric Bolander | Self-Release |
| 120 | Changes | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW |
| 121 | Talk Talk Talk | The Paranoyds | Third Man |
| 122 | Time for the Future | Fake Shark | Light Organ |
| 123 | Fantasy Gateway | Cuco | Interscope |
| 124 | People Person | Rasmus Birk | Black Cottage |
| 125 | Arrangements | Preoccupations | Flemish Eye |
| 126 | Mental Picture | Sarah Bethe Nelson | Speakeasy Studios SF |
| 127 | One Stop Shop | Twen | Self-Release |
| 128 | Truthtelling | Worthitpurchase | Anxiety Blanket |
| 129 | Time Itself | Children Collide | Spinning Top |
| 130 | Fairy Rust | Wombo | Fire Talk |
| 131 | Stumpwork | Dry Cleaning | 4AD |
| 132 | Feels So Good // Feels So Bad | The Shivas | Tender Loving Empire |
| 133 | Against Face | Cy Dune | Lightning Studios |
| 134 | Ugly Season | Perfume Genius | Matador |
| 135 | Endless from the Start | Union of Knives | Discos Pinata |
| 136 | Down Tools | Mush | Memphis Industries |
| 137 | Big Love Blanket | Personal Trainer | The Industry |
| 138 | If I Were a Butterfly | Rayland Baxter | ATO |
| 139 | Big Plans for a Blue World | Wylderness | Succulent |
| 140 | Open Door Policy | The Hold Steady | Thirty Tiger |
| 141 | The New Abnormal | The Strokes | RCA |
| 142 | Valentine | Snail Mail | Matador |
| 143 | No Past No Future | Spacemoth | Wax Nine |
| 144 | KID a MNESIA | Radiohead | XL |
| 145 | Actually, You Can | Deerhoof | Joyful Noise |
| 146 | Social Cues | Cage the Elephant | RCA |
| 147 | Harmonizer | Ty Segall | Drag City |
| 148 | End of the World | Wild Child | Reba's Ranch |
| 149 | Crystal Nuns Cathedral | Guided By Voices | GBV Inc |
| 150 | When I'm Alone | girlpuppy | Royal Mountain |
| 151 | Saint Cloud | Waxahatchee | Merge |
| 152 | Fantasy Island | Clinic | Domino |
| 153 | Suck on Light | Boy & Bear | Nettwerk |
| 154 | American Cockroach | Deap Vally | Cooking Vinyl |
| 155 | Married | Kills Birds | Royal Mountain |
| 156 | Sweep It into Space | Dinosaur Jr. | Jagjaguwar |
| 157 | Rainbow Music | ghost orchard | Winspear |
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