Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2022

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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2022

Listing for 153 records from 2022 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Beyoncé: *Renaissance* [Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia]
A	Alvvays: *Blue Rev* [Polyvinyl/Transgressive] Big Thief: *Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You* [4AD] Buck 65: *King of Drums* [Handsmade] CMAT: *If My Wife New I'd Be Dead* [Cmatbaby] Danger Mouse & Black Thought: *Cheat Codes* [BMG] Stro Elliot & James Brown: *Black & Loud: James Brown as Reimagined by Stro Elliot* [Polydor] Emperor X: *The Lakes of Zones B and C* [Dreams of Field] Gogol Bordello: *Solidaritine* [Cooking Vinyl/Casa Bordello] Miranda Lambert: *Palomino* [Vanner/RCA] Ashley McBryde: *Lindeville* [Warner Music Nashville] The Mountain Goats: *Bleed Out* [Merge] Willie Nelson: *A Beautiful Time* [Legacy] The Paranoid Style: *For Executive Meeting* [Bar/None] Plains: *I Walked With You a Ways* [Anti-] Homeboy Sandman: *I Can't Sell These* [self-released] Shikamoo Jazz: *East African Legends Live* [RetroTan] Amanda Shires: *Take It Like a Man* [ATO] Todd Snider: *Live: Return of the Storyteller* [Thirty Tigers/Aimless] Sowal Diabi: *De Kaboul à Bamako* [Accords Croisé] Harry Styles: *Harry's House* [Columbia] Wet Leg: *Wet Leg* [Domino] Tom Zé: *Lìngua Brasileira* [Selo Sesc]
A-	África Negra: *Antologia Vol. 1* [Bongo Joe] Balka Sound: *Balka Sound* [Strut] The Beths: *Expert in a Dying Field* [Carpark] Big Joanie: *Back Home* [Kill Rock Stars] Mary J. Blige: *Good Morning Gorgeous* [Mary Jane Productions/300] Willi Carlisle: *Peculiar, Missouri* [Free Dirt] The Casual Dots: *Sanguine Truth* [Ixor Stix] Corook: *Best of Corook (So Far)* [Atlantic] Dan Ex Machina: *All Is Ours, Nothing Is Theirs* [self-released] Dr. John: *Things Happen That Way* [Rounder] Stella Donnelly: *Flood* [Secretly Canadian] Drive-By Truckers: *Welcome 2 Club XIII* [ATO] Etran de l'Air: *Agadez* [Sahel Sounds] Craig Finn: *A Legacy of Rentals* [Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers] Fox Green: *Holy Souls* [self-released] Ray Wylie Hubbard: *Co-Starring Too* [Big Machine] Kabaka International Guitar Band: *Kabaka International Guitar Band* [Palenque] Kassmasse: *Bahil Weg* [Meedo] Terry Klein: *Good Luck Take Care* [Terry Klein Music] Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee: *Bamanan* [RealWorld] Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa: *N'djila Wa Mudjimo* [Nyege Nyege Tapes] Kendrick Lamar: *Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers* [PGLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope] Jinx Lennon: *Pet Rent* [Septic Tiger] Jeffrey Lewis: *When That Really Old Cat Dies* [Spotify/Amazon/Apple] Little Simz: *No Thank You* [Forever Living Originals/AWAL] Lizzo: *Special* [Nice Life] Lyrics Born: *Vision Board* [Mobile Home] Mach-Hommy: *Dollar Menu 4* [Mach-Hommy] Mama's Broke: *Narrow Line* [Free Dirt] Leyla McCalla: *Breaking the Thermometer* [Anti-] M.I.A.: *Mata* [Island] The Moldy Peaches: *Origin Story 1994-1999* [Org Music] Montparnasse Musique: *Archeology* [RealWorld] Gurf Morlix: *Caveman* [Rootball] David Murray/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake: *Seriana Promethea* [Intakt] My Idea: *Cry MFer* [Hardly Art] Nastyfacts: *Drive My Car* [Jimboco '81/Left for Dead EP] Bill Orcutt: *Music for Four Guitars* [Palilalia] Phelimuncasi: *Ama Gogela* [Nyege Nyege Tapes] PinkPantheress: *Take Me Home* [Parlophone EP] Pongo: *Sakidila* [Virgin] Bonnie Raitt: *Just Like That . . .* [Redwing] Maggie Rogers: *Surrender* [Capitol] Homeboy Sandman: *There in Spirit* [Mello Music Group] Oumou Sangaré: *Timbuktu* [World Circuit] Santigold: *Spirituals* [Little Jerk] Bill Scorzari: *The Crosswinds of Kansas* [self-released] Derek Senn: *The Big Five-0* [self-released] Shygirl: *Nymph* [Because Music] $ilkmoney: *I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore* [DB$B] Regina Spektor: *Home, Before and After* [Sire] Vince Staples: *Ramona Park Broke My Heart* [Motown] Sudan Archives: *Natural Brown Prom Queen* [Stones Throw] Superchunk: *Wild Loneliness* [Merge] Loudon Wainwright III: *Lifetime Achievement* [Storysound] Yard Act: *The Overload* [Island] *Folk and Great Tunes From Siberia and Far East* [CPL Music] *Guerrilla Girls!* [Ace] *New York City Blues* [Ace]
B+	Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul: *Topical Dancer* [Deewee] Black Star: *No Fear of Time* [self-released] Carsie Blanton: *Wolf* [self-released EP] Ezra Furman: *All of Us Flames* [Anti-] The Handcuffs: *Burn the Rails* [Pravda] Freedy Johnston: *Back on the Road to You* [Forty Below] Rhett Miller: *The Misfit* [ATO] 100 Gecs: *Snake Eyes* [Dog Show/Atlantic EP] Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: *Pretty Good for a Girl Band* [Domestic La La EP] Tegan and Sara: *Crybaby* [Mom + Pop] The Trypes: *Music for Neighbors* [Pravda] Billy Woods: *Church* [Backwoodz Studioz] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *World Record* [Reprise]
*******	Okaidja Afroso: *Jaku Mumor* [Chechekule] Zach Bryan: *Summertime Blues* [Warner EP] Armani Caesar: *The Liz 2* [Griselda] Tyler Childers: *Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?* [RCA] Nicholas Craven, Boldy James: *Fair Exchange No Robbery* [Nicholas Craven Productions] Ernesto Djédjé: *Roi Du Ziglibithy* [Analog Africa] Dogo du Togo: *Dogo du Togo* [self-released] Dry Cleaning: *Stumpwork* [4AD] Open Mike Eagle: *Component System With the Auto Reverse* [Auto Reverse] Joe Fahey: *Baker's Cousin* [Rough Fish] R.A.P. Ferreira: *5 to the Eye With Stars* [Ruby Yacht] Gonora Sounds: *Hard Times Never Kill* [Phantom Limb] Clay Harper: *They'll Never Miss a Five* [self-released] Hurray for the Riff Raff: *Life on Earth* [Nonesuch] James Kahn: *By the Risin' of the Sea: Shanties for Our Times* [www.thatjameskahn.com] Leikeli47: *Shape Up* [Hardcover/RCA] Che Noir: *Food for Thought* [TCF Music Group] Angel Olsen: *Big Time* [Jagjaguwar] Dolly Parton: *Run Rose Run* [Butterfly] Rosalía: *Motomami* [Columbia] Straw Man Army: *SOS* [La Vida Es Un Mus] Taylor Swift: *Midnights* [Republic] SZA: *SOS* [Top Dawg] Pusha T: *It's Almost Dry* [G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam] Charli XCX: *Crash* [Atlantic] Young Thug: *Punk* [YSL/300 Entertainment/Atlantic] *Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2/Toma 2* [Cumbancha]
**	Bob Vylan: *Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life* [Ghost Theatre] Built to Spill: *When the Wind Forgets Your Name* [Sub Pop] The Chats: *Get Fucked* [Bargain Bin] Coco & Clair Clair: *Sexy* [self-released] DakhaBrakha: *The Bedouin Reworks of DakhaBrakha* [Human by Default] Elucid: *I Told Bessie* [Backwoodz Studioz] Mary Gauthier: *Dark Enough to See the Stars* [In the Black] S.G. Goodman: *Teeth Marks* [Verve Forecast] Khaligraph Jones: *Invisible Currency* [Boomplay] Ann Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: *Live in Memphis* [Memphis International] Petrol Girls: *Baby* [Full Time Hobby [Hassle Catalogue]] Req'd: *Dressing Wounds by Candlelight* [Saustex] Spoon: *Lucifer on the Sofa* [Matador] Dusty Springfield: *Dusty Sings Soul* [Ace] Viagra Boys: *Cave World* [Year0001] Wednesday: *Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'Em Up* [Orindal] Wesli: *Tradisyon* [Cumbancha] Billy Woods: *Aethiopes* [Backwoodz Studioz]
*	Arcade Fire: WE [Columbia] Bobby Digital vs. RZA: *Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater* [MNRK Music Group] FKA Twigs: *Caprisongs* [Atlantic Mod] Fontaines D.C.: *Skinty Fia* [Partisan] Larkin Poe: *Blood Harmony* [Tricki-Woo] Jinx Lennon: *Liferafts for Latchicos* [Septic Tiger] The Linda Lindas: *Growing Up* [Epitaph] Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder: *Get on Board* [Nonesuch] Matt North: *Bullies in the Backyard* [mattnorth.net] The Regrettes: *Further Joy* [Warner] Ribbon Stage: *Hit With the Most* [K] Homeboy Sandman: *Still Champion* [Mello Music] *Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake!* [Ace]

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