Magnet Magazine is often closest to my taste:
https://magnetmagazine.com/2022/12/1...lbums-of-2022/
1) Spoon Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
2) The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention (XL)
3) Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
4) Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
5) Horsegirl Versions Of Modern Performance (Matador)
6) Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
7) Tomberlin I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This (Saddle Creek)
8) Porridge Radio Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky (Secretly Canadian)
9) Kevin Morby This Is A Photograph (Dead Oceans)
10) Guided By Voices Crystal Nuns Cathedral; Tremblers And Goggles By Rank (GBV Inc)
11) Lambchop The Bible (Merge)
12) The Beths Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark)
13) Broken Bells Into The Blue (AWAL)
14) Beach House Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
15) Wet Leg Wet Leg (Domino)
16) Destroyer Labyrinthitis (Merge)
17) Plains I Walked With You A Ways (Anti-)
18) Death Cab For Cutie Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
19) Beth Orton Weather Alive (Partisan)
20) Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
21) The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
22) Brutus Unison Life (Sargent House)
23) Archers Of Loaf Reason In Decline (Merge)
24) Rosalía Motomami (Columbia)
25) Wilco Cruel Country (dBpm)