The Best Songs of 2022

Contrary to popular belief/Top 40 radio/your ever-growing collection of used Rolling Stones vinyl, there is still plenty of great new music being released on the regular. The first months of 2022 have shown as much: everything from grunge-y garage rock to funky self-worth anthems to sun-bright Afrobeats-indebted rhythms to emotional electropop. This regularly updated monthly list, from Vulture staff writer Justin Curto and music editor Alex Suskind, runs down the best we’ve heard so far this year — a mix of fun, challenging, cathartic new singles that we’ll be playing on repeat…