Best Albums of 1992
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The ChronicThe record that rebuilt what rap sounds like, and one of the very few that is still simply a pleasure to play.Read the review
Selected Ambient Works 85-92Bedroom cassette music that turned out to be the blueprint, tape hiss included, for thirty years of electronic records.
What's the 411?The album that put a soul singer on hip hop drums and invented a whole lane doing it.
Human TouchSession players, generic songs and no urgency anywhere. The weakest record he has ever released.