This year in dance music, the album format felt an unusually warm embrace from producers across the genre. Though the prevalence and appeal of the one-off single is well-established in the dance space, where the album format has traditionally functioned differently than it does in other genres, 2022 felt like the year of the album as the genre observed what is arguably the most robust year in LPs in this new decade of dance music. From debut LPs that offered a glimpse of the sounds compelling the future of the genre to third, fourth, and seventh studio albums, to…
