NEW YORK — The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy them, in the vein of our revamped music reviews.

Like our picks and want more? Enjoy bonus recommendations accompanying each entry.

“Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” Hayley Williams

Call her Miss Paramore if you must, but this year, it’s all about Hayley Williams. The fierce frontwoman has detoured on her own before — the explorative interiority of 2020's “Petals for Armor” and 2021’s “Flowers for Vases / Descansos” — but nothing has come close to “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” her greatest solo work to date. It is a triumph in candor told across varied mediums: ’90s alternative (“Brotherly Hate”), college radio

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