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This time there is our big playlist for the year in review with the songs of the year!
The 1975 – Part Of The Band
A terrific introspector, Matt Healy’s masterwork as a lyricist is this: “Enough about me now / You gotta talk about the people, baby / (But that’s kind of the idea).” The accompanying music: Midwest emo-folk chamber music -Pop. Better than anything Bon Iver has done recently.
Rosalía-Saoko
Rosalía deconstructs styles as if pop were a game whose rules only she knows. “Saoko” is a hit between the musical and historical worlds, just over two minutes long but absolutely complete.
Harry Styles-As It Was
Harry Styles is there when grandparents, parents and kids ask for the radio to be turned up louder. Difficult to describe how he does it, but this hit from his hit album brings back faith in all-generational pop.
Wet Leg—Angelica
Following the first two singles, “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream,” Variety praised the rarity of a “new band releasing two songs and that they’re both great.” In 2022, the Isle of Wight band upped the ante and mesmerized us with the indie mantra Angelica. At the Berlin concert, they wanted to dedicate it to all the namesakes present – after none were there, they assigned it to everyone who accepted the second part of the name as a self-designation: “lica”, i.e. “licker”.
Mitski – Love Me More
Good DJs put on the piece “Beat auf Beat” after “When The Rain Begins To Fall”, which also unites the 80s hit and this Mitski super piece: A refrain that would make you fall to the ground, it hits the mark Heart.
Voodoo Jürgens – plumage
A song about the impermanence of all things accompanied by a bittersweet symphony from a video that shakes and then calms you down. Another timeless masterpiece by this incredibly good Viennese chansonnier. “Owa friha or späda, autumn ziagt in the country / the fruit is getting sweeter and sweeter until it owefoit from the trunk”. Enjoy it while it lasts, this life.
Porridge Radio—The Rip
a”And now my heart aches!” The same mantra, the same effect. The Brighton band bring the best of emo to 2022: an outburst of all bad feelings.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Spitting Off The Edge Of The World
No, the New Yorkers didn’t have to come back with a brawler like “Pin”, nor with something frenetic like “Gold Lion” or a disco banger like “Zero”. They’ve already done all that. After ten years of abstinence, the trio shows us how dramatic Electro-Pop can position oneself in a dignified – and above all – cool way beyond the 40s.
Black Country, New Road – Chaos Space Marine
The chaos orchestra and the estate manager of bad dreams: the band and their singer play great revue pop between style and madness, a final testimony to the congenial brilliance, now it has to go on without the vocalist Isaac Woods.
Stromae—L’enfer
An unforgettable moment of the year: When the Belgian Stromae sang his beautiful song about personal agony in the French news program. A staging, of course. But a poignant one.
And much more…
Enjoy listening!