Year-end time is list time! That’s why, in keeping with tradition, we didn’t miss the opportunity to choose the 50 best records of the year for the Musikexpress issue 01/2023 as the heart of our big 46-page annual review special. A highly esteemed conglomerate of incorruptible editors and authors voted for it, each of whom submitted their top 20 and from which we calculated our official top 50 in a mathematically possibly highly complicated but certainly democratic process. In all probability we will publish the complete list “between the holidays” on musikexpress.de. As an appetizer for the magazine itself and for the sake of democratic disclosure, we are already showing you which albums one or the other jury member personally celebrated the most.
After Stephan Rehm Rozanes, Linus Volkmann, Julia Lorenz and Julia Friese, we continue with the top 20 by ME author André Boße.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2022: THE 20 FAVORITE ALBUMS BY ANDRÉ BOSSE
1. Beth Orton – Weather Alive
2. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
3. Alabaster DePlume – Gold
4. Kae Tempest – The Line Is A Curve
5. The 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language
6. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
7. Dawn Richard / Spencer Zahn – Pigments
8. The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars
9. Elvis Costello – The Boy Named If
10. Bjork – Fossora
11. 40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light
12. Angel Olsen – Big Time
13. Tim Burgess – Typical Music
14. Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia
15. Arctic Monkeys – The Car
16. Hot Chip – Freakout/Release
17. alt-J – The Dream
18. Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
19. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal
20. Destroyer—Labyrinthitis
You can follow who, where, how and with what also reviewed the pop year 2022 at musikexpress.de/tag/ Jahresrueckblick-2022/. Do you want to vote for yourself and win prizes? This way to our Pop Poll 2022!