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The artform of the album carries some weight to it, where artists get the opportunity to stretch out and express their bigger concepts or deeper ideas. That's not what this list is about at all - we're talking singles here! And there were some truly great ones for our ears to savor during 2022. Top 40 was a popular format during my developmental ( Read more... )

I've been writing out a list of my favorite albums and singles every year for a long time now, and I keep thinking one of these days I'll get hired by a prestigious music magazine to create reviews and influence the masses. Then I remember magazines don't really exist anymore, and that my musical tastes are highly specialized. So when I sit down to ( Read more... )

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The long form album has been rendered almost completely moot at this point, and we live in the age of the single. The digital single in fact. (Oh the indignity of it all!) The internet makes it so easy to distribute music immediately, inexpensively, and to reach such a vast audience that it has given artists the ability to release songs out into ( Read more... )

I write out one of these lists almost every year and right up at the top I always make sure to say that it's not a ranking of what was best, good, artistic, cutting-edge, or even interesting. Instead it's a list of what connected with me, usually on an emotional level. The records that were in my heavy rotation more so than any others ( Read more... )

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