Welcome to the second part of Extended Play’s top 100 albums of 2022, covering the top 50 albums of the year. If you missed part I, read it here. All year-end lists must begin with some grand statement reflecting the essence of the year, but they always go on for far too long, try too hard to make each year significant and unique despite doing this every year, and usually get skipped despite their best efforts to paint themselves with the utmost grandiosity as canonizers and narrativizers of the present. So all I will say is that 2022 saw some of the best releases in recent memory that will be (in a just world) considered classics for far into the future. Themes, parallels, trends, I will leave for you to decide. Hopefully you will be able to find, appreciate, and take issue with the placements of your favorite albums as well as albums you despise, and even to discover something you haven’t heard yet. This post also passes the email length limit, so you can click on the title to view all of the listings. The version available in the email will be a truncated version.
Top 100 Albums of 2022 (Part II of II)
Top 100 Albums of 2022 (Part II of II)
Top 100 Albums of 2022 (Part II of II)
Welcome to the second part of Extended Play’s top 100 albums of 2022, covering the top 50 albums of the year. If you missed part I, read it here. All year-end lists must begin with some grand statement reflecting the essence of the year, but they always go on for far too long, try too hard to make each year significant and unique despite doing this every year, and usually get skipped despite their best efforts to paint themselves with the utmost grandiosity as canonizers and narrativizers of the present. So all I will say is that 2022 saw some of the best releases in recent memory that will be (in a just world) considered classics for far into the future. Themes, parallels, trends, I will leave for you to decide. Hopefully you will be able to find, appreciate, and take issue with the placements of your favorite albums as well as albums you despise, and even to discover something you haven’t heard yet. This post also passes the email length limit, so you can click on the title to view all of the listings. The version available in the email will be a truncated version.