Albums Of The Year, 2022

After another tumultuous year and a cavalcade of great music, choosing our 50 favourite albums of 2022 hasn’t been easy.

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Plaid: Interstellar Overdrive

Andy Turner and Ed Handley return with Plaid’s euphoric ‘Feorm Falorx’, an intriguing concept album about performing at an intergalactic festival on a distant planet. As you do. Stand by for stories about their time in The Black Dog and working with Björk
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To Infinity…

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Yacht: The Shipping Forecast

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Abba: Thank You For The Music

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Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power

Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive
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Revolution in the Head: Beautify Junkyards

Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British  acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings