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Top 10 Songs of 2022!!!!
2022 is over, and that means it's time for year-end list!!! Without further ado, here are the 10 best songs of 2022!
You can find a spotify playlist with each song on it here.
Honorable Mentions:
Prester John – Animal Collective
Hypothermic – Goodnight, Texas
God Is a Circle – Yves Tumor
10. That's Where I Am - Maggie Rogers
Genre: Pop, with a hint of Indie rock
Vibe: A bright and sunny morning
Maggie Rogers combines a beautiful yearning with an unending hope to make the romance she describes feel almost inevitable. Every time she sings, "It all works out in the end," it starts to sound less like a prediction and more like a manifestation.
9. Curse of the Blackened Eye - Orville Peck
Genre: Cowboy Country
Vibe: Heartbreak is a warm sensation
To me, a lot of Orville Peck's music has felt like it was more about the idea of a relationship rather than an actual experience. This song, through all his usual flamboyant cowboy aesthetic, feels incredibly personal. The deep melancholy in his voice during lines like, "It ain't the letting go, it's more about the things that you take with" create a poignant sense of self reflection. This makes it his most personal song and also his most universally relatable.
8. Go Slow – Jordana
Genre: Bedroom Pop (Though any room with a nice couch will do)
Vibe: Chill vibes all the way down 🐢
If self-care was a song. It's as much about avoiding responsibility as it is about realizing the stress-inducing things we're told are vital are so rarely as required as they seem. A deadline missed here or there and a day off now and then won't be the end of the world - but that break may mean the world to you.
7. That's Our Lamp – Mitski
Genre: Ethereal Indie Pop
Vibe: Happy memories for when it's over
When I first heard The Sound by The 1975, I misheard the following lyrics "I said that I love you / What does it matter if *[I like you too]?" (The actual line is "What does it matter if I lie to you"). I thought this was an interesting lyrical idea to explore: that loving someone and liking someone are different things, and one does not necessarily imply the other. To be honest, I was a little disappointed to learn I had misheard the lyric.
Then Mitski dropped That's Our Lamp, a fantastic, joyful closer to her album full of her usual brand of heartbreak, and in it is this line:
You say you love me, I believe you do
But I walk down and up and down
And up and down this street
'Cause you just don't like me, Not like you used to
And Mitski uses this idea to its full potential, as a beautiful way to explore an ending relationship.
6. Every Heart Is True - Little Mazarn
Genre: Finely Aged Folk
Vibe: A warm mug of tea on a cold day
I spent a lot of this year getting into folk music; this was the song convinced me I should stay. Finding this song felt more like uncovering something that had always been there, an ethereal bit of beauty and grace nestled in a patch of freshly fallen autumn leaves 🍃. Each plucked string of the banjo, ringing chime, and ethereal word sung serves to set right the world once more.
Also, if you've never seen live folk music like this, check out a video of their live performances. One of the members plays a hand saw - like, the woodcutting tool - with a violin bow and it sounds like an acoustic theremin. You can hear it clearly at the beginning of this song, and it sounds heavenly.
5. the angel of 8th ave. - Gang of Youths
Genre: Dad Alt Rock
Vibe: Laying on large rocks, being warmed by the sun
One musical niche I love is the recent works of older rock musicians - I’ve listened to a lot of the new Tears For Fears album and The War On Drug's album from last year recently. I find they bring a richness of wisdom that is often not present with younger musicians. Because of that, I was genuinely surprised to find out that this song was written by someone in their mid-twenties. It draws from a rich well of experience, and that brings it a depth that I rarely find in younger musicians. The song embraces the struggles of relationships between imperfect people in unfamiliar places, but it's thesis is that love is fundamentally stronger than any of that. And that's not an abstract idea - lines like "And when my old man was near to the end / You loved his broken body in the same way that I did" show the how personal and everyday acts of love are far more resilient in this song than the pain that love existed in response to.
4. Don't get the deal – beabadoobee
Genre: Alt Rock
Vibe: Brightly rekindled old flame
Beabadoobee's effortless meshing of quiet, bedroom pop ballads with all-out alt-rock bangers make this song feel both like a peek inside a personal conversation and a joyful, public celebration. Both the acoustic duet that begins this song and driving rock jam that ends it feel so wholesome that, when she sings "It feels like we'll stop eventually / For now I guess we were meant to be" over either, it's hard to imagine her romance as anything other than meant to be.
3. The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Rufus Wainwright
Genre: Pop For The Pop Connoisseur
Vibe: Light rain romance
It's no secret I'm a big fan of Carly Rae Jepsen, but it took me a while to realize how much I loved this song (and I won't lie, a good part of that was the TikTok where she sings the "I'm coming back for you baby!" part to her cat over facetime). But this song is just infectious. The impeccable duet, The swooning string section, and groovy hooks at every turn!
If you haven't listened to Carly Rae Jepsen since Call Me Maybe took over the world in 2011, this is an excellent showcase of why she's so beloved amongst pop connoisseurs. Like all her music, it has some of the best songwriting and production you can find in pop music. But what I love most about this song is how incredibly endearing it is. Her and Rufus Wainwright each reminisce about their half of a relationship, each incomplete without the other. Through her charming rose-colored perspective, all the loneliness of the past few years was like reaching the moon - just a bit too soon. But that loneliness ends with each other, and not even lunar distances could separate them. And as the song ends the dance beat fades, it leaves only their voices nestled together amongst the strings. It sounds like a Californian beach sunset, captured in a song.
2. Venomous Dogma - Fantastic Negrito
Genre: Blues. Gospel. Rock. And all of them done better than most artists can do one.
Vibe: Righteous anger, Righteous release
This song starts and album about the singer's seven-greats grandparents, a white indentured servant and an enslaved Black man during the 1750s in what would become the United States of America. He uses their story of love to discuss the history of racism in America and the various systems of racial and economic oppression that have plagued the country since. It is one of the most optimistic albums of the year. If his grandparents' love was stronger than racist laws and slavery itself, then there may be hope for us yet.
As the start of that journey, this song showcases America caught between racial crisis and reconciliation. What I really love about this song is how varied it is - it opens with an excellent Gospel section, then transitions seamlessly into a gruff blues section, yelling in anger. Each of these sections has a deep, tangible respect from the genres they draw from. The histories of these genres is intertwined with America's struggle with racism, and this song's traditional-but-forward-looking take on them sets a powerful musical precedent on how the country can start to reconcile - only with both a knowledge of history and a willingness to move past it. It's easily the most immaculately crafted song of the year.
1. When You Know You Know - The Beths
Genre: Indie Rock
Vibe: Pure joy distilled into a love song
At first look, this is the year's most effortless love song. A closer look reveals that this song focuses on the daily work required for a healthy relationship - apologies, comforting, and care - that only seem effortless in couples with both partners willing to commit themselves fully to each other. The "meant to be" this song describes isn't some destiny, it's what each person is going to repeatedly work for until it happens. It's a beautiful, mutual effort, and every bit of that - the toil and the joy - is so apparent in every part of this song.
Thanks for reading and here's to a great 2023!
#year end list#song of the year#song recommendation#music#carly rae jepsen#beabadoobee#fantastic negrito#gang of youths#mitski#orville peck#jordana#little mazarn#the beths
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Various Artists — Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking (Spinster)
It’s somewhat surprising that an organization that describes itself as a “feminist record label” should make its second mixtape compilation about food and cooking, among the most stereotypical and traditional of female activities. However, as the tape demonstrates, different women have different attitudes about the domestic arts — some warm and comfortable and full of love, others rebelling against the forced servitude that is so often entailed. I myself had a brief period in my mid-20s when I refused to cook out of some sort of inchoate resentment of the patriarchy. I came around when I realized that eating would be a lot more enjoyable, not to mention cheaper, if I learned some of the basics.
In any case, this diverse and lovely collection reclaims the kitchen for artists and thinkers, and significantly, not all of them are women (Avey Tare and Michael Hurley contribute cuts, as well as the mixed gender Magic Tuber String Band). They come primarily from the more adventurous end of folk music that Spinster focuses on, but not entirely. There are Inuit throat singers of PIQSIQ and the improvisatory percussionist Jess Tsang (who incorporates an electric mixer into her track) to break up the picking.
The tracks are so lovely and so much each its own world that it’s to choose favorites, nonetheless Sally Anne Morgan’s luminous “Grain Song,” imbues country fiddle and plucked strings with otherworldly resonance, while Lou Turner’s “Ride the Melting” is characteristically smart, surprising and beautiful. Magic Tuber String Band’s minor key hoedown “Bill Henseley’s Hoppin’ John” is as satisfying as the grain-based sustenance it celebrates, while Little Mazarn’s “Thankgiving,” limns happy memories with melancholy in banjo, bowed saw and plaintive voice.
The prompt for all the tracks, apparently, was “If you made music the way you cook, what would it sound like?” and poet Crystal Good’s “Food Poem” answers that question with silence. Good doesn’t cook, and her track makes it plain why not, in the blighted relationship between her mother and step-father, where nothing was ever good enough, and the happier pairing of her dad and step-mother, where food defined the woman of the house to the exclusion of everything else. The track is a bit of an outlier in a compilation that generally celebrates cooking and food and family, but a bracing one. Like the handful of bitter greens that makes the soup so good, her anger makes the rest sound all the more inviting. Women and food. It’s complicated.
Jennifer Kelly
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and when i die, take my saddle from the wall
put it on my pony, lead him from his stall
tie my bones to his back, turn our faces to the west, and leave us to the prairie that we loved the best
#m#literally had never heard this band before but my brother sent me merch so i started listening#the shirt is really cute it has a horse on it in a fun style#Spotify
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Lightning In the Water
By Little Mazarn
I wake up and I feel it,
conscious of my movement,
I don’t want to hurt it,
I’m conscious of my movement.
Try.
Twist it and turn it
Each day I’ll repeat it
Tenderly I’ll stretch it
Let go if I can’t do it.
Try.
One day it won't hurt me
I know that it’s healing
And I’ll be Lightning in the water,
Lightning in the water.
Try.
#If people ask me what I listen to I dunno what to say#I listen to a lot of punk and then a lot of other stuff too
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you can’t stay everywhere you leave a piece of your heart
cupped in your hands in a nervous blush
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Little Mazarn - Self-titled
Self Sabotage Records
2017
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Rebjukebox Playlist 23
Here is the latest intsalment of new music playlist from Jungle Indie Rock.
60 new songs which have been added together in the last month, all are less than a month old and we have never posted any of the on the site. So just play this, share it, but most of all, enjoy it !! Reb,
Tracklist
Divest - Throw Me Off
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tombes Oubliées
The Laurels - Monkey On My Back
High Tropics - Feel The Same
Westkust - Cotton Skies
Black Mountain - Future Shade
Gary Clark Jr. - Don't Wait Till Tomorrow
Half Japanese - Forever In My Heart
Strand Of Oaks - Keys
The Trusted - Vicious
The Healthy People - Animals
Oranj Son - Blu Mao Mao
Saltwater Sun - Blood
The Valley - Wasted Time
Pleasure Coma - Naked
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - In the Capital
Mattiel - Game Show
Paris Youth Foundation - I Can't Keep Up With Your Love
Shit Kid - Summer Break
The Primals - Can't Believe What You Suggested
Alex Lahey - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
Safe To Swim - Make Things Like They Used To Be
The Pale White - Medicine
Death By Denim - Cigarettes & Honey
The Lindas - Dead Lovers
Kita Menari - Feel It All
Layer Cake - Empty Promiese
Only Shadows - At The Door Knocking
Guide Dog - Generation Y
Annie Taylor - Under Your Spell
Radon - A Fist Full Of Potash
Damien Jurado - Lincoln
Little Mazarn - Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
Rosie Tucker - Lauren
The Brat - Pledge Of Allegiance
MAUGER - Time To Choose
Wyldest - Quiet Violet
Foundlings - Caught Up With You
Sebadoh - Celebrate the Void
The Banter Thiefs - Cash Happy
Wet Dreams - Radioactivity
The Florets - Shapeshift
The Cazales - Real Emotion
Field Medic - Used 2 Be A Romantic
Yacht Punk - Radar
The Extons - No Hope
The Ringards - Glasgow Television
ALCABEAN - Athens
Kishi Bashi - Summer Of '42
Cherry Pickles - Lily Is A Spy
Th Da Freak - Nutty
Ice Baths - Simulation
Neon Waves - You'll Be Fine
The Jensens - Mt. Mura
Kitschen boy - Live In Lo-Fi
Liily - I Can Fool Anybody In This Town
Cora Yako — Time Is Short
Greys - These Things Happen
The Gotobeds - Calquer The Hound
Patio - New Reality
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Just finished a great Bob Dylan related podcast interview with Billy Bragg where he mentions the ‘old, weird America’ a few times and then completely by chance stumbled across this.
Not sure if this is exactly the kind of thing he was referring to, but it definitely fits that phrase.
Plus it’s great.
https://isitrollingbobtalkingdylan.podbean.com/
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Exclusive: Little Mazarn album stream
Little Mazarn, the stage name for Lindsey Verrill, gets her name from what she calls “an unromantic river” in Arkansas. Playing banjo on three original songs, a traditional murder ballad (“Rain And Snow”) and an English sea song, Little Mazarn, in her lilting warble, sings “about precious things, boring things, nature and the garbage that is humanity” (her words). A dreamy pop that would have…
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#004-Sun June
Sun June
Band
Based in Texas, USA
Genre:regret pop
Instagram：@sunjunemusic
Q:How did you first start doing music? (For example: what made you
fall in love with music, how did you start working with music)
We started making music when we worked together. We were putting in long hours in a depressing office park, and playing music while the boss was away was a great way to blow off some steam and have some fun.
Q:How were you as a child?
Laura: A homebody extrovert. I always wanted to be around people.
Stephen: Head in the clouds at all times.
Q:What is something about you that hasn't changed since you were a kid?
Laura is still a ham. Stephen is still a nervous wreck. Sarah is still a major boss. Justin is still a sweetheart. Michael is still a jammer
Q:If you could give any advice to your younger self, what would that be?
Laura: Learn guitar!
Stephen: Learn piano!
Q:What is the story behind your artist name?
We wanted something that sounded like someone’s name, and we wanted something that sounded melodic. We didn’t realize at the time that it can make for a confusing show poster.
Q:What is music to you?
Music is the best way for us to express ourselves in ways that we find difficult to do in real life.
Q:Any music or other art that has had an influence on you.
We’re really influenced by the Austin music scene. There are so many great bands: we love Pelvis Wrestley, Daphne-tunes, Ama, Van Mary, Nevil, Dorio, Half Dream, Tele Novella, Moving Panoramas, Sleep Good, Big Bill, Little Mazarn... and that’s just a few! Austin has the best bands in the world.
Q:What is a word you like?
Portmanteau
Q:What are your hobbies?
Baking, swimming, goofing around.
Q:Something you have been really into recently? (For example: a
game, a type of food or dessert, a show on Netflix. Please share a
specific example)
Crosswords! Making ice cream!
Q:What is the best news you’ve had recently?
Getting to tour again!
Q:What is something you bought recently that you really like?
Huge sweatshirt
Q:What is something that has caught your interest recently, and why?
(For example: NFTs, an election, Climate change, or some other general
topic that you have been interested in recently)
How terrible Texas lawmakers are. They should quit.
Q:What do you think is important when it comes to communication?
Listening!
Q:What do you do to relieve frustration or stress?
Baking with lots of butter.
Q:What is something that makes you feel glad that you are working with music?
Whenever any band member adds something essential to a song we all get so excited. We’re best as a team.
Q:Any artists that have caught your interest recently, or any artist
in particular you are feeling respect for at the moment?
The Austin music scene is always of interest. We really love what Evan Kaspar, who produced our first record, is doing with his own music and with Hovvdy. Christelle Bofalle is another crush. Jess Williamson too. We’ve also love New York acts like Porches and Widowspeak.
Q:Any social issues you have been paying extra attention to lately?
Abortion access and climate policy.
Q:Tell us something good about your country.
There is so much natural beauty here, and our state parks are amazing.
Q:What is a fashion brand do you currently like?
SANDDUNE studios, a local designer in Austin!
Q:Who is a person who has influenced you?
We’ve learned so much from so many other musicians whether they know it or not. Probably the closest we have to a mentor is either Tony our manager and the owner of Keeled Scales or Leslie from Moving Panoramas. Michael our guitarist has really influenced us too. We started working with him in the very beginning and we kind of found our sound together.
Q:What was the first song/album (and from which artist) you bought,
and why did you buy it?
Laura: When I was younger I listened to whatever my older siblings would buy, like Dookie by Green Day or TLC’s Crazy Sexy Cool. Then I’d steal those cassettes, of course. But my first real purchase was probably the motion picture soundtrack of That Thing You Do. The movie really sold me.
Stephen: I got a Red Hot Chili Peppers cassette from my parents when I was 5 or 6. My mom noticed that I loved “Under the Bridge” whenever it came on the radio.
Q:Do you have another job besides working with music?
Yes! Laura is a film editor, and Stephen works in a biology lab. Sarah works in logistics, and Michael and Justin both work in software development,
Q:What do you think you would be doing if you didn’t work with music?
Being sad! I can’t imagine a life without it.
Q:In what kind of environment and with what equipment do you make
your music? (For example a guitar in a park, in a studio using an AKAI
MPC2000 etc)
We try to work in homey places. We made Somewhere in an old house that had been converted to a studio. We love windows and natural light. We work in our home with an Apogee Duet, an AKG C2000b, and a Shure 57. Some of our home recordings make it onto the records.
Q:Which of your songs do you recommend the most? (a song that
represents you as an artist) and please explain the reason why you
chose it.
Probably Bad Girl — it’s a low heat mid-tempo burner, and it combines all the sounds we used on our Somewhere record.
Q:Please tell us about your latest single (or album).
We are releasing three new songs in January. The newest song is called “Easy” — it’s about romantic struggles and a nice big moon. The next one out will be “Reminded,” which is about longing. It’s got a long saxophone part at the end!
Q:What kind of music are you creating right now? (For example; a
current source of inspiration, a certain sound you are into, or some
other specific example)
We are trying to lean into a more DIY style. All of us have some sort of home recording set up and we want to add more drum machine into our songs. We want our music to get bigger and get smaller at the same time.
Q:What is important to you when making music?
We want our music to be honest and earnest. We want to take it seriously, and avoid being cute or glib. That said, we love putting in lines that make us laugh a bit. We also try to make songs that will stick in people’s heads.
Q:Tell us about your next music release or other upcoming activities
you have planned.
On January 14 we will add 3 songs to our Somewhere album. And we will be going on tour! Traveling all over the east coast and midwest of the United States, a few dates in Canada, and a bunch of dates in Europe.
Q:What is your dream?
To make lots of music with people we love and admire.
*This interview was conducted on VI/NYL #004, which published on Dec.30th, 2021.
*All photos are courtesy of the artists.
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