Unpopular musical opinion:

Album of the Year is Faith No More's best album.

Fight me 🧌

#FaithNoMore #AlbumOfTheYear #LastCupOfSorrow

https://youtu.be/i9etx0q11vI

#Music

I haven't been this excited for an album release is a very long time.

#Algiers
Shook
2/24/23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_6VAFbV_c

#PostPunk
#SoulMusic
#AlbumOfTheYear

Album of the year
#1
Black Country – New Road

Ants From Up There is best consumed whole, in a dark room, with some good speakers. Don’t pre-assume, don’t judge, just let it wash over you. And when you are done, pray a little that lead singer Isaac Wood will recover readily from his mental health issues, both for his sake and so this show will never end.

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #Rock #Experimental #Prog #Indie #ChamberPop #BlackCountryNewRoad

#1 Viagra Boys - Cave World
Ännu en gång hittar de exakt rätt mellan geni och trivialitet.
#AlbumOfTheYear #music #ViagraBoys https://youtu.be/z5eNJxXV5qo

My #AlbumOfTheYear #2022 is definitely #Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)

Its complexity, emotion and production are absolutely stellar. Just a beautiful and powerful album!

#HeavyMetal #Music #progressiverock #ProgMetal

Album of the year was undoubtedly ‘Belle Lune’, Mira Anju’s chanson album! It came out in January and I’ve played tracks from it nearly every day since I received my CD (it’s not available for streaming). My favourite songs would have to be ラ・ボエーム, サン・トワ・マミー, 再会 and ラストダンスは私に … but I love nearly all the songs tbh. #AlbumOfTheYear #music #chanson #MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #Japan #FemaleVocalists

Album of the year was undoubtedly ‘Belle Lune’, Mira Anju’s chanson album! It came out in January and I’ve played tracks from it nearly every day since I received my CD (it’s not available for streaming). My favourite songs would have to be ラ・ボエーム, サン・トワ・マミー, 再会 and ラストダンスは私に … but I love nearly all the songs tbh. #AlbumOfTheYear #music #chanson #MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #Japan #FemaleVocalists

Album of the year
#2
Anais Mitchell – Anais Mitchell

2022 seems like a year when so many musical heavyweights have come out to shine a quiet mirror on our lives, so meaningful for what we have recently endured. Anais Mitchell’s self-titled album is among the best. Such great little inner monologues she weaves, layer upon layer of beautiful poetic observations on the inner mind’s perspective on living this life.

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #Rock #Folk #Pop

Album of the year
#3
Kevin Morby – This is a Photograph

Morby’s best work to date, which is saying a whole lot.

“Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing makes us feel alive

We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen, still"

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #Folk #Indie

#2 Sharon van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Fantastiskt album och detta spår visar att en närmast naiv text kan passa till perfekt musik.
#AlbumOfTheYear #music #SharonVanEtten https://youtu.be/kHLk2cI1yRQ

I could never pick one #AlbumOfTheYear , but if I did, it would be Egil Kalman's Kingdom of Bells.

https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/kingdom-of-bells-egil-kalman-plays-the-synthi-100

If you have any recommendations like this, I'm all 👂👂👂

Here is my Top 10 #albumoftheyear list

01: #Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
02: #DestroyRebuildUntilGodShows - Destroy Rebuild
03: #SilentSkies - Nectar
04: #MoonlightHaze - Animus
05: #LiSA - Lander
06: #TheDevilWearsPrada - Color Decay
07: #TheNeptunePowerFederation - Le Demon de L’amor
08: #TheShires - 10 Year Plan
09: #AlterBridge - Pawns And Kings
10: #UnluckyMorpheus - Evolution

So the End of the Year is here...

And it's time for me to wrap up the year. So please have a read of my ramblings about the year I had. It was a time to get back to gigs, to be hyped for new music, and to grow and develop this blog.

#HappyNewYear #2022 #albumoftheyear #2023 #MusicReview #Blog #Blogging

https://mickbirchallreview.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-2022-end-of-year-blog.html

As always if you're so inclined you can #BuyMeACoffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mickbirchreview

Synth.nu summerar 2022 #AlbumOfTheYear https://www.synth.nu/artikel_bestof2022.html

Album of the year
#4
Beth Orton – Weather Alive

Weather Alive is, truly no pun intended, an Atmospheric masterpiece. It is a place where our choices, our memories, our ghosts, and our emotions inhabit the world side by side. And Orton’s voice, at once fragile and well worn, like a more ethereal Lucinda Williams, is all in.

"You lay on your back under spider-spun trees
Hallucinated on fractals of green
And thought about living with nothing to lose"

#AOTY22 #AlbumOfTheYear #Rock #BethOrton

Album of the year
#5
Big Thief -- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Another year passed another fantastic Big Thief album. There is no band in the world creating as consistently great music as Big Thief, and prolifically so. Their best songs have that worn in of the earth Americana feel, like they have always just existed, unearthed by Big Thief for our pleasure. Dragon New Warm Mountain… is no exception.

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #Rock #Alt #Folk #BigThief

Album of the year
#6
Angel Olsen – Big Time

It feels that with every Angel Olsen album she has gifted us a piece of her soul, all the more so with Big Time. Pared back country soul songs with a touch of strings and twang, Big Time is Angel Olsen at her most emotionally bare. Instant Classic.

"To love without boundary and put it to use
To remember the ghost who exists in the past
But be freed from the longing for one moment to last"

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #AltCountry #CountryMusic

Album of the year
#7
Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ

Put Reality to a mirror, and what you see back is YTI⅃AƎЯ, Bill Callahan’s unique allegoric world full of symbolism on overdrive. Callahan is like the village shaman who sees things the rest of us close our eyes to, and he is happy to show up once a year and share his findings with us. And we are all the better for it. YTI⅃AƎЯ is like pealing an onion and finding a peach, so many layers, so many jewels inside.

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #Rock

#3 Warpaint - Radiate Like This
När fyra kvinnor finner glädje i att spela tillsammans och alla är stjärnor blir det riktigt bra.
#Warpaint #AlbumOfTheYear #music https://youtu.be/YjXRyjM25b0

Album of the year
#8
Wilco – Cruel Country

Perhaps Wilco's best album since The Whole Love, Cruel Country is full of post-Trump post-pandemic observations about living in a cruel yet beautiful country. This dichotomy has long been on bandleader Jeff Tweedy’s mind, yet has never been so directly confronted. Instant classics, Bird Without a Tail, The Universe, and Many Worlds are some of Wilco’s most beautiful work.

#AOTY22 #AOTY #AlbumOfTheYear #AltCountry #Rock #Indie #Folk #Wilco