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Albums we missed in 2022
Our writers select the year's most underrated albums
29 December 2022
Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind review –rocket-fuelled pop anthems
The prog rockers delivered some of their most concise and infectious songwriting without the self-indulgence of The Unheavenly Creatures
28 December 2022
Moin: Paste review – taking a craft knife to 90s indie
The band create sinewy post-punk grooves with layers of vocals, samples and drums in their most fully-realised album
27 December 2022
Ravyn Lenae: Hypnos review – the boundless possibilities of the night
Lenae’s breathy falsetto wields lightness like a superpower in this glimmering sonic galaxy of a debut album
26 December 2022
Kevin Morby: This Is a Photograph review – exemplary songwriter wrings light from darkness
Morby’s seventh album was inspired by sickness and mortality but his elegiac songs focus on life’s transience and joys
23 December 2022
K-Trap and Blade Brown: Joints review – inspired pairing moves the message on
Two rappers born 10 years apart mesh well, swapping brooding verses on navigating a bruising industry
22 December 2022
Sorry: Anywhere But Here review – bleary-eyed guitar afterparty with a dash of sweetness
Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen swerve from hints of the Kinks to traces of Lou Reed with lyrics of pure youthful dread in this reflective, honest album
21 December 2022
Fiona Soe Paing: Sand, Silt, Flint review – startling Scottish balladry with a global scope
The Scottish-Burmese singer evokes history, folk tales and atmospheres in this nicely uncanny set blending electronics and field recordings
20 December 2022
Lady Wray: Piece of Me review – sublime retro-soul
Missy Elliott’s former protege has been criminally neglected, as this slept-on album blending everything from gospel to boom-bap shows
19 December 2022
Say She She: Prism review – boundary-busting discodelic soul
The Brooklyn trio conspire to produce an idiosyncratic album that ranges from drum-machine funk to small-hours sublimity
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