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Another selection of favourite LPs for 2022. See the lists below to go from top row, left to right
Further favourite albums of 2022: Welcome to the second part of a selection for this year, many of which continue to come to terms with pandemic, climate change and other current issues but also show how music can continue to innovate, surprise and entertain
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Beth Orton’s Weather Alive
New album: The first album for six years by the British singer-songwriter brings an exquisite fragility and mature beauty, suffused with her delicate, sometimes ghostly vocals and sparse but perfectly weighted instrumentation
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William Orbit’s The Painter (limited edition cover)
New album: The acclaimed British super-producer and composer of the 1990s and 2000s, and now painter, returns with his first LP for nearly a decade after a prolonged period of health issues, with refined, gentle, colourful collection of electronica and ambient textures, with guest vocalists including Beth Orton and Georgia
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Listen and learn: Adrian, Leonore and Dean from International Teachers of Pop
Electronic pop from the International Teacher and Elder Island, Yak’s long -awaited indie, covers by Mercury Rev and Lemonheads, slow beauty by Jessica Pratt and lo-fi live studio recordings by LCD Soundsystem are among this week’s bumper roundup
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