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A selection of favourite LPs for 2022. See the lists below to go from top row left to right onwards
Favourite albums of 2022: Welcome to the first 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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Kendrick Lamar’s double album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
New album: The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s first album for five years is a double LP magnus opus of mind-bogglingly rapid, candid wordplay, an assortment of jazz, rock, classical and more, with so much to unpack, but further cements his place as hip hop’s leading innovator
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Vera Sola, from the video for The Colony, from her debut album, Shades
The first of two roundups this week of album releases from the past month includes Damon Albarn reuniting with old friends, an upbeat Wave Pictures, the brilliant DUDS. Anderson Paak, and a debut by Vera Sola
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Furiously great: Kamasi Washington
A bumper crop of recent and new releases includes Damon Albarn back in 2D, Florence toning down the volume, an industrial political comeback from Nine Inch Nails, and a colossal work by a modern jazz great
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No swan song ... St Vincent
St Vincent to Queens of the Stone Age, Marika Hackman to Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes to the Mountain Goats, this second part of our readers' favourite albums throws up lots of questions over the self and others
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Escapism … from the cover of Monster Rally's Flowering Jungle album
Christmas compilation season has fully arrived, but as well as the Fab Four, Horace Andy, a reissue and Virna Lindt's first album, there's the new Blade Runner soundtrack, plus NERD and Monster Rally
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Alien Stadium … taking off with Steve Mason and Martin Duffy
Have U2 bounced back? Beta Band frontman Steve Mason joins forces with Primal Scream's Martin Duffy, a New Order double live album, plus reissues from Wilco, Rush and some 60s sessions from the Stones
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Damned or doomed? A sign of the times. Damn. Kendrick Lamar
No genre stone is unturned with this week's eclectic selection, including Kendrick Lamar, Barry Adamson, Jah Wobble, John Power's Cast, plus -M-, Toumani Diabate, Sidiki Diabaté, and Fatoumata Diawara
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Big guitar man … Thundercat
This week we highlight Thundercat and his collaborations, new David Bowie from the Blackstar sessions, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dirty Projectors and D.O.A.'s Trump update
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