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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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Lambchop’s 16th studio album, The Bible
New album: Tender, strange, eclectic, Kurt Wagner returns with a 16th album a long way from those earlier heady day releases of of Americana and alt-country, but one filled with fascinating oddities, reflections on mortality, with fusions of jazz, electronica, soul, classical and modulated sounds and voices
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Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams
This week? New experimentation by Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, dance-funk from Ibibio Sound Machine, complex melancholy from These New Puritans, hilarious prog rockers Hare and Hoofe, and fabulous female singer-songwriters
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The Charlatans
This week we include the Charlatans and starry guests, plus Jane Weaver, Resistance Radio – early covers including by Kelis and Beck, Kraftwerk's 3D live album, and a Beatles' Sgt Pepper 50th anniversary edition
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Farewell, Mr Bowie. And thank you.
Bowie? Beyonce? There's no such thing as the best album of the year. But instead we round up favourites, apt and lesser known new albums as suggested by readers in part 1 from a profound 2016
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