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The 30 Best Songs of 2022 (So Far)
It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace. We’ve heard soul-bearing rap songs (Kendrick Lamar), future windows-down rock classics (Momma), loads of elite-level Thom Yorke (The Smile) — the list, literally, goes on. Below, we gathered our 30 favorite tracks of 2022 so far. (In this case, we decided songs from any 2022 albums were on the table.) Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. All Get Out – “Feeling Well” The first single from All Get Out’s new album, Kodak, smartly swirls folk-rock, emo, and a dash of country into a potent cocktail of paranoia, self-doubt, and hesitant nostalgia. This South Carolin...
Momma: A Modern Band With a Nostalgic Sound
There’s a revealing lyric in Momma‘s standout new song “Speeding 72” that says a lot about the members of the New York-by-way-of-Los Angeles quartet: “Meet up on a Sunday, filling up the ashtray / Nothing gets in our way, always in a new place / You can catch us around, listening to ‘Gold Soundz’.” That reference to a road trip soundtracked by a 1994 Pavement song would seem pretty on-brand from a bunch of wizened old indie heads, especially with the beloved Stephen Malkmus-led outfit about to tour this year for the first time since 2012. But for a group of musicians like Momma’s Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, who were in diapers when Pavement initially broke up in 1999, it has a much deeper meaning. [embedded content][embedded content] “Allegra and I listened to so much Pavement as...
