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The 50 best songs of 2022

NME5th December 2022

“Bloody hell, it’s nearly Christmas? Well that year just flew by didn’t it?” Hell no. We’d usually be aghast at the fleeting nature at the passage of time at this point in the calendar – especially in the past few quiet years – but 2022 was anything but short. Even festival season already feels like an age ago; but hey, at least we had one. RIP to the COVID buzzkill years, may we never see their like again.

You were out there in the fields with your arms around your mates, in the venues with the pints flying through the air, and in the clubs with your feet suspiciously stuck to the floor. Sure there’s a lot of ongoing shithousery afoot, but when you look back to 2022 you’ll remember getting back to doing what you love and the tunes that helped you do it. Just like you, so many songs were larger than life and raring to get out and be heard. Here’s a definitive list of the 50 best songs that truly made our year. Enjoy….

Andrew Trendell, News Editor

Words by: Alex Flood, Ali Shutler, Andy Brown, Andrew Trendell, Ben Jolley, Derrick Tan, El Hunt, Ella Kemp, Erica Campbell, Gemma Samways, Hannah Mylrea, Hollie Geraghty, Jake Tucker, Jenessa Williams, Karen Gwee, Kyann-Sian Williams, Max Pilley, Nick Levine, Rhian Daly, Sam Moore, Sophie Williams, Thomas Smith and Will Richards

50. Jamie xx – ‘Let’s Do It Again’

Marking his first new solo release in two years, Jamie xx’sApril return coincided with the very start of the first proper post-lockdown summer. Recalling the transcendent highs of his 2015 album ‘In Colour’ and built around an uplifting vocal sample from Bobby Barnes’ soul belter ‘Super High On Your Love’, the dopamine-filled ‘Let’s Do It Again’ became an ecstatic singalong 2022 festival anthem. Welcome back to partying. BJ

Best bit: The clever way that Jamie winds the track back down to a near-silence four-and-half-minutes in, only for each sonic element to be layered up again: building up the claps, drums, twinkling keys and soaring synths before one final euphoric release. You love to see it.

49. Tomorrow X Together – ‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’

This bright, bouncy bop – performed by Tomorrow X Together’s synth-pop unit Soobin, Beomgyu and Taehyun – uplifted spirits with its straightforward, feel-good melodies. The trio exuded positivity and optimism for the future following an emotional break-up, with Beomgyu’s “today’s hashtag: ‘Break up’ / Then paste ‘glow up’ next to it” line proving a stroke of genius. DT

Best bit: Soobin’s breathy post-chorus mantra “I won’t cry again” feels like a reassuring invisible hug.

48. The Killers – ‘Boy’

Brandon Flowers told NME in the summer that this gem provided “the impetus” for The Killers’ 2021 folky triumph‘Pressure Machine’, but was left off the album due to its new wave shimmer. For a leftover, it bangs: ‘Boy’ is The Killers at their sweet, synthy and streetwise best, strutting from the gutter to the dancefloor. AT

Best bit: That little nod to Erasure’s ‘A Little Respect’. Cheeky cheeky!

47. Angel Olsen – ‘All The Good Times’

Olsen’s sixth album ‘Big Time’was written amid a turbulent, tragic time: during its production, the US musician came out to and then lost both her parents in quick succession. Laced with grief and hope for new love, the record’s opening track was as epic and emotional as they come. TS

Best bit: The song’s finale, where Olsen’s gentle strum is joined by a swelling horn section that ratchets up the emotion.

46. TSHA – ‘Giving Up’

A highlight of the Ninja Tune-signee’s debut album ‘Capricorn Sun’, ‘Giving Up’ was TSHA at her very peak. A fizzing drum’n’bass beat paved the way for Mafro’s warped vocal line to run wild and free. A song equally suitable for the club, home listening and summer BBQs, it proved TSHA’s ability as a producer with wide-ranging appeal. WR

Best bit: When that delightful, joyous synth line comes in at the one-minute mark.

45. Foals – ‘2am’

‘Back to basics’ songs can often be seen as a negative regression for artists, but on ‘2am’ and their seventh album ‘Life Is Yours’,Foals simply returned to what they do best. Written in the depths of a lockdown winter, this ecstatic indie hit pined for human connection and getting sloshed with friends again. This summer, its wish came beautifully true. WR

Best bit: Frontman Yannis Philippakis’ vocals belting out as his most enthused in years.

44. LE SSERAFIM – ‘Impurities’

LE SSERAFIM got their band name from an anagram of the phrase “I’m fearless” – so it’s not surprising that they understand that confidence can be drawn from all manner of places. On this cool, ethereal electro R&B song, co-written by member Huh Yunjin, they calmly declared that one’s flaws are actually glorious testaments to life. You’ll be similarly convinced by the track’s sassy hook: “Impurities, show you my impurities.” DT

Best bit: The hypnotic falsetto harmonies – one from Chaewon and Kazuha, another from Yunjin and Sakura – in the pre-chorus.

43. Sunmi – Heart Burn’

Sunmi’s best songs are undeniably the co-productions she’s made with frequent collaborator FRANTS (‘Narcissism’, ‘Tail’). But the ex-Wonder Girl’s dreamy ‘Heart Burn’ – reminiscent of ’70s Fleetwood Mac – ventured out of that comfort zone to rank among her best releases yet. Its flirty lyrics (“I am getting hot, oh, my!”), delivered in her raspy vocal style, matched the growing blaze of a midsummer romance. DT

Best bit: Those heavy-handed guitar strums after the bridge that lead us to the track’s fiery climax.

42. Liam Gallagher – ‘Everything’s Electric’

“Underneath the red sun, everything’s electric,” Liam Gallagher sings on the bold centrepiece of his excellent third solo album, ‘C’mon You Know’. The track certainly lived up to that big declaration, sizzling with classic arms-aloft anthemics and a chorus that was simultaneously simple and life-affirmingly massive. If there were any lingering doubts left about LG’s solo prowess, this song blasted them all away once and for all. RD

Best bit: The helicopter-whirring opening riff that signals that the king of British rock’n’roll is back – and he means serious business.

41. Beabadoobee – ‘The Perfect Pair’

So much of Beabadoobee’scareer has been built on the idea of ripping up the pop rulebook and simply doing what the hell she wants – sugar-sweet vocals would sit alongside screeching guitars to speak to a younger generation that feels stifled. But ‘The Perfect Pair’ changed everything again: a holiday-inflected croon and sighing strings made the backbone of one of Bea’s most restrained tracks yet; a break-up song that accepted defeat and just swayed in abandon. Beautiful. EK

Best bit: The cinematic outro where strings take over and Bea just lets the melody do its thing.

40. Yungblud – ‘The Funeral’

Donny punk tearaway Yungbludstruggled with the worldwide attention that followed his second album ‘Weird!’. But rather than bow to other people’s expectations, he fought back with his defiant self-titled follow-up; its swaggering emo opener ‘The Funeral’ his confident mission statement. Flickering between self-hatred and self-love, this flamboyant rager twisted uncertainty into a jubilant celebration, backed by the sort of guitars that would make The Smiths’ Johnny Marrjealous. AS

Best bit: The Gen-Z motivational speech: “But do you hate yourself? Well, that’s alright. Do you love yourself? Well, that’s alright.”

39. Fontaines D.C. – ‘I Love You’

In a twist no-one saw coming, the most exhilarating love song of 2022 was inspired by a country rather than a person. Billed as Fontaines D.C.’s “first overtly political song”, this swirling post-punk epic saw frontman Grian Chatten interrogate his status as an Irishman based in England, laying bare a perpetual tug-of-war between guilt and pride. Impassioned and deeply affecting, Chatten’s performance here grew steadily in intensity throughout. GS

Best bit: The knockout-punch of the final chorus, which climaxes with Chatten howling: “I had to be the fucking man.”

38. GloRilla and Cardi B – ‘Tomorrow 2’

GloRilla’s immense talent was clear to see on her July single ‘Tomorrow’ – so much so that the Memphis artist quickly earned a fan in rap superstar Cardi B, who hopped on the September remix ‘Tomorrow 2’. The latter was a belter: the duo demonstrated their respective lyrical prowess over sparse, piano-led accompaniment. Best of all, it provided an early glimpse at rap’s next massive star more than keeping up with one of the reigning champs. HM

Best bit: GloRilla’s stellar put-down: “Can’t say your name up in my songs, might not fuck with you tomorrow.” Can’t say she didn’t warn you!

37. Måneskin – ‘The Loneliest’

After winning Eurovision 2021 with the hammering ‘Zitti e Buoni’, the new saviours of rock’n’roll kept the party going with such stadium-sized anthems as ‘Mammamia’ and ‘Supermodel’. Then came ‘The Loneliest’, a brooding ballad that saw the Italian four-piece trade fiery excess for heartbreaking emotion. Despite the restraint that was plastered across Måneskin’s first English language slow jam, ‘The Loneliest’ still bristled with excitement as the rockstars let another side of them shine. AS

Best bit: That guitar solo: let them Italians wail.

36. Gorillaz – ‘New Gold’

In the midst of this year’s scorcher of a summer, Gorillazappeared like a mirage to deliver another legendary collaboration. ‘New Gold’ served up a deliciously psychedelic hook from Tame Impala, while The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown – who Gorillaz fans recognised from his explosive verse on ‘Dirty Harry’ – spun a bouncy tale of a vain society in freefall. 2022’s best weather may be long behind us, but ‘New Gold’ was a warm ray of sunshine to remember it by.AB

Best bit: Bootie Brown’s second verse, which is packed with throwbacks to ‘Demon Days’.

35. Fred again.. – ‘Danielle (smile on my face)’

Built around a sample of 070 Shake’s 2019 single ‘Nice To Have’ – a tune that Fred Gibson said he “literally listened to every day last year… everywhere, all the time” – ‘Danielle (smile on my face)’ is a classic Fred again.. creation. Emotive lyrics (“Fuck what they say, I’m safe in your arms / And if I die in your arms, there’ll be a smile on my face”), wobbly, bass-driven synths and bombastic beats united as one to form one of 2022’s most tear-jerking bangers. SM

Best bit: When the synths and beats crackle back into life, sparking one last rave in the track’s ecstatic final minute.

34. Wunderhorse – ‘Leader of The Pack’

2022’s best rock song? Wunderhorse, AKA Cornwall-based Pistol actor Jacob Slater, put up a very good fight with the brooding, snarling ‘Leader Of The Pack’. Chugging guitars, crashing drums and gang chorus vocals turned every listen into a rock’n’roll hoedown, with Slater having written the song “as a means of getting even”. Mission accomplished, surely. SM

Best bit: That crunching opening riff: beat that, 2023.

33. Tove Lo – ‘No One Dies From Love’

Tove Lo’s fifth album ‘Dirt Femme’ was packed full of effervescent earworms, but none more so than its jubilant opener ‘No One Dies From Love’. Written when she “was having the fear of ‘What if this love that I have ends?’”, the Swede spun that relatable vulnerability over squelchy synths, driving beats and ‘80s drums. The result? Very real emotions coupled with a sugar-rush instrumental. HM

Best bit: The euphoric, layered vocals that open the first chorus, where Tove belts out: “No one dies from love / Guess I’ll be the first.”

32. FLO – ‘Cardboard Box’

If there was ever any doubt about the current state of UK R&B, then the country’s next best girl band quickly put those suspicions to bed in 2022 with their glistening debut single. A flawlessly synchronised and perfectly-poised track about cutting off a toxic relationship, the London trio’s harmonies and satin-smooth melodies served as a glossy throwback to the golden age of early-00s female empowerment (see: Destiny’s Child and Sugababes). A flow like this is no fluke. HG

Best bit: The sassy bridge that makes you want to waggle a finger and pack up your own cardboard box: “I’ma put your jeans next to the dreams that you sold me.”

31. Piri and Tommy – ‘On & On’

The drum’n’bass-loving Manchester duo are now making scene-leading pop-meets-dance music to soundtrack the kind of wild nights out they used to enjoy as clubbers. “Big night, lost my weed but the beat goes on,” Piri serenely sang while impressively keeping pace with the unrelenting Tommy-produced drums that helped ‘On & On’ truly zip along. SM

Best bit: Piri’s “on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on” will be stuck in your head forever. Sorry!

30. IVE – ‘Love Dive’

Looking back on K-pop in 2022, it’s been the year of rookie girl groups punching far above their weight. Case in point: IVE and their sophisticated seduction anthem ‘Love Dive’. This slice of alluring electro-pop reels you back in again and again, whether it’s to savour the confident, flirtatious lyrics and gorgeous backing melodies, or to pick up on all the sonic flourishes studding the production like diamonds in the rough. KG

Best bit: Wonyoung’s line “Narcissistic, my god, I love it” – knowingly cheeky and delicious every time.

29. The 1975 – ‘Part Of The Band’

Distortion, ambient noise, stream of conscious neurosis, and Matty Healy spilling out the melodic interrogations, “Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke? Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke?” this track had it all. ‘Part Of The Band’’sstrong suit was that it’s quieter and more subtle than many of their tracks, but it’s still quintessentially The 1975. With dry, wry millennial humour and apt observations standing, the result will always reward a careful listener. EC

Best bit: The cheeky line, “I like my men like I like my coffee / Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won’t offend anybody“. Same.

28. Bring Me The Horizon – ‘Strangers’

From the moment Bring Medropped ‘Strangers’ during a DJ set at their curated Malta Weekender festival, it became a modern day emo anthem. From the melodramatic opening lines (“Maybe I’ll just be fucked up forever”) through to the snarling angst and a gooey spirit of community that rages throughout. Get together, get low and feel the high. AS

Best bit: That ‘90s nostalgia dragged into 2022

27. Oliver Sim – ‘Hideous’

“I’m ugly…” sang Oliver Sim on the opening moments of ‘Hideous’, his immediately recognisable deep vocal finding a new home outside of The xxfor the first time. An intensely beautiful song that tears the sting out of shame, its subject matter is deeply personal, and rooted in the singer’s HIV-positive status. Here, Sim found freedom in “radical honesty” and power in baring every part of himself – even the aspects that he said feel hideous and hidden. EH

Best bit: The transcendent moment that Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beats bursts as an ethereal guardian angel.

26. New Jeans – ‘Hype Boy’

In a time where lots of pop groups feel like they’re chasing the same sounds, styles and attitudes, K-pop rookies NewJeans’ debut provided a refreshing change of pace. ‘Hype Boy’, their second release, was the jewel in their crown – its flashes of ‘90s R&B melded with modern pop production an immediately addictive combination, and a chorus so cool and catchy you had no choice but to join the rising four-piece in longing for their “hype boy”. RD

Best bit: Any time the girls sing “take him to the sky-y-y-y-y-y”, an instant skyrocketing high.

25. Omar Apollo – ‘Evergreen’

In October, pop music’s best-kept secret finally broke into the mainstream: Omar Apolloscored his first-ever chart hit with ‘Evergreen’, a ballad of crisp, measured guitar and purposefully subtle drum patterns. This quietly scathing breakup tune built up to a lover walking away and refusing to allow their turned back to become the relationship’s final scene – a change in perspective that became its own kind of revelation. SW

Best bit: Clearly, Apollo wanted an ex to feel the sheer magnitude of his pain. “You didn’t deserve me at all”, he belts out on the bridge, his delivery reaching a near-scream. You tell ‘em, king!

24. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Body Paint’

Let’s be honest, every song onArctic Monkeys’ triumphant seventh record ‘The Car’ might have made this list – but that wouldn’t be fair, would it? We’ll take Alex Turner’s velvet-smooth croon and the accompanying killer chorus on this track anyday. “My teeth are beating and my knees are weak,” he sings in falsetto as ‘Body Paint’ builds to its utterly euphoric ELO-esque orchestral pop breakdown. Same, Alex. Same. AF

Best bit: The anthemic outro, featuring squealing guitars and the repeated refrain: “There’s still a trace of body paint / On your legs and on your arms and on your face.”

23. My Chemical Romance – ‘The Foundations of Decay’

With ‘The Foundations of Decay’, My Chemical Romance’sfiery comeback exceeded every current or ageing emo kid’s wildest dreams. The six-minute triumph starts off as a simmering ballad to atrophy, with a subdued Gerard Waysinging a of a man “tired with age” and ravaged by time – yet when the track finally explodes in rousing choruses, thundering guitar riffs and a gut-punch breakdown, it proves the legendary band was anything but. AB

Best bit: The first explosive chorus – a shot of pure catharsis for fans who waited nine years for that moment.

22. Florence and The Machine – ‘King’

There’s power in how Florence Welch stood tall and fearless in the face of the patriarchy on ‘King’. She has always strung lyrics together like armour, but this remarkable track felt designed to protect herself from the expectation that she should compromise her career in order to raise children. She narrated her experience, and reclaimed it – a revolt against the very idea of doing what you’re told. SW

Best bit: When Welch breaks into an almighty roar; you can picture her throwing out her arms and letting her hair flutter out in the wind alongside a phenomenal, gale-force vocal.

21. WILLOW – ‘Hover Like A Goddess’

Fresh from helping kickstart a pop-punk revival with 2021’s ‘lately i feel EVERYTHING’, the lead single to follow-up record ‘COPINGMECHANISM’ saw Willow trading angst for romance. Driven by an excitable energy, this urgent garage-punk banger celebrated the fact that “every woman deserves to be worshipped”. ‘Hover Like A Goddess’ may channel Bloc Party and The Strokes, but it saw Willow cut party-starting rock’n’roll with her own unique vision. AS

Best bit: Willow embracing the art of a good “oh-ohhh, oh-ohhh”.

20. Beyoncé – ‘Break My Soul’

The first glimpse we got of Beyoncé’s seventh album ‘Renaissance’, ‘Break My Soul’ was a tantalising taster of slick production, massive hooks and beats made straight for the dancefloor. With dual samples of Big Freedia’s ‘Explode’ and Robin S.‘s ’90s classic ‘Show Me Love’, and packed with lyrics that preach self-confidence and joy, ‘Break My Soul’ landed as a modern house classic. HM

Best bit: The sample of Big Freedia’s ‘Explode’, that instructs you to “release ya job… release the stress“. Who are we to disagree?

19. Rosalía – ‘Chicken Teriyaki’

The purity, simplicity, silliness and badassery of this cut from the stellar ‘Motomami’ is a testament to Rosalia’s knack for a hook and a good time. We don’t know what the Spanish pop sensation is singing about and frankly, it doesn’t matter. Throw your phrase book away and let this chugging beast of Latin spirit and reggaeton rhythms consume you. AT

Best bit: Telling your friends that you’re now fluent in Spanish and fiesta

18. Griff & Sigrid – ‘Head On Fire’

Teased via a series of cryptic videos posted on social media, this chart-ready team-up between two of music’s most exciting young talents was as rock-solid as their friendship. When they performed the tune at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 in March, it made for a standout moment – and a triumphant victory lap round one of the country’s greatest gig venues. More, please! AF

Best bit: A short pause for breath before launching into that joyful chorus. Set your watch for a good time.

17. Taylor Swift – ‘Anti-Hero’

The lead single from Swift’s 10th album ‘Midnights’, ‘Anti-Hero’ proved a self-deprecating anthem. Delivering tongue-in-cheek lines over Jack Antonoff’s production (the chorus opener “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me” has spawned scores of memes), the songwriter extraordinaire has done what she does best: turn painfully relatable experiences into a stone-cold banger. HM

Best bit: Love it or hate it, it’s got to be the line that got everyone talking: “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby/And I’m a monster on the hill“…same?

16. Phoenix – ‘Tonight’

As much as the band’s seventh album ‘Alpha Zulu’ pushed the indie-pop masters’ sound forward, its standout moment happened to be a dabble in nostalgia. The deliciously catchy bassline and chorus would have nestled in nicely on their 2009 breakthrough album ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’, as frontman Thomas Mars and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig wistfully duet. TS

Best bit: The band told NMEthey’ve always felt a synchronicity with Vampire Weekend, and consider them transatlantic cousins. The song’s middle-eight, where Koenig and Mars trade lines, finds the pair in perfect harmony.

15. Doechii – ‘Persuasive’

The latest signing to the star-making Top Dawg Entertainment, Doechii has opted for a meticulous, patient roll-out where so many other artists rush to ride their early momentum. She already feels like a fully-formed artist bursting with complex visual ideas and diverse musical directions. To be fair, every track feels standout – but the house-tinged ‘Persuasive’ just about nabs the top spot. No wonderSZA jumped aboard for the equally addictive remix. EH

Best bit: When soulful brass gradually creeps into the ether two-thirds of the way through, steadily building up the biggest drop. That, and the abundant air-horns.

14. Kendrick Lamar – ‘N95’

A highlight of ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’, here’s Kendrick Lamar delivering an anti-pop gem with a message to “take off” the fakery and stop looking for external validation. In a lesson to other rappers, Lamar spits for morals rather than boasting over distorted, growling 808s and trap synths. With a dextrous flow and words you can’t ignore, this is why Kendrick is king. KSW

Best bit: In the refrain, the explosive “Bitch…” before the whining response “…you’re outta pocket” makes for a perfect wake-up call.

13. Wet Leg – ‘Angelica’

Indie’s silliest and most fun new gang took us into the highs and lows, dangers and consequences of getting pickled at a house party in one of the standout tracks of their phenomenal debut album. With spiralling riffs, ray-gun sound effects, and a multi-layered central mantra of “good times all the time”, ‘Angelica’ cemented Wet Leg’s place as our new favourite relatable party pals. RD

Best bit: The delectably eye-rolled lines “I don’t wanna follow you on the ‘gram / I don’t wanna listen to your band.”

12. Maggie Rogers – ‘That’s Where I Am’

Coloured with optimism, this track was fuelled by the sense of autonomy that defined Maggie Rogers’ comeback this year. With new production credits and a Harvard Divinity School degree to her name, Rogers created a wild symphony of rebirth on ‘That’s Where I Am’, as she sang of a blossoming love atop ripples of distortion and gleaming keys. It was the sound of Rogers feeling something shift inside of her, and wondering where this new, beautiful thing even came from. SW

Best bit: The giddy relish of the way Rogers delivers the bridge – “You’re the only one I’ve ever wanted / All I ever really wanted was you” – channelling a feeling far beyond her own understanding.

11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Wolf’

“Hunger, connection, and wildness” were the words YYY’sKaren O used to describe ‘Wolf’ – a climbing, synth-laden track that keeps its lyrics sparse, embodying the primal nature of not only punk but the track itself. “I’m lost and I’m lonely / I hunger for you only / Don’t leave me now, don’t break the spell,” warned O in a sinister tone, right before the instrumental drop and powerful chorus. It’s a bold glance at the primitive side of human nature from a band able to hold the weight of a song this big. EC

Best bit: O gently singing, “In heaven lost my taste for hello / taste for hell”, before a full orchestra kicks in with urgent strings. Powerful stuff.

10. Megan Thee Stallion – ‘Plan B’

While serving ‘90s New York style hip-hop raunchiness, Megreminded the world of her immaculate lyricism with this declaration of self-love. Teaching women to “love yourself ‘cause this shit can get ugly / That’s why it’s ‘Fuck n****s, get money,’” this is confidence manifest. Just like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown, she stepped into her sex appeal without relying on it to prove naysayers wrong. One-dimensional? Get a grip. This is everything. ‘Plan B’ is Megan Thee Stallion delivering a layered and positive lesson for life. KSW

Best bit: All the candid, empowering quips in a masterclass from Meg.

9. Charli XCX – ‘Beg For You’

A collab between two of the UK pop’s finest, ‘Beg For You’ was always going to be something special. However, chuck in a killer sample – lifted from September’s 2005 hit ‘Cry For You’ – and you’ve got magic on your hands. Rina’s vocals and harmonies feel so essential, you pine for more of her on Charli’sfifth album ‘Crash’, but that’s what you get from top maestros on top of their game. ‘Beg For You’ may have dropped in January, but it was a clear and bold proclamation from Charli and Rina that 2022 would be their year. JT

Best bit: The September sample truly makes the song, but everything comes together for the first chorus.

8. Jockstrap – ‘Concrete Over Water’

‘Concrete Over Water’ presented the Jockstrap musical blueprint in miniature: the poise of Georgia Ellery’s pristine, ravishing vocals, torn asunder by the anarchic hand of producer Taylor Skye. The song sings of the impossible beauty of a bridge-top romantic rendezvous, but Skye scorches the scene with a mutant synth army of math-rock screeches and warped atmospherics. Were Ellery and Skye competing for supremacy? Nah, in this fight we all win. MP

Best bit: Ellery sings “I wanna be there” before the elegiac beauty of the opening caves to hyper-processed mania

7. Steve Lacy – ‘Bad Habit’

Steve Lacy’s first US Number One single felt long overdue. ‘Bad Habit’, taken from the 24-year-old LA artist’s second solo album ‘Gemini Rights’, was the song that propelled the Internet and Kendrick Lamar collaborator to the big time; no doubt aided on its journey to the very top by its massive popularity on TikTok. Showcasing Lacy’s impressive vocal range, his nifty way around a guitar and his tattoo-worthy lyrics (“You can’t surprise a Gemini”), the single has unsurprisingly become Lacy’s biggest hit to date. After all, some bad habits are just too good to kick. SM

Best bit: “It’s biscuits, it’s gravy, babe” – the most delicious lyric of the year?

6. Rina Sawayama – ‘This Hell’

Sawayama is one of the smartest pop stars we have, and ‘This Hell’ is her wittiest and most undeniable tune yet. Who else would think to eviscerate the anti-queer rhetoric spouted by extreme religious groups with a spangly country banger inspired by Shania Twain? Rina, that’s who! And with a belter that’s tongue-in-cheek and subversive, but also outrageously good fun. NL

Best bit: “Get in line, pass the wine, bitch / We’re going straight to hell!”

5. Arctic Monkeys – ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’

After the space-age dabblings on 2018’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’, Arctic Monkeys returned to Earth on the heavenly and lush launch single from seventh album ‘The Car’. Known for being cheeky in his early work to escapist in his latter days, Alex Turner came across as truly earnest, open, romantic and human for the first time on this slow-dance waltzing beauty. “Don’t get emotional, that ain’t like you,” croons the frontman, inviting us in. It’s the Monkeys, Jim, but not as you know them. AT

Best bit: “So do you wanna walk me to the caaaa-aaaar?” You drive on ahead, Alex – we’ll float there.

4. Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal – ‘B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)’

The summer’s ultimate rave anthem. First released in early June with modest ambitions, it soon became a hit as welcome blaring out of stadium PAs and spicing up ITV2 montages as it did in the festival fields and clubs. By early September, the ‘90s-indebted hit had climbed to Number One in the UK Singles Charts, capping off a spectacular rise. TS

Best bit: The opening melody, a delightfully simple and catchy hook that floats all the way to the song’s conclusion.

3. Harry Styles – ‘As It Was’

It’s hard not to tumble into the vast emotional depths of ‘As It Was’ and look beyond everything else that made this song such a triumph. Change is a constant beneath the track’s heart-raising BPM and twinkling melodies: here, Harry Styles’empathetic songwriting saw him fight for stability amid breakups and personal upheavals, finding strength in a renewed relationship with himself. It’s a quietly beautiful thing, then, that it became his biggest hit to date, proving that opening yourself up to the world doesn’t always have to be a risk. SW

Best bit: So much of the feeling is in the instrumental: some peppy guitar lines, and the crescendo of tubular bells, less of a breakdown than the sound of a heart skipping a beat.

2. Paramore – ‘This Is Why’

After five years, Paramore slid back in with a groove so heavy, swaggering and sleazy, any talk of hiatus was immediately forgotten (not that they’d care, as Hayley Williams croons sweetly at the start, “if you have an opinion / maybe you should shove it”). Her voice is equally exhausted and exhilarated, leaning into its full power as guitarist Taylor York and drummer Zac Farro somehow manage to play tight and loose simultaneously. With its slow crawling synth and cymbals eventually erupting into a full funk fest, ‘This Is Why’ gave us just what we wanted: an innovative pop-punk moment from a band already responsible for so many. EC

Best bit: Williams repeating “One step beyond your door / Might as well have been a free fall” meditatively before crashing back in with an echoing “And I’m floating like a cannonball”. Chills.

1. Beyoncé – ‘Cuff It’

Beyoncé is of course no stranger to creating enduring anthems. From ‘90s R&B belters with Destiny’s Child (‘Independent Woman’, ‘Say My Name’ to ‘00s earworms (‘Crazy In Love’, ‘Irreplaceable’), powerhouse ballads (‘Halo’), to the poignant and political (‘Formation’), the superstar is responsible for smashes eternally etched into the public pshyche than most artists could even dare to dream of. And in 2022, ‘Cuff It’ joined these ranks.

Taken from Beyoncé’s brilliant seventh album ‘Renaissance’, this funk-laden earworm is a triumph. With a Grammy nomination (for Best R&B Song) and a viral TikTok dance, it should be a government mandated requirement for this celebration of letting loose, falling in love and “gettin’ fucked up” to be played at least once on all future nights out. Keir Starmer, shove this in your manifesto.

With a bridge bigger than the Golden Gate, slinky strings, NSFW saucy lyrics, and the disco flare that a Nile Rodgersassist always brings, ‘Cuff It’ is total ecstasy and an unexpected gift to the pop canon of all time, let alone 2022. HM

Best bit: The first time we get that joyous post-chorus and Beyoncé sings: “Bet you you’ll see far / Bet you you’ll see stars.” Floor-filling euphoria.

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merkabici · 2 years

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Tipos de grasas para los rodamientos y juntas de la bicicleta

Tipos de grasas Para un correcto funcionamiento de todas las partes de nuestra bicicleta es importante engrasar cada cierto tiempo los rodamientos y las juntas. Este engrase además de alargar la vida útil de los componentes, también hará que la bicicleta vaya más fina y sin crujidos. En el mercado vamos a encontrar varios tipos de grasas. Cada grasa, según su composición, va a estar indicada para una parte concreta de la bicicleta. No todas valen para todo. Grasas con teflón Este tipo de grasa lleva como aditivo teflón. El teflón, además de aislar de la humedad tiene otra función muy importante, la de disminuir la fricción. Estas dos características hacen que este tipo de grasa se utilicé principalmente entre componentes con una gran superficie de contacto. Es la grasa indicada para utilizarla en los pivotes de las bicicletas de doble suspensión, o entre la potencia y la horquilla. Pasta o grasa de montaje Este tipo de grasa se utiliza sobre todo para aquellos rodamientos que van embutidos dentro de la bicicleta. Es una grasa muy utilizada para los rodamientos de los bujes de las ruedas. Esta grasa va a crear una unión muy fuerte entre el rodamiento y el buje de las ruedas. Los lubricantes utilizados en los sistemas de acoplamiento de trinquete o pivote suelen ser de menor densidad para no formar una pasta que interfiera con el funcionamiento de pequeños componentes en el sistema de referencia. Marcas como DT Swiss tienen grasas del sistema "Ratchet", o Mavic utiliza un aceite muy ligero, no una grasa, para el trinquete. Lo mejor que puedes hacer antes de lubricar el núcleo de tu bicicleta es que además de una limpieza a fondo, consulta con el fabricante el tipo de grasa que recomiendan. Pasta o grasa de fricción Esta grasa tiene una serie de componentes que hacen que no sea necesario un apriete muy fuerte entre dos componentes. Esta grasa es la indicada por ejemplo para echar en la tija, justo donde va a hacer fuerza la abrazadera. De esta manera no habrá que apretar la abrazadera en exceso y estaremos protegiendo tanto la tija como el cuadro de la bicicleta. Grasas de litio Este tipo de grasa es la recomendable en aquellos rodamientos que van realizando un giro constante y continuado, por ejemplo los del eje pedalier. Los componentes de esta grasa van a formar una película que va a favorecer el giro de dichos rodamientos. https://youtu.be/trJ2oAzU2Ks Fuente vídeo: GCN en Español Otras Grasas Además de las grasas principales que mencionamos en detalle, existen otros tipos que se utilizan en menor medida, pero no menos importantes. Por otro lado, tenemos una grasa para usar en frenos de disco, que se aplica en áreas como las arandelas de pistón en la pinza o en el tubo que conecta la manguera a la palanca después de cortar el tubo. Los pistones y los sellos son puntos importantes que necesitan lubricación durante el mantenimiento y los frenos de disco de purga se han utilizado durante varios años. Por otro lado, la grasa de suspensión se usa durante el mantenimiento de la horquilla y los amortiguadores y, a menudo, se aplica en el área de la junta para mejorar el anillo de sellado y reducir la fricción de la barra durante el movimiento de la suspensión. focas; . Otra grasa para recordar específicamente para las conexiones de baterías de bicicletas eléctricas, esta grasa, con base de silicona, ayuda a prevenir la corrosión de los tacos y mejora su protección contra el agua y la humedad. Es una grasa aislante que mantiene un campo eléctrico y no pasa electricidad a través de ella como aislante. ¿Tutorial para engrasar la cadena de una bici? Lo primero y no menos importante que hay que tomar en cuenta es que hay que llevarlo a cabo horas antes de salir. Si nos acordamos dos minutos antes de ponernos el casco, la mayoría de la cera o del aceite se perderá, porque no va a existir ocasión de lubricar los bulones de la cadena, que es lo que genera ese sonido repugnante cuando una cadena va sin lubricar o cuando transporta muchas impurezas. Un buen engrase extiende la vida de la cadena y del casete del piñón. Y de esta manera evitamos los costos que tienen en este momento algunos piñones. A tener en cuenta Al regresar de una ruta con la bicicleta laves o no la bici dedica algo de tiempo a pasar un trapo sucio por la cadena, existen unos cepillos especiales para esto. Después engrasa de la siguiente manera: Es importante encerar la parte de arriba de la cadena, dando unas vueltas a la biela, y después haces lo mismo con la parte de debajo de esta manera se impregna bien los dos lados. Si eres de los más exquisitos, puedes dar vueltas a la cadena poniendo dos dedos en la parte de arriba e inferior de la cadena y dando un suave masaje con los dedos a la misma te vas a asegurar de que se distribuya de forma regular y que se introduzca perfectamente en los bulones, que es la región que debe estar mejor engrasada. La virtud de llevar una cadena bien lubricada es colosal. Cuanto menor rozamiento tenga la transmisión más grande va a ser nuestro desempeño. Existen otro tipo de engrases, por ejemplo (rodamientos, casquillos de las partes móviles de una bici doble) el consejo es que lo llevéis al taller de bicicletas de confianza, donde un mecánico va a poder apreciar si es requisito su engrase o suplencia. Como las partes de una bici son estancas a presión atmosférica (pero no a la presión de una hidrolimpiadora), el engrase de estas zonas no tiende a ser primordial salvo que tenga holgura y necesito apretar o sustituir, en cuyo caso es preferible que lo llevéis a reparar. Esto suele pasar con alguna continuidad sobre todo en el eje pedalier y de vez en cuando en las direcciones, bien por la utilización, o por lavados con máquinas de agua a alta presión. Read the full article

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dear-alex-stuff · 3 years

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It's National Bow Tie Day!

Why not celebrate it with our favorite bowtie wearing chicken? And a story about how he got his signature tie..

(blank template provided if you want to add your own bow tie color)

#alex drawing stupid stuff #dt gyro #gyro gearloose #ducktales 2017 #ducktales gyro #gyro ducktales #dt 2017 #ratchet Gearloose #dt ratchet #national holiday #young gyro

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radarsteddybear · 5 years

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The biggest plot twist in the new DuckTales so far is going back into Scrooge’s past and encountering one of Fenton’s ancestors and not Ratchet Gearloose

#Disney #DuckTales 2017 #The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck #DT season 2 #Fenton Crackshell Cabrera #Gyro Gearloose #Ratchet Gearloose #original post #Sheriff Marshall ‘Deputy’ Cabrera #The Queue Continuum

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prdoa · 5 years

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DT Swiss Ratchet EXT

#dt swiss #ratchet #bicycle #bicycle hubs

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gearlooses · 5 years

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So we have canon confirmation from Frank that we're going to see a) more of scrooge's old adventuring partners and b) someone gyro likes and hasnt been on-screen yet

so, because im a gearloose-centric gremlin, i figure this could be the same person, aka Ratchet Gearloose

a brief summary of ratchet is that hes gyros grandpa in the og comics, and he was also the mechanic on scrooge's riverboat

since theres more emphasis on the "adventure" in scrooge's "adventure capitalist", it would make sense for ratchet to have been one of scrooge's adventuring partners.

since he was a mechanic in the og comics, itd be likely that gyro gets along with him better than he does with a majority of other people; after all, hes someone who understands gyro's love for mechanical things and engineering

so maybe ratchet shows up in a flashback or that one episode that's probably a time-travel episode (rewriting history anyone?)

TL;DR i really want ratchet to be in ducktales, please dt writers I'm begging you

#ducktales 2017 #ducktales #ratchet gearloose #mine #who wants some badly written theories #i just want him in the show #pls dt writers. pls

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bonetrousled · 3 years

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more thoughts on rac ut crossover

• it’s post pacifist. gaster dimension fucky wucky shit whatever now everyone’s in space AHHHH

• frisk shows up at the ratchetandclank household and is like -_- and clank can entirely understand them. this is never explained . he’s like “oh no :( their friends have been scattered across space” and ratchet Very Begrudgingly is like unnngggh ok fine . ok fine let’s do this shit again. whatever but eventually warms up 2 them . awesome swag older brother moments

• undyne is the new champion of the agorian battleplex and doesn’t want 2 leave bc she misses fighting in the guard, u have to beat her to convince her to go home + back to alphys (who is reluctantly the announcer on mtts show and does the lights)

• sans is just chilling out and scamming ppl w counterfeit ammo and weapons. he vends u the usual stuff but u can get like. ketchup guns and a whoopee cushion launcher off of him. he doesn’t need any convincing but he keeps doing this till the end of the “game”

• mtt gets his own annihilation nation style show where he beats the shit out of the participants. his fight is a rhythm segment w breaks where u get to kick his shit in

• asgore somehow becomes galactic president . literally you just have to go up to him and he’s like :( i wanna go home . i miss my garden [cries divorcedly]

• WUH OH!!! AHHHH dimension fuckery. toriel is in rivets dimension because i said so. she’s helping them out w reorganizing after the emperor’s bullshit, u just have to go there and get her (cue mandatory interdimensional railgrinding)

• in the interdimensional bits there’s gaster music. runs around

• and of COURSE bc i said so papyrus ends up w nefarious. papyrus needs no convincing to make traps and stuff for him bc he likes doing that kind of stuff. nefarious takes him up as an apprentice (on thin ice but papyrus has no meat and is made out of solid dust so he’s like. MMM ok) bc he wants to play him like a fiddle and get his hands on DT for Evil Purposes . papyrus gets Weird when he’s around the gaster wormholes so nefarious uses him like a metal detector . the whole time he’s like “see?? i Appreciate You :)” and papyrus is like YEAH YOU DO >:( IM ANGRY

#txt #long post #thinking so bad abt this #ok 2 rb but i’m not gonna put it in the main tags

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fusilsapompe · 3 years

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Damencio’s Best of 2020

Est-il nécessaire de rentrer dans les détails pour énumérer tous les événements surnaturels qui sont apparus pour cette année 2020? Ce contexte si particulier n’a semble t-il pas poussé les pointures du rap américain à se remettre en question. Loin de là.

Le rap américain grand public continue sa chute inexorable vers une médiocrité annoncée. Les sorties des grosses pointures ont été affligeantes pour la plupart. Personne pour sauver l’autre. Vendu comme là où se trouve l’innovation dans la musique, le rap américain a semble t-il perdu de sa magie depuis trop longtemps. Est-ce dû à l’avènement de l’ère streaming qui poussent les rappeurs à sortir des albums, edition deluxe ou format plus court jusqu’à perdre la raison? Le streaming a forcément une part non négligeable dans cette nouvelle manière d’apprécier en apparence la musique. Le vendredi soir est devenu un chemin de croix pour l’auditeur qui ne sait plus où donner de la tête avec toutes ces sorties. Le plaisir musical est remplacé par un devoir qui doit être rendu une heure après l’écoute pour donner rapidement son avis sur les réseaux sociaux. Sommes-nous proches d’atteindre un phénomène proche de la Peak TV (accroissement exponentiel de la production de séries) mais pour la musique?

La pandémie qui s’est abattue sur le monde n’a pas arrangé les affaires du rap. Reports d’albums des grosses pointures pour 2021 (même l’intouchable Drake a choisi de reporter ses plans pour l’année prochaine), absence totale de tournées extrêmement lucratives depuis des mois et des pertes monstres qui ont poussé les rappeurs à un peu plus vendre leur âme au streaming, seule source revenue dans ce schéma délicat pour les rappeurs.

Et si le rap, berceau de l’innovation musicale depuis des décennies était devenu la musique actuelle et plus celle du futur? Le rap est-il devenu la musique populaire aseptisée de notre temps? L’irrévérence légendaire rangée définitivement au placard pour des calculs permanents sur les ventes de tel ou tel rappeur? L’avenir prochain confirmera probablement ce destin funeste.

Si facile d’accès, ce genre musical est omniprésent sur tous les canaux possibles en 2020. La qualité quant à elle se fait de plus en plus rare. Elle doit être désormais recherchée comme dans une mine d’or. Le salut du rap vient comme à son habitude du rap régional plus ou moins en bonne santé. Detroit, scène majeure du rap régional continue à dominer son monde, jusqu’à truster les charts américains avec “Whole Lotta Choppas” de Sada Baby. Cependant ce succès ne peut pas occulter cette contamination du streaming plus en plus prégnante même dans ces lointaines contrées.

La sortie de prison presque tombée du ciel de DrakeO The Ruler, rappeur d’exception, originaire de Los Angeles est une excellente nouvelle pour le rap. Considéré comme le leader de la nouvelle scène californienne, DrakeO a semble t-il une envie pressante de rattraper le temps perdu. Depuis sa sortie début novembre, le Californien a déjà sorti un projet et la liste s’allonge chaque jour. Promis à un avenir brillant, le rappeur a rencontré sur son chemin la police de Los Angeles prête à tout pour l’enfermer. Il doit sa liberté uniquement à la défaite électorale de Jackie Lacey, procureure du comté de Los Angeles en novembre dernier. Pendant son incarcération, DrakeO a trouvé le moyen de sortir de l’un des projets de l’année. Les voix enregistrées intégralement en prison et collectées par le producteur californien JoogSzn ont permis l’existence de ce désormais classique “Thank You For Using GTL” qui fera sans aucun doute date pour le processus unique d’enregistrement.

Pour les autres genres musicaux, le R&B se porte à merveille. Après avoir connu une mini-crise au début des années 2010, le R&B continue de nous surprendre, arrive à changer de forme pour donner une musique toujours aussi passionnante à suivre. On peut également utiliser cet argument pour le jazz. Annoncé comme musique morte depuis des années, le jazz renaît grâce à une nouvelle génération qui n’hésite plus à mélanger les genres. La recette est la même. Prendre des risques inconsidérés (écoutez Stranger Than Fiction de Moses Boyd) pour donner une musique vivante. Il est bluffant de voir à quel point le jazz arrive toujours à survivre à travers le temps. L’Angleterre a une part importante dans ce renouvellement. La nouvelle génération composée en grande partie de musiciens d’origine afro-caribéenne a donné d’excellents albums (Wu Hen de Kamaal Williams et Shabaka And The Ancestors entre autres) et a surtout réussi à réintroduire le jazz dans les grands médias, chose impensable il y a 10 ans.

La House, autre musique qui a connu ces moments de gloire au milieu des années 90, utilise ce même procédé pour étonnamment nous surprendre en 2020. La House a toujours été imprégnée de jazz et vice versa. Pour cette raison, Byron The Aquarius, originaire d’Alabama est définitivement l’un des artistes de l’année. Il ajoute d’autres influences qui font la différence (notamment le rap et l’Atlanta Bass). Cet artiste ultra productif a délivré un nombre incalculable de projets pour cette année et, sacrée prouesse, sont tous différents. Il a également réalisé un rêve, sortir un (formidable) album de jazz (Ambrosia) qui prouve que les ponts entre genres musicaux sont toujours aussi fonctionnels et permettent de faire exister une musique hybride et annoncent un nouveau souffle pour la House dans les prochaines années

Il était impensable de conclure ce bilan pour cette année 2020 sans évoquer la sidérante édition deluxe de Sign O’ Times de Prince, le double opus mythique du chanteur/guitariste/batteur... disparu il y a 4 ans. Après plusieurs supers éditions deluxe dont la franchement décevante de Purple Rain et la très bonne de 1999, Le Prince Estate a décidé les perles présentes depuis trop longtemps dans le vault de Paisley Park. Pas moins de 45 “inédits” (une dizaine dans le lot sont réellement de vrais inédits) peuvent être désormais écoutés et restent destinés principalement aux fans hardcores du chanteur. Répartis sur 13 vinyles (!), ces 92 titres qui composent cette édition super deluxe feront forcément date. Après une écoute approfondie de cette merveille, un constat se présente. Et si cette période bénie de Prince était finalement le futur de la musique en 2020? Il est assez cocasse de voir les jeunes artistes innovants d’avoir exactement la même approche musicale que le Kid de Minneapolis il y a 17 ans.

Cette sortie de Prince est un cadeau inestimable pour les auditeurs mais inévitablement un questionnement sur l’avenir de la musique désormais à la merci des géants du streaming, prêts à imposer leur vision mercantile aux artistes. Vendre son âme mais à quel prix?

RAP

ATLANTA:

Gunna - WUNNA

SahBabii - Barnacles

Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

CINCINNATI:

Pink Siifu & YUNGMORPHEUS - Bag Talk

Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin (Virginia) - FlySiifu’s

NEW-YORK:

Ka - Descendants Of Cain

Preservation – Eastern Medicine, Western Illness

Armand Hammer - Shrines

MIKE - Weight Of The World

Akai Solo - Ride Alone, Fly Together

Nas - King’s Disease

Roc Marciano - Mt. Marci

BUFFALO:

Benny The Butcher - Burden Of Proof

LOS ANGELES:

The Professionals, Madlib & Oh No - The Professionals

LNDN DRGS - Burnout 4

Jay Worthy & Harry Fraud - Eat When You’re Hungry Sleep When You’re Tired

AcetheFace - New Faces

Buddy & Kent Jamz - Janktape Vol. 1

Desto Dubb & Thank You Fizzle - Stop Playin’ With That Man!

Kamaiyah - Got It Made

Rucci - I’m Still Me

AzSwaye - The Bird Whisperer

DrakeO The Ruler & JoogSzn - Thank You For Using GTL

Shoreline Mafia - Mafia Bidness

03 Greedo & Ron-Ron The Producer - Load It Up, Vol. 1

White John - Cases Pending

Sons Of Yusuf - Shaykh the World

The Alchemist - The Food Villain

Young Slo-Be - Slo-Be Bryant 2

DrakeO The Ruler - We Know The Truth

AzChike & AzSwaye - 3 Piece

AzKilo - Blitz

1TakeQuan - I’m Not a Rapper, Ima Ratchet

Almighty Suspect & AzChike - Almighty Chike 2

Ralfy The Plug - Fresh Outta School

DJ Muggs - Winter

$tupid Young - From Here On Out

Cookie Club - LAX

YS & Ron-Ron The Producer - Street Icons

Steelz - Steel Ain’t Changed

Young Drummer Boy - Can’t Relate

Kruk One - Restless

DETROIT:

Samuel Shabazz - I Was Wrong

Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China

Band Gang Lonnie Bands - The Scamily

Los - No Love

Sada Baby - Skuba Sada 2

G.T. - Timeless

Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2

Nice - Must Be Nice 2

Damjonboi - Life of a Rap Star

Freshco - Born Broke Die Rich EP

Los & Nutty - Panagnl4e, Vol. 2

Allstar JR - Same House As Last Time

Babys World - Babys World 2

Lil P - No Feelings

Icewear Vezzo - Robbin’ Season 2

DT Da Kidd - Stuck In My Ways

Black Noi$e - OBLIVION

Band Gang Paid Will - Applying Pressure

Samuel Shabazz - Don’t Love Me So Much

Ponae - I Got a Line Up The Street

Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols

Ponae - I Got a Line Up The Street Vol. 2

BabyTron - Sleeve Nash

Skilla Baby - Carmelo Bryant

DaeMoney & Top$ide - Slae Season

Top$ide & Los - G. Shit Vol. 1

Baby Smoove - I’m Still Perfect

Whitehouse Studio - Da House, Vol. 2

Baby Smoove - Hardwood Classic

G.T. - Merciless

Band Gang Lonnie Bands - Fuck Rap

Cash Kidd - No Socks 2

FLINT:

Rio Da Yung OG - City On My Back

Rio Da Yung OG - Accidental Shit Talkin’

RMC Mike - Sophomore Season

CHICAGO:

G Herbo - PTSD

Chris Crack - Washed Rappers Ain’t Legends

MINNESOTA:

Cardo - Game Related

BAY AREA:

Lil Blood - Lil Larry From DogTown

Chippass - LIL BACK

3rd World Momo - Big Season

Hail Nino - Most Wanted

Lil Yase - Kobe

ALLBLACK - No Shame 3

Sacramento:

ShooterGang Kony - Red Paint Reverend

Mozzy - Beyond Bulletproof

ShooterGang Kony - Still Kony 2

Cash Click Boog - Voice Of Struggle

3rd World Momo - Big Season 3

Chippass - BLUITT

Vont Da Rasta - Dedicated 2

16GEECHI - Ghetto Success

Lil Bean - 4THECULTURE

Prada Mack - DNA

Larry June - Numbers

NEW ORLEANS:

Curren$y & DJ.Fresh - The Tonite Show With Curren$y

Curren$y & Harry Fraud - The OutRunners

MIAMI: Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED

CANADA: Elaquent - Forever is a Pretty Long Time

INDIANA: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo

NASHVILLE: Starlito - Paternity Leave

DALLAS: David Morgan - Let Me Out

SAINT-LOUIS: CHASETHEMONEY - Slim. E & Friends

BEAT TAPE:

Mecca: 83 - Quiet Moments

Jack Wolff - At Least a Double Fold

Knxwledge - 1988

Alfa Mist - On My Ones

Samiyam - Reflectionz

lojii & Swary - DUE RENT [Blends] +

MXXWLL - SHEEESH

Fitz Ambro$e & Ian Urbina - Bait To Plate (Inspired By ‘The Outlaw Ocean’) (a book by Ian Urbina)

Knxwledge - 10,000 Proof

Devonwho - Offworld

Swarvy - SUNNY DAYS BLUE

Beautiful Disco - ANXIETY FREE

Tiago Frúgoli Ensemble - Casa (Remixes)

ELWD - DANDELION

At the Ave - Cntrl002

RAS - RAS II

IAMNOBODI - Sketches, Vol. 1

Bless The Mad - Bless The Mad

R&B/SOUL/FUNK:

ROMderful - Press L To Continue

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun EP

Moniquea - Los Robles & Washington

Terrace Martin - Sinthesize

Sassy Black - I Be Bae

Brandon Banks - STATIC

TOKiMONSTA - Oasis Nocturno

Marquis Hill - Love Tape: With Voices

Kyle Dion - SUGA

Orion Sun - Hold Space For Me

Jean Deaux - Watch This!

Ivan Ave - Double Goodbyes

DJ.Fresh & XL Middleton - The Fonk Vibes

Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin - They Call Me Disco

Nick Hakim - WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

Marie Dahlstrom - Like Sand

Dornik - Limboland

I,Ced - Interpretations

OXP - Swing Convention

Starchild & The New Romantic - Forever

Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark

Peter CottonTale - CATCH

Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons

Cold Callers - As The Sun Sets

Ego Ella May - Honey For Wounds

Shay Lia - Solaris

Khruangbin - Mordechai

Angela Muñoz & Adrian Younge - Introspection

Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper & 9th Wonder - Dinner Party

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas

keiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl

Conor Albert - Collage 1

Gaidaa - Overture

Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 3

Flwr Chyld - Flow

Reuben James - Slow Down EP

Jada Nycole Ellise - Temporary Colors

Loren Oden & Adrian Younge - My Heart, My Love

Aaron Taylor - ICARUS

Steve Arrington - Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions

Demae - Life Works Out...Usually

Grimm Lynn - Southern Grooves

Senpu & ROMderful - Peace Is Not A Dream

edbl - Boys & Girls Mixtape

Carrie Baxter - Placebo

James Tillman - Modern Desires

Insomnea - ...And It Goes Real High

Xavier Omär - if You Feel

Ty Dolla $ign - Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

Sassy Black - Stuck

Morgan Munroe - Layers 0.5

Dreamcastmoe & Shungu - Temptation

ROMderful - ICE CREAM CLONES

Kemi Ade - DRIVE (Dawn Edition)

Allysha Joy - Light It Again

Budgie - Holy Ghost Zone II

Liv.e - Couldn’t Wait to Tell You…

Otis Junior & Dr. Dundiff - Rising With It

Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons

Terrace Martin - Conscious Conversations

Lex Amor - Government Tropicana

Ojerime - B4 I Breakdown

The Silhouettes Project - The Silhouettes Project

Amber Navran - Golden Light

SAULT - Untitled (Rise)

Nápoles - Slowin It

Joe Hertz - Current Blues

JAZZ:

Moses Boyd - Dark Matter

Kansas Smitty’s - Things Happened Here

FKAjazz - Lineage

Braxton Cook - Fire Sign

Terrace Martin - Soul Juice

Yazmin Lacey - Morning Matters

Emma-Jean Thackray - Rain Dance

Kassa Overall - I THINK I’M GOOD

Thundercat - It Is What It Is

Jeff Bradshaw - Stronger

Athletic Progression - Athletic Progression

Tenderlonius - After The Storm

HOWES3 - Moving Forward

Adrienne Indigo & Paul Grant - Rebirth

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music

Tenderlonious - Tender Plays Tubby

John Caroll Kirby - My Garden

Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - ZFEX Vol.II

Jake Sherman - You’re a Dream

Ruby Rushton - Sun Khosi

PYJÆN - Sage Secrets EP

Roy Ayers, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Roy Ayers JID002

Lettuce - Resonate

Throttle Elevator Music - Emergency Exit

Ambrose Akinmusire - on the tender spot of every calloused moment

Melodiesinfonie - Fragments

Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen

Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep

Nate Smith - Light and Shadow

Nubya Garcia - SOURCE

Marcos Valle, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Youge - Marcos Valle JID003

Carlos Homs, James Robbins & Juan Chiavassa - The Theory Conspiracy

Butcher Brown - #KingButch

Simon Jefferis - Vibrations

Javier Santiago - Rebirth - EP

Bless The Mad - Bless The Mad

Morgan Guerin - The Saga III

Derrick Hodge - COLOR OF NOIZE

Immanuel Wilkins - Omega

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Axiom

Byron The Aquarius - Ambrosia

Blue Note - Re:imagined

III Considered III - III Considered III

Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History

Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Young - Azymuth JID004

Jahmal Nichols - Black Frequencies

Eric Essix - Songs From The Deep

Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings E&F Sides

Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham - Sankofa Season

Potatohead People - Mellow Fantasy

Caixa Cubo - Angela

Paul Grant - Waves

Reginald Chapman - Prototype (Remixes)

Jahari Massamba Unit (Madlib & Karriem Riggins) - Pardon My French

Yussey Dayes, Charlie Stacey & Rocco Palladino - Welcome to the Hills

Horatio Luna - Boom Boom

Natalia Slade - Control

Setwun - Our World

Foshe & Horatio Luna - Nice to Meetcha

Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Doug Carn JID005

Terrace Martin - Village Days

Yakul - Kaleidoscope

LCSM (Likwid Continual Space Motion) - Earthbound

cktrl - Robyn

Jeff Bradshaw - Stronger

Brasstracks - Golden Ticket

ELECTRO/HOUSE/TECHNO:

EQ Why - Gravitate

Night Stone - Night Stone

Byron The Aquarius - What up Doe? Vol. 1

Byron The Aquarius - Fish Soup EP

Fredfades & Jawn Rice - Luv Neva Fades

Tenderlonious - Quarantena

Byron The Aquarius - Apron EP

EQ Why - Equalized Records Presents: The Footwork Jungle Collection (Vol. 1 & 2)

Sango - Da Rocinha 4

Submerse - Get You Down

Machinedrum - A View of U

Fede Lng & Mojeaux - Shaolin 808 EP

Letherette - Mander House, Vol. 2

Steve Spacek - Houses

Space Ghost - Time to Dance

Jay Daniel - SSD

The Colours That Rise - Grey Doubt

Theo Parrish - Wuddaji

Dan Kye - Small Moments

Byron The Aquarius - What Up Doe? Vol. 2

Jitwam - Sun After Rain EP

DJ Earl - Bass + Funk & Soul

Space Ghost - Free 2 Be

Ratgrave - Rock

Linkwood - Face The Facts

Gotta Street Park - Volume Two

#best of 2020 #Damencio #fusilsapompe

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I HAD to make a edit off of Ratchet with this sound, because it was just TOO GOOD NOT TO- 🥺

Also, happy edit's here! UwU

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dontletthishappentoyou · 3 years

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Shows Bonding - I had mild concerns in the first season that were absolutely addressed in the second. Overall, this was what I was looking for. I realized that I’ve been mostly doing cartoons for the past couple years, and it was nice to have some live action stuff that pulled off what it was going for with its characters as well as this one.

Community - Going into this one not knowing if it’ll have the things I like or the things I dislike about Dan Harmon. Turns out it has both, but right now I’m mostly enjoying it for the same kinds of reasons people enjoy Friends or all those other shows that let lonely people vicariously feel that they have friends, or a community. Ratched - What the heck was this? Somebody read and watched One Flew Over the Kuckoos Nest and thought “Nurse Ratched needs a spin-off seiries.” And then they actually clearly put a ton of effort into it? It kinda worked. I kind of wish I had known what to expect a little bit. Basically, what you should expect is kind of out there historical fiction that addresses things like coming to terms with your sexuality in the age of inhumane conversion therapy, mistreatment of the mentally ill, and also petty drama with the coersion and manipulation you might expect from a spy movie and a sitcom at the same time. It works if you’re ready for that. Russian Doll - Bingeable. I wouldn’t watch a second season, but enjoyed it for what it was. I’ve been super into digging into characters lately, and this hit that spot. I found it by just searching for ‘sadcoms’ and this was exactly what I’d hope for. After Life - Ricky Gervais. Very very Ricky Gervais. To the extent that the whole time I was kind of cringing hoping, but not confident, that some of his character’s flaws would be addressed by the end of the series. Most of them were, which I guess is fine. It kind of felt like watching someone figure out how to do something you consider simple. The character arc was a mediocre version of some stuff addressed in Bojack. If you really need more Bojack and can’t find anything good, go for it with this, but meh. She-Ra - Here’s the winner for things I’ve watched this past year. The plot does get convoluted, but I might do an actual video essay about its portrayal of a psudo-leftist utopia, although the political issues it addresses are very limited, since it obviously doesn’t really get into economics or anything like that. But heteronormativiy is out the window, body types are what they are and are portrayed as unquestionably lovable, acceptance is the default, while still refusing to tolerate intolerance and imperialism. It’s interesting to pair it with a series like Ratchet that addresses homophobia directly, but I don’t think it’s failure to recognize the challenges that these people have in the real world is a downside at all. It just exists to show what things would be like without any of that. The antagonist team is generally portrayed as imperialist, stuff you’d safely call evil, while still humanizing its individual members, often delving deep into the manipulation that led them to become a part of the Horde. Which of course gets back to character. Zuko tier stuff here. Not just with the obvious one. At first I kind of disliked the main characters arc, but watched a bunch of videos about it and actually kind of figured out that some of it is largely related to my own personal failures as a person in some of my ineffective attempts to avoid negative attributes. Anyway, there’s nothing I’ve watched that I’d recommend more highly than this in a long time. Movies The Irishman - I didn’t finish this one. It had a pretentious feeling to it that made me feel like I should take the intellectual respnosibility for enjoying it myself or else risk admitting a failure of sophistocation. But it is way to telly over showy and I felt comfortable just not participating in that after the first hour went by without anything I’d clearly identify as the inciting incident. Marriage Story - Watched this with Ivy on Valentines day. Wouldn’t recommend it in that context, but once again, dug into character. Made me freak out about custody, but I’m assuming it won’t have that effect on most people. People said the acting was good, and I completely see what they mean. If I hadn’t been occasionally paying attention and having that in mind, I’m not sure I would have noticed, but that did make it extremely engaging. Room - I really enjoyed the structure of this one. It felt like halfway through it could have been the end and we would have successfully surpassed a hero’s journey or whatever, but that would have ignored the emotional consequences of the kind of issues that the story addressed, so it kept going, introduced a whole new set of characters an hour in, and I don’t think there would have been any other way it would have worked for me. Definitely something I’d recommend. Music Red Velvet - I’ve been listening to this alongside BTS and Black Pink in my dive into K-Pop. With prog and indie, you get CDs, download stuff, listen one way or another, you get your friends to listen to it, then you go to concerts to get closer to the music, witness the viruosity in the case of prog, or connect more humanly with indie. With ska and electronica, you have friends who vaguely like the genre, you go to concerts because they’ll be crazy and fun. But I’ve been kind of exploring how different musics interact with culture over the last few years. Classical, traditional Celtic, folk, and now K-Pop. Y’all have seen the culture around K-Pop. People get deep into it in a different way. I can recognize Petrucci’s solo style, with the rapid picking in the middle register fast stuff, I know Mike Portnoy used a double pedal on a single bass drum in LTE but not DT, I’ve heard people talk about the different distortion pedals Steven Wilson uses, but when people get into Kpop, they know what year RM had different hair colors, what kind of family he comes from, they might have memorized a couple interviews with him, and it’s just taken a bit farther than boy band fandom was taken even in the 90s. I definitely used to see all that as extremely shallow, believing that music should be about the music, but I don’t feel so fundamentalist with my approach to how music ‘should’ interact with culture these days, so I’m seeing if I can get into it. Of course I’m failing a little bit. I mention Red Velvet specifically here because that’s the band who’s music I’ve gotten into most. I just listen to it in the background. I don’t know the names. I’ve been trying with BTS a little bit, but it’s tough when I don’t emotionally connect with the band. I’m trying to see if Red Velvet’s breaking of that barrier with their mildly complex harmony, occasional counterpoint, and diverse instrumentation and style can kind of be a gateway into that culture and I can stop listen to BTS thinking “they have seven dudes, why don’t they utilize their potential for awesome vocal harmonies?" and start listening to it on its own merits. 100 gecs - Nice. It has a playful tone to it. I can imagine doing similar things if instead of having Garage Band, I had been given and taught to use some more intricate production software. Often it sounds like they do the kinds of things people do when they discover new instruments and want to try it out and push it to its limits with no hesitation that people trained might have with more critical ears, but then it’s refined a bit and comes across as authentic and energetic with just a bit of the punk spirit to it, but adjusted to the modern zeitgeist. Other than that, music consumption hasn’t been as prominent in my life as it has and I’d like to get more of that going. I’ve been introducing kids to a variety of things, but that kind of gets me listening to stuff all over the place that I’m already very familiar with and have set associations with.

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