Pennyblackmusic - Writers' and Photographers' Albums of the Year 2022

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published: 7 / 1 / 2023

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Our writers and photographers reveal their albums of the year for 2022.

KIMBERLY BRIGHT 1. Angeline Morrison: -The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience) 2. Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding: - Hellafied 3 Simon Love - Love, Sex and Death Etc 4. Big Joanie: - Back Home 5. V/A - Kids On The Street – UK Power Pop And New Wave 1977-1981 Gig of the Year -: John Hiatt, Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, 30/7/2022 MALCOLM CARTER 1. Steve Robinson and Ed Wotil - Shadow Play 2. Cowsills - Rhythm of the Night 3, Sundowners = Pulling Back the Night 4. Dodson and Fogg - Reflections 5. Hattie Briggs - Half Me, Half You 6. Donovan -Gaelia 7. Hanging Stars - Hollow Heart 8. Michael Head - Dear Scott 9. Weyes Blood - And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow 10. Feedback File - Summerland JOHN CLARKSON 1. Va;lley of Weights - Valley of Weights 2. V/A - Under the Bridge 3. Bathers - Summer Lightning 4. Delines - The Sea Drift 5. Moon Under Water - Fragments EP 6. Heist - Births, Deaths and Marriages 7. Stephen McLaren - They Don't Put Money in Your Pocket 8. Morton Valence - Morton Valence 9. Poor Performer - Open Yer Wounds Too !0, Volunteered - We Fall Apart Gig of the Year - Bathers, Stratheven Hotel, STratheven, 17/6/2022 JULIE CRUICKSHANK 1. Dim Gray - Firmament 2. Steve Wallis - Nothing Stays the Same Way for Long 3. Rupert Wates - For the People 4. Whitesnake - Greatest Hits - Revisited, Remixed, Remastered MMXXII 5. Hawkwind - Dreamworkers of Time - The BBC Recordings 1985 - 1995 NICK DENT-ROBINSON Gig of the Year - Bob Dylan, Palladium, London, 19.10.2022 DIXIE ERNILL 1. Karen - Karen 2. Reds, Pinks and Purples - They Only Wanted Your Soul 3. Orchids - Dreaming Kind 4. Silent Boys - Sand To Pearls, Coal To Diamonds 5. Pete Astor - Time On Earth 6. My Raining Stars - 89 Memories 7. Natvral - Tethers 8. Chesterfields - New Modern Homes 9. Northern Portrait - The Swiss Army 10) Love, Burns - It Should Have Been Tomorrow Gig of the Year - Glas-Goes Pop (The Orchids, Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans, Close Lobsters, Pete Astor and many more), Glasgow University Union Debate Chambers , Glasgow, 6/8/2022...7/8/2022 JAMES GARDNER (In no particular order....) 1. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia 2. Arctic Monkeys- The Car 3. Kendrick Lamarr- Mr Morale and The Big Steppers 4. Viagra Boys - Cave World 5. Alex Cameron- Oxy Music 6. Aldous Harding- Warm Chris 7. Caroline - Caroline 8. Jockstrap - I love you Jennifer B 9. Naima Bock- Giant Palm 10. Haress- Ghosts Gig iof the Year - Lewsberg, Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, 25/11/2022 DAVE GOODWIN 1. Suede -Autofiction 2. Joss Stone – Never Forget My Love 3. Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 4. Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point 5. Placebo – Never let me go 6. Bloc Party – Alpha Games 7. Arcade Fire – We 8. Polica – Madness 9. Paolo Nutini – Last night in the bittersweet 10. Lizzo – Special Gig of the Year - Placebo, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 29/11/2022 ROBERT HADLEY Gig of tHE Year -Mduo Mortat, Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, 7/4/2022 BENJAMIN HOWARTH 1. Let's Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons 2. Yard Act - The Overload 3. Burning Hell - Garbage Island 4. Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell 5. Wave Pictures - When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings 6. A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests 7. Press Club - Endless Motion 8. Linqua Franqa - Bellringer 9. David Ford - Love and Death 10. Wet Leg - Wet Leg Gig(s):of the Year - The Divine Comedy, Venus, Folly, Cupid and Time: Thirty years of the Divine Comedy, barbican, London, 30/8/2022 abd 1/9/2022 ADRIAN JANES 1. Loop - Sonancy 2. Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods 3, Unhappybirthday – Stella Loops 4. Genius Steals – Nobody Knows Anything 5. Rolling Blackouts - Endless Rooms 6. Beatles – Revolver (2022 reissue) 7. Family – A Song for Me (2022 reissue) STEVE MILES Gig of the Year - Yard Act/Panic Shack, Tramshed, Cardiff, 27/11/2022 JAMIE ROWLAND 1. Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse 2. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph 3. Angel Olsen - Big Time 4, Weyes Blood - And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow 5. PUP - The Unravelling of PUPTHEBAND 6. Cheeckface - Too Much to Ask 7. SASAMI - Squeeze 8. Dehd - Blue Skies 9. NOBRO - Live Your Truth, Shred Some Gnar 10. Macie Stewart - Mouth Full of Glass MARK ROWLAND 1. Spoon – 'Lucifer on the Sofa' 2. Steve Lacy – 'Gemini Rights' 3. Zeal and Ardor – 'Zeal and Ardor' 4. Mitski – 'Laurel Hell' 5. NNAMDï – 'Please Have A Seat' 6. Wilco – 'Cruel Country' 7. Quelle Chris – 'DEATHFAME' 8. Angel Olsen – 'Big Time' 9. Moin – 'Paste' 10. MJ Lenderman – 'Boat Songs' MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Alai K - Kila Mara 2. Batida - Neon Colonialismo 3. Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes 4. Chip Kinman - The Great Confrontation 5. Gryphon Rue - A Spirit Appears To A Pair Of Lovers 6. Trupa Trupa - B Flat A 7/ Half Man Half Biscuit - The Voltarol Years 8. Fulu Kolektiv – Lualaba 9. Ty Segall - Hello, Hi 10. Congotronics International - Where's The One HELEN TIPPING 1. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia 2. The Burning Hell - Bird Queen of Garbage Island 3. Sea Power - Everything was Forever 4. Gwenno - Tresor 5. Darkher - The Buried Storm Gig of the Year - New Model Army with Leipzig Philharmonic, Tempodrom, Berlin, 15/7/2022 LISA TOREM !. Linda Gail Lewis - Early Sides 1963-1973, 2. Judy Collins - Spellbound 3. Bruce Springsteen,- Only the Strong Survive 4. Beyonce - Renaissance 5. Florence and The Machine - Dance Fever Gig of the Year; Either Regina Spektor, Chicsgo Theater, Chicago. 9/10/2022 or Tori Amos, Chicago Theater, Chicago, 25/5/2022 CILA WARNCKE 1. Suede - Autoiction 2, Wild Rivers - Sidelines DENZIL WATSON 1. Arctic Monkeys – The Car 2. Yard Act – The Overload 3. Muse – Will of the People 4. Sea Power - Everything Was Forever 5. Spear of Destiny – Ghost Population 6. Dubioza Kolektiv - Agrikultur 7. Godfathers – Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma 8. Hugh Cornwell – Moments of Madness 9. Buzzcocks – Sonics in the Soul 10. Luke Haines and Peter Buck - All the Kids are Super Bummed Out Gig of the Year: - Dubioza Kolektiv @ Stylus, Leeds, 20/5/2022

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