Music after confinement

Journalists Francisco Javier Chavanel and Mario Alonso review the best music published in the first months of 2022, much of it recorded during the worst moments of covid-19. Go to download The best singles Mario Alonso opens the fire of the best singles with the Russian nationalized American singer Regina Spektor and her new album Home, before & after (2022), after six years without recording, but which is somewhat irregular due to the overload of arrangements: Become all alone is not a new song, but it is the first time he has recorded it. For his part, Chavanel raises the curtain with the English singer Nilufer Yanya and her second album, Painless , from which we hear the fun Stabilise , a sample of “intelligent pop” Mario Alonso also highlights Age of anxiety II (Rabbit hole) from the album We (2022) by Arcade Fire, an album that must be listened to “very carefully”, although, as Chavanel points out, it is not the best album by this indie group Canadian rock. From one classic to another: Chavanel selects You will never work in television again from A light for attracting attention by The Smile, the English rock band composed of Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner .



Pay attention to the battery! Mario Alonso continues with Pink funeral from the album Once twice melody by the American dream pop duo Beach House, formed by Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. The album was published in February 2022 and includes 18 songs divided into four chapters. Chavanel closes the singles chapter with the Dubliners Just Mustard and the single Mirrors WhatsApp Number List from the album Heart under . A dark and even gloomy album, in which the luminosity of the song we hear stands out. albums of the year The album that has surprised Mario Alonso the most is Preacher's Daughter by the North American transgender Ethel Cain, a debut published in May 2022. We listen to Gibson Girl by this multifaceted artist. Chavanel highlights the “glorious” Dragon new warm mountain I believe in you by Big Thief, a tribute to country, from which we listen to Simulation swarm . Mario brings the “brutality” to Big Time by Angel Olsen, a country album in a very complicated year for the North American singer-songwriter and which is, possibly, her best album. We listen to Through the fires . Chavanel reminds us that in a list of the best of the year we could not miss Rosalia and her Motomami , an “out of the ordinary” singer who sweeps away.







We listen to Hentai, a song that exposes an explicit sexual relationship without sweetening. Mario Alonso recovers Spoon's American rock classic and his tenth album: Lucifer on the sofa , with which they reach their peak. The one we heard is the second single released: Lucifer on the sofa . Are Black Country New Road the new Pink Floyd? Chavanel believes so at least in the album Ants from up there and in the song Chaos space marine . It does not seem, due to such mature music, that the band is made up of such young musicians. Mario highlights the surprise of Samora Pinderhughes, brother of Elena Pinderhughes, about whom we do not have much information, but we do have her album Grief . His song Masculinity shows the most activist side of this New York musician. Chavanel closes the section with Skinty fia , the third album by the successful Fountaines DC, from which we hear I love you . This is a group from which we can still expect greater achievements. National production As far as national production is concerned, Alonso and Chavanel speak of a certain crisis in Spanish pop-rock as it enters a dangerous spiral due to its orientation towards making effective music, but with little creativity, for festival consumption. However, Mario Alonso highlights Seahorses from Los Estanques + Annie B. Sweet. For his part, Chavanel opts for Galdrick and his Backlight of him, of which we hear Like an Animal .