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The Best Albums of 2022? Let’s Discuss.
Our critics debate their year-end lists (and agree on Beyoncé and Rosalía!) in a wrap-up of the year in LPs.
Hosted by Jon Caramanica. Produced by Pedro Rosado.
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Was the past year defined by Beyoncé’s “Renaissance,” a nostalgia-minded tour of club music from the recent past as well as the not-so-recent past? Or was it shaped by Rosalía’s “Motomami,” an album of restless futurism and post-genre exuberance?
Those two albums are the only releases that appeared on the year-end lists of all three New York Times pop music critics. Outside of those, they included pop and un-pop country music, New York drill rap, British post-punk, San Jose hardcore, nepo baby pop-punk and much more.
On this week’s Popcast, The New York Times’s pop music critics discuss these albums (and also the absence of Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” from their lists).
Guests:
Jon Pareles, The New York Times’s chief pop music critic
Lindsay Zoladz, a pop music critic for The New York Times
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