Favorite Recordings of 2022: #20 – #11
February 24, 2023
Are you up for a treasure hunt? Here we go with one of the last two parts of my 2022 musical review.
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Favorite Recordings of 2022: #36 – #21
January 26, 2023
You're likely to find some new favorites here in this wildly diverse list of albums and selected tracks from my favorite 2022 recordings.
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Favorite Recordings of 2022: Part One — Honorable Mentions
January 3, 2023
As I'll need some time to prepare my post on my Top 30 Favorite Recordings of 2022, I hope that this substantial feast of "Honorable Mentions" leads you to many hours of new musical discoveries.
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Sinead O’Connor was right all along
On Movies & Media,On Songs & Albums,Film Reviews
October 10, 2022
It has taken three decades — 30 years to the month! — for the truth to come into focus. In the early '90s, Sinead O'Connor risked her career to speak truth to power. She was condemned by Christians, by pop culture, by almost everyone. And now we've seen her laments justified, her prophecies coming true. Here, thank God, is a movie that loves her and grieves for her.
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Arcade Fire’s big noise is back, and so are the sermons
On Songs & Albums,Music Reviews
May 6, 2022
Arcade Fire's seven-track tapestry of anxiety, alienation, and disillusionment sounds epic, but it can be a bit disillusioning itself in its obvious sermonizing.
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Jon Batiste’s “We Are” — a Looking Closer Top 20 of 2021 favorite — wins Album of the Year.
April 4, 2022
One of my favorite records of 2021 won the Album of the Year award: Jon Batiste's We Are.
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Favorite Recordings of 2021: Part Three (#15–#1)
March 6, 2022
You are arriving at the summit of my 2021 Music Mountain. These are my fifteen favorite albums of 2021
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Favorite Recordings of 2021: Part One (Honorable Mentions and #36–#26)
January 20, 2022
It has finally begun! On January 20, Looking Closer's look back at favorite recordings of 2021 has begun! Keep watch for Part Two and Part Three, coming soon.
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The Weekender: Christmas Edition 2021
On Movies & Media,On Songs & Albums,Journal,The Weekender
December 25, 2021
This week: Malick's rollercoaster ride through the eons of history. Mia Hansen-Løve's film Bergman Island. All hail U2's The Edge!
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