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Low at Paradiso, Amsterdam, 5\/5\/22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year we’re going full Aquarium Drunkard<\/a> (AKA the only music year end list worth reading). Except, these are just one person’s choices (unlike Bolachas Now Playing, which is a team effort). And he’s only doing this because it’s a slow week at his real work. Meaning, “going full Aquarium Drunkard” is, really, just adopting the format: a list of 100 un-ordered records bound together in groups of 4. Plus a short tweet about each of them. There are a few Spotify playlists at the end of the post, plus Bandcamp links to those records whenever available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Top Concerts of 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my archival projects of the year (lol) was using setlist.fm as a means to keep track of all the shows I’ve attended so far. Of course, some artists\/projects I’ve seen live aren’t in the Musicbrainz database and their shows cannot be added there, and my memory started suppressing most shitty shows I’ve seen in my formative years. Regardless, this was the year when I finally hit 1000 different seen-live artists. I guess it’s this world’s way of telling me I’m getting old. In case you’re wondering (if you know me, you probably aren’t), Shellac tops the list with 12 shows, one of them this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing this made me come to the conclusion I’ve seen 213 concerts this year, including opening acts and festival shows. I will not estimate how much that cost me. These 20 were exceptionally fun, impressing, moving, or all of it at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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black midi at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, 9\/11\/2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
  1. black midi (Parc del F\u00f2rum, Barcelona; TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht; Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  2. Low (Paradiso, Amsterdam; Parc del F\u00f2rum, Barcelona)<\/li>
  3. Lingua Ignota (Poppodium 013, Tilburg)<\/li>
  4. 100 gecs (Parc del F\u00f2rum & Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona; Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  5. The Hold Steady (Electric Ballroom, London)<\/li>
  6. Destroyer (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  7. Turnstile (Praia Fluvial do Tabo\u00e3o, Paredes de Coura)<\/li>
  8. Parquet Courts (Praia Fluvial do Tabo\u00e3o, Paredes de Coura)<\/li>
  9. Craig Finn (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  10. Bonnie \u201cPrince\u201d Billy (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  11. Calexico (Doornroosje, Nijmegen)<\/li>
  12. The Felice Brothers (TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht)<\/li>
  13. Makaya McCraven (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  14. Daniel Romano (TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht)<\/li>
  15. Grandaddy (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  16. Les Savy Fav (Parc del F\u00f2rum, Barcelona)<\/li>
  17. Nancy Mounir’s Nozhet El Nofous (TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht)<\/li>
  18. clipping. (TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht)<\/li>
  19. Kurt Vile & the Violators (Paradiso, Amsterdam)<\/li>
  20. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers (dB’s, Utrecht)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Top Songs of 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Our final tally for the 46 weekly Bolachas Now Playing playlists we published in 2022: 657 unique artists, 1028 tracks, 68:20 hours of music. Destroyer and Jenny Berkel were the artists we featured the most (6 tracks each), followed by Angel Olsen, Cass McCombs, Calexico, Kurt Vile, Julia Jacklin, Renata Zeiguer, and Stella Donnelly (5 each). Of the 100 albums featured below, only five were not featured in Bolachas Now Playing during 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We managed to add songs with the same name by different artists (thanks Soccer Mommy and black midi for “Still”, Heather Trost and Zachary Cale for “Sandcastles”, The World of Dust and Young Jesus for “Ocean”, Renata Zeiguer and Rocky Votolato for “Evergreen” (interestingly enough, in 2019 there were two Evergreens as well, by Jeff Tweedy and Wye Oak), and THREE songs named “Blue” (Indigo Sparke, Kristine Leschsper, and Whitney). Ok, enough looking at lists – here are my (again, mine, not the entire team’s) 100 favorite tracks of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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