2022 Closing tracks of some note

Brief thoughts on a dozen last tracks from last year.

Jan 05, 2023

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Before regular service resumes next week with a closer from 2008, I wanted to talk briefly about some noteworthy 2022 closing tracks from some of the more talked about albums of the year.

We will start with one closer that I had already talked about in a full-length post back in April last year, Wet Leg’s ‘Too Late Now’, a reflection on sleepwalking into adulthood.

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