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Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, including a new supergroup, two songs from a new album that featured no advance singles, and tracks from artists across the globe (including Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and England). We’ve got 11 songs this week, since one artist has two different songs on the list.

On their debut album, h. pruz turns spacious folk music into a fabled catharsis in generous and captivating ways.

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to New York-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mutual Benefit (aka Jordan Lee).

Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2023. Despite it being a short week due to Labor Day, there were plenty of new tracks to choose from. Some of our writers voted and we ended up with a Top 13.

On Romantic Piano, Gia Margaret creates a soundscape of pianos and field recordings that capture the fleeting, sometimes-overlooked beauty of our immediate surroundings.

Stacker looked at all 2022 albums on Metacritic and highlighted the top 25, according to Metascore.

Florist will perform at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe on Tuesday, Aug. 16.

Florist: The New Soundtrack of the Catskills

The deep connection among Florist's four members has always been central to the band's music. After some time apart, the musicians reconnected to make Florist's most open-hearted, ambitious album yet.

Beat the heat with cool, guitar-heavy new tunes from Alvvays, Bring Me the Horizon, Dropkick Murphys, ERRA, Julien Baker, Journey, Parkway Drive and more