Turn Up The Volume’s 20 BEST BALLADS OF 2022
Best heart-and-soul touching reveries of 2022
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Song by Song
(photo byTurn Up The Volume – Antwerp, 6 June 2022)
1. ‘Come Back’ by SHARON VAN ETTEN
Album: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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(Photo By Turn Up The Volume – Amsterdam, 15 October 2022)
2. ‘All The Good Times’ by ANGEL OLSEN (St. Louis, Missouri)
Album: Big Time
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3.’Change’ by BIG THIEF (Brooklyn, New York)
Album: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe You
4. ‘The Epidemiologist’ by PETER DOHERTY & FREDERIC LO (UK/France)
Album: The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime
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5. ‘Gospel At The Night Club’ by ASHLEY McBRYDE
Album: Ashley McBride Presents: Lindeville
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6. ‘Stay’ by KAT KOAN (Berlin)
Album: Cocoon
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7. ‘Train Comes Through’ by EZRA FURMAN (Chicago, US)
Album: All Of Us Flames
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8. ‘Story To Tell’ by RYAN THOMAS SMELLE (Canada)
Album: In The Homestretch
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9. ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (New York City)
Album: Cool It Down
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10. ‘Firmament’ by DIM GRAY (Oslo, Norway)
Album: Firmament
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11. ‘I Wish That I Could Sing It For You’ by NICOLAS ROWE (Columbus, Ohio)
Album: The Circle Remains Unbroken
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Album: The Other Side Of Make-Believe
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13. ‘Arkansas’ by THE TRUSTED (Southend-on-Sea, UK)
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14.’Save Me’ by WAITING FOR SMITH (UK)
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15. ‘Life And Lies’ by LEE ROGERS (Northern Ireland)
Album: Gameblood
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, 8 April 2022)
16. ‘I Love You’ by FONTAINES D.C. (Dublin, Ireland)
Album: Skinty Fia
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17. ‘Amber’ by SERJ TANKIAN (from Systems Of A Dawn) and SEVAK AMROYAN
Sung in Armenian
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(Photo by Jeremy McGuire)
18. ‘Christmas In October’ by MIKE & THE NERVE (Gainesville, FL)
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19. ‘Wasting’ by FERNA (US)
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20. ‘Always Together With You’ by SPIRITUALIZED (UK)
Jason Pierce‘s orchestra
Album: Everything Was Beautiful
