I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2022 : 81-90

This year, the standard has been the highest since IDHAS began six and a half years ago. Narrowing things down to this 100 as been really difficult. For each album, I've posted a song from it and a link to the IDHAS Review where you can find further details and how to listen or buy the album. 

A reminder that anything reviewed on I Don't Hear A Single is highly recommended. 

No 81 : The Minders - Psychedelic Blacktop       IDHAS Review

No 82 : Nick Piunti And The Complicated Men - Heart Inside Your Head      IDHAS Review

   

No 83 : Pulse Park - Phonac Music      IDHAS Review





No 84 : Secret Molecules - Secret Molecules      IDHAS Review

No 85 : Kevin Stevenson - Reality Alley      IDHAS Review

No 86 : Walker Brigade - If Only      IDHAS Review





No 87 : The Well Wishers - Blue Sky Sun      IDHAS Review     





No 88 :  The Dead Century - The Well       IDHAS Review

No 89 : Northern Portrait - The Swiss Army      IDHAS Review

 

Matinée Recordings · Northern Portrait - At Attention

No 90 : Gaz Hunter - Lysergic Soundscapes Of Dreamadelica      IDHAS Review

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Gaz Hunter - Lysergic Soundscapes Of Dreamadelica

 

Willington's Gaz Hunter offers up an outstanding album It is hard to believe that this is a one man band as the album sounds so joined up and group like. People will infer from the title that this is a Psych album or at the very least Psych Pop.

Well you would be very wrong. Yes the Psych is here, but there's more of a Pop Rock feel at times. Indeed, Good Things Will Happen To Good People is very close to Power Pop, the chorus certainly is, it even has a classic Power Pop drum pattern. Add in a splendid Guitar Solo and you have as much as you could want.

This Pop Rock comparison is largely due to Hunter's vocal which is unlike anything expected around this genre. Chasing Rainbows In The Sun could be the Alan Parsons Project, his voice is very much in that territory throughout.

Elsewhere, A Long Long Time is a great mix of Space Rock and Psych, whilst Hypnotised By Patterns has a 60s Beat verse and a Rock and Roll chorus. For all this charming melody, the album is anchored on two much more expansive pieces.

The closer, Give Me All Your Love revs up into an absolute Rock Out. The extended Guitar break is wonderful, very Mid Seventies, Pink Floyd. The song then changes focus completely with Dave Gilmour sort of turning into Scotty Moore. If this isn't mind blowing enough, it is bettered by Elless Dee.

There is so much in this magnificent six minutes. It starts with a flute and merges into Modern Prog. Half way through there is a blistering Rock Guitar Solo which dominates the second half into a Space Rock freak out close. All this and a massive chorus, the song is riveting. 

On first looking at this, I thought Lysergic Soundscapes Of Dreamadelica would be interesting. It is much more than that. Incredibly Inventive. This is a stormer. You can listen to and buy the album here. It is also available on CD, another bonus.

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