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My Top 7 Albums From The Covid Years

Music was easily the best part of these two years

M.A. Mercier
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10 min readFeb 26, 2022

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So. After two tumultous years, we are finally getting out of the Covid era and yet all is not well. I’m appalled at the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and I pray for every resident of Ukraine.

Now. Music has been one of the brighter spots in the last two years, at least for me. This is my list of my top 7 albums from this period. (Read from the end if you want the typical 7–1 read. I chose not to waste time)

Let us Begin.

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1. Græ by Moses Sumney

This is it. My favourite album of the last two years. Moses Sumney’s second studio album was released in 2020 as a two part album. The album follows themes of isolation, being ‘multiple’, and I am not even going to pretend that I pay attention to most of the lyrical details and nuances of this project. Sonically, it is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. The instrument palette and the vocals are of the absolute top level, and how they work together is exquisite.

This album has plenty of good individual songs as well, with me liking almost all the ‘songs’. The inverted commas because it has several interludes, which are cool, but I won’t be randomly recommending those in the near future. On Cut me, for example, the bass…

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