Part Two in our trilogy of episodes celebrating the best tracks of 2022.

Part One of three episodes rounding up the best in alternative listening for 2022. Not definitive, not meant to be.

The sounds before the sounds. What successful bands sounded like before they sold out stadiums. Often better.

A tribute to Mimi Parker of Low and Keith Levene of early PIL and founder member of The Clash.

John Cale is 80: no second invitation needed to celebrate the Velvets, his solo work, his musical contributions and his production as well.

Braces, tire swings, then love and other catastrophes. Songs about the indignities and thrills of being young.

Perth, a thousand miles from anywhere else, and West Australia more broadly have always had their unique thing going on. Here's their unique musical thing.

25 Years of living under the reign of Mogwai. Interlaced with some influences on the band themselves.

Tributes, hymns, odes to. Songs for, Homages about. Not people though. Binoculars, divorce and androids amongst others.

Songs about the class system, about the bourgeoisie, about unfairness, about inequality. But with humour too.