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Though listeners everywhere will no doubt relate to many of the themes of rising, it’s also a tool to help Maia come to terms with her own past and a launch pad to a better and brighter future. “dance (end of the world)” helps to round out the album, celebrating love and life. After subsequent songs tackle topics like loss, finding balance in life, and growing up too quickly, “haze” brings a hopeful turn, suggesting that all of this uncertainty can lead to great things. The album almost feels like a movie, and on openers “mona lisa” and “learn to love you,” Maia finds a desire to step out and spotlight herself, though she worries about being tied to her past on “victim of nostalgia” while blending older genre styles. The result is an indie-pop dreamscape centered on self-reflection and transitioning into a new era. The final part to a trilogy that began with 2020’s dawn and dusk EPs plays like a combination of its predecessors. “Fun existential crisis”-that’s how Maia, aka mxmtoon, would describe her sophomore album, rising, in three words. Read on and learn more about the 25 projects that have made the biggest impact on Genius users in the first half of this year.
The tally is heavy high-profile hip-hop LPs, naturally, but there are also country, indie, pop, and Latin albums competing for top honors. This list doesn’t just affirm the continued relevance of the album-it also showcases the diversity of taste represented in the Genius Community. The Genius Community contains many such music fans, and over the last month, these passionate individuals joined forces to vote on and write up our Best Albums of 2022 So Far list.
While singles have arguably come to dominate the conversation, there are still plenty of listeners who believe in the old-school idea of collections of songs that deserve to be heard together in a specific order. The further we get into the streaming era, the more music fans like to debate whether albums still matter.
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