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The 5th Annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards (part one: music and movies)

(note: I have posted this thread on Twitter at the end of December for the past five years, but with that platform's future more dubious than ever, it makes sense to back up 2022's edition here)

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time for the fifth annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards for all the pop culture I thought was simply the best over the past twelve months.

There's so much, we're gonna slow-drip this year, so let's start with music...

Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack’s solo EP is seventeen minutes of just fantastic collaborations, including a reunion with Pin Me Down bandmate Milena Mepris. Had this been a full LP, it would be way higher in the rankings.

A top-to-bottom reworking of 2020’s New Symbols, this LP benefits from both two more years of Tom Vek’s reflection on his art as well as wider distribution on digital music platforms so people could actually hear it.

Nine years after his debut LP, the French DJ proves his mastery of timeless synth anthems with this album that feels like the soundtrack to a long lost John Hughes movie about sexy computer hackers.

It feels like cheating to include the soundtrack to a 2021 concert film in this list, but the album dropped in 2022 and it freaking rules so whatever. This is the sound of the Dan Greene Cinematic Universe.

A mostly-instrumental album of lush chiptune soundscapes, this high-def volume of Australian electronic anthems begs the question “why aren’t we having another chip resurgence right freakin’ now?” Danceable, worldly, melancholic, and beyond.

A timely reminder that indie rock can be snarky and clever without losing the charm of four-part harmonies and driving hooks. Like cherry red Doc Martens stomping through a field of sunflowers, The Beths show us how to suffer with a smirk.

No album this year felt as immediately BIG as the sophomore effort from this English post-rock phalanx. It commands attention before curling up in a ball to hide at your feet and whisper deep dark secrets in your ear.

Continuing her transformation from cloud rap to pop, Kilo Kish challenges conventions with this collection of toe-tapping bangers about societal woes, public image, self-worth, and the ills of consumerism, all framed within a retro arcade game.

A punk album so specifically of its time without immediately dating itself by naming names. A concept album about running a punk band like a business that comes to its logical conclusion: in-fighting, ego clashes, bankruptcy, and thanking the sponsors.

Simply the best breakup album in ages (sorry Swifties). Cutthroat and callous, honest and earnest, this math rock sophomore LP challenges pop song structure as much as relationships challenge the edges of individual identity.

Wasn't that so much fun? So many fantastic albums in 2022, such wonderful songs to sing and dance to. Good times.

And now, our second category... it's time to talk about MOVIES...

The vainglorious adventures of an aspiring podcaster focusing largely on the culture clash between New York and Texas. Quite possibly the best performance ever from Ashton Kutcher.

While this mock-rock-doc never reaches the parodic highs of Weird Al’s previous “UHF,” the extended Funny Or Die sketch carries heaps of charm with an all-star cast of comedy cameos.

Easily the most unexpected film of the year, this holiday horror fusion brings all the delirious twists and turns you’d expect from the creator of “Too Many Cooks.”

Simply the biggest, boldest, wildest action movie to date, RRR offers more spectacle per minute than Zack Snyder does in an hour, while still finding plenty of time to sing and dance.

Jordan Peele’s third horror film forgoes shocks and scares in favor of slow burn dread with thoroughly enjoyable examinations of race, media, exploitation, and religion.

This celebration of the power of art to question authority and buck societal norms poses the question “what if Freddy Mercury and Jimi Hendrix were best friends in feudal Japan?”

Simply the most fun I had in a movie theater all year. A fast, stylish, star-studded action farce, like Guy Ritchie directing a script by the Coen Brothers, this film taught me more about Thomas the Tank Engine than my nephews ever will.

Proving Knives Out wasn’t a one-off fluke, Rian Johnson delivers a whodunnit with bigger stakes, bigger stars, bigger spectacle, and bigger laughs. A covid-era mystery for Agatha Christie fans of any age.

In their second feature, the Daniels have produced what feels like a once-in-a-generation iconic piece of cinema. Sweeping & grandiose, intimate & delicate, EEAAO is the sci-fi family immigrant tale we never knew we so desperately needed.

The most I’ve cried in the theater since Toy Story 3. Marcel’s journey will melt the most frozen of hearts and make you believe that anything is possible with a positive outlook.

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"Crying Out For Love" by Tom Vek https://ift.tt/5gZnbd7

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Tom Vek, "The Lower The Sun" #NowPlaying

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❤️‍🔥Hades ❤️‍🔥

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If it's not too much trouble, and you are still doing them, please can I have a Rory playlist?❤❤❤

Of course, Rory!!! I'd be delighted to:

Real Pain by Indigo De Souza Oldest Troubles by Michael Ian Cummings Rough Going (I Wont Let Up) by Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam You'll Stay by Tom Vek

Send me your name and i’ll make a mini playlist with the letters in your name

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Okay my friends, here it is, Radio Free California Episode 2419. Included in the 42 songs I've selected this week is new music this week from Snarls, Tom Vek, Hana Vu, Kid Moon, Mary Spender, Hollow Head, Work Wife, Lola Young, Deep Purple, Sia and much more. Enjoy!

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learning lately that a lot of confidence is about owning up. like "yeah i'm a little addicted to my phone right now" or "yeah i'm not really over this person yet" or "yeah i still get pretty anxious in crowds" just saying anything at all but then following it up w "but i'm trying to get better" and being super nonchalant and unaffected. so powerful. you would literally be undefeatable in the face of even the most judgmental person. no one can judge you for things you already know about yourself and are trying to improve on. the trick is to know yourself from the inside out, to hold yourself accountable, and to actively improve every day. like that is literally the secret to never feeling like you're at the mercy of somebody else's judgment

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Tom Vek Performs in Leeds Tomorrow Evening

Tom Vek is a UK-based recording artist who burst on the scene with his now cult classic 2005 debut album We Have Sound also returns to the road to play his extensive catalogue and the recently released new EP, Confirm Yourself, to fans across the country. The tour, his most extensive run of UK shows since the release of the original Luck, started in Bristol on Oct 2nd and takes in an appearance…

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Tom Vek, "The Lower The Sun"

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Playlist

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[LOOK] Tom Vek (@Tom_Vek) “All I See Is You” Video

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Just Another Menace Sunday #1053 w/ Bleach Lab

New Shows Sundays 4pm EST bombshellradio.com Repeats Wednesdays 1pm EST and Fridays 6pm EST Archival Shows available on bombshellradiopodcasts.com "Just Another Menace Sunday" radio thing. Hour 1: A Conversation from SXSW with Bleach Lab and their Musical Sandwich. Hour 2: New Melodic Rock 'n Roll from: THE BUG CLUB, Miley Cyrus (Talking Heads) Shannon & The Clams, GUPPY, Blondshell, Beadadoobee, Wilt, Moby, Cara Paige, Bad With Phones, The National (Talking Heads,) Nada Surf, The The, Tom Vek, Islands and THE BUG CLUB (Again!)   This Week – Episode #1053 A CONVERSATION FROM SXSW WITH BLEACH LAB AND THEIR MUSICAL SANDWICH! (05/19/2024) Theme Song Just Another Menace Sunday Theme (Dennis The Menace) - Mighty Six Ninety Hour 1 A CONVERSATION FROM SXSW WITH BLEACH LAB AND THEIR MUSICAL SANDWICH! OPENING SONG: Everything At Once – Bleach Lab THE BLEACH LAB MUSICAL SANDWICH! TOP BREAD: Old Way – Bleach Lab Pain – War On Drugs Beth/Rest – Bon Iver Sugar For The Pill – Slowdive Halloween – Novo Amour Fade Into You – Mazzy Star In Between Days – The Cure Dreams – Fleetwood Mac Losing You – Randy Newman I Kicked A Boy – The Sundays BOTTOM BREAD: All Night – Bleach Lab Hour 2 NEW MELODIC ROCK & ROLL! OPENING SONG: Quality Pints – The Bug Club (Sub Pop) Psycho Killer – Miley Cyrus (A24) UFO – Shannon & The Clams (Easy Eye/Concord) Texting & Driving – GUPPY (Lauren) Send Me An Angel – Blondshell (A24) Take A Bite – beadadoobee (Dirty Hit) Every Now And Then – Wilt (Self Release) Where Is Your Pride – Moby (Mute) 2-23 – Cara Paige (Self Release) Drive – Bad With Phones (Don’t Sleep/PIAS) Heaven – The National (A24) In Front Of Me Now – Nada Surf (New West) Cognitive Dissonance – The The (Cineola) All I See Is You – Tom Vek (Self Release) The End – Islands (ELF) CLOSING SONG: Quality Pints – The Bug Club (Sub Pop)   Read the full article

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loving the new tom vek ep, really inspiring me to get back in the studio