EXPLORE the full Best Albums of 2022 index here

#13 | Amanda Shires | Take It Like A Man
ATO

Featuring ten stirring songs that together embody the virtues of creative endurance, emotional resonance and human resilience, Shires’ seventh solo affair Take It Like A Man is unequivocally her most powerful musical statement and greatest artistic achievement to date. An introspective work of an artist who, lucky for us, has persevered through recent periods of self-doubt, the album’s title and its suggestion of stoic responses to life’s most challenging moments stand in stark contrast to Shires’ soul-baring lyrical content that defines and illuminates the Lawrence Rothman produced record.

A radiant revelation of an album that places a premium on art over artifice and substance over semblance, Take It Like A Man evinces the many gifts of a songwriter who arguably hasn’t reached her creative prime just yet, but is well on her way to experiencing the pinnacle soon enough. [Read Justin Chadwick’s Review]

BUY Take It Like A Man here:

As an Amazon affiliate partner, Albumism earns commissions from qualifying purchases.

Next ALBUM >

LISTEN:

WATCH (Video Playlist):

Tool’s ‘Ænima’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

Fifteen perfect songs in one lifetime few bands accomplish. Fifteen perfect songs, intricately connected in the Nine Circles of Hell they illuminate, Tool accomplished with their second album in 1996.

Mariah Carey’s ‘Emotions’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

With her second studio affair, Carey crafted a record preoccupied with love not as fantasy, but as something capable of exhilaration, humiliation, spiritual rescue and profound loss.

Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

If ‘She’s So Unusual’ introduced Lauper as an explosion of personality, ‘True Colors’ asked what existed beneath it.