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IT’S BECOMING SOMETHING OF AN ANNUAL
tradition to frame the year’s music, and the year of MOJOs, as a respite from the anxieties and iniquities of the world right now. But here we are again, surveying the artists and records that kept us more or less sane in 2022, and hoping that our magazine has provided a similar service for you all.
This MOJO, like all MOJOs, is an unabashed celebration of the culture we love. But if there’s a prevailing theme that emerges from our Review Of 2022, it’s one of artists triumphing against the odds, working their way through various tragedies and adversities, and coming out on the other side: changed, resilient, in many cases making some of the most profound art of long careers.
Now is also probably a good time to reflect on what we’ve achieved at MOJO in the last year. Besides the small matter of monthly magazines, we’ve launched a radically improved app for our digital editions. By the end of 2022, there will be 10 more deluxe volumes in the MOJO Collectors’ Series of specials. We now have a fortnightly podcast, The MOJO Record Club. Not forgetting a handsome new MOJO VIP scheme you might be interested in (details of that are on page 24).