best albums 2020

Best Albums 2020

Here is the round-up of the music that has provided solace and more in 2020. There’s no rankings as each album in this list came into my life and connected with me at some point over the last 12 months – that connection was vital. Without gigs, without my friends and family, without normality, I needed new music more than ever.

Jeff Parker & the New Breed – Suite for Max Brown

Bill Callahan – Gold Record


 

BOB DYLAN – ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS

Irma Vep – Embarrassed Landscape

 

Richard Dawson – Republic of Geordieland

Tenderlonious – Ragas From Lahore / Tender in Lahore

 

Natalia Beylis – Love-In-A-Mist, Edible

 

Lewsberg – In This House


 

Laraaji – Sun Piano & Moon Piano

 

Sault – Untitled (Rise) &

Untitled (BLACK IS)

 

Jim White & Marisa Anderson –

The Quickening


 

Little Kid – TRANSFIGURATION HIGHWAY


 

Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure

 

Tara Clerkin Trio – Tara Clerkin Trio


 

Darren Hayman – Home Time


 

Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia

 

Aldous RH – RESPECT FOR DEVOTION


 

Junk Drawer – READY FOR THE HOUSE


 

Lomelda – Hannah


 

Destroyer – HAVe we met


 

Damien Jurado – What’s new tom boy?

 

The Faroe Islands – Worlds Fragment


 

Ben Goldberg – PLAGUE DIARY


 

Tenci – My Heart Is An Open Field


 

Cagework – Exercise in Conflict

Hamburger – Teenage Terrified

 

Wished bone – A bug crawled in the Piano


 

Islet – Eyelet

Trevor Powers – Capricorn

Dmitry Evgrafov – Surrender

Baxter Dury – The Night Chancers

Military Genius – Deep Web


 

Natalia Beylis – The Steadfast Starry Universe


 

Dana Gavanski – YESTERDAY IS GONE

75 Dollar – Power Failure

 

Knot – Knot

Paddy Hanna – The Hill


 

Waclaw Zimpel – Massive Oscillations

 

Nick Jonah Davis – When The Sun Came


 

Ian William Craig – Red Sun Through Smoke

Pure X – Pure X


 

Medhane – Cold Water


 

Shirley Collins – Hearts Ease


 

Triathalon – Demos


 
 

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