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