A straight forward selection of the musical releases that soundtracked my 2020. The good parts, the bad parts, the in-between parts. There’s a lot I wish I listened to that I didn’t get around to, but here’s The List.
I didn’t have a Favorite, but I had a few that were definitely more special to me. And so those are listed first. And Ghostly International ran it up.
Same rule as always: if you like the album art, you have to listen to it.
Here’s a Spotify playlist of a lot of it. Support the artists and buy their records and merch.
THE TOP SIX (in no particular order)
Holy Fuck – Deleter (Holy EF Music)
Khotin – Finds You Well (Ghostly)
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion Of Time (Phantasy Sound)
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (Ghostly)
Tobacco – Hot Wet & Sassy (Ghostly)
Spice – Spice (Dais Records)
ALL THE OTHERS I LIKED (in alphabetical order)
Ana Roxanne – Because Of A Flower (Kranky)
Angèle David-Guillou – A Question of Angles (Village Green)
B|_ank – Th Moof (Self-Released)
Ben Shemie – A Single Point Of Light (Hands In The Dark)
Buggin – Buggin Out (New Morality Zine)
Cold Gawd – The Creative Pursuits Of Me And You (The Void Trademark)
Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Deerhoof – Love-Lore (Self Released)
Dialectic Sines – Electric Valley (Self Released)
Elcamino – Martyrs Prayer (Air Vinyls)
Eve Maret – Stars Aligned (PRAH Recordings)
FOG – Fogesque (Gezellig Records)
Full of Hell x HEALTH – Full of Health (Closed Casket Activities)
Ganser – Just Look At That Sky (Felte)
GÅS – GÅS (Rocket Recordings)
Hania Rani – Home (Gondwana Records)
Hualun – wʌndərlænd + 6 (Gezellig Records)
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Huron – Japanese Suburbs (Self-Released)
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Huron – You Are Not Safe Here (Self-Released)
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Ian Chang – 属 Belonging (City Slang)
Jackie Lynn – Jacqueline (Drag City)
Jessica Moss – Opened Ending (Constellation)
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Joy Bomb – Joy Bomb EP (Self-Released)
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Kairon; IRSE! – An Bat None (Svart Records)
Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)
Kidbug – Kidbug (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Kikagaku Moyo – Gypsy Davy (Sub Pop)
Kikagaku Moyo – Ouchi Time (Looking Glass)
Laith Keilany + William Wright – In The Garden Of Forking Paths (Self-Released)
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Laughing Ears – Metamorphosis (Chinabot)
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Re-Facto (Sonic Cathedral Recordings)
Marijannah – Istanah (Cursed Tongue Records)
Melkbelly – PITH (Carpark Records)
Midwife – Forever (Flenser Records)
Mong Tong – Mystery (Guruguru Brain)
Moon Attendant – One Last Summer (Graveface Records)
Mosses – T.V. Sun (Anyway)
Not In Catalog 不在话下 – Not In Catalog Debut Album (Self-Released)
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Numün – Voyage Au Soleil (Musique Impossible)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals (Rocket Recordings)
Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
Rafiq Bhatia – Standards Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
Ryley Walker – Bozo In Big Smoke (Husky Pants Records)
Shlohmo – Heaven, Inc (Friends Of Friends)
Sightless Pit – Grave Of A Dog (Thrill Jockey Records)
Subsonic Eye – Bedroom Sessions (Self-Released)
SUUNS – Fiction (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Tengger – Nomad (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records)
Tennis System – Fuck Everything Else (Graveface Records)
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (Modular Recordings)
The New Romantics – Bound EP (Self-Released)
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Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)
Tobacco – Hungry Eyes (Ghostly)
Tricot – 真っ黒 (Cutting Edge)
Tropical Fuck Storm – Suburbiopia / This Perfect Day (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Ts Bayandalai – Kimel (Space Fruity Records)
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Ultraista – Sister (Partisan Records)
唐人踢 – Mind Travel (AllGoodMusic)
