2020 Best Of – Recorded Music (And Playlist)
Music was the single biggest balm for me in this fucked-up time. I tried to take advantage of the additional time at home to dig into records with a fervor I’m sorry to admit I’d let slip away from me for a few years.
I heard a couple hundred new records in full and it was hard winnowing down to 40ish, even harder getting to these 20 but these felt like they glowed together when I started looking at the track I kept. I’d be surprised if I’m not still taking these out and talking fondly in a few years.
I’ll also have a couple playlist posts last week of the month with songs from each of these and other songs I loved throughout the year.
- Lilly Hiatt, Walking Proof
- Don Bryant, You Make Me Feel
- Jerry David DeCicca, The Unlikely Optimist and His Domestic Adventures
- Kassa Overall, I Think I’m Good
- Angel bat Dawid, LIVE
- Todd May, Let’s Go Get Lost (couldn’t find a Bandcamp link, hit me up with one)
- Nicole Atkins, Italian Ice
- Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings E&F Sides
- Jaime Wyatt, Neon Cross
- Mourning [A] BLKstar, The Cycle
- Ingrid Laubrock, Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt
- Brandy Clark, Your Life is a Record (couldn’t find a bandcamp link)
- Sa-Roc, The Sharecropper’s Daughter
- Dave Douglas, Marching Music
- Nubya Garcia, Source
- Resistance Revival Chorus, This Joy
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Goblin Alert
- William Basinski, Lamentations
- Busta Rhymes, ELE2: The Wrath of God (couldn’t find bandcamp link)
- Joel Ross, Who Are You? (couldn’t find bandcamp link)
Screen of Distance 