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2020

Suhnharini Vashan Suundelehguntah – Ten Terrific Releases or Reissues of 2020

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

  • Sam Burton – I Can Go With You (Tompkins Square)
  • Frank Ene – No Longer (Empty Cellar)
  • Green-House – Six Songs For Invisible Gardens (Leaving)
  • Kacey Johansing – No Better Time (Night Bloom)
  • The Moore Brothers – Autobiography (Unavailable)
  • Numün – Voyage Au Soleil (Musique Impossible)
  • Klaus Schønning – Lydglimt (Frederiksberg)
  • Wasnt Wisnt- In Stasis (self-released)
  • Chip Wickham – Blue To Red (Lovemonk)
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura – Green (Light In The Attic)

Sparkle Motion favorites 2020 (alphabetical by category)

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

CLASSICAL

  • Bertrand Chamayou – Good Night! (Erato)
  • Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve – Cyrillius Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel (ECM)
  • Eric Whitacre – The Sacred Veil (Signum)
  • JACK Quartet – Lines Made by Walking (Cold Blue)
  • Maria Schneider – Data Lords: The Digital World/Our Natural World (ArtistShare)
  • Patrick Yim – Memory: Works for Solo Violin (Navona)
  • Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant (LATE)
  • Tristan Perich & Douglas Perkins – Drift Multiply (New Amsterdam)
  • Vikingur Olafsson – Debussy – Rameau (Deutsche Grammophon)

SOUNDTRACK

  • William Tyler – Music from film First Cow (Merge)

COMPS

  • Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T-Rex (BMG)
  • Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 (Captured Tracks)

RE-ISSUES & RETROSPECTIVES

  • Maggi Payne  – Ahh-Ahh (Root Strata)
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – Hidari Ude No Yume [Left Handed Dream 1981] (WeWantSounds)
  • Ella Fitzgerald – Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (Live) 1962 (Verve)
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive)

JAZZ/CREATIVE MUSIC

  • Alabaster Deplume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol. 1 (International Anthem)
  • Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena (Omlott)
  • Bill Frisell – Valentine (Blue Note)
  • Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow – Life Goes On (ECM)
  • Eric Revis – Slipknot Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  • Fred Hersch – Songs from Home (Palmetto)
  • Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
  • Junk Magic – Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic)
  • Lafayette Gilchrest – Now (Lafayette Music)
  • Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl – Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  • Moses Boyd – Dark Matter (Exodus)
  • Nels Cline Singers – Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  • Quin Kirchner – The Shadows and The Light (Astral Spirits)
  • Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – Dimensional Stardust  (Nonesuch)
  • Susan Alcorn Quintet – Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  • The Ed Palermo Big Band – The Great Un-American Songbook, Vol. III: Run For Your Life (Sky Cat)
  • Hugh Masekela & Tony Allen – Rejoice (World Circuit)

OTHER MUSIC WITH NO WORDS

  • Ana Roxanne – Because of a Flower (Kranky)
  • Kim Myhr – You Me (Hubro)
  • Grand Veymont – Persistance & Changement (Objet Disque)
  • Rival Consoles – Articulation (Erased Tapes)
  • Hoshina Anniversary – Odoriko (Alien Jams)
  • Nihiloxica – Kaloli (Crammed Discs)
  • Sam Prekop – Comma (Thrill Jockey)

THE REST

  • Adrienne Lenker – Songs & Instrumentals (4AD)
  • Aoife Nessa Frances – Land of No Junction (Basin Rock)
  • Deftones – Ohms (Reprise)
  • Einsturzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem (Potomak)
  • Fleet Foxes – Shore (Anti-)
  • Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death (Partisan)
  • Frank Bey – All My Dues Are Paid (Nola Blue)
  • Frank Ene – No Longer (Empty Cellar)
  • Haley Williams – Petals for Armor I and II Eps (Atlantic)
  • Jackie Lynn – Jacqueline (Drag City)
  • Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King (dBpm)
  • Jennifer Castle  – Monarch Season (Paradise of Bachelors)
  • Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (New West)
  • Kate NV – Room for the Moon (RVNG INTL.)
  • Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Leyla McCalla – Vari-colored songs: Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt and the Stars (Lambent Light)
  • Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (Merge)
  • Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice (Single Lock)
  • Ohmme – Fantasize Your Ghost  (Joyful Noise)
  • Owen Pallett – Island (Domino)
  • Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
  • Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
  • Sam Amidon  – Sam Amidon (Nonesuch)
  • The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (Merge)
  • This is the Kit – Off Off ON (Rough Trade)
  • U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD)
  • Wire – Mind Hive (Pink Flag)
  • Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist)
  • Wye Oak – No Horizon (Merge)

Sex 14’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2020

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

  • Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (Play It Again Sam)
  • Michael Gordon; The Crossing – Anonymous Man (Cantaloupe)
  • Tristan Perich – Drift Multiply (Nonesuch)
  • ORA – Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam (Harmonia Mundi)
  • Jimmy Heath – Love Letter (Verve)
  • Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune)
  • Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG)
  • Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
  • Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind (Warp)
  • Bob Dylan  – Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
  • Bob Mould  – Blue Hearts (Merge)
  • Avishai Cohen – Big Vicious (ECM)
  • Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Interscope)
  • Damu The Fudgemunk – Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
  • Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista)
  • Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (EMI)
  • Angel Olsen  – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
  • Kandace Springs – The Women Who Raised Me (Universal)
  • Yelle – L’ere du Verseau (Recreation Center)
  • Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • I Break Horses – Warnings (Bella Union)
  • Wire – Mind Hive (Pink Flag)
  • Katie Gately – Loom (Houndstooth)
  • Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park (Delphian)
  • Kurt Elling – Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
  • Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine (Skint)
  • Sault – Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals)
  • Makaya Mccraven – Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem)
  • Prince Royce – Alter Ego (Sony)
  • Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue)
  • Rina Sawayama – Sawayama (Dirty Hit)
  • Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Warner Brothers)
  • Maria Schneider Orchestra – Data Lords (Artistshare)
  • Joel Harrison – America At War (Sunnyside)
  • Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse!)
  • AC/DC  – Power Up (Columbia)
  • Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony (Roc Nation)
  • Ambrose Akinmusire – On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  • Gregg August – Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1 (Gregg August)
  • BC Camplight  – Shortly After Takeoff (Bella Union)
  • Deftones – Ohms (Reprise)
  • Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (Warner Brothers)
  • Kylie Minogue  – DISCO (BMG)
  • Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
  • Gregory Porter – All Rise (Blue Note)
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio – Angels Around (Heartcore)
  • Joel Ross – Who Are You? (Blue Note)
  • Christian Sands – Be Water (Mack Avenue)
  • Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)
  • Hayey Williams – Petals for Armor (Atlantic)

qb(X)’s Best of 2020

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

Smash Albums

  • Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (RVING Intl.)
  • Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood – Live (International Anthem)
  • Faten Kanaan – A Mythology of Circles (Fire)
  • Killah Priest – Rocket to Nebula (Proverbs)
  • Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies (YLYLCYN)
  • Mamaleek – Come and See (The Flenser)
  • Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)
  • Meitei – Kofū (KITCHEN. LABEL)
  • Neptunian Maximalism – Éons (I, Voidhanger)
  • Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Goblin Alert (Goner)

Hit Singles

  • Gaye Su Akyol – “İsyan Manifestosu” – Yort Savul: İSYAN MANİFESTOSU(Glitterbeat)
  • Body Double – “Head Axe” – Milk Fed (ZUM)
  • Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic – “Moving Maps” – Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
  • IDLES – “War” – Ultra Mono (Partisan)
  • L.E.S. Douze – “Gone Daddy Gone” – Le String Noise (Nouveau Electric)
  • Man Man – “Future Peg” – Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between (Sub Pop)
  • 79rs Gang – “79rs Bout to Blow” – Expect the Unexpected (Sinking City)
  • SPAZA – “The Black Consciousness Movement” – UPRIZE! (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
  • Special Interest – “Street Pulse Beat” – Passion Of (Thrilling Living)
  • Tobacco – “Hungry Eyes” (Ghostly International)

Favorite Songs of 2020

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

  • Bye Bye Blackbirds – “Baby It’s Still You” – Boxer at Rest (Double Potions)
  • Ela Minus – “Pocket Piano” – Acts of Rebellion (Domino)
  • Julie Jacklin – “To Perth: Before the Border Closes” – To Perth: Before the Border Closes (SubPop)
  • Latitude – “Tick Tock” – Mystic Hotline (Emotional Response)
  • Leave Me Alones – “Stop You” – Race to the Bottom EP (S/R)
  • Moodyman – “Do Wrong” – Taken Away (KDJ)
  • Moore Brothers – “Just Cover Me in Leaves” – Autobiography (Unavailable)
  • Sault – “Monsters” – Untitled(Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)
  • Sleaford Mods – “Mork N Mindy” – Mork N Mindy (Rough Trade)
  • Sneaks – “Scorpio on the Side” – Happy Birthday (Merge)

Ten Albums I Liked in 2020, Alphabetically

January 18, 2021 by hyperadmin

  • Cold Beat – Mother (DFA)
  • En Attendant Ana – Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
  • Galore – Galore (Rocks in Your Head)
  • Jeanines – Things Change (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
  • Lithics – Tower of Age (Trouble in Mind)
  • Melenas – Dias Raros (Trouble in Mind)
  • Mr. Wrong – Create a Place (Water Wing)
  • Naked Roommate – Do the Duvet (Trouble in Mind)
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna (Slumberland)
  • R. Aggs – Tape 1 (S/R)
  • Sweeping Promises – Hunger For a Way Out (Feel It)
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