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Majority Whip’s Favorite Albums of 2020, Listed Alphabetically

Posted on January 18, 2021

  • Actress – Karma & Desire (Ninja Tune)
  • Ammar 808 – Global Control / Invisible Invasion (Glitterbeat)
  • Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)
  • William Basinski – Lamentations (Temporary Residence)
  • Andrew Bird – Panthology Songs (S/R)
  • Bo Ningen – Sudden Fiction (Alcopop!)
  • Louise Bock – Abyss for Cello (Geographic North)
  • Rose Bonica – Tears for The Tea Maker (Roses are Red)
  • Café Ale – Third Age (Simballrec)
  • Sonia Calico – Simulation of An Overloaded World (More Time)
  • Clap Clap – Liquid Portraits (Black Acre)
  • Cocina Povera – Tyyni (Night School)
  • Cold Beat – Mother (DFA)
  • Cornershop – England Is A Garden (Ample Play)
  • Cults – Host (Sinderlyn)
  • Philippe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes – Nouveaux Modes Industriels (Souffle Continu)
  • Steve Earle – Ghosts Of West Virginia (New West)
  • Matt Evans – New Topographics (Whatever’s Clever)
  • Fatwires – The Wicked Path (Depth of Field)
  • Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (Text)
  • M. Geddes Gengras – Time Makes Nothing Happen (Hausu Mountin)
  • Guedra Guedra – Sun of Son (On the Corner)
  • Lilly Hiatt – Walking Proof (New West)
  • Anna Homler – D? Ya Sa´ Di D? (A Sonic Geography) (Berlston)
  • Boldy James/Sterling Toles – Manger on Mcnichols (Sector 7-G)
  • Jiony – Sí Y No (Drosssel)
  • Kaleema – Nómada (Tropical Twista)
  • Faten Kanaan – A Mythology of Circles (Fire)
  • Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good (Brownswood)
  • Madeline Kenney – Sucker’s Lunch (Carpark)
  • Mikado Koko – The Japanese Rimbaud (S/R)
  • Various Artists – Komposisi Kompos (Divis162)
  • Kraus – A Golden Brain (S/R)
  • Sophia Loizou – Untold (Houndstooth)
  • Loma – Don’t Shy Away (Sub Pop)
  • Mapache – From Liberty Street (Yep Roc)
  • Ela Minus – Acts of Rebellions (Domino)
  • Moodymann – Taken Away (KDJ)
  • Moon Wiring Club – Tabitha Reverb (S/R)
  • Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow – In the Wake Of Memories (Clermont Music)
  • Sascha Muhr – Fuive Part 2 (S/R)
  • Naked Roommate – Do the Duvet (Trouble in Mind)
  • Nape Neck – Nape Neck (Gringo)
  • Thiago Nassif – Mente (Gearbox)
  • Nazar – End of Guerilla (S/R)
  • North Americans – Roped In (Third Man)
  • Novellor – Arrow (Ba Da Bing!)
  • Agnes Obel – Myopia (Blue Note)
  • Lawrence Pike – Prophecy (Leaf)
  • Public Practice – Gentle Grip (Wharf Cat)
  • Red Brut – Cloaked Travels (Ikuisuus)
  • Lina Raül Refree – Lina Raül Refree (Glitterbeat)
  • Romperayo – Uyuyuis (S/R)
  • RVG – Feral (Fire)
  • Sault – Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)
  • Seabuckthorn – Through A Vulnerable Occur (Iikki)
  • Sevdaliza – Shabrang (Twisted Elegance)
  • Shabaka And the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!)
  • Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Sweeping Promises – (Feel It)
  • Sylvan Esso – Free Love (Loma Vista)
  • Tl0741 – Refractory (HC3)
  • Terror/Cactus – Confluencia (S/R)
  • Azu Tiwaline – Magnetic Service (Livity Sound)
  • Yosuke Tokunaga – 13 Monotonousness (Audio Visual Atmosphere)
  • David Toop – Apparition Paintings (Room40)
  • Tvii Son – Tvii Son (Music Inspired)
  • Melanie Velarde – Bez (Commend There)
  • Winter – Endless Space (Between You & I) (Bar None)
  • Women of The Pore – Folk Music (Orb Tapes)
  • Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist)
  • X – Alphabetland (Gat Possum)
  • Y-Bayani & Baby Naa And the Band Of Enlightenment – Nsie Nsie (Philopon)
  • Zenobia – Halek Halek (Crammed Discs)

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