Best of 2020

Well, a bloody awful year by all accounts. Let's put it in the bin. I’m grateful for what I have in my life and not all was lost. Music continues to sustain through the darkness.

Soccer Mommy — Color Theory
A shimmering set of songs of sorrow.

Yumi Zouma — Truth or Consequences
Effortlessly breezy indiepop, perfectly paired in moments on long bike rides against fading gloaming light.

Barrie — Happy to Be Here
My summer crush. Saturated sounds so lush — a rush of falling in love, obsessing over the smallest detail.

Tengger —Nomad
Waves of astral sounds wash all the stress away.

Julian Baker — Tokyo
A simple EP about anxiety. Tense and lonely.

BrotherTiger— Fundamentals Part I and II
Just nostalgic bliss, memories, loops, and patterns. Quiet music for writing.

Westerman — Your Hero Is Not Dead
Pure arthouse. If Stuart Murdoch and Brian Eno had a love child.

Nation of Languages —Introduction Presence
Reshape, repackage, re-evaluate the 80s.

Peel Dream Magazine — Agitprop Alterna
Reshape, repackage, re-evaluate the 90s.

Tomo Yakaynama — Melonday
For the kids who can’t go to a club to dance and are alone at home in their bedroom.

Faye Webster — Atlanta Millionaires Club
Classic country beauty. I will never not love the sound of a steel pedal and soft voice.

Random Assortmants

Early Day Miners — Placer Found (20th Anniversary Reissue)
Stunning reissue of what I would consider a classic. Perfect.

Roxy Music —Avalon
Oh Albion, so romantic. Everything about Bryan Ferry is nostalgic, schmaltzy, and decidantly sleezy. Classic

Men I Trust— Oncle Jazz
Sprawling. It could use an edit but Tailwhip could go on forever.

Japanese House — Good at Falling
A bizarre mix of pop electronica that kept coming back to me.