My Favorite Albums of 2020
Dang, I really did not post a lot on here this past year. Luckily, I have some new things in the release pipe coming up for next year. Here's to 2021 being productive! But to make up for the lack of things, here is a very long list of all of the albums I listened to this past year that I enjoyed (not including my own stuff, of course). And there were WAY more than I have listened to in past years. So let's dive in.
Ono- Red Summer
Horse Lords- The Common Task
Claire Rousay- a heavenly touch
Nnamdi- Brat
Wendy Eisenberg- Auto
Cages- A World in Song
Form Hunter- S/T
Clipping- Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Moor Mother/Billy Woods- Brass
Dan of Earth- Equivocator
Jobs- Endless Birthdays
June of 44- Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories In The Time Of Love And Survival
Dave Phillips- Post Homo Sapiaens
Skin Graft/John Wiese- Accesible World
Cloning- Walking in Silt
Prants- Axon Ladder
Speaker Music- Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Ahlzagailzeguh- Ex-Life
Andrew Weathers Ensemble- The Thousand Birds in the Earth, the Thousand Birds in the Sky
Howard Stelzer - Invariably Falling Forward, Into the Thickets of Closure
Llano Discs- Plays Wind Tide
Victoria Shen- Hair Birth
Olivia Block/Sarah Hennies- Yarn/Wire Currents, vol. 6
Siavash Amini- A Memesis of Nothing
Asha Sheshadri- No Longer a Soundtrack
Phasing- Lapis Lazuli
Soul Glo- Songs to Yeet at the Sun
Nicholas Elert- Infinity Gate
Joe Hassick- Skin Walker
Armand Hammer- Shrines
Strangled Cop- Merciless
Twig Harper- External Boundless Prison/in 4 Parts EP
Wretched Worst- Undressed by Fleas
Moth Cock- Mystics and Statistics
Sunk Heaven- Apex Plummet
Pillbug Junction- Murder in the Zoo
Neural Goldberg- Flash Fouls
Deathroes- Inhuman Comedy
Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Judith Hamann- Music for Cello and Humming
JPEGMAFIA- EP!
Irreversible Entanglements- Who sent you?
Lorenz York Duo- Four Suits
Matmos- The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
Plague Walker- Para Mis Enemigos
Luer- Glass House
Scratchy Blanket- Something for Everyone
Boy Dirt Car- Venice Beach
Will Guthrie- Nist Nah
Regional Headbutting Technique- No Signal
Apologist- Dirt Road
Amanda Schoofs- Intimate Addictions
Moor Mother- Circuit City
Crank Sturgeon/Matt Luczak- Split
Apaixonar- Artesenato
Andrea Pensado- Vocal Studies #8
Soup Moat- Be Brave, Run Away
Pavda with Amanda Schoofs- Sound Poems
Louis Bock- Abyss: For Cello
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat- Genetic
Divorce Butcher- Debaucherous Burtheries
Mira Martin-Gray- Stick Control for the Air Dummer
Wasteland Jazz Unit- Strayed from Relief Statures
Sarah Hennies- Foragers
Alice Kemp- Songs in the Key of NO
Josh Landes- Provincial Electronics
BAND- Placeholder Name
Limbs Bin/Diagram A- Totaled
Slit Throats- Doberman Loyalty
Andrew Weathers/David Menstres- LB_146
R Falknor/Moth Bucket- Split
Xiphoid Dimentia- Prison of Hope
Andrew Weathers- Recordings With Guitar
Jeff Carey- Index[off]
Wendy Eisenberg- Dehiscence (2020)
Schneider Collaborations- Schneider/Corder
Courtis Posset- Balanceo Y Vaiven
Roman Candle- S/T
Anglewings Marmalade- Angel Hair 7”
More Eaze/Claire Rousay- if I don't let myself be happy now then when?
Beauty Work- Liquid Sugar
Jim Haynes- Incomplete
Rosso Polare- Lettre Animali
Jon Mueller- A Presence Held
Feedback Queen- Anti-Music Brigade
Black Quantum Futurism- Black Communal Time Rising
V/A- GRHN
Special Interest- The Passion Of
Names- Et Tu & The Warning
Justin Von Strasburg- 20200406105420JPG (GRASS AND SIDEWALK)
Whisker- Straight From the Bottle
Daniel Menche- Smoke
V/A- VII
Bromp Treb- Stasis
Claire Rousay- it was always worth it
The Modern Folk & Andrew Weathers - Five Remote Duos
Soliday- Plastics
Mute Duo- Lapse in Passage
Territorial Gobbing- Gut me and Pull the Lunchbox Out
Ka Baird/Muyassar Kurdi- Voice Games
Andrew Weathers- The Land Ethic, Second Autumn 2020
Kingston Family Singers- Second Grand Ashlar
C Vadi- Geology Volume 1
Straight Panic- Anthropobscenity
tampertamper- continue to
Perlesvaus- Those Things Below with Those Above
Shedding- Flocking 19
The End, I love you!- Beautiful Heart Ripped Out of a Farmhouse
Dream Crusher- Another Country
Shame- I Don’t Like You
21/Borisov- Halo of Dust
Whether- Heir Bud
Z’ev/DeWaard/Nyland- S/T
The Smudge- Foundry
Daniel Ditlevson- Impression Send
Sam Moss- Shapes
Warren Enström- Acoustics
V/A- Hold Music
David B. Collins- Asivak
Telechrome- Figure and Ground
PCRV/Chefkirk- Split
Tasting Menu- Mueller Tunnel
Schneider Collaborations- Schneider/(Z)erpent
Paul Hoskin/Cody Yantis- Georgetown Archive
Xexyz- Leutogi
Rebecca Lee/Marie Thompson- A + B
Tanner Menard- san francisco: an audiophony in four movements