Sunday, January 03, 2021

My 2020 in music

I wrote about my incredibly strange and traumatic year on my movie blog, so I'm not going to do much writing here. Instead, here is every new release and newly reissued archival album I enjoyed and acquired this year. 
 

 
 
 









































2020 albums
Bent Arcana - Bent Arcana
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Patchouli Blue
Built to Spill - Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Ora Cogan - Bells in the Ruins
Sam Coomes - True Death
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes
Destroyer - Have We Met
Greg Dulli - Random Desire
Field Music - Making a New World
The Flaming Lips - American Head
Aoife Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction
Grand Veymont - Persistance et changement
Guided By Voices - Mirrored Aztec
Guided By Voices - Styles We Paid For
Guided By Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field
Human Impact - Human Impact
Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow
Jackie Lynn - Jacqueline
Alain Johannes - Hum
King Buzzo w/ Trevor Dunn - Gift of Sacrifice
Lambchop - Trip
Magik Markers - 2020
The Magnetic Fields - Quickies
Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
Melvins/Mudhoney - White Lazy Boy EP
The Men - Mercy
METZ - Atlas Vending
Million Lands - The Ochre World
Mint Mile - Ambertron 
Modern Nature - Annual EP
Mourning [A] BLKstar - The Cycle
Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner
North Americans - Roped In
Obnox - Savage Raygun
OOIOO - Nijimusi
Osees - Protean Threat
Joe Pernice - Richard
Mike Polizze - Long Lost Solace Find
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Lee Ranaldo & Raul Refree - Names of North End Women
Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights over Garth Mountain
Cash Rivers & The Sinners - Bad Side of the Coin
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Rose City Band - Summerlong
Tobin Sprout - Empty Horses
Moses Sumney - grae
Sunwatchers - Brave Rats EP
Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah? 
Tamikrest - Tamotait
tētēma - Necroscape
JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscillospira
U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
Wasted Shirt - Fungus II
Waterless Hills - The Great Mountain
White Denim - World as a Waiting Room
Yo La Tengo - Sleepless Night EP
Neil Young - The Times EP
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2020 Reissues, Repressings, Archival Releases
24 Carat Black - III
Otis Brown - Southside Chicago
Dhaima - Love Lives Forever
Trey Gruber - Herculean House of Cards
Masumi Hara - 4 X a Dream
Tommy McGee - I'm a Stranger
Silkworm - live albums on Comedy Minus One's Bandcamp page
Silver Jews - complete discography
Valium Aggelein - Black Moon
Various - Eccentric Funk
Various - Louis Wayne Moody High
Various - NuLeaf: Smooth Jazz Underground
Various - Whispers: Lounge Originals
Neil Young - Archives Vol. II
Neil Young - Homegrown
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Return to Greendale 
 
2019 late to the party
Jim Sauter & Kid Millions - Safe & Sane