I have the Sault and Matthew Hallsal LPs. Alexander de la Plume provided vocals and sax on Soccer96’s ‘I was gonna fight fascism ‘ which was one of the better singles released this year. I must chase down more of his work.
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Yep getting fair bit of airplay at the moment. Can’t argue with the talent in there
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Not bought a lot this year but
Album of the year is Building Better Worlds by London Elektricity
Special mention for
Dark Matter by Moses Boyd
Swirling by Sun Ra Arkestra
Ohms by Trees Speak
Roy Ayers unreleased recordings
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I did buy A Album this year, but I forget what it is, and it’s still in its wrapping.
Not been the best of years, in many ways.
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I’ve bought a reasonable amount of records this year but there aren’t any real stand out 2020 releases I can think of.
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I nearly forgot this
Absolute belter of a compilation
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Cornershop - England is a garden
Laura Marling - Song for our daughter
Bonnie Prince Billy - I made a place
Ray LaMontagne - Monovision
Jeff Tweedy - Love is the king
Courtney Marie Andrews - Old flowers
Lambchop - Trip
Neil Young - Homegrown
Gillian Welch - Boots no 2 Lost songs x 3
Jenny Sturgeon - The living mountain
Favourite EPs
King Hannah - Tell me your mind and I’ll tell you mine
Kurt Vile - Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
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Too late for our poll … she will be devastated.
- Algiers - There Is No Year
- Bill Callahan - Gold Record
- Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates (although granted this is basically a re-recording of her “No” self-released album)
- Bongripper - Glaciers (again, this was actually recorded in about 2013 but never released)
- Charles Webster - Decision Time
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles in Allem
- Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
- Mogwai - 2018
- Sleaford Mods - All That Glue (mostly a compilation, I don’t care)
- Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings The Wonders Home
To look forward to: new Sleafords and new Viagra Boys in January.
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Nerd alert - for the granddads attempting to remember what was released this year, if you’d gone digital and had stuff well tagged you could just search on release date.
Haven’t heard this LP. I must remedy that now via TIDAL.
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Folk goes a bit rock.
They have beautiful voices tho.
I think Wild Winter is my favourite.
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I agree about the voices. I first came across them via the work they did on ‘The Race For Space’ with Public Service Broadcasting.
Shame huh, I sat down and watched the Long Pond sessions last night on Disney + expecting it to last about 5 mins but watched it all the way through. Nice story behind the music and fascinating how they all made the most of lockdown in the US and came up with this. For the first time they had physically played together it was quite special and every one of the songs could have been a single…most of those American pop singers would give their right arm for a verse of one of those songs.
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Agree, it’s a surprising thing of autumn loveliness.
My daughter’s album of the year. Possibly belongs in the proud of your kids thread 
(It’s up there for me too)
Actually, this will probably always have a special place in my heart because in the midst of all this year’s homeschooling shittiness, when my daughter had to draw a poster of things that helped her when she was worried for school, she drew me and her in matching Howling Giant t-shirts and wrote “me and daddy listening to Howling Giant together” . Daft perhaps but I can’t actually type that without tearing up a bit 
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Chase and Status - RTN to Fabric
Yello - Point
Insomnia - Skepta, Chip and Young Adz
Godfather 3 - Wiley
not sure i can rem any more
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Not surprised, golden memory.
Zoviet France - Chasse 2
CS+ Kreme - Snoopy
Heather Leigh - Glory Days
Autechre - Sign
Jon Collin + Demdike Stare - Sketches Of Everything
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs -Tears Of Technology
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