Albums of the Year 2020

[Tin Bird]

Sea Wolf - Through a Dark Wood
Sufjan Stevens/Lowell Brams - Aporia
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green (reissue)
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Kate NV - Room for the Moon
Jack Penate - After You (came out in late November 2019, but I 've decided to include here since it did not make the list last year)
Pan American - A Son (again, came out late September 2019, but was one of my favorite albums of 2020)

Let's hope 2021 is better all around...

[Gabzi Nemo]

I have to poke through those! I'm still in my 80's box as of yet I can't comment on anything recent :/

I’m hoping and praying that 2021 will be a return to normalcy myself.

[baht habit]

Bleak year. Fortunately there were plenty of music releases which appealed to me.

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Angular Blues
Billy Childs - Acceptance
Pat Metheny - From This Place
Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords / Our Natural World
Steve Cardenas - Blue Has A Range
Bill Frisell - Valentine
Oz Noy - Snapdragon
Eno - Mixing Colours ... Luminous
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
John Beasley - Monk'estra Plays John Beasley
Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
Melody Gardot - Sunset In The Blue
Pretenders - Hate For Sale
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Vinson, Sanchez & Hekselman - Trio Grande
Lee Ritenour - Dreamcatcher
Wye Oak - No Horizon
Joshua Redman Quartet - Round Again
Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Kandace Springs - The Women Who Raised Me
Ambrose Akinmusire - On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment
Polwechsel - Unseen
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Axiom

[Tin Bird]

Amazingly diverse list baht! I have the Eno album. For some reason it did not grab me as much as so many of his other albums that I love. Perhaps I need to go back and give it another listen or two. Was the Luminous record from the same sessions w his brother?

[baht habit]

I'm not certain if all of the songs on Luminous were recorded during the same sessions as Mixing Colours. I did read that Pewter had been included on the Japanese version of Mixing Colours, so I assume that song was recorded around the same time.

[skysaw]

Thanks for your lists! Here's mine:

Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang – Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes
The Academy Of Sun – The Quiet Earth
anrimeal – Could Divine
The First Minute Of A New Day – The First Minute Of A New Day
iLiKETRAiNS – Kompromat
Daniel O'Sullivan - Electric Maya: Dream Flotsam & Astral Hinterlands
The Silver Field – Sing High! Sing Low!
Teleplasmiste – To Kiss Earth Goodbye
Tunng - Tunng Presents... Dead Club
Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation

In stark contrast to the awful suffering globally, this was an incredible year for new music. I think all of these are available for listening and purchasing on Bandcamp (and bless 'em for their Bandcamp Fridays.)

[Quiet Visitor]

Thanks for your lists! Here's mine:

Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang – Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes

Nice to mention here (now I've finally bought this CD) is that David is in the "Thanks"-list. Wouldn't surprise me if he came up with the title of this wonderful album.