It’s that time of year again, when outlets start posting their Best of 2020 lists despite the year not being over yet. Hey, I’m as guilty as anyone since in the years past I’ve generally done the same thing in December.
I’ll take this opportunity to drop these right here, in case you are at all interested in taking a trip through my previous year-end favourite lists:
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
This year, I’m going to wait a little while and let the holidays pass me by while I ponder about what I really dug this year. For now, here’s something to tide you over until I whip up a “50 Favourites from 2020” post.
If you’ve been following my Twitter account or the tab in general, a lot of this won’t be a big surprise to you. Over the year, I often end up with a handful of artists that I believe deserve more of a spotlight, and I generally lean into promoting them.
This year, I pushed Noera’s Bird In Flight, done in soap pretty hard, as well as Buddie’s Diving and a few others. I tried to make this mixtape a good mix of stuff I pushed hard, and stuff I loved but didn’t lean into quite as hard. I hope that you find a record to dig into here, as 2020 was a pretty intense year for dope music.
Let me know on Twitter what you think, and tell what albums were low-key amazing that you loved this year.
Track Listing:
Maura by Wednesday off I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
Pilot Light by Sour Widows off Sour Widows
Nice Try by youbet off Compare & Despair
Marilyn Monroe by Love Among The Mannequins off Tolled Belle, Tailored Maid
Lilac by Basic Plumbing off Keeping Up Appearances
Planted by Addy off Eclipse
Modern Love by High Waisted off Sick of Saying Sorry
Dry Drowning by Dark Tones off Pulling Nails Out of Walls
Bright Light People by Gen Pop off PPM66
Next Time (Maybe) by Tapeworms off Funtastic
Approach With Caution by Quakers, Sampa the Great off II - The Next Wave
Two Dogs by lowercase roses off Titanic Planet
Song, Too by Bashful off Driving
Liver by Noera off Bird In Flight, done in soap
In Aquamarine by Buddie off Diving
I Don't Wanna Play Music With Myself by Rid Of Me off Summer
Somersault by Shakers off I need you to know
Atonement by Frail Hands off parted/departed/apart
That’s it, that’s all. Be excellent to one other.