My albums of 2020

Music has done so much to make life worth living this year. Old favourites, new music: it doesn’t matter. As long as there was music, I could set to one side the wall-to-wall horrors of 2020. Fewer albums than usual have been released, yet the quality of the ones that did make it has been very high, so much so that I have come up with a list of 20 top albums for this year instead of the usual ten.

My favourite album for this year isn’t going to change. It’s one of the best albums I have ever bought and as I write, I’m playing it on repeat. The rest probably will change so don’t take the positions as gospel. Anyway, here are my favourite records of 2020:

1. We Will Always Love You by the Avalanches
2. Working Men’s Club by Working Men’s Club
3. Sideways to New Italy by Rolling Fever Coastal Blackouts
4. Shortly After Takeoff by B C Camplight
5. Hether Blether by Erland Cooper
6. Banana Skin Shoes by Badly Drawn Boy
7. Even In Exile by James Dean Bradfield
8. Rejoice by Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
9. The Slow Rush by Tame Impala
10. The Unravelling by Drive By Truckers
11. Songs For Our Daughter by Laura Marling
12. Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan
13. Dreamland by Glass Animals
14. The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens
15. Kitchen Sink by Nadine Shah
16. The Absence of Presence by Kansas
17. Suddenly by Caribou
18. Non Secure Connection by Bruce Hornsby
19. It Is What It Is by Thundercat
20. Small Moments by Dan Kye

That’s my best of 2020. What’s yours?