[yearly favorite releases]
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/2020
blake
- ALICE IN CHAINS "Facelift" (Legacy)
- DISORDERED RHYTHM METRONOMY "Down" (Perlon)
- ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "Paralysis" (Dark Entries)
- OSBOURNE, JOHNNY "Meets Roots Radics 1980-1981 Vintage" (Clocktower)
- GENTLE GIANT "Octopus" (Alucard)
- ALICE IN CHAINS "Sap" (Sony)
- "Friday the 13th Collection" (Deluxe Edition) [BLU-RAY] (Shout Factory)
- CARPENTER, JOHN "Skeleton" (Sacred Bones)
- KHRUANGBIN "Mordechai" (Dead Oceans)
- BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY "Creepin' On Ah Come Up" (Ruthless Records)
dan
- KHRUANGBIN "Mordechai" (Dead Oceans)
- MOLINA, JASON "Eight Gates" LP (Secretly Canadian)
- RENTAL, ROBERT "Paralysis" (Dark Entries)
- BLACK PUMAS "S/T" [DELUXE] (ATO)
- HUTCHERSON, BOBBY "Oblique" (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
- SISAMOUTH, SINN "Groove Club Vol. 4: Sinn Sisamouth" (Lion)
- ACTIVITY "Unmask Whoever" (Western Vinyl)
- WEEKND, THE "After Hours" (XO Records)
- ROY, KALYANI "The Virtuoso Of Sitar Vol. 1 and Vol 2" (Vishra)
- FAIRUZ "Maarifti Feek" (Wewantsounds)
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dave
- DIGE, SALLY "It's You I'm Thinking Of" (self-released)
- LEBANON HANOVER "Sci-Fi Sky" (Fabrika)
- "Gamera: The Complete Collection" [BLU-RAY] (Arrow Video)
- COIL "Musick To Play In The Dark" (Dais)
- "Friday the 13th Collection" (Deluxe Edition) [BLU-RAY] (Shout Factory)
- GLASS BEADS, THE "Therapy" (Fabrika)
- MORGAN, LEE "The Cooker" (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
- STELLA "The Break" (Arbutus Records)
- |v/a| "Southeast of Saturn" (Third Man Records)
- WUNDER, SVEN "Eastern Flowers" (Piano Piano)
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elise
- CHARLI XCX "How I'm Feeling Now" (Atlantic)
- SUGAR HIGH "Love Addict" (DERO Arcade)
- SPIRIT ADRIFT "Enlightened in Eternity" (20 Buck Spin)
- ETERNAL CHAMPION "Ravening Iron" (No Remorse)
- HUM "Inlet" (Earth Analog Recordings)
- MOLCHAT DOMA "Monument" (Sacred Bones)
- BORIS "Amplifier Worship" (Third Man)
- WEEKND, THE "After Hours" (XO Records)
- RUNDLE, EMMA RUTH & THOU "May Our Chambers Be Full" (Sacred Bones)
- YOUNG, NEIL "Homegrown" (Reprise)
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eric
- |v/a| "The World is a Cafeteria" (Cairo)
- TELEVISION PERSONALITIES "And don't the kids just love it..." (Fire)
- RUN THE JEWELS "RTJ4" (BMG)
- JOY DIVISION "Closer" (Rhino)
- |v/a| "La Locura de Machuca" (Analog Africa)
- HARVEY, P.J. "To Bring You My Love" (Island)
- |v/a| "Freedom for the Stallion" (Cairo)
- COIL "Musick to Play in the Dark" (Dais)
- CARPENTER, JOHN "Skeleton" (Sacred Bones)
- BEHERIT "Oath of Black Blood" (Nuclear War Now)
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judd
- ALLEN, TERRY "Just Like Moby Dick" (Paradise Of Bachelors)
- TYPE O NEGATIVE "World Coming Down" (Run Out Groove)
- FOLEY, BLAZE "Live at the Austin Outhouse" (End of an Ear)
- PRINE, JOHN "Souvenirs" (Oh Boy Records)
- BIOPHOBIA "The Holy Office" (Zombi Danz Records)
- GUN OUTFIT "Clean Runs the Thread" (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- BONE AWL "An Obelisk Marks The Line" (Klaxon)
- MERCURE, MICHELLE "Pictures of Echoes" (RVNG Intl. / Freedom to Spend)
- LORD OF EVIL "Satan's Soldiers" (Black Death Production)
- ETERNAL CHAMPION "Ravening Iron" (No Remorse)
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paige
- YOUNG, NEIL "Homegrown" (Reprise)
- NARROW HEAD "12th House Rock" (Run For Cover)
- VALIUM AGGELEIN "Black Moon" LP (Numero)
- MICROPHONES, THE "Microphones in 2020" (PW Elverum and Sun)
- CHRONOPHAGE "th'pig'kiss'd album" (Cleta Patra)
- LAFFING GAS "It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch" (Beach Impediment)
- HUM "Inlet" (Earth Analog Recordings)
- NELSON, WILLIE "First Rose of Spring" (Legacy)
- DEFTONES "Ohms" (Reprise)
- ALICE IN CHAINS "Facelift" (Legacy)
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sean
- "Black & White & Weird All Over: The Lost Photographs of 'Weird Al' Yankovic '83-'86" [BOOK] (1984 Publishing)
- CALLAHAN, BILL "Gold Record" (Drag City)
- ETERNAL CHAMPION "Ravening Iron" (No Remorse)
- FOLEY, BLAZE "Live at the Austin Outhouse" (End of an Ear)
- HUM "Inlet" (Earth Analog Recordings)
- PETTY, TOM "Wildflowers & All The Rest" (Warner)
- TYPE O NEGATIVE "World Coming Down" (Run Out Groove)
- VALIUM AGGELEIN "Black Moon" (Numero)
- WAXAHATCHEE "Saint Cloud" (Merge)
- YOUNG, NEIL "Homegrown" (Reprise)
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tim
- ALICE IN CHAINS "Sap" (Sony)
- GUIDED BY VOICES "Alien Lanes" (Matador)
- HARMONIA "Complete Works" (Groenland)
- HUM "Inlet" (Earth Analog Recordings)
- VALIUM AGGELEIN "Black Moon" (Numero)
- MRS. PISS "Self Surgery" (Sargent House)
- PRESLEY, ELVIS "From Elvis In Nashville" (Sony)
- ROLLING STONES, THE "Goats Head Soup" (Universal)
- YOUNG, NEIL "Homegrown" (Reprise)
- ZAPPA, FRANK "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Sampler" (Zappa Records)
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timmy
- LENKER, ADRIANNE "Songs and Instrumentals" (4AD)
- DEPLUME, ALABASTER "To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1" (International Anthem Recording Co.)
- DILLON, BEATRICE "Workaround" (PAN)
- CORIKY "Coriky" (Dischord)
- CS + KREME "Snoopy" (Trilogy Tapes)
- DARK THOUGHTS "Must Be Nice" (Drunken Sailor)
- ETERNAL CHAMPION "Ravening Iron" (No Remorse)
- PARKER, JEFF "Suite For Max Brown" (Nonesuch)
- MURO "Pacificar" (Beach Impediment)
- WUNDER, SVEN "Eastern Flowers" and "Wabi Sabi" (Piano Piano)
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tom
- INOYAMALAND "Danzindan-Pojidon" (WRWTFWW)
- WAXAHATCHEE "Saint Cloud" (Merge)
- JESU "Terminus" (Avalanche Recordings)
- NARROWHEAD "12th House Rock" (Run For Cover)
- CARIBOU "Suddenly" (Merge)
- GOLDEN RETRIEVER AND CHUCK JOHNSON "Rain Shadow" (Thrill Jockey)
- HUM "Inlet" (Earth Analog Recordings)
- CHRONOPHAGE "th'pig'kiss'd album" (Cleta Patra)
- YOSHIMURA, HIROSHI "GREEN" (Light in the Attic)
- MICROPHONES, THE "Microphones in 2020" (PW Elverum and Sun)
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tristen
- POP SMOKE "Meet The Woo 2" (Republic Records)
- THREE KNEE DEEP "s/t" (Triple B Records)
- FIRE-TOOLZ "Rainbow Bridge" (Hausu Mountain)
- TASE "s/t" (Film)
- STONE, CARL "Stolen Car" (Unseen Worlds)
- PASOCOM MUSIC CLUB "Ambience" (HMV Record Shop)
- SHIRAISHI, TAKAYUKI "Anthologia" (Studio Mule)
- SIVYJ YAR "Grief" (Avantgarde Music)
- ALLEN, TERRY "Just Like Moby Dick" (Paradise Of Bachelors)
- MONK, THELONIOUS "Palo Alto" (Impulse!)
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zach
- TASE "s/t" (Film)
- SHIRAISHI, TAKAYUKI "Anthologia" (Studio Mule)
- TOSHIOKI, MATSUMURA "A Visual Brain: 1986-1993" (Light In The Attic)
- HADIDJA, IJAH & JAGALA JAIPONGAN "Jaipongan Music of West Java + Reworks" (Hive Mind)
- |v/a| "Bird Cage: BirdFriend Archives" (em Records)
- KOOSHIN "Layla" (Little Axe Records)
- HAMASE, MOTOHIKO "# Notes of Forestry" [1987] (WRWTFWW)
- KHOTIN "Finds You Well" (Secretly)
- |v/a| "Minna Miteru (A Compilation of Japanese Indie Music)" (Moor Music)
- WORLD STANDARD "Asagao" (Conatala)
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