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Tag: 2020s

  • Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, 2020 on Epic / Clean Slate

    Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, 2020 on Epic / Clean Slate

    Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, 2020 on Epic / Clean Slate Fetch the Bolt cutters, I’ve been in here too long One of the best of 2020 to be sure Via Vinyl Me, Please

  • Steve Earle & The Dukes, Ghosts of West Virginia, 2020 on New West

    Steve Earle & The Dukes, Ghosts of West Virginia, 2020 on New West

    Steve Earle & The Dukes, Ghosts of West Virginia, 2020 on New West This album has really grown on me quietly. I liked it on first listen but find myself coming back to it more and more over the last few months.

  • Grimes, Miss Anthropocene, 2020 on 4AD

    Grimes, Miss Anthropocene, 2020 on 4AD

    Grimes, Miss Anthropocene, 2020 on 4AD Pink transparent vinyl – pressing by Independent Record Pressing Via VNYL Beautiful pressing, great album – like this even more than Art Angels.

  • Neil Young, Homegrown, 2020 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Homegrown, 2020 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Homegrown, 2020 on Reprise Neil Young’s 40th studio album. Recorded back in 1974 and 1975, considered for release around the time of Tonight’s the Night. Great set of songs, support from Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson. Vinyl sounds great – my copy is a pressing by Record Industry

  • Thundercat, It Is What It Is, 2020 on Brainfeeder.

    Thundercat, It Is What It Is, 2020 on Brainfeeder.

    Thundercat, It Is What It Is, 2020 on Brainfeeder. Pink Vinyl limited edition. Saw Thundercat at Boston Calling in 2018 and now pick anything I find on vinyl Via Rough Trade

  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Reunions, 2020 on Southeastern.

    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Reunions, 2020 on Southeastern.

    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Reunions, 2020 on Southeastern. Via Magnolia Record Club

  • Frances Quinlan, Likewise, 2020 on Saddle Creek

    Frances Quinlan, Likewise, 2020 on Saddle Creek

    Frances Quinlan, Likewise, 2020 on Saddle Creek Solo debut (under her own name) from Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan She was on tour at the beginning of 2020 – hope she’ll be able to play out behind this album more post pandemic

  • Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs: The Tears of Technology, 2020 on Ace.

    Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs: The Tears of Technology, 2020 on Ace.

    Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs: The Tears of Technology, 2020 on Ace. Compilation covering 1978-1984, really mostly focused on 1979-1982 – critical years in the early “new” synthesizer era: Human League, Soft Cell, The Teardrop Explodes, China Crisis, OMD – lots of gems here

  • Caroline Rose, Superstar, 2020 on New West

    Caroline Rose, Superstar, 2020 on New West

    Caroline Rose, Superstar, 2020 on New West Indie record store edition with signed poster Love her pivot from more Americana roots to synths, R&B, and Soul – but still retaining her clever songwriting.

  • Lianne La Havas, Self-Titled, 2020 on Warner Records.

    Lianne La Havas, Self-Titled, 2020 on Warner Records.

    Lianne La Havas, Self-Titled, 2020 on Warner Records. Third album from Lianne La Havas, working with Matt Hales (aka Aqualung) – may be her best yet. Perfect summer album – Bittersweet, plus a wonderful rendition of Radiohead ‘s Weird Fishes

  • Waxahatchee, St. Cloud, 2020 on Merge

    Waxahatchee, St. Cloud, 2020 on Merge

    Waxahatchee, St. Cloud, 2020 on Merge Katie Crutchfield’s most recent LP and one of my favorites in a year full of great new music

  • Antibalas, Fu Chronicles, 2020 on Daptone Records .

    Antibalas, Fu Chronicles, 2020 on Daptone Records .

    Antibalas, Fu Chronicles, 2020 on Daptone Records . Antibalas return to Brooklyn, recording at Daptone’s House of Soul in Bushwick One of the tours I was excited for in 2020 – they were due to play The Sinclair in Sept. Someday