Brian Bringelson/Gabe Dulek-Deperate Days (Futureman)Ģ5. Reno Bo-You Can See It All From Here (Electric Western)Ģ4. Rosie Abbott-Magnified (Self-Released)Ģ2. John Howard-To The Left Of The Moon’s Reflection (Kool Kat)ġ9. The Hanging Stars-A New Kind of Sky-Crimson Crow)ġ8. Groovy Uncle Featuring Miss Modus-The Man Who Calls The Shots (Trouserphonic)ġ7. Ice Cream Hands-No Weapon But Love (Ice Cream Hands)ġ5. Coke Belda-4 (Rock Indiana & Kool Kat)ġ4. The Explorers Club-The Explorers Club (Goldstar)ġ2. The Overtures-Once In A World (Self-Released)ġ1. Joe Giddings-Better From Here (Kool Kat)ġ0.
The Resonars-Disappear* (Midnight Island)ĩ. Ken Sharp-1301 Highland Avenue (Jet Fighter)ħ. The Midnight Callers-Red Letter Glow (JEM)ģ. The Corner Laughers-Temescal Telegraph (Big Stir)Ģ. There you are, bands: a little incentive to keep the physical release alive and well. 🙂 Note: if any download-only releases I’ve heard see physical release in a future year, they will be eligible for ranking in that year. I will say I am encouraged by the number of bands who did release physical product in 2020, so hopefully all will continue to be well with the world. Yes, I understand that printing up CDs and (especially) vinyl is costly, but these days it really is doable for every band because manufacturing houses are all willing to do limited runs of product, particularly CDs, so that a band can do as few as 100, which should be easy to sell out of at shows, via boutique sites like Kool Kat and Jam, CD Baby, etc…I am very troubled by the possibility (some might say inevitability) of the CD going by way of the dinosaur, but I feel like I need to do my part, as little as that might be, to keep them alive. Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against download releases, but I believe that there should also be options to obtain physical product. While I like some digital-only of these I heard in 2020, and even love some of them, I’m still old school and still believe in physical product. I know this might seem a bit churlish, especially during COVID, but 95% of what I liked this year was released on either CD or vinyl, so it was clear to me that, if one wanted to release a physical version of their album, they did. Lastly, I did not include digital-only releases on any of my lists. If you have any complaints about this, please keep them to yourself-I’ve heard ‘em all. As anal as I am about my lists and about the year in which releases should be placed, I also try to be sensible about it and take into account the fact that one needs a bit of lag time to become aware of several releases, especially those indie releases which take up most of my list. There may be a handful of albums on this list which appear to be from 2019, or in fact were “released” at the tail end of last year. There were at least 50 more albums I could have included and still felt as if I enjoyed listening to everything on the list, but I wanted to keep it at no more than 125 so as not to overwhelm with all the other lists I have here, there’s enough sensory overload happening!
If your album doesn’t appear on the list, please trust me when I say that it in no way means I didn’t think it was good, so please don’t be hurt (assuming you even care what I think) if your album isn’t listed here (or, for that matter, if it received a lower ranking than you were hoping for/expecting). From top to bottom this list is as solid as it’s been for several years.
Those marked with an ** are cassette-only releases.ĭisclaimer alert: I heard A LOT of fine albums this year, despite COVID. Those marked with an * are vinyl-only releases. As is my usual custom, I’ve broken this down into several categories, as I’m just not comfortable ranking unlike entities on one list. Here are my lists of favorite albums of 2020. Posted by David Bash on Januin Bash On Pop | Comments Off on David Bash’s Best Of 2020 Lists Home » Bash On Pop » David Bash’s Best Of 2020 Lists David Bash’s Best Of 2020 Lists
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