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Hi! Last week @nprmusic published our personal #bestmusic2020 lists -- alphabetically so mine was buried under "P" and few seemed to see it. I focused on releases deserving more shine IMHO so I'm gonna do a thread hyping each here. Bonus gift: 100-song Best of 2020 playlist 1/
Here's my albums list
My number one is Songs of An Unknown Tongue, jazz singer @zaramcfarlane's deep exploration of her (and music's) Caribbean roots alongside producers @KWAKEBASS + @wulumusic, it opened routes into the past and the future for me. What a voice, like water itself, nourishing 3/
At two my pure-pleasure album Asterisk The Universe by Portland folksinger/choogler supreme @johncraigie. Funny sexy sad happy takes on shambolic life, the light side of a dark year, dance in your kitchen to this one and it features my loves @rainbowgirrs 4/
At 3 the lush imagination of @ggm takes over. On Aguita he becomes a three-headed god: tender songwriter, electronic trickster and reggaeton swaggerer, I love this albums insistence that we contain multitudes 5/
When I first heard my number 4, Distance by @jess_cornelius_, I cried in my kitchen. And laughed. If the girl groups had birthed a 21st-century singer-songwriter with a PhD. in heartbreak it would be her 6/
I listened to a ton of jazz this year, no album more than Omega by @WilkinsImmanuelbecause this music's intelligence is inexhaustible. Come for the social protest history lessons, stay for the remarkable interplay of this band 7/
When I needed to enter another dimension (daily, sometimes) I turned to stargazer @kellyleeowens whose electronic dreams are so personal and expansive at the same time, thank you for Inner Song 8/
I feel like only @jodyrosen heard To Be Love/d by NOLA soul high-wire artist @whoisLukejames besides me and that's a shame because this sensual dazzler is right up there with my faves by @_MAXWELL_ and @KennyEdmonds 9/
