favourite album releases of 2020

[ArloFlynn]

favourite album releases of 2020

1 - Rough and Rowdy ways - Bob Dylan - Stunningly soulful and melancholic from the voice like sand and glue
2 - A Hero's death - Fontaines DC - Excitingly edgy from the Irish Beat poets.
3- Disco Volador - Orielles - Clever writing and mixing, breezy poppy optimism ( I stole the last bit)

Go on, what are yours?

[CN211276]

Has not been a lot happening with the pandemic. Excluding compilations, live albums and off the shelf material -
1. Fish - weltschmerz
2. Nightwish - HUMAN :ii: NATURE
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary man
4. Bon Jovi - 2020
5. AC/DC - Power up

[Lindsayt]

My vote would go for Bob Dylan too. As it's the only mainstream original album release from this year that I''m aware of that hasn't been compressed to high heaven.

[karatestu]

I haven't bought anything released this year. It's all cack innit. I did like Stevie Wonder's new songs though.

[Theo]

Most of mine are Jazz related - so much wonderful new jazz being created at the moment:

James Copus - Dusk
GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra - The Light That Shines
Tom Green Septet - Tipping Point
Pat Metheny - From This Place
Fish - Weltschmerz
The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol. 1

[Fretless]

I have got hold of a bizarre amount of CD's in 2020, the lockdown activated the manic record-collector in me and I acquired many discs that I had been missing / considering / intrigued by for years.

However there weren't many actually released in the last 12 months that got my attention, and those are:

The Enid - U
Nightwish - Human II Nature (2CD)
Samantha Fish - Kill or Be Kind
Pat Metheny - From This Place
Nigel Mullaney - 31 Days
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet
Silje Nergaard - Silje Nergaard (2CD)
Tangerine Dream - Pilots of Purple Twilight (10CD box)





And still on my 'wants' list before the end of the year:

Dixie Chicks - Gaslighter
Kansas - The Absence of Presence
Ian Boddy - Axiom
Loreena McKennit - Lost Souls

[Andy-831]

Khruangbin - Mordechai

[CN211276]

Wire - Mind Hive
X - Alphabetland
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals (CN might like this one)
Willie Nelson - First Rose Of Spring
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer
Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

[Grumpytim]

Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
Wire - Mind Hive
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer
Julian Cope - self Civil War
Eels - Earth to Dora
Mark Lanegan - Straight songs of Sorrow
Tom Morello - Commandante
& too many Hawkwind spin offs to mention

[savvypaul]

Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways
Wire - Mind Hive
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer
Julian Cope - self Civil War
Eels - Earth to Dora
Mark Lanegan - Straight songs of Sorrow
Tom Morello - Commandante
& too many Hawkwind spin offs to mention

I missed the Julian Cope release - will give it a listen, cheers.