- izzyyellen
Stuff I Listened To A Lot During 2020
There’s been a helluva lot of time to listen to music this year. Can’t put my finger on why.
You’ve probably seen a bunch of year-end lists and Spotify Wrapped-s, and lord knows you’ll see a lot more. But I still feel like adding to that noise and letting you know what I’ve been digging. With the release of my debut album, I’ve gotten a decent amount of messages telling me how my album is getting folks through the year, season, pandemic, election… and those messages have made my days. So I’m listing a bunch of releases not with the prerequisite of “best of 2020,” but rather, music that’s helped ME get through lots of stuff this year. And I’m not just including releases from this year, I’m including other music I’ve dived into that was released before 2020 but still helped me tons. Below are two lists — important releases to me in 2020, and releases I plain ol’ liked a lot that happened to be on heavy rotation during 2020. I hope some of these can help you like they helped me, or heck, help you differently than they helped me. I just hope they help!
2020 Releases
Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
Liam Kazar - "Shoes Too Tight"
Adrianne Lenker - songs and instrumentals
Lucky Cloud - Laughter Yoga / You Know
Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King
Releases I Plain Ol’ Liked A Lot That Happened To Be On Heavy Rotation During 2020
SUPER Heavy Rotation
Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
Big Thief’s discography, particularly U.F.O.F.
Deerhoof’s discography, particularly Mountain Moves
Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die’s discography
NNAMDÏ’s discography and side projects, particularly The Sooper Swag Project
Other Older Favorites!
The American Analog Set - The Fun of Watching Fireworks
Ada Babar and Kasra Kurt - Nino Tomorrow
The Coctails - Early Hi-Ball Years
Death - ...For The Whole World To See
Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By and untitled unmastered.
Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems and Good Time soundtracks
Oneohtrix Point Never - Love In The Time Of Lexapro
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
Steven Universe soundtrack/score
Tropical Fuck Storm’s discography