However, it has certainly underlined the importance of music and the role it has to play to unite us, heal us and make the hard times more bearable.Best Albums of 2020 Isolation was unavoidable this year: Some albums embraced it, some raged against it, some tried to imagine a world without it. A new Deep Purple album, definitely.This year hasn’t been easy for the music community, or any community for that matter. The fruits of Guns N' Roses' long-awaited return to the studio, maybe. Whispers suggested the big names were back: A new AC/DC album, perhaps. If you'd picked up a pen at the end of last year and listed the things to look forward to in 2020, you'd have been spoiled for choice.
You can also browse our Top 100 Albums and listen to the Rough Trade Edit Podcast Albums of the Year 2020 Special.It goes without saying, every single record in our list is outstanding and it is a privilege to share and shine a light on such exciting music.To all the artists, labels, our friends and our customers, thank you for your support in 2020.Forever Living Originals “We present our first ‘UNTITLED’ album to mark a moment in time where we as Black People, and of Black Origin are fighting for our lives… Change is happening… We are focused.”Amidst the pandemic that ravaged the globe in 2020, a centuries-old injustice fought to the fore and demanded to be seen and to be heard. We'll be counting down your top picks from 10 AM - 6 PM PT on Friday, December 18.Discover our Top 10 Albums below, celebrated by numerous special exclusive editions and releases. Top 90.3 Albums of 2020 As another year comes to a close, KEXP is looking back at some of the best records of 2020 as voted by KEXP listeners. Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande swap spots versus last year, landing at 2 and 3 respectively. Billie Eilish repeats at 1, having first topped the chart in 2019. As a follow up to yesterday’s rundown of the top 50 artists on Spotify in 2020, here’s a list of the top 50 most streamed female artists of the year globally on the platform.
She plays dead like a rolled up spider, then unfurls in a scream. Like the insect that wears its skeleton outwards - she adorns a polished carapace that hides a candid nature. Hers is a musicality of the disguise and the costumes are multiple. It’s time to 'WAKE UP’, the revolution has come and Black Is it’s soundtrack.Buy now on Rough Trade Exclusive blue vinylBonus Exclusive: 5and 7on Rough Trade Exclusive blue vinyl Phoebe Bridgers - PunisherPunisher hears Phoebe Bridgers sculpting a night terror into a daydream. Rarely has there been an artistic statement this stirring, this staggering, this powerful.If history is just, the battle cry bong of 2020’s alarm clock will reverberate for decades to come. Enough is enough.Enter SAULT, the mystery music making UK collective with an album that delivers equal parts grace and charge, manoeuvring through disparate sub-genres to create a magnificent medley of exaltation.
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Her sound has evolved from fragile, complicated vulnerability to maternal love and maturity, all at the tender age of 30. Beneath the atomic power is fragility, and most importantly humanity.Buy now on Rough Trade Exclusive green/clear vinylBonus Exclusive: Sawayama Remixed 12" on green/clear vinylThis album arrived in the thick of a global lockdown, and I don’t think you could have found a voice more suited and comforting than Laura’s at that moment in time. But Sawayama is not only a love letter to the pop music Rina (and I) grew up hearing on promo CDs that came with Smash Hits Magazine, it is an anxious exploration into her own multi-cultural identity, and the technicoloured and composite nature of our own personalities. It’s sassy R&B, beach-ready house, crass nu-metal and ultra-pure-neon-pop-power, all stuck together with PVA glue and glitter. There, she brandishes a fist full of glow sticks to fight the dread that lurks in the dark.Buy now on Rough Trade Exclusive galaxy vinylBonus Exclusive: Copycat Killer 12" Rina Sawayama - SawayamaSawayama is an album that morphs musical elements into a giant megazord of monster pop, built to defeat the drab mundanity destroying our lives. Here, orchestral strings stitch up an oozing wound that gushes with memories.
After recording various live concerts throughout 2018, this record is the result of a collaborative writing project with audiences, informed by the band's ever-developing performances. "THIS IS NOT A LIVE ALBUM – it’s an ALIVE ALBUM" reads the press release. I’m not crying, you’re crying.Buy now on Rough Trade Exclusive silver vinylBonus Exclusive: Lockdown Sessions10" Jarv Is - Beyond The PaleThe Pulp frontman narrates a journey through evocative and explorative instrumentation that is totally sublime. Marling’s most straight-forward album is also her most tranquil, clear and idyllic to date.
Bedroom is that album, a full-on submergence in a swirling pool of gothic shoegaze, abundant with suffocating jams and life-saving attacks of adrenaline. A workout of sheer musical magnitude and absolutely their best yet.Bonus Exclusive: Offcuts 12" splatter vinyl Bdrmm - BedroomSometimes an album comes along that grabs you and doesn’t let you go, like a boa constrictor, only wrapping you more tightly in its grip, slowly increasing its intensity, until your head explodes. An infectious, ambitious, raucous, riff-driven record. A stirring set of songs that lift, punch, and play, while also pausing for tender thought and rather poignant clarity.A confident and utterly engrossing album from a band firmly at the helm of their own creative calling.Bonus Exclusive: IRL Live in London12" on orange vinylPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - VisceralsPowerful, primal, passionate music-making. An undeniable collaborative enterprise, Jarvis' vocals as captivating as ever.Bonus Exclusive: Suite For Iain and Jane / House Music All Night Long 12" Dream Wife - So When You GonnaA band who inspire, promote and radiate inclusivity, Dream Wife's undeniable friendship and dynamic creative output is about as infectious as it gets. Meditative songs sit alongside pacy, beat-driven odes.
Oh, and those extended guitar-driven instrumentals we know you are all drooling for? This has it all and then some.Immerse yourself in this sun soaked triumph built with the sweetest grooves going. Somewhere between the abrasion of its searing riffs and melodic incantations, Every Bad is a soul-cleaning album that drenches you in the multifaceted nature of a lyric that evolves when hurled over and over again.Bonus Exclusive: Every Bad BBC Session12" Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New ItalyWait up, is that disco I hear? A brighter, twangier outing than the debut, fuelled by bolder experimentation, all the while retaining that sure-fire sound we have come to define this talented band by. Margolin’s sharpened nerves are used as a weapon against her personal demons. Like a gluttonous heart who must purge and expel its emotions in order to gorge again.
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