Here are some of my favorite albums of 2020, in no particular order. So much great music came out this year, but of course there was no opportunity to see live music, which always influences the list; the experience of hearing a live version of the songs often increases my fondness for an album or possibly, at the other extreme, destroy it.
Ana Roxanne : Because of a Flower [Kranky]
Emily A. Sprague : Hill, Flower, Fog [self-released / RVNG Intl.]
Gia Margaret : Mia Gargaret [Orindal Records]
Green-House : Six Songs For Invisible Gardens [Leaving Records]
Natalia Beylis : The Steadfast Starry Universe [Eiderdown Records]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith : The Music Of Transformation (Ghostly International)
Russell Ellington Langston Butler : A Talisman to Ward Off Dysphoria [self-released]
Ulla : Tumbling Towards a Wall [Experiences Ltd.]
Sarah Davachi : Five Cadences [self-released]
Sarah Davachi : Cantus, Descant [Late Music]
Tristan Magnetique : 2 (cw48) [Cosmic Winnetou]
Jennifer Castle : Monarch Season [Paradise of Bachelors]
Josephine Foster : No Harm Done [Fire Records]
Natalie Jane Hill : Azalea [Dear Life Records]
Sam Coomes : True Death [self-released]
Melenas : Dias Raros [Trouble In Mind Records]
Joanne Robertson : Painting Stupid Girls [World Music]
Jonnine : Blue Hills [Boomkat Editions | Documenting Sound]
Diane Cluck : Common Wealth [self-released / Bone & Boom Publishing]
Kath Bloom : Bye Bye These Are the Days [Dear Life Records]
Jean-Marie Mercimek : La Flourenn En Mars [Aguirre Records]
Beatriz Ferreyra : Echos + [Room40]
Beatriz Ferreyra: Huellas Entreveradas [Persistence of Sound]
Spires That In the Sunset Rise : Psychic Oscillations [FPE Records]
Keeley Forsyth : Debris [The Leaf Label]
Spivak : Μετά Το Ρέιβ [Ecstatic]
Laila Sakini : Vivienne [Total Stasis]
Lucrecia Dalt : No era sólida [RVNGIntl.]
Leila : Like Weather [Modern Love / Thank U Records] [2020 reissue / 1998]
