This is me trying.
10 Favorite New Albums
For You, India Jordan
Fluids of Emotion, Eris Drew
Silver Ladders, Mary Lattimore
Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers
how I’m feeling now, Charli XCX
WHAT WE DREW, Yaeji
Room For The Moon, Kate NV
Suddenly, Caribou
Because of a Flower, Ana Roxanne
Hill, Flower, Fog, Emily Sprague
The Movie Soundtrack That Made Me Feel Slightly More Sane At the Beginning of the Pandemic: The Last Days of Disco
The New Album That Made Me Feel Slightly More Sane After I Had Exhausted The Last Days of Disco Soundtrack and Needed To Listen to Disco Actually Made in 2020: Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure?
Five Favorite New (to Me) Artists
Favorite 2020 music moments that weren’t releases: listening to “WAP” on repeat under a tarp in a rainstorm on Rachel’s deck because we couldn’t hang out indoors, Arabella dancing to “Firestarter” in I May Destroy You, seeing Caroline Polachek live in January and the audience singing “girl, you’re getting skinny” in perfect unison, Bandcamp Fridays, Noname scorching J. Cole, Natalie Maines’s boat, the “I Know Alone” video, Fiona Apple’s dogs, Grimes eating Raisin Bran in her “Diary of a Song” video, TikTok zoomers making “Promiscuous Girl” chart, “I feel like men think that they own sex, and I feel like it scares them when women own sex.”
#1 Song That Actually Came Close to Articulating the Restless Privilege of Isolation:
#1 Song That Should Have Been Bigger: Georgia’s “About Work The Dancefloor”
#1 Time I Felt Genuinely Charmed By Matthew Healy:
10 New Old Favorites
New Young City, For Tracy Hyde (2019)
Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes 1965-1969, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (2018)
On The Way To The Peak of Normal, Holger Czukay (1981)
Movie, Holger Czukay (1979)
Solvent City, Solvent (2001)
Symbol, Susumu Yokota (2005)
Grinning Cat, Susumu Yokota (2001)
The Sacrificial Code, Kali Malone (2019)
For You and I, Loraine James (2019)
Movies For Ears, Ela Orleans (2019)
Honorable mentions: Waxahatchee, Taylor Swift, Katie Dey, Margo Price, Eartheater, Bully, Park Hye Jin, Lily Konigsberg, beabadoobee, Shygirl, OMMA, Kelly Lee Owens, Shopping
✌️Peace out