Starting off the Best of 2020.
This is based on my favourite radio show on KEXP called Pacific Notions that features music in the realm of instrumental, ambient, classical, modern classical and experimental.
With this pandemic, we needed something to get our minds off the insanity that was 2020 and in need for calm and balance with these 50 albums.
My #1 pick goes to an artist who hasn’t been heard in 6 years and just put out a beautiful stunning album.
There is alot of Canadian acts that is in the Top 10.
Here are the Top 50 albums to check out.
1. Sea Oleena – Weaving a Basket
2. Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle
3. Matthew Cardinal – Asterisms
4. Ólafur Arnalds – some kind of peace
5. Alexia Avina – Unearth
6. Michael Scott Dawson – Nowhere, Middle Of
7. Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
8. Ana Roxanne – Because of a Flower
9. Khotin – Finds You Well
10. Beverly Glenn-Copland – Transmissions: The Music Of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
11. Joshua Van Tassel – Dance Music, Vol. 2
12. Nils Frahm – Empty
13. Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Philadelphia
14. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Mosaic of Transformation
15. Gia Margaret – Mia Gargaret
16. Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant
17. Juha Mäki-Patola – Breath
18. Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog
19. Goldmund – The Time It Takes
20. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans
21. Fools – Fools’ Harp, Vol. 1
22. Tatsuya Shimazaki – Small Voice
23. Chad Lawson – You Finally Knew
24. Okkyung Lee – Yeo-Neun
25. Hania Rani – Home
26. IKSRE – Intermission
27. Tiny Leaves – Alone, Not Alone
28. WMD – Saudade
29. Yutaka Hirasawa – Anecdotes Tape 2
30. No Death – Last Days
31. Rhucle – Scenes
32. Ghost Shift – Silver Lake
33. Leo Takami – Felis Catus and Silence
34. Mute Forest – Riderstorm
35. Bedroom – A Thousand Harmonies in Silence
36. Sam Prekop – Comma
37. Tennger – Nomad
38. Jan-Dirk Platek – Sights
39. City of Dawn – Desiderium
40. Chip Wickham – Blue to Red
41. Clem Leek – Land, Air & See
42. Stefano Guzzetti – Kokoro
43. Denis Stelmakh – Children of Abdanoned Nests, Vol. 1
44. Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft – A Heart So White
45. Cerca – Mod Pink Relic
46. Adrian Lane – Atlas Browsing
47. Gavin Miller – Bradford Telephone Exchange
48. Lukas Lauermann – I N
49. Secret School – Ambergris
50. Snowdrops – Volutes