Best of 2020: Top 50 Albums to Drift, Chill, Calm and Relax to

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

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