MAVOY MUSIC AWARDS 2020 + TOP 50 OF THE EPs

ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Jessie Ware

SONG OF THE YEAR - Jessie Ware - Spotlight

ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure

BAND OF THE YEAR – Yumi Zouma

R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR – SAULT

ELECTRONIC ARTIST – Kelly Lee Owens

RAPPER – Clipping

NEW ARTIST – Native Dancer

NEW BAND – Working Men's Club

POLISH ARTIST – Strangers In My House

COMEBACK – The Avalanches

LABEL OF THE YEAR – Because Music  and Jazz Is Dead

LYRICS OF THE YEAR – Jarv Is - House Music All Night Long

SAMPLES OF THE YEAR: The Avalanches - We Go On, Busta Rhymes - Look Over Your Shoulder (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

BEST CONCERT: well, about that.... 

But it's not like we didn't participate in live music this year. Sort of. So I'm sharing everything that I actually remember:

- Little Dragon - YouTube show

- James Blake instagram sessions

- Salt Ashes music/interview instagram series

- Juanita Stein instagram sessions

- our own Glastonbury experience

- David Byrne's American Utopia film by Spike Lee

- Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer film

- Lianne La Havas at Roundhouse

- Nabihah Iqbal at Victoria and Albert Museum

BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Tori Amos - Resistance, Phil Norman - Wild Thing, Michael Posner - Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories, Alicia Keys- More Myself

TOP 50 OF THE BEST EPS

1. Christine And The Queens – La Vita Nuova (indie pop, Because Music)

2. James Blake – Before (electronic, UMG)

3. Salt Ashes – Counting Crosses (pop, Radikal)

4. Wild Nothing – Laughing Gas (dream pop, Captured Tracks)

5. Itta – Enter (electronic, Aural Canyon)

6. Bumper – Pop songs 2020 (indie pop, self-released)

7. Marshmellow – Someday Club (dream pop, Родной звук)

8. Charlotte Dos Santos – Harvest Time (jazz, Because Music)

9. Hekla – Sprungur (ambient, Phantom limb)

10. Penelope Trappes – Eel Drip (ambient, Houndstooth)

11. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun (funk, Dead Oceans)

12. Bibio – Sleep On The Wing (folk/indie, Warp)

13. Laura Groves – A Private Road (singer-songwriter, Bella Union)

14. Demae – Life Works Out Usually (R&B, self-released)

15. Sarah Davachi – Laurus (ambient, Late Music)

16. BOSCO – Car Therapy / Someday This All Will Make Sense (R&B, Slug/Empire)

17. Nilufer Yanya – Feeling Lucky? (singer-songwriter, ATO)

18. Victoria Monet – Jaguar (R&B, Tribe)

19. Keep Shelly In Athens – Defy Me (indie pop, Athenian Aura)

20. Widdendream – Wave Of Silence (indie, self-released)

21. Kali Uchis – To Feel Alive (R&B, Universal)

22. VIM – Waiting (dream pop, 1384106)

23. Allysha Joy – Light It Again (R&B, First Word)

24. Owl Eyes – Invisible Woman (pop, self released)

25. Anna Calvi – Hunted (rock/folk, Domino)

26. Little Simz – Drop 6 (hip hop, AWAL)

27. Yazmin Lacey – Morning Matters (R&B, Own Your Own)

28. HANYA – Sea Shoes (indie pop, Outre Disque)

29. Matt Borghi – Pink Sakura At Night (ambient/New Age, MindSpace)

30. Spector – Extended Play (rock, Moth Noise)

31. Seventeen Years Old And The Berlin Wall – Abstract (shoegaze, self-released)

32. Afflecks Palace - Everything Is an Attempt to Be Human (rock, Spirit Of Spike)

33. Hummucide – Hummucide (jazz, self-released)

34. Amira B – Do You (R&B, 91 Records)

35. Tenderlonious – Tubby (jazz, Jazz Detective)/ Tender In lahore (jazz/22A)

36. Day Wave – Crush (dream pop, PIAS)

37. SIPPRELL – Bad History (R&B, self-released)

38. Michiru Ayoama – Cherry blossom viewing (ambient, self-released)

39. Foster The People – In The Darkest Of Nights (indie pop, self-released)

40. Nylo – A Brief History Of Sorry (R&B, self released)

41. Aaliyah Allah – Flux/flow (R&B, 1522551)

42. Cholossus – Sahara (ambient, Choloseum)

43. Susanne Sundfor – Self Portrait (indie, Bella Union)

44. Chan Mei – Cry (pop, etcetc)

45. Couch Prints – Tell U (indie pop, Luminelle)

46. Methyl Ethel – Hurts To Laugh (rock, Dot Dash)

47. Midori Jaeger – Look At Us (indie pop, self released)

48. Chloe Bodur – Panties & Loafers (R&B, self released)

49. Selah Sue – Bedroom (R&B, Because Music)

50. Qur'an Shaheed – Process (R&B, Preference)