MAVOY MUSIC CHARTS - TOP 300 OF ALBUMS
(The post will be updated)
#10 SPARKS - A STEADY DRIP, DRIP, DRIP
Next year, we will be able to finally see the Sparks documentary from a marvellous director Edgar Wright, so the cult band will be properly introduced to a larger audience. Appriopiately, the Mael brothers have just released one of their best albums. Their undeniable sense of humour and fantastic hooks were a great remedy to anguish of 2020.
#9 CLEO SOL - ROSE IN THE DARK
I am just really impressed that despite releasing two brilliant records with SAULT this year, Cleo has ALSO released a great, more acoustic solo release. Three albums in TOP 10 - it's an incredible achievement. I didn't even realize at first she's the lead vocalist of acclaimed project. This albums deserves just as much attention.
#8 TAME IMPALA - THE SLOW RUSH
Fans of the original psych sound of Tame Impala often complain about new poppy sensibilities of Kevin Parker and his interest in hip-hop (he only just declared that Cardi B's "WAP" is a "perfect song" - well, let's agree to disagree). While I listened to the project back in Lonerism days, and I don't think the new record is better than Lonerism or Currents - it's still more catchy than any pop released on the radio in 2020. And On Track seems inspiring...
#7 JARV IS... - BEYOND THE PALE
In the interviews promoting this LP, Jarvis talked a lot about missing live performances and how they influenced the creation of the album. I'm glad to be introduced to Jarv Is... via their festival performance. I already knew House Music All Night Long is a banger before official release, but BTP provided more eccentric lyrics from Mr. Cocker, fantastic addition to his discography.
#6 WILLIAM BASINSKI - LAMENTATIONS
I am not huge expert of William Basinski's discography. I haven't even heard The Disfiguration Loops in full (yet). But while it's probably not favourite record of this strange year, it's most definitive. Beginning with the title, finishing with the song literally titled "Please, This Shit Has To Stop". That's a cry of an album if there's one.
#5 SAULT - UNTITLED (BLACK IS) / UNTITLED (RISE)
The conversation around civil rights and systematic racism grew this year after the tragic killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmad Arbeury. Millions of people took place in massive protests around the world. There were quite a few great protest albums (especially hip-hop ones) but my personal favourite is the one from this great UK project that also released equally brilliant second record later this year.
#4 YUMI ZOUMA - TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
I already loved their previous albums and I almost didn't believe they could top Willowback, yet somehow this New Zealand band released possibly the best pop album of the year. Lead by summer warmer Col For A Second, Yumi Zouma absolutely enchanted me with new songs, which were also released in the fall in their alternative versions.
#3 KELLY LEE OWENS - INNER SONG
Just like Cocker, Kelly delayed her album noticeably - and unlike him she didn't push the release back to earlier date. We had to wait almost four more months - but the final effect was incredible. The album, which was very accordingly to the times premiered on... Zoom, is one of my favourite club releases of recent years -being a great preview of live future for KLO.
#2 BEN SALISBURY, GEOFF BARROW & THE INSECTS - DEVS
We have been already sold when we first heard that Sonoya Mizuno will star in new Alex Garland's television project. The series, also featuring great performances from Nick Offerman and Stewart Henderson was a real hit - amazing cinematography, superb production design, great writing (still very rare in TV hard sci-fi), but the most important for this chart would be moody score provided by Garland regulars - Salisbury and Barrow - joined by the group The Insects.
#1 JESSIE WARE - WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE?
Well, it's Jessie Ware, and if you're cautious of my positive opinions of her music, just listen to the album. I would dare to say it's her best record since Devotion though. I was a little exhausted with these pop-acoustic tunes (not that I'm giving myself a credit, but she KNEW that I am ;) ) - so this is a very welcome surprise, not only no acoustic stuff, almost no ballads as well (and we'd probably not mind one or two tbh). Move to a bigger label unexpectedly resulted in a risky, but highely original effort that is one of Jessica's biggest successes.
FULL RESULTS OF 2020 CHART
Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (electronic, Virgin)
Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow & The Insects – Devs (score, Invada)
Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (electronic, Smalltown Supersound)
Yumi Zouma – Truth Or Consequences (dream pop, Polyvinyl)
SAULT – Untitled (Black Is ) / Untitled (Rise) (soul, Forever Living Originals)
William Basinski – Lamentations (ambient, Temporary Resistance)
JARV IS… - Beyond The Pale (indie, Rough Trade)
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (indie, Modular)
Cleo Sol – Rose In The Dark (R&B, Forever Living Originals)
Sparks – A Steady Drip Drip Drip (pop, BMG)
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (electronic, Universal)
Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (ambient, Ninja Tune)
Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (singer/songwriter, Nonesuch)
Max Richter – Voices (neoclassical, Decca)
Thundercat – It Is What It Is (funk, Brainfeeder)
Hazel English – Wake Up! (dream pop, Marathon)
Johann Johansson – Last And First Men (ambient, Deutsche Grammophon)
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts (ambient, self released)
Mulatu Astatke – To Know Without Knowing (jazz, Agogo)
Native Dancer – Tides (jazz, Psychological Banana)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy (rock, Sub Pop)
Kamasi Washington – Becoming (jazz, Young Turks)
Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohrix Point Never (electronic, Warp)
Nicolas Godin – Concrete And Glass (electronic, Because Music)
Gil Scott-Heron & Mackaya McCraven – We’re New Here (jazz, XL)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank (score, Null)
VA – Blue Note Re:Imagined (jazz, Blue Note)
Clipping. - Visions Of Bodies Being Burned (hip-hop, Sub Pop)
Nabihah Iqbal – Blue Magic Gentle Magic (singer-songwriter, self released)
Khruangbin – Mordechai / Late Night Tales (funk, Dead Oceans)
Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant (ambient, L.A.T.E. Music)
The Killers – Imploding The Mirage (rock, Island)
VA – Good Music To Avert The Collapse Of American Democracy Part 1 And 2 (indie, self-released)
Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet! (jazz, Eone Canada)
Alicia Keys – Alicia (R&B, RCA)
I Break Horses – Warnings (electronic, Bella Union)
Camila Fuchs – Kids Talk Sun (experimental, felte)
Lina Raul Refree – Lina Raul Refree (fado, Glitterbeat)
Roy Ayers – JID002 (funk, Jazz Is Dead)
Juanita Stein – Snapshot (folk rock, Handwritten)
Jessy Lanza – All The Time (electronic, Hyperdub)
The Weeknd – After Hours (R&B, Republic)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Mosaic Of Transformation (electronic/ambient, Ghostly)
Don Bryant – You Make Me Feel (soul, Fat Possum)
Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams – Aporia (ambient, Asthmatic Kitty) / The Ascencion
Young Ejecta – Ride Lonesome (electronic, Driftless)
Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink (rock, Infectious Music)
Helena Deland – Someone New (indie pop, Luminelle)
Daniel Avery – Love + Light (electronic, Phantasy Sound)
Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You (rock, Columbia)
Active Child – In Another Life (singer-songwriter, Sony)
Che Noir – As God Intended (with Apollo Brown) / Juno (with 38 Spesh) / After 12 (hip-hop, Mello Music/Air Vinyl)
The Orielles – Disco Volador (indie, Heavenly/PIAS)
Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd – Another Flower (ambient, Soleil Apres Minuit)
Bdrmm – Bedroom (shoegaze, Sonic Cathedral)
Death Of Heather – Death Of Heather (shoegaze, Yells)
Jeff Russo – Fargo Year 4 (score, Sony Classical)
Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (hip-hop, BMG)
Vinyl Williams – Azure (indie pop, Requiem Pour Un Twister )
Moses Sumney – Grae (electronic, Jagjaguwar)
Shabaka And The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History (jazz, UMG)
Roger & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (ambient, Deutsche Grammophon)
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (ambient, Ghostly)
Hot Chip – Late Night Tales (mix, Late Night Tales)
Lucrecia Dalt – No Era Solida (experimental, RVNG)
Mariza – Mariza Canta Amalia (fado, Parlophone)
Nubya Garcia – Source (jazz, Nyasha Records)
Ana Roxanne – Because Of A Flower (ambient, Kranky)
Ludwig Goransson – Tenet (score, Watertower)
Roisin Murphy – Roisin Machine (electronic, Skint)
Nyah Grace – Honey-Coloured (R&B, Palawan)
Lyric Jones – Closer Than They Appear (hip hop, Empire)
Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (jazz, Strut)
Team Picture – The Menace Of Mechanical Music (rock, Clue)
VA – Save Stereogum (indie, self-released)
Washed Out – Purple Noon (chillwave, Sub Pop)
Ellis – Born Again (dream pop, Fat Possum)
Strangers In My House – Strangers In My House (dream pop/shoegaze, Wynik Współpracy)
Pejzaż – Blues (electronic, The Very Polish Cut Outs)
Faye Meana – After The Rain (R&B, Independent Records)
Ela Minus – Acts Of Rebellion (electronic, Domino)
Moses Boyd – Dark Matter (electronic, Exodus)
Zara McFarlane – Songs Of An Unknown Tongue (jazz, Brownswood)
Henry Green – Half Light (electronic, Akira)
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club (post-punk, Heavenly)
Kraków Loves Adana – Darkest Days (indie, self-released)
The Luxembourg Signal – The Long Now (dream pop, Shellife)
Katie Melua – Album No. 8 (jazz, BMG)
Princess Nokia – Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks (hip hop, self released)
JME – Grime MC (grime, Boy Better Know)
Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (electronic, Cutters)
Adam Janota Bzowski – Saint Maud (score, Milan)
The Flaming Lips – American Head (alternative, Warner)
Ringo Deathstarr – Ringo Deathstarr (shoegaze, Club AC30)
Blu & Exile – Miles (hip-hop, Fat Beats)
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (electronic, Matador)
Trevor Powers – Capricorn (electronic, Fat Possum)
Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of (indie pop, Terrible)
Topographies – Ideal Form (post-punk, Funeral Party)
Devonte Hynes – We Are Who We Are (score, Milan)
GUM – Out In The World (indie pop, Spinning Top)
Bettye LaVette – Blackbirds (soul, Verve)
Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do (hip-hop, Def Jam)
Oscar Jerome – Breathe Deep (jazz, Caroline International)
Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (folk, Jagjaguwar)
Disclosure – Energy (electronic, Island)
Orlando Weeks – A Quickening (indie, PIAS)
Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith – Peradam (experimental, Bella Union)
The Chain Gang Of 1974 – Honey Moon Drips (pop, Fever Ltd.)
Steve Buscemi’s Dreamy Eyes - Sweetie (indie pop, Rama Lama)
Marcos Valle – Cinzento (jazz, Deck) / JID004 (Jazz Is Dead)
Sevdaliza – Shabrang (electronic, Twisted Elegance)
Arrested Development – Don’t Fight Your Demons (hip-hop, Vagabond Productions)
Olafur Arnalds – Some Kind Of Peace (neoclassical, Mercury)
Babeheaven – Home For Now (indie pop, self-released)
Rick Simpson – Everything All Of The Time (jazz, Whirlwind)
Austra – Hirudin (electronic, Domino)
Common – A Beautiful Revolution (hip-hop, Loma Vista)
Tomasz Makowiecki – Moizm (electronic, HotDog)
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan– AVL (ambient, self-released)
Sara Bareilles – More Love (pop, Epic)
Nation Of Language – Introduction, Presence (indie pop, self-released)
Todavía – Orange Faint Of The Sky (indie pop, self0released)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – You Might Be Happy Someday (indie pop, Tough Love)
The Tibbs – Another Shot Fired (soul, Record Kicks)
Elephant Stone – Hollow (rock, Elephants On Parade)
Caribou – Suddenly (electronic, City Slang)
Polica – When We Stay Alive (electronic, Memphis Industries)
Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans (electronic, Domino)
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (pop, Warner)
Azymuth – JID004 (jazz, Jazz Is Dead)
Setwun – Our World (soul, Mandarin Dreams)
Cassowary – Cassowary (jazz, Fat Possum)
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Peripeteia (experimental, self-released)
Niia – II: La Bella Vita (R&B, self released)
Nas – King’s Disease (hip hop, Mass Appeal)
Kali Uchis – Sin Miedo (R&B, Interscope/Virgin)
Norah Jones – Pick Me Up Off The Floor (jazz, Capitol)
Teyana Taylor – The Album (R&B, GOOD/ Def Jam)
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – Aura (jazz, Here And Now)
Dornik – Limboland (R&B, self-released)
The Districts – You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere (rock, Fat Possum)
TOPS – I Feel Alive (dream pop, self/House Arrest)
Suburban Living – How To Be Human (dream pop, EggHunt)
Big Black Delta – 4 (electronic, Master Of Bates)
Tęskno – tęskno (indie, PIAS)
Sons Of The James – Everlasting (R&B, Fresh Selects)
Soccer Mommy – Color Theory (indie, Concord/Loma Vista)
Dan Kye – Small Moments (electronic, Rhythm Section)
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – Shaman (jazz, Strut)
Matt Berry – Phantom Birds (folk, Acid Jazz)
Little Dragon – New Me Same Us (electronic, Ninja Tune)
Echo Collective – The See Within (7K!)
Mammal Hands – Captured Spirits (jazz, Gondwana)
Helios – Domicile (ambient, Ghostly)
Dizzy - The Sun and Her Scorch (indie pop, Royal Mountain)
Brothertiger – Paradise Lost (chillwave, self-released)
Kylie Minogue – Disco (pop, BMG)
Carlitta Durand – Kismet Green (R&B, self-released)
Kllo – Maybe We could (electronic, Ghostly)
Le Couleur – Concorde (indie pop, Lisbon Lux)
Oliver Coates – Skins n slims (electronic, RVNG)
Castlebeat – Melodrama (indie pop, Spirit Goth)
Paul McCartney – McCartney III (rock, Sony)
Samia – The Baby (indie pop, self-released)
Kevin Krauter – Full Hand (indie pop, Bayonet)
Batter Person – Something To Lose (indie pop, Mansions And Millions)
Cathedral Bells – Velvet Spirit (dream pop/shoegaze, Good Eye)
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion Of Time (electronic, Phantasy Sound)
Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (electronic, Warp)
Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave – Litanies (opera, Deutsche Grammophon)
Kamaal Williams – Wu Hen (jazz/electronic, Black Focus)
Dinner Party – Dinner Party (jazz, Sounds Of Crenshaw)
Nicolas Jaar – Cenizas (electronic, Other People)
Michel Benita – Looking At Sounds (jazz, ECM)
Ian Hawgood – Echoes From The Edges Of Time (ambient, Folk Reels)
Nick Hakim – Will This Make Me Good (soul, ATO)
Marie Davidson & & L'Œil Nu – Renegade Breakdown (indie, Ninja Tune)
Lakecia Benjamin – Persuance (jazz, Ropeadope)
Doug Carn – JID005 (jazz, Jazz Is Dead)
Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (rock, Concord)
Noble Oak – Horizon (indie pop, Last Gang)
Brandi Disterheft & George Coleman – Surfboard ((jazz, Justin Time)
Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways (blues, Columbia)
R.A.G. The Rugged Man – All My Heroes Are Dead (hip hop, Nature Sounds)
Summer Camp – Romantic Comedy (indie pop, Apricot)
Real Estate – The Main Thing (rock, Domino)
Cold Beat – Mother (rock, DFA LLC/PIAS)
Mint Julep – Stray Fantasies (indie pop, Western Vinyl)
Gastón Arévalo – Terrain (ambient, Terrain)
Of Montreal – UR FUN (indie, Polyvinyl)
Sam Smith – Love Goes (pop, Capitol)
Jonathan Wilson – Dixie Blur (folk, Bella Union)
Adrian Younge – Jazz Is Dead 001 (self released)
Mark De Clive-Lowe – Dreamweavers (jazz, Mother Tongue)
HAIM – Women In Music Pt. III (pop, Columbia)
Ledisi – The Wild Card (R&B, BMG)
Mint Field – Sentimento Mundial (indie, felte)
Freddie Gibbs – Alfredo (hip hop, ESGN)
Hilary Woods – Birthmarks (folk/rock, self/Sacred Bones)
Yves Jarvis – Sundry Rock Song Stock (alternative, ANTI)
Matthew Tavares & Leland Witty – Visions (jazz, Mr Bongo)
Tigran Hamasyan – The Call Within (jazz, Nonesuch)
Marika Hackman – Covers (singer-songwriter, Sub Pop)
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas – III (electronic, Smalltown Supersound)
Nothing – The Great Dismal (shoegaze, Relapse)
Chilly Gonzales – A Very Chilly Christmas (holiday, Gentle Threat)
Natasha Kmeto – You’ve Never Danced Alone (electronic, Future Archive)
Sirens Of Label – SOL (R&B, self-released)
Lapsley – Through Water (electronic, Her Own / XL)
Adrian Younge – Produced By (jazz, Linear Libs)
Adaline – Interimes (R&B, self-released)
Maria Isabel – Stuck In The Sky (R&B, self-released)
Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (rock, Mmm)
Emile Mosseri – Homecoming / Kajilionnaire (score, Lakeshore)
Błoto – Kwiatostan (jazz, Astigmatic)
Martin Kerras – Northwest Passage (ambient, A Strangely Isolated Place)
Wilma Archer – A Western Circular (electronic, Domino)
Goldmund – The Time It Takes (neoclassical, Western Vinyl)
Everything Is Recorded – Friday Forever (electronic, XL)
Jungle Brothers – Keep It Jungle (hip-hop, J Beez)
Khotin – Find You Well (electronic, Ghostly)
EABS – Discipline Of Sun Ra (jazz, Astigmatic)
beauts – Dalliance (indie rock, LHM)
Private World – Aleph (dream pop, Dais)
Keys For Eclipse – Lost Time (ambient, self released)
Tashaki Miyaki – Under Cover (indie, Blonde Dog)
Martin Nodeland – Origins (jazz, Smeik)
J. Zunz – Hibiscus (experimental, Rocket)
Gogo Penguin – Gogo Penguin (jazz, Decca)
Squarepusher – Be Up A Hello (electronic, Warp)
Slow Dancing Society & Zake – Mirrored (ambient, Zake Drone)
Bebel Gilberto – Agora (bossa nova, PIAS)
GAIDAA – Overture (R&B, On The Webs)
Jadu Heart – Hyper Romance (indie, VLF)
Jonathan Bree – After The Curtains Close (indie, Lil Chief)
Earth Trax – LP1 (house, Shall Not Fade)
Jessie Frye – Kiss Me In The Rain (synthwave, NRW)
Tennis – Swimmer (indie pop, Mutually Dentrimental)
Surf Rock Is Dead – Existential Playboy (rock, self released)
Nils Frahm – Empty (neoclassical, Erased Tapes)
Tycho – Simulcast (electronic, Mom+Pop, Ninja Tune)
Soft Blue Shimmer – Heaven Inches Away (shoegaze, Disposable America)
Palm Ghosts – Wide Awake And Waiting (indie pop, Ice Queen)
Peter, Bjorn & John – Endless Dream (indie, self released)
Field Music – Making A New World (indie, Memphis Industries)
Freedom Fry – Songs From The West Coast (indie, self released)
Skinshape – Umoja (funk, Lewis Music)
Bing Satellites - The History & the Mystery of the Adirondack Piano (neoclassical, Drone City)
dottie – Collection (shoegaze, atxbbqnbd)
R.A.P. Ferreira – Purple Moon Pages (hip-hop, Ruby Yacht)
Cee-Lo Green – Thomas Calloway (soul/country, BMG)
Jose James – No Beginning No End 2 (jazz, No Beginning No End )
Jay Electronica – A Written testimony / Act II (hip hop, Roc Nation)
Martha High – Nothing’s Going Wrong (soul, Bind Faith)
The Strokes – The New Abnormal (rock, RCA)
Steve Arrington – Down To The Lowest Terms (funk, Stones Throw)
Gengahr – Sanctuary (rock, self released)
Nouveau Vélo - Bogland (rock/indie, Excelsior)
Agnes Obel – Myopia (alternative, Deutsche Grammophon)
Godfather Don - Beats, Bangers & Biscuits at 535 E 55th St (hip hop, 90s Tapes)
Action Bronson – Only For Dolphins (hip-hop, Loma Vista)
Rustin Man – Clockdust (rock/folk, Domino)
Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (R&B, Atlantic)
Steve Spacek – Houses (electronic, Black Focus)
Robert Rich – Offering To The Morning Fog (ambient, Soundscape)
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – Navarasa Nine Emotions (folk, Domino)
Conrad Herwig – The Latin Side Of Horace Silver (jazz, Savant)
Sidi Toure - Afrik Toun Mé (folk, Thrill Jockey)
Half Waif – The Caretaker (indie pop, ANTI)
Max Ananyew – Midday (ambient, Whitelabrecs)
Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot (pop, x2)
Brandy – B7 (R&B, EOne)
Planet Asia – Trust The Chain (hip hop, TCF)
Alexandra Savior – The Archer (rock, 30th Century)
CMON – Confusing Mix Of Nations (indie, Mexican Summer)
Dreams Suicides – Reflections Of Ourselves (shoegaze, self-released)
Against All Logic – 2017-2019 (electronic, Other People)
Onyx Collective – Manhattan Special (jazz, tmwrk)
Saint Saviour – Tomorrow Again (indie, VLF)
Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead (indie, PIAS)
Kelpe – Run With The Floating Weightless Slowness (electronic, Drut)
Clock Opera – Carousel (indie, League Of Imaginary Nations)
Ekin Fil – Coda (neoclassical, Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Yellow Days – A Day In A Yellow Beat (indie, Columbia)
Pia Fraus – Empty Parks (shoegaze, Seksound)
Phillip Wilkinson – As Light As Dust (ambient, self released)
Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments (indie, Bella Union)
Widowspeak – Plum (indie, Captured Tracks)
Aska Matsumiya – I’m Your Woman (score, Lakeshore)
Laveda – What Happens After (indie, Color Station)
Blossoms – Foolish Loving Spaces (rock, Universal)
Obongyar – Which Way Is Forward (electronic, self-released/September)
Nick Murphy – Music For Silence (neoclassical, Detail)
Jónsi – Shiver (indie, Krunk)
Maik Krahl Quartet – Fraction (jazz, Challenge)
fours – soak (pop, self released)
Torres – Silver Tongue (indie, Merge)
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