Favorite Albums of 2020 So Far?

My top albums of 2020:

Edited by PhideauxFan - January 01 2021 at 03:29

Here are my final top albums of 2020:

1. Nick Prol and the Proletarians - An Erstwisle Alphabestiary (Prog, RIO)
2. Molasses - Through the Hollow (Prog Metal)
3. Pallbearer - Forgotten Days (Doom, Metal)
4. Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach (Experimental rock)
5. Mouthbreather - Perpetual Stew (Math, experimental rock)
6. Hexvessel - Kindred (Prog folk)
7. Aaron Parks - Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Avant jazz)
8. Wobbler - Dweller of the Deep (Prog)
9. JG Thirwell - Oscillospira (Avant garde, classical)
10. Lithics - Tower of Age (Post-punk)

HM:

Cheer-Accident - XX (Avante prog)

Neptunian Maximalism - Éons (Jazz metal)

The Flower Kings - Islands (Prog)

Pixie Ninja - Colours out of Space (Instrumental prog)

Mary Halvonrson’s Code Girl - Artlessly Falling (Jazz, avant garde)

1. Wobbler - Dwellers Of The Deep

PhideauxFan wrote: My top albums of 2020: 01-Long Distance Calling: How Do We Want To Live ? 02-The Pineapple Thief: Versions Of The Truth 03-Caspian: On Circles 04-Gazpacho: Fireworker 05-Crippled Black Phoenix: Ellengaest 06-Caligula's Horse: Rise Radiant 07-Airbag: A Day At The Beach 08-Lazuli: Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Bohm 09-Green Carnation: Leaves Of Yesteryear 10-The Black Noodle Project: Code 2.0 11-Elder: Omens 12-PG. Lost: Oscillate 13-Different Light: Binary Suns (Part 1 - Operant Condition) 14-Pain Of Salvation: Panther 15-Sanguine Hum: A Trace Of Memory 16-Gosta Berlings Saga: Konkret Musik 17-Enslaved: Utgard 18-Katatonia: City Burials 19-Pure Reason Revolution: Eupnea 20-Blind Ego: Preaching To The Choir 21-Kyros: Celexa Dreams 22-Haken: Virus 23-Pymlico: On This Day 24-Maciej Meller: Zenith 25-Marquette: Into The Wild 26-Rain: Singularity 27-Ozric Tentacles: Space For The Earth 28-Tim Bowness: Late Night Laments 29-Days Between Stations: Giants 30-Lesoir: Mosaic 31-Traumhaus: In Oculis Meis 32-Inner Odyssey: The Void 33-Ayreon: Transitus. Concerts: -Ayreon: Electric Castle Live And Other Tales -Chandelier: Live At Loreley -Riverside: Lost 'N' Found - Live In Tilburg -Subsignal: A Song For The Homeless - Live In Russelheim 2019. Heavy-Metal: Nightwish - Human / Nature.

Edited by triptych - January 20 2021 at 03:19

Edited by TCat - January 23 2021 at 18:09

Between work and my insatiable appetite for music, coupled together with a frustratingly slow recovery process (trying to kickstart the left side of my body y’all!) this last year has been a strange, painful, fruitful and incredibly slow one.
I have bought so many “new” cds that my apartment literally looks like it’s hiding a portal to a cd-shop somewhere and stuff just seems to materialise magically...on the table, the shelves, in drawers and of course lying casually on socks. I’ve bought a few from 2020 but the majority of the music I’ve heard from last year has been via streaming/jootoob/bandchamp.
Best new find has definitely been Sea Orm’s Olkhon. Basically Ángel Ontalva and the Fedotov brothers off Vespero doing their thang..and Holy Navajo that is some serious medicine man music..and I really dig the fact that they themselves know it full well and sure enough have adorned the front cover with the appropriate Indian seance
https://angelontalva.com/releases

For one reason or another I buy albums all over the place timewise, and not normally in the same year, so I have only fully heard small handful of prog albums of 2020 (the best of which probably Pyramid by Jaga Jazzist, but it should be possible to top this). However I'll mention my 2020 non-prog favourite which is good enough to probably survive as no. 1 all kinds of later discoveries. It's Slow Glass by Stephen Fellows (first album of the former Comsat Angels singer/guitarist/songwriter in 23 years). 

I'm a little late to the party but this is my top seven in no particular order:
Wobbler- Dwellers Of The Deep
Zopp- s/t
Motorpsycho- The All Is The One
Sonar- Tranceportation 2
Thirwell/ Steensland- Oscillospira
The Tangent- Auto Reconnaissance
Pendragon- Love Over Fear

With all the lock downs that year the final two albums on my list had to have been a comfort to many.