My Year in Music – 2020 Edition

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Here’s a mostly chronological list of music I added to my collection in 2020. I did not limit this to music released in 2020. Since I use Apple Music and the “rest of the civilized world that cares about music app UI” uses Spotify, all album links are to Odesli, a service that will send you to your streaming service of choice, even if it’s Amazon Music. It used to be called Song.link, which is still the URL that I use to get there because I can spell both of those words and even remember to put the dot between them.

For some reason I’m still predisposed to add an entire album to my library and not just whatever song I heard that I liked. I still have this inextricable attachment to albums that doesn’t really matter with the rise of streaming. Perhaps this is why I finally broke down and bought a turntable…to force myself to listen to albums from start to finish. Maybe I’m hitting that age where I start to triple down on clinging to the past. Why not both?

Anyways, I’ve bolded the albums that I’ve enjoyed and listened to more than once this year. That’s not to say the other albums aren’t good, I just haven’t put in the same amount of time with them or maybe I really only liked one or two songs and the rest was meh. Who knows because if I don’t have time to listen, I certainly don’t have time to write reviews for them all. Also, there are already copious reviews by for more knowledgable folks than myself.