Left For Dead's Album Of The Year 2020
In a year to remember for so many bad reasons, these records have buoyed up our turbulent business and kept us going at home, and never in my adult life has exciting new music been so essential and vital.
Many of these records were delivered to my home during the lockdown in the spring, and particularly early on I wondered whether any of the boxes of records would make it onto our shelves in the shop, or indeed if there would even be a shop at the end of 2020.
Sincere thanks to everyone who has and who continues to support the shop, both online and walking through the front door. It's been a tough year but we're still here and we're still excited by the wonderful artists making incredible records.
So here then is the Left For Dead Album Of The Year 2020 Top 75.
- All Them Witches | Nothing As The Ideal
- Pottery | Bobby's Motel
- Run The Jewels | RTJ4
- Working Men's Club | Working Men's Club
- Hey Colossus | Dances/Curses
- Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher
- Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Song
- Trees Speak | Shadow Forms
- RVG | Feral
- Courtney Marie Andrews | Old Flowers
- Songhoy Blues | Optimisme
- The Flaming Lips | American Head
- Secret Machines | Awake In The Brain Chamber
- Osees | Protean Threat
- Sault | Untitled (Black Is)
- Sault | Untitled (Rise)
- Chris Smith | Second Hand Smoke
- Rose City Band | Summerlong
- Damaged Bug | Bug On Yonkers
- Stephen Malkmus | Traditional Techniques
- Fenne Lily | Breach
- Nubya Garcia | Source
- Bob Dylan | Rough And Rowdy Ways
- Ghostpoet | I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
- Jack Name | Magic Touch
- Oliver Coates | Skins N Slime
- Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters
- Aesop Rock | Spirit World Field Guide
- Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela | Rejoice
- Brigid Dawson & The Mothers | Ballet Of Apes
- Bab L' Bluz | Nayda!
- Thurston Moore | By The Fire
- Widowspeak | Plum
- Throwing Muses | Sun Racket
- Flat Worms | Antarctica
- Sufjan Stevens Ascension
- Adrianne Lenker | Songs And Instrumentals
- Sleeper And Snake | Fresco Shed
- Craven Faults | Erratics And Unconformities
- Kevin Morby | Sundowner
- Katy J Pearson | Return
- Clipping | Visions Of Bodies Being Burned
- Bruce Sprinsteen | Letter To You
- Nadine Shah | Kitchen Sink
- Rolling Blackouts C.F. | Sideways To New Italy
- Lovely Eggs | I Am Moron
- Bent Arcana | Bent Arcana
- Vinnum Sabbathi | Hail Sagan
- Cornershop | England Is A Garden
- Jeremiah Sand | Lift It Down
- Peter Bibby | Marge
- Quakers | The Next Wave
- Slift | Ummon
- Four Tet | Sixteen Oceans
- Tamikrest | Tamotai
- Eels | Earth To Dora
- Garcia Peoples | Nightcap At Wit's End
- Loma | Don't Shy Away
- Sonic Boom | All Things Being Equal
- Bright Eyes | Down In The Weeds
- Jason Isbell | Reunions
- Bill Callahan | Gold Record
- Buck Curran | No Love Is Sorrow
- Mark Lanegan | Straight Songs Of Sorrow
- Crack Cloud | Pain Olympics
- Wicketkeeper | Shonk
- Fontaines D.C. | A Hero's Death
- Pictish Trail | Thumb World
- Metz | Atlas Vending
- Ela Minus | Acts Of Rebellion
- Leila Moss | Who The Power
- Chuck Prophet | The Land That Time Forgot
- Idles | Ultra Mono
- Laura Marling | Song For Our Daughter
- Bastian Keb | The Killings Of Eugene Peeps