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.

1. All Them Witches | Nothing As The Ideal
2. Pottery | Bobby's Motel
3. Run The Jewels | RTJ4
4. Working Men's Club | Working Men's Club
5. Hey Colossus | Dances/Curses
6. Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher
7. Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Song
8. Trees Speak | Shadow Forms
9. RVG | Feral
10. Courtney Marie Andrews | Old Flowers
11. Songhoy Blues | Optimisme
12. The Flaming Lips | American Head
13. Secret Machines | Awake In The Brain Chamber
14. Osees | Protean Threat
15. Sault | Untitled (Black Is)
16. Sault | Untitled (Rise)
17. Chris Smith | Second Hand Smoke
18. Rose City Band | Summerlong
19. Damaged Bug | Bug On Yonkers
20. Stephen Malkmus | Traditional Techniques
21. Fenne Lily | Breach
22. Nubya Garcia | Source
23. Bob Dylan | Rough And Rowdy Ways
24. Ghostpoet | I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
25. Jack Name | Magic Touch
26. Oliver Coates | Skins N Slime
27. Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters
28. Aesop Rock | Spirit World Field Guide
29. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela | Rejoice
30. Brigid Dawson & The Mothers | Ballet Of Apes
31. Bab L' Bluz | Nayda!
32. Thurston Moore | By The Fire
33. Widowspeak | Plum
34. Throwing Muses | Sun Racket
35. Flat Worms | Antarctica
36. Sufjan Stevens Ascension
37. Adrianne Lenker | Songs And Instrumentals
38. Sleeper And Snake | Fresco Shed
39. Craven Faults | Erratics And Unconformities
40. Kevin Morby | Sundowner
41. Katy J Pearson | Return
42. Clipping | Visions Of Bodies Being Burned
43. Bruce Sprinsteen | Letter To You
44. Nadine Shah | Kitchen Sink
45. Rolling Blackouts C.F. | Sideways To New Italy
46. Lovely Eggs | I Am Moron
47. Bent Arcana | Bent Arcana
48. Vinnum Sabbathi | Hail Sagan
49. Cornershop | England Is A Garden
50. Jeremiah Sand | Lift It Down
51. Peter Bibby | Marge
52. Quakers | The Next Wave
53. Slift | Ummon
54. Four Tet | Sixteen Oceans
55. Tamikrest | Tamotai
56. Eels | Earth To Dora
57. Garcia Peoples | Nightcap At Wit's End
58. Loma | Don't Shy Away
59. Sonic Boom | All Things Being Equal
60. Bright Eyes | Down In The Weeds
61. Jason Isbell | Reunions
62. Bill Callahan | Gold Record
63. Buck Curran | No Love Is Sorrow
64. Mark Lanegan | Straight Songs Of Sorrow
65. Crack Cloud | Pain Olympics
66. Wicketkeeper | Shonk
67. Fontaines D.C. | A Hero's Death
68. Pictish Trail | Thumb World
69. Metz | Atlas Vending
70. Ela Minus | Acts Of Rebellion
71. Leila Moss | Who The Power
72. Chuck Prophet | The Land That Time Forgot
73. Idles | Ultra Mono
74. Laura Marling | Song For Our Daughter
75. Bastian Keb | The Killings Of Eugene Peeps