GLW.20.03: Remko Van Knippenberg
GLW.20.08: GARRETT BUKUNT
GLW.20.09: Megan Swidler
GLW.20.10: Garrett Tillman
GLW.20.11: Scott Lawson
GLW.20.12: Carl Anderson
GLW.20.13: Ryan Joyce
GLW.20.14: Nick Leddy
GLW.20.15: Desa Warner
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Top Twenty
1. Aesop Rock - “The Gates”
Album: Spirit World Field Guide
Great opening track to a concept album by one of the best lyricists releasing music today.
2. Run The Jewels - “Walking In The Snow”
Album: RTJ4
Such a timely song for the racial tensions in America this year, recorded before the murder of George Floyd.
3. Sylvan Esso - “Rooftop Dancing”
Album: Free Love
A warmer and more laid back approach from Sylvan Esso this time around but this track is still fun.
4. Yves Tumor - “Hasdallen Lights”
Album: Heaven To A Tortured Mind
Coming from a more experimental electronic background, this is comfortable and challenging at the same time while exhibiting a more pop-forward approach.
5. Controller 7 - “Where Do I Begin?”
Album: Tommy and Richie present "Billy"
Concept album from Controller 7 and Buck 65 based on the movie Buffalo 66. Great movie, great musicians. Just so glad to see Buck 65 release something.
6. The Spits - “Lose My Mind”
Album: VI
Finally more Spits. Good fun punk from Seattle.
7. Robedoor - “Reality is a Mausoleum”
Album: Drunk on Poison: 2005-2008
An old (but new to me) track from a new collection of old tracks. Less melodic than recent releases.
8. Wasted Shirt - “Zeppelin 5”
Album: Fungus II
Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt and Ty Segall team up for a noisy garage rock experience.
9. Freddie Gibbs / The Alchemist - “Something to Rap About”
Album: Alfredo
Jazzy laid back hip hop.
10. Pop Smoke - “Shake The Room”
Album: Meet The Woo 2
Hard hip hop beats with a fun emcee. RIP Pop Smoke.
11. Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network - “Ballet of Apes”
Album: Ballet of Apes
Ex Oh Sees member, psych-y folk rock with beautiful vocals and a touch of jazz.
12. Matmos - “No Concept”
Album: The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
Just a quick glimpse at an album that clocks in around three hours, with a guest list of artists a mile long. These guys are always on the cutting edge of what music is and how it’s made.
13. Charli XCX - “forever”
Album: how i'm feeling now
Electropop to give you something to bounce to.
14. Body Improvement Calendar - “Flexible Schedules”
Album: Business Major
A hijacked Instagram account filled with self-help bots: transformational mind, soul and body improvement “friends.” The endless motivational speeches which spill out of this account become the constructive sound palette for fractured dub, hip-hop, and wonky spoken word.
15. System Of A Down - “Genocidal Humanoidz”
Album: Protect The Land / Genocidal Humanoidz
SOAD came back after 15 years with a strong statement about the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
16. Népal - “Ennemis, Pt. 2” (feat. Di-Meh)
Album: Adios Bahamas
French cloud rap. RIP Népal.
17. OSEES - “Blood On Your Boots”
Album: Be Gay, Do Crime!
Who doesn’t need more Oh Sees in their life? Garage psych rock gods.
18. L.A. Takedown - “There Is a Drone in Griffith Park”
Album: Our Feeling of Natural High
Drifting on a synthwave.
19. Caribou - “Never Come Back”
Album: Suddenly
A relatively stripped down, house-tinged dance tune.
20. Sunwatchers - “Sunwatchers Vs. Tooth Decay”
Album: Oh Yeah?
When you need some improv jazz in your life, turn to these guys.
Honorable Mention
Sic Alps - “Who Has Time To Protest?” (Demo)
Album: Disc Rats: Demos Vol. 1
Skee Mask - “MDP 5”
Album: Iss006
Soda Plains - “Glacier”
Album: Split
Ty Segall - “Early in the Morning”
Album: Segall Smeagol
Croatian Amor & Varg2™ - “Angelika”
Album: Body of Lila
Legowelt - “Your Life Goals Are Slowly Slipping Away”
Album: Tips For Life
Aesop Rock - “Rogue Wave”
Album: Rogue Wave - Single
Lamps - “Comedian”
Album: People With Faces
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - “Minimum Brain Size”
Album: K.G.
Kelley Stoltz - “Low Resolution”
Album: Hard Feelings
Tobacco - “Motherfuckers 64”
Album: Hot Wet & Sassy
Ty Segall & Cory Hanson - “Milk Bird Flyer”
Album: She's A Beam b/w Milk Bird Flyer
Big Blood - “Real World”
Album: Do You Wanna Have A Skeleton Dream?
Nazar - “UN Sanctions”
Album: Guerrilla
Peaking Lights - “Soft Escape” (Sleaze Mix)
Album: Soft Escape
Katie Gately - “Allay”
Album: Loom
Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - “Lay_Up.m4a”
Album: UNLOCKED
Soccer Mommy - “Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes”
Album: Color Theory
Gorillaz - “Pac-Man” (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
Album: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Damaged Bug - “Sold America”
Album: Bug On Yonkers
Beatrice Dillon - “Workaround Two”
Album: Workaround
Oneohtrix Point Never - “I Don’t Love Me Anymore”
Album: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Filmmaker - “Royal Dungeon”
Album: Royal Dungeon EP
BLVCK CEILING - “A Sea Of Fabric”
Album: Fashion Victim
Feral - “Ultraviolet Radiation”
Album: Ultraviolet Radiation
Kelly Lee Owens - “Jeanette”
Album: Inner Song
Chris Crack - “Social Distancing”
Album: White People Love Algorithms
James Ferraro - “II.”
Album: Neurogeist
Noveller - “Pattern Recognition”
Album: Arrow
MIKE - “weight of the word*”
Album: weight of the world
HMLTD - “LOADED”
Album: West of Eden
Stiff Love - “I Don't Mind Committing Crime”
Album: Be Gay, Do Crime!
Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - “Ghosted”
Album: TORCH SONGS EP
Anna Von Hausswolff - “All Thoughts Fly”
Album: All Thoughts Fly
Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - “Sketches Of Everything Part 1”
Album: Sketches Of Everything
Eartheater - “Metallic Taste of Patience”
Album: Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
Alchemist / Boldy James - “Pinto”
Album: The Price of Tea in China
The Avalanches - “Interstellar Love” (feat. Leon Bridges)
Album: We Will Always Love You
Holy Fuck - “Free Gloss” (feat. Nicholas Allbrook)
Album: Deleter
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