We live on the surface when our hearts search for the deep (Top Singles 2020 through October)
Great year for excellent murk, a lot from Atlanta's Spillage Village collective, Dreamville Records, EarthGang, JID, gumby flexible voices, a sense of motion at the side or just out of the frame, like an Altman movie. So you've got your rap or your melody but the surrounding sound as well, just a lot of stuff, the street fair, the campfire, the
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YEA: The Neptune Power Federation: Memoirs of a Rat Queen (Cruz Del Sur '19) 7; Intronaut: Fluid Existential Inversions (Metal Blade) 5; Midnight: Rebirth By Blasphemy (Metal Blade) 5; Haunt: Mind Freeze (Shadow Kingdom) 5; Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent '19) 3; Thor: Rising (Deadline) 3; Lunar Shadow: The Smokeless Fires (Cruz Del Sur '19) 2; Monte Luna: Drowners' Wives (Argonauta '19) 2; Ravensire: A Stone Engraved in Red (Cruz Del Sur '19) 2; Devil To Pay: Forever, Never or Whenever (Ripple '19) 2.
NAY: Jail Weddings: Wilted Eden (Tru-Vow '19) -1; Magnum: The Serpent Rings (Steamhammer) -1; Dalton Wayne and the Warmadillos: Foul-Mouthed & Fool Hearted (Dalton Wayne '19) -1; Hungry Mother: The Big Sad (Hungry Mother '19) -1; Days Gone By: As If It Makes a Difference (Days Gone By EP '19) -2.
PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - late March 2020
YEA: Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!) 8; Miguel Zenón: Sonero - The Music of Ismael Rivera (Miel '19) 7; Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Life Goes On (ECM) 7; Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt) 7; Abdullah Ibrahim: The Balance (Gearbox '19) 7; The Third Mind: The Third Mind (Yep Roc) 5; Areni Agbabian: Bloom (ECM '19) 5; Steven de Bruyn: The Eternal Perhaps (Dox) 3; Aaron Diehl: The Vagabond (Mack Avenue) 3; Robert Glasper: Fuck Yo Feelings (Loma Vista '19) 2.
NAY: Switch Summer: Afropia (BSKCollective '19) -1; Erthling: Infloresco (1020220 DK '19) -1; Juju Rogers: 40 Acres N Sum Mula (Jakarta '19) -1; Sean Anonymous: Anti/Social (Sean Anonymous '19) -1; Santpoort: The Art of Being Empty (Friends of Friends EP) -1.
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