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Carnacki’s Best of 2020

Posted on January 18, 2021

Some Favourite Physical Releases, in alphabetical order

  • Kristine Barrett – Unvisited Tombs: Mödrar (S/R)
  • Blabbermouth vs. Lachlan Young – The Edge of Reason (S/R)
  • Black Glass Ensemble – Arise from the Twilight (Omnempathy)
  • Cinder Well – No Summer (Free Dirt)
  • Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease (Domino)
  • Common Eider, King Eider and Cober Ord – Palimpsest (Cyclic Law)
  • Thomas Dimuzio – Balance (Gench)
  • Clara Engel – Hatching Under The Stars (S/R)
  • Euphotic – Isopleths (Public Eyesore)
  • Insect Ark – The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
  • Susan Matthews – Fisher Of Men (Sirenwire)
  • Matmos – The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (Thrill Jockey)
  • Lau Nau and Matti Bye – Signals (Time Released Sound)
  • Maud the Moth – Orphne (Música Máxica)
  • Mika Akim – Till Kroppen (Krumelur)
  • My Heart, An Inverted Flame – Plague Notes, Unnames, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through
  • Dust (tUMULt / Zum)
  • Old Million Eye – Now Land (S/R)
  • The Prison Music Project – Long Time Gone (Righteous Babe)
  • Paul Roland – Lair of the White Worm (Unifaun Productions)
  • Colin Stetson – Color Out Of Space soundtrack (Milan)
  • Sangre de Muérdago – Xuntas (Música Máxica)
  • Skyminds – Shapes & Traces (Internal Rhythm)
  • Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Gracfe May Increase? (Thrill Jockey)
  • David Tibet – Ferelith / Fontelautus (Cashen’s Gap)
  • Emily Wells – In The Dark Moving (Thesis + Instinct)

Some Favourite Digital Releases, in alphabetical order

  • Aho Ssan – Simulacrum (Subtext)
  • Angel Archer – C4NM (Live – 2020) (S/R)
  • Anoice – Invisible Wall (Ricco)
  • Little Annie Anxiety & Hiro Kone – Repossessed (S/R)
  • The Bim Prongs / Furchick – EC Split 15 (Hal McGee)
  • Cedar Deamer – Solastalgia (S/R)
  • W.A. Davison – RE/CYCLING series (S/R)
  • Dust Bowl Faeries – The Plague Garden (S/R)
  • Simon Finn – Be Here Then (EP) (10 to 1)
  • Diamanda Galás – De-formation: Piano Variations (S/R)
  • Paris Hurley – Monthly Moon Package series (S/R)
  • irr. app. (ext.) – Vesicular Distributor series (errate in excelsis)
  • irr. app. (ext.) – HCA (errata in excelsis)
  • Chuck Johnson – Somewhere South (original soundtrack) (S/R)
  • Julia Kent – Forsythia / Waverly / Drops / Clouds Light The Night (S/R)
  • Storm Large – Crazy Weather (S/R)
  • Mekons – EXQUISITE (S/R)
  • Jessica Moss – Opened Ending (Constellation)
  • Marissa Nadler – Moons (S/R)
  • Old Lake Million Eyes – Old Lake Million Eyes (S/R)
  • Josh Pollock – Music for Film and Theatre III (S/R)
  • Tiger Lilles – COVID-19 vol. 1-2 / Lemonaki (Misery Guts)
  • Transient and Darren Johnston – It Was Always Here (S/R)
  • Norman Westberg – Short Songs for the Long Winter (S/R)
  • Olga Wojciechowska – Unseen Places (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Some Favourite Benefit Compilations, in alphabetical order

  • CosmoPraesidium (Eiderdown)
  • Let It Come To You (Clatsop Animal Assistance)
  • A Musical Benefit for the Yanomami (Orb Weaver Collective)
  • Particle Count (Room40)
  • Pattern Recognition (A Benefit for Collage Artist Bradley Kokay) (No Part Of It)
  • Plague Song (for Médicins Sans Frontières) (Nick Gill)
  • Remembrance Species 2020 (Remembrance Species)
  • To NRDC With Love From Qvästlafve (Qvästlafve)

Some Favourite Reissues, in alphabetical order:

  • Current 93 – Horsey / Sleep Has His House (HomAleph)
  • Jo Quail – Five Incantations (Adderstone)
  • Olga Wojciechowska – Maps and Mazes (Time Released Sound)

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