This radio hour by Jimmy Martin of Baba Yaga’s Hut gave the first ‘stop everything what is this?’ musical moment of the year. It’s COCK OF THE NORTH by Smagghe & Cross. Which isn’t actually a record from 2020, but it was regardless enough to get me to briefly switch to Spotify and to start the 2020 playlist. I also added something from the Short Fictions record which I was listening to yesterday, and some older stuff that Abs and I listened to in the car on our short trip away last weekend. The playlist is a diary as much as it is ‘what’s good this year’.
Which reminds me that my 2019 playlist is now complete, I suppose. You can listen to it on Spotify here. There’s some real bangers on there, as well as some curiosities that I would’ve cadged from some weird radio or newsletter at some point, but it does conclude with TWO HALVES by Richard Dawson which I sent everyone mad on New Year’s Eve singing the chorus to on loop.