#Loverecordstores Reveal Their Top 100 Independent Albums Of The Year
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The Campaign Has Dropped Their Top 100 Independent Albums Of 2020
On Thursday 26th March, during the first wave if the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns the music community launched the high profile, global initiative to help independent record stores during the crisis. Many independent record stores faced a catastrophic drop in custom due to having to close doors during the lockdown, there was a genuine fear that many would have to close their doors permanently if nothing was done to stimulate sales. Many music companies and celebrities (including Elton John, Paul Weller and Kate Tempest) pledged their support to this campaign.
The #loverecordstores hashtag was created and used by the wider music community to encourage music lovers and fans to shop online whilst in lockdown. The campaign was and is hugely successful and culminated in a day-long event on 20th June, featuring over 130 independent record stores. The day saw dozens of new and reissued vinyl release from the likes of Oasis, Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys, not to mention generating £1m in revenue.
Fast forward to December and the campaign is now rolling out the inaugural ‘Independent Albums Of The Year’ initiative. The top 100 albums list is curated by a cross section of notable record stores including Drift, Resident, Rough Trade, Normans, Piccadilly, Bear Tree, Assai, Banquet, Stranger Than Paradise, Bleep and Monorail as well as many others.
In addition to this there will be a selection of new vinyl exclusives available to buy & preorder in store & online.
Without further ado here is #loverecords Top 100 Albums Of 2020:
Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Moses Boyd – Dark Matter
Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song
Gil Scott Heron – We’re New Again: A Re-Imagining By Makaya McCraven
The Orielles – Disco Volador
Rose City Band – Summerlong
Khruangbin – Mordechai
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
Daniel Avery & Allessandro Cortini – Illusion Of Time
Erland Cooper – Hether Blether
Keeley Forsyth – Debris
Aoife Nessa Frances – Land Of No Junction
BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff
Pottery – Welcome to Bobby’s Motel
Cornershop – England Is A Garden
Bill Callahan – Gold Record
Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
Kamal Williams – Wu Hen
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy
Sault – Untitled (Black)
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – Ballet Of Apes
Caribou – Suddenly
Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind
Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle
Sonic Boom – All Things Being Equal
Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
Georgia – Seeking Thrills
Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics
Baxter Dury – The Night Chancers
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Hania Rani – Home
Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
Fuzz – III
The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers
Juniore – Un Deux Trois
Flat Worms – Antarctica
The Lovely Eggs – I Am Moron
Jarv Is… – Beyond The Pale
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice
Green-House -Six Songs For Invisible Gardens
Osees – Protean Threat
IDLES – Ultra Mono
Thundercat – It Is What It Is
Modern Nature – Annual
Hinds – The Prettiest Curse
Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna
BDRMM – Bedroom
Craven Faults – Erratics & Unconformities
Rival Consoles – Articulation
Jason Molina – Eight Gates
Sunwatchers – Oh Yeah?
Bing & Ruth – Species
Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques
Nadia Reid – Out Of My Province
Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
Trees Speak – OHMS
Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky
Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant
This Is The Kit – Off Off On
Bananagun – The True Story Of Bananagun
Sorry – 925
Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
Laraaji – Sun Piano
Future Islands – As Long As You Are
Daniel Blumberg – On & On
Shopping – All Or Nothing
Daniel Avery – Love + Light
Grimes – Miss Anthropocene
King Krule – Man Alive!
Damaged Bug – Bug On Yonkers
Brigid Mae Power – Head Above Water
Knxwledge – 1988
Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
Adrianne Lenker – Songs And Instrumentals
Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs Of Sorrow
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
Bibio – Sleep On The Wing
Jehnny Beth – To Love Is To Live
Marie Davidson & L’oeil Nu – Renegade Breakdown
Ghostpoet – I grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
Nap Eyes – Snapshot Of A Beginner
Kevin Morby – Sundowner
Willie J Healey – Twin Heavy
The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
Sven Wunder – Wabi Sabi
Douglas Dare – Milkteeth
LA Priest – Gene
Black Pumas – Black Pumas
Mike Polizze – Long Lost Solace Find
Katie Von Schleicher – Consummation
Field Music – Making A New World
Modern Studies – The Weight Of The Sun
Islet – Eyelet
U.S Girls – Heavy Light
Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Woods – Strange To Explain
