Warm Visions

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but it seemed like the concept of “favorite songs” went out the window in 2020. Maybe it’s because I usually listen to albums at home and playlists on the move, so there wasn’t much time to really process my “favorites” of the year outside of an album context. I just felt like I had less ground to work with compared to normal. Despite this, I had no trouble accumulating 100 favorite songs on the year and selecting 10 of those to be the “top favorites.”

You’ll find 90 songs in alphabetical order immediately below and my Top 10 ranked songs of 2020 after that. Thought I had some nice variation on here and some artists you may have missed going through 2020. Hopefully some artists with big 2021s to come? Cheers to that. I also featured the first remix in this list in who knows how many years, probably the first since 2012. It’s just too good.

LISTEN ALONG WITH THE BEST OF 2020 SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

• ADRIANNE LENKER – “heavy focus”
• ADVERTISEMENT – “She Was Dead”
• ALUNA – “Envious (Kiddy Smile Remix)”
• ANA ROXANNE – “Suite Pour L’invisible”
• ANDRAS – “Saga of Sweetheart”
• ANDY SHAUF – “Try Again”
• ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – “Persefone”
• ARMAND HAMMER – “Pommelhorse (feat. Curly Castro)”
• AVERY LEIGH’s NIGHT PALACE – “Into the Wake, Mystified”
• BADGE ÉPOQUE ENSEMBLE – “Unity (It’s Up To You) (feat. James Baley)”
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• BETTER PERSON – “Hearts On Fire”
• BIBIO – “Oakmoss”
• BLUE HAWAII – “No Drama”
• BRAIDS – “Young Buck”
• BREAKING – “Tremmmur”
• BUMPER – “Red Brick”
• BUSCABULLA – “NTE”
• CHOIR BOY – “Complainer”
• CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – “People, I’ve been sad”
• CINDY LEE – “Speaking From Above”
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• CMON – “Mindboggling”
• COLD BEAT – “Paper”
• DEHD – “Loner”
• DESTROYER – “It Just Doesn’t Happen”
• DISCLOSURE – “Ecstasy”
• DOMENIQUE DUMONT – “People On Sunday”
• DUMA – “Lionsblood”
• EARL SWEATSHIRT – “Whole World (feat. Maxo)”
• EARTHEATER – “Volcano”
• ELYSIA CRAMPTON – “Grove (feat. Embaci)”
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• EMPRESS OF – “Bit Of Rain”
• FATEN KANAAN – “The North Wind”
• FONTAINES D.C. – “Love Is The Main Thing”
• FRANCES QUINLAN – “Your Reply”
• FREDDIE GIBBS – “Scottie Beam (feat. Rick Ross)”
• GEORGIA – “24 Hours”
• GIL SCOTT-HERON & MAKAYA MCCRAVEN – “I’ll Take Care Of You”
• HOLY HIVE – “Embers To Ash”
• INDIA JORDAN – “For You”
• JESSE KIVEL – “Northside”
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• JESSY LANZA – “Badly”
• JOEL ROSS – “Home”
• JOHN CARROLL KIRBY – “Blueberry Beads”
• KAHIL EL’ZABAR – “Sketches Of An Afro Blue”
• KALBELLS – “Cool and Bendable”
• KAMAAL WILLIAMS – “Mr Wu”
• KATE NV – “Marafon 15”
• KEIYAA – “Nu World Burdens”
• KLLO – “Still Here”
• LAND OF TALK – “Love In 2 Stages”
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• LAURA MARLING – “Held Down”
• LIANNE LA HAVAS – “Weird Fishes”
• LIDO PIMIENTA – “Nada (feat. Li Samuet)”
• LUIS PESTANA – “Asa Machina”
• LYRA PRAMUK – “Mirror”
• MADELINE KENNEY – “Jenny”
• MAMALARKY – “Hero”
• MARIE DAVIDSON & L’ŒIL NU – “Back To Rock”
• MARY LATTIMORE – “Til A Mermaid Drags You Under”
• MAYBEL – “Bliss In Solitude”
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• MERCE LEMON – “Chili Packet”
• NAILAH HUNTER – “White Flower, Dark Hill”
• NANA ADJOA – “National Song”
• NATION OF LANGUAGE – “The Wall & I”
• NICK HAKIM – “QADIR”
• NICOLAS JAAR – “Garden”
• NUBYA GARCIA – “Pace”
• POTTERY – “Texas Drums Pt I & II”
• PRESERVATION – “Correspondence (feat. Your Old Droog & Mach-Hommy)”
• RICO NASTY – “IPHONE”
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• RINA SAWAYAMA – “Love Me 4 Me”
• RÓISÍN MURPHY – “Jealousy”
• ROMY – “Lifetime”
• SALEM – “Sears Tower”
• SAULT – “Wildfires”
• SEA OLEENA – “Lost Song”
• SHABASON, KRGOVICH & HARRIS – “Friday Afternoon”
• SOCCER MOMMY – “circle the drain”
• STILL HOUSE PLANTS – “Crreeaase”
• TENGGER – “Water”
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• THANYA IYER – “Please Don’t Hold Me Hostage For Who I Am, Who I Was”
• THEY HATE CHANGE – “Stunt Cams”
• TOOTARD – “Kiss”
• ULTRAÍSTA – “Anybody”
• U.S. GIRLS – “4 American Dollars”
• WAXAHATCHEE – “Can’t Do Much”
• THE WEATHER STATION – “Robber”
• WESTERMAN – “Confirmation”
• WINTER – “Wherever You Are”
• YUMI ZOUMA – “Cool For A Second”

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