Highlights
This is the shortest list of recent years, ironically for how much I listened to during the major part of the pandemic. I tried something different, trying to keep to just one or two songs per artist/album. But many of the albums are worth listening to front to back. e.g., Declan McKenna, Alain Johannes, Semisonic.
- Album of the year: Aiming for Enrike – Music for Working Out
- Most tracks in the list: Joel Plaskett – 44
- Honorable Mention to check out: Hazel English – Wake Up!
105 songs, 7hrs. 30 mins. Total Time
| TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM | TIME | |
| 1 | Coffee or Wine | Field Music | Making a New World | 3:04 |
| 2 | A Shot to the Arm | Field Music | Making a New World | 2:32 |
| 3 | Don’t Hassle the Hoff | Aiming for Enrike | Music for Working Out | 3:49 |
| 4 | Hard Dance Brainia | Aiming for Enrike | Music for Working Out | 4:40 |
| 5 | Into the Godless Void | …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | 3:58 |
| 6 | Blade of Wind | …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | 5:47 |
| 7 | Get God’s Attention by Being an Atheist | of Montreal | Ur Fun | 3:51 |
| 8 | On the Outside | Ethan Gruska | En Garde | 3:09 |
| 9 | Another Animal | Ethan Gruska | En Garde | 2:51 |
| 10 | Primed and Ready | Wire | Mind Hive | 2:44 |
| 11 | Julia Take Your Man Home | Wolf Parade | Thin Mind | 4:36 |
| 12 | The Raven | Destroyer | Have We Met | 3:35 |
| 13 | Is This a Hotel? | Film School | Field | 4:21 |
| 14 | Something I Should Do | Nada Surf | Never Not Together (Deluxe Edition) | 4:32 |
| 15 | A Glimpse of You (Interlude) | Marquis Hill | Love Tape: With Voices | 1:16 |
| 16 | Fortune | Wye Oak | Walk Soft – Single | 3:49 |
| 17 | Borderline | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | 3:58 |
| 18 | Tomorrow’s Dust | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | 5:27 |
| 19 | Again and Again Until We Feel Nothing | Yann Novak | Further Dismantling | 8:27 |
| 20 | Kaleidoscope (2 Meter Session) | Alain Johannes | Jan Douwe Kroeske presents: 2 Meter Sessions #1696 – Alain Johannes | 4:25 |
| 21 | Puppy | Snail’s House | Ordinary Songs 5 | 3:24 |
| 22 | Falling Down | Real Estate | The Main Thing | 4:32 |
| 23 | Hopeful Assassins of Zeno | The Mountain Goats | Songs for Pierre Chuvin | 3:15 |
| 24 | The Good Song | Floral | Floral LP | 4:19 |
| 25 | Charlie Is My Darling | Traffik Island | Sweat Kollecta’s Peanut Butter Traffik Jam | 2:58 |
| 26 | Do You Think We’ll Last Forever? | Caroline Rose | Superstar | 4:15 |
| 27 | Hold On Tight | ROOKIE | Rookie | 2:36 |
| 28 | Introduction II | ROOKIE | Rookie | 1:33 |
| 29 | Algorhythm | Childish Gambino | 3.15.20 | 3:32 |
| 30 | circle the drain | Soccer Mommy | color theory | 4:40 |
| 31 | lucy | Soccer Mommy | color theory | 4:57 |
| 32 | StereoAkuma, Part 4 | Merzbow | StereoAkuma | 3:27 |
| 33 | Light and Shadow | Yagya | Old Dreams and Memories | 3:39 |
| 34 | Who Ever Said | Pearl Jam | Gigaton | 5:11 |
| 35 | Buckle Up | Pearl Jam | Gigaton | 3:37 |
| 36 | Along the Santa Fe Trail | M. Ward | Migration Stories | 3:09 |
| 37 | Esperanto (feat. Danilo Perez & Chico Pinheiro) | Kurt Elling | Secrets Are the Best Stories (feat. Danilo Perez) | 5:01 |
| 38 | Pan | Nightwish | HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 5:18 |
| 39 | Together | Nine Inch Nails | Ghosts V: Together | 10:04 |
| 40 | Mr G | Once and Future Band | Deleted Scenes | 3:26 |
| 41 | The Worriment Waltz | Nine Inch Nails | Ghosts VI: Locusts | 9:26 |
| 42 | Olympik | EOB | Earth | 8:39 |
| 43 | Wildfires | Sault | Untitled (Black Is) | 3:27 |
| 44 | Papal Stain | J.G. Thirlwell & Simon Steensland | Oscillospira | 9:58 |
| 45 | Nancy Allen Double Feature | Protoplanets | Grid – EP | 2:30 |
| 46 | Science Denier | Protoplanets | Grid – EP | 3:12 |
| 47 | When You Were Few | Damien Jurado | What’s New, Tomboy? | 2:42 |
| 48 | Seven Screws | Einstürzende Neubauten | Alles in Allem | 3:55 |
| 49 | Carried Away | Joel Plaskett | 44 | 2:53 |
| 50 | Catch 22 | Joel Plaskett | 44 | 2:28 |
| 51 | Ps & Qs | Joel Plaskett | 44 | 3:15 |
| 52 | Assassin | The Fearless Flyers | Tailwinds | 3:14 |
| 53 | She Don’t Want | Disheveled Cuss | Disheveled Cuss | 2:26 |
| 54 | Oh My God | Disheveled Cuss | Disheveled Cuss | 5:08 |
| 55 | The Day the Politicians Died | The Magnetic Fields | Quickies | 1:58 |
| 56 | My Stupid Boyfriend | The Magnetic Fields | Quickies | 2:01 |
| 57 | out of sight (feat. 2 Chainz) | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 (Deluxe Edition) | 3:21 |
| 58 | goonies vs. E.T. | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 (Deluxe Edition) | 3:03 |
| 59 | German Shepherds (10:20 Version) | Wire | 10:20 | 4:28 |
| 60 | Slow Down, Buddy | Jerry Paper | Abracadabra | 3:05 |
| 61 | Whisper 2000 | Locate S,1 | Personalia | 4:10 |
| 62 | In the Den | Hum | Inlet | 6:45 |
| 63 | Waves | Hum | Inlet | 5:31 |
| 64 | Feels Like the End | Kestrels | Dream or Don’t Dream | 3:49 |
| 65 | Instant Nightmare! | The Dears | Lovers Rock | 3:38 |
| 66 | Bridge to Quiet | Animal Collective | Bridge to Quiet | 10:48 |
| 67 | Shaking | Hazel English | Wake Up! | 3:33 |
| 68 | If Morning Comes | Alain Johannes | Hum | 4:18 |
| 69 | Hum | Alain Johannes | Hum | 2:21 |
| 70 | Heute Nacht Oder Nie (Live) | Anneke van Giersbergen & Kamerata Zuid | Let the Light in (Live) | 3:08 |
| 71 | Stay (Live) | Anneke van Giersbergen & Kamerata Zuid | Let the Light in (Live) | 5:17 |
| 72 | Long Night | Guster | OMAGAH! Guster with the Omaha Symphony | 4:53 |
| 73 | AEIOU | Wye Oak | No Horizon – EP | 4:57 |
| 74 | Wattbl | illuminati hotties | FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For | 1:24 |
| 75 | Alien with a Sleep Mask On | Ratboys | Printer’s Devil | 3:50 |
| 76 | Old Maps (feat. . Varduhi Art School Children’s Choir) | Tigran Hamasyan | The Call Within | 2:30 |
| 77 | Cemetery Lifestyle | BC Camplight | Shortly After Takeoff | 3:42 |
| 78 | Toe to Toes (Instrumental) | Mastodon | Medium Rarities | 4:28 |
| 79 | Alive Again (Live) | Trey Anastasio | Burn It Down (Live) | 8:45 |
| 80 | Kyoto | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | 3:05 |
| 81 | Find My Way | Paul McCartney | McCartney III | 3:55 |
| 82 | New Hope For the New Year | moe. | Not Normal | 9:01 |
| 83 | Hallucinate | Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia | 3:29 |
| 84 | Pigeons | Bill Callahan | Gold Record | 5:25 |
| 85 | Parrot People | Dick Valentine | Parrot People | 3:31 |
| 86 | Why You Waging War on Me, Divider? | Dick Valentine | Parrot People | 3:19 |
| 87 | The Sacred Veil: IV. Magnetic Poetry | Los Angeles Master Chorale, Eric Whitacre, Jeffrey Zeigler & Lisa Edwards | The Sacred Veil | 6:31 |
| 88 | Champion of the Beach | Cayucas | Blue Summer | 3:36 |
| 89 | 3 on E (feat. Antwaun Stanley) | Vulfpeck | The Joy of Music, The Job of Real Estate | 2:58 |
| 90 | Beautiful Faces | Declan McKenna | Zeros | 3:17 |
| 91 | Daniel, You’re Still a Child | Declan McKenna | Zeros | 3:59 |
| 92 | Next Generation | Bob Mould | Blue Hearts | 2:21 |
| 93 | Run Away With Me | Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension | 4:07 |
| 94 | Morph | Snail’s House | Imaginarium | 2:14 |
| 95 | Broken Frame | Flaural | Curb the Excess – EP | 3:55 |
| 96 | Life as a Mannequin | Shiner | Schadenfreude | 6:31 |
| 97 | Minimum Brain Size | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | K.G. | 4:19 |
| 98 | Part I | Varhat | Quatre – Single | 8:15 |
| 99 | Ultra Black (feat. Hit-Boy) | Nas | King’s Disease | 3:18 |
| 100 | Parallel 2 | Four Tet | Parallel | 6:04 |
| 101 | Juan el Largo | Los Estanques | IV | 2:53 |
| 102 | La Aguja | Los Estanques | IV | 3:26 |
| 103 | TM1 open | Autechre | PLUS | 11:07 |
| 104 | You’re Not Alone | Semisonic | You’re Not Alone – EP | 3:21 |
| 105 | Basement Tapes | Semisonic | You’re Not Alone – EP | 3:34 |