{"id":2972,"date":"2020-12-22T21:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2020-12-22T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T02:37:10","slug":"plague-year-listening-a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"Plague Year Listening: A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lockdowns of 2020 provided ample opportunities to sit at home and listen to music. Here are twenty albums from the plague year that gave me the most pleasure, listed in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n

I got back into the habit of buying CDs this year, so thanks to the pandemic I own physical copies of most of these titles. Looking over the list, I’m pleasantly surprised to see how much of it (seven out of twenty) comes from local Chicago artists. Maybe in 2021 I’ll be able to go see them play live….<\/p>\n

Fiona Apple, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”
\nBeach Bunny, “Honeymoon”
\nCurtiss A, “Jerks of Fate”
\nEhara Mei ????, “Ampersands”
\nThe Flat Five, “Another World”
\nTed Hearne, “Place”
\nJyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow), “Momma, You Can Bet!”
\nKate NV, “Room for the Moon”
\nLianne La Havas, “Lianne La Havas”
\nMary Lane, “The Real Mary Lane”
\nV.V. Lightbody, “Make a Shrine or Burn It”
\nPaul McCartney, “McCartney III”
\nSen Morimoto, “Sen Morimoto”
\nOhmme, “Fantasize Your Ghost”
\nKate Rusby, “Hand Me Down”
\nTokyo Incidents, ?????? “News” ????????
\nTwin Peaks, “Side A”
\nVarious artists, “Save Stereogum: An ’00s Covers Comp”
\nWussy, “Ghosts”
\nZombie-Chang, “Take Me Away from Tokyo”<\/p>\n