Category: BEST OF 2020

1) The Strokes The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA)2) Porridge Radio Every Bad (Secretly Canadian)3) Guided By Voices Surrender Your Poppy Field

MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi picks the best reissues/collections of the year 1) Elvis Costello And The Attractions The Complete Armed Forces

MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland picks the best singer/songwriter releases of the year 1) Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter (Partisan/Chrysalis)2) Neil

MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year 1) Bob Mould Blue Hearts (Merge)2) X Alphabetland (Fat

MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year 1) Nahawa Doumbia Kanawa (Awesome Tapes From Africa)2) Los

MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa picks the best hip-hop releases of the year 1) Elzhi Seven Times Down Eight Times Up (Fat

MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year 1) Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou May Our Chambers

MAGNET’s Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year 1) Bonny Light Horseman Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d)2) 79rs

MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year 1) Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley Known/Unknown (Fundacja Sluchaj)2) Tashi Dorji/Tyler

MAGNET’s Matt Ryan picks the best hard-rock releases of the year 1) Lowrider Refractions (Blues Funeral)2) Spirit Adrift Enlightened In