ICR: December 2020

ICR'S BEST MODERN CLASSICAL ALBUMS 2020

Aidan Baker, Simon Goff, Thor Harris - The Bit
Aidan Baker, Gareth Davis - Invisible Cities II
Ben Lukas Boysen - Mirage
Christina Vantzou, JAB - Landscape Architecture
Colin Stetson - Color Out of Space OST
Clarice Jensen - The experience of repetition as death
Clem Leek - Land, Air & Sea
Drew McDowall - Agalma
Dmitry Evgrafov - Surrender
Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang - Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes
Fink - Bloom Innocent (Horizontalism Sessions)
Jacaszek - Music for Film
Jed Kurzel - True History of the Kelly Gang OST
Jo David Meyer Lysne, Mats Eilertsen - Kroksjø
Jonny Nash, Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Yair Elazar Glotman - Last And First Men
Ludovico Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Machinefabriek - Oehoe
Max de Wardener - Music for Detuned Pianos
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
MJ Cole - MJ Cole Presents Madrugada
Neil Cowley - Building Blocks Pt. 1, 2, 3
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together / Ghosts VI: Locusts
Nils Frahm - Empty
Olivier Alary, Johannes Malfatti - u,i
Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace
Philip Glass, Bruce Brubaker, Max Cooper - Glassforms
SaffronKeira, Paolo Fresu - In Origine: The Field of Repentance
The Transcendence Orchestra - Feeling the Spirit
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3s6s7PzBvoFa0nKYpSoRjC?si=YsXw4gx-SSWMKfkR65XV2g

ICR'S BEST JAZZ ALBUMS 2020

Aaron Parks - Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man
Ambrose Akinmusire - on the tender spot of every calloused moment
Ambient Jazz Ensemble - Aura
Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline - Music from the Early 21st Century
Błoto - Erozje
Butcher Brown - KingButch
Braxton Cook - Fire Sign
Chris Montague, Ruth Goller, Kit Downes - Warmer Than Blood
Carlos Niño, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Chicago Waves
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Axiom
Deantoni Parks - Silver Cord
Dinosaur - To The Earth
Dougie Stu - Familiar Future
GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin
Greg Fox - Contact
Greg Foat - Symphonie Pacifique
Horatio Luna - Yes Doctor
jizue - Seeds
Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)
Kassa Overall - I Think I'm Good
Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen
Laurence Pike - Prophecy
Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Joe Lovano - Arctic Riff
Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits
Mark de Clive-Lowe, Andrea Lombardini, Tommaso Cappellato - Dreamweavers
Matthew Halsall - Salute to the Sun
Matthieu Saglio - El Camino de los Vientos
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
Nubya Garcia - Source
Nate Mercereau - Joy Techniques
Onyx Collective - Manhattan Special
Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep
Otis Sandsjö - Y-OTIS 2
Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons
Richard Spaven, Sandunes - Spaven x Sandunes
Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced
Spencer Zahn - Sunday Painter
Skalpel - Highlight
Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
The Colours That Rise - Grey Doubt
Tangents - Timeslips
Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within
Tingvall Trio - Dance
Triorität - ALG0
Web Web - Worshippers
V.A. - Blue Note Re:imagined
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4PqXocgTtID5iF2Ejx7wNb?si=FZygyzryT92C_ISl_vXnBw

ICR'S BEST SOUL/R&B ALBUMS 2020

Alfa Mist, Emmavie - Epoch
A/T/O/S - waterman
Ego Ella May - Honey For Wounds
Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven - We're New Again - A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
Jordan Rakei - Origin
Jessy Lanza - All The Time
keiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
Little Dragon - New Me, Same Us
Moses Sumney - græ
Mourning [A] BLKstar - The Cycle
Mac Miller - Circles
Nick Hakim - Will This Make Me Good
OXP, Onra, Pomrad - Swing Convention
Obongjayar - Which Way is Forward?
Sevdaliza - Shabrang
Sharada Shashidhar - Rahu
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is) / Untitled (Rise)
Seba Kaapstad - Konke
Salaam Remi - Black On Purpose
Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
Yaeji - What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던
Zara McFarlane - Songs of an Unknown Tongue
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OflWrD0aMxM6VoEEeNhXy?si=Q01qfkRdSVWxwpg1nHvnOw

ICR'S BEST ROCK/PUNK ALBUMS 2020

All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal
Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics
Deftones - Ohms
Dope Body - Crack a Light
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Ghostpoet - I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
IDLES - Ultra Mono
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.
King Krule - Man Alive!
Metz - Atlas Vending
Moaning - Uneasy Laughter
No Age - Goons Be Gone
Sleaford Mods - All That Glue
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2bBTw6zpK6GubcRKeoymEP?si=1HWHK_NQRKSfukAD26CJ1Q

ICR'S BEST AVANTGARDE/INDIE/EXPERIMENTAL ALBUMS 2020

Active Child - In Another Life
Animal Collective - Bridge to Quiet
Arca - KiCk i
Cucina Povera, ELS - The Oystercatcher
Cut Copy - Freeze, Melt
Desire Marea - Desire
Douglas Dare - Milkteeth
Figueroa, Amon Tobin - The World As We Know It
Hanni El Khatib - Flight
Haux - Violence in a Quiet Mind
Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke
JFDR - New Dreams
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Kate NV - Room For The Moon
Loma - Don't Shy Away
Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas / Telas
Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Owen Pallett - Island
Poliça - When We Stay Alive
Son Lux - Tomorrows I
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams - Aporia
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Ultraísta - Sister
Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qPlC9w7wHFpnRllWth4nv?si=wSTq2M5jQx2gXCekkjMJSg

ICR'S BEST AMBIENT/DRONE/SYNTH ALBUMS 2020

404.zero - 404.0
Apparat - Soundtracks: Stay Still / Dämonen / Equals Sessions / Capri-Revolution
Aria Rostami, Daniel Blomquist - Sketch for Winter VIII: Floating Tone
Asa Tone - Temporary Music
Atom TM, Jacek Sienkiewicz - Stal
Bing & Ruth - Species
Clarence Clarity - Dead Screen Scrolls (Ambient Works, Vol. 1)
Constantine Skourlis - Eternal Recurrence
Daniel Avery, Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time
Domenique Dumont - People On Sunday
Gigi Masin - Calypso
Grand River - Blink a Few Times to Clear Your Eyes
Heathered Pearls, Newborn Jr. - Cast
Hotspring - Obit For Sunshade
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic of Transformation
Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valentin - Elephant
Loscil - coast/range/arc//
Luke Abbott - Translate
M.Jacaszek, Jacaszek - Gardenia
Memotone - Invisible Cities
Mike Slott - Vignettes
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia
Ricardo Donoso - Content
Roly Porter - Kistvaen
Roger Eno, Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
Rødhåd - Mood
Sote - Moscels
The Leaf Library - About Minerals
Tim Koch - Scordatura
Ulla - Tumbling Towards a Wall
Vladislav Delay - Rakka
Wanderwelle - A State of Decrepitude
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63WKioZ540RuNhCOKdz0B8?si=DDBeaLerR6S_X_aa5rD2HA

ICR'S BEST IDM/ELECTRONICA ALBUMS 2020

Aria Rostami - Several Days from Now You Will Be Invited to Complete an Online Survey
Autechre - Sign
Call Super - Every Mouth Teeth Missing
Chevel - Elvine Unlocked
Eedl - Unstored
John Beltran - The Season Series
Lorn, Dolor - Zero Bounce / Dolor - Serqanomix
Maelstrom - Archaea EP
Matmos - The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
Minced Oath - Supervene
Oval - Scis
Out Of Place Artefacts - Vril & Rødhåd Presents Out Of Place Artefacts
Ocoeur - EverythingPole - Fading
Pole - Fading
Quicksails - Blue Rise
Rival Consoles - Articulation
Rob Clouth - Zero Point
Roel Funcken - Dragomane Misinize
The Black Dog - Fragments
The Fear Ratio - They Can't Be Saved
The Flashbulb - Our Simulacra
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rimjmrghB0NUEmzh6SFan?si=58M1tOp2Sj-WdMwLReG2nQ

ICR'S BEST TECHNO ALBUMS 2020

Against All Logic - 2017-2019
Auscultation - III
Aleksi Perälä - Oscillation Part 1
Daniel Avery - Love + Light
DeNiro - coachella
DMX Krew - Ghost Bubbles
Fluxion - Perspectives
Gábor Lázár - Source
Ghost In The Machine - Breaking The Seal
Louf - Skara
Maenad Veyl - Reassessment
Off The Meds - Off The Meds
Patricia - Maxyboy
Radio Slave - Radio Silence Part One
Recondite - Dwell
Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Vatican Shadow - Persian Pillars of the Gasoline Era
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2FywQBkKljAwxqiOI29HHd?si=xnziB2lCR9ev0rQ_0hvi7A

ICR'S BEST HOUSE ALBUMS 2020

Demuja - Atlantic Avenue
Earth Boys - Earth Tones
Grant - Perception
Harald Björk - Shiftings
Jazzuelle - Rogue
Jori Hulkkonen - Primitivo
Kelpe - If Not Now When
Portable - The Transit of Mercury
Prins Thomas - Træns
Route 8 - Rewind The Days of Youth
Sei A - Kinetic Action
Shoebox, Maxi Mill, Tom Trago - Falling in the Right Place
Soela - Genuine Silk
Third Son - 20 Days
Triptease - Mescaleros
Yagya - Old Dreams and Memories
Yotam Avni - Was Here
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42FA4sE2LmwJiHE77G4kmM?si=3kVCQ6V_QF2soStkvD-y8A

ICR'S BEST BREAKS/BASS/POSTRAVE ALBUMS 2020

Andrea - Ritorno
Ash Koosha - Bluud
Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself
Cocktail Party Effect - Cocktail Party Effect
Croatian Amor - All In The Same Breath / Croatian Amor, Varg²™ - Body of Lila
dgoHn - Undesignated Proximate
Earth Trax - LP1 / LP2
Hodge - Shadows In Blue
Ital Tek - Outland
J-Shadow - The Astral Series
Krust - The Edge Of Everything
Lapalux - Esrevoinma
Mako - Oeuvre
Minor Science - Second Language
Nathan Fake - Blizzards
Pinch - Reality Tunnels
Skee Mask - Iss005 / Iss006
Sun Genam - Angry Gods
Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello
The Bug, Dis Fig - In Blue
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020
upsammy - Zoom
Xr/spool: - Void Lands
Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rUr8u8hqS5TciIK0rR7Aa?si=m4xrldTtRgm6OARDu5sHnw

ICR'S BEST DOWNTEMPO/LEFTFIELD ALBUMS 2020

Arms and Sleepers - Safe Area Earth
Black Taffy - Opal Wand
Bon Voyage Organisation - La Course
Charles Webster - Decision Time
El Michels Affair - Adult Themes
Febueder - Tomalin Has Etched In
Glenn Astro - Homespun
James Alexander Bright - Headroom
Jay Glass Dubs - Soma
John Carroll Kirby - My Garden
Khotin - Finds You Well
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Kiln - Astral Welder
Kit Sebastian - Mantra Moderne
Koyil - Healing Cycles
Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas - III
Linkwood, Greg Foat - Linkwood & Foat
Photay - Waking Hours
Rejoicer - Spiritual Sleaze
Skinshape - Umoja
Slugabed - they exist!!!!
Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News / Daylight Savings
Teeth Agency - Piano Man Breeds Love
Telemachus - Boring & Weird Historical Music
Tenderlonious - Quarantena
The Heliocentrics - Infinity Of Now
The Sweet Enoughs - Marshmallow
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6FpvWsC3Fjn9bYzE7xpieO?si=-j4B2LDDSDi44fZRSpXjlA

ICR'S BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS 2020

Action Bronson - Only For Dolphins
Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide
Blu & Exile - Miles
Chris Keys, Quelle Chris - Innocent Country 2
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Elzhi - Seven Times Down Eight Times Up
Homeboy Sandman - Don't Feed the Monster
Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Kenny Segal, Serengeti - Ajai
lojii - lo&behold
Mr. Lif, Stu Bangas - Vangarde
Mick Jenkins - The Circus
Oddisee - Odd Cure
Onoe Caponoe - Invisible War
Pink Siifu, Fly Anakin - FlySiifu's / Pink Siifu, Yungmorpheus - Bag Talk
Porter Ray - When Words Dance
Psypiritual, The Lasso - Kirlian
Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Quakers - II-The Next Wave
R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
Royce Da 5'9" - The Allegory
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Shabazz Palaces - Chocolate Souffle
Slow Village - Úton
SonnyJim, Must Volkoff - Tailor Made Ostrich / SonnyJim, Illinformed - The Chemistry Must Be Respected
Statik Selektah - The Balancing Act
The Doppelgangaz - Dumpster Dive / G Pack Vol. 2
The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed
The Leonard Simpson Duo - LSD
The Professionals - The Professionals
Verbz, Mr Slipz - Radio Waves
Yungmorpheus - Black Schemata
Zebra Katz - Less Is Moor
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TdFsKRqFCLEXk9GtKJyQE?si=pt192IzFT76M5ZV8nrjP1w

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