During 2020, I made five Spotify playlists (totaling 512 minutes) organized by genre idiosyncratically. THIS compilation is 80 minutes of favorites distilled from those playlists (which you can explore on my Spotify profile vodem). The songs here are an unequal selection from the five playlists, picking favorites that segue coherently. The compilation starts songs with songs from the playlist “2020 Favorite ‘Poptimist’ Songs” then moves on to “2020 Favorite Indie Rock Songs” then to “2020 Favorite Indie Pop Songs” then to “2020 Favorite Ambient and Neo-Classical Songs” and finally then “2020 Favorite (mostly) Jazz and Adjacent.” I strongly encourage you to check out the Spotify playlists to dig deeper into a whole lot more great 2020 music. Enjoy!
The cover art is a still taken on my phone from Satoshi Kon’s spectacular anime Paprika (from 2006).
Click here to go to the compilation on Mixcloud or the link below to stream the compilation without leaving this page; the songlist follows.
Here is a list of the songs and artists in order:
1. “If I Get To Meet You” by BENEE
2. “On” by Kelly Lee Owens
3. “detonate” by Charli XCX
4. “you should call mum” by Little Simz
5. “Dora” by Tierra Whack
6. “TTT” by Michelle Blades
7. “Personal Computing” by neutrals
8. “Child’s Romance” by Nap Eyes
9. “Alley Cat” by Woolen Men
10. “Half the Person” by Terrible Signal
11. “Can’t Sleep” by Jay Som
12. “Ouchi Time” by Kikagaku Moyo
13. “Plans” by KATE NV
14. “7 Seconds” by Porridge Radio
15. “Blow Up” by Aoife Nessa Frances
16. “Oh Memory” by Julianna Barwick ft. Mary Lattimore
17. “Bonus Material” by Jenny Hval
18. “Her Revolution” by Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke
19. “O salutaris hostia” by Portland State University Chamber Choir ft. Kate Ledington & Maeve Stier
20. “A Clearing in the Field” by William Tyler
21. “Histoires de fous” by Aksak Maboul ft. Veronique Vincent
22. “Can’t Have Me Nothing” by Marlowe ft. L’Orange & Solemn Brigham
April 16, 2021
Wonderings 