Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Friends of Twist & Shout Pick: the Best Albums of 2020

Andrea Paschal: CIMS/THINKINDIE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1. Jarv-Is - Beyond the Pale
2. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
3. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
4. Yelle - L’ere Du Versau
5. ARCA - KiCk I
6. Washed Out - Purple Noon
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer
8. Caribou - Suddenly
9. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
10. Disclosure - Energy

Liz Boger: CIMS SALES & MARKETING

1. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
2. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
3. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
4. Waxahatchee - St. CLoud
5. Glass Animals - Dreamland
6. Beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers
7. Wray - Stream of Youth/ Blank World
8. Washed Out - Purple Noon
9. Finneas - Blood Harmony
10. Purity Ring - WOMB

Blake Wimberly: CIMS/THINKINDIE DO/KNOW-IT-ALL

1. John Carroll Kirby - My Garden
2. Andras - Joyful
3. Matt Karmil - STS371
4. Paradise Cinema - Paradise Cinema
5. Chip Wickham - Blue To Red
6. Turn On The Sunlight - Warm Waves
7. Roman Flügel - Garden Party
8. Anunaku/DJ Plead - 032
9. Ami Dang - Meditations Mixtape Vol. 1
10. WRAY - Stream of Youth/Blank World

Scott Register: THINKINDIE A&R
1. Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
2. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1: The Butcher Shop Sessions & Cuttin’ Grass
3. Whitney Rose - We Still Go To Rodeos
4. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
5. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
6. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II
7. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
8. Paris Jackson - Wilted
9. Nada Surf - Never Not Together
10. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III

Russell Cothran: THINKINDIE SALES & MARKETING

1. Afghan Whigs - Black Love & Gentlemen
2. Jellyfish - Bellybutton
3. Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music For Airports
4. John Coltrane - Blue Train
5. Talk Talk - The Spirit Of Eden
6. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
7. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
8. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9. Steely Dan - Gold
10. Tame Impala - Lonerism

Nick Campbell: THINKINDIE WAREHOUSE MANAGER

1. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
2. Choir Boy - Gathering Swans
3. Moaning - Uneasy Laughter
4. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
5. Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
6. Hum - Inlet
7. Bambara - Stray
8. Wray - Stream of Youth / Blank World
9. Holy Wave - Interloper
10. En Attendant Ana - Juillet

Ashley Vaske: CIMS/THINKINDIE ACCOUNTING

1. Poliça - When We Stay Alive
2. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III Monsters
3. Rhye - Home EP
4. Joe Wong - Nite Creatures
5. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
6. Yelle - L’Ère du Verseau
7. Mourn - Self Worth
8. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
9. Khruangbin - Mordechai
10. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Jack Patton-Smith: ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE REDEYE

1. Bendrix Littleton - Deep Dark South
2. Rival Consoles - Articulation
3. Wax Machine - Earthsong of Silence
4. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
5. Autechre - SIGN/PLUS
6. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
7. Osees - Protean Threat
8. Dead Ghosts - Automatic Changer
9. Dirtbike - Country Club Acres
10. Lance Bangs - Whammy

Alex Ramsay: THIRTY TIGERS

1. Osees - Protean Threat
2. Loving - If I Am Only My Thoughts
3. Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - Quatermass Seven
4. Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet!
5. North Americans - Roped In
6. Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore
7. John Moreland - LP5
8. The Heliocentrics - Telemetric Sounds
9. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green (2020 Reissue)
10. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed - Jazz Is Dead 001

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