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Albums of the Year 2020: Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
The music that kept spirits raised during the year of you-know-what
All a bit of a blur
I’ll leave it to others, better placed, to unpack 2020’s gruelling impact on so many. But one of its side effects was the elevation, alongside food and television, of recorded music. It became a salve, a focus, a locus of social media blather about what was getting us through. Lockdown ears were lifted by a heady gumbo of new discoveries and old favourites. Certainly, my best-of-year lists are overfull.