Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist)
We ve been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store
Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it s a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner
<a href= https://eartheater.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-flames-are-dew-upon-my-skin >Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin by Eartheater</a>
WHO: A shapeshifting New York songwriter accessing new zones between folk, drone, and club music.
WHY YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING: Since 2009, Alexandra Drewchin aka Eartheater has - over four solo albums, a mixtape, and a collaborative release with the duo LEYA - mapped out a sprawling soundworld equal parts psychedelic folk, experimental noise, cloud rap, and techno. In the process, she has secured her spot as one of the most compelling new musical figures to explode out of New York’s underground. Across