The 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020, part one Blake Scott (image by Mia Mala McDonald) and Sweet Whirl (image by Annie Llewellyn)
Words by Tom Parker
We spotlight the first 15 albums of the two-part feature, ranked in no particular order.
Well that’s a wrap – 2020 is finished, finito, done, dun, gone, seeya, bye, catchya, fuck off… Where am I going with this?
We’re all relieved to say goodbye to the worst year of our lives, and while the grief of 2020 is behind us, there have been many musical nuggets that have helped pull us through.
If it wasn’t for the below albums, I’m not sure we would’ve coped, and so it’s to these artists that we all, Melburnian or not, give our utmost gratitude.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK #1: Guided by Voices - The Styles We Paid For (Guided by Voices Inc)
The unstoppable Bob Pollard lets fly the third GBV record of 2020 made in quarantine, rocks the same Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. That s the old motto of the United States Postal Service, but it works for
Guided by Voices, too. Bob Pollard has records to make and release, and nothing is going to stop him. Certainly not a global pandemic. The original idea for Guided by Voices third album of 2020 when Pollard wrote the songs back in February, was that it would be recorded live to analogue tape and would be called