Drowned in Sound - Best of 2020 Awards

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Fun fun, I’ve given a few awards out on this month’s radio show like…

What’s the cover of the year?

Band name of the year?*

Lushest album of 2020? (spoiler: it’s by Gia Margaret)

Comeback…?

Screamo moment…?

Join me on Soho Radio today from 4-6pm GMT for this month’s Drowned in Sound 2020 ‘awards’ show + The Unhappy Hour to find out (or listen back on Mixcloud after broadcast - I’ll share the link and tracklisting when it’s up)

  • = clue: :skull:
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As in cover song or artwork?

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cover song - it’s pretty hard to discuss artwork on the radio…

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Certainly is with that attitude :wink:

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Her album came out last year.

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Fuck you I’d forgotten about this

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#whynotpleaseletme

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what

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I can’t stand The Strokes.

It’s a scottish duo who have a new album coming in 2021

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Belle and Sebastian?

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The Krankies?

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Cover of the year for me is Heather Trost’s take on Harry Nilsson’s Jump Into the Fire. She’s got a 1960s pop/psych thing going on here.

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Comeback of the year for me is Plone.

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Cover of the year for me is A.G Cook take on Beetlebum

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yeah that’s a great cover

Ty Segall did a fantastic fuzzed up cover of the same song this year too (along with a few other Nilsson songs from the same album)

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Comeback is Arab Strap surely

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Strong cover contender would be Emma Swift’s excellently titled EP of Bob Dylan songs, Blonde on the Tracks. My personal favourite is I Contain Multitudes from his own 2020 album.

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I don’t suppose it’ll get much traction here, but my comeback of the year is Levellers. First album for something like eight years, and it’s easily the best thing they’ve done in quarter of a century.

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That’s lovely.

Big fan of the Bob version, definitely one of my tracks of the year

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As for comebacks… I’m kind of surprised to be listening to new Doves and Tom Vek albums in 2020