>01. FAVORITE 2020 ALBUMS

Off the top of my head:

Sault - Both albums (the Rise album slightly more for me)
Lianne La Havas - Self Titled
Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham - Sankofa Season EP
Shabaka & The Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
Ego Ella May - Honey For Wounds
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
We're New Again - Makaya McCraven & Gil Scott-Heron
Moses Sumney - Grae

>02. SONGS YOU RAN INTO THE GROUND

Alex Isley - Gone
Nick Hakim - Qadir
SAULT - Son Shine (and most of the Rise album)
NSG - All their singles this year
Zoe Modiga - TATA
Lianne La Havas - Weird Finishes (but really most of the album)
keiyaA - Every Nigga Is A Star
Pa Salieu - My Family (my hype tune of the year)
Rema - Woman
Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham - Low Ceilings

>03. WHAT ALBUM SURPRISED YOU?

Lianne La Havas - Self Titled
Was really surprised had how great the Lianne La Havas album was - now my favourite of hers. She had a very quiet period since her 2nd album, and really didn't know what direction she would go in.

>04. WHAT ARTIST WERE YOU LOOKING FOR, BUT DIDN'T SHOW UP?

Kendrick Lamar
The Roots


>05. WHAT ARTIST DID YOU DISCOVER THIS YEAR (new or old)?

Radiohead

Hearing Lianne La Havas's cover of "Weird Fishes" I went back to hear the Radiohead original for the first time, and the In Rainbows album which blew me away. Then there was a post on The Lesson about how 'Kid A' is the greatest album white people made (lol). Played that album for the first time... and WOW.

I think being surrounded in the UK by people who play more of their earlier (rock sound) work, I didn't realise that Radiohead adapted their later period sound to something more my taste - slept on them for years.

>06. WHO ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN 2021?

Anderson Paak
The Roots
James Blake

>07. WHAT ALBUM DID PEOPLE OVERLOOK?

In my peer group, definitely the SAULT albums

and overall, Buju Banton's comeback album Upside Down

>08. WHAT NEW GENRE DID YOU EXPLORE THIS YEAR?

Is post 2000 Radiohead a genre?
also got really into South African soul & jazz artists - The Ancestors, Sepa Kapstaad and Zoe Modiga

>09. WHAT'S THE 1ST LIVE SHOW YOU WANT TO GO TO ONCE THIS IS
>ALL OVER?

All the jazz gigs in London; Ashley Henry, Nubya Garcia, Steam Down, Ezra Collective, Shabaka Hutchings, etc... Any night at the Church of Sound nights, or something interesting at Cafe Oto

>10. WHAT RELEASE DISAPPOINTED YOU?

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
Burna Boy - Twice As Tall
Various Artists: Blue Note Reimagined