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I started running out of things to say just as the SARS-CoV2 spread in the US, and when the lockdown happened, I threw myself into recording a pair of cover albums. I wasn’t buying much music, nor listening to anyone other than myself. By the time I finished making the albums, stores were opening up, and my music buying eventually resumed.

But I still don’t have much to say.

That doesn’t mean I’ve run out of opinions. So here are my favorites of the year so far.

New releases

• Sam Sparro, Boombox Eternal
• Timo Andres / Brad Mehldau / Jeremy Denk / Randy Newman, I Still Play
• Perfume Genius, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
• Jason Isbell and 400 Unit, Reunions
• The Streets, None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive
• Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters
• … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
• The Chicks, Gaslighter

Catalog

• Charlie Puth, Voicenotes
• Robyn, Body Talk
• Nakamori Akina, AKINA BOX 1982-1989
• Various Artists, Studio One Rockers
• The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
• Les Rythmes Digitales, Darkdancer

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