2020: Albums of the Year (#20 - 11)

Last batch before the top ten... Click the album title to listen, enjoy!

20. Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham - Sankofa Season (Kitto) 

"The whole is better than the sum of its parts" could very well be applied here... Fantastic stuff...

19. Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse!)

Shabaka completes his hattrick for Impulse! with this gem...

18. Ivan Ave - Double Goodbyes (Mutual Intentions)

Our favourite Norwegian got many helping hands from his very talented extended family, resulting in this excellent release...

17. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Shaman! (Strut) 

Ackamoor assembled a new gang of Pyramids for their most melancholic and reflective album to date...

16. Key Elements - Key Elements (Sonar Kollektiv)

Perfect threesome involving jazz, broken beat and hiphop... Highly addictive, if you ask me...

15. Steve Spacek - Houses (Black Focus)

Spacek's predominantly instrumental new album (his first for Black Focus) is his most straightfoward release in ages... 

14. Mama Odé - Tales and Patterns of the Maroons (Five Easy Pieces)

Two of the Deenamode brothers fused the music of their ancestors with the music of their youth...

13. Jimi Tenor - Aulos (Philophon)

Our favourite Finn reassembled the team behind 'Order of Nothingness' to produce this worthy successor...

12. Khruangbin - Mordechai (Dead Oceans)

It took me a while to really connect with this album, but when I finally did it was so rewarding... Another great release by one of the most interesting bands of the last couple of years...

11. Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen (Black Focus)

Mr. Wu can't seem to chose between broken beat electronics, jazz-funk and soulful R&B. We thank him for his indecisiveness...