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Hello + happy new year!

After you check out what we have been playing the most lately, keep scrolling to take a look at the list of the various "Best of 2020" shows that happened on WFMU's airwaves in the last couple of weeks. The wide range of music played on these programs shows just how much good music came out in 2020, in spite of everything else that happened. 
 
Olivia Bradley-Skill
Music Director
  • CUT WORMS - Nobody Lives Here Anymore (Jagjaguwar)
  • THE BATS - Foothills (Flying Nun)
  • ANA ROXANNE - Because of a Flower (Kranky)
  • BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND - Transmissions (Transgressive)
  • DAVID TOOP - Apparition Paintings (Room40)
  • ARTHUR RUSSELL - Sketches For World Of Echo: June 25 1984 Live At Ei (Audika)
  • SPAZA - Uprize! (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
  • DAVID NANCE - Staunch Honey (Trouble In Mind)
  • SUN RA ARKESTRA - Swirling (Strut)
  • NEGATIVLAND - The World Will Decide (Seeland)
  • HEATHER TROST - Petrichor (Third Man)
  • VARIOUS - Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975​-​1993 (Strut)
  • MELENAS - Dias Raros (Trouble In Mind)
  • PINKCOURTESYPHONE - Leave Everything To Be Desired (Room40)
  • THE GREEN CHILD - Shimmering Basset (Upset the Rhythm)
  • SAULT - Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals)
  • BUCK CURRAN - No Love Is Sorrow (Obsolete)
  • JUANA MOLINA - ANRMAL: Live In Mexico (Crammed Discs)
  • HOLOGRAM TEEN - Pizza Conspiracy (Ransom Note Records)
  • SONGHOY BLUES - Optimisme (Fat Possum)
  • NAKED ROOMMATE - Do The Duvet (Trouble In Mind)
  • ELA MINUS - Acts of Rebellion (Domino)
  • SLEEPER & SNAKE - Fresco Shed (Upset the Rhythm)
  • VARIOUS - Make More Noise! Women in Independent UK Music 1977-87 (Cherry Red)
  • STAR FEMININE BAND - S/t (Born Bad Records)
  • GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA - An Ode to Escapism (Karma Chief)
  • VARIOUS - Space Funk (Soul Jazz)
  • SMARTS - Who Needs Smarts Anyway? (Feel It)
  • DIMENSIONS IN SHADOW - The Laughing Curtain (Self-Released)
  • SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS - Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In (Daptone)
  • MORT GARSON - Music From Patch Cord Productions (Sacred Bones)
  • VARIOUS - Cha-Cha Au Harem (Born Bad Records)
  • SHAREHOLDER - The Glass (Chocolate Monk)
  • CABARET VOLTAIRE - Shadow of Fear (Mute)
  • MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem)
  • NEIL CICIEREGA - Mouth Dreams (Self-Released)
  • RAED YASSIN - Archeophony (Akuphone)
  • VARIOUS - Musik Music Musique (Cherry Red)
  • ZAZOU BIKAYE - Mr. Manager (Crammed Discs)
  • CYRIL CYRIL - Yallah Mickey Mouse (Born Bad Records)
  • LITHICS - Tower of Age (Trouble In Mind)
  • ALISON COTTON - Only Darkness Now (Feeding Tube / Cardinal Fuzz)
  • MORWAN - Zola​-​Zemlya (Feel It Records)
  • KACY & CLAYTON AND MARLON WILLIAMS - Isn't It (New West)
  • RICHARD MARKS - Love Is Gone (Now-Again)
  • THE EXORZIST III - Best of the Queens Underground Tapes (Self-Released)
  • IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS - Shaman! (Strut)
  • HALF JAPANESE - Crazy Hearts (Fire Records)
  • AZYMUTH, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD AND ADRIAN YOUNGE - Azymuth (Jazz Is Dead)
  • LAMIN FOFANA - Darkwater (Self-Released)
  • SAN KAZAKGASCAR - Emotional Crevasse (Lather Records)
  • JORDAN REYES - Sand Like Stardust (American Dreams)
  • POPULATION II - A La O Terre (Castle Face)
  • MELAINE DALIBERT - Musique pour le lever du jour (Elsewhere)
  • JENNIFER CASTLE - Monarch Season (Paradise of Bachelors)
  • THE LEFT OUTSIDES - Are You Sure I Was There? (Feeding Tube / Cardinal Fuzz)
  • ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA - Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
  • LOUIS PHILIPPE & THE NIGHT MAIL - Thunderclouds (Tapete)
  • J. PAVONE STRING ENSEMBLE - Lost and Found (Astral Spirits)
  • HUNTSVILLE + YUKA HONDA, NELS CLINE, DARIN GRAY, GLENN KOTCHE - Bow Shoulder (Hubro)
  • SARAH BERNSTEIN - Exolinger (577 Records)
  • JEREMIAH SAND - Lift It Down (Sacred Bones)
  • WHITE HILLS - Splintered Metal Sky (Self-Released)
  • JUDITH HAMANN - Music for Cello and Humming (Blank Forms Editions)
  • LAURA CANNELL - Winter Rituals EP (Brawl Records)
  • THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - Getting Into Knives (Merge)
  • KILN - Astral Welder (Ghostly)
  • MOLCHAT DOMA - Monument (Sacred Bones)
  • SUSS - Promise (Northern Spy)
  • LEGOWELT - Unconditional Contours (-ous)
  • POLE - Fading (Mute)
  • VIOLENT SQUID - Echo Lab Sessions Vol. 1 & 2 (No Label)
  • GIRLS ON GRASS - Spill Your Guts b/w Who's Gonna Cry (No Label)
  • CARLOS NIÑO & MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON - Chicago Waves (International Anthem)
  • THELONIOUS MONK - Palo Alto (Impulse!)
  • MORT GARSON AKA "ATARAXIA" - The Unexplained (Sacred Bones)
  • PATOIS COUNSELORS - The Optimal Seat (Ever/Never)
  • RADIAC - Asitato (Self Released)
  • THE FIRESIGN THEATRE - Dope Humor of the Seventies (Stand Up! Records)
  • MORT GARSON - Didn't You Hear? (Sacred Bones)
  • SUNWATCHERS - Oh Yeah? (Trouble In Mind)
  • CLIPPING. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop)
  • COOKIE TONGUE - Dream Seed Ceremony (Self-Released)
  • ELLA FITZGERALD - The Lost Berlin Tapes (Verve)
  • PAT THOMAS - I Ain't Buyin' It (Empty Cellar)
  • TAKUYA KURODA - Fly Moon Die Soon (First Word)
  • USTAD SAAMI - Pakistan Is For The Peaceful (Glitterbeat)
  • VARIOUS - Reel to Real: Vol. 1 (No Label)
  • A FULL COSMIC SOUND - Afcs (BYM Records)
  • FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT / 400 LONELY THINGS - Nigths and Profecy (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  • STAFFERS - In The Pigeon Hole (Ever/Never)
  • THE MIDNIGHT STEPPERS - Isolation Drives (Radical Documents)
  • DEEP SEA DIVER - Impossible Weight (ATO Records)
  • ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - Magic (Warp)
  • SOFT SHOULDER - Not The New One (Gilgongo)
  • KAREN CONSTANCE - The Junk Merchant (Chocolate Monk)
  • SOUNDTRACK - Party Girls OST (Modern Harmonic)
  • ZEDASHE - Silver Sanctuary (Electric Cowbell)
  • BADGE ÉPOQUE ENSEMBLE - Self Help (Telephone Explosion)
  • FREAK HEAT WAVES - Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion)
  • JO BISSO - African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978) (Africa Seven)
  • STEPHEN HAMM - Theremin Man (Self-Released)
  • STEVE WYNN - Decade Box Set (Real Gone Music)
  • TREES SPEAK - Shadow Forms (Soul Jazz)
  • BHAJAN BHOY - That Summer Oh Creator! EP (Self-Released)
  • SANISIDRO - A lo peas, a lo bajo y a lo llano (Slovenly)
  • SILICA GEL - May Day (Sweet Wreath)
  • VARIOUS - Southeast of Saturn (Third Man)
  • AQUILES NAVARRO & TCHESER HOLMES - Heritage of the Invisible II (International Anthem)
  • GUIDED BY VOICES - Styles We Paid For (Guided By Voices Inc.)
  • TREES SPEAK - Ohms (Soul Jazz)
  • PEGGY LEE - Something Wonderful (Omnivore)
  • EUPHOTIC - Isopleths (Public Eyesore)
  • F8TLSTK - Deep Dreams (Self-Released)
  • LITTLE RICHARD - The Rill Thing (Omnivore Recordings)
  • VARIOUS - Black Riot: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore (Soul Jazz)
  • LITTLE RICHARD - King of Rock and Roll (Omnivore Recordings)
  • HAND OF FOOD - Swimming Mindlessly (Ever/Never)
  • MAHATMA X - A Mobtown Suite Vol. II (Home Assembly Music)
  • WARSAW PAKT - Needle Time! (Munster)
  • JURG FREY - 120 Pieces of Sound (Elsewhere)
  • MODERN MEDICINE - Original Home Magick (Chocolate Monk)
  • THE STAPLES - Unlock Your Mind (Omnivore)
  • LITTLE GOLD - Wake Up & Die Right (Sophomore Lounge)
  • ÇAHK - Où (Akuphone)
  • DELANO STEWART - Stay a Little Bit Longer (Doctor Bird)
  • DIRTY PROJECTORS - 5 EPs (Domino)
  • MICAH FRANK - Noontide (Puremagnetik Tapes​)
  • CINDY - Free Advice (Mtn St. Mtn.)
  • CECILIA LOPEZ AND WENCHI LAZO - Bisponible (anticausal systems)
  • DJ FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION - DJ Female Convict Scorpion & The Magic Band (Self Released)
  • FRAYLE - 1692 (Aqualamb)
  • GEN KEN / SEIEN JACK - EC Split 12 (Electronic Cottage)
  • JURG FREY - l'air, l'instant - deux pianos (Elsewhere)
  • ROBERT HOOD - Mirror Man (Rekids)
  • VARIOUS - Happy Times: Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Vol. 2 (Ace)
  • VARIOUS - Birdsong From The Lower Branches (Hypnagogic Tapes)
  • LARS FINBERG - Tinnitus Tonight (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • THE DEAD C - Unknowns (Ba Da Bing!)
  • WENDY EISENBERG - Auto (Ba Da Bing!)
  • KENNY CARTER - Showdown (Kent / Ace)
  • VARIOUS - Too Much Future Punkrock GDR 1980-1989 (Edition Iron Curtain Radio)
  • MAXIMUM ERNST - Hallmark of a Crisis Period (Ever/Never)
  • ALFAH FEMMES - No Need to Die (Self-Released)
  • ARURMUKHA - 14​.​11​.​90 - ein akustisches psychogramm (Karlrecords)
  • MUSIC ON HOLD - 30 Minutes of Music on Hold (Born Bad Records)
  • SARAH HENNIES - Spectral Malsconcities (New World Records)
  • ANTHROPROPHH - German Oak (Feeding Tube / Cardinal Fuzz)
  • URS GRAF CONSORT - Uva Ursi (Bison)
  • BONS - Ready Reckoner (Fruits and Flowers)
  • SOUNDTRACK - Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) OST (Modern Harmonic)
  • MATT LAJOIE - Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind)
  • ANNA MCCLELLAN - I Saw First Light (Father/Daughter)
  • DOUG CARN, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD AND ADRIAN YOUNGE - Jazz Is Dead 5 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • GENTLE FIRE - Explorations (1970 - 1973) (Paradigm Discs)
  • KELLY FINNIGAN - A Joyful Sound (Colemine)
  • LITTLE RICHARD - Southern Child (Omnivore)
  • THE KRAYOLAS - Savage Your Krayolas (Box Records)
  • VARIOUS - Right Back Where We Started From (Cherry Red)
  • LARAAJI - Moon Piano (All Saints)
  • RED STUFF - Bless Us (Skell Records)
  • THE TOMS - The 1979 Sessions (Feel It)
  • WHITE MANNA - Arc (Cardinal Fuzz / Centripetal Force)
  • WREN KITZ - Early Worm (Sophomore Lounge / Feeding Tube)
  • REYNOLS - Gona Rubin Ranesa (Outlier Communications)
  • THE RIVIERAS - The Coed Singles (Omnivore)
  • LEMONHEADS - Lovey (Fire Records)
  • LE FONDEUR DE SON - SPIME 2019 – Cosmic and spontaneous gestures (Self-Released)
  • METZ - Atlas Vending (Sub Pop)
  • RACHEL MUSSON - I Went This Way (577 Records)
  • VILDE & INGA - How Forests Think (Sofa)
  • HUMMING DOGS - Les Borigènes (Bison)
  • MATANA ROBERTS AND PAT THOMAS - The Truth (Otoroku)
  • SUNG WATER - s/t (Self-Released)
  • THE BAND WHOSE NAME IS A SYMBOL - Berserkir Volume II (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube)
  • DECOY WITH JOE MCPHEE - Ac/dc (Otoroku)
  • LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY - Loleatta / Cry To Me (Kent Soul)
  • VARIOUS - Lofts & Garages (Ace)
  • TANI TABBAL TRIO - Now Then (Aum Fidelity)
  • LES CONVERSIONS - Cassette (Feeding Tube)
  • RUBE - When We Wake Up It's Gonna Hurt (Luftmensch Records)
  • TOTSOUKO - Olga Xefteri (To Pikap Records)
  • TWO MUCH - The Abstract Horse (Feeding Tube)
  • VERTONEN - Broken Air (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  • GIANMARIA APRILE - Rain, ghosts, one dog and empty woodland (We Insist!)
  • MARCIA BASSETT, MARGARIDA GARCIA, MANUEL MOTA - Survival of Laments (American Head)
  • MIKADO KOKO - Nekomata EP (No Label)
  • SABIR MATEEN, CHRISTOPHER DELL, CHRISTIAN RAMOND, KLAUS KUGEL - Creation (577 Records)
  • TAMAR APHEK - All Bets Are Off (Kill Rock Stars)
  • LEVINSON / MAHLMEISTER - Shores (Trouble In Mind)
  1. FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT / 400 LONELY THINGS - Nigths and Profecy (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  2. STAFFERS - In The Pigeon Hole (Ever/Never)
  3. THE MIDNIGHT STEPPERS - Isolation Drives (Radical Documents)
  4. MATT LAJOIE - Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind)
  5. VERTONEN - Broken Air (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  6. LEVINSON / MAHLMEISTER - Shores (Trouble In Mind)
  7. CAHN INGOLD PRELOG - Accelerate (Crow Versus Crow)
  8. L. EUGENE METHE - What is an Audience (Unread)
  9. TECH RIDERS - For Eternity (Public Eyesore)
  10. VOSP - Pale Shelter (anathema archive)
  1. GIRLS ON GRASS - Spill Your Guts b/w Who's Gonna Cry (No Label)
  2. BONS - Ready Reckoner (Fruits and Flowers)
  3. AL CHEM - 777 (Meakusma)
  4. CELEBRATORS - Wipeout! / Ex​​-​​Explorer (Tomothy)
  5. JEFF TWEEDY - Susquehanna River b/w I'd Rather Be Alone (dBpm)
  6. COLOURED BALLS - Flash b/w Dave The Rave (Just Add Water)
  7. PRIZED PIG - Ppep (Tomothy)
  8. LE VILLEJUIF UNDERGROUND - Les Huitres A Cancale (Born Bad)
  9. NORMIL HAWAIIANS - In The Stone (Upset the Rhythm)
  10. NEUROTIC FICTION - Romance (Specialist Subject)
Find out what WFMU DJs liked best in 2020, a year that at least had some good music in it (even if it didn’t have much else to recommend it), by checking out their "Best of 2020" shows.
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