While 2020 has been a difficult time for most, one thing that has collectively kept us going through it all is lots of excellent new music.
Below are the songs and albums that have kept the Official Charts team moving and motivated over the last 12 months... I’ve loved more albums this year than for many years, including fantastic releases from BC Camplight, Khruangbin, Waxahatchee, Sault (both Rise and Black Is) and Idles, among others.
But Marling’s exquisite seventh solo album has been my lockdown soundtrack more than any other, an album with the spellbinding ability to both lift the spirits and magnify the inevitable moments of melancholy that this year has brought.