SV Stop 267: Wire Chart 2020

Eight years I've been doing this. BORRITWEM now has its own dedicated blog which gets, on average, zero views. Here's my 2020 set of acquisitions anyway, all according to the criterion “buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month” – plus three more to make up a proper Wire 15 chart. For reference, the previous seven years’ worth can be found here: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

The # marks denote the issues in which the records featured.
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SubVersion 2020 15

#431 Catatonic Effigy - Putrid Tendency (Iluso)
#432 Tyshawn Sorey & Marilyn Crispell - The Adornment of Time (Pi Recordings)
#433 Chaos Motion - Psychological Spasms Cacophony (Transcending Obscurity)
#434 Jan St. Werner - Molocular Meditation (Editions Mego)
#435 Witch ‘n’ Monk - Witch ‘n’ Monk (Tzadik)
#436 MSHR - Signal Hybrid Recursion (De Player)
#437 Moor Jewelry - True Opera (Don Giovanni)
#438 Maggi Payne - Arctic Winds (Aguirre)
#439 Bob Vylan - We Live Here (Venn Records)
#440 Tashi Dorji - Stateless (Drag City)
#441 Clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop)
#442 Krust - The Edge of Everything (Crosstown Rebels)

+#435 GRID - Decomposing Force (NNA Tapes)
+#439 Hedvig Mollestad - Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon)
+#441 Laura Cannell, Kate Ellis, Stewart Lee, et al - These Feral Lands Vol.1 (Brawl)

Compiled by Jonathan Tait, subvertcentral.blogspot.co.uk
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And my record of the year for 2020: Witch ‘n’ Monk by the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra. As Brian Morton wrote: “Hard to imagine that voice, guitar and flute could groove so hard and deliver so much.”