10: Trust – Ane Brun Album: How Beauty Hold the Hand of Sorrow Released: Nov 27, 20 Ane Brun’s stunning 2020 LP How Beauty Hold the Hand of Sorrow is perfused with heartbreaking lyrics, theatrical arrangements, and an endearing delicacy…
#20 Anyone Around – Jessy Lanza Album: All the Time Released: Jul 9, 2020 In 2013, Jessy Lanza released her brilliant debut album Pull My Hair Back. With songs like Fuck Diamond and Kathy Lee, Lanza assured listeners of her…
#40 It’s Not Always Funny – Devendra Banhart EP: Vast Ovoid Released: July 16, 2020 It’s Not Always Funny captures something that is entirely under discussed in the artistic world: wryness. Picture that look in the supermarket aisles when you…
#60 People on Sunday – Domenique Dumont Album: People on Sunday Released: Nov 13, 2020 This album was created to provide a soundtrack to a remastered 1930s German film entitled Menschen am Sonntag. Throughout Dumont’s masterful synth-electronica, the classical influence…
#80 Zane, The Scribe – Jyoti Album: Mama You Can Bet! Released: Aug 28, 2020 Jyoti’s highly-acclaimed jazz album provided several memorable moments. Track #2 is one of them, with steady galloping drums and a sleek, smooth vibraphone setting the…
THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF FLIPSIDE’s TOP 100 SONGS OF 2020. In December, one-hundred and fifty songs released in the strange year of 2020 were added to a long list before being rated from 0-10 and ranked via a rather maladroit…
Label: Baroque Sunbursts Purchased: Honest Jon’s in Coal Drops Yard Why? Track #2 Flowers was playing as I walked in and I just couldn’t resist investigating. Dystopia, or Utopia? It’s up to the listener to decide exactly what Italian-British electronic…
I was first introduced to the work of Archie Curzon, incidentally, in our own Beaver office. He was talking about three things: his rig biz run (where he runs five miles and listens to a business podcast), the various client…
Laura Marling’s seventh full-length LP was released three months before its due date in the belief that people could do with some light entertainment. In this release, the thirty-year-old singer/songwriter creates something close to perfection with her almost overwhelming charm.…
Keith Haring, like so many others, died from AIDS in 1990. His work as a visual artist throughout the 1980s remains instantly recognisable, and has influenced everything from fine art to classroom doodles. Haring’s presence in the New York creative…
