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…
Many of us are happy and, in some cases, relieved to see 2020 come to an end. The year was replete with loss and constant uncertainty; however, various forms of media have been instrumental in helping us cope with changing…
It may sound like a cliché by now, but 2020 truly has been a whirlwind. The start of the year feels like it was both ages ago and yet only yesterday. However, despite all the doom and gloom, we’ve also…
A note on truth and history: Season 4 of Netflix’s The Crown has attracted warnings to not view the show as a documentary, especially for the young ones — as if a generation brought up on the internet wouldn’t be…
A yorubaddie, a romconnoisseur, and president of the Nick Miller fan club: these are all titles that Bolu Babalola has given herself. However, with the release of her debut novel Love In Colour, she can now add Sunday Times bestselling…
