![]() Holy Tongue, “Emet” Instrumental funky post-punk, an old sound made new, largely owing to the dynamic drumming of Valentina Magaletti Shanique Marie, “Did Not Make This For Jah_9” Magical bubbling noises backed by a drum machine getting hammered while a woman repeatedly counts to eight And John Carroll Kirby’s “Walking Through a House Where a Family Has Lived,” a poorly recorded and repetitive solo piano piece which ends the playlist, hits a trifecta of my interests. ![]() Gavborg’s “Did Not Make This for Jah_9,” which begins the playlist, was the first song on the first Deep Voices earlier this summer. The only purposeful placements are the first and last songs. They’re not presented in a ranked order, but I have obsessively sequenced them for a smooth listening experience. There are many releases I loved that are not available on streaming or that are extremely long, and for the purpose of this playlist I’ve chosen songs of a manageable length that are available on Spotify (many other favorites can be found in my Bandcamp profile). The only ground rule is that everything was released in 2020-no reissues or archival recordings. The worldview here is at least slightly wider than that. I’d rather this fool’s errand that than a full indulgence of my own interests for the best songs of the year, which would inevitably be 50 jungle tracks and 50 songs of depressing piano. Try as I might, I can’t get over my own tendencies to present an array of music, an attempt to create a microcosm of the world of sound. Some of the songs have been featured on Deep Voices before and some have not. There are 100 songs of assorted origins, many of which contain at least one element of my favorite sonic tropes: repetition, piano, crazy drums, sounds like it was recorded in a trash can, a British person talking, audio that isn’t music. I’m calling this list a best of, but it may just be my favorites. Let Double Gee stand in for everything that goes unheard. ![]() It’s impossible to consume all music, but that has not stopped me from trying. I have my own genre blind spots and taste preferences, and even within my various wheelhouses, there is inevitably great stuff I don’t get to hear. ![]() Looking at this list, I’m reminded of how much amazing music is out there, but also how much I must have missed. So I have collected 100 of the songs I have enjoyed most. Though Deep Voices has been dedicated to surfacing music from all timelines, like any big music fan, I wanted to catalog the highs of the year. From “Joseph Has Dreams and Can Interpret Dreams” to “The Fiery Cloud” to “The Prayer Jesus Christ Taught Us,” every track is deeply compelling and totally bizarre. It’s a strange, 40 second song that turned out to be part of a 325 song album of 40 second songs, Double Gee’s meandering recitation of the bible. With a delivery that sounds like dancehall meets spoken word, Double Gee narrates how God anointed Aaron with oil. There was a song result, though: “The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons” by Double Gee. No artists showed up, as their music isn’t available on streaming. ![]() A few weeks ago, I wanted to listen to the ’90s hardcore band Ordination of Aaron, so I typed their name into the Spotify search bar. ![]()
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