![]() In 2020, we have two albums of the year, inextricably linked to each other, and to this time. In the process, they created a reckoning through sound, palimpsests of these months that will live forever in our collective sonic memories. So, Black artists turned their centuries-old fight for survival into song, speaking truth to power with music that expressed anguish and uprising. Nor was systemic racism dismantled within the music industry, either. However, that supposed reckoning for white supremacy tragically never came. The world’s attention was directed toward the violent persecution of Black people, as the killing of George Floyd, like so many before him, rang out across the globe. From the political to the personal, from tales grounded squarely on planet Earth to interstellar existences of their own creation, musicians, left with more time at home, recorded, responded, and released in real-time. ![]() Thankfully, artists expressed all we needed to with their albums. A year you could say endless words about, and still not find the right words at all. ![]()
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