Alphabetical list of the music I enjoyed the most this year…

• Big Big Train, Empire
• Blaer, Yellow
• Brass Against, III
• Tim Bowness, Peter Chilvers, Modern Ruins
• Flying Colours, Third Stage: Live in London
• Frost*, 13 Winters (box)
• Peter Gabriel, Rated PG
• Gary Husband and Markus Reuter, Music of our Times 
• Haken, Virus
• Jakko Jaksyk, Secrets and Lies
• Katatonia, City Burials
• King Crimson, Complete 1969 Recordings (box)
• Makrokosmos Quartet, Rofu, Manta Mantra (2 works for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists by Nik Bärtsch)
• Patrick Moraz-Bill Bruford, Temples of Joy (box reissue)
• Neal Morse, Sola Gratia 
• Nick D’Virgilio, Invisible
• Pain of Salvation, Panther
• Porcupine Tree, In Absentia (box reissue) 
• Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis), Truce
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts V: Together and VI: Locusts
• John Petrucci, Terminal Velocity
• The Pineapple Thief, Versions of the Truth
• Sonar with David Torn, Tranceportation Vol 2
• Sons of Apollo, MMXX
• Toyah and The Humans (box)

I really missed live music, with the only gig I attended The Aristocrats early in the year. Lots of things cancelled or postponed. But I did enjoy being able to stream some live concerts, especially from Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin and Mobile.

For previous years, see the lists from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.