2020 Album Preview Series Part 4: To Vet During the Threat

Previews of upcoming 2020 listening, including: Field Music – Making a New World (2020) DIIV – Deceiver (2019) Craig Armstrong- The Incredible Hulk Original Score (2008) Deerhoof – The Runner’s Four (2005) The Aristocrats – You Know What…? (2019) Shana Cleveland – Night of the Worm Moon (2019)


Relevant Links
Previous review of Field Music’s Plumb Previous review of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless
Introduction to the Superhero Theme Project
Recalling a cold night with Deerhoof The 2020 Playlist grows:

Pink Floyd's "The Wall:" Waters in the Fractures

Review and discussion on Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979)

Relevant links:

Previous post on A Saucerful of Secrets

2020 Album Preview Series Part 3: The Melody Spectrum

More previews of new music for 2020, including:

Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)

Larry Gus – Subservience (2019)

Angel Olson - All Mirrors (2019)

No-Man - I Love You To Bits (2019)

James Blake – Assume Form (2019)

Various Artists – Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental, and New Age Music 1980-1990 (2019)

Relevant Links:

Old text review of James Blake’s debut

Aaaand the ever-growing 2020 Spotify list....

2020 Album Preview Series Part 2: To Reshape the Cliche

Album previews for Spring 2020, including:

The Rentals – Return of the Rentals (1995)

Frank Zappa – You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989)

John Williams – The Rise of Skywalker OST (2019)

Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time (1986)

Saariselka – The Ground Our Sky (2019)

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble – In Step (1989)

Related Links:

Overview of Weezer albums

Recent thoughts on Weezer’s Pinkerton AND Star Wars

Posts on Zappa’s You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

The ever-growing 2020 playlist

Remembering Peart: A Show of Hands and Visa Bands

A memorial post for Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Rush, as well as some discussion on their live album A Show of Hands (1988).

Relevant posts

I did a text series a few years ago on Rush’s entire studio catalog. Start here.  

2020 Preview Series Part 1: The Hands-On Approach

Previews of new music for 2020, including:

Anamanaguchi – [USA] (2019)

Battles – Juice B Crypts (2019)

Crystal Beth – Push Through (2019)

Floating Points – Crush (2019)

Everything Everything- A Fever Dream (2017)

RPWL – Tales From Outer Space (2019)

Below is a widget to the 2020 playlist.  Watch it grow!

Dr. Spin's Favorite Albums of 2019

My favorite albums from 2019 - Part 2


A YouTube playlist of the artists on the list