It’s never too early to start thinking about what the best albums of the year will be and the first couple of months of the year have been pretty good already. Today it’s the 22/02/2020 and I’m publishing this at 20:20, which all feels very auspicious…

New material from Shabaka Hutchings, this time with The Ancestors, the South African collective, hopefully indicating a follow up album to Wisdom Of Elders soon.

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan’s Navarasa: Nine Emotions is fantastic and rolls around many more then the stated 9 emotions for me. Also exciting new work from Alabaster Deplume, Khruanbin, The Men, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Porridge Radio, Destroyer, Jeff Parker, Antibalas, Ian William Craig and His Name Is Alive.