What a year, huh? It seems like no one will emerge from the waking nightmare that is 2020 completely unscathed, but it’s certainly been a grim time for the music industry. And it has perhaps been worst of all for new, young, and niche names, acts who were just starting out, bands that hoped this year might be their big break, and artists who had meticulously planned album releases and tour schedules, only to watch everything fall apart in unprecedented fashion. With that said, my picks here aren’t necessarily the five best albums of 2020 (I don’t really know how anyone would decide that) but five records that I think deserve more attention. They’re all composed by people from my home country—the U.K. They’re all lesser-known, lesser-talked-about records—it feels like a hugely arbitr...
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