Best of 2020 (So Far): Jon Jon Scott

It seems weird looking for the “best” of anything in this dumpster fire of a year, but we are nothing if not suckers for lists of music, so here we are. Over the course of this week we’ll roll out individual lists of best albums and songs from both national and Minnesota artists by Reviler contributors. Today we feature the favorite music of 2020 (so far) from Jon Jon Scott.

National records

Shabaka & The Ancestors -We Are Sent Here By History

Black Thought -STREAMS OF THOUGHT VOL. 3

Jamael Dean -Black Space Tapes

Jay Electronica -A Written Testimony

Thundercat -It Is What It Is

Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist -Alfredo

SAULT -UNTITLED (Black Is) 

Diner Party – Dinner Party

Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown

Apollo Brown & Che Noir -As God Intended

Knxwledge – 1988

Arca -Kicki

Angel Bat Dawid -Transition East

Moses Boyd – Dark Matter

Sharada Shashidhar –Rahu

Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven -We’re New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven

Minnesota LPs/EPs/Singles

Dua Saleh -ROSETTA

Astralblak -Space & Time

Polica -When We Stay Alive

Muja Messiah – Flowers Blossom On Top Of Coffins

Gayngs – Appeayl 2 U

Booboo -U1

Javier Santiago, Taylor Johnson, Miguel Hurtado -s/t

The Muatas – The Upside Down Project

Are You Really Down -s/t

Night Stone (Lazerbeak + ICETEP) – s/t

Black Market Brass – UNDYING THIRST