Thursday 31 December 2020

2020 in Review


Albums:

  • David Bowie: ChangesNowBowie (*****)
  • Rival Consoles: Articulation (****)
  • Ulver: Flowers of Evil (****)
  • Dextro: An Hour is a Sea (****)
  • Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: Live at the Roundhouse (****)
  • Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts V: Together/ Ghosts VI: Locusts (****)
  • Roger Eno & Brian Eno: Mixing Colours (****)
  • The Pineapple Thief: Versions of the Truth (****)
  • JARV IS: Beyond the Pale (****)
  • Brian Eno: Film Music: 1976-2020 (****)

 

Films:

  • Dark Waters (****)
  • Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (****)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (****)
  • Greed (****)
  • Soul (****)
  • The Hater (****)
  • The Lighthouse (***)
  • Mank (***)
  • Rebecca (***)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield (***)

 

 Television:

  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Season 2 (*****)
  • Better Call Saul Season 5 (****)
  • Trial 4 (****)
  • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (****)
  • How to Fix a Drug Scandal (****)
  • The Sinner, Season 3 (***)
  • Inside No. 9, Season 4 (***)
  • The Pharmacist (***)
  • The Innocence Files (***)
  • Unexplained Mysteries (***)

 

Reading:

  • Haruki Murakami: Kafka by the Shore (third reading: *****)
  • Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (*****)
  • Christopher Isherwood: Mr. Norris Changes Trains (second reading: *****)
  • John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (second reading: *****)
  • Laurence Rees: Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (*****)
  • Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting (fourth reading: *****)
  • Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (second reading: ****)
  • George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (****)
  • Michael Finkel: True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (****)
  • George Orwell: Burmese Days (****)
  • Haruki Murakami: Wind/ Pinball Two Novels (****)
  • Louis Theorux: Gotta Get Theroux This (****)
  • Voltaire: Candide (****)
  • H.G. Wells: War of the Worlds (***)
  • Alice Walker: The Color Purple (***)
  • Oscar Wilde: Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and Other Stories (***)
  • George Orwell: A Clergyman's Daughter (***)
  • Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books (***)
  • Haruki Murakami: The Elephant Vanishes (***)
  • Robert Sabbag: Snowblind (***)
  • Iain Banks: Complicity (***)
  • J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World (**)
  • Heinrich Boll: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (**)
  • Stephen King/ Richard Bachman: The Running Man (**)
  • Sam Shepard: Seven Plays (**)