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 (**)