Check this too, another ace Greg Foat production
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Listening now, already hovering over purchase button 
Been eyeing both the Ana Roxanne and Gigi Masin but haven’t picked them up yet. Too much good music. I did pick up the Oto No Wa and really loved it. I think there’s a similarly themed Japanese electronic compilation coming from Light In The Attic this year.
One of the vocalists is cleo sol who’s debut album is well worth a listen, especially the title track “rose in the dark”. Took me a while to purchase on vinyl owing to the excessive price, nicely packaged but would have preferred a lower price with traditional packaging.
Albumsi by Bufiman was hard to top.
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Thanks for the heads up, looking forward to it! I enjoyed their kankyo ongaku from 2018, bit experimental here and there but great artwork.
Never a bad time for SCOTT.
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Top Five:
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bonny Light Horseman
Molly Joyce - Breaking and Entering
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Fleet Foxes - Shore
Read the rest here: anearful: Best Of 2020: The Top 25
Once there, you can also explore lists in classical, electronic, hip hop, etc. It was a mighty good year - for music, at least!
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Some great albums on this thread - gonna check some out that are new to me
Here’s my faves from last year
Ana Roxanne - Because Of Flower
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Bullion - Heaven Is Over
Laura Groves - A Private Road
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Shinichi Atobe - Yes
Duval Timothy - Help
Jessy Lanza - All The Time
Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Joey Anderson - Rainbow Doll
DJ Python - Mas Amable
Wilma Archer - A Western Circular
CS + Kreme - Snoopy
Jonnine - Supernatural / Blue Hills
Cleo Sol - Roses In The Dark
Jay Glass Dubs - Soma
Moodymann- Taken Away
Boof - Rebirth Of Gerberdaisy
K-Lone - Cape Cira
Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
Joanne Robertson - Painting Stupid Girls
Mica Levi - Ruff Dog
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
whoa is the bullion record really that old? the whole ep? 
Il Quadro di Troisi- S/T
Ultra Flex - Visions of Ultra Flex
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Full Circle - From Knowhere
It’s Immaterial - House For Sale
Oto No Wa - Selected Sounds Of Japan
Green-house - Six Songs For Invisible Gardens
Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower
Satoshi And Makoto - CZ-5000 Sounds And Sequence Vol 2
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
I really loved Aleph by Private World who are a new band from Cardiff who seem to have perfectly replicated the feel of Talk Talk and Blue Nile records Aleph - Album by Private World | Spotify
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Il Quadri di Triosi is such a sublime piece of work.
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Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower
Shinichi Atobe - Yes
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Sault - Rise / Untitled (Black Is)
John Carroll Kirby - My Garden
Raymond Richards - The Lost Art Of Wandering
Planet Battagon - Trans-Neptunia
Mildlife - Automatic
Blair French - The Art of Us
Loved Jessie Ware’s album too.
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Klaus Schønning - Lydglimt
Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower Completely amazing as many of you have already mentioned.
Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai, Takeshi Inomata, Norio Maeda, Hozan Yamamoto - Jazz Rock 琴 / 日本の民謡
Ocean Moon - Crystal Harmonics The masterful Jon Tye!
DJ Metatron - Loops Of Infinity (A Rave Loveletter)
Meitei / 冥丁* - Komachi Like an update of Susumu Yokota’s Sakura.
Wanderwelle - A State Of Decrepitude Beautifully funereal sounds, great for walking and very prescient, on bone coloured vinyl to boot.
Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota Lie down with your eyes shut with this on and be taken away on an underwater adventure.
Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
Gigi - Illuminated Audio Slight cheat as it’s a repress of a repress, but it did help me through lockdown one massively.
Seahawks - Island Visions Mr Tye again!
Various - Retour Au Club Meduse
Koyil - Healing Cycles
Imaginary Softwoods - Annual Flowers in Color
Various - Virtual Dreams (Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997) I generally buy all of Music From Memory’s compilations as they are windows into mostly unknown musical worlds for me. This one was different, it immediately took me back to being 19 and completely immersed in this type of music, it felt like the future then, and still does now.
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I thought a massively underrated LP was Vibration Black Finger’s Can you see what I’m trying to say on Jazzman - Spiritual Jazz, Soul 2 Soul type vibes and library grooves all in the mix and barely picked up by anyone (tho I heard Bill Brewster play a track on one of his shows recently…)
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Marker Starling - High January
Common Saints - Idol Eyes
Cantoma - Into Daylight
Just a few here, theres more. 
Here’s a couple of LPs that were big for me last year.
Raymond Richards - The Lost Art of Wandering
Cantoma - Into Daylight