Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist)

We've been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it's a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner Josh Madell, and Rob Hatch-Miller, who co-directed this year's great Other Music documentary which you can stream now. We'll let Rob take it from here.

Hello and happy holidays from Other Music! Can you believe next summer will mark FIVE years since we said goodbye? The wide release of the documentary about the store this year brought back a lot of great memories along with a lot of sad ones. And we were all thrilled that the initial "virtual cinema" release of the film back in April helped raise some much-needed funding to help other independent record stores make it through this incredibly challenging year. At the end of 2016, just six months after we closed, we shared what we thought would be our final batch of end-of-year staff favorites with you. Reflecting on the year about to pass, we wrote, "in hard times even more than joyful ones, music will sustain us, and there was so much incredible music this year to nurture us all."