Stevens, Sufjan

In 2020, pop learned how much simple physical proximity affects music, and how to cope with isolation. Source

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. Source

Isolation was unavoidable this year: Some albums embraced it, some raged against it, some tried to imagine a world without it. Source

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