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Best Albums of 2020
December 22, 2020
Premier Guitar editors reveal the records that helped them cope during COVID-19 quarantine. Plus, their most-anticipated releases of 2021.
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Catfish Keith’s Acoustic Blues Fantasia
December 14, 2020
A fingerpicking shaman essays tunes from his 40-year career with depth, taste, and tone.
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Fleet Foxes' New Heart for a Tiring Season
November 23, 2020
Robin Pecknold wrote and produced the band’s fourth studio album, Shore, on his own, using the guitar like a composer to make textured, orchestral songs that uplift.
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Bush’s The Kingdom Is Airtight & Anthemic
October 26, 2020
The grunge vets may not be in their prime—but they’re not frozen in time, either.
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Rev. John Wilkins’ Trouble Is Spare and Strong-Boned Perfection
September 7, 2020
Memphis and the Mississippi Hills meet in gospel-blues heaven.
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Album Spotlight: Thundercat’s Cosmic Tilt-A-Whirl
August 10, 2020
On It Is What It Is, the bassist examines the loss of his best friend, Mac Miller, through a deep-dive, jazz-fusion opus.
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Album Spotlight: Yuval Ron’s Somewhere in This Universe, Somebody Hits a Drum
May 3, 2020
This astral prog playground is a wild ride through space and time … signatures. Marco Minnemann provides the backbeats.
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Album Spotlight: Matt Wilson & His Orchestra’s When I Was a Writer
March 29, 2020
The former Trip Shakespeare frontman sings about not being able to return, but he’s done just that with 12 new tunes.
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36 Must-Hear Gary Lucas Tracks
March 2, 2020
The envelope-pushing former Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley collaborator chooses his finest performances on this kaleidoscopic 40-year retrospective.
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's Latest LP Pummels and Soars
February 4, 2020
Art-rockers Conrad Keely and Jason Reece make whopping orchestral waves on their 10th studio album, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories.
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Bill Frisell’s Melancholic and Divine Harmony
January 8, 2020
A gentle giant of guitar enlists Petra Haden and others to raise the standard for standards.
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PG Editors’ Best Albums of the Year 2019
December 31, 2019
We round the year’s corner with our annual staff picks, notable mentions, and our most-anticipated releases of 2020.
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Album Spotlight: Big Thief’s Two Hands
December 2, 2019
The band went to the desert and made an expansive, “on the brink” recording.
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Album Spotlight: Jack Barksdale’s Live from Niles City
November 14, 2019
A 12-year-old guitar talent writes and plays songs from the heart.
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Album Spotlight: Lloyd Thayer’s ‘North Star’
October 11, 2019
A graceful, crowning solo statement from a master of acoustic slide.
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Album Spotlight: Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, ‘World Full of Blues’
September 11, 2019
Ripping reso and ferocious flattop for those who like it raw and real.
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Album Spotlight: The Allman Brothers Band: ‘Fillmore West ’71’
August 20, 2019
A pre-Fillmore East set that captures the original band’s improvisational live high-wire act.
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Album Spotlight: BONES UK
July 2, 2019
The London duo who wrote Loud Hailer with Jeff Beck releases a visceral debut LP with a singularity that shows how guitar can alchemize with EDM.
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Album Spotlight: Black Midi’s 'Schlagenheim'
May 31, 2019
The debut album from London-based band layers piercing guitar intensity atop rhythmic finesse to achieve beautifully chaotic power.
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Album Spotlight: Five Times Surprise
May 6, 2019
Avant guitarists Henry Kaiser and Anthony Pirog have formed a stunning ensemble that delivers a tonal siesta with a bonus 40-minute improv surprise ending.
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