Best electronic albums of 2020: twenty

20 – Khotin – Finds You Well (Ghostly International)

Do the Boards of Canada androids dream of electronic music? And when they do, does it sound like this Edmonton producer's super-hazy take on detuned downbeat? Or do they just have nightmares where they're in school assembly without their pants? 

Probably the latter.

Khotin's Finds You Well is possibly the most likeable album on my list. If it popped round for dinner, I'd let it beat me on the Playstation then let it into the garden to jump on my trampoline. It's a huggable nostalgic treat, and very much the opposite to a terrible 2020.

In once sense, you've heard this before: my opening reference was quite deliberate. Plaintive head-nodders meet pining analogue synths and scratchy vocal samples, all with a healthy element of fuzz. But it's incredibly well done.

During one moment of dying ambience, Khotin's kid sister appears, sing-songing "the world is wonderful".  I can't help feeling that Finds You Well doesn't sound like an album we want right now: it sounds like the album we need.

 

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