All bangers, all classics (some written in attics, some recorded in garages or damp basements) and all new. Some of these acts didn't debut this year (or even this century in the case of Sheila Brody) and Malady slipped out at the end of 2020, but it was released on 7" this year so that makes it real, right?
First year ever without a new Australian band. I must have missed something. You know where the comments box is. San Francisco is disproportionately represented, but if bands from there keep being brilliant it only makes sense.