Cro-mags
2020
The soundtrack to one of the most turbulent years on record. CRO-MAGS 2020 plays out more like a time-capsule playlist to the year rather than a group of individual songs. The record itself is unintentionally 20 minutes and 20 seconds. CRO-MAGS founder and kingpin Harley Flanagan explains, "Just by coincidence we recorded 20 minutes and 16 seconds of music, so we simply added a few seconds of real-world chaos. The album cover is meant to look like a calendar - 7 squares across, with one picture from 2020 per day. Inside the booklet there are 12 pictures, one for each month of 2020; and the back is a shot of something I have never seen before in my life - a totally empty New York City. Corona Virus, quarantine, empty streets, brutality, burning buildings, violence and destruction: 2020 is a year none of us will ever forget.