You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Kot, he's Jim Deeregatus, and this week our show is devoted to sharing our favorite albums of 2020 so far.

Yes, Greg, both of us have to keep a running list of all the music we're listening to all the time.

I hate being in that position, you know, back when I used to see people and talk to them, especially

at clubs, what are you listening to? And I'm like, uh uh and it's not because I didn't have

anything that I've been listening it's because I had 20 you know and you can't

give everybody everything so I got this running list all the time I know you do as

well at the end of the year we give our much better So I got this running list all the time, I know you do as well.

At the end of the year, we give our much valued top 10 list,

but you know, why wait till the end of the year, especially this year.

Why does this year gonna end, ever?

Well, I think it also points to the fact that we need this music more than ever. year going

ever?

ever. when the world is going downhill fast,

sometimes the music can be the one thing that sustains you

day to day week to week. I know it has for me the

last few weeks and this week is no exception. It's fun to revisit some of this music that has

been so sustaining. I'm going to kick it off by giving you a taste of my

number 10 album on my half year list so far. Mac Miller's circles. Miller died in 2018 of a drug overdose while working on what was to be his

sixth studio album. He had a pretty good head start on it and viewed it as a bookend of sorts to the record he had just

released called Swimming. A lot of people thought of that as his most

personal album to date and this one was conceived as sort of a you know a

continuation of that personal theme that started on that swimming album in

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