Some secrets are meant to be kept and so I will not be officially releasing my top listened to tracks this year according to iTunes but will confess to having listened to more Oliver Tree than is probably appropriate for a functioning adult. My favorite track this year was released as a single in anticipation for an LP to be released early 2021; the track, “feel away,” the album, “Tyron,” the artist Slowthai, aka Tyron Frampton. You may have heard about this 25 y.o. rascally Northampton youth this year after the NME Awards 2020. Slowthai was presented with the “Hero of the Year” award and during his acceptance ended up making sexual innuendoes at the host and brawling with the audience. Don’t they make heroes like they used to? Maybe. Since the occurrence, the man has gone out of his way to be transparent and remorseful about the eve and takes us with him through it all in “feel away.” “feel away” feels good but it feels sad too, it is about love and life and death and birth and the video deserves its own review. The song sounds beautiful because of James Blake and Mount Kimbie whom it features and a little less comfortable and more relatable because of Slowthai; it is catchy, and it is funny, “you felt low, I took you higher than a note from Mariah.” Does Slowthai deserve our pardon, I do not know but I think his song deserves three minutes and twenty-one seconds of your day.