The best albums of 2020, No 5: Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 09.58 EST In a recent essay for Harperâs magazine the author Garth Greenwell wrote about his problem with creating work that is described as ârelevantâ. He argued that there is âsomething demeaning about approaching art from a predetermined angleâ, and that increasingly artists are being asked if their work is timely and therefore of importance. No one knows whether Sault were asking themselves that question when they made Untitled (Black Is), the first of two incredible albums they put out this year. (The second, Untitled (Rise), came...