Berlin-based music producer Lyra Pramuk, who uses only her voice to produce "futurist folk music", made a mix for Fact magazine where she "explores the idea of ‘folk song’ as interpreted by women singers and storytellers from the past century to today". There's Joan Baez and Dolly Parton, as well as Lauryn Hill and Lingua Ignota, among others.

All of tQ's editorial staff and columnists have voted for their essential 2020 albums of the year so far, and it's a slightly left-field choice, as it is to be expected from the Quietus.

So, the top 10:

1. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

2. Einstürzende Neubauten - 'Alles In Allem'

3. Squarepusher - 'Be Up A Hello'

4. Beatrice Dillon - 'Workaround'

5. Jeff Parker - 'Suite for Max Brown'

6. Sex Swing - 'Type II'

7. Nadine Shah - 'Kitchen Sink'

8. Lyra Pramuk - 'Fountain'

9. Perfume Genius - 'Set My Heart On Fire Immediately'

10. Nazar - 'Guerrilla'

Berlin-based vocalist and producer Lyra Pramuk released her debut album 'Fountain' of "futuristic folk music" this year, made entirely with her own voice. Fact Magazine visited her in her studio to see how she does it.

Lyra Praum is a classically trained musician who recorded her debut album 'Fountain' using only her voice - the rhythms, the melodies, the textures, it’s all her, heavily processed. Pitchfork is deeply impressed by the concept calling it a "technological excavation of her own body’s resonant possibilities inside a tender vision of a post-human future", and "an oh-so-timely reminder that the body is a site of infinite possibility".

Avantguard pop artist Lyra Pramuk made her debut album 'Fountain' using only her voice, modulated by electronics, exploring "perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary understanding of life". She mixed it with her twin brother Ben, and the title is derived from her family name, […]