Music: Best album of 2020

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7. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels

 

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6. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

 

[WeThreeKings]

I don't think there's much left to be released for me this year.. I've got.

1. Taylor Swift - Folklore
2. Halsey - Manic
3. Puscifer - Existential Reckoning
4. Melanie Martinez - After School
5. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
6. Ellie Goulding - Brightest Blue
7. Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to my Downfall
8. Deftones - Ohms
9. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
10. Pinegrove - Marigold

 

[Saturated Fats]

Listened to a ton of albums from 2020. Overall, it was a deep year for music, although I don't think any album from it cracks my top-100 OAT (at the moment, at least). A lot of stuff that is 8-8.5/10 level, but no real masterpieces. Still, enjoyable and worth diving deeper into.

1. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
2. Adrianne Lenker - songs
3. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
4. Dogleg - Melee
5. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

6. Matthew Good - Moving Walls
7. Touché Amoré - Lament
8. Klô Pelgag - Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs
9. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
10. Mac Miller - Circles

11. Bonny Light Horseman - S/T
12. Backxwash - God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It
13. Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
14. Sprain - As Lost Through Collision
15. Alexandra Saviour - The Archer

16. Owen Pallet - Island
17. Fleet Foxes - Shore
18. Deftones - Ohms
19. Algiers - There is No Year
20. Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven - We're New Here

21. Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
22. Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma & Divorce
23. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
24. Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide
25. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

 

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5. Rose City Band - Summerlong

 

[ItsFineImFine]

DMA's - THE GLOW is my big discovery of the year so far, Australian band making nightclub-friendly indie rock that is heavily inspired by British 90's bands like Oasis, Stone Roses and the Verve.

I posted this one earlier, this band exemplifies how dead indie/alt has gone because they would truly be massive in the 90s or early 00s.

If it's album of the year.....I dunno. It has four songs on it that I consider to be absolute bangers (Life Is A Game of Changing, Silver, Never Before, and Learning Alive). The rest is maybe a step below the album tracks on their previous two albums.

I'm starting to lean towards Floatr by English band Happyness, people say it's a blatant Elliot Smith rip-off but who cares, besides, who the f*** is Elliot Smith?

 

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4. Bonny Light Horseman - s/t

 

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3. Pacific Range - High Upon the Mountain

 

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2. S.G. Goodman - Old Time Feeling

 

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1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

 

[Thucydides]

Anyone listen to the new War on Drugs live album , live drugs? this is great stuff, and cements the war on drugs as one of the best live bands around today. The songs are even more alive here , and some sound totally brand new as they are reconstructed for the live show , with more epic guitar solos, longer sax ripping and songs, that on the album you wished jammed harder and longer, well, on the live album they do.

stand out tracks for me - strangest thing, red eyes , thinking of a place, and under the pressure .

 

[Thucydides]

4. Bonny Light Horseman - s/t

I really enjoyed this album as well. I still listen to deep in love all the time.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

I can't believe I slept on listening to the new Happyness album. Sounds like Elliot Smith being done by a British band with a very 90s take but it's good and didn't take very long to get into.

The music started and I was like "I don't hear it," but then the vocals come in and it's like wow, those are a dead ringer's for Elliott's. Didn't love the album, but big fan of the track "What Isn't Nurture," nice pop hook in that one, very Elliott reminiscent. There's even a "big nothing" lyrical reference in Undone, which is another standout, so at least they're citing their sources, which I have zero problem with.

 

[Mescaleroman]

 

[Saturated Fats]

The new Avalanches record came out tonight.

It - and I cannot stress this enough - absolutely slaps. One listen through and it's easily top 5 in my AOTY.

 

[SirClintonPortis]

JoJo's Good to Know.

Never expected a Mozart in the modern age. Well, here she is in all her glory.

(album is R&B style)

 

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12/11/20 Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol.2

 

[TheDoldrums]

The new Avalanches record came out tonight.

It - and I cannot stress this enough - absolutely slaps. One listen through and it's easily top 5 in my AOTY.

Thank you!!!

For some reason I had no idea this was coming. Wildflower and SILY are two of my favourite albums ever. I just visited this thread for the first time ever to drop my top albums list but will need to reconsider after this news lol

 

[Mescaleroman]

The new Avalanches record came out tonight.

It - and I cannot stress this enough - absolutely slaps. One listen through and it's easily top 5 in my AOTY.

For half a minute I thought AOTY was " albums of all time " and thought WOW , this must really soothe the savage toddler

 

[Wander]

My favourite of the year by The Beths


Great album (Jump Rope Gazers) and band if you like indie rock or power pop or that sort of thing.

 

[Desdichado93]

My favourite albums from this year.

The Book of Fire by Mon inc. released 24 January this year.


A Christmas Carol by Majestica released 4 December (about a week ago).

 

[Mikeaveli]

My favourite of the year, Wicked City by Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery of Black Country, New Road and producer Taylor Skye).

 

[DNE3]

Sorry 925 album - march 2020
so sorry. for me, it was Sorry from the start and has carried on through to year's end. thirteen infectious song titles from a band which appears to have traveled through a time warp and brought back engaging lyrics surrounded by driving rhythm guitars. asha lorenz and louis o'bryen are young songwriting duo who don't mind stealing musical influences from anyone and everyone from the past. my personal number one in u.k.

'A debut for the ages, Sorry are unafraid of experimenting whilst giving you everything you want'

 

[Saturated Fats]

Slotting Avalanches in at 4

1. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
2. Adrianne Lenker - songs
3. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
4. Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
5. Dogleg - Melee

 

[Roo Returns]

Glad the new Avalanches is getting some love.

A lot of really great music came out this year. I just can't remember any of it with all the travelling I did pre-March and then shutdown lol.