I still have a TON to listen to, I'll never catch up, but here's... a list. In no particular order. 20 records from 2020 that I dug. Chubby & the Gang - Speed Kills Drain - California Cursed Idles - Ultra Mono Higher Power - 22 Miles Underwater Soft Kill - Dead Kids R.I.P. City Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind Narrowhead - 12th House Rock BbyMutha - Muthaland Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction Fists of Fury - New Age of Dread Gulch - Inpenetrable Cerebral Fortress Conway the Machine - From King to a God Skeleton - Skeleton Deftones - Ohms Code Orange - Underneath Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron Spy - Service Weapon 200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition Freddie Gibbs/Alchemist - Alfredo Future - High Off Life
Yo, with amazing releases from Svalbard, Respire, Show Me a Dinosaur and Together to the stars, it's been a GREAT year for blackgaze/screamo hybrids, or whatever you'd like to call them...blackened skramgaze? TOP 10 1 - Ellis - Born Again 2 - The goalie’s anxiety at the penalty kick - Ways of Hearing 3 - Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 4 - Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 5 - Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 6 - Be Well - The Weight and the Cost 7 - clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned 8 - Show Me A Dinosaur - Plantgazer 9 - Run The Jewels - RTJ4 10 - Told Slant - Point the Flashlight and Walk 11 - 25 The Acacia Strain - Slow Decay beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers Code Orange - Underneath Seed of Pain - Flesh, Steel, Victory Omerta - Hyperviolence Giver - Sculpture of Violence Dogleg - Melee Volur - Death Cult Drain - California Cursed Leeched - To Dull The Blades of Your Abuse Katie Malco - Failures Owen Pallett - Island A.A. Williams - Forever Blue Wounds of Recollection - Nowhere Else Feels More Like Home Cold Years - Paradise 26 - 50 Soccer Mommy - Color Theory Beach Bunny - Honeymoon Caspian - On Circles Ghostemane - Anti-Icon Gulch - impenetrable Cerebral Fortress Envy - The Fallen Crimson Snarls - Burst Empty Country - ST Big Loser - Love You, Barely Living Together to the Stars - As We Wither Ben Seretan - Youth Pastoral Bad Moves - Untenable Respire - Black Line I’m Glad It’s You - Every Sun, Every Moon Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With It Gleemer - Down Through Mountaineer - Bloodletting The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers Team Picture - The Menace of Mechanical Music The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast Hawser - All is Forgiven Year of the Knife - Internal Incarceration i Love Your Lifestyle - No Driver Spiritworld - Pagan Rhythms Teenage Halloween - ST NON FULL-LENGTHS TOP 5: 1 - Koyo - Painting Words Into Lines 2 - Denzel Curry - Blood in Blood Out 3 - MINDZ EYE - True Blue 4 - SUNAMI - ST 5 - End It - One Way Track 6 - 20 Mindforce - Swingin’ Swords, Choppin’ Lords Holy Fawn - The Black Moon Choice to Make - Vicious Existence Mutually Assured Destruction - Fever Dream Hidden Mothers - ST Dealer - Saint Fake News - Break The Silence Beaten to Death - Laat maar, deel een: ik verhuis naar Mastbos NYC SHOOTOUT - SHOOT YA SHOT Mattachine - Isolation as a Form of Torture Thirty Nights of Violence - You’ll See Me Up There Innerlove. - Fine By Me On Sight - Cause of Pain Youth Collapse - New Form Foghorn - SF METAL
1. Dogleg- Melee 2. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor 3. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory 4. I Am The Avalanche - Dive 5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 6. Bully - Sugar Egg 7. Anjimile - Giver Taker 8. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive 9. Dryjacket - Going Out of Business 10. Bouncing Souls - Volume 2 11. The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public 12. Slaughter Beach, Dog - At the Moonbase 13. Bartees Strange - Live Forever 14. Less Than Jake - Silver Lining 15. Worriers - You or Someone You Know 16. Ratboys - Printer's Devil 17. Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers 18. Milk Teeth - Milk Teeth 19. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 20. Violent Soho - Everything Is A-OK 21. Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible 22. Goldfinger - Never Look Back 23. Stand Atlantic - Pink Eelephant 24. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt 25. Snarls - Burst
1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 2. The Weeknd - After Hours 3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 4. Mac Miller - Circles 5. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen 6. Halsey - Manic 7. Ocean Alley - Lonely Diamond 8. PVRIS - Use Me 9. Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us 10. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 11. Glass Animals - Dreamland 12. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 13. LANY - Mama's Boy 14. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage 15. Movements - No Good Left to Give 16. Coin - Dreamland 17. Hockey Dad - Brain Candy 18. Seaway - Big Vibe 19. The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames 20. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
I’m pretty sure this is what I’ll end up with: 1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 2. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor 3. Hot Mulligan - You’ll Be Fine 4. Sinai Vessel - Ground Aswim 5. Bartees Strange - Live Forever 6. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 7. Movements - No Good Left to Give 8. Taylor Swift - folklore 9. The Strokes - The New Abnormal 10. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive Honorable Mentions: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Knuckle Puck - 20/20 Broadway Calls - Sad in the City EPs / Singles: FEVER 333 - WRONG GENERATION The Dangerous Summer - All That Is Left of the Blue Sky Holy Fawn - The Black Moon PUP - The Place Sucks Ass Gestalt - Connect The Dots
Made a list of 100 (roughly ranked) albums I enjoyed this year, then made another list of albums I enjoyed that are unranked, I enjoyed but couldn't fit on my ranked list. Other albums I enjoyed in literally no order: Edit: Forgot to add The Chicks - Gaslighter to my list but I really enjoyed that as well!
also thanks to whoever mentioned Phoxjaw, listening to them now and this record rips edit: well, the first half rips... the second half turns into more of an art rock record, which is still pretty interesting
Happy to see Holly Humberstone on there, love that EP! Deep End is one of my fave tracks of the year.
This is my list today (a majority of it changes daily). I went with 25 as that is what we are doing on the site I write for, although it did make it harder to narrow down. Enjoy! Top 25 of 2020 1. Svalbard: When I Die, Will I Get Better? 2. Stand Atlantic: Pink Elephant 3. Code Orange: Underneath 4. Dragged Under: The World Is in Your Way 5. Drain: California Cursed 6. Covet: Technicolor 7. END: Splinters From an Ever Changing-Face 8. Xibalba: Anos En Infierno 9. Palm Reader: Sleepless 10. Trivium: What the Dead Men Say 11. Misery Signals: Ultraviolet 12. Pschonaut: Unfold the God Man 13. Deftones: Ohms 14. Greg Puciato: Child Soldier: Creator of God 15. Couch Slut: Take a Chance on Rock n’ Roll 16. Bambara: Stray 17. Nothing: The Great Dismal 18. Intronaut: Fluid Existential Inversions 19. Black Wing: No Moon 20. Unleash the Archers: Abyss 21. Year of the Knife: Internal Incaceration 22. Phoxjaw: Royal Swan 23. Creeper: Sex, Death & The Infinite Void 24. Elephant Tree: Habits 25. Eternal Champion: Ravening Iron
Here we go 1. Acceptance - Wild, Free 2. The Weeknd - After Hours 3. Be Well - The Weight & The Cost 4. Brian Fallon - Local Honey 5. I'm Glad It's You - Every Sun, Every Moon 6. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone 7. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor 8. The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast 9. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You 10. Agnes Manners - Fantasia Famish 11. S10 - Vlinders 12. Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy 13. Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 14. The Airborne Toxic Event - Hollywood Park 15. Beach Slang - The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City 16. Cold Years - Paradise 17. Touche Amore - Lament 18. All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine 19. Robots With Rayguns - Savage Summer 20. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 21. Washed Out - Purple Moon 22. New Found Glory - Forever and Ever x Infinity 23. Broadway Calls - Sad In The City 24. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 25. The Bombpops - Death In Venice Beach 26. Red City Radio - Paradise 27. PVRIS - Use Me 28. Nathan Gray - Working Title 29. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 30. Chubby & The Gang - Speed Kills
As someone who wasn't a big fan before this album, yeah I loved it. It helps that my wife was super into it too so we played it a lot.
Here's what I liked best this year. 1. Bill Callahan - Gold Record 2. Alabaster Deplume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 3. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline 4. Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore 5. Moses Sumney - grae 6. Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You Die 7. Bonny Light Horseman - S/T 8. Sault - Untitled (Black Is & Rise) 9. Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS 10. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 11. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today 12. Nubya Garcia - Source 13. Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern 14. Brigid Dawson and the Mother Network - Ballet of Apes 15. Fleet Foxes - Shore 16. Tre Burt - Caught It From The Rye 17. Adrianne Lenker - songs 18. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters 19. Frazey Ford - U kin B the Sun 20. Moodymann - Taken Away 21. The Neverly Brothers - Dark Side of Everything 22. Kevin Morby - Sundowner 23. KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl 24. Jon McKiel - Bobby Joe Hope 25. Brigid Mae Power - Head Above The Water 26. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter 27. Jennifer Castle - Monarch Season 28. Jeff Parker - Suite For Max Brown 29. James Elkington - Ever-Roving Eye 30. Country Westerns - S/T 31. Metz - Atlas Vending 32. Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King 33. Rose City Band - Summerlong 34. Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo 35. Asher Gamedze - Dialectic Soul 36. Jason Isbell - Reunions 37. RAP Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages 38. Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner 39. Natalie Jane Hill - Azalea 40. Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead 41. Magik Markers - 2020 42. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death 43. Martin Rude & Jakob Skott Duo - The Discpline of Ascent 44. Kacy & Clayton with Marlon Williams - Plastic Bouquet 45. H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis 46. Mourning [A] BLKstar - The Cycle 47. Jackiel Lynn - Jaqueline 48. The Reds, Pinks, and Purples - You Might Be Happy Someday 49. Otis Gibbs - Hoosier National 50. 2nd Grade - Hit to Hit The others Thanya Iyer - KIND Shabason, Krgovich, & Harris - Philadelphia Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descent Chris Frisina - Carolina (Out of My Mind) Jeremy Cunningham - The Weather Up There Joe Pernice - Richard Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me Strange Magic - Melatonin Doomsday Blues King Krule - Man Alive! Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet Suzanne Vallie - Love Lives Where Rules Die Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History Ward Davis - Black Cats and Crows Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways To New Italy Destroyer - Have We Met Boldy James - The Price of Tea In China Daniel Romano - Content To Point The Way Moor Mother - Circuit City Lemon Quartet - Crestless Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You? Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Artlessly Falling Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind Blake Mills - Mutable Set Leah Senior - The Passing Scene Loose Koozies - Feel A Bit Free Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark Angel Bat Dawid - LIVE Wendy Eisenberg - Auto Kiwi Jr - Football Money Sam Burton - I Can Go With You Delmar Darion - Morning Pagents The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives William Prince - Gospel First Nation Zachary Cale - False Spring Mike - Weight of the World Tenci - My Heart is an Open Field Sweet Whirl - How Much Works Conway The Machine - From King to A God Modern Nature - Annual Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
Made a couple edits: mostly adding Flaming Lips which I forgot, the Slaughter Beach, Dog album, and shifting the order of a couple things. I was going to try to cut it down to a nice even 30 albums, but I don't really want to cut anything so 32 it is.
My top 20, alphabetical order : Akhlys - Melinoë Black Wing - No Moon Cénotaphe - Monte Verità Crowning - Survival/Sickness Envy - The Fallen Crimson Korine - The Night We Raise Life - Demo Three Lustre - The Ashes Of Light Nothing - The Great Dismal Nuvolascura - As We Suffer From Memory And Imagination Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension Respire - Black Line Rome - The Lone Furrow Sadness - Alluring The Distant Eye Sadness - Holding Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better ? Touché Amorcé - Lament Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still Wake - Devouring Ruin Honourable mentions : Black Curse - Endless Wound Deftones - Ohms Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full Hum - Inlet Infant Island - Beneath It Only Ends Once - Chasms Will Never Be Filled Life - Demo Four Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Odraza - Receipt Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi Serment - Chante, ô Flamme De La Liberté Soft Kill - Dead Kids, R.I.P. City Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone Stormlight - Natoma The Suicide Machines - Revolution Spring Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension Vile Creature - Glory, Glory ! Apathy Took Helm ! Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence