Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2020 • Page 11

I wrote a little something about them too now
1520's Albums Of The Year 2020 — 1520

 

Loving this list , checking out the ones I haven’t heard

 

Enjoy. Let me know what you think.

 

New Slaughter Beach Dog is probably on my list

 

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

 

So is it okay to put both Taylor Swift albums on one number? lol

 

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

 

They are on my list as well. Great record.

 

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

 

She rules! I really like that EP, excited for whatever she puts out next!

 

You liked the BMTH that much? I think I only heard one song.

 

my updated list. not in the exact order I love them but close enough

 

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

 

Another person that appreciates Black Wing!