1. Fleet Foxes - Shore 2. Taylor Swift - Folklore 3. My Morning Jacket - Waterfall II 4. Addy - Eclipse 5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 6. S.S. Goodman - Old Time Feeling 7. Clem Snide - Forever Just Beyond 8. Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was 9. The Bright Light Social Hour - Jude Vol.II 10. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form Favorite EP: The Japanese House - Chewing Cotton Wool
1. Touche Amore - Lament 2. Giver - Scripture of Violence 3. Code Orange - Underneath 4. TWINS - Soon 5. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 6. Purity Ring - Wombs 7. Mr Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 8. Caspian - On Circles 9. Floral - Floral LP 10. Vasudeva - Generator
That Giver record is one I’m still going back and forth about whether or not I should place higher on my list. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a straight up classic hardcore record like that one so much
It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year! List season is the BEST. I went on a weird multi-album spree today of loads of stuff I missed earlier in the year. That Alkaline Trio EP in particular was way better than I was expecting. Charli XCX, Alexandra Savior and Coriky were all very solid too. I'm going to wait until the end of the year before I make up my mind on my own list. It's currently Caspian, Acceptance and Spanish Love Songs duking it out for pole position though. Does anyone use Album of the Year to keep track of all the lists? I discovered it last year and I lost many hours to it. They're tracking the 2020 lists already over here: 2020 Music Year End List Aggregate Of course the main list that matters is this website though. Most of my favourite discoveries have come from here over the years.
1. Deftones - Ohms 2. The 1975 - Notes On A Conditional Form 3. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 4. Silverstein - A Beautiful Place To Drown 5. Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall 6. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner 7. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 8. The Used - Heartwork 9. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain 10. Sharptooth - Transitional Forms 11. Code Orange - Underneath 12. Rotting Out - Ronin 13. Creeper - Sex, Death & The Infinite Void 14. August Burns Red - Guardians 15. Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was 16. Be Well - The Weight And The Cost 17. Nothing - The Great Dismal 18. The Amity Affliction - Everyone Loves You...Once You Leave Them 19. Movements - No Good Left To Give 20. Touche Amore - Lament ---------------------------------- And here are 30 songs I enjoyed from 2020 (alphabetical order by artist): 1. August Burns Red - Defender 2. Be Well - Confessional 3. Bright Eyes - Persona Non Grata 4. Bring Me The Horizon - Parasite Eve 5. Code Orange - Swallowing The Rabbit Whole 6. Creeper - Annabelle 7. Dance Gavin Dance - Nothing Shameful 8. Deftones - Genesis 9. Every Time I Die - A Colossal Wreck 10. Fever 333 - Bite Back 11. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain 12. Gatherers - Ad Nauseam, I Drown 13. Heavenward - Hole 14. Ludo - Scare Me 15. Machine Gun Kelly - Concert For Aliens 16. Movements - Skin To Skin 17. Needtobreathe - Banks 18. Nothing - Say Less 19. Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto 20. Rotting Out - Stones 21. Salem - Destroy Me 22. Seether - Dead And Done 23. Sevendust - Blood From A Stone 24. Sharptooth - Hirudinea 25. Silverstein - Madness 26. Spanish Love Songs - Routine Pain 27. The 1975 - Me & You Together Song 28. The Dirty Nil - Doom Boy 29. The Used - Paradise Lost, A Poem By John Milton 30. Var - Where To Find You
Might still goof around with the order or content but settled with this TOP 15 LP/TOP 5 EP for now TOP 15 LPs 1. Dogleg - Melee 2. Touche Amore - Lament 3. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner 4. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 5. Movements - No Good Left To Give 6. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt 7. Respire - Blackline 8. Hot Mulligan - You'll be fine 9. Charmer - Ivy 10. The Casket Lottery - Short Songs For End Times 11. Stay Inside - Viewing 12. Eastwood - It Never Gets Easy 13. Hundredth - Somewhere Nowhere 14. Forest Green - In Waves 15. Gulfer - Gulfer TOP 5 EPs 1. PUP - This Place Sucks Ass 2. Hotel Etiquette - sex questions 3. Dogleg/Worst Party Ever - Go 4. The Dangerous Summer - All that was Left of the Blue Sky 5. Worst Party Ever - here, online Shout out to Ivy for being the album I listened to most in the early pandemic lockdown days. Pretty great year for music overall. Discovered a load of new artists and just look at this list for 2021! Anticipated for next year: You, Me And Everyone We Know Foxing Citizen Fireworks Trophy Eyes State Faults Teenage Wrist Tigers Jaw Taking Meds Stay Inside Good Sleepy Gatherers Worst Party Ever The Dangerous Summer Drug Church Trophy Scars Palette Knife Angels & Airwaves Every Time I Die
1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 2. Slick Shoes - Rotation & Frequency 3. Hum - Inlet 4. The Casket Lottery - Short Songs for End Times 5. Donovan Woods - Without People 6. Dogleg - Melee 7. I Am The Avalanche - Dive 8. Ratboys - Printer's Devil 9. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain 10. Into It. Over It. - Figure
Oh crap I didn't even realize he was dropping that this week! Stoked to hear that, guess I'll wait till next week to throw up my list. I see people are only throwing AOTY lists up. We doing movies and tv too?
1. Phoebe Bridges - Punisher 2. Dogleg - Melee 3. Waxahatchee - St. Cloud 4. Deftones - Ohms 5. Nothing - The Great Dismal 6. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Reunions 7. Fleet Foxes - Shore 8. Taylor Swift - folklore 9. Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy 10. Touché Amoré - Reminders 11. O’Brother - You & I 12. Run the Jewels - RTJ 4 13. Hum - Inlet 14. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 1 15. PUP - This Place Sucks Ass 16. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene 17. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 18. I’m Glad It’s You - Every Sun, Every Moon 19. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form 20. Holy Fawn - The Black Moon 21. Barely Civil - I’ll Figure This Out 22. Freddie GIbbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 23. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 24. The Chicks - Gaslighter 25. Stay Inside - Viewing 26. Caspian - On Circles 27. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II
Loving all the Spanish Love Songs at the top of so many, myself included. You could not write a better record to sum up 2020, America and the world at large. 1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 3. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 4. Brian Fallon - Local Honey 5. Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings 6. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM 7. The 1975 - NOACF 8. Anti Flag - 20/20 Division 9. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 10. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage Honorable mentions: Taylor Swift, HAIM Best of Pop Punk: All Time Low/Seaway/Stand Atlantic
This year I decided to go with an unranked top 10 (incl. two old albums that were new to me), because I didn't listen to nearly as much new music as I usually do. I just couldn't get into the right mood. JoJo - Good To Know (R&B) Brandy - B7 (R&B) The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast (Punk) Makoto Matsushita - First Light (City Pop, 1982) Benny The Butcher - Burden Of Proof (Hip Hop) Headie One- Gang (Hip Hop) Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (R&B) Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis (Rock/Southern Soul, 1969) Mariah Carey - The Rarities (R&B) Blu & Exile - Miles (Hip Hop)
I know it's a bit early and I might change a thing here and there but it's mostly settled. Each and every one of these releases have been very close to me, and quite a few more that I couldn't fit 01. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 02. The 1975 - Notes On a Conditional Form 03. Dogleg - Melee 04. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 05. Record Setter - I Owe You Nothing 06. The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames 07. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III 08. Touché Amoré - Lament 09. Empty Country - Empty Country 10. Soccer Mommy - color theory 11. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 12. Fleet Foxes - Shore 13. Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy 14. Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach 15. Code Orange - Underneath 16. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG 17. Bright Eyes - Down In the Weeds, Where the World Once Was 18. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 19. PVRIS - Use Me 20. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt 21. The Weeknd - After Hours 22. Acceptance - Wild, Free 23. Purity Ring - Womb 24. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 25. The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast 26. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? 27. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon 28. Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die 29. Caspian - On Circles 30. Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream Dogleg - Melee Bartees Strange - Live Forever Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone The Front Bottoms - In Sickness and In Flames 100 gecs - 1000 gecs and the tree of clues AJJ - Good Luck Everybody Illuminati Hotties - FREE I.H. Pictures of Vernon - Bug Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B Record Setter - I Owe You Nothing The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Ways of Hearing Diet Cig - Do You Wonder About Me? Empty Country - Empty Country Retirement Party - Runaway Dog I Love Your Lifestyle - No Driver Carpool - Erotic Nightmare Summer Hot Mulligan - You’ll Be Fine Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Gulfer - Gulfer
Top 20 1. Waxahatchee- Saint Cloud 2. Perfume Genius- Set My Heart on Fire Immediately 3. Dogleg- Melee 4. Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters 5. Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher 6. Fleet Foxes- Shore 7. Taylor Swift- folklore 8. Porridge Radio- Every Bad 9. Bartees Strange- Live Forever 10. Yves Tumor- Heaven to a Tortured Mind 11. Young Jesus- Welcome to Conceptual Beach 12. HAIM- Women in Music Pt. III 13. Adrianne Lenker- songs/instrumentals 14. Touché Amoré- LAMENT 15. Jeff Rosenstock- NO DREAM 16. The 1975- Notes on a Conditional Form 17. U.S. Girls- Heavy Light 18. Moses Sumney- grae 19. Dehd- Flower of Devotion 20. Soccer Mommy- color theory hm: Angel Olsen- Whole New Mess, a record I spent quite a bit of time with that maybe would make my top 20, but also feels semi-DQ’d. Love it. The War on Drugs- LIVE DRUGS, didn’t include this great live album, wanted to keep it studio only. Need to purchase The 1975, Touché Amore, and Adrianne Lenker so I have physical copies of all 20
Here's 25 from me. Might update it as I listen to/fall in love with more stuff. Only note would be that there's a ton of really great stuff that I'm only just discovering in the past week or so (Moses Sumney, Sault, ManDancing) that didn't really have a chance over some of the stuff I've listened to the most over the year. Dogleg - Melee Ben Seretan - Youth Pastoral Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Ways of Hearing Taylor Swift - Folklore weave - The Sound II Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Adrianne Lenker - Songs Rod Wave - Pray 4 Love Record Setter - I Owe You Nothing Cartalk - Pass Like Pollen Novo Amor - Cannot Be, Whatsoever Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Freddie Gibbs x Alchemist - Alfredo Bartees Strange - Live Forever Bendrix Littleton - Deep Dark South Told Slant - Point the Flashlight and Walk Soccer Mommy - Color Theory Oklou - Galore Tenci - My Heart is an Open Field The Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast Lomelda - Hannah Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone Ruston Kelly - Shape and Destroy Hope there's stuff on here some of you haven't heard! I do really like the 1975 album a lot and it probably woulda made my list, but Matty is kind've a dickhead and I don't think they need any more recognition, haha.
Hmm...I have to put a list together but off the top of my head The Strokes, deftones, Jeff Rosenstock.
1. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama 2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 3. Nothing - The Great Dismal 4. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions 5. Dogleg - Melee 6. Waxahatchee - St.Cloud 7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 8. Taylor Swift - Folklore 9. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 10. Hum - Inlet 11. Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings 12. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You 13. At 1980 - A Thousand Lives 14. Sinai Vessel - Ground Aswell 15. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?