Top Songs: 1. City Mouth - “Coping Machine” 2. Hundredth - “Bottle It Up” 3. Coletta - “Agoraphobia” 4. Properties of Nature - “You Didn’t Start a Fire in My Heart, You Started It in my Home!” 5. 93FEETOFSMOKE - “RESIN!” 6. The Great Diversion - “The Way the Wind Blows” 7. Erabella - “Don’t Forget October 3 (Year 11)” 8. 156/Silence - “Vexation” 9. @Chase Tremaine - “Matter” 10. Lilac Kings - “1985” Top EP’s: 1. Incase We Crash - Soul Paint 2. Chief State - Tough Love 3. Mundane - Greatest Hits 4. Trying Science - Next 5. Properties of Nature - Wolves in Business Suits Top Albums: 1. Coletta - Idealism 2. Forest Green - In Waves 3. Deftones - Ohms 4. Dragged Under - The World is in Your Way 5. Downswing - Good Intentions 6. Driveways - October Forever 7. Picturesque - Do You Feel OK? 8. Happy. - Imposter Syndrome 9. Intervals - Circadian 10. Miss Fortune - Miss Fortune Spotify playlist: 2020 Top New Music, a playlist on Spotify Here’s a list of everything I considered for my top songs, albums, and EP’s: Saviour Coletta Bilmuri Pull Down the Sun Intervals 156/Silence Happy. Driveways LP The Great Diversion Early Work EP Hundredth Eastwood Deftones Niiiice. Movements Wilmette EP Fluorescents EP Standards Point North Stand Atlantic Isabella EP Neck Deep Lifelong Broadway Calls Satyr Erabella EP Forest Green Carpool Properties of Nature EP Incase We Crash EP Oolong Driveways EP Refractions EP City Mouth Picturesque Chief State EP Belmont EP Downswing Trying Science EP Polaris Mundane EP Chase Tremaine Dragged Under Galleons Miss Fortune Dryjacket Pulses. U.G.L.Y. Outwaves Defences promiser EP Sharptooth Lilac Kings EP American Slang Yours Truly Absent Friends Dead Friends EP Televangelist With Abandon Great American Ghost Hot Mulligan Charmer Tang EP Nephele EP Middleneck House & Home closure. Two and a half Girl Mallcops Enemy AC130 Above Fox Lake Makari EP And lastly, here’s a monster Spotify playlist of all of the new music I spun in 2020: 2020FUL, a playlist on Spotify
Finally! I always love these lists. I usually find at least 3 gems that I missed and end up loving. Listened to a ton of albums this year, many that I enjoyed but didn't love. A lot that were good, but still disappointments. It was a bit difficult to narrow it down, the top 6 were are definite for me. Here's my top ten and favorite song for each album: 10. Brain Fallon - Local Honey (Lonely For You Only) 9. Cassino - Yellowhammer (Tacoma) 8. the Menzingers - From Exile (Strangers Forever) 7. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone (Losers) 6. San Cisco - Between You and Me (Skin) 5. Phantom Planet - Devastator (Torture Me) 4. Worst Party Ever - Here, Online (False Teeth) 3. the Neighbourhood - Chip Chrome and the Mono-Tones (Devil's Advocate) 2. Mansions - Big Bad (Laser Beams) 1. the Front Bottoms - In Sickness and in Flames (Camouflage) Ready to discover some new ones...
Yeah but making the lists early exposes others to albums they may have missed out on. I wish this was an ongoing thread throughout the year.
Even after you have made your list you will see others and think: "that should have made my list" or find new artists long into the new year. No right or wrong answer here.
There’s always the “post every album you listen to” threads for each year and the “recommendations” thread but it would be cool to have a “albums released this year that you think chorus members would enjoy” type thread to not only help people find new releases throughout the year but also bolster discussion for records that don’t get a ton of attention on here but would if people knew about it/listened.
I think that what’s the genre threads are for and it’s up to the individual to keep track of what they do or do not like.
Since not everything fits in the genre threads, I’m gusssibg that’s likely where people miss stuff they find at the end of the year and enjoy.
in 2019, or maybe 2018, I tried making quarterly threads (Q1 2019, Q2 2019) for people to talk about what came out, what they liked, etc. Exactly this, a way to not wait until December to look back at what came out. The threads were mostly a failure though unfortuntely
1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2. Belako - Plastic drama 3. IDLES - Ultra Mono 4. Hurula - Jehova 5. Porridge Radio - Every bad 6. Iiris Viljanen - Den lilla havsfrun 7. O’brother - You & I 8. the klubs - cult party 9. Mattias Alkberg - Bodensia 10. Ganser - Just look at that sky
happy to give it a shot, this was the last time I tried. You'll notice the lack of interest by Q2 haha Q1 2018 Release Roundup • forum.chorus.fm Q2 2018 Release Roundup • forum.chorus.fm
This is a little preliminary because this is one of the strongest December release months I ever remember. But for now: 1. Taylor Swift: folklore 2. Hayley Williams: Petals For Armor 3. Laura Jane Grace: Stay Alive 4. Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher 5. Taylor Swift: evermore 6. The Front Bottoms: In Sickness & In Flames 7. All Time Low: Wake Up, Sunshine 8. Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts 9. Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios); And shout out to the TO FEEL ALIVE - EP 10. Lady Gaga: Chromatica 11.Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour 12. Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension 13. Mac Miller: Circles 14. Paul McCartney: McCartney III 15. Ariana Grande: Positions 16. The Killers: Imploding the Mirage 17. Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia 18. Slaughter Beach, Dog: At the Moonbase 19. The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You 20. Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud 21. The Chicks: Gaslighter 22. Illuminati Hotties: FREE I.H: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For 23. Retirement Party: Runaway Dog 24. Moses Sumney: grae 25. Best Coast: Almost Tomorrow 26. Grimes: Miss Anthropocene 27. Halsey: MANIC 28. The Flaming Lips: American Head 29. Omar Apollo: Apolonio 30. Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA 31. Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon, Volume III: The Chosen 32. Beach Bunny: Honeymoon Looking forward to reading through everyone's list a little more closely and seeing what I've missed.
Damn, well thanks for trying. At least we have this thread to look forward to. If you do it in 2021, I'll be sure to check it out.
My Top 25 1. Gleemer - Down Through 2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone 3. dogleg - Melee 4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 5. Clams Casino - Instrumental Relics 6. Empty Country - Empty Country 7. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt 8. Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach 9. ManDancing - The Good Sweat 10. Bartees Strange - Live Forever 11. Sinai Vessel - Ground Aswim 12. Rival Consoles - Night Melody 13. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately 14. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind 15. Daniel Avery - Illusion Of Time 16. Caribou - Suddenly 17. Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019 18. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today 19. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon 20. Nothing - The Great Dismal 21. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020 22. Fleet Foxes - Shore 23. Movements - No Good Left To Give 24. Lomelda - Hannah 25. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
I never get through enough albums in a year to justify a list, but I make myself a Greatest Hits mixtape every year from my favorite songs, so here's 2020: (edit: some of these aren't from 2020, I just heard them first in 2020 so they're attached to memories now) 1. Thief Club - Death Valley Super Bloom 2. Braids - Young Buck 3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars in Space 4. Owen - The Contours 5. Andrew Goldring - Grey Divide 6. Sleep Token - Take Aim 7. The Japanese House - Maybe You're the Reason 8. Protest the Hero - All Hands 9. Hailaker - Alumni 10. Bon Iver - AUATC 11. Owen - On With the Show 12. Thief Club - Jen 13. Dizzy - Beatrice 14. The Dangerous Summer - Fuck Them All 15. Waxahatchee - Fire 16. Sleep Token - Gods 17. Hovvdy - Runner 18. Bartees Stranger - Mustang 19. Bet Nwar - Dirty Layers 20. Brigades - China Doll (Acoustic) 21. Sinai Vessel - Fragile 22. Big Red Machine - I Won't Run From It
Only thing I'd really call for sure is the top seven. After that I'd probably come up with something different tomorrow just like I did yesterday. Not gonna dwell on it though. *Lowercase Roses - Titanic Planet is not on topsters so pictured instead is Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter EPs: Laura, Laura! – Overzealous Soul Glo - Songs to Yeet at the Sun Charli Adams - Good at Being Young Mel Stone - Coast Mylets - Object Permanence Other Mentions: Addy - Eclipse Alexia Avina – Unearth Anjimile - Giver Taker Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides II Bibio - Sleep on the Wing Cafe Racer - Shadow Talk Dehd - Flower of Devotion Elvis Depressedley - Depressedlica Erica Freas – Young Fenne Lily – BREACH Gleemer - Down Through Hockey Dad - Brain Candy Holy Fuck – Deleter Honeymoon – From the Future Jealous of the Birds - Peninsula July Talk - Pray for It Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations Loyal Lobos - Everlasting Marie Dahlstrom – Like Sand Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us Poppy – I Disagree Porridge Radio - Every Bad R.A.P. Ferreira and the Jefferson Park Boys - Purple Moonlight Pages Rich People - Harmony Still Motions - Mirrors Taylor Swift – Evermore Thank You, I'm Sorry - I'm Glad We're Friends The Front Bottoms - In Sickness and In Flames The Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chauvin Wreath of Hogs - Green House, Green Couch Biggest Disappointments: Brian Fallon, Diet Cig, Dream Wife, and Gladie Worst Albums: Machine Gun Kelly, Green Day, Little Big Town