Top 10 1. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Pono 2. Manchester Orchestra - the Million Masks of God 3. Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest 4. the Dirty Nil - Fuck Art 5. Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me 6. the Spill Canvas - Conduit 7. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 8. Better Off - Better Off 9. Dayglow - Harmony House 10. Wet - Letter Blue Just came out today, but I'm certain I'll find a spot in my top 10 for Worst Party Ever - Dartland Most Disappointing (no order) Grouplove, the Offspring, Clairo, Lucy Dacus, Illuminati Hotties, Can't Swim, Laura Stevenson, Coldplay
1. Bo Burnham - Inside 2. Porter Robinson - Nurture 3. Chvrches - Screen Violence 4. Weezer - OK Human 5. As Everything Unfolds - Within Each Lies the Other 6. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time 7. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power 8. Grayscale - Umbra 9. Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version) 10. dltzk - Frailty 11. Poppy - EAT 12. Epica - Omega 13. The Night Game - Dog Years 14. John Mayer - Sob Rock 15. The Killers - Pressure Machine 16. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 17. Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake of My Life 18. Rebecca Black - Rebecca Black Was Here 19. Glaswing - Like Water on a Glass Table 20. Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life 21. Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed 22. Eidola - The Architect 23. Every Time I Die - Radical 24. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World 25. Thrice - Horizons/East 26. The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time 27. If I Die First - They Drew Blood 28. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of The Happily Ever After 29. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita 30. Hail the Sun - New Age Filth Songs: 1. Glaswing - When You're Smiling My Way 2. Porter Robinson - Musician 3. As Everything Unfolds - I'm Not the Only One 4. Poppy - EAT 5. Bo Burnham - All Eyes on Me 6. Taylor Swift - Forever & Always 7. Chvrches - Asking for a Friend 8. Grayscale - Without You 9. Halsey - Girl is a Gun 10. The Killers - Pressure Machine 11. dltzk - Kodak Moment 12. John Mayer - Last Train Home 13. Little Simz - Introvert 14. Holding Absence - Celebration Song 15. Weezer - Numbers 16. Japanese Breakfast - Slide Tackle 17. Epica - Synergize 18. The Night Game - A Postcard from the City of Angels 19. The Maine - Face Towards the Sun 20. Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses
No real runaway #1 contenders for me this year, but probably like 20 records I’d consider top 10ers lol. I’ll update this post when I’m done I also had two artists pull an Evermore on me, so that’s fucking me right up. Both had incredible records out already and then surprise released additional records in the last week. I may just lump them together on my list Edit: done!
1. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Illusory Walls 2. The Killers – Pressure Machine 3. You, Me, and Everyone We Know – Something Heavy 4. You Rest, You Joy Life – Uncomfortable 5. A Great Big Pile of Leaves – Pono 6. The Maine – XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time 7. Foxing – Draw Down the Moon 8. Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me 9. Citizen - Life In Your Glass World 10. Worst Party Ever - Dartland 11. Bleachers – Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night 12. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust To Wellness 13. PONY - TV Baby 14. Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snake House & The Chamber of Bullshit 15. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God 16. seasonal – The Summers to Come 17. The Copyrights – Alone In A Dome 18. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost 19. Fiddlehead - Between The Richness 20. Suntitle – In A Dream 21. Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine 22. Halogens – You’re Being Weird 23. Common Sage – It Lives and It Breathes 24. Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More 25. Lil Nas X - MONTERO 26. Kississippi – Mood Ring 27. Kali Masi - [laughs] 28. Alien Boy – Don’t Know What I Am 29. Julien Baker – Little Oblivions 30. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art Honorable Mentions/EPs Camp Trash - Downtiming EP Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen EP Snow Ellet - Suburban Indie Rock Star EP Circa Survive - A Dream About Love EP Action/Adventure - Pulling Focus EP Mannequin Pussy - Perfect EP Sympathy Card – 2002 Parting - Unmake Me Deafheaven – Infinite Granite Trash Boat – Don’t You Feel Amazing? Dave Hause – Blood Harmony Vince Staples – Vince Staples Paerish - Fixed It All Hayley Williams - Flowers For Vases/descansos We Are The Union - Ordinary Life Stars Hollow - I Want To Live My Life Chess Club - You’re Lucky I Like You Sweet Avenue - Young In Warm Weather Photographic Memory - Photographic Memory Weezer - OK Human Weezer - Van Weezer Year Twins - Perfect Forever, Forever Perfect Smol Data - Inconvenience Store Chaser – Dreamers
HM: Slaughter Beach, Dog - At the Moonbase (came out 12/24/2020) 1. BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory 2. Eydis Evensen - Bylur 3. Sun June - Somewhere 4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 5. Kowloon Walled City - Piecework 6. Floating Points and Phaeroh Sanders - Promises 7. TWIABP - Illusory Walls 8. Turnstile - Glow On 9. Madlib - Sound Ancestors 10. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet 11. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite 12. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness 13. CFCF - Memoryland 14. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions 15. Claud - Super Monster 16. Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death 17. Converge and Chelsea Wolf - Bloodmoon I 18. Iceage - Seek Shelter 19. Makthaverskan - For Allting 20. Churches - Screen Violence
1. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore 2. Low - Hey What 3. Angel Du$t - Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs 4. Downhaul - Proof 5. The Killers - Pressure Machine 6. Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment 7. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark 8. Ekulu - Unscrew My Head 9. Painted Shrines - Heaven and Holy 10. BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory 11. Sweet Soul - So Far No Farther 12. The Bronx - Bronx VI 13. Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul 14. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Uncommon Weather 15. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights 16. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness 17. Trace Mountains - House of Confusion 18. Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove 19. Mogwai - As the Love Continues 20. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour 21. Hovvdy - True Love 22. Turnstile - Glow On 23. Origami Angel - Gami Gang 24. Black Midi - Calvalcade 25. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 26. The Antlers - Green to Gold 27. Explosions in the Sky - Big Bend 28. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood and Juanita 29. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View 30. Cursetheknife - Thank You for Being Here 31. Guided by Voices - Earth Man Blues 32. Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket 33. Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember 34. Squid - Bright Green Field 35. Makthaverskan - For Allting 36. Citizen - Life in Your Glass World 37. Chevelle - Niratias 38. Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone 39. Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles - Keys 40. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space 41. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End 42. Black Twig Pickers - Friend's Peace 43. Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell 44. Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality 45. Weezer - OK Human 46. Ryley Walker - Course in Fable 47. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility 48. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time 49. Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Clang Clang Ho 50. Dead Heat - World at War
1. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters 2. Eluvium - Virga II 3. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite 4. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim 5. Hammock - Elsewhere 6. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions 7. Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks
I don't rank albums; instead I do a top 10 songs of the year 1. The Paper Kites - Take Me Home 2. Jo Smith - Wyoming 3. Emily Weisband - Love 2 Hard 4. Patrick Droney - Yours in the Morning 5. LEON - Dancer 6. Lorna Shore - To The Hellfire 7. Fay Wildhagen, Kristoffer Lo - Ina 8. Fickle Friends - Finish Line 9. Jupiter Winter - Seen 10. Hotel Apache - LIVE2CHANGE
1. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God 2. AJR - OK ORCHESTRA 3. twenty one pilots - Scaled and Icy 4. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee 6. Royal Blood - Typhoons 7. Coldplay - Music of the Spheres 8. Kanye West - Donda 9. easy life - life's a beach 10. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
Placeholder with shortlist contenders included. Subject to change without reason and because there are still a few records to come out before this shit is finalized. Bands are only included once and may have multiple releases this year. I'm lumping EPs, demos, and LPs into the same section. Splits, singles, and reissues will get their own honorable mention section. 200 Stab Wounds - Slave to The Scalpel Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade Bodybox - Through the Bongfire + Microwaved Weed Candy Apple - Sweet Dreams of Violence Carcass - Torn Arteries Chain Cult - We're Not Alone Colonial Wound - Degradation Converge + Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I Death Toll 80k - The Future Is Yours Dodsrit - Mortal Coil Drill Sergeant - Vile Ebb Drug Church - Tawny Eastwood - Antibiose Enforced - Kill Grid Ekulu - Unscrew My Head Feverchild - s/t Fiddlehead - Between the Richness Flames of Betrayal - The Rain Reeks of Heaven Full of Hell - Gardens of Burning Apparations Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality GEL - Violent Closure Gleue - Promo 2021 Gravesend - Methods of Human Disposal Holy Figures - Luck of the Draw + Thanatophobia Human - Delicacies of Extinction Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity Makthaverskan - For Allting Melting Rot - Blood Delusions Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To The Gun + All Roads Lead To The Gun II Moisturizer - Interstellar Migraine Nak'ay - Closed Doors/Open Veins Naturgeist - Reinvigorated Terror Pan-Native Amerikan Front - Little Turtle's War + Immortal Ceremonies split Phrenelith - Chimaera Porcupine - The Sibyl Raw Plastic - Waiting Till Summer + There's No Place Like Home Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment Sentinel - Sense of Dread Septage - Septisk Eradikasyon Socioclast - s/t Sore Dream - Gears Clogged With Blood and Honey Soul Blind - Third Chain SPY - Habitual Offender Stand Still - A Practice in Patience Staticlone - Demo Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning Sulk - Tennis Elbow Sweet Soul - So Far No Further The Can't Hardlys - Beach Flat Rock The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires Thrice - Horizons/East Turnstile - Glow On Violent Spirit - Fire Wild RED - Brain Squeeze 25) Melting Rot - Blood Delusions 24) Turnstile - Glow On 23) The Can't Hardlys- Beach Flat Rock 22) Phrenelith- Chimaera 21) Wild RED - Brain Squeeze 20) Thrice - Horizons/East 19) Dodsrit - Mortal Coil 18) Drug Church - Tawny 17) SPY - Habitual Offender 16) Human - Delicacies of Human 15) Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity 14) Violent Spirit - Fire 13) Death Toll 80k - The Future Is Yours 12) Pan-Native Amerikan Front - Little Turtle's War + Immortal Ceremonies split 11) Ekulu - Unscrew My Head 10) Colonial Wound - Degradation 9) Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions 8) Sulk - Tennis Elbow 7) Feverchild - s/t 6) Stand Still - A Practice In Patience 5) 200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel 4) Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To The Gun + All Roads Lead To The Gun II 3) The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires 2) Holy Figures - Luck of Draw EP + Thanatophobia single 1) Sweet Soul - So Far, No Further Honorable mentions: Bone Sickness - Theatre of Morbidity Gulch/Sunami split Lugubrious Children - Eaten By Worms - Complete Discography Sunstroke - I Wanna Be Ignored The Afternoon Gentlemen - Twice As Pissed
Origami Angel - Gami Gang The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights Home is Where - I Became Birds Twiabp - Illusory Walls Dltzk - Frailty Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More Turnstile - Glow On Super American - Sup We Are the Union - Ordinary Life Telethon - Swim Out Past the Breakers Bigger Better Sun - Adjust to Wellness Kississippi - Mood Ring Foxing - Draw Down the Moon Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream Dollar Signs - Hearts of Gold Graduating Life - II Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember Nervous Dater - Call In the Mess Weezer - OK Human EPs: Snow Ellet - Suburban Indie Rock Star Camp Trash - Downtiming Hot Mulligan - I Won’t Reach Out to You Meet Me @ the Altar - Model Citizen Barely March - America Online
To do something different I made a list of things I loved this year both new and old, but it had to fit on my phone screen in the notes app. This is it Placeholder
No Midwife?! And c’mon, it doesn’t get any better than Infinite Granite. Not this year, nor most years!
Albums listened to: ~194 1. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite 2. Midwife - Luminol 3. Lucy Dacus - Home Video 4. Harmony Woods - Graceful Rage 5. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time 6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 7. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters 8. Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights 9. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power 10. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 11. The Killers - Pressure Machine 12. Parannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream 13. Vince Staples - Vince Staples 14. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 15. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art 16. Wiki - Half God 17. Snail Mail - Valentine 18. Free Throw - Piecing it Together 19. Pale Waves - Who Am I? 20. Origami Angel - Gami Gang 21. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me if you Get Lost 22. Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell 23. Rachika Nayer - Our Hands Against the Dusk 24. The Armed - Ultrapop 25. Hot Mulligan - I Won't Reach out to You EP 26. Chvrches - Screen Violence 27. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time 28. Sincere Engineer - Bless My Psyche 29. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions 30. Palette Knife - Ponderosa Snake House & The Chamber of Bullshit 31. Dijon - Absolutely 32. Bleachers - Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night 33. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take 34. Lala Lala - I Want the Door to Open 35. Hovvdy - True Love 36. Super American - Sup 37. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden 38. Grouper - Shade 39. Torres - Thirstier 40. Mannequin Pussy - Perfect EP 41. Citizen - Life In Your Glass World 42. Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen EP 43. Bigger Better Sun - Adjust to Wellness 44. KennyHoopla - Survivors Guilt 45. The Sonder Bombs - Clothbound 46. Mogwai - As the Love Continues 47. Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me 48. Home Is Where - Birds EP 49. Parting - Unmake Me 50. Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole Honorable mentions (in order of "haven't been able to listen quite enough to include on my official list" to "great for a week or two but haven't revisited much") Lisa Wanloo - Shadows Webbed Wing -What's so Fucking Funny snow ellet - Suburban Indie Rock Star EP Circa Survive - A Dream About Love Young Thug - Punk seasonal - The Summers to Come Turnstile - Glow On Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms Weezer - Van Weezer
Too soon for me hahah ;D I'll have some of the december to catch up on releases I've missed. I guess I'll come up with a list of EPs first, cause that seems quite easy at least.
01. Porter Robinson - Nurture 02. IDLES - Crawler 03. The Antlers - Green to Gold 04. For Those I Love - For Those I Love 05. Former Hero - footpaths 06. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions 07. Maybeshewill - No Feeling is Final 08. We Are Scientists - Huffy 09. Villagers - Fever Dreams 10. Foxing - Draw Down the Moon 11. of Montreal - I Feel Safe With You, Trash 12. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After 13. Lucy Dacus - Home Video 14. The Anchoress - The Art of Losing 15. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence 16. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View 17. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God 18. Admiral Fallow - The Idea of You 19. Slash Fiction - Gender, Trauma and Friendship 20. The Sonder Bombs - Clothbound 21. shame - Drunk Tank Pink 22. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams 23. Kississippi - Mood Ring 24. Fightmilk - Contender 25. M.A.G.S - Say Things That Matter
It feels weird to call an album underrated when it’s probably not gonna make my list, but that M.A.G.S. record really shoulda been a bigger hit around here
I needed to go back to it earlier in the week to confirm how good it was, but anyway I remember popping the FUCK off about it when I heard it, more people here should listen tbh
- Golden Casket - IICHLIWP - Montero - Inside (The Songs) - Call Me if you Get Lost - Ok Human - Love in a Time of Quarantine - The Gnashing - Dark Side of Everything (Deluxe) - Ice Melt - Path of Wellness - The Future Bites - Obsidian - 9th & Walnut