The Best Albums of 2020 (So Far) • Page 2

Lot on here I haven't heard. Soccer Mommy that high rules

 

Charli XCX's how i'm feeling now

 

Re: Spanish Love Songs blurb

“It won’t be this bleak forever.”


Yeah right.

 

Spanish Love Songs deserves lots of attention for that album. I would have ranked it higher but it makes me really sad so I haven't gone back to it that much lately. It touches on mass shooting also and I find it hard to listen to Dolores.

My TOP 10
1.) Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner
2.) Charmer - Ivy
3.) Hot Mulligan - You'll be fine
4.) Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
5.) covet - techinicolor
6.) Dogleg - Melee
7.) Stay Inside - Viewing
8.) Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
9.) Pay For Pain - Pain EP
10.) Belmont - Reflections EP

 

#54

 

my top 20, so far. lots of stuff in the backlog from the year already released that i could see cracking into this list in december, once i give them more proper listens:

20. frances quinlan - likewise
19. drive-by truckers - the unraveling
18. intronaut - fluid existential inversions
17. caribou - suddenly
16. jonathan wilson - dixie blur
15. EOB - earth
14. neil young - homegrown
13. khruangbin - mordecai
12. pearl jam - gigaton
11. protest the hero - palimpsest
10. thundercat - it is what it is
9. the strokes - the new abnormal
8. waxahatchee - saint cloud
7. 156/silence - irrational pull
6. ratboys - printer’s devil
5. laura marling - song for our daughter
4. phoebe bridgers - punisher
3. jason isbell - reunions
2. hum - inlet
1. bob dylan - rough and rowdy ways

 

20. EOB- Earth
19. Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist- Alfredo
18. Tame Impala- The Slow Rush
17. Soccer Mommy- color theory
16. Childish Gambino- 3.15.20
15. Carly Rae Jepsen- Dedicated Side B
14. Rina Sawayama- SAWAYAMA
13. Allie X- Cape God
12. Poppy- I Disagree
11. Haim- Women in Music pt iii
10. Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher
9. Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
8. Charli XCX- How I’m Feeling Now
7. The 1975- Notes on a Conditional Form
6. Hayley Williams- Petals for Armor
5. The Strokes- The New Abnormal
4. Halsey- Manic
3. The Weeknd- After Hours
2. Grimes- Miss Anthropocene
1. Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia

I’d be satisfied with this as a year end list, so I’m happy that this is where I’m at halfway through the year. Feels weird that I haven’t seen any of this stuff live.

 

This was the first Charli project that didn't land big with me actually

 

Same, I still liked it, #16 on my personal list, but it didn't grab me nearly as hard as her previous have.

 

About fucking time somebody lists them.

 

aaaaaaand Gordi gets snubbed. But good thing The Used made it....................................................................................................................................

 

Following-up, I didn't know anything about Gordi before hearing her Like A Version cover of In The End and was totally blown away. Her new album is one of the most beautiful things I've heard in a longggg ass time.

 

I actually am not a huge fan of the album opening with Pink Diamond into Forever, but the run of tracks 3-6 and then tracks 8-10 are near flawless to me. Claws into 7 Years especially. If it was up to me, I think I’d lead with Anthems and end with Party 4 U. I dig Pink Diamond, but I think it alienated many listeners with it leading off the album.

 

I've not listened loads of new stuff this year but Phoebe Bridgers or Soccer Mommy are probably my number one. I've never "got" Dua Lipa at all. Never even come close to liking anything I've heard. Really not my thing.

 

Those are all the albums I've enjoyed this year so far.

Top of 2020:

1. Silverstein - A Beautiful Place to Drown
2. All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine
3. Boston Manor- GLUE
4. Emery- White Line Fever
5. The Used - Heartwork
6. Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision
7. Of Montreal - UR FUN
8. Circa Waves - Sad Happy
9. Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible
10. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain
11. Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia
12. Little Big Town - Nightfall
13. Nada Surf- Never Not Together
14. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
15. Grey Daze- Amends
16. Pinegrove- Marigold
17. Soccer Mommy - color theory
18. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
19. Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher
20. Anna Burch- If You're Dreaming
21. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
22. Grouplove- Healer
23. Cassino- Yellowhammer
24. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
25. 5 Seconds of Summer - CALM
26. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner
27. O'Brother- You and I
28. The Weeknd - After Hours
29. Chase Tremaine - Unfall
30. Princess Nokia- Everything Sucks
31. Tennis - Swimmer
32. I'm Glad It's You - Every Sun, Every Moon
33. Kelsea Ballerini - kelsea
34. The Lone Bellow - Half Moon Light
35. Green Day - Father of All Motherfuckers
36. Charmer- Ivy
37. John Moreland - LP5
38. Hot Mulligan- You'll Be Fine
39. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
40. Nathaniel Rateliff- And It's Still Alright
41. Katie Pruitt- Expectations
42. Holy Fuck - Deleter
43. Beach Slang - The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City
44. The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do
45. Halsey- Manic
46. Loathe- I Let It In And It Took Everything

EP's and other things:

1. Silverstein- Quaranstein EP
2. Emery- Palmetto
3. Out Of Service - Staying In (B Sides)
4. Dashboard Confessional- The Best Ones of the Best Ones

 

They are in my personal top ten

 

Here is my top 40

 

I've got so many albums I need to check out now.

 

i'm gonna save myself the work and say that all the records i never heard just don't exist. you're all making stuff up.

 

so nice, thanks for this!

 

Great list of albums I have loved and some I have yet to listen to but feel compelled to do so after reading the write-ups here. Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy and Spanish Love Songs have been on my list of albums to listen to for a while but haven't gotten around to it yet - this week I'll aim to finally check those three out.

Hard for me to say what my ordered list would be so far, but my Top 10 (no order) would probably include:
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Lady Gaga - Chromatica
The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form (it's a bit hit or miss from me, but damn the hits are great - particularly If You're Too Shy, Guys, Tonight, What Should I Say, Frail State of Mind)
Allie X - Cape God
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
Lauv - How I'm Feeling
Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova (EP)

Full album hasn't clicked for me quite yet to list it, but Katie Pruitt's Expectations (the song) is up there for one of my favourites of the year so far. Great stuff! Fiona Apple is great but super deep and hard to digest at times, so I have trouble thinking about where I would place it on a ranked list of albums. But definitely deserving of all the praise it gets. Also really enjoyed 5 Seconds of Summer and Niall Horan's albums, some great tracks on both. And leave it to a Will Ferrell movie about Eurovision to provide one of the best film songs in years IMO (Husavik). I love Eurovision and follow the competition religiously, but fully expected nothing from the soundtrack of the movie and that song is just great.

 

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
2. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Reunions
3. Dogleg - Melee
4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5. O’Brother - You & I
6. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
7. Holy Fawn - The Black Moon
8. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
9. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
10. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
11. I’m Glad It’s You - Every Sun, Every Moon

12. Take Impala - The Slow Rush
13. Caspian - On Circles
14. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form

really enjoying the Hum album but only 1.5 listens in

 

listen to bob dylan, quit cucking yourselves

 

Brian Fallon


Spanish Love Songs
Hot Mulligan.

There may be more stuff released already that will be on my end of the year top 10, but quarantine has altered my listening habits right now (listening to a lot of older favourites like No Use For A Name, Yellowcard, and so so many more).