Albums of 2020

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[E.H. Ruddock]

HAIM's new album is pretty great

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Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[bodysnatcher]

That’s a band I just can’t get into

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[verb_to_trust]

I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.

[VinylGuy]

I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.

what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.

[verb_to_trust]

I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.

what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.

Some dork from Fender just asked him guitar questions for an hour. Some of them J just sort of sat there and didn't respond to it was kind of funny. They did a few mini lessons on Feel the Pain and Start Choppin. Gave away a Jazzmaster to someone that wasn't me. He played a riff from the new album but couldn't make much of it. I didn't know that J knows basically no music theory for guitar.

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[Birds in Hell]

Unless I'm mistaken (and I admit I didn't watch it), I think the "dork from Fender" was Nick Reinhart, singer/guitarist from Tera Melos:

[LetMeSleep]

J used to come into a restaurant I worked at in Amherst pretty regularly. Super awkward dude. Monosyllabic.

You don’t say.

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[VinylGuy]

I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.

what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.

Some dork from Fender just asked him guitar questions for an hour. Some of them J just sort of sat there and didn't respond to it was kind of funny. They did a few mini lessons on Feel the Pain and Start Choppin. Gave away a Jazzmaster to someone that wasn't me. He played a riff from the new album but couldn't make much of it. I didn't know that J knows basically no music theory for guitar.

cool.

Yeah J is a super weird dude. I always felt bad for Lou and those first years.

[Mickey]

I agree that the soccer mommy album is underwhelming but I'm not feeling the same thing here. My favorite songs from Stranger in the Alps were "South Street" and "You Missed my Heart," so while I really like "Kyoto" I'm loving this one's quieter moments. Also "I Know The End" rules.

The more I listen to this the better it gets. In the running for AOTY for me.

[VinylGuy]

yeah i love it too.

Got a little sidelined these last couple of days with Neil´s Homegrown and his discography, but ill come back to it soon.

[Higgs]

Pottery are a group out of Canada somewhere's who released their first long player earlier this year. I found it on one of those Reddit posts about "sub-genre albums of the year so far", in this case "post punk" (which is always a genre I'm interested in). What a great discovery! Funky with great guitar and drum work, and always interesting.

Here's album closer "Hot Like Jungle" (which is for sure the most down-tempo thing on the album):

[chewm]

I dig it! ill check out the album soon

[Bammer]

1985 called and would like that Pottery song back

[chewm]

kinda hilarious that out of every rmer, bammer would be the one to make that post

[super nintendo chalmers]

Anyone check out the new Hum record? All the Gen Xer's on my TL were creaming over it. I haven't had a change to listen yet.