Albums of 2020

[Toots McSharty]

new Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) project



Fontaines D.C (hottest irish band right now?)

Fontaines are really fucken good

[surfndestroy]

I am a little surprised at not seeing Brian Fallon's Local Honey showing up anywhere. There hasn't been another album this year that makes me think the artist is speaking to me as this one. Very pure and human.

[chewm]

I put off listening to the new Protomartyr because these days I haven't been in the mood for super dark post punk music but yeah it's fantastic, great band

[ghost]

Kathleen Edwards' return has me feeling giddy as a schoolboy.

[Kevin Davis]

Really enjoying this new-ish album from Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, and Bill Frisell -- recommended to me because of my fondness for Frisell, though he is very much in a sideman role. I don't think I've ever listened to an album where the primary soloist is a harmonica player, but this is really nice -- a really full-bodied sound, not overly flashy (no John Popper wailing here), and deeply evocative. Not unlike Frisell's own forays into American roots music, it's maybe a little on the pleasant side, but I've got room for a little of this sort of thing in my life. This is them covering Bon Iver's "Re: Stacks":

[tragabigzanda]

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

[Kevin Davis]

Glad you like it! It gets a bit samey, but it's stakes out a cool space if you're good with lingering there for a while

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

Lol have you seen my posts in the minimalism thread? I’m fine with lingering.

I have, that thread got me interested in Steve Reich! I love that thread!

Not all musical spaces are equally attractive to all listeners though, so I was just giving you the heads up

[epilogue]

Current ranking of the (55!) 2020 albums I've heard (updated):

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Gigaton - Pearl Jam
RTJ4 - Run The Jewels
Gaslighter - The Chicks
That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price
Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews
Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee
Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker
Dias Raros - Melenas
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius

Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Bad Vacation - Liza Anne
Wake UP! - Hazel English
Homegrown - Neil Young
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Old Time Feeling - S.G. Goodman
On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire
folklore - Taylor Swift
Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM
grae - Moses Sumney

Angular Blues - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade
After Hours - The Weekend
Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line
The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser
Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol
Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer
For Their Love - Other Lives
Song For Our Daughter - Laura Marling
Expectations - Katie Pruitt
SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama

Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens
Folk N' Roll, Vol 1: Tales of Isolation - J.S. Ondara
Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters
TO LOVE IS TO LIVE - Jehnny Beth
Muzz - Muzz
Notes On a Conditional Form - The 1975
Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams
Thank You Ancestor Finger - Harper's Jar
American Death Squad (EP) - Jeff Ament

Eclipse - Addy
Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
The New Abnormal - The Strokes
Straight Songs of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan
Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
Likewise - Frances Quinlan
Beginners - Christian Lee Hutson
color theory - Soccer Mommy
I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of
Heavy Light - U.S. Girls

From Liberty Street - Mapache
Invisible People - Chicano Batman
Music To Be Murdered By - Eminem
Marigold - Stu Larsen
3.15.20 - Childish Gambino

EDIT: Added 'folklore'
EDIT 2: Added 'Bad Vacation' & adjusted the order some
EDIT 3: Added Empress Of
EDIT 4: Added 'Old Flowers'
EDIT 5: Added 'Old Time Feeling'

[VinylGuy]

do you really put effort on those listens? or if something isnt grabbing you its over? Because its quite a list.

[epilogue]

do you really put effort on those listens? or if something isnt grabbing you its over? Because its quite a list.

I listen to all of them from beginning to end. If they grab me, I usually listen again within a day or so. The best ones I listen to multiple times. I've heard each of those top ten albums, for example at least five times each. Maybe more.

[Ello Sailor]

Fontaines D.C (hottest irish band right now?)

Fontaines are really fucken good

Yeah thanks for the tip. This is good stuff.

[Mickey]

Joe likes lists okay?

[Ello Sailor]

Gigaton sucks. Doesn't exactly inspire one to continue down the list.

[verb_to_trust]

Gigaton sucks. Doesn't exactly inspire one to continue down the list.

How do you feel about the Dixie Chicks?

[Ello Sailor]

Pretty dope, not gonna lie.

[VinylGuy]

do you really put effort on those listens? or if something isnt grabbing you its over? Because its quite a list.

I listen to all of them from beginning to end. If they grab me, I usually listen again within a day or so. The best ones I listen to multiple times. I've heard each of those top ten albums, for example at least five times each. Maybe more.

does it feel like a job? Like you have a schedule and you are running behind?

[epilogue]

do you really put effort on those listens? or if something isnt grabbing you its over? Because its quite a list.

I listen to all of them from beginning to end. If they grab me, I usually listen again within a day or so. The best ones I listen to multiple times. I've heard each of those top ten albums, for example at least five times each. Maybe more.

does it feel like a job? Like you have a schedule and you are running behind?

Not at all. If it did, I wouldn't do it. All this extra time at home has been great for listening to music. This kind of consumption isn't normal for me, typically.

[epilogue]

Gigaton sucks. Doesn't exactly inspire one to continue down the list.

Ahhh, and I made that list just for you too....