Albums of 2020

[psychobain]

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

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Could u listen to a Hero's Death please?

Who made that one again?

Fontaines dc

[epilogue]

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

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Could u listen to a Hero's Death please?

Who made that one again?

Fontaines dc

[ghost]

Really enjoying The Dead Tongues' Transmigration Blues this week.

[Birds in Hell]

Really digging The Common Task by Horse Lords.

[Higgs]

Well I've been getting into The Wants. Here's their tune The Motor:

[chewm]

Microphones in 2020 is pretty powerful, not something I'll play much, but beautiful nonetheless, especially acompained by that video

[psychobain]

Well I've been getting into The Wants. Here's their tune The Motor:

Thats a badass tune

[Jorge]

Really digging The Common Task by Horse Lords.

This track goes from intriguing to irritating to really fun

[Jorge]

The last stretch sounds like Pac Man

[Leatherhead]

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

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Could u listen to a Hero's Death please?

Who made that one again?

Fontaines dc

Have listened to this once through. Quite good, probably better than their first.

[epilogue]

Far from Home by Aubrie Sellers is great. Super digging it.

[epilogue]

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

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Gigaton - Pearl Jam
Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette
RTJ4 - Run The Jewels
Far from Home - Aubrie Sellers
Gaslighter - The Chicks
That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius
Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee
Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker

Dias Raros - Melenas
Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Bad Vacation - Liza Anne
Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews
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
For Their Love - Other Lives
Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line
The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser
Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol
Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer
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

[Mickey]

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Gigaton - Pearl Jam
Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette

The dream of the 90s is alive in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn....

[epilogue]

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Gigaton - Pearl Jam
Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette

The dream of the 90s is alive in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn....

I've got feathers in my hair
I get down to Beat poetry
And my jazz collection's rare
I can play most anything
I'm a Brooklyn baby

[VinylGuy]

Both Fiona and PJ made excellent albums. And you cant point out that Joe doesnt listen to new music...the guy is a beast of new releases.

Im intrigued with the new alanis album but im guessing ill be bored by it.

[epilogue]

Both Fiona and PJ made excellent albums. And you cant point out that Joe doesnt listen to new music...the guy is a beast of new releases.

Im intrigued with the new alanis album but im guessing ill be bored by it.

I definitely don't think the new Alanis is for everyone. But I am surprised how solid it is. And I'm saying that as a massive fan of her stuff. It really is the best she's done in a long time. But if you're not a fan or if you don't really love her sort of therapy-ish lyrical quirks then I can't imagine you'd like it very much. Shit works like a charm on me, though. I goddamn love it.

[VinylGuy]

well, Jagged is one of the classics of the 90s. Insuperable for me. Then she had a few songs, but overall im not sure i can pass a whole album from her again.

[epilogue]

well, Jagged is one of the classics of the 90s. Insuperable for me. Then she had a few songs, but overall im not sure i can pass a whole album from her again.

Totally.

The vinyl does sound fantastic btw

[Brett]

Mini-reviews of 2020, Part 5 (which I think will be the last for now):

Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
I really need to give this some more time and attention, but so far it hasn't grabbed me at all, very much like every other Deerhoof album since La Isla Bonita. I think there's some interesting ideas in here that I could really get into if I hear it in the right mindset or something. Hopefully this becomes a grower.

Patten - Glow
While it's a little longer than it really needs to be, this is a nice moody ambient album filled up with some interesting texture and sound work, and it gets a lot of rhythmic mileage out of being completely beatless. Fans of patten's early work should find something to enjoy here as the artist returns to a broader, more idiosyncratic palette than the more typical trancey sounds of his last two albums. This has also been followed up by a companion called GLO))) which consists entirely of solo electric guitar reinterpretations of these songs.

Inventions - Continuous Portrait
Despite consisting of two musicians who have made a lot of music that I've enjoyed (Matthew Cooper, aka "Eluvium," and Mark T. Smith from Explosions in the Sky), I feel like I've never given a fair shake to this project. Joyously detailed instrumental pop that traces its lineage through ambient, post-rock, gentle IDM, fourth world music, etc. I've only given this a couple listens so far, but I think I'm about ready to finally dive into the Inventions sound-world.

Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.

[Mickey]

Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.

I truly cannot get enough of this album, but it has also driven me to Jeff's previous solo work--which isn't quite as good but has still been a delight.