Albums of 2020

[epilogue]

Get a load of this guy. Gigaton in the #2 spot. Ha!

In Joe’s defense, it really isn’t quite as good as Fetch the Bolt Cutters.

[Ello Sailor]

Puscifer's (Maynard James Keenan, Carina Round) Existential Reckoning is definitely worth a listen. A smorgasbord of synth and vocal brilliance.

My picks:

[chewm]

I've somehow managed to listen to 101 albums released in 2020 so far. Just bonkers. I've been having so much fun on this journey. I'm excited to keep it going and to see what I continue to discover from these works.

Here's my current ranking of the 2020 albums I've heard so far:

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Gigaton - Pearl Jam
RTJ4 - Run The Jewels
Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
Kitchen Sink - Nadine Shah
Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morissette
On My Own - Lera Lynn
That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price
It Is What It Is - Thundercat
Bad Vacation - Liza Anne

LP2 - Lo Tom
Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee
Dias Raros - Melenas
Gaslighter - The Chicks
Far From Home - Aubrie Sellers
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was - Bright Eyes
Asterist the Universe - John Craigie
Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions) - Sturgill Simpson
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius
Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

The Waterfall II - My Morning Jacket
My Love is a Hurricane - David Ramirez
Moral Panic - Nothing But Thieves
Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker
Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Anderews
Impossible Weight - Deep Sea Diver
AUGUST - Lewis Del Mar
World On the Ground - Sarah Jarosz
grae - Moses Sumney
Source - Nubya Garcia

songs - Adrianne Lenker
Ascension - Sufjan Stevens
Wake UP! - Hazel English
Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
Homegrown - Neil Young
On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire
Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM
Amazones Power - Les Amazones d'Afrique
folklore - Taylor Swift
For Their Love - Other Lives

Summerlong -Rose City Band
Angular Blues - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade
After Hours - The Weeknd
The Universal Want - Doves
Modern Dead - Denai Moore
Old Time Feeling - S.G. Goodman
SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
Old Wow - Sam Lee
UR FUN - Of Montreal
Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line

The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser
Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen
Song For Our Daughter - Laura Marling
Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens
Transmigration Blues - The Dead Tongues
Getting Into Knives - The Mountain Goats
Earth - EOB
Logan Ledger - Logan Ledger
What's New Tomboy? - Damien Jurado

Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams
Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol
how i'm feeling now - Charli XCX
Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
Total Freedom - Kathleen Edwards
Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer
Sugaegg - Bully
Expectations - Katie Pruitt
Folk N' Roll, Vol 1: Tales of Isolation - J.S. Ondara
Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters

A Hero's Death - Fontaines D.C.
Whole New Mess - Angel Olsen
TO LOVE IS TO LIVE - Jehnny Beth
Muzz - Muzz
Thank You Ancestor Finger - Harper's Jar
The New Abnormal - The Strokes
American Death Squad (EP) - Jeff Ament
Straight Songs of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan
Notes On a Conditional Form - The 1975
The Unraveling - Drive-By Truckers

Likewise - Frances Quinlan
Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep - Ghostpoet
It Was Good Until It Wasn't - Kehlani
Aporia - Sufjan Stevens
Hannah - Lomelda
Eclipse - Addy
I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of
There Is No Other... - Isobel Campbell
Neon Cross - Jaime Wyatt

Beginners - Christian Lee Hutson
color theory - Soccer Mommy
Heavy Light - U.S. Girls
Cold Water - Medhane
From Liberty Street - Mapache
Invisible People - Chicano Batman
3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
Music To Be Murdered By - Eminem
Roisin Machine - Roisin Murphy
Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Colter Wall

Marigold - Stu Larsen

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[ghost]

Lo Tom LP2 is, not surprisingly, great.

[epilogue]

Yep.

And it keeps getting better.

[chewm]

listening to: The Sophtware Slump ..... on a wooden piano

[dad]

Very excited that Protomartyr is releasing a live album.

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[Higgs]

I have been very absent from this thread but I have certainly been listening to a lot of 2020 stuff. It's been a very good year.

I know these guys were posted earlier but really enjoy Fontaines DC's album A Hero's Death. 'Televised Mind' brings out all the things I love about the current post punk nostalgia.

[Higgs]

Samantha Crain is an Oklahoma songwriter who's had her share of accidents. She released A Small Death this year and I love this tune - 'Pastime'.

[Higgs]

I like almost everything that Ripley Johnson is involved with - particularly Moon Duo. But this new album from Rose City Band, Summerlong, may be my fave album of the year so far. Here's 'Wildflowers', indicative of the quality of the album.

[Ello Sailor]

Fontaines D.C. are the shit. Hoping they stick around for a long time.

[dad]

Samantha Crain is an Oklahoma songwriter who's had her share of accidents. She released A Small Death this year and I love this tune - 'Pastime'.

She’s great!

[Norah]

Fontaines D.C. are the shit. Hoping they stick around for a long time.

agreed

[Rangi Guy]

Puscifer's (Maynard James Keenan, Carina Round) Existential Reckoning is definitely worth a listen. A smorgasbord of synth and vocal brilliance.

My picks:

This was worth popping into this thread for - I was aware of this coming out, but somehow hadn't given anything beyond a couple of singles a listen.
These were great!

[psychobain]

Fontaines D.C. are the shit. Hoping they stick around for a long time.

agreed

Yes

[ridleybradout]

Hey all, long time no see

I'm just drafting my annual end of year compilation and I discovered a shocking thing. I haven't discover ANY new artists this year!

Many of you have a fair idea of my taste by now - anyone care to recommend some 2020 songs/albums from new(ish) artists that I should check out?

[Norah]

I'm listening to Khruangbin right now. The album they put out this year is fantastic.

[Norah]

anyone care to recommend some 2020 songs/albums from new(ish) artists that I should check out?

Check out the albums by Bully and Fontaines DC.

[tragabigzanda]

[Higgs]

Jerry Joseph's This Beautiful Madness is produced by Patterson Hood and DBT are the backing band here. The album is excellent. Here's a timely tune - 'Dead Confederate', sung from the POV of a statue people want to tear down.