Best Albums of 2020: Discussion Thread

[pigs]

Here to make my yearly contribution by starting this thread.

1. Kvelertak - Splid
2. Lanterns on the Lake - Spook The Herd
3. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
   
4. Holy Fuck - Deleter
5. Destroyer - Have We Met
6. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
7. Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot

[teekoh]

1. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
2. Jeff Parker - Suite For Max Brown
3. Makaya McCraven - We're New Again
4. Ratboys - Printer's Devil
5. Kvelertak - Splid
6. Torres - Silver Tongue
7. Destroyer - Have We Met
8. Ada Irin - Navy Blue
9. Frances Quinlan - Likewise
10. Mgla - Age of Excuse
11. Pinegrove - Marigold
12. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
13. The Osedax - Meridians
14. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
15. T.O.M.B. - Thin The Veil
16. Lil Wayne - Funeral
17. Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
18. J Hus - Big Conspiracy
19. Nero Di Marte - Immoto
20. Unreqvited - Mosaic II: La Deteste et La Detresse
21. 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
    
22. The Leonard Simpson Duo - LSD
23. Odius Mind - Synesthesia 
24. Desire Marea - Desire
25. Ok Kaya - Watch This Liquid Pour Itself
26. Code Orange - Underneath
27. Garganjua - Toward The Sun
28. Sarah Mary Chadwick - Please Daddy
29. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Unlocked
30. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
31. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    
32. Lotus Thief - Oresteia
33. Hook - Crashed My Car
34. Yorkson/Thorne/Khan - Navarasa: Nine Emotions
35. Defiled - Infinite Regress
36. Of Montreal - Ur Fun
37. Dawn of Solace - Waves
38. Thy Catafalque - Naiv
39. Boldy James - The Price of Tea in China
40. Haunt - Mind Freeze
41. Aoiffe Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction
42. Rage of Samedi - Blood Ritual
43. Algiers - There Is No Year
44. Poppy - I Disagree
45. Field Music - Making a New World
46. The Professionals - The Professionals
47. The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do

EPs

1. Mick Jenkins - The Circus

"About Work The Dancefloor" also the SOTY. Sry, remaining 11 months.

[Timbo]

I've only listened to one album and that's Cindy Lee and its excellent.

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1. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
2. Mick Jenkins - The Circus
3. Beach Sland - The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City
4. Floral Tattoo - You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start
5. Selena Gomez - Rare

[andrewvb]

Jan 15, 2020 11:37:46 GMT -6 teekoh said:

"About Work The Dancefloor" also the SOTY. Sry, remaining 11 months.

technically a year old but yeah. sry surrounding 23 months.

[teekoh]

Jan 15, 2020 11:46:50 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

Jan 15, 2020 11:37:46 GMT -6 teekoh said:

"About Work The Dancefloor" also the SOTY. Sry, remaining 11 months.

technically a year old but yeah. sry surrounding 23 months.

Tru. One of the downsides to only listening to complete albums is I have no idea when songs actually come out. 

[Xamnam]

[Tweet]

Just here to say it's too early to start ranking any albums this year. See this thread in July!

[pigs]

Jan 15, 2020 11:54:54 GMT -6 Tweet said:

Just here to say it's too early to start ranking any albums this year. See this thread in July!

See you 2022 when I finally get sick of these 2019 albums.

[kb]

Jan 15, 2020 11:12:43 GMT -6 pigs said:

Here to make my yearly contribution by starting this thread.

Holy Fuck - Deleter
Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot

holy fuck has mostly been forgettable to me, but i am so into this album. 

[mookie]

I had no idea they put out a new one this year. Glad you posted that pigs.

[neader]

Jan 28, 2020 8:49:01 GMT -6 mookie said:

I had no idea they put out a new one this year. Glad you posted that pigs.

Surely a first.

[kb]

Jan 28, 2020 8:49:01 GMT -6 mookie said:

I had no idea they put out a new one this year. Glad you posted that pigs.

i don't know for sure, but i feel like it hasn't been released in the u.s. yet? i haven't seen anything about it online, just caught a new track on kexp and noticed the album is on spotify.

[pigs]

Jan 28, 2020 8:49:32 GMT -6 neader said:

Jan 28, 2020 8:49:01 GMT -6 mookie said:

I had no idea they put out a new one this year. Glad you posted that pigs.

Surely a first.

☹️

[dij22]

The second half of "Endless" by Pinegrove is the song of the decade.

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1. Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
2. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
3. Colin Stetson - Color Out of Space Original Soundtrack
4. Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II
5. Mgla - Age of Excuse



still need to check out Doomraiser, Wolf Parade, and Caspian 

[teekoh]

Somehow missed that there was a Mgla album out already. I would also recommend the Unreqvited album for all metal/atmospheric fans.

[Timbo]

Here's what I liked in January

1. Destroyer - Have We Met
2. Andy Shauf - the Neon Skyline
3. Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming
4. Mac Miller - Circles
5. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
6. Torres - Silver Tongue
7. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
8. Frances Quinland - Likewise
9. Kiwi Jr. - Football Money
10. Bonny Light Horseman - S/T
11. Chubby and the Gang - Speed Kills
12. ....And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - X:the Godless Void and Other Stories
13. Wire - Mind Hive
14. 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
15. Black Lips - Sing in a World Falling Apart
16. The Professionals - S/T
17. Bill Fay - Countless Branches
18. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
19. The Innoncence Mission - See You Tomorrow
20. Of Montreal - UR FUN

Edit: tho as I spin the new Ben Watt, I'm pretty sure that'd land in the top 10.

[fiveiron83321]

not a lot has caught my attention so far this year. rough top 5

1) Destroyer - Have We Met
2) Georgia - Seeking Thrills
3) 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
4) TORRES - Silver Tongue
5) Wolf Parade - Thin Mind

[Timbo]

While yall wait for the big one, here's what I liked in February

1. Moses Sumney - grae Pt 1
2. King Krule - Man Alive!
3. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity
4. Caribou - Suddenly
5. Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats - Unlocked
6. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
7. Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors
8. Ratboys - Printers Devil
9. Tame Impala - the Slow Rush
10. Against All Logic - 2017-2019
11. Wasted Shirt - Fungus II
12. Shopping - All or Nothing
13. These New Puritans - the Cut (2016-2019)
14. Califone - Echo Mine
15. Best Coast - Always Tomorrow
16. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
17. Tennis - Swimmer
18. Grimes - ms whatever
19. Bambara- Stray
20. Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field

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1. Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
2. Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog
3. Kvelertak - Splid
4. Deathmaze - Eau Rouge
5. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
6. Colin Stetson - Color Out of Space Original Soundtrack
7. Drown - Subaqueous
8. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
9. Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II
10. King Krule - Man Alive!
11. Insect Ark - The Vanishing
12. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
13. Doomraiser - The Dark Age of Old Europa
14. Tombs - Monarchy of Shadows
15. Mgla - Age of Excuse



have i talked about how cool that Deathmaze album is yet? cause it's wild. new wave dancy drum and bass mixed with doom guitars and gutteral screaming. it's insane and i love it.

[Tweet]

Normally I don't do these things this early but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you know

Andy Shauf- The Neon Skyline
Jay Electronica- A Written Testament
Beach Bunny- Honeymoon
Disclosure- Ecstacy EP
Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats- UNLOCKED

Kamiyah- Got It Made
Ratboys- Printer's Devil
Grimes- Miss Anthropocene
Leon & Khruangbin- Texas Sun EP
John Moreland- LP5

[Timbo]

March

1. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
2. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
3. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
4. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
5. Sorry - 925
6. U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
7. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
8. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
9. Deeper - Auto Pain
10. THICK - 5 Years Behind
11.  Moaning - Uneasy Laughter
12. Empty Country - S/T
13. Margaret Glaspy - Devotion
14. Cable Ties - Far Enough
15. Dogleg - Melee
16. Half Waif - The Caretaker
17. Nudie Mag - Our Milk
18. Vundabar - Either Light
19. Horse Lords - the Common Task
20. Dirty Projectors - Windows Open EP

[wanny]

No Dua Lipa?

[Timbo]

Nope. Didn't care for it.

[thebosma]

If you had told me that in 2020 I would like a Dua Lipa album and also a Halsey album I wouldn't have believed you

[wanny]

Levitating is a jam

[Timbo]

Q1 of 2020, 30 albums, 40 songs.

As always the year starts off a little clunkier, but methinks that Waxahatchee record is gonna take our AOTY. Yves Tumor next week is gonna be a strong contender too if the first four cuts are anything to go by.

1. Waxhatchee - Saint Cloud
2. Moses Sumney - grae Pt 1
3. King Krule - Man Alive!
4. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity
5. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
6. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
7. Caribou - Suddenly
8. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
9. Sorry - 925
10. Kassa Overall - I Think I'm Good

11. Destroyer - Have We Met
12. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
13. Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED
14. U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
15. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
16. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
17. Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors
18. Jeff Parker - Suite of Max Brown
19. Deeper - Auto Pain
20. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

21. Frances Quinland - Likewise
22. Shopping - All Or Nothing
23. Califone - Echo Mine
24. THICK - 5 Years Behind
25. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
26. Kiwi Jr. - Football Money
27. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
28. Empty Country - S/t
29. Dogleg - Melee
30. The Homesick - The Big Exercise

Songs

1. Waxahatchee - Fire
2. Perfume Genius - Describe
3. Yves Tumor - Gospel For a New Century
4. Car Seat Headrest - Martin
5. King Krule - Comet Face
6. Moses Sumney - Virile
7. Porridge Radio - Give/Take
8. Nicolas Jaar - Mud
9. Hazel English - Shaking
10. The Radio Dept. - The Absence of Birds

11. Waxahatchee - Lilacs
12. Stephen Malkmus - Xian Man
13. Sorry - Right Round the Clock
14. Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
15. No Age - Turned to String
16. Jay Electronica - The Neverending Story
17. Cindy Lee - I Want You to Suffer
18. Moses Sumney - Polly
19. The Strokes - Bad Decisions
20. Denzel Curry - So.incredible.pkg

21. Frances Quinland - Your Reply
22. Califone - Romans
23. Thundercat - Black Quails
24. Car Seat Headrest - Can't Cool Me Down
25. Yves Tumor - Kerosene
26. Caribou - Sister
27. Jeff Parker - Build a Nest
28. Hinds - Good Bad Times
29. The Homesick - Male Bonding
30. Destroyer - Kinda Dark

31. Archers of Loaf - Raleigh Days
32. Woods - Where Do You Go When You Dream?
33. R.A.P. Ferreira - NONCIPHER
34. Protomartyr - Processed by the Boys
35. Westerman - Think I'll Stay
36. Silverbacks - Drool
37. U.S. Girls - Denise, Don't Wait
38. Caroline Rose - Feel the Way I Want
39. King Krule - Cellular
40. Haim - The Steps


Still anticipating Yves Tumor, No Age, Perfume Genius, Woods, Car Seat Headrest, and the second part of Moses Sumney's grae. Also, weirdly excited for a Strokes record in 2020. Lots of good stuff in Q2 to look forward to.

[Timbo]

I would expect more of these as places ramp up more content during this time. Here's Brooklyn Vegan's favorite albums of 2020 so far: www.brooklynvegan.com/our-25-favorite-albums-of-2020-so-far/

[mookie]

Overcoats – The Fight
Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
Kassa Overall – I THINK I’M GOOD
Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Georgia – Seeking Thrills
Mura Masa – R.Y.C.
Torres – Silver Tongue
Holy Fuck – Deleter
JFDR – New Dreams
R.A.P. Ferraria – Purple Moonlight Pages
Frail Hands – parted/departed/apart
Dogleg – Melee
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
Banoffee – Look at Us Now Dad
THICK – 5 Years Behind
Porridge Radio – Every Bad
Grimes – Miss Anthropocene
Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
Snarls – Burst
Wasted Shirt – Fungus II
Peter Bjorn and John – Endless Dream
Kvelertak - Splid
FACS – Void Moments
Caribou – Suddenly