Best Albums of 2020: Discussion Thread

[andrewvb]

Jun 10, 2020 9:23:26 GMT -6 sthubbins said:

my album of the year is the spotify ad where Stephen Malkmus says "here's a track from my new album Traditional Trackniques. just kidding, Traditional Techniques"

sadly havent had a chance to listen to this before i made my list

edit: selfishly bringing my list to the new page

1. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
2. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
3. Trace Mountains - Lost in the Country
4. Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
5. Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
6. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
7. Ka - Descendants of Cain
8. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
9. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
10. Jackie Lynn - Jacqueline
11. Worriers - You or Someone You Know
12. Woods - Strange to Explain
13. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
14. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
15. Against All Logic - 2017-2019
16. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
17. Dogleg - Melee
18. Charli XCX - how i’m feeling now
19. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
20. Drakeo the Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
21. Soccer Mommy - color theory
22. Ratboys - Printer’s Devil
23. Nap Eyes - Snapshots of a Beginner
24. Mac Miller - Circles
25. Empress Of - I’m Your Empress Of
26. Caribou - Suddenly
27. Moses Sumney - grae
28. Destroyer - Have We Met
29. Retirement Party - Runaway Dog
30. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
31. Ashley Mcbryde - Never Will
32. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
33. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
34. Public Practice - Gentle Grip
35. Navy Blue - Ada Irin
36. Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge
37. Snarls - Burst
38. Medhane - Cold Water
39. Yaeji - What We Drew
40. John Moreland - LP5

[dij22]

I also have Waxahatchee and Fiona Apple 1-2, I just can't decide which order

[andrewvb]

I agree the hum album is good

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1. Fiona Apple
2. Phoebe Bridgers
3. Sondre Lerche
4. Ratboys
5. Sarah Jarosz
6. Waxahatchee

...is all I'm really committed to at this point. I'll check out avb's list and listen to a lot of the ones I apparently missed. I haven't listened to 3-7 on his list.

[Timbo]

June favorites

1. Coriky - s/t
2. No Age - Goons Be Gone
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Hum - Inlet
5. Armand Hammer - Shrines
6. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
7. Haim - Women in Music Pt III
8. MIKE - Weight of the World
9. Bibio - Sleep on the Wing
10. Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead
11. Jehnny Beth - To Love Is to Live
12. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
13. Ohmme - Fantasize Your Ghost
14. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
15. Kate NV - Room for the Moon
16. Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
17. Gum Country - Somewhere
18. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
19. Muzz - S/T
20. Bo Ningen - Sudden Fictions

[mookie]

NPR's list of the 25 best albums so far

I need to go through quite a few of these

[Timbo]

Here's my mid year

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Perfume Genius - Set Myself on Fire Immediately
3. Waxhatchee - St. Cloud
4. Medhane - Cold Water
5. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
6. Ka - Descendants of Cain
7. Moses Sumney - grae
8. King Krule - Man Alive!
9. Coriky - s/t
10. Kassa Overall - I THINK I'M GOOD

11. No Age - Goons Be Gone
12. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
13. Serengeti - Ajai
14. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity
15. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
16. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
17. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
18. Hum - Inlet
19. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
20. Armand Hammer - Shrines

21. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
22. Deeper - Auto-Pain
23. Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna
24. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
25. X - Alphabetland
26. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
27. Caribou - Suddenly
28. Navy Blue - Ada Irin
29. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
30. Sorry - 925

31. U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
32. Destroyer - Have We Met
33. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
34. Andy SHauf - The Neon Skyline
35. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
36. Woods - Strange to Explain
37. Frances Quinland - Likewise
38. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
39. Califone - Echo Mine

40. The Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chuvin
41. Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell
42. Pure X - s/t
43. Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED
44. MIKE - Weight of the World
45. Raspberry Bulbs - The Age of Mirrors
46. Margaret Glaspy - Devotion
47. Bibio - Sleep on the Wing
48. Trace Mountains - Lost in the Country
49. Chubby and the Gang - Speed Kills
50. Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead

[dij22]

My first draft:

1.) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2.) Waxahatchee - St. Cloud
3.) Pinegrove - Marigold
4.) Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
5.) Man Man - Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between
6.) Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
7.) Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
8.) Moses Sumney - grae
9.) Soccer Mommy - color theory
10.) Caribou - Suddenly
11.) Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline
12.) Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
13.) Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
14.) John Moreland - LP5
15.) The Strokes - The New Abnormal
16.) Pottery - Welcome to Bobby’s Motel
17.) Run the Jewels - RTJ4
18.) Ratboys - Printer’s Devil
19.) Johanna Warren - Chaotic Good
20.) Aofie Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction
21.) Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
22.) Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner
23.) Arbouretum - Let It All In
24.) Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
25.) Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves of Your Life
26.) U.S. Girls - Heavy Thing
27.) of Montreal - UR FUN
28.) Deeper - Auto-Pain
29.) Anna Burch - If You’re Dreaming
30.) Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
31.) LA Priest - GENE
32.) Braids - Shadow Offering
33.) Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
34.) Dougie Poole - The Freelancer’s Blues
35.) Zachary Cale - False Spring
36.) Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
37.) Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions
38.) Mosses - T.V. Sun
39.) Hazel English - Wake UP!
40.) Locate S,1 - Personalia
41.) Porridge Radio - Every Bad
42.) Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
43.) Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
44.) Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
45.) Woods - Strange to Explain
46.) Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners
47.) Gil Scott-Heron/Makaya McCraven - We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
48.) Douglas Dare - Milkteeth
49.) Bill Fay - Countless Branches
50.) Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

[Tweet]

I don't feel like fucking around with a list right now but I would say Coriky, Bob Dylan, Medhane, No Age, Run the Jewels, RMR, Hum, and Khruangbin are now in my mix.

Thank you for your takes.

May 27, 2020 17:14:50 GMT -6 Tweet said:

Just felt like tossing something together:

Mountain Goats
Waxahatchee
Fiona Apple
Irreversable Entanglements
NNAMDI
Jason Isbell
Denzel Curry/Kenny Beats
Andy Shauf
Disclosure EP
Thundercat

Jay Electronica
Grimes
Perfume Genius
J Balvin
Beach Bunny
Peel Dream Magazine
Deeper
Black Dresses
Ratboys
Kamiyah

Bombay Bicycle Club
Charli XCX
070 Shake
Bad Bunny's first album this year
Caribou
Woods
Rina Sawayama
Sam Hunt

Edit: guess I'll track some evolution this year

Mar 25, 2020 21:25:28 GMT -6 Tweet said:

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

[monasterymonochrome]

Accidentally locked myself out of the apartment this morning while Emma was on an important 2-hour meeting, so I sat in the park and drew up this bad boy. (Some newer releases have major room to grow, as I've only heard them once or twice)

1. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
2. Moses Sumney - Grae
3. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
4. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
5. Ratboys - Printer's Devil
6. Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline
7. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
8. Mosses - TV Sun
9. Rose City Band - Summerlong
10. Laura Marling - Songs For Our Daughter
11. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
12. Pottery - Welcome To Bobby's Motel
13. Bonnie Prince Billy - I Made A Place
14. Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia
15. Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chauvin
16. Zachary Cale - False Spring
17. Shabaka + the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
18. Empty Country - Empty Country
19. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
20. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
21. RAP Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
22. Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo
23. Kvelertak - Splid
24. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
25. Luke Schneider - Altar of Harmony
26. Boldy James - The Price of Tea in China
27. Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners
28. Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner
29. Disq - Collector
30. John Moreland - LP5
31. Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises
32. Hinds - The Prettiest Curse
33. Ezra Feinberg - Recumbent Speech
34. Denzel Curry - Unlocked
35. Medhane - Cold Water
36. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
37. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
38. Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
39. Chubby and the Gang - Speed Kills
40. Pop Smoke - Meet the Woo, Vol. 2
41. Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy
42. Carlos Niño + Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Chicago Waves
43. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
44. Haim - Women in Music, Pt. III
45. Trace Mountains - Lost in the Country
46. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways in New Italy
47. Eerie Gaits - Holopaw
48. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
49. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
50. 2nd Grade - Hit To Hit

Have heard but not enough to rank yet: Phoebe Bridgers, Bob Dylan, Alabaster DePlume, Hum, Westerman, Brigid Mae Powers

Edit: I forgot Kiwi Jr but they would be somewhere in the high 30s to low 20s

Edit 2: Damnit I forgot Dougie Poole too! He’s somewhere in the top 20 for sure

[mookie]

Kassa Overall – I THINK I’M GOOD
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
HUM - Inlet
Charli XCX – how I’m feeling now
Overcoats – The Fight
NNAMDI - BRAT
M. Ward – Migration Stories
Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
Dogleg – Melee
Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Georgia – Seeking Thrills
Mura Masa – R.Y.C.
R.A.P. Ferraria – Purple Moonlight Pages
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Run the Jewels – RTJ4
Purity Ring - WOMB
Torres – Silver Tongue
Jeff Rosenstock – NO DREAM
The Strokes – The New Abnormal
Hamilton Leithauser – The Loves of Your Life
Christian Lee Hutson - Beginners
Holy Fuck – Deleter
Stay Inside - Viewing
JFDR – New Dreams
Frail Hands – parted/departed/apart
Greg Dulli – Random Desire
Snarls – Burst
Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of
Active Child – In Another Life
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
Fionna Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Braids – Shadow Offering
Sondre Lerche - Patience
…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
Nudie Mag – Our Milk
Porridge Radio – Every Bad
Grimes – Miss Anthropocene
Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
Retirement Party – Runaway Dog
Wasted Shirt – Fungus II

[andrewvb]

quietus best of the year so far: thequietus.com/articles/28423-quietus-albums-of-the-year-so-far-2020

[dij22]

Jul 6, 2020 17:32:40 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

quietus best of the year so far: thequietus.com/articles/28423-quietus-albums-of-the-year-so-far-2020

Only listened to 20 of these

[monasterymonochrome]

Jul 6, 2020 17:39:48 GMT -6 dij22 said:

Jul 6, 2020 17:32:40 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

quietus best of the year so far: thequietus.com/articles/28423-quietus-albums-of-the-year-so-far-2020

Only listened to 20 of these

Lol I've heard like 170 albums this year, but I'm only at 13 - added quite a few to my queue tho!

[dij22]

Jul 6, 2020 17:46:27 GMT -6 monasterymonochrome said:

Jul 6, 2020 17:39:48 GMT -6 dij22 said:

Only listened to 20 of these

Lol I've heard like 170 albums this year, but I'm only at 13 - added quite a few to my queue tho!

My biggest rec from their list that you might not have heard yet is Aoife Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction.  Really great stuff that's reminiscent of last year's Aldous Harding and Weyes Blood albums

[Timbo]

July wasn't as strong as the spring months but still decent.

1. Blu & Exile - Miles: From An Interlude Called Life
2. Silverbacks - Fad
3. Illuminati Hotties - Free I.H.: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
4. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
5. Lianne La Havas - S/t
6. Boldy James/Sterling Toles 0 Manger on McNichols
7. Daniel Blumberg - On&On&On&On...
8. Ganser - Just Look At That Sky
9. bdrmm - Bedroom
10. Katie Dey - mydata
11. Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks In the Road
12. SPICE - s/t
13. Advertisement - American Advertisement
14. Skullcrusher - s/t EP
15. Jessy Lanza - All the Time
16. Taylor Swift - Folklore
17. Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
18. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
19. Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations
20. Luke Jenner - 1

[Deleted]

This is how many national records I have listened to this year, roughly ranked:

Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Hum - Inlet
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Run The Jewels - 4
No Age - Goons Be Gone
Bambara - Stray
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Coriky - s/t
Destroyer - Have We Met

I hear mostly regional DIY bands these days and it's just fine. Open for recs, though, of course.

[Xamnam]

Jul 2, 2020 11:00:48 GMT -6 monasterymonochrome said:

Accidentally locked myself out of the apartment this morning while Emma was on an important 2-hour meeting, so I sat in the park and drew up this bad boy. (Some newer releases have major room to grow, as I've only heard them once or twice)

I'm finally listening to music from this year that's not just the Mountain Goats, using your list to catch up, and you've got a great selection here.

[monasterymonochrome]

Aug 26, 2020 10:58:23 GMT -6 Xamnam said:

Jul 2, 2020 11:00:48 GMT -6 monasterymonochrome said:

Accidentally locked myself out of the apartment this morning while Emma was on an important 2-hour meeting, so I sat in the park and drew up this bad boy. (Some newer releases have major room to grow, as I've only heard them once or twice)

I'm finally listening to music from this year that's not just the Mountain Goats, using your list to catch up, and you've got a great selection here.

Love to hear this!  Glad all the time I've sunk into new music this summer has been a little bit worth it - what stuff have you liked?

[Xamnam]

Aug 26, 2020 15:19:03 GMT -6 monasterymonochrome said:

Aug 26, 2020 10:58:23 GMT -6 Xamnam said:

I'm finally listening to music from this year that's not just the Mountain Goats, using your list to catch up, and you've got a great selection here.

Love to hear this!  Glad all the time I've sunk into new music this summer has been a little bit worth it - what stuff have you liked?

Pottery and Zachary Cale were definitely the standout surprises, really enjoyed Ratboys, Mosses, and Andy Shauf as well. 

[Timbo]

My favorites from August. Pretty good month overall.

1. The Microphones - The Microphones in 2020
2. No Joy - Motherhood
3. Duckwrth - SuperGood
4. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock
5. Samia - The baby
6. Knot - S/t
7. Girl Friday - Androgynous Mary
8. Boldy James - The Versace Tape
9. Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2
10. Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach
11. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
12. Widowspeak - Plum
13. Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet!
14. Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
15. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
16. Burna Boy - Twice as Tall
17. H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis
18. Bully - SUGAREGG
19. Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
20. Washed Out - Purple Noon

[dij22]

That Young Jesus album is so sick.

[teekoh]

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'm really looking forward to it. Love their last two.

[Timbo]

I was pleasantly surprised by it. August was good for artists I wasn't familiar with and they were in that group. Girl Friday, Knot, and Narrow Head might be up your alley too.

[Deleted]

huh didn't realize how long it's been since i've posted a list


1. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
2. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
3. Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
4. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
5. Code Orange - Underneath
6. Hum - Inlet
7. In the Company of Serpents - Lux
8. Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog
9. Huntsmen - Mandala of Fear
10. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
11. Primitive Man - Immersion
12. Protomartyr - Unlimited Success Today
13. Kvelertak - Splid
14. Arca - Kick I
15. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together
16. Dopelord - Sign of the Devil
17. Blaqk Audio - Beneath the Black Palms
18. Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
19. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
20. Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic
21. Moses Sumney - Grae
22. Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
23. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI: Locusts
24. Lamb of God - Lamb of God
25. Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse
26. Cancer - Opioid
27. At the Altar of the Horned God - Through Doors of Moonlight
28. Witchcraft - Black Metal
29. The Ditch and the Delta - The Ditch and the Delta
30. Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
31. Cult of Fire - Nirvana / Moksha
32. Colin Stetson - Color Out of Space Original Soundtrack
33. M.S.W - Oblivosus
34. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of Time
35. Krallice - Mass Cathexis
36. Georgia - Seeking Thrills
37. Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
38. Everson Poe - Reviens A Moi, San De Mon Sang
39. Katatonia - City Burials
40. Fotocrime - South of Heaven
41. Gnaw Their Tongues - I speak the truth, yet with every word uttered, thousands die
42. A. A. Williams - Forever Blue
43. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
44. Phurpa - Hymns of Gyer
45. Aevangelist - Blessed Be the Relic of Wicker Slumber: Nightmarecatcher
46. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II
47. Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
48. Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
49. Dead End Thoughts - Feel No Pain
50. Lady Gaga - Chromatica

51. Testament - Titans of Creation
52. Old Tower - The Last Eidolon
53. Elder - Omens
54. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
55. Xibalba - Anos En Infierno
56. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
57. Drown - Subaqueous
58. Everson Poe - Monstrous Existence
59. King Buffalo - Dead Star
60. Executioner's Mask - Despair Anthem
61. Paradise Lost - Obsidian
62. Hexvessel - Kindred
63. Insect Ark - The Vanishing
64. Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough: Volume I
65. Boris - No
66. The New Regime - Heart Mind Body & Soul
67. Ohhms - Close
68. The Weeknd - After Hours
69. Wake - Devouring Ruin
70. Wino - Forever Gone
71. Trench - Blossom
72. Everson Poe - Nusuth
73. Doomraiser - The Dark Age of Old Europa
74. Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
75. Shi - Suicidal Depressive Stoner Doom
76. Caspian - On Circles
77. Old Man Gloom - Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning
78. Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow
79. Saturnalia Temple - Gravity
80. Cut Copy - Freeze Melt
81. Barishi - Old Smoke
82. King Krule - Man Alive!
83. Ulcerate - Stare into Death and Be Still
84. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
85. Titans to Tachyons - Cactides
86. Pearl Jam - Gigaton
87. Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum - Astrology of the Nine
88. Alison Mosshart - Sound Wheel
89. Mgla - Age of Excuse



1. Various Artists - What Is This That Stands Before Me? (Covers)
2. Orville Peck - Show Pony EP
3. Deathmaze - Eau Rouge EP
4. Jesu - Never EP
5. Inter Arma - Garbers Revisited (Covers)
6. Jacazsek - Music for Film (Compilation)
7. Batushka - Раскол / Raskol
8. Father John Misty - Anthem +3 (Covers)
9. Thou - A Primer of Holy Words (Covers)
10. 2 Minutes to Late Night - Covers Vol. 1
11. Pig Destroyer - The Octagonal Stairway EP
12. Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery
13. Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn)
14. Realize - Demolition EP
15. Mantar - Grungetown Hooligans II (Covers)
16. Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower EP
17. Panopticon - Live Migration
18. Dirty Projectors - Windows Open EP
19. Khemmis - Doomed Heavy Metal EP
20. The Sword - Conquest of Kingdoms (compilation)
21. Tombs - Monarchy of Shadows EP
22. Spirit Adrift - Angel and Abyss Redux EP
23. Bongripper - Glaciers
24. Thou - Blessings of the Highest Order (Covers)
25. Goatsnake & Deathwish - Breakfast with the King EP
26. Yob - Live at Pickathon
27. Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II EP

[Xamnam]

Finally somewhat not really caught up with this year

1. the Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chuvin
2. Pottery - Welcome To Bobby's Motel
3. Sondre Lerche - Patience
4. Ratboys - Printer's Devil
5. Zachary Cale - False Spring
6. Ezra Feinberg - Recumbent Speech
7. Gum Country - Somewhere
8. Mosses - T.V. Sun
9. Retirement Party – Runaway Dog
10. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
11. Dopelord - Sign of the Devil
12. Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts V: Together
13. Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
14. THICK – 5 Years Behind
15. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
16. No Age - Goons Be Gone
17. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
18. Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline
19. Chubby and the Gang - Speed Kills
20. Braids – Shadow Offering
21. Woods - Strange to Explain
22. The Killers - Running Towards a Place
23. Kvelertak - Splid
24. Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
25. Kiwi Jr. - Salary Man
26. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
27. Trace Mountains - Lost in the Country
28. Bibio - Sleep on the Wing
29. Holy Fuck – Deleter
30. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

[Tweet]

I tried making a list it's too hard right now and Sufjan's gonna come out next week and fuck everything up anyway what's the point

[Timbo]

Favorites from Sept

1. Deftones - Ohms
2. Fleet Foxes - Shore
3. Flaming Lips - American Head
4. Lomelda - Hannah
5. VRITRA - SONAR
6. Bill Callahan - Gold Record
7. Doves - Universal Want
8. Sad13 - Haunted Painting
9. Total Revenge - S/t
10. Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
11. Bumper - pop songs 2020
12. Conway the Machine - From King to a GOD
13. Thurston Moore - By the Fire
14. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
15. Osees - Protean Threat
16. A.G. Cook - Apple
17. Hannah Georgas - All that Emotion
18. Khotin - Finds You Well
19. Tim Heidecker - Fear of Death
20. Cults - Host

[Deleted]

Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Deftones - Ohms
Hum - Inlet
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Run The Jewels - 4
No Age - Goons Be Gone
IDLES - Ultra Mono
Mini Skirt - Casino
Bambara - Stray
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Spice - Spice
Coriky - s/t
Destroyer - Have We Met

There's a new Cults? Hmm... I still need to hear that OSEES, too. Maybe today!

[Timbo]

excluding October releases, here's where I'm sitting at for an overall list

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
3. Perfume Genius - Set Myself on Fire, Immediately
4. Deftones - Ohms
5. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
6. Serengeti - Ajai
7. Fleet Foxes - Shore
8. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
9. Lianne La Havas - S/t
10. Flaming Lips - American Head

11. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
12. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
13. Coriky - S/t
14. Ka - Descendants of Cain
15. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity
16. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
17. No Age - Goons Be Gone
18. Blu & Exile - Miles
19. Moses Sumney - grae
20. Hum - Inlet

21. Boldy James/Alchemist - The Price of Tea in China
22. King Krule - Man Alive!
23. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
24. Illuminati Hotties - FREE I.H.: This is Not The One You've Been Waiting For
25. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
26. Kassa Overall - I THINK I'M GOOD
27. R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
28. ShrapKnel - s/t
28. Deeper - Auto-Pain
29. Silverbacks - Fad
30. Armand Hammer - Shrines

31. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
32. Califone - Echo Mine
33. Lomelda - Hannah
34. Navy Blue - Ada Irin
35. Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna
36. Samia - The Baby
37. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
38. No Joy - Motherhood
39. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
40. VRITRA - SONAR

41. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas
42. Caribou - Suddenly
43. SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
44. X - Alphabetland
45. Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
46. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock
47. Liv.e - Couldn't Wait to Tell You
48. Boldy James/Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols
49. Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
50. Sorry - 925