2020 Albums You Maybe Missed

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Since I've got this new job that's cutting into my music listening (which is fine!) I would like to prioritize my music listening. Here is this thread as we're 1/3 of the way through this shitty ass year.

Tell me what the good albums are below:

Field Music- Making a New World
The Innocence Mission- See You Tomorrow
The Professionals- s/t
Sarah Mary Chadwick- Please Daddy
Hook- Crash my Car
Zanders- Concentration Sixty Four
Caspian- On Circles
Frances Quinlan- Likewise
Key Glock- Yellow Tape
Leeched- To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Tha God Fahim- Lost Kings
Squirrel Flower- I Was Born Swimming
Squarepusher- Be Up A Hello
Nada Surf- Never Not Together
Obongjayar- Which Way Is Forward? EP
Wednesday- I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
Initiate- Lavender
yMusic- Ecstatic Science
Moses Boyd- Dark Matter
Bambara- Stray
Justin Bieber- Changes
Tennis- Swimmer
Kyle Forester- Hearts in Gardens
King Krule- Man Alive
Medhane- Full Circle
Banoffee- Look at Us Now Dad
Real Estate- The Main Thing
Princess Nokia- Everything Sucks/Everything is Beautiful
Today is the Day- No Good to Anyone
Gladie- Safe Sins
Machine Girl- U-Void Synthesizer
Wasted Shirt- Fungus II
Vladislav Delay- Rakka
Boldy James- The Price of tea in China
Overcoats- The Fight
Snarls- Burst
Disq- Collector
Swamp Dog- Sorry You Couldn’t Make It
Brandy Clark- Your Life is a Record
Riz Ahmed- The Long Goodbye
Nadia Reid- Out of My Providence
Thick- 5 Years Behind
Peter Bjorn and John- Endless Dream
Lyra Pramuk- Fountain
Brian & Roger Eno- Mixing Colors
Empty Country- s/t
Crow Killer- Enslaved to One
Half-Waif- The Caretaker
Hailu Mergia- Yene Mircha
Childish Gambino- 3.15.20
Empress Of- I Am Your Empress Of
Purity Ring- Womb
TOPS- I Feel Alive
Everything is Recorded- Friday Forever
Stuck- s/t
Dylan Baldi- Enemy at Home
Conway the Machine & The Alchemist- Lulu EP
Trace Mountains- Lost in the Country
Laura Marling- Song for our Daughter
DJ Python- Mas Amable
Ambar Lucid- Garden of Lucid
Pink Siifu- NEGRO
Ultimate Fakebook- The Preserving Machine
Sparta- Trust the River
Jackie Lynn- Jacqueline
Local H- Lifers
Rina Sawayama- SAWAYAMA
Shabazz Palaces- The Don of Diamond Dreams
Dvsn- A Muse in Her Feelings
Elder- Omens
Quelle Chris- Innocent Saga 2
Rufus Wainwright- Unfollow the Rules
Brendan Benson- Dear Life
Smino- She Already Decided

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If an album is not on that list I've either listened to it or it's on my big bold board to listen to it slowly but surely. For context, that board is as follows:

US Girls- Heavy Light
Stephen Malkmus- Traditional Techniques
Arca- @@@@@
Megan Thee Stallion- Suga
The Boomtown Rats- Tales of Boomtown Glory
Four Tet- Sixteen Oceans
Jadakiss- Ignatius
Zebra Katz- Less is Moor
Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts V
Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts VI
Hamilton Leithauser- The Loves of Your Life
Lido Pimienta- Miss Columbia
Oranssi Pazuzu- Mestarin Kins
Lucinda Williams- Good Souls Better Angels
X- Alphabetland

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If I were making a top 5 to prioritize in that big list, I'd go:

1. Laura Marling
2. Disq
3. Empty Country
4. Jackie Lynn
5. Snarls

HM to Frances Quinlan

And also lots of stuff here high on my "to check out" list, i.e. Pink Siifu, Smino, Trace Mountains

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My two cents:

Banoffee - I forget where you stand on Charli XCX, but it’s very much like her, since she played with her on the TSwift tour
Wasted Shirt - It’s exactly what you would expect an album by Ty and the Lightning Bolt guy to sound like
Overcoats - if you’re good with some straightforward pop with some big production, you’ll like it
Snarls - one of my favorite new bands of the year, very board friendly
Purity Ring - Exactly what you expect them to sound like and that’s fine
Empress Of - new one is probably my favorite album of hers
Shabazz - exactly what you expect from them
Rina Sawayama- I don’t think this is in your wheelhouse, but who knows

And I still highly recommend the Kassa Overall album if you haven’t tried that yet

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Yeah the Kassa Overall album is lit.

Of your big list my favorite would be King Krule but if you haven't liked any of his stuff I wouldn't recommend it. One of the major complaints with the Ooz was how long the album was (like an hour. Pure Comedy was longer tho fyi). This ones much shorter. But if it's his vocals that burn you skip it.

Trace Mountains and Laura Marling would also be good ones to check out. The Frances Quinlan recoed is good too but the Built to Spill cover is horrendous.

Empty Country is fine but I'd rather have Cymbals Eat Guitars back.

X and Pink Sifu arent on streaming btw, I bought the X album so if you dont want to wait i can dropbox it to you.

Thick is a decent punk record. Nothing amazing but solid.

Quelle Chris record is good too.

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I'll review these albums months from now thank you all

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Disclousure: Ecstacy EP

I'm not really sure why none of the blogs seemed to not pick this up. Did the blogs decide to blacklist Disclosure or something? I know that last album sucked and Khalid isn't cool, but everybody trips up along the way. This is pure, up, ecstacy for 20 minutes. I know you've spent 20 minutes worse ways; you read and/or post on this forum. "Tondo" is my favorite.





NNAMDI- Brat

Did you listen to this yet? Why haven't you? You probably don't like good music if you haven't yet. Or you're one of those people who I ask "what does genreless sound like to you" and you'd say something like "hmmm, you know, I think it sounds like (names some bands and an obligatory Radiohead reference)". This is actually what genreless sounds like. Pack it up. Drink it in. If you don't like it, wait 5 minutes, it'll sound like something else. There's a lot to unpack, and you won't get it all, and that's ok. That's the best music. "Salut" is my favorite.





Peel Dream Magazine- Agitprop Alterna

I assumed 2 things after googling this band. Firstly, they had to be talking about that Peel, which seems bold as hell. Secondly, I imagine somebody(s) in this band has done drugs at some point. So, naturally, I am in. The My Bloody Valentine is too cliche; if you remember Chicago band Earring, this might seem like a repeat. I once knew a guy in college who would do the thing you do with balloons on Shakedown St. and then sit near his AC window unit listening to the noise. His claim was the humming of the machine matched perfectly with the way his body and mind would feel while partaking. I always thought that seemed pretty stupid (for many reasons), but the main one was he was a fucking hippy and being obsessed with the industrial machine seemed like a waste of good druqks. As I sit in my apartment in week 7 (7!) of a forced urban quarantine, I realize he had a point.

You can stop reading now if you don't give a shit about guitars. If you didn't before that sentence, lemme tell ya something: Agitprop puts a warm, weighted blanket on the feeling of urban life in the face of a once in a generation or three shutdown. Have yourself a toke and give 40 minutes of your time to the hum and fuzz and harmony that doesn't make any sense together, but you realize you miss quite a lot once you've found your comfort in it. We'll be needing that AC unit sooner than we think.

Also, it got a 6.9 from Pitchfork so you know it's nice. "The Bertolt Brecht Society" is my favorite.

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Apr 27, 2020 18:58:17 GMT -6 mookie said:

Rina Sawayama- I don’t think this is in your wheelhouse, but who knows

This is the high school prom I wish I went to and it's goddamn amazing