YEAR END MEGALIST 2020!!!

With the caveat that I totally missed a number of records this year... Here's my top ten:

Ten points for each of them:
  1. Caribou - Suddenly
  2. dogleg - Melee
  3. Sylvan Esso - Free Love
  4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
  5. Everything Everything - Re-Animator
  6. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
  7. Helena Deland - Someone New
  8. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
  9. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
  10. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
 
Here are my favorite albums from 2020:

1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia - 12
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - 12
3. Sam Hunt - SOUTHSIDE - 8
4. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas - 8
5. Son Little - aloha - 8
6. Holy Hive - Float Back To You - 6
7. Tall Tall Trees - A Wave of Golden Things - 6
8. Black Thought - Streams of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Abel - 6
9. Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice - 6
10. Taylor Swift - folklore - 6
11. Monophonics - It’s Only Us - 4
12. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun - 4
13. Norah Jones - Pick Me Up Off The Floor - 4
14. Cam - The Otherside - 4
15. Born Ruffians - JUICE - 2
16. The Weeknd - After Hours - 2
17. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony - 2

Honorable Mentions:
18. Ava Max - Heaven & Hell
19. Shawn Mendes - Wonder
20. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20
21. Sam Smith - Love Goes
22. Moses Sumney - Grae
23. Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
24. Bishop Nehru - Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts
25. Ghost Funk Orchestra - An Ode to Escapism
26. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions
27. Noah Cyrus - The End of Everything
28. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Temple
29. Action Bronson - Only For Dolphins
30. Caroline Rose - Superstar
31. Common - A Beautiful Revolution (Pt 1)
32. Thomas Dybdahl - FEVER
33. Orion Sun - Hold Space for Me
34. SAULT - Black Is & Rise
35. Marcus King - El Dorado
36. Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
37. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright
38. Mac Miller - Circles
39. Algiers - There Is No Year
40. The James Hunter Six - Nick of Time
41. Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
42. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
 
Kris said:
  • Lori McKenna – The Balladeer (10)
  • Hailey Whitters - The Dream (10)
  • Roisin Murphy – Roisin Machine (10)
  • Yumi Zouma – Truth or Consequences (10)
  • Fenne Lily – BREACH (10)
  • Deserta – Black Aura My Sun (10)
  • I Break Horses – Warnings (10)
  • The Big Moon – Walking Like We Do (10)
  • Jesse Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (10)
  • Kylie Minogue – Disco (10)
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Ahh I thought I was the only fan of The Big Moon on the board. So glad to have company. I think it was my most listened record this year.
 
In point order (but not necessarily order of enjoyment)

(15) Moses Sumney -- Græ
(15) Andy Schauf -- Neon Skyline
(15) Perfume Genius -- Set My Heart on Fire, Immediately
(10) Juice WRLD -- Legends Never Die
(8) Sufjan -- The Ascension
(8) Fleet Foxes -- Shore
(8) Run The Jewels -- RTJ4
(5) Open Mike Eagle -- Anime, Trauma, & Divorce
(4) The Weeknd -- After Hours
(3) Sylvan Esso -- Free Love
(3) Future -- High Off Life
(2) Sturgill Simpson -- Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1
(2) The Killers -- Imploding the Mirage
(2) 21 Savage & Metro Boomin' -- Savage Mode III
 
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Ten points (10) for each:

Gogo Penguin - Gogo Penguin

Zara McFarlane - Songs of an Unknown Tongue

Derrick Hodge - Color of Noize

Alabaster Deplume - To Cy and Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1

Ghost Funk Orchestra- An Ode to Escapism

Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits

Run the Jewels - RTJ4

Moses Boyd - Dark matter

Nubya Garcia - Source

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
 
1. Old 97's - Twelfth (20 pts)
2. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream (10)
3. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud (10)
4. Thurston Moore - By the Fire (5)
5. Steven Adams & the French Drops - Keep It Light (5)
6. bdrmm ‎– Bedroom (5)
7. BOAT - Tread Lightly (5)
8. Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun (5)
9. Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music (5)
10. Silver Sun ‎– Switzerland (5)
11. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown (3)
12. Lawn - Johnny (3)
13. Deeper - Auto-Pain (3)
14. Koyo - You Said It (3)
15. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song (3)
16. Rose City Band - Summerlong (2)
17. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman (2)
18. Ultimate Fakebook - The Preserving Machine (2)
19. JARV IS... - Beyond the Pale (2)
20. Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (2)
 
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (10 pts)
Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now (10 pts)
Moses Sumney - græ (10 pts)
Adrianne Lenker - songs and instrumentals (10 pts)
Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters (10 pts)
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (10 pts)
Taylor Swift - folklore (5 pts) / evermore (5 pts)
Oklou - Galore (10 pts)
The Weeknd - After Hours (10 pts)
Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan (10 pts)
 
cbl said:
I just did a massive end-of-year-processing mushroom trip and in building a playlist I came across Zara's "Everything is Connected" and added it to my cosmic aural path. it was a good decision. will give the rest of the album a listen today

and Gogo Penguin was featured prominently as well
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Sounds like a good trip; especially after this insane year!

“Run of Your Life” from Zara is probably my song of the year! I’ve never heard anything like it.
 
dhodo said:
Hey @Woob_woob, when is the deadline? Do they need to be up by tomorrow?

Edit: ha, oh yeah. Something tells me the baby might slow things down! Take your time!
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Next Sunday 1/9 should be when it goes up, so any votes in before I put up the final list will count. Most likely won't go up until that night.

Also if anyone wants to edit their lists I'll most likely start adding them up this weekend. Any edits after that I can't guarantee will make the list.
 
First, congratulations to you @Woob_woob 💐


A fantastic year with lots of great music. Hard to choose and order. ❤️

So here's my list of new releases this year:

Dua Lipa (Future Nostalgia) 10 points

Taylor Swift (Folklore) 7 points
Lianne La Havas (Lianne La Havas) 7 points

Georgia (Seeking thrills) 6 points
Marilyn Manson (We are chaos) 6 points
Gorillaz (Song Machine season 1) 6 points
Holy Hive (float back to you) 6 points

Kelly Lee Owens (Inner song) 5 points
Jessie Ware (What's your pleasure) 5 points
Rina Sawayama (Sawayama) 5 points

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes (What kinda music) 3 points
Chicano Batman (Invisible people) 3 points
Smashing Pumpkins (Cyr) 3 points
Yves Tumor (Heaven to a tortured mind) 3 points
Sevdaliza (Shabrang) 3 points
Future Islands (As long as you are) 3 points
Phoebe Bridgers (Punisher) 3 points

Run the Jewels 4. 2 points
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (Sideways to Italy) 2 points
Shabaka and the Ancestors (We are send by history) 2 points
Denzel Curry (Unlocked) 2 points
Fiona Apple (Fetch the bolt cutter) 2 points
Fountaines D. C. (A hero's death) 2 points

The Weeknd (After hours) 1 point
JARV IS (... beyond the pale) 1 point
Perfume Genius (Set my heart on fire) 1 point
SAULT (Untitled (black is)) 1 point
 
These aren’t necessarily my favorite records (though some certainly are) but these are albums I feel should be included in the best of 2020 discussion that might be overlooked otherwise.

20 Blake Mills - Mutable Set
20 Rolling Blackouts CF - Sideways To New Italy
20 Sloppy Joe and the Cruise - Keep On Cruisin’
10 Thurston Moore - By The Fire
10 The Men - Mercy
10 Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves Of Your Life
10 Alabaster DePlume - To: Cy & Lee Instrumentals, Vol. 1
 
I’ve been so preoccupied with Holiday stuff over the past month that I haven’t really put much thought into my list (also because I didn’t listen to as much new music this year as I wanted to). With that said, here’s my top 5 favourite albums of 2020, with 20 points each:
  1. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
  2. Taylor Swift - folklore
  3. Monophonics - It’s Only Us
  4. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
  5. The Weeknd - After Hours
 
supahypeag said:
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA - 20 points

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters - 20

Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo - 10 pts

Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - 10 pts

María José Llergo- Sanacion - 5 pts

Nubya Garcia - Source - 5 pts

Myrkur - Folkesange - 5 pts

Aoife O’ Donovan - Bullfrog Croons - 5 pts

Waxahatchee- Saint Cloud - 5 pts

Bonny Light Horsemen - 5 pts

Flaming Lips - American Head - 5 pts

Katie Pruitt - Expectations - 5 pts
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Cheers for the Llergo love. I have streamed it quite a bunch of times since you first brought her to my attention. Sanación was just short of making my list.
 
These are the albums I returned to most often.
20​
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death​
18​
Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud​
10​
Keeley Forsyth – Debris​
10​
HAIM – Women in Music Pt. III​
10​
DEHD – Flower of Devotion​
7​
Sorry – 925​
5​
Future Islands – As Long as You Are​
5​
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine​
5​
Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One​
5​
IDLES – Ultra Mono​
4​
The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return​
1​
Melenas - Dias Raros​
 
Okay, I’ve whittled down the list after listening to all my favorite albums multiple times the last few weeks. Taylor Swift was on then off then on then off. It was a tough choice this year.

POINTS

1. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - 20
2. Lowrider - Refractions -15
3. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright - 15
4. Kota The Friend - EVERYTHING - 15
5. Caroline Rose - Superstar - 10
6. The Sorcerers - In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God - 5
7. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia - 5
8. Slift - Ummon - 5
9. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions - 5
10. Khruangbin - Mordechai -5
 
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