best of 2020

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[FoolofaTook]

but ... there weren't 20 boris albums released this year?

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Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

but ... there weren't 20 boris albums released this year?

boris is hors concours

[smashingjj]

will need to think of an order, but these come to mind:

protomartyr - ultimate success today
Fiona Apple - fetch the bolt cutters
owen pallett - island
bohren and der club of gore - patchouli blue
Stef Kett - Cry and sing
Global Charming - Brutal, Mediocre
Neil Young - homegrown
Wasted Shirt - Fungus II
Fred Cracklin - Anxiety Kinship
Shifting - It Was Good

[redbreegull]

I'm not sure I even listened to 20 albums during this shitty year, but fetch the bolt cutters is definitely A+ material

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by toase

boris is hors concours

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/62...385728.png?v=1

[Rairun]

Didn't listen to that many new albums, but my absolute favourite was Songs by Adrianne Lenker.

[FoolofaTook]

clearly you haven't heard the new boris album(s)

[LaBelle]

Here's my favorite 5 albums of 2020 in no particular order!

Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers
Sad bedroom guitar girl doing 90s style alt rock is 100% my shit


Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
This is a beautiful album and Hayley sounds so much more authentic and real when not having to do Paramore music.


Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant
The solid pop punk album that 16 year old me desperately needed, but damn if i'm not still gonna enjoy it now.


PVRIS - Use Me
This band has been on my radar for a while, but this album is like they fully developed their sound and aesthetic.


Fever 333 - Wrong Generation
Kind of a modern day Rage Against the Machine in some regards, not everyone's cup of tea. But worth checking out in my imo.


Honorable Mentions:

Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'N' Place
actually came out a few years ago but I only discovered it this year, and it's a really good album people shouldn't sleep on.


WARGASM (UK)
They haven't put out an album yet, but their singles kick ass, they quickly became one of my go-to lockdown bands between their new music and streams.


That time Doja Cat did a rocked out version of Say So at the EMAs
I mean, it's like someone downloaded this video directly from my brain.

[smashingjj]

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
2. Owen Pallett - Island
3. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
4. Bohren Und Der Club of Gore - Patchouli Blue
5. Deerhoof - Love-Lore
6. Sprain - As Lost Through Collision
7. Stef Kett - Cry And Sing
8. global charming - Mediocre, Brutal
9. Life Savings - The Remote
10. Ten Past Seven band - Long Live The Bogwalrus
11. Reciprocate- Yeah Well
12. Terms - Asbestos Mouth
13. Wasted Shirt - Fungus II
14. Shifting - It Was Good
15. Fred Cracklin - Anxiety Kinship
16. Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
17. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20
18. Slow Worries - Careful Climb
19. The Domains - Enter
20. USA Nails - Character Stop

[House of Bread]

1. Porridge Radio - Every Bad

2.Hum - Inlet

3.Deeper - Auto-Pain

4. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

5. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

6. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream

7. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020

8.Caribou - Suddenly

9. Torres - Silver Tongue

10. Westerman - Your Hero is Not Dead

11. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today

12. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi

13. The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

14. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

15. Bill Callahan - Gold Record

16.Run The Jewels - RTJ4

17. Juliana Barwick - Healing is a Miracle

18. Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists

19. Horse Lords - The Common Task

20. Dehd - Flower of Devotion

21. Boris - No

22. Armand Hammer - Shrines

23. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans

24. Sumac - May You Be Held

25. Deerhoof - Love-Lore

26. Deftones - Ohms

27. Woods - Strange to Explain

28. Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress

29. Thou - Blessings of The Highest Order

30. Lomelda - Hannah

[Cool As Ice Cream]

apneu.
the guru guru.
millionaire.

[smashingjj]

best list so far

[slunken]

Originally Posted by House of Bread

27. Woods - Strange to Explain

dang i didn't know guy was still making records.

[House of Bread]

Originally Posted by slunken

dang i didn't know guy was still making records.

For sure. They've been worth keeping up with too.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by House of Bread

21. Boris - No

Didn't even make the top twenty, huh.


I see how it is.

[ninsp]

1. Deftones - Ohms
2. Hum - Inlet
3. Nothing - The Great Dismal
4. Killer be Killed - Reluctant Hero
5. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
6. Boris - No
7. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
8. Avenade - Vice Versa
9. Paradise Lost - Obsidian
10. Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies

[FoolofaTook]

[run2pee]

Gonna spotify every album in here rn thanks u fuckers

[Alice]

Here are some things I liked a lot from this year. I won’t rank them. I don’t like ranking things. Here are some things anyway, in the order of my recollection:

MSC & The Body - I Don’t Ever Want to Be Alone
Midwife - Forever
Mamaleek - Come & See
Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Cindy Lee - What’s Tonight to Eternity
Sprain - As Lost Through Collision
Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle - May Our Chambers Be Full
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
Hand Model - Manufactured Joy
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo
Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
Duma - S/T
Uboa - The Flesh of the World
Haus Arafna - Asche
Soccer Mommy - color theory
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Oliver Coates - skins n slime
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
NGHTCRWLR - Let the Children Scream
Vyva Melinkolya - Violet
Boris - NO
Sugar High - Love Addict

Honorable mentions:

Sumac - May You Be Held
Primitive Man - Immersion
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Neptunian Maximalism - Eons
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Oransi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi

Things I haven’t got to yet but seem more likely than not to make the list eventually:

William Basinski - Lamentations
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Sadness - Alluring the Distant Eye
Ka - Descendants of Cain
Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies
Black to Comm - Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens

Hors concours:

The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need to See. A 2021 release that shipped early, this was the most exciting new record I heard this year

[Alice]

The new Black Wing record was kinda cool but I don’t know. I can’t seem to get into it as much as other people are

[Ram27]

FOLKLORE

punisher

JCC record

[Alice]

Maybe someday I’ll get to listen to that Mach Hommy record. I like his music a lot but I really find this whole $444 for a record business obnoxious

[Alice]

Originally Posted by smashingjj

6. Sprain - As Lost Through Collision

I knew it!

[Alice]

Oh the Sadness EP too. I remember liking that one a lot. What was it called again?

[toase]

Couldn't pick 20, sorry

40 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
39 - Rufus Wainwright - Unfolow the Rules
38 - Sufjan Stevens - The Ascencion
37 - Asuza - Loop of Yesterdays
36 - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Honor
35 - Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn
34 - Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
33 - Nidia - Não Fales Nela Que a Mentes
32 - Nubya Garcia - Source
31 - Pink Freud - piano forte brutto netto

30 - Dandy Warhols - Tafelmuzik Means More When You’re Alone
29 - Deftones - Ohms
28 - Sneaks - Happy Birthday
27 - Tricky - Fall to Pieces
26 - Lucinda Williams - Good Souls, Better Angels
25 - The Dining Rooms - Art is a Cat
24 - Poppy - I Disagree
23 - V/A - Blue Note Re:Imagined
22 - Ed Harcourt - Monochrome to Colour
21 - Sufjan Stevens - Aporia

20 - Dan Kye - Small Moments
19 - Josh Johnson - Freedom Exercise
18 - Laura Marling - Songs for Our Daughter
17 - Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Agüita
16 - The Pyramids - Shaman!
15 - Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling
14 - Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
13 - Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign
12 - Frazey Ford - U kin B the Sun
11 - Letrux - Aos Prantos

10 - My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion
09 - Omar Apollo - Apolonio
08 - Norah Jones - Pick me Up Off the Floor
07 - Moses Sumney - Grae
06 - Actress - Karma & Desire
05 - Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
04 - Tom Misch - What Kinda Music
03 - Kiko Dinucci - Rastilho
02 - Nick Hakim - Will this Make me Good
01 - Joel Ross - Who Are you?

hors concours
- Boris (haven't listened yet, but it's good)

honorable mention
- Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz (It's actually from last year hehe)

[Alice]

Wish I liked the two Sufjan releases from this year more. Maybe they’ll grow on me

[ninsp]

Sufjan is soyboy bro country cock rock for hipsters

[FoolofaTook]

so soy is an insult?


eat this sundubu jjigae and stfu:

https://thefoodietakesflight.com/wp-...ubu-jjigae.jpg

[Joey Goldberg]

Originally Posted by ninsp

soyboy bro country cock rock

i didn't even know these terms could co-exist in that way, tbh

surely one of them cancels another out?