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Current ranking of the 2020 albums I've heard (updated):
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple Gigaton - Pearl Jam Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette RTJ4 - Run The Jewels Far from Home - Aubrie Sellers Gaslighter - The Chicks That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price Set My Heart on Fire Immediately - Perfume Genius Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee Suite For Max Brown - Jeff Parker
Dias Raros - Melenas Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Bad Vacation - Liza Anne Old Flowers - Courtney Marie Andrews Wake UP! - Hazel English Homegrown - Neil Young Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers Old Time Feeling - S.G. Goodman On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire folklore - Taylor Swift
Women in Music Pt. III - HAIM grae - Moses Sumney Angular Blues - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade After Hours - The Weekend For Their Love - Other Lives Strange Fascination - Chatham County Line The Loves of Your Life - Hamilton Leithauser Rose In The Dark - Cleo Sol Are You Gone - Sarah Harmer Song For Our Daughter - Laura Marling
Expectations - Katie Pruitt SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever La vita nuova - Christine and the Queens Folk N' Roll, Vol 1: Tales of Isolation - J.S. Ondara Saturn Return - The Secret Sisters TO LOVE IS TO LIVE - Jehnny Beth Muzz - Muzz Notes On a Conditional Form - The 1975 Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams
Thank You Ancestor Finger - Harper's Jar American Death Squad (EP) - Jeff Ament Eclipse - Addy Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman The New Abnormal - The Strokes Straight Songs of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa Likewise - Frances Quinlan Beginners - Christian Lee Hutson color theory - Soccer Mommy
I'm Your Empress Of - Empress Of Heavy Light - U.S. Girls From Liberty Street - Mapache Invisible People - Chicano Batman Music To Be Murdered By - Eminem Marigold - Stu Larsen 3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple Gigaton - Pearl Jam Such Pretty Forks in the Road - Alanis Morisssette
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Both Fiona and PJ made excellent albums. And you cant point out that Joe doesnt listen to new music...the guy is a beast of new releases.
Im intrigued with the new alanis album but im guessing ill be bored by it.
I definitely don't think the new Alanis is for everyone. But I am surprised how solid it is. And I'm saying that as a massive fan of her stuff. It really is the best she's done in a long time. But if you're not a fan or if you don't really love her sort of therapy-ish lyrical quirks then I can't imagine you'd like it very much. Shit works like a charm on me, though. I goddamn love it.
well, Jagged is one of the classics of the 90s. Insuperable for me. Then she had a few songs, but overall im not sure i can pass a whole album from her again.
well, Jagged is one of the classics of the 90s. Insuperable for me. Then she had a few songs, but overall im not sure i can pass a whole album from her again.
Mini-reviews of 2020, Part 5 (which I think will be the last for now):
Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists I really need to give this some more time and attention, but so far it hasn't grabbed me at all, very much like every other Deerhoof album since La Isla Bonita. I think there's some interesting ideas in here that I could really get into if I hear it in the right mindset or something. Hopefully this becomes a grower.
Patten - Glow While it's a little longer than it really needs to be, this is a nice moody ambient album filled up with some interesting texture and sound work, and it gets a lot of rhythmic mileage out of being completely beatless. Fans of patten's early work should find something to enjoy here as the artist returns to a broader, more idiosyncratic palette than the more typical trancey sounds of his last two albums. This has also been followed up by a companion called GLO))) which consists entirely of solo electric guitar reinterpretations of these songs.
Inventions - Continuous Portrait Despite consisting of two musicians who have made a lot of music that I've enjoyed (Matthew Cooper, aka "Eluvium," and Mark T. Smith from Explosions in the Sky), I feel like I've never given a fair shake to this project. Joyously detailed instrumental pop that traces its lineage through ambient, post-rock, gentle IDM, fourth world music, etc. I've only given this a couple listens so far, but I think I'm about ready to finally dive into the Inventions sound-world.
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Brett wrote:
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown I've been kicking myself for not finding out about Jeff's solo material before now, as this is right up my alley and I daresay closer to the direction I'd like to to have seen Tortoise go after Standards. A bit jazz, a bit hip-hop, a bit funk, a bit electronic, a bit R&B, and it's all run through a simultaneous feeling of wistful nostalgia and exuberant hope. This has shot towards the top of my list for this year and I imagine it will fight hard for the number one spot.
I truly cannot get enough of this album, but it has also driven me to Jeff's previous solo work--which isn't quite as good but has still been a delight.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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