[A.S.], A lot's changed since Touche Amore first hit the scene just over a decade ago. It singlehandedly makes the case that loud, guitar-based rock music can still be both populist and innovative. See which albums are sitting at the top of this year's charts. In contrast to the dark and sprawling compositions that dominated 2017's Crack-Up, the song structures on Shore are far more focused and verse-chorus reliant, which proves to be one of the album's strengths. [A.S.], billy woods and Elucid remain two of the most prolific, consistently great artists in the world of underground abstract rap, both separately and also together as Armand Hammer. "Dreamsicle" and "Only Children" are both lovely, bittersweet slices of nostalgia for the bad-old-days, a young man's impressions filtered through the sensibilities of an older one into moving, fragmented images: "New sneakers on a high school court and you swore you'd be there." It's the best song on In Search Of Lost Time, but the hits don't stop coming. There are times when it rolls into post-rock or black metal, but it's never fully one thing, morphing unpredictably as soon as we think we have a handle on its sound. This exclusive vinyl variant is 140g on “flume.” San Diego rock band Wavves will release their seventh studio album Hideaway this summer.Across its brief but impactful nine tracks, Hideaway is about what happens when you get old enough to take stock of the world around you and realize that no one is going to save you but yourself, and even that might be a tall order. High → Low. And the second half, as is their custom, is where things get real, with Killer Mike's verses on "Walking in the Snow" hitting with particular force as he cooly diagnoses and then brutally excoriates the fucked-up totality of American life that leads to a tragedy like the George Floyd murder. "The lyrics I had been searching for all year began to come to me, seemingly from nowhere," Pecknold wrote in a statement upon the album's release. The album graciously walks a fine line between pop sensibilities and the band's usual grandeur; "Sunblind" and "Maestranza" feature some of Fleet Foxes' most memorable melodies, while songs like "Featherweight" and "For A Week or Two" show the band at their most haunting. [A.S.], Every Bad is an inner monologue of a record, the kind where in your darkest hour you might obsess over a single thought. If most traditional black-metal bands sound like they've tromped in from wintry, windswept forests, Finland's Oranssi Pazuzu sound beamed in from another planet entirely. It sums up Phoebe's particular songwriting gifts perfectly, as well as this album's fantastic production that synthesizes disparate modes into something indisputably cohesive. The songs address domestic abuse, sexual assault, depression, and other real-life issues, and Serena Cherry tackles them with incisiveness and fury. He sounds like a natural throughout the whole album, and as he expertly blurs the lines between genre, he never forgets the importance of a good hook. The Weeknd — After Hours#13. Every Code Orange stream felt like an event, but none of it could have happened the way it did without the excellent new album Underneath. ], One of the biggest tragedies in rap this year was the murder of Pop Smoke at just 20 years old. What they've kept are the Satan's-croak vocals, which enhance the feeling that we're participating in some kind of unholy rite. It's the kind of album that you can only hear start to finish, as it functions more as one grand piece of work than as a collection of songs. It fully embraces the screamo direction that Record Setter began going in on 2017's Purge without fully abandoning their more melodic emo roots, and it's a towering, intense album where almost every song segues directly into the next, making for an ambitious piece of art that needs to be listened to from start to finish. Following the success of her self-titled album three years prior (which spawned the omnipresent hit "New Rules"), Future Nostalgia is a complete sonic shift from often-generic pop towards tasteful homages to both '70s disco/funk and early 2000s synthpop, while not sounding out of place within the 2020 radio pop landscape. All the websites are safe and reliable. The instrumentation is genuinely breathtaking, and Boldy supplied Manger On McNichols with some of his most remarkable verses. [R.S.F. Some albums were delayed and others were put on hold indefinitely, but there was also music that was written because of the limitations of quarantine that we may not have ever gotten otherwise. Jim Bob - Pop Up Jim Bob (Cherry Red) The former Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine frontman's first album in … [Bill Pearis], Protoje is one of the original leaders of the reggae revival, and he remains one of the most prolific. It's all impossibly catchy and sweetly sad, which we've come to expect, but there's also a palpable sense of fun, even joy in Katie's songs, which are as open-hearted as the arrangements are breezy and seemingly effortless. The album swings between ethereal mood pieces and serious club music, with wonderful side trips to Wales (the woozy, psychedelic "The Corner of My Sky" with John Cale) and an instrumental cover of Radiohead's "Arpeggi," all with KLO's signature pinging synth leads and gossamer voice holding it together like delicate, silken web. Indie Basement - Top 30 Albums of 1990. It's the most ambitious Perfume Genius album, and quite possibly the best, which is saying a lot for an artist with a back catalog as stunning as Perfume Genius'. [A.S.], No matter what mood you're in, as soon as you hear "Flo Milli shit! HEALTH Collaborations. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately. It's a gorgeous, futuristic rock record, and though it might shimmer sonically, its lyrics are full of scars. Guest verses come from Freddie Gibbs, Benny the Butcher, Vince Staples, and Evidence, all of whom sound carefully curated into the mix. New Ska & Ska-Punk Songs (c. 2020) 28 Essential Heavy Shoegaze Songs. BrooklynVegan’s Top 50 Albums of 2019. It's a confident album that finds her growing as a musician but also as a singer. 55. Gorillaz — Song Machine Season One #21. Microphones in 2020 ultimately feels more like a book than a piece of music -- slowly building upon itself, the album maintains its plot throughout its relatively lengthy existence through multidisciplinary ingenuity and a continually creative spirit. Few albums in 2020 broke down boundaries this seamlessly and felt this powerful and inspiring in the process. "It’s funny, because some guy will be like, ‘This is total Repulsion worship,’ and I don’t even listen to that fuckin’ band." Opener "Ilmestys" exemplifies this approach as minor-key guitar figures and and stuttering synths swirl around an ominous bassline, only to erupt into a swaggering, head-bobbing doom groove. As good as the album is, it sounds like an artist on the cusp of something even greater. Check out Discogs' Best of 2020 list below. It might seem a little front-loaded with the crowdpleasers, but the calmer back half of the album is the comedown that this head-trip needs. [A.S.], When the pandemic hit, Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker left the big city for a cabin in the woods, and there -- far away from the everyday mania of 2020 -- the songs just started pouring out of her. This chart consists of 55 entries and the top-ranked entry in this chart is Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple. It scratches the itch that you want Hum to scratch, but it feels forward-thinking and modern, almost effortlessly surpassing so many of the buzzy punkgaze bands who took after them. “Indie Basement: Top Albums of 1990” By Bill Pearis Brooklyn Vegan; 8-Sep 2020; Popular music and culture website Brooklyn Vegan has named Heaven or Las Vegas its top pick in a retrospective of the “Top 30” independent albums released in 1990.. Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 4#4. (Image credit: Small Pond Records) Music reviews, ratings, news and more. It's both a victory lap and a fine introduction. Der Jahreswechsel naht und damit wird es mal wieder Zeit, die besten Alben zu küren. ], Having gone under-appreciated during their initial '90s run, Hum went on to influence the entire shoegazy punk movement of the 2010s (and Deftones), and they returned after a 22-year break with an album that might actually be better than their classics. ], Punisher has so many great hooks, it almost feels like we don't deserve it. Once part of the "new wave of post-hardcore," Touche are now elder statesmen themselves and influential on a ton of the younger post-hardcore bands that have emerged in recent years. Lesser bands start losing stream by the fourth or fifth album; Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism is Napalm Death's 16th album, and it sounds as energized and inspired as this band ever has. Pop was distinctly New York without sounding like anyone who came before him, and he packed Meet The Woo 2 -- the last release of his lifetime -- with a barrage of songs that begged to be played again and again. The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020. Ganoven und Glamour, Heulsusen und Horrorshow, Lyrik und Lifestyle, das alles im breiten Spektrum zwischen klassischem BoomBap und Trap. But no matter who's center stage at any given moment, the vision is all Nubya's, and that vision led to one of the year's most simultaneously dizzying and heartwarming records. Fontaines D.C. — A Hero’s Death#23. As complex as this seems on paper (and surely was), the result sounds entirely effortless. "I feel my story's still untold," she sings on "Murphy's Law," very much in the driver's seat, as usual, and hinting that the best is yet to come. Bolt Cutters' title track recounts Fiona's career up until this point, a Kate Bush-invoking need to run up that hill included; with this album it's clear she's made it a long way, but hasn't peaked yet. The 20-year-old Alabama rapper broke on TikTok with her 2019 singles "Beef FloMix" and "In The Party," and she followed that up this year with her debut project Ho, why is you here?, featuring those two songs and ten others cut from the same energetic cloth. Emerging from the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, this sudden inspiration is evident upon listening to Shore, perhaps the band's most vibrant and accessible work yet. [J.N. BrooklynVegan: 7 Best Rap Albums of April 2021. It's an album that was in the making for over a decade (and includes an appearance by DeJ Loaf, recorded before her career took off) that Sterling and Boldy kept going back to and kept tweaking. There's the soaring "I'm gonna kill you, if you don't beat me to it" of "Kyoto," the yearning of "I want to believe, instead I look at the sky and I feel nothing" on "Chinese Satellite," the mournful "you are sick, and you're married, and you might be dying" of "Moon Song." The album features little more than Mary's harp, Neil's guitar, and some electronics and effects, but that's all this duo needed to make one of the most compelling ambient albums of 2020. (R.I.P. DISCOGS - BEST ALBUMS OF 2020#25. Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways#15. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. Best albums of 2020: (Credit: Getty Images) Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters. and indie-rock royalty, who bathe these songs in an atmosphere of carefully calibrated melancholy, Phoebe delivers catchy melody as gut-punch over and over again. It favors hazy production and dizzying metaphors, but it makes as much of a point about the societal and political landscape as this year's more militant protest albums. Protoje trades lines with dancehall auto-tunester Popcaan on the equally hard-to-pin-down "Like Royalty," he fuses reggae with soul/R&B on "Same So" and the Lila Iké-featuring "In Bloom," he half-raps on songs like "Deliverance" and the Wiz Khalifa-featuring "A Vibe," and he goes full psychedelia on the trippy ode to marijuana, "Weed & Ting." Kylie Minogue — Disco#22. Low → High. Moses is far from the only person bridging this gap -- recent years have seen Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and others achieve similar feats -- but with Dark Matter, he established himself alongside all of those artists as one of today's greats. ], While Benny the Butcher's Griselda groupmate Westside Gunn spent 2020 perfecting Griselda's unique take on '90s-style New York rap (more on him in a minute), Benny jumped ahead a few years with his own rap revival. Conway also brings a lot of different ideas to the table himself, from instant-classic street-rap anthems ("Lemon") to cyphers ("Juvenile Hell" with Flee Lord, Havoc & Lloyd Banks; "Spurs 3" with Benny the Butcher and Westside Gunn) to one of 2020's most powerful protest songs ("Front Lines") to one of 2020's most heartbreaking ruminations on grief ("Forever Droppin Tears," which pays tribute to the late Griselda producer DJ Shay). Mac Miller — Circles#18. Nearly every song could've been a single, and it's no surprise that about half of them already were. My favorite moment is the two-song run on the b-side, where "ICU," the best proper rock song here, bleeds into the lilting banjo-and-fiddle picaresque of "Graceland Too." Glenn is "someone that I talk about any chance that I can and somebody who had a huge influence not only on [Suddenly], but also just in my life over the last five or six years," Caribou's Dan Snaith told NPR. Any young life being taken is awful, but Pop Smoke's death shook the rap world especially hard because he was one of the genre's most promising new stars. Bitch Falcon: Siouxsie, shoegaze and one of the best debut albums of 2020. Judy Mitchell's scream is as throat-shredding as it is emotive and accessible, and her powerful lyrics touch on themes of gender dysphoria and self-worth in a way that leaves you hanging on every word. If you want proof that new and exciting things are happening within reggae right now, look no further than this album's opening track "Switch It Up," which sees Protoje teaming up with the genre's brightest new star, Koffee. Bejar made demos, just guitar and keyboards, in GarageBand and then sent the files to longtime collaborator and New Pornographers member John Collins, giving him carte blanche to reshape them as he pleased -- though his concept for Have We Met was "computer music," inspired by the "sound design" in things like "shitty David Fincher movies." The former Pulp frontman takes his own advice on Beyond the Pale, in a having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too kind of way. [A.S.], "Do something new," sings Jarvis Cocker on "Am I Missing Something?," before adding, "Or do something else." ], On the best album of her career yet, Katie Crutchfield let the country in. Playing the bard for himself this time, the rebirth of The Microphones (but don't concentrate too much on the name) shows Elverum looking inward and telling his own story. Detroit rapper Boldy James released four albums in 2020. Khruangbin — Mordechai#2. We’ve collated our writers’ ‘best of’ lists and crunched the numbers to arrive at NME's 50 best albums of 2020 Even the album's most wildly ambitious moments succeed; not that we'd expect anything less from an artist who spent the past 15 years constantly reinventing herself. One of the album's crowning achievements, however, is "Can I Believe You," which was born out of a project Pecknold created through Instagram, in which he asked hundreds of fans to send in vocal harmonies. For years, the Griselda team has been tapping into a sound that hearkens back to '90s NYC rap but feels totally new and fresh, and Pray For Paris took that sound to the next level. The 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far Including Bob Dylan, Lil Uzi Vert, Bad Bunny, Dua Lipa, and more. 1.7m members in the indieheads community. Detroit rapper Boldy James released four albums in 2020. It's an absolute blast. [A.S.], An iconoclast dance music maven who cites seeing Sonic Youth at 15 as one of her most formative experiences, Róisín Murphy has been doing it her way ever since her group Moloko fizzled out in the early '00s. It's a vibrant community with members not just buying and selling, but creating an online database of their own music collections, and creating Want Lists for things they wish they owned, and reviewing records (and editions of record) too. While on 2016's Gore, it seemed the band was almost treading water creatively, Ohms improves leaps and bounds above its predecessor, thanks to hard-hitting production from producer Terry Date (who worked on some of the band's most celebrated albums), as well as extremely memorable riffs and a concise tracklist. With Inner Song, she refines that sound while expanding its horizons. Suddenly is all highs of various shapes, sizes and moods: there's ecstatic dancefloor fillers "Never Come Back," "Ravi," and the Gloria Barnes-sampling "Home"; moving and moody tracks "Sister" and "Magpie"; and "Sunny's Time" and "New Jade" which dip into neo-R&B. Songs like "Crimson Tide," "It Just Doesn't Happen to Anyone" and "Cue Synthesizer" are gleaming, synthetic creations with Big '80s drums and even bigger '80s guitar soloing, but also modern and alien. For Róisín Machine, however, she teamed with old friend DJ Parrot (aka Richard Barratt of '90s hitmakers All Seeing I) for a suave, sophisticated ode to disco and house music that is as distinctive as anything else in her solo discography, but delivers the highest count of undeniable bangers of any of her post-Moloko records, maybe her entire career. Bruce Springsteen — Letter to You#24. [A.S.], Every Perfume Genius album has been a leap forward from the one before it, and if you thought there wasn't any further he could leap after 2017's maximalist No Shape, you'd have been very wrong. [B.P. The similarities exist for one reason or another, but Gulch sound so fresh because they weren't trying to emulate their heroes, they were trying to recreate the music they were hearing in their heads. A list of the top albums of the year from BrooklynVegan. Concerts disappeared and livestreams became the new normal. Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012. Judging by how distinct Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress sounds, it worked. Its futuristic production has more in common with what's currently happening within hip hop and electronic music than with what jazz sounded like half a century ago, and these aren't songs that you need to be a music scholar to appreciate; these are songs you can get up and dance to (as was once commonly the case for jazz). ], Fiona Apple's long-awaited follow up to her 2012 triumph, The Idler Wheel..., starts off with one of the year's most gorgeous bits of piano balladry on "I Want You to Love Me," that explodes upon completion in a cacophony of percussion, chanting vocalizations, barking and a stray meow. [R.S.F. [A.S.], Jason Isbell might be making the dictionary definition of dad-rock right now, and he wears his middle-age beautifully. [A.S.], Kelly Lee Owens had carved out a distinctive style -- a mix of Berlin techno, trip hop, ambient textures and elements from her shoegazer past -- by the time of her 2017 debut album. Drummer Sam Ciaramitaro always sounds like he's about two beats ahead of the rest of the band, vocalist Elliot Morrow's scream is nasty as all hell, and Cole Kakimoto shakes up their hardcore sound with the evil riffage of black and death metal.
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