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Pearl Jam - Gigaton

Brian Fallon - Local Honey

My Morning Jacket - Waterfall II

Futurebirds - Teamwork

Water Liars - Roll On (recorded in 2015 but finally released)

Other Lives - For Their Love

The Nude Party - Midnight Manor

Sylvan Esso - Free Love

Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 & 2 (yes, they're compilations of old songs but still great)

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bahamas - sad hunk

sturgill - cuttin grass

strokes - new abnormal

gorillaz - song machine vol 1

ac/dc - power up

nathaniel rateliff - and its still alright

dan deacon - mystic familiar

hamilton leithauser - the loves of your life

lori mckenna - the balladeer

 

no particular order and only 9.

 

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i'm listening to Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple right now because of the hype.  this has to be the consensus best album of the year according to critics.  the reviews are off the charts.  Metacritic has it at 98 out of 100.  i'm digging it a lot.

Publications' year-end list appearances for Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Critic/Publication List Rank Ref
AllMusic AllMusic Best of 2020 N/A [48]
BBC The Best Albums and Songs of 2020 N/A [49]
Beats Per Minute Top 50 Albums of 2020 5 [50]
Billboard Top 50 Best Albums of 2020 7 [51]
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2020 1 [52]
Complex Best Albums of 2020 27 [53]
Double J Top 50 Albums of 2020 2 [54]
The Economist The Best Albums of 2020 N/A [55]
Entertainment Weekly The 15 best albums of 2020 1 [56]
Exclaim! Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [57]
Forbes The Best of Music in 2020 1 [58]
The Guardian Top 50 best albums of 2020 1 [59]
HUMO These are Humo's 20 best records of 2020! 4 [60]
The Line of Best Fit Top 50 Albums of 2020 11 [61]
The Los Angeles Times Top 10 Albums of 2020 2 [62]
Louder Than War Top 50 Albums of 2020 10 [63]
Metacritic Best Album of 2020 1 [64]
Mojo Top 75 Albums of 2020 2 [65]
The New York Times Best Albums of 2020 1 [66]
NPR 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [67]
OOR End List 2020 8 [68]
Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [69]
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [70]
The Plain Dealer Best Albums of 2020 2 [71]
PopMatters The 60 Best Albums of 2020 2 [72]
RNZ Best Of 2020: RNZ Music's Top 20 Albums 3 [73]
Rolling Stone The 50 Best Albums of 2020 2 [74]
The Skinny Top 10 Albums of 2020 1 [75]
Slant Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2020 1 [76]
Slate Best Albums of 2020 9 [77]
Sonic 2020's Best Albums 8 [78]
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2020 1 [79]
Time The 10 Best Albums of 2020 3 [80]
Uproxx The Best Albums and Songs of 2020 2 [81]
Vice The 100 Best Albums of 2020 5 [82]
Vulture Top 10 Albums of 2020 1 [83]
The Wire 50 Releases of 2020 (Rewind) 28 [84]

 

 

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Had a pretty thin list of 2020 releases that I enjoyed enough to revisit often. In particular, take a listen to Billy Nomates and City of the Sun. 

Billy Nomates - S/T
Helicon - This Can Only Lead To Chaos
Caroline Rose - Superstar
Las Cobras - Selva
The Texas Gentlemen - Floor It!!!!
Tricky - Fall To Pieces
City Of The Sun - Chapters I & II and Chapters III & IV
NIHILS - AM/PM, Pt. 1
Eric Hilton - The Impossible Silence
Annabelle Chairlegs - Gotta Be In Love

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Tom Petty- Wildflowers and All the Rest...there's an album worth of new material here, I'm counting it. 

Neil Young- Homegrown

Nude Party- Midnight Manor

Alex Maas- Luca

Frankie and the Witch Fingers- Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters

Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Killer Whale- Tastes Like Yesterday

Deftones- Ohms 

Other Lives- For Their Love

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol- Burger Babes From Outer Space 

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I never listen to enough full albums, but did grab & enjoy these in 2020:

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

Bartees Strange - Live Forever

Boy Harsher - Careful

Orville Peck - Show Pony (EP)

Frank Ene - No Longer (EP)

I trust the buzz on Taylor Swift and Sturgill, just haven't gotten to them yet

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Crap ton of albums I really liked this year.

The Top 10:

Sturgill - Cuttin' Grass Vol 1

Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof

Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross

American Aquarium - Lamentations

Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling

Kyle Nix - Lightning on the Mountain & Other Short Stories

Lydia Loveless - Daughter

Country Westerns - Country Westerns

Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern

Brennen Leigh - Prairie Love Letter

Honorable Mention:

William Elliot Whitmore - I'm With You

Gregg Hall & The Wrecking Ball - True Story

Sturgill - Cuttin' Grass Vol 2

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

Jesse Daniel - Rollin' On

Old 97's - Twelth

Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started

Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever 

Corb Lund - Agricultural Tragic

Mike & The Moonpies - Touch of You:  The Lost Songs of Gary Steward

John Baumann - Country Shade

Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher, and Me

The Panhandlers - The Panhandlers

Futurebirds - Teamwork

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Missed this thread. Was always one of my favorites on TOS. 

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

3. Perfume Genius - Set my Heart on Fire Immediately

4. Fleet Foxes - Shore

5. Adrianne Lenker - songs

6. Phoebe Bridges - Punisher

Big Drop off...

7. Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind

8. Jeff Tweedy - Love is The King

9. Moses Sumney - grae

10. Taylor Swift - folklore 

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1. the strokes - the new abnormal

2. the airborne toxic event - hollywood park

3. jason isbell - reunions

4. sturgill simpson - cuttin' grass vol 1.

5. fleet foxes - shore

6. taylor swift - evermore 

7. matt berninger - serpentine prison

8. tame impala - the slow rush

9. taylor swift - folklore

10. nada surf - never not together

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27 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

1. the strokes - the new abnormal

2. the airborne toxic event - hollywood park

3. jason isbell - reunions

4. sturgill simpson - cuttin' grass vol 1.

5. fleet foxes - shore

6. taylor swift - evermore 

7. matt berninger - serpentine prison

8. tame impala - the slow rush

9. taylor swift - folklore

10. nada surf - never not together

Love the National, but I just could not get into Matt’s album. I need to revisit.

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