Mid-Year 2020 Lists (Best of 2020 Thus Far)

Getting to the mid-way point of 2020, so let’s see your favorite albums of the year so far.

 

Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
Vasudeva - Generator
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
O'Brother - You And I
Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Yaeji - What We Drew
Caspian - On Circles
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Retirement Party - Runaway Dog

in some order. Loathe def at the top though

 

Current Top 10:

1. Manic - Halsey
2. Wake Up Sunshine - All Time Low
3. Color Theory - Soccer Mommy
4. Honeymoon - Beach Bunny
5. 20-20 vision - Anti-Flag
6. Everyone Loves You...Once You Leave Them - The Amity Affliction
7. Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
8. A Beautiful Place to Drown - Silverstein
9. Brain Pain - Four Year Strong
10. Afterburner - Dance Gavin Dance

 

I can't believe we're almost halfway through the year, you can really feel how little music has been released in 2020 due to everything that's happened

 

My list is very basic, but here it is in a rough order

1. The Weeknd- After Hours
2. Grimes- Miss Anthropocene
3. Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia
4. The Strokes- The New Abnormal
5. Charli XCX- How I’m Feeling Now
6. Halsey- Manic
7. Hayley Williams- Petals for Armor
8. The 1975- Notes On A Conditional Form
9. Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
10. Poppy- I Disagree
11. Allie X- Cape God
12. Rina Sawayama- SAWAYAMA
13. Carly Rae Jepsen- Dedicated Side B
14. Childish Gambino- 3.15.20
15. Soccer Mommy- Color Theory
16. Tame Impala- The Slow Rush
17. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist- Alfredo
18. Princess Nokia- Everything Sucks
19. Alexandra Savior- The Archer
20. EOB- Earth

top 10 all kind of jump around to being #1

 

Albums:

1. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
2. Worriers – You and Someone You Know
3. Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated Side B
4. Katie Malco – Failures
5. Kamaiyah – Got It Made
6. Long Neck – World's Strongest Dog
7. Bacchae – Pleasure Vision
8. OldSoul – You Were Overwhelmed
9. Beach Bunny – Honeymoon
10. Xibalba - Años en Infierno
11. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone
12. Gladie – Safe Sins
13. Yhung T.O & Daboii - Demon & Mufasa
14. Like Rats - Death Monolith
15. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
16. Princess Nokia - Everything Sucks/Everything is Beautiful
17. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
18. Three Knee Deep - Three Knee Deep
19. KRUELTY - A DYING TRUTH
20. Retirement Party - Runaway Dog
21. Power Alone - Rather Be Alone
22. Church Girls - The Haunt
23. Seed of Pain - Flesh, Steel, Victory...
24. Happy Accidents - Sprawling
25. Mozzy - Beyond Bulletproof
26. Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life
27. Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater
28. Scratchy Blanket - Something for Everyone
29. Pity Party - Concrete
30. END - Splinters From an Ever-Changing Face
31. Lady Gaga - Chromatica
32. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
33. Empty Country - Empty Country
34. Freddie Gibbs – Alfredo
35. Brian Fallon – Local Honey
36. Black Curse – Endless Wound
37. Frail Hands – parted/departed/apart
38. Ellis – Born Again
39. Erica Freas – Young
40. Pictures of Vernon - bug

EPs:

1. Cheerbleederz - Lobotany
2. Buggin – Buggin Out
3. Denzel Curry – Unlocked
4. Fuse – This Segregation Will End
5. La Moxie – You've Burnt Your Bridge, Now Lie In It
6. Sanity Slip – Submerged In Pain
7. Angelica Padua – Full Circle
8. Vision Quest – Bear Witness
9. The High Cost of Playing God - The High Cost of Playing God
10. buriedbutstillbreathing - EXHUMATION

 

1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
2. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
3. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
4. Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
5. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
6. Algiers - There is No Year
7. Tricot - Pitch Black
8. Miss New Buddha - The Situation is Excellent
9. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
10. Grimes - Miss Anthropocenes
11. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
12. Empty Country - Empty Country
13. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
14. Cafe Racer - Zenith
15. Wares - Survival
16. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
17. Poppy - I Disagree
18. Gleemer - Down Through
19. Holy Fuck - Deleter
20. Megan Thee Stallion - Suga
21. Frances Quinlan - Likewise
22. Ratboys - Printer's Devil
23. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
24. US Girls - Heavy Light
25. Caspian - On Circles

 

I’ve enjoyed new music more this year than any other in recent memory... The rankings will probably change when I spend more time with all the albums.

Top 20
1. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone
2. of Montreal - UR FUN
3. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
4. Poppy - I Disagree
5. Charli XCX - how i’m feeling now
6. Polo G - THE GOAT
7. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
8. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA
9. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
10. Dogleg - Melee

11. The 1975 - Notes On a Conditional Forum
12. Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Wake (Deluxe)
13. Have A Good Season - Shapes I’ve Never Seen
14. I’m Glad It’s You - Every Sun, Every Moon
15. All Time Low - Wake Up Sunshine
16. Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist - Alfredo
17. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner
18. Thundercat - It Is What It Is
19. Stay Inside - Viewing
20. Purity Ring - WOMB

 

Been an extremely underwhelming first half of year.
All time low is all I've gotten excited over.

 

Current top 10:

1. On Circles by Caspian
2. Run the Jewels 4 by Run the Jewels
3. You and I by O’Brother
4. Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
5. Melee by Dogleg
6. how i’m feeling now by Charli XCX
7. Wake UP! by Hazel English
8. Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa
9. Dedicated Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen
10. Vespertine by This Will Destroy You

Caspian is for certain my number one but everything after is subject to change. There are still a handful of records I need to listen to as well.

 

Listen to the Katie Malco album

 

Added to #TheList

 

1. hubris. - Metempsychosis
2. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner

3. VAR - The Never-Ending Year
4. Vasudeva - Generator
5. Aesthesys - Alignments
6. Olhava - Ladoga
7. Flies Are Spies From Hell - Final Quiet
8. Tape Studies - Kept Underneath
9. Gloe - Dead Wait
10. I Am Abomination - Passion of the Heist II

The drop off from 2 to 3 is absolutely enormous. Maybe last year spoiled me, but if my eventual top-10 looks mostly like this, I will be profoundly disappointed.

 

That would be my number 11, so co-signed.

 

Lots of new stuff to listen to based on this thread. It's been pretty slow so far this year. My list in no particular order:

Caspian - On Circles
The Beautiful Mistake - You're Not Broken. I Am.
Dens - Taming Tongues
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
Earth Groans - Prettiest of Things
Gleemer - Down Through
Coldbones - The Cataclysm
Tigerwine - Nothing is For You
Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
Sorry - 925
sleepmakeswaves - No Safe Place
Deathbreaker - Isolate

 

Lots of albums I listened to when they were released but kind of fell off

 

The Strokes
Tame Impala
RTJ
Jeff Rosenstock
Drain
Peace’d Out

 

Top 16 because symmetry

 

1. Nothing is True & Everything is Possible - Enter Shikari
2. Petals for Armour - Hayley Williams
3. Local Honey - Brian Fallon
4. Fetch the Bolt Cuters - Fiona Apple
5. Race Car Blues - Slowly Slowly
6. Wake Up Sunshine - All Time Low
7. Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
8. 13.15.20 - Childish Gambino
9. Manic - Halsey
10. The Death of Me - Polaris

Yet to reach verdict - Run the Jewels, The 1975, Charli XCX

 

LPs

1. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
2. Code Orange - Underneath
3. Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner
4. Super Whatevr - don't you wanna be glad?
5. All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine
6. The Acacia Strain - DECAY
7. Poppy - I Disagree
8. 5 Seconds of Summer - CALM
9. Boston Manor - Glue
10. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
11. Hot Mulligan - you'll be fine
12. Silverstein - A Beautiful Place To Drown
13. Downswing - Good Intentions
14. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20
15. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

EPs

1. Origami Angel - Broke Minecraft
2. Nova Charisma - Exposition III
3. Belmont - Reflections
4. ITZY - It'z Me
5. Orla Gartland - Freckle Season

Just a rough ranking.

From the looks of this thread there's a good amount I need to check out.

 

I see a lot of lists but I don’t see the bad bunny album which is a shame.

1 - 10. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG

 

Ranked Favorites:
1. Hayley Williams: Petals For Armor
2. All Time Low: Wake Up, Sunshine
3. Lady Gaga: Chromatica
4. Kali Uchis: TO FEEL ALIVE - EP
5. Mac Miller: Circles
6. HAIM: Women In Music Pt. III
7. Moses Sumney: grae
8. Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher

Others I’ve really enjoyed-
Best Coast: Almost Tomorrow
Little Big Town: Nightfall
Halsey: MANIC
Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud
Grimes: Miss Anthropocene
Lennon Stella: Three. Two. One.
Jeff Rosenstock: NO DREAM
Charli XCX: how i'm feeling now
Run the Jewels: RTJ 4
The 1975: Notes On A Conditional Form
Ratboys: Printer’s Devil
Retirement Party: Runaway Dog
Joyce Manor: Songs From Northern Torrance

 

Gleemer. Nice.

 

of Montreal, Poppy, Mura Masa, Kesha, Denzel Curry, Tame Impala, Rina Sawayama, Georgia, Banoffee, Mandy Moore, The Weeknd, All Time Low, Empress Of, Charli XCX, Run The Jewels

 

listen to bad bunny