Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2020 • Page 7

Top Songs:
1. City Mouth - “Coping Machine”
2. Hundredth - “Bottle It Up”
3. Coletta - “Agoraphobia”
4. Properties of Nature - “You Didn’t Start a Fire in My Heart, You Started It in my Home!”
5. 93FEETOFSMOKE - “RESIN!”
6. The Great Diversion - “The Way the Wind Blows”
7. Erabella - “Don’t Forget October 3 (Year 11)”
8. 156/Silence - “Vexation”
9. @Chase Tremaine - “Matter”
10. Lilac Kings - “1985”

Top EP’s:
1. Incase We Crash - Soul Paint
2. Chief State - Tough Love
3. Mundane - Greatest Hits
4. Trying Science - Next
5. Properties of Nature - Wolves in Business Suits

Top Albums:
1. Coletta - Idealism
2. Forest Green - In Waves
3. Deftones - Ohms
4. Dragged Under - The World is in Your Way
5. Downswing - Good Intentions
6. Driveways - October Forever
7. Picturesque - Do You Feel OK?
8. Happy. - Imposter Syndrome
9. Intervals - Circadian
10. Miss Fortune - Miss Fortune

Spotify playlist: 2020 Top New Music, a playlist on Spotify

Here’s a list of everything I considered for my top songs, albums, and EP’s:

Saviour
Coletta
Bilmuri
Pull Down the Sun
Intervals
156/Silence
Happy.
Driveways LP
The Great Diversion
Early Work EP
Hundredth
Eastwood
Deftones
Niiiice.
Movements
Wilmette EP
Fluorescents EP
Standards
Point North
Stand Atlantic
Isabella EP
Neck Deep
Lifelong
Broadway Calls
Satyr
Erabella EP
Forest Green
Carpool
Properties of Nature EP
Incase We Crash EP
Oolong
Driveways EP
Refractions EP
City Mouth
Picturesque
Chief State EP
Belmont EP
Downswing
Trying Science EP
Polaris
Mundane EP
Chase Tremaine
Dragged Under
Galleons
Miss Fortune
Dryjacket
Pulses.
U.G.L.Y.
Outwaves
Defences
promiser EP
Sharptooth
Lilac Kings EP
American Slang
Yours Truly
Absent Friends
Dead Friends EP
Televangelist
With Abandon
Great American Ghost
Hot Mulligan
Charmer
Tang EP
Nephele EP
Middleneck
House & Home
closure.
Two and a half Girl
Mallcops
Enemy AC130 Above
Fox Lake
Makari EP

And lastly, here’s a monster Spotify playlist of all of the new music I spun in 2020: 2020FUL, a playlist on Spotify

 

I recognise Deftones and that’s all on that list

 

Thanks for this, been diving in to a bunch of stuff I missed.

 

A Wide Eyed avatar and City Mouth as your top song. We should be friends.

 

Finally! I always love these lists. I usually find at least 3 gems that I missed and end up loving.

Listened to a ton of albums this year, many that I enjoyed but didn't love. A lot that were good, but still disappointments. It was a bit difficult to narrow it down, the top 6 were are definite for me. Here's my top ten and favorite song for each album:

10. Brain Fallon - Local Honey (Lonely For You Only)
9. Cassino - Yellowhammer (Tacoma)
8. the Menzingers - From Exile (Strangers Forever)
7. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone (Losers)
6. San Cisco - Between You and Me (Skin)
5. Phantom Planet - Devastator (Torture Me)
4. Worst Party Ever - Here, Online (False Teeth)
3. the Neighbourhood - Chip Chrome and the Mono-Tones (Devil's Advocate)
2. Mansions - Big Bad (Laser Beams)
1. the Front Bottoms - In Sickness and in Flames (Camouflage)

Ready to discover some new ones...

 

Yeah but making the lists early exposes others to albums they may have missed out on. I wish this was an ongoing thread throughout the year.

 

Even after you have made your list you will see others and think: "that should have made my list" or find new artists long into the new year. No right or wrong answer here.

 

There’s always the “post every album you listen to” threads for each year and the “recommendations” thread but it would be cool to have a “albums released this year that you think chorus members would enjoy” type thread to not only help people find new releases throughout the year but also bolster discussion for records that don’t get a ton of attention on here but would if people knew about it/listened.

 

I think that what’s the genre threads are for and it’s up to the individual to keep track of what they do or do not like.

 

Since not everything fits in the genre threads, I’m gusssibg that’s likely where people miss stuff they find at the end of the year and enjoy.

 

Exactly, too much to fish through

 

in 2019, or maybe 2018, I tried making quarterly threads (Q1 2019, Q2 2019) for people to talk about what came out, what they liked, etc. Exactly this, a way to not wait until December to look back at what came out. The threads were mostly a failure though unfortuntely

 

Keeping up with something like that would be EXTREMELY challenging

 

You should try again imo

 

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
2. Belako - Plastic drama
3. IDLES - Ultra Mono
4. Hurula - Jehova
5. Porridge Radio - Every bad
6. Iiris Viljanen - Den lilla havsfrun
7. O’brother - You & I
8. the klubs - cult party
9. Mattias Alkberg - Bodensia
10. Ganser - Just look at that sky

 

happy to give it a shot, this was the last time I tried. You'll notice the lack of interest by Q2 haha

Q1 2018 Release Roundup • forum.chorus.fm
Q2 2018 Release Roundup • forum.chorus.fm

 

Fair enough haha. Feel like it's a cool idea tho

 

We’re Not Ranking Our Year-End List Anymore. Here’s What We’re Doing Instead.

Enjoyed this argument.

 

Ayyyee Driveways and Chief State, nice!

 

This is a little preliminary because this is one of the strongest December release months I ever remember. But for now:

1. Taylor Swift: folklore
2. Hayley Williams: Petals For Armor
3. Laura Jane Grace: Stay Alive
4. Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher
5. Taylor Swift: evermore
6. The Front Bottoms: In Sickness & In Flames
7. All Time Low: Wake Up, Sunshine
8. Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts
9. Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios); And shout out to the TO FEEL ALIVE - EP
10. Lady Gaga: Chromatica
11.Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour
12. Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension
13. Mac Miller: Circles
14. Paul McCartney: McCartney III
15. Ariana Grande: Positions
16. The Killers: Imploding the Mirage
17. Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia
18. Slaughter Beach, Dog: At the Moonbase
19. The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You
20. Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud
21. The Chicks: Gaslighter
22. Illuminati Hotties: FREE I.H: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
23. Retirement Party: Runaway Dog
24. Moses Sumney: grae
25. Best Coast: Almost Tomorrow
26. Grimes: Miss Anthropocene
27. Halsey: MANIC
28. The Flaming Lips: American Head
29. Omar Apollo: Apolonio
30. Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA
31. Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon, Volume III: The Chosen
32. Beach Bunny: Honeymoon

Looking forward to reading through everyone's list a little more closely and seeing what I've missed.

 

Damn, well thanks for trying. At least we have this thread to look forward to. If you do it in 2021, I'll be sure to check it out.

 

I'll try again in March, and quote everyone in here who said they would participate haha

 

My Top 25

1. Gleemer - Down Through
2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
3. dogleg - Melee
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5. Clams Casino - Instrumental Relics
6. Empty Country - Empty Country
7. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt
8. Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach
9. ManDancing - The Good Sweat
10. Bartees Strange - Live Forever
11. Sinai Vessel - Ground Aswim
12. Rival Consoles - Night Melody
13. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
14. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
15. Daniel Avery - Illusion Of Time
16. Caribou - Suddenly
17. Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019
18. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
19. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
20. Nothing - The Great Dismal
21. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
22. Fleet Foxes - Shore
23. Movements - No Good Left To Give
24. Lomelda - Hannah
25. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

 

I never get through enough albums in a year to justify a list, but I make myself a Greatest Hits mixtape every year from my favorite songs, so here's 2020:

(edit: some of these aren't from 2020, I just heard them first in 2020 so they're attached to memories now)

1. Thief Club - Death Valley Super Bloom
2. Braids - Young Buck
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars in Space
4. Owen - The Contours
5. Andrew Goldring - Grey Divide
6. Sleep Token - Take Aim
7. The Japanese House - Maybe You're the Reason
8. Protest the Hero - All Hands
9. Hailaker - Alumni
10. Bon Iver - AUATC
11. Owen - On With the Show
12. Thief Club - Jen
13. Dizzy - Beatrice
14. The Dangerous Summer - Fuck Them All
15. Waxahatchee - Fire
16. Sleep Token - Gods
17. Hovvdy - Runner
18. Bartees Stranger - Mustang
19. Bet Nwar - Dirty Layers
20. Brigades - China Doll (Acoustic)
21. Sinai Vessel - Fragile
22. Big Red Machine - I Won't Run From It

 

Only thing I'd really call for sure is the top seven. After that I'd probably come up with something different tomorrow just like I did yesterday. Not gonna dwell on it though.

*Lowercase Roses - Titanic Planet is not on topsters so pictured instead is Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter

EPs:

Laura, Laura! – Overzealous
Soul Glo - Songs to Yeet at the Sun
Charli Adams - Good at Being Young
Mel Stone - Coast
Mylets - Object Permanence

Other Mentions:

Addy - Eclipse
Alexia Avina – Unearth
Anjimile - Giver Taker
Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides II
Bibio - Sleep on the Wing
Cafe Racer - Shadow Talk
Dehd - Flower of Devotion
Elvis Depressedley - Depressedlica
Erica Freas – Young
Fenne Lily – BREACH
Gleemer - Down Through
Hockey Dad - Brain Candy
Holy Fuck – Deleter
Honeymoon – From the Future
Jealous of the Birds - Peninsula
July Talk - Pray for It
Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations
Loyal Lobos - Everlasting
Marie Dahlstrom – Like Sand
Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us
Poppy – I Disagree
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
R.A.P. Ferreira and the Jefferson Park Boys - Purple Moonlight Pages
Rich People - Harmony
Still Motions - Mirrors
Taylor Swift – Evermore
Thank You, I'm Sorry - I'm Glad We're Friends
The Front Bottoms - In Sickness and In Flames
The Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chauvin
Wreath of Hogs - Green House, Green Couch

Biggest Disappointments: Brian Fallon, Diet Cig, Dream Wife, and Gladie
Worst Albums: Machine Gun Kelly, Green Day, Little Big Town