_well2020 TOP 100 (2/2)
I was gonna try to do something creative or interesting for my year list and then did not! Instead, I took the data of every album I've rated, deleted everything I have no memory of, and made a chonk ranking. Here's the m e a
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| 102 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts VI: Locusts |
| 101 | | Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts VI: Locusts |
| 100 | | Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts VI: Locusts
#100
uneasy asmr ambient darkjazz bad sleepover
40.5% |
| 99 |  | Black Dresses
Peaceful As Hell
#99
angry peace trashbangers (RIP this band :[)
40.7% |
| 98 |  | Oneohtrix Point Never
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
#98
oneohtrix pt. radio station pt. magic. pt. retrospective p/////t good sleepover
41% |
| 97 |  | Polkadot Stingray
Nanimono
#97
cleanest funk of 2020 / worst rap of 2020 / may contain: fun rock?
41.5% |
| 96 |  | Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
#96
everybody is a little hard to love sometimes
41.666% |
| 95 |  | Postcards
The Good Soldier
#95
deep freeze extra duvet dream pop
41.7% |
| 94 |  | BUCK-TICK
ABRACADABRA
#94
BUCK-TICK make a bad album. it's okay!
41.9% |
| 93 |  | AJJ
Good Luck Everybody
#93
topical folkpunk hitormiss concisionfest
42% |
| 92 |  | Ai Aso
The Faintest Hint
#92
minimalist japanese ghostfolk there is a draft in your bedroom
43% |
| 91 |  | Gazpacho
Fireworker
#91
tasteful arthouse prog gang forget how to write an album
43% |
| 90 |  | Deftones
Ohms
#90
obligatory mentioncore // least improved vocalist of 2020
43.1% |
| 89 |  | Mrs. Piss
Self-Surgery
#89
crusty toilet seat punk
43.2% |
| 88 |  | Hayley Williams
Petals for Armor
#88
emotional quest for bangers. decent nakama. sometimes onto something.
44% |
| 87 |  | Crippled Black Phoenix
Ellengaest
#87
howling wind doomprog turn-left for atmosphere
44.5% |
| 86 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Mestarin Kynsi
#86
avant progcore krautblack metal timbre laboratory attention span experiment
44.6% |
| 85 |  | Charli XCX
How I'm Feeling Now
#85
charli xcx
49% |
| 84 |  | Tricot
Makkuro
#84
the first good album on the list. it's alright. math mainstream!
50% |
| 83 |  | Ulver
Flowers of Evil
#83
black metal gang's in-road into '80s poprevival. better than dua lipa and not much else :[
50% |
| 82 |  | Phoebe Bridgers
If We Make It Through December
#82
oh fuck i thought i'd deleted this from the database masterlist? phoebe bridgers sings sad songs about christmas. her best output this year.
50.1% |
| 81 |  | Akai Ko-en
The Park
#81
hungry robotslide indie pop okay!
51% |
| 80 |  | Lostage
HARVEST
#80
alternative okay awesome reggae song skullgood (EDIT relistening now an i may have underrated this oh well)
52% |
| 79 |  | Elder (USA-MA)
Omens
#79
big boy prog club elongation portent
52% |
| 78 |  | Ray
Pink
#78
idol shoegaze sequel project soaring soarcore w/ riff
52% |
| 77 |  | Nocturnerror
Last Seconds Of Resentment Required
#77
dark?ambient?//robot soulcavity
53% |
| 76 |  | Daoko
Anima
#76
daoko makes a solid album! almost!
53% |
| 75 |  | Monolake
Archaeopteryx
#75
the ambient chillclub that [100] was trying to join. frequently awesome but longer than the dinosaurs
55% |
| 74 |  | Hakushi Hasegawa
Bones of Dreams Attacked!
#74
jazzhead piano cleanboi hero returns with whackass cover album yelp
55% |
| 73 |  | Myles Oliver
New Sounds
#73
drukqs for seefeel fridgeheads
55% |
| 72 |  | Disclosure
Energy
#72
hit or miss dance mouthwash incentive, went hard on the one dancefloor i landed it on
56% |
| 71 |  | Ryokuoushoku Shakai
Singalong
#71
very catchy very music that your tv tells you to listen to in jpn
57% |
| 70 |  | Madeline Kenney
Sucker's Lunch
#70
top 10 2020 latte
58% |
| 69 |  | Destroyer
Have We Met
#69
sophisticate soundtrack to wishing ur beard and portfolio were both longer
58% |
| 68 |  | Two People
Second Body
#68
derivative dream pop gratification outlet
59% |
| 67 |  | Chiyono Ide
わたしの高校生活
#67
shizuoka homequeen dishes out kooky highschool bangers, joy big
60% |
| 66 |  | Jaye Jayle
Prisyn
#66
nine inch nails record in the style of nick cave. much better than nine inch nails, not nearly as good as nick cave. shock horror!
60% |
| 65 |  | Crystal Tea
Pink Movie
#65
peppy korean lady writes catchy j-poprock worship, hooks big
60% |
| 64 |  | Ecke Wu
表演 Performance
#64
sparkletwinkle dreamgaze blissbliss
61% |
| 63 |  | Myles Oliver
Find Me Tomorrow
#63
sweet trip lol
61% |
| 62 |  | sleepy.ab
Fractal
#62
dreamy abstracted postrock interesting spaceout ft. metric shitton of dozy ballads
62% |
| 61 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts V: Together
#61
NIN make a pretty decent ambient spaceout and conveniently avoid most of the annoying shit that makes them shitty. good job.
62% |
| 60 |  | Ulcerate
Stare Into Death and Be Still
#60
majestic brutal apocaly actually ngl i am getting bored of ribbing this and will probably come round to it some time in the next 3 years. good record
63% |
| 59 |  | Roisin Murphy
Roisin Machine
#59
slow bangers slow bangers slow bangers slow queen
63% |
| 58 |  | Haru Nemuri
Lovetheism
#58
nice foot-in-the-door ep from noise pop rock hiphop maingirl
64% |
| 57 |  | Protomartyr
Ultimate Success Today
#57
how do you like your steak i like mine dour af thank you
64% |
| 56 |  | Cindy Lee
What's Tonight to Eternity
#56
scratchy catchy queered up noise pop timbrefest yes please
65% |
| 55 |  | Aseul
Slow Dance
#55
smooth k-pop chilltimes studymusic summerhug
65% |
| 54 |  | Agnes Obel
Myopia
#54
baroque okay okay exquisite chamber i will play this to my children
66% |
| 53 |  | Bright Eyes
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
#53
sporadically heartbreaking interminable downer
66% |
| 52 |  | Yashira
Fail to Be
#52
violent productionpolish beatdown beat it
67% |
| 51 |  | Nicola Cruz, Pigmaliao
Nicola Cruz / Pigmaliao
#51
latin techno mood mood
68% |
| 50 |  | Gezan
狂(KLUE)
#50
posthardcore canvas of what the hell continuityjam
68% |
| 49 |  | Dai Dai Dai
∅
#49
SOLID CHAOS POP some of the best sugarpop hyperbangers of the year and that electrodoom idol metal song and other songs that exist
69% |
| 48 |  | Bohren und der Club of Gore
Patchouli Blue
#48
doomjazz ft. extra depression
69% |
| 47 |  | Nothing
The Great Dismal
#47
shoegaze rock that gazes and rocks and sometimes both idk it's pretty good usually
69% |
| 46 |  | Jeff Rosenstock
NO DREAM
#46
middleaged punk fire ska DIY oh well it's catchy
70% |
| 45 |  | Protest the Hero
Palimpsest
#45
canadian techmetal party power post-musicaltheatre slamdunk on the dumbest country in the world
70% |
| 44 |  | Four Tet
Sixteen Oceans
#44
bops n blips bops n blips
70% |
| 43 |  | Clipping.
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
#43
scary vocal warmup assistance CD ft. beats
71% |
| 42 |  | Yuri Gagarin
The Outskirts of Reality
#42
stoner space cosmicdreamvoyage big jams
71% |
| 41 |  | Sangre de Muerdago
Xuntas
#41
darkflute folk galican idk, whatever happens in galicia
71% |
| 40 |  | O'Brother
You and I
#40
alternative post-post-rock darkmood slowburner water rock
71% |
| 39 |  | Zombie-Chang
TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO
#39
covid lockdown claustrophobic artcrime death techno
72% |
| 38 |  | Aimyon
Oishii Pasta ga Aru to Kiite
#38
exuberant sulk-pose vanilla megacatchy oricon glory
72% |
| 37 |  | The Smith Street Band
Don't Waste Your Anger
#37
folk punk punkfolk anthemyell sweet catchy bigheart comedown music
72% |
| 36 |  | Grimes
Miss Anthropocene
#36
grimes almost makes a coherent album periodic bangers maximum space pseudoconcept
72% |
| 35 | | Myss Keta
IL CIELO NON E UN LIMITE
#35
goddess diana i'm coming out vado a cacciar e lo faccio per te fck yes
99% |
| 34 |  | Thy Catafalque
Naiv
#34
highly experimental avantgarde metalfusion folkcheese entertainment park jfc i want a new secret chiefs 3 album
72% |
| 33 |  | Cloudkicker
Solitude
#33
internet homeboy gets back to his DAW and does a riff multiple times huge if true
73% |
| 32 |  | Nero di Marte
Immoto
#32
huge dramatic post metal hugeness MAY CONTAIN AMBIENCE
74% |
| 31 |  | Vennart
Dick Privilege
#31
fuck, I forgot to delete this - is a single, but bangs - so okay i guess!
74% |
| 30 |  | Jida
Lucid
#30
lush k-rnb lushtimes lush lush
74% |
| 29 |  | The Avalanches
We Will Always Love You
#29
soppy transformative softboi space odyssey
74% |
| 28 |  | Godcaster
Long Haired Locusts
#28
robertsona artpunkcore lookin fire this year
74% |
| 27 |  | Mora Mothaus
Overture To A Dream
#27
atmospheric atmopiano softsoft darkspace warmglow cuteshiver
74% |
| 26 |  | Lauren Bousfield
Palimpsest
#26
utterly obnoxious breakcore classical glitch pop megaload i love it
75% |
| 25 |  | Choi Joonyong and Jin Sangtae
Hole In My Head
#25
EAI/onkyo tinnitus simulator atmosphere eraser ft. fucking noise
75% |
| 24 |  | Arthur Russell
Roulette
#24
beautiful live jam dreamscape
75% |
| 23 |  | Ichiko Aoba
amuletum bouquet
#23
two songs two singles one qp-bside one ghibli-nod big bliss
75% |
| 22 |  | Boris
NO
#22
powertrio crustpunk ragetimes not noisy enough good album
76% |
| 21 |  | Seori
?depacse ohw
#21
tsellihc smooth maj of the raey maybe
76% |
| 20 |  | Envy
The Fallen Crimson
#20
early highlight big guns skramz banger pretty postrock returntoform dope
76% |
| 19 |  | Jessie Ware
What's Your Pleasure?
#19
best soundtrack to the vast levels of intimacy that didn't occur this year. bet it's a keeper.
76% |
| 18 |  | John Zorn
Baphomet
#18
THIRD BEST ALBUM-LONG SONG OF 2020 expert-level jazzmetal powerband awesome blitz
77% |
| 17 |  | Vennart
In The Dead, Dead Wood
#17
heavy riff oceansize perfected big kudos big bangers
77% |
| 16 |  | Ichiko Aoba
Windswept Adan
#16
pretty river flowfolk collaborative rebrand fantanocore excellence
77% |
| 15 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Alphaville
#15
vile metal deathcadence decadriff post-decade jazzavant deathdeath
78% |
| 14 |  | Yukika
Soul Lady
#14
beauty and grace and basslines and aaaah
78% |
| 13 |  | The Microphones
Microphones in 2020
#13
SECOND BEST ALBUM-LONG SONG OF 2020 thoughts n things and mainly pretty guitars those two chords are godlike what a dude this is a perfect nap album
78% |
| 12 |  | Pure Reason Revolution
Eupnea
#12
catchy vocal harm. prog gang are back and catchy riffing vocally harmonising because that's what they do ugh yes epic
78% |
| 11 |  | Downy
Mudai (7)
#11
greyscale postrock glitch discomfort tension rock alternative recommendedcore
79% |
| 10 |  | Kashiwa Daisuke
Program Music III
#10
Okay, so 2020 has been a *notable* improvement on the overall hmmfest that was 2019. I went back to my list from last year and can comfortably say that anything from 26 up in this list would have netted a place in that one's top 10. Awesome! Can't wait to spend 2021 relistening to all these awesome records! I bitched about the year a lot (there was a lot of trash!) but oh boy did it deliver. Happy!
Anyway, Program Music III is awesome and expansive and sometimes a little weird and almost always overblown and endlessly entertaining and full of that maximalist sentimental OOMPH that Kashiwa Daisuke does so irreplaceably at his best, great scenes.
BEST ALBUM-LONG SONG OF 2020
80% |
| 9 |  | Hum
Inlet
#9
Incredible comeback from a classic band. These tracks are patient and momentous in a way Hum have never been before, but it still sounds like the perfect follow-up to their crown jewel Downward Is Heavenward. I used to think this band was dated '90s glory. Now I think they're timeless.
84% |
| 8 |  | Triangulo de Amor Bizarro
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#8
BEST SHOEGAZE OF THE YEAR. This album's haphazard pancake mix of dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk and occasional noise rock is so strange and self-sabotaging: I love it! Lacks the continuity to place much higher, but positively f e s t o o n e d with great highlights.
85% |
| 7 |  | Rubio
Mango Negro
#7
This one totally came out of nowhere (thnx Ghandhi) and is maybe a liiiiiittle bloated, but for the most part it's one dusky Chilean banger after another. After Two People apparently ate this site's collective sensitivity to downtempo / atmopop, it's no surprise it didn't catch on as much as it might, but hot damn this is a sleeper.
86% |
| 6 |  | Tricot
10
#6
Another lovely surprise! After their most uninspired bleh record (way down below on this list), Tricot turned around and dished out their catchiest, strongest record to date. Wall-to-wall mathrock bangers with great pop hooks, a varied palette and sophisticated musicianship. Ideal scenes.
86% |
| 5 |  | Bambara
Stray
#5
Oh boy, Southern Gothic Cavian melodramatic narrative stunners all round with clanging guitarnoise and haunting synthscapes for days. Fuck me, I love this record. Easily my favourite post-punk pick from this year, and one of the records I'm mostly likely to dip into afterwards.
87% |
| 4 |  | REOL
Kinjitou
#4
Reol + producer Giga P throw their synthpop megaload into hiphop and dish out the best hard banger of 2020. Kinjitou is maximalist as all hell and relentlessly energetic. Huge hooks, great downers, probably the best pop chorus of the year in "un, deux, trois" and a solid dance factor. Yes.
88% |
| 3 |  | Rina Sawayama
Sawayama
#3
Albums #2 and #3 came out on the same day and it was probably the best day, even though most of the world was highly miserable at that point. Sawayama is a mercilessly extra identity unpacking in '00s-styled pop lingo so immediate and confident that it obviates subtlety and packs all its nuance into appropriate production stylings and masterclass delivery. Easily one of the most exciting and important records of the year.
88% |
| 2 |  | Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
#2
Fuck me I don't want to write on this record again. Those who get it get it, those who don't can sit down and silently respect it; few artists are capable of statement records this in tune with so many people in such specific ways and we're lucky it dropped in our generation. Fantastic.
90% |
| 1 |  | Seiko Oomori
Kintsugi
#1
I feel a little bad not giving the top spot to Fiona, but Seiko Oomori, queen of immaculate say-it-your-way cathartic pop songwriting, dropped in at the start of the month and dished out one of her most confident and collected efforts to be date and I'll be damned if I undersell it by a hair. Still the best and most exciting artist making music today.
95% |
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