Ava Max Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 how i'm feeling now, Future Nostalgia, What's Your Pleasure?
Smilers Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 The way HIFN is Charli’s best album. I was shocked that not only did she manage to top N1A, but she did that in one month?
Ewan Chaos Posted December 31, 2020 Author Posted December 31, 2020 Taking this post to say thank you so so much to everyone who commented on my Best Of this year! Changing from alphabets to ranked lists was a little nerve-wracking but wound up being a lot of fun. I said I was gonna come back here in 2021 to say which 2020 songs/EPs/albums I missed I would have included on my list but idk there's a lot I still need to go through so I'll doubt it. But so far, YES Magdalena Bay would have been a top EP omg how did I miss this. Anyway, here's my last round of replying to comments and I'm posting my full ranked album list here too, which I'm 100% sure changes every day. Again, thank you all so much! Here's to a better 2021 and for a musical year as good or BETTER than 2020 Spoiler On 12/23/2020 at 11:46 AM, GreatestLoveofAll said: FN in the top five perfection Jessie and Roisin, we love acclaimed album tbh Dua making pop music amazing again, yup. Jessie and Roisin continuing to prove to me why I stan them, yup. On 12/23/2020 at 11:57 AM, BlackoutZone said: What a surprising winner Anyway the top 4 is literally PERFECT! but you already know So glad you mentioned that DSN teaser video, it's the moment I knew she is coming to stomp Great picks from all the albums too (apart from overrated Ladees ) Thank you for doing this, it was super fun and I loved your write ups skskskkssk I KNOW WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED WYP TO WIN. Thanks so much for following along king! On 12/23/2020 at 12:00 PM, Mr. Loco said: Future Nostalgia Dua's career has been very consistent so far, and she really delivered with her album!! I also agree with your top tracks on the album She really made me proud with this album after what I thought was a pretty meh debut. A queen! On 12/23/2020 at 12:19 PM, Remmy said: Now why do you gotta remind me of 7 Years like that Click and c2.0 both suck! how i'm feeling now is good, the midsection isn't the best though (including songs like detonate and enemy.) anthems + visions close things out really nicely. Future Nostalgia was #4 on my list as well, okay twin Aww at Physical become you & your BF's song instead of the slam of screen doors, cute! Your faves are on point except for Love Again. Peeped songs from Fiona + Róisín's projects before but they weren't for me. Whew at disco taking over this list! Another Jessie #1 in the basket, she dominated Best Of this year WYP? is a worthy winner + we have the exact same top 4, pretty sure it's even the same order! Chosen Family is overhated! It reminds me of Jessie J's Flashlight (in a good way ) As long as it sounds good, I will Over Yet boring!?! Interesting Yeah, MF & Roses are my bottom 2 from the album so that's why II is at the bottom for me, but it does give us the best track (WWE) so there's no way I could say it's way behind the others. sksksk sorry sis I know the song is triggering. FN TWIN YAAAAAS. omg difsdihfdioshdiosh the Physical comment. Not a Jessie J comparison meant to be a comment........ also nnn me just realizing Why We Ever abbreviates to WWE wrestling. On 12/23/2020 at 12:25 PM, ARTPØP said: How I'm Feeling Now, Future Nostalgia, What's Your Pleasure? great top 5! Thank you very much! I'm happy because my top 5 didn't really change too much throughout the year. On 12/23/2020 at 12:57 PM, Mark Rih said: The #1 isn't surprising at all but it's absolutely deserved Dua top 5 too Sometimes predictability is a good thing! :eli: On 12/23/2020 at 2:29 PM, potent said: Don’t use Charli and not interested in Roisin, but the other 3 are great! I agree with your highlights from FTBC the most. I honestly never really liked Pretty Please and DSN is in the middle to lower half of the album for me, Love Again and Levitating are bops though Whats Your Pleasure (song) and Ooh La La Ooh La La kinda underrated! On 12/23/2020 at 7:05 PM, Legend E said: truly a shocker i will never understand why the gays enjoy charli top 4 is great! sksksksk I HATE YOU jk. Eh for me I've liked Charli since True Romance so the growth of her career is super cool. New-age gays I guess love the loud new music she makes since Vroom Vroom nnn. On 12/23/2020 at 7:43 PM, ReverseWarholian said: RTJ, Hayley, Abel 3 amazing artists! On 12/23/2020 at 10:09 PM, TRF. said: This top 5... the female excellence we share a lot in common in this top... that's all I'm gonna say! Yeah the ladies killed it for my top 7 sksksks it's what they deserve! On 12/24/2020 at 2:26 AM, geodancefreak said: Great list!! Thank you very much! On 12/24/2020 at 7:54 AM, Lazuli said: the REACH and mental gymnastics between your hints and the actual album anyways, what a wonderful top 5. future nostalgia, nothing more can be said about it, one of the few albums that atrl unequivocally loves hifn your writeups for the albums SNAPPED (sans the unnecessary yeezus comparison ) what's your pleasure ugh i'm probably one of the few people who actually liked glasshouse but i'm so glad she went back to her dancier roots and improved it WHAT a run for your lists. perfect chefs kiss I tried okay lsdjsl;jdlshjdls I like Glasshouse too! I prefer Devotion and WYP over it but I don't really understand when people prefer Tough Love over Glasshouse, and when push comes to shove I like ALL 4 albums. Thank you so much! So happy to have you following along. On 12/24/2020 at 10:03 AM, TheWayWeWere said: that's why I'm rarely go into album threads posting, I felt pressed all the time t hat top 5 YOU DID IT WITH TASTE! HFIN getting praise It's amazing album that captured one of the most weird periods of our lives, and yeah, Yeezus remains my favorite Kanye album was well Lily Allen vibrator being promoted in FN write-up bitch better return herself with sexy bops next year Roisin and Jessie released best disco albums tbh, so I'm so ****ing glad they're slaying here Roisin making her old songs sounds fresh and better than before Jessie ****ing slaying every other pop girl Idk why I feel like Lily's next album will be really good... it's that David Harbour dick methinks. YES I think everyone who even dipped their toe into the disco pond this year did a good job with it, but Jessie and Roisin really pulled out all the stops. On 12/24/2020 at 10:42 AM, pinknblue said: The Hifn/pop2 and yeezus/mbdtf comparison is spot-on. Charli is quite overhated on here huh. Glad to see her on top 5, wel deserved I don't get it tbh the Charli hate but ah well. On 12/24/2020 at 8:18 PM, Legend E said: the way i knew deep down you have some taste :WAP: On 12/25/2020 at 7:33 AM, Lazuli said: bitch dont make me drag you! On 12/25/2020 at 2:10 PM, Legend E said: and why would you do that? FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT On 12/25/2020 at 8:23 PM, Sunderland 4ever said: Future Nostalgia and WYP :johnald: Disco pop queens! On 12/26/2020 at 3:43 AM, Mr. Duff said: Really have to get time to listen to Jessie Ware. Future Nostalgia :clap3: YES I 100% recommend it. Even if something like What's Your Pleasure isn't for you (you stan FN so you would love it), then she has 3 other fairly varied album to satisfy you. On 12/26/2020 at 9:11 AM, Pink Matter said: What a picture perfect top 5 :clap3: (I actually haven't checked out the Charli album yet but I have it saved for later!). And great lists overall! Not much else to say except the clues made me scream when you explained them :deadbanana: dkhskhdskl I love a stretch. Thanks so much! Yeah you'll love Charli's album, especially with the lockdown context. On 12/27/2020 at 4:44 PM, Ghostlysnaker said: Future Nostalgia Top 05 :worship: deserved A pop queen! On 12/27/2020 at 4:53 PM, Madame X said: our top 5s are VERY VERY similar sorry for flaking, i dipped from this section :rip: will finish soon. I KNEW they would be. I get it, I vanished from this section the second it was Christmas Eve nnn. On 12/28/2020 at 9:14 PM, Ava Max said: how i'm feeling now, Future Nostalgia, What's Your Pleasure? :clap3: You serving taste! Is that male Dua in your avi nnklsndkslds 16 hours ago, Smilers said: The way HIFN is Charli’s best album. I was shocked that not only did she manage to top N1A, but she did that in one month? THE TALENT... it's much too much for me. Full Ranked List of 2020 Albums Ranking Artist Top Song Choice Good Songs Meh Songs Notes 1 Jessie Ware Soul Control What's Your Pleasure, Save a Kiss, Remember Where You Are, Ooh La La Queen of everything 2 Roisin Murphy Murphy's Law Something More, We Got Together, Jealousy, Shellfish Mademoiselle I'm still not sure if I like this or Ruby Blue more but **** this is so good 3 Fiona Apple Relay Shameika, Ladies, For Her, I Want You To Love Me The fact that she keeps getting better with each album OMG 4 Dua Lipa Physical Pretty Please, Levitating, Love Again, Don't Start Now Good in Bed Pop queen. Deserves all the acclaim and success that she's getting 5 Charli XCX Anthems 7 Years, Claws, Visions, C2.0 I think I prefer Pop 2 more than this, but it's her Yeezus basically right? Best "quarantine" creative release 6 Hayley Williams Cinnamon Why We Ever, Pure Love, Sugar on the Rim, Leave It Alone, Dead Horse I'm pissed people don't like this as much because it's not Dead Horse/Over Yet copy/pasted into 14 other songs 7 Rina Sawayama Paradisin' XS, Who's Gonna Save U Now, Love Me 4 Me, Dynasty Chosen Family, Bad Friend Honestly I think this would do better a bit lower because it's a BIT overrated, but I played it SO much this year it had to go top 10 8 The Weeknd Too Late Save Your Tears, Hardest to Love, Faith, Blinding Lights Heartless His best release, honestly. I'm pissed FOR HIM at the Grammy snubs 9 Spanish Love Songs Generation Loss Optimism (As a Radical Life Choice), Losers 2, Brave Faces Everyone, Routine Pain I haven't loved a pop punk/emo album like this in a long time, but these songs all ****ing HURT 10 Run The Jewels Walking in the Snow Out of Sight (feat. 2 Chainz), Ju$t (feat. Zack & Pharrell), Yankee and the Brave, A Few Words for the Firing Squad I've always thought RTJ were pretty good, but with this record I finally was like "oh ****". Possibly because of when it was released 11 Tennis Need Your Love Runner, How to Forgive, Tender as a Tomb, Swimmer Funny how I used to hate these hoes, but they definitely fit better in this kind of music instead of their older sound 12 Lianne La Havas Bittersweet Green Papaya, Sour Flower, Paper Thin, Read My Mind She's such a queen and I've decided that yes, I prefer this over Blood 13 Kylie Minogue Dance Floor Darling Celebrate You, Real Groove, Say Something, Where Does the DJ Go? Hey Lonely Can't believe it took me so long to discover Kylie, but I'm glad I did with this album. Fever >>>>> 14 Sam Sparro Marvelous Lover Eye 2 Eye, Pressure, Everything, Love Like That I'm kinda shook Sam Sparro released such a good FULL album! Also this was kinda the first disco release of the year huh? (not really) 15 Waxahatchee Fire Lilacs, Hell, War, Oxbow Some of yall will hate me for this pick... but it's just so damn good and hits all the alt country buttons that I adore! 16 Pinegrove Moment No Drugs, The Alarmist, Dotted Line, Hairpin I have never listened to Pinegrove before, but this was one of the first albums this year that really grabbed me 17 YUKIKA Cherries Jubiles Pit-a-Pet, I Feel Love, Yesterday, Soul Lady Ewan listening to KPOP whaaaaat?! Though I've always loved city pop even if I like... don't know artists in the genre lol 18 Gupi Faking It Modest, None, False Awakening, Plymouth Simulation He deserves so much more; this is hyperpop excellence. Love when he told Pewdiepie to **** off too LOL 19 Fleet Foxes A Long Way Past The Past Sunblind, Shore, Thymia, Wading in Waist-High Water I played this A LOT for autumn, I think my favorite album by them? 20 HAIM Another Try 3AM, I Know Alone, Summer Girl, Leaning on You I'm honestly finding this HAIM record more and more overrated the more time goes by, but I enjoyed this quite a bit this year so it deserves its top 20 spot 21 Moses Sumney Cut Me Neither/Nor, In Bloom, Virile, Conveyor The second half of this DRASTICALLY dragged it out of the top 20. I'm convinced it would have been top 10 if it was just the first part 22 Yves Tumor Gospel For A New Century Medicine Burn, Folie Imposee, Kerosene! (feat. Diana Gordon), Super Stars I think the forum does a little too much on this album just because it's not as experimental as his last record 23 Jessy Lanza Over and Over Like Fire, Alexander, Lick in Heaven, Badly I was a little surprised this grew on me so fast after I was like "aww it's not as good as the last album :(" 24 Sarah Jarosz Little Satchel Empty Square, Pay It No Mind, Johnny, Hometown The most underrated Americana/country record of the year (GRAMMY-NOMINATED) 25 Lady Gaga Rain On Me (feat. Ariana Grande) Babylon, Replay, Free Woman, Sour Candy (feat. Blackpink) 1000 Doves I know it's easy to **** on Gaga, but I really enjoy how House influenced this album is, and you can pinpoint some specific references 26 Yelle Vue d'en face Karate, Noir, Un Million, J'veux Un Chien Kinda surprised myself having this album so high after thinking I preferred Completment Fou over this 27 Gabriel Garzon-Montano Someone Aguita, Mira My Look, Tomb, Moonless His debut is GOAT, but honestly I think this is a great release. Nice mix of genres and clearly lots of thought put into each song 28 Empress Of Love Is A Drug Give Me Another Chance, U Give It Up, Should've, Hold Me Like Water I was worried my enjoyment of this album was just because it's better than Us, but it continues to stay fresh and fun! 29 La Roux Do You Feel Gullible Fool, 21st Century, Everything I Live For, Otherside I understand people's dislike, but I loved Trouble in Paradise, so I'll take a second version happily! 30 George Clanton, Nick Hexum Aurora Summer Shouldn'ta Done That, Driving in My Car, Time of Wandering, Out of the Blue I liked George's album from 2018 but there's something more wistful about this album that draws me in more 31 Declan McKenna Daniel, You're Still a Child Emily, Beautiful Faces, Rapture, The Key to Life on Earth I'll take this baby David Bowie impersonator! Pansexual legend 32 Tame Impala Is It True One More Year, Lost in Yesterday, Instant Destiny, Tomorrow's Dust A little underrated, but I may like this so much because it came out earlier in the year & I've missed Kevin lmao 33 Brandy Clark Who Broke Whose Heart Who You Thought I Was, I'll Be the Sad Song, Love is a Fire, Long Walk GRAMMY-NOMINATED lesbian country queen 34 Omar Apollo Useless Kamikaze, Want U Around (feat. Ruel), Stayback, Bi Fren Been closely following this lad since early last year and I'm very pleased with his output! 35 Zebra Katz Lick It n Split (feat. Shygirl) In In In, Ish, Zad Drumz, Blush Chaotic rap king. I wish I'd played this more earlier in the year because it would have def been higher 36 Biffy Clyro The Champ Tiny Indoor Fireworks, North of No South, Instant History, Worst Type of Best Possible I had to give some Scottish representation to my list. DO NOT listen to their WAP cover LMFAO 37 Kate NV Not Not Not Sayonara, Ca Commence Par, Lu Na, Telefon A really fun discovery! 38 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Video Game, Death Star, Tell Me You Love Me, America People do too much on this. OTT Sufjan > Tumblr Sufjan 39 Buscabulla NTE El Aprieto, Mio, Nydia, Vamono My favorite Spanish album of the year. The groooooooves baby 40 Arca Rip the Slit KLK (feat. ROSALIA), Watch (feat. Shygirl), Nonbinary, Afterwards (feat. Bjork) I RIP THE SLIT I RIP THE SLIT I RIP THE SLIT I SLIT I RIP THE SLIT I GIRL I RIP THE SLIT 41 Everything Everything Violent Sun Big Climb, Arch Enemy, Lost Powers, Planets Not sure if they'll ever top Get to Heaven, but this is a step back in the right direction 42 Ethan Gruska Enough for Now (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) On the Outside, Maybe I'll Go Nowhere, Teenage Drug, Dialing Drunk Another Animal Basically, if you like Phoebe Bridgers, listen to this. If you don't like Phoebe Bridgers, don't listen to this 43 Phoebe Bridgers I Know The End Garden Song, Graceland Too, Punisher, Kyoto Funeral >>> but this is a good album 44 Dornik Do You Wanna? (feat. Gavin Turek) Retail Therapy (feat. Barney Artist), Space Jamm, You Got It (feat. Taylor Graves), Temptation (feat. Zelly One) My R&B king (fun fact he used to be the drummer on Jessie Ware's tour). Not as good as the debut, but still good with lots of fun collabs 45 Laura Marling Alexandra Held Down, Song For Our Daughter, Strange Girl, Hope We Meet Again This was a great singer/songwriter album! I actually never listened to Laura before this 46 Grimes Delete Forever 4AEM, Violence (feat. i_o), IDORU, You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around Darkseid Honestly, I 100% get and agree with the disappointment after back-to-back slays of Visions and Art Angels, but this is an underrated release! 47 Marcus King Wildflowers & Wine Too Much Whiskey, The Well, One Day She's Here, Say You Will Break A great and underrated GRAMMY-NOMINATED country album 48 Carly Rae Jepsen Window Summer Love, This is What They Say, Felt This Way/Stay Away Heartbeat, Let's Sort This Whole Thing Out Almost didn't include this, but she was top 5 in my Spotify Wrapped so... here we are 49 The Killers Caution Dying Breed, Imploding the Mirage, My God, When the Dreams Run Dry Damn, who thought The Killers had this in them! 50 Taylor Swift Invisible String The 1, Seven, The Last Great American Dynasty, Betty Cardigan, Hoax, Mad Woman I have placed her at the lowest section of highlighted sections as a statement 51 Adrianne Lenker Not a Lot, Just Forever Two Reverse, Zombie Girl, Anything Big Thief/Adrianne always have talent! 52 Kali Uchis Vaya Con Dios Aqui Yo Mando! (feat. Rico Nasty), Quiero Sentirme Bien Queen, much better than the EP 53 Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist Babies & Fools (feat. Conway the Machine) 1985, Something to Rap About (feat. Tyler the Creator) 54 Georgia Till I Own It About Work the Dancefloor (obvi the best song but it's from 2019), Ray Guns, 24 Hours 55 Victoria Monet Experience (feat. Khalid & SG Lewis) Ass Like That, Go There With You I know this could be considered an EP but RYM calls it an album so I'm doing the same 56 Bad Bunny Safaera Pero Ya No, <3 Imma just pretend his new album would go here too nnn fave from that is the Abra collab 57 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Forgive Me, Do It Generally overrated but it's still good! 58 Against All Logic Fantasy Faith Not for everyone, but good! 59 Nicole Atkins Forever Am Gold, A Road to Nowhere, Domino Not as good as her previous album (which I think would be top 10 of its year), but it's good 60 Dogleg Hotlines Kawasaki Backflip, Fox, Bueno They stan Smash Bros, so I stan them 61 Lido Pimienta Eso Que Tu Haces Coming Thru, Nada Really good Spanish record 62 beabadoobee Care Great rock record! YES it's rock! 63 Lil Uzi Vert Homecoming Futsal Shuffle 2020 My favorite rap album for a lil while 64 Blossoms My Swimming Brain If You Think This is Real Life, Oh No (I Think I'm In Love), Your Girlfriend Underrated album for sure! 65 Gorillaz Strange Timez (feat. Robert Smith) Chalk Tablet Towers (feat. St. Vincent), The Valley of the Pagans (feat. Beck) I'm glad they're kinda returning to form, even though this had potential to be Humanz 2.0 66 Mandy Moore Easy Target Tryin' My Best, Los Angeles, Silver Landings Pleasant surprise, very mature, breezy and fun 67 Della Mae I Like It When You're Home First Song Dancer Great country album 68 Genevieve Artadi Edge of the Cliff Hot Mess, Feelz Tru Was expecting more after Louis Cole's solo album, but it's still good! 69 Watkins Family Hour Neighborhood Name Fake Badge, Real Gun Great country album 70 Yumi Zouma Lie Like You Want Me Back Sage, Magazine Bay REALLY underrated! Would have loved my top pick to be a baby hit 71 Bree Runway ATM (feat. Missy Elliot) Damn Daniel (feat. Yung Baby Tate), Gucci (feat. Maliibu Miitch) The Pretty AB teas on this. Only recently gave this a listen so I'm sure it'll be a top pick as time goes on 72 Nathy Peluso Sana Sana Sugga, Buenos Aires, Puro Veneno Speaker of the House SNAPPED on this honestly! If I had more time with this, the clitordish songstress would be in my top 50 73 The Big Moon Take A Piece It's Easy Then Great early album 74 Seth Bogart Lavender Heights Professionals, Brainwashers Self-titled is better, but this is still good 75 Blue Hawaii Not My Boss Feelin' I guess I should have placed this in the EP section LOL 76 Annie The Streets Where I Belong Dark Hearts, Forever '92 Underrated by the bop-needing gays! 77 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit St. Peter's Autograph River Should have listened to this more tbh 78 The Chicks Sleep at Night Gaslighter Never actually listened to an album by them but this is good! 79 Dune Rats Patience Highest ranking RAT album! And I like it! 80 Sylvan Esso Ferris Wheel Great album! 81 Thundercat I Love Louis Cole (feat. Louis Cole) I, too, love Louis Cole 82 Disclosure Watch Your Step (feat. Kelis) Better than Caracal, worse than Settle 83 Kacy Hill Porsche WAY better than her debut 84 The Strokes The Adults Are Talking Good rock album! 85 Ariana Grande My Hair Love Language Fun fact: Ariana was my #1 pick for the Best of letter A for the past two years, but she would have been #4 this year if I did ranked alphabet lists 86 Best Coast Wreckage Good rock album! 87 Real Estate Paper Cup Good rock album! 88 Ondara From Six Feet Away This was a pretty good quarantine record 89 Jack Garratt Return Them To The One Mend a Heart, Time MUCH better than his debut 90 Dorian Electra My Agenda (feat. Village People & ***** Riot) It's no Flamboyant but it's great! 91 Caribou Never Come Back Pretty good! 92 Nicolas Godin Catch Yourself Falling Pretty good! 93 HMLTD Satan, Luella & I Nice rock album 94 Little Dragon Hold On DEFINITE improvement omg kinda proud of them 95 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever The Cool Change I think this would be higher if I gave it more spins 96 Hannah Georgas Easy Folklore found crying (jk I like Folklore a little more) 97 Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic Great! 98 Kiesza Run Renegade Better than her debut! 99 The Beths Mars, the God of War Not quite as good as the previous album, but still nice! 100 The Aces New Emotion Not quite as good as the previous album, but still nice! 101 Bahamas Up With The Jones Not as good as his previous album, but a few good tracks here 102 Haiku Hands Jupiter Eat This Bass Random fun discovery 103 Hazel English Off My Mind Grew on me! 104 Shamir Other Side BEST ALBUM SINCE HIS FIRST 105 Perfume Genius On the Floor Overrated, but it's okay 106 Adam Lambert Velvet Kinda surprised how much I liked this nnn 107 Porridge Radio Born Confused Lesbians! 108 Woods Be There Still Cute 109 Miley Cyrus Midnight Sky Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa), Night Crawling (feat. Billy Idol) The best that Miley has ever sounded 110 Mura Masa Teenage Headache Dreams (with Ellie Rowsell) Not as good as his first one, but it has good moments 111 Lapsley Our Love is a Garden EP tracks were the best, but the whole album is nice 112 Kllo A Mirror Random and nice discovery 113 Destroyer Cue Synthesizer It's pretty good! 114 Circa Waves Move to San Francisco Decent album! 115 COIN Into My Arms Not as good as the previous one but good! 116 Amine Easy (feat. Summer Walker) Good album 117 070 Shake Guilty Conscience Nothing quite as good as Guilty Conscience but good 118 Creeper Annabelle Underrated! 119 Megan Thee Stallion Don't Stop (feat. Young Thug) The singles REALLY carry this album unfortunately 120 Owen Pallett Transformer Fun discovery 121 Ratboys Look To Second highest rat album! 122 Salt Cathedral Que Corra El Agua Fun discovery 123 Yuksek Gorgeous (feat. Confidence Man) I see Confidence Man I say YAAAAAAAAS 124 Pet Shop Boys Will-o-the-wisp Ehh I'll always give the Pet Shop Boys a listen 125 Johanna Warren Part of It Pretty good! I love the album title lmao 126 Drive-By Truckers Thoughts and Prayers Cool country album! 127 Denai Moore Don't Close The Door Cool R&B album! 128 Aluna Envious Pretty impressive actually, but didn't really revisit the album ever 129 Caroline Rose Feel The Way I Want Disappointing after her AMAZING last album, but still worth listens 130 Khruangbin Time (You and I) I WISH I liked this more because I keep seeing yall love it 131 Kehlani Change Your Life (feat. Jhene Aiko) Pretty good! 132 RVG Alexandra Pretty good! 133 The Struts All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go) Cute quarantine record. They were the last band I saw before quarantine started (on Super Tuesday nnn) 134 Yaeji What We Drew Pretty good mixtape! Really for a proper album tbh 135 Soccer Mommy Circle the Drain Hmm OVERALL it's overrated, but I like it more than her previous album 136 Dawes Still Feel Like A Kid Pretty good! 137 The Midnight Dance With Somebody Cute little discovery 138 Mac Miller Complicated RIP 139 RAC Oakland Surprisingly pretty good! 140 The Sounds Hollow Pretty good! 141 Austra Risk It Pretty good! 142 Brent Faiyaz Rehab (Winter In Paris) SEXY 143 Nicholas Jamerson Leviathan Pretty good! 144 Jonsi Salt Licorice (with Robyn) The Robyn track is the best 145 Emily King Teach You - Acoustic A cute acoustic album from my queen 146 LA Priest Beginning Pretty good! 147 LEON Who You Lovin MUCH better than her release from last year! 148 Tenille Townes Lighthouse Pretty good! 149 Banoffee ****wit Pretty good! 150 Bruce Springsteen Burnin' Train How do people prefer this over Western Stars...? 151 Groove Armada Lover 4 Now (feat. Todd Edwards) They're back! It's aight 152 Joshua Ray Walker Voices THAT VOICE, an otherwise decent album 153 Nathaniel Rateliff What A Drag An alright country album 154 PVRIS Use Me (feat. 070 Shake) Probably my favorite PVRIS album 155 Redinho Shall I Go to Brazil Chemistry, Men in Pants Only recently listened... It's okay 156 EOB Cloak of the Night Pretty good 157 Will Joseph Cook 10x More Time Something to Feel Good About First few songs were great then it fell off. His debut >>> 158 Ant Clemons Aladdin Not a bad R&B record 159 Katie Gately Waltz Interesting 160 Jehnny Beth French Countryside Interesting 161 Kleerup U R Obviously nothing touches With Every Heartbeat 162 SALEM Starfall Okay 163 Blake Mills My Dear One Kinda boring 164 Ratgrave Eternal Breeze ANOTHER Year of the Rat album! 165 Paloma Faith Infinite Things She kinda fell off after A Perfect Contradiction :/ 166 ROOKIE Hold On Tight Okay 167 Hailey Whitters Dream, Girl Wish there were more disco-country bops 168 Dirty Projectors Overlord My Possession, Empty Vessel, Searching Spirit Bit odd to have a collection of 5 EPs in an album section but ah well 169 Alexandra Savior Soft Currents Kinda boring 170 Bombay Bicycle Club Do You Feel Loved? Was expecting more 171 Julianna Barwick Oh, Memory Overrated 172 Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Okay 173 Leven Kali LALALA A letdown from his previous EP... or album... whatever it was 174 Margo Price Letting Me Down Cute, Sturgill kinda snapped 175 Caitlyn Smith Long Time Coming Not as good as her debut 176 Tyler Childers Long Violent History I'll prob only revisit the top pick for this, but a cute bluegrass album 177 Baxter Dury Say Nothing I still don't know if I like or loathe this LOL 178 Overcoats Leave If You Wanna Cute 179 Porches Madonna Cute 180 Radiant Children Pretend Cute 181 Robotaki Holding On Cute 182 Emilie Nicolas Tsunami Most of this was meh... 183 The Amazing Devil That Unwanted Animal Cute 184 Jaime Wyatt L I V I N Cute 185 The 1975 If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) WHY IS THIS SO LONG 186 The Chain Gang Of 1974 Do You Mind? It's okay 187 Kesha Birthday Suit Oh Kesha. Kesha Kesha Kesha. At least some songs are fun! 188 Teyana Taylor 69 Way too long 189 Sam Smith Diamonds Half the album being stuffed with bull**** adult contemporary ballads dropped this like 100 places 190 Diet Cig Who Are You Cute 191 Jacob Collier In My Bones (feat. Kimbra & Tank and The Bangas) MAN if ONLY this was an album full of 10 versions of In My Bones. THEN I would say it deserved it AOTY nom 192 Mt. Joy Strangers Was a bit disappointed after the singles 193 Whitney Rain A fine cover album but nothing to write home about 194 U.S. Girls 4 American Dollars SOOOOO disappointing after her last album 195 Lanterns on the Lake Baddies Eh it's okay 196 dvsn Outlandish Eh it's okay 197 Gerry Cinnamon War Song Soldier Scottish, so I had to put him on the list 198 Field Music Money Is a Memory I think the first full album I listened to this year. OK concept, mostly bad execution 199 Josef Salvat Call on Me Why does this forum have that one Josef stan skjdksljdklsjfdsd 200 The Boomtown Rats Here's a Postcard ANOTHER Year of the Rat album! 201 Okay Kaya Overstimulated Um......... no thanks 202 Childish Gambino 35.31 WTF is this 203 MisterWives Rock Bottom I was hoping for more after their label breakup (in the vein of BROODS), but it's overall meh and worse than their last album 204 Grouplove Hail to the Queen This was fine 205 Purity Ring Stardew This is like... the opposite of Chairlift working with Beyonce making them better #LockKatyUp 206 Phantogram Ceremony This was fine 207 Allie X Susie Save Your Love Super Duper Party People SUCKS 208 Glass Animals Tangerine Man what a fall from grace 209 Washed Out Too Late Boring boring boring boring 210 NIKI Selene Switchblade Tide, If There's Nothing Left, Plot Twist This was such a disappointing release after hearing Selene 211 Whethan Clouds (feat. The Wombats) Sunshine (feat. The Knocks) So Good, All In My Head, Hurting on Purpose Lowkey screamed at the same sample being used as Sunshowers nnn 212 ALMA Bad News Baby Nightmare, Loser, Mama She was cute live but the full album... 213 Selena Gomez Let Me Get Me Dance Again Ring, Kinda Crazy, Fun Man it's a shame she went from Bad Liar to this. Even her Kygo song was better than most of this 214 Dream Wife Sports! U Do U, Validation, After the Rain SO BORING OH MY GOD 215 Aubrie Sellers Far From Home Worried Mind, Glad, One Town's Trash This was one of those albums that had a cute first song and the rest of the album is just eugh 216 LANY good guys I Still Talk to Jesus, Anything 4 You, Sharing You Spoilers I liked this more than his bro Lauv. I just don't care for his weird change to pseudo-Christian country. Damn Dua destroyed this man huh 217 Shallou Forget Technicolor Wave, Make Belive, Lethologica (they're like all the same long ass nothing song) SPOTIFY FODDER which is a shame because the first album was okay 218 Oh Wonder Nothing But You Better Now, Hallelujah, How it Goes The songs in the middle are cute but holy cow the rest of this record is just monotony 219 Chelsea Cutler Sad Tonight Lucky, I Was in Heaven, Are You Listening Sad Tonight is cute... the rest of the album is bad, which is just more sad because she does a lot of production herself apparently? 220 Dagny Somebody Bye Bye Baby Let Me Cry, Paris, It's Only a Heartbreak I mean I guess I understand now why Katy would sample a Dagny song! 221 Ellie Goulding New Heights Start Bleach, Woman, Power The funny thing with this album is Ellie really thinks she's doing something with some epic chorus or whatever but it's just... boring 222 Katy Perry Tucked Never Really Over Daisies, Not the End of the World, Champagne Problems I get that being gauche is Katy's thing but this album was just painful to listen to 223 HONNE no song without you La la la That's How It Goes, By My Side, Can't Bear to be Without You It's sad to see HONNE turn into a band that's basically trying to be a HONNE cover band... 224 Skott My Name Bloodhound, Amelia, Kodak and Codeine I heard some EP of hers in 2018 and really thought it was cute! This... is trash 225 Surfaces Take It Easy Sunny Side Up, Lazy, Dancing with Nobody Spotify fodder... to like a REALLY bad extent nnn the ****ing VOICES 226 Phoebe Ryan Fantasy Exist, Talk to Me, Try it Sober THE ****ING VOICES 227 Astrid S Leave It Beautiful Marilyn Monroe, It's OK If You Forget Me, If I Can't Have You Holy **** I wish I could drag this more. The last song is the only good one but this is soooo ****ing poorly written 228 Kygo Freedom Don't Give Up on Love, Someday, The Truth One of my BFFs would be pissed of me having Kygo on the **** list, but he has FALLEN from any sort of quality 229 Lauv Canada (feat. Alessia Cara) Mean It EVERYTHING ELSE Let's just say, the title of his song with Troye is how I feel about almost every song
Tom Vercetti Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 Noticed we finished around the same time. Respectable #1s as usual. It was a pleasure following this countdown as always and the change of pace was welcomed.
GreatestLoveofAll Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 A chart too whew the effort! we love it And I think i finally got around to listening to Declan and Omar's album. Declan was not my type but i acknowledge the talent. omar's album was a lot more connected to me- "Useless" is by farrr my favorite
ATRL Moderator Legend E Posted January 1, 2021 ATRL Moderator Posted January 1, 2021 Quote sksksksk I HATE YOU jk. Eh for me I've liked Charli since True Romance so the growth of her career is super cool. New-age gays I guess love the loud new music she makes since Vroom Vroom nnn. i mean i get liking true romance cause it's at least listenable but everything post-sucker...sucks
Remmy Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 Too many hoes and flops to go through but whew, we are SO connected with our fave tracks from albums Kiii Lauv sitting at the bottom, yeah I only care for a few songs from him and it's mainly because of the featured artist(s). The title track really did save that Astrid S album, can't believe she decided to put that out as her D-E-B-U-T. Heard Chelsea Cutler's album earlier in the year after enjoying Sad Tonight and your thoughts mirror mine exactly. I actually think Rare >> Selena's overrated droplets era, sorry! Got into Grouplove in Q1 and their album was sooo disappointing, HTTQ was one of the few highlights yup. Kesha, Sam, Ellie (+ a few others) and ESPECIALLY Allie X being so low At least you still served plenty of taste and this was another great Best Of Happy new year!
potent Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 Didn't bother with Glass Animals this year, Your Love was cute though Grouplove meh, I hadn't remembered Hail to the Queen lol In My Bones is a bop but yeah I didn't find anything else as good in his album Agree about Sam and BBC definitely could've done better, that album was a little boring I haven't listened to Paloma because I'm worried it will be mediocre and seems like I'm right from what I've seen so far... LEON had some good songs in her album, Who You Lovin is a highlight along with the 2 singles Nothing But Thieves I heard a few songs from them this year, but nothing really stood out tbh Blossoms released this year? I didn't know Now that I saw this I really wish Beabadoobee and The Chicks had made top 50, good to see you liked them though
D/X Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) Only listing my real faves cause there's too many things to list : Hayley, Gaga, Declan, Tame Impala Agree on Everything Everything, it was a step into the right direction,, but for me it was more similar to their Arc sounds. COIN: they've been choosing the wrong singles. As for Grimes I agree that it's WAY, WAY behind Art Angels and let's not even talk about Visions, but it has some cute bops. About the ones you disliked.... Purity Ring, I actually burst in laughter after reading your comment. Stardew is a gem though. Glass Animals was trashy, that's true. And I feel EXACTLY the same way about Selena. Bad Liar was really good and this new album was kinda mediocre. And finally, the latest HAIM singles are straight up garbage. I really don't know what the hell they are trying to do. Edited January 2, 2021 by D/X
ryoncé Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 lol your whole chart feels like it was created JUST to put lauv at the bottom love it
bestfiction Posted January 5, 2021 Posted January 5, 2021 the top 5 so happy for Jessie and Roisin to dominate this year. I've never cared about Jessie outside of Wildest Moments but this album recently saw the WYP vinyl skyrocketing in price so I had to snatch it from a local seller while I could lmao
World Eater Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 they say better late than never so here I am, I'll try my best not to write an essay okay first of all I like the new format even though I was a big fan of you going in alphabetical order now onto the eps, I agree with your take on Texas Sun, title track was great and I didn't care for the album at all aside from Yon and I which was close to making my song list. I feel like their music works better live, especially in a festival environment but I guess neither of us will get to experience that for a while Love the La vita nuova and For You (my epoty) inclusions and I really liked that Troye ep, probably his strongest release yet Alias was alright I guess, def not bad but disappointing in a way and Slime could have easily been an Iggy Azalea song come through the No Butterflies, No Nothing stanning I'm soooooo ready for her album knowing that she Smerz worked on it Lifetime, Impact, Both of Us and WAP are all great too I can see the reasoning behind putting each of these albums in the hall of shame and I love me some good dragging I got the sense most of them were bleh anyway so I didn't even bother with listening I think your finger may have slipped when accidentally put W*xa and Ph*ebe on your best albums list though, just putting it out there but moving on, not gonna comment on every entry, but I did love the list! there's a couple of ewanchaos-core albums I'm not familiar with that I might wanna listen (and some that I'll probably skip ) anyway, good to see Dornik get some love even though I wasn't that crazy about this album, really nice to see Kate NV and Zebra Katz too, about time he released an album Quote Washed Out WISHES he could make chillwave this good in 2020 the REAL tea is that both albums lowkey sucked Washed Out at least had some good singles (but I think George is capable of something more on his own and WO is pretty much done at this point lol) I'm with you re: Trouble in Paradise being better than s/t BUT I don't see any appeal in Supervision, it's just as lifeless as Elly herself based on her recent-ish interviews Agüita was alright but I can't get past the messy tracklist order (or some of Mira My Look's lyrics ), I think I already said that in the album thread but I LOVE the title track okay I could go off about Moses for hours but lemme not, great album regardless of this mess I'm still lost with this Pinegrove controversy but I don't see much appeal in indie rock for emo bros in general so idk if I'm losing much (and Cardinal was boring despite what everyone says) I feel like Lianne's s/t, that Tennis album and RTJ4 (which for now is probably at the bottom of my RTJ album ranking) could appear somewhere on my retrospective list if I give them more time, we shall see oh and I appreciate the Georgia and Dogleg shoutouts okay I'm gonna stop right here because I don't have much individual thought on the top 10 which I think is pretty neat (especially that top 5!) but I appreciate you spreading the gospel of Chosen Family being ****! WYP? is def a deserving aoty choice and that Jessie story was a scream I could go on and on and there's a lot of stuff I liked I didn't have any specific comments about at the time but you did a good job with the thread
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted January 6, 2021 ATRL Moderator Posted January 6, 2021 lauv at the very bottom, its where he belongs. and omg, i agree that shamieka is a good instant #1 pick BUT there are songs that last further beyond it including ladies and replay. agree so much with jessie, though youre robably a bigger fan ive always been paying attention so this is probably a bigger gag for u. soul control is def the best uptempo BOP from the album (unless you count title tack but thats sort of a slow jam ish song to me). 7 years is REALLY good. i know people who **** on it but they are so stupid. its the best of the pure pop/emotional moments on the album. forever who? party 4 u who?
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted January 6, 2021 ATRL Moderator Posted January 6, 2021 your hayley picks but youre wrong, part 3 > part 1 > part 2! surprised to see youre putting rina this high but yes we almost agree on everything abt her as you've said. i actually do like her a lot and wasn't planning to pan her but i did need to put better albums above her to give them credit! i will listen to spanish love songs, for you!
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