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Real Pain: 2020s Female Indie Rock & Folk Rate (Winner Revealed!)


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Almost as soon as the 2020s began, the world faced an unprecedented state of uncertainty. In times like these music, as with culture, often looks inward, taking a moment to contemplate. Each of these women (and female fronted band Wolf Alice) spent the last decade building careers on embracing the good, the bad, and the dark. As a new decade turned, they brought their characteristic sense of self-understanding with them.  With all of these albums recorded and released during the height of the pandemic, there is a notable undercurrent of pain and introspection. The results are six intriguing and thoughtful albums, and it is our job to rate them.

 

Each of the albums included received notoriety in either 2020 or 2021. Click below to find out more.

 

The Songs:

 

 

beabadoobee - Fake it Flowers

Care
Worth It
Dye It Red
Back to Mars
Charlie Brown
Emo Song
Sorry
Further Away
Horen Sarrison
How Was Your Day?
Together
Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene

 

Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Bloodstream
Circle the Drain
Royal Screw Up
Night Swimming
Crawling In My Skin
Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes
Up the Walls
Lucy
Stain
Gray Light

 

Snail Mail - Valentine

Valentine
Ben Franklin
Headlock
Light Blue
Forever (Sailing)
Madonna
c. et al.
Glory
Automate
Mia

 

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
The Beach
Delicious Things
Lipstick on the Glass
Smile
Safe From Heartbreak (If You Ever Fall in Love)
How Can I Make It OK?
Play the Greatest Hits
Feeling Myself
The Last Man on Earth
No Hard Feelings
The Beach II

 

Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
17
Darker Than Death
Die/Cry
Pretty Pictures
Real Pain
Bad Dream
Late Night Crawler
Hold U
Way Out
Kill Me

 

Clairo - Sling
Bambi
Amoeba
Partridge
Zinnias
Blouse
Wade
Harbor
Just for Today
Joanie
Reaper
Little Changes
Management

 

The Rules:

Rate each song between 1-10, using decimals as necessary.

You can assign three of your favourite songs a score of 11.

Please ensure you give each album a fair chance and proper listen.

Please PM me (or feel free to use Discord) your rates!

 

Tentative deadline is October 1st, 2022.

Extension deadline: October 9th, 2022

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reserved for results

 

participants:

1. Sanguine

2. greento

3. Touch It

4. Green Tea is Green

5. MP2K

6. Kosuke

7. K$llie

8. diogozsz

9. prezli

 

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the results:

 

 

1. How Can I Make It OK?

2. Care

3. Circle the Drain

4. Sorry

5. Worth It

6. Delicious Things

7. Smile

8. Valentine

9. Lipstick on the Glass

10. Amoeba

 

11. Play the Greatest Hits

12. Dye It Red

13. Charlie Brown

14. Together

15. Hold U

16. Darker Than Death

17. Ben Franklin

18. Emo Song

19. The Beach II

20. Bad Dream

 

21. Late Night Crawler

22. Bloodstream

23. Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes

24. Die/Cry 

25. Way Out

26. The Last Man on Earth

27. The Beach

28. Further Away

29. Feeling Myself

30. No Hard Feelings

 

31. Kill Me

32. Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene

33. Safe From Heartbreak (If You Never Fall in Love)

34. 17

35. Crawling In My Skin

36. Lucy

37. Real Pain

38. Blouse

39. Pretty Pictures

40. Royal Screw Up

 

41. Management

42. Horen Sarrison

43. Joanie

44. Stain

45. Headlock

46. Forever (Sailing)

47. Glory

48. Reaper

49. Zinnias

50. Back to Mars

 

51. Night Swimming

52. Bambi

53. Gray Light

54. Up the Walls

55. Madonna

56. How Was Your Day?

57. Harbor

58. Just for Today

59. Automate

60. Little Changes

61. Light Blue

62. Partridge

63. Wade

64. Mia

65. c. et al.

 

Legend:

Fake It Flowers 

Color Theory 

Valentine 

Blue Weekend 

Any Shape You Take 

Sling 

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Indigod domination duh

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Slay 

 

will be doing this :WAP:

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added a spotify playlist to the OP for easy listening!

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present!

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You should tag some people who might be interested :lakitu:

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I'm in if you plan to have a taglist :duca: Valentine would be the only one I'd not heard before. bea and football daddy having better albums this year nn

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Love the gif! <3 excited to participate!

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6 hours ago, greento said:

You should tag some people who might be interested :lakitu:

 

48 minutes ago, Ewan Chaos said:

I'm in if you plan to have a taglist :duca: Valentine would be the only one I'd not heard before. bea and football daddy having better albums this year nn

Tags are coming later today for sure! I was just so excited to get the thread up I posted it just before midnight yesterday :skull: 

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Care FTW.

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Quick little tag list, I saw you were interested in the 2019 rate hosted by @greento and wanted to tag you to check this rate out too!

I won't tag again so dw, but if you're interested please take a look at the OP. I'd love to have you join!

 

 

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Indigo FTW! 

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wolf alice FTW

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dont know even one album on that list so i will pass

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A couple of these girls have released 2022 albums too. It should be interesting to see if we could do a part 2 in the future with releases from this year!

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Thanks sis!

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“Care” and “Valentine” need to slay!

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beabadoobee, indigo, and wolf alice FTW

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I'm rooting for Indigo, I feel like she's got the album people are least acquainted with but it was my AOTY of 2021, narrowly beating out SOUR. :jonny2:

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Working on this now!! I know at least a few songs from all the albums already, Blue Weekend and Any Shape You Take are the ones I know best but I’m gonna give everyone fair scores 

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Sent!!!

 

I think every album has a song deserving of the top 10 here, here’s what it should look like with at least 1 song per album imo:

 

Emo Song

Further Away

circle the drain

Valentine

How Can I Make It Ok?

The Beach II

Darker Than Death

Real Pain

Amoeba

Joanie

 

i feel like the results for this will be good cuz only people with taste are gonna send for this :michael:

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yasss thank you!!

 

the results will be interesting for sure, its a pretty solid lineup of albums

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