Friday, January 3, 2020

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2020

Highest Recommends
1. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
2. Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
3. What's Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware
4. Rough And Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Strong Recommends
5. Every Bad - Porridge Radio
6. Folklore - Taylor Swift
9. Roisin Machine - Roisin Murphy
10. England Is A Garden - Cornershop
11. Summerlong - Rose City Band
12. Dark Matter - Moses Boyd

Solid Recommends
13. Songs For Our Daughter - Laura Marling
14. The Neon Skyline - Andy Shauf - Read full review.
15. St. Cloud - Waxahatchee
18. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
20. How Ill Thy World Is Ordered - Daniel Romano
23. RTJ4 - Run The Jewels
24. Shore - Fleet Foxes
25. Inner Song - Kelly Lee Owens
26. Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen
27. Color Theory - Soccer Mommy
28. Grae - Moses Sumney
29. Big Conspiracy - J Has
30. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
31. Untitled (Rise) - SAULT
32. Forever Blue - A.A. Williams
33. Reunions - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
34. Good Souls Better Angels - Lucinda Williams
35. Beyond The Pale - JARV IS...
36. Coriky
37. I Slept On The Floor - Another Sky
38. American Head - The Flaming Lips
39. Sideways To New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
41. Private Lives - Low Cut Connie
42. Kitchen Sink - Nadine Shah
44. Imploding The Mirage - The Killers
45. Songs - Adrianne Lenker
46. ALPHABETLAND - X
47. POWER UP - AC/DC
48. Ohms - Deftones
50. The Universe Inside - The Dream Syndicate
51. Jump Rope Gazers - The Beths
52. Suddenly - Caribou
56. Blue Hearts - Bob Mould
57. Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams
58. The Night Chancers - Baxter Dury
59. Thin Mind - Wolf Parade
60. Have We Met - Destroyer - Read full review.
61. Shortly After Takeoff - BC Camplight
62. Miss Anthropocene - Grimes
63. Use Me - PVRIS

Mild Recommends
64. A Hero's Death - Fontaine's D.C.
65. Likewise - Frances Quinlan
66. Pain Olympics - Crack Cloud
67. Deep Down Happy - Sports Team
68. So When You Gonna - Dream Wife
69. Optimisme - Songhoy Blues
70. Live Forever - Bartees Strange
71. The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens
72. Heavy Light - U.S. Girls

2020 Albums Of Note I Didn't Hear Enough To Assess In Full
2017 - 2019 - Against All Logic (2 listen ins)
925 - Sorry (2)
A Billion Heartbeats - Mystery Jets (2)
A Written Testimony - J Electronica (1)
Afterhours - The Weeknd (2)
Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (2)
As Long As You Are - Future Islands (1)
Bedroom - bdrmm (1)
Chromatica - Lady Gaga (1)
Circles - Mac Miller (1)
Eternal Atake - Lil Uzi Vert (1)
evermore - Taylor Swift (1)
Fake I Flowers - Beabadobee (1) 
For Their Love - Other Lives (1)
Gold Record - Bill Callahan (1)
Good News - Megan The Stallion (1)
Hannah - Lomelda (1)
Hearts Town - The War and Treaty (1)
Help - Duval Timothy (1)
Homegrown - Neil Young (1)
How I'm Feeling Now - Charlie XCX
Hunted - Anna Calvi (1)
I Love The New Sky - Tim Burgess (1)
Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave (1)
Inlet - Hum (1)
Instrumentals - Adrianne Lenker (1)
It Is What It Is - Thundercat (1)
Live Drugs - The War On Drugs (1)
Live In Maui - Jimi Hendrix (1)
Making A Door Less Open - Car Seat Headrest (1)
Melee - Dogleg (1)
Microphones In 2020 (1)
Midnight Manor - The Nude Party (2)
Mind Hive - Wire (2)
Miss Anthropocene - Grimes (2)
Mordechai - Khruangbin (1)
Motherhood - No Joy (1)
Nick Of Time - The James Hunter Six (1)
No Dream - Jeff Rosenstock (1)
Off Off On - This Is The Kit (1)
Protean Threat - Osees
Someone New - Helena Deland (1)
SOURCE - Nubya Garcia (1)
Straight Songs Of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan (1)
That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price (1)
The Cool Greenhouse (2)
The New Abnormal - The Strokes (1)
The New Okay - The Drive-By Truckers (1)
The Night Chancers - Baxter Dury (2)
The Slow Rush - Tame Impala (1)
The Universal Want - Doves (2)
There Is No Year (1) - Algiers
Traditional Techniques - Stephen Malkmus (1)
U kin B the Sun - Frazey Ford (1)
Ultra Mono - IDLES (1)
Underneath - Code Orange (1)
Ungodly Hour - Chloe X Halle (1)
Visions Of Bodies Being Burned - Clipping (1)
We Are Sent Here By History - Shabaka And The Ancestors
We're New Again - Makaya McCraven (1)
We Will Always Love You - The Avalanches (1)
Workaround - Beatrice Dillon (1)
YHLQMDLG - Bad Bunny (1)

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