Friday, January 3, 2020

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2020

We'll be updating album of the year rankings for 2020 releases all the way through November 2021, so just getting started here.  

Dua Lipa's irresistible Future Nostalgia and LA soft-rockers HAIM's best album yet Women In Music Pt. III leads the way in pack of 8 new additions. 

Highest Recommends
1. Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
2. Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
3. Rough And Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Strong Recommends
4. Every Bad - Porridge Radio
5. Folklore - Taylor Swift
8. Summerlong - Rose City Band

Solid Recommends
9. Songs For Our Daughter - Laura Marling
10. The Neon Skyline - Andy Shauf - Read full review.
11. St. Cloud - Waxahatchee
14. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
15. RTJ4 - Run The Jewels
16. Shore - Fleet Foxes
17. Grae - Moses Sumney
18. Big Conspiracy - J Has
19. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama
20. Untitled (Rise) - SAULT
21. Thin Mind - Wolf Parade

Mild Recommends
22. A Hero's Death - Fontaine's D.C.
23. Likewise - Frances Quinlan
24. Have We Met - Destroyer - Read full review.

2020 Albums Of Note I've Heard But Yet To Assess In Full

2017 - 2019 - Against All Logic (1 listen in)
925 - Sorry (1)
A Billion Heartbeats - Mystery Jets (1)
A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip - Sparks (1)
A Written Testimony - J Electronica (1)
Afterhours - The Weeknd (1)
Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (1)
Alphabet Land - X
American Head - The Flaming Lips (1)
As Long As You Are - Future Islands (1)
Bedroom - bdrmm (1)
Beyond The Pale - JARV IS (1)
Bonny Light Horseman (1)
Chromatica - Lady Gaga (1)
Circles - Mac Miller (1)
Color Theory - Soccer Mommy (4)
Coriky (1)
Dark Matter - Moses Boyd (1)
Empty Country (1)
England Is A Garden - Cornershop (1)
Eternal Atake - Lil Uzi Vert (1)
evermore - Taylor Swift (1)
Fake I Flowers - Beabadobee (1) 
For Their Love - Other Lives (1)
Forever Blue - A.A. Williams (1)
Gold Record - Bill Callahan (1)
Good News - Megan The Stallion (1)
Good Souls Better Angels - Lucinda Williams (1)
Hannah - Lomelda (1)
Hearts Town - The War and Treaty (1)
Heavy Light - U.S. Girls (1)
Help - Duval Timothy (1)
Homegrown - Neil Young (1)
How Ill Thy World Is Ordered - Daniel Romano (1)
How I'm Feeling Now - Charlie XCX
Hunted - Anna Calvi (1)
I Love The New Sky - Tim Burgess (1)
I Slept On The Floor - Another Sky (1)
Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave (1)
Imploding The Mirage - The Killers (1)
Inlet - Hum (1)
Inner Song - Kelly Lee Owens (1)
Instrumentals - Adrianne Lenker (1)
It Is What It Is - Thundercat (1)
Jump Rope Gazers - The Beths (1)
Kitchen Sink - Nadine Shah (1)
Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band (1)
Lianne La Havas (1)
Live Drugs - The War On Drugs (1)
Live Forever - Bartees Strange (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 (1)
Mind Hive - Wire
Miss Anthropocene - Grimes (1)
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)
Ohms - Deftones (1)
Optimisme - Songhoy Blues (1)
Pain Olympics - Crack Cloud (1)
Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams (1)
Power Up - AC/DC (1)
Private Lives - Low Cut Connie (1)
Protean Threat - Osees
Reunions - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (1)
Roisin Machine - Roisin Murphy (1)
Sex, Death, And The Infinite - Creeper
Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase - The Soft Pink (1)
Shortly After Takeoff - BC Camplight (1)
Sideways To New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (1)
So When You Gonna... - Dream Wife (1)
Someone New - Helena Deland (1)
Songs - Adrianne Lenker (1)
SOURCE - Nubya Garcia (1)
Straight Songs Of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan (1)
Suddenly - Caribou (2)
That's How Rumors Get Started - Margo Price (1)
The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens (1)
The Cool Greenhouse (1)
The New Abnormal - The Strokes (1)
The New Okay - The Drive-By Truckers
The Night Chancers - Baxter Dury (1)
The Prettiest Curse - Hinds (1)
The Slow Rush - Tame Impala (1)
The Universe Inside - The Dream Syndicate (1)
The Universal Want - Doves (1)
There Is No Year - Algiers
Traditional Techniques - Stephen Malkmus (1)
U kin B the Sun - Frazey Ford (1)
Ultimate Success Today - Protomartyr (1)
Ultra Mono - IDLES (1)
Underneath - Code Orange (1)
Ungodly Hour - Chloe X Halle (1)
Use Me - PVRIS (1)
Visions Of Bodies Being Burned - Clipping (1)
We're New Again - Makaya McCraven (1)
We Will Always Love You - The Avalanches (1)
What's Your Pleasure - Jessie Ware (4)
Workaround - Beatrice Dillon (1)
Working Men's Club (1)
YHLQMDLG - Bad Bunny (1)

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