So we reach what Europe, (the dreadful band not the wonderful continent,), would call The Final Countdown. To Christmas Day. With five Top Fifty album countdowns. Then my own on the day itself. Surprisingly, or perhaps not surprisingly on this year that we all mostly stayed in that there's a strange consensus evident in the choices here.
Starting with Pitchfork. A blog / site I've never been comfortable with or liked much. I find them bloodless, humourless and holier than thou even though now, to all intents and purposes, they are the alternative mainstream, though it would never do for them to admit as much themselves.
As if to illustrate this, their countdown performs a peculiar act of contortionism this year. Choosing the usual suspects, the ones everyone has chosen. in their Top 25. Then almost to a fault, ones that nobody has chosen between 26 and 50, to show that they still retain their cutting edge. Hmm! Comes across as if it was written by computer. Only four from my own list. The Number One among them admittedly. Also a nice introduction to something I was unfamiliar with that will be my Song of the Day tomorrow.
1. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Boltcutters
2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
3. Moses Sumney - Grae
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
6. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
7. Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind
8. Haim - Women In Music Pt III
9. Jesse Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
10. Bad Bunny - YHLQMDLG
11. Adrianne Lenker - Songs / Imstrumentals
12. Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
13. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
14. Jay Electronica - Act II; The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
15. U.S.Girls - Heavy Light
16. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
17. Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
18. Destroyer - Have We Met
19. Amaarie - The Angel You Don't Know
20. Fleet Foxes - Shore
21. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
22. KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
23. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
24. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
25. Nubya Garcia - Source
26. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
27. Kelley Lee Owens ; Inner Song
28. Chloe X Halle - Ungodly Hour
29. Taylor Swift - Folklore
30. Bartees Strange - Live Forever
31. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase
32. Drakeo The Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
33. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
34. Dogleg - Melee
35. Ka - Descendants of Cain
36. Special Interest - The Passion Of
37. Lomelda - Hannah
38. Duval Timothy - Help
39. Dehd - Flower of Devotion
40. Arca - KiCk i
41. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
42. Kate NV - Room For The Moon
43. Megan Thee Stallion - Goo News
44. Freddie Gibbs And The Alchemist - Alfredo
45. Lyra Pramuk - Fountain
46. Burna Boy - Twice As Tall
47. Lil Baby - My Turn
48. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
49. Yaeji - What We Drew
50. Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
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