Sunday, December 20, 2020

Pitchfork - Albums of the Year



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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