Top Music Releases of 2020
This calendar year had so much to offer musically that it felt impossible to narrow that list down to 10, so here’s all the new music I enjoyed this year:
•Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen
•Tender Perennial - Voice Memo Demo
•Lessener - Six Songs
•Babytooth - Thataway
•Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
•Rotting Out - Ronin
•Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
•Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
•Mat Kerekes - Amber Park
•Coma Regalia - Marked
•Trash Talk - Squalor
•Sorry Fern - Demo
•Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
•AJJ - Good Luck Everybody
•Gleemer - Down Through
•Juice Wrld - Legends Never Die
•Soul Glo - Songs To Yeet at the Sun
•The Front Bottoms - In Sickness and In Flames
•Stick To Your Guns - “Hasta La Victoria (Demo)” *
•Mat Kerekes - Songs for Breanne
•Dogleg - Melee
•Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
•Infant Island - Beneath
•Frail Hands - parted/departed/apart
•Record Setter - I Owe You Nothing
•Nuvolascura - As We Suffer From Memory & Imagination
•NØ MAN - Erase
•Stormlight - Natoma
•Crowning - Survival / Sickness
•Plague Walker - Para Mis Enemigos
•Mouthing - Mouthing
•Army Wives - Armywives
(*I included STYG’s demo because they released it as a standalone song rather than a single, which is why you don’t see Julien Baker or Every Time I Die here. Next year!)
And finally, the release I named “Album of the Year”, which I’m sure you guessed from the image:
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ - LAMENT
[image of the album art for Touché Amoré’s album Lament]
