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Fiona, RTJ4 and Punisher will likely be the top 3, followed by Folklore and Perfume Genius in the top 5 and Bob Dylan in the top 10. Future Nosstalgia will get a couple of top 10-20s and some top 5s from British publications, which should be enough for a top 10-15.
After Hours while not being a critical fave it may be favored for the award season push (I definitely see r&b/hip hop publications like HipHopDX and Complex ranking it high), the era work overall and The Weeknd’s popularity this year – as well the fact that he managed to mix his eariler work with his mainstream sound, as reviewers pointed out – so a top 20 is pretty reasonable.
Sawayama is this year’s thank u next – critically acclaimed in the start but failing to make high spots in the end. It barely made mid-year rankings, that should be indicative.
ReplyCopy URLUncut (UK) – The 75 Best Albums of 2020
01. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
02. Fleet Floxes – Shore
03. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
04. Drive-By Truckers – The New OK
05. Thundercat – It Is What It Is
06. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
07. Bill Callahan – Gold Record
08. Jarvis – Beyond The Pale
09. Shirley Collins – Hert’s Ease
10. Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter
11. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Reunions
12. Moses Boyd – Dark Matter
13. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
14. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old flowers
15. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
16. Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques
17. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
18. Frazry Ford – U Kin B The Sun
19. Brigid Mae Power – Head Above The Water
20. Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
21. James Elkington – Ever-roving Eye
22. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
23. Paul Weller – On Sunset
24. Moses Sumney – Grae
25. Nubya Garcia – Source
26. Rolling Blackouts CF – Sideways to New Italy
27. Kevin Morby – Sundower
28. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels
29. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme
30. Cornershop – England Is A Garden
31. Afel Bocoum – Lindé
32. The Flaming Lips – American Head
33. Bananagun – The True Story of Bananagun
34. Rose City Band – Summerlong
35. Shabaka & The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History
36. Destroyer – Have We Met
37. Sparks – A Strady Drip, Drip, Drip
38. Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
39. The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain
40. Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – Ballet of Apes
41. Keeley Forsyth – Debris
42. Roisin Murphy – Roisin Machine
43. Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant
44. Eddie Chacon – Pleasure Joy & Happiness
45. Bright Eyes – Down in The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
46. Roger & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours
47. Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s club
48. The Necks – Three
49. Gwenifer Raymond – Strange Light Over Garth Mountain
50. Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
51. HAIM – Women in Music Pt 3
52. Hen Ogledd – Free Humans
53. Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
54. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
55. Khruangbin – Mordechai
56. The Lemon Twigs – Songs for The General Public
57. Tony Hallen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice
58. BC Camplight – Shorty After Takeoff
59. Julianna Barwick – Healing is A Miracle
60. Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas
61. Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface
62. Aoife Nessa Frances – Land of No Junction
63. HC Mc Entire – Eno Axis
64. Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink
65. Garcia Peoples – Nightcap At Wit’s End
66. Six Organs Of Admittance – Companion Rises
67. Matt Berry – Phantom Birds
68. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghost of West Virginia
69. Honey Harper – Starmaker
70. Bill Fay – Countless Branches
71. Andy Bell – The View from Halfway Down
72. Tamikrest – Tamotait
73. Doves – The Universal Want
74. Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown
75. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner SongReplyCopy URLFor you consideration :
Album of the year : folklore
Record of the year : Don't Start Now
Song of the year : cardigan
Best new artist : Phoebe BridgersBest pop vocal album : folklore
Best rap album : Alfredo
Best alternative music album : Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Best progressive R&B album : Ungodly HourThey gave folklore an excellent 9, one of the highest score of 2020 yet the album missed the list. RTJ4 and Ohms also nowhere to be found despite solid 8.
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Album of the year : folklore
Record of the year : Don't Start Now
Song of the year : cardigan
Best new artist : Phoebe BridgersBest pop vocal album : folklore
Best rap album : Alfredo
Best alternative music album : Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Best progressive R&B album : Ungodly HourThere are definitely gonna be a handful of publications that will mark down FTBC and RTJ4 for being as widely acclaimed and talked about as they are. Forklore is likely gonna be all over the place. It’ll be in a lot of top 10s but also entirely miss a good deal of lists, partly because some just don’t like it that much but also because of its MC score and Swift’s mainstream/social media popularity.
ReplyCopy URLIt looks like Phoebe, Laura and Bob are leading the pack but yeah this is too early. MOJO’s list will be revealed in a few days and once again it looks like Laura and Bob will make another appearances, and Taylor is coming too.
THE BEST OF 2020 The 75 best new albums, 20 best reissues, best music films, books and events from a singular year, plus cameos from Cornershop, Paul Weller, Moses Sumney, Laura Marling, Mark Lanegan, Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Prince and more!
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Album of the year : folklore
Record of the year : Don't Start Now
Song of the year : cardigan
Best new artist : Phoebe BridgersBest pop vocal album : folklore
Best rap album : Alfredo
Best alternative music album : Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Best progressive R&B album : Ungodly HourLaura is a Brit and has always been really popular with critics there. I’m not expecting the love to sustain, especially once the lists become American centric and more mainstream/populist. Though, as I said, I do expect her to end up in the top 15. I’m also not expecting Fiona to appear that high in most British publications, outside of The Gaurdian and The Independent. They’ve never really loved her in Europe, and the weakest reviews for FTBC mostly came from there. I’m pretty sure Bob will end up in the top five aggregated lists. A lot of American publications are gonna leave him out of their top ten. But he’ll also probably make enough.
If Rina doesn’t get plenty of love from the European publications she may struggle to end up in the top 20 of the aggregated lists. That will be fairly odd for an album that will likely be in the top ten scores on MC and AOTY and an album that’s gotten a good amount of social media love.
ReplyCopy URLA lot of publications counted BEYONCE on their lists the following year. Some lists released in late December and in January shoehorned her in. But a lot of publications, especially Brit based, be desperate to get their lists out first. I guess that’s because they know the American based publications will get more attention.
ReplyCopy URLBored so I’m going to try and predict what the top ten albums will be once everything is said and done with these lists.
1. Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters
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2. Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways
3. Taylor Swift, Folklore
4. Run the Jewels, RTJ4
5. Moses Summey, græ
6. HAIM, Women In Music, Pt. III
7. Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia
8. Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher
9. Perfume Genius, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
10. Rina Sawayama, SawayamaWish they would wait until at least the end of November.
MOJO and Uncut usually ahead of other publications since they have early access to new music sometimes months prior to official release. Unless we are talking about surprise releases.
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Album of the year : folklore
Record of the year : Don't Start Now
Song of the year : cardigan
Best new artist : Phoebe BridgersBest pop vocal album : folklore
Best rap album : Alfredo
Best alternative music album : Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Best progressive R&B album : Ungodly HourPhoebe is leading the aggregate list.
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2020/Stop the count!
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