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1. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
2. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
3. Osees - Protean Threat
4. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
5. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
6. Slift - Ummon
7. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
8. Tigran Hamaysan - The Call Within
9. Horse Lords - The Common task
10. Black Curse - Endless Wound

1. Whole Lotta Red - Playboi Carti

2. How I'm Feeling Now - Charli XCX

3. Eternal Atake - Lil Uzi Vert

4. The New Abnormal - The Strokes

5. Savage Mode 2 - 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
6. After Hours - The Weeknd
7. The Slow Rush - Tame Impala
8. Heaven to a Tortured Mind - Yves Tumor
9. Stare into Death and Be Still - Ulcerate
10. 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues - 100 Gecs

ulcerate almost made my list

Suite for Max Brown

@Skydweller

Thanks man.

I got you b follow back

That list clean af

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 9.5
2. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene 9.4
3. Jay Electronica - Act II 9.4
4. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind 9.2
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 9
6. Charli XCX - How Im Feeling Now 8.9
7. Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA 8.8
8. Moses Sumney - græ 8.8
9. Perfume Genius - Set my Heart on Fire Immediately 8.8
10. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways 8.6

Thank you b

1. After Hours - The Weeknd

Not much of a surprise here. After Hours was my most anticipated album of the year, as well as my most listened to of the year. For me, After Hours signifies the start of a new chapter in my life as it was released only a week after many of our lives changed pretty drastically. As others can relate, many aspects in my life have changed presumably permanently, for both good and bad, but March 2020 is a month that will live in infamy, but The Weeknd was a shining light through it all. The central theme of the album focuses on being alone, perfect for the start of worldwide lockdowns. From the demons I’ve battled on my own, After Hours was there through it all...It has not left my daily rotation since release and has to be by far my most played album of the year. From the opening synths to the closing breaths, After Hours is a cinematic journey of an album unparalleled by anything this year; Not only with the music, but with the rollout, visuals, performances, etc... Abel came out on top and made this b**** ass of a year his own.

Favorite Tracks: Alone Again, Faith, After Hours

2. What’s Your Pleasure? - Jessie Ware

Going to be honest, if I wasn’t a Weeknd stan (or Abel didn’t go so hard this year) this would be #1 AOTY. I mean who the f*** begins an album with Spotlight??? F***ing GOATs that’s who. This album feels like I’m a woman in her mid30s trying to convince a stubborn man in a nightclub to come home with me. It’s as cinematic as After Hours but doesn’t carry that same burden of loneliness, the yin to my 2020 AOTY yang.

Favorite Tracks: Spotlight, Save A Kiss, Mirage (Don’t Stop)

3. Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist

After what seems like a year of what seemed like no hip hop, Freddie Gibbs & Alc came through with one of the strongest albums of the year. Admittedly, I had lost interest in the direction most hip hop had headed after around 2017, but knowing Piñata and Bandana were favorites of mine from their respective years, checking this out was a no brainer, and my expectations were more than exceeded. From the little samples that start the songs, to the live instrumentation this album creates a sonic (I know sorry) landscape that no album I’ve heard this year compares to. Gibbs’ voice compliments the instrumentals extremely nicely. It’s also my only album this year that has features!

Favorite Tracks: Scottie Beam, Look At Me, All Glass

4. SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama

As my AOTY list shows different decades explored in 2020 (Abel got the 80s, Jessie got the 70s...) Rina here gives us a beautiful album that showcases themes of 90s/00s pop, rock, R&B... The opening track “Dynasty” sets the tone with a pseudo-Evanescence kind of track, the entire album is filled with this sort of angst that isn’t just anger but the emotion is all there. Aside from the obvious rock influences there are clear nods to 2000s pop (XS, Comme Des Garçons) and R&B (Love Me 4 Me). Despite being all over the place sonically, there is a beautiful cohesion all throughout the album that creates a fantastic listening experience

Favorite Tracks:

5 Tula Vera - Again & Again....

For one of the most lowkey releases of the year, Tula Vera takes garage rock and makes it their own. With a mixture of hard rock (Pull The Trigger, Everybody’s Listening) and softer (but still heavy) ballads (Gone With The Leaves, It’s True, Chance To See You Smile), this album is a ride from start to finish. With 2 distinct singers, this album offers a listening experience that isn’t stagnant, and goes by almost instantly.

Favorite Tracks: Gone With The Leaves, Control, It’s True

AOTYs all genres

Appreciate it fam

Sent

my list is actually pretty much final, i don't feel the need to change anything at the moment

thread for 2021

ktt2.com/ktt2s-top-10-albums-2021-105311

Bro @DwindlingSun put me on also loved Ajai. Gotta listen to more Serengeti.

rateyourmusic.com/list/TrippyTippy/top-50-albums-of-2020

finally got this done, my top 50 of 2020

since the thread title only says top 10 though I’ll just post my top 10 here in list format:

1. Boldy James & Sterling Toles - ‘Manger on McNichols’
2. Yves Tumor - ‘Heaven To a Tortured Mind’
3. Fiona Apple - ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’
4. Protomartyr - ‘Ultimate Success Today’
5. Moses Sumney - ‘græ’
6. Young Jesus - ‘Welcome to Conceptual Beach’
7. Perfume Genius - ‘Set My Heart On Fire Immediately’
8. Jeff Rosenstock - ‘NO DREAM’
9. Navy Blue - ‘Song of Sage: Post Panic!’
10. Jessie Ware - ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’

1. top - nba youngboy
2. whole lotta red
3. take time - giveon
4. shoot for the stars aim for the moon - Pop smoke
5. After Hours- Weeknd
6. Trapped on Cleveland 3 - lil keed
7. pluto x baby pluto - future and lil uzi
8. Slime & B - cb and the goat thugger
9. Still Flexin Still Steppin - nba youngboy
10.Partymobile - pnd

thought I posted in here but can’t find it. so much great music last year imo, a lot of projects I wanted to have on here but kept it to 15. no particular order.

yves tumor - heaven to a tortured mind
playboi carti - whole lotta red
freddie gibbs & alchemist - alfredo
charli xcx - how i’m feeling now
oneohtrix point never - magic opn
rina sawayama - sawayama
against all logic - 2017-2019
mac miller - circles
phoebe bridgers - punisher
boldy james - the price of tea in china

honorable mentions:
touché amore - lament
jessie ware - what’s your pleasure
MIKE - weight of the world
the strokes - the new abnormal
lianne la havas - lianne la havas

1. HotBoii - Kut Da Fan On
2. Kenny Mason - Angelic Hoodrat
3. Curren$y - The OutRunners
4. Yung Mal - 6 Rings
5. Bktherula - Love Santana
6. Baby smoove - Im Still Perfect
7. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas
8. ShooterGang Kony - Red Paint Reverend
9. Hook - Crashed My Car
10. Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China
Hm
Slimelife Shawty - No Slime Left Behind
SahBabii - Barnacles
Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
Cash Kidd - No Socks
Mozzy - Beyond Bulletproof
Lerado Khalil - CDQ
G$ Lil Ronnie - Gga 3 (Gang Gang Activity)
Young Nudy - Anyways
Mike - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD