ALBUMS/EPS/SONGS OF 2020 - LOOKING FORWARD TO/BEST OF

It's 2020 and a new decade! What music are you looking forward to this year?

Anticipating

• 5 Seconds of Summer
• The Amity Affliction
• Angels and Airwaves
• Anne-Marie
  
• Asking Alexandria
• Broadside
• Chelsea Cutler
• Don Broco
• Ellie Goulding
  
• Everytime I Die
• Four Year Strong
• Tame Impala
• McCafferty
  
• Metro Station
  
• Neck Deep
• Niall Horan
• One Republic
  
• Pierce the Veil
• Rihanna
  
• Super Whatever
• The 1975
• The Ghost Inside
• The World Alive
• The XX
• Zara Larson
• (Whatever rappers I like that may be coming out with new music)

Cautiously In:

• A Day To Remember
• All Time Low
• Breaking Benjamin
  
• Halsey
• Suicide Silence
• The Used

Albums of the year 2020:
1. When The Lights Burn Out by Handguns
2. Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO by Bring Me The Horizon (Counting this as 2020 like a music critic would)

Songs of the year:
1. ¿ by Bring Me the Horizon x Halsey

 

So far the only confirmed album I'm anticipating is Fall Better by Vukovi, coming out January 24.
But there's a lot of albums I'm hoping for this year, some are likely to happen some are not, we'll see. Here's a full list:

• Purity Ring - LP3
• Nothing But Thieves - LP3
• Mike Shinoda - LP2 (Linkin Park??)
  
• Luna Shadows - LP1
• Fickle Friends - LP2
• PVRIS - LP3
• Elohim - LP2
  
• MisterWives - LP3
• Braids - LP4
• Marmozets - LP3
• Hundred Waters - LP4
• Dance Gavin Dance - LP9
  
• Natalie Prass - LP3
• Zara Larsson - LP3
  
• Phantogram - LP4
• Tove Styrke - LP4
• Hands Like Houses - LP5
• Lights - LP5
• Beartooth - LP4
• Normandie - LP3
• Architects - LP9
• Nicole Millar - LP2
• Too Close to Touch - LP3
• Vera Blue - LP2
• The Weeknd - LP4
• Don Broco - LP4
• Black Honey - LP2
• The xx - LP4
• Agent Fresco - LP3
• VOLA - LP3
• Flume - LP3

 

The Haxan Cloak

 

Don't really care about her tbh, and I even listened to some of the singles.

 

Albums of the year 2020:
(I plan to do monthly updates and this is the one for January)

The Great:
1. Chelsea Cutler- How To Be Human
2. Halsey- Manic

The Good:
3. Handguns- When The Lights Burn Out

The Okay:
4. Selena Gomez- Rare
5. Bring Me The Horizon- Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO
6. Mick Jenkins- The Circus

The Bad:
7. Little Big Town- Nightfall
8. Lil Darkie- This Does Not Exist
9. Mac Miller- Circles

Please Retire:
10. Eminem- Music To Be Murdered To

Songs of the Year (No Order Yet):

• Me & You Together Song by The 1975
• Nj by Chelsea Cutler
• Crazier Things by Chelsea Cutler
• The Human Condition by Chelsea Cutler
• Are You Listening by Chelsea Cutler
• Strangers Again by Chelsea Cutler
• I Was In Heaven by Chelsea Cutler (single released in 2019 so not sure it counts)
• You Are Losing Me by Chelsea Cutler (single released in 2019 so not sure it counts)
• I Miss You by Chelsea Cutler
• 929 by Halsey
• You Should Be Sad by Halsey
• Ashley by Halsey
• Clementine by Halsey (single released in 2019 so not sure it counts)
• I Hate Everybody by Halsey
• ¿ by Bring Me the Horizon x Halsey

Songs of the year playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/5ccAqtQVVEawi2YKpaQJMQ?si=xpmi99bgRKa-EdwL8XjJbA

Anticipating
* 5 Seconds of Summer
* The Amity Affliction
* Angels and Airwaves
* Anne-Marie
* Asking Alexandria
* Broadside
* Don Broco
* Ellie Goulding
* Everytime I Die
* Four Year Strong
* Tame Impala
* McCafferty
* Metro Station
* Neck Deep
* Niall Horan
* One Republic
* Pierce the Veil
* Rihanna
* Super Whatever
* The 1975
* The Ghost Inside
* The World Alive
* The XX
* Zara Larson
* (Whatever rappers I like that may be coming out with new music)

Cautiously In:
* A Day To Remember
* All Time Low
* Breaking Benjamin
* Suicide Silence
* The Used

 

More Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross soundtracks

 

Best albums:

1. Vukovi - Fall Better: 8.5
2. Hayley Kiyoko - I'm Too Sensitive For This Shit (EP): 6.3
3. Echosmith - Lonely Generation: 6.0
4. Halsey - Manic: 5.5

This year has been slow af so far...
Best songs:

• Luna Shadows - mellinia
• Vukovi - I'm Sorry
• Bad Omens - Limits
• Braids - Young Buck
• Vukovi - Where Are You
• Dua Lipa - Physical

Anticipating:
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (03/04)
Braids - Shadow Offering (24/04)

Unconfirmed:
Purity Ring - LP3
Nothing But Thieves - LP3
Mike Shinoda - LP2 (Linkin Park??)
Luna Shadows - LP1
Fickle Friends - LP2
PVRIS - LP3
Elohim - LP2
MisterWives - LP3
Marmozets - LP3
Hundred Waters - LP4
Dance Gavin Dance - LP9
Natalie Prass - LP3
Zara Larsson - LP3
Phantogram - LP4
Tove Styrke - LP4
Hands Like Houses - LP5
Lights - LP5
Foxes - LP3
Beartooth - LP4
Normandie - LP3
Architects - LP9
Kučka - LP1
Nicole Millar - LP2
Too Close to Touch - LP3
Vera Blue - LP2
The Weeknd - LP4
Don Broco - LP4
Black Honey - LP2
The xx - LP4
Agent Fresco - LP3
VOLA - LP3
Flume - LP3

 

Albums of the year 2020:

The Great:
1. Chelsea Cutler- How To Be Human
2. Halsey- Manic
3. Tame Impala- The Slow Rush*

The Good:
4. Handguns- When The Lights Burn Out
5. Oral Gartland- Freckle Season*
6. The Amity Affliction- Everyone Loves You.... Once You Leave Them*
7. BTS- Map of the Soul: 7*
8. Suicide Silence- Become the Hunter*

The Okay:
9. The Word Alive- Monomania*
10. Selena Gomez- Rare
11. Lauv- How I’m Feeling*
12. Hollywood Undead- New Empire, Volume 1*
13. Bring Me The Horizon- Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO
14. Mick Jenkins- The Circus

The Bad:
15. Little Big Town- Nightfall
16. Lil Darkie- This Does Not Exist
17. Mac Miller- Circles

Please Retire:
18. Eminem- Music To Be Murdered To

Songs of the year (No order):
1. Me & You Together Song by The 1975
2. Nj by Chelsea Cutler
3. Crazier Things by Chelsea Cutler
4. The Human Condition by Chelsea Cutler
5. Are You Listening by Chelsea Cutler
6. Strangers Again by Chelsea Cutler
7. I Was In Heaven by Chelsea Cutler
8. You Are Losing Me by Chelsea Cutler
9. I Miss You by Chelsea Cutler
10. 929 by Halsey
11. You Should Be Sad by Halsey
12. Ashley by Halsey
13. Clementine by Halsey (single released in 2019 so not sure it counts)
14. I Hate Everybody by Halsey
15. ¿ by Bring Me the Horizon x Halsey

Songs of the year playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/5ccAqtQVVEawi2YKpaQJMQ?si=xpmi99bgRKa-EdwL8XjJbA

Anticipating/To Check Out:
* 5 Seconds of Summer- Calm (March 27th)
* Angels and Airwaves- TBA
* Anne-Marie- TBA
* Asking Alexandria- TBA
* Broadside- TBA
* Don Broco- TBA
* Ellie Goulding- TBA
* Everytime I Die-TBA
* Four Year Strong- Brain Pain (February 28th)
* Kelsea Balerini- kelsea (March 20th)
* McCafferty- TBA
* Metro Station- TBA
* Neck Deep- All Distortions Are Intentional (July 24th)
* Niall Horan- TBA
* One Republic- TBA
* Pierce the Veil-TBA
* Rihanna-TBA
* Super Whatever-TBA
* The 1975- Notes on a Conditional Forum (Delayed, TBA)
* The Ghost Inside- TBA
* The XX- TBA
* Zara Larson- TBA
* (Whatever rappers I like that may be coming out with new music)

Cautiously In:
* A Day To Remember
* All Time Low
* Breaking Benjamin
* The Used

 

THE GREAT
Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision


The Good


The Okay


The Disappointing


Anticipating
BIlly Talent
Pearl Jam
Massendefekt
Die Ärzte (!!!)

Not Listened Yet
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers
Itchy - Ja als Ob
Antilopen Gang - Abbruch Abbruch
Turbostaat - Uthlande

 

Best albums:

1. Vukovi - Fall Better: 8.3
2. Phantogram - Ceremony 7.5*
   
3. Hayley Kiyoko - I'm Too Sensitive For This Shit (EP): 6.3
4. Echosmith - Lonely Generation: 6.0
5. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene: 5.7*
   
6. Halsey - Manic: 5.5
7. Green Day - Father of All... 2.7*

Best songs:

• Purity Ring - pink lightning
• Purity Ring - stardew
• Luna Shadows - millennia
• Phantogram - Ceremony
• Phantogram - Let Me Down
• Dance Gavin Dance - Prisoner
  
• Grey Daze - Sickness
  
• Braids - Young Buck
  
• Spiritbox - Blessed Be
  
• Dua Lipa - Physical

Anticipating:
The Weeknd - After Hours (20/03)
Purity Ring - Womb (03/04)
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (03/04)
Grey Daze - Amends (10/04)
Braids - Shadow Offering (24/04)
Dance Gavin Dance - Afterburner (24/04)
PVRIS – Use Me (01/05)

Unconfirmed:
Nothing But Thieves - LP3
Mike Shinoda - LP2 (Linkin Park??)
Luna Shadows - LP1
Fickle Friends - LP2
Haken - LP6
Elohim - LP2
MisterWives - LP3
Marmozets - LP3
Hundred Waters - LP4
Natalie Prass - LP3
Zara Larsson - LP3
Tove Styrke - LP4
Hands Like Houses - LP5
Caligula’s Horse - LP5
Lights - LP5
Foxes - LP3
Beartooth - LP4
Normandie - LP3
Architects - LP9
Spiritbox - LP1
Kučka - LP1
Nicole Millar - LP2
Too Close to Touch - LP3
Vera Blue - LP2
Don Broco - LP4
Closure in Moscow - LP3
The xx - LP4
Agent Fresco - LP3
VOLA - LP3
Flume - LP3

 

Song of the month for me
G Herbo- PTSD (Ft. Juice WRLD, Chance the Rapper, Lil Uzi Vert)

 

Best

Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
*technically featuring Jay-Z

 

--Released--
8.5/10
Apocalyptica - Cell-0 [En Route to Mayhem / Rise / Scream for the Silent]
Joe Satriani - Shapeshifting [Shapeshifting / Ali Farka, Dick Dale, an Alien, & Me / Here the Blue River]

7.5/10
White Stones - Kuarahy [Side project of Opeth's Martin Mendez] [Worms / Drowned in Time]

--Anticipating--
Scale the Summit - [LP#7][TBA]
Grey Daze - Amends [June 26th]
Opeth -- In Cauda Venenum B-Sides EP [Rumoured] [Cirkelns Riktning]
Metallica - S&M2 [TBA]
Gojira [LP#7][2020?]
Puscifer [2021?]
The Roche Collective [Che Aimee Dorval, Bob Rock]
Suzanne Santo - [TBA]

 

THE GREAT
Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision


The Good


The Okay
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush


The Disappointing


Anticipating
BIlly Talent
Pearl Jam
Massendefekt
Die Ärzte (!!!)

Not Listened Yet
Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers
Itchy - Ja als Ob
Antilopen Gang - Abbruch Abbruch
Turbostaat - Uthlande

 

Slow year for me when it comes to music. Only like the Jay Electronica record so far. Sure that’ll change by the time 2020 wraps up though