Current Events > Now that it's December, what were your top 5/10/etc albums of the year?

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It's been a weird year, but as usual it's been a great year for music. What were your favourites? Here's mine:

1. Sorry - 925 (post-punk, indie rock)
2. The Strokes - The New Abnormal (indie rock, new wave)
3. Charley Crockett - Welcome to Hard Times (progressive country)
4. Phantogram - Ceremony (electropop, indietronica)
5. Lewis Del Mar - AUGUST (art rock, indie rock)
6. Seahaven - Halo of Hurt (emo, indie rock)
7. Ocean Grove - Flip Phone Fantasy (nu metal, alternative metal)
8. Seaway - Big Vibe (pop punk)
9. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death (post-punk, indie rock)
10. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene (electropop)

HMs:

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (indie folk, singer/songwriter)
2. Natalia Lafourcade - Un canto por Mxico Vol. 1 (Mexican folk, ranchera)
3. The Weeknd - After Hours (synthpop, alternative R&B)

What were yours?

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Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
Odraza - Rzeczom
Skphe - Skphe

I liked the new IDLES.
Most of the new music I've listened to have been singles.

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Dunno, but After Hours and It Is What It Is are up there. Sideways to New Italy was a fantastic earworm, too.

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Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
A.G. Cook - 7G
Big Blood - Do You Wanna Have a Skeleton Dream?
Mrs Piss - Self-Surgery
100 gecs - 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues

The Charli XCX album is better than most music I've heard from the last few years

Ulcerate - "Stare Into Death and Be Still"
Lorna Shore - "Immortal"

Nothing else really stands out. There's plenty of albums I enjoy, but none really stick out as a guaranteed Top 5 aside from what I feel comfortable listing now.

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I don't think I've listened to a new song this year. I'm a fuddy duddy

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I don't know too many.

Taylor Swift - Folklore
The Weeknd - After Hours
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions
The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives
???

I find it hard to find new music I like. I'll be able to make a top ten of 2020 list better in 2025.

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I'm gonna snag some things mentioned in this and hope to find some new music.

I in general enjoy Charlie XCX, I need to fux wit her more. I need to give Grimes a better chance. I like the song she did with Bleachers. I want to like Phoebe but she kinda bores me in the same way Julian Baker does. I'm gonna check out Charley Crockett now. I'm not even sure what "progressive country" means.

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I didnt listen to a lot of new music this year tbh. Still haven't given the Strokes album a play but:
Mr. Gnome - The Day You Flew Away
Illuminati Hotties - FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able

Personal AotY is probably Mr. Gnome's. Really hits hard during these shitty times.
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The new Joji and Strokes albums are the only ones I paid attention to. Ive listened to both hundreds of times they are outstanding IMO.

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Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V and Ghosts VI

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After Hours - The Weeknd
Beyond Bulletproof - Mozzy
Burden of Proof Benny The Butcher
Skuba Sada 2 - Sada Baby
Ungodly Hour Chloe x Halle

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In no particular order

Rival Consoles - Articulation
Purity Ring - WOMB
ATTLAS - Lavender God
Mat Zo - Illusion of Depth
BRONSON - BRONSON
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Daniel Avery - Love + Light
Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
Metrik - Ex Machina
Machinedrum - A View of U


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Osees- Protean Threat
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pisgs- Viscerals
Oranssi Pazuzu- Mestarin kynsi
Aunt Cynthia's Cabin- Misty Woman
Dope Body- Crack a Light
Low Rider- Refractions
Cabaret Voltaire- Shadow of Fear
Skeleton- S/T
Fluisteraars- Bloem
Expander- Neuropunk Boostergang


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Great picks guys, keep em coming

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Forgot about Drive-by Truckers - The New OK. All-around good stuff.

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Mmmm, really off the cuff here, but maybe:

Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
Song for Our Daughter by Laura Marling
Miss Anthropocene by Grimes
Ghosts V-VI by Nine Inch Nails
Song Machine by Gorillaz
When We Stay Alive by Polia
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius
RTJ4 by Run the Jewels
Dreamland by Glass Animals
The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo by Mr Bungle

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I've mostly avoided music from this year so far but I liked the newest bladee and charli xcx

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