Best new/most anticipated albums of 2020
 

You asked, I delivered :D (nevermind that I just want one of my threads to get attention).

So, what's happening in 2020 that we're excited for? I haven't seen anything yet (or at least, anything that fits here). But we'll get into it.

Apparently The Cure got three albums in the works. And one of them is supposed to be an incredibly dark labor of love that was initially supposed to drop around Halloween, then was said to release before Christmas. As the weeks have progressed, it seemed increasingly unlikely. So next year maybe? Anyway, whatever they got cookin' sounds interesting and I'm really looking forward to it, even though I'm fully aware that at this stage they haven't really released anything exciting in many years and it might not be that good. But one can dream, right? Stranger things have happened.

Edit: All signs point towards the band getting really bitter, unless they pull a Kevin Shields and just drop it one of these days without warning.

Yooooo... this is usually a thread that my ass makes.

I’m super angry but I’ll get over it, carry on.

Kendrick Lamar

I'd like to think you're joking but with you it's impossible to tell

Nope, it's no joke. I don't dare start the thread myself anymore.

Anyway I'll copy/paste what I already wrote on the 2019 thread:

Oiseaux Tempete will release a new soundtrack album in January or February :


https://oiseaux-tempete.bandcamp.com...ortil-ge-o-s-t
https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue...e-tlamess.html

Haha! I had a vague recollection that he had seen his arse about it before and there it is. Bless.

In my defence we'd started the 2019 thread this time last year.

Anticipating:

Bada
Bell Witch
Big ‡ Brave
Bonnacons of Doom
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Patchouli Blue
Califone - Echo Mine
The Cure
Dinosaur Jr.
Drive-By Truckers - Armageddon's Back in Town
Dukatalon - Involuntary Action
Duran Duran
Einstürzende Neubauten - The Year of The Rat
Elder
Envy - The Fallen Crimson
Maria Faust Sacrum Facere
Bill Fay - Countless Branches
The Flaming Lips
Deap Lips - Deap Lips
Rebecca Foon - Waxing Moon
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - Manchester Calling
Human Impact
Idles - Toneland
Imperial Triumphant
Insect Ark
Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
Laniakea
Lonker See – Hamza
Jackie Lynn
Mastodon
Thurston Moore
My Bloody Valentine
My Morning Jacket
Myrkur
The Necks - Three
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE - TLAMESS (Sortilège)
OOIOO - Nijimusi
Old Man Gloom
The Olivia Tremor Control
Oranssi Pazuzu
Jeff Parker & the New Breed - Suite For Max Brown
Liz Phair
Psalm Zero - Sparta
Queen Elephantine and Phurpa
Maria Schneider - Data Lords
Shitney
Sightless Pit - Grave of A Dog
Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises
Lee Ranaldo and Raül 'Refree' - Names of North End Women
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou
Steve Von Till
A.A. Williams
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wrekmeister Harmonies - We Love to Look at the Carnage

Oh yeah, almost forgot about that. Looking forward to that as well.

Every year.

I’m joking this time...

Previously I was only half-joking. Very half-angry when it was taken from me by whoever that was (was it you?!)

Nah man I don’t come here enough anymore to really have a right to care. Hah.

You mean *I* did... least you could do is come up with a new name!

Just kidding I’m gonna post “Severian’s Hip-Hop Café VIX” or whatever any minute now :D

I figured it best to stick with regularity :p

Ariel Kalma & Sarah Davachi
Jim O'Rourke & (wife of Luc) Ferarri
O'Rourke has some multidisc epic album too

new foo fighters record :D :D :D

Wash your mouth out

why tho?


are they a bad band or somethin'?

100 gecs remixes! 100 gecs and the Phantom M3nace
The AG Cook remix of Money Machine is already out and it is good.

Bands I want to hear more of:

Salem
Telepathe
Fourth World Magazine
Teresa Winter
Nima

As far as this forum's concerned: yes.

Again? :confused:

The new album Mothership by Flying Horseman will be released on 17th of April!

Common Wealth - Diane Cluck
Mind Hive - Wire
Migration Stories - M. Ward

Black Country, New Road released two singles this year.
So maybe an album in 2020?

Except for their self-titled album because I basically challenge anyone who grew up in the Nirvana era to look me in the eye and claim they weren’t pumped as hell about that Nirvana-meets-Sugar masterstroke of an alt-rock album. :mad:

And Colour & the Shape has some nice moments too. Like My Hero.

But yeah, for the last 20 years they’ve been one of the most consistently basic ass bands in the world. Can’t say I hate them because who hates Dave Grohl legitimately? But they represent the laziest kind of barely there stadium alt, blah.

I'll be honest, I haven't actually heard it. My experience is Colour + Shape (which I liked on listening, but two years later realised I had no desire to go back to it) plus a couple of stuff otherwise. Maybe I need to give it a listen.

There was an interview where the person talking to Dave said "how do you react to people who call the Foo Fighters dadrock?" And he just said "duh, we are - I just do this shit for fun." So full credit to him.

Vyva Melinkolya - whose self-titled album I love - have an EP coming out on January 10th (announced on Facebook). This one has an actual band on it, probably.

(Give her a look @nycgaf15, she's probably up your alley)

From Uncut:




This was actually announced almost two years ago! Some descriptions say there are actually four CDs: Cotton Eyed Joe (double), Green Rocky Road, and a fourth of "unreleased home recordings" (that's where you find the Billie Holiday cover). PLUS a DVD "of a film interview of Greenwich Village Folklore Center founder Izzy Young". PLUS a "large T-shirt" (no, seriously, check the description on Amazon). The cover makes me think there's no DVD nor, um, apparel, and that the CDs, whether 3 or 4, cover all the sonic ground mentioned in this paragraph. [Sigh.]

Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques

Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt (drums) and Ty Segall (everything else) have formed a band, Wasted Shirt. Their album Fungus II is out February 28. (Pitchfork)

We all know Raül Refree from his recent collaborations with Lee, but this other album he made with Portuguese Fado singer Lina will be released tomorrow! It's getting a 7.7 rating on Pitchfork. Here is the bandcamp link. So far only one track is streaming, but I really like the instrumentation on it. It's sounds a bit like Nils Frahm. Here is the video of the same song (and there are some more vids on that account)

that sounds like a tangle of dingleberries, or a skidmark :D

anyway i know nothing

i come here to steal

thanks

Motherfucker LOLOLOL

Anyway, there’s this new album by this Cape (Antonionian $ Doseone) and it’s pretty impressive.

Short little thing but hits the right notes for the electronic music fiend.



http://doseone.bandcamp.com/album/cape

Would be greatly appreciated if they came with a new album this year :D:p

http://motherfuckermotherfucker.bandcamp.com

I listened to the new AJJ record yesterday. Seems pretty samey; it's a very acoustic album and it offers predictable lyricism r.e. Trump. But, I like AJJ, so I don't really have any complaints about it.

Andrew Jackson Jihad?

Yeah, can’t relate get with it.

Yeah, the band formerly known as Andrew Jackson Jihad - changed their name a couple years back because a) they didn't want to 'glorify' Jackson and b) they aren't Muslim and didn't think it appropriate.

They're one of those bands where, if you're in tune to their aesthetic, you'll adore them, but otherwise just regard them with indifference. Being the angst-filled whiny teen I am, it's perfect for me :D

In other news - new Eminem record as a surprise.

Surprisingly crap. Actually kind of par for the course crap.
Crazy how he can rap quickly though, amirite

U.S. Girls - Heavy Light
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