Part of what’s exciting about the start of a new year in music is how little we know of what’s to come. Will we begin the 2020s with fresh material from Rihanna and Frank Ocean? We hope so. Ditto that for rumored efforts by Fiona Apple, Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, and Tierra Whack. As for the confirmed and highly likely releases, we look forward to the returns of Caribou, Moses Sumney, Kvelertak, and Soccer Mommy, not to mention Cardi B’s continued reign. The Tame Impala album we hoped to get in 2019 will finally arrive this Valentine’s Day, followed one week later by Grimes’ fifth studio album, which we’ve been anticipating since at least 2018. Some big albums we’ve previewed in the past have been omitted from the list below in hopes of highlighting even more releases, from Kesha’s hard-earned return to the debut LP from Chicago favorites Beach Bunny. Below are 24 records we can’t wait to hear in 2020. Maybe there’s something here you’ll like, too.
BTS, Map Of The Soul: 7 (Feb. 21)
Map Of The Soul: Persona hinted toward an evolution in K-pop juggernaut BTS’s sound: Previously somewhat beholden to a solidly hip-hop tone, the group’s sixth EP bounced from electro-pop to sultry R&B. Follow-up 7, which was recently announced by surprise, will be an opportunity to further explore the band’s known range. While BTS’s work over the past year has radiated waves of color and positivity, recent teases of what’s to come already speak of a group that is ready to delve a little deeper. [Shannon Miller]
Beach Bunny, Honeymoon (Feb. 14)
You might mutter a tender “Oh, honey” after listening to Beach Bunny, but only because the Chicago four-piece’s fizzy, heartsick pop-rock is so utterly relatable. Obsessed with the crushes and insecurities of teenhood, the band came of age with bouncy earworms like “Prom Queen” and “Boys,” and Honeymoon is no different. “I’ll be under your window in the moonlight,” Lili Trifilio belts on lead single “Dream Boy,” her rich, penetrating vocals the audial manifestation of the heart eyes emoji. [Randall Colburn]
Big Freedia, TBD
Big Freedia always has been, and always will be, primarily a live act. But although her touring schedule for the New Year is relentless as always, even the Queen Diva can’t be everywhere at once. Enter her as-yet-untitled new album, which has yet to receive an official release date but has already been preceded by a single, “Louder,” featuring Icona Pop. The song sees Big Freedia continuing to polish her melodies while still remaining true to her signature speaker-shaking bass and rhythmic chant-along choruses, ensuring booties will continue to shake nationwide in 2020 and beyond. [Katie Rife]
Cardi B, TBD
Though Cardi B’s Grammy-winning barn burner Invasion Of Privacy dropped almost two years ago, fans haven’t exactly been left in the lurch. “Press,” “Please Me,” and “Money,” among others, have done their part to remind the public that the explosive rapper is still swimming in hits. Cardi’s path to stardom has always been paved with delightful overshares and unfiltered honesty, but there’s still plenty to mine creatively: motherhood, a relationship that has been tested, famed rivalries, and repeatedly exceeding expectations. More than anything, the focus with this next album will likely remain on what she’s saying over how she’s saying it. [Shannon Miller]
Caribou, Suddenly (Feb. 28)
Dan Snaith tells us what to expect from his fifth LP as Caribou right there in its title. Suddenly is an emotive, playful album whose songs shift without warning, as Snaith reflects on “family and the changes we go through as those relationships evolve.” Lead single “Home” is characteristically overflowing with ideas: Snaith builds an R&B groove around samples of ’70s horns and Gloria Barnes’ soulful rasp, then warps it with harp, acoustic guitar, and his own tender falsetto. [Kelsey J. Waite]
CocoRosie, Put The Shine On (March 6)
Like the melody of a haunted music box on a perfumed breeze, offbeat sister duo CocoRosie has been elusive these past few years. That changes with Put The Shine On, their seventh studio album, which follows a guest appearance for CocoRosie on Chance The Rapper’s 2019 studio debut, The Big Day. Lead single “Smash My Head” channels fellow ’00s breakouts Fever Ray and St. Vincent with stinging electronic beats and dynamic bolts of electric guitar, underlaid with the unnervingly childlike vocals that have been CocoRosie’s signature since La Maison De Mon Rêve. [Katie Rife]
Beatrice Dillon, Workaround (Feb. 7)
Finally, we’re getting a full-length dose of solo Beatrice Dillon, the U.K. DJ and producer who has quietly been making a name for herself with globally inspired, hyper-rhythmic productions over the last six years. Her debut album, Workaround, will host a range of exciting collaborators, from Laurel Halo, to U.K. Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra on tabla, to Jonny Lam (Sinkane, Pharaoh Sanders) on pedal steel. Lam features brilliantly on first single “Workaround 2,” whose strength alone suggests Workaround will be one of the year’s earliest highlights in experimental dance music. [Kelsey J. Waite]
Greg Dulli, Random Desire (Feb. 21)
Following Afghan Whigs’ fine return to form on 2017’s In Spades (and the subsequent tragic death of the band’s guitarist, Dave Rosser), singer Greg Dulli decided it was time to make one of those DIY solo albums, writing and performing nearly every instrument and part on the record. The result, Random Desire, looks to be the best snapshot yet of the musician’s dark, soulful style, filled with minor-key grooves and stirring torch-song anthems driven by his whiskey-on-honey voice. [Alex McLevy]
Gladie, Safe Sins (Feb. 28)
An indie “supergroup” of sorts, Gladie is fronted by Cayetana’s Augusta Koch and rounded out with alums of Three Man Cannon and Modern Baseball. Together, the Philly outfit makes stormy, incisive pop-rock riddled with sharp daggers of guitar, and Koch’s emotional, self-reflective lyrics are the kind you can’t help but shout back at the speakers. Safe Sins “reckons with isolation, loss, and the dismantling of shame and grief,” per a press release, but it’s Koch’s optimism that resonates in the album’s wake. Well, that and some truly absorbing choruses. [Randall Colburn]
Grimes, Miss Anthropocene (Feb. 21)
Yes, Grimes is pregnant with Elon Musk’s child and posting NSFW tweets about it. So what. If Miss Anthropocene’s lead singles are any indication, this LP—labored over for years—is going to rule. Her vocals pulsing beneath avalanches of Inception bass, songs like “My Name Is Dark” and “4ÆM” are immersive and atmospheric, perfectly melding the artist’s blend of mystical pop, club beats, and shadowy ambience. [Randall Colburn]
Kesha, High Road (Jan. 31)
“Raising Hell,” Kesha’s Southern gospel-laced bounce track with Big Freedia, was like a rebirth. The perpetual partier is back after enduring unimaginable adversity, only now she is determined to create and nurture her sound on her own terms. High Road promises to be a redemptive journey that still buzzes with familiar electro-pop and dance notes, but is bolstered by an artist who has had to seriously grow and reclaim her narrative. [Shannon Miller]
Kvelertak, Splid (Feb. 14)
Kvelertak threw a party in the pit with its self-titled debut, a genuinely fun speedball of punk, metal, and cock rock. Ten years later, these genre mixologists are still bringing goofy ’80s excess to extreme music (or maybe vice versa), and winning over news fans like Dave Grohl in the process. Splid (that’s Norwegian for “discord”) is the band’s first album since parting ways with co-founding member Erlend Hjelvik, who’s passed frontman duties to one-time guest vocalist Ivar Nikolaisen. But the spirit of the enterprise hasn’t changed: It’s all pleasure all the time, just with somehow even bigger riffs and even a few songs in English, including “Crack Of Doom,” featuring Mastodon’s Troy Sanders. [A.A. Dowd]
Frank Ocean, TBD
The last time Frank Ocean teased a new album, he pushed his fans to the brink. Will he change his ways in the new decade? Considering the ecstatic reaction to Blonde when it finally did come out in August 2016, probably not. So expect to wait longer than you’d like for Ocean’s still-untitled third album, which he described back in September as a tribute to nightlife—specifically, the dance music of France, Detroit, and Chicago—in all its hedonistic incarnations. He also told W magazine that he plans to “lie” more on the upcoming album, so maybe just enjoy the four new songs he’s released since September, a veritable tidal wave of music from the enigmatic Ocean. [Katie Rife]
Angel Olsen, TBD
While Angel Olsen’s sound has grown fuller and richer with each album, last year’s All Mirrors still felt like something of a departure for the singer-songwriter. Olsen wove her voice among a curtain of synths and a 14-piece orchestra, playing out dramatic stories on an unpredictably grand scale. The album was originally conceived as a solo acoustic affair, and this year Olsen will release part two of the project (probably sometime in autumn), the stripped-down sketches that would become the album’s surprising full-blown arrangements. [Laura Adamczyk]
Ratboys, Printer’s Devil (Feb. 28)
Anyone who last checked in with Ratboys on GN, their 2017 sophomore full-length, may be surprised by their evolution on follow-up Printer’s Devil: The Chicago group’s rootsy Americana has grown into anthemic rock ’n’ roll—still grounded in its alt-country beginnings, but now fiercely populist in its arena-ready pounding, alternating freely with gentler numbers. Printer’s Devil should document this shift with bracing immediacy. [Alex McLevy]
Rihanna, TBD
Anti was nothing short of a revelation, a showcase of Rihanna’s range and growth as a burgeoning icon. Since its 2016 release, the pop mainstay has forged her own empire, co-starred in movies, co-chaired the Met Gala, and essentially done whatever the hell she’s wanted. What she hasn’t done is rush greatness, and any follow-up to one of the best albums of the past decade will require some serious finesse. So she didn’t release the album in 2019. That’s all right. If her next effort comes close to breaking as much personal ground, then we’ll wait. [Shannon Miller]
Caroline Rose, Superstar (March 6)
Alt-country songwriter-turned-offbeat pop purveyor Caroline Rose describes her new album as tracking a person’s doomed pursuit of fame after receiving an accidental phone call from LA’s Chateau Marmont. There’s humor to the premise and all kinds of color in lead single “Feel The Way I Want,” which pulses with 16-bit synths and a vibrant, funky rhythm. As on her last LP, Loner, Rose’s energy is infectious. [Randall Colburn]
Sløtface, Sorry For The Late Reply (Jan. 31)
Norwegian pop-punks Sløtface seem to have developed a harder edge to their music, both sonically and lyrically, in the time since their joyously ebullient debut, Try Not To Freak Out. While the group has always placed political concerns at the forefront, Sorry For The Late Reply looks to be angrier and more explosive than its predecessor, judging by the ferocity of single “S.U.C.C.E.S.S.” But the band still has a knack for addictive hooks, and earworm tracks like “Telepathetic” promise more to come. [Alex McLevy]
Soccer Mommy, Color Theory (Feb. 28)
Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, may not have cornered the market on downbeat rock that moves from languid to explosive with ethereal grace, but she makes a good case for being the primary shareholder. Color Theory finds her delving even deeper into the possibilities of understated and funereal rhythms and melodies, while exploring more cathartic moments of noise and release in the admixture, always delivering those cutting lyrics with her lovely, plainspoken drawl. [Alex McLvey]
Moses Sumney, grae (Feb./May 15)
Moses Sumney follows up 2017’s Aromanticism and 2018 EP Black In Deep Red, 2014, with the sprawling double LP grae. The album will expand on those earlier efforts’ themes while strongly resisting easy categorization, both emotionally and sonically. In an inspired, high-drama pairing, standout third single “Me In 20 Years” features Daniel Lopatin, a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never, as co-producer. Grae’s first half will be released sometime in February, with the second to follow May 15. [Kelsey J. Waite]
U.S. Girls, Heavy Light (March 6)
With its driving dance beat, jumpy guitar, and blistering saxophone solo, “Overtime,” off of U.S. Girls’ upcoming Heavy Light, is musically of a piece with the political disco pop of the group’s widely praised In A Poem Unlimited. Thematically, both the new single and album see Meg Remy getting more personal (publicity materials call her thirteenth LP a “deeply introspective about-face”), but whatever mode they’re in, Remy and her collaborators always put forth works of art that are at once pointed and intoxicating. [Laura Adamczyk]
Rufus Wainwright, TBD
[pm_embed_youtube id=’OLAK5uy_k1qb2Zy1fth9gFEWNE-rTamG19GikzdMQ’ type=’playlist’]Rufus Wainwright hasn’t released a pop album since 2012’s Out Of The Game in 2012, focusing instead on projects like the opera-themed Prima Donna (2015) or the literary-minded Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016). But Wainwright promises on his website that his 2020 release will return to more familiar form, a “bookend” to his 1998 self-titled debut. Stirring first single “Trouble In Paradise” is very promising, Wainwright’s never-wavering vocal taking a journey out to the country, backed by a soulful sax, mournful guitar, and an enveloping angelic chorus. [Gwen Ihnat]
Hayley Williams, Petals For Armor (TBD)
There are few industry shake-ups more exciting than watching the frontperson of a hugely popular band venture out on their own for a while. Hayley Williams has appeared on a few collaborative tracks without pop-rock outfit Paramore over the years, but Petals For Armor will be her long-awaited, long teased solo project. It’s hard to guess what fans are in for—and what exactly is being teased for January 22—but as an artist who has offered nothing less than unrestrained soul, Petals For Armor is poised to be her most honest, reflective work yet. [Shannon Miller]
Wolf Parade, Thin Mind (Jan. 24)
Wolf Parade reunited in 2017 with Cry Cry Cry, reviving the muscular, synth-veined rock Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug previously set aside in favor of side projects like Operators and Moonface. New LP Thin Mind is, per a press release, a chronicle of the brain-rotting anxieties of technology in the modern age. “It’s opening one more page, scrolling one more thing, and the weird, sort-of hollow automaton feeling that you get from it,” says Boeckner. Depressing, yes, but “Forest Green” is a riot of a song, with the lead duo’s indelible vocals giving way to a vivid instrumental break burbling with rushing synths. [Randall Colburn]
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The new Miley album will come out this year too!
My 2020 list so far (some overlap, some released):Echosmith Beach SlangSelena Gomez HalseyKeshaOh WonderBeach BunnyThe 1975
Only album in 2020 I am waiting for is RTJ4. El-P said on twitter just the other day it should be out before mid-April.
No Red Hot Chili Peppers?! Shocked! I can’t wait for whatever they come with with the third coming of Frusciante
I’m genuinely interested in finding out what direction he’s going to pull them in this time.His “recent” solo output was hip hop and electronica.There’s no doubt that by Stadium he was the creative lead in the band, so having him back should give (at least) better results than the last two albums.
Stadium was such a great (double) album, I’m so glad he is back. Although I really loved Josh’s albums too, especially I’m With You.
Yeah, kinda weird since this list is definitely a split between “safe” and “who?” artists.
I’m not shocked, AvClub tends to lean towards the “you haven’t heard of this” and “I ironically love this pop act” demographic
*UNironically love pop acts
‘safe’ is cardi b?
Probably more songs about California.
Or New Hampshire
https://entertainment.theonion.com/red-hot-chili-peppers-accidentally-write-song-about-new-1819580057
Not sure what to make of that Kesha song. I’m disappointed to see her go back to the party anthem after her last album. But I’m also not sure it’s not a big ironic jab at the kind of country song that’s written around one clever line.
Looking forward to the new Destroyer, and I’m pretty sure Phoebe Bridgers is coming out with an album this year.
This is a pretty good profile of Dan Bejar:
https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/destroyer-dan-bejar-have-we-met-interview/
AJJ and World/Inferno Friendship Society are the big ones for me off the top of my head.
Yo, new Pearl Jam album out in March!?!?/I’ll show myself out.
You’re not the only one who noticed that omission.
That’s the only thing I’d be semi-interested in.
Glad to see Cry Cry Cry wasn’t a one-off reunion for Wolf Parade. Now if Spencer Krug would just reunite with his Sunset Rubdown bandmates as well…I’m excited there’s a new Basia Bulat album coming in March.
i am a permanent homer and will listen to anything spencer krug puts out
I’m looking forward to the new King Krule album. 6 Feet Beneath The Moon and The OOZ have been on regular rotation for me lately and his single Blue Train Lines with Mount Kimbie is fantastic.
The OOZ is absolutely flawless stuff
No Tame, no 1975?
That new 1975 song they just released today is stellar. Sounds like someone from the Can’t Hardly Wait soundtrack covering Soon by My Bloody Valentine
The only thing that I’m particularly hopeful for is a new Sky Ferreira album. There was a single last year so maybe it will finally show up in 2020.
I think Freedia’s album is going to be big. Anyone got any recommendations on how to describe her to people? She says she doesn’t identify as trans, I believe, but is cool with whatever pronoun you want to use. When people hear the music they like it, but when they hear the name and the voice they’ve got questions. I’ve been describing her as a drag queen so I hope that’s respectful and somewhat accurate. To the credit of the redneck construction workers I’m often around most of them like the sound and few care about the singer’s genitals beyond casual interest.
I’m not sure I’d describe her as “drag”. That usually has an strong element of tragic irony to it. Not sure if “transvestite” is a PC term though, seems to have historically been a pretty negative label…But whatever, her music is lots of fun.
Yeah, my associations with the word ‘transvestite’ come entirely from The Rocky Horror Picture Show so I try to avoid it just because of that. I wasn’t aware of negative associations so if there are I’m glad I haven’t used it. Kind of sucks because all it means literally is ‘changing clothes’ which seems an apt description for a person whom identifies as one gender but dresses as another. Poor words, receiving all our social ills when all they want to do is tell us what things are.
Hot garbage? Big Freedia brings nothing but a hypeman to the table from what I’ve seen. Flava-flav did that shit 30 some years ago.
Freedia refers to herself as a gale male, but prefers she/her pronouns. I’d imagine that gender fluid or gender non-conforming are appropriate terms if you need a label, but that’s really for her to say not me or anyone else.
I get you and those terms would work here without a problem, but in the social groups I’m often a part of they would create more questions than they answer. Not that educating people about gender differences isn’t important. But someone on the job site saying “Is that a dude hollering about shaking his ass?” may not be a good jumping off point for a nuanced conversation. So far I’ve just gone with ‘drag queen’ hoping that the shows and such have made that identity more acceptable to the average consumer. Anecdotal I know but people have seemed to respond to the music more than the musician, even among groups not known for their tolerance. Strictly younger people of course. I guess we really just need more general education about gender differences or these problems will keep coming up.
“Freedia has stated “I am not transgendered [sic]; I am just a gay male… I wear women’s hair and carry a purse, but I am a man. I answer to either ‘he’ or ‘she’.” However, she said in a 2013 interview with Out that her pronoun is “she”. In 2015, an interviewer asked Freedia about how “Everyone either knows (or quickly learns) to use the feminine pronoun when referring to you”.”
I must have just heard the first line about pronouns. But it’s not like it’s hard. Dressed and made-up in a very feminine style? Go for she, they’ll let you know if you’re wrong. Just don’t be a jerk. Ask. Embarrassment is better than offense. I misgendered a short-haired female McDonald’s worker last week by not looking closely and still feel bad about it. My lame “Ma’am, sorry!” echoes off the drive-thru walls. That’s really my biggest problem, my Southern training that insists all strangers must be addressed as sir or ma’am. I wish there were a neutral honorific.
well if it’s plural it’s y’all. i never actually used it when i was southern though – only after moving to NYC and needing to address groups in restaurants.i’m generally pretty good about asking pronouns. i do remember a time i took a rideshare and got an NB person wrong – like the second it came out of my mouth i had second thoughts. but they were nice about it. freedia’s a bit different cause she’s famous, so the performer kind of has an identity competing with the real person…at least that’s how i interpreted that quote.
new orleanian.
Her live act is so much fun, randomly walked in during her set at last year’s Clusterfest. So much energy!
-funny how that Beach Bunny song could be country if they just changed the instruments
-Nice to hear Rufus Wainwright back…I think his masterpiece is the song “The Art Teacher”
-Excited about Destroyer, RTJ, and hopefully a new Radiohead that doesn’t sound like a fritzing clicktrack, but after last year’s run of disappointments, Chance Sleater-Kinney Kanye, I’m trying to remain cautiously optimistic. I’d be shocked if there isn’t a new St. Vincent album this year, but still not sure if I should blame her for helping destroy S-K. Mostly hoping for new Neon Indian or Khruangbin, but perhaps a vain hope.
a…clicktrack? you use orchestral arrangements to mark tempo?
New RTJ would be spectacular! The thing I’d love to see them do as well would be more collaboration with DJ Shadow- Nobody Speak was my favourite thing out of any thing either of the three has made.
they have close to confirmed it is coming out, and have been performing again a lot lately; I do love Nobody Speak and what a video
The Art Teacher is definitely amazing. I think his songs “Imaginary Love”, “Oh What a World”, “Go or Go Ahead”, “Vibrate”, and “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” measure up.As for Radiohead, it sounds like you missed their last album, which is not clicktracky.
Shouldn’t we, I dunno, boycott Kesha so Dr. Luke doesn’t keep making money off her?
Going through the list I was made sad by all the mostly melancholy music coming out, but then I got to Wolf Parade and Wolf Parade is back and now I’m happy.
I need The Weeknd’s new album.
I’m definitely looking forward to Beach Bunny’s debut album and the new one from Sløtface. I saw Ratboy live last year and loved them, and I need to finally get around to checking out their recorded music.Other albums on my radar at the moment:Scandal – Kiss from the Darkness (Feb. 21)PEARS’ eponymous third album (Mar. 6)Silent Siren – Mix Juice (or something like that; Spring)The Beths’ second album (no title/date yet)The new one by They Might Be Giants (no title/date yet)
The Beth’s last album was in my top five for that year. Can’t wait to hear what they have in store
I will add Tame Impala to the “What no?” list.
Mac Miller’s last album tomorrow is gonna be all I’m listening to for at least a couple of weeks. I can’t believe how quickly it arrived after all that waitOnce I can put that aside… I dunno, new Thundercat looks interesting with those features? Hoping he can finally go above ‘pretty good’ into ‘fantastic’ on his solo work. Also feels like it’s about that time Kendrick starts gearing up for an album cycle, but that might be wishful thinking.
Im counting down the hours and minutes until I can listen to the new Miller, though I feel like I might need to listen to it in small doses
Yes on all of those!
I’m curious of the Mac Miller album and if it’s going to feel like a finished product or a thrown together mash of tracks that were laying around.
I can pretty much promise you it will feel finished. They didn’t just scrape together some leftovers, it’s an entire album he planned and wrote alongside Swimming intending them to be companion releases. It was 85% done when Mac died, and Jon Brion (essentially a genius) took it to 100%. It’s gonna be great.
Sounds far better than xxxtentacion’s mom capitalizing off his death and releasing unreleased garbage
Miller new joint is interesting; it’s a shame that we will never see where his music was ultimately gonna take him as an artist.
Yeah it’s a huge bummer. Seems like he was in the middle of a massive transformation, on the verge of becoming a truly great artist in his own right. At least we have this one album as a marker of what he could do.
Excited for that Hayley Williams album. I hope it’s more emo and downbeat than their last album. She did a feature on the last American Football album and it was fantastic.
While I’m very much over poptimism, I am still looking forward to the new BTS and The 1975 album as well as the new Frank Ocean album. I’m primarily looking forward to new Iceage. I really think they’re the best punk band of the last decade and their growth into a Bad Seeds style drunk rock band has been absolutely excellent. They’ve said they’re back in the studio and the fact that they were looking for gospel singers really piqued my interest.
My very ’90s-seeming list:
Archers of Loaf (TBD)
Hum (TBD)
Shiner (TBD)
How did I only know about one of these? That’s fucking incredible.
Because Poptimism. If they stuck Archers of Loaf in here, there wouldn’t be room for Cardi B and Bruno Mars.And no offense to Cardi, she’s fine. I just miss when I learned things about music from the AVClub that I couldn’t find out about by skimming any news aggregator for 5 seconds.
Trail of Dead just dropped a new one as well.
good lord cocorosie is still going?that band has to be a front for a drug operation or something, there’s just no other explanation.
Yeahhh as someone who enjoyed La Maison de mon Reve a ton 15 years ago, I’m not exactly climbing over myself for anything new from them.
I’m still waiting on Protomen’s Act III. Maybe this is the year.
mandatory “get off my lawn” fuck i didn’t recognize 75% of the artists on this list!
I recognized all but 5! I’m proud of myself.
Ahem …She/they are apparently playing Coachella and apparently releasing an album this year …… apparently.
Is “She/they” the name of the act?
So the act’s name is Chidi Anagonye?But really, who is that I have no idea, and want to check out her music.
Thanks!
Still one of my favourite music videos:
Thanks! I’ll check it out. Looks like she’s been doing this thing for a bit, eh?
I heard she’s a real smooth operator
No Nathaniel Rateliff solo album? Dropping in February!
First Liz Phair album in a decade is apparently going to drop in March.
Please, lord, I hope there’s no song about how white cum.
Don’t worry, she’s moved on to cold beige loads.
The new Drive by Truckers single is some prime cut Patterson Hood. Catchy tune with caustic lyrics. Looking forward to the full LP.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, TBDJust announced.
The Nashville Sound was a great record. And I’m not really into country, I just knew he and Shooter were making A Star is Born and checked it out.
It sure is!If you get a chance, listen to SOUTHEASTERN, which is absolutely one of the best records of the 2010s.
Oh don’t worry, been through his entire back catalog. Elephant brought a tear to my eye when I first heard it.
Really excited for new Moses Sumney, Aromanticism has been one of my favorite albums since first listen.
Personally, I can’t wait for Prof to drop his new album. Liability and Pookie Baby were instant classics.
I think I’m most looking forward to whatever Bad Cop/Bad Cop drops this year, but I recognize that my priorities don’t necessarily align with others.
I think I recognized four names in this article. And I listen to zero of them. I feel so old.
Pick a couple and have a listen. It won’t make you any less old but you might find something you like.
I’m happy being old and out of touch.
A/B was such a great album and this was coincidentally released yesterday, so it’s the first thing I thought of for this year:
I’m excited about Holy Fuck, Mac Miller and Wolf Parade this month. Next month Dan Deacon, Drive-by Truckers, Shopping, Tame Impala, Grimes and King Krule. Killer couple of months!From the rest of what’s been announced for the year, I’ll be checking out the Districts, Thundercat, Die Antwoord (for old time’s sake), Run the Jewels 4, the 1975, Offspring, Strokes, Weeknd, Rihanna…
I’d like to see releases from Kendrick and Vince Staples, among things that haven’t been announced. It’d be nice to get another Flat Worms album, too. Maybe there’ll be something coming from Jai Paul since he released his Leak 03-13 (Bait Ones) record last year.
I’m hoping there will be new albums from Enter Shikari and Gojira.
I’m pretty excited for both Soccer Mommy and Caroline Rose. Those were 2 of my favorite albums of 2018. And I’m saying this as a nearly 40 year old man.
Cardi’s songs are starting to sound alike. Same beat, tempo and emphasis. But with that twerking game, who needs ears?
When will Sunset Rubdown come back to me
Shoutout to whoever the fuck listens to Kvelertak over there m/
Agnes Obel has a new album out in February. Also both Team Me and Sólstafir are working on new albums which are due out this year as well.
Allie X, Jessy Lanza, Little Dragon, Low, Father John Misty
This is a crime, The Wonder Years is not on this list.
Kvelertak the song is one of the best rock anthems from the past decade.
Damn, no King Krule?
The new Destroyer album is going to be great as well:
STRETCH & BOBBITO LES GO
My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion
The only album for 2020 that matters is RTJ 4
Are Kvelertak still popular? Good for them.I think it’s going to be a huge year for the NWOTHM scene. New EP from Smoulder in March. Stallion has a new album in February, and Ambush has one in March. I also am definitely anticipating both Midnight Dice (4 of 5 members of Satan’s Hallow) to release their debut album after 2019’s killer demo and Air Raid to release their next album. And that’s just what I am most excited about.
The slow rush by tame impala??
Or you could go buy something like the Allman Brothers discography, and listen to actually enjoyable music for the first time in your life. I can pretty much guarantee you’ll like it better than anything on this list, unless you have really bad taste in music.
It’s almost like some people have the ability to enjoy multiple genres and not just one! And “enjoyable music” is whatever the listener enjoys.Tl;dr – taste in music subjective, buttface.
Wow, if nothing else (there was a lot else cool on this list) this made me remember how much I loved Hard Times
a new Garbage album is coming
Might have mentioned The Beths next one, to be released early in 2020. The first official “album” debuted in late 2018, and was very well received by almost all critics. I realise a New Zealand band is usually brushed aside by many, but there is every reason to believe Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting and vocal harmonies can’t improve even more with her mates, with whom she studied music at the University of Auckland. The members are very talented, the vocal harmonies are great, and they make a really great “guitar band”.
Why is the only rap on here total mainstream ‘garbage’? I wrote garbage like that because I don’t hate cardi b, but I don’t think it’s at all a good representation of the genre. I’m excited for Royce 59 to drop his album allegory Jan. 24th. I’m still rocking the newest Benny the butcher album as well. The rap list is infinitely full of great artists and music. Cardi b doesn’t even make her music and she’s even on that garbage Netflix show “rythm and flow” pretending to be a rap judge.
New Eminem album came out today, that was a nice surprise
Surprised I haven’t seen new Animal Collective on any of these lists! Last record was a bit of a critical dud but the stuff they’ve been showing off live is a spectacular return to form.
How do you maintain such boring, industry-approved taste?
No Tame Impala or Run the Jewels? FOR SHAME. JK. Almost every other list has them already so no need to rehash. Fingers crossed for a Jamie XX. He’s been quiet for a bit.