Album Reviews: 2020 We Wild Blood – VICIOUS VIRTUES Shifting – It Was Good Exhalants – Atonement Alpha Male Tea Party – Infinity Stare Palm Reader – Sleepless Respire – Black Line The Cribs – Night Network Dave Hause – Patty/Paddy Big Lad – Hand Tools Vennart – In The Dead, Dead Wood Annihilus – Ghanima Spectres – It’s Never Going To Happen And This Is Why Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full Hey Colossus – Dances / Curses PRIMITIVE IGNORANT – SIKH PUNK Autotelia – I USA Nails – Character Stop Adrianne Lenker – Songs and Instrumentals Magick Mountain – Weird Feelings Salem – Salem EP Keaton Henson – Monument Twisted Ankle – Twisted Ankle TRVSS – New Distances (or, the exquisite value in lying to oneself) Shuck – Petrichor and Rainbows Metz – Atlas Vending Touché Amoré – Lament Future Islands – As Long As You Are Blanket – How To Let Go : Cinematic Reworkings EP Dream Nails – Dream Nails Deftones – Ohms Idles – Ultra Mono Jamie Lenman – King Of Clubs Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better? Deafkids & Petbrick – DEAFBRICK Hidden Mothers – Hidden Mothers EP OSEES – Protean Threat Napalm Death – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism Sumac – May You Be Held Into It. Over It. – Figure Doves – The Universal Want Everything Everything – Re-Animator Bill Callahan – Gold Record NARROW HEAD – 12th House Rock Bully – SUGAREGG I LIKE TRAINS – KOMPROMAT Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was Blacklisters – Fantastic Man Modern Technology – Service Provider Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings AUA – I Don’t Want It Darker Entropy – Liminal Creeper – Sex, Death & The Infinite Void Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death Fall Of Messiah – Senicarne Girls In Synthesis – NOW HERE’S AN ECHO FROM YOUR FUTURE The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast CRACK CLOUD – PAIN OLYMPICS Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today Ballpeen – Pachinko Plastiglomerate/Territorial Gobbing – The Internet Made Me Parkour D. Taylor – Dommy Don’t Mind (Demos 2020) Forest and Family – Perfectly Smeared/Pretty Attractive Mammals – Look Around You Foxhall Stacks – The Half Stack EP OHHMS – Close Wren – GROUNDSWELLS Pottery – Welcome to Bobby’s Motel Owen – The Avalanche Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher HEADS. – PUSH Orlando Weeks – A Quickening DAKINIZ – Raging Shouts Run The Jewels – RTJ4 Muzz – Muzz Katie Malco – Failures Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy No Age – Goons Be Gone Jade Hairpins – Harmony Avenue Happy Accidents – Sprawling Antethic – Mythographer Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky Badly Drawn Boy – Banana Skin Shoes The Dears – Lovers Rock MAITA – Best Wishes PERFUME GENIUS – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately Sleaford Mods – All That Glue worriedaboutsatan – Time Lapse Modern Studies – The Weight Of The Sun Mogwai – ZEROZEROZERO BLÓM – Flower Violence GHOSTPOET – I GROW TIRED BUT DARE NOT FALL ASLEEP Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open Boston Manor – Glue Happyness – Floatr BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff Casual Nun – Resort For Dead Desires ELDER – Omens Max Bloom – Perfume Harkin – Harkin Elephant Tree – Habits Beach Comber – Parting Cuts PEAKS – SEASON Enter Shikari – Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible Coldbones – The Cataclysm Wild Cat Strike – Mustard Coloured Years Flat Worms – Antarctica Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter Thundercat – It Is What It Is Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – ‘Viscerals’ Astral Bodies – ‘Escape Death’ Slow Crush – ‘Reel / Pale Skin’ 7″ TANKENGINE – TANKENGINE TANKENGINE Deeper – Auto-Pain Milk Teeth – Milk Teeth Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud Supermilk – Death Is the Best Thing for You Now SAVAK – Rotting Teeth in the Horse’s Mouth Modern Rituals – This Is The History Orchards – Lovecore EP Review: Marzuraan – Ten Years Too Late Stephen Malkmus – ‘Traditional Techniques’ Disq – ‘Collector’ Nadia Reid – ‘Out Of My Province’ Bruxa Maria – The Maddening The Orielles – Disco Volador Real Estate – The Main Thing Soccer Mommy – Color Theory Wasted Shirt – Fungus II VASA – Heroics Gareth JS Thomas – The Incredible Years God Damn – ‘God Damn’ Grotbags – ‘Grotbags’ Nyx Nótt – ‘Aux Pieds de la Nuit’ Beach Bunny – ‘Honeymoon‘ Pet Crow – ‘Take The Edge Off’ Shopping – ‘All or Nothing’ Spanish Love Songs – ‘Brave Faces Everyone’ Cheerbleederz – ‘Lobotany’ EP MASKS – Our Weekend Starts Tomorrow/Broken Glass Higher Power – ’27 Miles Underwater’ Caspian – ‘On Circles’ Andy Shauf – ‘The Neon Skyline’ Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘Everything Else Has Gone Wrong’ Pinegrove – ‘Marigold’ Algiers – ‘There Is No Year’ Whyte Horses – ‘Hard Times’ Real Terms – Housework EP The Big Moon – Walking Like We Do Aiming for Enrike – Music For Working Out Field Music – Making A New World
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