The eFests Albums & Tracks of The Year - Submissions Thread

[Gnomicide]

That's 3 votes now for RRC. Making a late challenge for top spot!

[SwedgeAntilles]

The Red Rum Club mirage

[FloorFiller]

Songs:

1. Run the Jewels - JU$T
2. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
3. Roisin Murphy - Murphy's Law
4. Car Seat Headrest - Deadlines (Hostile)
5. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Intrasport
6. Taylor Swift - August
7. Waxahatchee - Can't Do Much
8. Yves Tumor - Gospel for a New Century
9. Sufjan Stevens - Run Away With Me
10. Chloe x Halle - Tipsy

[broken monkey]

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
2. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
3. IDLES - Ultra Mono
4. Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers
5. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20
6. The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public
7. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
8. BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff
9. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
10. The Streets - None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Alive

TRACKS OF THE YEAR

1. The Avalances - Running Red Lights
2. IDLES - Grounds
3. Gorrilaz/Slaves/Slowthai - Momentary Bliss
4. The Lemon Twigs - No One Holds You
5. Beabadoobee - Worth It
6. Childish Gambino - 35.31
7. Run The Jewels - Ooh la la
8. SAULT - Wildfires
9. IDLES - Model Village
10. Grandaddy - RIP Coyote Condo #5

[Baggins7]

Albums of the year

1. Lime Cordiale - 14 Steps to a Better You
2. Halloweens - Morning Kiss at the Acropolis
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
5. Brothers Osborne - Skeletons
6. Franc Moody - Dream in Colour
7. bdrmm - Bedroom
8. Gengahr - Sanctuary
9. Taylor Swift - Folklore
10. Jarv is - Beyond the Pale

Just missing out were Margo Price, Biffy Clyro, Waxahatchee and Dua Lipa.

Songs of the year

1. Crooked Colours - Love Language
2. Franc Moody - Skin on Skin
3. Lime Cordiale - Money
4. Little Simz - might bang, might not
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
6. Brothers Osborne - All Night
7. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
8. Taylor Swift - Exile
9. Eliza and the Delusionals - Swimming Pool
10. Easy Life - Daydreams

[grayfitz]

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. Bartees Strange - Live Forever
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. Katie Malco - Failures
4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
6. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
7. Francis Quinlan - Likewise
8. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire
9. Eve Owen - Don't Let The Ink Dry
10. Porridge Radio - Every Bad

[foolee]

Albums of the year (However 2 are EPs but they deserve to be in there)

1. Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human:Survival Horror
2. Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone
3. Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall
4. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
5. Blossoms - Foolish Loving Spaces
6. Idles - Ultra Mono
7. Sports Team - Deep Down Happy
8. Fever 333 - Wrong Generation
9. The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do
10. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

Its been very tough this year and I could have easily tried to squeeze in Haim, Fontaines DC, Enter Shikari, Mystery Jets, Anti-Flag and possible Yungblud but that only came out yesterday so it needs a few more listens. So many good albums out this year. 

[Brownie30]

Albums: 

1. Taylor Swift - folklore
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. Run The Jewels - RTJ4
4. Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings 
5. Halsey - Manic 
6. Ela Minus - acts of rebellion
7. Sault - Untitled (Rise) 
8. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now 
9. Samia - The Baby 
10. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form

Songs: 

1. London Grammar - Baby It's You 
2. Biffy Clyro - Cop Syrup 
3. Taylor Swift - august 
4. Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End 
5. Run The Jewels - out of sight (feat. 2 Chainz)
6. Kllo - Still Here
7. Grimes - Delete Forever
8. Sault - Son Shine 
9. Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky 
10. Lianne La Havas - Weird Fishes 

(Honourable mentions: The Weeknd - Blinding Lights, Amanda Tenjford - Pressure, Waxahatchee - Fire, The Japanese House ft. Justin Vernon - Dionne, Gatlin - I Think About You All The Time and Baby Queen - Internet Religion) 

Quite tough to narrow both of these down to 10 actually. It's been a good year for it, and I've enjoyed discovering a lot of new bands / artists whose work I absolutely love. Particular mentions go to Ela Minus, Samia, Kllo, Amanda Tenjford, Dagny, Katie Pruitt, Gatlin, TEME and Baby Queen - all I hope come back bigger and better in 2021 (Ela Minus' album is a must listen imo). Excited for what 2021 could have in store - hopefully with a Top 10 Gigs addition too. 

Edited December 5, 2020 by Brownie30

[Hutchmaster]

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
2. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
3. Grimes - Miss.Anthropocene
4. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
5. The Strokes - The New Abnormal
6. Hinds - The Prettiest Curse
7. Haim - Women in Music pt III
8. Porridge Radio - Every Bad
9. Roísín Murphy - Roísín Machine
10. Taylor Swift - Folklore

TRACKS OF THE YEAR

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Graceland Too
2. Grimes - Delete Forever
3. Arab Strap - The Turning of Our Bones
4. Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
5. Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End
6. Taylor Swift - Cardigan
7. Kelly Lee Owens - Jeanette
8. Roísín Murphy - Something More
9. Nathan Micay - Industry
10. Marika Hackman/Let's Eat Grandma - blow (Rosa Let's Eat Grandma Rework)

Have to say, the tracks were A LOT harder than the albums. My album list is extremely lopsided as well; 1-3 I've listened to in full fairly regularly throughout the year, whereas the rest I like but go back a lot  more sporadically. 

Edited December 7, 2020 by Johnkhutch

[eastynh]

Cut Copy - Melt

 

[Mattymooz]

Getting it down to just 10 is albums is proving really hard this year, feel like there were a lot of great albums this year (and annoyingly there are a lot coming up in these lists I am now having to run back and listen through to)

[mjh310]

ALBUMS:

1) Mystery Jets - A Billion Heartbeats
2) SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
3) Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
4) Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
5) Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter 
6) Faithless - All Blessed
7) Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
8 ) Caribou - Suddenly
9) Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure
10) Run The Jewels - RTJ4

Edited December 8, 2020 by mjh310

[nikkic]

8 hours ago, mjh310 said:

ALBUMS:

1) Mystery Jets - A Billion Heartbeats
2) SAULT - Untitled (Rise)
3) Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
4) Haim - Women in Music Pt. III
5) Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter 
6) Faithless - All Blessed
7) Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
8 ) Caribou - Suddenly
9) Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure
10) Run The Jewels - RTJ4

Mine will have a lot of crossover with this. 
 

Need to go back to that Mystery Jets album, liked it a lot at the time but not had it in much recently. 

[Quark]

I'm really surprised by how often the Mystery Jets album is cropping up on these lists. Not because it's not a good album, but I just don't remember it getting much (any?) love or attention on here when it came out.  Seems to have been a real dark horse.

[rockandnoll]

Not sure I can narrow it down to songs but my albums would be:

1. Red Rum Club - The Hollow of Humdrum
2. Sea Girls - Open Up Your Head
3. Jordan Mackampa - Foreigner
4. The Coronas - True Love Waits
5. Vistas - Everything Changes In The End
6. Bruce Sprinsteen - Letter To You
7. HAIM - Women In Music Pt. III
8. Cadet - The Rated Legend
9. Gerry Cinnamon - The Bonny
10. Alfie Templeman - Happiness in Liquid Form

[jyoung]

Albums:

1. Taylor Swift - folklore
2. Halsey - Manic
3. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
4. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure
5. J Hus - Big Conspiracy
6. Ariana Grande - Positions
7. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
8. The Weeknd - After Hours
9. Mac Miller - Circles
10. Caribou - Suddenly

Might come back to tracks later but WAP is getting repped that's for sure.

Edited December 8, 2020 by jyoung

[lessthanwill1]

On 12/4/2020 at 11:16 AM, grayfitz said:

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. Bartees Strange - Live Forever
2. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
3. Katie Malco - Failures
4. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
6. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
7. Francis Quinlan - Likewise
8. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire
9. Eve Owen - Don't Let The Ink Dry
10. Porridge Radio - Every Bad

Really like this list. Hadn’t come across Katie Malco before and am just listening now. Sounds great, thanks! 

[uscore]

Top Ten songs

1. Ladytron - Deadzone (HQFU Remix)

2. Everything Everything - Arch Enemy

3. The Strokes - Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus

4. Soccer Mommy - yellow is the color of her eyes

5. Gangahr - Icarus

6. Josin -  In The Blank Space (Roosevelt Remix)

7. Goal Girl - Sad Cowboy

8. The Dears - I Know What You're Thinking And It's Awful

9. Haelos - Hold On

10. Thyla - Everything

Edited December 8, 2020 by uscore

[priest17]

Does anyone have any good thrash/metal albums that came out this year?

[Quark]

16 minutes ago, priest17 said:

Does anyone have any good thrash/metal albums that came out this year?

Paging @Supernintendo Chalmers - pretty sure you had a couple in your list?

[zahidf]

18 minutes ago, priest17 said:

Does anyone have any good thrash/metal albums that came out this year?

Deftones?

[priest17]

26 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Deftones?

I did like that, after something new for this morning though to get me through. Something early Metallica esque but not limited to that, I can dip into the classics if nothing springs to mind for anyone, thought I might as well use the hive mind of efests.

[zahidf]

23 minutes ago, priest17 said:

I did like that, after something new for this morning though to get me through. Something early Metallica esque but not limited to that, I can dip into the classics if nothing springs to mind for anyone, thought I might as well use the hive mind of efests.

Theres a deftones remix album of white pony out tomorrow

I think there was a new Envy album out this year?

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

6 hours ago, priest17 said:

Does anyone have any good thrash/metal albums that came out this year?

Yes! Check out:

"Splid" by Kvelertak

"Reluctant Hero" by Killer Be Killed

"Underneath" by Code Orange

 

[Watergirl]

1. Good Souls Better Angels - Lucinda Williams

2. That's How Rumors Gets Started - Margo Price

3. The Dirt And The Stars - Mary Chapin Carpenter

4. Letter To You - Bruce Springsteen

5. Good Luck, Seeker - The Waterboys

6. A Beginner's Guide To Bravery - David Keenan

7. Song To A Refugee - Diana Jones

8. Ceol Ársa Cláirsí - Tunes Of The Irish Harpers For Solo Guitar - Steve Cooney

9. La Vita Nuova - Maria McKee

10. Varo - Varo