It’s almost over. Yes, 2020 can fuck off….you’re heard it a million times already.
This year has been defined by loss. Millions have lost love ones. Many more have lost their livelihoods, their passions, or at best…their sense of normalcy. We have lost our safety nets, old coping mechanisms, the closeness of family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. The things that we haven’t lost have changed. Even music has changed. The loss of live music has rippled throughout our world affecting the artists we love and the sense of community they sustain for all of us.
My favorite albums embody the shared sense of loss, anger & sadness that we all experienced this year. It was especially hard to keep it to only 25 this year, but here they are. Each one of these albums helped soften the blow of 2020. Try out something you haven’t heard of….they’re all incredible.
-VH
1. Soft Kill - Dead Kids R.I.P. City
2. Jeff Rosenstock - No Dream
3. MSW - Obliviosus
4. Korine - The Night We Raise
5. Georgia Maq - Pleaser
6. Infant Island - Beneath
7. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
8. Gilt - Ignore What’s Missing
9. Scalp - Domestic Extremity
10. Retirement Party - Runaway Dog
11. Lawrence Arms - Skeleton Coast
12. Soft Kill - Premium Drifter
13. Initiate - Lavender
14. Dikembe - Mush
15. Power Alone - Rather Be Alone
16. Soon - What the Fuck Did We Do to the Earth
17. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock
18. Vanguard - Rage of Deliverance
19. Diet Cig - Do You Wonder About Me
20. Changeling - III
21. Lucky Malice - Magnetic
22. Nø Man - Erase
23. Lié - You Want It Real
24. Vile Creature - Glory Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
25. Crowning - Survival/Sickness
