Torres - dressing america
Tica douglas - white shoes
Bats - long sleeves
Waxahatchee - lilacs
Alice boman - dont forget about me
Sarah mary chadwick - please daddy
Against all logic - if loving you is wrong
Us girls - 4 american dollars
Stephen malkmus - the greatest own in legal history
Porridge radio - popsong
Also, i kept reading your username as megathickcock (felt like i had stumbled onto reddit)
ā¦And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Into the Godless Void
envy - Marginalized Thread
FACS - Teenage Hive
I Break Horses - Iāll Be The Death Of You
Squarepusher - Midi Sans FrontiĆØres (Avec Batterie)
OOIOO - bulun
Princess Nokia - Gemini
Ichiko Aoba - amuletum
Dan Deacon - Become a Mountain
Otoboke Beaver - I am not maternal
Baxter Dury - Iām not your dog
Georgia - Never let you go
Jeffrey Lewis - Keep it chill in the east vill
Daniel Avery/Allesandro Cortino - Illusion of time
Tame Impala - Lost in yesterday
Khurangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun
Holy Fuck - Deleters
Four Tet - Baby
Jay Electronica - The Blinding
I Break Horses - Death Engine
Six Organs of Admittance - The 101
This has especially been giving me lots of quarantine cheer
Ichiko Aoba - Amuletum
Not only the most beautiful song I have heard so far in 2020, but the most beautiful I have heard for many years. AFAIK this is the first time sheās ever released a studio recording with more than just her voice and acoustic guitar, but the addition of harp, clarinet and cello works absolute wonders.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars in Space
Iām a real sucker for good jangle pop, and these guys scratch that itch for me far better than any other contemporary band. Love the way that the acoustic guitar acts as an anchor for those two intertwining lead guitars which can really let loose.
tricot - å³č³å·¦č³
Excellent poppy math-rock by this all-female Japanese trio. Really tight track with brilliant performances. Iām surprised they donāt really get talked about on here as Iād expect them to appeal to a lot of DiS-ers.
Others:
Hailu Mergia - Abichu Nega Nega
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Coconut Jam
Jeff Parker - Max Brown
Gezan - EXTACY
Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom
Against All Logic - If Loving You Is Wrong
Moses Boyd - Shades of You
Tough to pick 10 but Iāll go with the below as some of my faves so far in this very rough and not particularly scientific order
Do Nothing - LeBron James
Lanterns on the Lake - Before they Excavate
Waxahatchee - Ruby Falls
Porridge Radio - Lilac
Frances Quintana - Went to LA
Bright Eyes - Persona non Gratis
Soccer Mommy - Circle the Drain
Stupid Love - Lady Gaga
Holy F - Luxe
Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song
This is a great idea for a thread. Itās so hard to rank these (with the exception of #1), but here are my picks from albums already released (Iām avoiding singles for upcoming ones), assuming weāre doing a one track per artist rule:
Caspian - Ishmael
Holy Fawn - Blood Pact
October Drift - Oh the Silence
Dogleg - Prom Hell
Post Louis - Fishwife
The Men - Mercy
Greg Dulli - The Tide
Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants
Wolf Parade - Under Glass
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - Gravity
Just in case embedded links screw up the counting, hereās a Spotify playlist.
Very honorable mention to anything off of the Empty Country album.
Keeley Forsyth āStart Againā, and Porridge Radio āBorn Confusedā both kept jumping in and out of my list - but they seem to be represented lots on other lists anyhow, so that makes me feel better.
Bit of a Friday afternoon update on this. There are now 201 tracks in the master playlist, which should be ordered.
There are 23 different tracks which people nominated their favourite song of the year so far.
29 tracks have been voted for by at least 2 people.
The track with the most separate votes is Baby by Four Tet.
The track with the most points is Iām Not Your Dog by Baxter Dury.
I am going to leave this open until Sunday midday if anyone else wants to get involved. After that I will finalise the counting, provide a few more stats, and probably do a poll to decide how best to compile the top 25.