I couldn't totally get into ULTRAPOP this year for whatever reason, but "Bad Selection" makes me want to keep trying.
One album I got completely into was Indigo De Souza's Any Shape You Take, and its penultimate track is a good one. "Way Out" isn't a title track but it does sort of reference the title in the lyrics.
1. Torres - Don't Go Puttin Wishes In My Head
2. Jessie Ware - Please
3. Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
4. Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
5. Remember Sports - Out Loud
6. Indigo De Souza - Kill Me
7. Mannequin Pussy - Control
8. Japanese Breakfast - Posing in Bondage
9. St. Vincent - Live In The Dream
10. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
Listened to Ada Lea for the first time after seeing it on these lists, it's good!
I'm also liking seeing Ovlov mentioned, it easily could have been on my list. Really enjoy everything I've heard from Ovlov/Stove so far.
This one in particular - thank you stereodog! https://www.stereogum.com/2144470/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-380/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/#comment-21011619
Also I didn't know before now that Actual Life 2 exists. Today is a good day.
1. Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
2. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take
3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
4. Snail Mail - Valentine
5. Hand Habits - Fun House
6. Fred Again.. - Actual Life
7. Lump - Animal
8. Weather Station - Ignorance
9. Low - HEY WHAT
10. The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore
11. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
12. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader
13. Remember Sports - Like a Stone
14. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails/Banisters
15. Torres - Thirstier
16. Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
17. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
18. Iceage - Seek Shelter
19. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
20. Chubby and the Gang - The Mutt's Nuts
I debated and asked in SUD about the Avalanches album and everyone said put it on your 2021 list, so there it is right where it belongs. HM to Flock of Dimes which I had in the next spot on the list, Aeon Station which I love the singles I've heard but won't hear the whole album until later this week, and the Mach Hommy albums which I decided to dive into only yesterday. I haven't spent a lot of time listening to rap music lately, though I might end up regretting not having Tyler the Creator on this list.
Yeah it seems like there's a couple potential albums like this every other year or so. I'm optimistic about the Aeon Station album coming out next week.
Newest Avalanches album came out after last year's Listmas, though a couple people put it in their 2020 lists anyway. I didn't know I should have since I wasn't the biggest fan of Wildflower. But it's SO GOOD. It's my favorite album I've listened to in the past year. So, 2020 album or 2021 album?
Our household hate-watched the 2021 Grammys. For all the problems I might have had with the awards/show, Trevor Noah was not one of them. Though coming from me, this is like saying Taylor Swift didn't ruin the Cats movie.
I don't know if it's a joke or just a simple fact that H.E.R. is going to win a Tony and an Emmy then vanish, having fulfilled her one purpose in life.
I'm still enjoying the new Hand Habits album and picked up the CD - did anyone else get the physical version and get surprised by the alternate tracklist? I listened to it on Spotify and really liked "Gold/Rust" as a penultimate track, but it's #6 on my CD. But I do like the album ending with "Graves".
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