2020 Spins
In an effort to make the end-of-year list season a little less soul-destroying, I’ve decided to outright plagiarise one of my favourite writers and dear friends, David James Young, and chronicle every new release I listen to in 2020 (complete with a handy rating from 1 to 10). I’ll update this page every other week or so. If you think there’s a release missing from the list that I should check out, give me a yell and I’ll smack it on the backburner!
Last update: Tuesday January 12th, 2021.
Albums
- 070 Shake – Modus Vivendi (6.5/10)
- The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form (7.5/10)
- 5 Seconds Of Summer – Calm (5/10)
- A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie – Artist 2.0 (6.5/10)
- A. Swayze & The Ghosts – Paid Salvation (5/10)
- The Acacia Strain – Slow Decay (5/10)
- Ace Enders – Dustin’ Off The Ol’ Guitar (7/10)
- Adult Karate – My Friends Are Internet And I Want To Break You Open (8/10)
- Agnes Manners – Fantasia Famish (9.5/10)
- AJJ – Good Luck Everybody (6/10)
- Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks In The Road (8.5/10)
- Alex The Astronaut – The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing (9.5/10)
- Algiers – There Is No Year (5.5/10)
- Alice Ivy – Don’t Sleep (7/10)
- Alien Nosejob – Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud (2/10)
- Alpha Wolf – A Quiet Place To Die (7/10)
- Aluna – Renaissance (6.5/10)
- Amahiru – S/T (8/10)
- Amaranthe – Manifest (6/10)
- Aminé – Limbo (6/10)
- The Amity Affliction – Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them (7/10)
- Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment (6/10)
- Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision (3.5/10)
- Apocalyptica – Cell-0 (7/10)
- Ariana Grande – Positions (6.5/10)
- Ashton Irwin – Superbloom (7.5/10)
- Asking Alexandria – Like A House On Fire (7.5/10)
- The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (7/10)
- Awolnation – Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders (7.5/10)
- Azim Zain & His Lovely Bones – Be Good (9.5/10)
- B.o.B – Somnia (5/10)
- Bad Cop / Bad Cop – The Ride (5.5/10)
- Bad Nostalgia – Sex & Grieving (6.5/10)
- Ball Park Music – S/T (7/10)
- Banoffee – Look at Us Now Dad (7.5/10)
- Bartees Strange – Live Forever (7.5/10)
- Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers (9/10)
- Beach Bunny – Honeymoon (8.5/10)
- Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City (5/10)
- Ben Harper – Winter Is For Lovers (8/10)
- Benee – Hey U X (7.5/10)
- Benny Walker – Chosen Line (7.5/10)
- Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (7.5/10)
- The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (10/10)
- Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings (6.5/10)
- Billie Joe Armstrong – No Fun Mondays (8/10)
- Billy Nomates – S/T (8/10)
- Birds Of Tokyo – Human Design (6/10)
- The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous (8/10)
- Black Eyed Peas – Translation (5/10)
- Black Foxxes – S/T (7/10)
- Blackpink – The Album (6/10)
- Blackstarkids – Whatever, Man (8/10)
- Blake Scott – Niscitam (8.5/10)
- Blessed – Music Is The Medicine (10/10)
- Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (6/10)
- Body Count – Carnivore (8/10)
- Bon Jovi – 2020 (7.5/10)
- Boston Manor – Glue (7/10)
- Boys Of Fall – Distance (5/10)
- Brad Cox – My Mind’s Projection (8/10)
- Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive (7/10)
- Brian Fallon – Local Honey (8/10)
- Bright Eyes – Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (7.5/10)
- Broadside – Into The Raging Sea (8/10)
- Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You (8/10)
- Bully – Sugaregg (8.5/10)
- Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (8.5/10)
- Cable Ties – Far Enough (6.5/10)
- Caiti Baker – Mary of the North (7/10)
- Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant (7/10)
- Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open (7/10)
- Caribou – Suddenly (7/10)
- Cavetown – Sleepyhead (8/10)
- Charli XCX – How I’m Feeling Now (8/10)
- The Chats – High Risk Behaviour (1/10)
- Cherry Pickles – The Juice That’s Worth The Squeeze (5/10)
- The Chicks – Gaslighter (7.5/10)
- Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (7.5/10)
- Chubby And The Gang – Speed Kills (6/10)
- Circa Waves – Sad Happy (8/10)
- Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark (7/10)
- Cloud Nothings – The Black Hole Understands (8/10)
- Code Orange – Underneath (7/10)
- Cold War Kids – New Age Norms 2 (6/10)
- Corey Taylor – CMFT (7.5/10)
- Cosmo’s Midnight – Yesteryear (6.5/10)
- Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (6.5/10)
- Covet – Technicolor (8.5/10)
- Creeper – Sex, Death & The Infinite Void (8/10)
- Cry Club – God I’m Such A Mess (10/10)
- Cub Sport – Like Nirvana (6/10)
- Custard – Respect All Lifeforms (7.5/10)
- Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (6/10)
- Dalai Lama – Inner World (5/10)
- Dance Gavin Dance – Afterburner (8.5/10)
- Danny Denial – Fuck Danny Denial (8/10)
- Dave The Band – Slob Stories (7.5/10)
- Death By Stereo – We’re All Dying Just In Time (5/10)
- Dear Youth – Heirloom (8.5/10)
- Deep Purple – Whoosh! (3/10)
- Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (3/10)
- Deftones – Ohms (7.5/10)
- DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons, Vol. 1 (7/10)
- Diet Cig – Do You Wonder About Me? (8.5/10)
- Dikembe – Muck (9/10)
- Disclosure – Energy (7.5/10)
- Dizzee Rascal – E3 AF (7/10)
- DMA’s – The Glow (8.5/10)
- Dominic Fike – What Could Possibly Go Wrong (8/10)
- Donny Benet – Mr. Experience (7.5/10)
- Doves – The Universal Want (6/10)
- Drab City – Good Songs for Bad People (5/10)
- The Dream Syndicate – The Universe Inside (3/10)
- Dream On Dreamer – What If I Told You It Doesn’t Get Better (7/10)
- Dream Wife – So When You Gonna… (7/10)
- Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (7/10)
- Dune Rats – Hurry Up And Wait (3/10)
- DVSR – West Technique (9/10)
- e4444e – Coldstream Road (5/10)
- E^ST – I’m Doing It (7.5/10)
- Eastwood – It Never Gets Easy (8.5/10)
- Echosmith – Lonely Generation (6.5/10)
- El Tee – Everything Is Fine (8/10)
- Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface (3.5/10)
- Emery – White Line Fever (7/10)
- Enter Shikari – Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (10/10)
- Envy – The Fallen Crimson (8/10)
- Everything Everything – Re-Animator (6/10)
- Fanny Lumsden – Fallow (8.5/10)
- Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (7.5/10)
- Field Music – Making A New World (5/10)
- Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters (8.5/10)
- Five Finger Death Punch – F8 (6/10)
- The Flaming Lips – American Head (7/10)
- Fleet Foxes – Shore (6/10)
- Foley! – Moley! (7/10)
- Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death (4/10)
- Foxy Shazam – Burn (4.5/10)
- Frances Quinlan – Likewise (8/10)
- The Front Bottoms – In Sickness & In Flames (10/10)
- Future Islands – As Long As You Are (7.5/10)
- Georgia – Seeking Thrills (8/10)
- Georgia Marley – Yearning (7/10)
- The Ghost Inside – S/T (8/10)
- Gladie – Safe Sins (8/10)
- Glass Animals – Dreamland (6.5/10)
- Goldfinger – Never Look Back (7.5/10)
- Good Boy – It Takes A Lot Of Skill To Milk A Mare (8/10)
- Good Tiger – Raised In A Doomsday Cult (7/10)
- Gordi – Our Two Skins (7/10)
- Gorillaz – Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez (7.5/10)
- Grandson – Death Of An Optimist (8/10)
- Great Gable – Tracing Faces (6.5/10)
- Green Day – Father Of All Motherfuckers (5.5/10)
- Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator Of God (8/10)
- Grey Daze – Amends (7.5/10)
- Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (6.5/10)
- Grouplove – Healer (7.5/10)
- Grouptherapy. – There Goes The Neighbourhood (7.5/10)
- Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress (6/10)
- Hachiku – I’ll Probably Be Asleep (7.5/10)
- Haiku Hands – S/T (9/10)
- Haim – Women In Music Pt. III (9/10)
- Half Waif – The Caretaker (7.5/10)
- Halsey – Manic (7.5/10)
- Hatebreed – Weight Of The False Self (6/10)
- Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor (7.5/10)
- High Contrast – Notes From The Underground (5/10)
- Hockey Dad – Brain Candy (5/10)
- Holiday Party – S/T (7/10)
- Hot Mulligan – You’ll Be Fine (9/10)
- Huey Lewis And The News – Weather (3.5/10)
- Hundredth – Somewhere Nowhere (7/10)
- I Don’t Know How But They Found Me – Razzmatazz (8/10)
- Idles – Ultra Mono (7/10)
- Igorrr – Spirituality And Distortion (6.5/10)
- Illuminati Hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For (7/10)
- Infinite Pizza – Escape from Pizza Monster Island (4/10)
- In Hearts Wake – Kaliyuga (8.5/10)
- In This Moment – Mother (4.5/10)
- Infant Island – Beneath (6.5/10)
- Into It. Over It. – Figure (7/10)
- Jack Colwell – Swandream (5/10)
- Jack R. Reilly – Middle Everything (7.5/10)
- Jarv Is – Beyond the Pale (5.5/10)
- Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Reunions (7/10)
- Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream (8.5/10)
- Jeremy Neale – We Were Trying to Make It Out (8.5/10)
- Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea (7/10)
- Joji – Nectar (8/10)
- Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald – Push The Blues Away (6.5/10)
- Joywave – Possession (7.5/10)
- Jordana – Classical Notions Of Happiness (7.5/10)
- Jordana – Something To Say To You (7.5/10)
- Juice Wrld – Legends Never Die (7/10)
- Justice For The Damned – Pain Is Power (9/10)
- Justin Bieber – Changes (4/10)
- Katie Dey – Mydata (7/10)
- Katy Perry – Smile (6/10)
- Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (6.5/10)
- Kesha – High Road (7.5/10)
- Khruangbin – Mordechai (5.5/10)
- Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon III: The Chosen (10/10)
- Kid Dad – In A Box (9.5/10)
- The Kid Laroi – Fuck Love (6/10)
- Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero (6.5/10)
- The Killers – Imploding The Mirage (9/10)
- Kingswood – Juveniles (8.5/10)
- The Kite String Tangle – C()D3X (6/10)
- Knuckle Puck – 20/20 (7.5/10)
- Kvelertak – Splid (8.5/10)
- La Roux – Supervision (2.5/10)
- Lady Gaga – Chromatica (4/10)
- Lamb Of God – S/T (7/10)
- Lany – Mama’s Boy (7/10)
- Larkin Poe – Self Made Man (7/10)
- Lastlings – First Contact (5.5/10)
- Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive (7.5/10)
- Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter (7/10)
- The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public (5/10)
- Less Than Jake – Silver Linings (7/10)
- Lewis Del Mar – August (6.5/10)
- Lianne La Havas – S/T (7.5/10)
- Like Moths To Flames – No Eternity In Gold (7/10)
- Lime Cordiale – 14 Steps To A Better You (7.5/10)
- Lisa Caruso – In Feelings (7/10)
- Loathe – I Let It In And It Took Everything (8.5/10)
- Loser – Mindless Joy (8/10)
- Louis Tomlinson – Walls (6.5/10)
- Mac Miller – Circles (6.5/10)
- Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall (7/10)
- Maddy Jane – Not All Bad Or Good (7.5/10)
- Major Lazer – Music Is The Weapon (6.5/10)
- Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral (8/10)
- Mat Zo – Illusion Of Depth (7.5/10)
- Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (7.5/10)
- Marcus King – El Dorado (6.5/10)
- Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos (6.5/10)
- Mark Seymour & The Undertow – Slow Dawn (7.5/10)
- Max – Colour Vision (7/10)
- Maxwell Stern – Impossible Sum (9/10)
- Megan Washington – Batflowers (8/10)
- Melanie C – S/T (6/10)
- The Midnight – Monsters (6.5/10)
- Midnight Oil – The Makarrata Project (8.5/10)
- Miel – Tourist Season (6.5/10)
- Miiesha – Nyaaringu (6.5/10)
- Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 (5/10)
- Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts (7.5/10)
- Misery Signals – Ultraviolet (7/10)
- The Mountain Goats – Songs For Pierre Chuvin (7.5/10)
- The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (7.5/10)
- Movements – No Good Left To Give (8/10)
- Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (6.5/10)
- Mt. Joy – Rearrange Us (6.5/10)
- Mura Masa – RYC (9/10)
- The Muslims – Gentrified Chicken (5/10)
- Muzz – The Promised Land (7/10)
- The Naked And Famous – Recover (7/10)
- Nada Surf – Never Not Together (7.5/10)
- Nadia Reid – Out Of My Province (7/10)
- Naif – I Am Plenty (6.5/10)
- Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional (8/10)
- The Neighbourhood – Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tone (6.5/10)
- Neon Trees – I Can Feel You Forgetting Me (7/10)
- Netsky – Second Nature (5.5/10)
- The Network – Money Money 2020 Pt II: We Told Ya So! (4/10)
- New Found Glory – Forever + Ever x Infinity (5.5/10)
- Niall Horan – Heartbreak Weather (7/10)
- Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice (6.5/10)
- Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together (6.5/10)
- Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts VI: Locusts (6/10)
- Ninja Sex Party – The Prophecy (7.5/10)
- Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic (8/10)
- Nothing Rhymes With David – Sky Lonely (8.5/10)
- Nova Twins – Who Are The Girls? (10/10)
- The Nude Party – Midnight Manor (7/10)
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (6.5/10)
- Ocean Alley – Lonely Diamond (7/10)
- Ocean Grove – Flip Phone Fantasy (7.5/10)
- Oceanator – Things I Never Said (7/10)
- Oh Wonder – No One Else Can Wear Your Crown (5.5/10)
- Oliver Tree – Ugly Is Beautiful (9/10)
- Orianthi – O (7.5/10)
- OSees – Protean Threat (6/10)
- Owen – The Avalanche (8/10)
- Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (7/10)
- Pallbearer – Forgotten Days (7/10)
- Paradise Club – S/T (8/10)
- Party Dozen – Pray For Party Dozen (3/10)
- Paul Kelly – Forty Days (7/10)
- Paul McCartney – McCartney III (6/10)
- Pearl Jam – Gigaton (6.5/10)
- Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot (6.5/10)
- Phantogram – Ceremony (7/10)
- Phantom Planet – Devastator (6.5/10)
- Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (7.5/10)
- Pillow Queens – In Waiting (8/10)
- Pinegrove – Marigold (10/10)
- Plini – Impulse Voices (6.5/10)
- Polaris – The Death Of Me (8/10)
- Poppy – I Disagree (7.5/10)
- Powderfinger – Unreleased (1998-2010) [7.5/10]
- The Pretenders – Hate For Sale (6.5/10)
- The Pretty Littles – Weekend Away (8/10)
- Private Function – Whose Line Is It Anyway? (7/10)
- Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (6/10)
- Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down (4/10)
- Purity Ring – Womb (6/10)
- Puscifer – Existential Reckoning (6.5/10)
- PVRIS – Use Me (7/10)
- Radkey – Green Room (8/10)
- Radnor & Lee – Golden State (5/10)
- Ratboys – Printer’s Devil (7.5/10)
- Real Estate – The Main Thing (5/10)
- Remo Drive – A Portrait Of An Ugly Man (7.5/10)
- Rich People – Harmony (7.5/10)
- Rico Nasty – Nightmare Vacation (5/10)
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy (7.5/10)
- Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (8/10)
- RVG – Feral (7.5/10)
- Sad13 – Haunted Painting (8/10)
- Sam Smith – Love Goes (6.5/10)
- San Cisco – Between You And Me (7/10)
- Scabz – Pressure (6.5/10)
- Seahaven – Halo Of Hurt (7.5/10)
- Seaway – Big Vibe (7/10)
- Seether – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (6.5/10)
- Selena Gomez – Rare (5/10)
- Sevendust – Blood & Stone (6.5/10)
- Silverstein – A Beautiful Place To Drown (8/10)
- Sister Sandy – Floruit (7.5/10)
- Slaughter Beach, Dog – At The Moonbase (8/10)
- Slaves – To Better Days (6/10)
- Sløtface – Sorry For The Late Reply (9/10)
- Slowly Slowly – Race Car Blues (7/10)
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr (8.5/10)
- The Smith Street Band – Don’t Waste Your Anger (8.5/10)
- Soccer Mommy – Color Theory (8.5/10)
- Something For Kate – The Modern Medieval (9.5/10)
- Spacey Jane – Sunlight (8/10)
- Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone (9/10)
- Sports Team – Deep Down Happy (8/10)
- Squarepusher – Be Up A Hello (6.5/10)
- Stand Atlantic – Pink Elephant (8/10)
- Static X – Project Regeneration, Vol. 1 (7.5/10)
- Steve Aoki – Neon Future IV (5.5/10)
- Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida (5/10)
- The Streets – None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive (7.5/10)
- The Strokes – The New Abnormal (9/10)
- The Struts – Strange Days (8/10)
- Stumps – All Our Friends (8.5/10)
- Sub Focus and Wilkinson – Portals (6.5/10)
- Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension (3.5/10)
- Suicide Silence – Become The Hunter (7/10)
- Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (6.5/10)
- Tayla Parx – Coping Mechanisms (7/10)
- Taylor Swift – Folklore (9.5/10)
- Taylor Swift – Evermore (9.5/10)
- Tech N9ne – Enterfear (7.5/10)
- Thundercat – It Is What It Is (6/10)
- Tim Heidecker – Fear Of Death (5/10)
- Tim Minchin – Apart Together (7.5/10)
- Tired Lion – Breakfast For Pathetics (8.5/10)
- Tommy Lee – Andro (2/10)
- Tops – I Feel Alive (5.5/10)
- Touché Amoré – Lament (8.5/10)
- Triple One – Panic Force (7.5/10)
- Trivium – What The Dead Men Say (7/10)
- U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (5/10)
- The Used – Heartwork (8/10)
- The Vamps – Cherry Blossom (4.5/10)
- Violent Soho – Everything Is A-OK (8.5/10)
- The War And Treaty – Hearts Town (8/10)
- War On Women – Wonderful Hell (8/10)
- Wax Chattels – Clot (6/10)
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (8.5/10)
- Ways Away – S/T (7.5/10)
- The Weeknd – After Hours (5.5/10)
- Whethan – Fantasy (8/10)
- Widowspeak – Plum (7.5/10)
- Wil Wagner – Spiralling (7/10)
- Wolf & Cub – Nil (7/10)
- Worriers – You Or Someone You Know (8/10)
- Yours Truly – Self Care (9/10)
- Yungblud – Weird! (9/10)
EPs
- !!! – Certified Heavy Katz (6/10)
- 6lack – 6pc Hot (4.5/10)
- ‘68 – Love Is Ain’t Dead (6.5/10)
- Alex Melton – Quality Content (8/10)
- Animal Collective – Bridge To Quiet (1.5/10)
- Antagonist A.D. – Through Fire (9/10)
- April – Luna (7/10)
- Bermuda Bay – Expectations (7.5/10)
- Black Tiger Sex Machine – Futuristic Thriller (9/10)
- Bloom – In Passing (9.5/10)
- Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror (9.5/10)
- The Buoys – All This Talking Gets Us Nowhere (7.5/10)
- Can’t Swim – Someone Who Isn’t Me (9/10)
- Catholic Guilt – This Is What Honesty Sounds Like (7.5/10)
- Crossfaith – Species (7.5/10)
- Cxloe – Heavy, Part 1 (7/10)
- Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats – Unlocked (8.5/10)
- Descendents – Suffrage (7.5/10)
- Diamond Construct – DCX2 (9/10)
- Dress Code – Predict My Death (8/10)
- Egoism – On Our Minds (9/10)
- Eliza And The Delusionals – A State Of Living In An Objective Reality (8.5/10)
- Eskimo Callboy – MMXX (7.5/10)
- Falcifer – Pain (8/10)
- Fever 333 – Wrong Generation (10/10)
- F.O.O.L – Mercenary (8/10)
- Georgia June – Baby Blue (8.5/10)
- Georgia Marley – Lately I Haven’t Been Sleeping (8.5/10)
- Glowing – No Fun (9/10)
- Hands Like Houses – S/T (7/10)
- Hayley Mary – The Piss, The Perfume (8.5/10)
- Infant Island – Sepulcher (4/10)
- Introvert – Mending Breaking (9/10)
- Isekai – TBC (8.5/10)
- Jack River – Stranger Heart (6/10)
- Johnny Hunter – Early Trauma (7.5/10)
- King Parrot – Holed Up In The Lair (4/10)
- Koan Sound – Silk Wave (8/10)
- Kwame – Please, Get Home Safe (7/10)
- Left At London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2 (7.5/10)
- Little Quirks – Cover My Eyes (9/10)
- Lune – Ghost (9/10)
- Mayday Parade – Out Of Here (8/10)
- Merci, Mercy – No Thank You, No Thanks (8/10)
- Milky Thred – 100% Alive (9.5/10)
- Mxmtoon – Dawn (7.5/10)
- Mxmtoon – Dusk (7/10)
- Ninajirachi – Blumiere (8/10)
- Obscura Hail – Siren (8.5/10)
- OK Hotel – Stay Bright (8.5/10)
- OSees – Metamorphosed (6/10)
- Poppy – Music To Scream To (0/10)
- Pretty Sick – Deep Devine (6.5/10)
- PUP – This Place Sucks Ass (8/10)
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – The Emergency EP (7.5/10)
- Refused – The Malignant Fire (7.5/10)
- Rich Brian – 1999 (8/10)
- Riley Pearce – Maybe I Can Sleep It Off (7.5/10)
- Ruel – Bright Lights, Red Eyes (7/10)
- San Mei – Cry (7.5/10)
- Shady Nasty – Bad Posture (6.5/10)
- Shannen James – Arrows (9.5/10)
- Skyway – Hope Floats, Love Sinks (8.5/10)
- Sleepmakeswaves – No Safe Place (8/10)
- Sleepmakeswaves – Not An Exit (7/10)
- Sleepmakeswaves – Out Of Hours (8.5/10)
- Spor – Anachronic (7.5/10)
- Stellie – S/T (6.5/10)
- Strange Fiction – Captivated By The Chaos (2/10)
- Stuck Out – Lie Through Your Teeth (7/10)
- Superego – Nautilus (8/10)
- Sweater Curse – Push//Pull (8/10)
- Tech N9ne – More Fear (7.5/10)
- Teddy Killerz – Panic Attack (7.5/10)
- Teddy Killerz – Negative Thoughts (7.5/10)
- Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 (8.5/10)
- Tom Morello – Comandante (8/10)
- Totty – Garden (8.5/10)
- Troye Sivan – In A Dream (7.5/10)
- Up Late – Stars (8/10)
- The Upbeats – No Sleep ’Til New Zealand (7/10)
- Wafia – Good Things (7/10)
- Wallows – Remote (7.5/10)
- Whatever, Forever – Where I Am & Where I Want To Be (8.5/10)
- Wicca Phase Springs Eternal & Darcy Baylis – This Moment I Miss (8/10)
- Wing Defence – Friends (8.5/10)
- The Wonder Years – Burst & Decay (Volume II) [9/10]
- Zeal & Ardour – Wake Of A Nation (5/10)
RATING KEY
1 – it’s a crime against music and its creator should be prosecuted.
1.5 – it’s excruciatingly bad and no good human deserves to suffer through it.
2 – it’s truly awful. nobody in their right mind would choose to listen to it.
2.5 – it’s so bad, anybody who likes it deserves to be publicly shamed.
3 – it’s really, really fucking bad.
3.5 – it’s bad.
4 – it’s bad, but it’s not terrible.
4.5 – i don’t hate it, but it’s still pretty bad.
5 – it’s not bad, but there’s no way i’d choose to listen to it again.
5.5 – it’s not good, but there’s some audible talent in it.
6 – it’s inoffensive.
6.5 – it’s decent. i wouldn’t seek it out, but i wouldn’t skip it if it was on the radio.
7 – it’s good, but i don’t see much of an incentive to revisit it after a few playthroughs.
7.5 – it’s good, and i would happily listen to it again.
8 – it’s really good.
8.5 – it’s really good, and i’ll probably play it to death over the span of a month or two.
9 – it’s fantastic. easily worth shelling out for the overpriced vinyl.
9.5 – it’s incredible. worth buying the extremely overpriced deluxe edtion vinyl.
10 – it’s an absolute fucking masterpiece.