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

1. 070 Shake – Modus Vivendi (6.5/10)
2. The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form (7.5/10)
3. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Calm (5/10)
4. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie – Artist 2.0 (6.5/10)
5. A. Swayze & The Ghosts – Paid Salvation (5/10)
6. The Acacia Strain – Slow Decay (5/10)
7. Ace Enders – Dustin’ Off The Ol’ Guitar (7/10)
8. Adult Karate – My Friends Are Internet And I Want To Break You Open (8/10)
9. Agnes Manners – Fantasia Famish (9.5/10)
10. AJJ – Good Luck Everybody (6/10)
11. Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks In The Road (8.5/10)
12. Alex The Astronaut – The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing (9.5/10)
13. Algiers – There Is No Year (5.5/10)
14. Alice Ivy – Don’t Sleep (7/10)
15. Alien Nosejob – Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud (2/10)
16. Alpha Wolf – A Quiet Place To Die (7/10)
17. Aluna – Renaissance (6.5/10)
18. Amahiru – S/T (8/10)
19. Amaranthe – Manifest (6/10)
20. Aminé – Limbo (6/10)
21. The Amity Affliction – Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them (7/10)
22. Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment (6/10)
23. Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision (3.5/10)
24. Apocalyptica – Cell-0 (7/10)
25. Ariana Grande – Positions (6.5/10)
26. Ashton Irwin – Superbloom (7.5/10)
27. Asking Alexandria – Like A House On Fire (7.5/10)
28. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (7/10)
29. Awolnation – Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders (7.5/10)
30. Azim Zain & His Lovely Bones – Be Good (9.5/10)
31. B.o.B – Somnia (5/10)
32. Bad Cop / Bad Cop – The Ride (5.5/10)
33. Bad Nostalgia – Sex & Grieving (6.5/10)
34. Ball Park Music – S/T (7/10)
35. Banoffee – Look at Us Now Dad (7.5/10)
36. Bartees Strange – Live Forever (7.5/10)
37. Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers (9/10)
38. Beach Bunny – Honeymoon (8.5/10)
39. Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City (5/10)
40. Ben Harper – Winter Is For Lovers (8/10)
41. Benee – Hey U X (7.5/10)
42. Benny Walker – Chosen Line (7.5/10)
43. Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (7.5/10)
44. The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (10/10)
45. Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings (6.5/10)
46. Billie Joe Armstrong – No Fun Mondays (8/10) 
47. Billy Nomates – S/T (8/10)
48. Birds Of Tokyo – Human Design (6/10)
49. The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous (8/10)
50. Black Eyed Peas – Translation (5/10)
51. Black Foxxes – S/T (7/10)
52. Blackpink – The Album (6/10)
53. Blackstarkids – Whatever, Man (8/10)
54. Blake Scott – Niscitam (8.5/10)
55. Blessed – Music Is The Medicine (10/10)
56. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (6/10)
57. Body Count – Carnivore (8/10)
58. Bon Jovi – 2020 (7.5/10)
59. Boston Manor – Glue (7/10)
60. Boys Of Fall – Distance (5/10)
61. Brad Cox – My Mind’s Projection (8/10)
62. Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive (7/10)
63. Brian Fallon – Local Honey (8/10)
64. Bright Eyes – Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (7.5/10)
65. Broadside – Into The Raging Sea (8/10)
66. Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You (8/10)
67. Bully – Sugaregg (8.5/10)
68. Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (8.5/10)
69. Cable Ties – Far Enough (6.5/10)
70. Caiti Baker – Mary of the North (7/10)
71. Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant (7/10)
72. Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open (7/10)
73. Caribou – Suddenly (7/10)
74. Cavetown – Sleepyhead (8/10)
75. Charli XCX – How I’m Feeling Now (8/10)
76. The Chats – High Risk Behaviour (1/10)
77. Cherry Pickles – The Juice That’s Worth The Squeeze (5/10)
78. The Chicks – Gaslighter (7.5/10)
79. Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (7.5/10)
80. Chubby And The Gang – Speed Kills (6/10)
81. Circa Waves – Sad Happy (8/10)
82. Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark (7/10)
83. Cloud Nothings – The Black Hole Understands (8/10)
84. Code Orange – Underneath (7/10)
85. Cold War Kids – New Age Norms 2 (6/10)
86. Corey Taylor – CMFT (7.5/10)
87. Cosmo’s Midnight – Yesteryear (6.5/10)
88. Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (6.5/10)
89. Covet – Technicolor (8.5/10) 
90. Creeper – Sex, Death & The Infinite Void (8/10)
91. Cry Club – God I’m Such A Mess (10/10)
92. Cub Sport – Like Nirvana (6/10)
93. Custard – Respect All Lifeforms (7.5/10)
94. Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (6/10)
95. Dalai Lama – Inner World (5/10)
96. Dance Gavin Dance – Afterburner (8.5/10)
97. Danny Denial – Fuck Danny Denial (8/10)
98. Dave The Band – Slob Stories (7.5/10)
99. Death By Stereo – We’re All Dying Just In Time (5/10)
100. Dear Youth – Heirloom (8.5/10)
101. Deep Purple – Whoosh! (3/10)
102. Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (3/10)
103. Deftones – Ohms (7.5/10)
104. DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons, Vol. 1 (7/10)
105. Diet Cig – Do You Wonder About Me? (8.5/10)
106. Dikembe – Muck (9/10)
107. Disclosure – Energy (7.5/10)
108. Dizzee Rascal – E3 AF (7/10)
109. DMA’s – The Glow (8.5/10)
110. Dominic Fike – What Could Possibly Go Wrong (8/10)
111. Donny Benet – Mr. Experience (7.5/10)
112. Doves – The Universal Want (6/10)
113. Drab City – Good Songs for Bad People (5/10)
114. The Dream Syndicate – The Universe Inside (3/10)
115. Dream On Dreamer – What If I Told You It Doesn’t Get Better (7/10)
116. Dream Wife – So When You Gonna… (7/10)
117. Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (7/10)
118. Dune Rats – Hurry Up And Wait (3/10)
119. DVSR – West Technique (9/10)
120. e4444e – Coldstream Road (5/10)
121. E^ST – I’m Doing It (7.5/10)
122. Eastwood – It Never Gets Easy (8.5/10)
123. Echosmith – Lonely Generation (6.5/10)
124. El Tee – Everything Is Fine (8/10)
125. Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface (3.5/10)
126. Emery – White Line Fever (7/10)
127. Enter Shikari – Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (10/10)
128. Envy – The Fallen Crimson (8/10)
129. Everything Everything – Re-Animator (6/10)
130. Fanny Lumsden – Fallow (8.5/10)
131. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (7.5/10)
132. Field Music – Making A New World (5/10)
133. Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters (8.5/10)
134. Five Finger Death Punch – F8 (6/10)
135. The Flaming Lips – American Head (7/10)
136. Fleet Foxes – Shore (6/10)
137. Foley! – Moley! (7/10)
138. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death (4/10)
139. Foxy Shazam – Burn (4.5/10)
140. Frances Quinlan – Likewise (8/10)
141. The Front Bottoms – In Sickness & In Flames (10/10)
142. Future Islands – As Long As You Are (7.5/10)
143. Georgia – Seeking Thrills (8/10)
144. Georgia Marley – Yearning (7/10)
145. The Ghost Inside – S/T (8/10)
146. Gladie – Safe Sins (8/10)
147. Glass Animals – Dreamland (6.5/10)
148. Goldfinger – Never Look Back (7.5/10)
149. Good Boy – It Takes A Lot Of Skill To Milk A Mare (8/10)
150. Good Tiger – Raised In A Doomsday Cult (7/10)
151. Gordi – Our Two Skins (7/10)
152. Gorillaz – Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez (7.5/10)
153. Grandson – Death Of An Optimist (8/10)
154. Great Gable – Tracing Faces (6.5/10)
155. Green Day – Father Of All Motherfuckers (5.5/10)
156. Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator Of God (8/10)
157. Grey Daze – Amends (7.5/10)
158. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (6.5/10)
159. Grouplove – Healer (7.5/10)
160. Grouptherapy. – There Goes The Neighbourhood (7.5/10)
161. Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress (6/10)
162. Hachiku – I’ll Probably Be Asleep (7.5/10)
163. Haiku Hands – S/T (9/10)
164. Haim – Women In Music Pt. III (9/10)
165. Half Waif – The Caretaker (7.5/10)
166. Halsey – Manic (7.5/10)
167. Hatebreed – Weight Of The False Self (6/10)
168. Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor (7.5/10)
169. High Contrast – Notes From The Underground (5/10)
170. Hockey Dad – Brain Candy (5/10)
171. Holiday Party – S/T (7/10)
172. Hot Mulligan – You’ll Be Fine (9/10)
173. Huey Lewis And The News – Weather (3.5/10)
174. Hundredth – Somewhere Nowhere (7/10)
175. I Don’t Know How But They Found Me – Razzmatazz (8/10)
176. Idles – Ultra Mono (7/10)
177. Igorrr – Spirituality And Distortion (6.5/10)
178. Illuminati Hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For (7/10)
179. Infinite Pizza – Escape from Pizza Monster Island (4/10)
180. In Hearts Wake – Kaliyuga (8.5/10)
181. In This Moment – Mother (4.5/10)
182. Infant Island – Beneath (6.5/10)
183. Into It. Over It. – Figure (7/10)
184. Jack Colwell – Swandream (5/10)
185. Jack R. Reilly – Middle Everything (7.5/10)
186. Jarv Is – Beyond the Pale (5.5/10)
187. Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Reunions (7/10)
188. Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream (8.5/10)
189. Jeremy Neale – We Were Trying to Make It Out (8.5/10)
190. Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea (7/10)
191. Joji – Nectar (8/10)
192. Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald – Push The Blues Away (6.5/10)
193. Joywave – Possession (7.5/10)
194. Jordana – Classical Notions Of Happiness (7.5/10)
195. Jordana – Something To Say To You (7.5/10)
196. Juice Wrld – Legends Never Die (7/10)
197. Justice For The Damned – Pain Is Power (9/10)
198. Justin Bieber – Changes (4/10)
199. Katie Dey – Mydata (7/10)
200. Katy Perry – Smile (6/10)
201. Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (6.5/10)
202. Kesha – High Road (7.5/10)
203. Khruangbin – Mordechai (5.5/10)
204. Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon III: The Chosen (10/10)
205. Kid Dad – In A Box (9.5/10)
206. The Kid Laroi – Fuck Love (6/10)
207. Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero (6.5/10)
208. The Killers – Imploding The Mirage (9/10)
209. Kingswood – Juveniles (8.5/10)
210. The Kite String Tangle – C()D3X (6/10)
211. Knuckle Puck – 20/20 (7.5/10)
212. Kvelertak – Splid (8.5/10)
213. La Roux – Supervision (2.5/10)
214. Lady Gaga – Chromatica (4/10)
215. Lamb Of God – S/T (7/10)
216. Lany – Mama’s Boy (7/10)
217. Larkin Poe – Self Made Man (7/10)
218. Lastlings – First Contact (5.5/10)
219. Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive (7.5/10)
220. Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter (7/10)
221. The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public (5/10)
222. Less Than Jake – Silver Linings (7/10)
223. Lewis Del Mar – August (6.5/10)
224. Lianne La Havas – S/T (7.5/10)
225. Like Moths To Flames – No Eternity In Gold (7/10)
226. Lime Cordiale – 14 Steps To A Better You (7.5/10)
227. Lisa Caruso – In Feelings (7/10)
228. Loathe – I Let It In And It Took Everything (8.5/10)
229. Loser – Mindless Joy (8/10)
230. Louis Tomlinson – Walls (6.5/10)
231. Mac Miller – Circles (6.5/10)
232. Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall (7/10)
233. Maddy Jane – Not All Bad Or Good (7.5/10)
234. Major Lazer – Music Is The Weapon (6.5/10)
235. Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral (8/10)
236. Mat Zo – Illusion Of Depth (7.5/10)
237. Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (7.5/10)
238. Marcus King – El Dorado (6.5/10)
239. Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos (6.5/10)
240. Mark Seymour & The Undertow – Slow Dawn (7.5/10)
241. Max – Colour Vision (7/10)
242. Maxwell Stern – Impossible Sum (9/10)
243. Megan Washington – Batflowers (8/10)
244. Melanie C – S/T (6/10)
245. The Midnight – Monsters (6.5/10)
246. Midnight Oil – The Makarrata Project (8.5/10)
247. Miel – Tourist Season (6.5/10)
248. Miiesha – Nyaaringu (6.5/10)
249. Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 (5/10)
250. Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts (7.5/10)
251. Misery Signals – Ultraviolet (7/10)
252. The Mountain Goats – Songs For Pierre Chuvin (7.5/10)
253. The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (7.5/10)
254. Movements – No Good Left To Give (8/10)
255. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (6.5/10)
256. Mt. Joy – Rearrange Us (6.5/10)
257. Mura Masa – RYC (9/10)
258. The Muslims – Gentrified Chicken (5/10)
259. Muzz – The Promised Land (7/10)
260. The Naked And Famous – Recover (7/10)
261. Nada Surf – Never Not Together (7.5/10)
262. Nadia Reid – Out Of My Province (7/10)
263. Naif – I Am Plenty (6.5/10)
264. Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional (8/10)
265. The Neighbourhood – Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tone (6.5/10)
266. Neon Trees – I Can Feel You Forgetting Me (7/10)
267. Netsky – Second Nature (5.5/10)
268. The Network – Money Money 2020 Pt II: We Told Ya So! (4/10)
269. New Found Glory – Forever + Ever x Infinity (5.5/10)
270. Niall Horan – Heartbreak Weather (7/10)
271. Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice (6.5/10)
272. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together (6.5/10)
273. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts VI: Locusts (6/10)
274. Ninja Sex Party – The Prophecy (7.5/10)
275. Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic (8/10)
276. Nothing Rhymes With David – Sky Lonely (8.5/10)
277. Nova Twins – Who Are The Girls? (10/10)
278. The Nude Party – Midnight Manor (7/10)
279. The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (6.5/10)
280. Ocean Alley – Lonely Diamond (7/10)
281. Ocean Grove – Flip Phone Fantasy (7.5/10)
282. Oceanator – Things I Never Said (7/10)
283. Oh Wonder – No One Else Can Wear Your Crown (5.5/10)
284. Oliver Tree – Ugly Is Beautiful (9/10)
285. Orianthi – O (7.5/10)
286. OSees – Protean Threat (6/10)
287. Owen – The Avalanche (8/10)
288. Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (7/10)
289. Pallbearer – Forgotten Days (7/10)
290. Paradise Club – S/T (8/10)
291. Party Dozen – Pray For Party Dozen (3/10)
292. Paul Kelly – Forty Days (7/10)
293. Paul McCartney – McCartney III (6/10)
294. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (6.5/10)
295. Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot (6.5/10)
296. Phantogram – Ceremony (7/10)
297. Phantom Planet – Devastator (6.5/10)
298. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (7.5/10)
299. Pillow Queens – In Waiting (8/10)
300. Pinegrove – Marigold (10/10)
301. Plini – Impulse Voices (6.5/10)
302. Polaris – The Death Of Me (8/10)
303. Poppy – I Disagree (7.5/10)
304. Powderfinger – Unreleased (1998-2010) [7.5/10]
305. The Pretenders – Hate For Sale (6.5/10)
306. The Pretty Littles – Weekend Away (8/10)
307. Private Function – Whose Line Is It Anyway? (7/10)
308. Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (6/10)
309. Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down (4/10)
310. Purity Ring – Womb (6/10)
311. Puscifer – Existential Reckoning (6.5/10)
312. PVRIS – Use Me (7/10)
313. Radkey – Green Room (8/10)
314. Radnor & Lee – Golden State (5/10)
315. Ratboys – Printer’s Devil (7.5/10)
316. Real Estate – The Main Thing (5/10)
317. Remo Drive – A Portrait Of An Ugly Man (7.5/10)
318. Rich People – Harmony (7.5/10)
319. Rico Nasty – Nightmare Vacation (5/10)
320. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy (7.5/10)
321. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (8/10)
322. RVG – Feral (7.5/10)
323. Sad13 – Haunted Painting (8/10)
324. Sam Smith – Love Goes (6.5/10)
325. San Cisco – Between You And Me (7/10)
326. Scabz – Pressure (6.5/10)
327. Seahaven – Halo Of Hurt (7.5/10)
328. Seaway – Big Vibe (7/10)
329. Seether – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (6.5/10)
330. Selena Gomez – Rare (5/10)
331. Sevendust – Blood & Stone (6.5/10)
332. Silverstein – A Beautiful Place To Drown (8/10)
333. Sister Sandy – Floruit (7.5/10)
334. Slaughter Beach, Dog – At The Moonbase (8/10)
335. Slaves – To Better Days (6/10)
336. Sløtface – Sorry For The Late Reply (9/10)
337. Slowly Slowly – Race Car Blues (7/10)
338. The Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr (8.5/10)
339. The Smith Street Band – Don’t Waste Your Anger (8.5/10)
340. Soccer Mommy – Color Theory (8.5/10)
341. Something For Kate – The Modern Medieval (9.5/10)
342. Spacey Jane – Sunlight (8/10)
343. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone (9/10)
344. Sports Team – Deep Down Happy (8/10)
345. Squarepusher – Be Up A Hello (6.5/10)
346. Stand Atlantic – Pink Elephant (8/10)
347. Static X – Project Regeneration, Vol. 1 (7.5/10)
348. Steve Aoki – Neon Future IV (5.5/10)
349. Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida (5/10)
350. The Streets – None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive (7.5/10)
351. The Strokes – The New Abnormal (9/10)
352. The Struts – Strange Days (8/10)
353. Stumps – All Our Friends (8.5/10)
354. Sub Focus and Wilkinson – Portals (6.5/10)
355. Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension (3.5/10)
356. Suicide Silence – Become The Hunter (7/10)
357. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (6.5/10)
358. Tayla Parx – Coping Mechanisms (7/10)
359. Taylor Swift – Folklore (9.5/10)
360. Taylor Swift – Evermore (9.5/10)
361. Tech N9ne – Enterfear (7.5/10)
362. Thundercat – It Is What It Is (6/10)
363. Tim Heidecker – Fear Of Death (5/10)
364. Tim Minchin – Apart Together (7.5/10)
365. Tired Lion – Breakfast For Pathetics (8.5/10)
366. Tommy Lee – Andro (2/10)
367. Tops – I Feel Alive (5.5/10)
368. Touché Amoré – Lament (8.5/10)
369. Triple One – Panic Force (7.5/10)
370. Trivium – What The Dead Men Say (7/10)
371. U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (5/10)
372. The Used – Heartwork (8/10)
373. The Vamps – Cherry Blossom (4.5/10)
374. Violent Soho – Everything Is A-OK (8.5/10)
375. The War And Treaty – Hearts Town (8/10)
376. War On Women – Wonderful Hell (8/10)
377. Wax Chattels – Clot (6/10)
378. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (8.5/10)
379. Ways Away – S/T (7.5/10)
380. The Weeknd – After Hours (5.5/10)
381. Whethan – Fantasy (8/10)
382. Widowspeak – Plum (7.5/10)
383. Wil Wagner – Spiralling (7/10)
384. Wolf & Cub – Nil (7/10)
385. Worriers – You Or Someone You Know (8/10)
386. Yours Truly – Self Care (9/10)
387. Yungblud – Weird! (9/10)

EPs

1. !!! – Certified Heavy Katz (6/10)
2. 6lack – 6pc Hot (4.5/10)
3. ‘68 – Love Is Ain’t Dead (6.5/10)
4. Alex Melton – Quality Content (8/10)
5. Animal Collective – Bridge To Quiet (1.5/10)
6. Antagonist A.D. – Through Fire (9/10)
7. April – Luna (7/10)
8. Bermuda Bay – Expectations (7.5/10)
9. Black Tiger Sex Machine – Futuristic Thriller (9/10)
10. Bloom – In Passing (9.5/10)
11. Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror (9.5/10)
12. The Buoys – All This Talking Gets Us Nowhere (7.5/10)
13. Can’t Swim – Someone Who Isn’t Me (9/10)
14. Catholic Guilt – This Is What Honesty Sounds Like (7.5/10)
15. Crossfaith – Species (7.5/10)
16. Cxloe – Heavy, Part 1 (7/10)
17. Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats – Unlocked (8.5/10)
18. Descendents – Suffrage (7.5/10)
19. Diamond Construct – DCX2 (9/10)
20. Dress Code – Predict My Death (8/10)
21. Egoism – On Our Minds (9/10)
22. Eliza And The Delusionals – A State Of Living In An Objective Reality (8.5/10)
23. Eskimo Callboy – MMXX (7.5/10)
24. Falcifer – Pain (8/10)
25. Fever 333 – Wrong Generation (10/10)
26. F.O.O.L – Mercenary (8/10)
27. Georgia June – Baby Blue (8.5/10) 
28. Georgia Marley – Lately I Haven’t Been Sleeping (8.5/10)
29. Glowing – No Fun (9/10)
30. Hands Like Houses – S/T (7/10)
31. Hayley Mary – The Piss, The Perfume (8.5/10)
32. Infant Island – Sepulcher (4/10)
33. Introvert – Mending Breaking (9/10)
34. Isekai – TBC (8.5/10)
35. Jack River – Stranger Heart (6/10)
36. Johnny Hunter – Early Trauma (7.5/10)
37. King Parrot – Holed Up In The Lair (4/10)
38. Koan Sound – Silk Wave (8/10)
39. Kwame – Please, Get Home Safe (7/10)
40. Left At London – Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 2 (7.5/10)
41. Little Quirks – Cover My Eyes (9/10)
42. Lune – Ghost (9/10)
43. Mayday Parade – Out Of Here (8/10)
44. Merci, Mercy – No Thank You, No Thanks (8/10)
45. Milky Thred – 100% Alive (9.5/10)
46. Mxmtoon – Dawn (7.5/10)
47. Mxmtoon – Dusk (7/10)
48. Ninajirachi – Blumiere (8/10)
49. Obscura Hail – Siren (8.5/10)
50. OK Hotel – Stay Bright (8.5/10)
51. OSees – Metamorphosed (6/10)
52. Poppy – Music To Scream To (0/10)
53. Pretty Sick – Deep Devine (6.5/10)
54. PUP – This Place Sucks Ass (8/10)
55. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – The Emergency EP (7.5/10)
56. Refused – The Malignant Fire (7.5/10)
57. Rich Brian – 1999 (8/10)
58. Riley Pearce – Maybe I Can Sleep It Off (7.5/10)
59. Ruel – Bright Lights, Red Eyes (7/10)
60. San Mei – Cry (7.5/10)
61. Shady Nasty – Bad Posture (6.5/10)
62. Shannen James – Arrows (9.5/10)
63. Skyway – Hope Floats, Love Sinks (8.5/10)
64. Sleepmakeswaves – No Safe Place (8/10)
65. Sleepmakeswaves – Not An Exit (7/10)
66. Sleepmakeswaves – Out Of Hours (8.5/10)
67. Spor – Anachronic (7.5/10)
68. Stellie – S/T (6.5/10)
69. Strange Fiction – Captivated By The Chaos (2/10)
70. Stuck Out – Lie Through Your Teeth (7/10)
71. Superego – Nautilus (8/10)
72. Sweater Curse – Push//Pull (8/10)
73. Tech N9ne – More Fear (7.5/10)
74. Teddy Killerz – Panic Attack (7.5/10)
75. Teddy Killerz – Negative Thoughts (7.5/10)
76. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 (8.5/10)
77. Tom Morello – Comandante (8/10)
78. Totty – Garden (8.5/10)
79. Troye Sivan – In A Dream (7.5/10)
80. Up Late – Stars (8/10)
81. The Upbeats – No Sleep ’Til New Zealand (7/10)
82. Wafia – Good Things (7/10)
83. Wallows – Remote (7.5/10)
84. Whatever, Forever – Where I Am & Where I Want To Be (8.5/10)
85. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal & Darcy Baylis – This Moment I Miss (8/10)
86. Wing Defence – Friends (8.5/10)
87. The Wonder Years – Burst & Decay (Volume II) [9/10]
88. 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.