Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 by JamesMowbray 
Might be interesting to sort this one by least charts/ratings. Not sure anyone needs me to tell them that Fiona Apple had a good album out this year.
- Chart updated: 08/20/2021 16:15
- (Created: 02/04/2020 16:26).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I feel like the main draw of music that's sad or that covers difficult subjects is that it gets across a feeling of not being alone but I'm not sure that it does a lot to make anyone feel better. In fact, some of Black Dresses' own music can have the opposite effect on me. Something like 'Hell is Real' might make me feel a bit more miserable but it's also cathartic, the emotional honesty feels important. 'Peaceful as Hell' does something different. It gives a sense of resolution and being able to cope with difficulties without making up some fairytale story where everything works out in the end. There was a sketch of this approach on 2019's 'Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches' where a track as harsh as static talks about never having felt more alive without undercutting the tone of the track. These types of themes are more affective here. "There's a part of me that wants to keep destroying me" is repeated over and over on 'Damage Suppressor' but it's followed up with "I'll keep coming back together again". The album celebrates the slow progress and small victories without looking for some sort of unattainable complete recovery, it celebrates the bravery we show when we try to get better. The outro to their 2019 track 'Death/ Bad Girl' has Rook say "I'm glad we're in the struggle but I wish we didn't have to define ourselves by the struggle at all", 'Peaceful as Hell' reverses this statement and speaks it louder than ever.
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When I first heard 'Crap Shit' I respected it as an album but thought I'd barely listen to it again because of it's almost unrelenting negativity. A few weeks later I was listening to it almost non stop. I don't think this was just because it managed to capture the general state of things, but also that the tracks here are so unique. Almost every track has some kind of menace to it, with tracks like 'Hellraiser 2' featuring all kinds of distorted synths and vocal tricks, or the off kilter 'Melty Future' which has these electronic horn effects that just control the track. Things go more off the rails later in the record, peaking with 'Elevator to the Catacombs' and its monologue which really tears into the worst sorts of music fans. The gentler moments don't really offer much respite. 'In 2 the Sewer' is a really beautiful track but has a tragic tone to it and closing track 'Curse' is overwhelmingly sad but brings home the progression of the album. Sometimes negative stuff doesn't really go away but approaching it with empathy and clarity has to be better than the alternative.
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 composition
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| The Microphones | 1 | 1% | |
| Mark Lanegan | 1 | 1% | |
| The Soft Pink Truth | 1 | 1% | |
| India Jordan | 1 | 1% | |
| Princess | 1 | 1% | |
| Keleketla! | 1 | 1% | |
| The Avalanches | 1 | 1% | |
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 90/100 | 11/17/2020 08:48 |  Purplepash | | 88/100 |
| 100/100 | 11/10/2020 11:35 |  desh79 | | 93/100 |
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From VanillaBean 09/10/2021 17:32
This chart rules.
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