Top 40 Music Albums of the 2020s by 
Davy 
- Chart updated: 02/15/2024 13:45
- (Created: 07/11/2021 18:42).
- Chart size: 40 albums.
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I actually only discovered this album because it was featured in a lot of 2021 year ends lists and I liked the cover art (the amount of good music I've discovered because I liked the cover is insane at this point). Usually I don't get into contact with hardcore that often; the straightforward aggressivness just isn't enough to get my attention. But usually Devonte Hynes (I love Blood Orange's mellow sound!) isn't a returning guest vocalist on a hardcore bands album either - this fact alone gives an insight, what kind of dynamic we are talking about with Glow On. So when I first put on Blackout, it was aggressive enough to immediatly catch my attention, the singers wrathful shouting didn't seem silly at all and actually empowered me. But: Their music doesn't lack creativness, is extremly melodic and therefore catchy and transitions seemlessly from one instrumentally brilliant segment into another. I love the little percussive tricks and other sound knacks that elevate these songs even more and makes them truly special. And as someone who adores long songs, these punk-lengthy 3-min-max songs don't feel too short, just perfectly executed. Like shooting stars, this album will glow on longer than we can imagine. Or, as someone in YouTube comments wrote: "That's the band our kids will ask about."
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2021
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The climatic journey into the mad world, that Narrator creates, is simply frightening - in my opinion, from the odd beginning to the complete breakdown that follows, this song is the audio-equivalent of a psychotic episode (I am my own Narrator). Martha Skype Murphys banshee-like singing and screaming conjures demonic maelstroms in the speakers and headphones. This music twists and turns, is truly off-putting and weirdly appealing. The nasal chanting of singer-drummer Ollie Judge complements the instrumental heist of his bandmates in a comedic way. While not as jazzy and in a way less experimental than the London Math Punk associates black midi and Black Country, New Road, Brighton's Squid manage to keep a certain melodic catchiness that really speaks to me even more. Instrumentally, of course, they are as precise and skilled as their contemporaries.
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2021
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In Germany, no hip hop artist has ever come close to even remotely be considered comparable with American hip hop. Most "Deutschrap" is lyrically dull and musically uninteresting in my opinion (I'm not talking about underground though). OG Keemo and his producer Funkvater Frank (they have to be considered a duo, like Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, Mobb Depp and RTJ because Frankie really is the architect of unbelievable bangers that deserve more recognition) changed this completely. This second album generated a cult following online, maybe to the irritation of American rap fans (in part because they don't understand the lyrics), but from German perspective, this is the peak of what this country has to offer regarding Concious rap, thoughtful lyrics and extremely fun and interesting Gangsta trap beats.
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One might say that nostalgia-driven music is a cheap trick to please oldheads (of any genre, but in particular with rock music). Visiting a War On Drugs concert is a nice case study of this thesis, as there are a lot of at least middle aged (white) dudes. But then there is also a considerable amount of younger people and I guess this showcases the fact that some music simply is timeless. Of course, Adam Granduciel's lyrics are soaked with nostalgic references as well - this record might be their most pathetic album to date. As a U2 fan tho, that's not necessarily a bad thing. U2 really leaned into the pathetic side of music Joshua-Tree-onwards and this sparked some of my favourite moments of music history. That's why I like this Drugs-record the most, even though it lacks the dream-guitar-duration of Strangest Thing and Under The Pressure - in a way, it's just a great collection of guitar-and-piano-driven pop songs with insanely good vocals by Adam Granduciel.
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2021
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Listened to this album for the first time when I way heavily in love, warm summer night in Albania. From the moment, Slowdive had released kisses in advance, I knew they would drop something biblical. I discovered Slowdive with their selftitled comeback album in 2017. It's still shocking that although we had great artists further developing and reshaping Dream Pop Post-Souvlaki, the sound has sucessfully (even more sucessful than before) evolved to it's Tik Tok era. But only when you dive slow, the big, deep emotions are tickled out of your heart. Because when Neil Halstead picks the guitar strings, he's intertwining the web of lover's souls and when he and Rachel Goswell sing their mumble pop, it's not some 50-plus-boomers, it's the voice of young lovers. That's why I was carried by the wave, listening to this record on a Mediterranean shore. I was tired and fell half-asleep in my lovers arms for the last third of the record, which made the dreamyness even more perfect.
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2023
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If I haven't seen live videos on youtube, I would most certainly be sure, that this album was recorded in the 80s and has just now been carefully remastered and rereleased. It's no wonder that the extreme 80s nostalgia and retromania would bring us a lot of 80s influenced revivalist music (and actually, as someone who digs the 80s vibe, I quite enjoy this retrostuff) - but NOL just is something else. This is top tier synth pop and I think some of the original 80s synth legends would wish to have written such gems. This album is full of brilliant ideas, it combines the straight-edge synths of Kraftwerk with heartfell singing that has left the club and entered the arenas.
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Did anyone expect this band to put out such a light, fresh sounding record? Well, I for sure didn't. To me, this sounds more interesting than anything The Strokes have done up until now. I don't really mind the garage rock revival the kickstarted in the early 2000s. Of course, there are some nods to their gnarly last nights (Bad Decisions), but for the most parts, the band left the garage behind and moved to a 21st century hipster start-up New York, working with drum machines and synthesizers - I guess Rick Rubin can be attributed to this shift into the modern world. He manages to showcase the band at their funkiest, dreamiest and most danceable. SAMO surely would be proud.
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2020
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This is the 20th studio album that King Gizzard released within 10 years. I've discovered them in 2017 when they put out 5 albums in one year - so of course it's their sheer producitivity and the whole "Gizzverse" around their releases, lyrcis, narratives (supernatural environmental catastrophe) and live shows that makes King Gizzard to one of my favourite bands. But it's also their brilliant music and this first double album proves how much this band has evolved since 2017. It's like a "greatest hits collection" of all the genres they've experimented since - except that it's no best of, it's new songs. So this album is perfect for people who want to get into "the Gizzverse", because it combines everything this band is good at: progressive 18-minute guitar-jorneys and dream-pop-like acid episodes, synth-neo-psychedelia as well as gnarly shabby garage metal tunes - and yes, even hip-hop rhythms and rapping.
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2022
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When this album was released, it really stayed true to it's title. It was a feeling of being washed up at the shore, having experienced traumastising months on sea and now walking with weary feet on warm sand - a certain streak of hope that arose in the pandemic Indian summer (I wasn't aware that the German lockdown winter of 2020/21 would be even worse, but at least the streak of hope stayed with the vaccine on the horizon). I appreciate the de-complexication of these songs in comparison to Fleet Foxes' two previous records. Of course, a Fleet Foxes record won't be a Fleet Foxes record without the typical melancholia of the folk songs. But on this fourth album, Robin Pecknold sounds more hopeful than ever, this is his brightest collection of songs since his brilliant debut.
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2020
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The biggest Swiss radio station used to play a "World Music Special" every thursday evening and I loved to discover new exciting sounds in this segment. One evening, the topic of the program was "Eastern European Folk" and the presenter played some tunes from this Polish roots band - of course, the mythical singing and odd instrumental rhythms caught my attention. Waterduction or "Urzescze" is inspired by the journey of this band along the Vistula, a very wild rover that is tightly connected with Polish history. So this album is like a modern version of the classical composition The Moldau, which we used to listen to in elementary school music class - like Smetana, this band managed to capture a whole river into their music.
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Top 40 Music Albums of the 2020s composition
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| Little Simz | 1 | 3% | |
| Warsaw Village Band | 1 | 3% | |
| Odd Beholder | 1 | 3% | |
| Nilüfer Yanya | 1 | 3% | |
| Bilderbuch | 1 | 3% | |
| Wet Leg | 1 | 3% | |
| Turnstile | 1 | 3% | |
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14 | 35% | |
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12 | 30% | |
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3 | 8% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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Top 40 Music Albums of the 2020s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 10 from 35th to 25thLast Night In The Bittersweet by Paolo Nutini |
| Up 1 from 38th to 37th Infinite Granite by Deafheaven |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 17 from 21st to 38th Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar |
| Down 5 from 28th to 33rd Crawler by Idles |
| Down 3 from 24th to 27th Collapsed In Sunbeams by Arlo Parks |
| Leavers |
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 RTJ4by Run The Jewels |
| Shabrang by Sevdaliza |
| Fake Nails by Crimer |
| Blonde Otter by Blonde Otter |
| New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning |
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