Favorite Albums of 2020 So Far?

The new release from Schnellertollermeier will end up in my top 3 by years end. Wonderful slab of Swiss minimalist brutal jazz.

Thanks! If you like that one certainly check out their previous 2 albums, they're even more intense than this one.

My no. #1 album for this year would be Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

This will be high on my list. Just picked it up today, absolute monster.

^yeah, I was not expecting what hit my ears. Steensland never impressed me before, will have to go back and relisten to his other stuff. And Thirlwell I was unfamiliar with, though I had heard the Venture Bros soundtracks in the show.

My top 5 at the moment (order subject to change):

Immortal Onion - XD
World Sanguine Report - Skeleton Blush
Grimény - Die Große Aufgabe
Cthulu Rise - Last
JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscollospira

Others:

Zopp
Ghost Rhythms - Imaginary Mountains (caught this one off your Bandcamp list)

Haven't listened to Scherzoo's latest all the way through, but have high hopes. Also predicting Le Grand Sbam will have a high spot. Also have Schnellertollermeier on the way. I think their last album was somewhere near the end of my top 20 that year...or just outside of it. The tracks I have heard from this one are more enjoyable.

Edited by Tapfret - November 16 2020 at 14:20

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nick_h_nz wrote: I’ve listened to well over 200 releases from 2020 so far, and while I would never suggest that all are contenders for my favourites of the year, the list of those that are is still surprisingly long. There have been a number of albums hat have really impressed me, and I guess it would be easier to whittle them down to a smaller list if they were all from the same, or similar, genre(s), because it would be easier to compare them, and work out which I enjoy more. Surely I can’t be the only one that finds it hard to rank enjoyment and favourite factor across genres? Here’s the (long) short list, in alphabetical order. I’ll come back to it, if I manage to make it shorter! 😄🤪 Aadal - Silver Adenine - Adenine Aksak Maboul - Figures The Animal State - Genus Arabs in Aspic - Madness and Magic Arcing Wires - Prime Asian Death Crustacean- Baikal Brudini - From Darkness, Light Compassionizer - Caress of Compassion Alex Crispin & Nicholas Whittaker  - Irian Jaga Darkroom - Home Diaries 029 Desert Session Home Edition - Phase 1 Dool - Summerland Doringo - Gužva u Svemiru Eishan Ensemble - Afternoon Tea at Six Electric Mud - Quiet Days on Earth elliot. - As He Now Appears The Erkonauts - I Want It To End Eternal Wanderers- Homeless Soul The Folsom Project - The Wolf and The Skull Fren - Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside Ghost Toast - Shape Without Form Golden Caves - Dysergy Grandval - Descendu Sur Terre Gravity Machine - Red Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear Grumblewood - Stories of Strangers The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps  hubris. - Metempsychosis  Jonathan Hultén - Chants From Another Place Japonica - Into the Kaleidoscope  Jargon - The Fading Thought Jupiter Hollow - Bereavement  Dusan Jevtovic - If You See Me Kalandra - The Line Karina - 2 Kekal - Quantum Resolution Kilter - Axiom Laughing Stock - The Island Phil Lively - The Fall LogoS - Sadako... Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want To Live? Lucynine - Amor Venenat Julia Marcell - Skull Echo Marhold - A Homemade World Maud the Moth - Orphné Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz Ottone Pesante - DoomooD  Our Oceans - While Time Disappears Outside In - Karmatrain Pencarrow - Growth in The Absence Of Light Pie Are Squared - Muri  Pie Are Squared - Con Calma Ping - The ZigZag Manoeuvre Postvorta - Porrima Postvorta - Siderael  Professor Tip Top - Tomorrow Is Delayed Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys And Mountains Quel Che Disse Il Tuono - Il Velo Dei Riflessi Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking Sky Cries Mary - Secrets of a Red Planet Tic Tic - Comfort in the Echo Turtle Skull - Monoliths Void of Sleep - Metaphora 3,14 - Bombyx Mori

Woooow !!! What an amazing list !!

Edited by triptych - November 24 2020 at 06:31

richardh wrote: Wobbler - Dwellers of The Deep everything else Glass Hammer - Dreaming City The Flower Kings - Islands IO Earth - Aura Isobar - Isobar Kansas - The Absence Of Presence Gungfly - Alone Together Deep Purple - Whoosh! The Pineapple Thief - Versions Of The Truth The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance

Kansas album isn’t on my list was on the essential first listening.

^I second the Isobar recommendation.