The Best Singles Of 2021

Top 50

1. Like I Used To - SHARON VAN ETTEN & ANGEL OLSEN
2. Strong Feelings - DRY CLEANING
3. Atlantic - THE WEATHER STATION
4. Guided By Angels - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
5. Walking At A Downtown Pace - PARQUET COURTS
6. Down - ST. VINCENT
7. Sunset Dreams - JANE WEAVER
8. Here Comes Comus - ARAB STRAP
9. Track X - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
10. Pamphlets - SQUID
11. (There Is) No Logic - LONELADY
12. We Are Between - MODEST MOUSE
13. Ben Franklin - SNAIL MAIL
14. Head Cheerleader - POM POM SQUAD
15. The Doll - AUDIOBOOKS
16. People Let’s Dance - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
17. Nudge It (feat. Amy Taylor) - SLEAFORD MODS
18. John L - BLACK MIDI
19. Badibaba - GOAT GIRL
20. Rae Street - COURTNEY BARNETT
21. Hard Drive - CASSANDRA JENKINS
22. I Don't Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius) - THE WAR ON DRUGS
23. I Ran Away - DINOSAUR JR.
24. Harbour - NEW PAGANS
25. Queen Of The Underground - GOAT
26. Vendetta - ICEAGE
27. Hot & Heavy - LUCY DACUS
28. Be Sweet - JAPANESE BREAKFAST
29. Point and Kill - LITTLE SIMZ
30. Animal - LUMP
31. Rhythm Is Our Business - SNAPPED ANKLES
32. Press Gang - TV PRIEST
33. Nigel Hitter - SHAME
34. Car Crash - IDLES
35. Worry With You - SLEATER-KINNEY
36. In The Stone - THE GOON SAX
37. Monolith - THE CHILLS
38. One + One - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
39. Feel Good - TY SEGALL
40. Book - GUSTAF
41. Nowhere, Man - TUNE-YARDS
42. Smile - WOLF ALICE
43. Love More - FIONA APPLE
44. Junkyard - U.S. GIRLS
45. Run Run Run - KURT VILE
46. Spices - THE HOLD STEADY
47. One Of These Days - MEAT PUPPETS
48. Sekwar - LIARS
49. Days Like These – LOW
50. Bumma Sanger - TROPICAL FUCK STORM

The Best Albums Of 2020

 Top 50

1. Ultimate success today - PROTOMARTYR  
2. A hero's death - FONTAINES D.C.
3. Fetch the bolt cutters - FIONA APPLE
4. Run The Jewels 4 - RUN THE JEWELS
5. Ultra mono - IDLES
6. Sideways to New Italy - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
7. Every bad - PORRIDGE RADIO
8. By the fire - THURSTON MOORE
9. Off Off On - THIS IS THE KIT
10. Saint Cloud - WAXAHATCHEE
11. Darkness brings the wonders home - SMOKE FAIRIES
12. Songs and instrumentals - ADRIANNE LENKER
13. Alphabetland - X
14. Blue hearts - BOB MOULD
15. 925 - SORRY
16. Heavy light - U.S. GIRLS
17. Disco volador - THE ORIELLES
18. Kitchen sink - NADINE SHAH
19. Straight songs of sorrow - MARK LANEGAN
20. The universe inside - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
21. The new abnormal - THE STROKES
22. Mind hive - WIRE
23. American head - THE FLAMING LIPS
24. Punisher - PHOEBE BRIDGERS
25. Color theory - SOCCER MOMMY
26. Sun racket - THROWING MUSES
27. Thin mind - WOLF PARADE
28. There is no year - ALGIERS
29. Gentle grip - PUBLIC PRACTICE
30. Beyond the pale - JARV IS...
31. The ascension - SUFJAN STEVENS
32. Working Men’s Club - WORKING MEN'S CLUB
33. The slow rush - TAME IMPALA
34. The universal want - DOVES
35. Have we met - DESTROYER
36. Shore - FLEET FOXES
37. Making a door less open - CAR SEAT HEADREST
38. Down in the weeds, where the world once was - BRIGHT EYES
39. Silver tongue - TORRES
40. Billy Nomates - BILLY NOMATES
41. To love is to live - JEHNNY BETH
42. Coriky - CORIKY
43. Antarctica - FLAT WORMS
44. Summerlong - ROSE CITY BAND
45. Serpentine prison - MATT BERNINGER
46. Random desire - GREG DULLI
47. Sugaregg - BULLY
48. Goons be gone - NO AGE
49. Atlas vending - METZ
50. X: The godless void and other stories - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD

Also recommended:

Gigaton - PEARL JAM, Song for our daughter - LAURA MARLING, The night chancers - BAXTER DURY, Shadow of fear - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Walking like we do - THE BIG MOON, Gold record - BILL CALLAHAN, Traditional techniques - STEPHEN MALKMUS, 10:20 - WIRE, England is a garden - CORNERSHOP, Jump rope gazers - THE BETHS, Whole new mess - ANGEL OLSEN, Untitled [Black is] - SAULT, Untitled [Rise] - SAULT, Names of north end women - LEE RANALDO AND RAÜL REFREE, Just look at that sky - GANSER, 2020 - MAGIK MARKERS, Haunted painting - SAD13, Vices - PEGGY SUE, Indistinct conversations - LAND OF TALK, III - FUZZ, Mercy - THE MEN, Collector - DISQ, Set my heart on fire immediately - PERFUME GENIUS, Women in music pt. III - HAIM, Impossible weight - DEEP SEA DIVER, The main thing - REAL ESTATE, Always tomorrow - BEST COAST, Miss Anthropocene - GRIMES, Womb - PURITY RING, UR FUN - OF MONTREAL, All or nothing - SHOPPING, Viscerals - PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS, K.G - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Color TV - DRAMARAMA, Stray - BAMBARA, Inlet - HUM, Bedroom - BDRMM, Fake it flowers - BEABADOOBEE, Host - CULTS, Temple - THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN, Shortly after takeoff - BC CAMPLIGHT, Feral - RVG, I am moron - THE LOVELY EGGS, Night network - THE CRIBS, So when you gonna… - DREAM WIFE, Alles in allem - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Foothills - THE BATS, Hey clockface - ELVIS COSTELLO, On Sunset - PAUL WELLER, Made of rain - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS, Self civil war - JULIAN COPE, The unraveling - DRIVE BY TRUCKERS, The new OK - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The black hole understands - CLOUD NOTHINGS, Fake Names - FAKE NAMES, Father of all... - GREEN DAY, Imploding the Mirage - THE KILLERS, The don of diamond dreams - SHABAZZ PALACES, Microphones in 2020 - THE MICROPHONES, All things being equal - SONIC BOOM, I am not a dog on a chain - MORRISSEY, Dear life - BRENDAN BENSON, Surrender your poppy field - GUIDED BY VOICES, Mirrored Aztec - GUIDED BY VOICES, Styles we paid for - GUIDED BY VOICES, Protean threat - OSEES, Play with fire - L.A. WITCH, Plum - WIDOWSPEAK, My echo - LAURA VEIRS, TRIP - LAMBCHOP, World as a waiting room - WHITE DENIM, Positive mental health music - TIÑA, Making a new world - FIELD MUSIC, Find the sun - DERADOORIAN, Acts of rebellion - ELA MINUS, Inner song - KELLY LEE OWENS, KiCk i - ARCA, Seeking thrills - GEORGIA, Happy birthday - SNEAKS, Mordechai - KHRUANGBIN, Fall to pieces - TRICKY, Song machine: Season one - Strange timez - GORILLAZ, What you gonna do when the grid goes down? - PUBLIC ENEMY, None of us are getting out of this life alive - THE STREETS, ACR Loco - A CERTAIN RATIO, Deleter - HOLY FUCK, Eyelet - ISLET, Introduction, presence - NATION OF LANGUAGE, Interzone - THE VACANT LOTS, Mission bells - THE PROPER ORNAMENTS, We have amnesia sometimes - YO LA TENGO, Hunted - ANNA CALVI, When we stay alive - POLICA, Fires in heaven - SALEM, As long as you are - FUTURE ISLANDS, Sundowner - KEVIN MORBY, Migration stories - M WARD, Never not together - NADA SURF, Earth to Dora - EELS, There is no other... - ISOBEL CAMPBELL, A billion heartbeats - MYSTERY JETS, The Cool Greenhouse - THE COOL GREENHOUSE, The loves of your life - HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, Songs for Pierre Chuvin - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, Getting into knives - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, Reunions - JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Letter to you - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Rough and rowdy ways - BOB DYLAN, Love is the king - JEFF TWEEDY, Good souls better angels - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Daughter - LYDIA LOVELESS, Hard feelings - KELLEY STOLTZ, Ah! (etc) - KELLEY STOLTZ, Don’t shy away - LOMA, Muzz - MUZZ, Welcome To Bobby's Motel - POTTERY, The true story of Bananagun - BANANAGUN, Healing is a miracle - JULIANNA BARWICK, That’s how rumors get started - MARGO PRICE, Head above the water - BRIGID MAE POWER, The land that time forgot - CHUCK PROPHET, Songs for the general public - THE LEMON TWIGS, Heaven to a tortured mind - YVES TUMOR, The great dismal - NOTHING, Lament - TOUCHE AMORE, Perception is/as/of deception - ADULT., Visions of bodies being burned - CLIPPING, Sixteen oceans - FOUR TET, Suddenly - CARIBOU, Róisín machine - RÓISÍN MURPHY, Alfredo - FREDDIE GIBBS & THE ALCHEMIST, Petals for armor - HAYLEY WILLIAMS, Sawayama - RINA SAWAYAMA, What’s your pleasure - JESSIE WARE, Folklore - TAYLOR SWIFT, Future nostalgia - DUA LIPA, How I’m feeling now - CHARLI XCX, Everything is beautiful - PRINCESS NOKIA, Source - NUBYA GARCIA, It is what it is - THUNDERCAT

The Best Singles Of 2020

Top 50

1. JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha) - RUN THE JEWELS
2. Right Round The Clock - SORRY
3. Scratchcard Lanyard - DRY CLEANING
4. Televised Mind - FONTAINES D.C.
5. Processed By The Boys - PROTOMARTYR
6. Sweet - PORRIDGE RADIO
7. Kyoto - PHOEBE BRIDGERS
8. Heavy Balloon - FIONA APPLE
9. Anything - ADRIANNE LENKER
10. Coming to Get You Nowhere - THIS IS THE KIT
11. Elevator - SMOKE FAIRIES
12. Overtime - U.S. GIRLS
13. Bad Decisions - THE STROKES
14. Lilacs - WAXAHATCHEE
15. Robber - THE WEATHER STATION
16. Cars In Space - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
17. Science Fair - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
18. Mr. Motivator - IDLES
19. Compromised - PUBLIC PRACTICE
20. Hashish - THURSTON MOORE
21. Julia Take Your Man Home - WOLF PARADE
22. House Music All Night Long - JARV IS…
23. Trad - NADINE SHAH
24. Strange Girl - LAURA MARLING
25. Heroine - JEHNNY BETH
26. Video Game - SUFJAN STEVENS
27. Cue Synthesizer - DESTROYER
28. Dressing America - TORRES
29. Bloodstream - SOCCER MOMMY
30. Bobbi’s Second World - THE ORIELLES
31. Lost in Yesterday - TAME IMPALA
32. Valleys - WORKING MEN’S CLUB
33. Prisoners - DOVES
34. Cactused - WIRE
35. Alphabetland - X
36. American Crisis - BOB MOULD
37. Clean Kill - CORIKY
38. Bo Diddley Bridge - THROWING MUSES
39. The Longing - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
40. At Zero Below - MARK LANEGAN
41. Dance Of The Clairvoyants - PEARL JAM
42. God And The Policeman (feat. Kacey Musgraves) - THE FLAMING LIPS
43. One More Second - MATT BERNINGER
44. Mariana Trench - BRIGHT EYES
45. Impossible Weight (featuring Sharon Van Etten) - DEEP SEA DIVER
46. Hunter - BECCA MANCARI
47. Most Modern Painting (Drowning In Blessings EP) - SINEAD O'BRIEN
48. Sad Cowboy - GOAT GIRL
49. Martin - CAR SEAT HEADREST
50. Into The Godless Void - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD

The Best Albums Of 2019

Top 50

1. Dogrel - FONTAINES D.C.     
2. I am easy to find - THE NATIONAL
3. U.F.O.F. / Two hands - BIG THIEF
4. Schlagenheim - BLACK MIDI
5. Leaving meaning - SWANS
6. Purple Mountains - PURPLE MOUNTAINS
7. Remind me tomorrow - SHARON VAN ETTEN
8. All mirrors - ANGEL OLSEN
9. Why hasn't everything already disappeared? - DEERHUNTER
10. Stunning luxury - SNAPPED ANKLES
11. White stuff - ROYAL TRUX
12. Somebody's knocking - MARK LANEGAN BAND
13. Sunshine rock - BOB MOULD
14. No home record - KIM GORDON
15. Designer - ALDOUS HARDING
16. When I have fears - THE MURDER CAPITAL
17. Amyl And The Sniffers - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
18. First taste - TY SEGALL
19. Bad wiring - JEFFREY LEWIS & THE VOLTAGE
20. Deceiver - DIIV
21. The practice of love - JENNY HVAL
22. Anima - THOM YORKE
23. Serfs up! - FAT WHITE FAMILY
24. So removed - WIVES
25. The seduction of Kansas - PRIESTS
26. The center won't hold - SLEATER-KINNEY
27. Father of the bride - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
28. Humanworld - PETER PERRETT
29. Ghosteen - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
30. Ex:Re - EX:RE
31. Closer to grey - CHROMATICS
32. Lost girls - BAT FOR LASHES
33. Any human friend - MARIKA HACKMAN
34. Close it quietly - FRANKIE COSMOS
35. Boat - PIP BLOM
36. Everything not saved will be lost part 1 / Everything not saved will be lost part 2 - FOALS
37. Lux Prima - KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE
38. Ladytron - LADYTRON
39. This is not a safe place - RIDE
40. It's real - EX HEX
41. Help us stranger - THE RACONTEURS
42. These times - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
43. Dusty notes - MEAT PUPPETS
44. Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery - THE COMET IS COMING
45. Proto - HOLLY HERNDON
46. Venus in Leo - HTRK
47. Birth of violence - CHELSEA WOLFE
48. Stuffed & ready - CHERRY GLAZERR
49. Beneath the eyrie - PIXIES
50. Psychedelic country soul - THE LONG RYDERS

 

Also recommended: 

 

Memory - VIVIAN GIRLS, Weird - JULIANA HATFIELD, Better Oblivion Community Center - BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER, Beyond the door - REDD KROSS, King's mouth - THE FLAMING LIPS, Anak Ko - JAY SOM, Sacred dreams - JOSEFIN OHRN AND THE LIBERATION, Vol 4 - Slaves of fear - HEALTH, Highway hypnosis - SNEAKS, Tallies - TALLIES, 3 - NOTS, Thrashing thru the passion - THE HOLD STEADY, I need a new war - CRAIG FINN, What nature gives... nature takes away - MEMBRANES, The talkies - GIRL BAND, In search of the miraculous - DESPERATE JOURNALIST, The competition - LOWER DENS, Adult baby - KAZU, Heartbreak - UNLOVED, IGOR - TYLER, THE CREATOR, Hyperspace - BECK, Ode to joy - WILCO, Warmer - JEFF TWEEDY, Western stars - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Oh my God - KEVIN MORBY, Reward - CATE LE BON, Emerald valley - FILTHY FRIENDS, Scatter the rats - L7, The age of immunology - VANISHING TWIN, The book of traps and lessons - KATE TEMPEST, Flashback - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, Side effects - WHITE DENIM, Inferno - ROBERT FORSTER, This (is what I wanted to tell you) - LAMBCHOP, A bath full of ecstasy - HOT CHIP, Pang - CAROLINE POLACHEK, Wraith - TEETH OF THE SEA, Black Friday - PALEHOUND, An obelisk - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Face stabber - OH SEES, The long goodbye - PERE UBU, The Brian Jonestown Massacre - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Zeppelin over China - GUIDED BY VOICES, Warp and woof - GUIDED BY VOICES, Sweating the plague - GUIDED BY VOICES, Fishing for fishies - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Infest the rats’ nest - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Vols. 11 and 12 - DESERT SESSIONS, Phoenix - PEDRO THE LION, I made a place - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Gallipoli - BEIRUT, No treasure but hope - TINDERSTICKS, Wheeltappers and Shunters - CLINIC, Brickbat - PIROSHKA, Future ruins - SWERVEDRIVER, Athena - SUDAN ARCHIVES, Flamagra - FLYING LOTUS, Further - RICHARD HAWLEY, Dizzy spells - PATIENCE, Happy in the hollow - TOY, Get tragic - BLOOD RED SHOES, The imperial - THE DELINES, The devil you know - THE COATHANGERS, I have to feed Larry's hawk - TIM PRESLEY'S WHITE FENCE, We wanna be hyp-no-tized - SPIRAL STAIRS, Almost free - FIDLAR, Why you so crazy - THE DANDY WARHOLS, The modern age - SLEEPER, Good Fuck - GOOD FUCK, Myth of a man - NIGHT BEATS, Assume form - JAMES BLAKE, Encore - THE SPECIALS, Buoys - PANDA BEAR, Exploding head syndrome - THE TELESCOPES, What chaos is imaginary - GIRLPOOL, Terms of surrender - HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, My finest work yet - ANDREW BIRD, Kinship - SHE KEEPS BEES, Providence - SHANNON WRIGHT, Dreaming the dark - TAMARYN, Crushing - JULIA JACKLIN, Whoosh - THE STROPPIES, Lung bread for daddy - DU BLONDE, Don’t you think you’ve had enough - BLEACHED, Persistence - WITCHING WAVES, Strange creatures - DRENGE, Montage images of lust and fear - THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH, In league with dragons - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, There will be no intermission - AMANDA PALMER, I also want to die in New Orleans - SUN KIL MOON, It won't be like this all the time - THE TWILIGHT SAD, Still here - THE BEASTS, Tasmania - POND, Laughing matter - WAND, 6 Lenins - THE PROPER ORNAMENTS, Big wows - STEALING SHEEP, Stonechild - JESCA HOOP, Winter sun - ELVA, Violet street - LOCAL NATIVES, Powers - THE FUTUREHEADS, Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres - PETER DOHERTY AND THE PUTA MADRES, Wallop - !!!, Interview music - IDLEWILD, Ex voto - VERSUS, Brutalism - THE DRUMS, Office politics - THE DIVINE COMEDY, Jeanines - JEANINES, Til the Morning - THE CATENARY WIRES, House of sugar - (SANDY) ALEX G, Metronomy forever - METRONOMY, Hot motion - TEMPLES, Pang! - GRUFF RHYS, 2020 - RICHARD DAWSON, LAHS - ALLAH LAS, Veils of winter - BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT, Networker - OMNI, All in good time - EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, Devour you - STARCRAWLER, Spectre - LIGHTNING DUST, Sonic citadel - LIGHTNING BOLT, War music - REFUSED, Juice B crypts - BATTLES, Inflorescent - FRIENDLY FIRES, How to live - MODERN NATURE, Cry - CIGARETTES AFTER SEX, Quiet signs - JESSICA PRATT, Beware of the dogs - STELLA DONNELLY, Enderness - AA BONDY, Water - DEHD, Free - IGGY POP, Pony - ORVILLE PECK, Tip of the sphere - CASS MCCOMBS, Badbea - EDWYN COLLINS, Here comes the cowboy - MAC DEMARCO, Sound and fury - STURGILL SIMPSON, Jaime - BRITTANY HOWARD, Kiwanuka - MICHAEL KIWANUKA, i,i - BON IVER, Immunity - CLAIRO, Look up sharp - CARLA DAL FORNO, No geography - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Transmission suite - 808 STATE, Norman fucking Rockwell! - LANA DEL REY, Magdalene - FKA TWIGS, When we all fall asleep, where do we go? - BILLIE EILISH, When I get home - SOLANGE, Cuz I love you - LIZZO, uknowhatimsayin¿ - DANNY BROWN, Grey area - LITTLE SIMZ, Nothing great about Britain - SLOWTHAI, Psychodrama - DAVE, 5 - SAULT, Animated violence mild - BLANCK MASS, Crush - FLOATING POINTS, Subservient - LARRY GUS, Fongola - KOKOKO!, Shiny new model - BODEGA, Morning in America - MUDHONEY

The Best Singles Of 2019

Top 50

1. Not - BIG THIEF
2. Blankenship - DIIV
3. Seventeen - SHARON VAN ETTEN
4. The Barrel - ALDOUS HARDING
5. All My Happiness Is Gone - PURPLE MOUNTAINS
6. Rylan - THE NATIONAL
7. Big - FONTAINES D.C.
8. Green & Blue - THE MURDER CAPITAL
9. In The Capital - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
10. All Mirrors - ANGEL OLSEN
11. This Life - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
12. I Want Your Dreams - PETER PERRETT
13. Woman - KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE
14. High Alice - JENNY HVAL
15. Deadzone - LADYTRON
16. Future Love - RIDE
17. Element - DEERHUNTER
18. White Stuff - ROYAL TRUX
19. Rechargeable - SNAPPED ANKLES
20. Ducter - BLACK MIDI
21. Feet - FAT WHITE FAMILY
22. Summon The Fire - THE COMET IS COMING   
23. Stitch It Up - MARK LANEGAN BAND
24. Sketch Artist - KIM GORDON
25. Not The News - THOM YORKE
26. Hurry On Home - SLEATER-KINNEY
27. The 20 Teens - WIVES
28. Shiny New Model - BODEGA
29. Wasted Nun - CHERRY GLAZERR
30. Tough Enough - EX HEX
31. Jesus’ Son - PRIESTS
32. The One - MARIKA HACKMAN
33. Red Bull & Hennessy - JENNY LEWIS
34. Walking Away From Love - STEVE MASON
35. The Hunger - BAT FOR LASHES
36. On The Luna - FOALS
37. Daddy Issues - PIP BLOM
38. Got You - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
39. On Graveyard Hill - PIXIES
40. Warranty - MEAT PUPPETS
41. Addicted To The Day - BLUE ORCHIDS
42. Lineas En Hojas - LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE
43. Lost Heads - MOON DUO
44. Future Shade - BLACK MOUNTAIN
45. Help Me Stranger - THE RACONTEURS
46. Taste - TY SEGALL
47. Lost Faith - BOB MOULD
48. Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
49. LPs - JEFFREY LEWIS & THE VOLTAGE
50. Sunglasses - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD