Everything Sucks (Except For These Records from 2020)

[retinal orbita]

What Merzbow record is that?

[doommeow]

What Merzbow record is that?

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/exd

[retinal orbita]

Neat! Thanks, I will have to keep an eye out. I dig that 90’s Merz.

[John Matrix]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQ1tLe1uQ8[/youtube]

[voerking]

i made a mix of stuff i liked from 2020 here:
https://ihrtn.net/listen-hot-jamz-2020- ... -by-terms/
it has some mathy weirdo rock & some far out improvisation & more.

[Abanoise]

Italian post-metal band Collars just released their first album, and it sounds great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-p4d_NNN4


I also really enjoyed BLÓM's Flower Violence... It happily reminded me some Melt Banana and Melvins mood:

https://weareblom.bandcamp.com/album/flower-violence


And if you like some dark drone stuff, the Italian label DioDrone released Secret Drone Session, the recordings of an improvised live collaboration between four musicians (I played the baritone guitar that evening):

https://diodrone.bandcamp.com/album/sec ... ne-session

[PanicProne]

1. Vennart - In The Dead, Dead Wood
2. Iris Viljanen - Den Lilla Havsfrun
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
4. Misery Signals - Ultraviolet
5. Dvne - Omega Severer
6. Anders Teglund - Vissa Somnar Helt
7. Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss
8. Respire - Black Line
9. Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
10. Touché Amore - Lament

In Orbit (for one reason or the other didn't qualify for my top 10 but are still really good) :
O’Brother - You and I
Barrens - Penumbra
Iris Viljanen - En Finsk Jul

[Phosphene Audio]

I bought a lot of records this year, but didn't keep close tabs on which ones were actually from this year, though for sure, the new Napalm Death, Krallice and Trvss records come to mind as excellent and from this year.