DeadSplinter Up! All Night: Top Songs of the Year

5/12/20 Boop to the Face 37

It’s Saturday! This week Spotify released their Unwrapped year end list of users top songs and artists of 2020. I know not everyone here uses Spotify so DUANers, what were your favorite and most listened to songs of this year? As always, thank you for your continued support of DeadSplinter.

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  1. Spotify tells me that I listened to a lot of The Avener:

    Hayden Thorpe (this is a beautiful song):

    Hiss Golden Messenger:

    and Micachu and the Shapes:

     



  6. My Spotify wrapped is weird because I use free Spotify and only use it occasionally to fill in when I want variety from my own library. Here’s two new songs I’m guessing I played the most in 2020. 

  7. I do such a poor job keeping up with the new stuff. I still need to get the latest Bob Mould (it released in September), and The Hold Steady has a new one coming soon.
     
    With the year that it’s been, this has been my favorite:
     
    We Are Scientists – I Cut My Own Hair


     
     

  8. I listened to The James Hunter Six – I Can Change Your Mind over and over again for months after it was released.

     

     

     Perfume Genius, I think Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is my favorite LP of 2020. I’m pretty sure I posted this one, On The Floor, an earlier DUAN.

     

     

    And John Prine may he Rest In Peace – Lake Marie

     

     

     

    • Yes, yes, yes…Perfume Genius’s album was a milestone. “Describe” and “Without You” are also gems. I love the pastoral look of the first single, “Describe”, with the choreographed knife fight and other elements seeming as though they’d freshly stepped out of a painting.

    • Ain’t no shame in liking Tay Tay. Ya know, I might have been embarrassed about liking Taylor Swift unironically in the past, but I changed my mind around the time of Lover. She’s an undeniably talented pop songwriter, even if she’s not everyone’s cup of tea. As with many things, it’s such a huge weight lifted when you can just no longer feel guilty about your “guilty pleasures”. 

  15. I’ll second Hannibal’s recommendation of Perfume Genius’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately above. My favourite new band discovery this year was Nation of Language, whose debut album Introduction, Presence is definitely one of my top for 2020. [They have this perfectly contemporary take on New Wave/Factory/Nu Gaze that also blends flourishes of the cold wave-era bands from the aughts, like Cold Cave and Cold Showers.] A couple favourite singles from the album:



    They also respectably covered the Pixies: 

    Also loved Moses Sumney:

    This transcendent track from Tobe Nwigwe:

    Riz Ahmed’s timely and bold concept album: 

    Tim Ayre: 

    And this random feel-good song from Caroline Rose:

  17. My radio’s usually set to MPR, ‘cuz the last 4 years have been chaos, and since I don’t catch TV much, the radio & my phone are the best ways to read/hear the news…
    And because of that, my music’s mostly just been “what’s stilling the cd-changer” in my car…
    But the MOST-listened-to of all the albums in there this year was this one;


    Not sure which ‘jovi I shared on here the most… in all honesty, I haven’t even caught all of the new album yet–i only realized they HAD a new album out a few months ago🙃

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