Our Favorite Albums Of 2020

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Approximately 25 years after it started, 2020 is finally coming to an end. As is customary in the music world, before one can look ahead, one must look back. Our latest episode is no exception, with Steven and Ian reflecting on a year of excellent releases in the indie world to choose their ultimate top five. Featuring efforts from The 1975, Bartees Strange, Dogleg, Bob Dylan, and more, Steven and Ian have each respectively crafted their list of 2020’s definitive records. If you're looking for more music that you might have missed this year, check out our full list of the year's best albums here and the indie-specific list here.

As for new selections in this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian has been spinning 'I Had Everybody Snowed,' the debut solo album from Taking Meds vocalist/guitarist Skylar Sarkis that has been a work in progress for nearly a decade. Steven, on the other hand, has been enjoying '2020,' the aptly titled latest effort from Magik Markers, their first in seven years.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:13.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.7	We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode, we're going to be talking about our favorite albums of 2020.
0:24.6	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host Ian Cohen.
0:28.1	Ian, how are you?
0:29.0	Steve, not to start on a downer note about the state of being a music journalist in 2020,
0:36.3	but I dedicated, as you know, to
0:39.6	uprocks a couple thousand words about the 30 best deaf tone songs. I wrote about a 72 minute
0:48.0	smashing pumpkins album, a new 72 minutes smashing pumpkins album, mind you. And i did like a two hour podcast about a
0:56.9	1975 album and i think about all the effort i put into those those things and none of it will have
1:05.2	even the slightest bit of impact compared to me just saying on Twitter, Mick Rib is short for my chemical rib.
1:13.8	This thing I did in like five seconds on the way, like to the break room at work.
1:19.9	And I think it's like the most popular thing I've ever written.
1:23.9	But that being said, I'm stoked about it because, you know,
1:26.9	every time people have
1:27.8	like a viral tweet, they have to like post their SoundCloud or whatever. I'm wondering what
1:34.1	this is going to do. I wonder if Indycast is going to get a bump from this. Maybe this is the time
1:38.6	where we start shooting up the Spotify charts, man. Like I can, man, I can feel this is our moment.
1:43.6	You couch so many of your
1:46.9	highlights of the week in that little space right there. And you kind of wrapped it in a nice,
1:53.2	you know, package of self-deprecation. That was very well done. I appreciate that. How was that
1:59.8	Smashing Pumpkins record, by the way? I didn't read your review. I assume that. How was that Smashing Pumpkins record, by the way?
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