Song of the Year 2020

UPDATED: Youtube Playlist here: 

Happy 2021!  Last year I got a lot of mileage out of the WATMM SOTY thread - helped provide a lot of light in a dark year, so figure it's high time to continue the tradition in 2021! 

Realize there may be more than one SOTY for you, please feel free to post several. If people (you don't have to) would be kind enough to post Spotify links, I'll also create a WATMM SOTY playlist and post it here for everyone to enjoy. Here's mine, in no particular order:

1.  Poppy - Concrete     I would actually probably choose "Don't Go Outside" but you really have to have listened to (and enjoyed) the full album to get the full effect there. Anyway, Concrete sort of distills what's best about this album, alternating between thrash metal, japanese bublegum pop and then straight up pop rock at the outro. 

2. The Strokes - At the Door   Something immensely crushing but also uplifting about this track. It made me cry when I first listened to it. Still gives me the sniffles. 

Nice thread idea but boo @ spotify links.  If you dont have an account they either give you a tiny crap sample, or in my case dont play because "not available in your country"

Most memorable for me would have to be some autechre.. particularly the SIGN livestream.  I love the opening tracks on both albums..
 

off the top of my head 

Awesome. Loving this shit. Went ahead and replaced w/ Youtube links (agreed Spotify is shit for those w/out an account). Added link to Youtube playlist in first post, will continue to add vids as they come across here. Cheers WATMM!

Didn't like the rest of the album bit this track was the banger to rule all bangers for me this year

  On 1/4/2021 at 5:44 PM, milkface said:

King Krule - Cellular

Fff, that was this year?  Feels like forever ago I remember watching that video in bed and being stoked on it.  2020 messing with my sense of time.

Alone, Omen 3 I would nominate as one of my fav tracks of the year.  Its a concise earworm that I was playing on repeat a lot at the start of the quarantine

not on youtube:

squarepusher - the paris track
autechre - X4

  On 1/4/2021 at 6:00 PM, markedone said:

Fff, that was this year?  Feels like forever ago I remember watching that video in bed and being stoked on it.  2020 messing with my sense of time.

Haha you're the second person this week who I've spoken to who was convinced Man Alive! was a 2019 release!

Wondered when Oneohtrix was gonna pop up.... 

@thumbass good track. It's weird, I feel like I like Slowthai tons when he guests (the Gorrilaz track was aces) but don't prefer his solo stuff... probably I'm just not british enough 

  On 1/4/2021 at 6:06 PM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

Songs

Ooh yeah that Yves Tumor track, as well as the whole album was a really good release, however I can't agree with the Dirty Projectors one. I feel that every release they do is 10x worse than the last one, and they've got quite a few albums.

forgot to post this, which is the single most important work of art from 2020

This one and Long Road Home by Oneohtrix are easily my faves of 2020

Edit: And this!

Technically came out in 2020:

This whole album was one of my favorites, as well:

If talking about tunes with vocals, 2 LPs packed with killer pop songs : 

F7

but there are a shitload of great runner ups

like this track was a recent discovery I really fell in love with

  On 1/4/2021 at 6:13 PM, milkface said:

Ooh yeah that Yves Tumor track, as well as the whole album was a really good release, however I can't agree with the Dirty Projectors one. I feel that every release they do is 10x worse than the last one, and they've got quite a few albums.

yves album took a little while to grow on me, but yeah it's a solid one.

most of the new dirty projectors material does bore me to be fair, but i thought this track, along with one or two others, were lovely!

  On 1/4/2021 at 6:10 PM, T3551ER said:

Wondered when Oneohtrix was gonna pop up.... 

@thumbass good track. It's weird, I feel like I like Slowthai tons when he guests (the Gorrilaz track was aces) but don't prefer his solo stuff... probably I'm just not british enough 

 

Never listened to his solo stuff lol. Disclosure always has 1/2 really good tracks on each of their projects and the rest is trash. This track is a motherfucking Stormer though

Probably this song about my friend's cat.

just realized this is a song thread as in human voice singing. i didn't post songs, i see our mexican friend did the same mistake. language barrier innit

here's some songs 

this sucks rancid faeces

Probably my second favorite track of 2020: