How to Dress Well - Love Remains: Emotionally perfect for the soundtrack to the 2020 election.

Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive: Took a bit for Heart Burns to worm its way. Expecting the same here.

Fleet Foxes - Shore: Mature.

Field Medic - Floral Prince: Deliberate.

Field Medic - Fade Into the Dawn: Upbeat is not quite the right word.

Field Medic - Songs from the Sunroom: Melancholy, lo-fi, and wonderful

Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere (2012): Slightly more polished.

Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere (2010): Emo revival done well.

Deftones - Ohms: Never thought a Deftones album would be an AOTY contender, but 2020.

clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned: Unsettling.

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - Tea Party Revenge Porn: You should already know what you are going to get. I did and was not disappointed.

Bartees Strange - Live Forever: Shape shifting string of singles.

Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me: So much oddball music out there, but this was very good.

Teenage Halloween - Teenage Halloweed: Pop-punk, emo-adjacent ripper.

Teenage Halloween - It Was Weird, But It Worked: Good first outing.

State Lines - For The Boats: I like Oso Oso more, but this is worth a listen.

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up: Left field hip hop that is more atmosphere than normal.

Jeff Rosenstock - 2020 Dump: Cool to have.

Quasimoto - The Unseen: Much better than I remember.

Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: Subdued, but compelling.