Without further ado, here are the best full-length project this trash fire of a year had to offer, including some fantastic storytelling and truly innovative masterpieces. It's been a great year of music, but thank goodness it's over. Happy New Year! Honourable Mentions: beabadoobee - Fake It FlowersCarly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side BThe Chicks … Continue reading BensBeat Top 25 Albums of 2020
Month: December 2020
BensBeat Top 50 Songs of 2020
What is there to say about the year 2020 that hasn't already been said? Locked up in our homes, there wasn't much else to do but consume various forms of art, so it's a good thing the quality of the music we received this year (despite quite a few delays) was so top-notch. In fact, … Continue reading BensBeat Top 50 Songs of 2020
Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By Side B
Joining so many other huge artists who released not one, but two (or more) full-length projects in 2020, Slim Shady himself has dropped his third surprise release in a row and a follow-up to last January’s Music To Be Murdered By. The parent album was certainly a much better offering than most of his recent … Continue reading Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By Side B
Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon III: The Chosen
Returning to a series of albums that saw its last installment ten years ago, psychedelic hip-hop pioneer Kid Cudi is back more popular than ever in a musical landscape he had a huge role in shaping. Continuing the story of the Man on The Moon series, Cudi once again steps into battle with his nefarious … Continue reading Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon III: The Chosen
Taylor Swift – evermore
Taylor Swift might be the only person on earth having a truly productive 2020. Deep into re-recording her old songs in the midst of a dramatic custody battle for her masters and only four and a half short months after dropping her masterpiece, folklore, Swift has elected to release another set of tracks in the … Continue reading Taylor Swift – evermore
YUNGBLUD – weird!
Genre-blending UK punk rocker and outspoken voice for acceptance YUNGBLUD has been making more and more forays into the mainstream through his progressive messaging and brief high-profile relationship with Halsey. A truly disruptive force in the music industry, elevating his mixtures of alt-rock, hip-hop and pop punk with an anarchic flair for the dramatic, a … Continue reading YUNGBLUD – weird!
Shawn Mendes – Wonder
Fresh off a tumultuous world tour, a full-on dive into an almost too adorable relationship with fellow music superstar Camila Cabello and a Netflix documentary where he expressed burnout with the music industry, Canadian heartthrob Shawn Mendes has returned with his fourth studio album. It’s very easy to forget that Mendes is still only 22 … Continue reading Shawn Mendes – Wonder
Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts
There aren’t many who are as successful at grabbing attention than Miley Cyrus. After a series of whiplash-inducing career choices and an oftentimes highly questionable series of musical endeavours that saw her trying on different genres and aesthetics like they were a costume to be rapidly discarded and (somewhat offensively) disavowed shortly after the conclusion … Continue reading Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts
Bad Bunny – EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO
After shattering streaming records with YHLQMDLG and its subsequent collection of B-sides earlier this year, Puerto Rican Latin trap superstar Bad Bunny evidently saw fit to drop a third collection of songs in 2020. Described by Bad Bunny as a more “sentimental,” “introspective” and “chill” album in comparison to his usual hard-hitting style, the album … Continue reading Bad Bunny – EL ÚLTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO
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