SHREM'S LIST OBSESSION: TOP 20 BEST ALBUMS OF 2020

20 Miss Colombia /// Lido Pimienta

Anti- /// 🇨🇴🇨🇦

3 Top Tracks: "Nada", "Te Queria", "No Pude"

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19 Ungodly Hour /// Chloe x Halle

Parkwood Entertainment /// 🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "Baby Girl", "Ungodly Hour", "Busy Boy"

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18 Future Nostalgia /// Dua Lipa

Warner Records /// 🇬🇧🇽🇰

3 Top Tracks: "Break My Heart", "Levitating", "Pretty Please"

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17 Untitled (Black Is) /// Sault

Forever Living Originals /// 🇬🇧

3 Top Tracks: "Wildfires", "Sorry Ain't Enough", "Why We Cry Why We Die"

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16 KiCk i /// Arca

XL Recordings /// 🇻🇪🇪🇸

3 Top Tracks: "KLK (feat. ROSALÍA)", "Time", "Afterwards (feat. Björk)"

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15 Two /// Sink Ya Teeth

Hey Buffalo Records /// 🇬🇧

3 Top Tracks: "Somewhere Else", "Sweetness", "Stella"

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14 Purple Noon /// Washed Out

Sub Pop /// 🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "Time to Walk Away", "Paralyzed", "Too Late"

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13 Forever, Ya Girl /// KeiyaA

self-released /// 🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "I! Gits! Weary!", "Negus Poem 1 & 2", "Forreal???"

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12 Regresa /// Buscabulla

Ribbon Music /// 🇵🇷🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "Ta Que Tiembla", "Nydia", "NTE"

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11 Mordechai /// Khruangbin

Dead Oceans, Night Time Stories /// 🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "Time (You and I)", "Pelota", "So We Won't Forget"

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10 Soft Power /// Maria Minerva

100% Silk /// 🇪🇪

3 Top Tracks: "Had Me at Hello", "Down Low (Motor City You Make Me Wanna)", "Apology"

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9 All the Time /// Jessy Lanza

Hyperdub /// 🇨🇦

3 Top Tracks: "Anyone Around", "Lick in Heaven", "Like Fire"

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8 Shabrang /// Sevdaliza

Twisted Elegance, Music On Vinyl /// 🇮🇷🇳🇱

3 Top Tracks: "Shabrang", "Joanna", "Oh My God"

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7 Disco /// Kylie Minogue

BMG /// 🇦🇺

3 Top Tracks: "Miss a Thing", "I Love It", "Magic"

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6 The Slow Rush /// Tame Impala

Island Records, Interscope Records, Fiction Records, Caroline International /// 🇦🇺

3 Top Tracks: "Lost in Yesterday", "Is It True", "Breathe Deeper"

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5 Untitled (Rise) /// Sault

Forever Living Originals /// 🇬🇧

3 Top Tracks: "Son Shine", "Little Boy", "Free"

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4 I'm Your Empress Of /// Empress Of

Terrible Records /// 🇺🇸

3 Top Tracks: "Give Me Another Chance", "Maybe This Time", "Bit Of Rain"

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3 You Read My Mind /// GL

Pool Records /// 🇦🇺

3 Top Tracks: "Rush", "All In My Head", "Pistachio"

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2 What's Your Pleasure? /// Jessie Ware

PMR Records, Virgin EMI Records /// 🇬🇧

3 Top Tracks: "Step Into My Life", "Spotlight", "What’s Your Pleasure?"

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1 Róisín Machine /// Róisín Murphy

Skint /// 🇮🇪🇬🇧

3 Top Tracks: "We Got Together", "Something More", "Murphy's Law"

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SHREM'S LIST OBSESSION: Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010's - Part 1 [100-76]

100 "All Love's Legal" - Planningtorock

Label: Human Level
Year: 2014
Country: UK
Best Track: "Let's Talk About Gender Baby"



99 "Ibibio Sound Machine" - Ibibio Sound Machine

Label: Soundway
Year: 2014
Country: Nigeria/UK
Best Track: "The Talking Fish (Asem Usem Iyak)"



98 "Personal Computer" - Silicon

Label: Weird World
Year: 2015
Country: New Zealand
Best Track: "God Emoji"



97 "Half Free" - U.S. Girls

Label: 4AD
Year: 2015
Country: US/Canada
Best Track: "Damn That Valley"



96 "(III)" - Crystal Castles

Label: Fiction Records
Year: 2012
Country: Canada
Best Track: "Wrath Of God"



95 "Currents" - Tame Impala

Label: Modular/Interscope/Fiction Records
Year: 2015
Country: Australia
Best Track: "Let It Happen"



94 "Us" - Empress Of

Label: Terrible Records
Year: 2018
Country: US
Best Track: "Just the Same"



93 "SYRO" - Aphex Twin

Label: Warp
Year: 2014
Country: Ireland
Best Track: "minipops 67 [120.2] [source field mix]"



92 "Animal Nature" - Escort

Label: self-released
Year: 2015
Country: US
Best Track: "Body Talk"



91 "Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" - SOPHIE

Label: Transgressive Records
Year: 2018
Country: US
Best Track: "Ponyboy"



90 "Otherness" - Kindness

Label: Female Energy
Year: 2014
Country: UK
Best Track: "This Is Not About Us"



89 "Overgrown" - James Blake

Label: Atlas Recordings
Year: 2013
Country: UK
Best Track: "Life Round Here"



88 "Works For You" - Σtella

Label: Inner Ear
Year: 2017
Country: Greece
Best Track: "Come Collect"



87 "Pale Green Ghosts" - John Grant

Label: Bella Union
Year: 2013
Country: US
Best Track: "Pale Green Ghosts"



86 "Anastasis" - Dead Can Dance

Label: PIAS
Year: 2012
Country: Australia
Best Track: "Agape"



85 "Plunge" - Fever Ray

Label: Rabid Records
Year: 2017
Country: Sweden
Best Track: "Mustn’t Hurry"



84 "Blue" - iamamiwhoami

Label: To whom it may concern.
Year: 2014
Country: Sweden
Best Track: "Shadowshow"



83 "LP1" - FKA twigs

Label: Young Turks
Year: 2014
Country: UK
Best Track: "Kicks"



82 "Lost Girls" - Bat for Lashes

Label: self-released
Year: 2019
Country: UK
Best Track: "So Good"



81 "Take Me Apart" - Kelela

Label: Warp
Year: 2017
Country: US
Best Track: "LMK"



80 "Sink Ya Teeth" - Sink Ya Teeth

Label: Hey Buffalo Records
Year: 2018
Country: UK
Best Track: "Petrol Blue"



79 "The ArchAndroid" - Janelle Monáe

Label: Bad Boy Entertainment/Wondaland
Year: 2010
Country: US
Best Track: "Dance or Die" [feat. Saul Williams]



78 "Arca" - Arca

Label: XL Recordings
Year: 2017
Country: Venezuela
Best Track: "Desafío"



77 "Enigmatic" - Cola & Jimmu

Label: Herakles Records
Year: 2013
Country: Finland
Best Track: "Transcend Our Love"



76 "Settle" - Disclosure

Label: PMR
Year: 2013
Country: UK
Best Track: "Confess To Me" [feat. Jessie Ware]

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SHREM'S 2017 COUNTDOWN OF TOP 100 BEST TRACKS OF THE YEAR: part 3: 50-26

50 "K + B" - Technology + Teamwork (NFNF Records)

49 "What's Your Problem?" - Shay Lia (N.O.T.E.)

48 "Dive" - Saint Etienne (PIAS)

47 "Give Me a Reason" - Ibibio Sound Machine (Merge Records)

46 "Raingurl" - Yaeji (GODMODE)

45 "Crush Mood" - Lone (R&S Records)

44 "SANDÍA" - Nathy Peluso (self-released)

43 "Mustn't Hurry" - Fever Ray (Rabid Records)

42 "Bofou Safou (Henrik Schwarz Remix)" - Amadou & Mariam (Because Music)

41 "Guess What" - Code Walk feat. Smerz (F12 Records/Ex-Local)

40 "Moon in Your Mouth" - Goldfrapp (Mute)

39 "LMK" - Kelela (Warp)

38 "Ponyboy" - Sophie (MSMSMS INC/Future Classic/PIAS/Transgressive Records)

37 "Last Breath" - Yaeji (GODMODE)

36 "Ariadna" - Kedr Livanskiy (2MR)

35 "Пули" - Luna (self-released)

34 "Evil" - Ruthven (Paul Institute)

33 "Un autre que moi" - Fishbach (Entreprise)

32 "Sweet" - Little Dragon (Because Music)

31 "Desafío" - Arca (XL Recordings)

30 "Get Lost" - Washed Out (Stone Throw Records)

29 "Strobe Light" - Little Dragon (Because Music)

28 "Destiny" - GL (Independent)

27 "Larme à gauche" - Vendredi sur Mer (Profil de Face)

26 "Undercover" - Susanne Sundfør (Sonnet Sound/Bella Union)

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