With NOACF, the four-piece broke their own rules for synth-pop excellence, pieced them back together, shredded them to bits again and gave us one of the best records of the year.- Brenton Blanchet All Time Low – Wake Up, Sunshineĭespite the chaos that is 2020, All Time Low encountered milestone after milestone in this otherwise bleak year and offered fans light with their appropriately titled eighth album, Wake Up, Sunshine. It fuses everything the 1975 have built their career on and more: Auto-Tune goodness, orchestral tracks, ’80s power ballads, pop-punk throwbacks reminiscent of their Drive Like I Do days and a genuine interest in outdoing themselves yet again. If you’ve been online ( all the time ) this year, there’s a slim chance you missed this massive, earth-shattering release from Matty Healy and company. And really, it’s a pretty fucking large one to ignore… The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form Because they’re really confessing that they’re out of the loop. And when you hear somebody whine and moan about how there’s “nothing good anymore,” just laugh at them. Here are the records that colored our quarantine, soundtracked our seclusion and made us get stupid with joy. And that art takes the form of codified genres and new disruptive hybrids. But reducing culture to mere song parts says volumes about how we react, embrace and enjoy the art that’s out there. How many so-called “music fans” decided to stay home last year when practically every band on our devices could still tour? This year, we had the time to actually listen to entire songs. Those nationwide lockdowns also helped us psychically reinvest in our music scene.
Read more: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Frank Iero in one place No EPs, either because if we had the time to listen, bands certainly had a clear schedule to deliver groups of nine songs or more. What follows below is a smattering of great records that soundtracked our pandemic blues.
We had the opportunity to reaffirm and discover.
We could finally listen to those bands whose names we saw on shirts at the last gig we went to in February. But streaming services made access to music downright infinite. Yes, in 2020, most of us binged on Netflix and chilled the best we could. If we could identify one incandescent moment to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it would have to be having large stretches of time to listen to albums.
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