BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2020 - BEST ALBUM
AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2020
PAST WINNERS
2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)
2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)
2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)
2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)
2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)
2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)
2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)
2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)
2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)
2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)
2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)
2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)
2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)
2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)
2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)
2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’
2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’
2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’
2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’
2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’
1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’
1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’
1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’
1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’
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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.
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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these collections
Bulbils (Richard Dawson & Sally Pilkington) - 50 lockdown albums
Dean Blunt ‘Roaches 2012-2019’
These New Puritans ‘The Cut (2016-2019)’
Hudson Mohawke ‘B.B.H.E.’ & ‘Poom Gems’
Various Artists ‘Paul Institute - Summer 2020’
Various Artists ‘Return To Y’Hup - The World Of Ivor Cutler’
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***SPOTIFY PLAYLIST FEATURES TRACKS FROM TOP 80 ALBUMS (coming later) ***
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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly. A list for future me to revisit.
Still House Plants / Fire-Toolz / Lomelda / Jerskin Fendrix / Zebra Katz / The Bug / Lorenzo Senni / Diamond Soul / Wilma Archer / Black Dresses / The Fantasy Orchestra / William Carkeet / Bonny Light Horseman / KA / Yung Lean / BlackPink / Rural Internet / Okay Kaya / Future / Belan / Tame Impala / Banoffee / JARV IS / Grimes / Whitmer Thomas / Jeff Parker / The Massacre Cave / Porridge Radio / Selena Gomez / Teyana Taylor / Sparkle Division / Cecile Believe / Lyra Pramuk / Waxahatchee / Happyness / Khruangbin / Bananagun / OHMME / Drakeo The Ruler / Missterspoon / Juice WRLD / Lonnie Holley / Jiafeng / October Drift / Roisin Murphy / KeiyaA / Dizzee Rascal / Salem / Tiña / The Weeknd / Aaron Cartier / Dana Gavanski / A.R. Pinewood / The Cool Greenhouse / Royce Da 5’9’’ / Rachel Aggs / Karl Band / Four Tet / Georgia / Sonic Boom / Kali Uchis / Luis Pestana / Salac / David A Jaycock / Klein / Temple After Faith / Roman Noseband / Dylan Henner / G.S. Sultan / Hinds / Jess Williamson / Coby Sey / Randolph’s Leap / Matthew D. Gantt / Stephen Kerrison / Katie Gately / Snails / Juniore / Good Dog / Lil B / Kamaiyah / Ryuichi Sakamoto / The Big Moon / Zoe Mc Pherson / Holy Fuck / Ovrkast / Reol / Andy Shauf / Ethan Gruska / Poliça / D Smoke / Sign Libra / Chara & YUKI / Wiley / Bad Bunny / Shirley Collins / Jordana / Gaika / DJ Python / North Americans / Michael / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Lido Pimienta / Everything Is Recorded / Lwesberg / Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams / Rhodri Davies / LA Priest / Ian William Craig / Flohio / Irreversible Entanglements / Islet / Westside Gunn / Empress Of / NNamdi / Warm Digits / Baxter Dury / Kehiani / Eels / Emmy The Great / Owen Pallett / Elysia Crampton / The Beths / Julianna Barwick / Liv.E / Jimothy Lacoste / Ben Frost / J Hus / Sylvan Esso / Haiku Hands / Ariana Grande / Jean Dawson / Food House / Nuala Honan / Helena Deland / Boldly James / Headie One / Oliver Coates / Lowkey-E / Bree Runway / Warren Ellis / Boldy James & The Alchemist / Young Knives / Little Dragon / The Garden / Melt Yourself Down / Quakers / Kamasi Washington / Mogwai / Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven / Eyeliner / ‘The Whalebone Box’ OST / Special Interest / Teyana Taylor / Nadine Shah / Tricky / Moor Mother / Nick Storring
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2020 RUNNERS UP (in no order)
William Basinski ‘Lamentations’
Hook ‘Crashed My Car’
Vic Berger IV ‘Late Enough To See The Moon’
Nines ‘Crabs In A Bucket’
My Morning Jacket ‘The Waterfall II’
Firestations ‘Dream Home’
Moses Boyd ‘Dark Matter’
Dick Dent ‘Life’s Hard’
Nicholas Stevenson ‘Dead Arm, Vol.2’
Otto ‘Clam Day’
Pa Salieu ‘Send Them To Coventry’
Undermedvetenheten ‘Undermedvetenheten’
Martha Ffion ‘Nights To Forget’
Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’
Happy Spendy ‘You’re Doing Okay’
Mark Korven ‘The Lighthouse’ OST
21 Savage and Metro Boomin ‘Savage Mode II’
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa’
Three Queens In The Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Hello Sorrow / Hello Joy’
Shopping ‘All Or Nothing’
Megan Thee Stallion ‘Good News’
Obongjayer ‘Which Way Is Forward?’
Mush ‘3D Routine’
Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury & The Insects ‘Devs’ OST
Luke Abbott ‘Translate’
Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’
Princess Nokia ‘Everything Sucks’
Fleet Foxes ‘Shore’
Julia Holter ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ OST
Sufjan Stevens ‘The Ascension’
Nicolas Jaar ‘Cenizas’
Pottery ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’
Jessie Ware ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’
Jung Jae II ‘Parasite’ OST
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist ‘Alfredo’
Doves ‘The Universal Want’
Brigid Mae Power ‘Head Above The Water’
Bab L’ Bluz ‘Nayda!’
James Yorkston ‘That Summer, We Flew’
Oklou ‘Galore’
Angel Olsen ‘Whole New Mess’
The Lemon Twigs ‘Songs For The General Public’
Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu ‘Renegade Breakdown’
Gupi ‘None’
Alexia Avina ‘Unearth’
John Bence ‘Love’
Colin Stetson ‘Color Out Of Space’ OST
King Krule ‘Man Alive!’
Against All Logic ‘2017-2019’
Willie J Healey ‘Twin Heavy’
Jam City ‘Pillowland’
MXLX ‘Maximum Amounts Of Extremely Fucking Yes (Vol.1)’
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THE TOP 80 ALBUMS OF 2020
80. Poppy ‘I Disagree’
79. ThisisDA ‘Mud Hype’
78. Fenne Lily ‘BREACH’
77. Gorillaz ‘Song Machine’
76. Soccer Mommy ‘Color Theory’
75. 1995 Epilepsy ‘1995 Epilepsy’
74. Jabu ‘Sweet Company’
73. Actress ‘Karma & Desire’ + ‘88’
72. Chloe x Halle ‘Ungodly Hour’
71. Dirty Projectors ‘5EPs’
70. Beatrice Dillon ‘Walkaround’
69. Matmos ‘The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form’
68. Blanck Mass ‘Calm With Horses’ OST
67. Eartheater ‘Phoenix: flames Are Dew Upon My Skin’
66. Sega Bodega ‘Salvador’
65. Savage Mansion ‘Weird Country’
64. Kelly Lee Owens ‘Inner Song’
63. Daniel Blumberg ‘On&On’
62. Clementine March ‘Le Continent’
61. HAIM ‘Women In Music Pt.III’
60. Dua Lipa ‘Future Nostalgia’
59. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ‘Viscerals’
58. Darkstar ‘Civic Jams’
57. Lil Uzi Vert ‘Eternal Atake’
56. This Is The Kit ‘Off Off On’
55. Shabazz Palaces ‘The Don Of Diamond Dreams’
54. Princess Nokia ‘Everything Is Beautiful’
53. The Orielles ‘Disco Volador’
52. Oro Swimming Hour ‘Pteradactyl’
51. MXLX ‘Serpent’
50. Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’
49. Jay Electronica ‘A Written Testimony’
48. Fiona Apple ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’
47. Galen Tipton ‘Ungoliant’
46. Knife Liibrary ‘MARKS: Songs For Those I Have Killed’
45. Deerhoof ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’
44. Caribou ‘Suddenly’
43. Working Men’s Club ‘Working Men’s Club’
42. Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’
41. Field Music ‘Making A New World’
40. Cornershop ‘England Is A Garden’
39. Lambchop ‘Trip’
38. Katy J Pearson ‘Return’
37. Amaarae ‘The Angel You Don’t Know’
36. James Ferraro ‘Neurogeist’
35. Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’
34. Spectres ‘It’s Never Going To Happen And This Is Why’
33. Laura Marling ‘Song For Our Daughter’
32. Bill Callahan ‘Gold Record’
31. Bob Dylan ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’
30. A.G. Cook ‘7G’
29. Good Sad Happy Bad ‘Shades’
28. SAULT ‘Untitled (Black Is)’
27. Run The Jewels ‘RTJ4’
26. Clipping ‘Visions Of Bodies Being Burned’
25. Thundercat ‘It Is What It Is’
24. Pictish Trail ‘Thumb World’
23. Jessy Lanza ‘All The Time’
22. Yves Tumor ‘Heaven To A Tortured Mind’
21. Sorry ‘925’
20. Yaeji ‘What We Drew’
19. A.G. Cook ‘Apple’
18. Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’
17. Pet Shimmers ‘Face Down In Meta’ & ‘Trash Earthers’
16. Arca ‘KiCK i’
15. 100 Gecs ‘1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues’
14. Tara Clerkin Trio ‘Tara Clerkin Trio’
13. Richard Dawson ‘Republic Of Geordieland’
12. Phoebe Bridgers ‘Punisher’
11. Perfume Genius ‘Set My Heart On Fire Immediately’
10. Charli XCX ‘How I’m Feeling Now’
9. Rina Sawayama ‘SAWAYAMA’
8. Dorian Electra ‘My Agenda’
7. Alabaster DePlume ‘To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol.1’
6. SAULT ‘Untitled (Rise)’
5. Tim Heidecker ‘Fear Of Death’
4. Moses Sumney ‘græ’
3. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’
2. Crack Cloud ‘Pain Olympics’
1. The Flaming Lips ‘American Head’
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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2017 - BEST SONG
AWARD NO.3 - BEST SONG OF 2017
PAST WINNERS
2016 > Solange ‘Cranes In the Sky’ (see full list HERE)
2015 > Kendrick Lamar ‘The Blacker The Berry’ (see full list HERE)
2014 > FKA Twigs ‘Two Weeks’ (see full list HERE)
2013 > Oliver Wilde ‘Perrett’s Brook’ (see full list HERE)
2010 > Untold ‘Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) (see full list HERE)
2009 > Joker - ‘Digidesign’ (see full list HERE)
2008 > Lil’ Wayne - ‘A Milli’ (see full list HERE)
2007 > Panda Bear - ‘Bros’ (see full list HERE)
2006 > Hot Chip - 'Over And Over’ (see full list HERE)
RULES - A maximum of TWO tracks from any one artist. Songs can be tied in the same position.
Some of my favourite album tracks actually released this year may be on last year’s list as singles or lead tracks and not included in this year’s list. Anyway, these are the songs i’ve enjoyed the most this year.
*SPOTIFY PLAYLIST WITH (ALMOST) ALL THE TRACKS*
Special mention to > Girl Ray ‘(I Wish I Were Giving You A Gift) This Christmas’
- which is an amazing song and should really be in my top 10 but they already have 2 songs in the list and it’s a Christmas song, and i feel a bit weird about including Christmas songs.
THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)..
Limmy ‘Turkish Delight techno version’
Rina Sawayama ‘Alterlife’
Lorde ‘Green Light’
Dubi Dolczek ‘Only Human’
Run the Jewels ‘Talk To Me’
Kirin J Callinan ‘S.A.D’
Tim Heidecker ‘Imperial Bathroom’
Andrew Hung ‘Say What You Want’
Kelela ‘Frontline’
Nilüfer Yanya ‘Baby Luv’
ThisisDA ‘Control, Shift’
James Ferraro ‘Twilight Pretender’
Spinning Coin ‘Money Is A Drug’
GFOTY ‘Tongue’
Cardi B ‘Bodak Yellow’
Pillow Person ‘On Your Way’
Kero Kero Bonito ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’
Ed Dowie ‘David Is Unwell’
Yves Tumor ‘E. Eternal’
Flat Worms ‘Question’
LCD Soundsystem ‘Tonite’
Frank Ocean ‘Chanel’ / ‘Biking’
Big Thief ‘Shark Smile’
Julia Jacklin ‘Cold Caller’
Jessie Lanza ‘I Talk BB’
Dean Blunt ‘As Long As Ropes Unravel Fake Rolex Will Travel’
Frankie Cosmos ‘Fish Bowl’ (Kero Kero Bonito cover)
Sacred Paws ‘Strike A Match’
Spectres ‘End Waltz’
Rostam ‘Bike Dream’
Why? ‘Proactive Evolution’
Grandaddy ‘Way We Won’t’
Aldous Harding ‘Imagining My Man’
SL ‘Tropical’
Amber Coffman ‘No Coffee’
The XX ‘Say Something Loving’
Wasuremono ‘For All The Bears’
IAMDDB ‘Shade’
Fenne Lily ‘What’s Good’
Sir Was ‘In The Midst’
Lana Del Rey ‘Love’
Jay Som ‘The Bus Song’
Sweet Baboo ‘Wild Imagination’
Real Estate ‘Darling’
The Horrors ‘Machine’
Hannah Diamond ‘Never Again’
Charli XCX ‘Boys’
Manuela ‘Supermarket’
Dizzee Rascal ‘Space’
The Saxophones ‘Aloha’
Selena Gomez ‘Bad Liar’
Sneaks ‘Look Like That’
Sega Bodega (feat. Shygirl) ‘CC’
Princess Nokia ‘Tomboy’
Grizzly Bear ‘Mourning Sound’
J Hus ‘Common Sense’
S4U ‘Too Much’
Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Deadly Valentine’
The Evil Usses ‘Gambino’
Klein ‘Cry Theme’
Aimee Mann ‘ Good For Me’
Superorganism ‘Something For Your M.I.N.D.’
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Bales’
Colin Stetson ‘All This I Do For Glory’
Lil Yachty ‘Peek A Boo’
Mush ‘Luxury Animals’
MGMT ‘Little Dark Age’
Django Django ‘Tic Tac Toe’ / ‘In Your Beat’
Slowdive ‘Slomo’
N.E.R.D (feat. Rihanna) ‘Lemon’
Alt-J ‘Pleader’
Mura Masa & A$AP Rocky ‘Love$ick’
Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood ‘Tears On Fire’
Ski Mask The Slump God ‘Catch Me Outside’
Francois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Grand Dereglement’
Animal Collective ‘Kinda Bonkers’
Yung Nnelg ‘Forrest Gump’
Wharfwhit ‘Keep U Sweet’ / ‘Elbows’
Stormzy ‘Big For Your Boots’
Alvvays ‘In Undertow’ / ‘Hey’
Luxury Dad? ‘Cowbell’ / ‘Millennial Boogie (or whatever)’
Vince Staples ‘Big Fish’
Missy Elliott ‘I’m Better’
Thundercat ‘Them Changes’
Mac DeMarco ‘On The Level’
Japanese Breakfast ‘Diving Woman’ / ‘Road Head’
Robin Allender ‘Train Dreams’
Sleaford Mods ‘B.H.S.’
Laurel Halo ‘Jelly’
Mun Sing ‘Eye’ / ‘Revenge’
Hype Williams ‘Loud Challenge’
Ariel Pink ‘Feels Like Heaven’ / ’Bubblegum Dreams’
J Hus ‘Did You See’
Drake ‘Passionfruit’
Lil B ‘Still Run It’ / ‘DJ BasedGod’
John Maus ‘The Combine’
Kamaiyah ‘Playa In Me’
Alexis Taylor & Lung Dart ‘I’m Ready’
Aimee Mann ‘Goose Snow Cone’
Terry ‘Take Me To The City’
St. Vincent ‘Los Ageless’
Jlin ‘Nyakinyua Rise’
Oro Swimming Hour ‘Martial Arts Washing Cars’
Alien Stadium ‘This One’s For The Humans’
Jay Som ‘Baybee’
Liars ‘Cred Woes’
S4U ‘Friends’
Brian Eno with Kevin Shields ‘Only Once Away My Son’
Bjork ‘The Gate’ / ‘Blissing Me’
Hercules & The Love Affair (feat. Sharon Van Etten) ‘Omnion’
Tara Clerkin ‘John’
Bonnie Prince Billy (with The Roots of Music) ‘The Curse’
Iglooghost ‘Bug Thief’
SOPHIE ‘Ponyboy’
Insecure Men ‘Subaru Nights’
Young Thug ‘Family Don’t Matter’
Yung Lean ‘Red Bottom Sky’
ESPRIT ‘Flounder 202’
Giant Swan ‘Celebrate The Last 30 Years Of Human Ego’
Oneohtrix Point Never (feat. Iggy Pop) ‘The Pure And The Damned’
Four Tet ‘Two Thousand And Seventeen’
Mount Kimbie (feat. King Krule) ‘Blue Train Lines’
Beak> ‘Sex Music’
Wiley ‘Speakerbox’
Baxter Dury ‘Miami’
Alabaster dePlume 'Be Nice To People'
Drahla ‘Silk Spirit’
The Moonlandingz (feat. Rebecca Taylor) ‘The Strangle Of Anna’
Happyness ‘The Reel Starts Again (Man As Ostrich)’
Yves Tumor ‘Limerence’
Coucou Chloe ‘Flip U’
This Is The Kit ‘Moonshine Freeze’
Ibeyi ‘Deathless’
Mogwai ‘Party In The Dark’
Wesley Gonzales ‘I Am A Telescope’ / ‘In Amsterdam’
Iglooghost ‘Infinite Mint’
King Krule ‘Biscuit Town’
Young Thug ‘Liger’
Bas Jan ‘No Sign’
Seamus Fogarty ‘Carlow Town’
Oliver Wilde ‘Big Black Chunk’
Tyler The Creator ‘I Ain’t Got Time!’
TOP 50 SONGS OF 2017...
50. Lice ‘The Human Parasite’
49. Young Fathers ‘Only God Knows’
48. Los Campesinos! ‘5 Flucloxacillin’
47. Mush ‘Alternative Facts’
46. SOPHIE ‘It’s OK To Cry’
45. Phoenix ‘J-Boy’
44. Oro Swimming Hour ‘Ornatrice’
43. Fever Ray ‘To The Moon And Back’
42. Spectres ‘Dissolve’
41. Dirty Projectors & Dawn Richard ‘Cool Your Heart’
40. Rina Sawayama (feat. Shamir) ‘Tunnel Vision’
39. Oliver Wilde ‘You’re So Kool-Aid’
38. Wiley ‘Can’t Go Wrong’
37. Hookworms ‘Negative Space’
36. This Is The Kit ‘Hotter Colder’
35. Playboi Carti ‘Magnolia’
34. Ed Dowie ‘Yungpawel’
33. Arca ‘Saunter’ / ‘Desafío’
32. Brockhampton ‘Gummy’
31. Seamus Fogarty ‘Van Gogh’s Ear’
30. Taos Humm ‘BLUHr’
29. Shabazz Palaces ‘Shine A Light’
28. Sweet Baboo ‘Pink Rainbow’
27. Happyness ‘Through Windows’
26. Field Music ‘Count It Up’
25. Migos ‘T-Shirt’ / ‘Bad And Boujee’
24. King Krule ‘Dum Surfer’
23. Perfume Genius (feat. Weyes Blood) ‘Sides’
22. Kendrick Lamar ‘DNA’
21. Thundercat ‘Show You The Way’
20. Brockhampton ‘Boogie’
19. SZA ‘Drew Barrymore’
18. Perfume Genius ‘Slip Away’
17. Kamasi Washington ‘Truth’
16. Yaeji ‘Drink I’m Sippin On’
15. Kelela ‘LMK’
14. Girl Ray ‘Stupid Things’
13. Edward Penfold ‘Grasshopper’
12. Richard Dawson ‘Soldier’
11. Future ‘Mask Off’
10. Mount Kimbie (feat. Micachu) ‘Marilyn’
9. Self Esteem ‘Your Wife’ / ‘OMG’
8. Blanck Mass ‘Please’
7. SZA (Feat. Travis Scott) ‘Love Galore’
6. Kendrick Lamar ‘HUMBLE’
5. Yaeji ‘Raingurl’
4. Edward Penfold ‘Garden Fresh’
3. Tyler, The Creator ‘See You Again’
2. Girl Ray ‘Preacher’
1. Richard Dawson ‘Ogre’
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