Unsurprising that an election year proved grounds for his most recent return, with a track that starts mid-scream and leaves you like the Maxell blown away guy for the entirety of its 2:28 runtime.
Over the past 40 years of American rock music, few things have proven as reliably cathartic as the sound of alt-rock legend Bob Mould trying to get the bile out. The 25 Best LGBTQ Songs of 2020: Staff Picks Or does she succumb one more time? “Sink into it, rise above it/ Climb into the sky, I love it,” she sings on the bridge - finding release, one way or the other. Frontwoman Dana Margolin has said “7 Seconds” is about “the end of something that was never right,” but she doesn’t sound like she’s kicked her addiction when she sings, “I can’t tell you that I am wasted on you.” The line has double meaning though, and as pounding drums and sludgy guitars battle with uplifting ‘80s-style synth curlicues and rim rolls, Margolin breaks free of her Kraken-like lover.
This banger sounds like CRISPR technology was used to splice together DNA from Gang of Four and the Go-Go’s to create a song as dark as it is danceable. “Say Less” is maybe their most propulsive single to date, particularly as they take the track’s advice on the song’s late instrumental break, for what might qualify as the first true beat drop in dream-pop history. A.U.įew of the shoegaze revivalists of recent years carry the instrumental brawn of Philly-based Reprise Records quartet Nothing, whose crushing gauzefests owe as much to cloud-pop industrialists HEALTH and alt-metal deep divers the Deftones as to Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. It probably sounds something like the inside of your head this year, after you roll out of bed in the morning to find yourself instantly on the clock again. Following a pounding instrumental lurch that Imagine Dragons probably could’ve used for their next album, Pop Evil frontman Leigh Kakaty spends the chorus lamenting “ALL I DO, ALL I DO IS WORK!,” triggering a cacophany of grinding beats and hooks in the process. ANDREW UNTERBERGERĪn accidental quarantine anthem for those of us who’ve (permanently?) lost any sense of home life and office life balance.
Fine Line kickoff “Golden” has spent 12 months in our lives as an impossibly joyous guitar-led rave-up, and upon its release as a single (with its escapist-even-by-Harry-standards music video) in October, it officially became the fist-pumpingest radio hit of any genre that your older brother might still feign embarrassment at loving. The world’s biggest rock star still doesn’t get a ton of airplay or respect in the rock world - but from the sound of it, he’s not exactly letting it get him down. Here are our 25 favorite songs from the rock world in 2020 - with a playlist of all 25 at the bottom - and here’s to even wilder times in the genre to come. The 25 Best Rock Albums of 2020: Staff Picks
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