Author Archives: Zé Marques

Best of 2020

As strange as 2020 was I couldn’t finish the year without doing the regular exercise of reflecting on my favourite albums of the year. And here they are:

  1. Vaiapraia – 100% Carisma
  2. Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
  3. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
  4. Dirty Projectors – 5EPs
  5. Touché Amoré – Lament
  6. Arca – KiCk i
  7. Future Islands – As Long As You Are
  8. Jessie Ware: What’s Your Pleasure?
  9. 070 Shake – Modus Vivendi
  10. Fleet Foxes – Shore
  11. Adrianne Lenker – songs
  12. Filipe Sambado – Revezo
  13. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  14. Soccer Mommy – color theory
  15. Dehd – Flower of Devotion
  16. Haim – Women in Music Pt. III
  17. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene
  18. U.S. Girls – Heavy Light
  19. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
  20. Son Lux – Tomorrows I

Best of 2018

Every year I go through the exercise of highlighting the albums I enjoyed the most. Here’s the list for this year:

  1. Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
  2. Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
  3. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
  4. Beach House – 7
  5. Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
  6. MGMT – Little Dark Age
  7. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
  8. Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past
  9. Lucy Dacus – Historian
  10. Jon Hopkins – Singularity

Here’s my list from last year.