Notes from a Genius

101. Coheed and Cambria- Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind 100. Maggie Rogers- Surrender 99. Murder By Death- Spell/Bound 98. Tove Lo- Dirt Femme 97. Turnover- Myself in the Way 96. Frankie Cosmos- Inner World Peace 95. First Aid Kit- Palomino 94. Plains- I Walked with You a Ways 93. Alison Sudol- Still Come the Night 92. Chloe Moriondo- Suckerpunch 91. Jack White- Fear of the Dawn/ Entering Heaven Alive 90. Cave In- Heavy Pendulum 89. Mitski- Laurel Hell 88. Maren Morris- Humble Quest 87. PUP- The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND 86. Bonny Light Horseman- Rolling Golden Holy 85. Kelsea Ballerini- Subject to Change 84. Fletcher- Girl of My Dreams 83. Michaela Anne- Oh To be That Free 82. Sigrid- How to Let Go 81. Mandy Moore- In Real Life 80. Maddie and Tae- Through the Madness Vol. 1/ Vol. 2 79. Spoon- Lucifer on the Sofa 78. The Weather Station- How Is It that I Should Look at the Stars 77. Sa

Hard to believe we've made it through another bizarre year. Concerts slowly started to come back and bands have been able to perform some of their music that they created during the pandemic, finally, in front of people. There certainly was not a lack of amazing music released this year, as musicians still seem to be riding quite a large wave of creativity thanks to the pandemic. Taylor Swift re-recorded and released 2 of her previously released albums (first, she gave us Fearless Taylor's Version; then, she just gave us Red Taylor's Version, which is absolutely amazing). I took those two albums out of the running for my Best of... list. 70- Indigo de Souza- Any Shape You Take 69- wristmeetrazor- Replica of a Strange Love 68- Pile of Love- self 67- Kanye West- Donda 66- Foo Fighters- Medicine at Midnight 65- The Weather Station- Ignorance 64- One Step Closer- This Place You Know 63- Colleen Green- Cool 62- Full of Hell- Garden of Burning Apparition 61- Foxing- D