This summer, Doss’s long-awaited reemergence entwined with the unceremonious reawakening of New York nightlife. It’s the tangle of tail lights blurring in the foreground, it’s the cold wind lapping against your face when you roll the window down, it’s the music. to Maryland, I was sort of parsing through how sweet and welcoming had been, but how I knew that it would never be like it was before, and what to do with all of those feelings.” With each blitzing second of “Puppy,” something that was once so visible begins to shrink in the rearview mirror. Alex Robert Ross, Editorial DirectorĪs Doss explains it, her first single in seven years was born out of an endlessly-stretching night horizon. Whatever happens next year, whether we’re down at the front of the venue together or listening in from our homes, we’ll be covering the most exciting music in the world.
If you missed our albums list, published earlier this week, you can check it out here. Still, you’ll have to scroll down to find out what won out after a few days of The FADER team haranguing each other and arguing over Zoom calls. In the end, what won out this year was the next generation: the young artists dreaming up new ideas, whether in bedrooms or giant studios, occasionally borrowing from the past but always expressing things in thrilling and unconventional ways. You could also make the case (as I do below) that Lucy Dacus’s “Thumbs,” a spare song about revenge and empathy delivered with a quiet resolve, captures something essential about the year just gone.
You could make the argument that no song reflects the world as it is now more vividly than RXK Nephew’s “American tterroristt,” a 10-minute-long, this-is-your-brain-on-Twitter rant that jumps from conspiracy to clarity to lunacy without much of a pause.
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