Top 50 Best Albums of 2020

What will you remember the most about 2020? Better question: Do you want to remember 2020? We can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a very bad year for many reasons. In the world of music, this year saw…

The TYF Midyear Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs from the First Half of 2020

As a companion to our recent midyear album list, some of our writers have put together playlists of their favorite album cuts and singles of the first six months of 2020. Here are those playlists, introduced in a similar manner…

TYF’s Top 10 Albums of 2020 (So Far)

We’ve gotten through six months of one of the most cursed years in recent memory, and one of the few really good things about this first half of a year has been the music – at least, the stuff that…

Album review: Fiona Apple’s “Fetch The Bolt Cutters” is the perfect storm

It’s become standard practice for Fiona Apple to take from 7 to 8 years between her albums, but no one is complaining. Fetch The Bolt Cutters is able to form such an intimate connection between the auditory levels of the…

The TYF Monthly Mixtape: April 2020

In our TYF Monthly Mixtape feature, our music writers share Spotify playlists of the songs – new and old – they’ve had on repeat for the last month. This column is back for 2020, and this time we’re sharing some…

Album Review: Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – “I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This”

Jeff Goldblum’s latest outing with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, is a warm and bubbly addition to the slate of new autumn releases. The efficient album contains a host of standards pulled from the songbooks of…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists…