Author: Noah Hardwick

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Rock & Metal

• August Burns Red – Extinct By Instinct (Reprise)
• The August Guns – Wait For Spring
• Convictions – The Price of Grace
• Defying Death – Lethal Dose
• Demon Hunter – Loneliness (Resurrected)
• Faith Head – Born Again
• Fallstar – Sunbreather
• The Fold – Young & Free (Alexander Wakim Remix)
• Lacey Sturm – State of Me
• Love and Death – Perfectly Preserved
• Luxury – One-Sided EP
• Mike Mains & The Branches – I Love You Always Forever
• Northern Abbey – Hidden
• Outsider Heart – Anyone But You
• Pastor Brad – Jaded Heart
• Unwed Sailor – Blitz

Pop & CCM

• Abby Robertson – Sanctuary
• Adam Lamb – 46 (EP)
• Andrew Ripp – Evergreen
• Cade Thompson – Dear Future Wife
• Caleb Stanton – You
• Chasen – Heartbeat Symphony (EP)
• The Color – After My Heart
• Crystal Rome, Melodic Midnight – Not Going Under (Melodic Midnight Remix)
• Dani Miché – Something Like Love
• Darla Baltazar – Whom Have I
• Dave Barnes – My Love Will Follow You
• Dez Childs – Light Up The Night
• Emma Mullings – This Is Freedom
• FAITHFUL, Amy Grant – A Woman
• Ginny Owens – Expressions II: Wonder (EP)
• Hager – Miscellaneous Melodies Live
• John Michael Howell – Movie
• John Waller – But God
• Land of Color – Warriors
• Maddie Rey – No More Lies / Never Let You Go
• Marie Bashiru – Exit Signs: Stabal Session (Live)
• Mōzi, Bryan Emery – With You
• Nightbirde – It’s OK (Live Maple House Sessions)
• Rachel Honza – somewhere green (EP)
• Rylee – learning
• Sucre – Permission

Electronic

• DJ Moisés, Pekape – Sunrise
• Gui Brazil, GV3, Eleni Baker – Yeshua (Remix)
• Jeremy James Whitaker – hebrews 4
• MinDatter – Like You
• Resonant Force – The Room

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Brian Bulger – Fast Car
• Drew Holcomb, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, Ellie Holcomb – Feels Like Home
• Jennifer Kamikazi – Lebanon Mountains
• Jon Foreman – Departures
• Keith Settles – Composition Book
• Paul Whitacre – peach (Zach Winters Edit)
• Teressa Mahoney – American Elegy

Hip Hop & R&B

• adriansings – CHARLI
• THE APOSTLES, Bon Cantina – Another Love
• AR Base – When You Loved
• ASAP Preach – ASAP Preach – Goodness
• BigGucciDame – Worldwide
• Blake Whiteley – HIT DIFFERENT (EP)
• Brenno – YOU
• Bridgewater – I.O.U.

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Rock & Metal

• 2 Minute Minor – Back In Our Day
• Alex Henry Foster – The Son of Hannah (Live from Festival International De Jazz De Montréal, 7/5/2019)
• Arson – Creatures
• Behold the Beloved – Clenched Fists
• Bloodlines – Colder
• Brotality – Worldwide Desolation
• Earth Groans – My Own Summer (Shove It)
• Fight The Fade – Cut & Run
• Last Chance Marie – This Is Just Sound
• No Lost Cause – Where I Stand (2020)
• Reflection of Glory – Escape the Dream
• Sink In – Swim
• They Came Running – Movement 2: Dream (EP)

Pop & CCM

• Albert Keever – Heart Back Home
• Andrew Ripp – Tomorrow
• Apollo LTD – Nothing is Ordinary.

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Rock & Metal

• ’68 – The Knife, The Knife, The Knife
• Boiling Point – Hope Lives Here
• Colony House – Colony House Live, Vol. 1
• Danielson – Electric Jesus EP
• Fallstar – The Meaning in the Monster
• Inner 29 – Outside
• Killdevil Theory – False Heaven
• Mainframe – Lockdown
• Pantokrator – Marching Out of Babylon
• Relent – Think You Got It
• Remedy Drive – Imago Amor
• xDOULOSxHC – The Middleman (EP)

Pop & CCM

• Alyssa Jordan – There For You
• Baylor Wilson – Jesus Happened
• Casting Crowns, KB – Start Right Here (HGA Version)
• Cat Rea – Fire
• The Complete Fiction – Magic
• DOE – Brighter (Live)
• Dustin Starks – Set on You
• for KING & COUNTRY, Lecrae, The WRLDFMS Tony Williams – for KING & COUNTRY – Amen (Reborn)
• Jerry Fee – Brag
• JJ Heller – Stand by Me / So Long, Farewell
• Joel Vaughn – Louder Than The Lies
• Jonathan Jackson – You Have My Heart
• Josiah Davis – LOVE ME BETTER
• Lynnea – Float
• Manafest – WARRIOR
• Mat Kearney – Powerless
• Melody Adorno – Process
• MillyAnn – Let It Rain
• Nfgn – I Just Wanna Love
• Neoni – DARKSIDE
• Neon Feather, NEON Worship, Sajan Nauriyal – I Want to Be Where You Are
• Rachel Honza – FUTURE ENVY
• Rachael Nemiroff – Minnesota
• Sam Wilson – Be Still and Know
• Samuel Day – Stand Through This
• We the Least – Mask Off
• Wendy Child – All Outta Love

Electronic

• God’s Warrior – Rejoice
• Man Cub, Meggie York – Real Me
• TRELIC, VYLW – Back to You

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• American Teleport – Weeping Willow
• Forrester – Tensions (EP)
• Johnny Knox – Hopeful Romantic (EP)
• Jon Foreman – Side By Side
• Michael J Tinker – Let Me Go There
• Our Atlantic Roots – All The Years
• Paul Demer – Look for the Helpers

Hip Hop & R&B

• 1K FAMO – Go to Church
• Aable – Rollercoaster
• Adrion Butler – iPhone
• A.I.

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Rock & Metal

• August Burns Red – Standing In The Storm
• Captain the Sky – Butterfly Effect
• Chase Tremaine – Development & Compromise
• CHPTRS – Wouldn’t Miss It for the World
• Huntingtons – Foundations, Vol. 6 (Cricket Brown Cow)
• Odds of an Afterthought – Curtain Call
• Our Eternity – Bloodstained
• Talkie – Love Me, Baby

Pop & CCM

• Andrea Hamilton, Daily Squad – Nothing Left
• Branan Murphy – This World Is Not My Home
• Cochren & Co. – Don’t Lose Hope
• CRYS – pause
• Jared Marc – Watch This
• Jessie Villa – Thriller
• JJ Heller – In Your Eyes
• John Jin Han – Find My Own Way
• Micah Christopher – No More Fear
• Paul Whitacre – find the light (The Brilliance Edit)
• Phil Joel – Better Than I Found It (EP)
• ROY3LS – Diamond Love

Electronic

• Asher Postman – Found You

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Andy Squyres – Love Never Fails
• Benjamin Hamilton – art of being human (Radio Edit)
• boy & KING – Where Did You Come From?

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Rock & Metal

• Amongst Wolves – Voices
• Ben S Dixon – Born Unto Us
• Chase Tremaine – Developments
• Demon Hunter – Demon Hunter – I Will Fail You / Dead Flowers (Resurrected)
• Fire from Heaven – The Evil Wolf Chronicles
• Five Iron Frenzy – Until This Shakes Apart
• Heliocentric – Ishmael
• Seventh Day Slumber – Unseen: The Lion And The Lamb (Deluxe Edition)
• Valleyheart – T.I.K.

Pop & CCM

• Adam Lamb – It Had to Happen
• Alive City – Lay ‘Em Down (Acoustic Version)
• Armor Amor – Hold My Heart
• Apollo LTD – Acoustic Sessions (EP)
• Audrey Assad – Eden (Live)
• CAIN – Rise Up (Lazarus)
• Crowder – Good God Almighty
• Freedom Heart – Break Through
• Futures – Just So Good
• Haiva Ru – Oh, But Lover
• Joel Vaughn – Details
• Lazuli – HELMET OF HOPE
• Matthew Parker – Anyone
• Sarah Nathalié – 838
• Terrian – Genesis of Terrian (EP)
• Vaughn Owens – In The Middle

Electronic

• Freeg, Simon Miles, Exxoulls – All the Time
• Jaisua – Hero (EP)
• Ruth Lee Resuello, Bro Justin – Only Reason I’m Alive
• Swedish Revolution, LoudWorship – Ludicrous Mode

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Benjamin Krogh – Ghost That Haunts
• Charlie Peacock – Skin and Wind
• The Dailys – The Dailys (EP)
• Josh Garrels – His Wings
• Teressa Mahoney – Good Good

Hip Hop & R&B

• Angie Rose– Unstoppable
• Ayomilly – Unstoppable
• Benxiah – Myself Different
• Caleb Gordon – Furnace
• Chris Elijah – Steppin’
• Crowns Down – Who Am I?

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Rock & Metal

• 4th Point – Right Wrong
• Chase Tremaine – Q2FN
• Fallstar – The Prism Glass
• Light45 – The Medic
• Love and Death – White Flag
• Pantokrator – We the People
• Reclaimers – Say What You Will

Pop & CCM

• Amanda Danziger – Intercede
• Andrew Ripp – Jericho (Acoustic)
• Chris Renzema – Let The Ground Rest B-Sides (EP)
• The Colour Negative – Good Year
• Cristabelle Braden – Growing (Pop Version)
• Danny Gokey – New Day (Radio Version)
• Eleni Baker – More Than a Million (EP)
• Ginny Owens – Shine Again (Stripped Mix)
• Jared Marc – What I’m Good At
• Joel Vaughn – Louder Than The Lies
• Josh Sellers – The Way It Seems
• Petey Martin, Lauren Daigle – Come Back Home
• Philip Shibata – Sad World
• Nathan Kitner, Lily Grant – I’d Follow You Anywhere
• Scott Riggan – Don’t You Lose Heart (Beautiful and Terrible)
• Trampolines – No One Loves Like You
• Twilight Meadow – Dust
• We The Kingdom – Holy Water (Deluxe)

Electronic

• Bryson Price, Mikesh!ft

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Rock & Metal

• Arson – In too deep
• At The Wayside – My Denial
• Atlas and the Attic – Gold
• The August Guns – Be Not Burned Up
• Convent Bonfires – Shaky Hands
• Remedy Drive – Dragons
• WeAreGeneration – Photographic Memory
• Zahna – Look What You Made Me Do

Pop & CCM

• Allan Scott – Hold It All
• Anna Waters – Walkin on the Water
• Apollo LTD, Social Club Misfits – Good Day (feat. Social Club Misfits)
• Bre Reed – From the Start
• Brian Weaver – Bulletproof
• Charlie Peacock – When You Move Me
• The Colour Negative – Good Year
• Courtnie Ramirez – The Blackbird Sessions (EP)
• for KING & COUNTRY, Hannah Ellis, Jackson Michelson – TOGETHER (The Country Collaboration)
• DC Talk – Jesus Freak (Owl City Remix)
• Grace Graber – In My Head (EP)
• JJ Heller – I Believe in You
• Jon Webster – Lovesick
• Mandisa – Breakthrough
• Nfgn – Year 2020
• Xander Sallows, Sam Bowman – Daydream
• Tauren Wells – All God’s Children

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• The Altar Billies – The Ballad of Ol’ Luce
• The Altar Billies – Great Big Rollin’ Big Boy
• The Altar Billies – Virginia Truckee Line
• The Bowery – Mountains & Valleys
• Brooks Ritter – Ghosts Come to Life (EP)
• Charlie Peacock – Holding On and Letting Go
• More Than Rubies – Walking Through Fire
• Nathan Kitner, Lily Grant – Nothing Sweeter, Nothing Stronger
• Stephanie Quick – Redwood
• Zan Fiskum – You Are The Light

Hip Hop & R&B

• AyeItsAron – Strt Frsh
• Bold Noize – Goslow
• B-Shock, Roy Nova – Confetti (EP)
• Daniel Wayne – As I Am
• Joey Vantes – Legend (EP)
• Josiah Lowe, Xay Hill – DRIP.

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Rock & Metal

• A Secret Ending – Deliverance (EP)
• Evans and Stokes – Diary of the Damned
• Killdevil Theory – Brotherhood

Pop & CCM

• Stephen Miller – Forever by My Side

Electronic

• Bryson Price, Mikesh!ft – Victory

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Charlie Peacock – Faith, Hope & Love
• Charlie Peacock – Freedom Come Tonight
• hadassa morais – homesick for somewhere i’ve never been

Hip Hop & R&B

• CS LIT – Deleted 4
• Davis Absolute, Oh-So – Still Snowing
• Living Scars – O Holy Night
• Mouthpi3ce – No Delay (EP)
• Mr Del – MD 2020: Soulside
• Paradox, ReFlex the Architect – Freedom (EP)
• Saint Jones – I’d Rather Be Hot (EP)
• Tylynn – Sown 
• Uknowfro – Street Preacher 3

Worship & Gospel

• Iwan & Rebekka Sahertian – Your Kingdom come
• Poor Bishop Hooper – Psalm 53
• Ramp Worship – I See an Open Door
• Relion – Gospel (Our God Be Praised)
• Theunis Pretorius – Only One Thing

Other

• Charlie Peacock – See for Miles
• Charlie Peacock – Surprised Me Too
• Charlie Peacock – Your Stardust Kiss

Christmas

• C3 NYC – A Christmas Story (Live) (EP)
• The Crossing Music – Light in the Night
• DaySpring Worship – Our Emmanuel
• Emmanuel Worship – Angels
• Former Ruins – Fruit of Winter (EP)
• Hope Music – O Holy Night
• I.AM

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Creating a list of my top 100 albums and EPs has been fun and all, but it’s really these last 25 that are my personal favorites of 2020. They’re the ones that I’ve listened to the most and the ones I think I will keep coming back to in 2021. So here it is, my top 25 albums and EPs of 2020:… Continued →

Something I realized once I started breaking my top 100 albums and EPs of 2020 list down into four posts is that each post became a micro-list of its own. For example, I wasn’t really thinking too hard about what album I was going to rank 26th when there were 100 albums. But when I split the list up suddenly being ranked 26th seemed really important as it became the last album a reader will see in this post. The reverse proved be true as well, ranking an album 75th where it’s going to be first album a reader sees when they click my post became important too.… Continued →

Some would say that putting together a year-end list of your top 100 albums and EPs is insane. And I agree. It’s one of the most ambitious things I’ve attempted since I started writing for IVM. So how did I do it exactly? Well I started out by putting together a list of all the albums and EPs I listened to during 2020—a feat in its own right. When I was done I had a list of about 300 releases which I then set out to rate on a scale of 1 to 10.… Continued →

I wasn’t really sure how I was going to do my “best of” list this year. I was considering breaking it down into genres similar to what Casey did. Or splitting my albums and EPs into two lists. Or just doing my top 10 list like I normally do. In the end though I decided to take a page out of Josh Balogh’s playbook and go big. So here the first 25 of my top 100 album and EPs of 2020:… Continued →

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Rock & Metal

• Bride – Here Is Your God
• Chase Tremaine – Fear Not Want
• Fallstar – Waiting
• Messenger – In to Win
• Northern Flame – Twisted Reality
• Steve Taylor & the Danielson Foil – Ecstatic Delight
• Then It Ends – Kingdom (Alternative Version)
• Words – Trees (Live) (EP)

Pop & CCM

• Chris August – Ghost
• Conrad – Hidden Places
• Crossroads Music – Come In From The Cold
• Darla Baltazar – Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
• Eniola Abioye – MARBLED MOSAIC.
• John Ward – Graves and Graces
• Jordan Feliz – Say It
• Josh Sellers – Far Away
• Lovelite – Mmxx (EP)
• Mike Donehey – Better
• Stephen Stanley – No Hopeless Soul
• walk in love.

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If you’ve seen my Christmas posts on IVM the past few years then you probably think I’m big fan of Christmas music. And might just be right. It seems like the genre has been growing on me more each year. But it hasn’t always been that way for me. There was defiantly a time during my teens and college years where I found Christmas music annoying at best. So what changed? That’s a question I found myself asking this week and I came up with a few thoughts.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Anberlin – Tear Us Apart
• Ben S Dixon – Psalm 46 Lord of Hosts
• The Chariot – Long Live (10 Year Anniversary)
• Heliocentric – Antithesis
• Living Scars – Hallelujah
• Signum Regis – Flag of Hope (EP)

Pop & CCM

• Adam Lamb – For Me
• Altared – Awakened
• Amng Wlvs – Voice of Hope
• Anae – You Can Find Me
• Cody Johns – Relentless (EP)
• Connor Flanagan – Fire of My Father
• Doobie Powell – Heartbeat
• Edgar Sandoval Jr – last few months
• Haiva Ru – Wildflowers
• Judah & the Lion – Pep Talks Live
• Jon Webster – Selah
• NEEDTOBREATHE – Who Am I (Acoustic)
• Tauren Wells – Famous For (I Believe) – Collection
• UNSECRET – No Sanctuary

Electronic

• Bryson Price – Demons Flee
• Jack Izaak – Still N Listen

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Charlie Peacock – Skin and Wind is a Mind Bend
• Future Divine – Nightmare Into Day
• Jon Foreman – Fear (EP)
• Thomas Toole – Time and Space
• Whale Bones – The Doors Are Locked, the Blinds Are Closed, I Am Not Home

Hip Hop & R&B

• Angie Rose – Not A Monster
• Jesse Francis – Frontier
• JSteph – Phase II: The Remixes (EP)
• King Chai – Godmix 2
• LZ7 – Gettin Wild
• Tru-Serva – Blessings on the Way (Remix)
• Tobe Nwigwe – CINCORIGINALS

Worship & Gospel

• Ashton Barber – Inheritance
• Ben&blake – Faith Alone
• Calvary Worship Live – Never Gonna Let Me Down
• Celtic Worship, Praise Gathering – It Is Well
• Chris Beland – Morning and Evening Hymns
• Curt Vernon – One I Thought You Couldn’t Change
• Emmanuel Worship – Songs of Quarantine
• Fount + Flame – Pull Me In
• Grace City – Holy Ghost (We Say Yes)
• Harvest City Church – Greatest Miracle (Live)
• Hillsong UNITED – (in the meantime) [Vol.

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I should probably be working my Best of 2020 list right now, but as I set out to make my annual Christmas playlist I kept stumbling across great new albums and EPs. So while my top albums of 2020 list sits on the backburner for a few more weeks, enjoy this list of my top 10 new Christmas albums and EPs that were released this year. Oh, and stick around for that aforementioned playlist at the bottom of the page.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Andrew Stanton – Entrance Music
• Boiling Point – Come All You Weary
• Diamonds to Dust – Decisions (EP)
• Fallstar – King Lazer
• Fight The Fade – In Love. in Hope. in Peace. (Deluxe)
• Neal Morse – Jesus Christ the Exorcist (Live at Morsefest 2018)
• Phil Keaggy – Keaggy, Blazier & Lunn (An American Garage Band)
• They Came Running – Movement 1: Dawn – They Came Running (EP)
• Two Dimensional – Superman // Between You & Me
• Winona Avenue – December Night

Pop & CCM

• Drew Poole – I Love You I Love You
• Emily Brimlow – Nickel
• Freedom Heart – Lost and Broken
• Grace Graber – Heart For Me
• The Gray Havens – See You Again / / Autumn Sessions
• Heart + Soul, Vito Vasquez – Made In Heaven
• I AM THEY – I AM They Song Session
• joan – partly cloudy (EP)
• Joe Bae, Philip Shibata – Unravel
• Joseph – NYE (Violents Remix)
• Kios – Stay With Me (EP)
• More Than Rubies – Forgiveness
• Mountaintops – Wherever I Go (Ambient Version)
• Paul Cardall, Thompson Square – My Heart Beats for You
• Pyramid Park, Andy Lowe – Day and Night (Andy Lowe Remix)
• Timothy Li – Leaving

Electronic

• Chris Howland – Dive In
• Jack Izaak – I Have A Dream
• LEVV – I Am (Loving Awareness Mix)

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Cory Breth – Tangerine Sunsets
• The Dailys – Fill This Cup
• Jon Foreman – Love (EP)
• The Pharaoh Sisters – In Distress
• Praytell – Come Whatever
• Ray Nugent – Take a Drink
• Whale Bones – Sow Your Heart in Me

Hip Hop & R&B

• Aklesso – My Life is a Beautiful Mess
• Andy Mineo – Happy Thoughts (EP)
• Antoine Bradford – Seasons Change
• Cellus Hamilton, BlessThePen, Trubl3 – The Row Men
• Dillon Chase – Every Piece Matters
• Flame – Oh Yeah (Original Radio Edit)
• Guvna B, Madison Ryann Ward – Watching over Us
• I-Von – Hands to the Plow
• Jon Keith – Rose
• Jude.

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Rock & Metal

• Anberlin – We Are the Lost Ones
• Brotality – Prisoners of The Abyss
• Heliocentric – Never Again
• Killdevil Theory – Die Another Day
• The Midnight Wedding – Enforcers
• Talkie – anna

Pop & CCM

• Alyssa Jordan – I’m With You
• Beach Chapel – Jerusalem
• The Brilliance – Tell Me I’m Dreaming
• Chasing Daylight – Heartbreak
• Common Courier – Let Go
• I AM THEY – Scars (Acoustic)
• I AM THEY – Tremble Acoustic
• J.Prosper – Never Let Go
• JJ Heller – I Have Enough
• John Gabriel Arends – God Is Moving Like a River
• Josh Sellers – All in My Head
• Shana|Lana – Goodbye Babylon
• Tom Read – Stabal Session (Live)

Electronic

• LoudWorship, Swedish Revolution, Retro Mars – You Say (Lauren Daigle Version)
• Trampolines – The Blessing

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• hadassa morais – Love Letters
• Jon Foreman – Doubt (EP)
• Jonathan Gabriel Masters – Park
• Karissa Frampton – Memos
• TJ Harris – Walk Love

Hip Hop & R&B

• Adriel Cruz – Punk (EP)
• Bryann T – Kingdom Muzic Family: The Remnant
• Courtney B – The Evolution of Courtney B
• davecreates – Ascension
• Hyper Fenton – Darkest Hour
• IMRSQD – Fox Glacier (EP)
• Jalen Williams – Thank God, Show Love
• Jekasole, Scootie Wop – N Luv
• JohnLion.,

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Earlier this year I shared a list of the best albums of 2020 so far from A to Z. Now I’m back to share my list of the best songs of 2020 from A to Z! Once again the letters Q, X, and Z gave me some trouble but I was still able to put together a great list of songs for you. Be sure and check out the playlist of all the songs and runners-up at the bottom!… Continued →

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