Song · Declan McKenna
“Beautiful Faces” by Declan McKenna
From the album Zeros (2020)
“Beautiful Faces” by Declan McKenna appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations in 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album Zeros. Its best result is #60 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #215 alternative song of 2020.
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"Beautiful Faces" was the first single from Zeros, Declan McKenna's second album, released with its video on 29 January 2020. He wrote it with Max Marlow and has said he wanted it huge, "scary big" in his words: a song that pictures social media a little further down the line, so immersive you can't tell where the screen stops and you start.
Jay Joyce produced it and Mark "Spike" Stent mixed, with McKenna on guitar, keyboards and Rhodes, Isabel Torres on guitar, Nathan Cox on bass and synth, and Gabrielle King on drums. When the pandemic kept his band away from a Sunday Brunch spot that April, he played it from home anyway, with four more McKennas sitting around the room as his backing band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 78 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 | 91 |
| 2020 | 72 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2020 | 88 |
| 2020 | 89 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2020 | 103 |
| 2020 | 92 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2020 | 104 |
| 2020 | 60 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020 | 107 |
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