2020 Music List

I’ll be updating this list of my favorite albums of the year throughout 2020.

  1. Tame Impala “The Slow Rush”
  2. Ratboys “Printer’s Devil”
  3. Grimes “Miss Anthropocene”
  4. Dogleg “Melee”
  5. Sparta “Trust the River”
  6. Soccer Mommy “Color Theory”
  7. Snarls “Burst”
  8. Bombpops “Death in Venice”
  9. Mura Masa “R.Y.C.”
  10. Waxahatchee “Saint Cloud”
  11. Ellis “Born Again”
  12. Pinegrove “Marigold”
  13. Watkins Family Hour “Brother Sister”
  14. Phish “Sigma Oasis”
  15. Trivium “What the Dead Men Say”
  16. Nap Eyes “Snapshot of a Beginner”
  17. Half Waif “The Caretaker”
  18. Moaning “Uneasy Laughter”
  19. Strokes “The New Abnormal”
  20. Laura Marling “Song for Our Daughter”
  21. The Chats “High Risk Behavior”
  22. Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright”
  23. STS9 “Visions Tapes”
  24. Fiona Apple “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”
  25. Alkaline Trio “EP”
  26. Four Tet “Sixteen Oceans”
  27. Flat Worms “Antarctica”
  28. Pigeons Playing Ping Pong “Presto”
  29. Beach Bunny “Honeymoon”
  30. Real Estate “The Main Thing”
  31. Best Coast “Always Tomorrow”
  32. Circles around the Sun “Circles around the Sun”
  33. Once and Future Band “Deleted Scenes”
  34. Dance Gavin Dance “Afterburner”
  35. Rina Sawayama “Sawayama”
  36. Trace Mountains “Lost in the Country”
  37. STRFKR “Future Past Life”
  38. The Lovely Eggs “I Am Moron”
  39. CMON “Confusing Mix of Nations”
  40. Deeper “Auto-Pain”
  41. Destroyer “Have We Met”
  42. Gold Cage “Social Crutch”
  43. Honey Cutt “Coasting”
  44. Sorry “925”
  45. Midwife “Forever”
  46. Bonny Light Horseman “Bonny Light Horseman”
  47. Dan Deacon “Mystic Familiar”
  48. Caspian “On Circles”
  49. Active Child “In Another Life”
  50. Little Dragon “New Me, Same Us”