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John Carpenter
Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
alternative
Madlib – Sound Ancestors
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Madlib
Sound Ancestors
electronic
Top Songs of 2020
Top Albums 2020, 5-1
As with the lists from the previous years, the criteria are an unscientific combination of groundbreaking new musical direction, memorable, captivating, and fun. In short, albums that I think are worth continued listening.
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5.
TOPS
I Feel Alive
alternative
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4.
Algiers
There is No Year
alternative
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3.
Chloe x Halle
Ungodly Hour
r&b/soul
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2.
Jessie Ware
What’s Your Pleasure
pop
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1.
U.S. Girls
Heavy Lights
alternative
Top Albums 2020, 10-5
As with the lists from the previous years, the criteria are an unscientific combination of groundbreaking new musical direction, memorable, captivating, and fun. In short, albums that I think are worth continued listening.
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10.
Untitled (Rise)
alternative
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9.
Sault
Unititled (Black Is)
alternative
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8.
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
alternative
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7.
Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia
alternative
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6.
Woods
Strange to Explain
alternative
Top 25 Albums 2020, 15-11
As with the lists from the previous years, the criteria are an unscientific combination of groundbreaking new musical direction, memorable, captivating, and fun. In short, albums that I think are worth continued listening.
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15.
Myrkur
Folkesange
folk
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14.
Los Ángeles Azules
De Buenos Aires para el Mundo
dance
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13.
Nothing
The Great Dismal
alternative
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12.
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
Temple
alternative
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11.
Buscabulla
Regresa
alternative
Top 25 Albums 2020, 20-16
As with the lists from the previous years, the criteria are an unscientific combination of groundbreaking new musical direction, memorable, captivating, and fun. In short, albums that I think are worth continued listening.
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20.
M. Ward
Migration Stories
alternative
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19.
Khurangbin
Mordechai
alternative
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18.
Annie
Dark Hearts
pop
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17.
Allie X
Cape God
alternative
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16.
Hailey Witters
The Dream
country
Top 25 Albums 2020, 25-21
As with the lists from the previous years, the criteria are an unscientific combination of groundbreaking new musical direction, memorable, captivating, and fun. In short, albums that I think are worth continued listening.
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25.
Working Men’s Club
Working Men’s Club
alternative
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24.
Laura Marling
Song for our Daughter
alternative
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23.
Margo Price
That’s How Rumors Get Started
country
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22.
Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
alternative
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21.
Monophonics
It’s Only Us
r&b/soul
Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt
Cut Copy
Freeze, Melt
dance
Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
Margo Price
That’s How Rumors Get Started
country