Best Albums of 2020
So, 2020. Just glad any music was made at all.
As always, every album has a Spotify link in the title. I picked 4 songs off each album to have an even 100-song playlist for you to shuffle through. Key tracks are all gathered in a playlist, here. Hit shuffle and enjoy the year that was.
Key tracks: “Maggie,” “Pretty Polly,” “Hallelujah,” “Cuckoo”
Bananagun // The True Story of Bananagun
Key tracks: “People Talk Too Much,” “Freak Machine,” “Out of Reach,” “Mushroom Bomb”
Key Tracks: “Push/Pull,” “A Reason to Celebrate,” “If….,” “Is That What You Wanted to Hear?”
Bonny Light Horseman // Bonny Light Horseman
Key Tracks: “Bonny Light Horseman,” “Deep In Love,” “The Roving,” “Magpie’s Nest”
Key Tracks: “Garden Song,” “Chinese Satellite,” “Savior Complex,” “I Know The End”
Andrew Bryant // Sentimental Noises
Key Tracks: “Something Else,” “Lucky Cigarette,” “Big Hawk,” “The Blue in My Baby’s Eyes”
Empty Country // Empty Country
Key Tracks: “Marian,” “Diamond,” “Emerald,” “Southern Cloud”
Everything Everything // RE-ANIMATOR
Key Tracks: “Lost Powers,” “Big Climb,” “Planets,” “Violent Sun”
Key tracks: “Can I Believe You,” “Maestranza,” “Going-to-the-Sun Road,” “Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman”
Asher Gamedze // Dialectic Soul
Key tracks: “Siyabulela,” “Interregnum,” “Eternality,” “Hope in Azania”
Sarah Jarosz // World on the Ground
Key tracks: “Eve,” “Johnny,” “I’ll Be Gone,” “Empty Square”
The Killers // Imploding the Mirage
Key tracks: “My Own Soul’s Warning,” “Blowback,” “Dying Breed,” “My God”
Mary Lattimore // Silver Ladders
Key tracks: “Pine Trees,” “Silver Ladders,” “Sometimes He’s In My Dreams,” “Thirty Tulips”
Key tracks: “Future Nostalgia,” “Don’t Start Now,” “Cool,” “Levitating”
Key tracks: “Mourning Dove,” “Object Permanence,” “Cold Hand Becomes the Master,” “Deeper Shade”
The Mountain Goats // Getting Into Knives
Key tracks: “Get Famous,” “As Many Candles As Possible,” “Pez Dorado,” “Rat Queen”
Key tracks: “Valley,” “Sundowner,” “Campfire,” “Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun”
Protomartyr // Ultimate Success Today
Key tracks: “Day Without End,” “Processed By The Boys,” “Modern Business Hymns,” “Worm In Heaven”
Andy Shauf // The Neon Skyline
Key tracks: “Where Are You Judy,” “Thirteen Hours,” “Living Room,” “Fire Truck”
Sturgill Simpson // Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 1 & 2
Key tracks: “Life Ain’t Fair and the World Is Mean,” “Turtles All the Way Down,” “Oh Sarah,” “You Can Have the Crown”
Bartees Strange // Live Forever
Key tracks: “Mustang,” “Boomer,” “In a Cab,” “Far”
Key tracks: “Late Arriver,” “Silver City Blues,” “Tulsa County,” “Flock of Lawless Birds”
Key tracks: “Oxbow,” “Fire,” “Lilacs,” “War”
Key tracks: “Smoke,” “Wind on Tin,” “How Ya Lonesome,” “Gulf of Mexico”
Young Jesus // Welcome to Conceptual Beach
Key tracks: “Faith,” “Pattern Doubt,” “(un)knowing,” “Lark”