The Top 50 of 2020

This has been quite the year. That is a gross understatement, to say the least, but through the challenges this year, music is always a confidant and a supporter. I have simply been too busy to post one album at a time as per normal, but there is a playlist below in which you can sample each album. We have seen the absence of concerts and the closing of music venues around the country. The music industry radically changed when SXSW chose to shutter in mid-March. Many musicians thought they would reschedule their tour for later in the year, thinking this was only temporary only to rebook for the next year and at current, does not look plausible. Give a bunch of musicians time off the road and stuck at home for months on end during massive political unrest and the only result can be some really great music this year and on into the next. Several artists on this list put out more than one album this year, including M.Ward, STRFKR, Dan Deacon and Sturgill Simpson. We saw several artists release albums this year that we haven't heard from in awhile, such as, Fiona Apple, Badly Drawn Boy and Clem Snide. I hope you find some new listens out of here this year and I look forward to the artistry from 2021. Be safe out there and hopefully see you at a concert some day.



1. Josiah Johnson – Every Feeling On A Loop
2. Clem Snide – Forever Just Beyond
3. Noah Cyrus – THE END OF EVERYTHING
4. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
5. Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
6. Khurangbin – Mordechai
7. Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
8. Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
9. The Head And The Heart – Living Mirage
10. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
11. The Orielles – Disco Volador
12. Star Parks – The New Sounds Of Late Capitalism
13. Modern Studies – The Weight Of The Sun
14. TV Girl – The Night In Question: French Exit Outtakes
15. Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
16. David Ramirez – My Love Is A Hurricane
17. SAULT – Untitled (Rise)
18. Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass
19. Shopping – All Or Nothing
20. Sylvan Esso – Free Love
21. Sam Amidon – Sam Amidon
22. Other Lives – For Their Love
23. The Avett Brothers – The Third Gleam
24. Mt. Joy – Rearrange Us
25. EOB – Earth
26. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
27. M. Ward – Migration Stories
28. Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – Navarasa: Nine Emotions
29. Beach Bunny – Honeymoon
30. Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters
31. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
32. The Asteroid No. 4 – Northern Songs
33. Porridge Radio – Every Bad
34. Katie Pruitt – Expectations
35. Melenus – Dias Raros
36. Tennis – Swimmer
37. Destroyer – Have We Met
38. Steve Arrington – Down To The Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions
39. AJJ – Good Luck Everybody
40. Badly Drawn Boy – Banana Skin Shoes
41. STRF
KR – Future Past Tense
42. Fruit Bats – The Glory Of Fruit Bats
43. Kevin Morby – Sundowner
44. Momma – Two Of Me
45. Shabaka And The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History
46. Wolf Parade – Thin Mind
47. Happyness – Floatr
48. Running Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy
49. Thundercat – It Is What It Is
50. The Cleaners From Venus – Dolly Birds & Spies