BBT Read the full review. Kate Solomon Read more. For all the doom and gloom brought upon us by 2020, one of the silver linings this year has got to be the excellent musical records delivered to us by both heavy-hitters and lesser-known artists. Considering the dramatic origins of her third album – lupus, a kidney transplant, splitting from Justin Bieber and the Weeknd, rehab for her mental health – Gomez could justifiably have released an hour of equally high-intensity bloodletting, but Rare abides by the maxim “when it’s hot, write it cold”. Producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes use “electronic voice phenomenon” ghost recordings, corroded signals and electroshock bursts of bass and noise to keep you constantly choosing fight or flight. The music sounds like escapism; KeiyaA’s lyrical philosophy lays out a path by which one might truly escape. Across 23 tracks, the American R&B star builds a deep, rounded portrait of the highs and lows of a romantic relationship. Towering choruses burst with relief for the simple fact of survival. BBT Read the full review. Among a huge cohort of artists finding hard-won inner peace this year, the Welsh producer cast off limiting relationships and superficial pleasures on her second album. At just seven tracks and 20 minutes long, this might technically be an EP but what Industry Games lacks in length, it makes up for in great music. Occasionally, reality intrudes as she sings about the final moments of a person’s life, and her own battle to gain ownership of her back catalogue. But there are so many particular musical voices across these songs, such as the witheringly hilarious woman on You Know It Ain’t, that it’s never monolithic but rather a collection of personalities. The second of these 20-plus-minute pieces, Lovelock, turns anxious and distracted, before Further closes the set out with one of their most purely gorgeous compositions, a lush rainmaking groove anchored around a two-note organ motif. LS. The pair will get their wish: “May our tombstones read: they were nothing to fuck with.” BBT Read the full review. From big hitters such as Ariana Grande, BLACKPINK and Dua Lipa to the records that slipped under the radarâhere are Vogueâs favourite tracks. Meg Remy is pictured with a little kid on the cover – a symbol of hope, you might think, but then biological and natural maternal relationships turn out to be corrupted, too. The often bad-faith assaults on Boucher’s personal life couldn’t touch her art – the calling that may have been her real-life salvation. Published: March 16, 2020. BBT Read the full review. The 50 Best Albums Of 2020: 50-41 / 40-31 / 30-21 / 20-11 / 10-1. Lyrically, it’s steeped in imagery drawn from the present moment. 35 Albums to Hear in March. “I thought the sea would make some pattern known / And swim us safely home,” Hadreas laments on sparse closer Borrowed Light. And his swaggering libido was still apparent – you can hear his grin on the icy slickness of Cucumber as he implores: “Say ah J Hus make your pum-pum sore.” But dig deeper and you hear a young man navigating self-doubt in a world made to exclude him: “No blacks, no dogs, we were segregated,” he reflects on Deeper Than Rap. A joy to listen to, it topped the charts in 13 countries. With nods to Biggie Smalls, Adina Howard and Jazmine Sullivan, and features with SZA and DaBaby, this irrepressible, assured and long-awaited debut was the much-needed break from 2020 we all needed. Fleet Foxes, Shore. Jersey makes, the world takes. It should be underlined that the sororal US trio’s first two albums, Days Are Gone (2013) and Something to Tell You (2017) are very good: slick without smoothing too much over. After disaffected candour swept literature, many critics asked whether self-awareness had gone too far in fiction. It’s also a great smokescreen: the album’s implicit content, about grief and anxiety, is far more revealing than the raunchy stuff. By Olivia Ovenden. The best albums of 2020 by Arizona artists include music by Puscifer, AJJ, Spirit Adrift, Mega Ran, The Stakes, Courtney Marie Andrews, Sunn Trio, and more. The suburban iconography in her songs takes on a supernatural aura – going to the store “for nothing” while high on speed; being wasted on someone’s front lawn – and her keen sense of irony is undercut by the yearning to believe in something. Stacker compiled data on the top 100 albums from 2020, according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on editorial and data-based charts, e.g., Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, and so on. 20 of the best albums of 2020. It takes a good 20 minutes to offer its first bout of release (the flirtatious boogie of Shellfish Mademoiselle), priming the pumps for Murphy to enter her formidable euphoric stride: industrial funk trailing seedy lounge fantasies, pizzicato strings and screaming disco house. She sang with an intimacy that conveyed the real-time growth of thoughts from instinct to decision, her hurt at the hands of bad men and racists calcifying into defiance. On the exquisite Key West (Philosopher Pirate), he’s an old rogue hymning the last of his life at the far end of America, afternoon beer palpably in hand. Slipping in right at the end of the year, the (possible) final part of Kid Cudi’s MOTM trilogy has been anticipated since the second part of the series dropped in 2009. Recorded during the first few months of lockdown, Swift’s surprise eighth album topped many best of 2020 lists. This album pinged from ecstatic Lenny Kravitz shredding (Kerosene!) With that resolve came an expansion of Owens’ sound: encouraged by Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, she sang more and counterbalanced her emotionally astute songwriting with increasingly daring production – on Melt!, puckered rapids of minimal techno traced the cracking of an ice cap. LS Read the full review. Anyone longing for a pop star in the tradition of Prince or David Bowie – someone so sexually intoxicating, musically flexible and supernaturally individual they remind you how bland and mortal you really are – should make haste towards Yves Tumor. LS Read the full review. The 50 best albums of 2020 Weâve collated our writersâ âbest ofâ lists and crunched the numbers in a big old music ranking machine. The polar opposite of her hyper-saturated album Art Angels (2015), it sailed a Stygian tide as Boucher navigated the possibility of redemption and destruction, the latter embodied by mockingly catchy choruses that seethed through the murk, contrasting her muted, forlorn verses. “It’s all one river crossing,” he sings, inviting you to stop resisting and step right in. The tenderness of Jam and Lewis, west coast hip-hop at its sugariest and the innocence of Japanese city pop are fractured by shivering dubstep and even the exuberant chatter of UK garage. A simply sublime R&B record that beautifully marries the Atlanta sisters’ hair-raising harmonies over inventive beats from Disclosure, Mike Will Made It and Scott Storch, with none other than Beyoncé as executive producer. It’s been quite a year for this California newcomer, from featuring on Drake’s Chicago Freestyle to a Grammy nomination for this startlingly accomplished debut album. From the singsong chorus of Tomorrow to the twanging riff of John Cooper Clarke, the melodies are insistent and prodding, set to unleash a poorly coordinated army of robot dancers when indie discos reopen. From Taylor Swift's heartfelt Folklore and Ariana Grande's super sexy Positions to Lous and the Yakuza's French debut album, it's been an unparalleled period for music. The fourth album from Venezuelan electronic record producer Arca features Björk, Rosalía, Sophie and Shygirl, and it’s a reliably avant garde piece of art-pop. A mix of innocence and sophistication distinguishes this R&B gem, their vocal rhapsodies catching on coy bass lines and barbed percussion. Jay-Z appears uncredited on nearly every track, rangy and creative, but Jay himself is riveting as he ruminates on his artistry and circuitous path with plenty of religiosity: “The prodigal son who went from his own vomit / To the top of the mountain with five pillars and a sonnet”. The first thing that hits you is the quality of the songwriting and production; then the message of the song falls like a feather, not a brick. The 10 best albums of 2020, including Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers and Chloe x Halle. The mood is more downbeat than their debut and their growing pains are clear: frontman Grian Chatten furrows his brow, his heart and mind shifting as he ages, picking up wisdom and trying on identities. Many of her best-ever songs are here: the sniping and sexiness of the toxic relationship in Held Down; the scirocco that seems to blow through Strange Girl; the stillness and bald vulnerability in the moment sketched on The End of the Affair. From big hitters such as Ariana Grande, BLACKPINK and Dua Lipa to the records that slipped under the radar—here are Vogue’s favourite tracks. Filled with a lifetime’s worth of compassion, Fetch the Bolt Cutters isn’t just the album of 2020 but a future classic, a rare combination of innovation and profound deep feeling. The lithe buoyancy of Hus’s vocals remained, accompanied by flourishes of sax, piano, guitar and strings. The Best Albums of 2020. The standout track, the anthemic Wildfire, is pulled from the headlines – with George Floyd’s death and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests haunting every line. Perfect for any time of the day. You can identify the collectivism that also charged up the Black Lives Matter movement this year in these songs of solidarity, hope, pain and catharsis, filled as they are with chants and swelling vocal harmonies; the anonymity of the group’s members itself suggests a goal bigger than any one individual. But Disco didn’t just compete with this year’s surprisingly widespread revival of the genre; Kylie’s fantastical dancefloor, one of catharsis and community, resonated precisely with these weird times. Ware’s fourth album was highly flammable. But Grande’s horniness has been part of her artistic identity for years – on Positions, it offered a safe retreat from headlines about heartbreak and tragedy. -- G.F. 23. The guitarist with jazz-rockers Tortoise, who has released numerous solo records and played sideman to Meshell Ndegeocello, Makaya McCraven and more, was in personal and crowdpleasing form on this LP, which breezes between funk, hip-hop rhythms and cosmic jazz in honour of his mother (named in the title). Stunning work from Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa. The rapper released this debut album 13 years after his first mixtape – it had to be very good to warrant the wait, and it was even better. I don't think anyone will ever want to party like it was 2020. LS Read the full review. Finally returning to full power, Gaga’s sixth album is the unadulterated disco-pop banger we’ve been waiting for since 2008’s The Fame. But his bandmates’ dynamism and energy, and his own quiet resilience, bears them all aloft. More than simply disco literate, it is also a wonderfully meta exposition of Kylie’s pop identity, how she has embodied hope and joy and lived in service of the perfect pop song – its own bid for immortality. Featuring production from the UK (Jae5, P2J), the US (Anderson Paak, Timbaland) and Nigeria (LeriQ and Rexxie) and guests including Stormzy (Real Life), Chris Martin (Monsters You Made) and Youssou N’Dour on Level Up (Twice As Tall), the Nigerian superstar brilliantly extended his ambitions on his fifth album. The Best Ever Albums score is derived from a formula that weighs how many charts an album has appeared on, and how high it was on each of ⦠Humanity, for example, is “a room of pit ponies / Drowning forever in a sea of love”. The industry has been disproportionately affected by the global ⦠Mono Mundo 40. When it does, it’s not to recalibrate the fractured relationships with helpless lovers and fathers, but in more fleeting escapes: the tender country hum of Graceland Too narrates a story taking MDMA, looking at the moon and driving to Graceland, finding salvation in the illusion. By sampling, editing and chopping together his own recordings, and folding in various collaborators, including his teenage daughter Ruby, he gives it an impulsively impressionist feel. But WIMPIII is much looser. 2020 hasnât been an ideal year, but it still produced exemplary new albums, so check out our ranking of the yearâs best below. The 20 Best Albums of 2020 So Far. And although Suddenly was less club-facing than Caribou’s previous albums Our Love and Swim, Snaith’s pleasure centres remained satisfyingly intact on the understated house of Never Come Back, and the filtered giddiness of Ravi. The 10 best albums of 2020: Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, more - Los Angeles Times On their third album and first masterpiece, Haim sound like a band who took their eyes off the prize and found it at their feet. LS Read the full review. While it’s clearly incredibly personal, the 26-year-old from Los Angeles somehow seems to softly sum up the collective feeling of this distracted, disjointed, troubled year—in particular album closer, the apocalyptic I Know The End. Fantastically inventive, hugely enjoyable and delightfully queer. But keeping still forced Charli to actually sit with her feelings – a much harder job than simply acting on them – and her fourth album contains moments of dawning horror at what that stillness revealed. Shares. LS Read the full review. It was bleak, touching on addiction and death, yet carried a sense of triumph. On Murder Most Foul, his longest song ever – and one of his very best – he’s like Walt Whitman spilling his thoughts on a meme page for Facebook boomers: a sublime epic of conspiracy theorising, American history and rock’n’roll nostalgia. Rapper Daveed Diggs is best known for playing Jefferson and Lafayette in Hamilton, surveying the violent chaos at the outset of the US – here, he seems to survey the same thing at its end. In contrast to that dreamlike haze was KeiyaA’s clarity of thought. LS Read the full review. By. And Crutchfield’s acceptance of the inevitable seems spookily prescient given that she made the album last year. The often very funny Gomez excels at nimble vocal kiss-offs, which she layers into satisfyingly percussive patterns: the chorus of People You Know seems to fold in on itself like origami; you’d expect Vulnerable to burst into gaudy EDM, but it pares back to Gomez caressing every syllable of the word, as if putting her own seams on show. Mike Hadreas’s work has always dealt with heavy themes including abuse and bullying, but with the opener of his new album, he asks to be relinquished of his trauma. LS Read the full review. These songs truly deserve the descriptor Dylanesque, not just for their stylistic nods but for their quality. Seattleâs Fleet Foxes make gorgeous, rustic folk designed to lift the listener up ⦠It doesn’t feel egocentric, but proof of a messy and complicated psychological exploration. 11/12/2020 Esquire Getty Images. By Hattie Collins 20 December 2020. “Less of who I am for you in case I offend you,” she rued on the song LINE, pledging to be alone instead. The result is wistful, romantic and adorned with entrancing melodies. Yet this is not weary resignation: for an artist who has been in constant metamorphosis, such acceptance feels revelatory. The 50 Best Albums Of 2020. Featuring Phoebe Bridgers (Lovin’ Me) as well as the late Pop Smoke and British rapper Skepta (Show Out), this psychedelic, highly inventive, boldly self-reflective record samples Tom Hanks’s Cast Away (2000) and Scott Pilgrim Vs. With two classic albums alongside Madlib, Gibbs continues his other dream producer partnership with the Alchemist (a veteran whose credits include Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Nas and tens of others) following 2018’s Fetti. Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice. A sense of emotional overload permeated Caribou’s 10th album, a response to several years of death and divorce in Dan Snaith’s family. The irrepressible Body alone proves that the Houston rapper is this year’s brightest new star. Authority figures from warmongers to the Twitterati are dispensed with as the duo seem to embrace chaos as a means of making change. Yet Folklore found a moment of stillness in the turmoil, turning even the darkest musings into something sparkling and beautiful. Though this British rapper’s second album flew a little under the radar outside the UK, Momodou ‘J-Hus’ Jallow delivered a beautifully balanced Afrobeat-rap album that is as quietly powerful as it is implicitly political. But that doesn’t account for the skill with which Sawayama picks her way through her formative musical loves, and how adept she is at arranging them as dynamically explosive contrasts. Music, that is. Tara Joshi Read more. Published: July 8, 2020. Sault’s new album is weapons-grade R&B: rugged, soulful and unapologetically Black. BBT Read more. List of Movies, TV Shows, Videogames, and Albums Postponed by the Coronavirus. Saint Cloud provides no tritely optimistic spin on this state of affairs, yet still radiates a soothing, cathartic and bittersweet joy. Frustrated by its absence this year, the self-professed workaholic made an album of sugary obliteration that signalled her fierce hunger for the highs: “I’m so BORED,” she spat on Anthems, a bratty shriek to scare off disassociation. Nothing Revealed/Everything Denied sighs at life spent on the defensive; I Think There’s Something You Should Know sets Healy’s self-alienation to fractured two-step. Ammar Kalia Read more. That sense of promise, half danger, half flirtation, torched the memory of her previous album’s commercial hedge-betting, Ware’s finest record yet rising from the ashes. Released in March, Colores won best urban album at the 2020 Latin Grammys, and scored the Colombian superstar a No. “They took our history then they went and erased it.” As the year progressed, the exquisite Big Conspiracy came to reflect more of 2020, mapping out his personal journey within the wider context of being young, Black and British. BBT. The concept of Chromatica was unusually light for her: a planet of kindness punks? A lot of the music that ended up on our list of the 20 best albums of the year already made an appearance at 2020âs halfway point, showing up on the list of our favorite music thus far. BBT Read more. But this album was made following the death of Bruner’s close friend, rapper Mac Miller; its telescoping focus and subaquatic funk perfectly mirrored the tides of grief. Often, young women who sprang from kids’ entertainment have used sex to assert their outrageousness and maturity. BBT Read the full review. You canât argue with science It’s been a year of letting go, a prospect more comforting for some than others. It was the best hip-hop album of 2020, and in a year defined as much by racism and police brutality as by a pandemic, no album more succinctly took apart our broken system. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. This is horrorcore hip-hop, but deadly serious rather than cartoonish, an apocalyptic world filled with blood, petrol, drugs and rust where “core snap like yolk, floor crack like joke / More cat eye opens, sky racked like coat”. There are frequent pleas for better communication and reciprocity, likely to comfort anyone gaslighted into thinking, “Is it just me?” But when the connection works, it really works, as evinced by the numerous rapturous slow jams. BBT. Share br />this article: On one hand, who can think about stuff as trivial as this? From Drake to Rihanna’s latest: 9 new albums you need to obsess over in 2021, 5 breakout bedroom pop stars on how they survived and thrived in 2020, BLACKPINK’s The Album is the most bombastic lockdown record you’ll hear all year, 6 new musicians who are set to go stratospheric in 2021. Best Albums of 2020. The uber-Kylie album thunders through the genre’s history, from the Voulez-Vous-ing of Last Chance and sly references to Gloria Gaynor and Earth, Wind & Fire to its stylish 90s French touch reincarnation. Yo Perreo Sola and the Daddy Yankee-assisted La Santa conspired to create the perfect party record. It’s tough to consider how much further he might have wandered next. The 20 best albums of 2020. He’s an evangelist for marriage, even with its wrinkles; a Zen advocate for finding everyday transcendence in neighbourly interactions and breakfast rituals; resistant to dogma – his horror at the young male protest singer he sees on a late-night talk show is hilarious – and open to connection wherever he might find it. The 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far Including Bob Dylan, Lil Uzi Vert, Bad Bunny, Dua Lipa, and more. It's been a historic year for the arts, but our pick of 2020's best albums proves there is nothing that can hold back creativity. Most of those records were made before lockdown began, but thereâs more than a couple hereâCharli XCX, Taylor Swiftâthat drew inspiration from the same wellspring of hardship that created our present ⦠LS Read the full review. His two subsequent albums set their gaze on an ever-widening horizon, and on the strikingly pared-back Gold Record he appoints himself universal co-pilot, inviting you on to his wavelength. As with Madlib, Gibbs pairs well with crackly soul samples, giving him the lofty statesmanlike air he needs when regarding everyone with such alpha-male hauteur, but he never sounds old. The bustle of pre-Covid life seems to be evoked by Tony Buck’s drumming in the latest release by the veteran Australian avant-jazz trio, particularly on the opening track Bloom, which clatters and rustles with ferrety industry. Comments (0) (Image credit: Shabazz Palaces) It would be a gross understatement to say this has been a difficult year for the arts. A heartfelt 70 minutes that gently exposes evocative, delicate tones and textures, Folklore mines literary and cinematic references such as Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window (1954) and Charlotte Brontë novel Jane Eyre. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase Snaith’s plaintive voice, reminiscent of Arthur Russell, contrasted soulful samples to particular effect on Home, as if contrasting reality and desire. And after the unconvincing authenticity of her album Joanne (2016), Gaga was at her most potent, roaring about being “LUVAHS even just tonight”, and concluding the defiant chorus of Free Woman with a tart finger-wagging “uh-uh”. Prince sang about partying like it was 1999. An outstanding album from the Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar who is currently the most-streamed artist on Spotify (eight billion and counting). Savage’s voice is still one of the best in contemporary rap: withering, jaded, but slicked with dark humour. We have combed Discogs user ⦠LS Read the full review. The title of Charli XCX’s lockdown album might be read as business as usual: she is, after all, our most hyper-present and reactive pop star, one obsessed with stimulation. BBT Read the review. The rapper had already been stretching out into the role of a Bruno Mars-ish funk singer, and here he tries that out at a lower tempo, seeming to really enjoy letting his voice reach for longer notes or more fragile types of song: psychedelic balladry, indie-folk, white soul. Rachel Aroesti Read more. We count down to number one, with entries from Soccer Mommy, Run The Jewels, HAIM and Moses Sumney. There’s not much between the 1975’s Matty Healy and the creations of Naoise Dolan and Sally Rooney: across the band’s fourth album, Healy is acutely aware of his flaws, satirising and shrugging at his ego, his horniness, his political flakiness – and, yes, his overwhelming self-awareness. Its plush disco setting evoked the era’s velvet, feathers and static-crackled polyester – cinders at the drop of a lit Vogue. Like Marvin Gaye, another great purveyor of intimacy, Sumney shores up the solipsism of standout ballads Me in 20 Years and Bless Me with the whispers of multitracked harmonies constructed solely from his voice. A voracious hunger seethes through Murphy’s most club-facing record. She yearns for something more, feels frustrated by a lover who’d rather microdose than indulge – plus she knows that even desire fulfilled simply seeds more desire: “There’s nothing left for us to gain,” she cries against the chill wind of Kingdom of Ends, the nihilistic second track. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year, First published on Tue 1 Dec 2020 01.00 EST. The 50 Best Albums of 2020. They sound natural playing hip-hop breakbeats, neo-soul and even reggae, while also bringing country moods to their metropolitan pop, and the extra space throws more light on the lyrics and refined melodies: sustained strengths that make WIMPIII a truly classic record. Radio X picks the best albums to be released in 2020: from the stadium filling sounds of Biffy Clyro and The Killers to great new music from Beabadoobee and DMA's. Kathryn Bromwich Read more. It references Olivia Newton-John, turn-of-the millennium Madonna, 1930s Lew Stone (and by extension, 90s White Town), 80s INXS, Lily Allen and the Who. And so Róisín Machine turns the thrill of the chase into a generator for self-sufficiency. A riot of anthems that peaks with the superb Rain On Me, featuring Ariana Grande, Chromatica is Gaga back to her best. Soft rock’s poet laureate returned with one of his strongest sets yet, with the coldwave chill that arrived on Ken (2017) now getting right into his bones. Innovative, smart, daring, literate, and musical, Apple's first album in eight years was the undisputed best album of 2020. Thirty years after the invention of the “parental advisory: explicit content” sticker, pop celebrated Tipper Gore’s prudish legacy with its filthiest year in recent memory. BBT Read the full review. LS Read the full review. Twelve weeks on from one classic Sault album, Untitled (Black Is), came another, winnowing classic Black musical forms into one another: psychedelic soul, Afrobeat, electro-funk, performance poetry, trip-hop, jazz and more. Katie Crutchfield cited alt-country pioneer Lucinda Williams as a crucial influence on Saint Cloud, but the spectre of a more conventional giant is equally hard to ignore. The Strokes â The New Abnormal He may employ a multitude of musical styles—from 1980s synthpop to 1990s garage—yet the Canadian singer and songwriter melds them with ease. Yet among the glitchy, at times challenging sounds, a joyous pop sensibility shines through. Like a sky laced with pastel cirrus, it is effervescent and awe-inspiring. The stakes become entirely her own. Quite simply one of the best bands in the world right now, who have something to say and the means to say it. Me & You Together Song vibrates with naivety, a vision of uncomplicated romance and unrelentingly Tiggerish indie-pop that remains insistently in the moment, swapping introspection for admiration. BBT Read the full review. The Gambian-British rapper boldly breaks out from the confines of drill with a magical album that is lyrically dense and musically clever, traversing the textures and tones of Afrobeat, dancehall, UK rap and even tender R&B to breathtaking effect. Metacritic Rewind: Releases From 20 Years Ago This Month Published: January 23, 2020. 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