Top albums of 2020

As I write this, I realize that the last time I posted to this (or any) blog was the top albums list a year ago. I guess 2020 killed the 2 things that I still blog about these days - concerts and trips. 2020 was also not a great year in music listening for me. While I listened to more music than in 2019 (total # tracks up 101%), my new music discovery rate was much lower (down ~45%, depending on the metric used; and last.fm has some great metrics for this). I think this is because a significant percentage of my listens were from my "Running" playlist, which includes a lot of my favorite songs that I play on shuffle - I tried to take on running (really, short slow jogging) this year since I didn't have soccer leagues to keep me active.

 

As I did for 2018, I'm not going to rank the albums this year. This will just be a list of notable albums I enjoyed that were released this year.

Torres - Silver Tongue

String Orchestra of Brooklyn - afterimage

Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

Moses Sumney - græ

Phantogram - Ceremony

Kangstof - The Noise You Make is Silent

The-Dream - SXTP4

dvsn - A Muse In Her Feelings

Other Lives - For Their Love

NNAMDÏ - BRAT

I Break Horses - Warnings

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

Fleet Foxes - Shore

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen