PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
1. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher [Dead Oceans]
2. Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters [Epic]
3. Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? [Interscope]
4. Haim – Women in Music Pt. III [Columbia]
5. Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind [Warp]
6. Run the Jewels – RTJ4 [BMG]
7. Ital Tek – Outland [Planet Mu]
8. SAULT – Untitled (Black Is) [Forever Living Originals]
9. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud [Merge]
10. Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death [Partisan]
11. Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia [Warner]
12. Thundercat – It Is What It Is [Brainfeeder]
13. Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony [Roc Nation]
14. Childish Gambino – 15.3.20 [RCA]
15. Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG [Rimas]
16. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways [Columbia]
17. Taylor Swift – folklore [Republic]
18. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately [Matador]
19. Adrianne Lenker – Songs/Instrumentals [4AD]
20. Deftones – Ohms [Warner]
21. The Chicks – Gaslighter [Columbia Records]
22. Beatrice Dillon – Workaround [PAN]
23. Fleet Foxes – Shore [Anti-]
24. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels [Thirty Tigers]
25. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions [Southeastern]
26. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song [Smalltown Supersound]
27. Low Cut Connie – Private Lives [Contender]
28. Caribou – Suddenly [Merge]
29. Gorillaz – Sound Machine Season One [Warner/Parlophone]
30. Keleketla! – Keleketla! [Ahead of Our Time]
31. Georgia – Seeking Thrills [Domino]
32. Porridge Radio – Every Bad [Secretly Canadian]
33. Empress Of – I’m Your Empress Of [Terrible/XL]
34. Jessie Reyez – BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US [FMLY/Island]
35. Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine [Skint/BMG]
36. Mourning [A] BLKstar – The Cycle [Don Giovanni]
37. The Microphones – The Microphones in 2020 [P. W. Elverum & Sun]
38. The 1975 – Notes on a Conditional Form [Polydor]
39. Doves – The Universal Want [Rough Trade]
40. Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela – We’ve Landed [World Circuit]
41. Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet [SomeOthaShipConnect]
42. HC McEntire – Eno Axis [Merge]
43. Soccer Mommy – Color Theory [Loma Vista Recordings]
44. clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned [Sub Pop]
45. Field Works – Ultrasonic [Temporary Residence]
46. Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans [Text]
47. Max Richter – VOICES [Decca]
48. Ambrose Akinmusire – on the tender spot of every calloused moment [Blue Note]
49. Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross [New West]
50. Nicolás Jaar – Cenizas [Other People]
51. Jehnny Beth – To Love Is to Live [Caroline]
52. Les Amazones d’Afrique – Amazones Power [Real World]
53. The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? [Thrill Jockey]
54. Matthew Shipp – The Piano Equation [Tao Forms]
55. Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open [Matador]
56. TORRES – Silver Tongue [Merge]
57. NNAMDÏ – BRAT [Sooper]
58. Baxter Dury – The Night Chancers [Heavenly Recordings]
59. Waylon Payne – Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, the Pusher & Me [Carnival Recording Company/Empire]
60. Thin Lear – Wooden Cave [EggHunt Records]
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PopMatters: The 25 Best Americana Albums of 2020
(Diese Liste scheint zum Teil unabhängig von der Top 60 entstanden zu sein – soweit ich sehe, waren an der Americana-Liste nur drei Kritiker beteiligt, an der Gesamtliste deutlich mehr.)
1. Low Cut Connie – Private Lives (Contender)
2. The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return (New West)
3. Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20 / Thirty Tigers)
4. The War and Treaty – Hearts Town (Rounder)
5. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)
6. Raye Zaragoza – Woman in Color (Rebel River/RAYEMUSIC)
7. Brennen Leigh – Prairie Love Letter (Independent)
8. Neil Young – Homegrown (Reprise)
9. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
10. Taylor Swift – folklore (Republic)
11. Drive-By Truckers – The New OK (ATO Records)
12. Molly Tuttle – …but I’d rather be with you (Compass)
13. Sarah Jarosz – World on the Ground (Rounder)
14. Steve Earle & The Dukes – The Ghosts of West Virginia (New West)
15. Victoria Bailey – Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline (Rock Ridge)
16. William Prince – Gospel First Nation (Glassnote)
17. Charley Crockett – Welcome to Hard Times (Son of Davy)
18. The Northern Belle – We Wither, We Bloom (Die with Your Boots On)
19. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)
20. The Jayhawks – XOXO (Sham / Thirty Tigers)
21. Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista Recordings)
22. The Mastersons – No Time For Love Songs (Sunset Sound)
23. The Mavericks – En Español (Mono Mundo Recordings)
24. Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You (Columbia)
25. Frank Jacket – You Say Adios (Mula)
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