I listened to thousands of new songs in 2020, here are the albums that I think are the best and that you need to know. Despite what you might've been told, we're in a major era for new and inventive music and, on top of that, many classic artists are producing new and interesting music, now that the old gatekeepers are gone. Here's what I liked the best or thought was most important of what I heard:
-070 Shake, "Modus Vivendi"
-The Avalanches, "We Will Always Love You"
-beabadoobee, "Fake It Flowers"
-Bright Eyes, "Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was"
-Charlie Xile, "Lingo"
-Charlie XCX, "how i'm feeling now"
-Chelsea Peretti, "Phosphorescent Panic"
-City Girls, "City on Lock"
-DaBaby, "Blame It on Baby"
-Dirty Projectors, "5 EPs"
-Drive-By Truckers, "The New OK"
-Eddie Vedder, "Matter of Time"
-Eminem, "Music to Be Murdered By, Part 1"
-Erasure, "The Neon"
-The Flaming Lips, "American Head"
-Gorillaz, "Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez"
-Grey Daze, "Amends"
-Haim, "Women in Music Pt. III"
-Halsey, "Manic"
-Indigo Girls, "Look Long"
-Joyner Lucas, "ADHD"
-Juice WRLD, "Legends Never Die"
-Kid Cudi, "Man on the Moon III: The Chosen"
-The Killers, "Imploding the Mirage"
-Laura Jane Grace, "Stay Alive"
-Lil Baby, "My Turn"
-Megan Thee Stallion, "Good News"
-The Mountain Goats, "Getting Into Knives"
-Nas, "King's Disease"
-The Network, "Money Money 2020 Pt. II: We Told Ya So!"
-Pearl Jam, Gigaton
-Phoebe Bridgers, "Punisher"
-Public Enemy, "What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?"
-Rufus Wainwright, "Unfollow the Rules"
-Run the Jewels, "RTJ4"
-Soccer Mommy, "color theory"
-The Streets, "None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive"
-The Strokes, "The New Abnormal"
-The Struts, "Strange Days"
-Tame Impala, "The Slow Rush"
My favorite album was probably The Network and the most important song of the year was definitely "W.A.P."