Albums of the Year 2020.

At the end of 2005 I was working in an office and most people had finished for Xmas. I was pretty bored to be honest. So I decided to put together some kind of metacritic list of the albums of the year.

I chose five publications and/or websites that had listed 50 (or more) of their best albums of the year. Selecting the top 50 I awarded 50 points for 1st, 49 for 2nd, and so on down to 1 point for 50th. I then crunched the numbers and made a list of the top 30 scoring.

This silly piece of time wasting proved to be quite popular so I continued and have done every year since. I used to send the e-mails round a few mates who've either expressed an interest or I'm trying to impress in some way. Since leaving my old job I've lost all the lists from 2005-2015. If anyone has them saved please get in touch.

Now I have a blog I'm gonna use this to disseminate the data. So, here we are, no photos, just a list of 2020's Top 30. Enjoy (or not)....

1 Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways

2 Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

3 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

4 Fleet Foxes - Shore

5 Moses Sumney - grae

6 Sault - Untitled (Black Is)

7 Bill Callahan - Gold Record

8 Beatrice Dillon - Workaround

9 The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

10 Special Interest - The Passion Of

11 Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

12 JARV IS - Beyond The Pale

13 Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

14 Nubya Garcia - Source

15 Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease

16 Duma - Duma

17 Run The Jewels - RTJ4

18 Thundercat - It Is What It Is

19 Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

20 Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter

20 Frazey Ford - U Kin B The Sun

21 Jeff Parker And The New Breed - Suite For Max Brown

22 Paul Weller - On Sunset

23 Moses Boyd - Dark Matter

24 Cornershop - England Is A Garden

25 Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling

26 Destroyer - Have We Met

27 Autechre - SIGN

28 The Flaming Lips - American Head

29 Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques

30 Duval Timothy - Help

View the 2019 list here
View the 2018 list here.
View the 2017 list here.
View the 2016 list here.

sources:-

Pitchfork
the Quietus
The Wire
Uncut
Mojo