The 10 Best Albums of 2020
Wow. I did this post every year for a long time. Then, I don't know, things got busy and things got dark and things got crazy. I remember it mainly being too busy in 2018, but both years were pretty weak on the album front. There were bright spots, sure. But we want to do a top 10 here and if I can only list six albums that I think were well put together, then... eek. More than a handful answered the call in 2020, though. In fact, i previous versions of this blog, I did a whole "honorable mention" thing, but we're going to skip that and say a nice thing about a bunch of albums that didn't make my top 10: The Weeknd was solid with After Hours and "Blinding Lights" is a legit thing . Fleet Foxes put out Shore and helped us all agree that The Crack Up never happened. Phantogram kept just being workmanlike dependable on Ceremony . The Death Stranding soundtrack was an easy listen and included Chvrches' title track that is immediately one of that ba