My Favorite Music of the 2020s
2020
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Actress | 88 |
| Actress | Unseen__Werk No1 |
| Adrianne Lenker | songs |
| Against All Logic | 2017–2019 |
| AKWIUS | Clever Girl |
| Armani Caesar | THE LIZ |
| BbyMutha | Muthaland |
| Bonny Light Horseman | Bonny Light Horseman |
| Caribou | Suddenly |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean | The Vestige |
| Chris Stapleton | Starting Over |
| Clearbody | One More Day |
| Dawes | Good Luck With Whatever |
| Deafheaven | 10 Years Gone |
| Denzel Curry | 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD OUT MIXX |
| Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats | Unlocked |
| The Chicks | Gaslighter |
| DJ Akoza | DOG U OUT |
| END | Splinters From an Ever-Changing Face |
| Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | Alfredo |
| John Frusciante | Maya |
| Trickfinger | She Smiles Because She Presses the Button |
| Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Song |
| Machinedrum | A View of U |
| Megan Thee Stallion | Suga |
| Mo Dotti | Blurring |
| Neil Young | Homegrown |
| Nothing | The Great Dismal |
| Options | Wind’s Gonna Blow |
| Phobophilic | Horrific Manifestations |
| Rina Sawayama | SAWAYAMA |
| Ryan Adams | Wednesdays |
| Shigeto | We Could Be Outside |
| Slow Pulp | Moveys |
| Soulkeeper | Heavy Glow |
| Sprain | As Lost Through Collision |
| Tame Impala | The Slow Rush |
| Thou | Blessings of the Highest Order |
| Tim Heidecker | Fear of Death |
| Ultraísta | Sister |
| WVRM | Colony Collapse |
2021
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 200 Stab Wounds | Slave to the Scalpel |
| American Football | Rare Symmetry / Fade Into You |
| Deafheaven | Infinite Granite |
| deathcrash | People thought my windows were stars |
| Enforced | Kill Grid |
| Faye Webster | I Know I’m Funny haha |
| Glare | Heavenly |
| Gosudar | Morbid Despotic Ritual |
| Greed | The Purge of Earth |
| Jodi | Blue Heron |
| Julia Shapiro | Zorked |
| Kowloon Walled City | Piecework |
| Lilac | Lilac |
| Lunarette | Clair de Lunarette |
| Machinedrum | Pysconia |
| Malignant Altar | Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| Megan Thee Stallion | Something for thee Hotties |
| Mortuary Spawn | Spawned From the Mortuary |
| Peter Rosenberg | Real Late |
| Pupil Slicer | Mirrors |
| Rebecca Black | Girlfriend |
| Snail Mail | Valentine |
| The Staves | Good Woman |
| Tape Deck Mountain | True Deceiver |
| Thou | Hightower |
| Turnstile | Glow On |
| Wanderer | Liberation From a Brutalist Existence |
| Worm | Foreverglade |
2022
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 200 Stab Wounds | Masters of Morbidity |
| A$AP Ant | Lil Black Jean Jacket 3 |
| Amber Mark | Three Dimensions Deep |
| Armani Caesar | THE LIZ 2 |
| BIGMUTHA | MUTHALEFIC3NT |
| Bedlocked | Bedlocked |
| Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You |
| Bonny Light Horseman | Rolling Golden Holy |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean | I Tried Catching You But You Fell Through Me |
| Chat Pile | God’s Country |
| Chris Staples | Artifact |
| Chris Staples | Out of My Body |
| Chris Stapleton | I’m a Ram |
| Clark | 05–10 |
| Cloakroom | Dissolution Wave |
| Conjurer | Páthos |
| Cookin Soul & Jinsang | Boa Bunda |
| Dawes | Misadventures of Doomscroller |
| deathcrash | Return |
| DJ Killa C | Killa III |
| Drake | Her Loss |
| Duster | Together |
| END & Cult Leader | Gather & Mourn |
| Greet Death | New Low |
| Horse Jumper of Love | Natural Part |
| Ithaca | They Fear Us |
| Jengi | Bel Mercy |
| Neil Young with Crazy Horse | Toast |
| Options | Swimming Feeling |
| Pedro the Lion | Havasu |
| Phobophilic | Enveloping Absurdity |
| Prize Horse | Welder |
| The Smile | A Light for Attracting Attention |
| The Staves | Be Kind |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | Too Late for Edelweiss |
| They Hate Change | Finally, New |
| Mizmor & Thou | Myopia |
| Tim Heidecker | High School |
| Tzompantli | Tlazcaltiliztli |
| Victor Shores | Victor Shores |
| The War on Drugs | I Don’t Live Here Anymore |
| Willie Nelson | American Rebel |
| Worm | Bluenothing |
| Wrecking Crew | Sedale Threat |
2023
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 12 Rods | If We Stayed Alive |
| Aphex Twin | Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 |
| BEJALVIN | BEJIBLE |
| billy woods & Kenny Segal | Maps |
| Body Void | Atrocity Machine |
| Bully | Lucky for You |
| The Callous Daoboys | God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys |
| Caroline Polachek | Desire, I Want to Turn Into You |
| Carpet City | Not Afraid |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean | Consumed by the Vitriol of Life |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean | Obsession Destruction |
| Chat Pile & Nerver | Brothers in Christ |
| Chris Staples | Cloud Souvenirs |
| Chris Stapleton | Higher |
| Clearbody | Bend Into a Blur |
| deathcrash | Less |
| Denzel Curry | BLOOD ON MY NIKEZ |
| Dori Freeman | Do You Recall |
| Duster | Moods, Modes |
| END | The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Full of Hell and Nothing | When No Birds Sang |
| George Clanton | Ooh Rap I Ya |
| Glare | Into You / Void In Blue |
| Guitar Fight from Fooly Cooly | Drought |
| Horse Jumper of Love | Heartbreak Rules |
| James Blake | Playing Robots Into Heaven |
| Joseph | The Sun |
| Larry June & The Alchemist | The Great Escape |
| Logan Ledger | Golden State |
| Mizmor | Prosaic |
| Nas | Magic 2 |
| Neil Young | Chrome Dreams |
| Noname | Sundial |
| Paramore | This Is Why |
| PinkPantheress | Heaven knows |
| Pupil Slicer | Blossom |
| Slow Pulp | Yard |
| Soulkeeper | Holy Design |
| Spinebreaker | Cavern of Inoculated Cognition |
| Sprain | The Lamb as Effigy |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | Henry St. |
| Thantifaxath | Hive Mind Narcosis |
| Wanderer | Indulgence of the Unreal |
| Whirr | Muta / Blue Sugar |
| Year of the Knife | No Love Lost |