Best Albums of 2020

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."