2020 Listening.

Here’s every 2020 album I heard, with ratings.

  • The 1975 – Notes on a Conditional Form (5.5/10)
  • 5 Seconds of Summer – C A L M (8/10)
  • AC/DC – POWER UP (7/10)
  • Adrianne Lenker – songs (8/10)
  • Alanis Morrissette – Such Pretty Forks in the Road (6.5/10)
  • Alex the Astronaut – The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (7.5/10)
  • Algiers – There is No Year (7.5/10)
  • Alice Ivy – Don’t Sleep (7.5/10)
  • AJJ – Good Luck Everybody (6/10)
  • ANTY! – Rudeboy (7/10)
  • Apparitions – Capacity (7/10)
  • Ariana Grande – Positions (5.5/10)
  • Ashley McBryde – Never Will (8.5/10)
  • The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (8.5/10)
  • Azim Zain and His Lovely Bones – Be Good (8/10)
  • Banoffee – Look at Us Now Dad (8.5/10)
  • beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers (8/10)
  • Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City (4/10)
  • Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (6.5/10)
  • The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (8/10)
  • Birds of Tokyo – Human Design (6/10)
  • Blake Scott – Niscitam (8.5/10)
  • Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (7.5/10)
  • Bob Mould – Blue Hearts (7.5/10)
  • Body Count – Carnivore (7.5/10)
  • Brad Cox – My Mind’s Projection (7/10)
  • Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (8/10)
  • Butterfingers – Bad News (7.5/10)
  • Cable Ties – Far Enough (7.5/10)
  • Caiti Baker – Mary of the North (7.5/10)
  • Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant (8/10)
  • Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open (8/10)
  • Caribou – Suddenly (7.5/10)
  • Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now (7.5/10)
  • The Chats – High Risk Behaviour (7.5/10)
  • The Chicks – Gaslighter (8/10)
  • Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (7/10)
  • Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark (7.5/10)
  • Code Orange – Underneath (7.5/10)
  • Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs (8/10)
  • Corey Taylor – CMFT (5/10)
  • Covet – technicolor (8/10)
  • Cry Club – God I’m Such a Mess (8/10)
  • Crywank – Fist Me ‘Til Your Hand Comes Out My Mouth
  • Cub Sport – LIKE NIRVANA (8/10)
  • dave the band – Slob Stories (7.5/10)
  • Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists (7.5/10)
  • Deftones – Ohms (7/10)
  • Destroyer – Have We Met (7.5/10)
  • Diet Cig – Do You Wonder About Me? (8/10)
  • Dizzee Rascal – E3 AF (7.5/10)
  • DJ Krush – TRICKSTER (7.5/10)
  • Dogleg – Melee (7.5/10)
  • Donny Benet – Mr. Experience (7.5/10)
  • Doves – The Universal Want (7.5/10)
  • Drab City – Good Songs for Bad People (7/10)
  • Drake – Dark Lane Demo Tapes (7/10)
  • Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (8/10)
  • Dune Rats – Hurry Up and Wait (8/10)
  • e4444e – Coldstream Road (7.5/10)
  • E^ST – I’M DOING IT (8/10)
  • El Tee – Everything is Fine (8/10)
  • envy – The Fallen Crimson (8/10)
  • Fanny Lumsden – Fallow (7/10)
  • Field Music – Making a New World (7.5/10)
  • Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (8/10)
  • The Flaming Lips – American Head (7/10)
  • FOLEY! – MOLEY! (6.5/10)
  • FONTAINES D.C. – A Hero’s Death (8.5/10)
  • Frances Quinlan – Likewise (8/10)
  • Future Islands – As Long As You Are (7/10)
  • Georgia – Seeking Thrills (7/10)
  • Gil Scott-Heron – We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (8.5/10)
  • Gladie – Safe Sins (7.5/10)
  • Good Boy – It Takes a Lot of Skill to Milk a Mare (7.5/10)
  • Good Sad Happy Bad – Shades (8/10)
  • Gordi – Our Two Skins (8/10)
  • Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (7.5/10)
  • Green Day – Father of All Motherfuckers (3.5/10)
  • Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator of God (5.5/10)
  • Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress (8/10)
  • Hachiku – I’ll Probably Be Asleep (7.5/10)
  • Haiku Hands – Haiku Hands (8/10)
  • HAIM – Women in Music Pt. III (8/10)
  • Halsey – Manic (7.5/10)
  • Hayley Williams – Petals for Armor (8/10)
  • Headie One x Fred again.. – GANG (8/10)
  • Hockey Dad – Brain Candy (8/10)
  • Holiday Party – Holiday Party (7.5/10)
  • Huey Lewis and the News – Weather (6/10)
  • IDLES – Ultra Mono (7.5/10)
  • illuminati hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For (8/10)
  • Infinite Pizza – Escape from Pizza Monster Island (7.5/10)
  • Isobell Campbell – There is No Other (7/10)
  • Jack Colwell – SWANDREAM (8/10)
  • Jack R. Reilly – Middle Everything (8/10)
  • Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross (8/10)
  • JARV IS… – Beyond the Pale (7/10)
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions (7.5/10)
  • Jeff Rosenstock – NO DREAM (8/10)
  • Jeremy Neale – We Were Trying to Make It Out (7.5/10)
  • Jim-E Stack – EPHEMERA (7.5/10)
  • Jordana – Classical Notions of Happiness (7/10)
  • Josh Pyke – Rome (6.5/10)
  • Justin Bieber – Changes (4/10)
  • Kate Miller-Heidke – Child in Reverse (7.5/10)
  • Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (6.5/10)
  • Kesha – High Road (5.5/10)
  • The Killers – Imploding the Mirage (7/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – K.G. (8/10)
  • Kingswood – Juveniles (4.5/10)
  • The Kite String Tangle – C()D3X (7/10)
  • Kvelertak – Splid (7/10)
  • L-FRESH the LION – SOUTH WEST (7.5/10)
  • La Roux – Supervision (4/10)
  • Lamb of God – Lamb of God (6/10)
  • Laura Jane Grace – Stay Alive (8/10)
  • Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter (6/10)
  • Laurence Pike – Prophecy (8/10)
  • Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (7.5/10)
  • Lisa Caruso – In Feelings (7.5/10)
  • LOSER – Mindless Joy (7.5/10)
  • Mac Miller – Circles (7.5/10)
  • Maddy Jane – Not All Bad or Good (7.5/10)
  • Mandy Moore – Silver Landings (7/10)
  • Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (6/10)
  • Melanie C – Melanie C (6.5/10)
  • Midnight Oil – The Makarrata Project (7/10)
  • Miel – Tourist Season (8/10)
  • Miiesha – Nyaaringu (8/10)
  • Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts (7.5/10)
  • Moss Garden – Backstage (1/10)
  • Mourn – Self Worth (8/10)
  • Music Band – Celebration (7.5/10)
  • The Muslims – Gentrified Chicken (7.5/10)
  • Mt. Joy – Rearrange Us (7/10)
  • Nadia Reid – Out of My Province (7/10)
  • Nas – King’s Disease (7.5/10)
  • Neil Cicierega – Mouth Dreams (8/10)
  • Neil Young – Homegrown (7/10)
  • Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together (7/10)
  • Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts VI: Locusts (7.5/10)
  • The No Ones – The Great Lost No Ones Album (7.5/10)
  • Ocean Grove – Flip Phone Fantasy (7/10)
  • Owen – The Avalanche (7.5/10)
  • Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (7/10)
  • Paradise Club – Paradise Club (8/10)
  • Party Dozen – Pray for Party Dozen (8/10)
  • Paul Kelly – Forty Days (7/10)
  • Paul Kelly and Paul Grabowsky – Please Leave Your Light On (7.5/10)
  • Paul McCartney – McCartney III (7/10)
  • Pearl Jam – Gigaton (7.5/10)
  • Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (7/10)
  • Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot (6.5/10)
  • Peter Bibby’s Dog Act – Marge (7.5/10)
  • Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (8/10)
  • Pillow Queens – In Waiting (8/10)
  • Pinegrove – Marigold (7.5/10)
  • Polaris – The Death of Me (8/10)
  • Polkadot – Feeling Okay (8/10)
  • Post Truth – Responses to Trauma (8/10)
  • The Pretty Littles – Weekend Away (7/10)
  • Private Function – Whose Line Is It Anyway? (7.5/10)
  • Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (8/10)
  • Purity Ring – WOMB (7.5/10)
  • Puscifer – Existential Reckoning (4/10)
  • Radnor & Lee – Golden State (4.5/10)
  • Ratboys – Printer’s Devil (8/10)
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (8/10)
  • Roundhay Garden Scene – Time for Love (7/10)
  • Royal Chant – Blank Verse (2.5/10)
  • Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (8/10)
  • RVG – Feral (8/10)
  • Same – Plastic Western (8/10)
  • Sammy White – Undone (7.5/10)
  • Sarah Jarosz – World on the Ground (7.5/10)
  • SCABZ – Pressure (7.5/10)
  • Seaway – Big Vibe (8/10)
  • The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return (6.5/10)
  • Seether – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (7/10)
  • Selena Gomez – Rare (7.5/10)
  • SHACKL∑S – HATREDS RESERVOIR (7.5/10)
  • Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease (7.5/10)
  • Shopping – All or Nothing (8/10)
  • The Sloppy Boys – Paradiso (7.5/10)
  • Sløtface – Sorry for the Late Reply (7/10)
  • Slowly Slowly – Race Car Blues (7/10)
  • Snape – Undone (7.5/10)
  • Snarls – Burst (8/10)
  • Soccer Mommy – color theory (8/10)
  • Something for Kate – The Modern Medieval (8/10)
  • Son Little – aloha (7/10)
  • Sorry – 925 (8/10)
  • Spacey Jane – Sunlight (7.5/10)
  • Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone (8.5/10)
  • Sparta – Trust the River (7/10)
  • Sports Team – Deep Down Happy (8.5/10)
  • The Streets – None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (8/10)
  • The Strokes – The New Abnormal (7.5/10)
  • STUMPS – All Our Friends (8/10)
  • Surfer Blood – Carefree Theatre (7/10)
  • Sylvan Esso – Free Love (6.5/10)
  • Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (8/10)
  • Taylor Swift – folklore (8/10)
  • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple (7.5/10)
  • THICK – 5 Years Behind (7.5/10)
  • Thundercat – It Is What It Is (7.5/10)
  • Tim Heidecker – Fear of Death (7.5/10)
  • Tim Minchin – Apart Together (7/10)
  • Tired Lion – Breakfast for Pathetics (8/10)
  • Touché Amoré – Lament (8/10)
  • Travis Collins – Wreck Me (5.5/10)
  • Turtle Skull – Monoliths (8/10)
  • Tyler Childers – Long Violent History (6/10)
  • Violent Soho – Everything is A-OK (8/10)
  • Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (8/10)
  • The Weeknd – After Hours (7.5/10)
  • Wolf & Cub – NIL (7.5/10)
  • Worriers – You or Someone You Know (7.5/10)
  • Xile – I am Your God (7/10)
  • Year of the Knife – Internal Incarceration (8/10)
  • Yours Truly – Self Care (7.5/10)
  • Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman² (7.5/10)
  • Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind (8/10)