Best Albums of 2020
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
folkloreShe stopped writing about herself, started writing characters, and made her best album.Read the review
AlfredoThirty five minutes of soft focus soul loops and hard writing, without a wasted second anywhere on it.
After HoursHe found the eighties, found a concept, and wrote the biggest song of the streaming era.
Future NostalgiaEleven songs, no features, no filler: a disco record built for crowded rooms that arrived as the rooms emptied, and outlasted the irony.
Dark Lane Demo TapesA leak dump released on purpose, and the most relaxed he has sounded in five years.
Eternal AtakeThree years of label hell produced the best album of the whole scene. Absurd, weightless and endlessly replayable.
evermoreThe sister album, stranger and rougher in the writing, and considerably harder to love as a whole.
ChromaticaA pure dance record about not being well, and it is very good at the dancing.
ChilomboSound bowls, a bad breakup and the best set of songs she has put together.
King's DiseaseOne producer, one register, and the first Nas album in a decade that sounds finished on purpose.