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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2020
Listing for 149 records from 2020 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.
A+
Run the Jewels
:
RTJ4
[BMG Rights Management]
Hanging Tree Guitars
[Music Maker Relief Foundation]
A
Fiona Apple
:
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
[Epic]
Dramarama
:
Color TV
[Pasadena]
R.A.P. Ferreira
:
Purple Moonlight Pages
[Ruby Yacht]
The Front Bottoms
:
In Sickness and in Flames
[Fueled by Ramen]
The Human Hearts
:
Day of the Tiles
[self-released EP]
Lori McKenna
:
The Balladeer
[CN/Thirty Tigers]
Billy Nomates
:
Billy Nomates
[Invada]
Slum of Legs
:
Slum of Legs
[Splurge]
Spillage Village
:
Spilligion
[Dreamville/SinceThe80s/Interscope]
Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps
:
Demo '84
[Don Giovanni]
The White Stripes
:
My Sister Thanks You and I Thank You: The White Stripes Greatest Hits
[Legacy]
Lucinda Williams
:
Good Souls Better Angels
[Highway 20]
Wussy
:
Ghosts
[Bandcamp]
A-
Al Bilali Soudan
:
Tombouctou
[Clermont Music]
BKtherula
:
Nirvana
[Warner]
Black Thought
:
Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Able
[Republic]
Phoebe Bridgers
:
If We Make It Through December
[Dead Oceans EP]
Apollo Brown & Che Noir
:
. . . As God Intended
[Mello Music]
Will Butler
:
Generations
[Merge]
Hayes Carll
:
Alone Together Sessions
[Dualtone]
Chicago Farmer
:
Flyover Country
[Chicago Farmer]
The Chicks
:
Gaslighter
[Columbia]
City Girls
:
City on Lock
[Quality Control/Motown]
Brandy Clark
:
Your Life Is a Record
[Warner]
Clem Snide
:
Forever Just Beyond
[Ramseur/Thirty Tigers]
Elizabeth Cook
:
Aftermath
[Agent Love/Thirty Tigers]
Dream Wife
:
So When You Gonna . . .
[Lucky Number]
Drive-By Truckers
:
The Unraveling
[ATO]
Bob Dylan
:
Rough and Rowdy Ways
[Columbia]
Open Mike Eagle
:
Anime Trauma Divorce
[Auto Reverse]
Eminem
:
Music to Be Murdered By
[Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath]
Justin Farren
:
Pretty Free
[Bad Service Badger]
Fontaines D.C.
:
A Hero's Death
[Partisan]
Grrrl Gang
:
Here to Stay!
[Damnably]
Haim
:
Women in Music Pt. III
[Columbia]
Hamell on Trial
:
The Pandemic Songs
[Saustex]
Hinds
:
The Prettiest Curse
[Mom + Pop]
Sam Hunt
:
Southside
[MCA Nashville]
Iamdoechii
:
Oh the Places You'll Go
[Five 5]
Idles
:
Ultra Mono: Momentary Acceptance of the Self
[Partisan]
Illuminati Hotties
:
FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
[Snack Shack Tracks EP]
Juice Wrld
:
Legends Never Die
[Grade A/Interscope]
Ka
:
Descendants of Cain
[Iron Works]
Kehlani
:
It Was Good Until It Wasn't
[Atlantic]
Les Amazones d'Afrique
:
Amazones Power
[RealWorld]
Lil Wayne
:
Funeral
[Young Money]
Lithics
:
Tower of Age
[Trouble in Mind]
Low Cut Connie
:
Private Lives
[Contender]
Chad Matheny
:
United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics
[Dreams of Field]
Ashley McBryde
:
Never Will
[Warner Music Nashville]
McCarthy Trenching
:
Perfect Game
[self-released]
Mike
:
The Weight of the World
[10K]
Thelonious Monk
:
Palo Alto
[Impulse]
Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow
:
In the Wake of Memories
[Clermont Music]
Munson-Hicks Party Supplies
:
Munson-Hicks Party Supplies
[Soft Launch]
Naeem
:
Startisha
[37d03d]
No Age
:
Goons Be Gone
[Drag City]
Dawn Oberg
:
2020 Revision
[self-released EP]
Paris
:
Safe Space Invader
[Guerrilla Funk]
Princess Nokia
:
Everything Is Beautiful
[Platoon]
Public Enemy
:
What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
[Def Jam]
Sad13
:
Haunted Painting
[Carpark]
Adam Schlesinger
:
The End of the Movie
[Carl Wilson Spotify playlist]
Serengeti
:
With Greg From Deerhoof
[Joyful Noise]
Serengeti & Kenny Segal
:
Ajai
[Cohn Corporation]
75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band
:
Live at Tubby's
[Grapefruit]
Sunny Sweeney
:
Live at the Machine Shop
[Aunt Daddy]
Taylor Swift
:
Evermore
[Republic]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
:
Live in 1960
[Org Music]
Toots and the Maytals
:
Got to Be Tough
[Trojan Jamaica]
Waxahatchee
:
Saint Cloud
[Merge]
Westside Gunn
:
Pray for Paris
[Griselda]
X
:
Alphabetland
[Fat Possum]
Yonic South
:
Twix & Dive
[La Tempesta EP]
New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to Nola
[Putumayo World Music]
On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford
[LoHi]
Uprising 2020
[Joe Levy Spotify Playlist]
B+
Arbor Labor Union
:
New Petal Instants
[Arrowhawk]
The Beths
:
Jump Rope Gazers
[Yellow Dog]
The Heliocentrics
:
Infinity of Now
[Madlib Invazion]
Princess Nokia
:
Everything Sucks
[Platoon]
Qwanqwa
:
Volume 3
[Wuzzawazee Industries]
Dua Saleh
:
Rosetta
[Against Giants]
Taylor Swift
:
Folklore
[Republic]
If I Have to Wreck L.A.: Kent and Modern Records: Blues Into the 60s Vol 2
[Ace]
***
Aesop Rock
:
Spirit World Field Guide
[Rhymesayers]
Algiers
:
There Is No Year
[Matador]
Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band
:
Just Like Moby Dick
[Paradise of Bachelors]
The Robert Cray Band
:
That's What I Heard
[Nozzle/Thirty Tigers]
Drive-By Truckers
:
The New OK
[ATO]
The 81's
:
2 Things and 118 Others
[self-released]
Jay Electronica
:
A Written Testimony
[Roc Nation]
The Exbats
:
Kicks, Hits, and Fits
[Burger]
Fat Tony & Taydex
:
Wake Up
[Carpark]
Fox Green
:
The Longest April
[self-released]
Mickey Guyton
:
Bridges
[Capitol EP]
Jon Hassell
:
Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
[Ndeya]
Jason Isbell
:
Reunions
[Southeastern]
Jinx Lennon
:
Border Schizo Fffolk Songs for the Fuc**d
[Septic Tiger]
Dua Lipa
:
Future Nostalgia
[Warner]
Harvey McLaughlin
:
Rascality
[Saustex]
The Mountain Goats
:
Getting Into Knives
[Merge]
Grant Peeples
:
Bad Wife
[Rootball]
Pet Shop Boys
:
Hotspot
[Kobalt]
Phelimuncasi
:
2013-2019
[Nyege Nyege Tapes]
Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree
:
Names of North End Women
[Mute]
Jenny Reynolds
:
Any Kind of Angel
[Pretty Okay Music]
Sault
:
Untitled (Black Is)
[Forever Living Originals]
Harry Shearer
:
The Many Moods of Donald Trump
[Twanky]
Shopping
:
All or Nothing
[Fat Cat]
Peter Stampfel and the Dysfunctionells
:
Not in Our Wildest Dreams
[Don Giovanni]
Sztu
:
Lances
[Selo Traste]
The Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
[World Music Network]
**
Phoebe Bridgers
:
Punisher
[Dead Oceans]
Cornershop
:
England Is a Garden
[Ample Play]
Deap Vally & the Flaming Lips
:
Deap Lips
[Cooking Vinyl]
Emperor X
:
Nineteen Live Recordings
[Bandcamp]
Felix Hatfield
:
False God
[Fangbite]
Ray Wylie Hubbard
:
Co-Starring
[Big Machine]
Adeena Karasick/Frank London
:
Salomé: Woman of Valor
[Nuiu Music]
Rich Krueger
:
The Troth Sessions
[Rockink]
Lady Gaga
:
Chromatica
[Interscope]
Lil Uzi Vert
:
Eternal Atake
[Generation Now/Atlantic]
Magnetic Fields
:
Quickies
[Nonesuch]
Stephen T. Malkmus
:
Traditional Techniques
[Matador]
No Joy
:
Motherhood
[Joyful Noise]
Oddisee
:
Odd Cure
[Outer Note]
Margo Price
:
That's How Rumors Get Started
[Loma Vista]
Rodney Rice
:
Same Shirt, Different Day
[Moody Spring Music]
Homeboy Sandman
:
Don't Feed the Monster
[Mello Music Group]
$ilkmoney
:
Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85
[DB$B]
Songhoy Blues
:
Optimisme
[Fat Possum]
Birds of Prey
[Emblem/Atlantic]
Ready or Not: Thom Bell Philly Soul Arrangements and Productions 1965-1978
[Kent]
*
Thomas Anderson
:
Analog Summer
[Out There]
Anti-Flag
:
20/20 Division
[Spinefarm]
Backxwash
:
God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It
[Grimalkin]
Matt Caflisch
:
Runaway
[Fat Oak]
Car Seat Headrest
:
Making a Door Less Open
[Matador]
Playboi Carti
:
Whole Lotta Red
[AWGE/Interscope]
Emily Duff
:
Born on the Ground
[Mr. Mudshow Music]
Clay Harper
:
Dirt Yard Street
[self-released]
Gurf Morlix
:
Kiss of the Diamondback
[Rootball]
Nas
:
King's Disease
[Mass Appeal]
Okay Kaya
:
Watch This Liquid Pour Itself
[Jagjaguwar]
Sa-Roc
:
The Sharecropper's Daughter
[Rhymesayers]
Star Feminine Band
:
Star Feminine Band
[Born Bad]
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