Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)

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God Save The Animals 

 Alex G

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"Wow, what a beautiful listen. ‘God Save The Animals’ sounds both starkly original yet familiar at the same time, sporting thirteen deeply expressive and poignant tracks of indie rock/ folk."  Reply

- jbentley3997 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

153 charts

Rank Score:

484

Rank in 2022:

31

Rank in 2020s:

161

Overall Rank:

3,123

Average Rating:

 75 (113 votes)

Comments:

5

162.

I/O 

 Peter Gabriel

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"Slowly honed by the tides of time, this high quality offering has become surprisingly stuck to my digital turntable. The album’s quality is inescapable, but it’s the experience and beauty in Gabriel’s voice, now in its eighth decade, that really impresses."  Reply

- Foxforce5 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

117 charts

Rank Score:

483

Rank in 2023:

27

Rank in 2020s:

162

Overall Rank:

3,129

Average Rating:

 76 (111 votes)

Comments:

6

163.

Big Time 

 Angel Olsen

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"This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shi...""This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shift work, only the end-product isn't especially impressive; it's a facile project in that nothing new to the genre is offered expect for the fact Angel Olsen is doing it. Go Home is an oasis in the tracklisting where the sound is very signature Angel Olsen but with just a twist of country – this should have been pursued more and on more fleshed out songs. Lastly, mixing is too quiet here, and we really miss out on some much needed crescendo moments."  [+]  Reply

- Arthurknight | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

182 charts

Rank Score:

482

Rank in 2022:

32

Rank in 2020s:

163

Overall Rank:

3,136

Average Rating:

 74 (136 votes)

Comments:

7

164.

False Lankum 

 Lankum

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"It sounds both old and fresh, Transcending journey Key song : Go Dig My Grave"  Reply

- DoubleZ | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

137 charts

Rank Score:

478

Rank in 2023:

28

Rank in 2020s:

164

Overall Rank:

3,157

Average Rating:

 74 (96 votes)

Comments:

5

165.

This Could Be Texas 

 English Teacher

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"Why is it that the best rock albums always comes from England? Pretty good."  Reply

- lleon79 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

127 charts

Rank Score:

473

Rank in 2024:

25

Rank in 2020s:

165

Overall Rank:

3,179

Average Rating:

 75 (107 votes)

Comments:

5

166.

Fear Of The Dawn 

 Jack White

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"A few of the songs are jams that can sound a bit unfocused at times and White occasionally sounds like a caricature of himself, but he does it in a way that welcomes reinvention and I love the high energy here. There are some weirder more experimental moments that threw me for a loop and were ver...""A few of the songs are jams that can sound a bit unfocused at times and White occasionally sounds like a caricature of himself, but he does it in a way that welcomes reinvention and I love the high energy here. There are some weirder more experimental moments that threw me for a loop and were very cool. Sometimes the funky rhythms and melodies hit just right and it sounds really nice. A good amount of guitar power, too. I am starting to appreciate this album more as I keep listening. I like this one and Boarding House Reach more than his first two solo albums (although I prefer most of the stuff from The White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather over any of his solo material). I would say this is experimental but not quite as much as Boarding House Reach and the overall sound is about as heavy as Jack White has ever been. My favorite song is the final track. It has a nice groove, awesome lyrics, and the guitar and vocals are very intense."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

136 charts

Rank Score:

471

Rank in 2022:

33

Rank in 2020s:

166

Overall Rank:

3,201

Average Rating:

 75 (140 votes)

Comments:

8

167.

The Overload 

 Yard Act

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"I thought I'd like this when I first heard about it but I just found a lot of the album to sound too silly at times and the vocals in my opinion are annoying. Didn't work for me sadly"  Reply

- SD100852 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

470

Rank in 2022:

34

Rank in 2020s:

167

Overall Rank:

3,203

Average Rating:

 72 (142 votes)

Comments:

7

168.

In Times New Roman… 

 Queens Of The Stone Age

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"Not mind blowing, nothing really new, but still a solid contribution to their discography. Not sure what else they can do at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sounds like their older stoner rock blended with Villains, in a good way. Songwriting and musicianship are as tight as ever, especially live. The album...""Not mind blowing, nothing really new, but still a solid contribution to their discography. Not sure what else they can do at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sounds like their older stoner rock blended with Villains, in a good way. Songwriting and musicianship are as tight as ever, especially live. The album is fairly consistent right the way through, though there are about two pairs of songs that share rhythmic motifs and melodic similarities, which can make it feel as though you've heard a song before. Overall, honestly a little disappointed, but can't expect a clockwork-level reinvention every time from a band this age. Maybe someone who hasn't heard them through and through can enjoy it more having fresh ears. The music is still great and I enjoy the tunes. Highlights: Time & Place, Paper Machete"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

152 charts

Rank Score:

470

Rank in 2023:

29

Rank in 2020s:

168

Overall Rank:

3,205

Average Rating:

 73 (148 votes)

Comments:

5

169.

Lahai 

 Sampha

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"Doesn’t perhaps surpass the lofty heights of ‘Process’, but ‘Lahai’ is nevertheless a strong follow up and one that constantly kept catching my ear."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2023

Appears in:

120 charts

Rank Score:

469

Rank in 2023:

30

Rank in 2020s:

169

Overall Rank:

3,210

Average Rating:

 74 (85 votes)

Comments:

2

170.

Midnights 

 Taylor Swift

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"I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I w...""I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I was harder on Folklore & Evermore on the time which mostly seemed to be about the ballyhooed "I can't believe Taylor INVENTED indie folk music!" overpraise, but it actually felt like a positive exercise to move away (at least for the most part) from all the first-person taylor drama and actually rejigger her interest in character-based songwriting which has always been a much more engaging style than her attempts at meta self-reflection. And again the Songwriting is key, because these often aren't even really full songs, just coasting on the modern snippet-based music trend that a 30-second mood stretched out to the brim is a full idea on it's own right. A lot of it is ressurecting already-dated trends (the endless vocoder use, purring baselines, moody Odd Future and 808 cast-off riffs) as well as some of her own old sounds (particularly the steely synths of 1989, though intentionally fragmented here to emphermal results), which doesn't help that most of the songs still are all Taylor, all the time- a whole lot of humble brags about how personal fallouts and media scrutiny made her the better person, and more record-industry drama BS (which leads to the most tedious attempt at a noirish revenge song anyone could imagine). I donno, there are some highlights, the end couple of songs are pretty solid vintage Taylor with some modern trimmings and "You're On Your Own Kid" is a lyrically strong, more outward look on how the earnest romantic teenage longing of her earliest work has fractured as time passes and pleasing enough I'll completly forgive it rips off the sound of Melodrama's masterpiece "Hard Feelings" (and no blaming Antonoff here, I doubt he was even in the studio here considering the complete auto-pilot production job). Obviously an album that would look more towards the growth of her now adult fanbase and how her music has affected them rather than herself would've been a more interesting prospect, instead we get an album that coasts on what we've heard all Before, both from Taylor and much of the styles that were popular in her heyday. It's not terrible by any means, but perhaps the worst thing Taylor could do is make a terminally uninteresting album that even when spinning you can forget you're even listening to it and realize there's better things to do with your time."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

156 charts

Rank Score:

467

Rank in 2022:

35

Rank in 2020s:

170

Overall Rank:

3,224

Average Rating:

 67 (168 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2020	197	20%
2021	200	20%
2022	194	19%
2023	169	17%
2024	143	14%
2025	97	10%
2026	2	0%

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	12	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Charli XCX	4	0%
Bad Bunny	4	0%
Nas	4	0%
Black Country, New Road	4	0%
파란노을 [Parannoul]	4	0%
Show all

Country	Albums	%
	516	51%
	234	23%
	45	4%
	39	4%
	29	3%
	19	2%
	15	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	99%
Yes	7	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	988	99%
Yes	14	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	999	100%
Yes	3	0%