Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)

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21.

Folklore 

 Taylor Swift

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"I respectfully disagree with the below comment. Taylor Swift has often had high profile collaborators and producers (Max Martin; Jack Antonoff etc.). Taylor's records tend to sound both like Taylor and her collaborators. I see it as a strength rather than a weakness, which has enabled Taylor to c...""I respectfully disagree with the below comment. Taylor Swift has often had high profile collaborators and producers (Max Martin; Jack Antonoff etc.). Taylor's records tend to sound both like Taylor and her collaborators. I see it as a strength rather than a weakness, which has enabled Taylor to capitalise on the potential of collaboration to help the longevity of her career and move in different directions. Of'course, Swift wrote or co-wrote every track on this album so she is certainly not being propped up by others. This record sounds a lot like Taylor and the National as well. That said, it is very much a Taylor Swift record-the kind of melodies and and lyrics being already familiar to Swift fans, even as the music moves in a different direction. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

387 charts

Rank Score:

2,117

Rank in 2020:

6

Rank in 2020s:

21

Overall Rank:

822

Average Rating:

 75 (452 votes)

Comments:

46

22.

Shore 

 Fleet Foxes

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"This year has been so shitty. And while an album like Fetch the Bolt Cutters recognizes our turmoil and frustration, Shore is a great complement. This is a work of love, joy, and hope that has come at not a moment too soon. But even musically, it's making a strong claim as the best Fleet Foxes al...""This year has been so shitty. And while an album like Fetch the Bolt Cutters recognizes our turmoil and frustration, Shore is a great complement. This is a work of love, joy, and hope that has come at not a moment too soon. But even musically, it's making a strong claim as the best Fleet Foxes album. It encapsulates the excitement and accessibility of their self-titled, matches the scope and consistency of Helplessness Blues, while pushing the sound and songwriting with similar adventurousness as Crack-Up. It remains to be seen whether it captures thee same adoration for me as those first two records, given that I've had a decade with them, and at such a formative age. But I gotta say, Shore does not disappoint. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

392 charts

Rank Score:

2,061

Rank in 2020:

7

Rank in 2020s:

22

Overall Rank:

845

Average Rating:

 78 (377 votes)

Comments:

21

23.

After Hours 

 The Weeknd

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"These songs are gorgeously produced and this album is insanely listenable, but this man is a goddamned clown. Here's a verse on the album that I may have made up, but still feels less outrageous than most of what is on this record. I'm filled with so much sadness And all these hoes are filled wit...""These songs are gorgeously produced and this album is insanely listenable, but this man is a goddamned clown. Here's a verse on the album that I may have made up, but still feels less outrageous than most of what is on this record. I'm filled with so much sadness And all these hoes are filled with as much of my dick as I am with sadness And I should stop having sex, because it makes me sad But with all these tears and all this pussy, I can't stop getting it wet"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

312 charts

Rank Score:

2,032

Rank in 2020:

8

Rank in 2020s:

23

Overall Rank:

857

Average Rating:

 74 (453 votes)

Comments:

25

24.

Once Twice Melody 

 Beach House

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"First, don't want to ruin this experience for anybody by over hyping it. Take it in in a natural way. So, Beach House is my favorite. I contemplate my favorite album of all time as Teen Dream, Bloom, Depression Cherry, and now Once Twice Melody. This album blows me away with the sonics and sounds...""First, don't want to ruin this experience for anybody by over hyping it. Take it in in a natural way. So, Beach House is my favorite. I contemplate my favorite album of all time as Teen Dream, Bloom, Depression Cherry, and now Once Twice Melody. This album blows me away with the sonics and sounds they captured on this album. I heard this once so far in full and it fucking blew my mind. I know my tastes of music well and I know what I like. I've been seriously listening to music for about 13 years now and the other 14 I was listening but not as close. This is the best double album of all time, I don't like, I love every single song. Beach House explores different sonics on this one and it even has some sounds that Muse would come up with without Muse's technical abilities. The keyboards are very cool and beautiful sounding. Victoria is an artist and showcases her art on this one in a very creative way. Alex is great too but I don't like acoustic guitar but for some reason, I like it on this album when it has its 3-4 moments. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

355 charts

Rank Score:

2,010

Rank in 2022:

7

Rank in 2020s:

24

Overall Rank:

862

Average Rating:

 80 (342 votes)

Comments:

21

25.

RTJ4 

 Run The Jewels

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"RTJ 4 is the opposite of timeless music. This is the encapsulation of a specific moment in history: here and now."  Reply

- SamNassiri98 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 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:

2020

Appears in:

438 charts

Rank Score:

1,995

Rank in 2020:

9

Rank in 2020s:

25

Overall Rank:

866

Average Rating:

 79 (402 votes)

Comments:

27

26.

Skinty Fia 

 Fontaines D.C.

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"This band continues to churn out bangers like it's easy. I like how they're flirting with shoegaze this time around."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

334 charts

Rank Score:

1,914

Rank in 2022:

8

Rank in 2020s:

26

Overall Rank:

913

Average Rating:

 75 (274 votes)

Comments:

14

27.

Call Me If You Get Lost 

 Tyler, The Creator

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"We had The College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation We had Aquemini, Stankonia, and Speakerbox We had Good Kid Maad City, To Pimp a Butterfly, and Damn And now we have Flower Boy, IGOR, and Call Me If You Get Lost"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

353 charts

Rank Score:

1,859

Rank in 2021:

4

Rank in 2020s:

27

Overall Rank:

938

Average Rating:

 78 (362 votes)

Comments:

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28.

Bright Green Field 

 Squid (2020s)

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"Ok, time for a real comment and not just reference to other existing bands. This album, for me, lived fully up to the hype I gave it, which was a lot. Mostly because of how good Narrator was as a single. The Squid boys are masters of combining groovy, melodic sections with experimental walls of s...""Ok, time for a real comment and not just reference to other existing bands. This album, for me, lived fully up to the hype I gave it, which was a lot. Mostly because of how good Narrator was as a single. The Squid boys are masters of combining groovy, melodic sections with experimental walls of sound and ambient sections. The greatest example of this is "Boy Racers". The opening groove is tight and skillful, it builds with more and more layers, and has a final climax. Then, it turns into a massive, celestial ambient track. There is also a general vibe I've been getting from these newer post-punk bands. It's this careless and melodic sound that I have noticed on "2010" by Squid, "Despair" by black midi, and the end of "Athens, France" by Black Country, New Road. They're all so pretty, which is kind of a divergence away from the typical post-punk sound. Squid capture this vibe a couple times on this album. I'm excited for what's to come from them in the future. Pretty much every song is a banger so give this album a listen and have some fun."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

314 charts

Rank Score:

1,839

Rank in 2021:

5

Rank in 2020s:

28

Overall Rank:

947

Average Rating:

 78 (322 votes)

Comments:

22

29.

Jubilee 

 Japanese Breakfast

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"From ALC #19— Sounds like: The sadness which seeps after a night of consuming party drug soup dumplings, yet the memories of the good times persist. Drink of choice: Spiced yuzu lemonade with a twist Look! Persimmons! Ah, persimmons. A jubilee is a jamboree with less amor and more uil, which isn’...""From ALC #19— Sounds like: The sadness which seeps after a night of consuming party drug soup dumplings, yet the memories of the good times persist. Drink of choice: Spiced yuzu lemonade with a twist Look! Persimmons! Ah, persimmons. A jubilee is a jamboree with less amor and more uil, which isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but at least we’ve steeped an album out of it. I remember when I first heard Everybody Wants To Love You and all going through my head was how I used to hang in studios with so many singer/songwriters who would have loved to create something like that. Felt like she nailed it. That was it. Absolute bullet. Questioned why she wasn’t bigger, why this wasn’t the smash of the summer, track of the year, blasting out of every car whipping down the beach front. Felt like a nugget of gold was tossed into a mall’s wish fountain. An epitome of indie pop fired at us from nowhere and we shrugged it off. We plucked it out of that wish fountain on occasion, but I’m still not quite sure people realized it was an actual gold nugget. Won’t lie, wasn’t super hot on her follow up record, but at least she gained momentum. Was happy about that. Knew the next release would be make or break time. And then something interesting happened. She was shot out of a canon. That same brain listening to Everybody Wants To Love You for the first time would have never imagined this singer would be topping bestseller lists while also having chart topping hits, but I’m glad Japanese Breakfast squeezed through the crowd. Think she made it with this one. A warm, glistening, citrus-burst of a record with a summertime fuzz and the sadness which comes along with it, a hug for tears happy or sad. I may be writing to Ms. Breakfast as to why she dedicates the final thirty seconds of her songs to building them, but otherwise, I think this record is everything it wants to be. Standouts: Posing In Bondage, Kokomo, IN., Sit, Be Sweet"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

366 charts

Rank Score:

1,829

Rank in 2021:

6

Rank in 2020s:

29

Overall Rank:

953

Average Rating:

 78 (307 votes)

Comments:

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30.

The Slow Rush 

 Tame Impala

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"If you were to extrapolate what you'd expect an album like this to sound like given Tame Impala's trajectory from Innerspeaker -> Lonerism -> Currents, The Slow Rush is what you'd expect. For that reason I don't anticipate critics to really go crazy over this. It's not a huge departure from the s...""If you were to extrapolate what you'd expect an album like this to sound like given Tame Impala's trajectory from Innerspeaker -> Lonerism -> Currents, The Slow Rush is what you'd expect. For that reason I don't anticipate critics to really go crazy over this. It's not a huge departure from the sounds from Currents, in some places it sounds like he used the same synth settings as some tracks from Currents, but he does bring in even more new sounds and mixing techniques into, whether it's woodwinds or congas or miscellaneous percussive sounds or just using his voice in wild ways (which is hardly new for him). That said, Kevin Parker is as talented at production/arrangement/mixing as anyone out there. Hendrix had the guitar and KP has Ableton. He's an artist that just doesn't release anything that isn't meticulously crafted and detailed. He's not going to convert fans on this one like he did on Currents and similarly if you're a stoned hippie longing for the days of innerspeaker and lonerism dunga dunga throwback 60's sound you might want to look elsewhere. That said, I think it is better than currents, songs like Posthumous Fogiveness and One More Hour showcase him returning to the more lengthy adventurous song structures from Lonerism and Currents didn't have a ton of that outside of Let it Happen (which I still think is more long than it is really complex albeit still being a fantastic song) and it has some of his best most diverse sounding production and catchy pop hooks on it as well. Move along, there's really nothing to see here. Just an all-time great padding his stats with another quality piece of art."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

395 charts

Rank Score:

1,801

Rank in 2020:

10

Rank in 2020s:

30

Overall Rank:

967

Average Rating:

 73 (633 votes)

Comments:

53

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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2020	199	20%
2021	204	20%
2022	192	19%
2023	157	16%
2024	147	15%
2025	98	10%
2026	3	0%

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	12	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Nas	5	1%
파란노을 [Parannoul]	4	0%
Maruja	4	0%
Bad Bunny	4	0%
Charli XCX	4	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	501	50%
	240	24%
	46	5%
	40	4%
	31	3%
	19	2%
	15	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	994	99%
Yes	6	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	3	0%