Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)

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Entertainment, Death 

 Spirit Of The Beehive

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"(A bit of an odd album. When I hear it, it's as real and tangible as that pond on the desert's horizon. And when the album ends, its as gone as ... well, that damn pond. Anyway, shitty attempts at poetic metaphor aside, this is a strangely gauzy, smoky, ethereal album that flows effortlessly and ...""(A bit of an odd album. When I hear it, it's as real and tangible as that pond on the desert's horizon. And when the album ends, its as gone as ... well, that damn pond. Anyway, shitty attempts at poetic metaphor aside, this is a strangely gauzy, smoky, ethereal album that flows effortlessly and then ends and leaves me feeling like I just had a beautiful dream but can't remember for the life of me what that dream entailed.) This album is all over the fucking place. In a good way. The mix of dreamy pop soundscapes and experimental and jarring explosions just keeps me on my toes. The melodies and pop parts are pretty sick, the psychedelic bits are also consistently out of this world. As happens with a lot of these types of surreal noise pop/neo-psychedelic albums, when ever I finish hearing this album I forget almost entirely every aspect of the album. Instead of clear ideas on what I justheard I tend to have a gauzy idea or conception of what the album was and how it flowed and what it was communicating. This is usually a bit of a downer, but in this case its mostly impressive. The way this albums sort of weaves these sounds in and out of each other and bridges disrelated elements with a sort of hazy smoke, the way the melodies are so sweet and bitter in the moment of listening and yet disappear as quickly as they go, its all quite impressive. There are standout tracks and moments here, but I can't remember which even after 3 listens. The album flows so effortlessly track to track, each time I hear it I'm surprised when it ends, like "Wait, we just started! How can this be?!" Overall, while this isn't on my Album of the Year shortlist personally, it does do things that no other album I've heard this year does better. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2021:

105

Rank in 2020s:

521

Overall Rank:

7,475

Average Rating:

 68 (76 votes)

Comments:

3

522.

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory 

 Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

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Year of Release:

2025

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2025:

51

Rank in 2020s:

522

Overall Rank:

7,483

Average Rating:

 72 (80 votes)

Comments:

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523.

Glitch Princess 

 Yeule

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"Glitch Princess is one of the most varied, creative and well structured pop albums I've heard. The PC music adjacent release, which sees production credits from Danny L Harle, Mura Masa and Yeule herself among others, contains a set of distinct and eerie tracks, with vocals and lyrics from Yeule ...""Glitch Princess is one of the most varied, creative and well structured pop albums I've heard. The PC music adjacent release, which sees production credits from Danny L Harle, Mura Masa and Yeule herself among others, contains a set of distinct and eerie tracks, with vocals and lyrics from Yeule that present and build on downbeat themes as the record progresses. My Name Is Nat Ćmiel is a fantastic opener. With its minimalist sound and direct approach in its lyrics, it sets up the emotional core that the record builds from. I'm amazed it's so low rated on here, the distorted vocals and withdrawn background electronics might have a repetitive feel to them, but they bring to the foreground lines like "I like to eat, but I don't like when it lingers on my body, I like to take up as little space as possible". From here the production gets much bigger, but Yeule's personality and struggle remain at the centre of the music. 'Don't Be So Hard on Your Own Beauty' and 'Bites On My Neck' stand out as the albums highlights. The former is built around an acoustic guitar, helping the track find a strange kind of peace as the vocal delivery sees one line come quickly after another, almost turning into a blur, the latter is one of my favourite tracks of the year, the euphoric feeling as the instrumental builds is phenomenal and they manage to pull it off twice. However, between these big tracks, you get something like 'Fragments', a track whose emptiness and distortion slows the middle of the album. These frequent changes of pace allow the individual tracks to shine for their own qualities without any risk of becoming overpowering or samey in the tracklist. Ending with the repetitive and dissonant 'Mandy' lets the album finish with a driving non-conclusion and is the loud and unsettling opposite of the opener. In a thought provoking and sometimes harsh album it refuses to offer an ending that neatly ties everything together."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2022:

97

Rank in 2020s:

523

Overall Rank:

7,488

Average Rating:

 70 (63 votes)

Comments:

7

524.

Yesterwynde 

 Nightwish

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"Far more "symphonic" than "metal," tbh."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

22 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2024:

76

Rank in 2020s:

524

Overall Rank:

7,496

Average Rating:

 72 (16 votes)

Comments:

1

525.

Sideways To New Italy 

 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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"The music on this album is a real jam. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have proven to be rising experts in that classic indie/punk jam rock. Reminds me a lot of Sonic Youth. I have trouble getting into their vocal melodies and lyrics, which has held me back from really loving both this album and ...""The music on this album is a real jam. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have proven to be rising experts in that classic indie/punk jam rock. Reminds me a lot of Sonic Youth. I have trouble getting into their vocal melodies and lyrics, which has held me back from really loving both this album and their former. But the arrangements with their guitar work is excellent and so exciting."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2020:

108

Rank in 2020s:

525

Overall Rank:

7,499

Average Rating:

 72 (53 votes)

Comments:

4

526.

You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 

 Knocked Loose

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"A pretty back-to-back perfect album, smothered in intense production and talent."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

56 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2024:

77

Rank in 2020s:

526

Overall Rank:

7,504

Average Rating:

 69 (56 votes)

Comments:

2

527.

Electroacoustic Works 
Compilation

 Iannis Xenakis

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"Listening to the complete electroacoustic work of Iannis Xenakis three times in its entirety has been a long journey through the cold, dark and threatening wasteland of hellish sonic regions, where all hope of encountering life is vain. The most impressive pieces are certainly Bohor, La légende d...""Listening to the complete electroacoustic work of Iannis Xenakis three times in its entirety has been a long journey through the cold, dark and threatening wasteland of hellish sonic regions, where all hope of encountering life is vain. The most impressive pieces are certainly Bohor, La légende d'Eer and Gendy 3. But above all, Persepolis, which evokes for me the inexorable approach of universal cosmic nothingness whose pitiless mechanics suck up, crush and disintegrate all the subtle forms of consciousness in a terrible agony. The experience of this listening will have given me a better understanding of electroacoustics, a genre relatively unknown to me, and of the musical and sound evolution of the 20th century."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

169

Rank in 2022:

98

Rank in 2020s:

527

Overall Rank:

7,510

Average Rating:

 75 (6 votes)

Comments:

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528.

Tyron 

 Slowthai

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"(I am far faaaar from a fan or connoisseur of Hip Hop and especially not UK Hip Hop, but I really really enjoyed this brisk album.) I have to say I loved the production here and I thought it was consistently vibrant and there was always something cool happening to keep my ears engaged. The rappin...""(I am far faaaar from a fan or connoisseur of Hip Hop and especially not UK Hip Hop, but I really really enjoyed this brisk album.) I have to say I loved the production here and I thought it was consistently vibrant and there was always something cool happening to keep my ears engaged. The rapping was solid as well, and while I don't pay attention to recent events with artists at all, I could hear that he was delicately working out his shortcomings and mistakes and thoughts on recent events in his career. Again, I don't give a fuck about that aspect, but as far as the lyrics and themes dealing with it he seemed to do well. This is a genre that I have so little insight or background on I tend to just grade or rate based off my oblivious enjoyment. That is kinda how I initially look at all music, but with a genre I am a bit more familiar with I can connect the dots and critique things based off other listening experiences. Not so with UK Hip Hop. So, all I can say is I really liked this, I liked that all the songs are good and pretty rapid fire, I like the shortness of the album, the production and the flow. Really solid stuff."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

86 charts

Rank Score:

168

Rank in 2021:

106

Rank in 2020s:

528

Overall Rank:

7,516

Average Rating:

 71 (114 votes)

Comments:

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529.

Space 1​.​8 

 Nala Sinephro

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

52 charts

Rank Score:

168

Rank in 2021:

107

Rank in 2020s:

529

Overall Rank:

7,545

Average Rating:

 74 (38 votes)

Comments:

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530.

Flight B741 

 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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"Now 26 albums deep, King Gizz intentionally returns to the boogie stylings of 2019's Fishing for Fishies to mine for more golden nuggets. Don't mistake this repetitious decision for an out-of-ideas misstep; this collection of fresh tunes flows as well as anything else in their catalog and is a we...""Now 26 albums deep, King Gizz intentionally returns to the boogie stylings of 2019's Fishing for Fishies to mine for more golden nuggets. Don't mistake this repetitious decision for an out-of-ideas misstep; this collection of fresh tunes flows as well as anything else in their catalog and is a welcome return to top form after 2023's good-but-uneven release calendar. If anything is to be criticized here, it's actually the production itself which is so raw that there's actually some hiss on the high end, evoking a feeling of throwing a tape in the deck and hitting the road with your buddies...On second thought, maybe that's an intentional decision, too. It's a damn great party record. The weakest section of the album is actually probably the first three songs; the run of Field of Vision through Le Risque is as good as anything in Gizz's massive repertoire, and the album closes remarkably strongly as well. This is not one to be missed. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

55 charts

Rank Score:

166

Rank in 2024:

78

Rank in 2020s:

530

Overall Rank:

7,597

Average Rating:

 74 (70 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%
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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%