Best Albums of the 2020s (so far)

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1.

Ants From Up There 

 Black Country, New Road

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"Rational and emotional, cheerful and deeply sad, it's amazing how this album integrates all the contradictions in a musical masterpiece. Best indie album we have heard since Carrie & Lowell and, if you want, since Funeral. Most of us agree and time will probably consolidate this position."  Reply

- Altsoul | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) · 10 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:

626 charts

Rank Score:

8,047

Rank in 2022:

1

Rank in 2020s:

1

Overall Rank:

179

Average Rating:

 85 (626 votes)

Comments:

58

2.

The New Abnormal 

 The Strokes

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"I wasn't crazy about the singles, but something about listening to them in the context of the whole album makes it more enjoyable. This is a simply brilliant album start to finish Favorites: Selfless, Not the Same Anymore, Ode to the Mets"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

601 charts

Rank Score:

5,758

Rank in 2020:

1

Rank in 2020s:

2

Overall Rank:

280

Average Rating:

 83 (846 votes)

Comments:

88

3.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters 

 Fiona Apple

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"Fiona's running about with her knickknacks thingamajigs and trinkets and ten microphones are trying to keep up. Everything's huge, yet somehow has the bones of a campfire singalong. She plays a chair. There's a command over the songs here you don't hear with a lot of artists. The confidence is un...""Fiona's running about with her knickknacks thingamajigs and trinkets and ten microphones are trying to keep up. Everything's huge, yet somehow has the bones of a campfire singalong. She plays a chair. There's a command over the songs here you don't hear with a lot of artists. The confidence is unmatched. Everything knows it can be what it wants. Collar jangles, barks, thrashing and a metal butterfly. Breathing. Fetch The Bolt Cutters."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

622 charts

Rank Score:

3,986

Rank in 2020:

2

Rank in 2020s:

3

Overall Rank:

411

Average Rating:

 81 (704 votes)

Comments:

57

4.

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 

 Little Simz

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"I'm calling it right now, this will go down as a classic, the best hip hop album I've heard since "To Pimp A Butterfly""  Reply

- TheNewm | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) · 17 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:

2021

Appears in:

502 charts

Rank Score:

3,969

Rank in 2021:

1

Rank in 2020s:

4

Overall Rank:

414

Average Rating:

 83 (412 votes)

Comments:

27

5.

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 

 Big Thief

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"I’ve been slightly lukewarm about Big Thief since their debut which was stellar but this album blew me away. When I heard it was going to be so long I immediately lowered my expectations but I have NEVER seen anyone keep this level of quality up for this long of an album. Every song brings someth...""I’ve been slightly lukewarm about Big Thief since their debut which was stellar but this album blew me away. When I heard it was going to be so long I immediately lowered my expectations but I have NEVER seen anyone keep this level of quality up for this long of an album. Every song brings something to the table, the songs are perfectly balanced- unique enough to keep you from getting bored but similar enough that it all sounds cohesive. Overall just very impressed"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

512 charts

Rank Score:

3,963

Rank in 2022:

2

Rank in 2020s:

5

Overall Rank:

415

Average Rating:

 83 (425 votes)

Comments:

35

6.

Punisher 

 Phoebe Bridgers

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"Ugh, her music got boring real quick. It's just a bunch of aimless, sad whispering now. All the predictable melodies blend together and get irritating. I enjoy a lot of solemn and quiet music, but not when the vocals are just hollow and the songwriting feels so uninspired like this. I don't know,...""Ugh, her music got boring real quick. It's just a bunch of aimless, sad whispering now. All the predictable melodies blend together and get irritating. I enjoy a lot of solemn and quiet music, but not when the vocals are just hollow and the songwriting feels so uninspired like this. I don't know, maybe there's something here and I just don't get it. At least Kyoto rocks, and there are moments where things pick up a bit and it gets exciting. "  [+]  Reply

- pctrooper | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) · 4 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:

583 charts

Rank Score:

3,932

Rank in 2020:

3

Rank in 2020s:

6

Overall Rank:

421

Average Rating:

 80 (548 votes)

Comments:

38

7.

For The First Time 

 Black Country, New Road

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"(An awesome mix of post-rock and post-punk and post-otherstufftooprobably, with consistently awesome rhythmic explosions, wild horn solos and just a little something for the whole fam.) This album is really, really cool. It reminds me of Slint and King Crimson and a little of Talk Talk (the parts...""(An awesome mix of post-rock and post-punk and post-otherstufftooprobably, with consistently awesome rhythmic explosions, wild horn solos and just a little something for the whole fam.) This album is really, really cool. It reminds me of Slint and King Crimson and a little of Talk Talk (the parts of Talk Talk when they really fucking explode). The musicianship is on point and while not next-level virtuosity, it more than suffices to create these big, huge multi-parted somewhat experimental rock songs. The horn parts steal the show throughout. The drummer is clearly a badass. The riffage and the build ups and breakdowns are all so cathartic. It's just a freakin rock solid album. The vocalist is hit or miss for me. He has that Conor Oberst, perpertually-on-the-edge-of-a-nervous-breakdown style that can wear thin, but generally he nails the intense shouted and screamed vocla bits. The lyrics aren't great, but not bad either, they are kind of purposefully mundane. Mundane but expressed in such an intense way they almost trick you into thinking they are quite deep and ominous. There is not a bad song here. Haven't heard the earlier single version of Sunglasses, so can't comment on whether the band made a mistake re-recording it (apparently the single is more intense and brilliant than this album version, per the loud fan outcry) but I have heard this version and its amazing and epic and just builds up so logically yet frantically. The propulsive, mind-blowing rhythmic explosion of the opening instrumental served to get me very VERY excited for the album, and that closer is an instant classic if ever such a term should be used. "Opus" is one of the most hypnotic, gorgeous and, idk another word for it, maybe "authoritative" or "assured" closing statements I've personally heard. That is how you close your much anticipated debut album."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2021

Appears in:

483 charts

Rank Score:

3,839

Rank in 2021:

2

Rank in 2020s:

7

Overall Rank:

436

Average Rating:

 81 (544 votes)

Comments:

44

8.

Imaginal Disk 

 Magdalena Bay

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"This is one of the most amazing things to come out of synth pop in a while; the hooks and production are just sublime."  Reply

- Cargusbralem | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) · 10 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:

305 charts

Rank Score:

3,342

Rank in 2024:

1

Rank in 2020s:

8

Overall Rank:

519

Average Rating:

 83 (276 votes)

Comments:

20

9.

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers 

 Kendrick Lamar

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"This is such a brutally honest and personal record. This whole album feels like a therapy session the way Kendrick so openly discusses his personal demons and traumas. It's simultaneously his darkest and his most uplifting album yet. While I don't think it's perfect, it think it was certainly wor...""This is such a brutally honest and personal record. This whole album feels like a therapy session the way Kendrick so openly discusses his personal demons and traumas. It's simultaneously his darkest and his most uplifting album yet. While I don't think it's perfect, it think it was certainly worth the five year wait."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

483 charts

Rank Score:

3,029

Rank in 2022:

3

Rank in 2020s:

9

Overall Rank:

562

Average Rating:

 81 (464 votes)

Comments:

34

10.

Promises 

 Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

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"Seems like a modern glassworks or tubular bells. Get a very strong Philip Glass vibe from this."  Reply

- corenfro | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) · 5 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:

2021

Appears in:

400 charts

Rank Score:

3,017

Rank in 2021:

3

Rank in 2020s:

10

Overall Rank:

565

Average Rating:

 79 (318 votes)

Comments:

18

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Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2020	198	20%
2021	198	20%
2022	185	19%
2023	147	15%
2024	145	15%
2025	101	10%
2026	26	3%

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	11	1%
Taylor Swift	7	1%
Charli XCX	5	1%
Black Country, New Road	4	0%
파란노을 [Parannoul]	4	0%
Nas	4	0%
Bad Bunny	4	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	505	51%
	245	25%
	45	5%
	40	4%
	34	3%
	19	2%
	15	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	993	99%
Yes	7	1%

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

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

Best Albums of the 2020s (so far) chart changes