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Scroll down and you will find the list of all 2020 album reviews published so far. Albums rated 4/10 and lower are usually not included, as their review is often just one line - check the alphabetical list
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| 1975 | Notes on a Conditional Form | (Dirty Hit) | pop | 4/10 |
| 38KEA | Mental Weapon | (self) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Against All Logic | 2017-2019 | (Other People) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Algiers | There Is No Year | (Matador) | alt-rock | 4/10 |
| Amaarae | The Angel You Don't Know | (Golden Child) | Afropop | 5/10 |
| Amnesia Scanner | Tearless | (Pan) | dance | 6/10 |
| Anijmile | Giver Taker | (Father Daughter) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Ichiko Aoba | Adan no Kaze/ Windswept Agan | (Hermine) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | (Epic) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Arca | KiCk i | (XL) | dance | 6/10 |
| Argo Nuff | Haditha | (self) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Armand Hammer | Shrines | (Backwoodz Studioz ) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Autechre | Plus | (Warp) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Autechre | Sign | (Warp) | glitch | 4/10 |
| Ayreon | Transitus | (Music Theories) | prog-rock | 4/10 |
| Julianna Barwick | Healing is a Miracle | (Ninja Tune) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| William Basinski | Lamentations | (Temporary Residence) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Behold the Arctopus | Hapeleptic Overtrove | (P2) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Belbury Poly | The Gone Away | (Ghost Box) | synth-pop | 4/10 |
| Black to Comm | Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens | (Thrill Jockey) | noise | 5/10 |
| Brendan Benson | Dear Life | (Third Man) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Bing & Ruth | Species | (4AD) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Black Curse | Endless Wound | (Sepulchral Void) | death metal | 7/10 |
| Black Dresses | Peaceful as Hell | (Black Squares) | glitch-pop | 6/10 |
| Black Magick SS | Rainbow Nights | (Infinite Wisdom) | metal | 5/10 |
| Blackie | Face The Darkness | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Bladee | 333 | (Year0001) | trap | 6/10 |
| Blu & Exile | Miles | (Dirty Science) | hip-hop | 6.5/10 |
| Blush Response | Void In | (Megastructure) | techno | 6/10 |
| Bohren & der Club of Gore | Patchouli Blue | (Ipecac) | noir-jazz | 6/10 |
| Alice Boman | Dream on | (Pias) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Brii | Entre Tudo que e Visto e Oculto | (Brii) | metal | 7/10 |
| Brobdingnagian | Backpfeifengesicht | (self) | noise | 5/10 |
| Bully | Sugaregg | (SubPop) | garage-rock | 5/10 |
| Camellia | Tera I/O (2020) | (Kamel Camellia) | dance | 5/10 |
| Caribou | Suddenly | (Merge) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Celestaphone | Weevil in Disguise | (Drumhex) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Sarah Mary Chadwick | Please Daddy | (Sinderlyn) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Chell Oracle Turret | Descent | (self) | noise | 6.5 |
| Cindy Lee | What's Tonight to Eternity? | (West 25th) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Cindy Lee | Cat o' Nine Tails | (Realistik) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Cities Aviv | Immortal Flame | (Total Works) | singer-songwriter | 6/10 |
| Cities Aviv | Gum | (Total Works) | singer-songwriter | 5/10 |
| Clipping | Visions of Bodies Being Burned | (Subpop) | rap | 6.5/10 |
| Cloud Nothings | The Black Hole Understands | (Carpark) | noise-rock | 4/10 |
| Jacob Collier | Djesse Vol. 3 | (Decca) | pop | 6/10 |
| Jess Cornelius | Distance | (Loantaka) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Crack Cloud | Pain Olympics | (Meat Machine) | funk-punk | 5/10 |
| Elysia Crampton | Orcorara | (Pan) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Dan Deacon | Mystic Familiar | (Domino) | dance-pop | 6/10 |
| Vladislav Delay | Rakka | (Cosmo Rhythmatic) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Broeder Dieleman | De Liefde is de Eerste Wet | (Snowstar) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Disappears | Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light | (Vampire Blues) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Dope Body | Crack A Light | (Drag City) | noise-rock | 4/10 |
| Dreamcrusher | Another Country | (self) | noise | 8/10 |
| Dreamcrusher | Panopticon | (self) | noise | 7/10 |
| Duma | Duma | (Nyege Nyege Tapes) | industrial | 6.5/10 |
| Dwarfs of East Agouza | The Green Dogs of Dahshur | (Akuphone) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Wendy Eisenberg | Auto | (Ba Da Bing) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Wendy Eisenberg | Dehiscence | (self) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| El Marrano de la Razon | A Blaze In The Southern Sky | (self) | noise | 6/10 |
| El Marrano de la Razon | Adefesio | (self) | noise | 5/10 |
| El Marrano de la Razon | Ceremonia de la Confusion | (self) | noise | 6/10 |
| Elder | Omens | (Armageddon Shop) | prog-metal | 4.5/10 |
| Jay Electronica | Act II The Patents of Nobility | (Roc Nation) | rap | 5/10 |
| Jay Electronica | A Written Testimony | (Roc Nation) | rap | 6/10 |
| Eminem | Music to Be Murdered By | (Interscope) | rap | 4/10 |
| Encenathrakh | Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake | (P2) | death-metal | 5/10 |
| Envy | The Fallen Crimson | (Temporary Residence) | screamo | 5/10 |
| Esoctrilihum | Eternity of Shaog | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 6/10 |
| FACS | Void Moments | (Trouble in Mind) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Fera | Stupidamutaforma | (Maple Death) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Fire-toolz | Rainbow Bridge | (Hausu Mountain) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| David First | The Consummation of Right and Wrong | (Important) | droning | 6/10 |
| Four Tet | Parallel | (Text) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Four Tet | Sixteen Oceans | (Text) | glitch-pop | 4/10 |
| Fleet Foxes | Shore | (Anti) | folk-pop | 6/10 |
| Fluisteraars | Bloem | (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) | black metal | 6/10 |
| France | Far Out Far West | (La Novia) | post-folk | 7/10 |
| The Garden | Kiss My Super Bowl Ring | (Epitaph) | noise-rock | 5.5/10 |
| Katie Gately | Loom | (Houndstooth) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Ghost Rhythms | Imaginary Mountains | (Exploration Musicale) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Samuel Goff | Transmissions | (self) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Grey Wulf | Seeing Vol 1 | (self) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Grimes | Miss Anthropocene | (4AD) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Haim | Women in Music Pt III | (Columbia) | pop | 6/10 |
| Halsey | Manic | (Capitol) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Heliocentrics | Infinity of Now | (Madlib Invazion) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Heliocentrics | Telemetric Sounds (2020) | (Madlib Invazion) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Himukalt | Sex Worker II | (Total Black) | industrial | 5/10 |
| Himukalt | Septic | (Malignant) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Horse Lords | The Common Task | (Northern Spy) | post-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Imperial Triumphant | Alphaville | (Century Media) | metal | 6/10 |
| Irr. App. (Ext.) | Blau Erntearbeiter | (self) | abstract | 5.5/10 |
| Irr. App. (Ext.) | Nocturnal Emissaries | (self) | abstract | 6.5/10 |
| Nicolas Jaar | Cenizas | (Other People) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Nicolas Jaar | Telas | (Other People) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Jaga Jazzist | Pyramid | (Brainfeeder) | jazztronica | 5/10 |
| Junglepussy | JP4 | (Jagjaguwar) | rap-soul | 6/10 |
| Kaatayra | So Quem Viu o Relampago a Sua Direita Sabe | (self) | metal | 6/10 |
| Kaatayra | Toda Historia pela Frente | (self) | metal | 6/10 |
| Karrots | Karrots I | (self) | psych-rock | 6.5/10 |
| KFC Murder Chicks | Loss Prevention Reloaded | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| King Krule | Man Alive | (XL) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Klein | Frozen | (Ijn) | electronic | 6/10 |
| La Novia | Maintes Fois | (La Novia) | post-folk | 8/10 |
| La Novia | Au Seuil du Vent | (La Novia) | post-folk | 7/10 |
| La Novia | Le Temps Tranquille | (La Novia) | post-folk | 7/10 |
| Mark Lanegan | Straight Songs of Sorrow | (Heavenly) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Adrianne Lenker | Songs | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Adrianne Lenker | Instrumentals | (4AD) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Li Jianhong | Wanghai Gang | (Utech) | noise | 6.5/10 |
| Lili Grace | Silhouette | (self) | folk | 7/10 |
| Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia | (Urban) | dance | 5/10 |
| Liturgy | Origin of the Alimonies | (Ylylcyn) | metal | 6/10 |
| Lobsterfight | Pink, Black, And Orange In The Corners | (self) | noise-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Lonker See | Hamza | (Antena Krzyku) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Lustre | Ashes of Light | (Nordvis) | ambient metal | 6.5/10 |
| Jackie Lynn | Jacqueline | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Mach-Hommy | Mach's Hard Lemonade | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Machine Girl | U-Void Synthesizer | (self) | breakcore | 6/10 |
| Mamaleek | Come & See | (Flenser) | metal | 5/10 |
| Matmos | The Consuming Flame: Exercises in Group Form | (Thrill Jockey) | noise | 4/10 |
| Mekons | Exquisite | (self) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| The Men | Mercy | (Sacred Bones) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Mesarthim | The Degenerate Era | (self) | metal | 5/10 |
| Metasplice | Mirvariates | (Trilogy Tapes) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Microphones | Microphones in 2020 | (P.W. Elverum & Sun) | folk | 7/10 |
| Mnortham | The Sublimating Mirror | (Orogenetics) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Moodymann | Taken Away | (Peacefrog) | house | 4/10 |
| Moon Relay | _...-``-..._ | (Sheep Chase) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Moor Mother | Circuit City | (Don Giovanni) | rap-jazz | 6.5/10 |
| Moor Mother | Brass | (Backwoodz) | rap-jazz | 6/10 |
| Kevin Morby | Sundowner | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Alanis Morissette | Such Pretty Forks in the Road | (Epyphany) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Roisin Murphy | Roisin Machine | (Skint) | dance-pop | 5/10 |
| Necks | Three | (Northern Spy) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Neptunian Maximalism | Eons | (I Voidhanger) | psych-rock | 7.5/10 |
| Ocean | Phanerozoic II | (Metal Blade) | metal | 6/10 |
| Old Nick | Forest of Grief | (self) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Old Nick | T.N.O.T.A.A.T.P.B.T.Q.A.S.F.A.B.O.O.T.D.O.S.S.T.T.E.V.H.S. | (self) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Angel Olsen | Whole New Mess | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6.5 |
| Ono | Red Summer | (American Dreams) | agit-prop | 7.5/10 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu | Mestarin Kynsi | (Nuclear Blast) | metal | 6/10 |
| Kassa Overall | Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz | (self) | jazz-rap | 7/10 |
| Parannoul | Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat | (self) | shoegaze | 6.5/10 |
| Jeff Parker | Suite for Max Brown | (International Anthem) | posts-rock | 6/10 |
| Perfume Genius | Set My Heart on Fire Immediately | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Playboy Carti | Whole Lotta Red | (Interscope) | trap | 5/10 |
| Poppy | I Disagree | (Sumerian) | pop-metal | 6/10 |
| Roly Porter | Kistvaen | (Subtext) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Primitive Man | Immersion | (Relapse) | doom | 5/10 |
| Prizes Roses Rosa | The Kinspiral | (self) | post-rock | 5.5/10 |
| Raja Kirik | Rampokan | (Yes No Wave) | industrial | 7.5/10 |
| Julia Reidy | Vanish | (Editions Mego) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Robert Rich | Offering to the Morning Fog | (self) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Steve Roach | Tomorrow | (Timeroom) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Steve Roach | A Soul Ascends | (Timeroom) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Claire Rousay | Both | (self) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Gavilan Russom | Secret Passage | (Voluminous Arts) | post-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Gavilan Russom | Disco | (Voluminous Arts) | techno | 4.5/10 |
| Gavilan Russom | Trans-Verberation Cassette | (Voluminous Arts) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Sematary | Rainbow Bridge 2 | (self) | drill | 5/10 |
| Sewerslvt | The World Is Fvcked | (self) | breakcore | 7.5/10 |
| Sewerslvt | Draining Love Story | (self) | breakcore | 6/10 |
| Shame | White Man (2020) | (Cacophonous Revival) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Shame | I Don't Like you | (self) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Silent Strike | Ghostophonia | (Cinemaude) | collage | 6/10 |
| Soccer Mommy | Color Theory | (Loma Vista) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Special Interest | The Passion Of | (Thrilling Living) | dance-punk | 7/10 |
| DJ Speedsick | Blood Mixed With Shit Mixed With Blood | (self) | techno | 6/10 |
| Spinvis | 7.6.9.6. | (Excelsior) | pop | 5/10 |
| Sprain | As Lost Through Collision | (Flenser) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Stabscotch | Twilight Dawn (2020) | (Mr Snow) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension | (Asthmatic Kitty) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Still House Plants | Fast Edit | (Bison) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Stomb | From Nihil | (self) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Carl Stone | Stolen Car | (Unseen Worlds) | plunderphonics | 7/10 |
| Bartees Strange | Live Forever | (Memory Music) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Moses Sumney | Grae | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Syko Friend | Fontanelle | (Post Present Medium) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Sylvan Esso | Free Love | (Loma Vista) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | (Modular) | dance | 4/10 |
| Tegh | Emergent Errors | (Opal Tapes) | noise | 6/10 |
| Roger Tellier-Craig | Etudes | (Second Editions) | concrete | 7/10 |
| Tricot | Black/ Makkuro | (8902) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Tricot | 10 | (8902) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Yves Tumor | Heaven to a Tortured Mind | (Warp) | post-pop | 5/10 |
| Undeath | Lesions of a Different Kind | (Prosthetic) | death-metal | 5/10 |
| US Girls | Heavy Light | (4AD) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud | (Merge) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Andrew Weathers Ensemble | The Thousand Birds in the Earth | (self) | free-folk | 6/10 |
| Weeknd | After Hours | (XO) | pop | 5/10 |
| White Hills | Splintered Metal Sky | (God Unknown) | industrial | 4/10 |
| Windy & Carl | Allegiance and Conviction | (Kranky) | slocore | 5/10 |
| Witch 'n' Monk | Witch'n'Monk | (Tzadik) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Worm | Gloomlord | (20 Buck Spin) | doom-metal | 6/10 |
| X | Alphabetland | (Fat Possum) | punk-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Krutoy Edition | (Nature Sounds) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
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