The best albums of 2020 (update April, 30)
The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 32 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: Clash; DIY; God Is In The Tv; Load And Quiet; Music OMH; The Guardian; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny
USA + Canada: Allmusic; Consequence Of Sound; Earbuddy; Exclaim!; Nothern Transmissions; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spectrum Culture; Under The Radar
Highlights: These are the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, Beardfood, BostonGlobe, Nowtoronto, Entertainment Weekly, etc…
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
Out:
Moses Boyd: Dark Matter
40 - The Chats: High Risk Behaviour – 74,6 (78,3 / 10)
Highlights: Pub Feed - Identity Theft - Stinker
Garage Punk
39 - Lanterns On The Lake: Spook The Herd – 74,7 (79,0 / 8)
Highlights: Every Atom - Before They Excavate - Swimming Lessons
Dream Pop
38 - Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Viscerals - 74,8 (78,5 / 10)
Highlights: Halloween Bolson - New Body - Rubbernecker
Stoner Metal
37 - The Weeknd: After Hours – 75,2 (74,6 / 23)
Highlights: Blinding Lights - After Hours - Scared to Live
Alternative R&B
36 - Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels – 75,3 (78,3 / 12)
Highlights: Big Black Train - Wakin' Up - When the Way Gets Dark
Blues Rock
35 - Hamilton Leithauser: The Loves Of Your Life - 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: Here They Come - Don't Check the Score - Isabella
Indie Rock
34 - Jessie Reyez: Before Love Came To Kill Us - 75,4 (79,8 / 8)
Highlights: Imported - Figures - Intruders
Trap Rap
33 - Kvelertak: Splid - 75,5 (79,9 / 8)
Highlights: Bråtebrann - Crack of Doom - Fanden ta dette Hull!
Hardcore Punk
32 - Shabaka And The Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History - 75,6 (79,6 / 9)
Highlights: The Coming of the Strange Ones - They Who Must Die - We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)
Jazz
31 - Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts VI: Locusts – 75,6 (78,6 / 12)
Highlights: Run Like Hell - Around Every Corner - The Cursed Clock
Dark Ambient
30 - King Krule: Man Alive! - 75,6 (73,6 / 27)
Highlights: Alone, Omen 3 - Stoned Again - Cellular
Art Rock
29 - Ben Watt: Storm Damage – 75,7 (79,0 / 11)
Highlights: Irene - Balanced on a Wire - Retreat to Find
Alternative Rock
28 - The Strokes: The New Abnormal – 75,7 (72,4 / 31)
Highlights: Bad Decisions - The Adults Are Talking - Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus
Indie Rock
27 - Mac Miller: Circles - 75,8 (77,4 / 16)
Highlights: Good News - Everybody - Complicated
Neo-Soul
26 - Georgia: Seeking Thrills - 75,8 (73,8 / 27)
Highlights: About Work the Dancefloor - Never Let You Go - 24 Hours
Electropop
25 - Keeley Forsyth: Debris – 75,8 (80,1 / 8)
Highlights: Lost - Look to Yourself - Large Oak
Avant-Folk
24 - Grimes: Miss Anthropocene - 76,5 (72,8 / 32)
Highlights: Delete Forever - My Name Is Dark - Violence
Art Pop
23 - Code Orange: Underneath – 76,5 (79,8 / 11)
Highlights: Swallowing the Rabbit Whole - Sulfur Surrounding - You and You Alone
Metalcore
22 - Childish Gambino: 3.15.2020 – 76,7 (76,3 / 22)
Highlights: Algorhythm - Time - 19.10
Neo Soul
21 - BC Camplight: Shortly After Takeoff – 76,7 (81,0 / 8)
Highlights: Arm Around Your Sadness - Back to Work - Ghosthunting
Psychedelic Pop
20 - Bill Fay: Countless Branches – 77,0 (79,6 / 13)
Highlights: Filled With Wonder Once Again - I Will Remain Here - Salt on the Earth
Singer-Songwriter
19 - Sorry: 925 – 77,1 (76,4 / 23)
Highlights: Right Round the Clock - Starstruck - More
Indie Rock
18 - Torres: Silver Tongue – 77,2 (77,1 / 21)
Highlights: Good Grief - Last Forest - Dressing America
Indie Rock
17 - Nicolas Jaar: Cenizas – 77,3 (81,6 / 8)
Highlights: Mud - Garden - Faith Made of Silk
Ambient
16 - Destroyer: Have We Meet – 77,5 (75,8 / 26)
Highlights: Crimson Tide - It Just Doesn't Happen - University Hill
Synthpop
15 - U.S. Girls: Heavy Light – 78,4 (77,4 / 24)
Highlights: 4 American Dollars - Overtime - Woodstock '99
Art Pop
14 - Baxter Dury: The Night Chancers - 79,4 (81,1 / 16)
Highlights: I'm Not Your Dog - Carla's Got a Boyfriend - Slumlord
Synthpop
13 - Makaya McCraven: We’re New Again – A Re-imagining - 79,4 (82,1 / 13)
Highlights: Where Did the Night Go - New York Is Killing Me - I'm New Here
Nu Jazz
12 - Tame Impala: The Slow Rush – 79,5 (75,8 / 32)
Highlights: Lost in Yesterday - Posthumous Forgiveness - Breathe Deeper
Neo-Psychedelia
11 - Laura Marling: Song For Our Daughter – 79,5 (79,5 / 21)
Highlights: Blow by Blow - Alexandra - Strange Girl
Folk
10 - Soccer Mommy: Color Theory – 79,6 (78,2 / 25)
Highlights: Circle the Drain - Bloodstream - Yellow Is the Color of Her Eyes
Singer-Songwriter
09 - J Hus: Big Conspiracy - 79,8 (83,8 / 9)
Highlights: Must Be - No Denying - Play Play
Hip Hop
08 - Rina Sawayama: Sawayama - 79,9 (81,2 / 17)
Highlights: Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys) - XS - Dinasty
R&B
07 - Thundercat: It Is What It Is – 80,1 (79,7 / 22)
Highlights: Dragonball Durag - Black Qualls - Innerstellar Love
Nu Jazz
06 - Caribou: Suddenly – 82,1 (79,4 / 29)
Highlights: You and I - Home - Never Come Back
Indietronica
05 - Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia – 82,1 (80,8 / 25)
Highlights: Physical - Break My Heart - Don’t Start Now
Dance Pop
04 - Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud – 82,4 (79,7 / 29)
Highlights: Lilacs - Can't Do Much - Fire
Singer-Songwriter
03 - Porridge Radio: Every Bad - 82,9 (82,9 / 21)
Highlights: Lilac - Sweet - Don't Ask Me Twice
Indie Rock
02 - Yves Tumor: Heaven To A Tortured Mind – 83,4 (81,7 / 26)
Highlights: Kerosene! - Gospel for a New Century - Romanticist
Nu Jazz
01 - Fiona Apple: Fetch The Bolt Cutters - 93,1 (92,1 / 24)
Highlights: Shameika - I Want You to Love Me - Under the Table
Art Pop
MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
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MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
Last edited by Otisredding on Sun May 31, 2020 8:20 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
41 - Moses Boyd: Dark Matter - 73,9 (77,3 / 11)
42 - Andy Shauf: The Neon Skyline - 73,9 (75,9 / 15)
43 - Boniface: Boniface - 73,9 (78,6 / 7)
44 - Lido Pimienta: Miss Colombia - 73,8 (77,5 / 10)
45 - Dan Deacon: Mystic Familiar - 73,8 (73,8 / 21)
46 - Bonny Light Horseman: Bonny Light Horseman - 73,7 (77,4 / 10)
47 - Kiwi Jr.: Football Money - 73,6 (77,6 / 9)
48 - Nap Eyes: Snapshot of a Beginner - 73,5 (76,8 / 11)
49 - Halsey: Manic - 73,4 (71,7 / 26)
50 - Wire: Mind Hive - 73,3 (76,3 / 12)
51 - Bambara: Stray - 73,2 (76,2 / 12)
52 - Empress Of: I'm Your Empress Of - 73,1 (76,1 / 12)
53 - Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts V: Together - 73,1 (76,1 / 12)
54 - Frances Quinlan: Likewise - 73,0 (75,3 / 14)
55 - Sløtface: Sorry For The Late Reply - 72,9 (76,6 / 10)
56 - Pet Shop Boys: Hotspot - 72,9 (72,9 / 21)
57 - Brian Fallon: Local Honey - 72,7 (77,0 / 8)
58 - Pearl Jam: Gigaton - 72,3 (71,3 / 24)
59 - Tennis: Swimmer - 72,0 (75,7 / 10)
60 - Swamp Dogg: Sorry You Couldn't Make It - 71,9 (76,6 / 7)
60 - Pantha Du Prince: Conference of Trees - 71,9 (76,6 / 7)
62 - Drive-By Truckers: The Unraveling - 71,7 (74,4 / 13)
63 - Pinegrove: Marigold - 71,5 (73,1 / 16)
64 - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: X: The Godless Void and Other Stories - 71,4 (74,4 / 12)
65 - 070 Shake: Modus Vivendi - 71,2 (72,8 / 16)
65 - The Big Moon: Walking Like We Do - 71,2 (72,8 / 16)
67 - Squarepusher: Be Up A Hello - 71,0 (71,9 / 18)
68 - Katie Gately: Loom - 70,9 (75,3 / 8)
69 - Bombay Bicycle Club: Everything Else Has Gone Wrong - 70,8 (70,5 / 22)
70 - Stephen Malkmus: Traditional Techniques - 70,7 (70,3 / 22)
71 - Cornershop: England Is A Garden - 70,3 (75,0 / 7)
72 - Disq: Collector - 70,2 (74,2 / 9)
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Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
I'm shocked, shocked!, to see Fiona Apple at #1!
Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
How does 93.1 compare to the highest scores ever in this MCCH ranking?
EDIT: I just found the links to the archived rankings. Looks like Fetch the Bolt Cutters is second in the history of the chart to To Pimp a Butterfly's 94.2 score.
EDIT: I just found the links to the archived rankings. Looks like Fetch the Bolt Cutters is second in the history of the chart to To Pimp a Butterfly's 94.2 score.
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Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
Hey, maybe with the high ranking people will finally stop sleeping on Rina?
Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
I just discovered her earlier this year and like this album. It's interesting to see someone putting a modern twist on late 90s/early 00s pop after a decade of pop that was heavily focused on revisiting the 80s.prosecutorgodot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:24 pm Hey, maybe with the high ranking people will finally stop sleeping on Rina?
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Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
Nice! Yeah, it's refreshing to hear a different set of influences.Jackson wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 3:10 pmI just discovered her earlier this year and like this album. It's interesting to see someone putting a modern twist on late 90s/early 00s pop after a decade of pop that was heavily focused on revisiting the 80s.prosecutorgodot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:24 pm Hey, maybe with the high ranking people will finally stop sleeping on Rina?
Re: MCCh 2020 (07) April 30
Dude where's the new one?
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