Best CDs of 2020


1. Nation of Language "Introduction, Presence"
2. School of Language "I Could Have Loved U Better" and Field Music "Making A New World"
3. The Vapors "Together"
4. Sault "Untitled (Black Is)"/ "Untitled (Rise)"
5. The Lees Of Memory "Moon Shot"
6. Brendan Benson "Dear Life"
7. Semisonic "You're Not Alone [EP]"
8. Negativland "Live Brain"/ "The World Will Decide"
9. Soundtrack "American Utopia On Broadway: Original Cast Recording"
10. The Comet Is Coming "Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery"
Pinegrove "Marigold"
Shopping "All Or Nothing"
The 1975 "Notes On A Conditional Form"
Disq "Collector"/ "Collector Demos"
Special Interest "The Passion Of"
X "ALPHABETLAND"
The Beths "Jump Rope Gazers"
Songhoy Blues "Optimisme"
The Lickerish Quartet "Threesome, Vol. 1"
Car Seat Headrest "Making A Door Less Open"
Cloud Nothings "The Black Hole Understands"
Róisín Murphy "Róisín Machine"
The Strokes "The New Abnormal"
The Magnetic Fields "Quickies"
Biffy Clyro "A Celebration Of Endings"
Fiona Apple "Fetch The Bolt Cutters"
HAIM "Women In Music Pt. III"
Grimes "Miss Anthropocene"
PUP "This Place Sucks Ass [EP]"/ "Live at The Electric Ballroom"
Duds "Of A Nature Or Degree"
Man Man "Dream Hunting In The Valley Of The In-Between"
Anna Calvi "Hunted"
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever "Sideways To New Italy"
Nada Surf "Never Not Together"
Thundercat "It Is What It Is"
The Mountain Goats "Getting Into Knives"
Austra "HiRUDiN"
Tame Impala "The Slow Rush"
Bill Callahan "Gold Record"
Ezra Furman "Sex Education: Original Soundtrack"
A Certain Ratio "ACR Loco"
Destroyer "Have We Met"
Green Day "Father Of All..."
Nilüfer Yanya "Miss Universe"
Antibalas "Fu Chronicles"
Pet Shop Boys "Hotspot"
Rina Sawayama "SAWAYAMA"
Bonny Light Horseman "Bonny Light Horseman"
The Flaming Lips "American Head"
Good Sad Happy Bad "Shades"
Angel Olsen "Whole New Mess"
IDLES "Ultra Mono"
Orville Peck "Show Pony - EP"
Various Artists "Songs For Australia"
Christine and the Queens "La Vita Nuova EP"
Elvis Costello "Hey Clockface"
Phantogram "Ceremony"
Purity Ring "WOMB"
Perfume Genius "Set My Heart On Fire Immediately"
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit "Reunions"
The Big Moon "Walking Like We Do"/ "Walking Like We Do Demos"
Pearl Jam "Gigaton"
Cornershop "England Is A Garden"
Keleketla! "Keleketla!"
Lady Gaga "Chromatica"
Jessie Ware "What's Your Pleasure?"
Soundtrack "Devs (Original Series Soundtrack)"
Richard Thompson "Bloody Noses EP"
EOB "Earth"
Troye Sivan "In A Dream" (EP)
Dirty Projectors "5EPs"
Popstar Nina "Popstar NIna"
Matt Wilson & His Orchestra "When I Was a Writer"
The Knife "Live at Terminal 5"

Best Techno CDs of 2020


1. Underworld "DRIFT Series 1"
5. Yaeji "WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던"
3. Yello "Point"
4. Arca "KiCk i"
5. The Orb "Abolition Of The Royal Familia"
Yves Tumor "Heaven To A Tortured Mind"
Oneohtrix Point Never "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never"
Dark Morph, Jónsi & Carl Michael Von Hausswolff "Dark Morph"
Against All Logic "2017 - 2019"
Romare "Home"
Basement Jaxx "Lost Dubs"
Four Tet "Sixteen Oceans"
Autechre "Sign" / "Plus"
Caribou "Suddenly"
Squarepusher "Be Up A Hello"
Tycho "Simulcast"
Nicolas Jaar "Cenizas"/ "Telas"
Matmos "The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form"
Disclosure "ENERGY"

Best CD Reissues of 2020


1. Prince "Sign O' The Times"
2. Tangerine Dream "Pilots Of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980 - 1983"
3. The Residents "A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (pREServed Edition)"/ "Refused"
4. The Replacements "Pleased To Meet Me [Deluxe Edition]"
5. The Alan Parsons Project "Ammonia Avenue"
Bon Iver "Blood Bank"
Tears For Fears "Sowing The Seeds Of Love"
Various Artists "Musik Music Musique: 1980 The Dawn Of Synth Pop"
Various Artists "Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987"
Japandroids "Massey Fucking Hall (Live)"
A Certain Ratio "ACR:BOX"
U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
Bob Mould "Distortion: 1989-2019
Prince "His Majesty's Pop Life: The Purple Mix Club"
Peter Gabriel "Rated PG"
Pink Floyd "The Later Years"
Patrick Cowley "Some Funkettes"
Electric Light Orchestra "Wembley Or Bust"
Robyn Hitchcock "Live at Yep Roc 15: Robyn Hitchcock"
Wilco "Summerteeth" (deluxe)
The Charlatans "Between 10th & 11th"/ "Isolation 21.2.91"
Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Flaunt It!"
Marillion "Script For A Jester's Tear"

Worst CDs of 2020


1. Richard & Linda Thompson "Hard Luck Stories (1972 - 1982)"
2. Various Artists "AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex"
3. Brian Posehn "Grandpa Metal"
4. Soundtrack "Oklahoma!: Broadway Cast Recording (2019)"
5. Whitney "Candid"
Roger Waters "Us + Them"

Best CD Cover of 2020


1. Tame Impala "The Slow Rush"
2. Pet Shop Boys "Hotspot"
3. The Chicks "Gaslighter"
4. Boldy James and The Alchemist "The Price of Tea in China"
5. Yves Tumor "Heaven to a Tortured Mind"
6. yMusic "Ecstatic Science"
7. X "Alphabetland"
8. Nuvolascura "As We Suffer From Memory And Imagination"
9. Doves "The Universal Want"
10. Armani Caesar "The Liz"

Worst CD Cover of 2020


1. Vile Creature "Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm"
2. Elvis Costello "Hey Clockface"
3. Morrissey "I Am Not a Dog on a Chain"
4. Action Bronson "Only for Dolphin"
5. Shimmer "And I Revel"
6. Bad Bunny "YHLQMDLG"
7. Green Day "Father of all Motherfuckers"
8. Cindy Lee "What’s Tonight to Eternity"
9. Princess Nokia "Everything Is Beautiful"
10. The Weeknd "After Hours"

Ten Best Movies of 2020


1. The Old Guard
3. Straight Out
4. Under The Silver Lake
5. Tom Walker "Very Very"
6. Palm Springs
7. Greener Grass
8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
9. The Trip To Greece
10. Yes, God, Yes
Scream, Queen!
David Byrne's American Utopia
Circus of Books
Let Them All Talk
The Vast of Night
Hamilton
In Fabric
Vivarium
Gretel & Hansel
Onward
Come To Daddy
Color Out Of Space
Enola Holmes
Jumanji: The Next Level
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Good Movies From Last Year I Finally Saw This Year
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Always Be My Maybe
Hearts Beat Loud
Hail Satan?
Gay Chorus Deep South

Worst Movies of 2020


1. Tenet
2. It's a Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
3. The House that Jack Built
4. Judy
5. Hillbilly Elegy
Doctor Sleep

Best Videogames of 2020


World of Warcraft
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Best Phone Games of 2020
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

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