Sex 14’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2020

Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (Play It Again Sam)
Michael Gordon; The Crossing – Anonymous Man (Cantaloupe)
Tristan Perich – Drift Multiply (Nonesuch)
ORA – Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam (Harmonia Mundi)
Jimmy Heath – Love Letter (Verve)
Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune)
Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG)
Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind (Warp)
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts (Merge)
Avishai Cohen – Big Vicious (ECM)
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Interscope)
Damu The Fudgemunk – Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista)
Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (EMI)
Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
Kandace Springs – The Women Who Raised Me (Universal)
Yelle – L’ere du Verseau (Recreation Center)
Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways)
I Break Horses – Warnings (Bella Union)
Wire – Mind Hive (Pink Flag)
Katie Gately – Loom (Houndstooth)
Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park (Delphian)
Kurt Elling – Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine (Skint)
Sault – Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals)
Makaya Mccraven – Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem)
Prince Royce – Alter Ego (Sony)
Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue)
Rina Sawayama – Sawayama (Dirty Hit)
Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Warner Brothers)
Maria Schneider Orchestra – Data Lords (Artistshare)
Joel Harrison – America At War (Sunnyside)
Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse!)
AC/DC – Power Up (Columbia)
Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony (Roc Nation)
Ambrose Akinmusire – On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
Gregg August – Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1 (Gregg August)
BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff (Bella Union)
Deftones – Ohms (Reprise)
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (Warner Brothers)
Kylie Minogue – DISCO (BMG)
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
Gregory Porter – All Rise (Blue Note)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio – Angels Around (Heartcore)
Joel Ross – Who Are You? (Blue Note)
Christian Sands – Be Water (Mack Avenue)
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)
Hayey Williams – Petals for Armor (Atlantic)

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