In line with this year's general blurriness, it felt like I was listening to a lot of this music all the way through 2020, give or take. Jason Isbell and Margo Price were the big ones - two excellent albums from two consistently excellent artists. Although maybe Fetch the Bolt Cutters sounds the most like 2020 to me, and it was also, by the end, somewhat slyly a year of Phoebe Bridgers.
1. Dreamsicle - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Reunions (Southeastern, 2020)
2. Held Down - Laura Marling
Song for Our Daughter (Chrysalis, 2020)
3. Circle the Drain - Soccer Mommy
Color Theory (Loma Vista, 2020)
4. Shameika - Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic, 2020)
5. Love Song - Miranda Lambert
Revolution (Columbia, 2009)
6. I'd Die for You - Margo Price
That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista, 2020)
7. This Is Me Trying - Taylor Swift
Folklore (Republic, 2020)
8. Me in 20 Years - Moses Sumney
grae (Jagjaguwar, 2020)
9. Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher (Dead Oceans, 2020)
10. Sunblind - Fleet Foxes
Shore (Anti-, 2020)
11. Idoru - Grimes
Miss Anthropocene (4AD, 2020)
