In the spirit of fairness, I’ve excluded songs that can be found on any of the albums from my top 30 of 2020 (otherwise, Perfume Genius’ “Describe” and Waxhatachee’s “Lilacs” and basically all of the Flo Milli album would be on here). Below are 20 of my favs, unranked and unsorted. Below this list, find three playlists I made from songs released this year: Vibez (Hip-hop and R&B), Big Dumb Bitch Pop (self-explanatory), and To the Root (roots music [broadly defined] from across the globe)–all thoughtfully sequenced but should shuffle well. And below that is my Big playlist of songs I liked from 2020. Enjoy!
Joshua Palmer 