The 40 Best Albums of 2020
Above is Metacritic's list of the 40 best-reviewed albums of 2020, ranked by Metascore. This list only includes new albums receiving at least 15 reviews from professional critics (though you'll find a quick list of the top albums with a smaller number of reviews at the end of the gallery.)
Otherwise, all full-length studio albums (or mixtapes) released between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 are eligible, though reissues, live albums, box sets and other compilations are excluded. Albums are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding based on scores as of December 23, 2020.
(#14) It may have been recorded in 1974 and 1975, but Homegrown is no reissue. Instead, it's Neil Young's famous "lost" album, which was shelved in favor of Tonight's the Night in the '70s and only released in its entirety for the first time in June 2020 as the second installment in Young's ongoing "Archives" series. Seven of the 12 songs here had never been officially released in any form.
“'Homegrown’ not only lives up to the hype of being a lost classic, it surpasses it.” —Clash
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