Нью-йоркский сайт AllMusic неплохо обозревает новинки музыки, с учётом местной специфики, которая интересно только местным, но в целом взгляд вполне компетентный. Начнём с их списка AllMusic Best of 2020. Позиции без указания мест, просто список, который сам уже для удобства сделал в алфавитном порядке. Топ достаточно интересный, ибо не всё прослушано в нормальной человечьей музыке, а этот список годный гид по релизам ушедшего года. Наших артистов тут почему-то нет. Порядок тут такой ― артист - альбом - лейбл - стиль.
AC/DC – Power Up / Columbia – Album Rock
Algiers – There Is No Year / Matador – Indie Rock
Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess / Jagjaguwar – Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Angelica Garcia – Cha Cha Palace / Spacebomb – Alternative/Indie Rock
Bach Choir – Howells: Missa Sabrinensis / Hyperion – Choral
Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG / Rimas – Latin Pop
BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff / Bella Union – Indie Pop
Beatrice Dillon – Workaround / Pan – Experimental Techno
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways / Columbia – Contemporary Pop/Rock
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts / Merge – Alternative/Indie Rock
Boldy James – Manger on McNichols / Sector 7-G – Underground Rap
Brandy – B7 / Brand Nu, Inc. – Contemporary R&B
Brandy Clark – Your Life Is a Record / Warner Bros. – Contemporary Country
Brothers Osborne – Skeletons / Snakefarm Records – Contemporary Country
Carolyn Sampson – Mahler 4 / BIS – Symphony
Childish Gambino – 3.15.2020 / mcDJ Recording – Alternative R&B
Chloe x Halle – Ungodly Hour / Parkwood Entertainment – Contemporary R&B
Christian Sands – Be Water / Mack Avenue – Contemporary Jazz
Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark / Forever Living Originals – Alternative R&B
Cornershop – England Is a Garden / Ample Play – Alternative/Indie Rock
Creeper – Sex, Death & the Infinite Void / Roadrunner – Alternative/Indie Rock
Deftones – Ohms / Reprise – Alternative Metal
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia / Warner Records – Dance-Pop
Edward Gardner – Schubert, Vol. 2: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6; Overtures in the Italian Style / Chandos – Symphony
Endless Field – Alive in the Wilderness / Biophilia – Modern Creative
Epiphoni Consort – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park / Delphian – Choral
Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters / Epic – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Gregg August – Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1 / Gregg August – Modern Big Band
HAIM – Women in Music, Pt. 3 / Columbia / Sony Music – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Hayley Williams – Petals for Armor / Atlantic – Alternative/Indie Rock
Headie One – EDNA / Relentless – British Rap
I Break Horses – Warnings / Bella Union – Dream Pop
Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? / International Anthem – Free Jazz
J Hus – Big Conspiracy / Black Butter – British Rap
Jason Isbell – Reunions / Southeastern Records – Alternative Country-Rock
Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony / Roc Nation – East Coast Rap
Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? / Virgin EMI – Alternative Dance
Joel Ross – Who Are You? / Blue Note – Post-Bop
John Anderson – Years / BMG – Contemporary Country
Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle / Ninja Tune – Ambient
Ka – Descendants of Cain / Iron Works Records – Underground Rap
Katie Gately – Loom / Houndstooth – Experimental Electronic
Khruangbin – Mordechai / Dead Oceans – Neo-Psychedelia
Kidbug – Kidbug / Joyful Noise – Alternative/Indie Rock
Kvelertak – Splid / Rise Records – Heavy Metal
Kylie Minogue – DISCO / BMG – Dance-Pop
Lady Gaga – Chromatica / Interscope / Polydor – Dance-Pop
Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter / Chrysalis Records – Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas / Warner Records – Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia / Anti- – Afro-Colombian
Lilly Hiatt – Walking Proof / New West – Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Loma – Don't Shy Away / Sub Pop – Alternative/Indie Rock
Low Cut Connie – Private Lives / – Alternative/Indie Rock
Magik Markers – 2020 / Drag City – Alternative/Indie Rock
Margo Price – That's How Rumors Get Started / Loma Vista – Americana
Mark Elder – Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6 / Hallé – Symphony
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders / Ghostly International / Secretly Canadian – Experimental Ambient
Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por Mexico, Vol. 1 / – Mexican Traditions
No Joy – Motherhood / Joyful Noise – Noise Pop
Nubya Garcia – Source / Concord – Contemporary Jazz
Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never / Warp – Ambient
ORA – Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam / Harmonia Mundi – Choral
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately / Matador – Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Poppy – I Disagree / Sumerian Records – Pop-Metal
Prince Royce – Alter Ego / Sony Music – Bachata [латиноамериканская музыка]
Punisher – Phoebe Bridgers / Dead Oceans – Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir – Jančevskis: Aeternum / Hyperion – Choral
Rina Sawayama – Sawayama / Dirty Hit – Pop
Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine / Skint Records – Club/Dance
RTJ4 – Run the Jewels / BMG – Hardcore Rap
RVG – Feral / Fire Records – Indie Rock
Sault – Untitled (Rise) / Forever Living Originals – Alternative R&B
Sevdaliza – Shabrang / Butler Records – Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History / Impulse! – Avant-Garde Jazz
Shirley Collins – Heart's Ease / Domino – British Folk
Shore – Fleet Foxes / Anti- – Alternative/Indie Rock
Soccer Mommy – color theory / Loma Vista – Alternative/Indie Rock
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge – Ash Wednesday / Signum Classics – Choral
Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques / Matador – Indie Rock
Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – International Fusion
Supercrush – SODO Pop / Don Giovanni – Alternative/Indie Rock
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush / Interscope – Alternative/Indie Rock
Taylor Swift – folklore / Republic / Revolver Records – Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Teyana Taylor – The Album / Def Jam / Getting Out Our Dreams – Contemporary R&B
The Killers – Imploding the Mirage / Island / Virgin EMI – Alternative/Indie Rock
The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominiques Nosebleed / Stones Throw – Left-Field Rap
The Microphones – Microphones in 2020 / P.W. Elverum & Sun – Alternative/Indie Rock
The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? / Thrill Jockey – House
The Strokes – The New Abnormal / RCA – Alternative/Indie Rock
The Weeknd – After Hours / Republic – Alternative R&B
Thibaut Garcia – Aranjuez / Erato – Concerto
Thundercat – It Is What It Is / Brainfeeder – Alternative R&B
Vladislav Delay – Rakka / Cosmo Rhythmatic – Experimental Electronic
Waylon Payne – Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me / Carnival Recording Co. – Americana
Winter – Endless Space (Between You & I) / Bar/None Records – Dream Pop
Wire – Mind Hive / Pink Flag – Alternative/Indie Rock
Xavier Omär – If You Feel / RCA – Alternative R&B
Yelle – L' Ère du Verseau / Recreation Center – Pop
Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind / Warp – Alternative R&B
Zephaniah OHora – Listening to the Music / Last Roundup Records – Alternative Country-Rock
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Помимо общего списка со всеми стилями, на сайте AllMusic делают и отдельные топы со всеми основными музстилями, например есть такой ― The Allmusic 2020 Favorite Metal Albums:
All Them Witches ― Nothing as the Ideal
Boris ― No
Bring Me the Horizon ― Post Human: Survival Horror
Bury Tomorrow ― Cannibal
Deftones ― Ohms
Emma Ruth Rundle / Thou ― May Our Chambers Be Full
Enter Shikari ― Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
Eye Flys ― Tub of Lard
Fit for a King ― The Path
Haken ― Virus
Hatari ― Neyslutrans
Heaven Shall Burn ― Of Truth and Sacrifice
Katatonia ― City Burials [Deluxe Edition]
Kvelertak ― Splid
Lamb of God ― Lamb of God
Magnum ― The Serpent Rings
Metallica / San Francisco Symphony ― S&M2
Motorpsycho ― The All Is One
Mr. Bungle ― The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
My Dying Bride ― The Ghost of Orion
Napalm Death ― Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism [Limited Edition]
Nothing ― Great Dismal
Ozzy Osbourne ― Ordinary Man
Pallbearer ― Forgotten Days
Paradise Lost ― Obsidian
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ― Viscerals
Poppy ― I Disagree
Sepultura ― Quadra
Stabbing Westward ― Dead and Gone
Static-X ― Project Regeneration, Vol. 1
Testament ― Titans of Creation
The Black Dahlia Murder ― Verminous
The Ghost Inside ― The Ghost Inside
The Ocean ― Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic/Cenozoic
Trivium ― What the Dead Men Say
То, что из всего великолепия, которым был богат 2020-й год, выбрано всего навсего 35 альбомов, явно намекает либо на чересчур серьёзный подход, либо на обычный бардак, и отсутствие увлечённого стилем специалиста, ибо релизов было достаточно для большого топа под 250 бестов.
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