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2020 Music

New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2020

27 November 2020

No. 1 - Etran de L'Aïr

Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2020, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. No. 1
    Etran de L'Aïr
  2. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
  3. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
  4. Silver Ladders
    Mary Lattimore
  5. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
  6. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
  7. Mama, You Can Bet!
    Jyoti
  8. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
  9. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
  10. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  11. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers

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