Guardian albums and tracks of 2020: how our writers voted
Here’s how our writers voted: favourite choice first.
Alexis Petridis, head pop and rock critic
Albums
Sault – Untitled (Rise)
Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure?
Run the Jewels – RT J4
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Khruangbin – Mordechai
Rina Sawayama – Sawayama
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club
Bdrmm – Bedroom
Jessy Lanza – All the Time
Cleo Sol – Rose in the Dark
Caribou – Suddenly
Georgia – Seeking Thrills
Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine
Moodymann – Taken Away
Baxter Dury – The Night Chancers
Thundercat – It Is What It Is
Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension
Tracks
5 – Wildfires
Daniel Avery – Lone Swordsman
Working Men’s Club – Valleys
Romy – Lifetime
Declan McKenna – Be an Astronaut
Dua Lipa – Physical
Yves Tumor – Kerosene!
Perfume Genius – Describe
Lady Blackbird – Beware the Stranger
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Bruise – Grand Hi
Childish Gambino – 53:49
Lianna La Havas – Weird Fishes
Bicep – Atlas
Jorja Smith – Rose Rouge
The Lemon Twigs – The One
Clive From Accounts – The Rainull