Unsurprisingly, Record Weekly‘s ‘Top ten albums of 2020’ list is almost as eclectic and scatterbrained as the year itself. It’s been a turbulent yet monotonous period, with a more-than-generous measure of sickening uncertainty thrown in. But one thing’s for sure: exceptional music has kept coming, thick and fast.

Here’s our selection of the mighty finest offerings from our ears’ perspectives… 

1. RTJ4 — Run the Jewels
2. Ultra Mono — IDLES
3. Moral Panic — Nothing But Thieves
4. Hey u x — BENEE
5. Circles — Mac Miller
6. Lie Out Loud — Bloxx
7. Use Me — PVRIS
8. Shore — Fleet Foxes
9. Dreamland — Glass Animals
10. Parallel — Four Tet