Best of 2020 (So Far): Ali Elabbady

It seems weird looking for the “best” of anything in this dumpster fire of a year, but we are nothing if not suckers for lists of music, so here we are. Over the course of this week we’ll roll out individual lists of best albums and songs from both national and Minnesota artists by Reviler contributors. Today we feature the favorite music of 2020 (so far) from Ali Elabbady.

Albums

Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Quelle Chris & Chris Keys – Innocent Country 2

Moses Sumney – græ

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind

Shabazz Palaces – The Don of Diamond Dreams

Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG / Las que no iban a salir (tie)

Shabaka & The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History

Thundercat – It Is What It Is

Phantogram – Ceremony

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats – Unlocked

The Weeknd – After Hours

Jose James – No Beginning No End 2

Phonodelica – Preludes for Social Distancing

Sgld- Detriment

Moodymann – Taken Away

Westside Gunn – Pray for Paris

King Krule – Man Alive!

Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist – Alfredo

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes – What Kinda Music

Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

Conway the Machine & The Alchemist – LULU

Armand Hammer – Shrines

Dua Saleh “ROSETTA (EP)”

Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now

Ka – Descendants of Cain

Porridge Radio – Every Bad

Run the Jewels – RTJ4

Boldly James – The Price of Tea in China

Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways

Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure?

Video Dave – Week 1560

Arca – KiCk i

Haim – Women In Music Pt. III

SONGS

Run The Jewels “Yankee & The Brave (ep. 4)”

Bob Dylan “I Contain Multitudes”

Thundercat “Dragonball Durag”

Fiona Apple “For Her”

Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist “Something to Rap About (feat. Tyler, The Creator)”

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats “DIET_”

The Weeknd “Heartless”

Dua Saleh “Hellbound”

Video Dave “Tuesday”

Conway the Machine & The Alchemist “Shoot Sideways (feat. ScHoolboy Q)”