Best Of 2020: Adam Bubolz

Let’s not sugarcoat it: this year sucked. We’ll leave it to better writers and bigger thinkers to make context of this smoldering heap of a year, but we at least have some thoughts on music that came out this year. Check out Adam’s favorite music of 2020.

Best Albums:

1. Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
2. Run The Jewls – RTJ4
3. Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
4. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
5. TOPS – I Feel Alive
6. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind
7. Georgia – Seeking Thrills
8. Thou + Emma Ruth Rundle – May Our Chambers Be Full
9. Bambara – Stray
10. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

Best Songs:

1. Perfume Genius – On The Floor
2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars In Space
3. TOPS – Colder & Closer
4. Little Simz – Might Bang, Might Not
5. Cecile Believe – Last Thing He Said To Me In Person
6. Yves Tumor – Kerosene!
7. Run The Jewls – Ooh La La (feat Greg Nice and DJ Premier)
8. SAULT – Wildfires
9. Waxahatchee – Witches
10. HAIM – The Steps

Local Songs:

1. Soubrette – Can I Wait
2. Real Numbers – Brighter Then
3. Dua Saleh – Umbrellar
4. Waveless – Bogart and Bacall
5. Velvet Negroni – Bagette

Best Shows (Back When We Had Shows)

1. Bambara at the 7th Street Entry (Photos / Review)
2. Tove Lo at the Palace Theatre (Photos)
3. Best Coast/Mannequin Pussy at First Avenue (Photos)
4. Juliana Hatfield at the Turf Club (Photos)
5. Heavy Air II at the Hook & Ladder (Photos)