Pitchfork's first big list of the year is here: the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far.
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Crisp Dubs
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“crisp dubs is the oasis at the end of brain-rot."
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I Want You To Love Me
Fiona Apple
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9. "Its weepy piano melody swells alongside homemade percussion with some of the most intense, weird, and pulsating vocals Fiona Apple's singular alto has ever offered."
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Murder Most Foul
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8. "Its messages are ultimately mysterious, as Dylan plunges a just-assassinated John F. Kennedy into the depths of hell, only to continue on with a roll-call of American recordings, but it is unmistakably violent, insidious, and beautiful."
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Runner
Alex G
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7. "You wonder what today’s long-distance athletes are running for, or maybe what they are running from?
On “Runner,” noted admirer of animals and athletes Alex G sketches two characters who attempt to outrun their secrets."
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It Must Change
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6. “It Must Change,” the album’s opening jaw-dropper, underlines the moral and emotional valencies of that anxious post-COVID moment: an encroaching sense of loss where hatred so often outflanks love—even as those opposing poles of light and dark, as she says, are “just an idea that someone told you.”
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Days Like These
Low
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5. "“You’re never gonna feel complete/No, you’re never gonna be released.”
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Bunny Is A Rider
Caroline Polachek
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4. "Bunny will show up to the party whenever she wants. She will leave without saying goodbye. She will not call; she will not text. She is too busy having the time of her life."
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Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar
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3. "Not Like Us” feels like one of the most complicated rap songs ever. No matter what you say about it, you will be a hypocrite in some way. Forcing you to consider your listening habits, like barely any Billboard chart toppers have before."
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American Tterroristt
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2. “American tterroristt,” a nine-minute jeremiad for the post-truth era from a guy who’s probed life’s mysteries deeper than you have."
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A&W
Lana Del Rey
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1. "The song is both a staggering work of self-mythology and a first-person treatise on the national state of womanhood."