The 10 best albums of 2020 so far, definitively ranked - USA TODAY

New music by Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple and Jessie Ware has been a gift in an increasingly frustrating year.

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Even while 2020 has been a total dumpster fire, the music that's come out of it is anything but.

The result is her tender fifth album "Saint Cloud," which takes an introspective look at addiction and codependency with a hazy, country-folk sheen reflective of her Southern roots. .

On his first album of original music in eight years, Dylan, 79, takes stock of his life and loves while staring down the barrel of death

The primal scream of 2020 is bottled in one angry, cathartic, defiant new album, and that's "RTJ4." It was written and recorded by rappers Killer Mike and El-P months before nationwide protests erupted in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody

The year's most underappreciated album so far, from an artist who deserves to have the career of her pop contemporaries Robyn and Carly Rae Jepsen

Disco has been the genre du jour of just about every major pop star in 2020, whether it's Dua Lipa's hits-spawning "Future Nostalgia" or Lady Gaga's titanic dance-floor return "Chromatica." While we adore both those albums, neither of them can match Ware, a chameleonic torch singer who's flirted with dance music on collaborations with fellow Brits Disclosure and SBTRKT, but didn't take the full plunge until "What's Your Pleasure?" 

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