Here are our picks for the 100 best albums of the 2020s so far, picked by the Paste staff, freelance cohort and interns of past and present. All of these albums were released between January 1, 2020 and October 1, 2024, and their genres range from country rock, to jazz rap, to synth-pop, to singer-songwriter, electroclash, dariacore, Appalachian chamber music, EDM and beyond.