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Top 89 of 2020: Jake Rudh, Transmission host

Top 89 of 2020 - Staff Picks
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by Jake Rudh

December 22, 2020

The end of the year is nigh, and that means it's time to reflect on your favorite music of 2020! Here are Jake Rudh's favorite songs of the year. Once you've made your own Top 10 list, vote in The Current's Top 89 poll, and we'll count down our listeners' Top 89 of 2020 on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Top 25 Songs of 2020

Forhill – "Closer"
Destroyer – "It Just Doesn't Happen"
Wild Nothing – "Blue Wings"
The Ocean Blue – "Closer To Heaven (feat. Ebbot Lundberg)"
Nation of Language – "On Division St"
Choir Boy – "Complainer"
Thundercat – "Funny Thing"
Kate NV – "Plans"
Wire – "Cactused"
Lithics – "Hands"
Shopping – "Initiative"
Working Men's Club – "White Rooms and People"
En Attendant Ana – "Somewhere and Somehow"
Jehnny Beth – "Heroine"
MorMor – "Don't Cry"
The Column – "Sparrow's Tongue"
Gorillaz – "Aries (feat. Peter Hook & Georgia)"
The Psychedelic Furs – "Wrong Train"
HUMANIST – "Shock Collar (feat. Dave Gahan)"
Day & Dream – "A Study In The Pixels Of Your Face"
No Joy – "Nothing Will Hurt"
The Weeknd – "Blinding Lights"
Glass Spells – "Night Hour"
Toro y Moi – "Low Shoulder (Instrumental)"
A.L.I.S.O.N – "Nightride (Revisited)"