The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2020
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Hey Colossus — Dances / Curses
- The Soft Pink Truth — Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
- Special Interest — The Passion Of
- Lyra Pramuk — Fountain
- UKAEA — Energy Is Forever
- Duval Timothy — Help
- Squarepusher — Be Up a Hello
- Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink
- Pa Salieu — Send Them to Coventry
- Nazar — Guerrilla
- Alison Cotton — Only Darkness Now
- Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem
- Autechre — Sign
- Land Trance — First Seance
- Duma — Duma
- Richard Skelton — These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound
- Sault — Untitled (Rise)
- Keeley Forsyth — Debris
- Sex Swing — Type II
- Annie — Dark Hearts
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Horse Lords — The Common Task
- Beatrice Dillon — Workaround
- Howie Lee — 7 Weapons Series
- upsammy — Zoom
- Hen Ogledd — Free Humans
- Jeff Parker — Suite for Max Brown
- Meridian Brothers — Cumbia Siglo XXI
- MXLX — Serpent
- Ana Roxanne — Because of a Flower
- Phantom Posse — Forever Underground
- Algiers — There Is No Year
- Shirley Collins — Heart's Ease
- Oranssi Pazuzu — Mestarin kynsi
- Mary Lattimore — Silver Ladders
- Kylie Minogue — DISCO
- Headie One — Edna
- DJ Python — Mas Amable
- Destroyer — Have We Met
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia
- Heather Leigh — Glory Days
- Lamin Fofana — Blues
- Bill Callahan — Gold Record
- Teleplasmiste — To Kiss Earth Goodbye
- Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers
- The Young Knives — Barbarians
- Still House Plants — Fast Edit
- Junglepussy — Jp4
- Katie Gately — Loom
- BLÓM — Flower Violence
- Jennifer Walshe — A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance
- Sarah Davachi — Cantus, Descant
- J Hus — Big Conspiracy
- Black Curse — Endless Wound
- more eaze & claire rousay — if I don't let myself be happy now then when?
- Nate Wooley — Seven Storey Mountain VI
- Delphine Dora — L'inattingible
- Sun Araw — Rock Sutra
- Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Sufjan Stevens — The Ascension
- clipping. — Visions of Bodies Being Burned
- Closed Circuits — Returner
- Lorenzo Senni — Scacco Matto
- Antonina Nowacka — Lamunan
- Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists
- NÍDIA — Não Fales Nela Que A Mentes
- Mariam Rezaei — SKEEN
- Jerskin Fendrix — Winterreise
- Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou — May Our Chambers Be Full
- Charli XCX — how I'm feeling now
- Harry Pussy — Superstar
- Dead Meat — The End of Their World is Coming!
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Viscerals
- Arca — KiCk i
- Memnon Sa — World Serpent
- Susan Alcorn Quintet — Pedernal
- Datblygu — Cwm Gwagle
- GELD — Beyond The Floor
- Laylow — Trinity
- The Homesick — The Big Exercise
- Shit and Shine — Malibu Liquor Store
- (Liv).e — Couldn't Wait To Tell You...
- Lucrecia Dalt — No era sólida
- Pyrrhon — Abscess Time
- Dale Cornish — Thug Ambient
- Jam City — Pillowland
- Nines — Crabs in a Bucket
- Regis — Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss
- East Man — Prole Art Threat
- Haq123 — Evil Spirits Who Prowl About The World Seeking The Ruin Of Souls
- Satan — Toutes Ces Horreurs
- Aksak Maboul — Figures
- Wire — Mind Hive
- Magik Markers — 2020
- Potter Payper — Training Day 3
- Sun Ra Arkestra — Swirling
- Luminous Bodies — Nah Nah Nah Yeh Yeh Yeh
- Nyx Nott — Aux Pieds de la Nuit
- Pharaoh Overlord — 6