Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020
[see also 2019]
- Sault — Untitled (Black Is)
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
- Jarv Is — Beyond the Pale
- Dream Wife — So When You Gonna...
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Viscerals
- bdrmm — Bedroom
- Porridge Radio — Every Bad
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Sideways to New Italy
- Cornershop — England Is a Garden
- Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud
- Osees — Protean Threat
- Idles — Ultra Mono
- Caribou — Suddenly
- Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes — What Kinda Music
- Thurston Moore — By the Fire
- Oklou — Galore
- Working Men's Club — Working Men's Club
- Hazel English — Wake UP!
- Kamaal Williams — Wu Hen
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers
- Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death
- Georgia — Seeking Thrils
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Isobel Campbell — There Is No Other
- Brigid Mae Power — Head Above the Water
- Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
- Courtney Marie Andrews — Old Flowers
- Four Tet — Sixteen Oceans
- A Certain Ratio — ACR LOCO
- SLIFT — UMMON
- Coriky — Coriky
- Keleketla! — Keleketla!
- Margo Price — That's How Rumors Get Started
- Nation of Language — Introduction, Presence
- Ólafur Arnalds — Some Kind of Peace
- The Big Moon — Walking Like We Do
- Damaged Bug — Bug On Yonkers
- yaeji — What We Drew
- Romare — Home
- The Heliocentrics — Infinity of Now
- Mush — 3D Routine
- Shopping — All or Nothing
- Pole — Fading
- Dehd — Flower of Devotion
- Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes — Heritage of the Invisible II
- Bob Mould — Blue Hearts
- Jessy Lanza — All the Time
- Nick Hakim — Will This Make Me Good
- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist — Alfredo
- Agnes Obel — Myopia
- Habibi — Anywhere But Here
- King Krule — Man Alive!
- Chicano Batman — Invisible People
- Thundercat — It Is What It Is
- Ghostpoet — I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
- Nicolas Jaar — Cenizas
- Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs of Sorrow
- Everything Is Recorded — FRIDAY FOREVER
- Video Age — Pleasure Line
- Sneaks — Happy Birthday
- BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Max Richter — Voices
- James Dean Bradfield — Even in Exile
- Bananagun — The True Story of Bananagun
- Field Music — Making a New World
- Action Bronson — Only for Dolphins
- The Nude Party — Midnight Manor
- Cherry Pickles — The Juice That's Worth The Squeeze
- Riz Ahmed — The Long Goodbye
- Bambara — Stray
- Disq — Collector
- Public Practice — Gentle Grip
- Grimes — Miss Anthropocene
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Reunions
- Rudy de Anda — Tender Epoch
- Bonny Light Horseman — Bonny Light Horseman
- Slow Pulp — Moveys
- X — Alphabetland
- Chuck Prophet — The Land That Time Forgot
- Bent — Up in the Air
- Wire — Mind Hive
- Denzel Curry — Unlocked
- Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
- The Chats — High Risk Behaviour
- Adrianne Lenker — songs
- Adrianne Lenker — instrumentals
- Destroyer — Have We Met
- Sufjan Stevens — The Ascension
- clipping. — Visions of Bodies Being Burned
- Rival Consoles — Articulation
- Khruangbin — Mordechai
- Pinegrove — Marigold
- Monophonics — It's Only Us
- Keeley Forsyth — Debris
- Caroline Rose — Superstar
- Yumi Zouma — Truth or Consequences
- Caleb Landry Jones — The Mother Stone