Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: Our Top 100 Albums of 2020

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. The Strokes — The New Abnormal
2. Working Men's Club — Working Men's Club
3. Andrea Laszlo De Simone — Immensità
4. Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death
5. Helena Deland — Someone New
6. Chassol — Ludi
7. Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
8. Gorillaz — Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
9. ela minus — acts of rebellion
10. Damso — QALF
11. Tiña — Positive Mental Health Music
12. King Krule — Man Alive!
13. Benjamin Biolay — Grand Prix
14. Yelle — L'Ère du Verseau
15. Idles — Ultra Mono
16. Bonnie Banane — Sexy Planet
17. Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
18. Caleb Landry Jones — The Mother Stone
19. Catastrophe — Gong!
20. Laylow — Trinity
21. The Flaming Lips — American Head
22. Oklou — Galore
23. Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu — Renegade Breakdown
24. Khruangbin — Mordechai
25. Ichon — Pour de vrai
26. Sufjan Stevens — The Ascension
27. Jarv Is — Beyond the Pale
28. Jean-Louis Murat — Baby Love
29. Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
30. Lous and The Yakuza — Gore
31. La Course — Bon Voyage Organisation
32. Arca — KiCk i
33. Perez — Surex
34. Jessy Lanza — All the Time
35. ascendant vierge — Vierge
36. Tricky — Fall to Pieces
37. Destroyer — Have We Met
38. Nicolas Jaar — Telas
39. The Avalanches — We Will Always Love You
40. Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
41. Jehnny Beth — To Love Is to Live
42. Sébastien Tellier — Domesticated
43. Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers
44. Sneaks — Happy Birthday
45. Oneohtrix Point Never — Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
46. RVG — Feral
47. Thousand — Au Paradis
48. Pottery — Welcome to Bobby's Motel
49. Rone — Room With A View
50. Jonathan Personne — Disparitions
51. A Certain Ratio — ACR LOCO
52. Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
53. Black Lips — Sing In A World That's Falling Apart
54. Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
55. Julien Gasc — L'appel de la forêt
56. yaeji — What We Drew
57. Zed Yun Pavarotti — Beauseigne
58. Eels — Earth to Dora
59. Caribou — Suddenly
60. Bill Callahan — Gold Record
61. Star Feminine Band — Star Feminine Band
62. Actress — Karma & Desire
63. Bachar Mar-Khalifé — On​/​Off
64. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Sideways to New Italy
65. Kevin Morby — Sundowner
66. Régina Demina — Hystérie!
67. Kassa Overall — I Think I'm Good
68. Barbara Carlotti — Corse île d'amour
69. Lafawndah — The Fifth Season
70. Agnes Obel — Myopia
71. Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
72. Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
73. Jonathan Wilson — Dixie Blur
74. Declan McKenna — Zeros
75. Georgia — Seeking Thrils
76. Owen Pallett — Island
77. Algiers — There Is No Year
78. Pascal Comelade — Le cut-up populaire
79. Dominique A — Vie étrange
80. Matt Elliott — Farewell To All We Know
81. Thundercat — It Is What It Is
82. Andy Shauf — The Neon Skyline
83. Stephen Malkmus — Traditional Techniques
84. Matt Berninger — Serpentine Prison
85. Neil Young — Homegrown
86. Honey Harper — Starmaker
87. Soko — Feel Feelings
88. The Apartments — In and Out of the Light
89. Damien — Satan & Eve
90. Daniel Avery — Love + Light
91. James Righton — The Performer
92. Julien Doré — Aimée
93. Woods — Strange To Explain
94. Juniore — Un, Deux, Trois
95. Klub des Loosers — Vanité
96. Yuksek — Nosso Ritmo
97. The Lemon Twigs — Songs for the General Public
98. Aksak Maboul — Figures
99. Elvis Costello — Hey Clockface
100. Daniel Blumberg — On&On