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2020 Music

Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2020

23 December 2020

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2020

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. The New Abnormal
    The Strokes
  2. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
  3. Surrender Your Poppy Field
    Guided By Voices
  4. Mirrored Aztec
    Guided By Voices
  5. Styles We Paid For
    Guided By Voices
  6. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
  7. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
  8. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
  9. The Unraveling
    Drive-By Truckers
  10. The New OK
    Drive-By Truckers
  11. Temple
    Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
  12. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
  13. Daughter
    Lydia Loveless
  14. Jump Rope Gazers
    The Beths
  15. Twelfth
    Old 97’s
  16. Karma & Desire
    Actress
  17. Total Freedom
    Kathleen Edwards
  18. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
  19. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
  20. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
  21. Never Not Together
    Nada Surf
  22. Chaos Wonderland
    Colorama
  23. Old Flowers
    Courtney Marie Andrews
  24. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
  25. Nobody Lives Here Anymore
    Cut Worms
  26. To Love Is to Live
    Jehnny Beth
  27. Songs for Pierre Chuvin
    The Mountain Goats
  28. Getting Into Knives
    The Mountain Goats
  29. Gold Record
    Bill Callahan
  30. Moon Shot
    The Lees Of Memory
  31. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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