Year-End Lists

Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020

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1. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
2. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
3. Græ
   Moses Sumney
4. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
5. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
   Perfume Genius
6. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
7. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
   Yves Tumor
8. Women in Music Pt. III
   Haim
9. What's Your Pleasure?
   Jessie Ware
10. YHLQMDLG
    Bad Bunny
11. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
11. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
12. Eternal Atake
    Lil Uzi Vert
13. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
14. Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
    Jay Electronica
15. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
16. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
17. Róisín Machine
    Róisín Murphy
18. Have We Met
    Destroyer
19. The Angel You Don't Know
    Amaarae
20. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
21. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
22. Forever, Ya Girl
    KeiyaA
23. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
24. Miss Anthropocene
    Grimes
25. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
26. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
27. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
28. Ungodly Hour
    Chloe x Halle
29. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
30. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
31. Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
    The Soft Pink Truth
32. Thank You for Using GTL
    Drakeo the Ruler
33. Workaround
    Beatrice Dillon
34. Melee
    Dogleg
35. Descendants of Cain
    Ka
36. The Passion Of
    Special Interest
37. Hannah
    Lomelda
38. Help
    Duval Timothy
39. Flower of Devotion
    Dehd
40. KiCk i
    Arca
41. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
42. Room for the Moon
    Kate NV
43. Good News
    Megan Thee Stallion
44. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
45. Fountain
    Lyra Pramuk
46. Twice as Tall
    Burna Boy
47. My Turn
    Lil Baby
48. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
49. What We Drew
    yaeji
50. Silver Ladders
    Mary Lattimore