PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2012, 2011]
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Ital Tek — Outland
- Sault — Untitled (Black Is)
- Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud
- Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia
- Thundercat — It Is What It Is
- Jay Electronica — A Written Testimony
- Childish Gambino — 3.15.20
- Bad Bunny — YHLQMDLG
- Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Taylor Swift — Folklore
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Adrianne Lenker — songs
- Adrianne Lenker — instrumentals
- Deftones — Ohms
- The Chicks — Gaslighter
- Beatrice Dillon — Workaround
- Fleet Foxes — Shore
- Lucinda Williams — Good Souls Better Angels
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Reunions
- Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
- Low Cut Connie — Private Lives
- Caribou — Suddenly
- Gorillaz — Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
- Keleketla! — Keleketla!
- Georgia — Seeking Thrils
- Porridge Radio — Every Bad
- Empress Of — I'm Your Empress Of
- Jessie Reyez — Before Love Came to Kill Us
- Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
- Mourning [A] BLKstar — The Cycle
- The Microphones — Microphones in 2020
- The 1975 — Notes on a Conditional Form
- Doves — The Universal Want
- Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela — Rejoice
- Jyoti — Mama, You Can Bet!
- H.C. McEntire — Eno Axis
- Soccer Mommy — color theory
- clipping. — Visions of Bodies Being Burned
- Field Works — Ultrasonic
- Four Tet — Sixteen Oceans
- Max Richter — Voices
- Ambrose Akinmusire — On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
- Jaime Wyatt — Neon Cross
- Nicolas Jaar — Cenizas
- Jehnny Beth — To Love Is to Live
- Les Amazones d’Afrique — Amazones Power
- The Soft Pink Truth — Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
- Matthew Shipp — The Piano Equation
- Car Seat Headrest — Making a Door Less Open
- TORRES — Silver Tongue
- NNAMDÏ — BRAT
- Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers
- Waylon Payne — Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
- Thin Lear — Wooden Cave