Year-End Lists

Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2020

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1. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
2. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
3. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
4. Women in Music Pt. III
   Haim
5. Folklore
   Taylor Swift
6. Manger on McNichols
   Boldy James / Sterling Toles
7. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
   Oneohtrix Point Never
8. Lament
   Touché Amoré
9. Untitled (Rise)
   Sault
10. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
11. Inlet
    Hum
12. Hannah
    Lomelda
13. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
14. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
15. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
16. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
17. Notes on a Conditional Form
    The 1975
18. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
19. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
20. 925
    Sorry
21. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
22. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
23. World House
    Mil-Spec
24. No Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
25. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
26. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware
27. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
28. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers
29. Viewing
    Stay Inside
30. Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
    Gulch
31. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
32. KiCk i
    Arca
33. 2017 - 2019
    Against All Logic
34. The Neon Skyline
    Andy Shauf
35. The Price of Tea in China
    Boldy James & The Alchemist
36. Suddenly
    Caribou
37. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
38. Sign
    Autechre
39. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
40. Græ
    Moses Sumney
41. Southside
    Sam Hunt
42. Descendants of Cain
    Ka
43. Introduction, Presence
    Nation of Language
44. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
45. FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You've Been Waiting For
    illuminati hotties
46. Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll
    Couch Slut
47. May Our Chambers Be Full
    Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou
48. It Was Good Until It Wasn't
    Kehlani
49. As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination
    nuvolascura
50. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa