Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2020
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
- Taylor Swift — Folklore
- Boldy James / Sterling Toles — Manger on McNichols
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
- Touché Amoré — Lament
- Sault — Untitled (Rise)
- Soccer Mommy — color theory
- Hum — Inlet
- Lomelda — Hannah
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Fleet Foxes — Shore
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Bartees Strange — Live Forever
- The 1975 — Notes on a Conditional Form
- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist — Alfredo
- Charli XCX — how I'm feeling now
- Sorry — 925
- Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
- Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Mil-Spec — World House
- Jeff Rosenstock — No Dream
- Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
- Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?
- Thundercat — It Is What It Is
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Stay Inside — Viewing
- Gulch — Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
- The Microphones — Microphones in 2020
- Arca — KiCk i
- Against All Logic — 2017 - 2019
- Andy Shauf — The Neon Skyline
- Boldy James & The Alchemist — The Price of Tea in China
- Caribou — Suddenly
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit — Reunions
- Autechre — Sign
- Porridge Radio — Every Bad
- Moses Sumney — Græ
- Sam Hunt — Southside
- Ka — Descendants of Cain
- Nation of Language — Introduction, Presence
- Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death
- illuminati hotties — FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You've Been Waiting For
- Couch Slut — Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll
- Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou — May Our Chambers Be Full
- Kehlani — It Was Good Until It Wasn't
- nuvolascura — As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination
- Dua Lipa — Future Nostalgia