Year-End Lists

Tony Fantano: 50 Best Albums of 2020, as aired on The Needle Drop

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. What's Your Pleasure?
   Jessie Ware
2. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
   clipping.
3. Peaceful as Hell
   Black Dresses
4. Miles
   Blu & Exile
5. Windswept Adan
   Ichiko Aoba
6. Song for Our Daughter
   Laura Marling
7. True Opera
   Moor Jewelry
8. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
   Matmos
9. Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
   Natalia Lafourcade
10. Underneath
    Code Orange
11. Little Dominiques Nosebleed
    The Koreatown Oddity
12. Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    Gorillaz
13. Starting Over
    Chris Stapleton
14. Circles
    Mac Miller
15. God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
    Backxwash
16. Shabrang
    Sevdaliza
17. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
18. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
19. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
20. purple moonlight pages
    R.A.P. Ferreira
21. Miss Colombia
    Lido Pimienta
22. West of Eden
    HMLTD
23. Alphaville
    Imperial Triumphant
24. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
25. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
26. 2017 - 2019
    Against All Logic
27. Cumbia Siglo XXI
    Meridian Brothers
28. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers
29. NO
    Boris
30. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
31. Innocent Country 2
    Quelle Chris & Chris Keys
32. No Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
33. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
34. Origin of the Alimonies
    Liturgy
35. The New Abnormal
    The Strokes
36. From King to a God
    Conway the Machine
37. My Agenda
    Dorian Electra
38. Ultra Mono
    Idles
39. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
40. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
41. Lesions Of A Different Kind
    Undeath
42. I Disagree
    Poppy
43. The Common Task
    Horse Lords
44. Future Teenage Cave Artists
    Deerhoof
45. Ungodly Hour
    Chloe x Halle
46. Mystic Familiar
    Dan Deacon
47. Manger on McNichols
    Boldy James / Sterling Toles
48. Man Alive!
    King Krule
49. Unlocked
    Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
50. Home Body
    Dope Body