Year-End Lists

Glide Magazine: 20 Best Albums of 2020, in alphabetical order

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• The True Story of Bananagun
  Bananagun
• Starting Over
  Chris Stapleton
• Circles Around the Sun
  Circles Around the Sun
• Country Westerns
  Country Westerns
• Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
  Fantastic Negrito
• Shore
  Fleet Foxes
• Women in Music Pt. III
  Haim
• Neon Cross
  Jaime Wyatt
• The Beautiful Madness
  Jerry Joseph
• Song for Our Daughter
  Laura Marling
• Private Lives
  Low Cut Connie
• Daughter
  Lydia Loveless
• Rock Bottom Rhapsody
  Pokey LaFarge
• Welcome to Bobby's Motel
  Pottery
• Summerlong
  Rose City Band
• RTJ4
  Run the Jewels
• Untitled (Rise)
  Sault
• Optimisme
  Songhoy Blues
• It Is What It Is
  Thundercat
• Heaven to a Tortured Mind
  Yves Tumor

20 Honorable Mentions

• Rough and Rowdy Ways
  Bob Dylan
• Suddenly
  Caribou
• Coriky
  Coriky
• Impossible Weight
  Deep Sea Diver
• Ohms
  Deftones
• Have We Met
  Destroyer
• The Unraveling
  Drive-By Truckers
• A Hero's Death
  Fontaines D.C.
• Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  Fiona Apple
• Total Freedom
  Kathleen Edwards
• K.G.
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Never Not Together
  Nada Surf
• Sigma Oasis
  Phish
• Sideways to New Italy
  Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
• We Are Sent Here by History
  Shabaka and the Ancestors
• A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
  Sparks
• The Slow Rush
  Tame Impala
• By the Fire
  Thurston Moore
• Strange To Explain
  Woods
• Saint Cloud
  Waxahatchee