Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

1. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Phoebe Bridgers
   Punisher
3. Yves Tumor
   Heaven to a Tortured Mind
4. Adrianne Lenker
   songs
4. Adrianne Lenker
   instrumentals
5. Porridge Radio
   Every Bad
6. Perfume Genius
   Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
7. Jeff Rosenstock
   No Dream
8. Run the Jewels
   RTJ4
9. Laura Marling
   Song for Our Daughter
10. Sports Team
    Deep Down Happy
11. Dua Lipa
    Future Nostalgia
12. Waxahatchee
    Saint Cloud
13. U.S. Girls
    Heavy Light
14. Ratboys
    Printer's Devil
15. Sufjan Stevens
    The Ascension
16. Touché Amoré
    Lament
17. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
    Alfredo
18. Protomartyr
    Ultimate Success Today
19. Hum
    Inlet
20. Fleet Foxes
    Shore
21. Destroyer
    Have We Met
22. The Microphones
    Microphones in 2020
23. The Beths
    Jump Rope Gazers
24. Owen Pallett
    Island
25. Dogleg
    Melee
26. Caribou
    Suddenly
27. Grimes
    Miss Anthropocene
28. Bartees Strange
    Live Forever
29. Jeff Parker
    Suite for Max Brown
30. Bob Dylan
    Rough and Rowdy Ways
31. Sault
    Untitled (Rise)
32. Charli XCX
    how I'm feeling now
33. Young Jesus
    Welcome to Conceptual Beach
34. Fontaines D.C.
    A Hero's Death
35. Hayley Williams
    Petals for Armor
36. Car Seat Headrest
    Making a Door Less Open
37. clipping.
    Visions of Bodies Being Burned
38. Dehd
    Flower of Devotion
39. Taylor Swift
    Folklore
40. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Sideways to New Italy
41. Coriky
    Coriky
42. Andy Shauf
    The Neon Skyline
43. Ka
    Descendants of Cain
44. Rina Sawayama
    Sawayama
45. Torres
    Silver Tongue
46. Soccer Mommy
    color theory
47. The Orielles
    Disco Volador
48. Greg Dulli
    Random Desire
49. Lomelda
    Hannah
50. Thundercat
    It Is What It Is