Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2020

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

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