Year-End Lists

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2020 Music

Northern Transmissions: Top 30 Albums of 2020

24 December 2020

Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers

Northern Transmissions: Top 30 Albums of 2020

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers
  2. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
  3. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
  4. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
  5. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
  6. Muzz
    Muzz
  7. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
  8. The Great Dismal
    Nothing
  9. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
  10. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
  11. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
  12. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
  13. Atlas Vending
    Metz
  14. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  15. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
  16. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
  17. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
  18. Inlet
    Hum
  19. The Neon Skyline
    Andy Shauf
  20. Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
    Kurt Vile
  21. The New Abnormal
    The Strokes
  22. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
  23. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
  24. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
  25. Græ
    Moses Sumney
  26. Little Dominiques Nosebleed
    The Koreatown Oddity
  27. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
  28. Have We Met
    Destroyer
  29. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
  30. Ultra Mono
    Idles

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