Year-End Lists

Northern Transmissions: Top 30 Albums of 2020

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 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