Year-End Lists

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Phoebe Bridgers
   Punisher
3. Adrianne Lenker
   songs
3. Adrianne Lenker
   instrumentals
4. Taylor Swift
   Folklore
4. Taylor Swift
   Evermore
5. Perfume Genius
   Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
6. Moses Sumney
   Græ
7. Bob Dylan
   Rough and Rowdy Ways
8. Porridge Radio
   Every Bad
9. Bartees Strange
   Live Forever
10. Run the Jewels
    RTJ4
11. Dua Lipa
    Future Nostalgia
12. Haim
    Women in Music Pt. III
13. Charli XCX
    how I'm feeling now
14. Waxahatchee
    Saint Cloud
15. Samia
    The Baby
16. Jessie Ware
    What's Your Pleasure?
17. Rina Sawayama
    Sawayama
18. Kelly Lee Owens
    Inner Song
19. Fleet Foxes
    Shore
20. Yves Tumor
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind
21. The Weeknd
    After Hours
22. Lomelda
    Hannah
23. Chloe x Halle
    Ungodly Hour
24. Grimes
    Miss Anthropocene
25. Gordi
    Our Two Skins
26. Soccer Mommy
    color theory
27. Laura Marling
    Song for Our Daughter
28. The Microphones
    Microphones in 2020
29. clipping.
    Visions of Bodies Being Burned
30. Carla J. Easton
    Weirdo
31. 070 Shake
    Modus Vivendi
32. Fenne Lily
    Breach
33. Johanna Warren
    Chaotic Good
34. Katie Malco
    Failures
35. Mac Miller
    Circles
36. Blake Mills
    Mutable Set
37. Touché Amoré
    Lament
38. Haux
    Violence in a Quiet Mind
39. Kevin Morby
    Sundowner
40. Hum
    Inlet
41. U.S. Girls
    Heavy Light
42. Julianna Barwick
    Healing Is a Miracle
43. Bill Callahan
    Gold Record
44. LOMA
    Don't Shy Away
45. Fontaines D.C.
    A Hero's Death
46. Caribou
    Suddenly
47. Jehnny Beth
    To Love Is to Live
48. NIIKA
    Close But Not Too Close
49. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
    Unlocked
50. Hayley Williams
    Petals for Armor