Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020

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1. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
2. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
3. What's Your Pleasure?
   Jessie Ware
4. Women in Music Pt. III
   Haim
5. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
   Yves Tumor
6. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
7. Outland
   Ital Tek
8. Untitled (Black Is)
   Sault
9. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
10. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
11. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
12. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
13. A Written Testimony
    Jay Electronica
14. 3.15.20
    Childish Gambino
15. YHLQMDLG
    Bad Bunny
16. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
17. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
18. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
19. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
19. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
20. Ohms
    Deftones
21. Gaslighter
    The Chicks
22. Workaround
    Beatrice Dillon
23. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
24. Good Souls Better Angels
    Lucinda Williams
25. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
26. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
27. Private Lives
    Low Cut Connie
28. Suddenly
    Caribou
29. Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    Gorillaz
30. Keleketla!
    Keleketla!
31. Seeking Thrils
    Georgia
32. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
33. I'm Your Empress Of
    Empress Of
34. Before Love Came to Kill Us
    Jessie Reyez
35. Róisín Machine
    Róisín Murphy
36. The Cycle
    Mourning [A] BLKstar
37. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
38. Notes on a Conditional Form
    The 1975
39. The Universal Want
    Doves
40. Rejoice
    Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
41. Mama, You Can Bet!
    Jyoti
42. Eno Axis
    H.C. McEntire
43. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
44. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
    clipping.
45. Ultrasonic
    Field Works
46. Sixteen Oceans
    Four Tet
47. Voices
    Max Richter
48. On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
    Ambrose Akinmusire
49. Neon Cross
    Jaime Wyatt
50. Cenizas
    Nicolas Jaar
51. To Love Is to Live
    Jehnny Beth
52. Amazones Power
    Les Amazones d’Afrique
53. Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
    The Soft Pink Truth
54. The Piano Equation
    Matthew Shipp
55. Making a Door Less Open
    Car Seat Headrest
56. Silver Tongue
    TORRES
57. BRAT
    NNAMDÏ
58. The Night Chancers
    Baxter Dury
59. Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
    Waylon Payne
60. Wooden Cave
    Thin Lear