Year-End Lists

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2020 Music

Spin: The 30 Best Albums of 2020

10 December 2020

Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Spin: The 30 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
  2. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
  3. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
  4. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
  5. Suddenly
    Caribou
  6. YHLQMDLG
    Bad Bunny
  7. Punisher
    Phoebe Bridgers
  8. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
  9. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
  10. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
  11. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams
  12. Ohms
    Deftones
  13. Descendants of Cain
    Ka
  14. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
  15. Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
    The Soft Pink Truth
  16. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  17. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
  18. Savage Mode II
    21 Savage & Metro Boomin
  19. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
  20. As Long as You Are
    Future Islands
  21. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
  22. Fake It Flowers
    Beabadoobee
  23. I Disagree
    Poppy
  24. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
  25. Songs for the General Public
    The Lemon Twigs
  26. The Great Dismal
    Nothing
  27. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
  28. That's How Rumors Get Started
    Margo Price
  29. The Ghost of Orion
    My Dying Bride
  30. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware

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