Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2020

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1. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
2. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
3. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
4. The New OK
   Drive-By Truckers
5. It Is What It Is
   Thundercat
6. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
7. Gold Record
   Bill Callahan
8. Beyond the Pale
   Jarv Is
9. Heart's Ease
   Shirley Collins
10. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
11. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
12. Dark Matter
    Moses Boyd
13. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
14. Old Flowers
    Courtney Marie Andrews
15. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
16. Traditional Techniques
    Stephen Malkmus
17. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
18. U Kin B the Sun
    Frazey Ford
19. Head Above the Water
    Brigid Mae Power
20. Letter to You
    Bruce Springsteen
21. Ever-Roving Eye
    James Elkington
22. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
23. On Sunset
    Paul Weller
24. Græ
    Moses Sumney
25. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
26. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
27. Sundowner
    Kevin Morby
28. Good Souls Better Angels
    Lucinda Williams
29. Optimisme
    Songhoy Blues
30. England Is a Garden
    Cornershop
31. Lindé
    Afel Bocoum
32. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
33. The True Story of Bananagun
    Bananagun
34. Summerlong
    Rose City Band
35. We Are Sent Here by History
    Shabaka and the Ancestors
36. Have We Met
    Destroyer
37. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
    Sparks
38. Bonny Light Horseman
    Bonny Light Horseman
39. Made of Rain
    The Psychedelic Furs
40. Ballet Of Apes
    Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network
41. Debris
    Keeley Forsyth
42. Róisín Machine
    Róisín Murphy
43. Cantus, Descant
    Sarah Davachi
44. Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
    Eddie Chacon
45. Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
    Bright Eyes
46. Mixing Colors
    Roger Eno and Brian Eno
47. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
48. Three
    The Necks
49. Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
    Gwenifer Raymond
50. That's How Rumors Get Started
    Margo Price
51. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
52. Free Humans
    Hen Ogledd
53. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
54. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
55. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
56. Songs for the General Public
    The Lemon Twigs
57. Rejoice
    Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
58. Shortly After Takeoff
    BC Camplight
59. Healing Is a Miracle
    Julianna Barwick
60. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
61. Hey Clockface
    Elvis Costello
62. Land of No Junction
    Aoife Nessa Frances
63. Eno Axis
    H.C. McEntire
64. Kitchen Sink
    Nadine Shah
65. Nightcap at Wits' End
    Garcia Peoples
66. Companion Rises
    Six Organs of Admittance
67. Phantom Birds
    Matt Berry
68. Ghosts of West Virginia
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
69. Starmaker
    Honey Harper
70. Countless Branches
    Bill Fay
71. The View From Halfway Down
    Andy Bell
72. Tamotaït
    Tamikrest
73. The Universal Want
    Doves
74. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
75. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens