Year-End Lists

Far Out Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. A Hero's Death
   Fontaines D.C.
2. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
3. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
4. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
5. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
6. Untitled (Black Is)
   Sault
7. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
8. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
9. The Slow Rush
   Tame Impala
10. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
11. Ultra Mono
    Idles
12. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
13. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
14. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
14. instrumentals
    Adrianne Lenker
15. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
16. Free Love
    Sylvan Esso
17. Man Alive!
    King Krule
18. Fake It Flowers
    Beabadoobee
19. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
20. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
21. Eternal Atake
    Lil Uzi Vert
22. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
23. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
24. The Neon Skyline
    Andy Shauf
25. Snapshot of a Beginner
    Nap Eyes
26. Gigaton
    Pearl Jam
27. After Hours
    The Weeknd
28. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
    Oneohtrix Point Never
29. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams
30. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
31. Death Of The Party
    The Magic Gang
32. The Universal Want
    Doves
33. Good News
    Megan Thee Stallion
34. Honeymoon
    Beach Bunny
35. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
36. Walking Like We Do
    The Big Moon
37. The New Abnormal
    The Strokes
38. Miss Anthropocene
    Grimes
39. Letter to You
    Bruce Springsteen
40. Notes on a Conditional Form
    The 1975
41. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
42. Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
    Pop Smoke
43. Night Network
    The Cribs
44. Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    Gorillaz
45. Energy
    Disclosure
46. Zeros
    Declan McKenna
47. YHLQMDLG
    Bad Bunny
48. Foolish Loving Spaces
    Blossoms
49. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
50. Ohms
    Deftones