Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2020

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1. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
2. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
3. A Hero's Death
   Fontaines D.C.
4. Gold Record
   Bill Callahan
5. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
6. England Is a Garden
   Cornershop
7. Beyond the Pale
   Jarv Is
8. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
9. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
10. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
11. On Sunset
    Paul Weller
12. Ultra Mono
    Idles
13. Græ
    Moses Sumney
14. Rejoice
    Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
15. U Kin B the Sun
    Frazey Ford
16. Idiot Prayer
    Nick Cave
17. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
18. Got to Be Tough
    Toots and the Maytals
19. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
20. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
21. Straight Songs of Sorrow
    Mark Lanegan
22. Thanks for the Dance
    Leonard Cohen
23. We Are Sent Here by History
    Shabaka and the Ancestors
24. Dark Matter
    Moses Boyd
25. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
    Sparks
26. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
27. Traditional Techniques
    Stephen Malkmus
28. Heart's Ease
    Shirley Collins
29. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
30. Old Wow
    Sam Lee
31. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
32. Coriky
    Coriky
33. Three
    The Necks
34. La Vita Nuova
    Maria McKee
35. Summerlong
    Rose City Band
36. The Unraveling
    Drive-By Truckers
37. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
38. Good Souls Better Angels
    Lucinda Williams
39. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
40. By the Fire
    Thurston Moore
41. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
42. Countless Branches
    Bill Fay
43. Mutable Set
    Blake Mills
44. Gigaton
    Pearl Jam
45. Letter to You
    Bruce Springsteen
46. Live at the Roundhouse
    Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
47. Fall to Pieces
    Tricky
48. Out of My Province
    Nadia Reid
49. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
50. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
51. You Make Me Feel
    Don Bryant
52. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
53. Kitchen Sink
    Nadine Shah
54. Good Luck, Seeker
    The Waterboys
55. I Love the New Sky
    Tim Burgess
56. Quickies
    The Magnetic Fields
57. Optimisme
    Songhoy Blues
58. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
59. The Night Chancers
    Baxter Dury
60. The Universal Want
    Doves
61. Peoples Motel Band
    Chris Forsyth with Garcia Peoples
62. Revel in the Drama
    Ren Harvieu
63. Making a Door Less Open
    Car Seat Headrest
64. Songs for the General Public
    The Lemon Twigs
65. Hyperspace
    Beck
66. Bonny Light Horseman
    Bonny Light Horseman
67. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
68. The Big Exercise
    The Homesick
69. Made of Rain
    The Psychedelic Furs
70. Whole New Mess
    Angel Olsen
71. Making a New World
    Field Music
72. 10:20
    Wire
73. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
74. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
75. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever