Year-End Lists

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
2. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
3. songs
   Adrianne Lenker
3. instrumentals
   Adrianne Lenker
4. Folklore
   Taylor Swift
4. Evermore
   Taylor Swift
5. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
   Perfume Genius
6. Græ
   Moses Sumney
7. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
8. Every Bad
   Porridge Radio
9. Live Forever
   Bartees Strange
10. RTJ4
    Run the Jewels
11. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
12. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
13. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
14. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
15. The Baby
    Samia
16. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware
17. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
18. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
19. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
20. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
21. After Hours
    The Weeknd
22. Hannah
    Lomelda
23. Ungodly Hour
    Chloe x Halle
24. Miss Anthropocene
    Grimes
25. Our Two Skins
    Gordi
26. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
27. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
28. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
29. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
    clipping.
30. Weirdo
    Carla J. Easton
31. Modus Vivendi
    070 Shake
32. Breach
    Fenne Lily
33. Chaotic Good
    Johanna Warren
34. Failures
    Katie Malco
35. Circles
    Mac Miller
36. Mutable Set
    Blake Mills
37. Lament
    Touché Amoré
38. Violence in a Quiet Mind
    Haux
39. Sundowner
    Kevin Morby
40. Inlet
    Hum
41. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
42. Healing Is a Miracle
    Julianna Barwick
43. Gold Record
    Bill Callahan
44. Don't Shy Away
    LOMA
45. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
46. Suddenly
    Caribou
47. To Love Is to Live
    Jehnny Beth
48. Close But Not Too Close
    NIIKA
49. Unlocked
    Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
50. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams