Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Dances / Curses
   Hey Colossus
2. Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
   The Soft Pink Truth
3. The Passion Of
   Special Interest
4. Fountain
   Lyra Pramuk
5. Energy Is Forever
   UKAEA
6. Help
   Duval Timothy
7. Be Up a Hello
   Squarepusher
8. Kitchen Sink
   Nadine Shah
9. Send Them to Coventry
   Pa Salieu
10. Guerrilla
    Nazar
11. Only Darkness Now
    Alison Cotton
12. Alles In Allem
    Einstürzende Neubauten
13. Sign
    Autechre
14. First Seance
    Land Trance
15. Duma
    Duma
16. These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound
    Richard Skelton
17. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
18. Debris
    Keeley Forsyth
19. Type II
    Sex Swing
20. Dark Hearts
    Annie
21. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
22. The Common Task
    Horse Lords
23. Workaround
    Beatrice Dillon
24. 7 Weapons Series
    Howie Lee
25. Zoom
    upsammy
26. Free Humans
    Hen Ogledd
27. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
28. Cumbia Siglo XXI
    Meridian Brothers
29. Serpent
    MXLX
30. Because of a Flower
    Ana Roxanne
31. Forever Underground
    Phantom Posse
32. There Is No Year
    Algiers
33. Heart's Ease
    Shirley Collins
34. Mestarin kynsi
    Oranssi Pazuzu
35. Silver Ladders
    Mary Lattimore
36. DISCO
    Kylie Minogue
37. Edna
    Headie One
38. Mas Amable
    DJ Python
39. Have We Met
    Destroyer
40. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
41. Glory Days
    Heather Leigh
42. Blues
    Lamin Fofana
43. Gold Record
    Bill Callahan
44. To Kiss Earth Goodbye
    Teleplasmiste
45. The Night Chancers
    Baxter Dury
46. Barbarians
    The Young Knives
47. Fast Edit
    Still House Plants
48. Jp4
    Junglepussy
49. Loom
    Katie Gately
50. Flower Violence
    BLÓM
51. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance
    Jennifer Walshe
52. Cantus, Descant
    Sarah Davachi
53. Big Conspiracy
    J Hus
54. Endless Wound
    Black Curse
55. if I don't let myself be happy now then when?
    more eaze & claire rousay
56. Seven Storey Mountain VI
    Nate Wooley
57. L'inattingible
    Delphine Dora
58. Rock Sutra
    Sun Araw
59. Róisín Machine
    Róisín Murphy
60. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
61. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
62. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
    clipping.
63. Returner
    Closed Circuits
64. Scacco Matto
    Lorenzo Senni
65. Lamunan
    Antonina Nowacka
66. Future Teenage Cave Artists
    Deerhoof
67. Não Fales Nela Que A Mentes
    NÍDIA
68. SKEEN
    Mariam Rezaei
69. Winterreise
    Jerskin Fendrix
70. May Our Chambers Be Full
    Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou
71. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
72. Superstar
    Harry Pussy
73. The End of Their World is Coming!
    Dead Meat
74. Viscerals
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
75. KiCk i
    Arca
76. World Serpent
    Memnon Sa
77. Pedernal
    Susan Alcorn Quintet
78. Cwm Gwagle
    Datblygu
79. Beyond The Floor
    GELD
80. Trinity
    Laylow
81. The Big Exercise
    The Homesick
82. Malibu Liquor Store
    Shit and Shine
83. Couldn't Wait To Tell You...
    (Liv).e
84. No era sólida
    Lucrecia Dalt
85. Abscess Time
    Pyrrhon
86. Thug Ambient
    Dale Cornish
87. Pillowland
    Jam City
88. Crabs in a Bucket
    Nines
89. Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss
    Regis
90. Prole Art Threat
    East Man
91. Evil Spirits Who Prowl About The World Seeking The Ruin Of Souls
    Haq123
92. Toutes Ces Horreurs
    Satan
93. Figures
    Aksak Maboul
94. Mind Hive
    Wire
95. 2020
    Magik Markers
96. Training Day 3
    Potter Payper
97. Swirling
    Sun Ra Arkestra
98. Nah Nah Nah Yeh Yeh Yeh
    Luminous Bodies
99. Aux Pieds de la Nuit
    Nyx Nott
100. 6
     Pharaoh Overlord