Year-End Lists

Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Untitled (Black Is)
   Sault
2. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
3. Sawayama
   Rina Sawayama
4. Song for Our Daughter
   Laura Marling
5. Beyond the Pale
   Jarv Is
6. So When You Gonna...
   Dream Wife
7. Viscerals
   Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
8. Bedroom
   bdrmm
9. Every Bad
   Porridge Radio
10. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
11. England Is a Garden
    Cornershop
12. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
13. Protean Threat
    Osees
14. Ultra Mono
    Idles
15. Suddenly
    Caribou
16. What Kinda Music
    Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
17. By the Fire
    Thurston Moore
18. Galore
    Oklou
19. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
20. Wake UP!
    Hazel English

Rounding out the top 100

• Wu Hen
  Kamaal Williams
• Heaven to a Tortured Mind
  Yves Tumor
• Jump Rope Gazers
  The Beths
• A Hero's Death
  Fontaines D.C.
• Seeking Thrils
  Georgia
• RTJ4
  Run the Jewels
• There Is No Other
  Isobel Campbell
• Head Above the Water
  Brigid Mae Power
• Inner Song
  Kelly Lee Owens
• Old Flowers
  Courtney Marie Andrews
• Sixteen Oceans
  Four Tet
• ACR LOCO
  A Certain Ratio
• UMMON
  SLIFT
• Coriky
  Coriky
• Keleketla!
  Keleketla!
• That's How Rumors Get Started
  Margo Price
• Introduction, Presence
  Nation of Language
• Some Kind of Peace
  Ólafur Arnalds
• Walking Like We Do
  The Big Moon
• Bug On Yonkers
  Damaged Bug
• What We Drew
  yaeji
• Home
  Romare
• Infinity of Now
  The Heliocentrics
• 3D Routine
  Mush
• All or Nothing
  Shopping
• Fading
  Pole
• Flower of Devotion
  Dehd
• Heritage of the Invisible II
  Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes
• Blue Hearts
  Bob Mould
• All the Time
  Jessy Lanza
• Will This Make Me Good
  Nick Hakim
• Alfredo
  Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
• Myopia
  Agnes Obel
• Anywhere But Here
  Habibi
• Man Alive!
  King Krule
• Invisible People
  Chicano Batman
• It Is What It Is
  Thundercat
• I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
  Ghostpoet
• Cenizas
  Nicolas Jaar
• Straight Songs of Sorrow
  Mark Lanegan
• FRIDAY FOREVER
  Everything Is Recorded
• Pleasure Line
  Video Age
• Happy Birthday
  Sneaks
• Shortly After Takeoff
  BC Camplight
• Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  Fiona Apple
• Voices
  Max Richter
• Even in Exile
  James Dean Bradfield
• The True Story of Bananagun
  Bananagun
• Making a New World
  Field Music
• Only for Dolphins
  Action Bronson
• Midnight Manor
  The Nude Party
• The Juice That's Worth The Squeeze
  Cherry Pickles
• The Long Goodbye
  Riz Ahmed
• Stray
  Bambara
• Collector
  Disq
• Gentle Grip
  Public Practice
• Miss Anthropocene
  Grimes
• Reunions
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• Tender Epoch
  Rudy de Anda
• Bonny Light Horseman
  Bonny Light Horseman
• Moveys
  Slow Pulp
• Alphabetland
  X
• The Land That Time Forgot
  Chuck Prophet
• Up in the Air
  Bent
• Mind Hive
  Wire
• Unlocked
  Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
• Rough and Rowdy Ways
  Bob Dylan
• High Risk Behaviour
  The Chats
• songs
  Adrianne Lenker
• instrumentals
  Adrianne Lenker
• Have We Met
  Destroyer
• The Ascension
  Sufjan Stevens
• Visions of Bodies Being Burned
  clipping.
• Articulation
  Rival Consoles
• Mordechai
  Khruangbin
• Marigold
  Pinegrove
• It's Only Us
  Monophonics
• Debris
  Keeley Forsyth
• Superstar
  Caroline Rose
• Truth or Consequences
  Yumi Zouma
• The Mother Stone
  Caleb Landry Jones