Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2020

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1. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
2. Græ
   Moses Sumney
3. Women in Music Pt. III
   Haim
4. Warnings
   I Break Horses
5. What's Your Pleasure?
   Jessie Ware
6. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
7. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
   Perfume Genius
8. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
9. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
10. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
11. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
12. The Universal Want
    Doves
13. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
14. Jump Rope Gazers
    The Beths
15. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
16. Beyond the Pale
    Jarv Is
17. As Long as You Are
    Future Islands
18. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
19. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
20. Have We Met
    Destroyer
21. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
22. Suddenly
    Caribou
23. Your Hero Is Not Dead
    Westerman
24. Shadow Offering
    Braids
25. The View From Halfway Down
    Andy Bell
26. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens
27. The Neon Skyline
    Andy Shauf
28. Impossible Weight
    Deep Sea Diver
29. The Waterfall II
    My Morning Jacket
30. Someone New
    Helena Deland
31. Muzz
    Muzz
32. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
33. Lovers Rock
    The Dears
34. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
35. 925
    Sorry
36. Don't Shy Away
    LOMA
37. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
38. SUGAREGG
    Bully
39. Whole New Mess
    Angel Olsen
40. Re-Animator
    Everything Everything
41. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
42. Every Bad
    Porridge Radio
43. Making a Door Less Open
    Car Seat Headrest
44. Sorceress
    Jess Williamson
45. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
46. Fake It Flowers
    Beabadoobee
47. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
48. Things I Never Said
    Oceanator
49. The Main Thing
    Real Estate
50. Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
    Bright Eyes
51. Ultimate Success Today
    Protomartyr
52. Getting Into Knives
    The Mountain Goats
53. pure luxury
    NZCA Lines
54. Microphones in 2020
    The Microphones
55. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
56. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
57. If You're Dreaming
    Anna Burch
58. Notes on a Conditional Form
    The 1975
59. Alfredo
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
60. Dreamland
    Glass Animals
61. Off Off On
    This Is the Kit
62. Kitchen Sink
    Nadine Shah
63. Sucker's Lunch
    Madeline Kenney
64. Hannah
    Lomelda
65. Mutable Set
    Blake Mills
66. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
    Oneohtrix Point Never
67. Serpentine Prison
    Matt Berninger
68. Kompromat
    I Like Trains
69. Fear of Death
    Tim Heidecker
70. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
71. No Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
72. The Prettiest Curse
    Hinds
73. Dead Club
    Tunng
74. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
75. The Night Chancers
    Baxter Dury
76. Gold Record
    Bill Callahan
77. Disco Volador
    The Orielles
78. Making a New World
    Field Music
79. Either Light
    Vundabar
80. Truth or Consequences
    Yumi Zouma
81. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams
82. Uneasy Laughter
    Moaning
83. I Love the New Sky
    Tim Burgess
84. Find The Sun
    Deradoorian
85. Temple
    Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
86. Ultra Mono
    Idles
87. Shamir
    Shamir
88. born again
    Ellis
89. 10 Songs
    Travis
90. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
91. Introduction, Presence
    Nation of Language
92. Haunted Painting
    Sad13
93. Fad
    Silverbacks
94. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
95. To Love Is to Live
    Jehnny Beth
96. The Loves of Your Life
    Hamilton Leithauser
97. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
98. We Will Always Love You
    The Avalanches
99. acts of rebellion
    ela minus
100. New Me, Same Us
     Little Dragon