Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2020

Published: December 09, 2020 12:01 Source

# 1

Anime, Trauma and Divorce by Open Mike Eagle

Album • Oct 16 / 2020 Abstract Hip Hop

# 2

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 3

The Price Of Tea In China by Boldy James + The Alchemist

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 4

The Caretaker by Half Waif

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter Progressive Pop

# 6

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

Album • Aug 07 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk Avant-Folk

# 7

Island by Owen Pallett

Album • May 22 / 2020 Chamber Folk Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 8

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 9

Take Me Away from Tokyo by ZOMBIE-CHANG

Album • Aug 05 / 2020 Electropop Techno

# 10

græ by Moses Sumney

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 11

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 12

Room for the Moon by Kate NV

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Art Pop Progressive Pop

# 13

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 14

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 15

Tumbling Towards a Wall by Ulla

Album • Jan 30 / 2020 Ambient Ambient Dub

# 16

Welcome to Conceptual Beach by Young Jesus

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Art Rock Indie Rock

# 17

Pain Olympics by Crack Cloud

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Art Punk Post-Punk

# 18

Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba

Album • Dec 02 / 2020 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 19

Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Post-Punk Art Punk

# 20

BLOOM*IZ by IZ*ONE

Album • Feb 17 / 2020 K-Pop Dance-Pop

# 21

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 22

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 23

Lianne La Havas by Lianne La Havas

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Neo-Soul Singer-Songwriter

# 24

Anyways by Young Nudy

Album • Feb 24 / 2020 Trap Southern Hip Hop

# 25

Man Alive! by King Krule

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Art Rock Post-Punk Neo-Psychedelia

# 26

Winterreise by Jerskin Fendrix

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Art Pop Electronic

# 27

Union Suit XL by Them Airs

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 28

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 29

Empty Country by Empty Country

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 30

Mirror by Leafar Legov

Album • Mar 22 / 2020 Ambient House Downtempo

# 31

NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop

# 32

La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens

EP • Feb 27 / 2020 Synthpop

# 33

What's Tonight To Eternity by Cindy Lee

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Hypnagogic Pop

# 34

Philadelphia by Shabason, Krgovich & Harris

Album • Sep 18 / 2020

# 35

Little Dominiques Nosebleed by The Koreatown Oddity

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Jazz Rap West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 36

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Alt-Country

# 37

Ashioto by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Electroacoustic

# 38

Live Forever by Bartees Strange

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 39

Regresa by Buscabulla

Album • May 08 / 2020 Latin Electronic Synthpop Chillwave

# 40

Lament by Touché Amoré

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Post-Hardcore Screamo

# 41

Hannah by Lomelda

Album • Sep 04 / 2020 Indie Folk Indie Rock

# 42

acts of rebellion by Ela Minus

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Electropop Tech House

# 43

Manger on McNichols by Boldy James + Sterling Toles

Album • Jul 22 / 2020 Jazz Rap Gangsta Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 44

Trash Earthers by Pet Shimmers

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Indie Pop Noise Pop

# 45

Eyes Wide Open by TWICE

Album • Oct 26 / 2020 K-Pop Dance-Pop

# 46

Descendants of Cain by KA

Album • May 07 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Drumless

# 47

Origin of the Alimonies by Liturgy

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Avant-Garde Metal Chamber Music Black Metal Opera

# 48

Pray for Paris by Westside Gunn

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop Drumless Boom Bap

# 49

Fountain by Lyra Pramuk

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Ambient A cappella

# 50

Debris by Keeley Forsyth

Album • Apr 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Avant-Folk