BrooklynVegan’s Top 55 Albums of 2020

From Run The Jewels to Fiona Apple to Hum to Bartees Strange to Napalm Death to Mary Lattimore, here are our favorite albums of this whirlwind year...

Published: December 21, 2020 21:19 Source

# 1
Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter Progressive Pop
# 2
Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap
# 3
Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk
# 4
Album • Jun 03 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop Political Hip Hop
# 5
Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop
# 6
Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop
# 7
Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Neo-Soul
# 8
Inlet by Hum
Album • Jun 24 / 2020 Shoegaze Alternative Metal
# 9
Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Nu-Disco
# 10
Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop
# 11
Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk
# 12
Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock
# 13
Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country
# 14
Album • Apr 17 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop Drumless Boom Bap
# 15
Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Americana
# 16
Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop
# 17
Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk
# 18
Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Gangsta Rap
# 19
Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Indie Rock
# 20
Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Power Pop Pop Punk
# 21
Album • Oct 16 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Gangsta Rap Hardcore Hip Hop
# 22
Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal
# 23
Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Southern Hip Hop Trap Pop Rap
# 24
Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Alt-Country
# 25
Album • Jul 17 / 2020
# 26
Album • Feb 07 / 2020
# 27
Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana
# 28
Album • May 15 / 2020 Screamo Post-Metal
# 29
Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop
# 30
Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Emo Post-Hardcore
# 31
Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Deathgrind
# 32
Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop
# 33
Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Metalcore
# 34
Album • Aug 07 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk Avant-Folk
# 35
Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop Alternative Dance
# 36
Album • May 22 / 2020 Electronic Art Pop Pop Rock
# 37
Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica
# 38
Album • Nov 06 / 2020 Screamo
# 39
Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Tech House Art Pop
# 40
Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Latin Electronic Art Pop
# 41
Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Spiritual Jazz Afro-Jazz
# 42
Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop
# 43
Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Post-Hardcore Screamo
# 44
Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Blackgaze Screamo Post-Hardcore
# 45
Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Avant-Garde Metal Black Metal Psychedelic Rock
# 46
Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Metalcore Industrial Metal
# 47
Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Ambient New Age
# 48
Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Progressive Metal
# 49
Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Dance-Pop Nu-Disco
# 50
Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal