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

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 2

Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist

Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 3

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 4

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

Album • Jun 03 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop Political Hip Hop

# 5

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 6

græ by Moses Sumney

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 7

Untitled (Black Is) by Sault

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 8

Inlet by Hum

Album • Jun 24 / 2020 Shoegaze Alternative Metal

# 9

Róisín Machine by Róisín Murphy

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Nu-Disco

# 10

NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop

# 11

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 12

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 13

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country

# 14

Pray for Paris by Westside Gunn

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

# 15

Bonny Light Horseman by Bonny Light Horseman

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Americana

# 16

From King To A GOD by Conway the Machine

Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 17

Every Bad by Porridge Radio

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 18

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

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 19

Live Forever by Bartees Strange

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 20

Teenage Halloween by Teenage Halloween

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Power Pop Pop Punk

# 21

Burden of Proof by Benny the Butcher

Album • Oct 16 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Gangsta Rap Hardcore Hip Hop

# 22

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 23

Good News by Megan Thee Stallion

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Southern Hip Hop Trap Pop Rap

# 24

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 25

Beyond the Pale by Jarvis Cocker

Album • Jul 17 / 2020

# 26

Meet the Woo 2 by Pop Smoke

Album • Feb 07 / 2020

# 27

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 28

Beneath by Infant Island

Album • May 15 / 2020 Screamo Post-Metal

# 29

Shrines by Armand Hammer

Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 30

Viewing by Stay Inside

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Emo Post-Hardcore

# 31

Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism by Napalm Death

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Deathgrind

# 32

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 33

Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress by Gulch

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Metalcore

# 34

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

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

# 35

Petals For Armor by Hayley Williams

Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop Alternative Dance

# 36

Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975

Album • May 22 / 2020 Electronic Art Pop Pop Rock

# 37

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 38

I Owe You Nothing by Record Setter

Album • Nov 06 / 2020 Screamo

# 39

Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Tech House Art Pop

# 40

Miss Colombia by Lido Pimienta

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Latin Electronic Art Pop

# 41

SOURCE by Nubya Garcia

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Spiritual Jazz Afro-Jazz

# 42

Have We Met by Destroyer

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 43

Lament by Touché Amoré

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Post-Hardcore Screamo

# 44

When I Die, Will I Get Better? by Svalbard

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Blackgaze Screamo Post-Hardcore

# 45

Mestarin kynsi by Oranssi Pazuzu

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Avant-Garde Metal Black Metal Psychedelic Rock

# 46

Underneath by Code Orange

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Metalcore Industrial Metal

# 47

Silver Ladders by Mary Lattimore

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Ambient New Age

# 48

The Eternal Resonance by Sweven

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Progressive Metal

# 49

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Dance-Pop Nu-Disco

# 50

Stare Into Death and Be Still by Ulcerate

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal