Double J's 50 Best Albums of 2020

The albums that helped us get through a difficult year

Published: December 09, 2020 06:30 Source

# 1

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

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

# 2

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 3

Crossover by Emma Donovan + The Putbacks

Album • Nov 06 / 2020 Soul

# 4

The Slow Rush by Tame Impala

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Psychedelic Pop Neo-Psychedelia Synthpop

# 5

Untitled (Rise) by Sault

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 6

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 7

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 8

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 9

The Sharecropper's Daughter by Sa-Roc

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 10

Sideways to New Italy by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 11

Sixteen Oceans by Four Tet

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Microhouse Ambient

# 12

Chosen Line by Benny Walker

Album • Jun 05 / 2020

# 13

SOUTH WEST by L-FRESH The LION

Album • Jul 17 / 2020

# 14

Far Enough by Cable Ties

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Post-Punk Indie Rock

# 15

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 16

Nyaaringu by Miiesha

Album • May 29 / 2020 Contemporary R&B

# 17

You Be the Lightning by Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife

Album • Feb 14 / 2020

# 18

Mordechai by Khruangbin

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Psychedelic Rock

# 19

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 20

Our Two Skins by Gordi

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Indie Pop

# 21

Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was by Bright Eyes

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Indie Folk

# 22

græ by Moses Sumney

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 23

Distance by Jess Cornelius

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 24

King's Disease by Nas

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 25

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 26

Batflowers by Meg Washington

Album • Aug 28 / 2020

# 27

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Psychedelic Soul Neo-Soul Jazz-Funk

# 28

Thats How Rumors Get Started by Margo Price

Album • Jul 10 / 2020 Contemporary Country Roots Rock

# 29

ENERGY by Disclosure

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 House UK Garage

# 30

The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Indietronica Art Pop

# 31

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country

# 32

Paid Salvation by A. Swayze & the Ghosts

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Garage Punk

# 33

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 34

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 35

Unity by Gordon Koang

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Northeastern African Music

# 36

A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C.

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 37

Child In Reverse by Kate Miller-Heidke

Album • Oct 30 / 2020 Pop

# 38

K.G. by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Psychedelic Rock

# 39

aloha by Son Little

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Contemporary R&B

# 40

The Modern Medieval by Something for Kate

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Alternative Rock

# 41

II - The Next Wave by Quakers

Album • Nov 13 / 2020

# 42

Rome by Josh Pyke

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 43

Fallow by Fanny Lumsden

Album • Mar 13 / 2020

# 44

Optimisme by Songhoy Blues

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Afro-Rock Songhai Music

# 45

Original Cast Recording by Braille Face

Album • Sep 16 / 2020

# 46

Colour By Number by Leah Flanagan

Album • Oct 16 / 2020

# 47

Ultra Mono by IDLES

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Post-Punk Art Punk

# 48

What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? by Public Enemy

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Political Hip Hop

# 49

Feral by RVG

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 50

Róisín Machine by Róisín Murphy

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Nu-Disco