Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2020

This was a year of solitude and introspection, whether we wanted it or not. It was a year that forced everyone to confront their deepest, da...

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# 1

God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It by Backxwash

Album • May 28 / 2020 Industrial Hip Hop Horrorcore

# 2

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 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

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 6

Women In Music Pt. III by HAIM

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Indie Pop Soft Rock

# 7

Miss Colombia by Lido Pimienta

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Latin Electronic Art Pop

# 8

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 9

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 10

Pantayo by Pantayo

Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop

# 11

Heavy Light by U.S. Girls

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Art Pop Pop Soul

# 12

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

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

# 13

The Neon Skyline by Andy Shauf

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 14

Miss Anthropocene by Grimes

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Art Pop Electronic

# 15

Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist

Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 16

græ by Moses Sumney

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 17

Have We Met by Destroyer

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 18

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 19

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 20

The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Indietronica Art Pop

# 21

Legacy by Aquakultre

Album • May 08 / 2020 Rhythm & Blues

# 22

folklore by Taylor Swift

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Folk Pop

# 23

Devouring Ruin by Wake

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Black Metal

# 24

How Ill Thy World Is Ordered by Daniel Romano

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Psychedelic Pop

# 25

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

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

# 26

After Hours by The Weeknd

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Alternative R&B Synthpop

# 27

Burden of Proof by Benny the Butcher

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

# 28

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 29

DNA Activation by Witch Prophet

Album • Mar 24 / 2020 Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B

# 30

Peaceful as Hell by Black Dresses

Album • Apr 13 / 2020 Electro-Industrial Industrial Rock

# 31

Where Only Gods May Tread by Ingested

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Deathcore Brutal Death Metal

# 32

Circles by Mac Miller

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 33

2017 - 2019 by Against All Logic

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Post-Industrial House

# 34

Lianne La Havas by Lianne La Havas

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

# 35

Stygian by Atramentus

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Funeral Doom Metal

# 36

ELEMENTS Vol. 1 by TOBi

Album • Oct 21 / 2020 Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B

# 37

Reliever by William Prince

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 38

Every Bad by Porridge Radio

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 39

Someone New by Helena Deland

Album • Oct 16 / 2020 Indie Pop

# 40

Pray 4 Love by Rod Wave

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Southern Hip Hop Trap

# 41

color theory by Soccer Mommy

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Pop Bedroom Pop

# 42

Sundry Rock Song Stock by Yves Jarvis

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Psychedelic Folk

# 43

Finds You Well by Khotin

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Downtempo Ambient

# 44

Underneath by Code Orange

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Metalcore Industrial Metal

# 45

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 46

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

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

# 47

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Horrorcore Industrial Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 48

Total Freedom by Kathleen Edwards

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Heartland Rock Americana

# 49

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 50

FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For by illuminati hotties

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Indie Rock Art Punk Noise Rock