Gothamist's Best Albums of 2020

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# 1

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 2

Gold Record by Bill Callahan

Album • Oct 21 / 2020 Americana Singer-Songwriter

# 3

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 4

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 5

The Neon Skyline by Andy Shauf

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 6

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 7

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 8

Untitled (Black Is) by Sault

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 9

Have We Met by Destroyer

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 10

Women In Music Pt. III by HAIM

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Indie Pop Soft Rock

# 11

Traditional Techniques by Stephen Malkmus

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Psychedelic Folk Folk Rock

# 12

Mirrored Aztec by Guided By Voices

Album • Aug 21 / 2020

# 13

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 14

Your Hero Is Not Dead by Westerman

Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Art Pop Sophisti-Pop

# 15

Likewise by Frances Quinlan

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 16

The Slow Rush by Tame Impala

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

# 17

Sixteen Oceans by Four Tet

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Microhouse Ambient

# 18

græ by Moses Sumney

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 19

Suite for Max Brown by Jeff Parker

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Jazz Fusion

# 20

We Will Always Love You by The Avalanches

Album • Dec 11 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Electronic

# 21

Agitprop Alterna by Peel Dream Magazine

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Shoegaze Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 22

Letter To You by Bruce Springsteen

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Heartland Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 23

The Loves of Your Life by Hamilton Leithauser

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Indie Rock Chamber Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 24

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 25

Mutable Set by Blake Mills

Album • May 08 / 2020 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 26

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 27

Swimmer by Tennis

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Indie Pop

# 28

Live Forever by Bartees Strange

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 29

All The Time by Jessy Lanza

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Alternative R&B Synthpop UK Bass

# 30

Every Bad by Porridge Radio

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 31

Man Alive! by King Krule

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

# 32

Room for the Moon by Kate NV

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Art Pop Progressive Pop

# 33

The New Abnormal by The Strokes

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 34

Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Jazz Rap Abstract Hip Hop

# 35

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 36

2017 - 2019 by Against All Logic

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Post-Industrial House

# 37

After Hours by The Weeknd

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Alternative R&B Synthpop

# 38

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

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

# 39

Workaround by Beatrice Dillon

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Electroacoustic IDM

# 40

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 41

Styles We Paid For by Guided By Voices

Album • Dec 11 / 2020

# 42

Surrender Your Poppy Field by Guided By Voices

Album • Feb 20 / 2020

# 43

Untitled (Rise) by Sault

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 44

instrumentals by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 22 / 2020 Ambient Contemporary Folk