No Ripcord's Best Albums of 2020

# 1

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 2

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 3

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 4

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 5

Every Bad by Porridge Radio

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 6

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 7

NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop

# 8

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

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

# 9

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 10

Deep Down Happy by Sports Team

Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 11

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

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

# 12

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 13

Heavy Light by U.S. Girls

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Art Pop Pop Soul

# 14

Printer's Devil by Ratboys

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indie Rock Indie Pop

# 15

The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Indietronica Art Pop

# 16

Lament by Touché Amoré

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Post-Hardcore Screamo

# 17

Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist

Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 18

Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Post-Punk Art Punk

# 19

Inlet by Hum

Album • Jun 24 / 2020 Shoegaze Alternative Metal

# 20

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 21

Have We Met by Destroyer

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 22

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

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

# 23

Jump Rope Gazers by The Beths

Album • Jul 10 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 24

Island by Owen Pallett

Album • May 22 / 2020 Chamber Folk Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 25

Melee by Dogleg

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Emo Post-Hardcore

# 26

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 27

Miss Anthropocene by Grimes

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Art Pop Electronic

# 28

Live Forever by Bartees Strange

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 29

Suite for Max Brown by Jeff Parker

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Jazz Fusion

# 30

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 31

Untitled (Rise) by Sault

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 32

how i'm feeling now by Charli XCX

Album • May 15 / 2020 Hyperpop Electropop Bubblegum Bass

# 33

Welcome to Conceptual Beach by Young Jesus

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Art Rock Indie Rock

# 34

A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C.

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 35

Petals For Armor by Hayley Williams

Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop Alternative Dance

# 36

Making a Door Less Open by Car Seat Headrest

Album • May 01 / 2020 Indietronica Indie Rock

# 37

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

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

# 38

Flower of Devotion by Dehd

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 39

folklore by Taylor Swift

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Folk Pop

# 40

Sideways to New Italy by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Album • Jun 05 / 2020 Jangle Pop Indie Rock

# 41

Coriky by Coriky

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 42

The Neon Skyline by Andy Shauf

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 43

Descendants of Cain by KA

Album • May 07 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Drumless

# 44

SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Dance-Pop Contemporary R&B

# 45

Silver Tongue by TORRES

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Indie Rock Art Pop

# 46

color theory by Soccer Mommy

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

# 47

Disco Volador by The Orielles

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indie Pop Space Age Pop

# 48

Random Desire by Greg Dulli

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Alternative Rock

# 49

Hannah by Lomelda

Album • Sep 04 / 2020 Indie Folk Indie Rock

# 50

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

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