PopMatters' 60 Best Albums of 2020

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# 1

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 2

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 3

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 4

Women In Music Pt. III by HAIM

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Indie Pop Soft Rock

# 5

Heaven To a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Art Rock

# 6

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

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

# 7

Outland by Ital Tek

Album • May 01 / 2020 UK Bass

# 8

Untitled (Black Is) by Sault

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 9

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 10

A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C.

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 11

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

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

# 12

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

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

# 13

A Written Testimony by Jay Electronica

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 14

3.15.20 by Childish Gambino

Album • Mar 22 / 2020 Neo-Soul Contemporary R&B

# 15

YHLQMDLG by Bad Bunny

Album • Feb 29 / 2020

# 16

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 17

folklore by Taylor Swift

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Folk Pop

# 18

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 19

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 20

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 21

Gaslighter by The Chicks

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Country Pop Contemporary Country

# 22

Workaround by Beatrice Dillon

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Electroacoustic IDM

# 23

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 24

Good Souls Better Angels by Lucinda Williams

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Blues Rock Americana

# 25

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country

# 26

Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Tech House Art Pop

# 27

Private Lives by Low Cut Connie

Album • Oct 13 / 2020 Rock & Roll Pop Rock

# 28

Suddenly by Caribou

Album • Feb 28 / 2020 Indietronica

# 29

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Deluxe) by Gorillaz

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 30

Keleketla! by Keleketla! + Coldcut

Album • Jul 03 / 2020 Afro-Jazz Afrobeat

# 31

Seeking Thrills by Georgia

Album • Jan 10 / 2020 Synthpop Electropop

# 32

Every Bad by Porridge Radio

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 33

I'm Your Empress Of by Empress Of

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 Synthpop Electropop

# 34

BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US by Jessie Reyez

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Contemporary R&B Trap

# 35

Róisín Machine by Róisín Murphy

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Nu-Disco

# 36

The Cycle by Mourning [A] BLKstar

Album • May 15 / 2020 Neo-Soul Trip Hop

# 37

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

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

# 38

Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975

Album • May 22 / 2020 Electronic Art Pop Pop Rock

# 39

The Universal Want by Doves

Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Indie Rock Alternative Rock

# 40

Rejoice by Hugh Masekela + Tony Allen

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Afro-Jazz

# 41

Mama, You Can Bet! by Jyoti + Georgia Anne Muldrow

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Nu Jazz Psychedelic Soul Avant-Garde Jazz

# 42

Eno Axis by H.C. McEntire

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter

# 43

color theory by Soccer Mommy

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

# 44

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

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

# 45

Ultrasonic by Field Works

Album • May 01 / 2020

# 46

Sixteen Oceans by Four Tet

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Microhouse Ambient

# 47

Voices by Max Richter

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Modern Classical

# 48

on the tender spot of every calloused moment by Ambrose Akinmusire

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Post-Bop

# 49

Neon Cross by Jaime Wyatt

Album • May 29 / 2020 Outlaw Country Americana Neo-Traditionalist Country

# 50

Cenizas by Nicolas Jaar

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Ambient Electronic