Rough Trade's Albums of the Year 2020

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# 51

Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist

Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 52

Myopia by Agnes Obel

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Chamber Pop Art Pop

# 53

Anywhere But Here by Habibi

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Indie Pop Garage Rock Indie Surf

# 54

Man Alive! by King Krule

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

# 55

Invisible People by Chicano Batman

Album • May 01 / 2020 Indie Pop Psychedelic Pop

# 56

It Is What It Is by Thundercat

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

# 57

I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep by Ghostpoet

Album • May 01 / 2020 Art Pop Art Rock

# 58

Cenizas by Nicolas Jaar

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Ambient Electronic

# 59

Straight Songs Of Sorrow by Mark Lanegan

Album • May 08 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Folktronica

# 60

FRIDAY FOREVER by Everything Is Recorded

Album • Apr 03 / 2020 UK Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop Art Pop

# 61

Pleasure Line by Video Age

Album • Aug 07 / 2020 Synthpop Bedroom Pop

# 62

Happy Birthday by Sneaks

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Minimal Wave

# 63

Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight

Album • Apr 24 / 2020

# 64

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 65

Voices by Max Richter

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Modern Classical

# 66

EVEN IN EXILE by James Dean Bradfield

Album • Aug 14 / 2020 Alternative Rock Art Rock

# 67

The True Story of Bananagun by Bananagun

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Psychedelic Pop Afrobeat

# 68

Making a New World by Field Music

Album • Jan 10 / 2020 Art Pop Progressive Pop

# 69

Only For Dolphins by Action Bronson

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Jazz Rap East Coast Hip Hop

# 70

Midnight Manor by The Nude Party

Album • Oct 02 / 2020 Garage Rock Country Rock

# 71

The Juice That's Worth the Squeeze by Cherry Pickles

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Garage Rock

# 72

The Long Goodbye by Riz Ahmed

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 UK Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop Political Hip Hop South Asian Music

# 73

Colourfield by Dan Michaelson

Album • Jul 01 / 2020

# 74

Stray by BAMBARA

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Post-Punk Punk Blues

# 75

Collector by Disq

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 76

Gentle Grip by Public Practice

Album • May 15 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 77

Miss Anthropocene by Grimes

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Art Pop Electronic

# 78

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Album • May 15 / 2020 Americana Contemporary Country

# 79

Tender Epoch by Rudy De Anda

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Psychedelic Pop

# 80

Bonny Light Horseman by Bonny Light Horseman

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Americana

# 81

Moveys by Slow Pulp

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 82

ALPHABETLAND by X

Album • May 01 / 2020 Punk Rock

# 83

The Land That Time Forgot by Chuck Prophet

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Americana Singer-Songwriter

# 84

Up in the Air by Bent

Album • Nov 13 / 2020 Downtempo

# 85

Mind Hive by Wire

Album • Jan 24 / 2020 Post-Punk

# 86

UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry + Kenny Beats

EP • Feb 07 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop

# 87

Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 88

High Risk Behaviour by The Chats

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Garage Punk

# 89

instrumentals by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 22 / 2020 Ambient Contemporary Folk

# 90

Have We Met by Destroyer

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 91

The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Indietronica Art Pop

# 92

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

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

# 93

Articulation by Rival Consoles

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 IDM

# 94

Mordechai by Khruangbin

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Psychedelic Rock

# 95

Marigold by Pinegrove

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Indie Rock Alt-Country

# 96

It's Only Us by Monophonics + Kelly Finnigan

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Psychedelic Soul

# 97

Debris by Keeley Forsyth

Album • Apr 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Avant-Folk

# 98

Superstar by Caroline Rose

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Indie Pop Synthpop

# 99

Truth or Consequences by Yumi Zouma

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Indie Pop

# 100

The Mother Stone by Caleb Landry Jones

Album • May 01 / 2020 Art Rock Baroque Pop Progressive Pop