Sputnikmusic's Top 50 Albums of 2020

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# 1

how i'm feeling now by Charli XCX

Album • May 15 / 2020 Hyperpop Electropop Bubblegum Bass

# 2

Microphones in 2020 by The Microphones

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

# 3

Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple

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

# 4

Obsidian by Paradise Lost

Album • May 15 / 2020 Gothic Metal

# 5

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

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

# 6

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 7

Palimpsest by Protest the Hero

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Progressive Metal

# 8

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 9

Im Wald by Paysage d'Hiver

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 10

Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba

Album • Dec 02 / 2020 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 11

Brave Faces Everyone by Spanish Love Songs

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Pop Punk Emo

# 12

NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop

# 13

Miss Anthropocene by Grimes

Album • Feb 21 / 2020 Art Pop Electronic

# 14

Empty Country by Empty Country

Album • Mar 20 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 15

you'll be fine by Hot Mulligan

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Pop Punk Emo

# 16

Hole in My Head by Choi Joonyong + Jin Sangtae

Album • Nov 06 / 2020 EAI

# 17

Shore by Fleet Foxes

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Indie Folk Chamber Pop

# 18

The Good Sweat by ManDancing

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Emo

# 19

Ohms by Deftones

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 20

The God-Shaped Void by Psychotic Waltz

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Progressive Metal

# 21

Starmaker by Honey Harper

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Alt-Country Singer-Songwriter

# 22

Petals For Armor by Hayley Williams

Album • May 08 / 2020 Art Pop Alternative Dance

# 23

What's Tonight To Eternity by Cindy Lee

Album • Feb 14 / 2020 Hypnagogic Pop

# 24

Inlet by Hum

Album • Jun 24 / 2020 Shoegaze Alternative Metal

# 25

Untitled (Rise) by Sault

Album • Sep 18 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 26

Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? by The Soft Pink Truth

Album • May 01 / 2020 Ambient Ambient Techno

# 27

Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was by Bright Eyes

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Indie Folk

# 28

Moment by Dark Tranquillity

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Melodic Death Metal

# 29

Stare Into Death and Be Still by Ulcerate

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal

# 30

Circles by Mac Miller

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 31

Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years by Rivers Cuomo

Album • Nov 23 / 2020 Alternative Rock Power Pop

# 32

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

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

# 33

Uinuos Syömein Sota by Havukruunu

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Pagan Black Metal Melodic Black Metal

# 34

folklore by Taylor Swift

Album • Jul 24 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Folk Pop

# 35

No by Boris

Album • Aug 27 / 2021 Crust Punk Sludge Metal

# 36

Long Haired Locusts by Godcaster

Album • Sep 04 / 2020 Art Punk Dance-Punk Experimental Rock

# 37

Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa

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

# 38

Sixteen Oceans by Four Tet

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Microhouse Ambient

# 39

Diamonds by The Birthday Massacre

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Synthpop

# 40

ORCORARA 2010 by Elysia Crampton

Album • May 01 / 2020 Progressive Electronic Modern Classical Ambient

# 41

Dwellers of the Deep by Wobbler

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Symphonic Prog Progressive Rock

# 42

925 by Sorry

Album • Mar 27 / 2020 Indie Rock Post-Punk

# 43

Kintsugi by Seiko Oomori

Album • Dec 09 / 2020 Pop Rock J-Pop

# 44

Endless Wound by Black Curse

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Death Metal Black Metal

# 45

The Slow Rush by Tame Impala

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

# 46

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 47

Of What We Have by The Most

Album • Oct 09 / 2020 Math Rock Math Pop

# 48

Breakfast For Pathetics by Tired Lion

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Alternative Rock Indie Rock

# 49

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee

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

# 50

WE ARE CHAOS by Marilyn Manson

Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Alternative Rock Glam Rock