The Needle Drop's 50 Best Albums of 2020

# 1

What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware

Album • Jun 26 / 2020 Dance-Pop Disco

# 2

Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

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

# 3

Peaceful as Hell by Black Dresses

Album • Apr 13 / 2020 Electro-Industrial Industrial Rock

# 4

Miles by Blu & Exile + Blu + Exile

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop Jazz Rap

# 5

Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba

Album • Dec 02 / 2020 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 6

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 7

True Opera (feat. Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry) by Moor Jewelry

Album • Apr 20 / 2020

# 8

The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form by Matmos

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Sound Collage Experimental IDM

# 9

Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 by Natalia Lafourcade

Album • May 08 / 2020 Mexican Folk Music Ranchera

# 10

Underneath by Code Orange

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Metalcore Industrial Metal

# 11

Little Dominiques Nosebleed by The Koreatown Oddity

Album • Jun 19 / 2020 Jazz Rap West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 12

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

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Art Pop Synthpop

# 13

Starting Over by Chris Stapleton

Album • Nov 13 / 2020 Contemporary Country

# 14

Circles by Mac Miller

Album • Jan 17 / 2020 Neo-Soul

# 15

God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It by Backxwash

Album • May 28 / 2020 Industrial Hip Hop Horrorcore

# 16

Shabrang by Sevdaliza

Album • Aug 28 / 2020 Art Pop

# 17

American Head by The Flaming Lips

Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Dream Pop

# 18

how i'm feeling now by Charli XCX

Album • May 15 / 2020 Hyperpop Electropop Bubblegum Bass

# 19

Lianne La Havas by Lianne La Havas

Album • Jul 17 / 2020 Neo-Soul Singer-Songwriter

# 20

Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira

Album • Mar 06 / 2020 Jazz Rap Abstract Hip Hop

# 21

Miss Colombia by Lido Pimienta

Album • Apr 17 / 2020 Latin Electronic Art Pop

# 22

West of Eden by HMLTD

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Glam Punk Art Pop Art Rock

# 23

Alphaville by Imperial Triumphant

Album • Jul 31 / 2020 Avant-Garde Metal Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal

# 24

RTJ4 by Run The Jewels

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

# 25

SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama

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

# 26

2017 - 2019 by Against All Logic

Album • Feb 07 / 2020 Post-Industrial House

# 27

Cumbia siglo XXI by Meridian Brothers

Album • Aug 21 / 2020 Digital Cumbia

# 28

Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

Album • Jun 18 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk

# 29

No by Boris

Album • Aug 27 / 2021 Crust Punk Sludge Metal

# 30

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius

Album • May 15 / 2020 Art Pop

# 31

Innocent Country 2 by Quelle Chris + Chris Keys

Album • Apr 24 / 2020 Abstract Hip Hop Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 32

NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock

Album • May 20 / 2020 Pop Punk Power Pop

# 33

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 34

Origin of the Alimonies by Liturgy

Album • Nov 20 / 2020 Avant-Garde Metal Chamber Music Black Metal Opera

# 35

The New Abnormal by The Strokes

Album • Apr 10 / 2020 Indie Rock

# 36

From King To A GOD by Conway the Machine

Album • Sep 11 / 2020 Hardcore Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 37

My Agenda by Dorian Electra

Album • Oct 16 / 2020 Hyperpop Electropop Electronic Dance Music

# 38

Ultra Mono by IDLES

Album • Sep 25 / 2020 Post-Punk Art Punk

# 39

Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist

Album • May 29 / 2020 Gangsta Rap

# 40

Women In Music Pt. III by HAIM

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Indie Pop Soft Rock

# 41

Lesions of a Different Kind by Undeath

Album • Oct 23 / 2020 Death Metal

# 42

I Disagree by Poppy

Album • Jan 09 / 2020 Alternative Metal

# 43

The Common Task by Horse Lords

Album • Mar 13 / 2020 Experimental Rock Math Rock Totalism

# 44

Future Teenage Cave Artists by Deerhoof

Album • May 29 / 2020 Indie Rock Art Pop Neo-Psychedelia Experimental Rock

# 45

Ungodly Hour by Chloe x Halle

Album • Jun 12 / 2020 Contemporary R&B

# 46

Mystic Familiar by Dan Deacon

Album • Jan 31 / 2020 Neo-Psychedelia Indietronica

# 47

Manger on McNichols by Boldy James + Sterling Toles

Album • Jul 22 / 2020 Jazz Rap Gangsta Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 48

Man Alive! by King Krule

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

# 49

UNLOCKED by Denzel Curry + Kenny Beats

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

# 50

Home Body by DOPE BODY

Album • May 01 / 2020 Noise Rock Garage Punk Synth Punk