Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2020

1. Open Mike Eagle
   Anime, Trauma and Divorce
2. Perfume Genius
   Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
3. Boldy James & The Alchemist
   The Price of Tea in China
4. Half Waif
   The Caretaker
5. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
6. The Microphones
   Microphones in 2020
7. Owen Pallett
   Island
8. Fleet Foxes
   Shore
9. Zombie-Chang
   Take Me Away From Tokyo
10. Moses Sumney
    Græ
11. Adrianne Lenker
    songs
11. Adrianne Lenker
    instrumentals
12. Kate NV
    Room for the Moon
13. Yves Tumor
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind
14. Deftones
    Ohms
15. Ulla
    Tumbling Towards a Wall
16. Young Jesus
    Welcome to Conceptual Beach
17. Crack Cloud
    Pain Olympics
18. Ichiko Aoba
    Windswept Adan
19. Protomartyr
    Ultimate Success Today
20. Iz*One
    Bloom*Iz
21. Phoebe Bridgers
    Punisher
22. Laura Marling
    Song for Our Daughter
23. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
24. Young Nudy
    Anyways
25. King Krule
    Man Alive!
26. Jerskin Fendrix
    Winterreise
27. Them Airs
    Union Suit XL
28. Jessie Ware
    What's Your Pleasure?
29. Empty Country
    Empty Country
30. Leafar Legov
    Mirror
31. Jeff Rosenstock
    No Dream
32. Christine and the Queens
    La vita nuova
33. Cindy Lee
    What's Tonight To Eternity
34. Shabason, Krgovich & Harris
    Philadelphia
35. The Koreatown Oddity
    Little Dominiques Nosebleed
36. Waxahatchee
    Saint Cloud
37. Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
    Ashioto
38. Bartees Strange
    Live Forever
39. Buscabulla
    Regresa
40. Touché Amoré
    Lament
41. Lomelda
    Hannah
42. ela minus
    acts of rebellion
43. Boldy James / Sterling Toles
    Manger on McNichols
44. Pet Shimmers
    Face Down In Meta
44. Pet Shimmers
    Trash Earthers
45. Twice
    Eyes Wide Open
46. Ka
    Descendants of Cain
47. Liturgy
    Origin of the Alimonies
48. Westside Gunn
    Pray for Paris
49. Lyra Pramuk
    Fountain
50. Keeley Forsyth
    Debris