Year-End Lists

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2020

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1. Backxwash
   God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
2. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
3. Phoebe Bridgers
   Punisher
4. Run the Jewels
   RTJ4
5. Caribou
   Suddenly
6. Haim
   Women in Music Pt. III
7. Lido Pimienta
   Miss Colombia
8. Yves Tumor
   Heaven to a Tortured Mind
9. Bob Dylan
   Rough and Rowdy Ways
10. Pantayo
    Pantayo
11. U.S. Girls
    Heavy Light
12. Thundercat
    It Is What It Is
13. Andy Shauf
    The Neon Skyline
14. Grimes
    Miss Anthropocene
15. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
    Alfredo
16. Moses Sumney
    Græ
17. Destroyer
    Have We Met
18. Waxahatchee
    Saint Cloud
19. Deftones
    Ohms
20. Sufjan Stevens
    The Ascension
21. Aquakultre
    Legacy
22. Taylor Swift
    Folklore
23. Wake
    Devouring Ruin
24. Daniel Romano's Outfit
    How Ill Thy World Is Ordered
25. The Microphones
    Microphones in 2020
26. The Weeknd
    After Hours
27. Benny the Butcher
    Burden of Proof
28. Jessie Ware
    What's Your Pleasure?
29. Witch Prophet
    DNA Activation
30. Black Dresses
    Peaceful as Hell
31. Ingested
    Where Only Gods May Tread
32. Mac Miller
    Circles
33. Against All Logic
    2017 - 2019
34. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
35. Atramentus
    Stygian
36. TOBi
    ELEMENTS Vol. 1
37. William Prince
    Reliever
38. Porridge Radio
    Every Bad
39. Helena Deland
    Someone New
40. Rod Wave
    Pray 4 Love
41. Soccer Mommy
    color theory
42. Yves Jarvis
    Sundry Rock Song Stock
43. Khotin
    Finds You Well
44. Code Orange
    Underneath
45. Adrianne Lenker
    songs
46. Dua Lipa
    Future Nostalgia
47. clipping.
    Visions of Bodies Being Burned
48. Kathleen Edwards
    Total Freedom
49. Fleet Foxes
    Shore
50. illuminati hotties
    FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You've Been Waiting For