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2020 Music

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2020

01 December 2020

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2011]

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

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