Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020

1. Phoebe Bridgers
   Punisher
2. Fiona Apple
   Fetch the Bolt Cutters
3. Jessie Ware
   What's Your Pleasure?
4. Haim
   Women in Music Pt. III
5. Yves Tumor
   Heaven to a Tortured Mind
6. Run the Jewels
   RTJ4
7. Ital Tek
   Outland
8. Sault
   Untitled (Black Is)
9. Waxahatchee
   Saint Cloud
10. Fontaines D.C.
    A Hero's Death
11. Dua Lipa
    Future Nostalgia
12. Thundercat
    It Is What It Is
13. Jay Electronica
    A Written Testimony
14. Childish Gambino
    3.15.20
15. Bad Bunny
    YHLQMDLG
16. Bob Dylan
    Rough and Rowdy Ways
17. Taylor Swift
    Folklore
18. Perfume Genius
    Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
19. Adrianne Lenker
    songs
19. Adrianne Lenker
    instrumentals
20. Deftones
    Ohms
21. The Chicks
    Gaslighter
22. Beatrice Dillon
    Workaround
23. Fleet Foxes
    Shore
24. Lucinda Williams
    Good Souls Better Angels
25. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Reunions
26. Kelly Lee Owens
    Inner Song
27. Low Cut Connie
    Private Lives
28. Caribou
    Suddenly
29. Gorillaz
    Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
30. Keleketla!
    Keleketla!
31. Georgia
    Seeking Thrils
32. Porridge Radio
    Every Bad
33. Empress Of
    I'm Your Empress Of
34. Jessie Reyez
    Before Love Came to Kill Us
35. Róisín Murphy
    Róisín Machine
36. Mourning [A] BLKstar
    The Cycle
37. The Microphones
    Microphones in 2020
38. The 1975
    Notes on a Conditional Form
39. Doves
    The Universal Want
40. Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
    Rejoice
41. Jyoti
    Mama, You Can Bet!
42. H.C. McEntire
    Eno Axis
43. Soccer Mommy
    color theory
44. clipping.
    Visions of Bodies Being Burned
45. Field Works
    Ultrasonic
46. Four Tet
    Sixteen Oceans
47. Max Richter
    Voices
48. Ambrose Akinmusire
    On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
49. Jaime Wyatt
    Neon Cross
50. Nicolas Jaar
    Cenizas
51. Jehnny Beth
    To Love Is to Live
52. Les Amazones d’Afrique
    Amazones Power
53. The Soft Pink Truth
    Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
54. Matthew Shipp
    The Piano Equation
55. Car Seat Headrest
    Making a Door Less Open
56. Torres
    Silver Tongue
57. NNAMDÏ
    BRAT
58. Baxter Dury
    The Night Chancers
59. Waylon Payne
    Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
60. Thin Lear
    Wooden Cave