Year-End Lists

Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Sault
   Untitled (Black Is)
2. Phoebe Bridgers
   Punisher
3. Rina Sawayama
   Sawayama
4. Laura Marling
   Song for Our Daughter
5. Jarv Is
   Beyond the Pale
6. Dream Wife
   So When You Gonna...
7. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
   Viscerals
8. bdrmm
   Bedroom
9. Porridge Radio
   Every Bad
10. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    Sideways to New Italy
11. Cornershop
    England Is a Garden
12. Waxahatchee
    Saint Cloud
13. Osees
    Protean Threat
14. Idles
    Ultra Mono
15. Caribou
    Suddenly
16. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
    What Kinda Music
17. Thurston Moore
    By the Fire
18. Oklou
    Galore
19. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
20. Hazel English
    Wake UP!

Rounding out the top 100

• Kamaal Williams
  Wu Hen
• Yves Tumor
  Heaven to a Tortured Mind
• The Beths
  Jump Rope Gazers
• Fontaines D.C.
  A Hero's Death
• Georgia
  Seeking Thrils
• Run the Jewels
  RTJ4
• Isobel Campbell
  There Is No Other
• Brigid Mae Power
  Head Above the Water
• Kelly Lee Owens
  Inner Song
• Courtney Marie Andrews
  Old Flowers
• Four Tet
  Sixteen Oceans
• A Certain Ratio
  ACR LOCO
• SLIFT
  UMMON
• Coriky
  Coriky
• Keleketla!
  Keleketla!
• Margo Price
  That's How Rumors Get Started
• Nation of Language
  Introduction, Presence
• Ólafur Arnalds
  Some Kind of Peace
• The Big Moon
  Walking Like We Do
• Damaged Bug
  Bug On Yonkers
• yaeji
  What We Drew
• Romare
  Home
• The Heliocentrics
  Infinity of Now
• Mush
  3D Routine
• Shopping
  All or Nothing
• Pole
  Fading
• Dehd
  Flower of Devotion
• Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes
  Heritage of the Invisible II
• Bob Mould
  Blue Hearts
• Jessy Lanza
  All the Time
• Nick Hakim
  Will This Make Me Good
• Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  Alfredo
• Agnes Obel
  Myopia
• Habibi
  Anywhere But Here
• King Krule
  Man Alive!
• Chicano Batman
  Invisible People
• Thundercat
  It Is What It Is
• Ghostpoet
  I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
• Nicolas Jaar
  Cenizas
• Mark Lanegan
  Straight Songs of Sorrow
• Everything Is Recorded
  FRIDAY FOREVER
• Video Age
  Pleasure Line
• Sneaks
  Happy Birthday
• BC Camplight
  Shortly After Takeoff
• Fiona Apple
  Fetch the Bolt Cutters
• Max Richter
  Voices
• James Dean Bradfield
  Even in Exile
• Bananagun
  The True Story of Bananagun
• Field Music
  Making a New World
• Action Bronson
  Only for Dolphins
• The Nude Party
  Midnight Manor
• Cherry Pickles
  The Juice That's Worth The Squeeze
• Riz Ahmed
  The Long Goodbye
• Bambara
  Stray
• Disq
  Collector
• Public Practice
  Gentle Grip
• Grimes
  Miss Anthropocene
• Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  Reunions
• Rudy de Anda
  Tender Epoch
• Bonny Light Horseman
  Bonny Light Horseman
• Slow Pulp
  Moveys
• X
  Alphabetland
• Chuck Prophet
  The Land That Time Forgot
• Bent
  Up in the Air
• Wire
  Mind Hive
• Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
  Unlocked
• Bob Dylan
  Rough and Rowdy Ways
• The Chats
  High Risk Behaviour
• Adrianne Lenker
  songs
• Adrianne Lenker
  instrumentals
• Destroyer
  Have We Met
• Sufjan Stevens
  The Ascension
• clipping.
  Visions of Bodies Being Burned
• Rival Consoles
  Articulation
• Khruangbin
  Mordechai
• Pinegrove
  Marigold
• Monophonics
  It's Only Us
• Keeley Forsyth
  Debris
• Caroline Rose
  Superstar
• Yumi Zouma
  Truth or Consequences
• Caleb Landry Jones
  The Mother Stone