Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: 50 Best Albums of 2020, as aired on The Needle Drop

1. Jessie Ware
   What's Your Pleasure?
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   Visions of Bodies Being Burned
3. Black Dresses
   Peaceful as Hell
4. Blu & Exile
   Miles
5. Ichiko Aoba
   Windswept Adan
6. Laura Marling
   Song for Our Daughter
7. Moor Jewelry
   True Opera
8. Matmos
   The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
9. Natalia Lafourcade
   Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
10. Code Orange
    Underneath
11. The Koreatown Oddity
    Little Dominiques Nosebleed
12. Gorillaz
    Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
13. Chris Stapleton
    Starting Over
14. Mac Miller
    Circles
15. Backxwash
    God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
16. Sevdaliza
    Shabrang
17. The Flaming Lips
    American Head
18. Charli XCX
    how I'm feeling now
19. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
20. R.A.P. Ferreira
    purple moonlight pages
21. Lido Pimienta
    Miss Colombia
22. HMLTD
    West of Eden
23. Imperial Triumphant
    Alphaville
24. Run the Jewels
    RTJ4
25. Rina Sawayama
    Sawayama
26. Against All Logic
    2017 - 2019
27. Meridian Brothers
    Cumbia Siglo XXI
28. Phoebe Bridgers
    Punisher
29. Boris
    NO
30. Perfume Genius
    Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
31. Quelle Chris & Chris Keys
    Innocent Country 2
32. Jeff Rosenstock
    No Dream
33. Adrianne Lenker
    songs
34. Liturgy
    Origin of the Alimonies
35. The Strokes
    The New Abnormal
36. Conway the Machine
    From King to a God
37. Dorian Electra
    My Agenda
38. Idles
    Ultra Mono
39. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
    Alfredo
40. Haim
    Women in Music Pt. III
41. Undeath
    Lesions Of A Different Kind
42. Poppy
    I Disagree
43. Horse Lords
    The Common Task
44. Deerhoof
    Future Teenage Cave Artists
45. Chloe x Halle
    Ungodly Hour
46. Dan Deacon
    Mystic Familiar
47. Boldy James / Sterling Toles
    Manger on McNichols
48. King Krule
    Man Alive!
49. Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
    Unlocked
50. Dope Body
    Home Body