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The Best Alternative Rock Albums of the 2020s

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1.

Turnstile - GLOW ON
August 27, 2021
Critic Score
88
19 reviews
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Spotify

2.

Alexisonfire - Otherness
June 24, 2022
Critic Score
88
8 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

3.

Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
June 4, 2021
Critic Score
87
33 reviews
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Spotify

4.

Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After
October 22, 2021
Critic Score
86
10 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

5.

The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls
October 8, 2021
Critic Score
83
7 reviews
Amazon
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6.

Joe Strummer - Assembly
March 26, 2021
Critic Score
83
8 reviews
Amazon

7.

A.A.Williams - As The Moon Rests
October 7, 2022
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
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8.

Boston Manor - Glue
May 1, 2020
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
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Spotify

9.

Crawlers - Loud Without Noise
November 4, 2022
Critic Score
82
5 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

10.

Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r.
May 6, 2022
Critic Score
82
5 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

11.

Jerry Cantrell - Brighten
October 29, 2021
Critic Score
82
6 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

12.

Poppy - Flux
September 24, 2021
Critic Score
82
16 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

13.

Doves - The Universal Want
September 11, 2020
Critic Score
82
24 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

14.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket
February 26, 2021
Critic Score
82
9 reviews
Amazon

15.

Suede - Autofiction
September 16, 2022
Critic Score
81
20 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

16.

Tigercub - As Blue As Indigo
June 18, 2021
Critic Score
80
7 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

17.

Boston Manor - Datura
October 14, 2022
Critic Score
80
6 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

18.

Kid Kapichi - Here's What You Could Have Won
September 23, 2022
Critic Score
80
5 reviews
Amazon
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19.

Drug Church - Hygiene
March 11, 2022
Critic Score
80
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

20.

Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
August 6, 2021
Critic Score
80
10 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

21.

Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
September 25, 2020
Critic Score
80
13 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

22.

Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts
March 18, 2022
Critic Score
80
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

23.

Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God
April 30, 2021
Critic Score
80
15 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

24.

Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind
June 24, 2022
Critic Score
80
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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25.

Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings
August 14, 2020
Critic Score
79
25 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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