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Highest Rated Albums of 2020

Decade
Source
Genre
2020s
2020

1.

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
April 17, 2020
Art Pop
Score
96
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

2.

Neil Young - Homegrown
June 19, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
Score
92
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Moses Sumney - græ
May 15, 2020
Art Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

4.

Soccer Mommy - color theory
February 28, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
March 27, 2020
Alt-Country
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind
April 3, 2020
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

Frances Quinlan - Likewise
January 31, 2020
Indie Pop
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

8.

Okay Kaya - Watch This Liquid Pour Itself
January 24, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

9.

Hawktail - Formations
January 10, 2020
Score
89
Source →
Amazon

10.

Caroline Rose - Superstar
March 6, 2020
Indie Pop
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Worriers - You or Someone You Know
March 6, 2020
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music

12.

Porridge Radio - Every Bad
March 13, 2020
Indie Rock
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Thundercat - It Is What It Is
April 3, 2020
Psychedelic Soul
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
May 22, 2020
Synthpop
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

Choir Boy - Gathering Swans
May 8, 2020
Synthpop
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova
February 27, 2020
Synthpop
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Arca - KiCk i
June 26, 2020
Deconstructed Club
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
April 10, 2020
Folk
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
June 18, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
Score
88
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

Run the Jewels - RTJ4
June 3, 2020
Hip Hop
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
February 14, 2020
Indie Pop
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
June 26, 2020
Indie Pop
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together
March 26, 2020
Ambient
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

24.

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI: Locusts
March 26, 2020
Dark Ambient
Score
87
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
January 24, 2020
Folk
Score
86
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Paste awarded albums throughout 2020.
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