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Highest Rated Albums of 2020
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2020s
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DIY
Dork
Earmilk
Entertainment Weekly
Evening Standard
Exclaim!
FLOOD Magazine
GIGsoup
Gigwise
God Is in the TV
HipHopDX
Kerrang!
Loud and Quiet
Louder Than War
Metal Hammer
Metal Injection
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musicOMH
NME
No Ripcord
Northern Transmissions
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Post-Punk
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This is an ordered list of Uncut's highest rated albums of 2020. Check out
Uncut's Year End List
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1
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Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump ..... on a wooden piano
November 20, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
2
.
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun
February 7, 2020
Psychedelic Soul
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
3
.
Danalogue X Alabaster DePlume - I Was Not Sleeping
November 20, 2020
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
4
.
Strings & Timpani - Voice & Strings & Timpani
November 6, 2020
Post-Rock
,
IDM
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
5
.
Philip Parfitt - Mental Home Recordings
October 30, 2020
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
6
.
Errol Linton - No Entry
May 11, 2020
Score
90
Amazon
7
.
Paul McCartney - McCartney III
December 18, 2020
Pop Rock
,
Art Pop
,
Acoustic Rock
,
Rock
,
Folk Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
8
.
Sam Roberts Band - All Of Us
October 16, 2020
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
9
.
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
October 23, 2020
Heartland Rock
,
Singer-Songwriter
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
10
.
Sam Coomes - True Death
June 5, 2020
Score
90
Amazon
11
.
Drive-By Truckers - The New OK
October 2, 2020
Southern Rock
,
Country Rock
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
12
.
Autechre - SIGN
October 16, 2020
Ambient
,
Electronic
,
IDM
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
13
.
Fleet Foxes - Shore
September 22, 2020
Indie Folk
,
Chamber Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
14
.
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee
September 25, 2020
Score
90
Amazon
15
.
Laura Veirs - My Echo
October 23, 2020
Indie Folk
,
Folk
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Chamber Folk
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
16
.
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
October 2, 2020
Synthpop
,
Dance-Punk
,
Post-Punk
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
17
.
This Is The Kit - Off Off On
October 23, 2020
Indie Folk
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
18
.
Songhoy Blues - Optimisme
October 23, 2020
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
19
.
Taylor Swift - folklore
July 24, 2020
Singer-Songwriter
,
Folk Pop
,
Indie Folk
,
Chamber Pop
,
Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
20
.
Doves - The Universal Want
September 11, 2020
Indie Rock
,
Dream Pop
,
Britpop
,
Alternative Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
21
.
Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
August 21, 2020
Indie Folk
,
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
22
.
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - All the Good Times
July 10, 2020
Americana
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
23
.
Patty Waters - Plays
June 5, 2020
Vocal Jazz
Score
90
Amazon
24
.
Max Richter - Voices
July 31, 2020
Modern Classical
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
25
.
The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public
August 21, 2020
Pop Rock
,
Glam Rock
Score
90
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Uncut awarded albums throughout 2020.
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