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Highest Rated Albums of 2020

Decade

2020s
- All Time
- 2020s
- 2010s
- 2000s
- 1990s

Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alt-Country
- Ambient
- Americana
- Art Pop
- Country
- Dance Pop
- Electronic
- Folk
- Hip Hop
- House
- Indie Folk
- Indie Pop
- Indie Rock
- Jazz
- Pop
- Pop Rock
- Post-Punk
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Soul
- Synthpop

2020s

2020

2021

This is an ordered list of PopMatters's highest rated albums of 2020. Check out PopMatters's Year End List.

1. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20

March 22, 2020

Neo-Soul

Score

100

2. Ital Tek - Outland

May 1, 2020

UK Bass

Score

100

3. Tristan Perich - Drift Multiply

November 13, 2020

Post-Minimalism

Score

Source →

Amazon

4. Phelimuncasi - Phelimuncasi: 2013-2019

September 17, 2020

Score

5. Tolouse Low Trax - Jumping Dead Leafs

September 11, 2020

Score

Source →

Amazon

6. Whipped Cream - WHO IS WHIPPED CREAM?

August 21, 2020

Score

Source →

Amazon

7. Deftones - Ohms

September 25, 2020

Score

8. Low Cut Connie - Private Lives

October 13, 2020

Score

9. Thin Lear - Wooden Cave

July 24, 2020

Score

10. Max Richter - Voices

July 31, 2020

Score

11. H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis

August 21, 2020

Score

12. Erasure - The Neon

August 21, 2020

Score

13. Jónsi - Shiver

October 2, 2020

Score

14. SAULT - UNTITLED (Black Is)

June 19, 2020

Score

15. Keleketla! & Coldcut - Keleketla!

July 3, 2020

Score

16. Oumou Sangaré - Acoustic

June 19, 2020

Score

Source →

Amazon

17. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020

August 7, 2020

Score

18. Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers - Vodou Ale

May 22, 2020

Score

Source →

Amazon

19. David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Comet Meta

May 29, 2020

Score

Source →

Amazon

20. Groupe RTD - The Dancing Devils of Djibouti

June 5, 2020

Score

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Amazon

21. Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease

July 24, 2020

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22. Jessy Lanza - All The Time

July 24, 2020

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23. Matthew D. Gantt - Diagnostics

April 17, 2020

Score

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Amazon

24. Larkin Poe - Self Made Man

June 12, 2020

Score

25. Die Wilde Jagd - Haut

April 17, 2020

Progressive Electronic

Score

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings PopMatters awarded albums throughout 2020.

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