Top 50 of the 2020’s

 

Full Length LPs

  1. Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline (2020) 12.2
  2. Krief – Chemical Trance (2020) 11
  3. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (2020) 10.9
  4. Brutus – Live in Ghent (2020) 10.3
  5. Spectacular Diagnostics – RAW Unknown (2020) 10.3
  6. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (2020) 10.2
  7. Danny Denial – Fuck Danny Denial (2020) 10.2
  8. Deca – Snakes and Birds (2020) 10
  9. IDLES – Ultra Mono (2020) 10
  10. Various Artists – Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through The Meat Grinder of Three One G (2020) 10
  11. Metz – Atlas Vending (2020) 10
  12. Titus Andronicus – The Seven Seven Inches Collection (2020) 10
  13. Saturn’s Husk – The Conduit (2020) 10
  14. Age of Indica – Through The Eyes Of Three (2020) 10
  15. Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (2020) 10
  16. Bongripper – Satan Worshipping Doom (2020 Remaster) (2020) 10
  17. Hymn – Breach Us (2020) 10
  18. The Microphones – Microphones in 2020 (2020) 10
  19. Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters (2020) 9.8
  20. Witch Prophet – DNA Activation (2020) 9.7
  21. The Scratch – Couldn’t Give a Rats (2020) 9.5
  22. Dogleg – Melee (2020) 9.5
  23. Nothing – The Great Dismal (2020) 9.5
  24. Fucked Up – Mixtape 6 (2020) 9.5
  25. Mav Karlo – Strangers Like Us (2020) 9.5
  26. Nyssa – Girls Like Me (2020) 9.2
  27. JARV IS… – Beyond the Pale (2020) 9.2
  28. Various Artists – Black Lives Matter (2020) 9.1
  29. Fuck The Facts – Pleine Noirceur (2020) 9.1
  30. Neil Young – Homegrown (2020) 9.1
  31. The Pack a.d. – it was fun while it lasted (2020) 9.1
  32. Osees – Metamorphosed (2020) 9
  33. Jonathan Wilson – Dixie Blur (2020) 8.9
  34. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (2020) 8.9
  35. Led Zeppelin – No Restrictions ’69 (2020) 8.9
  36. Wilma Archer – A Western Circular (2020) 8.8
  37. Zoon – Bleached Wavves (2020) 8.8
  38. The Jerry Cans ᐸᐃ ᒑᓚᖃᐅᑎᒃᑯᑦ – Echoes (2020) 8.7
  39. Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions) (2020) 8.7
  40. Slack Bridges – Lindenlea to Ledbury (2020) 8.7
  41. Sweet Dave – Pink Dreams (2020) 8.7
  42. The Great Sabatini – Dial Tone [Redux] (2020) 8.6
  43. The Brooks – Any Day Now (2020) 8.6
  44. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (2020) 8.6
  45. Narcy – Love & Chaos (Spacetime Vol. 2) (2020) 8.5
  46. The Nude Party – Midnight Manor (2020) 8.5
  47. Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (2020) 8.5
  48. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Brussels ’19 (2020) 8.4
  49. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – X: The Godless Void and Other Stories (2020) 8.4
  50. PUP – Live at The Electric Ballroom (2020) 8.4

Quadruple LPs

  1. Joel Plaskett – 44 (2020) 7.4

EPs

  1. Steve Gunn – Livin’ In Between (2020) 11.6
  2. Mrs. Piss – Self-Surgery (2020) 10
  3. Tøronto – Under Siege (2020) 10
  4. Anna Calvi – Hunted (2020) 10
  5. PUP – This Place Sucks Ass (2020) 10
  6. Dead End America – Crush the Machine (2020) 10
  7. La Dispute – Studio 4 Panorama Live Session (2020) 10
  8. NOFX – The Decline (2020) 10
  9. Myka 9 & Factor Chandelier – People Into Making Progress (2020) 9.3
  10. Slauson Malone – Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) (2020) 8.6
  11. Fucked Up – Live at CBGB’s (2020) 8.4
  12. William McCarthy – Ballad for the Unemployed (2020) 8.3
  13. CarlxJohnson – s/t (2020) 8.1
  14. Kemba – The World is Watching (2020) 8.1
  15. La Ren – Morning & Melancholia (2020) 8.1
  16. Little Simz – Drop 6 (2020) 8
  17. Orville Peck – Show Pony (2020) 7.5
  18. The Suicide Notes – Pleasures Of Despair (2020) 7.5
  19. Big Thief – Demos Vol. 1 – Topanga Canyon (2020) 7
  20. Father John Misty – Anthem (2020) 5.6
  21. Mad Caddies – House on Fire (2020) 4.5

Singles

  1. Dropkick Murphys – I Wish You Were Here (2020) 15
  2. Iceage – Lockdown Blues (2020) 12.5
  3. Pussy Gillette – Walking Crime (2020) 12.5
  4. Jamie xx – Idontknow (2020) 11.2
  5. Tropical Fuck Storm – Legal Ghost / Heaven (2020) 11.2
  6. Amyl and the Sniffers – Live at The Croxton (2020) 10
  7. Archers Of Loaf – “Raleigh Days” b/w “Street Fighting Man” (2020) 10
  8. Beck – No Distraction / Uneventful Days (Remixes) (2020) 10
  9. black midi – jingle bell rock // what christmas means to me (2020) 10
  10. Aesop Rock – Rogue Wave (2020) 10
  11. Alexisonfire – Season of the Flood (2020) 10
  12. Benjamin Gibbard – Life in Quarantine (2020) 10
  13. Big Thief – Love in Mine (2020) 10
  14. Black Pumas – Christmas Will Really Be Christmas (2020) 10
  15. Deep Sea Peach Tree – Harakiri (2020) 10
  16. De La Soul – Remove 45 (2020) 10
  17. Jack Colwell & Owen Pallet – I Will Not Change My Ways (2020) 10
  18. Liturgy x Leya – Antigone (2020) 10
  19. Nolay – The Staircase (2020) 10
  20. Orville Peck – Smalltown Boy (Spotify Singles) (2020) 10
  21. Nathaniel Rateliff – Willie’s Birthday Song (2020) 10
  22. Pete Yorn – Jeannine/The World (2020) 8.7
  23. Cass McCombs & Steve Gunn – Sweet Lucy / Wild Mountain Thyme (2020) 8.5
  24. Archers of Loaf – Talking Over Talk / Cruel Reminder (2020) 7.5
  25. Black Mountain – Echoes b/w Flux (2020) 7.5
  26. Mdou Moctar – Ibitlan (2020) 7.5
  27. PUP – A.M. 180 (2020) 7.5
  28. Tropical Fuck Storm – Suburbiopia / This Perfect Day (2020) 7.5
  29. Father John Misty – To S. / To R. (2020) 6.2

Box Sets

  1. Titus Andronicus – The Seven Seven Inches Collection (2020) 10

Live Albums

  1. Brutus – Live in Ghent (2020) 10.3
  2. La Dispute – Studio 4 Panorama Live Session (2020) 10
  3. NOFX – The Decline (2020) 10
  4. Led Zeppelin – No Restrictions ’69 (2020) 8.9
  5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Brussels ’19 (2020) 8.4
  6. PUP – Live at The Electric Ballroom (2020) 8.4
  7. Fucked Up – Live at CBGB’s (2020) 8.4
  8. Broken Social Scene – Live at Third Man Records (2020) 8
  9. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Paris ’19 (2020) 7.8
  10. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live in Adelaide ’19 (2020) 7.5
  11. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Chunky Shrapnel (2020) 7.4
  12. Fucked Up – Rivoli (2020) 7.3
  13. Panopticon – Live Migration (2020) 6.1

B-Sides / Bootlegs / Demos / Mixtapes

  1. Fucked Up – Mixtape 6 (2020) 9.5
  2. Led Zeppelin – No Restrictions ’69 (2020) 8.9
  3. The Great Sabatini – Dial Tone [Redux] (2020) 8.6
  4. Mdou Moctar – Mixtape Vol. 5 (2020) 8.1
  5. Wussy – Ghosts (2020) 7
  6. Big Thief – Demos Vol. 1 – Topanga Canyon (2020) 7
  7. Titus Andronicus – Mixtape Volume 911: Loosies Against The Law (2020) 5

Compilations

  1. Various Artists – Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through The Meat Grinder of Three One G (2020) 10
  2. Various Artists – Black Lives Matter (2020) 9.1
  3. Various Artists – Lagniappe Sessions, Vol. 2 (2020) 8.1