Over the past weeks, we've been spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2020. Check out the Top 90.3 Albums of 2020, as voted on by our listeners, and check out more top albums from KEXP DJs here.
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| The Avalanches | We Will Always Love You | Astralwerks |
| Car Seat Headrest | Making a Door Less Open | Matador |
| Perfume Genius | Set My Heart on Fire Immediately | Matador |
| Porridge Radio | Every Bad | Secretly Canadian |
| Fleet Foxes | Shore | Anti- |
| Wolf Parade | Thin Mind | Sub Pop |
| Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Sideways To a New Italy | Sub Pop |
| SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| SAULT | Untitled (Rise) | Forever Living Originals |
| Yves Tumor | Heaven To a Tortured Mind | Warp |
| Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud | Merge |
| Deep Sea Diver | Impossible Weight | High Beam/ATO |
| Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension | Asthmatic Kitty |
| Moses Sumney | grae | Jagjaguwar |
| Songhoy Blues | Optimisme | Fat Possum |
| Lido Pimienta | Miss Columbia | Anti- |
| Sorry | 25 | Domino |
| Neil Young | Homegrown | Reprise |
| Kevin Morby | Sundowner | Dead Oceans |
| Moodymann | Taken Away | KDJ-49 |
| Ghostpoet | I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep | Play It Again Sam |
| Obongjayar | Which Way Is Forward? | September Recordings |
| Torres | Silver Tongue | Merge |
| Shamir | Shamir | Self-Released |
| RVG | Feral | Our Golden Friend |
| Thao & the Get Down Stay Down | Temple | Ribbon Music |
| Bright Eyes | Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was | Dead Oceans |
| Bartees Strange | Live Forever | Memory Music |
| Algiers | There is No Year | Matador |
| Idles | Ultra Mono | Partisan |
| Fontaines DC | A Heroes Death | Partisan |
| Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Modular |
| Tomo Nakayama | Melonday | Self-Released |
| Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | K.G. | Self-Released |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Ty Segall | Segall Smeagol EP | Self-Released |
| Black Ends | Stay Evil EP | Self-Released |
| Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Texas Sun EP | Dead Oceans |
| Dylan Cartlidge | Yellow Brick Road EP | Glassnote Music |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Dry Cleaning | Scratchcard Lanyard | 4AD |
| Goat Girl | Sad Cowboy | Rough Trade |
| Christine and the Queens | People, I've Been Sad | Because Music |
| Janelle Monae | Turntables | Bad Boy Records |
| Adia Victoria | South's Gotta Change | Atlantic |
| Brittany Howard | You And Your Folks, Me and My Folks (Funkadelic cover) | ATO |
| Amber Mark | My People (Eddie Kendricks cover) | PMR Records |
| MorMor | Don't Cry | Don't Guess |
| Nulifer Yanya | Crash | ATO |
| Valerie June | You and I | Fantasy |
| Beyonce | Black Parade | Columbia |
| Brandi Carlile | Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden cover) | Elektra |
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