The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
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1 | XOXO | The Jayhawks | SHAM |
2 | Work Hard and Be Nice | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
3 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord |
4 | III | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
5 | Broken at the Break of Day | Fruition | Fruition |
6 | Hyperspace | Beck | Capital |
7 | Bitter Better | Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards | Compass |
8 | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent | Lewis Capaldi | Vertigo Berlin |
9 | "Let's Rock" | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
10 | Texas Sun | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
11 | Self Made Man | Larkin Poe | Trick-Woo |
12 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers |
13 | Black Hole Rainbow | Devon Gilfillian | Capitol |
14 | Color Theory | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
15 | The Slow Rush | Tame Impala | Island |
16 | Everyday Life | Coldplay | Atlantic |
17 | Social Cues | Cage the Elephant | RCA |
18 | Monovision | Ray LaMontagne | RCA |
19 | Good Luck with Whatever | Dawes | HUB |
20 | New Age Norms 1 | Cold War Kids | AWAL |
21 | 20/20 | The Walk-a-Bout | Shred The Evidence |
22 | Jaime | Brittany Howard | ATO |
23 | Rearrange Us | Mt. Joy | Dualtone |
24 | Holiday | Jennah Barry | Forward Music |
25 | You Deserve Love | White Reaper | Elektra |
26 | Black Pumas (Deluxe) | Black Pumas | ATO |
27 | The Waterfall II | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
28 | Imploding the Mirage | The Killers | Island |
29 | FEVER DREAM | Of Monsters and Men | Republic |
30 | The Unseen in Between | Steve Gunn | Matador |
31 | Best of Luck | Christopher Paul Stelling | Anti |
32 | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Fiona Apple | Epic |
33 | Living Mirage | The Head and The Heart | Warner Brothers |
34 | Love is the King | Jeff Tweedy | dBpm Records |
35 | Father of the Bride | Vampire Weekend | Columbia |
36 | The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pt. 1 | Saint Motel | Elektra |
37 | Song for Our Daughter | Laura Marling | Chrysalis |
38 | Gigaton | Pearl Jam | Monkey Wrench |
39 | The New Abnormal | The Strokes | RCA |
40 | Will You Be My Yellow? | Bakar | Black Butter |
41 | Free Love | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista |
42 | SOUND & FURY | Sturgill Simpson | Elektra |
43 | Fuzzybrain | Dayglow | Self-Release |
44 | Without Fear | Dermot Kennedy | UMG |
45 | Are You in Love? | Basia Bulat | Self-Release |
46 | Mordechai | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
47 | Sister | Puss N Boots | UMG |
48 | Saint Cloud | Waxahatchee | Merge |
49 | All That Emotion | Hannah Georgas | Brassland |
50 | Help Us Stranger | The Raconteurs | Third Man |
51 | All Mirrors | Angel Olsen | Jagjaguwar |
52 | Women in Music Pt. III | Haim | Sony |
53 | Christian | Allan Rayman | 512 Productions |
54 | Anybody out There? | Sadler Vaden | Dirty Mag |
55 | Dixie Blur | Jonathan Wilson | Self-Release |
56 | Deep Down Happy | Sports Team | Bright Antenna |
57 | Busyhead | Noah Kahan | Republic |
58 | Beginners | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
59 | Caretakers | Pete Yorn | Shelly |
60 | Father of All... | Green Day | Reprise |
61 | Such Pretty Forks in the Road | Alanis Morissette | Crush |
62 | Invisible People | Chicano Batman | ATO |
63 | The Main Thing | Real Estate | Domino |
64 | Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? | Fantastic Negrito | Cooking Vinyl |
65 | Earth | EOB | Capitol |
66 | In Isolation | Elle King | RCA |
67 | Made of Rain | The Psychedelic Furs | Cooking Vinyl |
68 | Bury the Moon | Ásgeir | One Little Indian |
69 | Aloha | Son Little | Anti |
70 | Punisher | Phoebe Bridgers | Dead Oceans |
71 | There is No Other… | Isobel Campbell | Cooking Vinyl |
72 | Natural Affair | The Growlers | Beach Goth |
73 | Making a Door Less Open | Car Seat Headrest | Matador |
74 | Wasteland, Baby! | Hozier | Rubyworks |
75 | Thrilled to Be Here | Bailen | Fantasy |
76 | What is There | Delta Spirit | New West |
77 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra |
78 | Sad Hunk | Bahamas | Brushfire |
79 | Foreigner | Jordan Mackampa | Self-Release |
80 | LEMONS | Nick Leng | SOTA |
81 | Indistinct Conversations | Land of Talk | Saddle Creek |
82 | The Loves of Your Life | Hamilton Leithauser | Glassnote |
83 | Getting into Knives | The Mountain Goats | Merge |
84 | New Medicine | Mondo Cozmo | Last Gang |
85 | Happy Birthday | Sneaks | Merge |
86 | Set My Heart on Fire Immediately | Perfume Genius | Matador |
87 | Paradise | Local Natives | Loma Vista |
88 | Building Balance | Allen Stone | ATO |
89 | Marigold | Pinegrove | Rough Trade |
90 | Myopia | Agnes Obel | Strange Harvest |
91 | Dreamland | Glass Animals | Polydor |
92 | Temple | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | Ribbon Music |
93 | En Garde | Ethan Gruska | Warner |
94 | Someday Tomorrow Maybe | Lola Marsh | Anova Music |
95 | Our Two Skins | Gordi | Jagjaguwar |
96 | Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was | Bright Eyes | Dead Oceans |
97 | Nané | Nané | Self-Release |
98 | Vagabon | Vagabon | Nonesuch |
99 | Non-Secure Connection | Bruce Hornsby | Zappo |
100 | The Neon Skyline | Andy Shauf | Anti |
101 | Sing Up, Sing out | James Bay | UMG |
102 | Moments | Hollow Coves | Nettwerk |
103 | Someone New | Helena Deland | Luminelle |
104 | Still Flying | Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis | Verve Forecast |
105 | Into the Blue | Broken Bells | 30th Century |
106 | The Big Exercise | The Homesick | Sub Pop |
107 | Random Desire | Greg Dulli | Royal Cream |
108 | Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | Gorillaz | Parlophone |
109 | Earth to Dora | Eels | E Works |
110 | Through a Dark Wood | Sea Wolf | Dangerbird |
111 | Silver Tongue | Torres | Merge |
112 | The New Sounds of Late Capitalism | Star Parks | Modern Outsider |
113 | You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere | The Districts | Fat Possum |
114 | WITH | Sylvan Esso | Loma Vista |
115 | For Their Love | Other Lives | ATO |
116 | Scripting the Flip | Jon Stickley Trio | Organic |
117 | High Water Line | Mark Oblinger | Self-Release |
118 | My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
119 | Misfits' Jubilee | Jim White | Fluff & Gravy |
120 | Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between | Man Man | Sub Pop |
121 | The Art of Forgetting | Caroline Rose | New West |
122 | Karaoke Angel | Molly Sarle | Partisan |
123 | My Finest Work Yet | Andrew Bird | Concord |
124 | Out of My Province | Nadia Reid | Spacebomb |
125 | A Hero's Death | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan |
126 | Like So Much Desire | Flock Of Dimes | Sub Pop |
127 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman | ATO |
128 | Anak Ko | Jay Som | Polyvinyl |
129 | Doom Days (This Got out of Hand Edition) | Bastille | Virgin |
130 | Cause and Effect | Keane | Island |
131 | A Wave of Golden Things | Tall Tall Trees | Joyful Noise |
132 | Jude Vol. II | The Bright Light Social Hour | Self-Release |
133 | Out of Body | NEEDTOBREATHE | Elektra |
134 | Do No Harm | The Deer | Keeled Scales |
135 | I,i | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
136 | Ghosteen | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Self-Release |
137 | Power | Seratones | Nine West |
138 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE |
139 | Shade is on the Other Side | Girl Skin | Jullian |
140 | AWake | Jayme Stone | Borealis |
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