Year End Chart – 2020
Although V89 was shut down for the majority of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our DJs voted for an abbreviated Top 25 Albums of the previous year at the end of 2021.
- Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp)
- Adrianne Lenker – songs/instrumentals (4AD)
- Fleet Foxes – Shore (Anti-)
- The Garden – Kiss My Super Bowl Ring (Epitaph)
- Caribou – Suddenly (Merge)
- clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop)
- Tennis – Swimmer (Mutually Detrimental)
- Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
- Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Bartees Strange – Live Forever (Run For Cover)
- Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (Jewel Runners/BMG)
- Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun (Dead Oceans)
- King Krule – Man Alive! (Matador/True Panther/XL)
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)
- Molchat Doma – Monument (Sacred Bones)
- Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats – Unlocked (Loma Vista)
- The Strokes – The New Abnormal (RCA)
- Dorian Electra – My Agenda (self-released)
- Destroyer – Have We Met (Merge/Dead Oceans)
- Cindy Lee – What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25TH)
- Cabaret Voltaire – Shadow of Fear (Mute)
- Madeline Kenney – Sucker’s Lunch (Carpark)
- Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar (Domino)
- Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven – We’re New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven (XL)
- IDLES – Ultra Mono (Partisan)
Honorable Mention: Epic Ganesh – Epic Ganesh (self-released)