Steve Erickson: The Best in 2020 Music, as published by Gay City News
[see also 2019]
- Gaika — Seguridad
- Rina Sawayama — Sawayama
- Taylor Swift — Folklore
- Ashley McBryde — Never Will
- Polo G — The Goat
- Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Backxwash — God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
- Menzi — Impazamo
- Ambrose Akinmusire — On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
- Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle
- Black Dresses — Peaceful as Hell
- Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow — Life Goes On
- Moses Boyd — Dark Matter
- Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
- Phoebe Bridgers — Copycat Killer
- Oliver Coates — skins n slime
- Denzel Curry — 13lood 1n + 13lood Out
- Lucrecia Dalt — No era sólida
- Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger — Force Majeure
- Drive-By Truckers — The Unraveling
- Eternal Champion — Ravening Iron
- Feminazgul — No Dawn For Men
- Scúru Fitchádu — Un Kuza Runhu
- Nubya Garcia — SOURCE
- Imperial Triumphant — Alphaville
- Juice WRLD — Legends Never Die
- Kehlani — It Was Good Until It Wasn't
- The Killers — Imploding the Mirage
- LOMA — Don't Shy Away
- Paul Marmota — Zona II
- Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson — Chicago Waves
- Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
- Pongo — UWA
- Poppy — I Disagree
- Run the Jewels — RTJ4
- Pa Salieu — Send Them to Coventry
- Bartees Strange — Live Forever
- U.S. Girls — Heavy Light