Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: The Best in 2020 Music, as published by Gay City News

• 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

Runners-up

• 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