Year-End Lists

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

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

• Seguridad
  Gaika
• Sawayama
  Rina Sawayama
• Folklore
  Taylor Swift
• Never Will
  Ashley McBryde
• The Goat
  Polo G
• Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  Fiona Apple
• God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
  Backxwash
• Impazamo
  Menzi
• On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
  Ambrose Akinmusire
• Heaven to a Tortured Mind
  Yves Tumor

Runners-up

• Healing Is a Miracle
  Julianna Barwick
• Peaceful as Hell
  Black Dresses
• Life Goes On
  Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow
• Dark Matter
  Moses Boyd
• Punisher
  Phoebe Bridgers
• Copycat Killer
  Phoebe Bridgers
• skins n slime
  Oliver Coates
• 13lood 1n + 13lood Out
  Denzel Curry
• No era sólida
  Lucrecia Dalt
• Force Majeure
  Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger
• The Unraveling
  Drive-By Truckers
• Ravening Iron
  Eternal Champion
• No Dawn For Men
  Feminazgul
• Un Kuza Runhu
  Scúru Fitchádu
• SOURCE
  Nubya Garcia
• Alphaville
  Imperial Triumphant
• Legends Never Die
  Juice WRLD
• It Was Good Until It Wasn't
  Kehlani
• Imploding the Mirage
  The Killers
• Don't Shy Away
  LOMA
• Zona II
  Paul Marmota
• Chicago Waves
  Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
• Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
  Perfume Genius
• UWA
  Pongo
• I Disagree
  Poppy
• RTJ4
  Run the Jewels
• Send Them to Coventry
  Pa Salieu
• Live Forever
  Bartees Strange
• Heavy Light
  U.S. Girls