Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2022, as published by Gay City News along with a list of songs from other albums and some notable reissues from LGBTQ artists

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Pink Dolphins
  Anteloper
• Tana Talk 4
  Benny the Butcher
• Hellfire
  black midi
• Flaming Swords
  Fievel Is Glauque
• All Of Us Flames
  Ezra Furman
• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• 11
  Sault
• Midnights
  Taylor Swift
• Bad Mode
  Hikaru Utada
• Lyfë
  Yeat

Runners-up

• White Trash Revelry
  Adeem the Artist
• The Afrorack
  Afrorack
• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• A Bit of Previous
  Belle and Sebastian
• No Reino Dos Afetos
  Bruno Berle
• Expert in a Dying Field
  The Beths
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Antidawn
  Burial
• The Portrait You Painted of Me
  Alison Cotton
• KOA II Part 1
  Kabza De Small
• I Love
  (G)I-dle
• Warm Chris
  Aldous Harding
• Amaryllis
  Mary Halvorson
• Belladonna
  Mary Halvorson
• N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
  Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
• Xaybu: The Unseen
  Sélébéyone, Steve Lehman, Maciek Lasserre
• No Thank You
  Little Simz
• Flowers Rot, Bring me Stones
  Moundabout
• Muna
  Muna
• Bronco
  Orville Peck
• Ugly Season
  Perfume Genius
• Space Beyond the Solar System
  Raw Poetic
• Once Upon A Time
  Romance
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• Nothing To Declare
  700 Bliss
• Hideous Bastard
  Oliver Sim
• Ramona Park Broke My Heart
  Vince Staples
• Oddinary
  Stray Kids
• Multitude
  Stromae
• SOS
  SZA
• Finally, New
  They Hate Change
• DFTK
  Yung Kayo