TOP 30
- MICHAEL RAULT* It’s A New Day Tonight (Wick)
- L CON* Insecurities in Being (Wildlife Sanctuary Sound)
- PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)
- DONOVAN WOODS* Both Ways (Get Well)
- JAUNT* Cue (Self-Released)
- BERNICE* Puff: In the air without a shape (Arts & Crafts)
- DUSTED* Blackout Summer (Polyvinyl)
- NELS CLINE 4 Currents, Constellations (Blue Note)
- ANEMONE* Baby Only You And I (Luminelle)
- THE ONCE* Time Enough (Self-Released)
- JENNIFER CASTLE* Angels of Death (Idee Fixe)
- PERIPHERAL VISION* More Songs About Error And Shame (Self-Released)
- UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar)
- DAVID VEST David Vest (Cordova Bay)
- LA LUZ Floating Features (Hardly Art)
- RAFIQ BHATIA Breaking English (Anti-)
- NICKODEMUS The Long Engagement (Wonderwheel)
- BEACH HOUSE 7 (Sub Pop)
- ADRIAN TEACHER AND THE SUBS* Anxious Love (Self-Released)
- RUBY KARINTO* Ruby Karinto (HoZac)
- DAVE HOLLAND Uncharted Territories (Dare 2)
- VARIOUS African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa)
- STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Sparkle Hard (Domino)
- THE LIFERS* Honey Suite (Self-Released)
- LOÏC APRIL* Loïc April (Bonsound)
- JO PASSED* Their Prime (Royal Mountain)
- CHRIS REIMER* Hello People (Flemish Eye)
- THE GOOD LOVELIES* Shapeshifters (Self-Released)
- FROG EYES* Violet Psalms (Paper Bag)
- WALTER WOLFMAN WASHINGTON My Future Is My Past (Anti-)
International
- NICKODEMUS The Long Engagement (Wonderwheel)
- VARIOUS African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa)
- MELISSA LAVEAUX* Radyo Siwel (No Format! Records)
- BELLEGARDE* Anba Tonel (Self-Released)
- DOMENICO LANCELLOTTI The Good is a Big God (Luaka Bop)
- JUSTIN GRAY & SYNTHESIS* New Horizons (Self-Released)
- KASSIN Relax (Luaka Bop)
- KIRAN AHLUWALIA* 7 Billion (Six Degrees)
- ADREAN FARRUGIA & JOEL FRAHM* Blued Dharma (Self-Released)
- RAHIM ALHAJ One Sky (Smithsonian Folkways)
Jazz & Experimental
- NELS CLINE 4 Currents, Constellations (Blue Note)
- PERIPHERAL VISION* More Songs About Error And Shame (Self-Released)
- DAVE HOLLAND Uncharted Territories (Dare 2)
- GLEN HALL BERNIE KOENIG & M.J. IDZERDA* Three Way Conversation (Slam)
- DAN WEISS Starebaby (Pi)
- AVI GRANITE 6* Orbit (Pet Mantis)
- VARIOUS* Musicworks #130 (MusicWorks Magazine)
- DANIEL CARTER &WILLIAM PARKER, MATTHEW SHIPP Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)
- AMOS HOFFMAN & NOAM LEMISH Pardes (Self-Released)
- KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles (Blue Note)
Folk/Roots/Blues
- THE ONCE* Time Enough (Self-Released)
- JENNIFER CASTLE* Angels of Death (Idee Fixe)
- DAVID VEST David Vest (Cordova Bay)
- THE LIFERS* Honey Suite (Self-Released)
- WALTER WOLFMAN WASHINGTON My Future Is My Past (Anti-)
- THE LYNNES* Heartbreak Song for the Radio (Self-Released)
- INNES WILSON* Northumberland Slums (Out Of Sound)
- BEN HARPER & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE No Mercy in This Land (Anti-)
- DANA SIPOS* Blue Ridge (Self-Released)
- SUGAR BROWN* It’s A Blues World (Calling All Blues!) (Self-Released)