TOP 30
- JO PASSED* Their Prime (Royal Mountain)
- MICHAEL FEUERSTACK* Natural Weather (Forward Music Group)
- BOYHOOD* Bad Mantras (Shuffling Feet)
- WAX MANNEQUIN* Have a New Name (Coax)
- LIÉ* Hounds (Mint)
- HUBERT LENOIR* Darlène (Simone)
- JENNIFER CASTLE* Angels of Death (Idee Fixe)
- JON HASSELL Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) (Ndeya)
- KAMASI WASHINGTON Heaven And Earth (Young Turks)
- MILLER/MACDONALD/CORMIER* South Haven (Self-Released)
- HOUSEPANTHER* Club Soda Lows (Self-Released)
- WICKED WEATHER* Wicked Weather (Sir January Frank)
- DOFFING* Tower of Ten Thousand Miles (Self-Released)
- ROBIN CHERRY* Morning Glow (Self-Released)
- HAOLIN MUNK* Planestasia Suite (HAVN Records)
- TIM HECKER Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again (reissue) (Kranky)
- HEATHERS* Midnight is a Place (Self-Released)
- DUMB* Seeing Green (Mint)
- VALLENS* Dimmed In My Display (Hand Drawn Dracula)
- COEUR DE PIRATE* en cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé (Dare To Care)
- HENRY THREADGILL 14 OR 15 KESTRA: AGG dirt…and more dirt (Pi)
- THE BARRA MACNEILS* On the Bright Side (Self-Released)
- PRE NUP* Oh Well (Jigsaw Records)
- YUKON BLONDE* Critical Hit (Dine Alone Records)
- SUGAR BROWN* It’s A Blues World (Calling All Blues!) (Self-Released)
- CHILLY GONZALES* Solo Piano III (Arts & Crafts)
- ADRIAN UNDERHILL* CU Again (Indica Records)
- TY SEGALL & WHITE FENCE Joy (Self-Released)
- DIRTY PROJECTORS Lamp Lit Prose (Domino)
- ODETTA HARTMAN Old Rockhounds Never Die (Northern Spy)
Jazz & Experimental
- KAMASI WASHINGTON Heaven And Earth (Young Turks)
- HAOLIN MUNK* Planestasia Suite (HAVN Records)
- HENRY THREADGILL 14 OR 15 KESTRA: AGG dirt…and more dirt (Pi)
- PEGGY LEE* Echo Painting (Songlines)
- WILLIAM PARKER Voices Fall From The Sky (AUM Fidelity)
- ROBI BOTOS* Old Soul (A440)
- JOHN COLTRANE Both Directions At Once (Impulse!)
- PATRICK ZIMMERLI QUARTET Clockworks (Songlines)
- KIEFER Happysad (Stones Throw)
- DAVID MOTT & VINNY GOLIA Have You Heard? (Pet Mantis)
Folk/Roots/Blues
- WAX MANNEQUIN* Have a New Name (Coax)
- JENNIFER CASTLE* Angels of Death (Idee Fixe)
- MILLER/MACDONALD/CORMIER* South Haven (Self-Released)
- WICKED WEATHER* Wicked Weather (Sir January Frank)
- THE BARRA MACNEILS* On the Bright Side (Self-Released)
- SUGAR BROWN* It’s A Blues World (Calling All Blues!) (Self-Released)
- ODETTA HARTMAN Old Rockhounds Never Die (Northern Spy)
- SHEMEKIA COPELAND America’s Child (Alligator)
- SLOCAN RAMBLERS* Queen City Jubilee (Self-Released)
- OLIVER THE CROW Oliver The Crow (Self-Released)