TOP 30
- NAP EYES* I’m Bad Now (You’ve Changed)
- CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON* Stone Woman (Self-Released)
- YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN* Dirt (Paper Bag)
- VICTIME* La Femme Taupe (Michel Records)
- RHYE* Blood (Last Gang)
- ERIC CHENAUX* Slowly Paradise (Constellation)
- PONCTUATION* Mon Herbier Du Monde (Blow the Fuse)
- SUE FOLEY* The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
- THE BREEDERS All Nerve (4AD)
- BIRD CITY* Winnowing (Label Fantastic/Coax)
- FRIGS* Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts)
- SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Onion (Easy Eye Sound)
- ISKWÉ* The Fight Within (Self-Released)
- SOFTSIDE* Luxury Lounge (Self-Released)
- OUGHT* Room Inside the World (Royal Mountain)
- PERIPHERAL VISION* More Songs About Error And Shame (Self-Released)
- FAITH HEALER* Try 😉 (Mint)
- HELENA DELAND* Altogether Unaccompanied Vol. I & II (Luminelle)
- JONATHAN WILSON Rare Birds (Bella Union)
- U.S. GIRLS* In A Poem Unlimited (Royal Mountain)
- BRAD DE ROO* Brad de Roo’s Chimeras of Decline (Self-Released)
- THE OLYMPIC SYMPHONIUM* Beauty In the Tension (Forward Music Group)
- MAUNO* Tuning (Idee Fixe)
- JIMMY ZEE BAND* What You See is What You Get (Self-Released)
- SUUNS* Felt (Secret City)
- BAHAMAS* Earthtones (Barchords)
- MELISSA LAVEAUX* Radyo Siwel (No Format! Records)
- ANNA BURCH Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl)
- SHRED KELLY* Archipelago (DevilDuck)
- ESSAIE PAS* New Path (DFA)
Electronic
- ISKWÉ* The Fight Within (Self-Released)
- ESSAIE PAS* New Path (DFA)
- BAD DYLAN* Pogogo (Pantoum)
- ELAQUENT* Celebrate Life! (Urbnet)
- MILK & BONE* Deception Bay (Bonsound)
- NILS FRAHM All Melody (Erased Tapes)
- JONATHAN KAWCHUK* North (Paper Bag)
- UNA Noise of the Wing: An Apology for Annoyance (Cool Jewel)
- NIGHTMARES ON WAX Shape The Future (Warp)
- MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt (Mute)
Hip Hop
- EVIDENCE Weather Or Not (Rhymesayers)
- JOE ROCCA* French Kiss (Make it Rain Records)
- BLACK MILK FEVER (Mass Appeal)
- ELAQUENT* Celebrate Life! (Urbnet)
- FRACTION & FINSTA* Thoughtwork (Self-Released)
- GRAND ANALOG* Survival EP (Grand Analog Music)
- CADENCE WEAPON* Cadence Weapon (eOne Music (E1))
- DESSA Chime (Doomtree)
- SAMPA THE GREAT Birds And The Bee9 (Big Dada)
- SWAMP THING & GHETTOSOCKS* The Octagon (Droppin’ Science)
International
- BELLEGARDE* Anba Tonel (Self-Released)
- IMARHAN Temet (City Slang)
- FREDDIE MCGREGOR Bobby Babylon: Deluxe Edition (Studio One)
- SONIDO GALLO NEGRO Mambo Cosmico (Glitterbeat)
- VARIOUS Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs From World War II (Six Degrees)
- JUSTIN GRAY & SYNTHESIS* New Horizons (Self-Released)
- BETSAYDA MACHADO Loe Loa: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree (Odelia)
- FEMI KUTI One People One World (Knitting Factory)
- BEAUTIFUL NUBIA AND THE ROOTS RENAISSANCE BAND* Amunudun (Eniobanke)
- BRENDA NAVARRETE Mi Mundo (Alma)
Jazz & Experimental
- PERIPHERAL VISION* More Songs About Error And Shame (Self-Released)
- BC DOUBLE QUARTET* Departure (Cellar Live)
- ALEX PANGMAN* Alex Pangman’s Hot Three! (Justin Time)
- GORDON GRDINA QUARTET* Inroads (Songlines)
- MARC RIBOT’S CERAMIC DOG YRU Still Here (Northern Spy)
- JOSHUA GEROWITZ Solano Canyon (PF Mentum)
- IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem / Don Giovanni)
- AVI GRANITE 6* Orbit (Pet Mantis)
- MAST Thelonious Sphere Monk (World Galaxy)
- JEAN DEROME* Resistances (Ambiances Magnetiques)
Loud
- YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN* Dirt (Paper Bag)
- EXHUMED Death Revenge (Relapse)
- PRIME JUNK* Ladybird (Sleepwalk Tapes)
- MACHINE HEAD Catharsis (Nuclear Blast)
- MIESHA & THE SPANKS* Girls Girls Girls (Saved By Vinyl)
- BLOOM FILTER* Bloom Filter EP (Self-Released)
- CARDINALS PRIDE* The Quiet Erosion (New Damage)
- WAKE* Misery Rites (Translation Loss)
- SHOPPING The Official Body (FatCat Records)
- GREBER* Cemetery Preston (Self-Released)
Folk/Roots/Blues
- SUE FOLEY* The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
- BIRD CITY* Winnowing (Label Fantastic/Coax)
- THE OLYMPIC SYMPHONIUM* Beauty In the Tension (Forward Music Group)
- JIMMY ZEE BAND* What You See is What You Get (Self-Released)
- SHRED KELLY* Archipelago (DevilDuck)
- LUKA* What Kind of Animal (Self-Released)
- DANIELLE NICOLE Cry No More (Concord)
- BARBARA DANE 60 Years of Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
- SUZIE VINNICK Share the Love Around (Self-Released)
- THE WEATHER STATION* The Weather Station (Outside Music)