TOP 30
- BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS* O Glory (Warner Music Canada)
- IAN JAMES BAIN* Where I Wanna Be (Self-Released)
- ZOON* A Sterling Murmuration (Paper Bag)
- KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH Let’s Turn It Into Sound (Ghostly International)
- PARTNER* Time Is A Car (You’ve Changed)
- BRUCE COCKBURN* Rarities (True North)
- BILL CALLAHAN YTILAER (Drag City)
- JULIAN TAYLOR* Beyond The Reservoir (Howling Turtle)
- SAMPA THE GREAT As Above So Below (Loma Vista)
- HEAVEN FOR REAL* Energy Bar (Mint)
- MAKAYA MCCRAVEN In These Times (International Anthem)
- SARAH DAVACHI* Two Sisters (Late Music)
- CHARLES LLOYD Trios: Ocean With Gerald Clayton & Anthony Wilson (Blue Note)
- STATUS/NON-STATUS* Surely Travel (You’ve Changed)
- ALVVAYS* Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
- VARIOUS Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)
- ALIAS* Jozef (Melville)
- SUDAN ARCHIVES Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
- BUTCHER BROWN Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey featuring Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND (Concord)
- THANYA IYER* rest EP (Topshelf)
- YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
- JAIRUS SHARIF* Water & Tools (Telephone Explosion)
- THE APPETIZERS Listen Up! (Badasonic)
- PERERA ELSEWHERE Home (Friend of Friends)
- FIVER* Soundtrack to A More Radiant Sphere: The Joe Wallace Mixtape (You’ve Changed)
- DAPHNI* Cherry (Jiaolong)
- CASTLE IF* The Haunting (Self-Released)
- WESLI* Tradisyon (Cumbancha)
- DR. JOHN Things Happen That Way (Rounder)
- DANGER MOUSE & BLACK THOUGHT Cheat Codes (BMG)
Jazz & Experimental
- MAKAYA MCCRAVEN In These Times (International Anthem)
- CHARLES LLOYD Trios: Ocean With Gerald Clayton & Anthony Wilson (Blue Note)
- VARIOUS Blue Note Re:imagined II (Blue Note)
- BUTCHER BROWN Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey featuring Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND (Concord)
- JAIRUS SHARIF* Water & Tools (Telephone Explosion)
- THUMBSCREW Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform)
- MALI OBOMSAWIN Sweet Tooth: Suite For Indigenous Resistance (Out Of Your Head)
- HENRY FRANKLIN, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Henry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead)
- ALEX FOURNIER’S TRIIOS* Six-ish Plateaus (Elastic)
- BLUE MOON MARQUEE* Scream, Holler & Howl (Self-Released)
Folk/Roots/Blues
- BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS* O Glory (Warner Music Canada)
- IAN JAMES BAIN* Where I Wanna Be (Self-Released)
- BRUCE COCKBURN* Rarities (True North)
- BILL CALLAHAN YTILAER (Drag City)
- JULIAN TAYLOR* Beyond The Reservoir (Howling Turtle)
- FIVER* Soundtrack to A More Radiant Sphere: The Joe Wallace Mixtape (You’ve Changed)
- DR. JOHN Things Happen That Way (Rounder)
- ISKWE AND TOM WILSON* Mother Love (Self-Released)
- INNES WILSON’S FREIGHTLINER* Innes Wilson’s Freightliner (Life Makes Life Suck)
- THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Too Late For Edelweiss (Anti-)