TOP 30
- FLOATING POINTS Crush (Ninja Tune)
- TOMEKA REID QUARTET Old New (Cuneiform)
- THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA* Chaos Theories (Do Right!)
- LES LOUANGES* Expansion Pack [EP] (Bonsound)
- BEGONIA* Fear (Rex Baby)
- ZACHARY LUCKY* Midwestern (Self-Released)
- MATANA ROBERTS* Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation)
- SHOTGUN JIMMIE* Transistor Sister 2 (You’ve Changed)
- JACQUES GREENE* Dawn Chorus (Arts & Crafts)
- INNES WILSON* The Heart That Holds This Up (Out Of Sound)
- JAIMIE BRANCH Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise (International Anthem)
- JEREMIE ALBINO* Hard Time (Sleepless)
- LAURIE ANDERSON TENZIN CHOEGYAL, & JESSE PARIS SMITH Songs From The Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways)
- THE SWEET LOWDOWN* Low Clouds In The Morning (Self-Released)
- EVAN GEESMAN NEWAGESEWAGE (Ubiquity)
- SAMPA THE GREAT The Return (Ninja Tune)
- EAMON MCGRATH* Guts (Saved By Vinyl)
- ANNA WISE As If It Were Forever (Self-Released)
- LUNGBUTTER* Honey (Constellation)
- THE PENGUIN CAFE Handfuls of Night (Erased Tapes)
- PURPLE MOUNTAINS Purple Mountains (Drag City)
- NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Ghosteen (Ghosteen Ltd.)
- ADRIAN RASO* Gypsybilly King (Asphalt Tango)
- SONGHOY BLUES Meet Me In The City (Fat Possum)
- KRAAK & SMAAK Pleasure Centre (Boogie Angst)
- FOG BLUES & BRASS BAND* Into the Fog (Self-Released)
- COUNTERFEIT JEANS* Good Morning (Kingfisher Bluez)
- BRITTANY HOWARD Jaime (ATO)
- GATHERING SPARKS* All That Is Real (Borealis)
- WALRUS* Cool to Who (Outside Music)
Electronic
- FLOATING POINTS Crush (Ninja Tune)
- JACQUES GREENE* Dawn Chorus (Arts & Crafts)
- EVAN GEESMAN NEWAGESEWAGE (Ubiquity)
- KRAAK & SMAAK Pleasure Centre (Boogie Angst)
- ACID ARAB Jdid (Crammed Discs)
- NORTEC COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: BOSTICH + FUSSIBLE Greatest Hits (Nacional)
- STOIK* Pareidolia (Self-Released)
- OBUXUM* Re-Birth (Urbnet)
- VARIOUS Shapes: Diamonds (Tru Thoughts)
- LIONMILK Visions in Paraiso (Leaving)
Hip Hop
- ES* Social Meteor Vol 1: Inspired By My Timeline (Self-Released)
- TONGUE HELMET* Psychotropic Ape (Urbnet)
- HEMLOCK ERNST & KENNY SEGAL Back At The House (Ruby Yacht)
- ALIEN TRAP LORDS* 3l3m3nt 115 (Hand’Solo)
- WEIRDDOUGH The 12th Letter (24 Karrot)
- KAIGEN Truth Addict (The Order Label)
- HAVIAH MIGHTY* 13th Floor (Self-Released)
- SAMPA THE GREAT The Return (Ninja Tune)
- G&D (GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW & DUDLEY PERKINS) Black Love And War (SomeOthaShip Connect)
- TANK AND THE BANGAS Green Balloon (Verve Forecast)
International
- THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA* Chaos Theories (Do Right!)
- SONGHOY BLUES Meet Me In The City (Fat Possum)
- ACID ARAB Jdid (Crammed Discs)
- NORTEC COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: BOSTICH + FUSSIBLE Greatest Hits (Nacional)
- LAKOU MIZIK HaitiaNola (Cumbancha)
- ORCHID ENSEMBLE* From A Dream (Self-Released)
- DAYMÉ AROCENA Sonocardiogram (Brownswood)
- THE BONGO HOP Satingarona Pt. 2 (Underdog)
- TINARIWEN Amadjar (Anti-)
- KOKOKO! Fongola (Royal Mountain)
Jazz & Experimental
- TOMEKA REID QUARTET Old New (Cuneiform)
- MATANA ROBERTS* Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation)
- JAIMIE BRANCH Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise (International Anthem)
- LAURIE ANDERSON TENZIN CHOEGYAL, & JESSE PARIS SMITH Songs From The Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways)
- FOG BLUES & BRASS BAND* Into the Fog (Self-Released)
- LAND OF KUSH* Sand Enigma (Constellation)
- STEVE LEHMAN + CRAIG TABORN The People I love (Pi)
- STEPHANIE URQUHART QUARTET* Concealment (Self-Released)
- GORDON GRDINA QUARTET* Cooper’s Park (Songlines)
- JOHN COLTRANE Blue World (Impulse!)
Loud
- LUNGBUTTER* Honey (Constellation)
- AS I LAY DYING Shaped By Fire (Nuclear Blast)
- THE HU The Gereg (Eleven Seven)
- PUP* Morbid Stuff (Little Dipper)
- EXHUMED Horror (Relapse)
- D.O.A.* 1978 (Sudden Death)
- DEVIN TOWNSEND* Empath (Inside Out)
- CLOUD RAT Pollinator (Artoffact)
- ZAUM* Divination (Listenable)
- SCIMITAR* Shadows of Man (Self-Released)
Folk/Roots/Blues
- ZACHARY LUCKY* Midwestern (Self-Released)
- JEREMIE ALBINO* Hard Time (Sleepless)
- THE SWEET LOWDOWN* Low Clouds In The Morning (Self-Released)
- FOG BLUES & BRASS BAND* Into the Fog (Self-Released)
- GATHERING SPARKS* All That Is Real (Borealis)
- KEB’ MO’ Oklahoma (Concord)
- BLUE MOON MARQUEE Bare Knuckles & Brawn (Self-Released)
- RICK ESTRIN AND THE NIGHT CATS Contemporary (Alligator)
- STEVE STRONGMAN* Tired Of Talkin? (Self-Released)
- IAN & SYLVIA* The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)