1. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland)
2. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
3. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
4. Bully – Lucky for You (Sub Pop)
5. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
6. bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)
7. Sigur Rós – Atta (BMG)
8. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista)
9. The Smile – Bending Hectic (XL)
10. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)
11. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)
12. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)
13. Romy – Mid Air (Young)
14. Blur – The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone)
15. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)
16. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
17. Slowdive – Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans)
18. Claud – Supermodels (Saddest Factory)
19. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)
20. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)
21. Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)
22. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (Interscope)
23. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)
24. The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP (Diamond West)
25. Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (Play It Again Sam)
26. Beck & Phoenix – Odyssey (Capitol)
27. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman (Matador)
28. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds)
29. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)
30. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)
31. L’Rain – New Year’s UnResolution (Mexican Summer)
32. CHAI – CHAI (Sub Pop)
33. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
34. Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)
35. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
36. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)
37. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)
38. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)
39. Jungle – Volcano (Caiola/AWAL)
40. Y La Bamba – Lucha (Tender Loving Empire)
41. Protomartyr – Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
42. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr)
43. Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)
44. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)
45. Genesis Owusu – Struggler (OURNESS/AWAL)
46. Say She She – C’est Si Bon (Karma Chief)
47. Vagabon – Sorry I Haven’t Called (Nonesuch)
48. Roosevelt – Ordinary Love (Counter)
49. Juan Wauters – Wandering Rebel (Captured Tracks)
50. Witch Prophet – Gateway Experience (Heart Lake)
51. Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows Music/Thirty Tigers)
52. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch/Brownswood Recordings)
53. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)
54. Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume… (Warp)
55. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
56. Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (Saddle Creek)
57. NxWorries – Daydreaming (Stones Throw)
58. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)
59. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media)
60. Jake Shears – Last Man Dancing (Mute)
61. Cory Hanson – Western Cum (Drag City)
62. Alex Lahey – The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)
63. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)
64. King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)
65. Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer)
66. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
67. Beach House – Become EP (Sub Pop)
68. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released)
69. Four Tet – Three Drums (Text)
70. Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again (Bloodshot)
71. Osees – Intercepted Message (In the Red)
72. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead (Transgressive)
73. The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives)
74. Strange Ranger – Pure Music (Fire Talk)
75. Anohni & the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)
76. Be Your Own Pet – Mommy (Third Man)
77. Jorja Smith – Falling or Flying (FAMM)
78. Girl and Girl – Divorce + EP (Sub Pop)
79. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead)
80. JOHN – A Life Diagrammatic (Brace Yourself)
81. Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way (Fire Talk)
82. Django Django – Off Planet (Because Music)
83. Man on Man – Provincetown (Polyvinyl)
84. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalype (KGLW)
85. M. Ward – Supernatural Thing (Anti-)
86. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)
87. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
88. Madison McFerrin – I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MADMCFERRIN MUSIC)
89. Christine and the Queens – PARANOIA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because Music)
90. Rahill – Flowers at Your Feet (Big Dada)
1. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All (Blue Note)
2. Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer)
3. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)
4. Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey)
5. Esther Rose – Safe to Run (New West)
6. Kassi Valazza – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff & Gravy)
7. Mya Byrne – Rhinestone Tomboy (Kill Rock Stars)
8. Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
9. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (Southeastern)
10. Country Westerns – Forgive the City (Fat Possum)
1. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
2. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead)
3. African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
4. Novalima – La Danza EP (Six Degrees)
5. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones)
6. Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit)
7. Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge)
8. Vox Sambou – We Must Unite (Les Arts Vox Sambou)
9. Captain Planet – Sounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz)
10. Altin Gün - aşk (ATO)
1. Killer Mike – Michael (Loma Vista)
2. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)
3. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown)
4. Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (drink sum wtr)
5. billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
6. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)
7. Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – The Hillbillies (pgLang/Columbia)
8. Ana Tijoux – Ninx (Victoria Producciones)
9. KAMAUU - LACUNA in the House of Mirrors (Atlantic)
10. Five Fingers of Funk – Portland Say It Again (Kill Rock Stars)
1. Romy – Mid Air (Young)
2. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (EMI)
3. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention (BMG)
4. L’Rain – New Year’s UnResolution (Mexican Summer)
5. Little Dragon – Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune)
6. Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin)
7. Roosevelt – Ordinary Love (Counter)
8. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice)
9. yeule – sulky baby (Ninja Tune)
10. Jayda G – Guy (Ninja Tune)
1. Janelle Monae – The Age of Pleasure (Bad Boy/Wonderland)
2. Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
3. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
4. Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
5. Baby Rose – Through and Through (Secretly Canadian)
6. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)
7. Shafiq Husayn – So Gold (Nature Sounds)
8. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)
9. Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)
10. Obongjayar – Just Cool (September)
1. Kassa Overall – Animals (Warp)
2. Alfa Mist – Variables (Anti-)
3. Dinner Party – Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE)
4. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (Anti-)
5. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch/Brownswood Recordings)
6. Tony Allen, Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Tony Allen JID18 (Jazz Is Dead)
7. Bokani Dyer – Radio Sechaba (Brownswood Recordings)
8. New Breed Brass Band – Made in New Orleans (Treme)
9. Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note)
10. Asher Gamedze – Turbulence & Pulse (International Anthem)
1. Polyrhythmics – Filter System (self-released)
2. Who Is She? – Goddess Energy (Father/Daughter)
3. Spirit Award – The Fear (Share It Music)
4. High Pulp – Days in the Desert (ANTI-)
5. Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media)
6. Little Venom – Sabotage (self-released)
7. Daisies – Great Big Open Sky (K)
8. Lavarr the Starr – Illusions Ago EP (Glass Cane)
9. Dean Johnson – Nothing for Me, Please (Mama Bird)
10. La Fonda – We Are Infinite (self-released)
Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)
Militarie Gun – Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista)
Cory Hanson – Western Cum (Drag City)
Fust – Genevieve (Dear Life)
Skating Polly – Chaos County Line (El Camino Media)
The Watson Twins – Holler (Bloodshot)
Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me (Fat Possum)
Pahua – Habita (Nacional)
Sweeping Promises – Good Living is Coming for You (Feel It)
Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)
Portugal. The Man – Chris Black Changed My Life (Atlantic)
Son Volt – Day of the Doug (Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers)
Django Django – Off Planet (Because Music)
Nickodemus – Soul & Science (Wonderwheel)
Wye Oak – Every Day Like the Last (Merge)
Man on Man – Provincetown (Polyvinyl)
bdrmm – I Don’t Know (Rock Action)
Albert Hammond Jr. – Melodies on Hiatus (Red Bull)
M. Ward – Supernatural Thing (Anti-)
Pardoner – Peace Loving People (Bar/None)
James & the Giants – James & the Giants (Kill Rock Stars)
Mason Lowe – Morning People (Killroom)
Angelo De Augustine – Toil and Trouble (Asthmatic Kitty)
Creep Show – Yawning Abyss (Bella Union)
Kedr Livanskiy – K-Notes EP (2MR)