1. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
2. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
3. Wet Leg – Chaise Longue (Domino)
4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
5. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
6. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)
7. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)
8. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
9. Yves Tumor – Jackie (Warp)
10. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
11. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music EP (300 Entertainment)
12. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
13. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)
14. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)
15. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Universal)
16. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)
17. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)
18. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
19. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
20. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
21. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)
22. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)
23. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
24. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)
25. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)
26. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)
27. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar)
28. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
29. girl in red – if I could make it go quiet (AWAL)
30. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)
31. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
32. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
33. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)
34. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
35. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)
36. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
37. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (4AD)
38. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
39. The Lounge Society – Silk For the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)
40. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)
41. Vince Staples – Law of Averages (Blacksmith/Motown)
42. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Sub Pop)
43. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam)
44. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
45. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
46. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
47. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
48. La Luz – In the Country (Hardly Art)
49. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)
50. Black Thought – Approximately Free (Passyunk Productions)
51. Curtis Harding – Hopeful (ANTI-)
52. Serpentwithfeet – You Don’t Own Me (Secretly Canadian)
53. L'Orange & Namir Blade - Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group)
54. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)
55. Blue L3ab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)
56. Mad Foxes – Ashamed (El Muchacho)
57. Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music)
58. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
59. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
60. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
61. Aldous Harding – Old Peel (4AD)
62. PawPaw Rod – Glass House (Godmode)
63. Low – HEY WHAT (Sub Pop)
64. Ivy Sole – Dangerous (Les Fleurs)
65. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute)
66. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
67. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)
68. Warpaint – Lilys (Virgin)
69. Amber Mark – Competition (PMR/EMI)
70. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
71. THEM – Bad 4 U (Ambient Village)
72. Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO III (Foreseen/Epistrophik Peach Sound)
73. UV-TV – Always Something (PaperCup Music)
74. Lightning Bug – A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum)
75. Rostam – Changephobia (Matsor Projects)
76. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
77. Karate, Guns & Tanning – Concrete Beach (self-released)
78. Liz Phair – Soberish (Chrysalis)
79. Fred again.. - Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (Atlantic)
80. Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Infectious/BMG)
81. Flesh of Morning – Here in Heaven (Blind Rage)
82. The Linda Lindas – Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) (Epitaph)
83. TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars)
84. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
85. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny ha ha (Secretly Canadian)
86. Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
87. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)
88. Anthony Joseph – The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)
89. Grave Flowers Bongo Band – Strength of Spring (Castle Face)
90. Erika de Casier – Sensational (4AD)
1. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
2. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
3. Country Westerns – Country Westerns EP (Fat Possum)
4. Orville Peck – Born This Way (The Country Road Version) (Columbia)
5. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)
6. Tony Joe White – Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
7. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy)
8. Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder (Aimless/Thirty Tigers)
9. Riley Downing – Start It Over (New West)
10. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They're Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
1. Angelique Kidjo – Dignity (Verve)
2. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)
3. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
4. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
5. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)
6. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
7. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
8. Burna Boy – Kilometre (Atlantic)
9. Jaubi – Nafs at Peace (Astigmatic)
10. Sunny Jain – Phoenix Rise (Sinj)
1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
2. Children of Zeus - Balance (First Word)
3. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (4AD)
4. Vince Staples – Law of Averages (Blacksmith/Motown)
5. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
6. Black Thought – Approximately Free (Passyunk Productions)
7. L'Orange & Namir Blade - Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group)
8. Ivy Sole – Dangerous (Les Fleurs)
9. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
10. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
1. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
2. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
3. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
4. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)
5. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
6. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
7. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)
8. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)
9. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
10. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)
1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
2. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)
3. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
4. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
5. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)
6. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
7. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
8. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)
9. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
10. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
1. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse)
2. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)
3. Anthony Joseph – The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)
4. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)
5. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
6. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-)
7. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)
8. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)
9. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem)
10. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
2. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
3. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
4. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
5. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
6. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)
7. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
8. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
9. THEM – Bad 4 U (Ambient Village)
10. Spiral XP – Drop Me In EP (Peaceful Tapes)
Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)
Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Universal)
Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)
Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)
Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang)
Spellling – The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)
Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music EP (300 Entertainment)
Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Merge)
Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
Lea Porcelain – Choirs to Heaven (self-released)
Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It (Merge)
LoneLady – Former Things (Warp)
The Murlocs – Eating at You (ATO)
L’Rain - Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
Flesh of Morning – Here in Heaven (Blind Rage)
John Carroll Kirby – Septet (Stones Throw)
Beabadoobee – Our Extended Play EP (Dirty Hit)
Dessa – I Already Like You EP (Doomtree)
Daniel Avery – Together in Static (Phantasy/Mute)
Pixel Grip – Arena (Feeltrip)
Six Organs of Admittance – The Veiled See (Three Lobed Recordings)
Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing (Partisan)
Scalping – Flood EP (Houndstooth)
Helvetia – Essential Aliens (Joyful Noise)
Ellis – Nothing Is Sacred Anymore EP (self-released)