1. King Tuff - The Other [Sub Pop]
2. US Nero - Why Don't They Cherish the Moon? [Dry Birth]
3. Ty Segall - Fudge Andwich [In the Red]
4. Matron - Standing Water [Strange Daisy]
5. Metric - Art of Doubt [MMI/Crystal Math]
6. The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking [Wichita]
7. Thom Yorke - Suspiria [XL]
8. Boy Pablo - Soy Pablo [U Ok?]
9. Little Queenie - Purple Heart [XYYX/Deeva]
10. Blood Orange - Negro Swan [Domino]
11. Primpce - The Best Thing to Get to Do is Learn to Inspire You [self-released]
12. Yuno - Moodie [Sub Pop]
13. Phosphorescent - C'Est La Vie [Dead Oceans]
14. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins [RCA]
15. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth [Mute/Industrial]
16. Low - Double Negative [Sub Pop]
17. Jerry Paper - Like A Baby [Stones Throw]
18. Charles Bradley - Black Velvet [Dunham/Daptone]
19. Kero Kero Bonito - Time N Place [Polyvinyl]
20. The War on Drugs - A Deeper UNderstanding [Atlantic]
21. Wume - Toward the Shadow [Northern Spy]
22. ATM - Inglewood Tapes Vol. Two [Radical Documents]
23. Beak> - >>> [Temporary Residence Ltd.]
24. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt [Fat Possum]
25. Gurilla Toss - Twisted Crystal [DFA]
26. Sudan Archives - Sink EP [Stones Throw]
27. The Death Wheelers - I Tread on Your Grave [Riding Easy]
28. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams [Merge]
29. Goggs - Pre Strike Sweep [In The Red]
30. Electric Citizen - Helltown [Riding Easy]
ELECTRONIC
1. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth [Mute/Industrial]
2. Low - Double Negative [Sub Pop]
3. Wume - Toward the Shadow [Northern Spy]
4. Eric Copeland - Trogg Modal Vol. 1 [DFA]
5. Maison Blanche - NOLA Vapours [self-released]
6. William Basinski & Lawrence English - Selva Obscura [Temporary Residence]
7. Tim Hecker - Konoyo [Kranky]
8. Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Music for the DMV [self-released]
9. Breathers - Designed to Break [Irrelevent]
10. Michele Mercure - Beside Herself [RVNG Int'l]
HIP-HOP
1. Killiam Shakespeare - A Towwn Called Elsewhere [self-released]
2. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - A Breukelen Story [Fat Beats]
3. Chance The Rapper - Four New Songs [self-released]
4. Afro B - Afrowave 2 EP [Marathon]
5. Kweku Collins - Sisko and Kasidy (feat Ajani Jones) [single] [Closed Sessions]
6. Aesop Rock - Klutz [single] [Rhymesayers]
7. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload [Brainfeeder]
8. Denzel Curry - Taboo [Loma Vista]
9. Knife Kights - 1 Time Miarge [Sub Pop]
10. Shad - A Short Story About War [Secret City]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL/REGGAE
1. Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices - BooCheeMish [Prophecy]
2. Kassin - Relax [Luaka Bop]
3. Embassador Dulgoon - Hydrorian Remnants [Nonlocal Research/Psychic Sounds]
4. Angelique Kidjo - Remain IN Light [Kravenworks]
5. various artists - Too Slow To Disco Brasil [How Do You Are?]
6. Bombino - Deran [Partisan]
7. Jupiter & Okwess - Kin Sonic [Everloving]
8. The Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra - Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments [Albany]
9. Clau Aniz - Filha de mil Mulheres [Minty Fresh]
10. Ravi Shankar - Chants of India [HariSongs/Craft/Concord]
JAZZ
1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth [Young Turks/XL]
2. Mourning [A] BLKSTAR - The Garner Poems [Electric Cowbell]
3. John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album [Impulse]
4. Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez - Cachaito [World Circuit]
5. Cyrille Aimee - Cyrille Aimee Live [Mack Avenue]
6. Jeff Moris - Interfaces: Jazz Meet Electronics [Ravello]
7. Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions - Solar Plexus [Nublu]
8. Collin Sherman - Violence of Faction [Ex-Tol]
9. John Scofield - Combo 66 [Vevre]
10. Erik Applegate - Three's A Crowd [Artist Alliance]