1. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog [Captured Tracks]
2. Future Islands - The Far Field [4AD]
3. Tewolde Redda - Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer Singles 1970-1973 [Domino Sound]
4. Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistant Illusions [Constellation]
5. Moon Duo - Occult Architecture vol. 2 [Sacred Bones]
6. Flowtribe - Boss [self-released]
7. Thundercat - Drunk [Brainfeeder]
8. Trementina - 810 [Burger]
9. MJ Guider - Precious Systems [Kranky]
10. Sweet Crude - Creatures [Rhyme & Reason]
11. Magnetic Fields - Selections from 50 Song Memoir [Nonesuch]
12. xB - Bleeder [Kikimora Tapes]
13. Extended - Extended [B4D]
14. The Mountain Goats - Goths [Merge]
15. Psychic Hotline - Planned Obsolescence [Body Systems Inc.]
16. Hurray For the Riff-Raff - The Navigator [ATO]
17. FNU Clones - Binary Or Die [Total Punk]
18. Time Is Fire - Angels [Electric Cowbell]
19. Fred McDowell - The Alan Lomax Recordings [Domino Sound]
20. Arca - Arca [XL]
21. Nots - Cosmetic [Goner]
22. Blazo Zlato - Swamp Gold [self-released]
23. Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Symphony [Blue Note]
24. Brian Gibson - Thumper [Thrill Jockey]
25. Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness [Caroline]
26. Unfollow - Abracadaver [Kikmora]
27. Goldfrapp - Silver Eye [Mute]
28. White Hills - Stop Mute Defeat [Thrill Jockey]
29. Mansion - Early Life [Degenerate]
30. Nicholas Payton - Afro-Caribbean Mixtape [Paytone]
ELECTRONIC
1. MJ Guider - Precious Systems [Kranky]
2. xB - Bleeder [Kikimora Tapes]
3. Psychic Hotline - Planned Obsolescence [Body Systems Inc.]
4. Arca - Arca [XL]
5. Brian Gibson - Thumper [Thrill Jockey]
6. Unfollow - Abracadaver [Kikmora]
7. Goldfrapp - Silver Eye [Mute]
8. Tiny Vipers - Laughter [Ba Da Bing]
9. ANOHNI - In My Dreams [Secretly Canadian]
10. Moment Trigger - Moment Trigger [Fatt Grabbers]
HIP HOP
1. Brother Ali - All The Beauty In This Whole Life [Rhymesayers]
2. Dawn Richard - Redemption [Local Action/Our Dawn]
3. Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite [Stones Throw]
4. Porter Ray - Watercolor [Sub Pop]
5. Sadevillain - Sadevillain [self-released]
6. Your Old Droog - Packs [Fat Beats]
7. The Mangfather feat. Bob Katz - Caught In A Butt Sandwich [self-released]
INTERNATIONAL/WORLD
1. Tewolde Redda - Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer Singles 1970-1973 [Domino Sound]
2. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics I: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda [Luaka Bop]
3. Amadou Binta Konte and Tidiane Thiam - Waande Kadde [Sahel Sounds]
4. various artists - Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnootica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 [Ostinato]
5. Yasmine Hamdan - Al Jamilat [Ipecac]
6. James Nabay & the Bubu Gang - Build Music [Luaka Bop]
7. Balkan Beat Box - Shout It Out [self-released]
8. Kasai Allstars - Felicite Remixes [Crammed Discs]
9. various artists - Made In Iceland vol. 9 [Iceland Music Export]
10. Terek Yamani - Peninsular [.edict]
JAZZ
1. Extended - Extended [B4D]
2. Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Symphony [Blue Note]
3. Nicholas Payton - Afro-Caribbean Mixtape [Paytone]
4. Chicago Reed Quartet -Western Automatic [Aerophonic]
5. Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince [Mack Avenue]
6. Dirty Bourbon River Show - The Flying Musical Circus [self-released]
7. Joey Defrancesco - Project Freedom [Mack Avenue]
8. Bradford Marsalis Quartet - Upward Spiral [Marsalis Music]
9. Ark Ovrutski - Sounds of Brazil [AOM]
10. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds [FPE]