1. Bipolaroid - Paint It, Blacker [Get Hip]
2. Generationals - Reader as Detective [Polyvinyl]
3. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors [Jagjaguwar]
4. various artists - Black Halloween [Koko Mojo]
5. Psychic Hotline - Heat Index [Body Systems Inc.]
6. Moon Duo - Stars are the Light [Sacred Bones]
7. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
8. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
9. Negativland - True or False [Seeland]
10. Salum Abdallah & the Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
11. Lust For Youth - Lust For Youth [Sacred Bones]
12. Wallows - Nothing Happens [Atlantic]
13. Zonal - Wrecked [Relapse]
14. Room Thirteen - Daytona Beach [self-released]
15. Avery R. Young - Tubman [FPE]
16. Shark Attack! - Big Chief/Bamboula 7" [Superjock]
17. Bon Iver - i, i [Jagjaguwar]
18. Twin Peaks - Lookout Low [Grand Jury]
19. Dressy Bessy - Fast Faster Disaster [Yep Roc]
20. Tacocat - This Mess Is A Place [Sub Pop]
21. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin? [Warp]
22. various artists - Bad Education: Soul Hits of Timmion Records [Daptone]
23. Lassie - Audio Cassette Wet Head Cleaner [Wealth and Physical Stamina]
24. Kazu - Adult Baby [Adult Baby]
25. Automatic - Signal [Stones Throw]
26. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
27. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats Nest [ATO/Flightless]
28. Prettiest Eyes [Castle Face]
29. Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops [Joyful Noise]
30. Silent Em - Absence [Disko Obscura]
Temples - Hot Motion [ATO]
Mal Blum - Pity Boy [Don Giovanni]
ELECTRONIC
1. Psychic Hotline - Heat Index [Body Systems Inc.]
2. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
3. Negativland - True or False [Seeland]
4. Zonal - Wrecked [Relapse]
5. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
6. Silent Em - Absence [Disko Obscura]
7. various artists - Tens Across the Board [Dark Entries]
8. Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia [Sacred Bones]
9. Ross From Friends - Epiphany EP [Brainfeeder]
10. Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin [Ghostly]
HIP HOP
1. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
2. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin? [Warp]
3. Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood [Sub Pop]
4. G&D - Black Love & War [SomeOthaShip Connect]
5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool]
6. Denzel Curry - Zuu [Loma Vista]
7. Boca 45 - Forty Five [Mass Appeal]
8. Common - Let Love [Loma Vista]
9. Thundamentals - Thundamentals [High Depth]
10. Injury Reserve -Injury Reserve [Loma Vista]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL
1. Salum Abdallah & the Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
2. Mamman Sani - La Musique Electronique du Niger [Sahel Sounds]
3. SPAZA - SPAZA [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]
4. Anatolian Weapons feat Serios Savvadais [RVNG Int'l/Beats in Space]
5. Juana Molina - ForFun [Crammed Discs]
6. Acid Arab - Jdid [Crammed Discs]
7. Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou - Anou Malane [Sahel Sounds]
8. Sessa - Grandeza [Boiled]
9. Hama - Houmeissa [Sahel Sounds]
10. Musa Mboob & XamXam - The Gambia Sessions [ARC]
JAZZ
1. Land of Kush - Sand Enigma [Constellation]
2. Doombalaya - Doggy Day Dreams EP [self-released]
3. Fumi Tomita - The Elephant Vanishes [OA2]
4. John Coltrane - Blue World [Impulse!]
5. James Suggs - You're Gonna Hear From Me [Arbor]
6. Jon Batiste - Anatomy of Angels [Verve]
7. George Benson - Wlking to New Orleans [Provogue]
8. John Coltrane - Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [Craft]
9. Tomeka Reid - Old New [Cuneiform]
10. Twin Talk - Weaver [37d03d]1. Bipolaroid - Paint It, Blacker [Get Hip]