1. Max & the Martians - Please Hold On/Love On Vacation [Mashed Potato]
2. Bipolaroid - Paint it, Blacker [Get Hip]
3. Generationals - Reader as Detective [Polyvinyl]
4. Moon Duo - Stars are the Light [Sacred Bones]
5. Angel Olsen - Mirrors [Jagjaguwar]
6. Chromatics - Closer to Grey [Italians Do It Better]
7. Levitation Room - Headspace [Greenway]
8. Twin Peaks - Lookout Low [Grand Jury]
9. DIIV - Deceiver [Captured Tracks]
10. Bon Iver - i, i [Jagjaguwar]
11. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
12. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest [ATO]
13. Battles - Juice B Crypts [Warp]
14. Salum Abdallah & the Cuban Marima Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
15. The Safes - Winning Combination [Bickerton]
16. Twen - Awestruck [Frenchkiss]
17. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
18. Mikey Young - You Feelin' Me? [Castle Face]
19. Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia [Sacred Bones]
20. Mikal Cronin - Seeker [Merge]
21. Kazu - Adult Baby [Adult Baby]
22. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
23. Temples - Hot Motion [ATO]
24. Wallows - Nothing Happens [Atlantic]
25. Tacocat - This Mess is a Place [Sub Pop]
26. Negativland - True or False [Seeland]
27. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib INvazion/ESGN]
28. Angela - Fantasy [Dark Entries]
29. Sudan Archives - Athena [Stones Throw]
30. Avery R. Young - Tubman [FPE]
ELECTRONIC
1. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
2. Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia [Sacred Bones]
3. Mikey Young - You Feelin' Me? [Castle Face]
4. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
5. Negativland - True or False [Seeland]
6. Ross From Friends - Epiphany EP [Brainfeeder]
7. Zonal - Wrecked [Relapse]
8. Teebs - Anicca [Brainfeeder]
9. Silent Em - Absence [Disko Obscura]
10. Oval - Eklploio EP [Thrill Jockey]
HIP HOP
1. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
2. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib INvazion/ESGN]
3. Gang Starr - One of the Best Yet [TTT/Gang Starr Enterprises]
4. Danny Brown - uknowatimsayin? [Warp]
5. Boca 45 - Forty Five [Mass Appeal]
6. clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood [Sub Pop]
7. Sampa the Great - The Return [Ninja Tune]
8. Denzel Curry - Zuu [Loma Vista]
9. Common - Let Love [Loma Vista]
10. Nas - The Lost Tapes Vol. 2 [Mass Appeal/Def Jam]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL
1. Salum Abdallah & the Cuban Marima Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
2. Trendafilka - Under, Over [self-released]
3. various artists - Kinshasa 1978: Originals and Reconstructions [Crammed Discs]
4. Locobeach - Psychedelic Disco Cumbia [Dorsal Fin/Peace & Rhythm]
5. Sessa - Grandeza [Boiled]
6. Juana Molina - ForFun [Crammed Discs]
7. Luka Productions - Falaw [Sahel Sounds]
8. Abdallah Ag Oumadougou - Anou Malane [Sahel Sounds]
9. SPAZA - SPAZA [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]
10. Acid Arab - Joid [Crammed Discs]
JAZZ
1. John Coltrane - Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [Craft]
2. Doombalaya - Doggy Day Dreams EP [self-released]
3. Land of Kush - Sand Enigma [Constellation]
4. The Comet is Coming - The Afterlife [Impulse]
5. Extended - Harbinger [OA2]
6. Champian Fulton & Cory Weeds - Dream A Little [Cellar Live]
7. Davell Crawford - Dear Fats, I Love You [Basin Street]
8. Diane Panton - A Cheerful Little Earful [self-released]
9. Quin Kirchner - The Other Side of Time [Astral Spirits/Spacetime]
10. Karate Boogaloo - KB's Mixtape No. 2 [Hopestreet]