1. Girlpool - Powerplant [Anti]
2. Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra [DFA]
3. Yung Vul - Cannonball Adderall [self-released]
4. Future Islands - The Far Field [4AD]
5. Loudness War - The Miser [Transylvania Music Company]
6. The Mountain Goats - Goths [Merge]
7. Helado Negro - Private Energy [RVNG Int'l]
8. Jamie Wyatt - Felony Blues [Forty Below]
9. Asphixiation - What Is This Thing Called "Disco"? [Chapter Music]
10. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog [Captured Tracks]
11. Luka Productions - Fasokan [Sahel Sounds]
12. Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang - Build Music [Luaka Bop]
13. various artists - 101 Things To Do In Bongolia [Electric Cowbell]
14. Aquarian Blood - Last Night In Paradise [Goner]
15. Luke Spurr Allen - Pothole Heart [Chicken Little]
16. Softie - After All This Time [self-released]
17. Forest Swords - Compassion [Ninja Tune]
18. Fred McDowell - The Alan Lomax Recordings [Mississippi/Domino Sound]
19. Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite [Stones Throw]
20. Tuxedo - Tuxedo II [Stones Throw]
21. Jameio Brown - Work Songs [Motema]
22. Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator [ATO]
23. Room Thirteen - Roccopulco [Elestial Sound]
24. The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics [Chimera]
25. Secret Passage - Every Day I Look At You, Every Day I Write Your Name [self-released
26. Justin Townes Earl - Kids In the Street [New West]
27. Flow Tribe - Boss [self-released]
28. Jim Keaveny - Put It Together [self-released]
29. Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Music [Blue Note]
30. various artists - Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica From the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 [Ostinato]
ELECTRONIC
1. Softie - After All This Time [self-released]
2. Forest Swords - Compassion [Ninja Tune]
3. Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite [Stones Throw]
4. Anohni - In My Dreams [Secretly Canadian]
5. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch [Sacred Bones]
6. Juveniles - Without Warning [Paradis]
7. Mukqs - 11,666,666,666,666,666,666 [Midwich]
8. High Plains - Cinderland [Kranky]
9. Magas - Explanatory Denial [Midwich]
10. ADULT. - Detroit House Guests [Mute]
HIP HOP
1. Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite [Stones Throw]
2. Brother Ali - All The Beauty in this Whole Life [Rhymesayers]
3. Your Old Droog - Packs [Fat Beats]
4. Show Me The Body - Corpus I [Corpus]
5. Sadistik - Altars [Equal Vision]
INTERNATIONAL
1. Luka Productions - Fasokan [Sahel Sounds]
2. Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang - Build Music [Luaka Bop]
3. various artists - Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica From the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 [Ostinato]
4. Aquaserge - Laisse A Tre [Crammed Discs]
5. Tewodle Redda - Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer Singles [Domino Sound]
6. Tanzania Albinism Collective - White African Power [Six Degrees]
7. Tarek Yamani - Peninsular [.edict]
8. Omar Souleyman - To Syria With Love [Mad Decent]
9. Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai [Merge]
10. various artists - Made In Iceland vol. 9 [Iceland Music Export]
JAZZ
1. Yung Vul - Cannonball Adderall [self-released]
2. Jameio Brown - Work Songs [Motema]
3. Trombone Shorty - Parking Lot Music [Blue Note]
4. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emergin Worlds [FPE]
5. Tryyo - Flying Box [pfMentum]
6. Zach Rhea's New Music Collective - Zach Rhea's New Music Collective [self-released]
7. Allen Toussaint - American Tunes [Nonesuch]
8. Tarek Yamani - Peninsular [.edict]
9. Dirty Bourbon River Show - The Flying Musical Circus [self-released]
10. Jaime Branch - Fly Or Die [International Anthem]