1. Wand - Laughing Matter [Drag City]
2. Salum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
3. The Murlocs - Manic Candid Episode [ATO/Flightless]
4. The Coathangers - The Devil You Know [Suicide Squeeze]
5. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South of Reality [ATO/Prawn Song]
6. Sexy Dex and the Fresh - Don't Play My B-Sides [self-released]
7. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies [ATO]
8. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
9. Anemone - Beat My Distance [Luminelle]
10. Flamingods - Levitation [Moshi Moshi]
11. Los Straitjackets - Channel Surf EP [Yep Roc]
12. Wynton Marsalis - Bolden: Music from the Original Soundtrack [Blue Engine]
13. Bonerama - Plays Zepplin [Basin Street]
14. David Rosenboom - Deviant Resonances: Live Electronic Music with Instruments, Voices & Brains [Ravello]
15. Jamilla Woods - Legacy! Legacy! [Jagjaguwar]
16. Light Conductor - Sequence One [Constellation]
17. Tokyo Tramps - If I Die Tomorrow [Vagabond]
18. Cherry Glazer - Stuffed and Ready [Secretly Canadian]
19. The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery [Impulse!]
20. Wolfmanhattan Project - Blue Gene Stew [In the Red]
21. Clinic - Wheeltappers and Shunters [Domino]
22. Drugdealer - Raw Honey [Mexican Summer]
23. Craig Leon - The Canon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2 [RVNG Int'l]
24. Sing Sinck, Sing - Sing Sinck, Sing [Constellation]
25. Unwed Sailor - Heavy Age [self-released]
26. Tarik Robinson - Union Latinoamericana [Beat Tape] [Makebelieve]
27. POW! - Shift [Castleface]
28. Chai - Punk [Burger]
29. various artists - Music for Sleep [Domo]
30. Herlin Riley - Perpetual Optimism [Mack Avenue]
ELECTRONIC
1. Maison Blanche - Network 23 [self-released]
2. Light Conductor - Sequence One [Constellation]
3. Craig Leon - The Canon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2 [RVNG Int'l]
4. Fennesz - Agora [Touch]
5. Shark's Teeth - Demon Canal [Single Colored Fields]
6. Tatira - Ghosts of the River Fall [Inam]
7. Berlin Taxi - Contract [self-released]
8. Eric Copeland - Trogg Modal Vol. 2 [DFA]
9. Bath Consolidated - Narryer Gneiss Terrane [Orange Milk]
10. Earthen Sea - Grass and Trees [Kranky]
HIP HOP
1. Jamilla Woods - Legacy! Legacy! [Jagjaguwar]
2. Tarik Robinson - Union Latinoamericana [Beat Tape] [Makebelieve]
3. Little Simz - Grey Area [Age 101/AWAL]
4. Nesby Phips - Therapy [Audacious]
5. DAWN - New Breed [Local Action/Our Dawn]
6. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken [Rhymesayers]
7. Killiam Shakespeare - A Town Called Elsewhere [self-released]
8. Louis Futon - Way Back When [self-released]
9. Tank and the Bangas - Green Balloon [Verve Forecast]
10. various artists - Mass Appeal Starting 5 EP [Mass Appeal]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL/REGGAE
1. Salum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba Band - Ngoma Tanzania [Domino Sound]
2. Tarik Robinson - Union Latinoamericana [Beat Tape] [Makebelieve]
3. Dexter Story - Bahir [Soundway]
4. Don the Tiger - Matanzas [Crammed Discs]
5. Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla - Terrouzi [Sahel Sounds]
6. Ibibio Soudn Machine - Doko Mien [Merge]
7. Tour De Force - Battle Cry [Dub Stuy]
8. Von D - Wicked Scam EP [Dub Stuy]
9. Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator [Sahel Sounds]
10. Ekiti Sound - Abag No Vex [Crammed Discs]
JAZZ
1. Wynton Marsalis - Bolden: Music from the Original Soundtrack [Blue Engine]
2. The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery [Impulse!]
3. Herlin Riley - Perpetual Optimism [Mack Avenue]
4. Jon Batiste - Hollywood Africans [Verve]
5. various artists - A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper [Impulse!]
6. Fumi Tomita - The Elephant Vanishes [OA2]
7. Eric Reed - Everybody Gets the Blues [Smoke Sessions]
8. Jose James - Lean on Me [Blue Note]
9. Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (feat. Haley Reinhart) - The Capitol Studio Sessions [Decca Records]
10. Andrew Cyrille - Lebroba [ECM]