2020

• Sam Burton – I Can Go With You (Tompkins Square)
• Frank Ene – No Longer (Empty Cellar)
• Green-House – Six Songs For Invisible Gardens (Leaving)
• Kacey Johansing – No Better Time (Night Bloom)
• The Moore Brothers – Autobiography (Unavailable)
• Numün – Voyage Au Soleil (Musique Impossible)
• Klaus Schønning – Lydglimt (Frederiksberg)
• Wasnt Wisnt- In Stasis (self-released)
• Chip Wickham – Blue To Red (Lovemonk)
• Hiroshi Yoshimura – Green (Light In The Attic)

CLASSICAL

• Bertrand Chamayou – Good Night! (Erato)
• Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve – Cyrillius Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel (ECM)
• Eric Whitacre – The Sacred Veil (Signum)
• JACK Quartet – Lines Made by Walking (Cold Blue)
• Maria Schneider – Data Lords: The Digital World/Our Natural World (ArtistShare)
• Patrick Yim – Memory: Works for Solo Violin (Navona)
• Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant (LATE)
• Tristan Perich & Douglas Perkins – Drift Multiply (New Amsterdam)
• Vikingur Olafsson – Debussy – Rameau (Deutsche Grammophon)

SOUNDTRACK

• William Tyler – Music from film First Cow (Merge)

COMPS

• Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T-Rex (BMG)
• Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 (Captured Tracks)

RE-ISSUES & RETROSPECTIVES

• Maggi Payne  – Ahh-Ahh (Root Strata)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – Hidari Ude No Yume [Left Handed Dream 1981] (WeWantSounds)
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (Live) 1962 (Verve)
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive)

JAZZ/CREATIVE MUSIC

• Alabaster Deplume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol. 1 (International Anthem)
• Anna Hogberg Attack – Lena (Omlott)
• Bill Frisell – Valentine (Blue Note)
• Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow – Life Goes On (ECM)
• Eric Revis – Slipknot Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
• Fred Hersch – Songs from Home (Palmetto)
• Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
• Junk Magic – Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic)
• Lafayette Gilchrest – Now (Lafayette Music)
• Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl – Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
• Moses Boyd – Dark Matter (Exodus)
• Nels Cline Singers – Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
• Quin Kirchner – The Shadows and The Light (Astral Spirits)
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – Dimensional Stardust  (Nonesuch)
• Susan Alcorn Quintet – Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
• The Ed Palermo Big Band – The Great Un-American Songbook, Vol. III: Run For Your Life (Sky Cat)
• Hugh Masekela & Tony Allen – Rejoice (World Circuit)

OTHER MUSIC WITH NO WORDS

• Ana Roxanne – Because of a Flower (Kranky)
• Kim Myhr – You Me (Hubro)
• Grand Veymont – Persistance & Changement (Objet Disque)
• Rival Consoles – Articulation (Erased Tapes)
• Hoshina Anniversary – Odoriko (Alien Jams)
• Nihiloxica – Kaloli (Crammed Discs)
• Sam Prekop – Comma (Thrill Jockey)

THE REST

• Adrienne Lenker – Songs & Instrumentals (4AD)
• Aoife Nessa Frances – Land of No Junction (Basin Rock)
• Deftones – Ohms (Reprise)
• Einsturzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem (Potomak)
• Fleet Foxes – Shore (Anti-)
• Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death (Partisan)
• Frank Bey – All My Dues Are Paid (Nola Blue)
• Frank Ene – No Longer (Empty Cellar)
• Haley Williams – Petals for Armor I and II Eps (Atlantic)
• Jackie Lynn – Jacqueline (Drag City)
• Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King (dBpm)
• Jennifer Castle  – Monarch Season (Paradise of Bachelors)
• Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (New West)
• Kate NV – Room for the Moon (RVNG INTL.)
• Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound)
• Leyla McCalla – Vari-colored songs: Tribute to Langston Hughes (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt and the Stars (Lambent Light)
• Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (Merge)
• Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice (Single Lock)
• Ohmme – Fantasize Your Ghost  (Joyful Noise)
• Owen Pallett – Island (Domino)
• Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
• Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
• Sam Amidon  – Sam Amidon (Nonesuch)
• The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (Merge)
• This is the Kit – Off Off ON (Rough Trade)
• U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD)
• Wire – Mind Hive (Pink Flag)
• Woods – Strange to Explain (Woodsist)
• Wye Oak – No Horizon (Merge)

• Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (Play It Again Sam)
• Michael Gordon; The Crossing – Anonymous Man (Cantaloupe)
• Tristan Perich – Drift Multiply (Nonesuch)
• ORA – Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam (Harmonia Mundi)
• Jimmy Heath – Love Letter (Verve)
• Julianna Barwick – Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune)
• Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (BMG)
• Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
• Yves Tumor – Heaven to a Tortured Mind (Warp)
• Bob Dylan  – Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)
• Bob Mould  – Blue Hearts (Merge)
• Avishai Cohen – Big Vicious (ECM)
• Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (Interscope)
• Damu The Fudgemunk – Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
• Soccer Mommy – color theory (Loma Vista)
• Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? (EMI)
• Angel Olsen  – Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
• Kandace Springs – The Women Who Raised Me (Universal)
• Yelle – L’ere du Verseau (Recreation Center)
• Sunny Jain – Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways)
• I Break Horses – Warnings (Bella Union)
• Wire – Mind Hive (Pink Flag)
• Katie Gately – Loom (Houndstooth)
• Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park (Delphian)
• Kurt Elling – Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
• Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine (Skint)
• Sault – Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals)
• Makaya Mccraven – Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem)
• Prince Royce – Alter Ego (Sony)
• Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue)
• Rina Sawayama – Sawayama (Dirty Hit)
• Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas (Warner Brothers)
• Maria Schneider Orchestra – Data Lords (Artistshare)
• Joel Harrison – America At War (Sunnyside)
• Shabaka & the Ancestors – We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse!)
• AC/DC  – Power Up (Columbia)
• Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony (Roc Nation)
• Ambrose Akinmusire – On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
• Gregg August – Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1 (Gregg August)
• BC Camplight  – Shortly After Takeoff (Bella Union)
• Deftones – Ohms (Reprise)
• Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (Warner Brothers)
• Kylie Minogue  – DISCO (BMG)
• Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
• Gregory Porter – All Rise (Blue Note)
• Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio – Angels Around (Heartcore)
• Joel Ross – Who Are You? (Blue Note)
• Christian Sands – Be Water (Mack Avenue)
• Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Reunions (Southeastern)
• Hayey Williams – Petals for Armor (Atlantic)

Smash Albums

• Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (RVING Intl.)
• Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood – Live (International Anthem)
• Faten Kanaan – A Mythology of Circles (Fire)
• Killah Priest – Rocket to Nebula (Proverbs)
• Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies (YLYLCYN)
• Mamaleek – Come and See (The Flenser)
• Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)
• Meitei – Kofū (KITCHEN. LABEL)
• Neptunian Maximalism – Éons (I, Voidhanger)
• Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Goblin Alert (Goner)

Hit Singles

• Gaye Su Akyol – “İsyan Manifestosu” – Yort Savul: İSYAN MANİFESTOSU(Glitterbeat)
• Body Double – “Head Axe” – Milk Fed (ZUM)
• Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic – “Moving Maps” – Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
• IDLES – “War” – Ultra Mono (Partisan)
• L.E.S. Douze – “Gone Daddy Gone” – Le String Noise (Nouveau Electric)
• Man Man – “Future Peg” – Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between (Sub Pop)
• 79rs Gang – “79rs Bout to Blow” – Expect the Unexpected (Sinking City)
• SPAZA – “The Black Consciousness Movement” – UPRIZE! (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
• Special Interest – “Street Pulse Beat” – Passion Of (Thrilling Living)
• Tobacco – “Hungry Eyes” (Ghostly International)

• Bye Bye Blackbirds – “Baby It’s Still You” – Boxer at Rest (Double Potions)
• Ela Minus – “Pocket Piano” – Acts of Rebellion (Domino)
• Julie Jacklin – “To Perth: Before the Border Closes” – To Perth: Before the Border Closes (SubPop)
• Latitude – “Tick Tock” – Mystic Hotline (Emotional Response)
• Leave Me Alones – “Stop You” – Race to the Bottom EP (S/R)
• Moodyman – “Do Wrong” – Taken Away (KDJ)
• Moore Brothers – “Just Cover Me in Leaves” – Autobiography (Unavailable)
• Sault – “Monsters” – Untitled(Black Is) (Forever Living Originals)
• Sleaford Mods – “Mork N Mindy” – Mork N Mindy (Rough Trade)
• Sneaks – “Scorpio on the Side” – Happy Birthday (Merge)

• Cold Beat – Mother (DFA)
• En Attendant Ana – Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
• Galore – Galore (Rocks in Your Head)
• Jeanines – Things Change (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
• Lithics – Tower of Age (Trouble in Mind)
• Melenas – Dias Raros (Trouble in Mind)
• Mr. Wrong – Create a Place (Water Wing)
• Naked Roommate – Do the Duvet (Trouble in Mind)
• Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna (Slumberland)
• R. Aggs – Tape 1 (S/R)
• Sweeping Promises – Hunger For a Way Out (Feel It)