BEST NEW ALBUMS
- Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Polygon)
- Thundercat – Drunk (Brainfeeder)
- Pharmakon – Contact (Sacred Bones)
- Sneaks – It’s a Myth (Merge)
- Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai (Merge)
- Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (Nonesuch)
- Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
- Wire – Silver/Lead (Pink Flag)
- Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vols. 1 & 2 (Sacred Bones)
- Mux Mool – Implied Lines (Young Heavy Souls)
- Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star (Sub Pop)
- Mane – Alpha Female (S/R)
- Midnight Sister – Saturn Over Sunset (Jagjaguwar)
- Side Eyes – So Sick (In The Red)
- Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Subatomic Sound System – Super Ape Returns To Conquer (Subatomic Sound)
- Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
- Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent (Domino)
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl)
- Lapalux – Ruinism (Brainfeeder)
- Fever Ray – Plunge (Rabid)
- L.A. Witch – S/T (Suicide Squeeze)
- Zola Jesus – Okovi (Sacred Bones)
- Stacian – Person L (Night School)
BEST REISSUES/COLLECTIONS OF OLD STUFF/ETC
- Elliot Smith – Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars/Universal)
- Buzzcocks – Spiral Scratch EP (Domino)
- Alice Coltrane – The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane (Luaka Bop)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures (Mute)
- Carsickness – 1979-1982 (Get Hip)
- Can – The Singles (Spoon)
- Galactic Explorers – Epitaph For Venus (Mental Experience)
- LiLiPUT/Kleenex – First Songs (Kill Rock Stars)
