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)
