- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Various Artists | Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Amyl and the Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (Rough Trade)
- Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- Rəhman Məmmədli | Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Peace De Résistance | Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus)
- Skyminds | Echoes on the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Artificial Go | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
- Various Artists | Even The Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives (1971-1996) (Light in the Attic)
- Dame Area | Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone )
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola | Here to There (Secret Hatch)
- Good Sad Happy Bad | All kinds of days (Textile)
- Flower-Corsano Duo | The Chocolate Cities (C/Site)
- Oï les Ox | Al les Axes (Constructive)
- Brabrabra | Danger! Danger! Danger! (Kitchen Leg)
- Richard Thompson | Ship To Shore (New West)
- The Jesus Lizard | Rack (Ipecac)
- Jenny Scheinman | All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
- Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Perpetual Doom)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
- The Bug Club | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
- Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
- David Bowie | Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Rhino)
- John Davis | Landlines (Students Of Decay)
- Sholeh Asgary | آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- Claude Fontaine | La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
- Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Winged Wheel | Big Hotel (12XU)
- Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
- Anoice | Stories in White (Ricco)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
- Various Artists | Cardinals At The Window: A Benefit For Flood Relief in Western North Carolina (Cardinals at the Window)
- Blue Zero | colder shade blue (Lower Grand Tapes)
- Mermaid Chunky | slif slaf slof (DFA)
- Violence Gratuite | Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala)
- Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
- Father John Misty | Mahashmashana (Sub Pop )
- Bolis Pupul | Letter To Yu (DEEWEE)
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- Talking Heads | Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024 Remaster) (Warner)
- Various Artists | Dream Radio Compilation (Cone Shape Top Imprint)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion | Paradise Re-lost (S/R)
- Floating Points | Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Glass Beams | Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
- Duran Duran | DANSE MACABRE: DE LUXE (BMG)
- Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
- Tristwch Y Fenywod | Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti-/Epitaph)
- Haley Heynderickx | Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird)
- Jamie xx | In Waves (Young)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Various Artists | Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)
- Ginger Root | SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
- Moor Mother | The Great Bailout (Anti-/Epitaph)
- Molly Nilsson | Un-American Activities (Night School)
- Swansea Sound | Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (Verve)
- TENGGER | EARTHING (Centripetal Force)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (Constellation)
- Circles Around The Sun & Mikaela Davis | After Sunrise (Jealous Butcher)
- Andy Haas | For the Time, Being (Resonant)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- Bizhiki | Unbound (Jagjaguwar)
- Galaxie 500 | Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20)
- Max Richter | In A Landscape (Decca)
- Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight to Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
- Matt Robidoux | Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- MEMORIALS | Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
- Jon Batiste | Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- Chimers | Through Today (12XU)
- HANABIE. | Bucchigiri Tokyo (Epic )
- Manu Chao | Viva Tu (RADIO BEMBA)
- The 180Gs | Trout Mask Replica Replica (Crabid)
- Swiftumz | Simply The Best (Empty Cellar)
- Sinkane | We Belong (City Slang)
- Avi C. Engel | Strangling Vine (Elephant Shrew)
- Avalanche Kaito | Talitakum (Glitterbeat)
- Crumbs | You’re Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
- Various Artists | Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
- Buzz’ Ayaz | Buzz’ Ayaz (Glitterbeat)
Top 100 Albums of the Month
December 2024
- Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- People Like Us | Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Thee Sacred Souls | Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Amadou & Mariam | La vie est belle (Because)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral (XL)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Liberator / Partisan)
- The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Damu The Fudgemunk | Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Jon Batiste | Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- Various Artists | Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light In the Attic)
- Artificial Go! | Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (Riding Easy)
- Molly Nilsson | Un-American Activities (Night School)
- The Linda Lindas | No Obligation (Epitaph)
- Floating Points | Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Fantastic Negrito | Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers | Rhapsody (Colemine)
- Aux Meadows | Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Shed)
- Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
- Avi C. Engel | Strangling Vine (Elephant Shrew)
- Various Artists | Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
- Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- beabadoobee | This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
- Angelo Outlaw | Axis of Time (Eraserhood Sound)
- Moe Staiano | Away Towards The Light (Edgetone)
- Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
- Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds | That Delicious Vice (In The Red)
- MEMORIALS | Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
- Unessential Oils | Unessential Oils (Secret City)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- Various Artists | Cardinals At The Window: A Benefit for Flood Relief in Western North Carolina (S/R)
- Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20)
- Swansea Sound | Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream (Colemine)
- Matt Robidoux | Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
- Jabu | A Soft and Gatherable Star (do you have peace?)
- Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
- Laraaji, Agnes Martian, Music for Connection & Hair and Space Museum | Coincidence (Centripetal Force)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (Verve)
- Bizhiki | Unbound (Jagjaguwar)
- Kokoroko | Get The Message (Brownswood)
- The Headhunters | The Stunt Man (Ropeadope)
- Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
- Kelly Finnigan | A Lover Was Born (Colemine)
- Laufey | Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (AWAL)
- Kim Deal | Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Crumbs | You’re Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
- KOKOKO! | BUTU (Transgressive)
- Wayne Shorter | Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (Blue Note)
- Blue Zero | colder shade blue (Lower Grand)
- Greg Lisher | Underwater Detection Method (Independent Project)
- Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham | Cunningham Bird (Loma Vista)
- Double Celled Organism | Strum and Drone (Oystertones)
- Humdrum | Every Heaven (Slumberland)
- Luna Li | When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life)
- Jamie xx | In Waves (Young)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor | NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (Constellation)
- Adrian Younge | Linear Labs: Sao Paulo (Linear Labs)
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding | Milton + esperanza (Concord)
- To End It All | Of Blood and Memory (Roman Numeral)
- Jon Hopkins | RITUAL (Domino)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- The Strange | The Strange EP (S/R)
- Soccer Mommy | Evergreen (Loma Vista)
- Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamerica Sufre (Ansonia)
- Robyn Hitchcock | 1967: Vacations in the Past (TINY GHOST)
- White Hills | Beyond This Fiction (Heads On Fire)
- Freak Genes | Delirik (Feel It Records)
- Alessandro Cortini | NATI INFINITI (Mute)
- The Bookshop Band | Emerge, Return (S/R)
- Wand | Vertigo (Drag City)
- Bibi Club | Feu de Garde (Secret City)
- Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Winged Wheel | Big Hotel (12XU)
- Glass Beams | Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- KNEECAP | Fine Art (Heavenly)
- Corker | Hallways of Grey (Feel It)
- Joan As Police Woman | Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City)
- Nilüfer Yanya | My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
- Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (LA LOM)
- Father John Misty | Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists | Synthesizing the Silk Roads (Ostinato)
- Magic Fig | Magic Fig (Silver Current)
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin | symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Mykal Rose & Subatomic Sound System & Hollie Cook | Rockin’ Like a Champion (Subatomic)
- Afterimage | Faces To Hide (Independent Project)
November 2024
- Various Artists | Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light In The Attic)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor | NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (Constellation)
- Dummy | Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
- Various Artists | Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
- SOPHIE | SOPHIE (Transgressive/Future Classic)
- Sarah Davachi | The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late)
- The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Various Artists | TRANSA: Selects Various Artists for Transgender and Nonbinary Empowerment (Red Hot)
- citron citron | Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham | Cunningham Bird (Loma Vista)
- Moor Mother | The Great Bailout (Antipitaph)
- Melt-Banana | 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “the Eighteenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- SML | Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Jabu | A Soft and Gatherable Star (do you have peace?)
- Masayoshi Fujita | Migratory (Erased Tapes)
- Floating Points | Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin | Symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Clairo | Charm (Clairo)
- La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Kit Sebastian | New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
- Glass Beams | Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti-/Epitaph)
- Billy Strings | Highway Prayers (Reprise)
- Beak> | >>>> (Invada/Temporary Residence)
- Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds | That Delicious Vice (In The Red)
- Fera | Psiche Liberata (Maple Death)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Robyn Hitchcock | 1967: Vacations in the Past (TINY GHOST RECORDS)
- Alessandro Cortini | NATI INFINITI (Mute)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- Violence Gratuite | Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala)
- Tindersticks | Soft Tissue (City Slang)
- Various Artists | Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
- Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
- Dame Area | Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area (Magia Roja)
- Eden Lonsdale & Red Panel | ricercari for rainy days (Sawyer Editions)
- Bizhiki | Unbound (Jagjaguwar)
- Various Artists | European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
- Qoa | SAUCO (Leaving)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
- Marcel Wave | Barrow Boys (Upset The Rhythm)
- Laufey | Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (AWAL)
- De Beren Gieren | What Eludes Us (SDBAN ULTRA)
- Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight to Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Laraaji, Agnes Martian, Music for Connection & Hair and Space Museum | Coincidence (Centripetal Force)
- fantasy of a broken heart | Feats of Engineering (Dots Per Inch)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragguti & Frank Rosaly | MESTIZX (International Anthem)
- Various Artists | Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway)
- Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Bastards Of Soul | Give It Right Back (Skylark Soul )
- Prairiewolf | Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force)
- Alan Sparhawk | White Roses, My God (Sub Pop)
- Dr. Dog | Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
- Lenhart Tapes | Dens (Glitterbeat)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye)
- Kelly Finnigan | A Lover Was Born (Colemine Records)
- Laurie Anderson | Amelia (Nonesuch)
- Brendan Eder Ensemble | Therapy ( S/R)
- The The | Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
- Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
- Death and the Maiden | Uneven Ground (Fishrider)
- Ethan WL | Blood Farm (Carbon)
- Soft Science | Lines (Shelflife)
- Magic Fig | Magic Fig (S/R)
- Max Richter | In A Landscape (Decca)
- Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Grazia | In Poor Taste – EP (Feel It)
- beabadoobee | This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City)
- Naima Bock | Below a Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop)
- Bolis Pupul | Letter To Yu (Soulwax/DEEWEE)
- Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Will Veeder | The Lost and Found (Carbon)
- Bobby Would | Relics of Our Life (Digital Regress)
- The Jesus and Mary Chain | Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
- Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- Nonconnah | Unicorn Family (Mutual Skies)
- Jon Hopkins | RITUAL (Domino)
- Various Artists | The Night Shall Break (Neuma)
- El Khat | mute (Glitterbeat)
- Swansea Sound | Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)
- Shizukana | Domestification of Domestic Violence (Shizukana)
- Ritmos Tropicosmos | La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
- Percussia | Plucked & Struck (Neuma)
- Sofi Tukker | BREAD (Virgin)
- Tristwch Y Fenywod | Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School)
- Bhutan Balladeers | Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars (Glitterbeat)
- Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists | Dream Radio Compilation (Cone Shape Top Imprint)
- Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia)
- KOKOKO! | BUTU (Transgressive)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (Verve)
- Molchat Doma | Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
October 2024
- Skyminds | Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Glass Beams | Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- Violence Gratuite | Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala)
- Robyn Hitchcock | 1967: Vacations in the Past (Tiny Ghost)
- Hinds | VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
- Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin | symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Angelo Outlaw | Axis of Time (Eraserhood)
- Nídia & Valentina | Estradas (Latency)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Circles Around The Sun & Mikaela Davis | After Sunrise (Jealous Butcher)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
- Ethan WL | Blood Farm (Carbon)
- Various Artists | Synthesizing the Silk Roads (Ostinato)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
- Luna Li | When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life)
- Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
- Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion | Paradise Re-lost (S/R)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly | MESTIZX (International Anthem)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Floating Points | Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
- ML Bruch; ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks (Anti/Epitaph)
- SML | Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Earthtones | We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel)
- Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Prairiewolf | Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force)
- Jamie xx | In Waves (Young)
- Tristwch Y Fenywod | Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School)
- The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
- Ritmos Tropicosmos | La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
- Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamerica Sufre (Ansonia)
- Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
- La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
- Laufey | Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (AWAL)
- Various Artists | Dream Radio Compilation (Cone Shape Top Imprint)
- Ginger Root | SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Nilüfer Yanya | My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
- Rejoicer | This is Reasonable (Circus)
- Various Artists | I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24 Music)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Siviyex | Siviyex (S/R)
- Moor Mother | The Great Bailout (Anti/Epitaph)
- Various Artists | Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
- Laura Cannell | The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined (Brawl)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (S/R)
- Max Richter | In A Landscape (Decca)
- Brown Dog | Lucky Star Creek (River House Records)
- Cults | To the Ghosts (Imperial)
- Death and the Maiden | Uneven Ground (Occultation)
- Nonconnah | Unicorn Family (Mutual Skies)
- De Beren Gieren | What Eludes Us (Sdban)
- Crumbs | You’re Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
- Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
- Paul Weller | 66 (Polydor Records)
- The The | Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
- Qoa | SAUCO (Leaving)
- Ellen Reid | Big Majestic (New Amsterdam)
- Laryssa Kim | Contezza (City Tracks)
- Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
- Chick Corea & Bela Fleck | Remembrance (Thirty Tigers)
- Orquesta Akokán | Caracoles (Daptone)
- X | Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
- KOKOKO! | BUTU (Transgressive)
- Lara Sarkissian | Born of the Sea (Lower Grand )
- beabadoobee | This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
- Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Minde and Pauciello | The Warping of Space and Time (S/R)
- ni zheng | Fetid Things (Don’t Look Back)
- MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
- Bright Eyes | Five Dice, All Threes (Dead Oceans)
- Shizukana | Domestification of Domestic Violence (S/R)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers | Rhapsody (Colemine)
- Jakob Battick | Slow Motion Summer (Lilien Hexen)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye)
- Los Bitchos | Talkie Talkie (City Slang)
- Suki Waterhouse | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
- Charles Lloyd | The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
- Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG)
- The Helltones | Medusa (S/R)
- Fog Lamp | Anxious Stargazing (Willow House)
- Buzz’ Ayaz | Buzz’ Ayaz (Glitterbeat)
- White Hills | Beyond This Fiction (Heads On Fire)
- Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
- Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal)
- Bibi Club | Feu de garde (Secret City)
- Sofi Tukker | BREAD (Virgin)
- Healers | High Tide (Wingnut Museum)
- Linda Smith | Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
- Raymond Richards | Sand Paintings (ESP Institute)
- Bex Burch | There is only love and fear (International Anthem)
September 2024
- Laurie Anderson | Amelia (Nonesuch)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland (Acony)
- Various Artists | Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)
- Laura Cannell | The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined (Brawl)
- Brijean | Macro (Ghostly International)
- Liana Flores | Flower of the soul (Self-Released)
- Briant Eno | Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
- Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL Recordings)
- Meridian Brothers | Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia)
- Charles Lloyd | The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
- Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
- Ritmos Tropicosmos | La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
- Ellen Reid | Big Majestic (New Amsterdam)
- KOKOKO! | Butu (Transgressive)
- Osees | SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
- Lina Bahn | Axolotl (Neuma)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch | Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Avalanche Kaito | Talitakum (Glitterbeat)
- Onra | Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
- Orquesta Akokán | Caracoles (Daptone)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Dr. Dog | Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
- X | Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
- Various Artists | Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24 Music)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly | MESTIZX (International Anthem)
- Brian Baumbusch | Polytempo Music (Other Minds)
- África Negra | Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
- Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
- SML | Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Death and the Maiden | Uneven Ground (Fishrider)
- Nala Sinephro | Endlessness (Warp)
- Church Chords | elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Matt Robidoux | Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- Lenhart Tapes | Dens (Glitterbeat)
- Wand | Vertigo (Drag City)
- Healers | High Tide (Wingnut Museum)
- Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Louis Armstrong | Louis In London (Live At The BBC) (Verve)
- Chick Corea & Bela Fleck | Remembrance (Thirty Tigers)
- Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
- Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
- Charli xcx | BRAT (Atlantic)
- Bolis Pupul | Letter To Yu (DEEWEE)
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers | Rhapsody (Colemine Records)
- La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Angelo Outlaw | Axis Of Time (Eraserhood Sound)
- Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island)
- Inna Faliks | Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Sono Luminus)
- KNEECAP | Fine Art (Heavenly)
- Seefeel | Everything Squared (Warp)
- The 180Gs | Trout Mask Replica Replica (Self-Released)
- Wayne Shorter | Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (Blue Note)
- LA LOM | The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Newen Afrobeat | Grietas (Lichens Family)
- Prairiewolf | Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force)
- Dren McDonald | Oceanic (Appearing)
- April Magazine | Wesley’s Convertible Tape For the South (Digital Regress)
- Elyanna | WOLEDTO (Universal Arabic)
- Marcel Wave | Something Looming (Upset The Rhythm)
- Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement (Young)
- Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
- Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
- Emel | MRA (Little Human)
- Dennis Bovell | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Jack White | No Name (Third Man Records/Legacy)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
- Rejoicer | This Is Reasonable (Circus Company)
- Various Artists | I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24 Music)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion | Paradise Re-lost (Self-Released)
- Kamala Sankaram | Crescent (Neuma)
- Nonconnah | Unicorn Family (Mutual Skies)
- Jakob Battick | Slow Motion Summer (Lilien Hexen)
- Raymond Richards | Sand Paintings (ESP Institute)
- Circles Around The Sun & Mikaela Davis | After Sunrise (Jealous Butcher)
- Claire Dickson | The Beholder (New Amsterdam)
- Kiasmos | II (Erased Tapes)
- Wishy | Triple Seven (Winspear)
- Peni Candra Rini | Wulansih (New Amsterdam)
- The Secret Sisters | Mind, Man, Medicine (New West)
- The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
- Sis | Vibhuti (Native Cat)
- The Staves | All Now (Nonesuch)
- Girl and Girl | Call A Doctor (Sub Pop)
- Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight to Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
- Various Artists | Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Fire Trail | Cut to Confetti (Self-Released)
- XiaoWang (小王) | Kachakacha (咔嚓咔嚓) (Damnably)
- Nilüfer Yanya | My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
- Previous Industries | Service Merchandise (Merge; Merge Records)
- Richard Carr | August Light (Neuma)
- Buzz’ Ayaz | Buzz’ Ayaz (Glitterbeat)
- The Frenchmen | Sorry We Ruined Your Party (SAC)
- Salt Cathedral | Before It’s Gone (Self-Released)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- Bastards Of Soul | Give It Right Back (Skylark Soul)
- Kim | Sir Kim (Death Maiden)
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- Brian Eno | ENO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
- Belong | Realistic IX (kranky)
- Bolis Pupul | Letter To Yu (DEEWEE)
- Various Artists | Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway)
- Newen Afrobeat | Grietas (Lichens Family)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound)
- La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
- Loma | How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
- Habibi | Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sahra Halgan | Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
- Arooj Aftab | Night Reign (Verve)
- Kronos Quartet | Outer Spaceways Incorporated – Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra (Red Hot Organization)
- NxWorries | Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
- Mabe Fratti | Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard Of Hope)
- Magic Fig | Magic Fig (Silver Current)
- Caroline Shaw & So Percussion | Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
- Peggy Gou | I Hear You (XL Recordings)
- Shay Hazan | Wusul (Batov)
- Didje Doo | Vitalize It (Turntables on the Hudson)
- ATARASHII GAKKO! | AG! Calling (88rising)
- Finom | Not God (Joyful Noise)
- Charli xcx | BRAT (Atlantic)
- Richard Carr | August Light (Neuma)
- Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | New Strategies For Modern Crime Volumes 1 & 2 (Lex)
- Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
- Kim Gordon | The Collective (Matador)
- Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Self-Released)
- Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Beak> | >>>> (Invada)
- Bryan Hayslett | Cello Unlocked (Neuma)
- Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
- Sandman Project | Where Did You Go? (Batov)
- Bobby Would | Relics of Our Life (Digital Regress)
- Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream (Colemine)
- Omar Souleyman | Erbil (Mad Decent)
- Amen Dunes | Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
- Forest Swords | Bolted (Ninja Tune)
- Lara Sarkissian | Born of the Sea (Lower Grand Tapes)
- Bound By Endogamy | Bound By Endogamy (Bongo Joe)
- Sahan Arzruni | By Women: Piano Works by Armenian Women Composers (AGBU)
- The Bevis Frond | Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Za! + Perrate | Jolifanto (Lovemonk)
- Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
- Johnny Cash | Songwriter (Mercury Nashville)
- Various Artists | Showa Era Songstress Collection (King)
- Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal)
- Chris Cohen | Paint a Room (Hardly Art)
- Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland | Ghost Moon (Edgetone)
- Ritmos Tropicosmos | La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
- DJ Raff | Encontrar (Nacional)
- Dorothy Carter | Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
- Chanel Beads | Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
- Les Lullies | Mauvaise Foi (Slovenly)
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band | BRSB (Big Crown)
- Babehoven | Water’s Here In You (Double Double Whammy)
- Einstürzende Neubauten | Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomak)
- Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future (4AD)
- Nduduzo Makhathini | uNomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
- MIZU | Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
- Otis Sandsjö | Y-OTIS TRE (We Jazz)
- Men Seni Suyemin | BELIEVE (2MR)
- Common & Pete Rock | The Auditorium Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
- Various Artists | Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty (Big Machine)
- Aquaserge | La Fin De l’économie (Crammed Discs)
- Choncy | 20X Multiplier (Feel It)
- Maria Chiara Argirò | Closer (Innovative Leisure)
- Actress | LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune)
- Dennis Bovell | The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Andrew Bird | Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista)
- Michelle Moeller | Late Morning (AKP)
- Bibi Club | Feu de garde (Secret City)
- Ride | Interplay (Wichita)
- Salt Cathedral | Before It’s Gone (Salt Cathedral)
- Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown (Domino)
- The Spatulas | Beehive Mind (Post Present Medium)
- Various Artists | I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24 Music)
- Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
- Torrey | Torrey (Slumberland)
- ni zheng | fetid things (Don’t Look Back)
- ML Buch | Suntub (15 love)
- Echo Specter | Level Never (Oakland Instruments)
- Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey | Compassion (ECM)
- naemi | Dust Devil (3XL)
- Bastards Of Soul | Give It Right Back (Skylark Soul)
- The Frenchmen | Sorry We Ruined Your Party (SAC)
- Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Lunchbox | Pop and Circumstance (Slumberland)
- Sierra Ferrell | Trail Of Flowers (Rounder)
- DIIV | Frog In Boiling Water (Fantasy)
- SAICOBAB | NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
- Previous Industries | Service Merchandise (Merge)
- Hurray For The Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
- Various Artists | Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24 Music)
- Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
- Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer | The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- Wild Up | Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence (New Amsterdam)
- Elyanna | WOLEDTO (Universal Arabic )
- Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (Cmntx)
- Yea-Ming and The Rumours | I Can’t Have It All (Dandy Boy)