- Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
- Robert Finley | Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
- Sampha | Lahai (Young)
- Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- Jalen Ngonda | Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
- Aziz Konkrite | Siba Sawt-System #1 (Shouka)
- Tolerance | Complete Discography + Demos (Mesh-Key)
- African Head Charge | A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (Kranky)
- Black Market Brass | Hox (Colemine)
- Nihiloxica | Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
- Various Artists | Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Charles Mingus | Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
- The Umbrellas | Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
- Galya Bisengalieva | Polygon (One Little Independent)
- Ghost Funk Orchestra | A Trip To the Moon (Karma Chief)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
- Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt (Escho)
- Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
- L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
- Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
- Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
- Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
- Emerald Suspension | Sounds to Hear Alone (Emerald Suspension)
- Salamanda | In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
- Substantial | Adultish (Substantial Art & Music)
- Jlin | Perspective (Planet Mu)
- Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner (section1)
- Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
- Irreversible Entanglements | Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
- Martina Bertoni | Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
- Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
- Tirzah | trip9love…??? (Domino)
- La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
- A Beacon School | yoyo (Grind Select)
- Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
- Ben Harper | Wide Open Light (Chrysalis)
- Various Artists | Mr Bongo Record Club, Vol. 6 (Mr Bongo)
- Lewsberg | Out And About (12XU)
- Anna St. Louis | In the Air (Woodsist / Mare)
- Bas Jan | Back to the Swamp (Fire)
- Various Artists | Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) (Easy eye Sound)
- Glasser | Crux (One Little Independent)
- Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (Constellation)
- Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood | Reset in Dub (Domino)
- Paramore | This Is Why (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic)
- Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Rhino)
- Faizal Mostrixx | Mutations (Glitterbeat)
- Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
- The Kills | God Games (Domino)
- Juicebumps | JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head, Time Room)
- Danny Brown | Quaranta (Warp)
- Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World (Matador)
- Parchman Prison Prayer | Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
- Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
- Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Hania Rani | Ghosts (Gondwana)
- Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
- Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
- Black Legacy Project | Vol. 1 (Music In Common)
- Gumby’s Junk | Demo 2023 (Self-Released)
- Jayda G | Guy (Ninja Tune)
- Umeko Ando | Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
- G’s Us | What Them Dogs Don’t Know They Know (Alpha Pup)
- Xylouris White | The Forest in Me (Drag City)
- Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo | Guilherme Coutinho e O Grupo Stalo (Mr Bongo)
- Killer Mike | MICHAEL (Loma Vista)
- Funkwrench Blues | Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures (Need To Know)
- Eartheater | Powders (Chemical X)
- bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
- Nicholas Payton | DRIP (Paytone Records)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- H31R | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
- Jackson Greenberg | The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (cmtx)
- Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)
- Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
- Various Artists | Rocking On The G.G. Beat (Trojan Records)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
- Various Artists | Bear’s Sonic Journals: Sing Out! (Live at the Berkeley Community Theater, 4/25/1981) (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
- Kristin Hersh | Clear Pond Road (Fire)
- Lankum | False Lankum (Rough Trade)
- Mikaela Davis | And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars)
- Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
- Silkroad Ensemble | Phoenix Rising (Silkroad)
- Barry Can’t Swim | When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
- Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | Les Jardins Mystiques, Vol. 1 (Brainfeeder)
- Charm School | Finite Jest (sonaBLAST! Records)
- Various Artists | Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampisoul)
- Sonny Rhodes | The Essential Sonny Rhodes – Songs and Stories (Need To Know)
- Observer All-Stars & King Tubby | Dubbing With the Observer (Doctor Bird)
- Nasiphi Booi & Sthamzen | Yenza Kwenzeke Make It Happen (Self-Released)
- Surplus 1980 | Illusion of Consistency (Self-Released)
- James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet | For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
- Otyken | Phenomenon (Aboriginal)
- Dead Moon | Going South (Mississippi Records)
- SPELLLING | SPELLLING & The Mystery School (Sacred Bones)
Top 100 Albums of the Month
January 2024
- abracadabra | shapes & colors (Melodic)
- bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
- Brabrabra | Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
- Melenas | Ahora (Trouble in Mind)
- Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- CHAI | CHAI (Sub Pop)
- Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
- Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Various Artists | American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
- Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (kranky)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
- The Serfs | Half Eaten by Dogs (Trouble in Mind)
- Jalen Ngonda | Come Around And Love Me (Daptone)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- Matthew Halsall | An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
- En Attendant Ana | Principia (Trouble in Mind)
- Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
- Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood | Reset in Dub (Domino)
- Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat)
- King Krule | Space Heavy (Matador)
- Otyken | Phenomenon (Aboriginal)
- Umeko Ando | Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
- Martina Bertoni | Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
- Kurt Vile | Back to Moon Beach (Verve Forecast)
- Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
- Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
- Sufjan Stevens | Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- Thomas Carnacki | Cadavre Isolé (Alethiometer)
- Blue Ocean | Fertile State (Slumberland)
- Aga Khan Master Musicians | Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes | Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
- Charif Megarbane | Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) (Habibi Funk)
- Sampha | Lahai (Young)
- Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Vanishing Twin | Afternoon X (Fire)
- African Head Charge | A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Loretta Lynch | All The Right Regrets (Self-Released)
- Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
- Sextile | Push (Sacred Bones)
- Tirzah | trip9love…??? (Domino)
- Seablite | Lemon Lights (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- Azu Tiwaline | The Fifth Dream (I.O.T.)
- La Sécurité | Stay Safe! (Mothland)
- Guilherme Coutinho | Guilherme Coutinho e O Grupo Stalo (Mr Bongo)
- Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- Bala Desejo | SIM SIM SIM (Mr Bongo)
- Devendra Banhart | Flying Wig (Mexican Summer)
- Danny Brown | Quaranta (Warp)
- Girl Ray | Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
- Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Interscope)
- Dead Moon | Going South (Mississippi)
- Viv & Riley | Imaginary People (Free Dirt)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant | Mélusine (Nonesuch)
- Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
- Lewsberg | Out And About (12XU)
- Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One (Nonesuch)
- Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
- Quantic | Dancing While Falling (Play It Again Sam)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Osees | Intercepted Message (In The Red)
- Everyone Is Dirty | Caramels For Grandpa (Self-Released)
- San Kazakgascar | Too Many People (Lather)
- Colleen | Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- Salami Rose Joe Louis | Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
- Guardian Singles | Feed Me To The Doves (Trouble in Mind)
- Aesop Rock | Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
- The HU | Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise)
- Sweeping Promises | Good Living Is Coming for You (Sub Pop)
- Squirrel Flower | Tomorrow’s Fire (Polyvinyl)
- Cheryl E. Leonard and Wobbly | Multiple Park (Gilgongo)
- Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)
- Mikaela Davis | And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars)
- Vince Clarke | Songs of Silence (Mute)
- Rahill | Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
- Various Artists | Traces of Illusion (Compiled by Skyrager) (Spacetalk)
- Chino | Common Oddity (Pinkman)
- Robert Finley | Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
- Amaara | Child of Venus (Lady Moon)
- Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
- Caterina Barbieri | Myuthafoo (light-years)
- L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Giulio Aldinucci | Real (Karlrecords)
- H31r | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
- Jenny Lewis | Joy’All (Blue Note)
- Will Bernard & Beth Custer | Sky (Dreck to Disk)
- Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
- Lucinda Williams | Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20)
- Molly Burch | Daydreamer (Captured Tracks)
- Sofia Kourtesis | Madres (Ninja Tune)
- Ni Zheng | body of immanence (Syrphe)
- Ladyybirdd (Gina Izzo) | Tomorrow’s Yesterday (Innova)
- The Replacements | Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) (Rhino/Warner Bros.)
- Jlin | Perspective (Planet Mu)
December 2023
- Melenas | Ahora (Trouble in Mind)
- Thomas Carnacki | Cadavre Isolé (Alethiometer)
- Vanishing Twin | Afternoon X (Fire Records)
- Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat)
- Colleen | Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- The Serfs | Half Eaten By Dogs (Trouble In Mind)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround (Temporal Drift)
- Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Say She She | Silver (Karma Chief)
- Jalen Ngonda | Come Around and Love Me (Daptone Records)
- Acid Arab | ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
- L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- bar italia | The Twits (Matador)
- Jungle | Volcano (Caiola)
- Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (kranky)
- Girl Ray | Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
- Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- King Krule | Space Heavy (Matador)
- Sun’s Signature | Sun’s Signature (Extended) (Partisan)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | These Things Remain Unassigned (Bulbous Monocle)
- Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
- Tirzah | trip9love…??? (Domino)
- Blue Ocean | Fertile State (Slumberland)
- Aga Khan Master Musicians | Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
- Hazel Dickens; Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard | Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Barbara Manning | Charm of Yesterday…Convenience of Tomorrow (Ba Da Bing!)
- Brabrabra | Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
- Hauschka | Philanthropy (City Slang)
- Loretta Lynch | All The Right Regrets (Self-Released)
- Various Artists | Mr Bongo Record Club, Vol. 6 (Mr Bongo)
- Marnie Stern | The Comeback Kid (Joyful Noise Recordings)
- Sofia Kourtesis | Madres (Ninja Tune)
- The Cowboys | Sultan of Squat (Feel It Records)
- Lucinda Williams | Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart (Highway 20)
- Jenny Lewis | Joy’All (Blue Note Records)
- Devendra Banhart | Flying Wig (Mexican Summer)
- Various Artists | Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampisoul)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Blockhead | The Aux (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Osees | Intercepted Message (In The Red)
- Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
- Les Rallizes Dénudés | CITTA’ ’93 (Temporal Drift)
- Faizal Mostrixx | Mutations (Glitterbeat)
- H31R | HeadSpace (Big Dada)
- Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
- Bobby Lee | Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
- Marta Del Grandi | Selva (Fire)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
- Charif Megarbane | Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) (Habibi Funk)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes | Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Sampha | Lahai (Young)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- Caterina Barbieri | Myuthafoo (light-years)
- Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One (Nonesuch)
- The Replacements | Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) (Rhino/Warner Bros.)
- Elephantine | Moonshine (Northern Spy)
- Ratboys | The Window (Topshelf Records)
- Lee Gamble | Models (Hyperdub)
- V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
- Azu Tiwaline | The Fifth Dream (I.O.T Records)
- Pretenders | Relentless (Parlophone UK)
- The Tubs | Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)
- African Head Charge | A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Various Artists | Ecuatoriana – El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa No.37) (Analog Africa)
- Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood | Reset in Dub (Domino)
- El Kontessa | Nos Habet Caramel (Bilna’es)
- Onyon | Last Days On Earth (Trouble In Mind)
- Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Silkroad Ensemble | Phoenix Rising (Silkroad)
- Joshua Redman | where are we (Blue Note)
- Sextile | Push (Sacred Bones Records)
- Class | If You’ve Got Nothing (Feel It Records)
- Decisive Pink | Ticket to Fame (Fire Records)
- LADYYBIRDD (Gina Izzo) | Tomorrow’s Yesterday (innova)
- Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
- LAGOSS | Imaginary Island Music, Vol. 2: Ascension (Keroxen)
- Various Artists | Rocking On The G.G. Beat (Doctor Bird)
- Margo Cilker | Valley Of Heart’s Delight (Fluff & Gravy)
- Alice Gerrard | Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat)
- Various Artists | Zum Audio, Vol. 5 (Zum)
- Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet | Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt)
- Naujawanan Baidar | Khedmat Be Khalq (Radio Khiyaban/ Feeding Tube)
- Mega Bog | End of Everything (Mexican Summer)
- Son Rompe Pera | Chimborazo (AYA)
- Brad Mehldau | Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (Nonesuch)
- Skip the Needle | Octavia of Earth Volume 2 (Little Village Foundation)
- Willie Nelson | Bluegrass (Legacy Recordings)
- Tomas Fujiwara | Pith (Out of Your Head)
- Richard Carr | Night Fragments (Convivium)
- No-No Boy | Empire Electric (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
- The Lloyds | Attitude Check (Liberation Hall)
- Hotline TNT | Cartwheel (Third Man)
- Peter Barclay | I’m Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
- abracadabra | Shapes & Colors (Melodic)
November 2023
- Charif Megarbane | Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) (Habibi Funk)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- Sampha | Lahai (Young)
- Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- Wilco | Cousin (dBpm)
- Vanishing Twin | Afternoon X (Fire Records)
- Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Pachyman | Switched-On (ATO)
- Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
- King Krule | Space Heavy (Matador)
- Various Artists | Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi) (Batov Records)
- Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- African Head Charge | A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Matmos | Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- abracadabra | shapes & colors (Melodic)
- Bobby Lee | Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
- Azu Tiwaline | The Fifth Dream (I.O.T Records)
- Mapache | Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure/Calico Discos)
- L’Rain | I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Various Artists | Zum Audio, Vol. 5 (Zum)
- Noname | Sundial (Noname, Inc)
- Blue Ocean | Fertile State (Slumberland)
- Colleen | Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- Faizal Mostrixx | Mutations (Glitterbeat)
- Silkroad Ensemble | Phoenix Rising (Silkroad)
- Caterina Barbieri | Myuthafoo (light-years)
- Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue | Tropical Breakdown (Voodoo Rhythm)
- Various Artists | Mr Bongo Record Club, Vol. 6 (Mr Bongo)
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard | Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)
- El Kontessa | Nos Habet Caramel (Bilna’es)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- Salami Rose Joe Louis | Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
- Naujawanan Baidar | Khedmat Be Khalq (Radio Khiyaban/ Feeding Tube)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- The Goods | The Goods – EP (Dandy Boy)
- Califone | villagers (Jealous Butcher)
- Radian | Distorted Rooms (Thrill Jockey)
- Orbitalpatterns | Impostor Syndrome (Artificial Owl Recordings)
- Markus Floats | Fourth Album (Constellation)
- PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Orchestra | Playland at the Beach (Little Village)
- Blues Lawyer | Sight Gags On The Radio (Dark Entries Records)
- LAGOSS | Imaginary Island Music, Vol. 2: Ascension (Keroxen)
- Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
- Population II | Electrons libres du quebec (Bonsound)
- Niecy Blues | Exit Simulation (kranky)
- Guilherme Coutinho | Guilherme Coutinho E O Grupo Stalo (Mr Bongo)
- The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk 021) (HABIBI Funk)
- Various Artists | Traces of Illusion (Compiled by Skyrager) (Spacetalk)
- Laura Groves | Radio Red (Bella Union)
- Loretta Lynch | All The Right Regrets (Self-Released)
- Parchman Prison Prayer; Parchman Prison Prayer (M. Palmer) | Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
- Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum)
- Now That’s What I Call Surf | Volume Two (Self-Released)
- billy woods & Kenny Segal | Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Water From Your Eyes | Everyone’s Crushed (Matador)
- Helen Money/Will Thomas | Trace (Thrill Jockey)
- Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat)
- V/Z | Suono Assente (AD 93)
- False Figure | Castigations (Transylvanian)
- Sonny Rhodes | The Essential Sonny Rhodes – Songs and Stories (Need To Know)
- Tom Bickley | Jepson Prairie (Other Minds)
- Woods | Perennial (Woodsist)
- Willie Nelson | Bluegrass (Legacy Recordings)
- Current Affairs | Off the Tongue (Tough Love)
- Aline’s étoile magique | éclipse (Elastic)
- Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (Constellation)
- Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Rhino)
- The Sampaguitas | Folk Songs From The Philippines And Beyond (Little Village)
- Everyone Is Dirty | Caramels For Grandpa (DISTROKID)
- Holy Tongue | Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare (Amidah)
- Various Artists | Rocking On The G.G. Beat (Doctor Bird)
- µ-Ziq | 1977 (Balmat)
- Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad Records)
- Mighty Poplar | Mighty Poplar (Free Dirt Records)
- Cindy Wilson | Realms (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sufjan Stevens | Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Nina Simone | You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
- Be Your Own Pet | Mommy (Third Man)
- Small Crush | Penelope (Asian Man Records)
- Various Artists | Jukebox Mambo Vol. IV (Jazzman)
- Boxhead Ensemble | Ancient Music (Jealous Butcher)
- Jlin | Perspective (Planet Mu)
- Janet Evra | Meet Me in Paris (Plum Jazz Records)
- Joshua Redman | where are we (Blue Note)
- Kara Jackson | Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September Recordings)
- Wednesday | Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
- Eluvium | (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (Temporary Residence)
- The HU | Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise Music)
- Sofia Kourtesis | Madres (Ninja Tune)
- Dub Specialist | Soul Jazz Records presents STUDIO ONE Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz Records)
- Isabelle Faust | Solo: Matteis – Pisendel – Biber – Guillemain – Vilsmayr (harmonia mundi)
- Ladyybirdd (Gina Izzo) | Tomorrow’s Yesterday (innova)
- Nick Drake and the Sad Beads | Nick Drake and the Sad Beads (Self-Released)
- Cinder Well | Cadence (Free Dirt)
October 2023
- Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- abracadabra | shapes & colors (Melodic)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- African Head Charge | A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Mapache | Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure/Calico Discos)
- Caterina Barbieri | Myuthafoo (light-years)
- CHAI | CHAI (Sub Pop)
- Slaughter Beach, Dog | Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling (Lame-O)
- Decisive Pink | Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- Sufjan Stevens | Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
- The HU | Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise)
- Cheryl E. Leonard and Wobbly | Multiple Park (Gilgongo)
- W.I.T.C.H. | Zango (Desert Daze)
- Laurel Halo | Atlas (Awe)
- Colleen | Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- Osees | Intercepted Message (In The Red)
- PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Elisapie | Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- Kristin Hersh | Clear Pond Road (Fire)
- Dom La Nena | Leon (Sabia)
- Alam Khan, Arjun K. Verma & Del Sol Quartet | The Resonance Between (AMMP)
- Loretta Lynch | All the Right Regrets (S/R)
- Will Bernard & Beth Custer | Sky (Dreck to Disk)
- billy woods & Kenny Segal | Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief | Schemen (Karlrecords)
- Deeper | Careful! (Sub Pop)
- Silicone Prairie | Vol. II (Feel It)
- Jose Medeles | Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems (Jealous Butcher)
- Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (Constellation)
- Sun’s Signature | Sun’s Signature (Extended) (Partisan)
- Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- Mikaela Davis | And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars)
- Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- King Krule | Space Heavy (Matador)
- False Figure | Castigations (Transylvanian)
- Optic Sink | Glass Blocks (Feel It)
- Teenage Fanclub | Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge)
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard | Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Killer Mike | MICHAEL (Loma Vista)
- Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
- Woods | Perennial (Woodsist)
- μ‐Ziq | 1977 (Balmat)
- Aguankó | Unidad (Self-Released)
- Alice Phoebe Lou | Shelter (Self-Released)
- Various Artists | Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampi Soul)
- Bala Desejo | SIM SIM SIM (Mr. Bongo)
- Cindy Wilson | Realms (Kill Rock Stars)
- TEKE::TEKE | Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
- Nina Simone | You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- Viv & Riley | Imaginary People (Free Dirt)
- Emily Rach Beisel | Particle of Organs (Amalga)
- American Contemporary Music Ensemble & Richard Carr | Night Fragments (Convivium)
- Orchestra Gold | Medicine (Self-Released)
- Various Artists | A moi la liberté – Early Electronic Raï (Algérie 1983-90) (Born Bad)
- Marta Salogni | Music For Open Spaces (Hands in the Dark)
- Markus Floats | Fourth Album (Constellation)
- Black Milk | Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
- Luluc | Diamonds (Community Music)
- Various Artists | Traces of Illusion (Compiled by Skyrager) (Spacetalk)
- Radian | Distorted Rooms (Thrill Jockey)
- Various Artists | Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
- Arthur Russell | Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Snõõper | Super Snõõper (Third Man)
- Willie Nelson | Bluegrass (Legacy)
- The Clientele | I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)
- Philip Perkins | Undanceable (Artifact)
- Tony Allen, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Ale Hop | Why Is It They Say A City Like Any City? (Karlrecords)
- Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- Brad Mehldau | Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (Nonesuch)
- Yazmin Lacey | Voice Notes (Own Your Own)
- Steve Roach | Rest of Life (Projekt)
- ANOHNI and the Johnsons | My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)
- The Movers | The Movers – Vol. 1 – 1970-1976 (Analog Africa No.35) (Analog Africa)
- Sufjan Stevens | Reflections (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One (Nonesuch)
- The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk 021) (HABIBI Funk Records)
- Chuck Johnson | Burden of Proof (All Saints)
- bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
- Various Artists | The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis)
- Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic | Thomas Adès: Dante (Nonesuch)
- Parchman Prison Prayer | Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
- Small Crush | Penelope (Asian Man)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet | Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Various Artists | Anjunadeep 14 – The Selection (Anjunadeep)
- CellBorg | CellBorg (Fuzzy Warbles)
- ANIMA! | Not At This Time (Self-Released)
- Bill Converse | Take Parts (Dark Entries)
- Seablite | Lemon Lights (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant | Mélusine (Nonesuch)
- The Outta Sorts | Inside Outside USA (Self-Released)
- Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
- Various Artists | Ecuatoriana – El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa No.37) (Analog Africa)
- The Damned | Darkadelic (earMUSIC)
- Maria BC | Hyaline (Father/Daughter)
- Yan Tregger | Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
- Claud | Supermodels (Dead Oceans)
- Wham! | The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven (Sony)
September 2023
- Dengue Fever | Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- abracadabra | shapes & colors (Melodic)
- The Clientele | I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)
- Dom La Nena | Leon (Sabia)
- Aphex Twin | Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
- Slowdive | everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- Bala Desejo | SIM SIM SIM (Mr. Bongo)
- Nina Simone | You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- Sweeping Promises | Good Living Is coming For You (Feel It)
- PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily | Love In Exile (Verve)
- Various Artists | Ecuatoriana – El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa No.37) (Analog Africa)
- Various Artists | A moi la liberté – Early Electronic Raï (Algérie 1983-90) (Born Bad)
- King Krule | Space Heavy (XL)
- Various Artists | CUMBIA, CUMBIA, CUMBIA, VOL.1 (Vampi Soul)
- Will Bernard & Beth Custer | Sky (Dreck to Disk)
- Pantayo | Ang Pagdaloy (Telephone Explosion)
- Amaara | Child of Venus (Lady Moon)
- Decisive Pink | Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Water From Your Eyes | Everyone’s Crushed (Matador)
- King Tubby | Dubbing with the Observer (Doctor Bird)
- Orchestra Gold | Medicine (Self Released)
- Small Crush | Penelope (Asian Man)
- Maria BC | Hyaline (Father/Daughter )
- Peter Barclay | I’m Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
- Chuck Johnson | Music From Burden Of Proof (All Saints)
- W.I.T.C.H. | Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
- Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints | Bridge of Love (Dala)
- The Free Music | Free Music (Part 1) (HABIBI Funk Records)
- Rrose | Please Touch (Eaux)
- Alice Phoebe Lou | Shelter (Self Released)
- Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- The Outta Sorts | Inside Outside USA (Outta Sorts)
- James Holden | Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities (Border Community)
- Arthur Russell | Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)
- Snõõper | Super Snõõper (Third Man)
- Thomas Lauderdale and Satan’s Pilgrims | Thomas Laiuderdale Meets the Pilgrims (Heinz)
- Various Artists | Reggae Flight 404 (Trojan)
- bar italia | Tracey Denim (Matador)
- Wham! | The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven (Sony)
- Cassie Wieland & Vicky Chow | HYMN (Canaloupe)
- Various Artists | Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa No.36) (Analog Africa)
- Black Milk | Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
- Tony Allen & Adrian Younge | Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Kara Jackson | Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September)
- Brad Mehldau | Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (Nonesuch)
- Everything But the Girl | Fuse (Buzzin’ Fly)
- Altin Gün | Aşk (ATO)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes | Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Osees | Intercepted Message (In the Red)
- Various Artists | Jukebox Mambo Volume IV (Jazzman)
- Harvey Mandel | Who’s Calling (Tompkins Square)
- Danger Mouse & Jemini | Born Again (Lex Records)
- Sourdurent | l’Herbe De Détourne (Bongo Joe)
- Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
- Rogê | Curyman (Diamond West)
- Emily Bach Reisel; Emily Rach Beisel | Particle Of Organs (Amalga)
- The Movers | The Movers – Vol. 1 – 1970-1976 (Analog Africa No.35) (Analog Africa)
- Corker | Falser Truths (Feel It)
- Forbidden Overture | Turned On (Dark Entries)
- The Gray Field Recordings | She Sleeps to the Sound of Knives (Anticlock)
- Various Artists | The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis)
- Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One (Nonesuch)
- Cut Worms | Cut Worms (Jagjaguwar)
- Dream Dolphin | Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003) (Music From Memory)
- Alam Khan; Alam Khan, Arjun K. Verma & Del Sol Quartet; Arjun K. Verma | The Resonance Between (AMMP)
- Bill Converse | Take Parts (Dark Entries)
- The Hu | Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise)
- Snapped Ankles | Blurtations (Leaf)
- EYELIDS | A Colossal Waste Of Light (Jealous Butcher)
- Dead Air Fresheners | Unfriended (Personal Archives)
- Various Artists | Prends le temps d’écouter – musique d’expression libre dans les classes Freinet (1962/1982) (Born Bad)
- Various Artists | Back In The Day In ESSJ (Discos Resaca)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago | The SIxth Decade from Paris to Paris (Rogue Art)
- Talk West | Black Coral Sprig (Scissor Tail)
- Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek | Dost 1 & 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Various Artists | Silberland, Vol. 2 – The Driving Side of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984 (Bureau B)
- Sufjan Stevens | Reflections (Asthmatic Kitty)
- ANOHNI and the Johnsons | My Back Was a Bridge for you to Cross (Secretly Canadian)
- µ-Ziq | 1977 (Balmat)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant | Mélusine (Nonesuch)
- Wednesday | Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
- Hanabie. (花冷え。) | Reborn Superstar 来世は偉人! (Sony)
- Various Artists | Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro (Mr. Bongo)
- Various Artists | Between the Music Volume One (End of the Road)
- JFDR | Museum (Houndstooth)
- Cindy | Why Not Now? (Mt. St. Mtn.)
- Nuovo Testamento | Love Lines (Discoteca Italia)
- schroothoop | MACADAM (SDBAN ULTRA)
- Eleanor Underhill | Got It Covered (Self Released)
- Various Artists | STUDIO ONE Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
- EABS meets Jaubi | In Search of a Better Tomorrow (Astigmatic)
- Motrik | MOON: The Cosmic Electrics of MOTRIK (Jealous Butcher)
- Rancid | Tomorrow Never Comes (Epitaph)
- Sparklehorse | Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Frank Schultz | Blots (Stick Figure)
- Sightless Pit | Lockstep Bloodwar (Thrill Jockey)
- Oval | Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)