- 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)