- Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope (Merge)
- Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
- La Luz | News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Tashi Wada | What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
- Various Artists | Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Time Capsule)
- Flung | All Heartbeat (Get Better)
- Meklit | Ethio Blue (Self Released)
- Shannon & The Clams | The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
- Sahra Halgan | Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
- Brittany Howard | What Now (Island)
- Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses (Colemine)
- Bombino | Sahel (Partisan)
- Sticklerphonics | Technicolor Ghost Parade (Jealous Butcher)
- Beak> | >>>> (INVADA)
- Ana Lua Caiano | Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
- Emel | MRA (Little Human)
- Akini Jing | VILLAIN (88rising)
- Arushi Jain | Delight (Leaving)
- Otis Sandsjö | Y-OTIS TRE (We Jazz)
- Various Artists | My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
- Natascha Rogers | Onaida (No Format!)
- Various Artists | The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga)
- Co-Pilot | Rotate (Dell’Orso Records)
- Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
- Jane Weaver | Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
- Broadcast | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
- Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
- Various Artists | Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi) (Batov)
- Howie Lee | At the Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
- Laura Jane Grace | Hole In My Head (Polyvinyl)
- Crumb | AMAMA (Self-Released)
- Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring | Haunted by Eternity (Fractal Music)
- Sonya Cohen Cramer | You’ve Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways)
- The Lostines | Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
- Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice (Matador)