In 2025, KALX DJs played songs from over 40,000 releases! Out of those, here’s the 500 most played albums of the year.
- Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic / Warp)
- Naked Roommate – Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind)
- Water From Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
- Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra – Tension (Batov)
- Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
- Deradoorian – Ready for Heaven (Fire)
- Matmos – Metallic Life Review (Thrill Jockey)
- Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl.)
- ALVILDA – C’est Déjà L’heure (Static Shock)
- The Budos Band – VII (Diamond West)
- Juniore – Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe)
- WITCH – SOGOLO (Partisan)
- Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On (Matador)
- Wet Leg – moisturizer (Domino)
- Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
- Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing (Leaf)
- Vegyn & Air – Blue Moon Safari (Parlophone)
- Deerhoof – Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise)
- The Altons – Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone)
- Artificial Go – Musical Chairs (Feel It)
- Al-Qasar – Uncovered (WeWantSounds)
- Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida (Glitterbeat)
- DARKSIDE – Nothing (Matador)
- Various Artists – All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 (Night School)
- ML Buch – Skinned (Anyines)
- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms (International Anthem)
- Lael Neale – Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop)
- Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90 (20/20/20)
- Katsy Pline – Live at the Three Teardrops (Paisley Shirt)
- Various Artists – Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977 (180g)
- Tortoise – Touch (International Anthem)
- Evelyne / Masao – Testpattern (Dark Entries)
- Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta – Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- Marshall Allen – New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Various Artists – Alley of the Sun (Not Not Fun)
- Anika – Abyss (Sacred Bones)
- Femi Kuti – Journey Through Life (Partisan)
- Pachyman – Another Place (ATO)
- Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (Concord)
- clipping. – Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop)
- Tune-Yards – Better Dreaming (4AD)
- Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme – Ghazel (Ruptured)
- Thee Sacred Souls – Got a Story to Tell (Daptone)
- Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodelicos II (ATO)
- Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)
- Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
- Leroi Conroy – A Tiger’s Tale (Colemine)
- Dub Syndicate – Obscured By Version (On-U Sound)
- Sextile – yes, please. (Sacred Bones)
- Big Thief – Double Infinity (4AD)
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin – Ghosted III (Drag City)
- Aux Meadows – Draw Near (Eiderdown)
- Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures (Hermine/Psychic Hotline)
- Adrian Sherwood – The Grand Designer (On-U Sound)
- Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition) (2024 Remaster) (Rhino/Warner)
- Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements – Rain on the Road (Thrill Jockey)
- Salami Rose Joe Louis – Lorings (Brainfeeder)
- Anadol & Marie Klock – La grande accumulation (Pingipung)
- Ora the Molecule – Dance Therapy (Mute)
- Fontaines D.C. – Romance (Deluxe Edition) (XL)
- Lara Sarkissian – Remnants (btwn Earth+Sky)
- Rani Jambak – Vibra Genetika (Yes No Wave)
- claire rousay – a little death (Thrill Jockey)
- Bella Wakame – Bella Wakame (Umor Rex)
- Blackploid – Cosmic Drama (Central Processing Unit)
- Surprise Chef – Superb (Big Crown)
- sachi’s mirror – room to receive (Cone Shape Top)
- Pacific Walker – Lost in the Valley of the Sun (Blue Sanct)
- Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (International Anthem)
- People Like Us – Copia (Cutting Hedge)
- Colin Stetson – The love it took to leave you (Invada)
- Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Amadou & Mariam – La vie est belle (Because)
- Galactic & Irma Thomas – Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-zilla)
- L.A. WITCH – DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze)
- Sanam – Sametou Sawtan (Constellation)
- Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
- Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
- above me – above me (Dandy Boy)
- SAULT – 10 (Forever Living Originals)
- Ensemble Nist-Nah – Spilla (Black Truffle)
- Celine Dessberg – Selenge/Chintamani + Hödöö (That’s Love / Self-Released)
- Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
- PyPy – Sacred Times (Goner)
- Hakushi Hasegawa – Mahōgakkō (Brainfeeder)
- New Order – Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Rhino)
- Juana Molina – Doga (Sonamos)
- S.G. Goodman – Planting by the Signs (Slough Water)
- The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks (Self-Released)
- FKA twigs – EUSEXUA (Atlantic)
- Manslaughter 777 – god’s world (Thrill Jockey)
- The Body – The Crying Out of Things (Thrill Jockey)
- Joni Void – Every Life Is A Light (Constellation)
- Circuit des Yeux – Halo On The Inside (Matador)
- Yama Uba – Silhouettes (Psychic Eye/Ratskin)
- Nice Biscuit – SOS (RAS / Greenway)
- james K – Friend (AD 93)
- Sally Shapiro – Ready To Live A Lie (Italians Do It Better)
- Mekons – Horror (Fire)
- Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist (4AD)
- Etceteral – Kimatika (tak:til)
- Anoushka Shankar – Chapter III: We Return to Light (LEITER)
- Blood Orange – Essex Honey (Domino/RCA)
- Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings And Food (Super Deluxe Edition) (Rhino/Warner)
- Minyo Crusaders – Tour of Japan (180g)
- James Krivchenia – Performing Belief (Planet Mu)
- Big Freedia – Pressing Onward (Queen Diva)
- John Davis – Landlines (Students Of Decay)
- The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Sasquatch Landslide (Constellation)
- Oliver Coates – Throb, shiver, arrow of time (RVNG Intl.)
- Carla Kihlstedt & Present Music – 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe)
- Artificial Go – Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
- Ibibio Sound Machine – The Black Notes EP (Merge)
- Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila – Nuits Sans Nuit (Pingipung)
- Babe Rainbow – Slipper imp and shakaerator (KGLW – pdoom)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe)
- Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
- Molly Joyce – State Change (130701)
- Panda Bear – Sinister Grift (Domino)
- Peace De Résistance – Lullaby For the Debris (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
- Celer + Forest Management – Landmarks (Constellation Tatsu)
- Filhos – Vol. 1 (Discrepant)
- Batsauce – Echolocation (FULL PLATE)
- Andy Bell – pinball wanderer (Sonic Cathedral)
- Ty Segall – Possession (Drag City)
- Chuck Johnson – Sun Glories (Western Vinyl)
- Kae Tempest – Self Titled (Island)
- Bonobo, Floating Points & Kamasi Washington – Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) (SME)
- Winter – Adult Romantix (Winspear)
- ali dada – SUM (YNFND)
- Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
- Various Artists – Não Estragou Nada (Principe)
- More Eaze & claire rousay – No Floor (Thrill Jockey)
- Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno – Luminal (Verve)
- Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Ebo Taylor JID022 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Rrose – 2 or 3 Drops of Height Have Nothing to do With Savagery (T4T LUV NRG)
- Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla (Bella Union)
- Ella Fitzgerald – The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum (Live) (Verve)
- Brandee Younger – Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
- Gina Birch – Trouble (Third Man)
- Zachary James Watkins – Affirmative Action (Sige)
- The Linda Lindas – No Obligation (Epitaph)
- DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us (Pampa)
- figure eight – S/T (Cherub Dream)
- Aesop Rock – Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers)
- Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
- Squid – Cowards (Warp)
- Saint Etienne – The Night (Heavenly)
- Sutros – Acrid Tongue (Self-Released)
- Yasmine Hamdan – I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر (Crammed Discs)
- Shabaka – Possession (Impulse!)
- Herbert & Momoko – Clay (Strut)
- Helen Ganya – Share Your Care (Bella Union)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
- Omar El Shariyi (Ammar El Sherei) – Music from the East (WeWantSounds)
- Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars (Matador)
- Kiln – Lemon Borealis (A Strangely Isolated Place)
- Anouar Brahem – After The Last Sky (ECM)
- Juanita & Juan – Jungle Cruise (In The Red)
- Maya Beiser – Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia)
- The New Eves – The New Eve is Rising (Transgressive)
- Novo Line – Artifact (Self-Released)
- Damu The Fudgemunk – Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
- Spaceheads – Time and Spaceheads (Remastered 2024) (Absolutely Kosher)
- Mytron & Zongamin – Congregate (Multi Culti)
- Marina Zispin – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (Scenic Route)
- Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love (Freedom To Spend)
- Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Khadim (Ndagga)
- Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (Polyvinyl)
- Lung – The Swankeeper (Feel It)
- CHIME OBLIVION – CHIME OBLIVION (DEATHGOD)
- Terry Callier – The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier (Remastered 2025) (Craft)
- Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone (Drag City)
- Various Artists – Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (SME)
- The KVB – Tremors (Invada)
- Self Improvement – Syndrome (Feel It)
- Annie and the Caldwells – Can’t Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)
- The Marías – Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
- Mermaid Chunky – slif slaf slof (DFA)
- Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21 – The Confluence LP (Wah Wah 45s)
- The Chills – Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
- Snõõper – Worldwide (Third Man)
- Various Artists – Planet Mu 30 (Planet Mu)
- The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti-)
- David Bowie – Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Rhino)
- Various Artists – Sweet Rebels – The Golden Era of Alerian Pop-Rai 1986-1991 (WeWantSounds)
- Spinnen – Warmes Licht (Alien Transistor)
- Rogê – Curyman II (Diamond West)
- Raisa K – Affectionately (15 love)
- Daughter of Swords – Alex (Psychic Hotline)
- Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Thrill Jockey)
- Various Artists – Tales Of A Kitchen Porter (Dandy Boy)
- M(h)aol – Something Soft (Merge)
- Various Artists – Haunted Presence (Numero Group)
- The Routes – Surfin’ Pleasures (Topsy Turvy)
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer)
- Evie Sands – Any Way That You Want Me (Self-Released)
- Maia Friedman – Goodbye Long Winter Shadow (Last Gang)
- The Softies – The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter)
- Cruzloma – Mitos & Ritos (ZZK)
- Sam Amidon – Salt River (River Lea)
- Various Artists – DJ Notoya Presents Tokyo Bliss – Japanese Funk, Boogie and City Pop From King Records 1974-88 (WeWantSounds)
- The Mystic Tide – Frustration (Numero Group)
- Jeanines – How Long Can It Last (Slumberland)
- Gumby’s Junk – Business & Pleasure (Joyful Services)
- bar italia – Some Like It Hot (Matador)
- Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
- Various Artists – Wamono A to Z Presents: “Blow Up” Trio – Japanese Rare Groove from the Trio Records vaults 1973-1981 (Selected by Chintam) (180g)
- Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me (Carpark)
- Say Sue Me – Time is Not Yours (Damnably)
- Various Artists – Volcanic Tongue – A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music (Disciples)
- Blue Zero – colder shade blue (Lower Grand Tapes)
- SML – Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- cootie catcher – Shy at first (Cooked Raw)
- Los Microwaves – What’s That Got To Do (With Loving You) (Hyperspace Communications)
- Television Personalities – Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – Radio Sessions 1980-1993 (Fire)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
- Dakh Daughters – Pandora’s Box (S/R)
- Tim Hecker – Shards (kranky)
- HYPER GAL – After Image (SKiN GRAFT)
- Maria Somerville – Luster (4AD)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra – The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Foxwarren – 2 (Anti-)
- Various Artists – Trax Records: The 40th Anniversary Collection (2025 Remaster) (Trax)
- Various Artists – Zamaan Ya Sukkar 45 RPM Series (Souma)
- Mogwai – The Bad Fire (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
- Owls – Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
- Karen y Los Remedios – Silencio Remixes (ZZK)
- Pelados – Contato (Selo Risco)
- John Carpenter – Lost Themes (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition) 7″ (Sacred Bones)
- Frankie Cosmos – Different Talking (Sub Pop)
- Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
- Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose & Scott Amendola – Here to There (Secret Hatch)
- Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
- Barry Can’t Swim – Loner (Ninja Tune)
- Joviale – Mount Crystal (Ghostly International)
- The Bug Club – Very Human Features (Sub Pop)
- The Cords – The Cords (Slumberland)
- The Okmoniks – Afterparty Fever!!! (Slovenly)
- Moin – Belly Up (AD 93)
- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Recordings from the Åland Islands (International Anthem)
- Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse)
- Oklou – choke enough (True Panther)
- Cube – Lucky Numbers & True Weight (Digital Regress)
- Adrian Younge – Something About April III (Linear Labs)
- Sadie Powers – Souvenir (Room40)
- Wombo – Danger in Fives (Fire Talk)
- Terry Riley – The Columbia Recordings – Shri Camel (SME)
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Purple Bird (No Quarter)
- Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions (Fire)
- µ-Ziq – 1979 (Balmat)
- Elaquent – If Not Now, When? (Honey Dips)
- Population II – Maintenant Jamais (Bonsound)
- Third Coast Percussion – Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
- Haley Heynderickx – Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird)
- Guerilla Toss – You’re Weird Now (Sub Pop)
- Sholeh Asgary – آبـان (Aban) (Crystalline Morphologies)
- Geese – Getting Killed (Partisan)
- Turnstile – NEVER ENOUGH (Roadrunner)
- Various Artists – Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem (International Anthem)
- The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
- Being Dead – EELS (Bayonet)
- Ryli – Come and Get Me (Dandy Boy)
- SPELLLING – Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones)
- One Million Eyes – Polaris (Constellation Tatsu)
- Samba Touré – Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat)
- The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Gemini (Colemine)
- Sunny War – Armageddon In A Summer Dress (New West)
- Autocamper – What Do You Do All Day? (Slumberland)
- The Horsenecks – In The West (Tiki Parlour)
- Foxtails Brigade – Red Album (Golden Hour)
- Le Motel – Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ (Balmat)
- Connie Francis – Pretty Little Baby (International Versions) (Republic)
- Blawan – SickElixir (XL)
- Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma (Thaian / Space Shower)
- Various Artists – Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa con Estilo – Dance Floor Gems from the Vaults: 1950s – 1980s (Ansonia)
- The Fall – Singles Live: Vol.1 ’78 – ’81 (Live) (Popstock/Bella Union)
- Meiko Kaji – Yadokari (WeWantSounds)
- Meat Cube – Meat Cube (Self-Released)
- Shanti Celeste – Romance (Method 808 x Peach Discs)
- KOMPROMAT – PLДYING / PRДYING (WARRIORECORDS)
- Theresa Wong – Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
- Various Artists – Metro Subterranean (Hyperspace Communications)
- Actual/Actual – Dimensionality (Edgetone)
- BADBADNOTGOOD – Mid Spiral (XL)
- Jenny Scheinman – All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
- Andrew Pekler – New Environments & Rhythm Studies (Faitiche)
- I’m With Her – Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder)
- Michael Grigoni * Pan•American – New World, Lonely Ride (kranky)
- Park Jiha – All Living Things (Glitterbeat)
- Fantastic Negrito – Son of a Broken Man (Storefront)
- Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan)
- Anoice – Stories in White (Ricco)
- Tropa Magica – Para Bailar Y Tripiar (Tropivision)
- Florist – Jellywish (Double Double Whammy)
- Christina’s Trip – Forever After (Cherub Dream)
- Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear (Domino)
- Kelly Lee Owens – Dreamstate (dh2)
- Yu Ching – The Crystal Hum (Night School)
- Ken Ikeda – Sacred Offering (Room40)
- Sofi Tukker – butter (Self-Released)
- Arthur Lyman – Island Vibes (Aloha Got Soul)
- Lightheaded – Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! (Slumberland)
- Aux Meadows – Aux Meadows / Dust Kingdom (Shed)
- Various Artists – soFa – Elsewhere CC (Bongo Joe)
- Eje Eje – Primordial Soup (Batov)
- Ben LaMar Gay – Yowzers (International Anthem)
- Guedra Guedra – MUTANT (Smugglers Way)
- Ethel Cain – Perverts (Daughters of Cain)
- Brabrabra – Danger! Danger! Danger! (Kitchen Leg)
- Jessica Moss – Unfolding (Constellation)
- Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
- billy woods – GOLLIWOG (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Costin Miereanu – Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982 (Auryfa / Metaphon)
- MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti-/Epitaph)
- Alex G – Headlights (SME)
- Birds on a Wire – Nuées ardentes ([PIAS] Recordings France)
- Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists – The Friction Hug [is a Bridge] (Shallow Dive)
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Defiant Life (ECM)
- Gringo Star – Sweethearts (Self-Released)
- loscil – Lake Fire (kranky)
- Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled By Tutles (Sub Pop)
- Peter Perrett – The Cleansing (Domino)
- Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
- Clarice Jensen – In Holiday Clothing Out of the Great Darkness (130701)
- Duran Duran – DANSE MACABRE: DE LUXE (BMG)
- Maribou State – Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
- IE – Reverse Earth (Quindi)
- Woody Guthrie – Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2 (Shamus)
- Dog Eat Dog – Re-Deux (Bric-a-Brac)
- Good Sad Happy Bad – All Kinds of Days (Textile)
- Hardware – Untitled LP, 1979 (dirty knobby)
- citron citron – Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Sofia Kourtesis – Volver (Ninja Tune)
- Adrianne Lenker – Live at Revolution Hall (4AD)
- Flora Hibberd – Swirl (22TWENTY)
- Buckingham Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (Rhino)
- Andrea Parkins & Eliad Wagner – Drag Drop Spin & Crawl (Superpang)
- Philip Perkins – thirteen feet nine inches (Artifact)
- Kazdoura – Ghoyoum (Self-Released)
- The Great Learning Orchestra – Selected Recordings from “Grapefruit” by Yoko Ono (Karlrecords)
- Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales (Warp)
- Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno – Lateral (Verve)
- Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez – Revision (Tao Forms)
- Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore (New West)
- Melt-Banana – 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- Duval Timothy – wishful thinking (Carrying Colour)
- Eugene Chadbourne & Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells – Fed up With Bass (Public Eyesore)
- Clairo – Charm (Clairo)
- Butcher Brown – Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
- Claude Fontaine – La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
- Purelink – Faith (Peak Oil)
- Meemo Comma – Decimation Of I (Planet Mu)
- LA LOM – The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Kilynn Lunsford – Promiscuous Genes (Feel It)
- Flower-Corsano Duo – The Chocolate Cities (C/Site)
- Rhymies – I Dream Watching (Dandy Boy)
- Nazar – Demilitarize (Hyperdub)
- Various Artists – Noise Forest (Cold Spring)
- James Brandon Lewis Trio – Apple Cores (Anti-/Epitaph)
- Emma Swift – The Resurrection Game (Tiny Ghost)
- The Bug Club – On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists – Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic)
- Loris S. Sarid – Music for Tomato Plants (Constellation Tatsu)
- Third Coast Percussion – Glass: Aguas da Amazonia (Rockwell)
- Winged Wheel – Big Hotel (12XU)
- Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture) (Sacred Bones)
- Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes – Reverie (Constellation)
- T. Gowdy – Trill Scan (Constellation)
- Erika de Casier – Lifetime (Independent Jeep)
- Skyminds – Echoes on the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Various Artists – Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (Sub Pop)
- Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise – New Kind Palace (Kestrel)
- Rainbow Girls – HAUNTING (Rainbow Girls)
- The Mommyheads – Acorn “Remastered” (Self-Released)
- Lawrence English – Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40)
- Rəhman Məmmədli – Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- TENGGER – EARTHING (Centripetal Force)
- Ammar 808 – Live at Another Sky Festival (Glitterbeat)
- Violeta Garcia – IN/OUT (Bongo Joe)
- Molchat Doma – Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones)
- Tristwch Y Fenywod – Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School)
- War – Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino)
- Robber Robber – Wild Guess (S/R)
- Richard Dawson – End of the Middle (Weird World)
- Guzz – Botanical Garden of the Soul (Self-Released)
- Haruomi Hosono – Tropical Dandy (Stones Throw)
- Galore – Dirt (Speakeasy Studios SF)
- Preservation & Gabe ‘Nandez – Sortilège (Backwoodz Studioz)
- They Are Gutting a Body of Water – LOTTO (ATO)
- The Bongo Hop – La Pata Coja (Underdog)
- Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie (Merge)
- Soccer Mommy – Evergreen (Loma Vista)
- Silkroad Ensemble & Rhiannon Giddens – American Railroad (Nonesuch)
- Dame Area – Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area (Mannequin)
- Molly Nilsson – Un-American Activities (Night School)
- Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal (Partisan / Play It Again Sam)
- Father John Misty – Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)
- lay / lie – finders / keepers (Self-Released)
- Fly Anakin – (The) Forever Dream (Lex)
- Osees – ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST (DEATHGOD)
- Automatic – Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
- Manu Chao – Viva Tu (Because)
- Night Collectors – Heat & Fury (Aagoo)
- Sho-Nuff – Body Pressure (WeWantSounds)
- Genevieve Artadi & Real Bad Man – Everything Is Under Control. (Real Bad Man)
- Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20)
- Cochemea – Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet – The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
- LI YILEI – NONAGE (Métron)
- Kolonel Djafaar – Getaway (Batov)
- Litronix – One A Day Keeps The Doctor Away (Invada)
- The Beverage Station – Little Grey Cells (Gold Bolus)
- Smerz – Big city life (Escho)
- Ela Minus – DÍA (Domino)
- Benjamin Fulwood – The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This (Room40)
- Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood (Blue Note)
- American Patchwork Quartet – American Patchwork Quartet (Self-Released)
- Blanco Teta – La Debacle de las Divas (Bongo Joe)
- So-Do – Studio Works ’83-’85 (Time Capsule)
- Julius Smack – Starlight (Constellation Tatsu)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Where to From (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Barbara Dane – I’m On My Way b/w Go ‘Way From My Window (Gregmark)
- Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (Warp)
- Ganser – Animal Hospital (felte)
- Linda Smith – Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)
- CocoRosie – Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise)
- fantasy of a broken heart – Feats of Engineering (Dots Per Inch)
- Anika – Change (Sacred Bones)
- Tetsu Umehara – Ephemeral (Métron)
- The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Phoebe Rings – Aseurai (Carpark)
- Songhoy Blues – Héritage (Transgressive)
- Various Artists – Music from the Mountain People of Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies)
- Wishy – Planet Popstar (Winspear)
- Various Artists – Tokyo Riddim Vol. 2 1979-1986 (Time Capsule)
- HotWax – Hot Shock (Marathon Artists)
- Ollella – Antifragile (The Lalalalalabel)
- The Seldom Scene – Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
- These New Puritans – Crooked Wing (Domino)
- Skip The Needle – Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up (Little Village)
- Death Hags – Big Grey Sun #5 (Big Grey Sun)
- Milk for the Angry – Powder Trails on Fire (King Pizza)
- Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block – I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea (Room40)
- Various Artists – TRANSA: Selects Various Artists for Transgender and Nonbinary Empowerment (Red Hot Organization)
- Florry – Sounds Like… (Dear Life)
- Swell Foop – Don’t Spare Me (Self-Released)
- Feefawfum – 100 (Self-Released)
- William Ryan Fritch – Adhesion (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble in Mind)
- John Glacier – Like A Ribbon (Young)
- Tennis – Face Down In The Garden (Mutually Detrimental)
- Grooblen – FRIENDO (War Chant)
- Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition) (Nonesuch)
- Infinite Body – my bright abyss (Self-Released)
- Theodore Shapiro – Severance: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) (Fifth Season / Lakeshore)
- Tea Eater – I Don’t Believe in Bad Luck (Amethyst Trax)
- Saapato – Decomposition: Fox on a Highway (Constellation Tatsu)
- sm^sher – pit of mine (Scrawl)
- Nonconnah – Nonconnah Vs. The Spring Of Deception (Absolutely Kosher)
- Various Artists – Tru Thoughts 2024 (Tru Thoughts)
- Marlon Williams – Te Whare Tīwekaweka (Universal New Zealand)
- Jon Batiste – Beethoven Blues (Verve)
- A Moving Sound & Ethel – The Wheel of Life (Arc)
- Various Artists – Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3 – Renegade Queens (Patois)
- Raven Chacon – Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass (New World)
- Marinero – La La La (Hardly Art)
- Shellac – To All Trains (Touch and Go)
- Nowhere Flower – Heat Dome (Digital Regress)
- Thor & Friends – Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise)
- TAKEO WATANABE – Piece of My Scape (Artificial Owl)
- Yasmin Williams – Acadia (Nonesuch)
- Xacklebox – I’ll Show You! I’ll Show All of You! (Kitchen Leg)
- Majesty Crush – Butterflies Don’t Go Away (Numero Group)
- Fines Double – Espejismo (Fines Double)
- Xeno & Oaklander – Via Negativa (in the doorway light) (Dais)
- IC3PEAK – Coming Home (Self-Released)
- Toma Kami – Speed Oddity Vol. III (MB Studio)
- Ryli – I Think I Need You Around b/w When I Fall – Single (Dandy Boy)
- friendship games – 2025 demo (Self-Released)
- Church Chords – elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Thea Farhadian – Tattoos and Other Markings (Other Minds)
- Thee Reps – Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus)
- Novalima – La Danza (Deluxe Version) (Six Degrees)
- GAISTER – GAISTER (AD 93)
- Darwin Chamber X DJ Spun – Darwin Chamber X DJ Spun (Rong)
- Yetsuby – 4EVA (Pink Oyster)
- Dead Bandit – Dead Bandit (Quindi)
- Ilinx – Flipperen (Futura Resistenza)
- Onra – Nosthaigia (All City Dublin)
- Reverend Beat-Man & Milan Slick – Death crossed the street (Voodoo Rhythm)
- Bridget St. John – Covering My Brothers (Shagrat)
- 36 – Dreamloops (Suite) (Ba Da Bing)
- MEMORIALS – Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
- Nappy Nina & Swarvy – Nothing Is My Favorite Thing (Stimulated/LucidHaus)
- Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current)
- Masma Dream World – PLEASE COME TO ME (Valley of Search)
- Keiji Haino – Black Blues (Room40)
- Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World (Legacy)
