Music Tracking 2023

These are 2023 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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  • 03 Greedo & Mike Free: Free 03 (Alamo) [01-09] - hip-hop
  • 3Teeth: Endex (Century Media) [09-22] - metal
  • 6lack: Since I Have a Lover (Interscope) [03-24] - hip-hop [**]
  • 3D Jazz Trio: 9 to 5 (Diva Jazz -22) [2022-12-01] - jazz
  • The 8 Bit Big Band: Game Changer (TeamChuck) [11-10] - jazz
  • 100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs (Dog Show/Atlantic) [03-17] - hyperpop [*]
  • Gracie Abrams: Good Riddance (Interscope) [02-24] - alt-pop [***]
  • Filippo Abrate/Thomas Canmna: Kumbu-tse (MUPE) - jazz
  • Kevin Abstract: Blanket (RCA) [11-03] - indie pop
  • Acid Arab: Trois (Crammed Discs) [02-03] - electronic
  • Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: Afro Futuristic Dreams (Strut) [09-22] - jazz [***]
  • Colby Acuff: Western White Pines () - country
  • Jason Adasiewicz: Roy's World (Corbett vs Dempsey) [06-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Jason Adasiewicz: Roscoe Village: The Music of Roscoe Mitchell (Corbett vs Dempsey) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Adekunle Gold: Tequila Ever After () [07-28]
  • Tanner Adell: Buckle Bunny (Columbia) [07-23]
  • Vivienne Aerts: Typuhthang (self-released) - jazz
  • Aesop Rock: Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [11-10] - hip-hop [***]
  • Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: Hindsight (Origin) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound) [07-07] - dub [**]
  • Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra: Cosmic Synchronicities (Blue Spiral) [10-01] - jazz [***]
  • Arooj Aftab/Vijay Iyer/Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile (Verve) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Konrad Agnas: Rite of Passage (Moserobie) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • Agriculture: Agriculture (The Flenser) [07-21] - blackgaze
  • Agust D: D-Day (Bighit Music/HYBE) [04-21] - K-pop
  • Aila Trio: Shaped by Sea Waves (Edgetone) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Emiliano Aires/Santiago Bogacz: Retrato Anos Despues (Relative Pitch) [03-24] - jazz
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song (Nonesuch) [12-15] - jazz
  • Akmee: Sacrum Profanum (Nakama -22) [2022-12-31] - jazz [**]
  • Alaska & Steel Tipped Dove: The Structural Dynamics of Flow (Fused Arrow) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • Alex Albrecht: Violet Visionary (A Strangely Isolated Place) [09-29] - ambient
  • Susan Alcorn/Patrick Holmes/Ryan Sawyer: From Union Pool (Relative Pitch) [01-27] - jazz [*]
  • Susan Alcorn/Jose Lencastre/Hernani Faustino: Manifesto (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Susan Alcorn/Septeto Del Sur: Canto (Relative Pitch) [11-10] - jazz [**]
  • Rauw Alejandro: Playa Saturno (Duars Entertainment/Sony Music Latin) [07-07] - reggaeton [**]
  • Ralph Alessi Quartet: It's Always Now (ECM) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • Constantine Alexander: Firetet (self-released) [10-18] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Alexander: A New Beginning: Alto Saxophone With Strings (HighNote) - jazz
  • Joey Alexander: Continuance (Mack Avenue) [11-03] - jazz
  • Alfa Mist: Variables (Anti-) [04-21] - jazz
  • Algiers: Shook (Matador) [02-24] - post-punk [*]
  • Najib Alhoush: Free Music ()
  • Aline's Etoile Magique: Eclipse (Elastic) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Don Aliquo: Growth (Ear Up) - jazz [**]
  • Lina Allemano/Uwe Oberg/Matthias Bauer/Rudi Fischerlehner: SOG (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Lina Allemano Four: Pipe Dream (Lumo) [05-05] - jazz
  • Lina Allemano/Axel Dorner: Aphelia (Relative Pitch) [08-18] - jazz [*]
  • Lina Allemano: Canons (Lumo) [12-08] - jazz
  • The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses (Triangle7) [06-30] - jazz [B]
  • Geri Allen/Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing (Motema/Heartcore) [11-24] - jazz
  • JD Allen: This (Savant) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Dot Allison: Consciousology (Sonic Cathedral) [07-28] - art pop
  • Joao Almeida/Rodrigo Pinheiro/Vasco Furtado: Linae (Phonogram Unit) - jazz
  • Garth Alper: Spider's Web (self-released) - jazz
  • Joe Alterman: Big Mo & Little Joe: Joe Alterman Plays Les McCann (Joe Alberman Music) [08-11] - jazz
  • Altin Gun: Ask (Glitterbeat) [03-31] - Anatolian rock
  • Aly & AJ: With Love From (Aly & AJ) [03-17]
  • Amaarae: Fountain Baby (Interscope) [06-09] - soul [A-]
  • Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge: Beyond the Margins (Trost) [10-20] - jazz [A]
  • Zoh Amba: O Life, O Light Vol 2 (577) [06-09] - jazz [***]
  • Zoh Amba/Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt: The Flower School (Palilalia) [07-21] - jazz [*]
  • Farida Amadou/Jonas Cambien/Dave Rempis: On the Blink (Aerophonic) [10-10]] - jazz [A-]
  • Julius Amber: Close Up (Veto) - jazz
  • Roxana Amed/Frank Carlberg: Los Trabajos Y Las Noches (Sony Music Latin) [06-09] - Latin jazz [*]
  • Emil Amos: Zone Black (Drag City) [08-04] - soundtrack [*]
  • Emma Anderson: Pearlies (Sonic Cathedral) [10-20] - dream pop
  • Ray Anderson: Marching On (Double Moon -22) [2022-09-23] - jazz
  • Andre 3000: New Blue Sun (Epic) [11-17] - ambient [B]
  • Andrea: Due in Color (Ilian Tape) [03-23] - breakbeat
  • Alex Andwandter: El Diablo En El Cuerpo (self-released) [05-26] - Argentenian
  • Animal Collective: Isn't It Now? (Domino) [09-29] - neo-psychedelia
  • Anitta: Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story (Republic -EP) [08-17] - funk carioca [**]
  • Anjimile: The King (4AD) [09-08]
  • Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian) [07-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • The Answer: Sundowners () [03-17]
  • Anti-Flag: Lies They Tell Our Children (Spinefarm) [01-06] - punk
  • AntsLive: Just a Matter of Time () [01-12] - UK hip-hop
  • Lucie Antunes: Carnaval (InFine) [02-14]
  • Apartment House: Morton Feldman Violin and String Quartet (Another Timbre) - classical
  • Aphex Twin: Blackbox Life Recorder 21f/In a Room7 F760 (Warp -EP) [07-28] - electronic [*]
  • Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet The Griots Speak: Destiny Calling (OA2) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz/Jorge Vistel/Wolfgang Puschnig/Oren Marshall/Michael Arbenz: Conversation #8: Ablaze (Hammer -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz/Greg Osby/Arno Krijger: Conversation #9: Targeted (Hammer) [04-07] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10: Inland (Hammer) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Amber Arcades: Barefoot on Diamond Road (Fire) [02-10] - indie pop [*]
  • The Arcadian Wild: Welcome (self-released) [07-21] - folk
  • Vicente Archer: Short Stories (Cellar) [06-09] - jazz [**]
  • Nia Archives: Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall (Island -EP) [03-10] - electronic [*]
  • The Arcs: Electrophonic Chronic (Easy Eye Sound) [01-27] - blues rock
  • Armand Hammer: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum) [09-29] - hip-hop [***]
  • Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Arguelles/Francesco Bigoni/Benoit Delbecq/Francesco Diodati: Weave4 (Parco della Musica) [10-27] - jazz
  • Eslabon Armando: Desvelado ()
  • The Armed: Perfect Saviors (Sargent House) [08-25] - noise pop
  • JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society: Inception (Black Earth Music) [06-30] - jazz [B]
  • Arrested Development: On the Cutting Room Floor () [03-17] - hip-hop
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade From Paris to Paris: Live at Sons D'Hiver (RogueArt, 2CD) - jazz [A-]
  • Art School Girlfriend: Soft Landing (Fiction) [08-04] - art pop
  • Artchipel Orchestra With Jonathan Coe: Suspended Moment: The Music of Jonathan Coe (British Progressive Jazz) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Artemis: In Real Time (Blue Note) [05-05] - jazz [*]
  • Christian Artmann: The Middle of Life (Sunnyside) [06-02] - jazz [B]
  • Asake: Work of Art (YBNL Nation) [06-16] - Afrobeats [**]
  • Dave Askren/Jeff Benedict: Denver Sessions (Tapestry) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • ASO: Aso () [06-02] - trip hop
  • Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff: Magg Tekki (Mississippi) [11-10] - African [*]
  • Nanny Assis: Rovanio: The Music of Nanny Assis (In + Out) [06-23] - Brazil jazz [**]
  • Astrocolor: Moonlighting: Astrojazz Vol 1 (Amelia) - jazz
  • The Astronauts: LP () [08-27]
  • Astroruft Noise: Blazing/Freezing (577) - jazz
  • Rami Atassi: Dancing Together (Ropeadope) - jazz
  • Atlantic Road Trip: One (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Atmosphere: So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [05-05] - hip-hop [***]
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: Les Jardins Mystiques Vol 1 (Brainfeeder -3CD) [11-10] - jazz
  • Lauren Auder: The Infinite Spine (True Panther)
  • Aunty Rayzor: Viral Wreckage () [09-01] - afrobeats
  • Autopsy: Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Peaceville) [10-27] - metal
  • AVA Trio: Ash (Tora, EP) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Avelino: God Save the Streets ()
  • Avenged Sevenfold: Life Is but a Dream . . . (Warner) [06-02] - prog meetal
  • AWOL One: Scribbleface () [01-12] - hip-hop
  • B Cool-Aid: Leather Blvd (Lex) [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Wilma Baan: Look at Me Now! (ECN Music) [07-28] - jazz
  • Jeff Babko/David Piltch: The Libretto Show (Tudor Tones) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Jeff Babko/Tim Lefebvre/Mark Guiliana: Clam City (Sam First) [11-10] - jazz
  • Baby Rose: Through and Through (Secretly Canadian) [04-28] - neo-soul [*]
  • Babygirl: Be Still My Heart (Sandlot -EP) [04-14]
  • Babymetal: The Other One (Cooking Vinyl) [03-24] - metal
  • BabyTron: Out on Bond (The Hip Hop Lab/ShittyBoyz/Empire -EP) [02-24] - hip-hop
  • Bad Bunny: Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana (Rimas) [10-13] - Latin rap
  • The Bad Ends: The Power and the Glory (New West) [01-20]
  • Bad//Dreems: Hoo Ha! () [05-19]
  • Dmitry Baevsky: Kid's Time (Fresh Sound New Talent -22) [2022-12-02] - jazz [***]
  • John Bailey: Time Bandits (Freedom Road) - jazz [**]
  • Corinne Bailey Rae: Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers) [09-15] - art pop [**]
  • Rachel Baiman: Common Nation of Sorrow () [03-31]
  • Meg Baird: Furling (Drag City) [01-27] - psychedelic folk
  • Bakar: Halo (Black Butter) [09-22] - r&b
  • Jalen Baker: Be Still (Cellar) [07-07] - jazz [*]
  • Marco Baldini: Vesperi (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Balimaya Project: When the Dust Settles (New Soil) [07-21] - jazz [***]
  • Mirco Ballabene: 7 Composizioni Improvvisate Per Contrabbasso Solo (Niafunken) - jazz
  • Kelsea Ballerini: Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (Black River, EP) [02-14] - country [**]
  • Kelsea Ballerini: Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) (Black River) [08-11] - country
  • Bambii: Infinity Club (Innovative Leisure, EP) [08-04] - electronic [***]
  • Band of Holy Joy: Fated Beautiful Mistakes () [06-02]
  • Thomas Bangalter: Mythologies (Erato) [04-07] - modern composition
  • Devendra Banhart: Flying Wig (Mexican Summer) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Lloyd Banks: The Course of the Inevitable 3: Pieces of My Pain (Money by Any Means/Empire) [04-21] - hip-hop
  • Buju Banton: Born for Greatness (Gargamel Music/Roc Nation/Def Jam) [09-08] - reggae
  • Bantu Spaceship: Bantu Spaceship () - African
  • Maria Baptist Quintet: Essays on Jazz (self-released) [03-15] - jazz [***]
  • Bar Italia: Tracey Denim (Matador) [05-19] - slacker rock [***]
  • Bar Italia: The Twits (Matador) [11-03] - slacker rock
  • Baraque a Free: Silex (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Richard Baratta: Off the Charts (Savant) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Barber: The Song Is You (MB) [04-15] - jazz [*]
  • Caterina Barbieri: Myuthafoo (Light-Years) [06-16] - electronic [**]
  • Bark: Loud (Dial Back Sound) [09-05] - alt/indie [**]
  • Sean Barna: An Evening at Macri Park () [05-12]
  • Courtney Barnett: End of the Day [Music From the Film Anonymous Club] (Mom+Pop!) [09-08] - ambient
  • Baroness: Stone (Abraxan Hymns) [09-15] - prog metal
  • Joao Barradas: Solo II: Live at Festival D'Aix-En-Provence (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Kenny Barron: The Source (Artwork) [01-20] - jazz [***]
  • Bruce Barth Trio: Dedication (Origin -22) [2022-09-16] - jazz [**]
  • The Baseball Project: Grand Salami Time (Omnivore) [06-30] - alt/indie [**]
  • Baskery: V End of the Bloodline () [10-17]
  • Bass Drum of Death: Say I Won't (Fat Possum) [01-27]
  • Blick Bassy: Madiba ()
  • Martyna Basta: Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering (Warm Winters) [04-28]
  • Michael Bates: Metamorphoses: Variations on Lutoslawski (Anaklasis) [06-28] - jazz [**]
  • Jon Batiste: World Music Radio (Verve) [08-14] - pop soul [**]
  • Battery Operated Orchesrtra: Compulsory Games () [10-31]
  • Bawo: Legitimate Cause ()
  • Dave Bayles Trio: Live at the Uptowner (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [A-]
  • BC Camplight: The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union) [05-12] - art pop [B]
  • Bdrmm: I Don't Know (Rock Action) [06-30] - alt/indie [*]
  • Be Your Own Pet: Mommy (Third Man) [08-25] - punk [**]
  • Beach Fossils: Bunny (Bayonet) [06-02] - dream pop [B]
  • Beach House: Become (Sub Pop -EP) [04-22] - dream pop
  • ERR: stream no grade: Carlos "Bechegas"/Joao Madeira/Ulrich Mitzlaff: Open in Finder
  • Carlos "Bechegas"/Joao Madeira/Ulrich Mitzlaff: Open in Finder (4DaRecord) [11-01] - jazz
  • Gordon Beeferman/Michael Evans/Michael Foster/Shelley Hirsch: Glow (Tripticks Tapes) [01-27] - jazz [*]
  • Being Dead: When Horses Would Run (Bayonet) [07-14] - indie rock
  • Richie Beirach: Leaving (Jazzline) - jazz
  • Beirut: Hadsel (Pompeii) [11-10] - chamber pop
  • Tor Einar Bekken/Inga-Mei Steinbru: Jungle One Jungle Two Jungle Blues (self-released) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • Sebastien Beliah/Jon Heilbron/Mike Majkowski/Derek Shirley: Bertrand Denzler: Low Strings (Confront) - jazz
  • William Bell: One Day Closer to Home (Wilbe) [04-14] - r&b [**]
  • Bell Witch: Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate ()
  • Belle and Sebastian: Late Developers (Matador) [01-13] - indie pop [***]
  • Ilia Belorukov/Gabriel Ferrandini: Sculptor (Tripticks Tapes) - jazz
  • Benny Benack III: Third Time's the Charm (La Reserve/Bandstand Presents) [06-30] - jaz
  • Benefits: Nails (Invada) [04-21] - noise rock
  • Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix (Whirlwind) - jazz [A-]
  • Richard X Bennett & Matt Parker: Parker Plays X (BYNK) [05-13] - jazz [***]
  • Dierks Bentley: Gravel & Gold () - country
  • Beqa Ungiadze: [Station] (Phantom Limb) [02-24] - electronic
  • Adam Berenson: Songs From the Garret (Dream Play) - jazz
  • Kris Berg: Perspective (Summit) [08-11] - jazz
  • Elsa Bergaman: Playon Crayon (Bergman Inspelningar) - jazz
  • Jason Berger/Jacob Jolliff/Alec Spiegelman: Standards on Snare, Mandolin, and Bass Clarinet (Adhyaropa) [10-06] - jazz
  • Jerry Bergonzi: Extra Extra (Savant) - jazz [*]
  • Sarah Bernadette: Sad Poems on My Phone (Blujazz, EP) - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Sky (Dreck to Disk) [09-05] - jazz [*]
  • Tim Berne/Hank Roberts/Aurora Nealand: Oceans And (Intakt) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Bernice: Cruisin' (Telephone Explosion) [04-28] - art pop
  • Brock Berrigan: A Taste of Everything () [08-11]
  • Camille Bertault & Paul Bertault: Songs for My Daughter (Sunnyside) [09-08] - vocal jazz
  • Duane Betts: Wild & Precious Life (Royal Potato Family) [07-14]
  • Eric Bibb: Ridin' (Stony Plain) [03-24] - blues [***]
  • Carlos Bica: Playing With Beethoven (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [B]
  • Ernst Bier/Gunnar Geisse/Ignaz Schick: Hawking Extended (Zarek) - jazz
  • Big Freedia: Central City (Queen Diva) [06-23] - hip-hop [B-]
  • Big Scarr: The Secret Weapon (1017/Atlantic) [02-17] - hip-hop
  • Big/Brave: Nature Morte (Thrill Jockey) [02-24] - metal
  • BigXthaPlug: Amar (United Masters) [02-10] - hip-hop [*]
  • Biig Piig: Bubblegum (RCA) [01-20] - dance pop
  • Daniel Bingert: Ariba (Moserobie) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Shawny Binladen: Wickman Stickman () [04-14] - hip-hop
  • Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud (Third Man) [02-24] - post-punk [***]
  • Birdy: Portraits (Warner Music UK) [08-18] - synthpop
  • Adam Birnbaum: Preludes (Chelsea Music Festival) [10-10] - jazz [**]
  • Selwyn Birchwood: Exorcist (Alligator) [06-09] - blues [*]
  • Alex Bird & Ewen Farncombe: Songwriter (self-released -22) [2022-11-04] - vocal jazz
  • Ice Cold Bishop: Generational Curse (Epic) [03-24] - hip-hop [A-]
  • John Bishop: Antwerp (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Bisio/Timothy Hill: Inside Voice/Outside Voice (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [*]
  • Bktherula: LVL5 P1 (Warner, EP) [02-17] - hip-hop [*]
  • Jim Black & the Schrimps: Ain't No Saint (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
  • Rebecca Black: Let Her Burn (self-released) [02-09]
  • Black Belt Eagle Scout: The Land, the Water, the Sky (Saddle Creek) [02-10]
  • Black Country New Road: Live at Bush Hall (Ninja Tune) [03-24] [*]
  • Black Duck: Black Duck (Thrill Jockey) [06-23] - alt/indie
  • Black Honey: A Fistful of Peaches (Foxfive) [03-17]
  • Black Pumas: Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO) [10-27] - psychedelic soul
  • Abbey Blackwell: My Maze (Ruination) [07-07]
  • Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band: Kings Highway (Stoner Hill) [07-07] - jazz [*]
  • James Blake: Playing Robots Into Heaven (Republic) [09-08]
  • Johnathan Blake: Passage (Blue Note) [08-10] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Blake: Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: One Summer Night: Live at the 2018 Subdued Stringband Jamboree (Same Room) [01-23] - folk [**]
  • Ron Blake: Mistaken Identity (7ten33 Productions) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Mykki Blanco: Postcards From Italia (Transgressive, EP) [09-22] - jangle pop
  • BlankFor.Ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract (Red Hook) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Blaq Jerzee: Lost Files () - African
  • Samuel Blaser: Routes (Enja) [05-12] - jazz [***]
  • The Blaze: Jungle () [03-10] - dance-pop
  • Blind Boys of Alabama: Echoes of the South (Single Lock) [08-25] - gospel
  • Blink-182: One More Time . . . (Columbia) [10-20] - pop punk
  • Rory Block: Ain't Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain -22) [2022-10-07] - blues [**]
  • Blonde Redhead: Sit Down for Dinner (Section1) [09-29]
  • Blondshell: Blondshell (Partisan) [04-07] - indie rock [*]
  • Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Rune Kitchen (Bpa) - jazz
  • Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias/Bobby Previte: 2*3*23 (Radio Legs) [02-03] - jazz
  • Blu & Real Bad Man: Bad News (Real Bad Men) [09-01] - hip-hop
  • Blue Cranes: My Only Secret (Jealous Butcher/Beacon Sound) [08-11] - jazz [B]
  • Blue Lake: Sun Arcs (Tonal Union) [06-23] - new age [**]
  • Blue Moon Marquee: Scream, Holler & Howl (Ilda) [09-09] - blues [*]
  • Blue Orchids: Magpie Heights () [11-17]
  • Blur: The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone) [07-21] - alt/indie [*]
  • Bodurov Trio: Senkya Padna (Opto Music -22) - jazz
  • Body Type: Expired Candy (Poison City) [06-02] - postpunk
  • Bohannons: Night Construction (Cornelius Chapel) [05-05]
  • Samir Bohringer Quartet: Meta Zero (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Bombay Bicycle Club: My Big Day (AWAL) [10-20] - indie pop
  • Bombino: Sahel (Partisan) [09-15] - African [***]
  • The Bomboras: Songs From Beyond! () [05-05]
  • Piero Bittolo Bon: Spelunker (Chant) - jazz
  • Joe Bonamassa: Tales of Time (J&R Adventures) [04-14] - blues [B-]
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (Drag City) [08-11]
  • Bonny Doon: Let There Be Music (Anti-) [06-16]
  • The Boo Radleys: Eight (Universal) [06-16] - indie pop
  • Benjamin Boone: Caught in the Rhythm (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Antonio Borghini: Banquet of Consequences (We Insist!) [11-02] - jazz [***]
  • Boris: Bright New Disease (Sacred Bones) [06-16] - metal
  • Itamar Borochov: Arba (Greenleaf Music) [09-09] - jazz [***]
  • Bounaly: Dimanche à Bamako (Sahel Sounds) [11-17] - African [A-]
  • Lauren Bousfield: Salesforce (Orange Milk) [07-07]
  • Bowmanville: Bowmanville (StonEagleMusic) [10-01] - jazz [**]
  • Boygenius: The Record (Interscope) [03-31] [B]
  • Boygenius: The Rest (Interscope, EP) [10-13] [B]
  • Faith Brackenbury/John Pope/Paul Dunmall/Tony Bianco: Sentient Beings (Off) - jazz
  • Geof Bradfield Quintet: Quaver (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [***]
  • Geof Bradfield/Richard D Johnson/John Tate/Samuel Jewell: Our Heroes (Afar Music) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Muireann Bradley: I Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square) [12-08] - blues
  • Bob Bradshaw: The Art of Feeling Blue () [06-16] - singer-songwriter
  • Pony Bradshaw: North Georgia Rounder (Black Mountain Music) - country [**]
  • Brae & Joey Valence: Punk Tactics () [09-08]
  • Braids: Euphoric Recall (Braids Musique/Secret City) [04-28] - art pop
  • Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (International Anthem) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Anthony Branker & Imagine: What Place Can Be for Us? A Suite in Ten Movements (Origin) - jazz [A-]
  • The Brass Monkeys: Lullabite (33 Jazz) - jazz
  • Anthony Braxton/Roland Dahinden/Hildegard Kleeb: Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013 () [09-22] - jazz
  • Jamie Breiwick: Awake Volume 2: The Music of Don Cherry (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Patrick Brennan Sonic Openings: Tilting Curvaceous (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • David Brewis: The Soft Struggles (Daylight Saving) [02-24]
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Future Is Your Past (A) [02-10]
  • The Bridge Sessions: Pang (The Bridge Sessions) - jazz
  • Hailey Brinnel: Beautiful Tomorrow (Outside In Music) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • Chris Broderick & Stuart Turner: And One Red Mitten () [03-03]
  • Vilhelm Bromander: In This Forever Unfolding Moment (Thanatos) [09-29] - jazz
  • Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Naked Nudes [Brotz 80th at ADA 2021] (Trost) [03-03] - jazz [*]
  • Peter Brotzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts (ACT) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Anthony Brown & Group Therapy: Affirmations () [11-03] - gospel
  • Apollo Brown & Planet Asia: Sardines (Mello Music Group) [09-08] - hip-hop
  • Danny Brown: Quaranta (Warp) [11-17] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Rob Brown: Oblongata (RogueArt) [10-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Rob Brown: Oceanic (RogueArt) [10-09] - jazz [***]
  • VV Brown: Am I British Yet? (YOY) [10-27] - 10-27 [***]
  • Bruce Brubaker: Eno Piano (InFine) [11-10] - jazz
  • Kyle Bruckmann/Tim Daisy/Phillip Greenlief/Lisa Mezzacappa: Semaphore (Relay) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Bruer: Love Letters: Compositions for Solo Piano (self-released -22) - jazz
  • Bruise Control: Useless for Something () [04-28]
  • Peter Bruun/Soren Kjaergaard/Josas Westergaard: Thesauros () [J|jazz]
  • Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan (Warner) [08-25] - country [***]
  • Zach Bryan: Boys of Faith (Warner, EP) [09-22] - country [**]
  • ML Buch: Suntub (15 Love) [10-27] - dream pop
  • The Bug Club: Rare Birds: Hour of Song () [10-20]
  • Jane Bunnett and Maqueque: Playing With Fire (True North/Linus Entertainment) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Christian Bucher/Rick Countryman: The Force of Gravity (FMR) - jazz
  • Buck 65: 14 KT Gold (self-released -EP) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • Buck 65: Super Dope (self-released) [05-05] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Buck 65: Punk Rock B-Boy (self-released) [11-03] - hip-hop [A]
  • Buck 65/Doseone/Jel: North American Adonis (Handsmade) [11-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bully: Lucky for You (Sub Pop) [06-02] - indie rock [**]
  • Bex Burch: There Is Only Love and Fear (International Anthem) [10-20] - jazz
  • Burna Boy: I Told Them . . . (Spaceship/Bad Habit/Atlantic) [08-25]
  • Sean Burns: Lost Country () - country
  • George Burton: The Yule Log (self-released) - jazz
  • Ludovica Burtone: Sparks (Outside In Music) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Burton: Dear Departed (Partisan) [07-14] - Americana
  • Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite (Patois) [06-09] - jazz [***]
  • Bush Tetras: They Live in My Head (Wharf Cat) [07-28]
  • Bushman's Revenge: All the Better for Seeing You (Is It Jazz?) [09-08]
  • John Butcher/Dominic Lash/Emil Karlsen: Here and Now (Bead) - jazz
  • John Butcher: The Very Fabric (Hitorri) - jazz
  • John Butcher/Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Fathom (577) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Butcher Brown: Solar Music (Concord Jazz) [10-06] - jazz [B]
  • Will Butler/Sister Squares: Will Butler + Sister Squares (Merge) [09-22] - indie rock
  • Christopher Butterfield: Souvenir (Redshift) - jazz
  • Chris Byars Quartet: Look Ahead (SteepleChase) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • Dee Byrne: Outlines (Whirlwind) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Julie Byrne: The Greater Wings (Ghostly International) [07-07] - alt/indie [**]
  • Cable Ties: All Her Plans (Poison City/Merge) [06-23] - alt/indie
  • Lucia Cadotsch: Aki (Heartcore) [05-26] - vocal jazz
  • Daniel Caesar: Never Enough (Republic) [04-07] - neo-soul [*]
  • Gail Caesar: Guitar Woman Blues (Music Maker) [01-06] - blues [**]
  • Diego Caicedo: Seis Amorfismos (Burning Ambulance) [10-13] - jazz
  • Vinicius Cajado: Luna (Urchin) - jazz
  • Calato: John Cage Variations + FOUR (Ezz-Thetics) - classical
  • Erik Blennow Calav/Lisa Ullen/Finn Loxbo/Ryan Packard: Bi, In Yo & Iwato (Insub) - jazz
  • Calcanhar: Jump (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • John Cale: Mercy (Domino) [01-20] - alt-pop [*]
  • Califone: Villagers (Jealous Butcher) [05-19]
  • Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto) [02-10] - vocal jazz [**]
  • The Callous Daoboys: God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys (MNRK -EP) [10-20] - metalcore
  • Jim Campilongo/Steve Cardenas: New Year (Sunnyside) [09-01] - jazz
  • Rodrigo Campos: Pagode Novo (YB Music) [03-01] - Brazil [***]
  • Canadian Jazz Collective: Septology: The Black Forest Session (HGBS Blue) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • Thomas Canna: Mi Sembri Frastuono, Sussurro (MUPE) - jazz
  • Natanael Cano: Nata Montana (Warner Music Latina) [06-30] - Mexican rap
  • Cannibal Corpse: Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade) [09-22] - metal
  • Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (Captiol) [05-19] - pop [*]
  • Onoe Caponoe: Concrete Fantasia () [01-26] - hip-hop
  • Caelan Cardello: Rufus Reid Presents Caelan Cardello (Liam) - jazz
  • Rudiger Carl/Sven-Ake Johansson: Flache Und Figur, 14 Duos Fur Akkordeon Und Drumsets (Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu) - jazz
  • Carlene: Looking Out My Window (self-released) [05-05]
  • Gunhild Carling: Good Evening Cats (Jazz Art -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [***]
  • Luzmila Carpio: Inti Watana: El Retorno Del Sol () [09-21] - new age
  • Rosie Carr: Yew (Toothpaste) [09-09]
  • Eladio Carrion: 3Men2Kbrn (Rimas) [03-17] - Latin
  • Daniel Carter/Adriana Camacho/Federico Ughi: Trabajadores De Energi (577) [10-27] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Leo Genovese/William Parker/Francisco Mela: Shine Hear Vol 1 (577) [07/07] - jazz [**]
  • Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Electric Telepathy Vol 2 (577) [10-06] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/Eric Plaks/Zach Swanson/Jon Panikkar: Open Question Vol 2 (577) [11-03] - jazz
  • Matt Carter Octet: Read Between the Lines (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Andre Carvalho: Lost in Translation Vol II (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Cash Box Kings: Oscar's Motel ()
  • CASisDEAD: Famous Last Words (XL) [10-27] - UK hip-hop
  • Sara Caswell: The Way to You (Anzic) - jazz [***]
  • Cat Clyde: Down Rounder (Second Prize) [02-17]
  • Cat Power: Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert () [11-10]
  • Valentin Ceccaldi: Bonbon Flamme (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • A Certain Ratio: 1982 (Mute) [03-31]
  • Eddie Chacon: Sundown (Stones Throw) [03-31] - neo-soul [*]
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Messages to God (Kill Rock Stars) [09-15] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Chai: Chai (Sub Pop) [09-22] - pop/rock [**]
  • Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina (Blue Note) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Joan Chamorro & Friends: Jazz House Sessions With Scott Hamilton (Associacio Sant Andreu Jazz Band) [09-01] - jazz [**]
  • Chappaqua Wrestling: Plus Ultra (EMI) [04-21]
  • Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly (Partisan) [06-30] [**]
  • Che Noir: Noir or Never (Poetic, EP) - hip-hop [**]
  • Cheat Codes: One Night in Nashville ()
  • The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling (Virgin EMI) [09-08] - electronic [*]
  • Ed Cherry: Are We There Yet? (Cellar) [01-20] - jazz
  • Cherry Glazerr: I Don't Want You Anymore (Secretly Canadian) [09-29] - alt/indie
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: The Individualists (Lizard Breath) [09-10] - jazz [**]
  • Chief Adjuah: Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope) [07-28] - jazz [***]
  • Tyler Childers: Rustin' in the Rain (Hickman Holler) [09-08] - country [***]
  • Billy Childs: The Winds of Change (Mack Avenue) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Chillin' Villain Empire: Critical Bass Theory () [04-03] - hip-hop
  • John Chin: Sun of Music: Live From the Lockdown (self-released) [11-03] - jazz
  • Chloe: In Pieces (Columbia/Parkwood) [03-31] - r&b
  • Se Jong Cho & Marc Miller: Matisse Bath (Cow:Music/Astral Spirits) [05-05] - jazz
  • Yooyoun Cho: A Tadd of Fat Birds (Yooyoun Cho Music) [11-11] - jazz
  • Ralphie Choo: Supernova (Rusia IDK/Warner) [09-15] - glitch pop
  • Christine and the Queens: Paranoia, Angels, True Love (Because Music) [06-09]
  • Lucinda Chua: Yian (4AD) [03-24] - ambient pop
  • Chucky Smash: The Taking of Pelham 123 () [03-13] - hip-hop
  • Chum: Metaphysical () [04-06]
  • Chuquimamani-Condori: DJ E (No Label) [11-15] - electronic
  • The Church: The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels/Easy Action) [02-24] - dream pop
  • The CIA: Surgery Channel (In the Red) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • Margo Cilker: Valley of Heart's Delight (Fluff and Gravy) [09-15] - country [***]
  • Circa Waves: Never Going Under (PIAS) [01-13] - indie rock
  • City and Colour: The Love Still Held Me Near (Still) [03-31]
  • Civic: Taken by Force () [02-10] - garage punk
  • Domen Cizej: Introducing (Clean Feed -5CD) [06-23] - jazz
  • Clark: Sus Dog (Throttle) [05-26] - electronic [B]
  • Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark (Warner) [05-19] - country [***]
  • Mike Clark: Kosen Rufu (Wide Hive) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Scott Clark: Dawn & Dusk (Out of Your Head) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Clarke: Songs of Silence () [11-17] - ambient
  • Kelly Clarkson: Chemistry (Atlantic) [06-23]
  • Claud: Supermodels (Dead Oceans) [07-14] - indie pop
  • Clavish: Rap Game Awful (Universal) [01-20] - hip-hop
  • Cautious Clay: Karpeh (Blue Note) - jazz
  • JD Clayton: Long Way From Home () - country
  • Jon Cleary: So Swell (Single Lock) - vocal jazz
  • Gerald Cleaver: 22/23 (Positive Elevation/577) [05-26] - jazz
  • Slaid Cleaves: Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media) [03-03] - country [***]
  • Michael Cleveland: Lovin' of the Game ()
  • Shana Cleveland: Manzanita (Hardly Art) [03-10] - folk
  • The Clientele: I Am Not There Anymore (Merge) [07-28] - alt/indie [*]
  • Jen Cloher: I Am the River, the River Is Me (Milk!) [03-03]
  • Cloth: Secret Measure (Rock Action) [05-05] - dream pop
  • CLT DRP: Nothing Clever, Just Feelings (Venn) [09-08]
  • CMAT: Crazymad, for Me (CMATBaby/AWAL) [10-13] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • The Coal: Recorded Remembered (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Oliver Coates: Aftersun [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Lakeshore/Invada) [01-13] - ambient
  • Cash Cobain: Pretty Girls Love Slizzy (Giant Music) [09-13]
  • Brent Cobb: Southern Star (Ol' Buddy/Thirty Tigers) [09-22] - country [**]
  • Code Kunst: Remember Archive () [03-16]
  • Jeff Coffin/Jordan Perlson/Viktor Krauss: Coffin/Perlson/Krauss (Ear Up) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Coffin Mulch: Spectral Intercession () [06-30] - death metal
  • Avishai Cohen/Abraham Rodriguez Jr: Iroko (Naive/Believe) [05-05] - jazz
  • Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series Volume 5: Featuring Houston Person (Bandstand Presents) [11-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeremy Cohen: Raymond Scott Reimagined (ViolinJazz) - jazz
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Emergence (PlayOn) [07-07] - jazz [*]
  • Lloyd Cole: On Pain (EarMusic/Tapete) [06-23]
  • George Coleman: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar) [05-19] - jazz [A-]
  • Colleen: Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Reel (Thrill Jockey) [09-22] - electronic
  • Olivia Perez Collellmir: Olivia (Adhyaropa) [09-15]
  • Tom Collier: Boomer Vibes Volume 1 (Summit) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Shirley Collins: Archangel Hill (Domino) [05-26] - British folk [*]
  • Kweku Collins: Then Spring () [02-03]
  • Luke Combs: Gettin' Old (River House Artists) [03-24] - country [*]
  • Comfort: What's Bad Enough? (FatCat) [05-05] - synth punk
  • Commuter: No Longer Penitent ()
  • Complete Mountain Almanac: Complete Mountain Almanac (Bella Union) [01-27] - art pop
  • Zhao Cong/Zhu Wenbo: Were Some Sound Days, One Separately Be Placed (Ftarri) - jazz
  • Constant Smiles: Kenneth Anger (Sacred Bones)
  • Nicola Conte: Umoja (Far Out) [06-30] - jazz
  • Conway the Machine & Jae Skeese: Pain Provided Profit (Drumwork/Empire) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Conway the Machine: Won't He Do It (Drumwork/Empire) [05-05] - hip-hop [**]
  • Hollie Cook: Happy Hour in Dub (Merge) [08-11] - dub [*]
  • Cool-Aid: Leather Blvd () [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Gaz Coombes: Turn the Car Around (Hot Fruit/Virgin) [01-13] - indie rock
  • Jack Cooper: Arrival (Astral Spirits) [06-02] - jazz
  • The Coral: Sea of Mirrors (Run On/Modern Sky) [09-08]
  • Matt Corby: Everything's Fine (Communion Group) [03-24]
  • Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin: A Sublime Madness (Astral Spirits) [05-12] - jazz
  • The Chick Corea Elektrik Band: The Future Is Now (Candid) [11-03] - jazz
  • Patrick Cornelius: Book of Secrets (Posi-Tone) [06-30] - jazz
  • Charlotte Cornfield: Could Have Done Anything (Next Door) [05-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Chembo Corniel Quintet: Artistas, Musicos y Poetas (Chemboro) - jazz
  • Corook: Best of Carook (So Far) (Atlantic) [05-12] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Corook: Serious Person (Part 1) (Atlantic, EP) [06-02] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Corook: Serious Person (Part 2) (Atlantic, EP) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Christine Correa: Just You Stand and Listen With Me (Sunnyside) - vocal jazz
  • Bethany Cosentino: Natural Disaster (Concord) [07-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Jeff Cosgrove/John Medeski/Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story () [07-17] - jazz
  • Jeff Cosgrove/Jeff Lederer/Mark Lysher: Welcome Home () [10-20] - jazz
  • Jeff Cosgrove/Noah Preminger/Kim Cass: Confusing Motion for Progress () [10-20] - jazz
  • Carlo Costa/John McCowen: Pianissimo Etc (Tripticks Tapes) - jazz
  • Dan Costa: Beams (self-released) - jazz
  • Mario Costa/Cuong Vu/Benoit Delbecq/Bruno Chevillon: Chromosome (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Alan Courtis & David Grubbs: Braintrust of Friends and Werewolves (Husky Pants) [09-08]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe: The Rite of Spring/Spectre D'Un Songe (Pyroclastic) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera (Intakt) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Cowboy Junkies: Such Ferocious Beauty (Cooking Vinyl) [06-02]
  • Neil Cowley: Battery Life (Mote) [03-24]
  • Cran: Nate () [02-23]
  • Laurence Crane: Natural World (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Craven Faults: Standers (The Leaf Label) [05-12] - prog electronic
  • Creep Show: Yawning Abyss (Bella U nion) [06-16]
  • Cril: The Next Best Step? () [05-26] - hip-hop
  • Crime & the City Solution: The Killer () [10-20]
  • Theo Croker: Live in Paris (Masterworks -22 -EP) [2022-03-18] - jazz [*]
  • Theo Croker: By the Way (Masterworks -EP) [02-17] - jazz [*]
  • Crosslegged: Another Blue () [01-27]
  • Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions (New West) [05-05] - country [**]
  • Crypta: Shades of Sorrow (Napalm) [08-04] - death metal
  • The Cucumbers: Old Shoes (self-released) [07-21] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Cunabear & Steel Tipped Dove: Steel Tipped Bear Claws 2: Phantasmagoria () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Cupis: Anemos (Objet-A) - jazz
  • Cut Worms: Cut Worms (Jagjaguwar) [07-21]
  • CVC: Get Real (CVC) [01-13] - psychedelic rock
  • Cydnee With a C: Confessions of a Fangirl (Bread & Butter -EP) [04-05] - pop [*]
  • Andrew Cyrille: Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • Miley Cyrus: Endless Summer Vacation (Columbia) [03-10] - pop [**]
  • Chuck D as Mistachuck: We Wreck Stadiums: Homage to Rap & Baseball Heroes (SpitSLAM) [03-31] - hip-hop [***]
  • Maria Da Rocha/Ernesto Rodrigues/Daniel Levin/Joao Madeira: Hoya (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [**]
  • Daddy Long Legs: Street Sermons ()
  • DaeMoney: Slae Season 3 () [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Etienne Daho: Tirer La Nuit Sur Les Etoiles (Barclay) [05-12] - French
  • Daine: Shapeless (Warner) [02-24] - pop
  • Rhoda Dakar: Version Girl (Sunday Best) [05-26]
  • Picchio Dal Pozzo: In Camporella (Cuneiform) [07-28] - improv rock
  • Eyolf Dale: Echoes of Oslo: Piano Concerto (Edition) [11-10] - jazz
  • Claire Daly With George Garzone: VuVu for Frances (Daly Bread) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • The Damned: Darkadelic (Ear Music) [04-28] - punk
  • Lao Dan: Religion, Music, and Practice Vol 1 (self-released) [02-05] - jazz
  • Harold Danko: Trillium (SteepleChase) [07-14] - jazz
  • DannyLux: dLux (Warner Music Latina) [08-17]
  • Bertrand Danzler/Jason Kahn: Translations (Potlach -22)
  • James Dapogny: James P Johnson: De Organizer/The Dreamy Kid (Excerpts) (Naxos) [08-08] - classical
  • Das Kondensat: Andere Planeten (WhyPlayJazz) [04-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Daughter: Stereo Mind Game (4AD/Glassnote) [04-07] - dream pop
  • Dave and Central Cee: Split Decision (Neighbourhood, EP) [06-04] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • John Daversa & Tal Cohen: The Art of Duo Volume One (self-released) [02-03] - jazz
  • Davido: Timeless (DMW/Columbia) [03-31] - Afropop [**]
  • Anthony Davis/Kyle Motl/Kjell Nordeson: Vertical Motion (Astral Spirits) [09-15] - jazz
  • Clarence "Bluesman" Davis: Shake It for Me (Music Maker) [05-26] - blues [A-]
  • Caroline Davis' Alula: Captivity (Ropeadope) [10-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • John Davis: My Hope Is Found in a God Who Can Raise Up the Dead ()
  • Kate Davis: Fish Bowl (Anti-) [03-24] - indie pop
  • Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons: Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic, 2CD) [09-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Mikaela Davis: And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars) [08-04]
  • Ward Davis: Sunday Morning () - country
  • Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem for Jazz (International Anthem) [03-24] - jazz [B]
  • Day & Taxi: Live in Baden (Clean Feed) [01-23] - jazz [***]
  • Day Tripper: What a Time to Be Dead () [01-11] - hip-hop
  • Yussef Dayes: Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch) [09-08] - jazz fusion [A-]
  • Dazegxd & Quinn: DSX.FM (DeadAir, EP) [04-26] - hip-hop [*]
  • Angelo De Augustine: Toil and Trouble (Asthmatic Kitty) [06-30] - lo-fi
  • Mark De Clive-Lowe/Melanie Charles/Shigeto: Hotel San Claudio (Soul Bank Music) - jazz
  • Jon De Lucia: And the Stars Were Shining (Musaeum Clausum) - jazz
  • Indigo De Souza: All of This Will End (Saddle Creek) [04-28] - indie pop [*]
  • Zaho De Sagazan: La Symphonie Des Eclairs () [03-31]
  • Olivia Dean: Messy (EMI) [06-30] - pop [*]
  • Michael Dease: The Other Side: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [03-17] - jazz [*]
  • Michael Dease: Swing Low (Posi-Tone) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Death & Vanilla: Flicker (Fire)
  • Death Pill: Death Pill (New Heavy Sounds) [02-24] - hardcore punk
  • Death Valley Girls: Islands of the Sky (Suicide Squeeze) [02-24]
  • Deathcrash: Less (Untitled (Recs)) [03-17] - emo
  • Deathprod: Compositions (Smalltown Supersound) [01-27] - dark ambient
  • Deeper: Careful! (Sub Pop) [09-08] - post-punk
  • Deer Tick: Emotional Contracts (ATO) [06-16] - alt/indie [*]
  • Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (Joyful Noise) [03-31] - indie rock
  • Def Robot: Existential Boredom () [07-31]
  • Defprez: It's Always a Time Like This (Closed Sessions -EP) [04-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Lana Del Rabies: Strega Beata (Gilgongo) [03-17] - darkwave
  • Lana Del Rey: Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Interscope/Polydor) [03-24] - art pop [**]
  • Helena Deland: Goodnight Summerland (Chivi Chivi) [10-13]
  • Mac DeMarco: Five Easy Hot Dogs (Mac's) [01-20] - soft rock
  • Mac DeMarco: One Wayne G (Mac's) [04-21] - soft rock
  • Iris DeMent: Working on a World (Flariella) - folk [A-]
  • Orhan Demir: Solo Guitar: Freedom in Jazz Vol 3 (Hittite) [02-00] - jazz [***]
  • Demira: Iggy ()
  • Depeche Mode: Memento Mori (Columbia/Mute) [03-24] - synthpop [B-]
  • Alabaster DePlume: Come With Fierce Grace (International Anthem) [09-08] - jazz
  • Destiny Bond: Be My Vengeance (Convulse) [06-23]
  • Deus: How to Replace It (PIAS) [02-17] - alt/indie
  • Yaron Deutsch: Live in New York (self-released) - jazz
  • Andrew Raffo Dewar/John Hughes/Chad Popple: Reflejos IV-VII (Waveform Alphabet) - jazz
  • Dexys: The Feminine Divine (Universal) [07-28] - alt/indie
  • Giovanni Di Domenico/Goncalo Almeida/Balasz Pandi/Giotis Damianidis: Pray for Your Prey (Defkaz) - jazz
  • Hannah Diamond: Perfect Picture (PC Music) [10-06] - electropop [*]
  • Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko (Wagram Music) [05-12] - African [*]
  • Jarrod Dickenson: Big Talk (Hooked) [02-03] - folk
  • Aaron Diehl & the Knights: Zodiac Suite (Mack Avenue) [09-15] - jazz [B-]
  • John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Volume 2 (577) [06-23] - jazz
  • Christian Dillingham: Cascades (Greenleaf Music) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Yorgos Dimitriadis/Axel Dorner/Lori Freedman/Andrew Parkins/Christopher Williams: BeingFive (Relative Pitch -22) - jazz
  • Chris Dingman: Journeys Vol 2 (self-released) [02-03] - jazz
  • Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw -EP) [04-14] - r&b [B]
  • Diplomatic Immunity: No Weather, No Cry, the Desert Don't Lie () [09-06]
  • Dippers: Clastic Rock (Goner) [08-04]
  • The Dirt: Agitator () [04-14]
  • Dirt Byrds: Standing in Line () [04-28]
  • Dirt Buyer: Dirt Buyer II (Bayonet) [10-20]
  • Mike DiRubbo: Inner Light (Truth Revolution) [11-17] - jazz [***]
  • Disclosure: Alchemy () [07-14] - UK garage
  • Divide and Dissolve: Systemic (Invada) [06-30] - metal
  • McKinley Dixon: Beloved! Paradise! Jazz! (City Slang) [06-02] - hip-hop [*]
  • Dizzy: Dizzy (Royal Mountain) [08-18] - indie pop
  • DJ Black Low: Impumelelo (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [03-17] - amapiano [***]
  • DJ Finale: Mille Morceau (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
  • DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: Destiny (Spells on the Telly) [08-13] - house [*]
  • DJ Shadow: Action Adventure (Mass Appeal) [10-27] - EDM [*]
  • Django Django: Off Planet (Because Music) [06-16]
  • DMA's: How Many Dreams? (I Oh You) [03-31] - alt dance
  • Do Nothing: Snake Sideways (Exact Truth) [06-30]
  • Doja Cat: Scarlet (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-22] - pop rap [***]
  • Nicole Dollanganger: Married in Mount Airy (self-released) [01-06] - slowcore
  • Bonny Doon: Let There Be Music (Anti-) [06-16]
  • Marcelo Dos Reis: Flora (JACC) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Marcelo Dos Reis & Luis Vicente: (Un)prepared Pieces for Guitar and Trumpet (Cipsela) [10-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Drab Majesty: An Object in Motion (Dais -EP) [08-25]
  • Drain: Living Proof (Epitaph) [05-05] - hardcore punk
  • Drake: For All the Dogs (Ovo Sound) [10-06] - pop rap
  • Drake: For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition (Ovo Sound -EP) [11-17] - pop rap
  • Drazek/Fuscaldo/Drake/Aoki/Jones/Abrams: June 22 (Feeding Tube/Astral Spirits) [11-17] - jazz
  • Dream Wife: Social Lubrication (Lucky Number) [06-09] - pop punk [***]
  • Mark Dresser: Times of Change (Pyroclastic) [05-05] - jazz [***]
  • Arnold Dreyblatt: Resolve (Drag City) [08-18]
  • Dropkick Murphys: Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck Music) [05-12] - punk [*]
  • Dry Thrust: The Less You Sleep (Trost) [01-20] - jazz [*]
  • Antoine Drye With Strings: Retreat to Beauty (Oblation Vol 3: Providence!) (Cellar Music) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • The Ducks: High Flyin' (Reprise) [04-14]
  • Marc Ducret: Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [03-10] - jazz [***]
  • Marc Ducret: Ici (Ayler) [05-07] - jazz
  • George Dumitriu: Monk on Viola (Evil Rabbit) - jazz
  • Nava Dunkelman/Gabby Fluke-Mogul: Likht (Relative Pitch) [04-14] - jazz
  • Paul Dunmall/Paul Rodgers/Tony Orrell: That's My Life (577) - jazz
  • Paul Dunmall/Olie Brice: The Laughing Stone (Confront) [04-23] - jazz [***]
  • Paul Dunmall Ensemble: It's a Matter of Fact (Discus Music) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Paul Dunmall New Quartet: World Without (577) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Paul Dunmall: Bright Light a Joyous Celebration (Discus Music) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Scott Dunn: I Watch You Sleep (Stunt) - jazz
  • Brian Dunne: Loser on the Ropes ()
  • Duot & Zarm Ensemble [Albert Cirera/Ramon Prats/Carlos Zingaro/David Alves/Ulrich Mitzlaff/Alvaro Rosso]: Duot With Strings (Fundacja Sluchaj) [10-15] - jazz
  • Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band: Cry Me a River (Alma) [09-08] - jazz
  • Duran Duran: Danse Macabre (BMG/Tape Modern) [10-27]
  • Baxter Dury: I Thought I Was Better Than You (Heavenly) [06-02] - art pop
  • Dust Raps the Blues: Problems () [04-26] - hip-hop
  • Dutch Uncles: True Entertainment (Memphis Industries) [03-10]
  • Jeremy Dutton: Anyone Is Better Than Here (self-released) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Mia Dyberg Trio: Timestretch (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba (Brownswood) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Dying Fetus: Make Them Beg for Death (Relapse) [09-08] - metal
  • Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom (Legacy) [06-02] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • EABS Meets Jaubi: In Search of a Better Tomorrow (Astigmatic) [05-12] - jazz [***]
  • Open Mike Eagle: Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering (Auto Reverse) [08-25] - hip-hop [***]
  • Eartheater: Powders (Chemical X/Mad Decent) [09-20] - art pop
  • East Axis: No Subject (Mack Avenue) - jazz [***]
  • Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher: Angles of Enquiry (Confront) [06-21] - jazz
  • Easy Star All-Stars: Ziggy Stardub () [04-21] - dub
  • Silke Eberhard/Celine Voccia: Wild Knots (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Michael Echaniz: Seven Shades of Violet (Rebiralost) (Ridgeway) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • Yelena Eckemoff: Lonely Man and His Fish (L&H Production, 2CD) [04-28] - jazz [***]
  • Rachel Eckroth: One (Blackbird Sessions) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • Vince Ector Organotomy Trio +: Live @ the Side Door (Cabo Verde) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Nataniel Edelman Trio: Un Ruido De Agua (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble: Therapy ()
  • Edsel Axle: Variable Happiness (Worried Songs) [08-11]
  • Lara Eidi: Sun (self-released) [09-04] - jazz
  • The Ekphrastics: Special Delivery (Harriet) [04-22] - alt/indie [*]
  • El Dorodo: Unincorporated () - country
  • El Mato a Un Policia Motorizado: Super Terror () [07-07]
  • El Michels Affair & Black Thought: Glorious Game (Big Crown) [04-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry (Spiritmuse) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • Electric Six: Turquoise (Metropolis) [09-08]
  • Eduardo Elia: Una Pregunta, Tres Respuestas (Orbit577) [09-22] - jazz
  • Myron Elkins: Factories, Farms & Amphetamines () - country
  • Kurt Elling/Charlie Hunter/Neal Smith: SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures (Edition, EP) [02-17] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Kurt Elling/Charlie Hunter: SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree (Edition) [09-15] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Eloise: Drunk on a Flight (Harbour) [04-14]
  • Eluvium: (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (Temporary Residence) [05-12] - ambient [*]
  • Camille Emaille/Dieb13/Hans Koch: ABE (Confront) - jazz
  • Ember: August in March (Imani) [08-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Avalon Emerson: & the Charm (Another Dove) [04-28] - electgronic [***]
  • Emperor X: Suggested Improvements to Transportation Infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor (Dreams of Field, EP) [03-09] - tech folk [**]
  • Empire State Bastard: Rivers of Heresy (Roadrunner) [09-01]
  • En Attendant Ana: Principia (Trouble in Mind) [02-24] - alt/indie [B]
  • END: The Sin of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities) [10-27] - metalcore
  • The End: Why Do You Mourn (Trost) [05-26] - jazz
  • Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd for Tadd: "Central Avenue Swing" & "Our Delight" (Tighten Up) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci: Chthonic (American Dreams) [08-11]
  • Brian Eno: Top Boy [Score From the Original Series] (Netflix Music) [09-01]
  • Ensemble 0: Jojoni [Made to Measure Vol 49] (Crammed Discs) [04-28] - minimalism [**]
  • Ensemble Dedalus + ERikm: Fata Morgana (Relative Pitch) [02-17] - jazz
  • Enslaved: Heimdal (Nuclear Blast) [03-03] - metal
  • Enter Shikari: A Kiss for the Whole World (So) [04-21] - postpunk
  • Entoto Band: Entoto Band (Guitar Globetrotter) [02-01] - Ethiopian [**]
  • Khalil Epi: Romena (Shouka, EP)
  • Luis Erades/Avelino Saavedra: La Inmunda Vida De San Gulik (Discordian) - jazz
  • Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet: Rising Sun (Motema Music) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Espen Eriksen Trio/Andy Sheppard: As Good as It Gets (Rune Grammofon) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Ilhan Ersahin/Dave Harrington/Kenny Wollesen: Your Head You Know (Nublu -EP) [07-14] - jazz
  • Eli Escobar: The Beach Album () [09-15]
  • Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds (Smoke Sessions) [04-14] - jazz [B-]
  • Tianna Esperanza: Terror (BMG) [02-17] [***]
  • Gabriel Espinosa: Bossas and Boleros (Zoho) [06-23] - jazz [B-]
  • Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones (Ears & Eyes) - jazz
  • Eto & Futurewave: Dead Poets () [01-23] - hip-hop
  • Karl Evangelista: What Else Is There (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-10] - jazz
  • Falkner Evans: Through the Lines (CAP) - jazz [**]
  • Orrin Evans: The Red Door (Smoke Sessions) [06-16] - jazz [B]
  • Peter Evans: Murmurs (More Is More -22) [2022-10-07] - jazz
  • Peter Evans [Pulverize the Sound]: Black (Relative Pitch -22) [2022-11-18] - jazz
  • Peter Evans [Being & Becoming]: Ars Memoria (More Is More) [11-01] - jazz [***]
  • Everything but the Girl: Fuse (Buzzin' Fly/Virgin) [04-21] - electropop [*]
  • Evil Blizzard: Rotting in the Belly of the Whale () [11-03]
  • Douglas R Ewart/Ignaz Schick: Now Is Forever (Zarek) - jazz
  • Explosions in the Sky: End (Temporary Residence) [09-15]
  • Eyelids: A Clossal Waste of Light (Jealous Butcher) [03-10] - alt/indie
  • Jad Fair and Samuel Lock Ward: Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars) [02-10] [**]
  • Nathan Fake: Crystal Vision (Cambria Instruments) [04-07] - electronic
  • Falcon Outlaw & Daniel Son: The Tzu Keepers () [04-21] - hip-hop
  • Fall Out Boy: So Much (for) Stardust (Elektra) [03-24]
  • Far Caspian: The Last Remaining Light (Tiny Library)
  • Drayton Farley: Twenty on High (Hargrove) [03-03] - country [B]
  • Joe Farnsworth: In What Direction Are You Headed? (Smoke Sessions) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Ty Farris: No Cosign Just Cocaine 5 () [ 02-17] - hip-hop
  • Margherita Fava: Tatatu (self-released) - jazz [A-]
  • Fall Out Boy: So Much (for) Stardust (Fueled by Ramen) [03-24] - alt rock
  • Drayton Farley: Twenty on High () - country
  • Chris Farren: Doom Singer (Polyvinyl) [08-04]
  • Fat Tony: I Will Make a Baby in This Damn Economy () - hip-hop
  • Kari Faux: Real B*tches Don't Die! (Drink Sum Wtr) [05-26] - hip-hop [*]
  • FBC: O Amor, O Perdao E a Tecnologia Irao Nos Levar Para Outro Planeta () [07-28] - dance-pop
  • Feeble Little Horse: Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek) [06-09] - postpunk [***]
  • Michael Feinberg: Blues Variant (Criss Cross) [01-06] - jazz [***]
  • Feist: Multitudes (Polydor) [04-14] [*]
  • Mark Feldman/Dave Rempis/Tim Daisy: Sirocco (Aerophonic) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Fenne Lily: Big Picture (Dead Oceans) [04-14]
  • Feral Five: Truth Is the New Gold () [02-10]
  • Alan Ferber Nonet: Up High, Down Low (Sunnyside) [07-21] - jazz
  • Fever Ray: Radical Romantics (Rabid/Mute) [03-10] - electropop [**]
  • Fiddlehead: Death Is Nothing to Us (Run for Cover) [08-18] - emo
  • Steve Fidyk Live Wire Broad Band: Red Beats (Blue Canteen Music) - jazz
  • Field Medic: Light Is Gone 2 (Run for Cover) [09-01]
  • Amanda Fields: What, When and Without (Are and Be) [02-28] - country [**]
  • Scott Fields Ensemble: Sand (Relative Pitch) [04-07] - jazz
  • Diego Figueiredo: My World (Arbors) [07-07] - jazz [**]
  • Sammy Figueroa: Something for a Memory (Busco Tu Recuerdo) (Ashe) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Dominic Fike: Sunburn (Sandy Boys/Columbia) [07-07] - indie pop
  • Robert Finley: Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound) [10-27] - blues [**]
  • Finn's Motel: Last Year's Leaves ()
  • Nick Finzer: Dreams Visions Illusions (Outside In Music) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Ally Fiola & the Next Quest: Interblaze (Arts Nova Scotia) - jazz
  • Don Fiorino/Andy Haas: Accidentals (Resonant Music) - jazz [A-]
  • Fire Down Below: Low Desert Surf Club (Ripple Music) [09-08]
  • Fire! Orchestra: Echoes (Rune Grammofon) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Fires in the Distance: Air Not Meant for Us ()
  • Fireworks: Higher Lonely Power (Funeral Plant Collective)
  • Five-Way Split: All the Way (Ubuntu Music) [03-17] - jazz [*]
  • Fizz: The Secret to Life (Universal/Decca/FKA Chairs) [10-27]
  • Fjall: From the Rough Hill (Discus Music) [11-03] - jazz
  • The Flame [Robert Mitchell/Neil Charles/Mark Sanders]: Towards the Flame Vol 1 (577) [05-12] - jazz
  • Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love: Guts & Skins (PNL) [05-26] - jazz [**]
  • Bela Fleck/Zakir Hussain/Edgar Meyer: As We Speak (Thirty Tigers) [05-12] - jazz [*]
  • Florence & the Machine: Dance Fever [Complete Version] ()
  • Florry: The Holey Bible (Dear Life) [08-04]
  • Flying Pooka! [Dani Oore & Florian Hoefner]: The Ecstasy of Becoming (Alma) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • John Francis Flynn: Look Over the Wall, See the Sky (River Lea) [11-10] - prog folk
  • Ben Folds: What Matters Most (New West) [06-02]
  • Sue Foley: Live in Austin Vol 1 (Stony Plain) [10-27] - blues [**]
  • Miya Folick: Roach (Nettwerk) [05-26] - indie pop [**]
  • The Folk Implosion: Music for Kids (Domino) [09-08]
  • Follakzold: V (Sacred Bones) [09-22]
  • Foo Fighters: But Here We Are (Roswell/RCA) [06-02] - art rock [B-]
  • Foodman: Uchigawa Tankentai (Hyperdub, EP) [11-10]
  • James Ford: Hum () [05-12] - art pop
  • Forever Pavot: L'Idiophone (Born Bad) [02-03]
  • Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: As Things Do (Intakt) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame (Tapete) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions (Sunnyside) [03-03] - jazz [**]
  • Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game (Artwork) [11-17] - jazz [*]
  • Aldo Fosko Collective: This One Time (Hitchtone) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Foster: The Industrious Tongue of Michael Foster (Relative Pitch -22) [2022-08-19] - jazz [*]
  • Ruthie Foster: Healing Time (Blue Corn Music -22) [2022-11-18] - blues [B]
  • Four Elements & Beyond: Clock the Chemistry () [02-05] - hip-hop
  • Jean-Marc Foussat/Urs Leimgruber/Carlos "Zingaro": L'Aile D'Icare (Fou -22) [2022-12-15] - jazz
  • Danny Fox Trio: Time Took Care of It (Adhyaropa) - jazz
  • Mimi Fox Organ Trio: One for Wes (Origin) - jazz [*]
  • JW Francis: Dream House () [01-27]
  • Frankie and the Witch Fingers: Data Doom (The Reverberation Appreciation Society/Greenway) [09-01] - garage rock
  • Caesar Frazier: Tenacity (As We Speak) (TrackMerchant -22) - jazz [*]
  • Caesar Frazier: Live at Jazzcup (Stunt) - jazz [**]
  • Freak Heat Waves: Mondo Tempo (Mood Hut) [07-12] - hypnagogic pop
  • Fred Again/Brian Eno: Secret Life (Text) [05-05] - ambient [B]
  • George Freeman: The Good Life (HighNote) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Paulo Fresu/Omar Sosa: Food (Tuk Music) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Friedlander: She Sees (Skipstone) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Debby Friday: Good Luck (Sub Pop) [03-24] - electropop [A-]
  • Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons to Rest (RogueArt) - jazz [***]
  • Romulo Froes and Tiago Rosas: Na Goela () [02-28] - Brazil
  • Frog Squad: Special Noise (Mahakala Music) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • The Front Bottoms: You Are Who You Hang Out With (Fueled by Ramen) [08-04] - alt/indie [*]
  • Frost Children: Speed Run (True Panther) [04-14] - electropop
  • Fruit Bats: A River Running to Your Heart (Merge) [04-14] - folk pop [*]
  • Fucked Up: One Day (Merge) [01-27] - post-hardcore
  • Fuerza Regida: Pa Que Hablen ()
  • Satoko Fujii/Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion (Ayler) - jazz [***]
  • Satoko Fujii: Torrent: Piano Solo (Libra) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • Arina Fujiwara: Neon (self-released) [10-02] - jazz [*]
  • Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March On (self-released, EP) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Pith (Out of Your Head) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Robbie Fulks: Bluegrass Vacation (Compass) [04-07] - bluegrass [***]
  • Champian Fulton: Meet Me at Birdland (Champian) [04-07] - jazz [**]
  • Fust: Genevieve (Dear Life) [06-16]
  • Becky G: Esquinas (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-28] - Latin pop
  • Jayda G: Guy (Ninja Tune) [06-09] - dance pop
  • Gaadge: Somewhere Down Below (Crafted Sounds) [08-04]
  • Gabbro: The Moon Appears When the Water Is Still (Gabbro) - jazz
  • Gabriels: Angels & Queens (Atlas Artists/Parlophone) [07-07] - soul [**]
  • Gaika: Drift (Big Dada) [09-08]
  • Gale: Lo Que No Te Dije (Sony) [05-12]
  • Christina Galisatus: Without Night (Slow & Steady) [01-27] - vocal jazz
  • Noel Gallagher's Nigh Flying Birds: Council Skies (Sour Mash) [06-02] - chamber pop
  • Ray Gallon Trio: Grand Company (Cellar) [11-17] - jazz
  • Asher Gamedze: Turbulence and Pulse (International Anthem/Mushroom Hour) [05-05] - jazz [***]
  • Miha Gantar: Amsterdam (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz
  • Ruth Garbus: Alive People (Orindal) [08-25]
  • Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets: Pan Africa (Impact Jazz) [01-13] - jazz
  • Laurent Garnier: 33 Tours Et Puis S'en Vont ()
  • The Gaslight Anthem: History Books (Rich Mahogany) [10-27] - rock
  • Katie Gately: Fawn/Brute (Houndstooth) [03-31] - electronic
  • Stephen Gauci/Francisco Mela/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gaucimusic) - jazz
  • Gayance: Mascarade (Rhythm Section International)
  • Seppe Gebruers: Playing With Standards (El Negocito) - jazz
  • George Gee Swing Orchestra: Winter Wonderland (self-released) [11-01] - jazz [**]
  • Gee Tee: Goodnight Neanderthal (Goner) [03-03] - garage punk
  • Geese: 3D Country (Partisan) [06-23]
  • Gel: Only Constant (Convulse -EP) [03-31] - hardcore punk [B]
  • Geld: Currency//Castration () - hardcore
  • Sam Gendel: Cookup (Nonesuch) [02-24] - jazz
  • Leo Genovese/Demian Cabaud/Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero (Sunnyside) - jazz [**]
  • Kate Gentile/International Contemporary Ensemble: B i o m e i.i (Obliquity) [05-19] - jazz
  • Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (Pi -3CD) [10-13] - jazz [+]
  • George: Letters to George (Out of Your Head) - jazz [***]
  • Georgia: Euphoric (Domino) [07-28] - pop [***]
  • Nico Georis: Cloud Suites (Leaving) [06-09] - ambient
  • Max Gerl: Max Gerl (JMI) [07-28] - jazz [*]
  • Jim Ghedi/Toby Hay: Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay () [05-26] - American primitivism
  • The Ghost: Vanished Pleasures (Relative Pitch) [07-28] - jazz [***]
  • Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet: Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook (Whaling City Sound) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Rhiannon Giddens: You're the One (Nonesuch) [08-18] - folk [**]
  • Lafayette Gilchrist: Undaunted (Morphius) [08-04] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Gill & Paul Franklin: Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys (MCA Nashville) [08-04] - country [*]
  • Girl Ray: Prestige (Moshi Moshi) [08-04] - nu-disco [B]
  • Girl Scout: Real Life Human Garbage (Made, EP) [02-15] - alt/indie [**]
  • Bendik Giske: Bendik Giske () [06-09] - post-minimalism
  • Bara Gisladottir: Silva (Sono Luminus) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • Frode Gjerstad With Matthew Shipp: We Speak (Relative Pitch) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • John Glacier & Surf Gang: JGSG (Surf Gang -EP) [08-25]
  • Glaive: I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All (Interscope) [07-14] - left-field pop
  • Margaret Glaspy: Echo the Diamond (ATO) [08-18] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Glass Triangle: Blue and Sun-Lights (Relative Pitch) [05-12] - jazz
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland: The Ones Ahead (Transgressive) [07-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Maple Glider: I Get Into Trouble (Pieater/Partisan) [10-13] - singer-songwriter
  • Gloss Up: Before the Gloss Up (Quality Control) [01-20] - hip-hop [***]
  • Gloss Up: Shades of Gloss (Quality Control) [08-11] - hip-hop [**]
  • Glume: Main Character ()
  • Gnarface: This Aint Art () [05-01]
  • The Go! Team: Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries) [02-03] - noise pop
  • Goat: Medicine (Rocket) [10-13] - psychedelic rock
  • Godflesh: Purge (Avalanche) [06-09] - industrial metal
  • Charles Wesley Godwin: Family Ties (self-released) [09-22] - country [*]
  • GoGo Penguin: Everything Is Going to Be OK (XXIM) [04-14] - jazz [**]
  • Riccardo Gola: Cosmonautica (Jando) [04-28] - jazz
  • The Golden Dregs: On Grace & Dignity (4AD) [02-10] - soft rock
  • Alison Goldfrapp: The Love Invention (Skint/BMG) [05-12] - pop [***]
  • Larry Goldings/Kaveh Rastegar/Abe Rounds: Better (Ropeadope) [03-10] - jazz
  • Vinny Golia Quartet: No Refunds (UgExplode) [03-21] - jazz
  • Ricardo Dias Gomes: Muito Sol (Hive Mind) [06-09] - Brazil [***]
  • Brad Goode: The Unknown (Origin) - jazz [**]
  • Tim Goodin: True Stories and Flat Out Lies () - country
  • The Sofia Goodman Group: Secrets of the Shore (Joyous) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Ludwig Goransson: Oppenheimer [Original Motion Picture Soundtgrack] (Back Lot Music)
  • Gorillaz: Cracker Island (Parlophone/Warner) [02-24] - electropop
  • Jocelyn Gould: Sonic Bouquet (Jocelyn Gould Music) [10-13] - jazz
  • Ellie Goulding: Higher Than Heaven (Polydor) [04-07] - electropop
  • Gov't Mule: Peace . . . Like a River (Concord) [06-16]
  • Nurla Graham: Cyclamen (Primavera Sound) [01-20]
  • Magnus Granberg: Evening Star, Vesper Bell (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Darrell Grant's MJ New: Our Mr Jackson (Lair Hill) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Skip Grasso: Becoming (Barking Coda Music) - jazz [B]
  • Frank Gratkowski/Simon Nabatov: Tender Mercies (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [*]
  • Devin Gray: Most Definitely (Rataplan) [06-09] - jazz [**]
  • Gordon Grdina/Mat Maneri/Christian Lillinger: Live at the Armoury (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Gordon Grdina's the Twain: Feat. Dojo and Koichi Makigami (Black Dot -22) - jazz
  • Great Sakata Quintet: Tornado (Euphorium) - jazz
  • Great Sakata Trio: Siren, Sticks & Circus (Euphorium) - jazz
  • Riley Green: Ain't My Last Rodeo () - country
  • Green Gardens: This Is Not Your Fault () [08-18]
  • The Green Mean Machine: The Engine (self-released) - jazz
  • Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola: Stay With It (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Matt Greenwood: Atlas (self-released) [01-20] - jazz
  • Ben Gregory: Episode (Transgressive) [04-07]
  • Eddie Gripper: Home (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Daryl Groetsch: Frozen Waste (self-released) [07-18] - ambient
  • Daryl Groetsch: Gardens in Glass (self-released) [07-18] - ambient
  • Muriel Grossman: Devotion () - jazz
  • Laura Groves: Radio Red (Bella Union) [ 08-11] - art pop
  • Grrrl Gang: Spunky! (Big Romantic) [08-22] - punk [*]
  • Grupo Frontera: El Comienzo (VHR Music) [08-03] - Latin [**]
  • Gabriel Guerrero & Quantum: Equilibrio (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [U]
  • Guided by Voices: La La Land (GBV) [01-20] - indie rock
  • Mark Guiliana: Mischief (Edition) [04-28] - jazz
  • Steve Gunn: Reflections Vol 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet (RVNG Intl) [03-31] - alt/indie
  • Steve Gunn & David Moore: Let the Moon Be a Planet () [03-31] - contemporary folk
  • Gunna: A Gift & a Curse (YSL/300 Entertainment) [06-16] - hip-hop
  • Mats Gustafsson/Joachim Nordwall: Their Power Reached Across Space and Time: To Defy Them Was Death -- or Worse (Thrill Jockey) [03-24] - jazz
  • Mats Gustafsson: Hidros 9 Mirrors (Trost) - jazz
  • Mats Gustafsson & Ensemble E: EE Opus One (Trost) - jazz
  • Barry Guy and Friends: Krakov 2018 (Not Two -22) - jazz
  • Barry Guy & the London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Harmos-Krakow (Not Two -6CD) - jazz
  • Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: All This This Here (Fundacja Sluchaj) [07-10] - jazz
  • Junl Habel: Carvings (Basin Rock) [01-06] - folk
  • Wolfgang Haffner: Silent World (ACT) [01-27] - jazz [***]
  • Noah Haidu: Standards (Sunnyside) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Hak/Danzeisen: Hak/Danzeisen (Karlrecords) - jazz
  • Haken: Fauna (InsideOut) [03-03] - prog metal
  • Eric Hall: Canto Ostinato (Simeon Ten Holt) ()
  • Petra Haller/Meg Morley: Shoulders I Stand On (self-released) - jazz
  • Rich Halley Quartet: Fire Within (Pine Eagle) [12-01] - jazz [U]
  • Laurel Halo: Atlas (Awe) [09-22] - electronic [B]
  • Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View (Gondwana) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Logan Halstead: Dark Black Coal () - country
  • Hamell on Trial: Bring the Kids (Saustex) [11-17] - alt/indie [**]
  • Linley Hamilton: Ginger's Hollow (Whirlwind) [05-26] - jazz
  • Scott Hamilton: Talk to Me, Baby (Blau -22) - jazz [***]
  • Scott Hamilton Quartet: At Pizza Express Live (PX) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Albert Hammond Jr: Melodies on Hiatus (Red Bull) [06-23]
  • The Handsome Family: Hollow (Loose) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Cory Hanson: Western Cum (Drag City) [06-30] - alt/indie [*]
  • Fareed Haque: Casseus! The Music of Frantz Casseus Re-Imagined (Wardude Music) - jazz
  • Jan Harbeck Quartet: Balanced (Stunt -22) [2022-11-25] - jazz
  • Jack Harlow: Jackman (Generation Now/Atlantic) [04-28] - hip-hop [*]
  • Harper Trio [Maria-Christina Harper/Josephine Davies/Evan Jenkins]: Passing By (self-released) - jazz
  • Allan Harris: Live at Blue Llama Jazz Club (Love Productions/Live at Blue Llama) [07-28] - jazz [**]
  • Jaimee Harris: Boomerang Town () - country
  • Kevin Harris & the Solution: Jazz Gumbo (Blujazz) [05-01] - jazz [B-]
  • Lafayette Harris Jr: Swingin' Up in Harlem (Savant) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Harrison: Birds, Bees, the Clouds & the Trees (Last Gang) [04-28] - instrumental hip-hop
  • Joel Harrison/Anthony Pirog: The Great Mirage (ASG) - jazz
  • John Hart: Resonance (SteepleChase) - jazz
  • PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan) [07-07] - alt/indie [*]
  • The Hatch Expansion: Texas Edition (Sonic Transmissions/Astral Spirits) [08-25] - jazz
  • Gerrit Hatcher: Solo Five (Kettle Hole) [05-12] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Hause: Drive It Like It's Stolen (Blood Harmony) [04-29]
  • Fritz Hauser & Pedro Carneiro: Pas De Deux (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [B]
  • Franz Hautzinger: Gomberg III-V/Airplay (Trost) - jazz
  • Hamish Hawk: Angel Numbers (Post Electric) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Alexander Hawkins Trio: Carnival Celestial (Intakt) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • H Hawkline: Milk for Flowers (Heavenly) [03-10] - psychedelic pop
  • Hawkwind: The Future Never Waits (Cherry Red) [04-28] - prog rock
  • David Hazeltine: Christmas Cards From David Hazeltine (HighNote -EP) - jazz
  • Louis Hayes: Exactly Right! (Savant) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Phil Haynes/Drew Gress/David Liebman: Coda(s): No Fast Food III (Corner Store Jazz) [06-15] - jazz [***]
  • Kevin Hays/Ben Street/Billy Hart: Bridges (Smoke Sessions) [10-20] - jazz
  • Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter: Saved! (Perpetual Flame Ministries) [10-20] - gospel
  • Miho Hazama: M_unit: Beyond Orbits (Edition) [09-29] - jazz
  • Headache: The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth () [05-31] - trip hop
  • Willie J Healey: Bunny (Yala!) [08-25] - indie pop
  • Health: Rat Wars (Loma Vista) [12-07]
  • Heartworms: A Comforting Notion (Speedy Wunderground -EP) [03-24]
  • Thomas Heberer's Garden: Push Play (CIMP -22) - jazz
  • Thomas Heberer/Ken Filiano/Phil Haynes: Spontaneous Composition (Corner Store Music -22) - jazz [**]
  • Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein: Remedy II (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-10] - jazz
  • Jean-Marc Hebert: L'Origine Eclatee (self-released) - jazz
  • Tim Hecker: No Highs (Kranky) [04-07] - ambient
  • Eirik Hegdal/Jeff Parker/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Oyvind Skarbo: Superless (Oyvind Jazzforum) [11-03] - jazz [***]
  • Heinali: Kyiv Eternal (Injazero) [02-24] - ambient [*]
  • Aaron Yale Heisler: The Bechet Century: A Centenary Celebration of the Music of Sidney Bechet (2nd Bechet Century) [06-01] - jazz [**]
  • Eddie Henderson: Witness to History (Smoke Sessions) [07-08] - jazz [***]
  • Lauren Henderson: Conjuring (Brontosaurus) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • Carlos Henriquez: A Nuyorican Tale (self-released) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Joe Henry: All the Eye Can See (Ear Music) [01-27]
  • Marina Herlop: Nekkuja () [10-27] - art pop
  • Benjamin Herman: Nostalgia Blitz (Dox) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Magos Herrera: Aire (Sunnyside) [05-05] - jazz
  • Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto) - jazz [***]
  • Kristin Hersh: Clear Pond Road (Fire) [09-08]
  • Nitai Hershkovits: Call on the Old Wise (ECM) [11-10] - jazz [*]
  • Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces: Folk Songs Reimagined (Cellar) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Anthony Hervey: Words From My Horn (Outside In Music) [06-09] - jazz [**]
  • Scott Hesse Trio: Intention (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Henry Hey: Trio: Ri-Metos (self-released) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Hieroglyphic Being: There Is No Acid in This House (Soul Jazz -22) [2022-10-27] - electronic [***]
  • Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Happy Ending (Rough Trade) [02-03]
  • High Pulp: Days in the Desert (Anti-) [07-28] - jazz [**]
  • The High Span: The High Span () [03-31]
  • HIIT: For Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of Terror (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Hillyer: Glorieta (State Fair) - country
  • Lisa Hilton: Coincidental Moment (Ruby Slippers) [12-01] - jazz
  • Art Hirahara: Echo Canyon (Posi-Tone) [10-20] - jazz
  • Keigo Hirakawa: Pixel (Origin) [06-19] - jazz [**]
  • The HIRS Collective: We're Still Here (Get Better) [03-24] - grindcore
  • Hiss Golden Messenger: Jump for Joy (Merge) [08-25]
  • Alex Hitchcock Dream Band: Live in London () - jazz
  • HiTech: Detwat (FXHE) [05-26]
  • The Hives: The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives) [08-11] - garage rock [***]
  • HMLTD: The Worm (Lucky Number) [04-07] - art rock
  • Devin Ray Hoff: Music for Bass Cats (self-released) - jazz
  • Susanna Hoffs: The Deep End (Baroque Folk) [04-07]
  • Jay Hoggard: Raise Your Spirit Consciousness (JHVM) [01-03] - jazz
  • Jasper Hoiby 3 Elements: Earthness (Edition) [11-24] - jazz
  • Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors: Strangers No More (Tone Tree Music) [06-07]
  • The Hold Steady: The Price of Progress (Positive Jams) [03-31] - indie rock [A-]
  • James Holden: Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities (Border Community) [03-31] - electronic [*]
  • Holding Hands: Dancer in the Light (self-released) - jazz
  • Lonnie Holley: Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar) [03-10] - soul [*]
  • Holy Tongue: Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare () [ 04-28] - dub
  • Home Front: Games of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos) [03-03] - synthpop
  • Home Is Where: The Whaler (Wax Bodega) [06-16] - emo [**]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich (Dirty Looks) [08-04] - hip-hop [**]
  • Homeboy Sandman: I Can't Sell These Either (self-released) [11-17] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Third Page: Resonance (Edition -22) [2022-11-18] - jazz
  • Honour: Alaafia () [ 11-03] - ambient
  • William Hooker: Flesh and Bones (Org Music) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Niall Horan: The Show (Capitol) [06-09] - pop
  • Jana Horn: The Window Is the Dream (No Quarter) [04-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Horrendous: Ontological Mysterium (Season of Mist) [08-18] - metal
  • Horse Lords: Live in Leipzig (RVNG Intl) [03-03] - experimental rock [*]
  • Heather Lynne Horton: Get Me to a Nunnery (Pauper Sky) [09-22] - country [B-]
  • Ron Horton: A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle) [12-14] - jazz
  • Hot Mulligan: Why Would I Watch ()
  • Hotel Lux: Hands Across the Creek (The State51 Conspiracy) [01-27] - post-punk
  • Hotline TNT: Cartwheel (Third Man) [11-03] - shoegaze
  • Francois Houle Genera Sextet: In Memoriam (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • House of All: House of All () [04-22] - post-punk
  • Ben Howard: Is It? (Island) [06-16] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Hozier: Unreal Unearth (Island) [08-18]
  • Hulubalang: Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal () [06-26] - post-industrial
  • Holly Humberstone: Paint My Bedroom Black (Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor) [10-13] - alt-pop
  • Hundred Reasons: Glorious Sunset (So) [02-14]
  • Andrew Hung: Deliverance (Lex) [08-11]
  • Ian Hunter: Defiance Part 1 (Sun) [04-21] [*]
  • J Hus: Beautiful and Brutal Yard (Black Butter) [07-14] - UK hip-hop
  • Jason Kao Hwang Critical Response: Book of Stories (True Sound) [06-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Tony Hymas/Catherine Delaunay: No Borders (Nato) [10-13] - jazz
  • David Ian: Vintage Christmas Trio Melody (Prescott) [09-22] - jazz [B]
  • Ibex Clone: All Channels Clear (Goner)
  • Ice Spice: Like . . ? (10K Projects/Capitol, EP) [01-20] - hip-hop [*]
  • Iceboy Violet: Not a Dream but a Controlled Explosion (Fixed Abode/Supernature) [08-04]
  • Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley: Living in a Song () - country
  • Icona Pop: Club Romantech (Ultra/Ten) [09-01] - dance-pop
  • IDK: F65 ()
  • Idle Hands: Get a Grip (Posi-Tone) [05-19] - jazz
  • Nikki Iles/NDR Bigband: Face to Face (Edition) [11-17] - jazz
  • Illegal Crowns: Unclosing (Out of Your Heads) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • Illiterate LIght: Sunburned ()
  • Imperio Pacifico: Clubs Hit (Variz) [01-06] - leftfield [**]
  • Index for Working Musik: Dragging the Needleworkf or Kids at Uphole (Tough Love) [02-10] - krautrock
  • Chris Ingham Quartet: Hoagy II (Downhome) - jazz
  • Inhaler: Cuts & Bruises (Geffen) [02-17] - alt/indie
  • Initiate: Cerebral Circus (Triple B) [04-14] - hardcore
  • Mikko Innanen/Stefan Pasborg/Cedric Piromalli: Can You Hear It? (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • IPA: Grimsta (Cuneiform) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Nabihah Iqbal: Dreamer (Ninja Tune) [04-28] - electronic
  • Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Ghost Cat (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • The Ironsides: Changing Light (Colemine)
  • Irreversible Entanglements: Protect Your Light (Impulse!) [09-08] - jazz [A]
  • Gregory Alan Isakov: Appaloosa Bones (Suitcase Town Music/Dualtone) [08-18]
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes (Southeastern) [06-09] [A-]
  • Ayumi Ishito: Ayumi Ishito & the Spacemen Vol 2 (577) [04-28] - jazz
  • Islandman Feat. Okay Temiz/Muhlis Berberoglu: Direct-to-Disc Sessions (Night Dreamer) [03-10] - [A-]
  • Isola: LP1 (Smartdumb) [04-28] - dub techno
  • Ist Ist: Protagonists () [03-31]
  • It It Anita: Mouche () [10-13]
  • Italia 90: Living Human Treasure (Brace Yourself) [01-20] - post-punk
  • IzangoMa: Ngo Ma (Brownswood) - jazz
  • J-Lo: This Is Me . . . Now ()
  • Ja'king the Divine: Parables of the Sower () [01-28] - hip-hop
  • Wojciech Jachna/Jacek Mazurkiewicz/Jacek Buhl: [...] (Audio Cave) - jazz
  • Javon Jackson: With Peter Bradley: Soundtrack and Original Score (Solid Jackson) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Kara Jackson: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September) [04-14] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Preach Jacobs: Frances () [02-24] - hip-hop
  • Hannah Jadagu: Aperture (Sub Pop) [05-19] - indie pop
  • Jadu Heart: Derealised ()
  • Nicholas Jamerson: Peace Mountain () - country
  • Jam City: Jam City Presents EFM (Earthly/Mad Decent) [05-25] - dance pop
  • Boldy James/Rich Gains: Indiana Jones (self-released) [01-20] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jose James: On & On (Rainbow Blonde) [01-20] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Loraine James: Gentle Confrontation (Hyperdub) [09-22] - electronic [*]
  • Tomas Janzon: Nomadic (Changes Music) - jazz
  • The Japanese House: In the End It Always Does (Dirty Hit) [06-30] [*]
  • Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Life & Umbrella (Desafio Candente) [05-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Val Jeanty/Candice Hoyes/Mimi Jones: Nite Bjuti (Whirlwind) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Jehst: Mork Calling Orson () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Jelly Roll: Whitsitt Chapel (BBR Music Group) [06-02] - country [**]
  • Mick Jenkins: The Patience () [08-18] - hip-hop
  • Christine Jensen: Day Moon (Justin Time) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loveliest Time (Silent) [07-28] - pop [***]
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain: Sunset 666: Live at Hollywood Palladium () [08-04]
  • Jesus Piece: . . . So Unknown (Century Media) [04-14] - metal
  • Jethro Tull: RokFlote (Inside Out Music) [04-21] - prog rock
  • JFDR: Museum (Houndstooth) [04-28]
  • Kenneth Jimenez/Michael Attias/Francisco Mela: Caribu (577) [09-29] - jazz
  • Jimin: Face (BigHit Music/HYBE -EP) [03-24] - K-pop
  • Jlin: Perspective (Planet Mu -EP) [09-29] - electronic [***]
  • Joesef: Permanent Damage (Bold Cut/AWAL) [01-13] - indie pop
  • Per Texas Johansson: Orkester Omnitonal (Moserobie) [06-10] - 06-10 [J|jazz]
  • Per Texas Johansson: Den Samsta Lonningen Av Alla (Moserobie) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Jeremiah Johnson: Hi-Fi Drive By (Ruf -22) [2022-10-21] - blues [B]
  • John: A Life Diagrammatic () [09-22] - noise rock
  • Cody Johnson: Leather () - country
  • Russ Johnson Quartet: Reveal (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [**]
  • Jonas Brothers: The Album (Republic) [05-12] - pop
  • Daisy Jones & the Six: Aurora (Ellemar/Atlantic) [03-03] - soft rock
  • Darius Jones: Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Durand Jones: Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans) [05-05] - r&b [*]
  • Edgar Jones: Reflections of a Soul Dimension () [04-28] - British r&b
  • Jim Jones All Stars: Ain't No Peril () [09-29]
  • Mike Jones Trio: Are You Sure You Three Guys Know What You're Doing? (Capri) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Rickie Lee Jones: Pieces of Treasure (BMG) [04-28]
  • Stephen Jones & Ben Haugland: Road to No-Where (OA2) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Jonnie: Maritz (N&J Blueberries) [02-16] - ambient pop
  • Marc Jordan: Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Linus Entertainment) [04-23] [*]
  • Sass Jordan: Bitches Blues (Stony Plain -21) [2021-06-03] - blues [*]
  • Anders Jormin/Lena Willemark: Pasado En Claro (ECM) [01-20] - jazz
  • Greg Joseph: Drop the Rock (Sunnyside) [07-07] - jazz
  • Wesley Joseph: Glow (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-17] - UK hip-hop [B]
  • Jouska: Suddenlyl My Mind Is Blank (Koke Plate) [02-17] - art pop
  • JPEGMafia & Danny Brown: Scaring the Hoes (AWAL) [03-24] - hip-hop [*]
  • Judiciary: Flesh + Blood (Closed Casket Activities)
  • Kala Jula & Gangbe Brass Band: Asro (Buda Musique) [02-14] - African [**]
  • Larry June and the Alchemist: The Great Escape (Empire) [03-31] - hip-hop [*]
  • Larry June & Cardo: The Night Shift (The Freeminded) [11-10] - hip-hop
  • Sun June: Bad Dream Jaguar (Run for Cover) [10-20]
  • Jungle: Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) [08-11] - synth funk [*]
  • Barb Jungr and Her Trio: My Marquee (Marquee) [06-30] - vocal jazz [**]
  • JustVibez + Negro Justice: Art of the Craft (self-released) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • K-Lone: Swells (Wisdom Teeth) [07-06] - electronic [*]
  • Kabeaushe: The Coming of Gaze (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
  • Kah-Lo: Pain/Pleasure (Epic) [09-07] - African
  • Kaisa's Machine: Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music) [07-07] - jazz [**]
  • Dirar Kalash: At the Chapel of the Diving Child, Bethlehem University (Al-Bayan) - jazz
  • Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Schemen (Karl) - jazz
  • Faten Kanaan: Afterpoem (Fire) [02-24] - electronic [*]
  • Miles Kane: One Man Band (Modern Sky) [08-04] - indie rock
  • Bobby Kapp: Synergy: Bobby Kapp Plays the Music of Richard Sussman (Tweed Boulevard) [09-01] - jazz [**]
  • Nyokabi Kariuki: Feeling Body (Cmntx) [03-03] - experimental
  • Karkwa: Dans La Seconde (Simone) [09-08]
  • Karol G: Manana Sera Bonito (Universal Music Latino) [02-23] - Latin [***]
  • Kate NV: Wow (RVNG Intl) [03-03] - prog electronic [B]
  • Justin Kauflin Trio: Live at Sam First (Sam First) [08-04] - jazz
  • Kawashima/Mochizuki/Henritzi: Chinmoku Wa Ishikure Ni Yadoru Bouryoku (Trost) - jazz
  • Kaytramine [Amine/Kaytranada]: Kaytramine (Venice Music) [05-19] - pop rap [***]
  • Kaze & Ikue Mori: Crustal Movement (Libra) [03-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Ryan Keberle's Collectiv Do Brasil: Considerando (Alternate Side) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Keeley: Floating Above Everything Else () [06-30]
  • Jason Keiser: Shaw's Groove (OA2) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • Tyler Keith & the Apostles: Hell to Pay (Black & Wyatt) [03-03] - rock [**]
  • Kelela: Raven (Warp) [02-10] - alt r&b [**]
  • Grace Kelly: All That I Need (LA Reserve -22) [2022-11-18] - jazz
  • Ruston Kelly: The Weakness () - country
  • Jon-Erik Kellso and the EarRegulars: Live at the Ear Inn (Arbors) - jazz [***]
  • Mike Keneally: The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat (Exowax) - jazz
  • Madeline Kenney: New Reality Mind (Carpark) [07-28] - dream pop
  • Hollie Kenniff: We All Have Places That We Miss (Western Vinyl) [02-10] - ambient
  • Stacey Kent: Summer Me, Winter Me (Naive) [11-10] - vocal jazz
  • The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: The Stage Door Still Swings (and Movies Too) (Summit) - jazz
  • Kesha: Gag Order (Kemosabe) [05-19] - art pop [*]
  • Key!: Marquis (Third & Hayden) [08-18]
  • Key Glock: Glockoma 2 (Paper Route Empire) [02-24] - hip-hop
  • Khamari: A Brief Nirvana ()
  • Khanate: To Be Cruel ()
  • Khea: Seratonina ()
  • Khotin: Release Spirit (Ghostly International) [02-17] - electronic
  • Kid Abstrakt & Leo Low Pass: Still Dreaming () [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Kid Koala: Creatures of the Late Afternoon (Envision) [04-14] - electronica [**]
  • Kiko El Crazy: Pila'e Teteo (Rimas) - reggaeton [**]
  • Kill Bill: The Rapper: Fullmetal Kaiju (Exociety) [04-26] - hip-hop [**]
  • Killer Mike: Michael (Loma Vista) [06-16] - hip-hop [***]
  • The Kills: God Games (Domino) [10-27] - garage rock
  • Sunny Kim/Vardan Ovsepian/Ben Monder: Liminal Silence (Earshift Music) [11-10] - vocal jazz [C+]
  • Kimbra: A Reckoning (self-released) [01-27] - alt-pop [**]
  • Izumi Kimura/Cora Venus Lunny: Invisible Resistances (Fairpoint -22) [2022-09-01] - jazz [*]
  • Izumi Kimura/Gerry Hemingway: Kairos (Fundacja Sluchaj) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Elle King: Come Get Your Wife (RCA) [01-27] - country [**]
  • King Ayisoba: Work Hard ()
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet E . . . (KGLW) [06-16] - thrash metal
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: The Silver Cord (KGLW) [10-27] - neo-psychedelia
  • King Khan: The Nature of Things ()
  • King Krule: Space Heavy (XL) [06-09]
  • King Tuff: Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop) [01-27] - singer-songwriter
  • King Ubu Orchestru 2021: Roi (FMR) - jazz
  • Kipp Stone: 66689 Blvd Prequel () [09-15] - jazz
  • John Carroll Kirby: Blowout (Stones Throw) [06-30] - electronic [B-]
  • Snorre Kirk: Top Dog (Stunt) [03-24] - jazz [***]
  • Kari Kirkland: If (When You Go) (self-released) [01-13] - vocal jazz
  • Klassy: Good Seeds () [05-01] - hip-hop
  • Klein: Touched by an Angel () [10-20] - sound collage
  • Guillermo Klein Quinteto: Telmo's Tune (Sunnyside) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Omer Klein/Haggai Cohen Milo/Air Dresler: Life & Fire (Warner Music) - jazz
  • KMRU: Dissolution Grip () [09-29] - ambient
  • Knowledge the Pirate: 5 Lbs of Pleasure () [03-17] - hip-hop
  • Knuckle Puck: Losing What We Love (Rise/Pure Noise) [10-20] - pop punk
  • Kirk Knuffke/Joe McPhee Quartet + 1: Keep the Dream Up (Fundacja Sluchaj) [04-10] - jazz
  • Hans Koch/Frantz Loriot/Jonas Kocher: Stranger Becoming (Neither/Nor -22) - jazz
  • Hans Koch & Christine Abdelnour: FFlair (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Koenig: 1 Above Minus Underground (PTP) [04-28] - hip-hop
  • Frank Kohl: Pacific (OA2) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Lia Kohl: The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams) [03-10] - ambient
  • Hans Koller: Word From Bird (AMM) - jazz
  • Koma Saxo: Post Koma (We Jazz) - jazz
  • Toshinori Kondo/Massimo Pupillo/Tony Buck: Eternal Triangle (I Dischi Di Angelica -22) [2022-10-05] - jazz [*]
  • Jung Kook: Golden (Big Hit) [11-03] - K-pop
  • Kool AD: Nag Champa () [09-26] - hip-hop
  • Kool Keith & Real Bad Man: Serpent () [03-24] - hip-hop
  • Kool Keith: Black Elvis 2 (Mello Music Group) [06-16] - hip-hop [**]
  • Sarathy Korwar: KAL (Real World) (The Leaf Label) [04-07] - jazz [**]
  • Kota the Friend & and Statik Selektah: To See a Sunset () [03-24] - hip-hop
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Madres (Ninja Tune) [10-27] - electronic [**]
  • Karina Kozhevnikova & Krugly Band: Polyphonic Circle (Leo) [03-07] - jazz
  • Russell Kranes: Anchor Points (OA2) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Andrew Krasilnikov: Bloody Belly Comb Jelly (Rainy Days) [09-29] - jazz [B]
  • Tristan Kasten Krause and Jessica Pavone: Images of One (Relative Pitch) [02-17] - jazz
  • Floy Krouchi/James Brandon Lewis/Benjamin Sanz: Cliffs (Off -22) - jazz [A-]
  • Marie Kruttli: Transparence (Intakt) [03-17] - jazz [*]
  • Martin Kuchen/Sophie Agnel: Detour Tunnels of Light (Thanatosis) - jazz
  • Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty (ACT) [06-30] - jazz [**]
  • Piotr Kurek: Peach Blossom (Mondoj) [03-31]
  • Piotr Kurek: Smartwoods (Unsound) [09-15]
  • Jason Kush: Finally Friday (MCG Jazz) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Kvelertak: Endling (Rise) [09-08] - hardcore punk
  • KVL: Vol 2 (Astral Spirits) - jazz
  • Talib Kweli & Madlib: Liberation 2 () [03-06] - hip-hop
  • L'Rain: I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer) [10-13] - experimental pop [**]
  • Joe La Barbera Quintet: World Travelers (Sam First) - jazz
  • John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [*]
  • Labrinth: Ends & Begins (Columbia) [04-28] - r&b
  • Yazmin Lacey: Voice Notes (On Your Own/Believe) [03-03] - r&b [**]
  • Ladytron: Timie's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl) [01-20] - synthpop [*]
  • Mon Laferte: Autopoietica (Universal Music Mexico) [11-10] - Latin
  • Julian Lage: The Layers (Blue Note, EP) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation) [05-19]
  • Clara Lai: Corpos (Phonogram Unit) [04-07] - jazz
  • Laid Back Country Picker: Go West () - country
  • Adam Lambert: High Drama (Rhino) [02-24]
  • Lamp of Murmuur: Saturnian Bloodstorm (Not Kvlt/Night of the Pale Moon/Argento)
  • Landskap Logic: Hidden Danger Lets Me In () [Clean Feed]
  • Lankum: False Lankum (Rough Trade) [03-24] - avant-folk [**]
  • Jessy Lanza: Love Hallucination (Hyperdub) [07-28] - electronic [*]
  • Lapsley: Cautionary Tales of Youth (Believe) [01-20] - alt-pop [**]
  • Large Unit: New Map (PNL -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
  • Large Unit: Clusterfuck (PNL -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
  • David Larsen: The Peplowski Project () [05-19] - jazz
  • The Adam Larson Trio: With Love, From Kansas City (Outside In Music -22) [2022-09-02] - jazz [**]
  • The Adam Larson Trio: With Love, From New York (Outside In Music) [04-07] - jazz [**]
  • Las Vegas Boneheads: Sixty and Still Cookin' (Curt Miller Music) [04-01] - jazz [B]
  • The Lathums: From Nothing to a Little Bit More (Island) [03-03] - indie rock
  • Mary Lattimore: Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International) [10-06] - ambient
  • Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic) - jazz [***]
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Monochromes (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Laufey: Bewitched (AWAL) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were (ACT) - jazz [**]
  • Philippe Lauzier/Carlo Costa: Interspace (Inexhaustible Editions/Tour De Bras) - jazz
  • Bettye LaVette: LaVette! (Jay-Vee) [06-16] - soul [A-]
  • Theo Lawrence: Cherie ()
  • Jo Lawry: Acrobats (Whirlwind) - jazz [A-]
  • Daunik Lazro/Benjamin Duboc/Mathieu Bec: Standards Combustion (Dark Tree) - jazz
  • Pascal Le Boeuf: Ritual Being (SoundSpore) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Le Boeuf Brothers: Hush (Soundspore) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Le Sserafim: Unforgiven () [05-01] - K-pop
  • Marthe Lea Band: Herlighetens Vei (Motvind) [12-15] - jazz
  • The League: We Landed on the Moon () [05-26] - hip-hop
  • Joelle Leandre: Zurich Concert (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • Joelle Leandre/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri: hEARoes (RogueArt) [05-07] - jazz [***]
  • Joelle Leandre/Rodolphe Loubatiere: Estampe (Confront) [09-28] - jazz
  • Leap Day Trio: Live at the Cafe Bohemia (Giant Step Arts) - jazz [***]
  • Luke LeBlanc: Places (Real Phonic) [10-27]
  • Jeff Lederer With Mary LaRose: Schoenberg on the Beach (Little (i) Music) [10-06] - jazz [*]
  • Jeff Lederer/Morningside Tone Collective: Balls of Simplicity: Jeff Lederer Notated Works 1979-2021 (Little (i) Music) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Logan Ledger: Golden State () [09-08]
  • Mike LeDonne/Eric Alexander/Jeremy Pelt/Vincent Herring/Kenny Washington/Peter Washington: The Heavy Hitters (Cellar) - jazz [**]
  • Bobby Lee: Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square) [06-23]
  • Buzzy Lee: Internal Affairs (03-31) [ 03-31] - synthpop
  • Gordon Lee Quartet: How Can It Be? (PJCE) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • The Peggy Lee Band: A Giving Way (Songlines) - jazz
  • Jim Legxacy: Homeless N*gga Pop Music ((!)) [04-26] - UK hip-hop
  • Steve Lehman/Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina (Pi) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Brennen Leigh: Ain't Through Honky-Tonkin' Yet (Signature Sounds) [06-16] - country [***]
  • The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks) [05-05] - soft rock [C+]
  • Jinx Lennon: Walk Lightly When the Jug Is Full (Septic Tiger) [04-14] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Carin Leon: Colmillo De Leche () - Mexican
  • Asbjorn Lerheim/Roger Arntzen/Michiyo Yagi/Tamaya Honda: Chrome Hill Duo Meets Dojo: Live at Aketa No Mise (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Yosef Gutman Levitt/Tal Yahalom: Tsuf Harim (Soul Song) - jazz [***]
  • Gregory Lewis: Organ Monk Going Home (Sunnyside) [08-04] - jazz
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Eye of I (Anti-) - jazz [A-]
  • James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms, 2CD) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Jenny Lewis: Joy'all (Blue Note) [06-09] [**]
  • Mark Lewis: Sunlight Shines In (Audio Daddio) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • SG Lewis: AudioLust & HigherLove (PMR/EMI) [01-27] - synthpop [***]
  • Lewsberg: Out and About (self-released) [09-15] - alt-rock [**]
  • Dave Liebman: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) - jazz [***]
  • Max Light: Henceforth (SteepleChase) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Light.Box + Emil Karlsen: The Undanced Dance (Bead) - jazz
  • A Light Sleeper: Equaeverpoise (Cuneiform) [07-28] - chamber rock
  • Lil Durk: Almost Healed (Alamo) [05-26] - hip-hop
  • Lil Keed: Keed Talk to 'Em 2 (300 Entertainment) [03-17] - hip-hop
  • Lil Tjay: 222 (Columbia) [07-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape (Generation Now/Atlantic) [06-30] - hip-hop [**]
  • Lil Wayne: Tha Fix Before Tha VI (Young Money) [09-29] - hip-hop [B]
  • Lil Yachty: Let's Start Here (Quality Control Music/UMG) [01-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Fenne Lily: Big Picture (Dead Oceans) [04-14] - indie folk
  • Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim: Starling (self-released) [06-02] - jazz
  • Lindstrom: Everyone Else Is a Stranger (Smalltown Supersound) [07-14] - electronica [**]
  • Johan Lindstrom/Norrbotten Big Band: Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band (Moserobie) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks (Resonance) [09-15] - Brazilian [**]
  • Liquid Mike: A Beer Can and a Bouquet (self-released) [2022-08-19] - alt/indie [**]
  • Liquid Mike: S/T [Self-Titled] (Kitschy Spirit, EP) [03-10] - alt/indie [***]
  • Lisa/Liza: Breaking and Mending (Orindal) [04-28]
  • Lisel: Patterns for Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay (Ba Da Bing!) [02-17] - art pop
  • Brian Lisik & Hard Legs: Nu Wreckard (Cherokee Queen) [10-13;]
  • Aynsley Lister: Along for the Ride (Straight Talkin' -22) [2022-11-11] - blues [B]
  • Little Dragon: Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune) [07-07] - electropop
  • Liturgy: 93696 (Thrill Jockey) [03-24] - black metal
  • Liv.e: Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life) - r&b [**]
  • Kedr Livanskiy: K-Notes (2MR -EP) [06-22] - electronic
  • Lucy Liyou: Dog Dreams (American Dreams) [05-12]
  • Naaljos Ljom: Naaljos Ljom 2 (Motvine) [12-01] - jazz
  • Zack Lober: No Fill3r (Zennez) - jazz
  • Joe Locascio: Book of Days (self-released) - jazz
  • Location Location Location [Michael Formanek/Anthony Pirog/Mike Pride]: Damaged Goods (Cuneiform) [06-30] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Locke: Makram (Circle 9) [02-17] - jazz
  • Mark Lockett: Swings & Roundabouts (Thick) - jazz
  • Damon Locks/Rob Mazurek: New Future City Radio (International Anthem) [07-28] - jazz [*]
  • Zack Lober: No Fill3r (Zennez) - jazz [*]
  • Nils Lofgren: Mountains (Wienerworld) [07-21]
  • Logic: College Park (Three Oh One/BMG) [02-24] - hip-hop [*]
  • The Mark Lomax Trio: Tapestry (CFG Multimedia) - jazz [A-]
  • Dave Lombardo: Riters of Percussion (Ipecac) [05-05] - metal
  • Fred Lonberg-Holm/Tim Daisy: Current 23 (Relay) [04-01] - jazz [**]
  • London Brew: London Brew (Concord) [03-31] - jazz [***]
  • Eden Lonsdale: Clear and Hazy Moons (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • The Long Ryders: September November (Cherry Red) [03-10] - country rock [**]
  • Luis Lopes Abyss Mirrors: Echoisms (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Luis Lopes: Lisbon Paris: Stereo Noise Solo (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Brandon Lopez: Vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (Tao Forms) [04-14] - jazz [**]
  • Brandon Lopez Trio: Matanzas (Relative Pitch) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Harold Lopez-Nussa: Timba a la Americana (Blue Note) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Alex LoRe & Weirdear: Evening Will Find Itself (Whirlwind) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Los: War on Drugs 2 (Daisy Lane) - hip-hop
  • Los Mohanes: La Tumbia (Moli Del Tro)
  • Loscil & Lawrence English: Colours of Air (Kranky) [02-03] - ambient [*]
  • Russ Lossing: Alternate Side Parking Music (Aqua Piazza) [07-07]] - jazz [***]
  • Lost Girls: Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound) [10-20] - dream pop
  • Antti Lotjonen Quintet East: Circus/Citadel (We Jazz) [02-24] - jazz
  • The Lottery Winners: Anxiety Replacement Therapy (Modern Sky) [04-28] - indie pop
  • Alex Louloudis/Zack Clarke: What We Are (Ears & Eyes) - jazz
  • Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry [Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi]: Our Daily Bread (ECM) [05-05] - jazz [*]
  • Lydia Loveless: Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again (Bloodshot) [09-22] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • The Loving Paupers: Ladders (Easy Star) [09-15]
  • Andy Fairweather Low: Flang Dang (Last Music) [04-07] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Low Cut Connie: Art Dealers (Contender) [09-08] - alt-pop [B]
  • Lowcountry: Lowcountry (Ropeadope) [07-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: America: The Rough Cut (ESP-Disk) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: In the Dark (ESP-Disk, 3CD) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Bill Lowe and the Signifyin' Natives Ensemble: Sweet Cane: Suites and Other Pedagogical Prompts (Mandorla Music) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Chien Chien Lu: Built in System: Live in New York (Giant Step Arts) [07-05] - jazz [***]
  • Lucero: Should've Learned by Now (Liberty & Leisure) [03-24]
  • Rob Luft: Dahab Days (Edition) [10-20] - jazz
  • Lumor: Flock of Birds (self-released) - jazz
  • Martin Lutz Group: LoLife/HiLife (Gateway) [09-29] - jazz [***]
  • David Lyttle & Phil Robson: IN2 (Lyte) - jazz
  • Paul Lytton/Ken Vandermark: Distant Cousins (Audiographic) - jazz
  • M(h)aol: Attachment Styles (Tulle) [02-03] - punk
  • M83: Fantasy (Mute/Virgin) [03-17] - dream pop [B]
  • Baaba Maal: Being (Marathon Artists) [03-31] - African [**]
  • Bongeziwe Mabandla: AmaXesha ()
  • Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza (DMAC Music) - jazz [B]
  • Doug MacDonald Trio: Edwin Alley (DMAC Music) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • Mach-Hommy/Tha God Fahim: Notorious Dump Legends Vol 2 (self-released) [03-03] - hip-hop [*]
  • Macklemore: Ben (Bendore) [03-03] - pop rap
  • Madlib/Meyhem Lauren/DJ Muggs: Champagne for Breakfast () [04-07]
  • Madre Vaca: Knights of the Round Table (Madre Vaca) [11-21] - jazz [*]
  • Chris Madsen: The Trio Book (JMarq) - jazz
  • Taj Mahal: Savoy (Stony Plain) [04-28] - blues [A-]
  • Mahalia: IRL (Atlantic) [07-14] - r&b [***]
  • Majesties: Vast Reaches Unclaimed ()
  • Kali Malone: Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Xkatedral/Ideologic Organ) [01-20] - drone
  • The Malpass Brothers: Lonely Street (Billy Jam) [05-12] - country [***]
  • Matt Maltese: Driving Just to Drive (Nettwerk) [04-28]
  • Mama Terra: The Summoned (Caffala) [07-23] - jazz
  • Mammoth WVH: Mammoth II (BMG) [08-04] - alt-rock
  • Manchester Orchestra: The Valley of Vision () [03-10] - art pop
  • Mandaworld: For Emotional Use Only () [03-10] - synthpop
  • Mandy, Indiana: I've Seen a Way (Fire Talk) [05-19] - post-industrial [**]
  • Mat Maneri Quartet: Ash (Sunnyside) [08-11] - jazz
  • Maneskin: Rush! (Epic) [01-20] - alt rock
  • Manzanita Quintet: Osmosis (Origin) - jazz [*]
  • Mapache: Swinging Stars (Redeye) [08-18] - indie folk
  • Desire Marea: On the Romance of Being (Mute) [04-07] - new wave
  • Gia Margaret: Romantic Piano (Jagjaguwar) [05-26] - ambient [*]
  • Maria BC: Spike Field (Sacred Bones) [10-20] - singer-songwriter
  • Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier (Out of Your Head) [10-23] - jazz [*]
  • Marlody: I'm Not Sure at All () [01-13]
  • Eugene Marlow: Blue in Green Remix (MEII) - jazz
  • Denman Maroney/Scott Walton/Denis Fournier: O Koσmoσ Meta (RogueArt -22) [2022-11-14] - jazz [***]
  • Asma Maroof/Patrick Belaga/Tapiwa Svosve: The Sport of Love (Pan) [05-26]
  • The Mars Volta: Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon (Clouds Hill) [04-21]
  • Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Uptown on Mardi Gras Day (Troubadour Jass) - jazz [***]
  • Billie Marten: Drop Cherries (Fiction) [04-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Gabriela Martina: Homage to Gramilis (self-released) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Melanie Martinez: Portals (Atlantic) [03-31] - alt-pop
  • Jordan Martins: Fogery Nagles (Astral Spirits) [10-06] - jazz
  • Astghik Martirosyan: Distance (Astghik Music) [10-06] - jazz vocal [*]
  • Simon Mary & Krystal Mundi: Modal Morning (Label Ouest) [10-13] - jazz
  • Masego: Masego ()
  • Sean Mason: The Southern Suite (Blue Engine) [10-27] - jazz [*]
  • Steve Mason: Brothers & Sisters (Double Sex/Domino) [03-03]
  • Dillon Massengale: Buckleshiners () - country
  • Dave Matthews Band: Walk Around the Moon (RCA) [05-19] - jam bands
  • Matty: Eis O Hemem ()
  • Ava Max: Diamonds & Dancefloors (Atlantic) [01-27] - electropop
  • Maxo: Even God Has a Sense of Humor (Def Jam) [02-22] - hip-hop
  • Maxo: Debbie's Son (Smile for Me) [09-28] - hip-hop
  • Shawn Maxwell: Story at Eleven (self-released) [03-24] - jazz
  • Manu Mayr: Sequenz I: Burning Gas for Solo Acoustic Double Bass (Why Keith Dropped the S) - jazz
  • Bill Mays: Autumn Serenade (Sunnyside) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem) [03-27] - jazz [**]
  • MC Yallah: Yallah Beibe (Hakuna Kulala) [04-14] - Africa
  • Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime (Mack Avenue) [02-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Ashley McBryde: The Devil I Know (Warner Music Nashville) [09-08] - country [**]
  • Alexander McCabe: Cuba Bella (self-released) - jazz
  • Pete McCann: Without Question (McCannic Music) [08-04] - jazz [***]
  • Brian McCarthy Nonet: After|Life (Truth Revolution) [05-26] - jazz [**]
  • Donny McCaslin: I Want More (Edition) [06-16] - jazz [B]
  • Chad McCullough: The Charm of Impossibilities (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [A-]
  • HC McEntire: Every Acre (Merge) [01-27] - alt-country
  • Madison McFerrin: I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MadMcFerrin Music) [05-12] - alt r&b
  • John Paul McGee: A Gospejazzical Christmas (Jazz Urbano) [11-16] - jazz [B]
  • Nellie McKay: Hey Guys, Watch This (Hungry Mouse) [08-25] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Lori McKenna: 1988 (CN) [07-12] - country [A-]
  • Sarah McKenzie: Without You (Normandy Lane Music) [10-27] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Elijah McLaughin Ensemble: Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble III () [03-24] - free folk
  • Benet McLean: Green Park (Sea Mammal) [11-24] - jazz
  • Joe McPhee/Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings for Milford Graves (Corbett vs Dempsey -22) - jazz
  • Ryan Meagher: AftEarth (Atroefy) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Meagre Martin: Gut Punch () [11-10]
  • Meet Me @ the Altar: Past//Present//Future (Atlantic) [03-10]
  • Buck Meek: Haunted Mountain (4AD) [08-25] - alt-country
  • Mega Bog: End of Everything (Mexican Summer) [05-19] - synthpop
  • Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (Nonesuch) [02-10] - jazz [B]
  • Francisco Mela Featuring Cooper-Moore and William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls Vol 2 (577) [01-20] - jazz [***]
  • Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin: Earthquake (577) [10-20] - jazz
  • Melenas: Ahora (Trouble in Mind) [09-28]
  • Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt) [11-17] - jazz [A-]
  • John Mellencamp: Orpheus Descending (Republic) [06-02]
  • Joe Melnicove: You Is You (577) [08-11] - jazz
  • Melting Mind: At Grnd Zero (Relative Pitch) [05-12] - jazz
  • The Men: New York City (Fuzz Club) [02-03] - garage rock
  • Greg Mendez: Greg Mendez (Forged Artifacts, EP) [05-05] - indie pop [B-]
  • Vince Mendoza/Metropole Orkest: Olympians (Modern) [03-03] - jazz [B-]
  • Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation (AUM Fidelity) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Vic Mensa: Victor (Roc Nation) [09-15] - hip-hop [*]
  • Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage (Nonesuch) [04-14]
  • Mercury [Nicolas Caloia & Lori Freedman]: Skin (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Lyia Meta: Always You (self-released) [06-16] - jazz
  • Metallica: 72 Seasons (Blackened) [04-14] - metal
  • Pat Metheny: Dream Box (Modern) [06-16] - jazz [*]
  • Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains (Boominati/Republic -22) [2022-12-02] - hip-hop [**]
  • Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains (Villains Version) (Boominati/Republic) [02-17] - hip-hop
  • Metro Boomin: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [Soundtrack From & Inspired by the Motion Picture] (Boominati/Republic) [06-02] - hip-hop [*]
  • Metro Riders: Lost in Reality (Possible Motive) [09-29] - ambient
  • Metropolitan Jazz Octet: The Bowie Project (Origin) - jazz [B]
  • Mette Henriette: Drifting (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [B]
  • Colette Michaan: Earth Rebirth (Creatrix Music) [10-15] - jazz [*]
  • Micko & the Mellotronics: Le Vice Anglais () [11-17]
  • MidaZ the Beast: The Devil's Playground () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya: Orbweaving (The Flenser) [05-12]
  • Midwxst: E3 (Geffen) [09-01] - emo rap
  • Haviah Mighty: Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang) [07-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Sei Miguel Unit Core: Road Music (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [B]
  • Sei Miguel: The Original Drum (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • MIKE: Beware of the Monkey (10K -22) [2022-12-21] - hip-hop
  • MIKE: Burning Desire (10K) [10-13] - hip-hop [*]
  • MIKE/Wiki/The Alchemist: Faith Is a Rock (ALC) [09-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Milc & Goldenbeets: Horseradish () [04-07] - hip-hop
  • Militarie Gun: Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista) [06-23] - hardcore [B]
  • The Milk Carton Kids: I Only See the Moon (Thirty Tigers) [05-19]
  • Luiz Millan: Brazilian Match (Jazz Station) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Allison Miller: Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Buddy & Julie Miller: In the Throes (New West) [09-22] - country [**]
  • Dominic Miller: Vagabond (ECM) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • John R Miller: Heat Comes Down () - country
  • Rainy Miller & Space Afrika: A Grisaille Wedding (Fixed Abode) [11-16] - UK hip-hop
  • Steve Millhouse: The Unwinding (SteepleChase) [02-22] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Million: Perfectly Spaced (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Blake Mills: Jelly Road (New Deal/Verve Forecast) [07-14] - folk rock [B]
  • Parker Millsap: Wilderness Within You (Okrahoma/Thirty Tigers) [05-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Kelsey Mines: Look Like (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Kylie Minogue: Tension (BMG) [09-22] - dance pop [**]
  • David Mirarchi: Ink Folly, Orchid Gleam (Unbroken Sounds) [06-02] - jazz
  • Miss Grit: Follow the Cyborg (Mute) [02-24] - art pop
  • Joni Mitchell: Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino) [07-28] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Matt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb (Out of Your Head) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins: At Earth School (Astral Spirits) [10-13] - jazz
  • Tyler Mitchell Octet: Sun Ra's Journey (Cellar) [01-20] - jazz [***]
  • Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans) [09-15] - pop [*]
  • Mitu: Astgra () [04-26]
  • Model/Actriz: Dogsbody (True Panther Sounds) [02-24] - noise rock [***]
  • Modern Cosmology: What Will You Grow Now? (Duophonic Super 45s) [05-05] - Brazil
  • Modern Nature: No Fixed Point in Space (Bella Union) [09-29] - psydhecelic folk
  • Noshir Mody: A Love Song (self-released) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet (Contagious Music) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Lesley Mok: The Living Collection (American Dreams) [05-05] - jazz
  • Moka Only: In and of Itself () [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns: Weejuns (Rune Grammofon) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure (Wondaland/Bad Boy/Atlantic) [06-09] - funk [A-]
  • Mone: Darling, Thief () [10-13]
  • Aja Monet: When the Poems Do What They Do (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-09] - spoken word [A-]
  • Victoria Monet: Jaguar II (RCA) [08-25] - r&b [**]
  • Money for Guns: All the Darkness That's in Your Head (Money for Guns) [08-19] - alt/indie [**]
  • Monocot: Leave to Cool (Astral Spirits) [10-20] - jazz
  • Moonlight Benjamin: Wayo ()
  • Andrew Moorhead: Interleaved (OA2) [03-17] - jazz [B]
  • Rob Moose: Inflorescence (Sony Masterworks, EP) [08-11]
  • Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes) - jazz [A-]
  • Morgan and the Organ Donors: MODs () [04-28]
  • Gurf Morlix: Caveman (Rootball -22) [2022-10-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Gurf Morlix: I Challenge the Beast (Rootball) [04-01] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Morlocks: Praise the Iconoclast () [10-06]
  • Megan Moroney: Lucky (Sony Music Nashville) [05-05] - country [***]
  • Van Morrison: Moving on Skiffle (Exile/Virgin) [03-10] [B]
  • Goncalo Mortagua/Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues/Gunter Baby Sommer: Not Bad (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Todd Mosby: Land of Enchantment (MMG) [06-01] - jazz [B]
  • Joshua Moshe: Inner Search (La Sape) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Dorothy Moskowitz: Under an Endless Sky (Tompkins Square) [03-17]
  • Liela Moss: Internal Working Model (Bella Union) [01-13] - synthpop
  • Kassem Mosse: Workshop 32 (Workshop) [02-03] - minimal techno
  • Faizal Mostrixx: Mutations (Glitterbeat)
  • Motosneu: Opsedale (Boomslang) - jazz
  • Motorpsycho: Yay! (Stickman) [06-16] - neo-prog
  • Simon Moullier: Isla (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • The Mountain Goats: Jenny From Thebes (Merge) [10-27] - soft rock
  • Move: The City (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Movements: Ruckus! (Fearless) [08-18]
  • Azuka Moweta & Anioma Brothers Band: Nwanne Bu Ife (Palenque -22) [2022-12-02] - African [***]
  • Mozart Estate: Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping (West Midlands/Cherry Red) [01-27] - synthpop
  • Mr Eazi: The Evil Genius (EmPawa Africa Limited) [10-27]
  • Msaki x Tsubatsi Mpho Moloi: Synthetic Hearts ()
  • MSPAINT: Post-American (Convulse) [03-10] - punk [**]
  • Mudhoney: Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop) [04-07] - garage rock
  • MUEJL [Michel Stawicki/Uygur Vural/Elisabetta Lanfredini/Joao Madeira/Luiz Rocha]: By Breakfast (4DaRecord) [02-03] - jazz [*]
  • Jenni Muldaur/Teddy Thompson: Once More: Jenni Muldaur & Teddy Thompson Sing the Great Country Duets (Sun) [09-08] - country [A-]
  • Sam Munsick: Johnny Faraway () - country
  • Mat Muntz: Phantom Islands (Orenda) [02-24] - jazz [B-]
  • The Murder Capital: Gigi's Recovery (Human Seasons) [01-20] - post-punk
  • The Murlocs: Calm Ya Farm (ATO) [05-19]
  • Roisin Murphy: Hit Parade (Ninja Tune) [09-08] - electropop [***]
  • David Murray/Questlove/Ray Angry: Plumb (Outside In Music) [07-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Muscadine Bloodline: Teenage Dixie () - country
  • Michael Musillami/Rich Syracuse/Jeff Siegel: Flight of Evangeline (Playscape -22) [2022-00-00] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Musillami Trio: Block Party (Playscape) - jazz [**]
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders (ECM) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Myst Milano: Beyond the Uncanny Valley (Halocline Trance) [08-25] - hip house
  • Gabe 'Nandez: Pangea (POW) [04-20] - hip-hop
  • Simon Nabatov 3+2: Verbs (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Simon Nabatov: Extensions (Unbroken Sounds) [11-03] - jazz [***]
  • Quinsin Nachoff: Stars and Constellations (Adyharopa) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Estee Nack: Nacksaw Jim Duggan () [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Normal Nada the Krakmaxter: Tribal Progressive Heavy Metal (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [W|African]
  • Sam Nagano/Leonor Falcon: Peach and Tomato (577) [08-04] - jazz
  • Nakhane: Bastard Jargon (Star Red/BMG) [03-31] - African [**]
  • Nakibembe Embaire Group: Nakibembe Embaire Group (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-16] - African [**]
  • Anthony Naples: Orbs (ANS) [06-02] - ambient
  • Napoleon Da Legend & D-Styles: Invincibl Rap Mislz () [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Graham Nash: Now (BMG) [05-19] [B-]
  • Israel Nash: Ozarker (Loose) [10-20] - heartland rock
  • Nastyfacts: Drive My Car + 2 (1981, Left for Dead, EP -22) [2022-11-18] - punk [A-]
  • Nation of Language: Strange Disciple (PIAS) [09-15] - synthpop
  • The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD) [04-28] - alt/indie [***]
  • The National: Laugh Track (4AD) [09-18] - alt/indie [***]
  • Native Dancer: At Pizza Express Live - in London (PX) - jazz
  • Natural Information Society: Since Time Is Gravity (Aguirre/Eremite) [04-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Natural Wonder Beauty Concept: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept () [07-14] - electronic
  • Navy Blue: Ways of Knowing (Def Jam) [03-23] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Naya Bazz [Rez Abbasi/Josh Feinberg]: Charm (Whirlwind) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) [06-16] [*]
  • Neak: Die Wurzel () [02-27] - hip-hop
  • Lael Neale: Star Eaters Delight (Sub Pop) [04-21] - indie pop
  • Near Miss: The Natural Regimen (Kettle Hole) [07-07] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia: La Permanencia De Los Ecos (577) [11-04] - jazz
  • MJ Nebreda: Arepa Mixtape (Empire) [09-29]
  • Alon Nechushtan: For Those Who Cross the Seas (ESP-Disk -2CD) [10-27] - jazz [A-]
  • The Necks: Travel (Northern Spy) [02-24] - jazz [**]
  • Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires: Loving You (ATO) [06-23] - country [***]
  • Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: Sticks and Stones (Six Ace) [07-14] - country
  • Tracy Nelson: Life Don't Miss Nobody (BMG) [06-09] - blues [**]
  • Willie Nelson: I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) [03-03] - country [**]
  • Willie Nelson: Bluegrass (Legacy) [09-15] - bluegrass [*]
  • Willie Nelson: Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Legacy) [12-15] - country
  • Marius Neset: Geyser (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Calle Neumann & Paal Nilssen-Love: Live at Kafe Haerverk (Catalytic) - jazz
  • The New Pornographers: Continue as a Guest (Merge) [03-31] - indie rock
  • NewJeans: Get Up (Ador, EP) [07-21] - K-pop
  • Tommy Newport: Glasshead (self-released) [02-17]
  • Jalen Ngonda: Come Around and Love Me (Daptone) [09-08] - soul
  • Maggie Nichols/Caroline Kraabel/Charlotte Hug: On Dizziness (Creative Sources) - vocal jazz
  • Nickel Creek: Celebrants (Thirty Tigers) [03-24] - prog bluegrass
  • Nicki Nicole: Alma (Dale Play/Sony Music Argentina) [05-18]
  • Niecy Blues: Exit Simulation (Kranky) [11-10] - ambient pop
  • Judy Niemack/Jay Clayton: Voices in Flilght (GAM) - vocal jazz
  • Angelika Niescier/Tomeka Reid/Savannah Harris: Beyond Dragons (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: Beat the Odds (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: Have You Ever Wondered (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: La Vallee De L'Etrange (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper Le 7eme Continent: Kipppunkt (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: Levar Lenga (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper & Voix En Rhizome: Vers Revers (Subran Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: Bloc (Subran/Musiques Aventureuses) - jazz
  • Lucas Niggli Sound of Serendipity Tentet: Play! (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Night Beats: Rajan (Suicide Squeeze) [07-14] - garage punk
  • Nightingales: Live in Balsall Heath () [09-15]
  • Nihiloxica: Source of Denial () [09-29] - industrial techno
  • Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family (We Jazz) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Elsa Nilsson's Band of Pulses: Pulses (Ears & Eyes) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Hermann Nitsch: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater: Musik des 6 Tage Spiels 2022 (Trost -2CD) [04-21] - jazz
  • Nkosazana Daughter: Uthingo Le Nkosazana () [06-23] - amapiano
  • No-No Boy: Empire Electric (Smithsonian Folkways) [09-28] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Teus Nobel & Liberty Group: Human First (Nobel Music/PIAS) - jazz
  • Noia: Gisela (Cascine) [03-31] - art pop
  • Billy Nomates: Cacti (Invada) [01-13] - post-punk [**]
  • Noname: Sundial (self-released) [08-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Nondi: Flood City Trax (Planet Mu) [04-07] - juke
  • Jesper Nordberg: Trio (Gotta Let It Out) [05-17] - jazz [***]
  • Nothing but Thieves: Dead Club City (Sony UK) [06-30] - new wave
  • Nourished by Time: Erotic Probiotic 2 (Scenic Route) [04-21] - synthpop [B]
  • Eva Novoa/Masa Kamaguchi/Gerald Cleaver Trio: Vol 1 (577) [04-14] - jazz
  • Thandi Ntuli: Rainbow Revisited (International Anthem) [11-17] - jazz
  • The Nude Party: Rides On (New West) [03-10]
  • Cian Nugent: She Brings Me Back to the Land of the Living (No Quarter) [05-05] - folk rock
  • Aymee Nuviola: Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) - jazz [**]
  • Kevin O'Connell Quartet Featuring Adam Brenner: Hot New York Minutes (Ignoramus Music) [05-15] - jazz [**]
  • Arturo O'Farrill: Legacies (Blue Note) [04-28] - jazz [*]
  • Lisa O'Neill: All of This Is Chance (Rough Trade) [02-10] - folk [**]
  • Jim O'Rourke: Hands That Bind [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Drag City) [07-07] - chamber jazz
  • Obituary: Dying of Everything (Relapse) [01-13] - metal
  • Octo Octa: Dreams of a Dancefloor (T4T LUV NRG, EP) [09-15] - electronic [**]
  • Oddisee: To What End (Outer Note) [01-20] - hip-hop [***]
  • OG Aborigines: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (Penpals) [04-07] - hip-hop
  • Linda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours (Biophilia) [06-02] - jazz [B]
  • Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy: O Yinne! (Philophon) [06-02] - African [***]
  • Ohr: Luma/Chroma (Sound as Language) [03-10] - ambient
  • Okan: Okantomi (Lulaworld) [11-08] - jazz
  • Nils Okland/Sigbjorn Apeland: Glimmer (ECM) [06-16] - jazz
  • Okonski: Magnolia (Colemine) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Dave Okumu & the 7 Generations: I Came From Love (Transgressive) [04-14] [*]
  • Joy Oladokun: Proof of Life (Amigo/Verve Forecast/Republic) [04-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Weston Olencki/Anna Webber: Several (Astral Spirits) [09-22] - jazz
  • Olivia Jean: Raving Ghost (Third Man) [05-05]
  • Angel Olsen: Forever Means (Jagjaguwar -EP) [04-14]
  • OMD [Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]: Bauhaus Staircase (100%) [10-27] - synthpop [**]
  • Hinako Omori: Stillness, Softness . . . (Houndstooth) [10-27] - ambient pop
  • One Adam One: Where Do I Begin ()
  • One Million Eyes: Iris (A Strangely Isolated Place) [11-10] - ambient
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Again (Warp) [09-29] - glitch [B]
  • Ki Oni: A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life (AKP) [ 08-25] - ambient
  • Ryoko Ono/Satoko Fujii: Hakuro (self-released) [11-03] - jazz [***]
  • Oozing Wound: We Cater to Cowards (Thrill Jockey) [01-27] - metal
  • Rita Ora: You & I (BMG) [07-14] - r&b [**]
  • The Orb: Prism (Cooking Vinyl) [04-28] - ambient dub
  • Orbital: Optical Delusion (London) [02-17] - techno [*]
  • Bill Orcutt: Jump on It (Palilalia) [04-28] - folk [*]
  • Origami Angel: The Brightest Days (Counter Intuitive) [06-16] - pop punk
  • Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido: Sepk (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Aruan Ortiz Trio: Serranias: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • Aruan Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Igbo Amaka (Palenque) [03-13] - African [A-]
  • DD Osama: Here 2 Stay (Alamo) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Kresten Osgood/Bob Moses/Tisziji Munoz: Spiritual Drum Kingship (Gotta Let It Out) [06-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Osees: Intercepted Message (In the Red) [08-18] - garage punk
  • Margaux Oswald/Jesper Zeuthen: Magnetite (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Otay:Onii: Dream Hacker (WV Sorcerer) [04-22] - drone
  • Matt Otto: Umbra (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [**]
  • Oval: Romantiq (Thrill Jockey) [05-12] - electronic
  • Kassa Overall: Animals (Warp) [05-26] - hip-hop [*]
  • Overmono: Good Lies (XL) [05-12] - future garage [*]
  • Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band: Renderings (MAMA) [07-21] - jazz [***]
  • Genesis Owusu: Struggler (Ourness/AWAL) [08-18] - hip-hop [**]
  • Tony Oxley: The New World (Discus Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • OXN: CYRM () [10-27]
  • Oyvindland Med Eirik Hegdal & Erik Johannessen: Nonett (Ora Fonogram) [10-27] - jazz [**]
  • Engin Ozsahin: Conversations in Chaos (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [**]
  • Afonso Pais/Tomas Marques: The Inner Colours of Bogin's Outline (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [B]
  • Doug Paisley: Say What You Like (Outside Music) [03-17]
  • Pale Blue Eyes: This House (Full Time Hobby) [09-01] - dream pop
  • Palehound: Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl) [07-14] - alt/indie [**]
  • Joanie Pallatto: Accidental Melody (Southport) - jazz
  • Panda Bear/Sonic Boom/Adrian Sherwood: Reset in Dub (Domino) [08-18] - dub
  • The Panhandlers: Tough Country () - country
  • Pania: We Still Young (-EP) [09-22]
  • Paramore: This Is Why (Atlantic) [02-10] - post-punk [*]
  • Parannoul: After the Magic (Top Shelf) [01-28] - shoegaze [B]
  • Parchman Prison Prayer: Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
  • Paris Texas: Mid Air (Paris Texas) [07-21] - hip-hop
  • Parks Peacock: Wingbeats (Ilk Music) - jazz
  • Paris Texas: Mid Air (Paris Texas) [07-21] - hip-hop
  • Christopher Parker & the Band of Guardian Angels: Yeah Yeah! (Mahakala Music) - jazz [**]
  • Evan Parker/Matthew Wright Trance Map+ Peter Evans/Mark Nauseef: Etching the Ether (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Graham Parker & the Goldtops: Last Chance to Learn the Twist (Big Stir) [09-08] [**]
  • Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine (Transgressive) [05-26] - neo-soul [A-]
  • Gretchen Parlato/Lionel Loueke: Lean In (Edition) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Bruno Parrinha: Da Erosao (4DaRecord) [05-28] - jazz [*]
  • Bruno Parrinha/Vine Leaf: Tales of Senses (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Emanuele Parrini/Samo Salamon/Vasco Trilla: Eating Poetry (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Dolly Parton: Rockstar (Butterfly/Big Machine) - country
  • Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Hold Your Fire (Neuklang) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Joel Paterson: Wheelhouse Rag (Jalopy) [08-18] - folk [**]
  • Patten: Mirage FM () [04-14]
  • Jessica Pavone: Clamor (Out of Your Head) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Potter Payper: Real Back in Style ()
  • Pearla: Oh Glistening Onion, the Nighttime is Coming () [02-10]
  • Hayden Pedigo: The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored (Mexican Summer) [06-30]
  • Grant Peeples: A Murder of Songs (self-released) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Jeremy Pelt: The Art of Intimacy Vol 2: His Muse (HighNote) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Penguin Cafe: Rain Before Seven . . . (Erased Tapes) [07-07] - new age
  • Pere Ubu: Trouble on Big Beat Street (Cherry Red) [05-26] - postpunk [**]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych I (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych II (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych III (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris: Elliptic Time (Mahakala Music -22) - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ray Anderson/Joe Morris/Reggie Nicholson: Molten Gold (Fundacja Sluchaj) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Elliott Sharp: Artificial Intelligence (Mahakala Music) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Dave Burrell/Bobby Kapp: Trichotomy (Mahakala Music) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Jeff Cosgrove: Live in Carrboro (Soul City Sounds) [04-07] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Aruan Ortiz/Lester St Louis: Prophecy (Mahakala Music) [08-07] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/James Emery: The Whisperers (Mahakala Music) [08-11] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matt Moran: Tuning Forks (Ibeji Music) [09-13] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Mat Maneri/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Joe Morris/Matt Moran: Seven Skies Orchestra (Fundacja Sluchaj -2CD) [10-15] - jazz
  • Maisie Peters: The Good Witch (New Elektra) [06-23] - pop
  • Scott Petito: Many Worlds (Planet Arts) [02-07] - jazz [B]
  • Kim Petras: Feed the Beast (Island) [06-23] - pop [*]
  • Joseph Petric: Seen (Redshift) - jazz
  • Phiik & Lungs: Another Planet 4 (Tase Grip/Break All) [02-18] - hip-hop [*]
  • Ethan Philion Quartet: Gnosis (Sunnyside) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Phoenix: Alpha Zulu (Glassnote) [11-04] - synthpop
  • Mathis Picard: Heat of the Moment (La Reserve) [11-03] - jazz
  • Jim Piela: It Comes With the Territory (Ears & Eyes) [12-01] - jazz
  • Pierce the Veil: The Jaws of Life (Fearless) [02-10] - post-hardcore
  • Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris: Chet Remembered () - jazz
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper (Missing Piece) [02-17] - metal
  • Jean-Michel Pilc: Symphony (Justin Time) [02-17] - jazz [*]
  • Pile: All Fiction (Exploding in Sound) [02-17] - indie rock
  • Pill Fangs: PF7 () [07-21]
  • Ted Piltzecker: Vibes on a Breath (OA2) [08-26] - jazz [*]
  • Pines of Rome: The Unstuck Bell (Solid Brass) [05-26]
  • Pink: Trustfall (RCA) [02-17] - dance pop [**]
  • Pink Monads: Multiple Visions of the Now (4DaRecord) [07-24] - jazz [**]
  • Yune Pinku: Babylon IX (Platoon, EP) [04-28] - pop [**]
  • PinkPantheress: Heaven Knows (Warner UK) [11-10] - alt-pop [***]
  • Lucas Pino: Covers () - jazz
  • August Pirodda Septet: The Monkey and the Monk (El Negocito) - jazz
  • The Pitch & Julia Reidy: Neutral Star (Miasmah) - jazz
  • John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen (Palmetto) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • PJEV/Kit Downes/Hayden Chisholm: Medna Roso (Red Hook) [05-05] - jazz
  • Rozi Plain: Prize (Memphis Industries) [01-13] - art pop [*]
  • Planet D Nonet: Blues to Be There (Eastlawn) - jazz
  • Planet Giza: Ready When You Are () [04-07] - hip-hop
  • Playfield: Magic Heart Vol2 (577) [11-19] - jazz
  • Peso Pluma: Genesis (Double P) [06-22] - Mexican trap [**]
  • Pod: The Earth's Rotation () [03-03]
  • Verneri Pohjola: Monkey Mind (Edition) [11-03] - jazz
  • Poison Ruin: Harvest (Relapse) [04-14] - metal
  • Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) [02-14] - art pop [*]
  • Polaris: Fatalilsm (Sharptone) [09-01] - metalcore
  • Pony: Velveteen (Take This to Heart) [05-19] - alt/indie [*]
  • Poobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Abri Cyclonique ()
  • Poolblood: Mole (Next Door)
  • Dougie Poole: The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) [02-24] - alt-country
  • Iggy Pop: Every Loser (Gold Tooth/Atlantic) [01-06] - new wave [*]
  • Popa Chubby: Live at G Bluey's Juke Joint NYC (Gulfcoast) - blues
  • Popcaan: Great Is He (OVO Sound) [01-27] - dancehall [**]
  • Greg Pope: It Goes Without Saying ()
  • John Pope Quintet: Citrinitas (New Jazz and Improvised Music) - jazz
  • Poppy: Zig (Sumerian) [10-27] - electropop
  • Popstar Benny: University! (True Panther) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Gregory Porter: Christmas Wish (Blue Note) [11-02] - xmas jazz
  • Portrayal of Guilt: Devil Music (Run for Cover) [04-21] - metal
  • Marek Pospieszalski: No Other End of the World Will There Be: Based on the Works of Polish Female Composers of the 20th Century (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Post Malone: Austin (Island) [07-28] - pop rap
  • Tineke Postma: Aria (Edition) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Chris Potter: Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) [02-17] - jazz [***]
  • Sally Potter: Pink Bikini (self-released) [07-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Shelton Powe: Shelton Powe (Music Maker -22) [2022-11-04] - blues [**]
  • Brigid Mae Power: Dream From the Deep Well (Fire) [06-30] - Fire
  • Margo Price: Strays (Loma Vista) [01-13] - country [*]
  • Precarious Towers: Ten Stories (Shifting Paradigm) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Simona Premazzi: Wave in Gravity: Solo Piano (PRE) - jazz [**]
  • David Preston: Purple/Black Volume One (Whirlwind) - jazz
  • Pretenders: Relentless (Rhino) [09-01] - rock [*]
  • Eddie Prevost/NO Moore/Henry Kaiser/Binker Golding/Olie Brice: The Secret Handshake With Danger Volume Two (577) [11-17] - jazz
  • Prewn: Through the Window (Exploding in Sound) [08-25] - indie rock
  • John Primer: Teardrops for Magic Slim: Live at Rosa's Lounge (Blues House) [02-24] - blues [***]
  • Primitive Knot: Undying Lands () [02-17]
  • William Prince: Stand in the Joy () - country
  • Princess Goes: Come of Age () [10-06]
  • Princess Nokia: I Love You but This Is Goodbye (Arista -EP) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Prins Emanuel: Diagonal Musik II (Music for Dreams) [11-03] - ambient
  • Private Function: 370HSSV 0773H () [03-31]
  • Protomartyr: Formal Growth in the Desert (Domino) [06-02] - postpunk
  • The Psychotic Monks: Pink Colour Surgery () [02-03] - noise rock
  • Public Image Ltd: End of World (PIL Official) [08-11] - post-punk
  • Public Service Broadcasting/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jules Buckley: This New Noise (Test Card) [09-08]
  • Puma Blue: Holy Waters (Blue Flowers/PIAS) [09-01] - art rock
  • Darden Purcell: Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood (Origin) [09-15] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Purelink: Signs () [09-15] - ambient dub
  • Purling Hiss: Drag on Girard (Drag City) [03-24] - indie rock
  • Pvris: Evergreen (Hopeless) [07-14] - alt/indie
  • Q: Soul, Present (Columbia) [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Ruhail Qaisar: Fatima (Danse Noire) [01-27] - dark ambient
  • Quartet San Francisco/Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band/Take Six: Raymond Scott Reimagined (Violinjazz) [07-21] - jazz
  • Quasi: Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop) [02-10] - indie rock [B-]
  • Quavo: Rocket Power (Quality Control/Motown) [08-18]
  • Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman . . . (Matador) [06-16] - stoner rock
  • Quest Master: Sword & Circuitry ()
  • R Ring: War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni) [01-27] - alt/indie [*]
  • Bruno Raberg: Solo Bass: Look Inside (Orbis Music) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Vanessa Racci: Jazzy Italian (Zoho Music -22) - vocal jazz
  • Rachael & Vilray: I Love a Love Song (Nonesuch) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Eliane Radigue: Maldjorlak (Saltern) [05-05] - electronic
  • Nate Radley & Gary Versace: Snapshots (SteepleChase) [06-22] - jazz [**]
  • Rae Sremmurd: Sremm 4 Life (EarDruma/Interscope) [04-07] - pop rap [*]
  • Raf-Saperra: Ruff Around the Edges ()
  • Ragana: Desolation's Flower (The Flenser) [10-27] - metal
  • Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound (Manushi) [07-07] - jazz
  • Rahill: Flowers at Your Feet (Big Dada) [05-12] - art pop
  • Joakim Rainer Trio: Light.Sentence (Sonic Transmissions) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Ran Cap Duoi: *1 (Nhac Gay) [04-23] - glitch
  • Rancid: Tomorrow Never Comes (Epitaph) [06-02]
  • Diego Raposo: Yo No Era Asi Pero De Ahora E Adelante, Si (Gran Vaina) [08-25] - Latin
  • Renee Rapp: Snow Angel (Polydor/Interscope) [08-18] - alt-pop
  • Rascal Reporters: The Strange Case of Steve (Cuneiform) [07-28] - post-rock
  • Nana Rashid: Music for Betty (April) - vocal jazz
  • Mette Rasmussen/Paul Flaherty/Zach Rowden/Chris Corsano: Crying in Space (Relative Pitch) [01-27] - jazz [***]
  • Ratboys: The Window (Topshelf) [08-25] - indie rock [**]
  • Ada Rave/Aaron Lumley/Onno Govaert: Bioluminus (Doek/RAW) - jazz
  • Tim Ray Trio: Fire & Rain (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
  • Raye: My 21st Century Blues (Human Re Sources) [02-03] - pop soul [**]
  • Mason Razavi: Six-String Standards (OA2) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jason Rebello/Tim Garland: Life to Life (Whirlwind) - jazz
  • Recognize Ali: Back to Mecca II () [03-24] - hip-hop
  • Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 2 () [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Joshua Redman: Where Are We (Blue Note) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples: The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
  • Eric Reed: Black, Brown, and Blue (Smoke Sessions) [03-10] - jazz [**]
  • Mike Reed: The Separatist Party (We Jazz/Astral Spirits) [10-27] - jazz [A-]
  • Sofia Rei & Jorge Roeder: Coplas Escondidas (self-released) [08-25] - jazz
  • Remembrance Quintet: Do You Remember? (Sonboy) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Nicolas Remondino: Ocra Rosa (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Dave Rempis/Elisabeth Harnik/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Tim Daisy: Earscratcher (Aerophonic) [01-13] - jazz [A-]
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Harvesters (Aerophonic) [07-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Ren: Sick Boi () [10-13]
  • Bebe Rexha: Bebe (Warner/What a DJ/Spacedout) [04-28] - dance-pop
  • Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog: Connection (Knockwurst) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Chase Rice: I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go to Hell () - country
  • Doug Richards Orchestra: Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Jeff Richman: XYZ (Nefer Music) - jazz
  • Mike Richmond: Turn Out the Stars (SteepleChase) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Rigz: Heal In () [03-17] - hip-hop
  • Rihanna: R9 ()
  • Aki Rissanen: Hyperreal ( Edition) [07-14] - jazz
  • Josh Ritter: Spectral Lines (Pytheas/Thirty Tigers) [04-28]
  • Diego Rivera: Love & Peace (Posi-Tone) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Amusement/Island) [09-22] - pop [**]
  • Lance Roark: Better Man () - country
  • Alasdair Roberts: Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall (Drag City) [03-31] - folk
  • Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Joanne Robertson: Blue Car (AD 93) [03-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Michael Robinson/Eliot Zigmund: Earth and Sky (Azure Miles -22) - jazz
  • Michael Robinson/Eliot Zigmund: Runs to Sea (Azure Miles -22) - jazz
  • Michael Robinson/Eliot Zigmund: What Magic (Azure Miles -22) - jazz
  • Smokey Robinson: Gasms (TLR) [04-28] - soul [**]
  • Sebastian Rochford/Kit Downes: A Short Diary (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [B]
  • Olivia Rodrigo: Guts (Geffen) [09-08] - pop [A]
  • Rodrigo Y Gabriela: In Between Thoughts . . . a New World (ATO) [04-21] - Latin
  • Ernesto Rodrigues/Joao Madeira/Hernani Faustino: No Strings Attached (Creative Sources) [04-16] - jazz [**]
  • Ernesto Rodrigues/Florian Stoffner/Bruno Parrinha/Joao Madeira: Altered Egos (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • Ernesto Rodrigues/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Flak/Joao Madeira/Jose Oliveira: The Giving Tree Moving On (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [**]
  • Ernesto Rodrigues/Dirk Serries/Joao Madeira/Jose Oliveira: Dripping (Creative Sources) [10-25] - jazz [*]
  • The Rodriguez Brothers: Reunited: Live at Dizzy's Club (RodBros Music) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Jason Roebke: Four Spheres (Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • Aksel Roed's Other Aspects: Do You Dream in Colours? (Is It Jazz?) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Roge: Curyman (Diamond West) [03-03] - MPB
  • Samuel Rohrer: Codes of Nature (Arjunamusic) - jazz
  • The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds (Polydor) [10-20] - blues rock [B]
  • Rome Streetz: Wasn't Built in a Day (De Rap Winkel) [02-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Rent Romus/Heikki Koskinen: Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament (Edgetone) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Romy: Mid Air (Young) [09-08] - dance-pop [A-]
  • Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt: Barbie [Score From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Water Tower) [08-04]
  • Roots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road: Retold Pasts and Present Day Musings (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Sigur Ros: Atta (BMG) [06-16]
  • Rafael Rosa: Axiomatic (self-released) - jazz
  • Rosalia & Rauw Alejandro: RR ()
  • Caroline Rose: The Art of Forgetting (New West) [03-24] - indie pop [*]
  • Charley Rose Trio: Dada Pulp (Menace) [10-27] - jazz
  • Esther Rose: Safe to Run (New West) [04-21] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Frankie Rose: Love as Projection (Slumberland) [03-10] - synthpop [B]
  • Whitney Rose: Rosie (MCG) [05-19] - country [***]
  • Rose City Band: Garden Party (Thrill Jockey) [04-21] - alt/indie
  • Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles (One Trick Dog) - jazz [*]
  • Dan Rosenboom: Polarity (Orenda) [04-28] - jazz [***]
  • Jeff Rosenstock: Hellmode (Polyvinyl) [09-01] - punk [*]
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel: Intuit (ELemental) - jazz
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel: Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard (Heartcore) - jazz
  • Brandon Ross: Of Sight and Sound (Sunnyside) [02-03] - jazz [*]
  • Sam Ross: Live at the Mira Room Vol II (self-released) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Ned Rothenberg: Crossings Four (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Jim Rotondi Quintet: Over Here (Criss Cross) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Rough Image: Rough Image (WV Sorcerer) [04-07] - experimental rock [***]
  • Kyle Roussel: Nola a La Mode (self-released) [04-01] - jazz
  • Dave Rowntree: Radio Songs (Cooking Vinyl) [01-20] - art pop
  • Royal Blood: Back to the Water Below (Warner) [09-01] - garage rock
  • Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy: Day (Greenleaf Music) [05-05] - jazz [*]
  • Andreas Roysum Ensemble: Mysterier (Motvind) [10-27] - jazz
  • Bobby Rozario: Spellbound (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [***]
  • Rrose: Please Touch (Eaux) [06-23]
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses (Top Side Music) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Jochen Rueckert: With Best Intentions (Colonel Beats) - jazz
  • Heikki Ruokangas: Karu (Orbit577) [10-03] - jazz
  • Bobby Rush: All My Love for You (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) - blues [**]
  • Allison Russell: The Returner (Fantasy) [09-08] [A-]
  • Rust Dust: Twere but It Were so Simple (Omad) [03-10] - folk [**]
  • Markus Rutz: Storybook (Jmarq) - jazz [**]
  • RVG: Brain Worms (Ivy League/Fire) [06-02]
  • Rx Papi: Dawg Storm ()
  • RXKNephew: Till I'm Dead (New Breed Trapper) [03-10] - hip-hop
  • Rymden + KORK: Rymden + KORK (Jazzland) - jazz
  • Sebi Sab: Inhibitions (3093216 DK) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Jerome Sabbagh: Vintage (Sunnyside) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • M Sage: Paradise Crick (Rvng Intl) [05-26]
  • Defne Sahin: Hope () [10-27] - Turkish
  • Saint Levant: From Gaza, With Love ()
  • Saint Martyn: The Day God Died () [07-03]
  • Taiko Saito: Tears of a Cloud (Trouble in the East) [04-28] - jazz [*]
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 (Milan) [01-17] - minimalism [B]
  • Akira Sakata & Friends: Live in Europe 2022 (Trost -2CD) [10-13] - jazz
  • Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: Home Is Here (Tapestry) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Cecile McLorin Salvant: Melusine (Nonesuch) [03-24] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Vladimir Samardzic: Catching the Wind (Skc Ns) - jazz
  • Samia: Honey (Grand Jury) [01-27] - indie pop [*]
  • Samory-I: Strength (Overstand Entertainment/Easy Star) [11-17] - reggae
  • Sampha: Lahai (Young) [10-20] - alt r&b [*]
  • The Angelica Sanchez Nonet: Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic) [10-27] - jazz [***]
  • Stephen Sanchez: Angel Face (Republic) [09-22]
  • Brandon Sanders: Compton's Finest (Savant) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Mark Sanders/Emil Karlsen: Muted Language (Bead) - jazz
  • Mark Sanders/Chris Mapp/Andrew Woodhead: Collapse Uncollapse (577) [09-01] - jazz
  • Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra: Playland at the Beach (Little Village) [10-28] - jazz [**]
  • Arman Sangalang: Quartet (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [**]
  • Sanguisugabogg: Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media) [02-03] - death metal
  • Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?: Turkish Hipster (Dunya) [07-21] - jazz [B]
  • Joe Santa Maria: Echo Deep (Orenda) [11-03] - jazz [B-]
  • Marco Antonio Santos: About: Silence (Ears & Eyes) [05-05] - jazz
  • A Savage: Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade) [10-06] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Anna B Savage: In/Flux (City Slang) [02-17] - art pop
  • Say She She: Silver (Colemine) [09-29] - funk
  • SBATAX: Spires (Umlaut) - jazz
  • SBT: Joan of All (self-released) [05-19] - indie folk
  • SBTRKT: The Rat Road (AWAL) [05-05] - indietronica [B]
  • Jonathan Scales Fourchestra: Re-Potted () [08-24] - azz
  • Ignaz Schick/Oliver Steidle: ILOG3 (Zarek) - jazz
  • John Scofield: Uncle John's Band (ECM) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • The Schwager/Oliver Quintet: Senza Reza (Cellar Live) - jazz
  • Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Harlem Suite (Ropeadope) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Scorzari: The Crosswinds of Kansas (self-released -22) [2022-08-19] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Dave Scott: Song for Alice (SteepleChase) [01-15] - jazz [**]
  • Jeffrey Scott: Going Down to Georgia on a Hog (Music Maker) [03-03] - blues [***]
  • Kendrick Scott: Corridors (Blue Note) [03-03] - jazz [**]
  • Knoel Scott/Marshall Allen: Celestial (Night Dreamer) [07-28] - jazz [***]
  • Travis Scott: Utopia (Cactus Jack/Epic) [07-28] - hip-hop [**]
  • Screaming Females: Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni) [02-17] - indie rock [B]
  • Scree: Jasmine on a Night in July () [03-10]
  • Scrimshire: Paroxysm () [05-26]
  • Brandon Seabrook: Brutalovechamp (Pyroclastic) [05-26] - jazz [**]
  • The Selva: Camarao-Girafa (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Philip Selway: Strange Dance (Bella Union) [02-24] - art pop
  • Marina Sena: Vicio Inerente (Sony Music Brasil) [04-27] - Brazil [***]
  • Sara Serpa & André Matos: Night Birds (Robalo Music) [09-29] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light On (Paradise of Bachelors) [09-29] - drone
  • Sevendust: Truth Killer ( ) [07-28] - alt metal
  • Dave Sewelson/William Parker/Steve Hirsch: The Gate (Mahakala Music -22) - jazz [***]
  • Dave Sewelson/Stephen Moses/Jochem van Dijk/Steve Holtje: Orca Uprising (MechaBenzaiten) [09-29] - jazz [B]
  • Sexmob: The Hard Way (Corbett vs Dempsey) [05-12] - jazz [***]
  • Ron Sexsmith: The Vivian Line (Cooking Vinyl) [02-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Sexyy Red: Hood Hottest Princess (Heavy on It) [06-09] - hip-hop [*]
  • Shabazz Palaces: Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop) [10-27]
  • Shakti: This Moment () - jazz
  • Shalom: Sublimation (Saddle Creek) [03-10] - alt/indie [***]
  • Shame: Food for Worms (Dead Ocean) [02-24] - art punk
  • Andy Shauf: Norm (Anti-) [02-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Ian Shaw: Greek Street Friday (Silent Wish) [09-01] - vocal jazz
  • Jake Shears: Last Man Dancing (Mute) [06-02]
  • The Shed Project: Our Fear Is Their Power () [11-24]
  • Ed Sheeran: - [Subtract] (Asylum) [05-05] - folk pop
  • Ed Sheeran: Autumn Variations (Gingerbread Man) [09-29] - folk pop
  • Jordyn Shellhart: Primrose () - country
  • Greg Sher/Dylan Van Der Schyff: You Sing the Song (self-released) - jazz
  • Tony Shhnow: Love Streak () [04-28] - hip-hop
  • Elijah Shiffer: Star Jelly (self-released) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 1 (self-released) [11-06] - jazz [***]
  • Matthew Shipp/Mark Helias: The New Syntax (RogueArt -22) [2022-11-14] - jazz [***]
  • Matthew Shipp: The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala Music) [09-22] - jazz [**]
  • Patrick Shiroishi: I Was Too Young to Hear Silence (American Dreams) [11-10]
  • The Shits: You're a Mess () [04-13]
  • ShittyBoyz: Trifecta 3: The Finale (Empire) [09-22] - hip-hop
  • The Shootouts: Stampede (Soundly Music) [02-24] - country [***]
  • Short Fictions: Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler) (Lauren) [10-06]
  • Shorter Moments: Blue Ballads (Posi-Tone) [04-21] - jazz
  • Shorter Moments: Citizen Wayne (Posi-Tone) [08-25] - jazz
  • Nick Shoulders: All Bad (Gar Hole) [09-08] - country [**]
  • Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof (Secret Hatch) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Apostolos Sideris: Past-Presented (Parallel) [11-03] - jazz [*]
  • Sideshow: 2mm Don't Just Stand There! () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Sigur Ros: Atta (Krunk/BMG) [06-16] - ambient
  • Maria Elena Silva: Dulce (Astral Spirits/Big Ego) [08-25] - jazz
  • Lisa Marie Simmons/Marco Cremaschini: NoteSpeak 12 (Ropeadope) [02-24] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Paul Simon: Seven Psalms (Owl/Legacy) [05-19] [B]
  • Edward Simon: Femininas: Songs of Latin American Women (ArtistShare) [06-08] - jazz [*]
  • Alex Sipiagin Quintet: Mel's Vision (Criss Cross) [01-27] - jazz
  • Sir Chloe: I Am the Dog () [05-19] - alt/indie
  • Ballake Sissoko/Vincent Segal/Emile Parisien/Vincent Peirani: Les Egares (No Format) [03-31]
  • Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other (Capitol) [10-13] - pop [**]
  • Jae Skeese: Abolished Uncertainties () [03-24] - hip-hop
  • Skech185 & Jeff Markey: He Left Nothing for the Swim Back (Backwoodz Studioz) [02-03] - hip-hop [**]
  • Isach Skeidsvoll: Dance to Summon (Ultraaani) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Lauritz Skeidsvoll & Isach Skeidsvoll Duo: Chanting Moon, Dancing Sun: Live at Molde International Jazz Festival (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Sketch185 & Jeff Markey: He Left Nothing for the Swim Back (Backwoodz Studioz) [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Skindred: Smile (Earache) [08-04] - nu metal
  • Skourge: Torrential Torment ()
  • Skrillex: Quest for Fire (OWSLA/Atlantic) [02-17] - electronic [*]
  • Skrillex: Don't Get Too Close (OWSLA/Atlantic) [02-18] - electronic [**]
  • Skyzoo & the Other Guys: The Mind of a Saint (First Generation Rich) [01-13] - hip-hop [***]
  • Slauson Malone 1: Excelsior () [10-06] - art pop
  • Slayyyter: Starfucker (Fader) [09-22] - electropop [***]
  • Sleaford Mods: UK Grim (Rough Trade) [03-10] - UK hip-hop [***]
  • Sleep Token: Take Me Back to Eden (Spinefarm) [05-19] - alt metal
  • Sleepingdogs: I'm Fakin' My Own Death Just to Get Some Rest () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Slow Pulp: Yard (Anti-) [09-29] - alt/indie [**]
  • Slowdive: Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans) [09-01]
  • Slowthai: Ugly (Method/Universal) [03-03] - UK hip-hop [***]
  • SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude (Slow & Steady) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Sluice: Radial Gate ()
  • Charlie Smarts & DJ Ill Digitz: Charlietape () [04-28] - hip-hop
  • The Smashing Pumpkins: ATUM (Martha's) [05-05] - symphonic rock
  • Caitlyn Smith: High and Low () - country
  • Jorja Smith: Falling or Flying (FAMM) [09-29] - r&b
  • Peter Smith Trio: Dollar Dreams (Real Magic) [03-03] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Smith: Gloria (Capitol) [01-27] - pop [B]
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information: Time Flies (Wounded Bird, 2CD) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric: Fire Illuminations (Kabell) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Walter Smith III: Return to Casual (Blue Note) [04-07] - jazz [*]
  • Smoke DZA & Flying Lotus: Flying Objects (The Smoker's Club, EP) [09-01] - hip-hop [*]
  • Jim Snidero: Far Far Away (Savant) - jazz [***]
  • Snooper: Super Snooper (Third Man) [07-14] - punk [***]
  • Soccer Committee: [Heart]/Lamb (Morc) [06-27]
  • Soccer Mommy: Karaoke Night (Loma Vista, EP) [09-22]
  • Maija Sofia: True Love () [09-01] - art pop
  • Cleo Sol: Heaven () [09-15] - neo-soul
  • Emilio Solla/Antonio Lizana: El Siempre Mar (Tiger Turn) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Something Blue: Personal Preference (Posi-Tone) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Son Volt: Day of the Doug: The Songs of Doug Sahm (Transmit Sound) [04-22] - country [*]
  • Sonar With David Torn and J Peter Schwalm: Three Movements (7d) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Jaak Sooaar/Ara Yaralyan/Markku Ounaskari: Zula (AVA Muusika) - jazz
  • Alan Sondheim: Galut: Ballads of Wadi-Sabi (ESP-Disk) [04-28] - experimental [**]
  • Kate Soper Feat Sam Pluta: The Understanding of All Things (New Focus -22) [2022-03-04] - electronic [B]
  • Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Continuing (Pi) [06-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Mark Soskin/Jay Anderson: Empathy (SteepleChase) [05-18] - jazz [***]
  • Soul Assassins: Soul Assassins 3 () [08-25] - hip-hop
  • Sounding Society: Homecoming Medley or Society Into Sound (Gotta Let It Out) - jazz
  • Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente: Cometa (Sunnyside) [08-25] - vocal jazz
  • Tomek Sowinski/Maciej Sikala: Amalgamation (Alpaka) - jazz
  • Ulrika Spacek: Compact Trauma (Tough Love)
  • Spanish Love Songs: No Joy (Pure Noise) [08-25] - emo
  • Guido Spannocchi: Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna (Audioguido) [04-20] - jazz [***]
  • Sparklehorse: Bird Machine (Anti-) [09-08]
  • Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (Island) [05-26] - art pop [B-]
  • Speaker Music: Techxodus (Planet Mu) [09-08] - electronica [**]
  • Speakers Corner Quartet: Further Out Than the Edge (OTIH) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Lessons () [903-24] - hip-hop
  • Chris Speed Trio: Despite Obstacles (Intakt) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Speedy Ortiz: Rabbit Rabbit (Wax Nine) [09-01] - indie rock [**]
  • Spellling: Spellling & the Mystery School (Sacred Bones) [08-25] - darkwave
  • Alister Spence/Tony Buck: Mythographer (Alister Spence Music) - jazz
  • Deem Spencer: Adultsw!m () [03-03]
  • Vinnie Sperrazza/Ethan Iverson/Michael Formanek: Saturday (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Simon Spillett Big Band: Dear Tubby H (Mister PC) [09-11] - jazz
  • Russ Spiegel: Caribbean Blue (Ruzztone Music) [10-23] - jazz [**]
  • Spinall: Top Boy ()
  • Spirit Adrift: Ghost at the Gallows (Century Media) [08-18] - metal
  • Spirit of the Beehive: I'm So Lucky (Saddle Creek, EP) [09-01]
  • Spotlights: Alchemy for the Dead ()
  • Sprain: The Lamb as Effigy (The Flenser) [09-01] - experimental rock
  • Rick Springfield: Automatic () [08-04]
  • Hemlocke Springs: Going . . . Going . . . Gone! (Good Luck Have Fun, EP) [09-29] - electropop [***]
  • Squid: O Monolith (Warp) [06-09] [**]
  • Squirrel Flower: Tomorrow's Fire (Polyvinyl/Full Time Hobby) [10-13] - slacker rock
  • Squrl: Silver Haze (Sacred Bones) [05-05]
  • Paul St Hilaire: Tikiman Vol 1 () [03-31] - dub techno
  • St Paul & the Broken Bones: Angels in Science Fiction (ATO) [04-21] - soul
  • Terell Stafford: Between Two Worlds (Le Coq) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis: Calibrating Friction (New Amsterdam) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Chris Stamey: The Great Escape (Car) [07-07] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Staples Jr Singers: Tell Heaven (Luaka Bop, EP)
  • Chris Stapleton: Higher (Mercury Nashville) [11-10] - country [*]
  • Steel Banglez: The Playlist (Gifted Music) [05-19] - UK hip-hop
  • Steep Canyon Rangers: Morning Shift (Yep Roc) [09-08] - bluegrass [*]
  • Jason Stein/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Hum (Irritable Mystic) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger: Umbra (Intakt) [05-19] - jazz
  • Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger: Penumbra (Plaist -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [**]
  • Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere (ECM) [03-17] - jazz [*]
  • Joanna Sternberg: I've Got Me (Fat Possum) [06-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Colin Stetson: When We Were That What Wept for the Sea (52Hz) [05-12] - post-minimalism
  • Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet: Precipice (ARC) [05-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Sami Stevens: Morning (Sunnyside) [07-28] - vocal jazz
  • Sufjan Stevens/Timo Andres/Conor Hanick: Reflections (Asthmatic Kitty) [05-19]
  • Sufjan Stevens: Javellin (Asthmatic Kitty) [10-06] - indie folk [*]
  • Sultan Stevenson: Faithful One (Whirlwind) [03-24] - jazz
  • Louis Stewart: Out on His Own (Livia) - jazz
  • Tamara Stewart: Woman (self-released) [04-11] - country [**]
  • Loren Stillman: Time and Again (Sunnyside) [11-17] - jazz
  • Stirrup: Picks Up the Thread (Ears & Eyes) [12-08] - jazz
  • Stolen Jars: I Won't Let Me Down (Boom) [08-04]
  • The Stools: R U Saved? (Feel It) [06-02]
  • Malcolm Strachan: Point of No Return (Strachan) - jazz
  • Strange Ranger: Pure Music (Fire Talk)
  • Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: The Universe's Wildest Dream (Strick Music) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • The Dave Stryker Trio: Prime (Strikezone) - jazz [***]
  • Julia Strzalek & Cornelia Nilsson: Scenery Somewhere (Frim) [02-24] - jazz
  • Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives: Altitude (Snakefarm) [05-19] - bluegrass [B]
  • Stuck: Freak Frequency (Born Yesterday) [05-26] - punk [**]
  • Bub Styles: Outerwear SZN 3 (Cold Cut) [02-24] - hip-hop
  • Styles P: Penultimate: A Calm Wolf Is Still a Wolf (Empire) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Yuhan Su: Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside) [11-10] - jazz [***]
  • Jonathan Suazo: Ricano (Ropeadope) [08-04] - jazz
  • Subsonic Eye: All Around You (Topshelf) [09-13] - indie rock
  • AJ Suede & Tenevangel: Parthian Shots () [03-02] - hip-hop
  • Sarah-Jane Summers: Echo Stane (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory (Endectomorph Music) [10-27] - jazz [***]
  • Sundy Best: Feel Good Country (self-released) [02-03] - country [*]
  • SurdelSur Ensemble: Hernandez-Sanjuro-Nebbia (Ears & Eyes) [09-22] - jazz
  • Charu Suri: Rags & Ragas (self-released) [09-08] - jazz
  • Susanne Sundfor: Blomi (Bella Union) [04-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Superposition: Glaciers (Kettle Hole) [08-14] - jazz [**]
  • Superviolet: Infinite Spring (Lame-O) [04-21] - rock [*]
  • Surgeon: Crash Recoil (Tesor) [03-17] - electronic
  • Susanna: Baudelaire & Orchestra (SusannaSonata) [07-28] - vocal jazz
  • Sheldon Suter: Berceuses & Nocturnes (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Helen Svoboda/Joe O'Connor/Tim Green: Time Together, Time Apart (577) [05-05] - jazz
  • Swans: The Beggar (Mute) [06-23]
  • Swansea Sound: Twentieth Century () [09-08]
  • Earl Sweatshirt & the Alchemist: Voir Dire (ALC/Tan Cressida) - hip-hop [*]
  • Sweeping Promises: Good Living Is Coming for You (Sub Pop) [06-30] - alt/indie
  • Steve Swell/Joe McPhee/Chris Corsano: Sometimes the Air Is (Mahakala Music) [02-24] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Swell/Mark Tokar/Klaus Kugel: For the People of the Open Heart (Fundacja Sluchaj) [07-07] - jazz
  • Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue) [09-15] - vocal jazz [B-]
  • Sylosis: A Sign of Things to Come (Nuclear Blast) [09-08] - metal
  • SZA: SOS (Top Dawg/RCA -22) [2022- 12-09] - r&b [**]
  • T-Pain: On Top of the Covers (Nappy Boy) [03-17] - pop soul
  • Taake: Et Hav Av Avstand (Dark Essence) [09-01] - black metal
  • Tainy: Data (Neon16) [06-29] - reggaeton [*]
  • Aki Takase: Carmen Rhapsody (BMC) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Aki Takase/Alexander von Schlippenbach: Four Hands Piano Pieces (Trost) [04-28] - jazz [B]
  • Taking Back Sunday: 152 (Fantasy) [10-27]
  • Talbot, Molina, Lofgren & Young: All Roads Lead Home (Warner) [03-31] - country rock
  • The Tallest Man on Earth: Henry St (Anti-) [04-14] - folk
  • Natsuki Tamura/Ittetsu Takemura: Lightning (Libra -22) [2022-12-02] - jazz
  • Tanukichan: Gizmo (Chi18) [03-03] - shoegaze
  • Jorma Tapio: Bread for Soul (Orbit 577) [07-02] - jazz
  • Avey Tare: 7s (Domino) [02-17] - neo-psychedelia
  • Eldad Tarmu: Tarmu Jazz Quartet (Queen of Bohemia) - jazz [**]
  • Grzegorz Tarwid Trio: Flowers (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Dudu Tassa/Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit) [06-09] - world [*]
  • Brit Taylor: Kentucky Blue (Cut a Shine) [02-04] - country [***]
  • Sam Taylor: Let Go (Cellar -22) [2022-10-21] - jazz
  • Willie Tea Taylor: The Great Western Hangover () - country
  • TDJ: SPF INFINI 3 (Collection Disques Durs) [10-13] - dj mix
  • Techno Cats: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [08-14] - jazz [*]
  • Felo Le Tee/Mellow & Sleazy: The III Wise Men (New Money Gang) [07-15] - amapiano [A-]
  • Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: I Love You (Domestic La La) [10-06] - pop punk [**]
  • Teenage Fanclub: Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge) [09-22]
  • Teenage Waitress: Your Cuckoo () [06-09]
  • Teenage Wrist: Still Love (Epitaph) [08-04] - shoegaze
  • The Telescopes: Of Tomorrow (Tapete) [05-19] - dream pop
  • Temples: Exotico (ATO) [04-14] - neo-psychedelia
  • Tennis: Pollen (Mutually Detrimental) [02-10] - indie pop
  • Viento Terral: Tunnel Visionaries (Broken & A Logic) - jazz
  • Thala: In Theory Depression (Fire -EP) [07-07]
  • Thanks for Coming: What Is My Capacity to Love? (Danger Collective -EP) [09-29]
  • That Mexican OT: Lonestar Luchador (Manifest/Good Talk/Good Money Global) [07-28] - hip-hop [**]
  • Theee Retail Simps: Live on Cool Street (Total Punk) [09-01]
  • Hakon Thelin: Random Partials/Twinings (Peninsula Audio) - jazz
  • Hakon Thelin: Spektalkompass/Sterbendes Hertz (Peninsula Audio) - jaz
  • Them Dirty Roses: Lost in the Valley of Hate & Love Vol 1 () - country
  • Therapy?: Hard Cold Fire (Marshall) [05-05]
  • Thermal: Ice in a Hot World (Unsounds) - jazz
  • Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project: Mi Hogar (Outside In Music) - jazz [**]
  • They: Nu Moon ()
  • This Is the Kit: Careful of Your Keepers (Rough Trade) [06-09] - indie folk
  • Leon Thomas III: Electric Dusk (Ezmny/Motown) [08-18] - r&b
  • Leon Foster Thomas: Calasanitus () - jazz
  • Pat Thomas/Phil Minton/Dave Tucker/Roger Turner: Scatter: On a Clear Day Like This (577) [03-31] - jazz
  • Pat Thomas/Chris Sharkey/Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths (577) [06/30] - jazz
  • Isaiah J Thompson: The Power of the Spirit (Blue Engine) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • Rich Thompson: Who Do You Have to Know? (Origin) - jazz [*]
  • Teddy Thompson: My Love of Country (self-released) [08-18] - country [**]
  • Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One (Pi) [05-26] - jazz [A-]
  • Tinariwen: Amatssou (Wedge) [05-19] - Saharan [*]
  • Tinashe: BB/ANG3L (Nice Life, EP) [09-08] - r&b [*]
  • Kris Tiner/Tatsuya Nakatini: The Magic Room (Epigraph) [08-04] - jazz [**]
  • Tiny Ruins: Ceremony (Ba Da Bing) [04-28] - folk [*]
  • Keith & Julie Tippett: Couple in Spirit/Sound on Stone (Discus Music) - jazz
  • Tirzah: Trip9love (Domino) [09-05] - alt r&b [*]
  • TisaKorean: Let Me Update My Status (Jazzzy) [03-24] - hip-hop [B]
  • Titanic: Vidrio (Unheard of Hope) [10-20] - post-minimalism
  • TMFSE & Shape: Naked Brunch () [01-31] - hip-hop
  • TOBi: Panic (Same Plate Entertainment/RCA) [10-12] - jazz rap
  • Christine Tobin: Returning Weather (Trail Belle) - jazz
  • Lol Tolhurst X Budgie X Jacknife Lee: Los Angeles (PIAS) [11-03]
  • Don Toliver: Love Sick (Cactus Jack/Atlantic) [02-24] - hip-hop [B]
  • Tomb Mold: The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin) [09-15] - metal
  • MF Tomlinson: We Are Still Wild Horses (Prah) [02-17] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Tomu DJ: Crazy Trip (No Bias, EP) [08-11]
  • Josie Toney: Extra (Like You Mean It) [04-07] - country [**]
  • Tonique & Man: Opening Soon () [09-01]
  • Nina Tormenta: Las Cosas Lento () [08-24]
  • Emiliana Torrini: Racing the Storm (Bella Union) [03-17]
  • Myke Towers: La Vida Es Una ()
  • Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM) - jazz
  • Lukas Traxel: One-Eyed Daruma (We Jazz) [03-10] - jazz [***]
  • Rian Treanor & Ocen James: Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-20] - electroacoustic
  • Trespass Trio Feat. Susana Santos Silva: Live in Oslo (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Dwight Trible: Ancient Future (Gearbox) - jazz
  • Emma Tricca: Aspirin Sun () [04-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Trickster: Live in Brooklyn (Cygnus) [08-15] - jazz
  • Trio Grande: Urban Myth (Whirlwind) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Trio San: Hibiki (Jazzdor) [11-10] - jazz [***]
  • Triogram: Triogram (Circle Theory Media) - jazz [**]
  • Tripple Redd: Mansion Musik (10K Projects/1400) [01-20] - hip-hop
  • Trombe: Cheval Rodeo (STNT -22) [2022-11-25] - jazz
  • Tropical Fuck Storm: Submersive Behavior ()
  • Tropos: Shadow Music (Endectomorph Music) [03-17] - jazz
  • Gianluigi Trovesi: Stravaganze Consonanti (ECM) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Dan Trudell: Fishin' Again: A Tribute to Clyde Stubblefield & Dr Lonnie Smith (OA2) - jazz [***]
  • True Stomach of a Bird [Ulf Mengersen/Lina Allemano/Kamil Korolczuk]: Computation Intensive Spontaneousness (self-released) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • Erik Truffaz: Rollin' (Blue Note) [04-14] - jazz [**]
  • Juanma Trujillo: Contour (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • The Tubs: Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind) [01-27] - jangle pop [*]
  • Dara Starr Tucker: Dara Starr Tucker (Green Hill Productions) [06-03] - jazz [**]
  • Tanya Tucker: Sweet Western Sound (Fantasy) [06-02] - country [**]
  • Tujiko Noriko: Crepuscule I & II (Editions Mego) [01-13] - ambient [B]
  • Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (Warp) [03-17] - art rock [**]
  • Mark Turner Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard (Giant Step Arts) [09-08] - jazz
  • Brad Turner Quintet: The Magnificent (Cellar) [09-22] - jazz [*]
  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: City of Gold (Nonesuch) [07-21] - bluegrass [***]
  • Shania Twain: Queen of Me (Republic Nashville) [02-03] - country pop
  • Twice: Ready to Be (JYP -EP) [03-10] - K-pop
  • Luh Tyler: My Vision (Motion Music/Atlantic) [03-31] - hip-hop
  • William Tyler & the Impossible Truth: Secret Stratosphere (Merge) [03-31]
  • Dan Tyminski: God Fearing Heathen (8 Track Entertainment) [06-23] - bluegrass [***]
  • Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington: Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six (2022 [2023], OA2) [07-21] - jazz [B]
  • Tyvek: Overground (Ginkgo) [11-10] - punk [A-]
  • TzariZM: OTHER (Over Time He Earns Respect) () [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Tzusing: Green Hat () [03-31] - industrial techno
  • U2: Songs of Surrender (Island) [03-17] - pop rock
  • Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus (Interscope) [03-03] - pop [**]
  • Jeremy Udden: Wishing Flower (Sunnyside) [10-27] - jazz [*]
  • Ulaan Passerine: Sun Spar (Worstward -22) [2022-09-02] - jazz [B]
  • Matt Ulery: Mannerist (Woolgathering) - jazz
  • Stephen Ulrich: Music From This American Life (Barbes) [02-03] - folk guitar [***]
  • Ulthar: Anthronomicon & Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin)
  • Uncle Waffles: Asylum (Kreativekornerr) [03-31] - amapiano [**]
  • Underscores: Wallsocket (Mom + Pop) [09-22] - glitch pop [***]
  • Undisclosed Sims: Simulate (Irritable Mystic) [12-01] - jazz
  • Universal Harmonies & Frequencies: Tune In () [12-01]
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra: V (Jagjaguwar) [03-17] - neo-psychedelia
  • Unknown Shore [Joao Pedro Viegas/Silvia Corda/Adriano Erruj]: The House of Memory (Fundacja Sluchaj) [10-11] - jazz
  • Unloved: Polychrome (Heavenly)
  • Unthank:Smith: Nowhere and Everywhere (Harmonia Mundi) [02-17] - folk
  • US Girls: Bless This Mess (4AD) [02-24] - synthpop [**]
  • Uroboro: A Story Like Fire (Discus Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • V: Layover () [09-08] - K-pop
  • Vagabon: Sorry I Haven't Called (Nonesuch) [09-15]
  • Kassi Valazza: Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing () [05-26] - Americana
  • Valee & Harry Fraud: Virtuoso (Srfschl/Fake Shore Drive) - hip-hop
  • Billy Valentine: Billy Valentine and the Universal Truth (Flying Dutchman) [03-24] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Manuel Valera Quintet: Vessel (Criss Cross) - jazz
  • The Vampires Featuring Chris Abrahams: Earshift () [J|jazz]
  • Bo Van De Graaf: Shinjuku (Icdisc) - jazz
  • Greta Van Fleet: Starcatcher (Republic) [07-21]
  • Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake: Eternal River (Corbett vs Dempsey) [04-07] - jazz [***]
  • Vanishing Twin: Afternoon X (Fire) [10-06] - neo-psychedelia
  • Sachal Vasandani & Romain Collin: Still Life (Edition -22) [2022-07-15] - vocal jazz [B-]
  • Vayda: Breeze () [03-13] - trap
  • Veeze: Ganger (Navy Wavy) [06-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Donald Vega: As I Travel (Imagery) [10-27] - jazz
  • Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott: East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Ally Venable: Real Gone (Ruf) [03-23] - blues [*]
  • Vin Venezia: The Venetian (Innervision) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Andrea Veneziani: The Lighthouse (self-released) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Alex Ventling/Hein Westgaard: In Orbit (Nice Things) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Nils Vermeulen: Variations (Aspen Edities) - jazz
  • VHS Head: Phocus (Skam) [04-06] - glitch hop [*]
  • Luis Vicente 4tet: House in the Valley (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Fay Victor: Blackcity Black Black Is Beautiful (Northern Spy) [08-25] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Ramana Vieira: Tudo De Mim (All of Me) (self-released) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Albert Vila: Levity (Hypnote) - jazz
  • Elio Villafranca: Standing by the Crossroads (ArtistShare) [02-01] - jazz
  • Village of the Sun: First Light (Gearbox) - jazz
  • Daniel Villarreal: Lados B (International Anthem) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Liba Villavecchia Trio: Birchwood (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Claudia Villela: Cartas Ao Vento (Taina Music) [09-08] - Brazil [***]
  • Reuben Vincent: Love Is War () [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Vipertime: Arise () [05-05]
  • David Virelles: Carta (Intakt) [06-18] - jazz [**]
  • Vitamin D: Ultimate Broken Beats () [03-25] - hip-hop
  • Pabllo Vittar: Noitada (Sony Music) [02-08] - Brazil [**]
  • Pabllo Vittar: After (Sony Music) [07-27] - Brazil [*]
  • Celine Voccia/Anna Kaluza/Matthias Bauer: ACM Trio (AUT -22) - jazz
  • Celine Voccia Trio: Abime (Jazzwerkstatt) - jazz
  • Maddie Vogler: While We Have Time (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Voice Actor: Fake Asleep (Stroom) [10-10] - electronic
  • Marco Von Orelli & Sheldon Suter: Draw From the Source (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Waco Brothers: The Men That God Forgot (Plenty Tuff) [03-31] - alt/indie [**]
  • Morgan Wade: Psychopath (Ladylike/RCA) [08-25] - country [A-]
  • The WAEVE: The WAEVE (Transgressive) [02-03] - art rock
  • Rufus Wainwright: Folkocracy (BMG) [06-02] - folk [B]
  • Brad Walker + Extended: Side by Side (self-released) [04-07] - jazz
  • Joe Louis Walker: Weight of the World (Forty Below) [02-17] - blues [B]
  • Joshua Ray Walker: I Opened for the Killers () - country
  • Summer Walker: Clear 2: Soft Life (Interscope) [05-19] - neo-soul
  • Colter Wall: Little Songs (Black Hole/La Ronda) [07-14] - country [***]
  • Morgan Wallen: One Thing at a Time (Big Loud) [03-03] - country
  • Wallice: Mr Big Shot (Dirty Hit -EP) [06-23]
  • JD Walter: What the World Needs Now (Arkadia) [05-19] - jazz
  • JD Walter: The Last Muse (Arkadia) [09-23] - jazz [B-]
  • Sunny War: Anarchist Gospel (New West) [02-03] - Americana [***]
  • The War and Treaty: Lover's Game (Mercury Nashville) [03-10] - country [**]
  • Alex Ward Item 4: Furthered (577) [03-03] - jazz
  • Greg Ward's Rogue Parade: Dion's Quest (Sugah Hoof) - jazz [B-]
  • Jordan Ward: Forward (Interscope) [03-03] - alt-r&b
  • M Ward: Supernatural Thing (Anti-) [06-23]
  • Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! (PMR/EMI) [04-28] - post-disco [A-]
  • Wargasm: Venom (Republic) [10-27] - nu metal
  • Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: The Nation's Most Central Location (Castles in Space) [05-19] - prog electronic
  • Nadia Washington: Hope Resurgence (New) - jazz [B-]
  • Water From Your Eyes: Everyone's Crushed (Matador) [05-26] - art pop [A-]
  • Nick Waterhouse: The Fooler (Innovative Leisure) [04-01]
  • Chester Watson: Fish Don't Climb Trees (POW) [06-30]
  • Juan Wauters: Wandering Rebel (Captured Tracks) [06-02]
  • We Are Scientists: Lobes (Masterswan) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • Mimi Webb: Amelia (Epic) [03-03] - pop
  • Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince (Intakt) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Anna Webber/Matt Mitchell: Capacious Aeration (Tzadik) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Collin Webster & Andrew Lisle: Spontaneous Live Series D04 (Spontaneous Music Tribune) - jazz
  • Wednesday: Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) [04-07] - rock [*]
  • Cory Weeds' Little Big Band: Home Cookin (Cellar) [112-10] - jazz
  • Sam Weinberg Trio With Chris Lightcap & Tom Rainey: Implicatures (Astral Spirits) [05-19] - jazz [A-]
  • Alex Weiss: Most Don't Have Enough (Ears & Eyes) - jazz [*]
  • Alex Weitz: Rule of Thirds (Outside In Music) [04-28] - jazz [***]
  • Ben Wendel: All One (Edition) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Bobby West: Big Trippin' (Soulville Sound) - jazz
  • Westerman: An Inbuilt Fault (Partisan) [05-05] - art pop
  • Hein Westgaard Trio: First as Farce (Nice Things) [09-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm: Grit & Grace (Sunnyside) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Bella White: Among Other Things () - country
  • Xylouris White: The Forest in Me (Drag City) [04-14]
  • White Reaper: Asking for a Ride () [01-27]
  • Whitehorse: I'm Not Crying, You're Crying () - country
  • The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West: Postcards From Hollywood (Summit) - jazz
  • The Who: With Orchestra: Live at Wembley (Geffen) [03-31]
  • WiFiGawd & Soudiere: 36 Chambers of Pressure Vol 2 (Purple Posse -EP) [02-24] - hip-hop [B]
  • Havard Wiik/Tim Daisy: Slight Return (Relay) [08-21] - jazz [***]
  • Lucy Wijnands: Something Awaits (self-released) [06-30] - vocal jazz
  • Wilco: Cousin (dBpm) [09-29] - indie rock
  • David Wilcox: My Good Friends () [08-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Wild Nothing: Hold (Captured Tracks) [10-27] - dream pop
  • Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (New Amsterdam) [06-16] - classical [***]
  • Wildelux: The IT Factor () [02-28] - hip-hop
  • Manco Wilder: The Phantom of the Corner Store () [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Skip Wilkins: In Morava (Na Morave) (New Port Line) [11-17] - jazz
  • Buster Williams: Unalome (Smoke Sessions) [02-24] - jazz [B]
  • Chancey Williams: One of These Days () - country
  • Mars Williams/Vasco Trilla: Critical Mass (Not Two) [06-14] - jazz [***]
  • Jess Williamson: Time Ain't Accidental (Mexican Summer) [06-09] - alt country [***]
  • Lucinda Williams: Stories From a Rock 'n' Roll Heart (Highway 20) [06-30] - singer-songwriter
  • Simon Willson: Good Company (Fresh Sound New Talent) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble: Folia: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (Sunnyside) [01-13] - jazz [**]
  • Channing Wilson: Dead Man () - country
  • Jonathan Wilson: Eat the Worm (BMG) [09-08] - singer-songwriter
  • Martin Wind/Peter Weniger/Jonas Burgwinkel: Gravity (Laika) - jazz
  • Martin Wind/Jim McNeely/Ed Neumeister: Counterpoint (Laika) [09-29] - jazz
  • Ben Winkelman: Heartbeat (OA2) [09-15] - jazz [B]
  • Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Voices: A Musical Heritage (self-released -22) - jazz
  • Norma Winstone/Will Bartlett: The Soundless Dark (Jellymould Jazz) - jazz
  • Witch: Zango (Desert Daze Sound/Partisan) [06-02] - psychedelic rock
  • Withered Hand: How to Love (Reveal) [04-28] [***]
  • Joe Wittman/Vito Dieterle/Jesse Breheney/Josh Davis: Night Out (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Wittman: Trio Works (self-released) [11-01] - jazz [**]
  • John Wojciechowski: Swing of the Pendulum (Afar Music) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Laura Wolf: Shelf Life (Whatever's Clever) [06-02]
  • Wolf Eyes: Feedback & Drums Vol 2 ()
  • Ben Wolfe: Unjust (Resident Arts) [02-03] - jazz [***]
  • Billy Woods & Kenny Segal: Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) [05-05] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Jamila Woods: Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) [10-13] - r&b [***]
  • Jake Worthington: Jake Worthington () - country
  • Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano: Nothing Bigger Than the Program (GDF/Marci Enterprises/Empire) [05-26] - hip-hop
  • Wreckless Eric: Leisureland (Tapete) [08-25] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Lizz Wright: Holding Space: Live in Berlin (Blues & Greens -22) [2022-06-15] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Cameron Wrinkle: In My Heaven () - country
  • Xenofox: The Garden Was Empty (Audio Semantics) [02-03] - jazz
  • Peter Xifaras: Fusion (Music With No Expiration) [10-01] - fusion [*]
  • Xiu Xiu: Ignore Grief (Polyvinyl) [03-03]
  • Y La Bamba: Lucha (Tender Loving Empire) [04-28]
  • Legend Yae: I Cry Alone . . . (Alamo) [06-02] - hip-hop
  • Yaeji: With a Hammer (XL) [04-07] - electronic [*]
  • Miki Yamanaka: Shades of Rainbow (Cellar Music) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Jonah Yano: Portrait of a Dog (Innovative Leisure) [01-27] - neo-soul
  • Year of the Knife: No Love Lost (Pure Noise) [10-27] - deathcore
  • Yeat: AfterLyfe (TwizzyRich/Geffen) [02-24] - hip-hop
  • Yes: Mirror to the Sky (Inside Out) [05-19]
  • Yeule: Softscars (Ninja Tune) [09-22] - glitch pop [***]
  • Ylia: Ame Agaru (Balmat) [07-07] - ambient
  • YMA & Jadsa: Zelena ( -EP) [05-26] - Brazil [*]
  • Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World (Matador) [02-10] - indie rock [A-]
  • Yonic South: Devo Challenge Cup (Wild Honey -EP) [02-03] [*]
  • James Yorkston/Nina Persson/The Second Hand Orchestra: The Great White Sea Eagle (Domino) [01-13] - chamber pop
  • Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band: Stone Stone Stone (Little Stone) [08-31] - jazz
  • You Me at Six: Truth Decay (Rise) [02-10]
  • Jacob Young/Mats Eilertsen/Audun Kleive: Eventually (ECM) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Lola Young: My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely (Island) [05-26] - r&b
  • Young Fathers: Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) [02-03] - art pop [***]
  • Young Nudy: Gumbo (RCA) [02-28] - hip-hop [*]
  • Young Thug: Business Is Business (Atlantic) [06-23] - hip-hop [**]
  • YoungBoy Never Broke Again: I Rest My Case (Motown/Never Broke Again) [01-06] - hip-hop
  • YoungBoy Never Broke Again: Richest Opp (Motown/Never Broke Again) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 17: Lonnie Liston Smith (Jazz Is Dead) [04-28] - jazz [*]
  • Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 18: Tony Allen (Jazz Is Dead) [07-07] - jazz [*]
  • Brandee Younger: Brand New Life (Impulse) [04-07] - jazz [*]
  • Jenny Owens Youngs: Avalanche (Yep Roc) [09-22]
  • Dhafer Youssef: Street of Minarets (Back Beat Edition) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • Youth Lagoon: Heaven Is a Junkyard (Fat Possum) [06-09] [*]
  • Yungmorpheus: From Whence It Came () [04-28] - hip-hop
  • Yusuf: King of a Land (BMG) [06-16]
  • Spencer Zahn: Statues I () [08-11]
  • Spencer Zahn: Statues II () [11-17]
  • Bobby Zankel/Wonderful Sound 8: A Change of Destiny (Mahakala Music) [09-22] - jazz [***]
  • Drew Zaremba: Reunion (Next Level) - jazz
  • ZAV [Jesper Zeuthen/Jacob Anderskov/Anders Vestergaard]: Nocturnal (ILK Music) - jazz
  • Jeppe Zeeberg: Occasionally, Good Things Do Happen (self-released) [09-10] - jazz [B-]
  • Denny Zeitlin: Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin (Sunnyside) [06-30] - jazz [B]
  • Miguel Zenon/Dan Tepfer: Internal Melodies (Main Door Music) [11-10] - jazz [***]
  • Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero, Vol 2 (Miel Music) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Zero Again: A Deep Appreciation of Suffering () [06-01]
  • Bailey Zimmerman: Religiously: The Album (Warner Nashville/Elektra) [05-12] - country [**]
  • Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never (Ubuntu) - jazz
  • Ella Zirina: Intertwined (BimHuis) [03-10] - jazz
  • Marina Zispin: Life and Death: The Five Chandeliers of the Funereal Exorcism () [09-01]
  • The Zombies: Different Game (Red House/Cooking Vinyl) [03-31] - pop rock
  • Zoon: Bekka Ma'iingan (Paper Bag) [04-28]
  • John Zorn: New Masada Quartet Vol 2 (Tzadik) [03-10] - jazz [***]
  • John Zorn: The Fourth Way (Tzadik) [03-31] - jazz [***]
  • John Zorn: 444 (Tzadik) [04-17] - jazz [*]
  • John Zorn: Multiplicites II: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects (Tzadik) [04-17] - jazz [**]
  • John Zorn/Bill Laswell: Memoria (Tzadik) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • John Zorn: Quatrain (Tzadik) [07-21] - jazz [*]
  • John Zorn: Full Fathom Five (Tzadik) [09-01] - jazz [**]
  • John Zorn: Bagatelles Vols 9-12 (Tzadik) - jazz
  • John Zorn: Homenaje A Remedios Varo (Tzadik) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • John Zorn: Nothing Is as Real as Nothing (Tzadik) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • John Zorn: Bagatelles Vols 13-16 (Tzadik) [06-22] - jazz
  • Zulu: A New Tomorrow (Flatspot) [03-03] - metalcore [*]
  • Zzzahara: Tender (Lex) [09-23]
  • Barbie: The Album (Atlantic) [07-21] - soundtrack
  • Noise for Now: Vol I (Noise for Now) [11-24]
  • Red Hot + Ra: Nuclear War: A Tribute to Sun Ra Volume 1 (Red Hot Org) [05-26] - jazz [**]
  • Red Hot + Ra: Solar [Sun Ra in Brasil] (Red Hot Org) [10-27] - jazz [***]
  • Stoned Cold Country (Broken Bow) [03-17] - country

Reissues, Etc.

  • Chantal Acda & Bill Frisell: Live at Jazz Middelheim (2017, self-released) [09-08] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi: Toshiko's Blues: Quartet & Trios 1953-1958 (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Geri Allen/Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing (2012, Motema Music) [11-24] - jazz [**]
  • Barry Altschul/David Izenson/Perry Robinson: Stop Time: Live at Prince Street, 1978 (NoBusiness) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Curtis Amy: Peace for Love (1994, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • Fred Anderson: The Milwaukee Tapes, Vol 2 (1980, Corbett vs Dempsey) [07-15] - jazz [***]
  • Ruth Anderson/Annea Lockwood: Tete-A-Tete (Ergot) [04-28] - electronic [*]
  • Thomas Anderson: The Debris Field: Lo-Fi Flotsam and Ragged Recriminations, 2000-2021 (Out There) - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000, Domino) [05-12] - neo-psychedelia
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances a Sophie (1970, Play Loud!) [03-03] - jazz
  • Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached (1957-65, New Land -6LP) [06-09] - jazz
  • Atmosphere: Sad Clown Bad Dub II (2000, Rhymesayers Entertainment) [08-04] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jean-Jacques Avenel/Siegfried Kessler/Daunik Lazro: Ecstatic Jazz: Crypte Des Franciscains Béziers 12 Février 1982 (Fou) [02-12] - jazz
  • David Axelrod: Heavy Axe (1974, Craft) - jazz
  • Axolotl: Abrasive (1981, Souffle Continu) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • Albert Ayler: Summertime to Spiritual Unity Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Derek Bailey & Paul Motian: Duo in Concert (1990, Frozen Reeds) [11-17] - jazz
  • Chet Baker: Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective, 2CD) [04-28] - jazz [**]
  • Gabe Baltazar Quartet: Birdology (1992, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Basie All Stars: Live at Fabrik Vol 1: Hamburg 1981 (Jazzline) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Roger Bekono: Roger Bekono (1989, Amazing Tapes From Africa) [06-16] - African [**]
  • William Bell: Never Like This Before: The Complete 'Blue' Stax Singles 1961-1968 (Kent Soul -22) [2022-05-27] - blues [**]
  • William Bell: The Man in the Street: The Complete 'Yellow' Stax Solo Singles 1968-1974 (Kent) [02-24] - blues [**]
  • Eddie Bert Sextet: The Human Factor (1987, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [**]
  • Walter Bishop Jr: Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore (1966-67, Reel to Real) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • The Bix Centennial All-Stars: Celebrating Bix! [20th Anniversary Edition] (2003, Turtle Bay) - jazz
  • RP Boo: Legacy Volume 2 (2002-07, Planet Mu) [05-12] - footwork [*]
  • John Blum: Nine Rivers (ESP-Disk) [09-01] - jazz [**]
  • Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [***]
  • Alan Braxe/Fred Falke: The Upper Cuts [2023 Edition] (2005, Smugglers Way) [03-31] - electronic [***]
  • Brew: Heat/Between Reflections (1998-2019, Clean Feed -2CD) [06-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Peter Brotzmann/Sabu Toyozumi: Triangle: Live at Ohm, 1987 (NoBusiness) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958: The Lost Recordings (The Lost Recordings) [02-03] - jazz
  • Dave Brubeck: Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions) [11-24] - jazz
  • William S Burroughs: Nothing Here Now but the Recordings (1980, Dais) [04-28] - spoken word
  • Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux (1973, Blue Note -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [*]
  • Roy Campbell/William Parker/Zen Matsuura: Visitation of Spirits: The Pyramid Trio Live, 1985 (NoBusiness) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Francois Carrier Ensemble: Openness (2006, Fundacja Sluchaj -3CD) [09-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Benny Carter: Jazz Giant (1958, Craft) - jazz
  • George Cartwright: The Ghostly Bee (2005, Mahakala Music) [08-04] - jazz [*]
  • George Cartwright: A Tenacious Slew (2007, Mahakala Music) [08-184] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Charlap: All Through the Night (1997, Criss Cross) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Cheap Trick: Live at the Whisky 77 [Box Set] (Real Gone Music -22) [2022-12-16] - power pop
  • Don Cherry: Inside/Outside (1987, Delta Music) - jazz
  • Don Cherry/Jean Schwarz: Roundtrip 1977: Live at Theatre Recamier, Paris (Transversales Disques) - jazz
  • Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions (1957-61, Mosaic -6CD) - jazz
  • Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12/Crisis to Man on the Moon Revisited (1968-69, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Ornette Coleman Trio: At the Golden Circle Stockholm Revisited (1965, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Graham Collier: Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69 (My Only Desire) [02-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Graham Collier Music: Smoke-Blackened Walls & Curlews (1970, British Progressive Jazz) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • John Coltrane: Sun Ship (1965, VMP Classics) - jazz
  • Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach: The Songs of Bacharach & Costello [Super Deluxe] (UMe) [03-02]
  • Kenny Cox & the Contemporary Jazz Quintet: Multidirection (1969, Third Man/Blue Note) [09-22] - jazz
  • Julee Cruise: Floating Into the Night (1999, Sacred Bones) [08-11] - dream pop [B]
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis With Shirley Scott: Cookin' With Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary Prestige Albums (1958, Craft, 3CD) [03-03] - jazz [**]
  • Miles Davis: Miles Davis With Tadd Dameron Revisited: Live 1949 at the Royal Roost NYC & in Paris at Festival Internationale De Jazz (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz [***]
  • Miles Davis Quintet: In Concert at the Olympia Paris 1957 (Fresh Sound) [09-13] - jazz [**]
  • Steve Davis: Meets Hank Jones, Vol 1 (2008, Smoke Sessions) [11-24] - jazz
  • Elton Dean/Steve Miller/Pip Pyle: Home Brewed (1976, British Progressive Jazz -22) [2022-12-02] - jazz [***]
  • Elton Dean: Seven for Lee Variations: On Italian Roads, Vol 2 (British Progressive Jazz) [12-01] - jazz
  • Blossom Dearie: Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years 1966-70 (Fontana/Mercury -6CD) - vocal jazz
  • Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery (1974, Craft) - jazz
  • Les DeMerle Sound 67: Once in a Lifetime (1967, Origin) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Dixon With Archie Shepp: 7-Tette & Orchestra Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Ernesto Djedje: Roi Du Ziglibithy (Analog Africa -22) [2022-10-07] - African [**]
  • Dream Dolphin: Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003) (Music From Memory, 2CD) [03-04] - ambient [**]
  • Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound to Out to Lunch Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • The Door: Live at the Matrix 1967: The Original Masters (Rhino -3CD) - rock
  • Dave Douglas and Elan Mehler: If There Are Mountains (2019, Greenleaf Music) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • Drive-By Truckers: The Complete Dirty South (2004, New West)
  • Bob Dylan: Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) [The Bootleg Series Vol 17] (Columbia/Legacy, 4CD) [folk rock]
  • Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind Stripped Naked (Columbia)
  • Don Ellis: How Time Passes (1960, Candid) [07-21] - jazz [**]
  • Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here? [Expanded Remaster] (Ghostly International) [08-25]
  • Bill Evans: Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestral Recordings From Denmark (1965-1969) (Elemental -2CD) [04-28] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Evans Trio: At the Village Vanguard 1961 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Bill Evans: Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964) (Elemental Music) [11-24] - jazz
  • Paul Flaherty/Jim Matus/Larry Derdeyn: Wednesday Weld (2006, 577) [07-21] - jazz
  • Dredd Foole and the Din: Songs in Heat 1982 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [03-10] - rock [*]
  • Dredd Foole & the Din: We Will Fall 1983 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [07-21] - rock
  • Dredd Foole & the Din: See God 1985-1986 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [11-10] - rock
  • Jean-Marc Foussat: Abattage (1973-81, Fou) - jazz [***]
  • The Frustrated Bachelors: In the End It Wasn't Enough: All the Good Ones 2003-2006 (Money for Guns) - alt/indie [**]
  • Joel Futterman: Inneraction (1984, Mahakala Music) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Herb Geller: Playing Jazz: The Musical Autobiography of Herb Geller (1995, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • Eric Ghost: Secret Sauce (1975, Jazz Room -22) [2022-09-30] - jazz [***]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Portrait of Jenny (1970, BBE) [02-17] - jazz [***]
  • Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker: Live Revisited (1945, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Alan Goldsher: The Complete Pocket Sessions (2019, Gold Note) - jazz [B-]
  • Alain Goraguer: La Planete Sauvage [Expanded Original Soundtrack () [09-22]
  • Grandaddy: Sumday Twunny (Dangerbird) [09-01]
  • Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 44: Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR 6/23/90 (Rhino) - rock
  • Grateful Dead: RFK Stadium, Washington, DC 6/10/1973 (Rhino -4CD) - rock
  • Milford Graves With Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover: Children of the Forest (1976, Black Editions Archive) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Green Day: Nimrod [25th Anniversary Edition] ()
  • Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott's (1964, Gearbox) [11-10] - jazz [***]
  • Roy Hargrove: The Love Suite: In Mahogany (1993, Blue Engine) [10-13] - jazz [A]
  • Donald Harrison: Indian Blues (1991, Tipitina's Record Club) - jazz
  • Phil Haynes: A Life Improvised () - jazz
  • Hella: Hold Your Horse Is [Deluxe Reissue] (Kill Rock Stars) [09-01]
  • Joe Henderson: The Complete "An Evening With Joe Henderson" (1987, Red) [05-05] - jazz
  • Heretic/Hiro Kawahara: Complete Works (Cuneiform) [08-25] - electronic
  • Ibrahim Hesnawi: The Father of Libyan Reggae (Habibi Funk) [10-06] - reggae [*]
  • Hiatus Kaiyote: Choose Your Weapon [Deluxe] (2015, Flying Buddha/Sony Masterworks -22) [2022-11-25] - neo-soul
  • Johnny Hodges Septet: In Concert: Falkoner Central, Copenhagen, March 17, 1961 (SteepleChase) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Noah Howard: Quartet to At Judson Hall Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom: Daytime Viewing (Unseen Worlds)
  • Kim Dae Hwan/Choi Sun Bae: Korean Fantasy (1999, NoBusiness) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Masaru Imada Trio + 1: Planets (1977, BBE) - jazz
  • Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Jazz Detective/Elemental, 2CD) [11-24] - jazz [***]
  • Keith Jarrett: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1994, ECM) - classical
  • Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Complete Jam Sessions 1950-1957 (Mosaic) [01-01] - jazz
  • The Jazz Doctors: Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled [The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984] (1983-84, Cadillac) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • Elton John: Honky Chateau [50th Anniversary Edition] (Island) [03-24]
  • Jeff Johnson: My Heart (1991, Origin) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Clifford Jordan: Drink Plenty Water (1974, Harvest Song) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • JuJu: A Message From Mozambique (1972, Strut) [03-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: Salute! 17 Tracks Recorded by Wally Heider (Sounds of Yesteryear) - jazz
  • Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One: Song of Island (1985, BBE) - jazz
  • L'Orchestre National Mauritanien: Ahl Nana (1971, Radio Martiko) [02-03] - African [***]
  • The Lemonheads: Come On Feel the Lemonheads [30th Anniversary Edition] (1993, Atlantic) [05-19] - punk/new wave
  • Les Rallizes Denudes: '77 Live (Temporal Drift -22) [2022-11-29]
  • Les Rallizes Denudes: Citta' '93 (Temporal Drift) [08-18] - noise
  • Lil Wayne: I Am Music () - hip-hop
  • Jan Lundgren Trio/Herb Geller: Stockholm Get-Together! (1994, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • Galcher Lustwerk: 100% Galcher (2013, Ghostly International -22) [2022-12-02] - electronic [**]
  • Paul Lytton/Erhard Hirt: Borne on a Whim: Duets, 1981 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [08-09] - jazz [**]
  • Roberto Magris & the JM Horns: High Quote (2012, JM) - jazz [*]
  • Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens: Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89 (Umsakazo) [04-03] - South African [A-]
  • Malombo Jazz Makers: Malombo Jazz Makers Vol 2 (Strut) - African
  • Wynton Marsalis: Plays Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (2006, Blue Engine) [08-04] - jazz [B]
  • Brother Joe May: Singles, Album Tracks and Live Recordings 1949-1962 (Acrobat -4CD) [03-19] - gospel
  • John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: Live in 1967: Volume Three (Forty Below) - blues
  • Les McCann: Never a Dull Moment! Live From Coast to Coast 1966-1967 (Resonance) [12-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Steve Miller: J50: The Evolution of the Jokes (Universal)
  • Miller Twins: Early Compositions 1973-1976 (Cuneiform) [07-28] - chamber rock
  • Charles Mingus: At Antibes 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Charles Mingus: Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (1973-79, Rhino -7CD) [06-23] - jazz
  • Jouk Minor/Josef Traindl/Jean Querlier/Christian Lete/Dominique Regef: Enfin La Mer (1978, NoBusiness) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Paul Moer Trio: Plays the Music of Elmo Hope (1991, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • The Moldy Peaches: Origin Story: 1994-1999 (Org Music -22) [2022-08-04] - antifolk
  • Money for Guns: Dead Tracks (Money for Guns -22) - alt/indie [B]
  • Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (Resonance) [12-01] - jazz [***]
  • Masao Nakajima Quartet: Kemo Sabe (19789, BBE) - jazz
  • New York Art Quartet: Revisited (1964, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Jack Nimitz Quartet: Confirmation (1995, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • Bengt Frippe Nordstrom: Vinyl Box (Ni Vu Ni Connu) - jazz
  • Mike Osborne: Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970 (British Progressive Jazz) [08-04] - jazz [***]
  • Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra [Horace Tapscott]: 60 Years (1961-2019, The Village) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Charlie Parker: At Birdland 1950 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Charlie Parker: The Long Lost Bird Live Afro-Cubop Recordings (1945-54, RockBeat) [04-22] - jazz [***]
  • Evan Parker/X-Jazz Ensemble: A Schist Story (JACC -22) [2022-12-24] - jazz [*]
  • The Dave Pell Octet: Plays Again (1994, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [**]
  • Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section (1957, Craft) - jazz
  • Bill Perkins: Perk Plays Prez: Bill Perkins Recreates the Historic Solos of Lester Young (1995, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [***]
  • Pet Shop Boys: Smash: The Singles 1985-2020 (Parlophone -3CD) [06-16] - synthpop [A-]
  • Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky: Luten at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz (2011, Jazzwerkstatt) [05-12] - jazz [***]
  • Michel Petrucciani: The Montreux Years (1990-98, BMG/Montreux) [03-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Vance Provey/Whit Dickey/Spin Dunbar: Motifs 1983 (New Haven Improvisers Collective) - jazz
  • Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good! (1971, Craft) - jazz
  • Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman . . . (Matador) [06-16]
  • Abbey Rader/Davey Williams: In One Is All (1999, Abray) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Warm Up (1965, Jazz in Britain, 2CD) - jazz
  • The Replacements: Tim [Let It Bleed Edition] (Rhino) [09-22]
  • Sam Rivers: Archive Series (1971-2002, NoBusiness) [02-23] - jazz
  • Max Roach: Members, Don't Git Weary (1968, Arc/Atlantic) [07-14] - jazz
  • Fenton Robinson: Somebody Loan Me a Dime (1974, Alligator) [06-02] - blues
  • Rolling Stones: Grrr Live! (2012, Mercury Studios) [02-10] - rock
  • Sonny Rollins With Heikki Sarmanto Trio: Live at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki 1972 (Svart) [06-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Sonny Rollins: Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums (1957-58, Craft) [03-17] - jazz
  • Arthur Russell: Picture of Bunny Rabbit (1985-86, Audika) [06-23] - experimental [**]
  • Leon Russell: Signature Songs (Dark Horse)
  • Pharoah Sanders Quartet: Live at Fabrik: Hamburg 1980 (Jazzline) [03-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah [Expanded Edition] (1976, Luaka Bop) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Savoy Brown: Blues All Around (Quarto Valley) - rock
  • Shirley Scott: Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank (1972, Reel to Real) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Bud Shank: Plays the Music of Bill Evans (1996, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [B+]
  • Archie Shepp: Derailleur: The 1964 Demo (Triple Point) [12-08] - jazz
  • Matthew Shipp Trio: Circular Temple (1990, ESP-Disk) - jazz [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple to Super Nova Revisited (1966-69, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Wayne Shorter: Footprints Live! (2001, Verve/Third Man) [08-11] - jazz
  • DB Shrier: DB Shrier Emerges (1967, Omnivore) - jazz [A-]
  • Nina Simone: You've Got to Learn (1966, Verve) - vocal jazz [*]
  • Nina Simone: Four Women: Complete Recordings 1964-1967 (Verve) [12-03] - jazz
  • Dick Sisto: Falling in Love (1994, SteepleChase) - jazz [**]
  • Alan Skidmore: A Supreme Love (1961-2019, Confront -6CD) [05-01] - jazz
  • Todd Snider: Crank It, We're Doomed (2007, Aimless) [11-10] - folk [A-]
  • Sonic Youth: Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current) [08-18] - no wave [***]
  • Stephen Stills: Live at Berkeley 1971 (Omnivore) [04-28]
  • Sonny Stitt: Boppin' in Baltimore: Live at the Left Bank (1973, Jazz Detective/Elemental) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Frank Strazzeri and His Woodwinds West: Somebody Loves Me (1994, Fresh Sound) [10-11] - jazz [**]
  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (1958, Cosmic Myth) [06-16] - jazz
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Ellingtonia Vol 2 (1951-87, Enterplanetary Koncepts) [03-03] - jazz
  • Superchunk: Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2002-2023 ()
  • Isao Suzuki: Approach (1986, BBE) - jazz
  • Steve Swell's Fire Into Music: For Jemeel: Fire From the Road (2003-04, RogueArt, 3CD) [04-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (Republic) [07-07] - pop [A-]
  • Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor's Verison) (Republic) [10-27] - synthpop
  • T Rex: 1973: Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream (Edsel, 4CD) [05-26]
  • Nkono Teles: Love Vibration (Soundway) [03-24] - African [**]
  • Okay Temiz: Okay Temiz's Oriental Wind Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982 (Caz Plak) - jazz
  • Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet: Introducing [Live] (1978, BBE) - Jazz
  • Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous [Super Deluxe Edition] (Warner Bros) [01-20] - arena rock
  • Luther Thomas: 11th Street Fire Suite (1978, Corbett vs Dempsey) [03-20] - jazz [C+]
  • Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Cal Tjader: Catch the Groove: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967 (Jazz Detective/Elemental, 2CD) [11-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Tolerance: Anonym (1979, Mesh-Key) [04-17] - electronic [**]
  • Tolerance: Divin (1981, Mesh-Key) [04-17] - electronic [***]
  • Ali Farka Toure: Voyageur (1991-2004, World Circuit) [03-10] - African [***]
  • Tyler, the Creator: Call Me if You Get Lost: The Estate Sale (2021, Columbia) [03-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • McCoy Tyner: The Montreux Years (1981-2009, BMG) [06-23] - jazz
  • Abdul Wadud: By Myself: Solo Cello (1977, Gotta Groove) [04-30] - jazz [**]
  • Dionne Warwick: The Complete Scepter Singles 1962-1973 (Real Gone) - rock
  • Muddy Waters Blue Band Featuring Otis Spann: Live Paris 1968 (Lantower) [05-24] - blues [**]
  • Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is in the Rhythm Volume 2 (Jazz in Britain -2CD) - jazz
  • Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers: Somewhere Under the Rainbow: Nov. 5, 1973 (Reprise) [04-14] - rock [B]
  • Neil Young: Chrome Dreams (1974-77, Reprise) [08-11] - folk rock [rock]
  • Frank Zappa: Waka Wazoo (1971, Zappa/UMG, 5CD -22) [2022-12-16] - prog rock
  • Frank Zappa: Funky Nothingness (1970, Zappa -3CD) [06-30] - prog rock
  • Bie Records Meets Shika Shika (Shika Shika Collective)
  • The Birth of Bop: The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection (1944-49, Craft, 2CD) - jazz [***]
  • Blacklips Bar -- Androgyns and Deviants/Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels 1992-1995 (Anthology)
  • Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 (Cherry Red, 4CD) [03-10] - shoegaze
  • Clairvoyance Is the Dance Vol 1 (Huveshta Rituals Belgium)
  • The Complete Obscure Records Collection (1975-78, Dialogo) [11-24] - ambient
  • Daisy Jones & the Six () - soundtrack
  • Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: A Higher Power: Gospel, Funk & Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 (Soul Jazz) [04-22] - gospel [*]
  • Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast (Rocafort) [07-20] - African [A-]
  • Purple Haze From East Volume 1 (VW Sorcerer Productions)
  • Putumayo: Bossa Nova (Putumayo World Music) [08-04] - Brazil
  • Putumayo Discovery: African Acoustic (Putumayo World Music) - African
  • Putumayo Discovery: Global Lounge 2 (Putumayo World Music -EP)
  • Putumayo Discovery: World Relaxation 2 (Putumayo World Music -EP)
  • The Soul of Congo: Treasures of the Ngoma Label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga -3CD) [10-04] - African
  • Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection (1972, Craft -12LP) [02-24] - soul
  • Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84 (Soul Jazz)
  • Spiritual Jazz 15: A Tribute to 'Trane () - jazz
  • Tell Everybody! 21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound (Easy Eye Sound) - blues
  • Turkish-Syrian Earthquake Relief (Canary)
  • WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol II: Deep, Heavy and Beautiful Jazz From Japan 1962-1985: The King Records Masters (Universalsounds) [01-27] - jazz
  • Yebo! Rare Mzansi Party Beats From Apartheid's Dying Years (BBE) [06-30] - South African

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 1347
  • Priority 2: 150
  • Priority 3: 1
  • Priority 4: 924
  • Priority 5: 300

Total: 2722