Music Tracking 2026
These are 2026 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.
Option selectors:
Genre switches (selection not implemented yet):
New Releases
- Michael Aadal: Aggressive Hymns, Energetic Ballads (Losen) [02-20] - jazz [***]
- Juhani Aaltonen + Raoul Björkenheim: Nostalgia (Eclipse Music) [02-20] - jazz [***]
- Joshua Abrams: Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation (Drag City) [03-27] - jazz [**]
- Joshua Achiron: Climbing (Calligram) [03-06] - jazz [**]
- David Adewumi: The Flame Beneath the Silence (Giant Step Arts) [03-27] - jazz [***]
- Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: Miami Lice: Season Four (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [03-11] - hip-hop [***]
- Naseem Alatrash: Bright Colors on a Dark Canvas (Levantine Music) [02-27] - jazz [***]
- Melissa Aldana: Filin (Blue Note) [02-13] - jazz [**]
- Ishmael Ali: Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper (Amalgam) [02-13] - jazz
- Ali & Charif Megarbane: Tirakat (Habibi Funk) [03-20] - Arabic [*]
- Eddie Allen's Push: Rhythm People (Origin) [01-16] - jazz [**]
- Tyrone Allen II: Upward (Dreams and Fears) [03-16] - jazz [*]
- Rodrigo Amado/This Is Our Language Quartet: Wailers (2019, European Echoes) [04-03] - jazz [A-]
- Paulo Almeida: Love in Motion (Dox) [04-24] - jazz [U]
- Thomas Anderson: Letters From the Hermit Kingdom (Out There) - singer-songwriter [A-]
- Kristen Mather de Andrade: Sim Fin (Ansonica) [03-01] - Brazil/jazz [*]
- Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine (Loose Future) [01-16] - country [*]
- Atlantic Road Trip: Watch as the Echo Falls (Calligram) [04-03] - jazz [*]
- Aymeric Avice/Luke Stewart/Chad Taylor: Deep in the Earth High in the Sky (RogueArt) [02-09] - jazz [***]
- Elles Bailey: Can't Take My Story Away (Cooking Vinyl) [01-16] - Americana [**]
- Vic Bang: Oda (Mondoj)
- Courtney Barnett: Creature of Habit (Mom + Pop/Fiction) [03-27] - alt/indie [A-]
- Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic (In Finé) [01-16] - new age [*]
- Abate Berihun & the Addis Ken Project: Addis Ken (Origin) [04-17] - jazz [U]
- Eric Bibb: One Mississippi (Repute) [01-30] - blues [**]
- Ryan Blotnick: The Woods (Fishkill) [04-17] - jazz [U]
- Bobo & Behaja: Aia Haja? (Carton)
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy: We Are Together Again (No Quarter/Domino) [03-06] - singer-songwriter [*]
- Anthony Branker & Other Ways of Knowing: Manifestations of a Diasporic Groove & Spirit (Origin) [03-20] - jazz [***]
- Brenda: Tools, Vol. 1 (self-released)
- Asher Brinson: Midnight Hurricane (AsherBrin) [04-03] - jazz [A-]
- Bobby Broom: Notes of Thanks (Steele) [05-01] - jazz [U]
- Zach Bryan: With Heaven on Top (Belting Bronco/Warner) [01-09] - country [A-]
- Buck 65: Do Not Bend (Handsmade) [02-26] - hip-hop [***]
- John Butcher: Away, I Was (Weight of Wax) [01-23] - jazz
- By Storm: My Ghosts Go Ghost (Dead Air/By(e) Storm) [01-30] - hip-hop [*]
- Mara Calder: We Stay Ugly 'Til the Pretty Decays (Black Metal Archives Label) [02-06] - art rock [A-]
- Daniel Carter/Steve Hirsh: Convocation (Mahakala Music) [03-06] - jazz
- Ron Carter & Ricky Dillard: Sweet, Sweet Spirit (Blue Note) [02-06] - jazz [*]
- Chalk: Crystalpunk (Alter Music) [03-13] - industrial rock [***]
- Charli XCX: Wuthering Heights (Atlantic) [02-13] - soundtrack [**]
- Owen Chen: Eternal Wind: The Ghibli Collection (OA2) [04-03] - jazz [*]
- Chicago Soul Jazz Collective: No Wind & No Rain (Calligram) [04-10] - jazz [**]
- Cimota: [ˈkɪmɔtɑː] (Sonic Transmissions) [01-30] - jazz
- Paul Citro: Keep Moving (Home) (Calligram) [05-01] - jazz [*]
- Carl Clements and the Real Jazz Trio: Retrospective (Greydisc) [03-01] - jazz [**]
- The Cucumbers: As You Heard Me: Songs From "Hello George" (self-relesed) [02-14] [A-]
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Ritual (Chill Tone) [04-10] - jazz [U]
- Stew Cutler & Friends: Under Cover (Mostly) (self-released) [02-06] - jazz [*]
- Cyger & Butterworth: Plaid Pants (Outrageous8) [03-11] - jazz [**]
- Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark (Wide Hive) [03-06] - jazz [**]
- Daphni: Butterfly (Jiaolong) [02-06] - house [***]
- Caroline Davis: Fallows (Ropeadope) [03-27] - jazz
- Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic) [01-09] - jazz [***]
- Michael Dease With the MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong (Origin) [01-16] - jazz [**]
- The Delines: The Set Up (Decor/El Cortez/Jealous Butcher) [03-06] [***]
- Claire Dickson: Balance (New Amsterdam) [03-27]
- DJ Eprom: We Are the Biobots (JuNouMi) [01-21] - electronica [A-]
- Dave Douglas: Four Freedoms (Greenleaf Music) [01-30] - jazz [**]
- Dry Cleaning: Secret Love (4AD) [01-09] - post-punk [***]
- Hilary Duff: Luck . . . or Something (Atlantic) [02-20] - pop [**]
- Matt Dwonszyk: Live at the Sidedoor (self-released) [03-06] - jazz [***]
- Art Edmaiston & Chad Fowler: Memphis Mandala (Mahakala Music) [02-27] - jazz [*]
- Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band: In the Brass Palace (Big Shoulders) [02-26] - jazz
- John Ellis & Double Wide: Fireball (Sunnyside) [01-23] - jazz [**]
- Elucid & Sebb Bash: I Guess U Had to Be There (Backwoodz Studioz) [03-13] - hip-hop [**]
- Avalon Emerson & the Charm: Written Into Changes (Dead Oceans) [03-20] - electropop [A-]
- Fakemink: The Boy Who Cried Terrified (EtnaVeraVela -EP) - UK hip-hop [*]
- Fanfare Ciocarlia: Devil's Tale (Asphalt Tango) - Romanian
- Fcukers: Ö (Ninja Tune) [03-27] - dance-pop [***]
- The Femcels: I Have to Get Hotter (Getting Hotter) [01-25] - indie pop [**]
- Flea: Honora (Nonesuch) [03-27] - jazz fusion [B-]
- Flying Lotus: Big Mama (Brainfeeder -EP) [03-06] - IDM [*]
- Roberto Fonseca/Vincent Segal: Nuit Parisienne à la Havane (Artwork) [01-30] - jazz
- Marie-Paule Franke: Through the Cracks, the Light Is Born (MariPosa) [06-26] - vocal jazz [U]
- Bill Frisell: In My Dreams (Blue Note) [02-27] - jazz [**]
- Peter Furlan: The Peter Furlan Project Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar (Beany Bops) [01-26] - jazz [*]
- Sophie Gault: Unhinged (Torrez Music Group) [01-23] - singer-songwriter [**]
- GBSR Duo & Taylor McLennan: Morton Feldman-Trios (Another Timbre)
- Girl Scout: Brink (Human Garbage) [03-26] - alt/indie [*]
- Gogol Bordello: We Mean It, Man! (Casa Gogol) [02-13] - indie rock [***]
- Kim Gordon: Play Me (Matador) [03-13] - industrial [***]
- Al Green: To Love Somebody (Fat Possum -EP) [01-16] - r&b [**]
- Barry Greene: Giants (Origin) [04-17] - jazz [U]
- Andy Haas: In Praise of Insomnia (Resonant Music) - jazz [**]
- Jared Hall: Hometown (Origin) [04-17] - jazz [U]
- Tigran Hamasyan: Manifeste (Naïve) [02-06] - jazz [B]
- Simon Hanes: Gargantua (Pyroclastic) [03-27] - jazz [**]
- Phil Haynes/Ben Monder/Peyton Pleninger: Terra (Corner Store Jazz) [05-01] - jazz [U]
- Heavenly: Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax) [02-27] - twee pop [*]
- Hemlocke Springs: The Apple Tree Under the Sea (AWAL) [02-13] - pop [***]
- Midori Hirano: Otonoma (Thrill Jockey)
- Christopher Hoffman: REX (Out of Your Head) [01-16] - jazz [**]
- Jasper Høiby 's 3Elements: Conversations of Hope (Edition) [03-27] - jazz
- Steven Husted and Friends: Two Nights - "Live!" (self-released)) [02-16] - jazz [*]
- Joshua Idehen: I Know You're Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got to Try (Heavenly) [03-06] - UK hip-hop [A-]
- Imarhan: Essam (City Slang) [01-16] - tishoumaren [***]
- Kathy Ingraham: Jazz Dreams (Peirdon) [03-16] - vocal jazz [U]
- The Interplay Jazz Orchestra: Bite Your Tongue (self-released) [02-26] - jazz [***]
- Jon Irabagon: Focus Out (Irrabagast) [03-13] - jazz [***]
- Jon Irabagon and Dan Oestreicher: Saturday's Child (Irrabagast) [03-13] - jazz [***]
- Irreversible Entanglements: Future Present Past (Impulse!) [03-27] - jazz [A-]
- Grace Ives: Girlfriend (True Panther/Capitol) [03-20] - alt-pop [***]
- Javon Jackson: Jackson Plays Dylan (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) [03-27] - jazz [*]
- Jamile/Vinicius Gomes: Boundless Species (La Reserve) [04-03] - Brazilian jazz [***]
- Tomas Janzon: Jazz Diary (Changes Music) [04-10] - jazz [U]
- Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds: Mutiny After Midnight (High Top Mountain/Atlantic) [03-13] - alt-country
- Robert Jospé Quartet: The Night Sky (self-released) [01-11] - jazz [*]
- Joyce Manor: I Used to Go to This Bar (Epitaph -EP) [01-30] [*]
- Paul Kahn: Willingness (Carl Cat) [06-19] - jazz [U]
- Kavari: Iron Veins (XL)
- The Paul Keller Orchestra: Thank You Notes: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [03-27] - jazz [**]
- DoYeon Kim: Wellspring (TAO Forms) [05-01] - jazz [*]
- Kinact: Kinshasa in Action (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-26] - African [**]
- Erica von Kleist: Picc Pocket (self-released) [04-23] - jazz [B]
- Anna Kolchina: Reach for Tomorrow (OA2) [02-27] - jazz [A-]
- Steve Kovalcheck: Buckshot Blues (OA2) [04-03] - jazz [***]
- Kronos Quartet: Glorious Mahalia (Smithsonian Folkways) [04-03] - classical [A-]
- Jason Kruk: Beyond the Veil (SunGoose) [05-01] - jazz [U]
- Ladytron: Paradises (Nettwerk) [03-20] - electropop [*]
- Julian Lage: Scenes From Above (Blue Note) [01-23] - jazz [*]
- Nils Landgren: Love of My Life (ACT Music) [02-13] - jazz
- Brian Landrus: Just When You Think You Know (BlueLand/Palmetto) [03-20] - jazz [*]
- Lazy Californians: Back to San Francisco (Angel Island) [02-13] - jazz [***]
- Scott Lee: Greetings From Florida: Postcards From Paradise (Sunnyside) [04-16] - jazz [*]
- Tom Lippincott: Ode to the Possible (self-released) [03-02] - jazz [**]
- Gil Livni: All In (OA2) [01-16] - jazz [**]
- Mark Lomax II & the Urban Art Ensemble: The Unity Suite (CFG Multimedia) - jazz [A-]
- Shawn Lovato: Biotic (Endectomorph Music) [02-13] - jazz [***]
- Lisanne Lyons: May I Come In (OA2) [02-27] - jazz [**]
- Chris Madsen/Dana Hall/Clark Sommers: Threefold (Calligram) [03-06] - jazz [***]
- Mandy, Indiana: Urgh (Sacred Bones) [02-06] - noise pop [***]
- Luke Marantz/Simon Jermyn: Echoes (Chill Tone) [01-09] - jazz [**]
- Roc Marciano: 656 (self-released) [01-23] - hip-hop [**]
- Bruno Mars: The Romantic (Atlantic) [02-26] - pop [*]
- Brian Marsella Trio: John Zorn's Bagatelles [Vol. 6] (Tzadik) - jazz
- Pedrito Martínez/Antonio Sánchez/Michael League: Elipsis (GroundUP) [01-16] - jazz
- Buck Meek: The Mirror (4AD) [02-27] [**]
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: Deface the Currency (Impulse!) [02-20] - jazz [B]
- Pat Metheny: Side-Eye III+ (Ubiquity Music) [02-27] - jazz [*]
- Microhm: Noise Disorder (Terminal)
- Microplastique: Many Roads (Irritable Mystic) [01-22] - jazz
- Mitski: Nothing's About to Happen to Me (Dead Oceans) [02-27] - singer-songwriter [*]
- Model/Actriz: Swan Songs (True Panther/Dirty Hit -EP) [03-23] - dance-punk [**]
- Michael Moody: The Ecstasy of Love (self-released) [03-20] - vocal jazz [B-]
- Gurf Morlix: Cobwebs & Stardust (Rootball) [04-07] - country [**]
- Megan Moroney: Cloud 9 (Columbia Nashville) [02-20] - country [***]
- Van Morrison: Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge (Townsend Music/Orangefield) [01-23] - blues [*]
- Quinsin Nachoff: Patterns From Nature (Whirlwind) [02-27] - jazz [***]
- Tamer Nafar: In the Name of the Father, the Imam and John Lennon (Levantine)
- Fabiano do Nascimento & Vittor Santos E Orquestra: Vila (Far Out) - Brazil [*]
- Negative Press Project: Friction Quartet (Envelopmental Music) [01-30] - jazz [*]
- Angelika Niescier: Chicago Tapes (Intakt) [01-23] - jazz [***]
- Luke Norris: Moment From the Past (self-released) [03-20] - jazz [***]
- Nothing: A Short History of Decay (Run for Cover) [02-27] - shoegaze
- Nubiyan Twist: Chasing Shadows (Strut) [03-20] - jazz-funk [*]
- Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon: As of Now (Lex) [01-30] - hip-hop [A-]
- Meg Okura: Isaiah (Adhyâropa) [02-20] - jazz [A-]
- Kate Olson: So It Goes (OA2) [01-16] - jazz [***]
- Bill Orcutt: Music in Continuous Motion (Palilalia) [03-13] - jazz [**]
- The Outskirts: Orbital (Aerophonic) [04-07] - jazz
- Beto Paciello: The Stoic Suite (Moons Arts) [04-17] - jazz [B]
- Chenxi Pan: This Very Moment (Origin) [03-20] - jazz [B]
- The Paranoid Style: Known Associates (Bar/None) [02-13] [A-]
- Shane Parish: Autechre Guitar (Palilaba)
- Pony: Clearly Cursed (Take This to Heart) [02-13] - indie pop [**]
- Poppy: Empty Hands (Sumerian) [01-23] - metalcore [*]
- Benjie Porecki: Faster Than We Know (Funklove Productions) [03-02] - jazz [*]
- Puma Blue: Croak Dream (PIAS) [02-06] - trip-hop [**]
- PVA: No More Like This (It's All for Fun) [01-23] - trip-hop [***]
- Ratboys: Singin' to an Empty Chair (New West) [02-06] - indie-rock [**]
- Raye: This Music May Contain Hope (Human Re Sources) [03-27] - pop soul [***]
- The Tomeka Reid Quartet: Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) [02-13] - jazz [A-]
- Ren: Vincent's Tale (Freckled Angels/Rebel Creator Services) [01-29] - UK hip-hop [A-]
- Ren: Sick Boi Live at Dead Wax (self-relesed)
- Reverso: Between Two Silences (Alternate Side) [03-27] - jazz [***]
- Ron Rieder: Compositions in Blue and Other Hues (Meson) [01-01] - jazz [**]
- RJD2 & Supastition: According To (RJ's Electrical Connections) [02-27] - hip-hop [A-]
- Emily Scott Robinson: Appalachia (Oh Boy) [01-30] - country
- Jim Robitaille Trio: Sonic (Whaling City Sound) [04-01] - jazz [U]
- Robyn: Sexistential (Konichiwa/Young) [03-27] - pop [A-]
- Yvonne Rogers: The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) [05-08] - jazz [U]
- Ben Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round (One Trick Dog) [02-27] - jazz [***]
- Ted Rosenthal Trio: The Good Old Days (TMR Music) [05-01] - jazz [***]
- Jefferson Ross: Low Country Wedding (self-released) [04-10] - singer-songwriter
- Joel Ross: Gospel Music (Blue Note) [01-30] - jazz [**]
- Harvie S: Bright Dawn (Origin) [03-20] - jazz [**]
- Talibah Safiya: Eternal (self-released)
- Marta Sanchez: For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) [04-17] - jazz [A-]
- Sault: Chapter 1 (Forever Living Originals) [01-09] - funk [**]
- Fie Schouten/Vincent Courtois/Sofia Borges/Pierre Baux: Open Space (Relative Pitch) [03-27] - jazz [**]
- Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Agua Con Gas (Cubeye Music) [04-17] - jazz [B]
- Jill Scott: To Whom It May Concern (Human Re Sources/Blues Babe) [02-13] - neo-soul [***]
- Brandon Seabrook: Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic) [02-20] - jazz [*]
- Noé Sécula/Jorge Rossy: A Sphere Between Other Obsessions (Fresh Sound New Talent) [01-30] - jazz [*]
- Seo: 2.0 (self-released)
- Shabaka: Of the Earth (Shabaka) [03-06] - jazz [*]
- Aktu el Shabazz: As Seen on TV (766303 DK) [01-04] - hip-hop [**]
- Aaron Shaw: And So It Is (Leaving) [02-13] - spiritual jazz [*]
- Sideshow: Tigray Funk (10k) [02-27] - hip-hop [**]
- Paul Silbergleit Trio: The Stillness of July (Calligram) [05-01] - jazz [**]
- Harlan Silverman: Music for Stillness (Intentional) [03-04] - jazz [***]
- Slayyyter: Wor$t Girl in America (Columbia) [03-27] - dance-pop [**]
- Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade) [01-16] - synth punk [**]
- Slut Intent: Slutworld (self-released -EP) [01-01] - hardcore [*]
- Sky Smeed: Live at the Rock House (self-released) [04-03] - Americana [A-]
- Walter Smith III: Twio Vol. 2 (Blue Note) [03-06] - jazz [**]
- Snail Mail: Ricochet (Matador) [03-27] - alt/indie [*]
- Softcult: When a Flower Doesn't Grow () [01-30] - shoegaze
- Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Life (Afterlife) (Dacamera) [01-30] - jazz [B]
- Yuyo Sotashe & Chris Pattishall: Invocation (self-released -EP) [03-20] - jazz [**]
- Alister Spence: Always Ever (Alister Spence Music) [04-24] - jazz [U]
- Squirrel Nut Zippers: Squirrel Nut Zippers Starring in "Fat City" (The Ballad of Lil' Tony) (Music Maker) [03-06] - jazz cabaret [**]
- Karen Stachel, Norbert Stachel & LehCats: Live @ the Breakroom With Giovanni Hidalgo (Purple Room Productions, 2CD) [03-20] - jazz [***]
- Dave Stryker: Blue Fire: The Van Gelder Session (Strikezone) [01-09] - jazz [**]
- Stu Bangas & Wordsworth: Chemistry (1332) [01-30] - hip-hop [A-]
- Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands 三 (Endectomorph Music) [03-13] - jazz [**]
- Mattias Svensson: Embrace (Origin) [01-16] - jazz [**]
- Craig Taborn: Dream Archives (ECM) [01-16] - jazz [*]
- Tanya Tagaq: Saputjiji (Six Shooter) [03-06] - singer-songwriter [A-]
- They Might Be Giants: Eyeball (Idlewild -EP) [01-15] - art rock [B-]
- Vance Thompson: Lost and Found (Moondo) [01-16] - jazz [*]
- Thundercat: Distracted (Brainfeeder) [04-03] - neo-soul [*]
- Tinariwen: Hoggar (Wedge) [03-13] - Saharan [**]
- Carolyn Trowbridge: Found Memories (self-released) [01-09] - jazz [B]
- Harriet Tubman & Georgia Muldrow: Electical Field of Love (Pi) [03-27] - jazz [***]
- Mark Turner: Patternmaster (ECM) [03-13] - jazz [*]
- Twisted Teens: Blame the Clown (Jazz Life)
- Gregory Uhlmann: Extra Stars (International Anthem) [03-06] - jazz [*]
- Underscores: U (self-released) [03-20] - electrpop [**]
- Barry Walker Jr.: Paleo Sol (Thrill Jockey)
- Chris Watson: Planet Ocean (Touch)
- Ben Wendel: BaRcoDe (Edition) [03-13] - jazz [**]
- Jack West & Walter Strauss: Guitars on Life (Otá) [01-23] - jazz
- Jack West: Essential Curvature (Otá) [01-23] - jazz
- What You May Call It: Da Qi (MechaBenzaiten) [05-08] - jazz [U]
- Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1 (Blue Note) [03-20] - jazz [**]
- Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (Blue Note) [04-17] - jazz
- Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 3 (Blue Note) [05-15] - jazz
- Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong () [01-23] - roots rock
- Winged Wheel: Desert So Green (12XU) [01-09] - rock [**]
- Jack Wood: For Every Man There's a Woman (Jazz Hang) [03-24] - jazz [***]
- Work Money Death: A Portal to Here (ATA)
- Xaviersobased: Xavier (1C/Surf Gang/Atlantic) [01-30] - hip-hop [**]
- Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 26: Antonio Carlos & Jocafi (Jazz Is Dead) [04-03] - jazz [***]
- Zavirunga: Nails (self-released)
- Zel: Still Right Here (self-released) [02-12] - plugg [***]
- Zu: Ferrum Sidereum (House of Mythology) [01-09] - avant-metal [**]
Reissues, Etc.
Priority Counts
- Priority 1: 46
- Priority 2: 9
- Priority 3: 5
- Priority 4: 127
- Priority 5: 104
Total: 291
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