Streamnotes: Year 2025 Index
- Adult Mom: Natural Causes (2025, Epitaph) B+(**)
- Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (2025, World Circuit) B+(*)
- JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (2025, Savant) B+(**)
- Amaarae: Black Star (2025, Interscope) A-
- Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (2025, Ovation) B+(*)
- Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (2023 [2025], AD 93) B+(**)
- Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (2024 [2025], Drag City) B+(***)
- Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (2025, Lex) B+(*)
- Apathy: Mom & Dad (2025, Dirty Version/Coalmine) A-
- Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (2025, Strut) B+(***)
- Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (2022-23 [2025], Sunnyside) A-
- Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Baths: Gut (2025, Basement's Basement) B
- Jon Batiste: Big Money (2025, Verve/Interscope) A-
- Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (2025, Sony Music Argentina) B+(**)
- The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (2025, Anti-) B+(***)
- Big Thief: Double Infinity (2025, 4AD) A-
- Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
- Blood Orange: Essex Honey (2025, RCA/Domino) B+(*)
- Blueprint: Vessel (2025, Weightless) A-
- Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (2025, Escapism) A-
- David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra: Who Is the Sky? (2025, Matador) B+(**)
- Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (2025, Daughters of Cain) B+(*)
- Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (2025, Atlantic) B+(**)
- Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (2025, EMI/Universal) B+(**)
- Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (2025, Island) A-
- Chance the Rapper: Star Line (2025, self-released) A-
- Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (2024 [2025], Chicago Jazz Orchestra) B+(*)
- Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (2024 [2025], International Anthem) B+(***)
- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (2024-25 [2025], International Anthem) B+(***)
- CMAT: Euro-Country (2025, CMATBaby/AWAL) A-
- George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (2022 [2025], Savant) A-
- Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (2025, Lone Star Rider/Island) B+(***)
- Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (2025, New West) B+(***)
- Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (2025, Lightning Rod) B+(**)
- Matt Daniel: The Poet (2025, self-released) B+(***)
- Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (2025, The Leaf Label) B+(***)
- Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (2025, self-released) B+(**)
- Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (2024-25 [2025], Hittite) B+(**)
- Dijon: Baby (2025, R&R/Warner) B+(*)
- Doja Cat: Vie (2025, Kemosabe/RCA) B+(**)
- Double Virgo: Shakedown (2025, Year0001) B+(***)
- Dave Douglas: Alloy (2025, Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
- Baxter Dury: Allbarone (2025, Heavenly) B+(*)
- Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (2025, Dualtone) B+(**)
- Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (2025, Rack 'Em) B+(***)
- Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (2025, Ndagga) B+(**)
- Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (2025, Rhymesayers Entertainment) B+(*)
- Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (2025, Deathbomb Arc) B+(*)
- Fieldwork: Thereupon (2024 [2025], Pi) A-
- Ingebrigt Häker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Live at Artfacts '22 (2022 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(*)
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (2024 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
- Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (2025, Jagjaguwar) B
- Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (2025, self-released) B+(***)
- Robbie Fulks: Now Then (2025, Compass) B
- Geese: Getting Killed (2025, Partisan) B
- Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (2025, Mass Appeal) B+(*)
- Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (2025, ESGN/ALC) B+(*)
- GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (2025, XXIM) B+(**)
- Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (2024 [2025], J.M.I.) B+(***)
- Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (2024 [2025], LP345) B+(*)
- Haim: I Quit (2025, Columbia) A-
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (2024 [2025], Turtle Bay) A-
- The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (2025, Eastern Conference) B+(***)
- The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (2025, PIAS) B+(***)
- Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (2025, ARC Music) B+(*)
- Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (2025, No Quartet) B+(***)
- Ill Considered: Balm (2025, New Soil) B+(**)
- Ill Considered: Live at Eye Film Museum (2024, New Soil) B+(**)
- Ill Considered & Rob Lewis: Emergence (2024, New Soil) B+(**)
- Ill Considered: UnEvensong (2024, New Soil) B+(***)
- Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (2025, RCA) B+(**)
- Cody Jinks: In My Blood (2025, Late August) B+(*)
- Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (2025, BarsOverBs) B+(**)
- Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (2025, RCA) B+(***)
- Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (2025, self-released, EP) B
- Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (2025, Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) B+(**)
- Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (2025, Royal Potato Family) B+(***)
- Lex Korten: Canopy (2024 [2025], Sounderscore) B
- Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (2025, Ninja Tune, EP) B+(**)
- KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (2025, R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) A-
- Laufey: A Matter of Time (2025, AWAL) B+(**)
- Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (2017 [2025], Ultra Sound) B+(**)
- Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (2025, Nice Life/Atlantic) B+(*)
- Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (2025, self-released) B+(***)
- Tony Logue: Dark Horse (2025, Jenny Ridge Productions) B+(***)
- Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (2025, Blue Art) B+(**)
- Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
- Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (2024 [2025], JMood) B+(***)
- Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya: Come Back (2025, Umsakazo) A-
- Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (2024 [2025], Pacific Coast Jazz) B+(**)
- Maruja: Pain to Power (2025, Music for Nations) B
- Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (2025, Mack Avenue) B+(**)
- Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (2025, Soggy Anvil) B+(*)
- Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (2025, Nonesuch) B
- MindsOne: Stages (2025, Fort Lowell) A-
- Nils Petter Molvær: Khmer Live in Bergen (2023 [2025], Edition) A-
- Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (2025, Mountainrose Sparrow) B+(*)
- Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (2025, Apt. B Productions) B+(**)
- Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (2025, XL) B
- Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (2025, Marshall) B+(**)
- Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (2025, TIBProd.) B+(**)
- Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (2025, Biophilia) A-
- Kassa Overall: Cream (2025, Warp) B+(***)
- The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (2025, Cleopatra) B+(**)
- Panic Shack: Panic Shack (2025, Brace Yourself) A-
- Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (2025, Iron Tusk Music) A-
- Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (2025, self-released) A-
- Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (2025, Rounder) B+(***)
- Sam Prekop: Open Close (2025, Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
- Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (2025, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(***)
- Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (2025, Loma Vista) B+(***)
- Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (2025, Matic) A-
- Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (2025, Ravita Music) B
- Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (2023 [2025], Edgetone) B+(**)
- Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (2024 [2025], Glory) C
- Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (2024-25 [2025], Pyroclastic) A-
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (2022 [2025], 5Passion, 2CD) B+(***)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (2025, Nonesuch) B
- Shame: Cutthroat (2025, Dead Oceans) B
- Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (2022 [2025], Changu) A-
- ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (2025, Fused Arrow) B+(**)
- Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (2025, Jalopy) B-
- Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (2025, Cloverdale) A-
- Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (2025, Merge) B+(**)
- Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (2025, Tan Cressida/Warner) B+(*)
- Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (2025, Aunt Daddy) A-
- Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (2024 [2025], Pyroclastic) A-
- Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (2025, Libra) B+(**)
- Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (2025, Taylormade/Def Jam) B
- Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (2025, Leo33) B+(**)
- Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (2025, Bossier City) B+(*)
- Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (2025, Nonesuch) B+(**)
- Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (2025, Columbia) B+(*)
- UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (2025, 1332) B+(**)
- Us3: Soundtrack (2025, Us3) B
- Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (2025, Copenhagen Crates) B+(***)
- Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (2025, Origin) B+(*)
- Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (2023 [2025], Raw Tonk) B+(**)
- Vlure: Escalate (2025, Music for Nations) B+(**)
- Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (2024 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(***)
- Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (2025, Ear Up) B+(*)
- Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (2025, Post Atlantic) B+(**)
- Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (2024 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
- Simón Willson: Feel Love (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(**)
- Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(*)
- Yoko Yates: Eternal Moments (2024 [2025], Banka) B
- Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (2025, Reconstruction) A-
- Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (2024 [2025], Miel Music) A
- Bar-B-Q Killers: Part 1: The Last Shit (1986 [2025], Chunklet Industries, EP) B
- Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole" (2012-16 [2025], Yep Roc) B-
- Woody Guthrie: Woody at Home: Vol 1 + 2 (1951-52 [2025], Shamus) B+(*)
- John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973 [2025], BMG) A
- Jovino Santos Neto Quartet: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995 (1995 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
- Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album ([2025], TIBProd.) B+(*)
- Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977 [2025], Resonance) B+(*)
- Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Live in Foggia (1985 [2025], Ogun) A-
- Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live in Tompkins Square Park 1967 (1967 [2025], Inky Dot Media) B+(**)
- Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (1950-65 [2025], Matsuli Music) B+(**)
- Body Type: Expired Candy (2023, Poison City) B+(***)
- Chris Cacavas: Chris Cacavas and Junk Yard Love (1989, Heyday) B+(*)
- Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love: Good Times (1992, Heyday) B+(***)
- Decius: Decius Vol. I (2022, The Leaf Label) B+(**)
- Hannah Delynn: The Naked Room Demos (2021, self-released, EP) B
- Hannah Delynn: Making Friends (2023, self-released, EP) B
- Mary Halvorson/Kirk Knuffke/Matt Wilson: Sifter (2011 [2012], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
- The High & Mighty: Home Field Advantage (1999, Rawkus) B+(***)
- High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (2024, MNRK Heavy) B
- Brad Mehldau: Après Fauré (2023 [2024], Nonesuch) B
- Brad Mehldau: After Bach II (2017-23 [2024], Nonesuch) B-
- Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge: The Folly of Desire (2022 [2023], Pentatone) B-
- Mark O'Leary/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Chamber Trio (2002 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
- Mark O'Leary/Tomasz Stanko/Billy Hart: Levitation (2000 [2005], Leo) B+(***)
- Mark O'Leary/Mat Maneri/Randy Peterson: Self-Luminous (2002 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
- Mark O'Leary/Uri Caine/Ben Perowsky: Closure (2003 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
- Mark O'Leary/Steve Swallow/Pierre Favre: Awakening (2000 [2006], Leo) B+(*)
- Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg: The Monkey Puzzle (1997, Leo) B+(***)
- Sam Prekop/John McEntire: Sons Of (2022, Thrill Jockey) A-
- Ned Rothenberg Double Band: Overlays (1991, Moers) A-
- Ned Rothenberg: The Crux: Selected Solo Wind Works (1989-1992) (1989-92 [1993], Leo) B+(***)
- Ned Rothenberg Double Band: Parting (1996 [2004], Moers Music) B+(*)
- Ned Rothenberg: Ghost Stories (1999-2000 [2000], Tzadik) B+(*)
- Ned Rothenberg Sync: Harbinger (2001-03 [2004], Animul) B+(***)
- Ned Rothenberg/Satoh Masahiko: Decisive Action (2003-04 [2004], BAJ) B+(**)
- Perico Sambeat: Ademuz (1995 [1998], Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(**)
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (2024 [2025], Pi) A
- Addison Rae: Addison (2025, As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) B+(*)
- Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (2025, Saponegro) B+(***)
- Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
- David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (2025, Create or Destroy) B+(**)
- Barry Can't Swim: Loner (2025, Ninja Tune) B+(***)
- Alain Bédard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores (2024, Effendi) B+(**)
- Ilia Belorukov & Marina Džukljev: Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears (2022-23 [2024], Acheulian Handaxe) B+(***)
- Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (2025, Bella Union) B+(***)
- Gina Birch: Trouble (2025, Third Man) B+(**)
- Ron Blake: Scratch Band (2021 [2023], 7Ten33 Productions) B+(***)
- Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (2025, M.C.) B+(***)
- Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (2025, Mercury) B-
- Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (2025, Highway 87) A-
- Caroline: Caroline 2 (2025, Rough Trade) B
- Erika de Casier: Lifetime (2025, Independent Jeep Music) B+(**)
- Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra: Time Chamber (2023 [2024], Da Vinci Jazz) B+(**)
- Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (2025, RCA) A-
- Circuit Des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (2025, Matador) B
- Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (2025, Bootzilla/Roc Nation) B+(***)
- Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (2025, AED) B+(**)
- Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (2025, Silver Sphinx) B+(***)
- Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (2025, Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) B+(***)
- Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (2025, Weird World/Domino) B
- Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (2025, Roadrunner) B+(*)
- Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (2025, Gravity/Capitol) B+(*)
- DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (2025, Pampa) B+(**)
- Djo: The Crux (2025, AWAL) B+(*)
- Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (2025, Hands Made, EP) B+(***)
- Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (2024, EMI North) B+(*)
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (2025, Cool Death, EP) B+(*)
- Wayne Escoffery: Alone (2024, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
- Ex_libris: Ex_libris - 001 (2025, Ex_libris, EP) B+(**)
- Ex_libris: Ex_libris - 002 (2025, Ex_libris, EP) B+(**)
- Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
- Steven Feifke: The Role of the Rhythm Section Vol. II (2023 [2024], La Reserve) B+(**)
- Fines Double: Espejismo (2025, self-released) B+(***)
- Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (2025, Thirty Tigers) B+(*)
- Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (2025, Domino) B(*)
- Mike Freeman Zona Vibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (2019 [2025], VOF) B+(***)
- Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (2025, Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) A-
- Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (2023 [2025], Yestereve) B+(**)
- Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (2023-24 [2025], International Anthem) B+(*)
- Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (2024 [2025], Open Mind Jazz) B+(*)
- Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (2025, Patois) B+(**)
- S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (2025, Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
- Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (2024 [2025], La Reserve) B+(*)
- Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (2024 [2025], Resonant Music) B+(***)
- Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (2025, Tare) B+(**)
- Heat On: Heat On (2024 [2025], Cuneiform) A-
- Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (2023 [2025], La Reserve/Diggers Factory) B+(*)
- Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (2025, Soft Launch) A-
- James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (2025, Border Community) A-
- The Horrors: Night Life (2025, Fiction/Universal) B+(**)
- Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (2024 [2025], Optical Substance) B+(*)
- Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (2025, Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) A-
- Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (2025, Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) B
- Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (2024-25 [2025[, MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) B+(*)
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (2023 [2025], Dot Time) A-
- Karol G: Tropicoqueta (2025, Bichota/Interscope) A-
- Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (2025, Red Hot Org, EP) B+(**)
- Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (2025, XL) B+(*)
- Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (2024 [2025], Sonic Transmission) B+(*)
- Lorde: Virgin (2025, Republic) B
- M(h)aol: Something Soft (2025, Merge) B+(***)
- Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (2022 [2025], Giant Step Arts) B+(**)
- Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (2023 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
- Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (2022 [2025], Parco Della Musica) B+(*)
- Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (2025, Granary Music) B+(***)
- Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (2025, Nola Blue) A
- Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(***)
- PAL: Under Your Radar (2025, self-released, EP) B+(***)
- Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (2025, AWAL) A-
- PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (2024 [2025], Irabbagast) A-
- Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (2025, AWGE/Interscope) B+(**)
- Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (2022 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
- Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (2025, Warp) B+(**)
- Pulp: More (2025, Rough Trade) B+(*)
- PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (2025, Rise) B+(*)
- Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (2025, Dionysus) B+(**)
- Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (2025, Blue Arrow) B+(*)
- Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen (2024, Verve) B+(***)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (2022 [2025], 5Passion, 2CD) B+(***)
- Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (2022-23 [2025], Origin) B+(***)
- Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (2025, Polydor) B+(***)
- Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (2025, Music Maker, EP) B+(**)
- Alex Sipiagin: Daydream (2024 [2025], SkyDeck Muisic) B
- Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (2024 [2025], Criss Cross Jazz) B+(*)
- Slick Rick: Victory (2025, Mass Appeal) B+(***)
- Sparks: MAD! (2025, Transgressive) B-
- Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (2025, Edition) B+(*)
- Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (2023 [2025], Criss Cross Jazz) B+(**)
- Swans: Birthing (2025, Young God/Mute) B
- Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (2025, Mushroom Music) B+(***)
- Kae Tempest: Self Titled (2025, Island) A-
- Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (2025, Brownswood/Parlophone) B
- These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (2025, Domino) B+(*)
- Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (2025, Origin) B+(**)
- Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (2025, Casa De Copas) B+(***)
- Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (2025, Otherly Love) B+(**)
- Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (2025, Margetoile) B+(*)
- Turnstile: Never Enough (2025, Roadrunner) B+(*)
- William Tyler: Time Indefinite (2025, Psychic Hotline) B+(*)
- Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(*)
- Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (2024 [2025], Enid) B+(***)
- Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (2024 [2025], ADW) B+(***)
- Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (2025, Ladylike/Sony) B+(***)
- Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (2025, Matador) A-
- Steven Wilson: The Overview (2025, Fiction) B+(*)
- Wretch 32: Home? (2025, AWAL) B+(**)
- Meryl Zimmerman: Easy to Love (2024, Tuxedo Cat) B
- Carlos "Zingaro"/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (2023 [2025], 4DaRecord) A-
- Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (2024 [2025], Origin) B
- Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974 [2025], Numero Group) B+(*)
- Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998 [2025], In Sheep's Clothing) B+(***)
- Brian Eno/Holger Czukay/J. Peter Schwalm: Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen (1998 [2024], Grönland) B+(**)
- Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1963-72 [2025], Mississippi) B
- Hüsker Dü: Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 (1985 [2025], Numero Group, EP) B+(**)
- Hüsker Dü: Nov. 3, Salt Lake City (1985 [2025], Numero Group, EP) B+(*)
- Lonnie Johnson With Elmer Snowden: Blues & Ballads (1960 [2025], Craft) B+(*)
- Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean (1950s-70s [2025], Strut) A-
- Kinloch Nelson: Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 (1968-76 [2025], Tompkins Square) B+(**)
- Alick Nkhata: Radio Lusaka ([2025], Mississippi) B+(***)
- Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (1975-80 [2025], Analog Africa) B+(***)
- The Colson Unity Troupe: No Reservation (1980, Black Saint) B+(**)
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- Fines Double: Flotar (2021, Filthy Broke) B+(**)
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- Hüsker Dü: Extra Circus (1983 [2017], Numero Group) B
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- Peter Ind: Jazz Bass Baroque (1987 [1988], Wave) B+(**)
- Peter Ind: Looking Out/Jazz Bass Baroque (1958-87 [1999], Wave) B+(**)
- Lonnie Johnson With Victoria Spivey: Idle Hours (1961, Bluesville) B+(**)
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- Steve Kuhn Quartet: Last Year's Waltz (1981 [1982], ECM) A-
- New Tutankhamen: I Wish You Were Mine (1979 [2019], Nyami Nyami) B+(*)
- PAL: PALS (2023, self-released, EP) B+(**)
- Roswell Rudd/Steve Lacy/Sheila Jordan: Blown Bone (1967-76 [1979], Philips) B+(***)
- Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 1 (11 May 1926 to 31 October 1927) (1926-27 [1995], Document) B+(**)
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- Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 3 (1 October 1929 to 7 July 1936) (1929-36 [1995], Document) A-
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- Victoria Spivey With Lonnie Johnson: Woman Blues! (1962, Bluesville) B+(**)
- Christian Stock Trio & Sheila Jordan & Adrian Mears: Straight Ahead (2000, YVP) B+(*)
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- Michael Arbenz Meets Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (2025, self-released) B+(**)
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- Elia Aregger Trio: Live (2025, Unit) B+(*)
- Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (2023 [2025], Zamzama) A-
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- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (2025, Mack Avenue) A-
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- Jessica Winter: My First Album (2025, Lucky Number) B+(**)
- Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (2025, 36 Chambers/DNA Music) A-
- Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (2025, The Other Shoe/Reprise) A-
- Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (2025, Impulse!) B+(*)
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- Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 2 (1968 [2025], Red) B+(***)
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- Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960 [2025], Candid) B+(**)
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- John Lee Hooker: The Charcot Sessions (1969 [2024], Southern Echoes) B+(***)
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- Motown Classics: Gold (1960-72 [2005], Motown, 2CD) A+
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- Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (2025, Def Jam) A-
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- PinkPantheress: Fancy That (2025, Warner, EP) B+(***)
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- Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (2024 [2025], J-Nett Music) B+(*)
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- Amadou & Mariam: La Confusion (2017, Because Music) B+(***)
- Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (1967 [1988], MCA) A-
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- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella & Louis (1956-57 [2021], Ober Entertainment/20th Century Masterworks) A-
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (1956 [1997], Verve, 2CD) A-
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (1958 [2000], Verve, 2CD) A-
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Gently With Nelson (1961-62 [1993], Verve) B+(**)
- Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm Is My Business (1962 [1999], Verve) B+(***)
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Sings Broadway (1962 [2001], Verve) B+(***)
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Brighten the Corner (1967, Capitol) B+(*)
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- Ella Fitzgerald: 30 by Ella (1968 [2000], Capitol) B+(*)
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella (1969, Reprise) B+(*)
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald in Budapest (1970 [1999], Pablo) B+(***)
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- Ella Fitzgerald/Count Basie/Oscar Peterson/Stan Getz/Roy Eldridge/Eddie Lockjaw Davis/Ray Brown/Harry Edison/Al Grey/Tommy Flanagan/Ed Thigpen/Keeter Betts: Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972 [1991], Pablo, 3CD) B+(***)
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- Jeffrey Lewis: Ghosterbusters (2024, self-released, EP) B+(**)
- Loidis: One Day (2024, Incienso) B+(***)
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- Wolfgang Muthspiel: Etudes/Quietudes (2024, Clap Your Hands) B+(**)
- Camila Nebbia & Angelica Sanchez: In Another Land, Another Dream (2023 [2024], Relative Pitch) A-
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- Emily Nenni: Drive & Cry (2024, New West) B+(**)
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- Nines: Quit While You're Ahead (2024, Zino) B+(*)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre Unique (2024, Bongo Joe/Red Wig) B+(**)
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- Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band: Lumen (2021 [2024], Prophone) B+(*)
- Peverelist: Pulse EP (2023, Livity Sound, EP) B+(***)
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- Peverelist: Pulse Echo (2024, Livity Sound, EP) B+(**)
- Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers: Izigqinamba (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
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- Previous Industries: Service Merchandise (2024, Merge) A-
- Tim Reaper & Kloke: In Full Effect (2024, Hyperdub) B+(**)
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- Rema: Heis (2024, Mavin/Jonzing World/Interscope) B+(**)
- Diego Rivera: Ofendra (2024, Posi-Tone) B+(***)
- Porter Robinson: Smile! :D (2024, Mom+Pop/Sample Sized) B
- Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths (2024, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
- Toms Rudzinskis: Abyss (2019-21 [2023], self-released) B+(**)
- SahBabii: Saaheem (2024, self-released) B+(***)
- Saint Etienne: The Night (2024, Heavenly) B+(*)
- Akira Sakata/Jim O'Rourke/Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: Live at SuperDeluxe Volume 1 (2017 [2024], Trost) B+(*)
- Michael Sarian: Live at Cliff Bell's (2023 [2024], Shifting Paradigm) B+(***)
- De Schuurman: Bubbling Forever (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
- Secret Sisters: Mind, Man, Medicine (2024, New West) B+(***)
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- Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance (2024, Nonesuch) B+(***)
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- Harri Sjöström/Erhard Hirt/Philipp Wachsmann/Paul Lytton: Especially for You (2022 [2023], Bead) B+(*)
- Skee Mask: Resort (2024, Ilian Tape) A-
- The Smile: Cutouts (2024, XL) B+(*)
- Smino: Maybe in Nirvana (2024, Zero Fatigue/Motown) B+(**)
- Daniel Sommer/Arve Henriksen/Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences (2022-23 [2024], April) B+(**)
- Peter Somuah: Highlife (2024, ACT Music) B+(**)
- Astrid Sonne: Great Doubt (2024, Escho) B
- Sound the Alarm: Sound the Alarm: A Large Ensemble Instigation for Palestine [Recorded Live in Concert] (2024, Relative Pitch) A-
- Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Sunday (2022 [2024], Loyal Label) B+(***)
- Dayna Stephens: Closer Than We Think (2023 [2024], Cellar Music) B+(***)
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- Takkak Takkak: Takkak Takkak (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
- Tems: Born in the Wild (2024, RCA) A-
- That Mexican OT: Texas Technician (2024, Manifest/Good Talk/Good Money Global/Capitol) B+(***)
- Pat Thomas: This Is Trick Step (2023 [2024], 577) B+(**)
- Dlala Thukzin: Finally Famous Too (2024, Dlala) B+(***)
- Anna Tivel: Living Thing (2024, Fluff and Gravy) B+(***)
- Transmission Towers: Transmission One (2024, É Soul Cultura/Mr Bongo) B+(**)
- Tulpas: Atisbo (2021 [2024], Astral Spirits) B+(**)
- Two Shell: Two Shell (2024, Young) B+(**)
- Weird of Mouth [Mette Rasmussen/Craig Taborn/Ches Smith]: Weird of Mouth (2022 [2024], Otherly Love) A-
- Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/Dylan Day: Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day (2024, Leaving) B+(*)
- Lucinda Williams: Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road (2024, Highway 20) B+(*)
- Willow: Empathogen (2024, Three Six Zero/Gamma) B+(**)
- Kathrine Windfeld Sextet: Aldebaran (2024, Stunt) B+(***)
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- WoochieWobbler: Thrilla (2024, self-released, EP) B
- Wussy: Cincinnati Ohio (2024, Shake It) B+(***)
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- Wussy Duo: Cellar Door (2024, Shake It, EP) B+(*)
- Xylitol: Anemones (2024, Planet Mu) B+(***)
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- Dwight Yoakam: Brighter Days (2024, VIA/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
- Zawose Queens: Maisha (2024, Real World) B+(***)
- Carlos Zingaro/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris (2023 [2024], 4DaRecord) A-
- John Zorn: Ballades (2024, Tzadik) B+(*)
- John Zorn: Lamentations (2024, Tzadik) B+(**)
- John Zorn: Ou Phrontis (2024, Tzadik) B+(**)
- Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Butterfly Mushroom (2015 [2024], Trost) B+(**)
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- Charli XCX: Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat (2024, Atlantic) B+(**)
- Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South (2024, PH/Loma Vista) B+(**)
- Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 [Bonus: After Hours 1950] (1950-58 [2024], Storyville) B+(**)
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- Funk.BR - São Paulo (2024, NTS) B+(**)
- Michael Griener & Jan Roder: Be Our Guest (1994-2022 [2024], Trouble in the East) A-
- Margo Guryan: Words and Music (1957-68 [2024], Numero Group, 2CD) B+(***)
- Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (2024, Sub Pop) B+(*)
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- Skip James: Today! (1966 [2024], Craft) B+(***)
- Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla [50th Anniversary Edition] (1974 [2024], MNRK/Exciter/Reach) B
- Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping (1974 [2024], MPL) B
- Van Morrison: Live at Orangefield (2014 [2024], Townsend Music/Orangefield) B+(***)
- Michel Petrucciani Trio: Jazz Club Montmartre - CPH 1988 (1988 [2024], Storyville) B+(***)
- Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (1996 [2024], Heartcore) A-
- Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (2024, Republic) B+(**)
- Virtual Dreams, Vol. II: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 (1993-99 [2024], Music From Memory) B+(***)
- Brenton Wood: Brenton Wood's 18 Best (1967-71 [2024], Craft) B
- Fake Fruit: Fake Fruit (2021, Rocks in Your Head) B+(**)
- Metal Preyers: Metal Preyers (2020, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(*)
- Allen Ravenstine: Nautilus/Rue de Poisson Noire (2021, Waveshaper) B+(**)
- Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 (1993-99 [2020], Music From Memory) B+(***)
- Lucinda Williams: Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 1] (2021, Highway 20) B
- Lucinda Williams: Southern Soul: From Memphis to Muscle Shoals and More [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 2] (2021, Highway 20) B
- Lucinda Williams: Bob's Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 3] (2021, Highway 20) B+(**)
- Lucinda Williams: Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of 60's Country Classics [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 4] (2021, Highway 20) B+(***)
- Lucinda Williams: Have Yourself a Rockin' Little Christmas [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 5] (2021, Highway 20) B+(**)
- Lucinda Williams: You Are Cordially Invited . . . A Tribute to the Rolling Stones [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 6] (2021, Highway 20) B+(***)
- Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (2024, Belting Bronco/Warner) B+(***)
- Sabrina Carpenter: Short 'n' Sweet (2024, Island) A-
- Charli XCX: Brat (2024, Atlantic) A-
- Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (2024, Top Dawg/Capitol) B+(***)
- Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (2024, Big Machine) A-
- Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (2024, Columbia) A-
- Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (2024, Anti-) A-
- Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (2024, Island) A-
Total albums: 1555
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