Music Tracking 2017

These are 2017 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 (usually taken from AMG).

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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New Releases

  • !!!: Shake the Shudder (Warp) [05-19] - dance punk
  • 03 Greedo: First Night Out (Golden Grenade Empire/Drummer Gang) [10-20] - r&b
  • 03 Greedo: Money Changes Everything (Golden Grenade Empire) [07-04] - hip-hop
  • 03 Greedo: Purple Summer 03 (self-released) [07-26] - hip-hop
  • 1-OAK: Riding in Cars With Girls (self-released) [04-28] - hip-hop
  • 3Divas: 3Divas (Diva) [03-21] - jazz
  • 3teeth: Shutdown.exe () [05-19]
  • 23RedAnts: Nothing Here Is What It Seems (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • 36 Crazyfists: Lanterns (Spinefarm) [09-29] - metal
  • '68: Two Parts Viper (Cooking Vinyl) [06-02]
  • 79rs Gang: Dead and Gone/Wrong Part of Town (Urban Unrest -EP)
  • 311: Mosaic (BMG) [06-23] - alt rock
  • Snoh Aalegra: Feels (Artium) [10-20] - r&b
  • Abstract Orchestra: Dilla (ATA) [06-30]
  • Acceptance: Colliding by Design (Rise) [02-24] - alt/indie
  • Accidentals: Odyssey (Masterworks) [08-18]
  • Ackercocke: Renaissance in Extremis (Peaceville) [08-25] - metal
  • Poppy Ackroyd: Sketches (One Little Indian) [08-04]
  • AD and Sorry Jaynari: Last of the '80s ()
  • Tom Adams: Silence (Kowloon) [05-05] - pop
  • Adrift for Days: A Sleepless Grey (Art as Catharsis) [06-06] - alt/indie
  • Adult: Detroit House Guests (Mute) [03-17] - electronic
  • Adult Mom: Soft Spots (Tiny Engines) [05-19] - rock
  • The Afghan Whigs: In Spades (Sub Pop) [05-05] - alt rock
  • AFI: AFI (The Blood Album) (Concord) [01-20] - alt/indie rock
  • Johan Agebjorn/Mikael Ogren: We Never Came to the White Sea (Spotted Peccary) [02-10] - electronic
  • Agent Bla: Agent Blue (Kanine) [06-09] - indie rock
  • A-Ha: MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice (Island) [10-06] - pop
  • The Ahern Brothers: The Ahern Brothers (self-released) [06-23] - folk
  • Jhene Aiko: Trip (Def Jam) [09-22] - r&b
  • Sonia Aimy: Nigerian Spirit (self-released) - African
  • Lydia Ainsworth: Darling of the Afterglow (Arbutus) [03-31] - art pop
  • Airiel: Molten Young Lovers (Shelflife)
  • Akademie fur Alte Musik: Berlin-Telemann: Concerti Per Molti Stromenti (Harmonia Mundi) [04-21] - classical
  • Ryoko Akama: Places and Pages (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Akatombo: Short Fuse (Alt.Vinyl) [03-27]
  • Noel Akchote: All I Have To (Solo Series) (self-released) - jazz
  • Noel Akchote: Complete Recordings (Plays Anthony Braxton) (self-released) - jazz
  • Noel Akchote: Fallacious (self-released) [04-11] - jazz
  • Noel Akchote/Brad Jones: Circle Round (self-released) [03-29] - jazz
  • Ala Ni: You & I (No Format) [06-01]
  • Lauren Alaina: Road Less Traveled (Interscope) [01-27] - country
  • Olivier Alary: Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators (Line) [06-09] - electronic
  • Darin & Brooke Aldridge: Faster and Farther (Mountain Home Music) [02-10] - country
  • Lesa Aldridge/Ross Johnson: Lesa & Ross (The Great Pop Supplement) [-2016] - rock
  • Alex & Digby: For My Process (Flash as a Rat) [06-22] - minimal
  • Eric Alexander: Song of No Regrets (HighNote) [11-24] - jazz
  • Joey Alexander: Joey Monk Live! (Motema) [09-29] - jazz
  • Rahim AlHaj: Letters From Iraq (Smithsonian Folkways) - Arabic
  • Al Namrood: Enkar (Shaytan Productions)
  • Ala Ni: You & I (Missing Piece Group) - jazz
  • Alfa Mist: Antiphon (self-released) [03-03] - jazz
  • Don Aliquo: Fathers & Sons (MCG Jazz) [01-20] - jazz
  • All Our Exes Live in Texas: When We Fail (ABC) [03-03]
  • All Them Witches: Sleeping Through the War (New West) [02-24] - stoner rock
  • All Time Low: Last Young Renegade (Fueled by Ramen) [06-02] - pop rock
  • Lina Allemano's Titanium Rot: Squish It! (Lumo) - jazz
  • JD Allen: Radio Flyer (Savant) [06-02] - jazz
  • Ellen Allien: Nost (BPitch Control) [05-12] - electronic
  • Ben Allison and Think Free: Layers of the City (Sonic Camera) [06-27] - jazz
  • Gregg Allman: Southern Blood (New Rounder) [09-08]
  • Alphaxone and Donny Darko: Forsaken (Cyro Chamber) [08-22] - electronic
  • Alt-J: Relaxer (Atlantic) [06-02] - art pop
  • Altered Natives: The Black Album (Eye 4 Eye) [11-11]
  • Anna Altman: Freightliner (Exploding in Sound)
  • Amadou & Mariam: La Confusion (Because Music) [09-22] - African
  • Sam Amidon: The Following Mountain (Nonesuch) [05-28]
  • AM Static: Rise & Shine (-) [06-02]
  • The Amazons: The Amazons (Fiction) [05-26]
  • Amelia Airhorn: The Knocks & Skylar Spence Present Amelia Airhorn (self-released) [06-19] - funk/soul
  • Amine: Good for You (Motown) [07-28] - alt hip-hop
  • Siavash Amini: Tar (Hallow Ground) [06-09]
  • Amnesia Scanner: As Truth (Mixtape) (self-released) [02-02] - UK bass
  • Tori Amos: Native Invader (Decca) [09-08] - baroque pop
  • Amp Fiddler: Amp Dog Knights (Mahogan Music) [11-10]
  • Ancient Methods: The First Siren (Persephonic Sirens -EP) [01-20]
  • John Andrews & the Yawns: Bad Posture (Woodsist) [03-10]
  • Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra: Vula (Alien Transistor) [07-07] - J
  • Anjou: Epithymia (Kranky) [03-24]
  • Lotte Anker: Plodi (Klopotec) - jazz
  • Anna of the North: Lovers (Different) [09-06] - pop/rock
  • Anohni: Paradise (Secretly Canadian -EP) [03-17] - art pop
  • Antibalas: Where the Gods Are in Peace (Daptone) [09-15]
  • Antietam: Intimations of Immortality (Motorific Sounds) [09-08] - rock
  • Antwood: Sponsored Content (Planet Mu) [09-08] - electronic
  • Annie Anxiety: Soul Possession (Dais) [01-06]
  • Aosoth: V: The Inside Scriptures (Agonia) [11-17] - metal
  • Erlend Apneseth Trio: Ara (Hubro) [09-17] - jazz
  • William Appling: Scott Joplin: The Complete Rags Waltez and Marches (WASO) [03-29] - classical
  • Aquaserge: Laisse Ca Etre (Almost Musique) [02-03]
  • Aquilo: Silhouettes (Island) [01-27] - chamber pop
  • The Arcana: Lemon Freddy Phanton of the Sky (DSO) [11-24] - rock
  • Amber Arcades: Cannonball (Heavenly -EP) [06-02] - indie pop
  • Arcane Roots: Melancholia Hymns (Easy Life) [09-15] - post-hardcore
  • Ricardo Arjona: Circo Soledad ()
  • Ellen Arkbro: For Organ and Brass (Subtext) [04-17]
  • Tim Armacost: Time Being (Whirlwind) [02-24] - jazz
  • Juliette Armanet: Petite Amie (Barclay) [04-07] - indie pop
  • Dag Arnesen Trio: Pentagon Tapes (Losen) [01-06] - jazz
  • Dayme Arocena: Cubafonia (Brownswood) [03-10] - Latin
  • Artificial Brain: Infrared Horizon (Profound Lore) [04-21] - death metal
  • A$AP Ferg: Still Striving (RCA) [08-18] - hip-hop
  • A$AP Mob: Cozy Tapes Vol 2: Too Cozy (A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds/RCA) [08-25] - hip-hop
  • A$AP Twelvyy: 12 (A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds) [08-04] - hip-hop
  • Asking Alexandria: Asking Alexandria (Sumerian) [12-15] - alt rock
  • At the Drive-In: In-ter A-li-a (Rise) [05-05] - post-hardcore
  • Felicia Atkinson: Hand in Hand (Shelter Press) [05-04]
  • Shinichi Atobe: From the Heart It's a Start Work of Art (DDS) [05-12] - electronic
  • Au Ra: Cultivations (Felte)
  • Auction for the Promise Club: Silence (Zen 10)
  • Dan Auerbach: Waiting on a Song (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch) [06-02] - singer-songwriter
  • August Burns Red: Phantom Anthem (Fearless) [10-06] - metalcore
  • Austra: Future Politics (Domino) [01-20] - synthpop
  • Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche: Pas Pire Pop I Love You So Much (Constellation) [01-20] - krautrock
  • Avenged Sevenfold: The Stage (Capitol) [12-22] - heavy metal
  • Timothy Seth Avett as Darling: IV (Ramseur) [03-31]
  • Ayreon: The Source (Music Theories Recordings) [04-28] - prog rock
  • Babe: Kiss & Tell (Kartel Music Group) [04-28]
  • Babx: Ascensions (Bisonbison) [05-26]
  • Baby in Vain: More Nothing (Partisan) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Backwards Dancer: Backwards Dancer (Equal Vision) [03-03]
  • Bad Breeding: Divide (La Vida Es Un Mus) [04-07]
  • Bad History Month: Dead and Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism (Exploding in Sound)
  • BadBadNotGood: LateNightTales (LateNightTales) [07-28] - jazz
  • Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires: Youth Detention (Don Giovanni) [06-30] - rock
  • Caiti Baker: Zinc (Perambulator) [10-06]
  • Kelsea Ballerini: Unapologetically (Black River) [11-03] - country pop
  • Ballister: Low Level Stink (Dropa Disc) [05-02] - jazz
  • J Balvin: Energia Lado B (Universal Music Latin) [06-24] - reggaeton
  • The Band of Heathens: Duende (BOH) [01-13] - country
  • David Banner: The God Box (A Banner Vision) [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Bansheebeat: Techno Deluxe (Attack the Music) [03-27]
  • Amina Baraka: Amina Baraks & the Red Microphone (ESP-Disk) [06-30] - jazz
  • Diego Barber: One Minute Later (Sunnyside) [05-19] - jazz
  • Caterina Barbieri: Patterns of Consciousness (Important) [04-21]
  • Bobby Bare: Things Change (BFD) [05-26] - country
  • Sophie Barker: Break the Habit (Disco Gecko) [01-13]
  • The Barr Brothers: Queens of the Breakers (Secret City) [10-13] - alt/indie
  • Evan Bartels & the Stoney Lonesomes: The Devil God & Me (self-released) [09-23]
  • Susanna Bartilla: The Look of Love: Songs of the Sixties (self-released) - jazz
  • Bash & Pop: Anything Could Happen (Fat Possum) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • The Basics: Basic Rhythm (Type)
  • Baths: Romaplasm (Anticon) [11-17] - glitch pop
  • Mario Batkovic: Mario Batkovic (Veruston) [04-10] - jazz
  • The Bats: The Deep Set (Flying Nun) [02-03]
  • John Baumann: Proving Grounds (Golden Spread) [06-09] - country
  • Darcy Baylis: Intimacy & Isolation (Downtime) [02-17]
  • David Bazan: Care (Underflow) [03-07] - indie rock
  • BBC Radiophonie Workshop: Burials in Several Earths (Room 13) [05-19] - electronic
  • B-Boys: Dada (Captured Tracks) [05-19] - alt/indie
  • Beach Fossils: Somersault (Bayonet) [06-02] - indie pop
  • Beaches: Second of Spring (Chapter Music) [07-08]
  • The Beaches: The Late Show (Universal Canada) [10-13] - indie rock
  • Beans: Wolves of the World (Tygr Rawwk) [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Emily Bear Trio: Into the Blue (Edston) - jazz
  • Bearthoven: Trios (Cantaloupe Music) - experimental
  • Beastie Respond: Information City (Foul-Up) [09-00] - electronic
  • BeatKing: Astroworld 2 (C3Entertainment/BreatKing Made This Sh-t) [05-31] - hip-hop
  • Doug Beavers: Art of the Arrangement (ArtistShare) - jazz
  • Bed Wettin' Bad Boys: Rot (What's Your Rupture?) [11-10] - indie rock
  • Bedouine: Bedouine (Spacebomb) [06-23] - singer-songwriter
  • Beholder: Claim No Native Land (self-released) [04-03] - jazz
  • Burkhard Beins/Lucio Capece/Martin Kuchen/Paul Vogel: Fracture Mechanics (Mikroton) - jazz
  • Andrea Belfi: Ore (Float) [05-26]
  • Mary Bell: LP (Le Turc Mecanique) [01-03]
  • Bell Witch: Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore) [10-20] - doom metal
  • Belle Haven: You Me and Everything in Between (Cooking Vinyl) [06-16] - metal
  • Belly: Mumble Rap (Def Jam) [10-06] - hip-hop
  • Han Bennink Trio: Adelante (ICP) [02-00] - jazz
  • Anders Bergcrantz: Soulfully Yours (Vanguard Music Boulevard) [02-01] - jazz
  • Cindy Lee Berryhill: The Adventurist (Omnivore)
  • Johan Berthling/Martin Kuchen/Steve Noble: Threnody at the Gates (Trost) - jazz
  • Big Big Train: Grimspound (Giant Electric Pea) [04-28] - prog rock
  • Big Mean Sound Machine: Runnin' for the Ghost (Peace & Rhythm/Black Slate) [04-07]
  • The Big Moon: Love in the 4th Dimension (Columbia) [04-07] - indie rock
  • Big Sean: I Decided (GOOD/Def Jam) [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Big Walnuts Yonder: Big Walnuts Yonder (Sargent House) [05-05] - alt/indie
  • Bing & Ruth: No Home of the Mind (4AD) [02-17] - ambient
  • Biogen: Halogen Continues (Trip) [06-00] - electronic
  • Benjamin Biolay: Volver (Barclay) [05-19] -
  • Andrew Bird: Echolocations: River (Wegawarm) [10-06] - alt/indie
  • Jeb Bishop/Matthias Muller/Matthias Muche: Konzert fur Hannes (Not Two) - jazz
  • Jeb Bishop and Dan Ruccia: Scratch Slice Jag (Out & Gone Music) - jazz
  • Bitchin Bajas: Bajas Fresh (Drag City) [11-17]
  • Biters: The Future Aint What It Used to Be (Earache) [05-19]
  • The Black Angels: Death Song (Partisan) [04-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Black Anvil: As Was (Relapse) [01-13] - black metal
  • The Black Butterflies: Luisa (self-released) - jazz
  • Black Cilice: Banished From Time (Iron Bonehead) - black metal
  • Black Country Communion: BCCIV (Mascot) [09-22] - hard rock
  • Black Gardenia: Lucky Star (self-released) [10-13] - jazz
  • Black Grape: Pop Voodoo (Commercial Marketing)
  • Black Hat: Impossible World (Hansu Mountain) [09-22] - electronic
  • The Black Madonna: RA.600 (Resident Advisor) [11-27] -
  • Black Moon: Enta Da Stage: The Remixes (Fat Beats) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Black Sabbath: The End: 4 February 2017 Birmingham (Eagle) [11-17] - heavy metal
  • Black Shape: Doom Room (Tiptop Audio) [01-02] - electronic
  • Black Star Riders: Heavy Fire (Nuclear Blast) [02-03] -
  • The Black Watch: The Gospel According to John (Eskimo) [04-21]
  • Blackfield: Blackfield V (Kscope) [02-10] - alt rock
  • Blackfoot Gypsies: To the Top (Plowboy) [04-14] - rock
  • Blaenavon: That's Your Lot (Atlantic) [04-07] - indie rock
  • Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF: Cascades (Arts & Crafts) [03-15] - ambient
  • Ran Blake & Kresten Osgood: The Dorothy Wallace Suite (ILK Music) [10-20] - jazz
  • Terence Blanchard: The Comedian (Blue Note) [02-03] - jazz
  • Sebastian Blanck: Likeness (110 Editions) [04-04]
  • Sebastian Blanck: Convince Me (110 Editions) [06-16]
  • Blank Statements: Signs Are Rampant ()
  • Karl Blau: Out Her Space (Bella Union) [11-17] - alt/indie
  • Blind Man's Band: Blind Man's Band (Insula Jazz) - jazz
  • Blindflug: Without Doubt (self-released) - jazz
  • Blis: No One Loves You (Sargent House) [10-06] - alt/indie
  • Blois: Lake (Quinton's Fun)
  • Blood Command: Cult Drugs (Fysisk Format) [04-28]
  • Blood Sun Circle: Distorted Forms (-) [05-30]
  • Kath Bloom: This Dream of Life (Caldo Verde) [03-10]
  • Blu & Exile: In the Beginning: Before the Heavens (Dirty Science/Fat Beats) [10-20] - hip-hop
  • Blue Hawaii: Tenderness (Arbutus) [10-06] - dance
  • Blue Iverson: Hotep (World Music Group) [04-11] - electronic
  • Blue Rose Code: The Water of Leith (Navigator) [10-27] - folk
  • Dean Blunt & Joanne Robertson: Wahalla (Textile) [09-00] - nu metal
  • BMX Bandits: BMX Bandits Forever (Elefant) [05-19]
  • BNNT: The Multiverse (Instant Classic) [10-10] - noise
  • BNQT: Volume 1 (Dualtone/Bella Union) [04-28] - indie rock
  • BoB: Ether (Empire) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Jon Boden: Afterglow (Hudson) [10-13] - folk
  • Bohemian Trio: Okonkolo (Innova) [01-20] - jazz
  • Bokante: Strange Circles (GroundUP Music) [06-09] -
  • Tracy Bonham: Modern Burdens (A Woody Hollow) [06-02]
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Best Troubador (Drag City) [05-05] - pop/rock
  • Bonobo: Migration (Ninja Tune) [01-13] - downtempo
  • A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: The Bigger Artist (Highbridge the Label) [09-29] - hip-hop
  • Boosegumps: On the Way to Meet You (Birdtapes)
  • Leila Bordreuil & Zach Rowden: Hollow (No Rent) - jazz
  • Boris: Dear (Sargent House) [07-14] - sludge metal
  • Boss Hog: Brood X (In the Red) [03-24] - alt/indie rock
  • Botanist: Collective: The Shape of He to Come (Avantgarde Music) [09-01]
  • Boucle Infinie: ???? (self-released -EP) [11-24] - electronic
  • Francois Bourassa Quartet: Number 9 (Effendi) [10-27] - jazz
  • Matthew Bourne: Isotach (Leaf Label) [08-18] - jazz
  • Tim Bowness: Lost in the Ghost Light (Inside Out Music) [02-17]
  • Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano: Everything (Erased Tapes) [04-25] - modern classical
  • Danielle Bradbery: I Don't Believe We've Met (Big Machine) [12-01] - country
  • Brainwaltzera: Poly-Ana (FILM) [09-29] - IDM
  • Cory Branan: Adios (Bloodshot) [04-07] - Americana
  • Michelle Branch: Hopeless Romantic (Verve) [04-07] - alt/indie
  • Brand X: But Wait . . . There's More!/Live (self-released) - jazz
  • Brandon Can't Dance: Graveyard of Good Times (Lucky Number) [01-13] - alt/indie
  • Daniel Brandt: Eternal Something (Erased Tapes) [03-24]
  • Helmut Brandt Orchestra: Spree Coast Jazz (Sonorama) [06-16] - jazz
  • Anthony Braxton: Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo) [10-12] - jazz
  • Tamar Braxton: Bluebird of Happiness (Tamartianland) [09-29] - r&b
  • Breakfast Muff: Eurgh! (Amour Foo) [07-07]
  • Goran Bregovic: Three Letters From Sarajevo (Universal) [10-06]
  • Bridal Shower: Negatives (Glasseater) [06-09]
  • Kati Briens Dream Band: Happy Music (self-released) [03-15] - jazz
  • British Sea Power: Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (Golden Chariot/Caroline) [03-31] - indie rock
  • Brix & the Extricated: Part 2 (Blang) [09-22] - post-punk
  • Alan Broadbent With the London Metropolitan Orchestra: Developing Story (Eden River) [06-30] - jazz
  • Broadside: Paradise (Victory) [06-16] - pop punk
  • Broken English Club: The English Beach (LIES) [08-18] - electronic
  • Broken Social Scene: Hug of Thunder (City Slang) [07-07] - indie rock
  • Vilhelm Bromanders Initiativ: Allt at Alla (Signal and Sound) - jazz
  • The Bronx: V (ATO) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Brooklyn Raga Massive: Terry Riley in C (Northern Spy) [10-06] - world
  • JC Brooks: The Neon Jungle (Rock Ridge Music) [04-07] - r&b
  • Brooks Prumo Orchestra: Pass the Bounce (self-released) [12-12] - jazz
  • Brot & Sterne: Tales of Herbst (Traumton) [03-03] - jazz
  • Apollo Brown & Planet Asia: Anchovies (Mello Music Group) [08-25] - hip-hop
  • Carlinhos Brown: Semelhantes (Candyall Music) [11-24] - pop
  • Chastity Brown: Silhouette of Sirens (Red House) [05-19]
  • Harriet Brown: Contact (Innovation Leisure) [04-21]
  • Zac Brown Band: Welcome Home (Elektra) [05-12] - country
  • Luke Bryan: What Makes You Country (Capitol) [12-08] - country
  • BTS: Loe Yourself - Her (Bit Hit -EP) [09-18] - K-pop
  • Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie: Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie (Atlantic) [06-09]
  • The Bug vs Earth: Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune) [03-24] - electronic
  • Jake Bugg: Hearts That Strain (EMI) [09-01] - alt/indie
  • Enrique Bunbury: Expectativas (Warner Music Spain) [10-20] - pop
  • Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2: Star Stuff (Company) [03-31] - psychedelic pop
  • Anna Burch: Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl) [02-02] - alt/indie
  • Molly Burch: Please Be Mind (Captured Tracks) [02-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Isabelle Burrows/Greg Campbell/Vinny Golia/Clyde Reed: Tales From the Zoo (Third Rail) [11-24] - jazz
  • Kate Bush: Before the Dawn () [12-02] - art pop
  • Business of Dreams: Business of Dreams (Parked in Hell) [02-02] - indie pop
  • John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Last Dream of the Morning (Relative Pitch) [08-04] - jazz
  • The Buttertones: Gravedigging (Innovative Leisure) [03-31] - surf rock
  • Buzz Kill: Chrome (Burning Rose)
  • Cabbage: Young Dumb and Full of . . . (Skeleton Key) [01-06]
  • Cable Ties: Cable Ties (Poison City) [05-26] - indie rock
  • Caddywhompus: Odd Hours (Inflated) [04-14] - alt/indie
  • The Cadillac Three: Legacy (Big Machine) [08-25] - country
  • Cafe Tacuba: Jei Beibi (Melotron) [05-05] - art rock
  • Sera Cahoone: From Where I Started (Lady Muleskinner) [03-24] - singer-songwriter
  • The Cairo Gang: Untouchable (Drag City) [03-24]
  • Calibre: Grow (The Nothing Special -16) [12-23-2016] - electronic
  • Calico the Band: Under Blue Skies (California Country) [09-15]
  • Caligula's Horse: In Contact (InsideOut) [09-15] - metal
  • Kirin J Callinan: Bravado (EMI) [06-09] - alt/indie
  • Alex Cameron: Forced Witness (Secretly Canadian) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • Camille: Oui (Balulalo) [06-02] - jazz
  • Michel Camilo: Live in London (Redondo Music) [11-16] - jazz
  • Camp Howard: Juice EP (EggHunt -EP) [05-12] - alt/indie
  • Wednesday Campanella: Superman (Atlantic) [02-08] - J-pop
  • Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams: Contraband Love (Red House) [09-15] - country
  • Chantae Cann: Sol Empowered (Atlanta) [10-13] - jazz
  • Laura Cannell: Hunter Huntress Hawker (Brawl) [10-20] - folk
  • Gerald Cannon: Combinations (Woodneck) - jazz
  • Lou Canon: Suspicious (Paper Bag) [04-07]
  • Can't Swim: Fail You Again (Pure Noise) [03-10] - alt rock
  • Cantica Symphonia/La Compagnia Del Madrigale/Giuseppe Maletto/Ensemble La Pifarescha: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine (Glossa) [04-14] - classical
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: On the Echoing Green (Mexican Summer) [06-16] - shoegaze
  • Canzoniere Grecanico Saleltino: Canzioniere (Ponderosa) [10-13] -
  • Caracara: Summer Megalith (Flower Girl) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Carate Urio Orchestra: Garlic & Jazz (Klein) - jazz
  • The Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time Stage Two (History Always Favors the Winners) [09-22]
  • Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares (Red Piano) - jazz
  • Linda Carone: Black Moonlight (self-released)
  • Martin Carr: New Shapes of Life (Tapete) [10-27]
  • Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes: Modern Ruin (International Death Cult) [01-27] - alternative rock
  • Kent Carter/Sylvain Guerineau: Couleur De L'Exit (Improvising Beings) [05-05] - jazz
  • Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band: Big Machine (Topic) [02-03]
  • Casper Skulls: Mercy Works (Buzz) [11-03] - alt/indie
  • Cast: Kicking Up the Dust (Cast Music)
  • Cavernlight: As We Cup Our Hands and Drink From the Stream of Our Ache (Gilead)
  • Cayetana: New Kind of Normal (Plum) [05-05]
  • Shanti Celeste: Untitled (Peach Discs -EP) [02-03]
  • Cende: #1 Hit Single (Double Double Whammy) [05-26] - alt/indie
  • Nick Cester: Sugar Rush (Sester) [11-03]
  • The Chain Gang of 1974: Felt (Caroline) [06-23]
  • The Chainsmokers: Memories . . . Do Not Open (Disruptor/Columbia) [04-07] - electropop
  • A Chal: On Gaz () [06-01]
  • Kasey Chambers: Dragonfly (Sugar Hill) [01-20] - country
  • Chance the Rapper and Jeremih: Merry Christmas Lil' Mama: Re-Wrapped (self-released) [12-22] - hip-hop
  • Michael Chapman: 50 (Paradise of Bachelors) [01-20] - folk
  • The Charlatans [UK]: Different Days (BMG) [05-26]
  • Charlotte OC: Careless People (Sony) [03-31] - pop
  • Yves Charuest/Agusti Fernandez/Nicolas Caloia/Peter Valsamis: Stir (Tour de Bras) [05-30] - jazz
  • Cheap Trick: We're All Alright! (Big Machine) [06-16] - power pop
  • Cody Chesnutt: My Love Divine Degree (One Little Indian) [06-02] - r&b
  • Cyrus Chestnut: There's a Sweet Sweet Spirit (HighNote) - jazz
  • Childhood: Universal High (Marathon Artists) [07-21]
  • Children of Alice: Children of Alice (Warp) [02-24] - pop/rock
  • Chloe x Halle: The Two of Us (Parkwood/Columbia) [03-16] - r&b
  • Chmmr: Auto (Full Pupp) [04-28] - dance/electronic
  • Choker: Peak (673303 DK) [05-10] - pop
  • Chopstars x Barry Jenkins: Purple Moonlight (self-released) [02-24]
  • Chronic Tone: Green in Blue (self-released) - hip-hop
  • Stef Chura: Messes (Urinal Cake) [01-27]
  • Neil Cicierega: Mouth Moods (self-released) [01-23] - mashup
  • Cilantro [Angelica Castelio/Billy Roisz]: Borderland (Mikroton) - jazz
  • Cinema Cinema: Man Bites Dog (Labelship) [04-28] - expermental rock
  • Circa Waves: Different Creatures (Virgin/EMI) [03-10] - indie rock
  • Circle: Terminal (Southern Lord) [06-23] - metal
  • Circuit Des Yeux: Reaching for Indigo (Drag City) [10-20] - art pop
  • Albert Cirera/Luis Lopes/Hernani Faustino/Vasco Furtado: Temple of Doom (Discordian) - jazz
  • Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors: Suite Salada (Underpool) [01-17] - jazz
  • Citizen: As You Please (Run for Cover) [10-06] - alt/indie
  • Citris: Panic in Hampton Boys (self-released) [02-24] - rock
  • Clams Casino: Instrumental 4 (self-released) [06-26] - mixtape
  • Clap! Clap!: A Thousand Skies (Black Acre) [02-17] - UK bass
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Tourist (Undertow) [02-24] - indie rock
  • Clark: Death Peak (Warp) [04-07] - IDM
  • Dave Clarke: The Desecration of Desire (Slant) [10-27]
  • Gary Clark Jr: Live North America 2016 (Warner Bros) [03-17] - blues
  • Kelly Clarkson: Meaning of Life (Atlantic) [10-27]
  • Slaid Cleaves: Ghost of the Car Radio (Candy House Media) [06-23] - folk
  • Benjamin Clementine: I Tell a Fly (Behind/Virgin EMI) [09-29] - experimental pop
  • Climax Landers: Climax Landers (Intellectual Bird)
  • Cloak: To Venomous Depths (Season of Mist) [11-10] - metal
  • Cloakroom: Time Well (Relapse) [08-18] - metal
  • Jen Cloher: Jen Cloher (Milk!) [08-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Cloudface: Variations (Opal Tapes)
  • Clustersun: Surfacing to Breathe (Seahorse) [05-19] - post-punk
  • Brent Cobb: Shine On Rainy Day (Elektra) [10-07] - country
  • Bruce Cockburn: Bone on Bone (True North) [09-15] - folk
  • Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales: Room 29 (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-17] - chamber pop
  • Code Orange: Forever (Roadrunner) [01-13] - metalcore
  • Tal Cohen: Gentle Giants (Inner Circle) [04-27] - jazz
  • Cold Specks: Fool's Paradise (Arts & Crafts) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Coldcut/On-U Sound System: Outside the Echo Chamber (Ninja Tune) [05-19]
  • Maya Jane Coles: Take Flight (I/AM/ME) [08-25] - electronic
  • Colleen: A Flame My Love a Frequency (Thrill Jockey) [10-26]
  • George Colligan: More Powerful (Whirlwind) [06-30] - jazz
  • Kweku Collins: Grey (Closed Sessions) [04-28]
  • Colorama: Some Things Just Take Time (Wonderful Sound) [09-01]
  • Jessi Colter: The Psalms (Legacy) [03-24] - country
  • Andrew Combs: Canyons of My Mind (New West) [04-07]
  • Luke Combs: This One's for You (River House/Columbia Nashville) [06-02] - country
  • The Comet Is Coming: Death to the Planet (Leaf Label) [04-22] - nu jazz
  • Common Quartet: The Hive (Stop Time) - jazz
  • Communions: Blue (Fat Possum) [02-03] - indie rock
  • The Como Mamas: Move Upstairs (Daptone) [05-19] - gospel
  • Conduct: Oma (Blu Mar Ten Music) [10-13] - electronic
  • Conformity Contortion [Sara Lund/Thollem Electric]: Perception Management (Personal Archives)
  • Ags Connolly: Nothin' Unexpected (At the Helm) [02-10] -
  • Pedra Contida: Amethyst (FMR) - jazz
  • Converge: The Dusk in Us (Epitaph) [11-03] - metalcore
  • Converge: Jane Live (Converge Cult) [03-03] - metal
  • Bill Converse: The Shape of Things to Come (Dark Entries)
  • Braxton Cook: Somewhere in Between (Fresh Selects) [04-13] - r&b
  • Cool Americans: Infinite Hiatus (Topshelf) [06-02]
  • Jack Cooper: Sandgrown (Trouble in Mind) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Max Cooper: Chromos () [05-26]
  • Mike Cooper: Raft (Room40) [07-07] - ambient
  • Julian Cope: Drunken Songs (Head Heritage) [02-03] - singer-songwriter
  • Corbin: Mourn (Wedidit Collective) [09-05] - contemporary r&b
  • Ani Cordero: Querido Mundo (self-released) [02-21] - Latin
  • Chick Corea: The Musician (Stretch/Concord 3CD) [04-21] - jazz
  • Billy Corgan: Ogilala (BMG) [10-13] - folk
  • Cornelius: Mellow Waves (Rostrum) [07-21]
  • Viv Corringham/Stephen Flinn/Miguel Frasconi: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (Creative Sources) [05-00] - jazz
  • The Corrs: Jupiter Calling (East West) [11-10] - pop
  • Alessandro Cortini: Avanti (The Point of Departure) [10-06]
  • Cosmic Analog Ensemble: Les Sourdes Oreilles (My Bags) [07-14] - funk
  • Roxy Coss: Chasing the Unicorn (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Mathew Lee Cothran: Judas Hung Himself in America (Joy Void) [02-24]
  • Counterfeit: Together We Are Stronger (Xtra Mile) [03-17]
  • Counterparts: You're Not You Anymore (Pure Noise) [09-22] - metal
  • The Country Side of Harmonica Sam: A Drink After Midnight (El Toro) [05-05] - country
  • Ross Couper & Tom Oakes: Fiddle & Guitar (Haystack) [05-12]
  • Francois Couturier/Tarkovsky Quartet: Nuit Blanche (ECM) [04-07] - jazz
  • Coupler: Gifts From the Ebb Tide (self-released) [11-17]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Crop Circles (Relative Pitch) [01-26] - jazz
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: Grafts (Boomkat Editions) [05-05]
  • The Cowboy: The Cowboy Album (Fashionable Idiots) [07-30]
  • Cowboy Rhythmbox: Tanz Exotique (Phantasy Sound) [08-18]
  • Damian Cowell's Disco Machine: Get Yet Dag On! () [02-18]
  • Patrick Cowley: Afternooners (Dark Entries) [10-19] - electronic
  • Craven Faults: Netherfield Works (Lowfold Works) [11-10] - ambient
  • Robert Cray/Hi Rhythm: Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm (Jay-Vee) [04-28] - blues
  • Creeper: Eternity in Your Arms (Roadrunner) [03-24] - pop/punk
  • Crescent: Resin Pockets (Geographic) [05-26] - alt/indie
  • The Cribs: 24-7 Rock Star Shit (Sonic Blew) [08-11] - rock
  • Criolo: Espiral De Ilusao (Oloko) [04-28] - samba
  • AJ Croce: Just Like Medicine (Compass) [08-11] -
  • Charley Crockett: Lil GL's Honky Tonk Jubilee (Son of Davy) [09-08] - country
  • Crooked Bangs: II (Nervous Intent) [04-21] - post-punk
  • Sheryl Crow: Be Myself (Warner Bros) [04-21] - pop rock
  • Adrian Crowley: Dark Eyed Messenger (Chemikal Underground) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • Crown Larks: Population (Already Dead)
  • Crystal Fairy: Chrystal Fairy (Ipecac) [02-24] - alt rock
  • Alex Cuba: Lo Unico Constante (Caracol/Fontana North) [04-07] - Latin
  • Culture Shock: Culture Shock ()
  • Denzel Curry: Imperial (Loma Vista) [03-09] - hip-hop
  • Curse of Lono: Severed (Submarine Cat) [04-07]
  • Cut Copy: Haiku From Zero (Capitol) [09-22] - electronic
  • CyHi the Prynce: No Dope on Sundays (Brooklyn Knights) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Joao Paulo Esteves Da Silva/Mario Franco/Samuel Rohrer: Brightbird (Arjunamusic) [11-17] - jazz
  • Etienne Daho: Blitz (Mercury) [11-17] - pop rock
  • Carla Dal Forno: The Garden (Blackest Ever Black -EP) [10-06]
  • Luca D'Alberto: Endless (7K!) [06-02]
  • Dalek: Endangered Philosophies (Ipecac) [09-01] - hip-hop
  • Dams of the West: Youngish American ()
  • Damso: Ipseite (92I) [04-28] - trap rap
  • Lars Danielsson: Libretto III (ACT) [05-26] - jazz
  • Danish String Quartet: Last Leaf (Deutsche Grammophon) [09-22] - classical
  • Jeremy Danneman & Sophie Nzayisenga: Honey Wine (Ropeadope) [03-10] - jazz
  • Daphni: Joli Mai (Jiaolang) [10-06] -
  • Tim Darcy: Saturday Night (Jagjaguwar) [02-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Darkhouse Family: The Offering (First Word) [11-24] - jazz
  • The Date Brothers With Bob Barnard and Jonathan Zwartz: Just My Luck (self-released) [02-01] - jazz
  • Dauwd: Theory of Colours (Technicolour) [06-02]
  • Dasher: Sodium (Jagjaguwar) [07-14] - alt/indie
  • Sarah Davachi: All My Circles Run (Students of Decay) [03-10]
  • Dave: Game Over (Dove) [11-03] - British hip-hop
  • Moot Davis: Hierarchy of Crows (Wilburn) [07-21] - country
  • Ray Davies: Americana (Legacy) [04-21] - pop/rock
  • Myra Davies: Sirens ()
  • Al Davila: El Futuro () [05-05]
  • Michael Davis: Hip-Bone Big Band (Hip-Bone Music) [08-05] - jazz
  • Steve Davis: Think Ahead (Smoke Sessions) - jazz
  • Dawn Ray'd: The Unlawful Assembly (Halo of Flies) [10-02] - black metal
  • Daxz: Being Alone Isn't Bad ()
  • Day Wave: The Days We Had (Harvest)
  • DB1: Zwischenwelt (Hidden Hawaii) [06-30] - abstract
  • Angelo De Augustine: Swim Inside the Moon (Asthmatic Kitty) [08-19]
  • De Beren Gieren: Dug Out Skyscrapers (Sdban Ultra) [09-29] - jazz
  • Mark de Clive-Lowe: Live at the Blue Whale (Ropeadope) [02-17] - jazz
  • Joey DeFrancesco + the People: Project Freedom (Mack Avenue) [03-10] - jazz
  • Dead Man Winter: Furnace (Gndwire) [01-27] -
  • Deadspace: The Liquid Sky (663799) [11-12] - metal
  • Deafcult: Auras (Hobbledehoy) [06-30] - alt/indie
  • Deadmau5: Stuff I Used to Do ()
  • Deadwall: The Zero Cliff (Hatch) [03-24]
  • Deaf Havana: All These Countless Nights (SO/Silva Screen) [01-27] - alt rock
  • Deaf Kids: Configuracao do Lamento (Neurot) [10-06]
  • The Dears: Times Infinity Volume Two (Dangerbird) [07-14] - indie pop
  • Michael Dease: All These Hands (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Death From Above: Outrage! Is Now (Warner Bros) [09-08] - hard rock
  • Death of Lovers: The Acrobat (Dais)
  • Jessie James Decker: Southern Girl City Lights (Epic) [10-13] - country
  • Deep State: Thought Garden (Friendship Fever) [04-14]
  • Deep Throat Choir: Be OK (Bella Union) [02-17]
  • Deerhoof: Mountains Move (Joyful Noise) [09-08] - art rock
  • Del Bel: III (Missed Connection) [04-07]
  • Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society: Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society (Six Degrees) [02-10] - electronic
  • Delicate Steve: This Is Steve (Anti-) [01-27] - alt/indie
  • Mac DeMarco: This Old Dog (Captured Tracks) [05-05] - singer-songwriter
  • Demen: Nektyr (Kranky) [05-19] - ambient pop
  • Depeche Mode: Spirit (Columbia) [03-17] - synthpop
  • Desperate Journalist: Grow Up (Fierce Panda) [03-24] - post-punk
  • Destroyer: Ken (Merge) [10-20] - baroque pop
  • Diagrams: Dorothy (Bookshop) [05-12]
  • The Dials: That Was the Future (self-released) [10-13]
  • Casey Dienel: Imitation of a Woman to Love (self-released) [05-18]
  • Differ-Ent: It's Good to Be Differ-Ent (Don't Be Afraid) [02-03]
  • Ani DiFranco: Binary (Righteous Babe) [06-09] - folk
  • Honey Dijon: The Best of Both Worlds (Classic Music) [10-13] - electronic
  • Aaron Dilloway: The Gag File (Dais) [04-28] - electronic
  • Dinner: New Work (Captured Tracks) [09-08]
  • Dirty Songs: Play Dirty Songs (Audika) [10-20] - electronic
  • Disperse: Foreword (Seasons of Mist) [02-24] -
  • Brandi Disterheft: Blue Canvas (Justin Time) [05-27] - jazz
  • The Districts: Popular Manipulations (Fat Possum) [08-11] - alt/indie
  • Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things 2 [A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack] (Lakeshore) [12-15]
  • DJ Escrow: Universal Soulja Vol 1 (Hyperdub) [06-22] - electronic
  • DJ Format & Abdominal: Still Hungry ()
  • DJ Khaled: Grateful (Epic) [06-23] - hip-hop
  • DJ Lycox: Sonhos & Pesadelos (Principe) - techno
  • DJ Manny: Greenlight (Teklife) [10-06] - juke
  • DJ Meatman: God in Three Trax (self-released) [03-19]
  • DJ Python: Dulce Compania (Incienso) [09-25] - electronic
  • DJ Quik & Problem: Rosecrans (Diamond Lane) [04-20] - hip-hop
  • DJ Sports: Modern Species (Firecracker) [06-13]
  • Do Make Say Think: Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation) [05-19] - post-punk
  • Dodecahedron: Kwintessens (Season of Mist) [03-17] - metal
  • Snoop Dogg: Neva Left (Doggystyle/Empire) [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Dois: Esta Bien (Discos de Kirlian/Orphan) [01-16] - twee pop
  • Dominic Waxing Lyrical: Rural Tonic (Tenement) [04-21]
  • Chano Dominguez: Over the Rainbow (Sunnyside) [02-24] - Latin
  • The Dopamines: Tales of Interest ()
  • Dope Knife: NineteenEightyFour (Strange Famous) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Dopelord: Children of the Haze (Heavy Metal Vomit Party/Green Plague) [01-16] - doom metal
  • Dopplereffekt: Cellular Automata (Leisure System) [04-07]
  • Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers: Top of the Mountain (Crew)
  • The Dorf: Lux (Umland) - jazz
  • Marcelo Dos Reis: Cascas (Cipsela) - jazz
  • Marcelo Dos Reis & Eve Risser: Timeless (JACC) - jazz
  • Charlotte Dos Santos: Cleo (Fresh Selects) [06-21] - neo-soul
  • Rose Elinor Dougall: Stellular (Vermillion) [01-27] - indie pop
  • Jerry Douglas Band: What If (Universal) [08-18] - jazz
  • Tica Douglas: Our Lady Star of the Sea Help and Protect Us (Team Love) [05-05]
  • Gord Downie: Introduce Yerself (Arts & Crafts) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • Lila Downs: Salon Lagrimas Y Deseo (Sony Mexico) [05-26]
  • Drab Majesty: The Demonstration (Dais) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • DragonForce: Reaching Into Infinity (Metal Blade) [05-19]
  • Drakeo the Ruler: So Cold I Do Em (Stinc Team) [01-08] - hip-hop
  • Paul Draper: Spooky Action (Kscope)
  • The Dream Syndicate: How Did I Find Myself Here? (Anti-) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • Benedict Drew: Crawling Through Tory Slime (Mana)
  • Toby Driver: Madonnawhore (The Flenser) [04-21] - art rock
  • Dropkick Murphys: 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory (Born & Bred) [01-06] - punk rock
  • The Drums: Abysmal Thoughts (Anti-) [06-16] - indie pop
  • Duds: Of a Nature or Degree (Castle Face) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • The Duke Spirit: Sky Is Mine (Ex Voto) [08-18]
  • Jacob Duncan: The Busker (Calvin Cycle Collective) - jazz
  • Dune Rats: The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit (Dine Alone) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • Dungen: Haxan (Versions by Prins Thomas) (Smalltown Supersound) [08-25] - alt/indie rock
  • Izzy Dunn: Recycle Love (Idunnit Music) [06-23] - r&b
  • Duot & Andy Moor: Food (Repetidor) - jazz
  • The Du-Rites: Greasy Listening (self-released) [09-19]
  • Baxter Dury: Prince of Tears (Heavenly) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • The Dustbowl Revival: The Dustbowl Revival (Signature Sounds) [06-16]
  • Dutch Uncles: Big Balloon (Memphis Industries) [02-17] - art pop
  • Isabelle Duthoit/Franz Hautzinger: Lily (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Dvsn: Morning After (OVO Sound/Warner Bros) [10-13] - r&b
  • Dying Fetus: Wrong One to Fuck With (Relapse) [06-23] - metal
  • Earthen Sea: An Act of Love (Kranky) [02-17] - dub techno
  • Ease: Klaus Filip/Noid - No No No No (Mikroton) - jazz
  • Eat Fast: Immortal Kombat (Cannibal Hymns -EP) [05-19]
  • Echobelly: Anarchy & Alchemy (self-released)
  • Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox (L&H Production) [01-20] - jazz
  • Eddie the Wheel: Leave Behind (Vibe/Anti-Vibe) [10-14] - indie rock
  • Edgelarks: Edgelarks (Dragonfly)
  • David "Honeyboy" Edwards|I'm Gonna Tell You Somethin' That I Know: Live at the G Spot: Pro Sho Bidness (07-26) [B|blues]
  • John Edwards/Mark Sanders/John Wall: FGBH (Entr'acte) - jazz
  • Egyptrixx: Pure Beyond Reproach (Halocline Trance) [02-03] - UK bass
  • Eight Rounds Rapid: Objet D'Art (Cadiz)
  • Mauricio Einhorn: Viva Mauricio Einhorn (Sonora 2CD) [05-19]
  • Henrique Eisenmann: The Free Poetics of Henrique Eisenmann (Red Piano) - jazz
  • Eisley: I'm Only Dreaming (Equal Vision) [02-17]
  • Mark Eitzel: Hey Mr Ferryman (Merge) [01-27] - singer-songwriter
  • El Goodo: By Order of the Moose (Strangetown) [09-08]
  • Hanni El Khatib: Savage Times (Innovative Leisure) [02-17] - garage rock
  • El Michaels Affair: Return to the 37th Chamber (Big Crown) [04-14] - r&b
  • Nadah El Shazly: Ahwar (News) [11-10] - alt/indie
  • Elbow: Little Fictions (Polydor/Concord) [02-03] - art rock
  • Elder: Reflections of a Floating World (Armageddon Shop) [06-02]
  • Brett Eldredge: Bret Eldredge (Atlantic Nashville) [08-04] - country
  • Electric Wizard: Wizard Bloody Wizard (Spinefarm) [11-17] - metal
  • Elizabeth & the Catapult: Keepsake (Compass) [10-20] - folk
  • Elkhorn: The Black River (Debacle) [04-28]
  • James Elkington: Wintres Woma (Paradise of Bachelors) [06-30] - singer-songwriter
  • Katie Ellen: Cowgirl Blues (Lauren) [07-14]
  • Ellipsis: Bulawayo (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Amir ElSaffar/Rivers of Sound: Not Two (New Amsterdam) [06-16] - jazz
  • Karen Elson: Double Roses (HOT) [04-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Eluvium: Shuffle Drones (Temporary Residence -EP) [11-10] - electronic
  • EMI: Planet (self-released) [05-18]
  • Andy Emler: Running Backwards (La Buissonne) - jazz
  • Emmanuel: Rave Culture (ARTS) [09-15] - electronic
  • Employed to Serve: The Warmth of a Dying Sun (Holy Roar) [05-19]
  • Emptyset: Borders (Thrill Jockey) [01-27] - experimental techno
  • End: From the Unforgiving Arms of God (Good Fight Music) [09-08] - metalcore
  • Endless Boogie: Vibe Killer (No/Quarter) [05-19] - blues-rock
  • Endon: Through the Mirror (Daymare) [03-08]
  • Tim Engelhardt: Moments of Truth (Poker Flat) [05-05]
  • Hazel English: Just Give In/Never Going Home (Polyvinyl -EP) [05-12] - alt/indie
  • Lawrence English: Cruel Optimism (Room40) [02-12] - drone
  • Roe Enney: Glare (Root Strata)
  • Marlene Enright: Placemats and Second Cuts (self-released) [03-24] - pop
  • Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes: City Flexure (Irritable Hedgehog)
  • Enslaved: E (Nuclear Blast) [10-15] - metal
  • Enter Shikari: The Spark (PIAS) [09-22] - indie rock
  • Equiknoxx: Colon Man (DDS) [11-24] - electronic
  • Erasure: World Be Gone (Mute) [05-19] - synthpop
  • Errorsmith: Superlative Fatigue (Pan) [10-17] - minimal techno
  • Peter Erskine Trio: In Praise of Shadows (Fuzzy Music) [02-17] - jazz
  • Esmerine: Mechanics of Dominion (Constellation)
  • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir: Korvits: Moorland Elegies (Ondine) [04-21] - classical
  • Everything Everything: A Fever Dream (RCA) [08-18] - indie pop
  • Dmitry Evgrafov: Comprehension of Light (FatCat) [10-06] - modern classical
  • Ex Continent: La Perspectiva Racional (Arnau Sala Saez)
  • Ex Eye: Ex Eye (Relapse) [06-23] - avant-garde metal
  • Exit Order: Seed of Hysteria (La Vida Es Un Mus) [04-09] - punk
  • Exit Someone: Dry Your Eyes (Atelier Ciseaux) [01-17]
  • Exuvia: The Ruins of Beverast (Van) [05-05] - metal
  • Eyelids: Or (Jealous Butcher) [05-05]
  • Eyre Llew: Atelo (self-released) [10-19] - postrock
  • Ezra Collective: Juan Pablo: The Philosopher (Enter the Jungle) [10-06] - jazz
  • Fabel: Fabel (Jaeger Community Music) [06-14] - jazz
  • Fabolous & Jadakiss: Friday on Elm Street (Def Jam) [11-24] - hip-hop
  • Paloma Faith: The Architect (RCA) [11-17] - pop
  • Brent Faiyaz: Sonder Son (Lost Kids) [10-13] - r&b
  • Nathan Fake: Providence (Ninja Tune) [03-10] - microhouse
  • Fall of Rauros: Vigilance Perennial (Nordvis) [03-31]
  • Falling in Reverse: Coming Home (Epitaph) [04-07] - pop-punk
  • Ty Farris & Trox: Room 39 (self-released) [01-30] - hip-hop
  • Fat Joe & Remy Ma: Plata O Plomo (RNG) [02-17] - hip-hop
  • Fazerdaze: Morningside (Flying Nun) [05-05]
  • FB&I Trio: Live in Belgium and France (self-released) - jazz
  • Feature: Banishing Ritual (Upset the Rhythm) [04-07]
  • Feedtime: Gas (In the Red) [03-24]
  • Fekky: El Clasico (Island) [08-04] - hip-hop
  • Fen: Winter (Code666) [03-17] - black metal
  • Alan Ferber Big Band: Jigsaw (Sunnyside) [09-22] - jazz
  • Lance Ferguson: Raw Material (Warner Music Australia) [08-04]
  • Heloisa Fernandes: Faces (self-released) [11-22] - jazz
  • Fever Dream: Squid (Club AC30)
  • Art Feynman: Blast Off Through the Wicker (Western Vinyl) [07-14] - art pop
  • Lupe Fiasco: Drogas Light (1st and 15th) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Fifth Harmony: Fifth Harmony (Epic/Syco) [08-25] - pop
  • Figure Walking: The Big Other (Disintegration) [04-28]
  • Ekin Fil: Ghosts Inside (The Helen Scarsdale Agency) [06-30] - ambient pop
  • Lars Fill: Frit Falt 11 (Fiil) - jazz
  • Fink: Fink's Sunday Night Blues Club Vol 1 ()
  • Neil Finn: Out of Silence (EMI) [09-01] - rock
  • Fire Is Motion: Still I Try (self-released) [11-17] - pop
  • The Firebirds: Aladdin's Dream: The Firebirds Play Carl Nielsen (ILK) - jazz
  • Fire-Toolz: Drip Mental (Hausu Mountain) [02-03] - electro-industrial
  • The Fireworks: Dream About You (Shelflife) [05-05]
  • Fis & Rob Thorne: Clear Stones (Subtext) [05-12] - dark ambient
  • Samantha Fish: Chills & Fever (Ruf) [03-17]
  • Fishbach: A Ta Merci (Enterprise) [01-27] - synthpop
  • Fiuum Sharrkk: We Are Astonishingly Lifelike (Not Applicable) [03-10] - jazz
  • Fiver: Audible Songs From Rockwood (Idee Fixe) [04-21]
  • Fjaak: Fjaak (Monkeytown) [01-20] - electronic
  • Fjort: Couleur (Grand Hotel Van Cleef) [11-17] - rock
  • Flamin' Groovies: Fantastic Plastic (Seven) [09-22] - power pop
  • The Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody (Warner Bros) [01-13] - neo-psychedelia
  • Flat Worms: Flat Worms ()
  • The Flatliners: Inviting Light (Rise) [04-07] - alt rock
  • Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Echo in the Valley (Rounder) - jazz
  • Mike Floss: Tennessee Daydreams (The Iconic Group) [09-15] - hip-hop
  • Flowers Must Die: Kompost (Rocket) [04-28]
  • Flume: Skin Companion EP II ()
  • Flying Horse Big Band: Big Man on Campus (Flying Horse) - jazz
  • Johnny Flynn: Sillion (Transgressive) [03-24] - alt/indie rock
  • Seamus Fogarty: The Curious Hand (Domino) [10-06]
  • Joe Fonda/Jasmine Choi/Harvey Sorgen: Trio Joy (Klopotec) [07-00] - jazz
  • Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold (Roswell) [09-15] - alt rock
  • Sallie Ford: Soul Sick (Vanguard) [02-10] - alt/indie
  • Formation: Look at the Powerful People (Grand Jury) [03-24] - alt dance
  • Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band: Dreaming in the Non-Dream (No Quarter) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Knox Fortune: Paradise (self-released) [09-22] - indie pop
  • Brenton Foster: The Nature of Light (self-released) [05-12] - jazz
  • Chris Foster: Hadelin (Funi) [03-03] - folk
  • Ruthie Foster: Joy Comes Back (Blue Corn) [03-24]
  • Foster the People: Sacred Hearts Club (Columbia) [07-21] - alt/indie
  • Julie Fowlis: Alterum (Machair) [10-27] - folk
  • Ken Fowser: Now Hear This! (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Greg Fox: The Gradual Progression (RVNG Intl) [09-08] - ambient
  • Foxygen: Hang (Jagjaguwar) [01-20] - baroque pop
  • Thomas Franck Quartet: Association: Live at Jazzhus Montmartre (Storyville) - jazz
  • Francois & the Atlas Mountains: Solide Mirage (Domino) [03-03] - pop/rock
  • Juliet Fraser: Morton Feldman: Three Voices (HatArt) [03-24]
  • Free Radicals: Free Radicals (Leo) [06-00] - jazz
  • French Vanilla: French Vanilla (Danger collective) [03-24] - art punk
  • Frequency Vs Atkins: Mind Merge () [03-06] -
  • Leandro Fresco + Rafael Anton Irisarri: La Equidistancia (A Strangely Isolated Place) [04-10]
  • Fresh: Fresh (Specialist Subject) [08-18]
  • Burnt Friedman: The Pestle (Latency) [01-04] - electronic
  • Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi: Yek (Nonplace -EP) [11-02] - downtempo
  • The Frightnrs: More to Say Versions (Daptone) [10-20]
  • The Front Bottoms: Going Grey (Fueled by Ramen) [10-13] - alt/indie
  • Frontier Ruckus: Enter the Kingdom (Loose Music) [02-17] - indie pop
  • Ben Frost: The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute) [09-29] - electronic
  • Froth: Outside (Briefly) (Wichita) [02-10]
  • Fujiya & Miyagi: Fujiya & Miyagi (Impossible Objects of Desire) [04-07]
  • Full of Hell: Trumpeting Ecstasy (Profound Lore) [05-05] - grindcore
  • The Fun Years: Heroes of the Second Story Walk-Up (Spring Break Tape) [03-10]
  • Function: Recompiled I/II (A-TON) [08-25] - techno
  • Nelly Furtado: The Ride (Nelstar) [03-31] - synthpop
  • Jake Xerxes Fussell: What in the Natural World (Paradise of Bachelors) [03-31] - folk
  • Future & Young Thug: Super Slimey (Epic/300/Atlantic) [10-20] - hip-hop
  • Pascal Gaigne: Handia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Quartet) [10-22] - soundtrack
  • Gajek: '17 (Monkeytown) [11-03] - electronic
  • Diamanda Galas: All the Way (Virtual Label) [03-24] - pop/rock
  • Liam Gallagher: As You Were (Warner Bros) [10-06] - alt/indie
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Who Built the Moon? (Sour Mash) [11-24] - alt/indie rock
  • Ron Gallo: Heavy Meta (New West) [02-03] - indie pop
  • Gallops: Bronze Mystic (Blood & Biscuits) [04-21]
  • Gang of Youths: Go Farther in Lightness (Sony) [08-18]
  • Mahmoud Gania: Colours of the Night (Hive Mind) [09-08]
  • Duke Garwood: Garden of Ashes (Heavenly/PIAS) [02-03] - folk
  • Giacomo Gates: What Time Is It? (Savant) - jazz
  • Gateway to Otherwise: Dragon Bus Terminal (Maybe Mars) - rock
  • Gaudi: Magnetic (RareNoise) [06-30] - jazz
  • Charles Gayle/Giovani Barcella/Manolo Cabras: Live in Belgium (El Negocito) - jazz
  • Amerigo Gazaway: A Common Wonder (self-released) [08-08]
  • Amerigo Gazaway: Player's Holiday: A Very Merry Mixtape (self-released) [12-14]
  • Gazelle Twin: Kingdom Come (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) [12-01] - dance
  • Rayna Gellert: Workin's Too Hard (StorySound) [01-20] - country
  • Gene on Earth: Lazybones EP (09-01) [Limousine Dream] - electronic
  • Gentle Brent: Just Dandy (Jigsaw) [03-03] - alt/indie
  • Geotic: Abysma (Ghostly International) [03-31] - electronic
  • Ghostemane: Hexada (self-released) [09-05] - hip-hop
  • Giant Claw: Soft Channel (Orange Milk) [09-08] - electronic
  • A Giant Dog: Toy (Merge) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Polly Gibbons: Is It Me . . . ? (Resonance) - jazz
  • Philip Gibbs: Infinite Spirit Perfect Now (Environmental Studies) - jazz
  • Giggs: Wamp 2 Dem (Universal) [10-06] - trap music
  • Brantley Gilbert: The Devil Don't Sleep (Big Machine) [01-27] - country
  • Behn Gillece: Walk of Fire (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Thea Gilmore: The Counterweight (Cooking Vinyl) [06-02]
  • David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii (Columbia) [09-29] - prog rock
  • Gingerlys: Gingerlys (Topshelf) [11-17]
  • Giraffage: Too Real (Counter) [10-20] - electronic
  • Girl Ray: Earl Grey (Moshi Moshi) [08-04] - pop/rock
  • D Glare: 4 Oscillators & 130 Samples at 130bpm (Opal Tapes) - electronic
  • Glassjaw: Material Control (Century media) [12-01] - post-hardcore
  • Cherry Glazerr: Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian) [01-20] - indie rock
  • Yair Elazar Glotman: Compound (Subtext) [10-08] - experimental
  • Gwyneth Glyn: Tro (Bendigedig) [09-29] - rock
  • Gnarwhal: Crucial (Exploding in Sound)
  • Gnarwolves: Outsiders (Big Scary Monsters/Tangled Talk) [05-05] - rock
  • Gnod: Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine (Rocket) [03-31] - noise rock
  • Gnoomes: Tschak! (Rocket) [03-10] - psychedelic rock
  • Joe Goddard: Electric Lines (Greco-Roman/Domino) [04-21] - electronic
  • Godflesh: Post Self (Avalanche) [11-17] - metal
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Luciferian Towers (Constellation) [09-22] - post-rock
  • Gold Class: Drum (Felte) [08-18]
  • Lori Goldston: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Substrata) - jazz
  • Golden Teacher: No Luscious Life (self-released) [11-03] - dancehall
  • Goldie: The Journey Man (Metalheadz) [06-16] - electronic
  • Delia Gonzalez: Horse Follows Darkness (DFA) [05-05] - synthwave
  • Wesley Gonzalez: Excellent Musician (Moshi Moshi) [06-30] - alt/indie
  • Gordi: Reservoir (Jagjaguwar) [08-25] - indie pop
  • Mike Gordon: Ogogo (ATO) [09-15] - rock
  • Gorillaz: Humanz (Parlophone) [04-28] - electropop
  • Gosheven: Leaper (Opal Tapes) [05-05]
  • Gospelbeach: Another Summer of Love (Alive Naturalsound) [06-16] - pop
  • Gothic Tropic: Fast or Feast (Old Flame) [05-19]
  • Gov't Mule: Revolution Come . . . Revolution Go (Concord) [06-09] - southern rock
  • Grace Sings Sludge: Life With Dick (Empty Cellar) [06-02] - alt/indie
  • Gracie and Rachel: Gracie and Rachel (self-released) [06-23] - alt/indie
  • Grails: Chalice Hymnal (Temporary Residence) [02-17] - psychedelic rock
  • Grand River: Crescente (Spazio Disponibile) [10-09] - techno
  • Grandbrothers: Open (City Slang) [10-20] - electronic
  • The Granite Shore: Suspended Second (Occulation/Fishrider) [10-13]
  • Grave Pleasures: Motherblood (Century Media)
  • Gravetemple: Impassable Fears (Svart)
  • Grayscale: Adornment (Fearless) [05-05] - pop punk
  • Great Grandpa: Plastic Cough (Double Double Whammy) [07-07]
  • Great Ytene: Locus (Faux Disco) [02-17] - post-punk
  • The Green Kingdom: The North Wind and the Sun (Lost Tribe Sound) [08-04] - ambient
  • Burton Greene: Compendium (Improvising Beings) [05-02] - jazz
  • Jacques Greene: Feel Infinite (Lucky Me) [03-10] - future garage
  • Greet Death: Dixieland (Flesh and Bone) [07-07]
  • Earl Grey: Headwinds (Inperspective) [07-21]
  • H Grimace: Self Architect ()
  • Alexander Grimal/Benjuamin Duboc/Valentin Ceccaldi: Bambu (Ayler) - jazz
  • Grizzly Bear: Painted Ruins (RCA) [08-18] - art rock
  • Philipp Gropper's Philm: Sun Ship (WhyPlayJazz) - jazz
  • David Grubbs: Creep Mission (self-released) - jazz
  • Ethan Gruska: Slomotionary (Sire) [03-03] - alt/indie
  • Guerilla Toss: GT Ultra (DFA) [06-23] - alt/indie
  • Guided by Voices: August by Cake (GBV) [04-07] - indie rock
  • Guided by Voices: How Do You Spell Heaven (GBV) [08-11] - indie rock
  • Gun Outfit: Out of Range (Paradise of Bachelors) [11-10]
  • Barry Guy/Maya Homburger/Zlatko Kaucic: Without Borders (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Alejandra Guzman/Gloria Trevi: Versus (Universal) [06-23] - Latin
  • Karen Gwyer: Rembo (Don't Be Afraid) [07-21]
  • Ha Ha Tonka: Heart Shaped Mountain (Bloodshot) [03-10] - rock
  • Tim Hagans: Faces Under the Influence: A Tribute to John Cassavetes (Waiting Moon) - jazz
  • Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton: Fatal Gift (Last Gang) [09-15] - pop/rock
  • Nick Hakim: Green Twins (ATO) [05-19] - indie pop
  • Half Cleveland: Live @ the Wi-Fi Cafe (self-released) - rock
  • Half Japanese: Hear the Lions Roar (Fire) [01-13] - indie rock
  • Half Waif: Form/A (Cascine) [02-24] - art pop
  • Ann Hallenberg/Il Pomo D'Oro: Carnevale 1729 (Pentatone) [06-16] - classical
  • Mary Halvorson: Paimon: The Book of Angels Volume 32 (Tzadik) [10-00] - jazz
  • Tigran Hamasyan: An Ancient Observer (Nonesuch) [03-24] - jazz
  • Yasmine Hamdan: Al Jamilat (Ipecac) [03-17]
  • Marc-Andre Hamelin: For Bunita Marcus (Hyperion) [08-00]
  • Coco Hames: Coco Hames (Merge) [03-31] - Americana
  • Armand Hammer: Rome (Blackwoodz Studioz) [11-03] - hip-hop
  • Tardo Hammer: Swinging on a Star (Cellar Live) [07-00] - jazz
  • Ross Hammond: Acoustic Sanctuary Project: Under the Sawtooth Oak (self-released) [07-21] - jazz
  • Ross Hammond: Follow Your Heart (Prescott) [02-17] - acoustic blues
  • Hampshire & Foat: Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (Athens of the North) [05-26] - jazz
  • Hamza: 1994 (Just Woke Up) [10-27] - alt r&b
  • Alex Han: Spirit (3 Deuces) [05-19] - jazz
  • Hand Habits: Wildly Idle (Woodsist) [02-10]
  • Hang Em High: Tres Testosterones (Gig Ant/Boomslang) [04-22] - jazz
  • Happy Hollows: Concordia (self-released) [09-08]
  • Happyness: Write In (Bar None) [04-07] - pop rock
  • Haram: When You Have Won You Have Lost (self-released) [10-19] - punk
  • Curtis Harding: Face Your Fear (Anti-) [10-27] - r&b
  • Tom Harrell: Moving Picture (HighNote) [08-25] - jazz
  • Jack Harris: The Wide Afternoon (Rootbeat) [01-20]
  • Daniel Hart: A Ghost Story [Original Soundtrack] (Milan) [07-07] - soundtrack
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Stephen Hartke: The Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon (BMOP/sound) [02-28] - classical
  • Andrew Hartman: Compass (self-released) - jazz
  • Mick Harvey: Intoxicated Women (Mute)
  • Hater: You Tried (PNKSLM) [03-10] - alt/indie
  • Juliana Hatfield: Pussycat (American Laundromat) [04-28] - indie rock
  • Hauschka: What If (Temporary Residence) [03-31] - electronic
  • Have Mercy: Make the Best of It (Hopeless) [04-21] - alt/indie
  • Sinjin Hawke: First Opus (Fractal Fantasy) [05-10] - bass music
  • Walker Hayes: Boom (Monument) [12-08] - country
  • Darren Hayman: Thankful Villages Vol 2 (Rivertones)
  • Hazelrigg Brothers: Songs We Like (self-released) [09-12] - jazz
  • Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: Adios Senor Pussycat (Violette) [10-20] - indie rock
  • Headland: True Flowers From This Painted World (Headland) [06-07] - post-rock
  • Headroom: Head in the Clouds (Trouble in Mind) [10-20] - psychedelic rock
  • Willie J Healey: People & Their Dogs (National Anthem/Columbia) [08-18] - pop
  • Heart Attack Man: The Manson Family (You Did This/Triple Crown) [03-03]
  • Heaven in Her Arms: White Halo (Daymare) [05-24] - rock
  • Hegge: Vi Ar Ledsna Men Du Far Inte Langre Vara Barn (Particular) [09-25]
  • The Heliocentrics: The Sunshine Makers [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Soundway) [06-30] - jazz
  • The Heliosonic Tone-Tette: Heliosonic Toneways Vol 1 (ScienSonic Laboratories) - jazz
  • Helium: Ends With And (Matador) [05-19]
  • Hellbound Glory: Pinball (Black Country Rock) [10-13] - alt/indie
  • Hello Skinny: Watermelon Sun (Brownswood) [11-24] - jazz
  • Nick Hempton Trio: Stonk Live (Smalls Live) - jazz
  • Joe Henry: Thrum (Sheer Sound) [10-27] - folk
  • HER: HER (Island) [10-20] - r&b
  • G Herbo: Humble Beast (Machine Entertainment Group) [09-22] - hip-hop
  • Hercules and Love Affair: Omnion ()
  • Here Lies Man: Here Lies Man (Riding Easy) [04-07]
  • Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas: Telephone (Instant) [06-23]
  • The Hernies: If You Can't Think Then You Cannot Be Afraid of the Consequences of Your Actions (Orange Twin) [04-07] - rock
  • Her's: Songs of Her's (Heist or Hit) [05-12]
  • Daniel Herskedal: The Roc (Edition) [02-24] - jazz
  • Hey Colossus: The Guillotine (Rocket) [06-02]
  • Hey Violet: From the Outside (Hi or Hey/Capitol/Caroline) [06-16] - pop rock
  • Hiccup: Imaginary Enemies (Father/Daughter) [03-24]
  • Hieroglyphic Being/Sarathy Korwar/Shabaka Hutchings: ARE Project (Technicolour) [08-04] - expermental
  • HiFi Sean: Ft Excursions (-) [04-21]
  • High Plains: Cinderland (Kranky) [03-10] - ambient
  • Higher Brothers: Black Cab (CXSHXNLY) [05-31] - hip-hop
  • Higher Power: Soul Structure (Flatspot) [05-19]
  • Manga Saint Hilaire & Lewi B: Outbursts From the Outskirts (self-released) [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Kacy Hill: Like a Woman (GOOD Music/Def Jam) [06-30]
  • Chris Hillman: Bidin' My Time (Universal) [09-22] - country
  • Hillsong United: Wonder (self-released) [06-09] - gospel
  • Art Hirahara: Central Line (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Hiss Golden Messenger: Hallelujah Anyhow (Merge) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Hitmakerchinx: Shades and Monsters: FDM Classics (Night Slugs) [07-21]
  • Ho99o9: United States of Horror (Deathkult) [05-05] - hip-hop
  • AJ Hobbs: Too Much Is Never Enough (Booker) [02-17] -
  • Hodera: First Things First (Take This to Heart) [10-20] - alt/indie
  • Les Hoffsaes & Loto Retina: Early Contact (Permalink) [06-26] - electronic
  • Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors: Souvenir (Magnolia Music) [03-24] - folk
  • James Holden & the Animal Spirits: The Animal Spirits (Border Community) [11-03] - electronic
  • Holland-Coots Jazz Quintet: This Is So Nice It Must Be Illegal (Shane's Mohawk) - jazz
  • Hollyn: One-Way Conversations (Gotee) [02-10] - pop
  • Julia Holter: In the Same Room ()
  • Holy Holy: Paint (Wonderlick Entertainment) [02-24] - alt/indie
  • Homemade Weapons: Negative Space (Samurai Music) [12-02] - electronic
  • Homeshake: Fresh Air (Sinderlyn) [02-03] - hypnagogic pop
  • The Homesick: Youth Hunt () [03-10] - post-punk
  • Honey Joy: Honey Joy (Everything Sucks)
  • Hooded Fang: Dynasty House (Daps -EP) [05-19]
  • Hoops: Routines (Fat Possum) [05-05] - jangle pop
  • Niall Horan: Flicker (Capitol) [10-20] - electro-industrial
  • The Horrors: V (Wolf Tone/Caroline) [09-22] - neo-psychedelia
  • Horse Lords: Mixtape IV (Northern Spy) [05-05]
  • Horse Thief: Trials & Truths (Bella Union) [01-27] - pop/rock
  • Horsebeach: Beauty & Sadness ()
  • Hot Water Music: Light It Up (Rise) [09-15] - alt/indie
  • Hots: Numbers (Multikulti) - jazz
  • House and Land: House and Land (Thrill Jockey) [06-16] - folk
  • House of Feelings: Last Chance EP (Infinite Best -EP) [08-11] - electronic
  • Randy Howard: A Pair of Knees (Grand Old Man Music) [05-09] - country
  • Charles Howl: My Idol Family (Oh Many) [10-27] - rock
  • HTMLflowers: Chrome Halo (Wondercore Island) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Hafdis Huld: Dare to Dream Small (Red Grape) [07-28]
  • Hundred Waters: Communicating (Owsla) [09-14] - electronic
  • Hundredth: Rare (Hopeless) [06-16] - post-punk
  • Dean Hurley: Anthology Resource Vol 1 (Sacred Bones) [08-06] - dark ambient
  • Hurts: Desire (self-released) [09-29] - pop
  • Agnes Hvizdalek: Index (Nakama) [02-27] - jazz
  • Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Book of Sound (Honest Jons) [11-14] - jazz
  • Hysj: Blokers (-) [03-17]
  • I Am the Polish Army: My Old Man (self-released) [03-31]
  • I Ludicrous: Songs From the Sides of Lorries (Cherry Red) [10-27]
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra: Recurrence (Sono Luminus) [04-07] - classical
  • Ichon: Il Suffit de la Faire (Bon Gamin) [11-24]
  • Jay IDK: IWasVeryBad (Commission Music) [10-13] - hip-hop
  • Idle Bloom: Little Deaths (Fraternity as Vanity) [02-17] - country
  • IFE: IIII+IIII (self-released) [03-31]
  • Ifriqqiya Electrique: Ruwahine (Glitterbeat) [05-26]
  • Iglooghost: Neo Wax Bloom (Brainfeeder) [09-29] - electronic
  • IKB: Ornithorhynchus Anatinus (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Ikonika: Distractions (Hyperdub) [06-02] - electronic
  • Ill Camille: Heirloom (Illustrated/Frontroom) [03-06] - hip-hop
  • Imagine Dragons: Evolve (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope) [06-23] - pop rock
  • Immolation: Atonement (Nuclear Blast) [02-24] - metal
  • Impalers: Cellar Dweller (Magic Bullet) [07-07] - hardcore punk
  • In Flagranti: Sprezzatura (Top of the Month) [04-17]
  • Incendiary: Thousand Mile Stare (Closed Casket Activities) [05-05]
  • Indian Wells: Where the World Ends (Friends of Friends) [09-08]
  • Infected Mushroom: Return to the Sauce (Hommega) [01-27]
  • Inheaven: Inheaven (PIAS)
  • Injury Reserve: Drive Like It's Stolen (Las Fuegas -EP) [09-29] - hip-hop
  • Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica (Chapter Two) - reggae
  • Institute: Subordination (Sacred Bones) [06-02] - alt/indie
  • The Inward Circles: And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies (Corbel Stone Press) [03-12]
  • Iojii & Swarvy: Due Rent (Fresh Selects) [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Nabihah Iqbal: Weighing of the Heart (Ninja Tune) [12-01] -
  • Jordan Ireland With Purple Orchestra: Jordan Ireland With Purple Orchestra (Spunk) [01-20]
  • Rafael Anton Irisarri: The Shameless Years (Umor Rex)
  • Iron & Wine: Beast Epic (Sub Pop) [08-25] - indie pop
  • Iron Chic: You Can't Stay Here (Side One Dummy) [10-13] - alt/indie
  • Iron Reagan: Crossover Ministry (Relapse) [12-13] - crossover thrash
  • The Isley Brothers/Santana: Power of Peace (Legacy) [07-28] - rock
  • IT: We're All in This Together (Progressive Gears) [03-01]
  • IU: Palette (Loen) [04-21] - K-Pop
  • Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1: Round Trip (self-released) [04-28] - jazz
  • Ivo: Mix: Songs to Chill To Vol 14 (Stereofox) [12-03]
  • Jacaszek: Kwiaty (Ghostly International) [03-17] - electronic
  • Jade Jackson: Gilded (Anti) [05-19]
  • Michael Gregory Jackson: Spirit Signal Strata (Golden) [10-26] - jazz
  • Jakuzi: Fantezi Muzik (Domuz) [03-01] - alt/indie
  • JAM: Silent Notes (Victor Entertainment) [05-24] - jazz
  • Nicky Jam: Fenix ()
  • Leela James: Did It for Love (BMG) [03-31] - r&b
  • Jamiroquai: Autumaton (Virgin EMI) [03-31] - nu-disco
  • Henry Jamison: The Wilds (Akira) [10-27] - folk
  • Chris Janson: Everybody (Warner Bros) [09-22] - country
  • Jansport J: Pharaoh ()
  • Japan Blues: Sells His Record Collection (self-released) [02-03]
  • JASSS: Weightless (IDEAL) [09-15] - experimental
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Handful of Keys (Blue Engine) [09-15] - jazz
  • Jerome Jennings: The Beast (Iola) [11-18] - jazz
  • Johnny Jewel: Windswept (Italians Do It Better) [05-10]
  • JFDR [Jofridur Akadottir]: Brazil (White Sun Rec) [03-17] - alt/indie
  • Jidenna: The Chief (Wondaland/Epic) [02-17] - hip-hop
  • JMSN: Whatever Makes U Happy (White Room) [04-28] - alt r&b
  • Joan of Arc: He's Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands (Joyful Noise) [01-20] - experimental rock
  • Kari Jobe: The Garden (Sparrow) [02-03]
  • Sven-Ake Johansson: Lind (Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu) [03-10] - jazz
  • Nicole Johanntgen: Henry (Hofa) - jazz
  • Chuck Johnson: Balsams (Vdsq) [07-07]
  • Syleena Johnson: Rebirth of Soul (Shanachie) [11-10] - r&b
  • Danko Jones: Wild Cat (AFM) [03-03] - hard rock
  • Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind: Super Natural (self-released) [06-11]
  • Willie Jones III: My Point Is . . . (WJ3) [10-13] - jazz
  • Wizz Jones/Pete Berryman/Simeon Jones: Come What May (Riverboat) [05-26]
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Don't Get Lost (A) [02-24] - indie rock
  • Majid Jordan: The Space Between (OVO Sound/Warner Bros) [10-27] - r&b
  • Theo Jorgensmann and Albrecht Maurer: Hymnen An Die Nacht (Nemu) [06-30] - jazz
  • Jorrdee: Avant (Parlophone) [04-14] - alt rap
  • Jovi: 16 Wives ()
  • Juanes: Mis Planes Son Amarte (Universal Music Latino) [05-12] - Latin
  • Juicy J: Highly Intoxicated (self-released) [09-18] - hip-hop
  • Juju & Jordash: Sis-Boom-Bah! (Dekmantel) [10-11] - house
  • The Juju Exchange: Exchange (self-released) [04-21]
  • Yan Jun & Ben Owen: Swimming Salt (Organized Music From Thessaloniki) - jazz
  • Justice for the Damned: Dragged Through the Dirt (Cooking Vinyl) [06-14]
  • K Flay: Every Where Is Some Where (Night Street/Interscope) [04-07] - alt r&b
  • Kacy & Clayton: The Siren's Song (New West) [08-18] - folk
  • Kadavar: Rough Times (Nuclear Blast) [09-29] - rock
  • Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra: The Reason Why Vol 3 (Headspin) [11-03] - jazz
  • Kamaiyah: Before I Wake (self-released) [11-07] - hip-hop
  • Kamikaze Girls: Seafoam (Big Scary Monsters) [06-09]
  • Danny Kamins/Damon Smith/Alvin Fielder/Joe Hertenstein: After Effects (FMR) - jazz
  • Jun Kamoda: Blind Disco (Black Acre) [06-02]
  • Karavan: Karavan ()
  • Karen & the Sorrows: The Narrow Place (self-released) [08-25]
  • Karkhana: For Seun Matta (Holiday) - jazz
  • Kasabian: For Crying Out Loud (Sony) [05-05] - alt dance
  • Achim Kaufman/Olie Brice: Of Tides (Babel) [03-24] - jazz
  • Maija Kauhanen: Raivopryora (Nordic Notes) [03-17] - folk
  • Kbit: Future Yesterday (self-released) [01-16] - downtempo
  • Mack Keane: 2107 (MasonMack -EP) [05-05] - pop
  • Chief Keef: Thot Breaker (RBC) [06-08] - hip-hop
  • Keep Shelly in Athens: Philokalia (self-released)
  • Keeping: Ruin Value (Community)
  • Davy Kehoe: Short Passing Game (Wah Wah Wino) [04-02]
  • Toby Keith: The Bus Songs (Show Dog Nashville) [09-08] - country
  • Paul Kelly: Life Is Fine (Cooking Vinyl) [08-11] - pop-rock
  • Sam Kelly & the Lost Boys: Pretty Peggy (Navigator) [10-06] - folk
  • Madeline Kenney: Night Night at the First Landing (Company) [09-01] - indie rock
  • Kettenkarussell: Insecurity Guard (Giegling) [05-15]
  • K Flay: Every Where Is Some Where ()
  • Khaki Blazer: Didn't Have to Cut (Hausu Mountain) [05-19] - electronic
  • Steve Khan: Backlog (Tone Center) [02-24] - jazz
  • Khotin: New Tab (self-released)
  • Nadine Khouri: The Salted Air ()
  • Kiasmos: Blurred EP (Erased Tapes -EP) [10-06] - house
  • The Kickback: Weddings and Funerals (Julian) [07-14] - rock
  • Kid Koala: Music to Draw To: Satellite (Arts & Crafts) [01-20] - ambient pop
  • Rebecca Kilgore/Bernd Lhotzky: This and That (Arbors) [03-10] - Jazz
  • Kill Alters: No Self Helps (Hausu Mountain) [07-28] - noise
  • Adamn Killa: I Am Adamn (Homespun Media Group) [05-29] - hip-hop
  • The Killers: Wonderful Wonderful (Island) [09-22] - indie pop
  • Harald Kimmig/Ernesto Rodrigues/Miguel Mira/Guilherme Rodrigues/Vasco Trilla: Blattwerk (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Steve Kimmock: Satellite City (MRI Music) [10-27]
  • Matt King: Monk in Brazil: Re-Grooving the Music of Thelonious Monk (Mighty Quinn) [08-01] - jazz
  • King Crimson: Official Bootleg: Live in Chicago June 28th 2017 (Discipline Global Mobile) [10-14] - prog rock
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO) [02-24] - psychedelic rock
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Murder of the Universe (ATO) [06-23] - acid rock
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/Mild High Club: Sketches of Brunswick East (ATO) [08-18] - psychedelic rock
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Polygondwanaland (self-released) [11-17] - prog rock
  • King Woman: Created in the Image of Suffering (Relapse) [02-24] - sludge metal
  • Kingdom: Tears in the Club (Fade to Mind) [02-24] - alt r&b
  • Aris Kindt: Swann and Odette (Kingdoms) [10-20] - ambient
  • KiNK: Playground (Running Back) [11-03]
  • Kardajala Kirridarra: Kardajala Kirridarra (self-released) [07-07]
  • Kitchens of Distinction: Watch Our Planet Circle (One Little Indian) [05-19]
  • Kite Base: Latent Whispers (Little Something) [05-28]
  • Kitty: Miami Garden Club (Pretty Wavvy) [08-25] - cloud rap
  • Petros Klampanis: Chroma (Motema) [03-10] - jazz
  • Klein: Tommy (Hyperdub -EP) [09-29] - glitch
  • Kllo: Backwater (Ghostly International) [10-20] - electronic
  • KMFDM: Hell Yeah (EarMusic) [08-18] - electro-industrial
  • Lisa Knapp: Til April Is Dead: A Garland of May (Ear to the Ground) [04-28]
  • The Knife: Live at Terminal 5 (Rabid) [09-01] - alt/idie
  • Knuckle Puck: Shapeshifter (Rise) [10-13] - rock
  • Kodak Black: Paintin' Pictures (Atlantic) [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Kolsch: 1989 (Kompakt) [09-22] - tech house
  • Konstrukt: LOTUS (Omlott) - jazz
  • Gregg Kowalsky: L'Orange L'Orange (Mexican Summer) [11-10] - ambient
  • Koyo: Koyo (88 Watt) [09-15] - psychedelic rock
  • Kreator: Gods of Violence (Nuclear Blast)
  • Krept & Konan: 7 Days (Def Jam) [10-20] - hip-hop
  • Kries: Selo Na Okuke/Village Tracks (Riverboat) [10-27] - Croatian
  • Nick Krgovich: In an Open Field (Tin Angel) [12-01] - pop
  • Krokofant: Krokofant III (Rune Grammofon) - jazz
  • Marie Kruttli Trio: Running After the Sun (QFTF) - jazz
  • Martin Kuchen/Lieber Heiland: Lass und Sterben (Sofa Music) - jazz
  • Kungobram: Night in Panam (self-released) [12-16] - jazz
  • Talib Kweli: Radio Silence (Javotti Media) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Killa Kyleon & DJ Candlestick: Lorraine Motel (RBC) [04-04] - hip-hop
  • Kyoto Jazz Sextet: Unity (Extra Freedom) [06-14] - jazz
  • Yannis Kyriakides: Subvoice (Unsounds) - jazz
  • La Mambanegra: El Callegueso Y Su Mala Mana (Movimentos) [03-05] -
  • La Pingo's Orquesta: Peregrino (Ropeadope) [07-28] - jazz
  • La Santa Cecilia: Amar y Vivir (Universal Music) [04-28] - pop
  • La Tene: Tardive/Issime (Astral Spirits) [09-22] - jazz
  • LA Witch: LA Witch (Suicide Squeeze) [09-08]
  • Patti Labelle: Bel Hommage (GPE) [05-05] - jazz
  • Lady Antebellum: Heart Break (Busbee) [06-09] - country
  • Pokey LaFarge: Manic Revelations (Universal) [05-19] - singer-songwriter
  • The LaFontaines: Common Problem (A Wolf at Your Door) - alt rock
  • Natalia LaFourcade: Musas (Columbia) [05-05] - Latin
  • Lagartijeando: El Gran Poder (Wonderwheel) [03-31]
  • Mario Laginha/Julian Arguelles/Helge Andreas Norbakken: Setembro (Edition) [10-06] - jazz
  • Laibach: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute) [07-14]
  • Lady Lamb: Tender Warriors Club ()
  • Pokey LaFarge: Manic Revelations (Rounder) [05-19]
  • Lanark Artefax: Whities 011 (Whities -EP) [06-09] - electronic
  • Land of Talk: Life After Youth (Saddle Creek) [05-19] - indie rock
  • Lando Chill: The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind (Mello) [06-23] - hip-hop
  • Sonny Landreth: Recorded Live in Lafayette (Provogue) [06-30] - blues
  • Mark Lanegan Band: Gargoyle (Heavenly/PIAS) [04-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Jonny Lang: Signs (Provogue) [09-08]
  • Langhorne Slim: Lost at Last Vol 1 (Dualtone) [11-10] - country
  • Lankum: Between the Earth and Sky (Rough Trade) [10-27] - folk
  • LANY: LANY (Polydor) [06-30] - synthpop
  • Lapalux: Ruinism (Brainfeeder) [06-30]
  • Pierre Lapointe: La Science du Coeur (Sony France) [10-06] - chamber pop
  • Larkin Poe: Peach (Tricki-Woo) [09-29] - blues rock
  • The Last Dinosaur: The Nothing (Naim) [07-07] - indie folk
  • Mary Lattimore: Collected Pieces (Ghostly International) [05-17] - ambient
  • Last Leaves: Other Towns Than Ours (Lost & Lonesome) [10-20] - alt/indie
  • Bill Laswell/Sacred System: Dub Chamber 3: The Exegesis (self-released) [04-09] - jazz
  • Eric Lau: Examples (First World) [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Shannon Lay: Living Water (Woodsist/Mare) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Nguyen Le & Ngo Hong Quang: Ha Noi Duo (ACT) [01-13] - jazz
  • Le Filles De Illighadad: Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds) [10-28]
  • Sam Leak and Paula Rae Gibson: Permission (33xtreme) - jazz
  • Yung Lean: Stranger (Year0001) [11-10]
  • Joelle Leandre/Phil Minton: Leandre-Minton (Fou) - jazz
  • Leap of Faith: Domains (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Anja Lechner/Agnes Vestermann: Valentin Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen Der Nacht (ECM New Series) [09-22] - classical
  • Lecrae: All Things Work Together (Reach/Columbia) [09-22] - hip-hop
  • Ledisi: Let Love Rule (Universal) [09-22] - r&b
  • Th' Legendary Shack Shakers: After You've Gone (Last Chance) [08-25] - rock
  • R Andrew Lee: The Four Pillars Appearing From the Equal D Under Resonating Apparitions of the Eternal Process in the Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City) (Irritable Hedgehog Music) [06-30] - classical
  • Left Lane Cruiser: Claw Machine Wizard (Alive Naturalsound) [03-30] -
  • Leif: July V/Shoulders Back (Tio Series -EP) [02-06] - deep house
  • Leikeli47: Wash & Set (Hardcover/RCA) [09-08] - hip-hop
  • Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet: Fragments of Always (FMR) [07-00] - jazz
  • Sean Leon: I Think You've Gone Mad (or the Sins of the Father) (The Iniative) [02-05] - hip-hop
  • Sean Leon: CCWMTT (The Initiative) [11-29] - hip-hop
  • Kiran Leonard: Derevaun Seraun (Moshi Moshi) [09-15] - pop
  • Sondre Lerche: Pleasure (PLZ-MONA) [03-03] - indietronica
  • Les Lullies: Don't Look Twice (Slovenly -EP) [punk]
  • Less Art: Strangled Light (Gilead Media) [07-28] - metal
  • Leveret: Inventions (RootBeat) [09-15] - folk
  • Mike Levine: Star Gazing (self-released) - jazz
  • Philip Lewen: Am I Really Here All Alone? (Tompkins Square) [02-24] - folk
  • Madison Lewis: Back to the Blue (self-released) [09-22] - country
  • Lexie: Record Time! (Skeleton Realm)
  • Liars: TFCF (Mute) [08-25] - art rock
  • Kurt Liedwart/Andrey Popovskiy/Martin Taxt: Hjem (Mikroton) - jazz
  • Helge Lien Trio: Guzuguzu (Ozella) [04-21] - jazz
  • Life: Popular Music (Afghan Moon) [06-16] - alt/indie
  • Lights: Skin & Earth (Warner Bros) [09-22] - pop
  • Lil B: Black Ken (BasedWorld) [08-17] - hip-hop
  • Lil Peep: Come Over When You're Sober (Part One) (Warner Music Sweden) [08-15] - rock
  • Lil Pump: Lil Pump (Warner Bros) [06-06] - hip-hop
  • Lil Wayne: In Tune We Trust (916% Entertainment -EP) [07-05] - hip-hop
  • Lil Yachty: Teenage Emotions (Quality Control/Capitol/Motown) [05-26] - hip-hop
  • Lillie Mae: Forever and Then Some (Third Man) [04-14] - country
  • Christian Lillinger/Tobias Delius: Dicht (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Limp Wrist: Facades (La Vida Es Un Mus) [08-02] - hardcore punk
  • James Lindsay: Strand (Oir) [06-02]
  • Lindstrom: It's Alright Between Us as It Is (Feedelity) [10-20] - dance/electronic
  • Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him () - death industrial
  • Lingua Ignota: All Bitches Die (self-released) [06-07] - death industrial
  • Andrew Linham Jazz Orchestra: Weapons of Mass Destruction (self-released) [10-15] - jazz
  • Rudy Linka: American Trailer (Music in the Center) [11-01] - jazz
  • Linkin Park: One More Light (Warner Bros) [05-19] - electropop
  • Travis Linville: Up Ahead (self-released) [03-27] - country
  • Son Little: New Magic (Anti-) [09-15] - alt/indie
  • Little Bandit: Breakfast Alone (YK) [02-10] - country
  • Little Barrie: Death Express (Non-Delux) [07-07] - alt/indie
  • Little Big Town: The Breaker (Capitol Nashville) [02-24] - country
  • Little Cub: Still Life (Domino) [04-28]
  • Little Dragon: Season High (Loma Vista) [04-14] - electropop
  • Little Steven: Soulfire (Wicked Cool/Universal) [05-19]
  • Thet Liturgiske Owasendet: Catalina (Lobster Sleep Sequence -16) [12-16-2-16] - drone
  • Kedr Livansky: Ariadna (2MR) [09-08] - electronic
  • Living Colour: Shade (MRI) [09-08] - funk metal
  • Tove Lo: Blue Lips (Island) [11-17] - electropop
  • Lo Tom: Lo Tom (Barsuk) [07-14]
  • Locust Leaves: A Subtler Kind of Light (I Voidhanger) [03-17] - prog metal
  • Lodz: Time Doesn't Heal Anything (Klonosphere) [03-17] - hardcore
  • Jess Locke: Universe (Pool House) [10-20] - indie rock
  • Logic: Everybody (Def Jam) [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Lomelda: Thx (Double Double Whammy) [09-08] - indie rock
  • London Grammar: Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound) [06-09] - dream pop
  • The Lone Bellow: Walk Into a Storm (Masterworks) [09-15]
  • Lone Taxidermist: Trifle (MemeTune) [08-25] - dance
  • Loney Dear: Loney Dear (Real World) [09-29] - pop/rock
  • Looming: Seed (No Sleep) [09-29] - indie rock
  • Los Campesinos!: Sick Scenes (Wichita) [02-24] - indie pop
  • Los Colognes: The Wave (Big Deal Media) [05-12]
  • Los Straitjackets: What's So Funny About Peace Love and Los Straitjackets (Yep Roc) [05-19]
  • Loss: Horizonless (Profound Lore) [05-19] - doom metal
  • Lost Balloons: Hey Summer (Dirtnap) [06-16]
  • Lost Horizons: Ojala (Bella Union) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • A Lot Like Birds: Divisi (Equal Vision) [05-05] - progressive rock
  • Lotto: VV (Instant Classic) [11-23] - post-rock
  • Salami Rose Joe Louis: Zlaty Sauce Nephew (Hot Record Societe) [04-18] - trip hop
  • Demi Lovato: Tell Me You Love Me (Island) [09-29] - pop
  • The Lovely Bad Things: Teenage Grown Ups (Burger) [08-25]
  • Lovely Dark: New Born (681429) [11-05] - rock
  • Lower Slaughter: What Big Eyes (Box) [09-15] - rock
  • Lower Than Atlantis: Safe in Sound (Easy Life/Red Essential) [02-13] - hard rock
  • Lowly: Heba (Bella Union) [02-10] - dream pop
  • L'Rain: L'Rain (Astro Nautico) [09-15] - electronic
  • Romero Lubambo: Sampa (Sunnyside) [05-05] - jazz
  • Joyner Lucas: (508) 507-2209 (Atlantic) [06-16] - hip-hop
  • Marcela Lucatelli/Erik Kimestad Pedersen/Henrik Olsson: self-released () [J|jazz]
  • Julia Lucille: Chthonic (Keeled Scales) [04-07]
  • Robyn Ludwick: This Tall to Ride (self-released) [05-09]
  • Walker Lukens: Tell It to the Judge (Modern Outsider) [09-22] - indie rock
  • Lullabier: 2512 (Silber) [12-22]
  • The Lulls in Traffic: Rabbit in the Snare (The Vanguard Room/No Threshold) [05-22]
  • Lunatic Soul: Fractured (Kscope) [10-06] - rock
  • David Luning: Restless (Blue Rose Music) [02-03] - folk
  • Lush Purr: Cuckoo Waltz (Song by Toad) [05-05]
  • Lushloss: Asking/Bearing (Hush Hush) [07-28] - electronic
  • Lusine: Sensorimotor (Ghostly International) [03-03] - downtempo
  • Luwten: Luwten (Double for Me) [10-13] - electronic
  • The Luxembourg Signal: Blue Field (Shelflife) [10-13] - rock
  • L-Vis 1990: 12 Thousand Nights (self-released) [10-20] - grime
  • Dustin Lynch: Current Mood (Broken Bow) [09-08] - country
  • Richard Lynch: Mending Fences (Fence Row) [04-28] - country
  • Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer: Not Dark Yet (Silver Cross/Thirty Tigers) [08-18] - Americana
  • Ray Lyon: Trinity One (self-released) - jazz
  • Yo-Yo Ma/Chris Thile/Edgar Meyer: Bach Trios () [04-07]
  • Mabel: Ivy to Roses (Capitol) [10-13] - r&b
  • Farbror Resande Mac: Farbror Resande Mac (Horisontal Mambo) [03-00] - downtempo
  • Betsayda Machado & Parranda El Clavo: Loe Loa: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree (Odelia) [09-04] - Latin
  • Mach-Hommy: Dump Gawd (YHN) [06-07] - hip-hop
  • Mach-Hommy x Thagodfahim: Dollar Menu (YHN -EP) [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Machine 3: Dystopia (Setola Di Maiale) [06-00] - jazz
  • Machine Gun Kelly: Bloom (Bad Boy/Interscope) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Bill MacKay: Esker (Drag City) [05-05] - rock
  • Bill MacKay/Ryler Walker: SpiderBeetleBee (Drag City) [10-20]
  • Macklemore: Gemini (Bendo) [09-22] - hip-hop
  • Holly Macve: Golden Eagle (Bella Union) [03-03] - country
  • Kristofer Maddigan: Cuphead [Original Soundtrack] (Iam8bit) [09-29] - soundtrack
  • Madonnatron: Madonnatron (Trashmouth) [07-28] - alt rock
  • The Magnettes: Ugly Youth (DigSin) [06-30] - pop
  • Peter Madsen: Satin Doll: A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn (Playscape) - jazz
  • Magic Pie: King for a Day (Karisma) - jazz
  • Magrete Grarup: Walke With Me (Storyville)
  • The Maine: Lovely Little Lonely (self-released) [04-07]
  • Major Lazer: No Know Better (-EP)
  • Major Parkinson: Blackbox (Degaton) [09-01] - art rock
  • Mako Sica: Invocation (Instant Classic/Feeding Tube) - jazz
  • Makthaverskan: III (Run for Cover) [10-20] - alt/indie
  • Male Gaze: Miss Taken (Castle Face) [06-30] - alt/indie
  • Sabrina Malheiros: Clareia (Far Out) [07-28] - jazz
  • Pete Malinverni Trio: Heaven (Saranac) - jazz
  • Malka: Ratatatat (Tantrum) - pop
  • Mallory Knox: Wired (Search and Destroy) [03-10] - alt rock
  • Russell Malone: Time for the Dancers (HighNote) - jazz
  • Mammut: Kinder Versions (Bella Union) [07-14] - alt/indie
  • Mama Luma: Mama Luma (Krapp's Tapes/Noise-Below) - jazz
  • Man Forever: Play What They Want (Thrill Jockey) [05-19]
  • Becca Mancari: Good Woman (self-released) [10-06] - country
  • Mandragora: Salamandra (Alien) [01-01]
  • Gucci Mane: Mr Davis (Atlantic) [10-13] - trap rap
  • Gucci Mane/Metro Boomin: Drop Top Wop (GUWOP/1017/Atlantic) [06-23] - hip-hop
  • Marilyn Manson: Heaven Upside Down (Loma Vista) [10-06] - rock
  • Ray Mantilla: High Voltage (Savant) [04-21] - jazz
  • Manuela: Manuela (Lost Map) [03-31]
  • MAP: Guerra E Paz (Porta Jazz) [03-01] - jazz
  • Mapache: Mapache (Spiritual Pajamas) [10-06]
  • George Maple: Lover (self-released) [10-27] - r&b
  • Mar: Fill Your Lungs ()
  • Briana Marela: Call It Love (Jagjaguwar) [08-04]
  • Amber Mark: 3:33 AM (PMR) [06-16] - hip-hop
  • Marker: Marker (Medical)
  • Marnie: Strange Words and Weird Wars (Disco Pinata) [06-02] - synthpop
  • Matt Martians: The Drum Chord Theory ()
  • Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein: The Upstate Project (Sunnyside) [04-14] - jazz
  • Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers: The Long Awaited Album (Rounder) [09-22] - bluegrass
  • Terrace Martin Presents the Pollyseeds: Sounds of Crenshaw Vol 1 (Ropeadope) [07-14] - hip-hop
  • Walter Martin: My Kinda Music (Family Jukebox) [05-05] - folk
  • Pat Martino: Formidable (HighNote) [10-20] - jazz
  • Masta Killa: Loyalty Is Royalty (Nature Sounds) [09-29] - hip-hop
  • The Mastersons: Transient Lullaby (Red House) [05-19]
  • Mastodon: Emperor of Sand (Reprise) [03-31] - progressive metal
  • Maston: Tulips (Phonoscope) [10-27]
  • Mating Ritual: How You Gonna Stop It (Smooth Jaws) [06-30]
  • Wade Matthews/Abdul Moimeme: Lisbon: 10 Sound Portraits (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • John Maus: Screen Memories (Ribbon Music) [10-27]
  • The Mavericks: Brand New Day (Mono Mundo) [03-31]
  • Maximo Park: Risk to Exist (Cooking Vinyl) [04-21] - indie rock
  • Maximum Ernst: Maximum Ernst (Ever/Never) [09-11] - jazz
  • Dent May: Across the Multiverse (Carpark) [08-18]
  • Imelda May: Life Love Flesh Blood (Decca) [04-21] - singer-songwriter
  • John Mayer: The Search for Everything (Columbia) [04-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Live at Newport (Basin Street) - jazz
  • Jessica Lea Mayfield: Sorry Is Gone (ATO) [09-29] - alt/indie
  • Maysa: Love Is a Battlefield (Shanachie) [05-26] - r&b
  • Wojtek Mazolewski: Theme de Yoyo (Languidity) [03-27] - jazz
  • Rob Mazurek: Chimeric Stoned Horn (Astral Spirits) - jazz
  • Nick Mazzarella & Tomeka Reid: Signaling (Nessa) - jazz
  • Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men: Prick of the Litter (Thirty Tigers/Hot Shot) [01-27]
  • Parker McCollum: Probably Wrong (self-released) [11-10] - country
  • Andrew McCormack: Graviton (Jazz Village) - jazz
  • Drew McDowall: Unnatural Channel (Dais) [05-26] - electronic
  • Reba McEntire: Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope () - country
  • Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: The Rest of Our Life (Arista Nashville) [11-17] - country
  • Mark McGuire: Ideas of Beginning (VDSQ) [06-09] - alt/indie
  • Ross McHenry: The Outsiders (First Word) [11-10] - jazz
  • Declan McKenna: What Do You Think About the Car? (Sony) [07-21]
  • Brian McKnight: Genesis (ILS Group) [08-25] - r&b
  • John McLaughlin & the Fourth Dimension: Live at Ronnie Scott's (Abstract Logix) [09-15] - jazz
  • Lou McLean: Good Morning Easter Road (self-released) [06-09]
  • Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness: Zombies on Broadway (Vanguard) [02-10] - electropop
  • John Mark McMillan: Mercury & Lightning (Lionhawk) [09-01] - singer-songwriter
  • James Vincent McMorrow: True Care (Dine Alone) [05-26] - alt/indie
  • Shannon McNally: Black Irish (Compass) [06-09] - rock
  • John McNeil/Mike Fahie: Plainsong (Destiny) [10-27] - jazz
  • Travis Meadows: First Cigarette (Blaster) [10-13] - folk
  • Meat Wave: The Incessant (Side One Dummy) [02-17] - garage punk
  • Me & That Man: Songs of Love and Death (Cooking Vinyl) [03-24]
  • Meek Mill: Wins & Losses (MMG/Atlantic) [07-21] - hip-hop
  • Mega Bog: Happy Together (Nicey Music) [02-03]
  • Shoji Meguro: Persona 5 Original Soundtrack ()
  • Hermon Mehari: Bleu (Unlabeled) [03-17] - jazz
  • Stephan Meidell: Metrics (Hubro) [03-17] - jazz
  • Rob Melancon: Southern Gothic (Blue Elan) [05-26]
  • Henrik Pultz Melbye: Frogs//Toads (Insula Jazz) - jazz
  • Melkbelly: Nothing Valley (Wax Nine) [10-13]
  • Tera Melos: Trash Generator (Sargent House) [08-25] - math rock
  • Melvins: A Walk With Love and Death (Ipecac) [07-07] - sludge metal
  • Memory Drawings: The Nearest Exit (Zozaya/Signal) [09-22] - rock
  • Men I Trust: Tailwhip (self-released -EP) [08-19]
  • Menace Beach: Lemon Memory (Memphis Industries) [01-20] - noise pop
  • Leslie Mendelson: Love & Murder (Royal Potato Family) [04-14] - folk
  • Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne: Homecoming (Jazzline) [02-10] - jazz
  • The Menzingers: After the Party (Epitaph) [02-03] - punk rock
  • Meresha: Enter the Dreamland (Sonic Dolphin) [06-23] - pop
  • Mesarthim: Presence (self-released -EP) [04-25] - atmospheric black mental
  • MESH: Hesaitix (Pan) [11-10] -
  • Meta Meta: MM3 (Gonna Gringa Discos) [07-27] - Brazil
  • Methyl Ethel: Everything Is Forgotten (4AD) [03-03] - psychedelic pop
  • Metro Riders: Europe by Night (Possible Motive) [05-19] - electronic
  • Metz: Strange Peace ()
  • Meursault: I Will Kill Again (Song by Toad) [02-27] - indie folk
  • Mew: Visuals (PIAS) [04-28] - dream pop
  • Bjorn Meyer: Provenance (ECM) [05-15] - jazz
  • Szilard Mezei/Marina Dzukljev/Vasco Trilla: Still Now (If You Still) (FMR) [04-00] - jazz
  • Mhysa: Fantasii (Halcyon Veil) [07-21]
  • Miami Horror: The Shapes (self-released -EP) [03-17] - electropop
  • Julia Michaels: Nervous System (Republic -EP) [07-28] - pop
  • K Michelle: Kimberley: The People I Used to Know (Atlantic) [12-08] - r&b
  • Microtub: Bite of the Orange (Sofa) - jazz
  • Middle Kids: Middle Kids (Domino -EP) [02-17] - alt/indie
  • Midland: On the Rocks (Big Machine) [09-22] - country
  • Midnight: Nocturnal (self-released -EP) [10-13] - electronic
  • Midnight Sister: Saturn Over Sunset (Jagjaguwar) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • MIKE: May God Bless Your Hustle (self-released) [06-21] - hip-hop
  • Milk Music: Mystic 100's ()
  • Milk Teddy: Time Catches Up With Milk Teddy (Lost & Lonesome) [08-18] - indie rock
  • Dominic Miller: Silent Light (ECM) [04-07] - jazz
  • Graeme Miller & Steve Shill: The Moomins (Finders Keepers) [02-03]
  • Simon Millerd: Lessons and Fairytales (Songlines) [08-04] - jazz
  • Scott Miller: Ladies Auxiliary (FAY) [11-03] - country
  • Milo: Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?! (Ruby Yacht) [08-10] - hip-hop
  • Mina: Sentah (Enchufada) [04-28] - electronic
  • Nidia Minaj: Nidia E Ma Nidia E Fudida (Principe) [07-14] - electronic
  • Alex Mincek: Torrent (Sound American Publications) [04-25] - classical
  • Mind Over Mirrors: Undying Color (Paradise of Bachelors) [02-17] - experimental rock
  • Mindkult: Lucifer's Dream (Transcending Obscurity) [09-20] - doom metal
  • Kylie Minogue: En Dermee (Music Mania) [05-12] - electropop
  • Minor Victories: Orchestral Variations (Fat Possum) [01-27] - dream pop
  • Minus the Bear: Voids (Suicide Squeeze) [03-03] - 03-03
  • Miriodor: Signal 9 (Cuneiform) [05-12] - jazz
  • MisterWives: Connect the Dots (Republic) [05-19] - indie pop
  • Misty Coast: Misty Coast (Old Flame)
  • Mr Mitch: Devout (Planet Mu) [04-21] - pop
  • Matt Mitchell: Forage (Screwgun) [01-23] - jazz
  • Robert Mitchell: A Vigil for Justice a Vigil for Peace (Depth of Field) [09-08] - jazz
  • Liudas Mockunas/Arnas Mikalkenas/Hakon Berre: Plunged (Barefoot) - jazz
  • Mogwai: Every Country's Sun (Temporary Residence) [09-01] - post-rock
  • Abdul Moimeme: Exosphere (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Moire: No Future (Ghostly International) [02-17] - house
  • Mon Laferte: La Trenza (Universal) [04-28] - rock en espanol
  • Monocle: Kind Human Kind (self-released)
  • Monolord: Rust (Riding Easy) [09-29] - rock
  • French Montana: Jungle Rules (Bad Boy) [07-14] - hip-hop
  • Sun Kil Moon: Common as Light and Love Are Red Valley of Blood (Caldo Verde) [02-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Moon Diagrams: Lifetime of Love (Geographic North) [06-30] - ambient techno
  • Moon Duo: Occult Architecture Vol 1 (Sacred Bones) [02-03] - neo-psychedelia
  • Moon Duo: Occult Architecture Vol 2 (Sacred Bones) [05-05] - psychedelic rock
  • Moonchild: Voyager (Tru Thoughts) [05-26]
  • Moor x Jewelry: Crime Waves (Don Giovanni) - hip-hop
  • Christy Moore: On the Road (Columbia) [11-17] - folk
  • Kip Moore: Slowheart (MCA Nashville) [02-10] - country
  • R Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner: Make It Be (Lost Colony) [03-10]
  • Stanton Moore: With You in Mind (Cool Green) [06-30] - jazz
  • Thurston Moore & Uut Caglar: Dunia (Astral Spirits) - jazz
  • Jason Moran: Bangs (Yes) [05-30] - jazz
  • Jason Moran: MASS (Howl, Eon) (Yes) [11-19] - jazz
  • Kelly Moran: Bloodroot (Telegraph Harp) [03-24] - post-minimalism
  • Kevin Morby: City Music (Dead Oceans) [06-16] - singer-songwriter
  • Mike Moreno: Three for Three (Criss Cross) - jazz
  • Carol Morgan: Post Cool Vol 1: The Night Shift (self-released) - jazz
  • Ikue Mori: Obelisk (Tzadik) [07-28] - jazz
  • Cary Morin: Cracle to the Grave (Maple Street Music) - blues
  • Morrissey: Low in High School (BMG) [11-17] - alt/indie
  • Flo Morrissey: Gentlewoman Ruby Man (Glassnote) [01-13] - alt/indie rock
  • Barbara Morrison: I Wanna Be Loved (Savant) [06-02] - jazz
  • China Moses: Nightintales (MPS) [04-19] - jazz
  • Miles Mosley: Uprising (Verve) [01-27] - jazz
  • MoStack: High Street Kid (MizerMillion Entertainment) [06-02] - hip-hop
  • Motionless in White: Graveyard Shift (Roadrunner) [05-05]
  • Moullinex: Hypersex (Discotexas) [10-06]
  • Move: Hyvinkaa (UniSono) - jazz
  • Movements: Feel Something (Fearless) [10-20] - emo
  • The Movielife: Cities in Search of a Heart (Rise) [09-22] - rock
  • Alison Moyet: Other (Cooking Vinyl) [06-16] - electropop
  • Mozart's Sister: Field of Love (Arbutus) [02-17] - electronic
  • Mozzy: I Up Top Ahk (Empire) [08-18] - hip-hop
  • Mozzy & Gunplay: Dreadlocks & Headshots (Real Talk Entertainment) [06-02] - hip-hop
  • Mr Jukes: God First (Island) [07-14] - r&b
  • The Mr T Experience: King Dork Approximately (self-released) [02-28] - alt/indie
  • Nico Muhly: Howards End [Original Series Soundtrack] (Warner Classics) [11-13] - soundtrack
  • Mark Mulcahy: The Possum in the Driveway (Mezzotint) [04-28] - rock
  • Misha Mullov-Abbado: Cross-Platform Interchange (Edition) [05-19] - jazz
  • Nick Mulvey: Wake Up Now (Caroline) [10-13] - alt/indie
  • Luis Munoz: The Dead Man (Pelin Music) [03-07] - jazz
  • John Murry: A Short History of Decay ()
  • Musicianer: Slow Learner (Iluso) [09-25] - jazz
  • Michael Musillami/Rich Syracuse: Bird Calls (Playscape) - jazz
  • Musiq Soulchild: Feel the Real (eOne) [09-15] - r&b
  • Mutemath: Play Dead (Caroline) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • Riccardo Muti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Bruckner: Symphony No 9 (CSO Resound) [06-16] - classical
  • Mutoid Man: War Moans (Sargent House) [06-02] - metal
  • Kikagaku Moyo: Stone Garden (Guruguru Brain) [04-21] - alt/indie
  • MXLX: Kicking Away at the Decrepit Walls Til the Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru the Cracks (Kindarad) [06-02]
  • Jo Berger Myhre/Olafur Bjorn Olafsson: The Third Script (Hubro) [05-25] - jazz
  • The Mynabirds: Be Here Now (Saddle Creek) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Myrkur: Mareridt (Relapse) [09-15] - post-metal
  • The Myrrors: Hasta La Victoria (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [06-30] - rock
  • Dimitris Mystakidis: Amerika (Fishbowl) [04-07]
  • Toshimaru Nakamura and Martin Taxt: Listening to the Footsteps of Living Ones Who Are Still on the Ground (Ftarri) - jazz
  • Aye Nako: Silver Haze (Don Giovanni) [04-07] - indie rock
  • David Nance: Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing) [07-14]
  • Michael Nau: Some Twist (Suicide Squeeze) [06-16] - alt/indie
  • Naughty Professor: Identity (self-released)
  • Nav: Nav (XO/Republic) [02-24]
  • Neck Deep: The Peace and the Panic (Hopeless) [08-18] - pop punk
  • Necrot: Blood Offerings (Tankcrimes) [06-09] - metal
  • Nef the Pharaoh: The Chang Project ()
  • Negro Leo: Action Lekking (QTV/Circus) [09-11]
  • Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (Fantasy) [08-25] - country
  • Sarah Bethe Nelson: Oh Evolution (Burger) [02-24]
  • Steve Nelson: Brothers Under the Sun (HighNote) [04-00] - jazz
  • Todd Neufeld: Mu'u (Ruweh) - jazz
  • Neukollner Modelle: Sektion 3-7 (Umlaut) [02-13] - jazz
  • New Gen: New Gen (XL) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • The New Triumph: Keep on Push'n (self-released) [07-17] - jazz
  • The New Year: Snow (Undertow) [04-28] - indie rock
  • NF: Perception (Capitol) [10-06] - hip-hop
  • NHK yx Koyxen: Exit Entrance (DFA) [10-06] - electronic
  • Joe Nichols: Never Gets Old (Red Bow) [07-28] - country
  • Nidia: Nidia E Ma Nidia E Fudida (Principe)
  • Judy Niemack With Dan Tepfer: Listening to You (Sunnyside) [03-31] - jazz
  • Jerrod Niemann: This Ride (Curb) [10-06] - country
  • Night Drive: Night Drive (self-released) [06-16]
  • Nightlands: I Can Feel the Night Around Me (Western Vinyl) [05-05]
  • Jan Nijdam Kwartet: Bij De Dieren Thuis (Sollasiututut) - jazz
  • Niia: I (Atlantic) [05-05]
  • The Nile Project: Jinja (Zambaletta) [01-10]
  • Molly Nilsson: Imaginations (Dark Skies) [05-26] - art pop
  • Nine Inch Nails: Add Violence (Null -EP) [07-21] - industrial rock
  • Nine Inch Nails: Not the Actual Events (Null -16) [12-22-2016]
  • Nines: One Foot Out (XL) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Nite: Reborn (Cleopatra) [07-28]
  • Nite Jewel: Real High (Gloriette) [05-05] - synthpop
  • Niteshifters: Huge Disco (Delimusic) [07-15] - disco
  • Nkisi: Kill (MW Norway) [03-27] - techno
  • Nmesh: Pharma (Orange Milk) [08-04]
  • No UFO's: NU LP for RS (Root Strata)
  • No Warning: Torture Culture (Last Gang) [10-13] - rock
  • Nocando: Severed ()
  • Christian Nodal: Me Deje Llevar (Universal) [08-25] - Latin
  • Nordic Affect: Raindamage (Sono Luminus) [02-17] - classical
  • Nordic Giants: Amplify Human Vibration (self-released) [10-02] - alt/indie
  • Northlane: Mesmer (UNFD) [03-24] - metalcore
  • Kemper Norton: Hungan (self-released) [07-17] - ambient
  • Nothing but Thieves: Broken Machine (RCA) [09-08] - alt rock
  • Nothing More: The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Better Noise) [09-15] - alt rock
  • Nothing Nowhere: Reaper (DCD2/Equal Vision) [10-20] - alt/indie
  • Noveller: Pink Sunset for No One (Fire) [02-10] - alt/indie rock
  • Not You: Misty (-EP) [05-12]
  • Gary Numan: Savage (Songs From a Broken World) (BMG) [09-15]
  • Nurses: Naughtland (self-released) [10-06]
  • Oak House: Hot or Mood (self-released) [04-07]
  • Mary Ocher: The West Against the People (Klangbad) [03-10] - art pop
  • Oblivia: Martyr Complex (680744 DK) [03-01] - electronic
  • The Obsessed: Sacred (Relapse) [04-07] - metal
  • The Obsessives: The Obsessives (Cooking Vinyl) [03-17] - alt/indie
  • Audrey Ochoa Trio: Afterthought (Chronograph) [05-12] - jazz
  • The Octopus Project: Memory Mirror (Robot High School) [04-07]
  • Odesza: A Moment Apart (Foreign Family Collective) [09-08] - future bass
  • Obituary: Obituary (Relapse) [03-17] - death metal
  • Obnox: Niggative Approach (self-released) [05-30]
  • Obongjayar: Bassey (self-released -EP) [08-25] - hip-hop
  • Ocean Grove: The Rhapsody Tapes (UNFD) [02-03] - nu metalcore
  • The Ocean Party: Beauty Point (Spunk/Emotional Response) [08-14] - alt/indie
  • Oceans Are Zeroes: Oceans Are Zeroes () [05-05]
  • OCS: Memory of a Cut Off Head (Castle Face) [11-17] - alt/indie
  • Octo Octa: Where Are We Going? (Honey Soundsystem) [03-24] - electronic
  • The Odd Numbers: The Odyssey (Sons of Pioneers) [09-15] - punk
  • Oddfellow's Casino: Oh Sealand (Microcultures) [07-07] - alt/indie
  • Odonis Odonis: No Pop (Felte) [10-20] - electronic
  • Aine O'Dwyer: Gallarais (MIE) - jazz
  • Offa Rex: The Queen of Hearts (Nonesuch) [07-14] - psychedelic pop
  • Oh Sees: Orc (Castle Face) [08-25] - psychedelic rock
  • Oh Susanna: A Girl in Teen City (Stella) [05-26]
  • Oh Wonder: Ultralife (Island) [07-14] - electropop
  • Ojard: Euphonie () [09-29]
  • Keiichi Okabe & Keigo Hoashi: NieR:Automata ()
  • Nils Okland Band: Lysning (Hubro) [10-20] - jazz
  • Old Crow Medicine Show: 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Columbia Nashville) [04-28] - country
  • Old Dominion: Happy Endings (RCA Nashville) [08-25] - country
  • Mike Oldfield: Return to Ommadawn (Virgin EMI) [01-27] - new age
  • Stephan Oliva/Susanne Abbuehl/Oyvind Hegg-Lunde: Prince (Vision Fugitive) [03-31] - jazz
  • Oliwood: Euphoria (Enja) - jazz
  • David Olney: Don't Try to Fight It (Red Parlor) [03-31]
  • Omar: Love in Beats (Freestyle) [01-00] - funk
  • Jowee Omicil: Let's Bash (Jazz Village) [04-14] - jazz
  • Omni: Multi Task (Trouble in Mind) [09-22]
  • Tomoko Omura: Post Bop Gypsies (Inner Circle) [07-07] - jazz
  • On Fillmore: Happiness of Living (Northern Spy) [03-24]
  • One OK Rock: Ambitions (Fueled by Ramen) [01-13] - pop punk
  • Once and Future Band: Once and Future Band (Castle Face) [01-27] - rock
  • Tara Jane O'Neil: Tara Jane O'Neil (Gnomonsong) [04-21]
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Good Time [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Warp) [08-10] - electronica
  • Onra: Chinoiseries Pt 3 (All City Dublin) [03-10] - electronic
  • Onyx Collective: Lower East Suite Pt 1 (Big Dada) [10-27] - jazz
  • Onyx Collective: Lower East Suite Pt 2 (Big Dada) [12-01] - jazz
  • OOIOO: Gold & Green (Polystar) [09-06] - psychedelic
  • Jex Opolis: Ravines (Good Timin') [04-17]
  • Rex Orange County: Apricot Priness (self-released) [04-26] - pop
  • Bill Orcutt: Bill Orcutt (Palilalia) [06-30]
  • Orelsan: La Fete Est Finie (Wagram) [10-20] - hip hop
  • Organic Trio: Saturn's Spell (Jazz Family) [01-27] - jazz
  • Organissimo: B3tles (Big O) [02-15] - jazz
  • Orion: Orion (Pax Am) [05-18] - metal
  • Lindi Ortega: Til the Goin' Gets Gone (Soundly Music) [03-17] - folk
  • Aruan Ortiz: Cuban Nocturne (Newvelle) [10-00] - jazz
  • The Orwells: Terrible Human Beings (Atlantic) [02-17] - garage rock
  • Oso Oso: The Yunahon Mixtape (Seal Mountain) [01-13] - emo
  • Daniel O'Sullivan: Veld (O Genesis) [06-30] - electronic
  • Otenba Kid: Pink Panther (Maltine -EP) [04-13]
  • Otoboke Beaver: Love Is Short!! (Damnably -EP) [03-24] - punk
  • Otzi: Ghosts (Last Hour) [09-01] - post-punk
  • Out Lines: Conflats (Rock Action) [10-27]
  • Sam Outlaw: Tenderheart (Cooking Vinyl) [04-14] - country
  • Overcoats: Young (Arts & Crafts) [04-21] - alt/indie
  • Overlook: Smoke Signals (UVB-76) [03-31] -
  • Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Whispers on the Wind (MAMA) [09-08] - jazz
  • Ozuna: Odisea (VP/Dimelo Vi/Sony Music Latin) [08-25]
  • Jennifer Paige: Starflower ()
  • Pain of Salvation: In the Passing Light of Day (InsideOut) [01-13] - prog rock
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Painbow (09-01) [alt/indie]
  • Palberta: Bye Bye Berta (Wharf Cat/Ramp Local) [02-10] - post-punk
  • Pale Seas: Stargazing for Beginners (Abbey) [10-00] - indie rock
  • Palehound: A Place I'll Always Go (Polyvinyl) [06-10]
  • Pallbearer: Heartless (Profound Lore) [03-24] - doom metal
  • Nerina Pallot: Stay Lucky (Idaho) [10-13]
  • Palm: Shadow Expert (Carpark)
  • Nai Palm: Needle Paw (Sony Classical) [10-20] - r&b
  • Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel: I Can Spin a Rainbow (Cooking Vinyl) [05-05]
  • Sergio Pamies: What Brought You Here? (Bebyne) [05-20] - jazz
  • Pancrace: Pancrace (Penultimate Press) [05-15]
  • Panda Riot: Infinity Maps (self-released)
  • Papernut Cambridge: Mellotron Phase: Volume 1 (self-released) [09-20]
  • Pardoner: Uncontrollable Salvation (Father/Daughter) [09-08] - noise rock
  • Han-earl Park/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders/Caroline Pugh: Sirene 1009 (Buster & Friends) [01-31] - jazz
  • Evan Parker/John Edwards/John Russell: Walthamstow Moon ('61 Revisited) (ByrdOut) [07-07] - jazz
  • William Parker/David Budbill: What I Saw This Morning (AUM Fidelity) - jazz
  • Parlor Walls: Opposites (Northern Spy) [03-10] - experimental rock
  • Lee Roy Parnell: Midnight Believer (BFD) [08-11]
  • Charlie Parr: Dog (Red House) [09-08] - bluegrass
  • The Parson Red Heads: Blurred Harmony (You Are the Cosmos) [06-19]
  • Part Chimp: IV (Rock Action) [04-14]
  • Partikel: Counteraction (Whirlwind) [03-24] - jazz
  • Partner: In Search of Lost Time (You've Changed) [09-08]
  • PartyNextDoor: Colours 2 ()
  • Anthony Pasquarosa: Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ) [06-09] - alt/indie
  • John Patitucci: Irmaos De Fe (Newvelle) [02-00] - jazz
  • Acid Pauli: BLD (Ouie) [03-24] - electronic
  • Mario Pavone Dialect Trio: Chrome (Playscape) [09-26] - jazz
  • Justin Dean Payne: Coal Camp (Young Mary's -EP) [06-16] - country
  • Payroll Giovanni: Payface (self-released) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Peacers: Introducing the Crimsmen (Drag City) [06-16]
  • Peaking Lights: The Fifth State of Consciousness (Two Flowers) [06-16] - psychedelic pop
  • Peaness: Are You Sure? (Alcopop) [05-05]
  • Carly Pearce: Every Little Thing (Big Machine) [10-13] - country
  • Morten Pedersen 5tet: Sammensurium (Barefoot) - jazz
  • Hayden Pedigo: Greetings From Amarillo (Driftless) [06-09] - new age
  • Hannah Peel: Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (My Own Pleasure) [09-22] - synth-pop
  • Deniz Peeters & Simon Rose: Edith's Problem (Leo) - jazz
  • Jeremy Pelt: Make Noise (HighNotes) - jazz
  • People Like You: Verse (Topshelf) [07-28] - jazz
  • Perc: Bitter Music (Perc Trax) [05-12] - techno
  • Linda Perhacs: I'm a Harmony (Omnivore) [09-22] - psychedelic folk
  • G Perico: All Blue (So Way Out) [04-28] - hip-hop
  • G Perico: 2 Tha Left (Caroline) [12-08] - hip-hop
  • Gene Perla: Out of the Game (PM) - jazz
  • Katy Perry: Witness (Capitol) [06-09] - electropop
  • Houston Person: Rain or Shine (HighNote) [11-10] - jazz
  • Perspective a Lovely Hand to Hold: What Not to Do (Broken Rim) [06-02]
  • Pessimits: Pessimist (Blackest Ever Black) [08-25]
  • Pet Symmetry: Vision (Polyvinyl) [05-26] - alt/indie
  • Lucky Peterson: Tribute to Jimmy Smith (Jazz Village) [10-13] - jazz
  • Peverelist: Tesselations (Livity Sound) [05-26] - techno
  • Pharmakon: Contact (Sacred Bones) [03-31] - noise
  • Phew: Voice Hardcore (Bereket) [10-00] - experimental
  • Phoenix: Ti Amo (Glassnote) [06-09] - electropop
  • Photay: Onism (Astro Nautico) [08-11] - electronic
  • Phronesis/Julian Arguelles/Frankfurt Radio Big Band: The Behemoth (Edition) [03-31] - jazz
  • The Physics House Band: Mercury Fountain (Small Pond) [04-21]
  • Piano Magic: Closure (Second Language) [01-27] - pop/rock
  • Pick a Piper: Distance (Abandon Building) [02-24]
  • Pieces of Juno: Kalopsia (-EP) [04-28]
  • L Pierre: 1948- (Melodic) [04-28]
  • Matt Piet Trio: At the Hungry Brain (self-released) - jazz
  • Matt Piet Trio: Live at Elastic Arts (self-released) - jazz
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Feed the Rats (Rocket) [01-20] - alt/indie
  • Courtney Pine: Black Notes From the Deep (Freestyle) - jazz
  • Ariel Pink: Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (Mexican Summer) [09-15] - rock
  • Pinky Pinky: Pinky Pinky (Innovative Leisure) [04-21]
  • Pile: A Hairshirt of Purpose (Exploding in Sound) [03-31] - indie rock
  • Pins: Bad Thing (Haus of Pins -EP) [03-24]
  • Benoit Pioulard: Slow Spark Soft Spoke (Dauw) [11-17]
  • Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now (Sub Pop) [02-24] - noise rock
  • Pitbull: Climate Change (RCA) [03-17] - hip-hop
  • The Pitch: Frozen Orchestra (Berlin) (Arbitrary) [11-02] - jazz
  • Pixx: The Age of Anxiety (4AD) [06-02]
  • Planning for Burial: Below the House (The Flenser) [03-10] - post-rock
  • Robert Plant: Carry Fire (Nonesuch) [10-13] - folk rock
  • Bill & Joel Plaskett: Solidarity (New Scotland Yard) [02-17]
  • Plastic Flowers: Absent Forever (Native Sound)
  • Playboy Manbaby: Don't Let It Be (Dirty Water) [11-16] - rock
  • PnB Rock: Going Thru the Motions (Empire/Atlantic) [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Ariel Pocock: Living in Twilight (Justin Time) - jazz
  • Verneri Pohjola: Pekka (Edition) [06-02] - jazz
  • Polo & Pan: Caravelle (Hamburger) [05-19] - noise
  • Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy: A Pocket of Wind Resistance (Hudson) [11-17]
  • Pond: The Weather (Marathon Artists) [05-05] - synthpop
  • Poppy: Poppy Computer (Mad Decent) [10-06] - electropop
  • Porcelain Raft: Microclimate (Volcanic Field) [02-03] - dream pop
  • Michel Portal & Quatour Ebene: Eternal Stories (Erato) [05-05] - jazz
  • Ryan Porter: Spangle-Lang Lane (World Galaxy) [09-22] - childrens
  • Porter Union: Porter Union (self-released) - country
  • Portugal the Man: Woodstock (Atlantic) [06-16] - funk
  • POS: Chill Dummy (Doomtree) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • POW!: Crack an Egg (Castle Face) [02-10] - alt/indie
  • Ryan Power: They Sell Doomsday (NNA) [10-20] - sophisti-pop
  • Power Trip: Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord) [02-24] - thrash metal
  • Powerdance: The Lost Art of Getting Down (self-released) [07-07] - deep house
  • Pregnancy: Urgency (Lost and Lonesome/Emotional Response) [07-14]
  • Bobby Previte: Terminals Quartets (Cantaloupe Music) - jazz
  • Chris Price: Stop Talking (Omnivore) [05-19]
  • The Len Price 3: Kentish Longtails (MRI) [09-22] - pop
  • Sean Price: Imperius Rex (Ruck Down) [08-08] - hip-hop
  • Primate Fiasco: Massachusetts Winter (self-released) [03-01] - alt/indie
  • Primitive Man: Caustic (Relapse) [10-06] - metal
  • Pronto Mama: Any Joy (Electric Honey) [05-05]
  • Propaganda: Crooked (Humble Beast) [06-30] - hip-hop
  • Propagandhi: Victory Lap (Epitaph) [09-29] - melodic hardcore
  • The Proper Ornaments: Foxhole (Slumberland) [01-20] - alt/indie rock
  • Prophets of Rage: Prophets of Rage (Fantasy) [09-15] - rap/rock
  • Proyecto Reutemann: Projecto Reutemann (Discos ICM) - jazz
  • Psychic Temple: IV (Joyful Noise) [07-14] - jazz
  • Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley ()
  • Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley (Test Card) [07-07] - post-rock
  • Pulled Apart by Horses: The Haze (Amplify/Caroline) [03-17] - post-hardcore
  • Pumarosa: The Witch (Fiction) [05-19] - psychedelic rock
  • PVRIS: All We Know of Heaven All We Need of Hell (Rise) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • PVT: New Spirit (Felte) [02-17] - indietronica
  • PWR BTTM: Pageant (Polyvinyl) [05-12] - indie rock
  • Pye Corner Audio: The Spiral (Death Waltz) [03-17] - downtempo
  • Pyrrhon: What Passes for Survival (Capitol) [08-11] - technical death metal
  • Don Q: Corner Stories (Highbridge/Atlantic) - hip-hop
  • Quantic and Nidia Gongora: Curao (Tru Thoughts) [05-12] -
  • Quartet NL [Benjamin Herman/Peter Beets/Ruud Jacobs/Han Bennink]: Quartet NL (ICP) [08-00] - jazz
  • Quercus [June Tabor/Iain Ballamy/Huw Warren]: Nightfall (ECM) [04-28] - jazz
  • Quicksand: Interiors (Epitaph)
  • Anne Quillier 6tet: Dusty Shelters (Prince-Oreilles) [01-13] - jazz
  • R We Who R We: I Love You (self-released) [11-21] - pop
  • Vanessa Racci: Italiana Fresca (self-released) [05-19] - jazz
  • Spencer Radcliffe & Everybody Else: Enjoy the Great Outdoors (Run for Cover)
  • Radiator Hospital: Play the Songs You Like (Salinas) [10-20] - rock
  • The Radiophonic Workshop: Burials in Several Earths (Room 13) [05-09]
  • Raekwon: The Wild (Ice H2O/Empire) [03-24] - hip-hop
  • RaeLynn: WildHorse (Warner Bros Nashville) [03-24] - country
  • Ragana: You Take Nothing (self-released) [04-14]
  • Rainer Maria: Rainer Maria (self-released) [08-18]
  • Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement: Ambient Black Magic (Hospital Productions) [10-04] - dance
  • Jordan Rakei: Wallflower (09-22) [Ninja Tune] - r&b
  • Ralph: Ralph ()
  • David Ramirez: We're Not Going Anywhere (Universal [NZ]) [09-08] - folk
  • Ramzi: Phobiza Noite Vol 2 (Mood Hut -EP) [02-01]
  • Rancid: Trouble Maker (Epitaph) [06-09] - punk
  • Robert Randolph & the Family Band: Got Soul (Masterworks)
  • Ranky Tanky: Ranky Tanky (Resilience) [10-20] - jazz
  • Rah Zen: Midnight Satori (Dome of Doom) [10-06] - electronic
  • Dizzee Rascal: Raskit (Dirtee Stank/Island) [07-21]
  • Mette Rasmussen/Tashi Dorji/Tyler Damon: To the Animal Kingdom (Trost) - jazz
  • Rat Boy: Scum (Parlophone) [08-11] - alt/indie
  • Rat Columns: Candle Power (Upset the Rhythm) [04-07] - alt/indie
  • Ratboys: GN (Topshelf) [06-30]
  • T Raumschmiere: Heimat (Kompakt) [05-19] - electronic
  • David Rawlings: Poor David's Almanack (Acony) [08-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Porter Ray: Watercolor (Sub Pop) [03-10] - hip-hop
  • Shilpa Ray: Door Girl (Northern Spy) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Allan Rayman: Roadhouse 01 (Communion) [02-24] - alt rock
  • Rays: Rays (Trouble in Mind) [03-21]
  • Rebekah: Fear Paralysis (Soma) [04-28] - electronic
  • Rebirth of Nefast: Tabernaculum (Norma Evangelium Diaboli) [03-24] - metal
  • Red Baraat: Bhangra Pirates (Rhyme & Reason) [03-24]
  • Red Axes: The Beach Goths (Garzen) [08-11] - alt/indie
  • Trippie Redd: A Love Letter to You (Caroline) [05-12] - hip-hop
  • Luke Reed: Won't Be There (self-released) [03-24]
  • Kris Reeder: Central Ideology (Blowpipe) [07-23] - jazz
  • Niq Reefman: A Selection of Musical Tales (-) [04-09]
  • Fionn Regan: The Meetings of the Waters (Abbey) [04-14]
  • Remnants: Accomplices Not Allies (Discos MMM) [06-30]
  • Remo Drive: Greatest Hits (self-released) [03-16]
  • Reniss: Tendon (New Bell Music -16) [10-24-2016] - pop
  • Residente: Residente (Fusion Media Group) [03-31] - alt hip-hop
  • The Residents: The Ghost of Hope (Cryptic) [03-24] - alt/indie rock
  • Markus Reuter: Falling for Ascension (Ronin Rhythm) [04-21] - jazz
  • Alex Rex: Vermillion (Tin Angel) [04-29] - folk
  • Rex Orange County: Apricot Princess ()
  • Bebe Rexha: All Your Fault: Pt 1 (Warner Bros -EP) [05-19] - hip-hop
  • Bebe Rexha: All Your Fault: Pt 2 (Warner Bros -EP) [11-03] - hip-hop
  • Emilio Reyna: La Lenta Marcha De Las Estrellas (self-released) [08-08] - jazz
  • Thomas Rhett: Life Changes (Valory Music) [09-08] - country pop
  • Robert Rich and Markus Reuter: Lift a Feather to the Flood (Soundscapes) [04-12]
  • Miranda Lee Richards: Existential Beast ()
  • Max Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works (Deutsche Grammophon) [01-27] - modern classical
  • Max Richter: Behind the Counter With Max Richter (Rough Trade) [06-00] -
  • Porter Ricks: Anguilla Electrica (Tresor) [06-00] - dub techno
  • Ride: Weather Diaries (Wichita) [06-16] - dream pop
  • LeeAnn Rimes: Remnants ()
  • Rips: Rips (Faux Discx) [06-16] - rock
  • Ripsaw Catfish: Namazu (Raw Tonk) - jazz
  • Rise Against: Wolves (Virgin) [06-09] - punk rock
  • Aki Rissanen Trio: Another North (Edition) [11-10] - jazz
  • Josh Ritter: Gathering (Cooking Vinyl) [09-22] - folk-rock
  • RJ: MrLA (Empire/400 Summers) [05-25] - hip-hop
  • Alasdair Roberts: Pangs (Drag City) [02-24] - folk
  • Marcus Roberts Trio: Trio Crescent: Celebrating Coltrane (J-Master) - jazz
  • Mariel Roberts: Cartography (New Focus) [05-19] - classical
  • Bruce Robinson: Bruce Robinson & the Back Porch Band () [04-28]
  • Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Barefoot in the Head (Silver Arrow) [07-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Betty's Blends Vol 3: Self-Rising Southern Blends (Silver Arrow) [05-05]
  • Roger Robinson: Dog Heart City (Jahtari)
  • Rocks FOE: Fight the Good? Fight (Black Acre) [09-01]
  • Rodhad: Anxious (Dystopian) [11-24] - electronic
  • Ernesto Rodrigues/Yedo Gibson/Miguel Mira/Luis Lopes/Vasco Trilla: Nepenthes Hibrida (Creative Sources) - jazz
  • Adam Rogers: Dice (Adraj) [07-21] - jazz
  • Maggie Rogers: Now That the Light Is Fading (EP)
  • Raphael Roginski: Plays Henry Purcell (Bolt) [03-00] - jazz
  • Berta Rojas: Felicidade (OnMusic) [04-20] - jazz
  • Roligheten: Homegrown (Clean Feed) - jazz
  • Daniel Romano: Modern Pressure (New West) [05-19]
  • Marc Romboy: Voyage De La Planete (Hyperharmonic) [03-17] - electronic
  • Roosevelt: Midnight Versions (City Slang) [08-18]
  • Rosalia: Los Angeles (Universal) [02-10] - pop
  • Frankie Rose: Cage Tropical (Slumberland) [08-11] - dream pop
  • Liz Rose: Swimming Alone (self-released) [05-12] - country
  • Lucy Rose: Something's Changing (Communion) [07-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Nadia Rose: Highly Flammable (Ministry of Sound) [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Joe Rosenberg Ensemble: Tomorrow Never Knows (Quark) - jazz
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel: Caipi (Razdaz/Heartcore/Sunnyside) [03-10] - jazz
  • Rick Ross: Rather You Than Me (Maybach Music Group/Epic) [03-17] - hip-hop
  • Francois-Xavier Roth/Les Siecles: Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe, Complete Ballet (Harmonia Mundi) [03-17] - classical
  • Lawrence Rothman: The Book of Love (Downtown/Interscope) [10-13] - synthpop
  • ROVA: Orkestrova: No Favorites! For Lawrence "Butch" Morris (New World) [10-30] - jazz
  • Keith Rowe and Michael Pisaro: 13 Thirteen (Erstwhile) - jazz
  • Sean Rowe: New Lore (Anti) [04-07]
  • Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark (Warner Bros) [06-16] - hard rock
  • Royal Thunder: WICK (Spinefarm) [04-07] - metal
  • Royal Trux: Platinum Tips + Ice Cream (Domino)
  • Rozwell Kid: Precious Art (Side One Dummy) [06-23]
  • RSXGLD [Ro Spit & 14KT]: RSXGLD (Fat Beats) [11-03] - hip-hop
  • Rick Rude: Make Mine Tuesday (Sophomore Lounge/Tiny Radars)
  • Vex Ruffin: Conveyor (Stones Throw) [04-07]
  • Rulemares: Atractor Extrano (FMR) [12-00-2016] - jazz
  • Todd Rundgren: White Knight (Cleopatra) [05-12] - art pop
  • Heikki Ruokangas/Olli Estola/Jakob Roland: Ruokangas/Estola/Roland (Alba) - jazz
  • Jeff Rupert and Richard Drexler: Imagination (Rupe Media) - jazz
  • Jana Rush: Pariah (Objects Limited) - juke
  • Ruby Rushton: Trudi's Songbook Vol 2 (22A) [11-24] - jazz
  • Jack Rutter: Hills (self-released) [10-03]
  • Ruwahine: Ifriqiyya Electrique (Glitterbeat)
  • RVG: Quality of Mercy (Island) [05-11] - alt/indie
  • Matthew Ryan: Hustle Up Starlings (self-released) [05-12] - alt/indie
  • Phoebe Ryan: James (Columbia -EP) [10-27]
  • Astrid S: Party's Over (Universal -EP) [06-30] - pop
  • Saagara: 2 (Instant Classic) [02-27] - fusion
  • Sabil: Zabad: Twilight Tide (Harmonia Mundi/Latitudes) [06-09] - Arabic
  • Sacred Paws: Strike a Match (Rock Action) [01-27] - indie pop
  • Sadaf: Shell (Outside Insight -EP) [08-18]
  • Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble: Finding Me Finding You (Drag City) [03-24]
  • Sadistik: Altars (Equal Vision) [04-14] - hip-hop
  • Saffron Ensemble: Will You? (Rock Paper Scissors) [09-22] - Iranian
  • Saicobab: Sab Se Purani Bab (Shochy) [06-06]
  • Said the Whale: As Long as Your Eyes Are Wide (Hidden Pony) [03-31]
  • Morgan Saint: 17 Hero (Epic -EP) [10-13] - pop
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: Medicine Songs (True North) [11-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Suso Saiz: Rainworks (Music From Memory) [03-17]
  • Akira Sakata/Manuel Mota/Giovanni Di Domenico/Mathieu Calleja: Jomon (Holidays) - jazz
  • Maryam Saleh/Maurice Louca/Tamer Abu Ghazaleh: Lekhfa (Mostakell) [09-22] - alt/indie
  • Saltland: A Common Truth (Constellation) [03-31]
  • Sampa the Great: Birds and the BEE9 (Big Dada) [11-10] - hip-hop
  • Samsara Blues Experiment: One With the Universe (Electric Magic) [05-12]
  • San Fermin: Belong (Downtown) [04-07] - indie rock
  • Antonio Sanchez: Bad Hombre (CAM Jazz) [09-29] - jazz
  • Sandcatchers: What We Found Along the Way (Chant) [11-01] - jazz
  • Marco Santilli's CheRoba & Il Fiato Delle Alpi: La Stua (Unit) - jazz
  • Marco Santilli CheRoba: L'Occhio Della Betulla (Unit) [01-13] - jazz
  • Sassy 009: Do You Mind (Luft -EP) [11-03] - downtempo
  • Greg Saunier/Mary Halvorson/Ron Miles: New American Songbooks Volume 1 (Sound American) [12-05] - jazz
  • Savage: Mind the Gap (-) [01-25]
  • Sean Nicholas Savage: Yummycoma (Arbutus) [10-13]
  • Alexandra Savior: Belladonna of Sadness (Columbia) [04-07] - indie pop
  • Say Sue Me: Say Sue Me (Electric Muse/Damnably) [04-28]
  • Saz'iso: At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Songs (Glitterbeat) -
  • Eric Schaefer: Kyoto Mon Amour (ACT) - jazz
  • Morten Schantz: Godspeed (Edition) [01-27] - jazz
  • Virginia Schenck: Aminata Moseka: An Abbey Lincoln Tribute (Airborne Ecstasy) [03-01] - jazz
  • Louis Sclavis: Frontieres (JMS) [10-13] - jazz
  • Pete Schlegel: J-Town (self-released) [02-13] -
  • Scholars: Arts and Grafts (Banquet) [05-19] - alt/indie
  • School Damage: School Damage (Chapter) [06-00]
  • Jan Schulte: Tropical Drums of Deutschland (Music for Dreams) - jazz
  • Lor Scoota: Live From the A ()
  • Scooter: Scooter Forever (Sheffield Tunes) [09-01] - electronic
  • Marilyn Scott: Standard Blue (Prana Entertainment) [03-10] - jazz
  • Sarah Jane Scouten: When the Bloom Falls From the Rose (Light Organ) [06-16] - folk
  • Jan Schulte: Tropical Drums of Deutschland (Music for Dreams) [07-14]
  • Se Och Hor: Se Mig Hor Mig Kann Mig (Signal and Sound) - jazz
  • Seafang: Solid Gold (Emotional Response) [09-14] - alt/indie
  • Garren Sean: Garren LP (self-released) [07-28] - r&b
  • Seaway: Vacation (Pure Noise) [09-15] - rock
  • Second Storey: Lucid Locations (Houndstooth) [08-25]
  • Second Woman: Second Woman (Spectrum Spools) [05-27] - electronic
  • The Secret Sisters: You Don't Own Me Anymore (New West) [06-09] - folk
  • See Through Dresses: Horses of the Other World (Tiny Engines) [06-30] - rock
  • Ty Segall: Ty Segall (Drag City) [01-27] - psychedelic rock
  • Ty Segall: Fried Shallots (Drag City -EP) [08-25] - rock
  • Sharif Sehnaoui/Adam Golebiewski: Meet the Dragon (Uznam) - jazz
  • Jelani Sei: Lvndr Twn (self-released) [09-26] - alt/indie
  • Self Talk: Almost Everything (Inertia Access) [08-11] - alt/indie
  • Sense MC: The Elephant in the Room (Different Music) [02-14]
  • Trevor Sensor: Andy Warhol's Dream (Jagjaguwar) [05-00]
  • Charlie Sepulveda & the Turnaround: Mr EP: A Tribute to Eddie Palmieri (HighNote) [01-17] - jazz
  • Sevdaliza: Ison (Twisted Elegance) [04-26] - trip hop
  • The Seven Fields of Aphelion: Keep the Ocean Inside (Rad Cult) [10-27] - electronic
  • Ron Sexsmith: The Last Rider (Compass) [04-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Sam Sfirri & Taku Unami: Zymology (Hibari Music) - jazz
  • SFJazz Collective: Music of Miles Davis & Original Compositions (SFJazz) [03-24] - jazz
  • Joseph Shabason: Aytche (Western Vinyl) [08-25] - jazz
  • Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold: Sferic Ghost Transmits (Honest Jon's) [01-20] - electronic
  • Shamir: Revelations (Father/Daughter) [11-03] - alt/indie
  • RF Shannon: Jaguar Palace ()
  • Shardik: Shardik (Tzadik) - jazz
  • Shed: The Final Experiment (Monkeytown) [03-10] - electronic
  • She-Devils: She-Devils (Secretly Canadian) [05-19] - indie pop
  • Ed Sheeran: Divide (Atlantic/Asylum) [03-03] - pop
  • She'Koyokh: First Dance on Second Avenue (Riverboat) [03-31] -
  • Joan Shelley: Joan Shelley (No Quarter) [05-05] - Americana
  • Aram Shelton & Hakon Berre: Bygning G (self-released) - jazz
  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Lay It on Down (Provogue) [08-04]
  • The Sherlocks: Live for the Moment (Infectious Music) [08-18] - alt/indie
  • Sherwood & Pinch: Man vs Sofa (On-U Sound/Tectonic) [02-24] - UK bass
  • Chris Shiflett: West Coast Town (Side One Dummy) [04-14] - country
  • Shigeto: The New Monday (Ghostly International) [10-06] - electronic
  • Ships: Precession (self-released) [05-01] - electropop
  • Shit & Shine: Total Shit! (Diagonal) [03-03] - dance
  • Shobaleader One: Elektrac (Warp) [03-10] - space rock
  • Shout Out Louds: Ease My Mind (Merge) [09-22]
  • Show Me the Body: Corpus I (Loma Vista) [03-24] - rock
  • Sia: Everyday Is Christmas (RCA) [11-17] - Xmas
  • Ben Sidran: Picture Him Happy (Nardis) - jazz
  • Jeff "Siege" Siegel Quartet: King of Xhosa (ARC) - jazz
  • Valgeir Sigurdsson: Dissonance (Bedroom Community) [04-21] - ambient
  • Peter Silberman: Impermanence (Anti-) [02-24] - slowcore
  • Silberman New Quintet: Piesn Gesi Kanadyjskich (Audio Cave) [05-12] - jazz
  • Silverstein: The Dead Reflection (Rise) [07-14] - rock
  • Bostjan Simon: There Be Monsters (Klopotec) [05-00] - jazz
  • Martin Simpson: Trials and Tribulations (Topic) [09-01]
  • Sinai Vessel: Brokenlegged (Tiny Engines) [01-27] - rock
  • Single Mothers: Our Pleasure (Dine Alone) [06-16]
  • Sinkane: Life & Livin' It (City Slang) [02-10] - afrobeat
  • Sir: Her Too (Top Dawg) [02-10] - r&b
  • Sir the Baptist: Saint or Sinner (Atlantic) [05-12]
  • Siriusmo: Comic (Monkeytown) [09-15] - electronic
  • Sirom: I Can Be a Clay Snapper (Tak:til) - jazz
  • Sisteray: 15 Minutes (Vallance -EP) [04-14] - alt rock
  • Six Organs of Admittance: Burning the Threshold (Drag City) [02-24] - psychedelic folk
  • Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly: On Her Journey to the Sun (InsideOut) [05-19]
  • Skepta: Vicious (Boy Better Know) [10-31] - hip-hop
  • Kira Skov/Maria Faust: In the Beginning (Stunt) - jazz
  • Sky Architect: Nomad (FREIA Music) [06-17] - prog rock
  • Skyway Man: Seen Comin' From a Mighty Eye (Yweknee) [02-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Slatface: Try Not to Freak Out (Propeller) [09-15] - punk
  • Slaughter Beach Dog: Birdie (Lame-O) [10-27]
  • Sleep on It: Overexposed (Equal Vision) [11-03] - pop punk
  • Sleep Token: Two (Basick -EP) [07-21]
  • Sleeping With Sirens: Gossip (Warner Bros) [09-22] - pop rock
  • Sloppy Heads: Useless Smile (Shrimper) [01-27] - alt/indie
  • Slotface: Try Not to Freak Out (Propeller) [09-15] - punk rock
  • Sloth Racket: Shapeshifters (Luminous Label) - jazz
  • Slow Dancer: Im a Mood (ATO) [06-09]
  • Sly & the Family Drone + Dead Neanderthals: Molar Wrench (Hominid)
  • Smagghe & Cross: MA (Offen Music)
  • Smidley: Smidley (Triple Crown) [06-02]
  • Andrew Smiley: Dispersal (Astral Spirits) - jazz
  • Hal Smith's Swing Central: Windy City Swing (Tuxedo Cat) - jazz
  • Jaden Smith: Syre (MSFTSMusic) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Linda Catlin Smith: Drifter (Another Timbre)
  • Sam Smith: The Thrill of It All (Capitol) [11-03]
  • The Smith Street Band: More Scared of You Than You Are of Me (Side One Dummy) [04-07]
  • Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp: The Poacher's Fate (Broken Token) [12-21] - folk
  • Snapped Ankles: Come Play the Trees (The Leaf Label) [09-29]
  • Snoop Dogg: Neva Left (Doggy Style) [07-07] - hip-hop
  • Angel Snow: Magnetic (Nettwerk) [05-05]
  • So Many Wizards: Heavy Vision (Lolipop) [04-15]
  • So Much Light: Oh Yuck (Anti-) [08-11] - alt/indie
  • SOB X RBE: SOB X RBE (self-released) [01-23] - hip-hop
  • Soccer Mommy: Collection (Fat Possum) [08-04] - alt/indie
  • Social Club Misfits: The Misadventures of Fern & Marty (Social Club) [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Sohn: Rennen (4AD) [01-13] - art pop
  • Mark Solborg & Christian Skjodt: Omdrejninger (ILK) - jazz
  • Soley: Endless Summer (Morr) [05-05]
  • Somi: Petite Afrique (Sony) [03-31]
  • Clark Sommers: Lens by a Thread (Eyes & Ears) [07-21] - jazz
  • Sonder: Into (self-released) [01-26]
  • Sonic Jesus: Grace (Fuzz Club) [03-10] - rock
  • Sons of the Palomino: Sons of the Palomino (BFD) [06-30] - country
  • The Sons of the Soul Revivers: Live! Rancho Nicasio (The Little Village Foundation) - jazz
  • Sote: Sacred Horror in Design (Opal Tapes) [07-28] - dance
  • Soulwax: From Deewee (Play It Again Sam) [03-24] - electropop
  • Sounds of A&R: Sounds of A&R (Soaring) [08-26] - jazz
  • Space Camp: Force Femmed (Howling Frequency)
  • Ulrika Spacek: Modern English Decoration (Tough Love) [06-02]
  • Esperanza Spalding: Exposure (Concord) [12-16] - jazz
  • Richard Spaven: The Self (Fine Line) [06-30]
  • Special Request: Stairfoot Lane Bunker (Houndstooth) [04-07]
  • Special Request: Belief System (Houndstooth) [10-13] - downtempo
  • Special Request: Fabriclive 91 (Fabric) [03-24] - techno
  • Spectral Voice: Eroded Corridors of Unbeing (Dark Descent) [10-13] - metal
  • Spectres: Condition (Sonic Cathedral) [03-10] - shoegaze
  • Alister Spence Trio: Not Everything but Enough (self-released) - jazz
  • Caroline Spence: Spades and Roses (self-released) [03-03]
  • Spilt Cities: Life on Hold (self-released) [10-04] - rock
  • Spinning Coin: Permo (Geographic) [11-10] - alt/indie
  • The Spirit of the Beehive: Pleasure Suck (Tiny Engines) [03-24] - rock
  • Spiral Stairs: Doris & the Daggers (Nine Mile) [03-24] - alt/indie rock
  • Spirit Adrift: Curse of Conception (20 Buck Spin) [10-06] - metal
  • Splashh: Waiting a Lifetime (Cinematic) [04-14] - indie pop
  • Spotlights: Seismic (Ipecac)
  • Konrad Sprenger: Stack Music (Pan) [06-02] - electronic
  • Devon Sproule: The Gold String (Tin Angel) [03-24] - folk
  • Tobin Sprout: The Universe and Me (Burger) [01-27]
  • Squadra Omega: Materia Oscura (Grandangolo) - jazz
  • Squadra Omega: Nervoso (Holiday) - jazz
  • Squeeze: The Knowledge (Love) [10-13] - rock
  • Stalley: Tell the Truth: Shame the Devil (Blue Collar Gang) [11-17] - hip-hop
  • Standing on the Corner: Red Burns (self-released) [09-15] - hip-hop
  • Star Tropics: Lost World (Shelflife) [07-07]
  • The State Broadcasters: A Different Past (Olive Grove) [03-24]
  • Statues: No Grave No Burial (Dogswamp) [11-10] - punk
  • Staub Quartet: House Full of Colors (JACC) [03-00] - jazz
  • Steelism: Ism (Cooking Vinyl) [06-23] - alt/indie
  • Steffi: World of the Waking State (Ostgut Ton) [09-22] - techno
  • Juanita Stein: America (Nude) [07-28] - pop/rock
  • Josiah Steinbrick: Meeting of Waters (Leaving) [10-27]
  • Christopher Paul Stelling: Itinerant Arias (Anti) [05-05]
  • Steps: Tears on the Dance Floor (self-released) [04-21] - pop
  • Sterac Electronics: Things to Think About (Voyage Direct) [06-19] - electronic
  • Stereophonics: Scream Above the Sounds (Parlophone) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • Sterile Garden: Drift (Basement Tapes) [02-13] - electronic
  • Cat Stevens/Yusuf: The Laughing Apple (Verve) [09-15] - folk
  • Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live (self-released) [04-26]
  • Sufjan Stevens/Bryce Dessner/Nico Muhly/James McAlister: Planetarium (4AD) [06-09] - alt/indie
  • Still: I (Pan) [09-00] - dancehall
  • Flo Stoffner/Paul Lovens/Rudi Mahall: Mein Freund der Baum (Wide Ear) - jazz
  • Kelley Stoltz: Que Aura (Castle Face) [08-11]
  • Angus & Julia Stone: Snow (EMI) [09-15] - singer-songwriter
  • Joss Stone: Mama Earth (Provogue) [09-14]
  • Strand of Oaks: Hard Love (Dead Oceans) [02-17] - indie rock
  • Strange Ranger: Daymoon (Tiny Engines) [10-06] - rock
  • Strange U: #LP4080 (High Focus) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Will Stratton: Rosewood Alamanac (Bella Union) [05-12]
  • Eric Strickland & the B Sides: Black and White and Blue (Ol' River) [09-29] - country
  • Billy Strings: Turmoil & Tinfoil (Apostol) [09-22] - country
  • Stromboli: Volume Uno (Maple Death)
  • Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line: Champion (self-released) [10-13] - folk
  • The Strypes: Spitting Image (EMI) [06-16] - EMI
  • Danay Suarez: Palabras Manueles (Universal) [03-03] - Latin
  • Subsonic Eye: Strawberry Fields (Middle Class Cigars) [04-21]
  • Succumb: Succumb (The Flenser) [05-05] - metal
  • Sudan Archives: Sudan Archives (Stones Throw -EP) [07-14] - folktronica
  • Sully: Escape (Keysound) [09-29] - grime
  • Denis Sulta: Nein Fortiate (Sulta Selects -EP) [02-09]
  • Dan Sultan: Killer (Liberation) [07-28]
  • Sun Araw: The Saddle of the Increate (Sun Ark) [03-24]
  • Sundara Karma: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect (Sony) [01-06] - pop/rock
  • Susanne Sundfor: Music for People in Trouble (Bella Union) [09-09] - art pop
  • Sunrot: Sunnata (self-released) [08-03]
  • Superfood: Bambino (Dirty Hit) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • Surf Curse: Nothing Yet (Danger Collective) [01-13] - alt/indie
  • Surfer Blood: Snowdonia (Joyful Noise) [02-03] - indie rock
  • The Surfing Magazines: The Surfing Magazines (Moshi Moshi) [09-01] - alt/indie
  • Suss Cunts: Suss Cunts (Emotional Response) [05-29] - alt/indie
  • Susto: I'm Fine Today ()
  • Suzeri & Fiona Lee: Ftarri de Solos (Ftarri) - jazz
  • Akio Suzuki/John Butcher: Immediate Landscapes (Flarri) [07-23] - jazz
  • Suzy: Yes? No? (JYP -EP) [01-24] - K-pop
  • SW: Untitled (SUED) [11-17] - house
  • SW: The Album (Apollo) [07-14] - electronic
  • Swans: Deliquescence (Young God) [05-17]
  • Jorn Swart: Malnoia (BJU) - jazz
  • Sweet Baboo: Wild Imagination (Moshi Moshi) [06-02]
  • Sweet Spirit: St Mojo (Nine Mile) [04-07]
  • SWIDT: Stoneyhunga (Universal [New Zealand]) [07-28] - hip-hop
  • Sylvan Esso: Echo Mountain Sessions (-EP) [07-28] - indietronica
  • Cyiyoko Szlavnics: During a Lifetime (Another Timbre) [02-00] - jazz
  • Andy T Band: Double Strike (American Showpiece) - jazz
  • Craig Taborn/Ikue Mori: Highsmith (Tzadik) [05-00] - jazz
  • Taeyeon: My Voice ()
  • Talaboman: The Night Land (R&S) [03-03] - deep house
  • Talamanca System: Talamanca System (International Feel) [05-19] - house
  • Tall Ships: Impressions (FatCat) [03-31] - alt rock
  • Tall Tall Trees: Freedays (Joyful Noise) [02-17] - indie folk
  • Tanya Morgan: YGWY$4 (self-released) [07-28] - hip-hop
  • Avey Tare: Eucalyptus (Domino) [07-21] - psychedelic folk
  • Otis Taylor: Fantasizing About Being Black (Inakustik) [02-17] - blues
  • Sam Taylor Quartet With Larry McKenna: Along the Way (Cellar Live) [05-00] - jazz
  • Team Hegdal: Vol 4 (Particular Recordings Collective) - jazz
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band: Live From the Fox Oakland (Fantasy) [03-17] - blues rock
  • TeeCee4800: Ralness Over Millions 2 (Caroline) [09-29] - hip-hop
  • Teeks: The Grapefruit Skies (self-released -EP) [06-23]
  • Teen Daze: Themes for Dying Earth (Flora) [02-10] - dream pop
  • Teen Daze: Themes for a New Earth (Flora) [11-10] - dream pop
  • TeenCanteen: Sirens (Last Night From Glasgow) [04-22]
  • Teengirl Fantasy: 8AM (Planet Mu) [03-24] - ambient techno
  • Tei Shi: Crawl Space (Downtown/Interscope) [03-31] - electropop
  • Teleplasmiste: Frequency Is the New Ecstasy (House of Mythology) [04-07]
  • The Telescopes: As Light Return (Tapete) [07-07]
  • Toko Telo: Toy Raha Toy (Anio) [05-19] - African
  • Tinie Tempah: Youth (Parlophone) [04-14] - hip-hop
  • Temple Ov BBV: Temple Ov BBV (Rocket)
  • Temples: Volcano (Fat Possum) [03-03] - neo-psychedelia
  • Ten Fe: Hit the Light (Some Kinda Love) [02-03] - synthpop
  • Tennis: Yours Conditionally (Mutually Detrimental) [03-10] - indie pop
  • Dan Tepfer Trio: Eleven Cages (Sunnyside) [06-02] - jazz
  • Tephra Sound: Horizon (self-released) [08-05] - jazz
  • Dan Terminus: Automated Refrains (Blood Music) [11-10] - electronic
  • Tetragrammacide: Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (Iron Bonehead) [10-07]
  • Texas: Jump on Board (BMG) [04-21] - alt rock
  • The Texas Gentlemen: TX Jelly (New West) [09-15] - rock
  • Henri Texier: Concert Anniversaire 30 Ans (Label Bleu) [05-26] - jazz
  • The-Dream: Genesis ()
  • Thelma: Thelma (Tiny Engines)
  • They: Nu Religion: Hyena (Mind of a Genius/Warner Bros) [02-24] - r&b
  • Thievery Corporation: The Temple of I & I (ESL) [02-10] - downtempo
  • Chris Thile: Thanks for Listening (Nonesuch) [10-27] - singer-songwriter
  • This Is the Kit: Moonshine Freeze (Rough Trade) [07-07] - indie folk
  • Thollem/Mazurek: Blind Curves and Box Canyons (Relative Pitch) [04-21] - jazz
  • Jacques Thollot: Thollot in Extenso (Nato) [09-22] - jazz
  • Pat Thomas: Elephant Clock of Al Jazari (Otoroku) [07-00] - jazz
  • Richard Thompson: Acoustic Classics II (Proper) [08-10] - rock
  • Twerk Thomson: Plays Unpopular Songs (Twerk-O-Phonic) [02-01] - jazz
  • Those Who Walk Away: The Infected Mass (Constellation) [03-17] - drone
  • Holly Throsby: After a Time (Spunk!) [02-17] - indie folk
  • Throwing Snow: Embers (Houndstooth) [01-20] - IDM
  • Camille Thurman: Inside the Moment (Chesky) [05-19] - jazz
  • Shawn Thwaites Rebel Quartet: New Life (self-released) - jazz
  • Tigers Jaw: Spin (Black Cement) [05-19] - emo
  • The Tiger Lillies: Cold Night in Soho (Misery Guts) [02-10]
  • Tigers Mind: Paradiso Pudding Mix (Jvtlandt) - jazz
  • Bryson Tiller: True to Self (Trapsoul/RCA) [05-26]
  • Trevor James Tillery: Together Alone (self-released) [11-10] - alt/indie
  • Timber Timbre: Sincerely Future Pollution (City Slang) [04-07] - art rock
  • Tiny Hazard: Greyland (Ba Da Bing) [02-24] - art pop
  • Tired Lion: Dumb Days (Universal Music) [09-15] - grunge
  • TiRon & Ayomari: WET: The Wonderful Ego Trip (The Cafeteria Line) [11-24] - hip-hop
  • TLC: TLC (852 Music) [06-30] - r&b
  • Toadies: The Lower Side of Uptown (Kirtland) [09-08] - hard rock
  • Maylee Todd: Acts of Love (Do Right!) [11-03] - r&b
  • Toddla T: Foreign Light (Steeze) [07-29] - electronic
  • Toiret Status: Nyoi Plunger (Noumenal Loom) [10-22]
  • Shugo Tokumaru: Toss (Polyvinyl) [04-28] - alt/indie
  • Masahide Tokunaga: Bwoouunn: Fleeting Excitement (Hitori) - jazz
  • Kasper Tom/Rudi Mahall: One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure (Barefoot) [-2016] - jazz
  • Kasper Tom/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Rudi Mahall: Abstract Window (WhyPlayJazz) - jazz
  • Tiziano Tononi and Southbound: Trouble No More . . . All Men Are Brothers (Long Song) [02-00] - jazz
  • Tiziano Tononi & Daniele Cavallanti Nexus: Experience Nexus! (Rudi) [09-00] - jazz
  • Tonstartssbandht: Sorcerer (Mexican Summer) [03-24] - neo-psychedelia
  • TootArd: Laissez Passer (Glitterbeat) [11-20]
  • Toothless: The Pace of the Passing (Island) [01-27] - indie pop
  • Tops: Sugar at the Gate (Arbutus) [06-02] - indie pop
  • Cat Toren: Cat Toren's Human Kind (self-released) [01-17] - jazz
  • Gunilla Tornfeldt: Behind the Mask (self-released)
  • Toro y Moi: Boo Boo (Carpark) [07-07] - synth funk
  • Torres: Three Futures (4AD) [09-29] - folk rock
  • Bjorn Torske & Prins Thomas: Square One (Smalltown Supersound) [07-07] - deep house
  • Total Leatherette: For the Climax of the Night (Milk) [07-14] - dance
  • T-Pain & Lil Wayne: T-Wayne (Nappy Boy) [05-18] - hip-hop
  • TQD: UKG (Butterz/AEI) [03-17]
  • Trad Attack!: Kullakarva (self-released) [05-19] - Estonian folk
  • Trampolene: Swansea to Hornsey (Mi7) [10-27] - alt rock
  • Boubacar Traore: Dounia Tabolo (Lusafrica) [11-17] - African
  • Theo Travis: Open Air (Tonefloat) - jazz
  • Ron Trent: Presents Prescription: Word Sound & Power (Rush Hour) [02-20]
  • Trex: Treatment (Mac 2 Digital) [02-20] - electronic
  • Tribalistas: Tribalistas 2 (Phonomotor) [08-25] - Brazil
  • Dwight Trible: Inspirations (Gondwana) [06-30] - jazz
  • Trio Blastonal: It Is What It Is! (self-released) [02-27] - jazz
  • Trip Now!: Live at Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen 23.07.2016 (Leo) - jazz
  • Triptet: Slowly Away (Engine) - jazz
  • Tristen: Sneaker Waves (Modern Outsider) [07-07]
  • Mo Troper: Exposure & Response (Good Cheer) [11-17]
  • True Moon: True Moon (Lovely)
  • Com Truise: Iteration (Ghostly) [06-16] - electronic
  • Samuel Truitt: Thorns (Melters) [04-16]
  • Trummors: Headlands (Ernest Jenning) [05-12]
  • Trupa Trupa: Jolly New Songs (Ici D'Ailleurs) [10-27] - psychedelic rock
  • Akiko Tsuruga: So Cute So Bad (self-released) - jazz
  • Fletcher Tucker: Cold Spring (Gnome Life) [06-30]
  • Lina Tullgren: Won (Captured Tracks)
  • Yves Tumor: Experiencing the Deposit of Faith (self-released) [09-13] - ambient
  • Gavin Turek: Good Look for You (Madame Gold) [03-20]
  • Simon Fisher Turner: Giraffe (Editions Mego) -
  • Turnover: Good Nature (Run for Cover) [08-25] - dream pop
  • Twain: Rare Feeling (Keeled Scales) [10-20] - folk
  • Shania Twain: Now (Mercury Nashville) [09-29] - country
  • Jeff Tweedy: Together at Last (dBpm) [06-23] - singer-songwriter
  • Twelfth Day: Cracks in the Room (Orange Feather) [04-07] - Celtic folk
  • Twinsmith: Stay Cool (Saddle Creek) [07-14] - alt/indie
  • Two Inch Astronaut: Can You Please Not Help (Exploding in Sound)
  • Tycho: Epoch (Ghostly International) [01-20] - downtempo
  • Oded Tzur: Translator's Note (Enja/Yellowbird) [05-18] - jazz
  • Tzusing: [....] (LIES) - electronic
  • U2: Songs of Experience (Interscope) [12-01] - rock
  • Gebhard Ullman & Alexey Kruglov: Moscow-Berlin (Fancymusic) - jazz
  • Gebhard Ullmann/Oliver Potratz/Eric Schaefer: Das Kondesat (Why Play Jazz) [10-20] - jazz
  • Ultras: Ultras (Hello Thor/Instinctive Racoon) [04-28]
  • Ulver: The Assassination of Julius Caesar (House of Mythology) [04-07] - synthpop
  • Umfang: Symbolic Use of Light (Technicolour) [06-16]
  • Unearthly Trance: Stalking the Ghost (Relapse) [02-24] - metal
  • Uncommon Nasa: Written at Night (Man Bites Dog) [08-04] - hip-hop
  • Undergang: Misantropologi (Dark Descent) [06-23] - metal
  • UnicaZurn: Transpandorem (Touch)
  • Uniform: Wake in Fright (Sacred Bones) [01-20] - noise rock
  • University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band: The Romeo and Juliet Project (Artist Alliance) - jazz
  • UNKLE: The Road: Part 1 (Cooking Vinyl) [06-23] - electronic
  • Unsane: Sterilize (Southern Lord) [09-25] - post-hardcore
  • The Unthanks: Diversions Vol 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake (Rabble Rouser) [05-28]
  • Upgrayedd Smurphy: Hypnosys (R-CH-V) [04-11]
  • Uptown Jazz Tentet: There It Is (Irrabagast) [03-01] - jazz
  • Us & Us Only: Full Flower (Topshelf) [07-14]
  • The Used: The Canyon (Hopeless) [10-27] - alt/indie
  • Peeter Uuskyla/Tellef Ogrim/Anders Berg: Ullr (Simlas) - jazz
  • UUUU: UUUU (Editions Mego) [10-06] -
  • UV-TV: Glass (Deranged) [03-13]
  • Manuel Valera Trio: The Seasons (MaVo) [03-17] - jazz
  • Valerian Swing: Nights (Small Pond/To Lose La Track) [05-12]
  • Colin Vallon Trio: Danse (ECM) [01-13] - jazz
  • Chad VanGaalen: Light Information (Sub Pop) [09-08] - alt/indie
  • Paul Van Gysegem/Chris Joris/Patrick De Groote: Boundless (El Negocito) [06-01] - jazz
  • Mark Van Hoen: Electronic Music (1982-1987) (Wayside and Woodland) [03-11] - electronic
  • Fred Van Hove & Roger Turner: The Corner (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Aaron Vance: My Own Way (Windy Holler) [03-22] - country
  • Vanishing: Vanishing (Tombed Visions) [03-30]
  • Petra Van Nuis & Andy Brown: Lessons Lyrical (String Damper) [08-29] - jazz
  • Rick Vandivier: Under One Roof (self-released) [11-16] - jazz
  • Vanum: Burning Arrow (Psychic Violence)
  • Varg: Nordic Flora Series Pt 3: Gore-Tex City (Northern Electronics) [03-27]
  • Vatican Shadow: Rubbish of the Floodwaters (Ostgut Ton -EP) [05-12]
  • Alan Vega: IT (Fader Label) [07-14] - industrial
  • Vein: Vein Plays Ravel (Double Moon) [08-25] - jazz
  • Vels Trio: Yellow Ochre (Total Refreshment Centre -EP) [06-09] - jazz
  • Venn: Runes (Full Time Hobby) [03-03]
  • Verite: Somewhere in Between (self-released) [06-23] - pop
  • Vermont: II (Kompakt) [02-10] - ambient
  • The Verve Jazz Ensemble: Swing-A-Nova (self-released) [09-18] - jazz
  • Luke Vibert: Garave Vol 1 (Hypercolor) [05-05] - electronic
  • Vibration Black Finger: Gaudi (Kudos) [09-15]
  • Raoul Vignal: The Silver Veil (Talitres) [04-07]
  • Ricardo Villalobos: Empirical House (A:rpia:r) [05-05]
  • Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary: American Grandstand (Upper Management Music) [07-07] - country
  • Mads Vinding 4tet: Standards (Storyville) - jazz
  • Visible Cloaks: Reassemblage (RVNG Intl) [02-17] - ambient
  • Visionist: Value (Big Dada) [10-20] - electronic
  • Vitalic: Voyager (Caroline) [01-20] - electronic
  • Viva Black: Mal Sirine (Kopasetic) - jazz
  • Vodi: Talk (BAM) [11-04]
  • Joni Void: Selfless (Constellation) [05-05] - electronic
  • Vok: Figure (Nettwerk)
  • Volga: Volga (Multikulti Project) - jazz
  • Son Volt: Notes of Blue (Transmit Sound) [02-17] - alt-country
  • Vom: Initiation (AWWFN)
  • Katie Von Schleicher: Shitty Hits (Ba Da Bing) [07-28]
  • W-2: Fanatics (Astral Spirits) - jazz
  • Emmanuelle Waeckerle: Ode (Owed) to O (Edition Wandelweiser) - jazz
  • Wale: Shine (Maybach) [05-05] - hip-hop
  • Walk the Moon: What If Nothing (RCA) [11-10] - alt/indie
  • Wheeler Walker Jr: Ol' Wheeler (Cooking Vinyl) [06-02] - country
  • Wall: Untitled (Wharf Cat) [04-28]
  • Tornado Wallace: Lonely Planet (Running Back) [01-13] - deep house
  • Walpyrgus: Walpyrgus Nights (Cruz del Sur Music) [06-06] - heavy metal
  • Justin Walter: Unseen Forces (Kranky) [04-21] - ambient
  • Walter Etc: Gloom Cruise (Lame-O) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Wand: Plum (Drag City) [09-22]
  • Grace Wanderwaal: Just the Beginning (Syco/Columbia) [11-03] - pop
  • WaqWaq Kingdom: Shinsekai (Jahtari)
  • Alex Ward: Proprioception (Weekertoft) [06-30] - jazz
  • Jessie Ware: Glasshouse (Island) [10-20] - pop
  • Warm Digits: Wireless World (Memphis Industries) [08-04] - Krautrock
  • Kenny Warren Quartet: Thank You for Coming to Life (Whirlwind) [03-10] - jazz
  • Washed Out: Mistery Mellow (Stones Throw) [06-30]
  • Washer: All Aboard (Exploding in Sound) [09-15] - alt/indie
  • Andrew Wasylyk: Themes for Buildings and Spaces (Tape Club) [04-28]
  • Aaron Watson: Vaquero (Big Label) [02-24] - country
  • John Waters: Make Trouble (Third Man)
  • Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? (Columbia) [06-02] - progressive rock
  • Heath Watts & Blue Armstrong: Bright Yellow With Bass (Leo) - jazz
  • Waveform Transmission: V 2.0-2.9 (Astral Industries) [10-29] - ambient
  • Wavves: You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp) [05-19] - indie rock
  • We Three and the Death Rattle: Entrances and Exits (PAW//PURR) [09-14] - alt/indie
  • Wear Your Wounds: WYW (Deathwish)
  • The Weather Station: The Weather Station (Paradise of Bachelors) [10-06] - singer-songwriter
  • Andrew Weatherall: Qualia (Hoga Nord) [09-29] - alt/indie
  • Weaves: Wide Open (Kanine) [10-07] - alt/indie
  • Web Web: Oracle (Compost) [09-01] - jazz
  • Faye Webster: Faye Webster (Awful) [05-12]
  • Cory Weeds: Let's Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire (Cellar Live) [10-13] - jazz
  • Cory Weeds & the Jeff Hamilton Trio: Dreamsville (Cellar Live) - jazz
  • Weezer: Pacific Daydream (Crush Music) [10-27] - power pop
  • Paul Weller: A Kind Revolution (Parlophone) [03-12] - rock
  • Angie Wells & Raphael Lemonnier: Love and Mischief (self-released) - jazz
  • Kenny Werner Trio: Animal Crackers (Pirouet) [11-24] - jazz
  • Kody West: Green (self-released) [04-13] -
  • Western Daughter: Driftwood Songs (Take This to Heart) [03-24] - indie rock
  • Martin Wheatley & Tom Langham: The Land of Might-Have-Been (Bigfoot) - jazz
  • Matthew Whitaker: Outta the Box (Jazz Foundation of America) [03-03] - jazz
  • While She Sleeps: You Are We (Arising Empire) [04-21]
  • Mark Whipkey: Best New Music (self-released) [06-00]
  • White: One Night Stand Forever (Gentlemen) [04-21]
  • Joshua White: 13 Short Stories (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
  • White Hills: Stop Mute Defeat (Thrill Jockey) [05-19]
  • White Reaper: The World's Best American Band (Polyvinyl) [04-07] - glam rock
  • White Sea: Tropical Odds (Les Disques du Crepuscle) [05-12] - synth-pop
  • Mark Whitfield: Grace (self-released) - jazz
  • Why?: Moh Lhean (Joyful Noise) [03-03] - indie pop
  • Chip Wickham: La Sombra (Lovemonk) [01-20] - jazz
  • Widowspeak: Expect the Best (Captured Tracks) [08-25] - alt/indie
  • Wifisfuneral: Boy Who Cried Wolf (Interscope) [08-01] - hip-hop
  • Captain Wilberforce: Black Sky Thinking (-) [03-27]
  • Wild Beasts: Punch Drunk and Trembling (Domino)
  • Wild Pink: Wild Pink (Tiny Engines) [02-10]
  • The Wild Reeds: The World We Built (Last Gang) [04-07] - alt/indie
  • Wild Wing: Doomed II Repeat (665699 -EP) [03-03] - garage punk
  • Wildflower: Wildflower (Stac) [07-01] - jazz
  • Wiley: Godfather (self-released) [01-13] - grime
  • Mike Will Made It: Ransom 2 (Ear Drummers/Interscope) [03-24] - hip-hop
  • A Will Away: Here Again (Triple Crown) [03-03]
  • Alex Williams: Better Than Myself (Big Machine) [08-11] - country
  • Hype Williams: Rainbow Edition (Big Dada) [08-25]
  • Lucinda Williams: This Sweet Old World (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers) [09-29]
  • Mars Williams: An Ayler Xmas (Soul What) [10-31] - jazz
  • Tom Williams: All Change (Wine Boat) [05-26] - indie rock
  • Christopher Willits: Horizon (Ghostly International) [05-19]
  • Willtharapper: Beat Bully 4 ()
  • Christopher Willits: Horizon (Ghostly International) [05-19]
  • Wilsen: I Go Missing in My Sleep (Secret City) [04-28] - art pop
  • Siobhan Wilson: There Are No Saints (Song by Toad) [07-14] - indie pop
  • Steven Wilson: To the Bone (Caroline) [08-18] - prog pop
  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Iris [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Erased Tapes) [01-13] - soundtrack
  • Mark Winkler: The Company I Keep (Cafe Pacific) [05-01] - jazz
  • Withered Hand + A Singer of Songs: Among Horses (Son Canciones) [05-05]
  • Witherfall: Nocturnes and Requiems (-) [02-10] - progressive metal
  • Wobbler: From Silence to Somewhere (Karisma) [10-20]
  • Wode: Servants of the Countercosmos (Avantgarde)
  • Woe: Hope Attrition (Vendetta) [03-17] - metal
  • Ira Wolf: The Closest Thing to Home (self-released) [09-09] - folk
  • Wolf Parade: Cry Cry Cry (Sub Pop) [10-06] - indie rock
  • Wolf Eyes: Undertow (Lower Floor) [03-24] - noise rock
  • Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun (Sargent House) [09-22] - sludge metal
  • Dustin Wong/Takako Minekawa: Are Euphoria (Thrill Jockey) [06-16] - pop
  • Chris Wood: So Much to Defend (RUF) [01-27]
  • The Wooden Sky: Swimming in Strange Waters (Nevado) [04-07]
  • Woods: Love Is Love (Woodsist) [04-21] - psychedelic pop
  • Billy Woods: Known Unknowns (Blackwoodz Studioz) [06-09] - hip-hop
  • Harmony Woods: Nothing Special (self-released) [05-05] - alt/indie
  • Nate Wooley: Battle Pieces II (Relative Pitch) [09-15] - jazz
  • Nate Wooley: The Complete Syllables Music (Pleasure of the Text -4CD) [04-03] - jazz
  • Woopheadclrms: Meeting Room + Rare Plants (Ukiuki Atama) [08-30]
  • Victor Wooten/Dennis Chambers/Bob Franceschini: Trypnotyx (VIX) [09-08] - jazz
  • The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die: Always Foreign (Epitaph) [09-29] - alt/indie
  • Worriers: Survival Pop (Side One Dummy) [09-29] - alt/indie
  • G-Worthy: G-Worthy (Fool's Gold) [09-29] - hip-hop
  • Wrabel: We Could Be Beautiful (Epic) [05-12] - pop
  • Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment I (Water Is Life) [03-03] - jazz
  • Jack Wright: You Haven't Heard This (Spring Garden Music) - jazz
  • Wrongtom & the Ragga Twins: In Time (Tru Thoughts) [04-28]
  • Allie X: CollXtion II (Sugar Music) [06-09] - electropop
  • Mahatma X: A Mobtown Suite Vol 1 (Home Assembly) [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Sadat X: The Sum of a Man (Diamond Mine) [06-16] - hip-hop
  • Xetas: The Tower (12XU) [04-14]
  • Xiu Xiu: Forget (Polyvinyl) [02-24] - art pop
  • XXXTentacion: 17 (Bad Vibes Forever) [08-25] - hip-hop
  • Yellow Eyes: Immersion Trench Reverie (Sibir) [10-20]
  • YFN Lucci: Long Live Nut (Think It's a Game) [03-03] - hip-hop
  • Yorkston/Thorne/Khan: Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (Domino) [04-07]
  • Otomo Yoshihide/Hiroshi Yamazaki/Evan Parker: 14.11.16 (Otoroku) - jazz
  • Yossarians: Fabric of Time (self-released) [01-01]
  • You Me at Six: Night People (Infectious Music) [01-06] - pop-rock
  • Youandewan: The Brane 001 (The Brane) [09-01] - tech house
  • You'll Never Get to Heaven: Images (Yellow K) [03-24]
  • Brett Young: Brett Young (Big Machine) [02-10] - country
  • Chris Young: Losing Sleep (RCA Nashville) [10-20] - country
  • Young Dolph: Gelato (Paper Route Empire) [02-02] - hip-hop
  • Young Dolph: Bullet Proof (Paper Route Empire) [04-01] - hip-hop
  • Young Dolph: Thinking Out Loud (Paper Route Empire) [10-20] - hip-hop
  • Young Marco: Selectors 002 (DeKmantel) [03-10] - electronic
  • Young Nudy: Nudy Land (Paradise East) [09-13] - hip-hop
  • The Young 'Uns: Strangers (Hereteu) [09-29] - folk
  • Your Old Droog: Packs (Fat Beats) [03-10] - hip-hop
  • Youngboy Never Broke Again: AI Youngboy (Never Broke Again) [08-04] - hip-hop
  • Yucky Duster: Duster's Lament (Infinity Cat)
  • Yuksek: Nous Horizon (Partyfine) [02-24] - electronic
  • Zed Bias: Different Response (Exit) [09-22] - electronic
  • Denny Zeitlin and George Marsh: Expedition (Sunnyside) [07-21] - jazz
  • Zeitkratzer/Svetlana Spajic/Dragana Tomic/Obrad Milic: Serbian War Songs (Karlrecords) - jazz
  • Zeitkratzer: Zeitkratzer Performs Songs From "Kraftwerk" and "Kraftwerk 2" (Karlrecords) - jazz
  • Zeitkratzer + Elliott Sharp: Oneirika Live at Berghain Berlin (Karlrecords) - jazz
  • Zero Times Everything: Sonic Cinema (7D Media) - jazz
  • Hans Zimmer: Dunkirk [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Water Tower Music) [07-21]
  • Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfish: Blade Runner 2049 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Epic) [10-05]
  • Ziur: U Feel Anything? (Planet Mu) [10-06] -
  • Zombie Zombie: Livity (Versatile) [10-20] - electronic
  • John Zorn: The Garden of Earthly Delights (Tzadik) [02-24] - jazz
  • John Zorn: Midsummer Moons (Tzadik) [06-27] - jazz
  • John Zorn: There Is No More Firmament ( Tzadik) - jazz
  • John Zorn: The Interpretation of Dreams (Tzadik) [09-00] - jazz
  • John Zorn: The Hemetic Organ: Philharmonie De Paris (Tzadik) [11-00] - jazz
  • Yumi Zouma: Willowbank (Caroline) [10-06]
  • Club Chai Vol 1 (Club Chai) [01-17] - electronic
  • EST Symphony (ACT) - jazz
  • Firma Do Txiga (Principe) [06-16] - electronic
  • Moves: The Sound of UK Afrobeats (REMI) [05-19]
  • Outlaw: Celebrating the Music of Waylon Jennings ()
  • The Passion of Charlie Parker (Impulse) - jazz
  • Piano Vol 1 (Feeder) [03-29]
  • Twin Peaks [Music From the Limited Event Series] (Rhino) [09-08] - soundtrack
  • Typical Girls Volume 2 (Emotional Reponse) [04-15] - post-punk
  • Vanity of Vanities: A Tribute to Connie Converse (Tzadik) [11-00] - jazz

Reissues, Etc.

  • Arthur Alexander: Arthur Alexander (Omnivore)
  • Neil Ardley & the New Jazz Orchestra: On the Radio: BBC Sessions 1971 (Dusk Fire) - jazz
  • Artful Dodger: Complete Columbia Recordings (Real Gone) [01-13] - rock
  • B12: Electro-Soma (Warp) [08-24] - electronic
  • Burt Bacharach and Tonio K: Original Demos (Contante & Sonante) - jazz
  • Chet Baker: At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall (Jazzline) [03-17] - jazz
  • Yashak Banjaq: Love Songs Vol 2 (Teranga Beat -16) [11-29-2016]
  • Pastor TL Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir: Do Not Pass Me By Vol II (The Numero Group) [11-24] - gospel
  • Gary Bartz NTU Troop: Harlem Bush Music: Uhuru (Milestone) [07-28] - jazz
  • The Beach Boys: 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol) [06-30]
  • The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Deluxe] (Capitol) [05-26]
  • The Beatles: The Christmas Records (Capitol) [12-15]
  • Chris Bell/Steve Rhea: Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star (Omnivore) [07-07]
  • Arthur Blythe: In the Tradition/Lenox Avenue Breakdown/Illusions/Blythe Spirit (BGO) - jazz
  • David Bowie: A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) (Parlophone [Denmark]) [09-29]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quintet (Basel) 1977 (Hatology) - jazz
  • David Broza: The Set List (Magenta) [03-31] - Israeli folk
  • Tim Buckley: Venice Mating Call (Manifesto) [10-13]
  • Tim Buckley: Greetings From West Hollywood (Manifesto) [10-13]
  • Camera Obscura: Teenager (Elefant)
  • Can: The Singles (Mute/Spoon) [06-16] - krautrock
  • Erasmo Carlos: Carlos Erasmo (Light in the Attic)
  • John Carpenter: Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 (Sacred Bones) [10-20]
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Mute) [05-05]
  • Guy Clark: The Best of the Dualtone Years () [03-03]
  • Sonny Clark Trio: The 1960 Time Sessions With George Duvivier and Max Roach (Tompkins Square) - jazz
  • Dennis Coffey: Hot Coffey in the D (Resonance) [11-25]
  • Nat King Cole Trio: Swiss Radio Days Vol 43: Zurich 1950 (TCB) - jazz
  • Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12/Crisis (1969, Real Gone) [08-09] - jazz
  • Tony Conrad: Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (1972, Superior Viaduct) [06-02] - minimal
  • The Creation: Action Painting (Numero Group) [03-17]
  • Curve: Doppelganger [25th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red) [09-01]
  • The Paul deLay Band: Live at Notodden '97 (Little Village Foundation) [06-23] - jazz
  • Vinicius De Moraes: The Poet of the Bossa Nova (New Continent -3CD) [09-01] - jazz
  • Dear Nora: Mountain Rock (2004, Orindal) [01-13]
  • Def Leppard: Hysteria [30th Anniversary Edition] (Mercury -3CD) [08-04] - rock
  • Delaney and Bonnie: Motel Shot (Real Gone)
  • Ducks Deluxe: Coast to Coast: The Anthology (Cherry Red -3CD) [09-19] - pub rock
  • Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol 13: Trouble No More 1979-1981 (Columbia/Legacy) [11-03] - rock
  • Duane Eddy: Guitar Star: The Complete RCA Singles A's & B's (Real Gone) [09-08]
  • Don Ellis: Soaring (1973, MPS) - jazz
  • Bill Evans: Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest (Resonance) [04-22] - jazz
  • Bill Evans: Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (1968, Resonance) [09-01] - jazz
  • Fairport Convention: 50:50@50 (Matty Grooves) [03-10]
  • The Fall: Singles 1978-2016 (Cherry Red) [11-24]
  • Rev Lonnie Farris: A Night at the House of Prayer (Social Music) - gospel
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Live at Chautauqua Volume 2 (Dot Time) [07-11] - jazz
  • Fleetwood Mac: Tango in the Night [Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [03-31]
  • Aretha Franklin: A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Rhino/Atlantic) [11-10] - soul
  • John Frusciante: Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994, Superior Viaduct) [10-27] - lo-fi
  • Jun Fukamachi: Nicole (1986, We Release Whatever the Fuck We Want) - electronic
  • Funkadelic: Reworked by Detroiters (Ace) [10-27] - funk
  • Game Theory: Two Steps From the Middle Ages (1988, Omnivore) [06-09] - alt rock
  • The Golliwogs: Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1976 (Universal) [09-29]
  • Grateful Dead: Cornell 5/8/77 (Rhino) [05-05] - rock
  • Grupo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza: Azioni/Reazioni 1967-1969 (Die Schachtel) - jazz
  • Keiji Haino: Watashi Dake? (1981, Black Editions) [06-16] - noise
  • Isaac Hayes: The Spirit of Memphis: 1962-1976 (Stax) [09-22] - soul
  • Allan Holdsworth: The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! (Manifesto) [04-07] - jazz
  • Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds (ECM) - jazz
  • John Lee Hooker: King of the Boogie (Craft -5CD) [10-06] - blues
  • Helen Humes: The Helen Humes Collection 1927-62 (Acrobat) [10-13] - jazz
  • Van Hunt: Popular (2007, Blue Note) [08-11] - neo soul
  • Mississippi John Hurt: Live at Oberlin College (Rock Beat)
  • Husker Du: Savage Young Du (The Numero Group) [11-10] - rock
  • The Jam: 1977 (Polydor) [10-20]
  • Skip James: Worried Blues (Fat Possum) - blues
  • Cody Jinks: Less Wise [Modified Reissue 2017] (self-released) [11-17] - country
  • King Crimson: The Elements Tour Box 2017 (DGMLive)
  • Kraftwerk: 3-D Catalogue (Parlophone) [05-28] - krautrock
  • Steve Lacy: Free for a Minute (1965-1972) (Emanem) - jazz
  • Laraaji: Bring on the Sun (All Saints) [09-21] - ambient
  • Laraaji: Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun (All Saints) [09-22] - electronica
  • Look Blue Go Purple: Still Bewitched (Flying Nun) [05-05]
  • Nick Lowe: Party of One (1990, Yep Roc) [10-20]
  • Taj Mahal: Labor of Love (Analogue Productions) - blues
  • Albert Mangelsdorff/Arild Andersen/Pierre Favre: Triplicity (1979, Skip) [09-01] - jazz
  • Mankunku Quartet: Yakhal' Inkomo (1968, Gallo) - South African jazz
  • Marijata: This Is Marijata (Mr Bongo) [06-00] - African
  • Myra Melford Trio: Alive in the House of Saints Part 1 (Hatology) - jazz
  • Metallica: Master of Puppets [Remastered & Expanded Edition] (Rhino/Blackened -3CD) [11-10] - metal
  • Metro Area: Metro Area [15th Anniversary Edition] (Environ) [10-27] - electronic
  • Micronism: Inside a Quiet Mind (LOOP) [07-00] - techno
  • Freddie Mitchell: Sax & Boogie (Calle Mayor) - jazz
  • Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio: Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (Resonance) - jazz
  • Montrose: Montrose [Deluxe Edition] (1973, Rhino) [10-13] - rock
  • The Move: Magnetic Waves of Sound: The Best of the Move (Esoteric) [02-03]
  • Laura Nyro: A Little Magic a Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums (Real Gone) [07-07]
  • The October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music: Part 1: Thursday and Friday () - jazz
  • The October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music: Part 2: Saturday and Sunday () - jazz
  • Angel Olsen: Phases (Jagjaguwar) [11-10]
  • Yoko Ono: Fly (Secretly Canadian) [07-14]
  • The Orchids: Who Needs Tomorrow: A 30 Year Retrospective (Cherry Red) [09-29]
  • Jaco Pastorius: Truth Liberty and Soul (Resonance) [04-22] - jazz
  • Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1970 Devi/ation (Pink Floyd) [03-24] - rock
  • Popol Vuh: Agage-Agape Love Love (1983, One Way Static) [07-07]
  • Popol Vuh: Spirit of Peace (1985, One Way Static) [07-07]
  • Bud Powell: 1960 Essen Gurgahalle (Jazzline) - jazz
  • Elvis Presley: A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings (Follow That Dream) [08-03] - rock
  • Prince: Purple Rain [Deluxe Expanded Edition] (NPG/Warner)
  • Rich Homie Quan: Back to Basics (Motown) [04-14] - hip-hop
  • Queen: News of the World [40th Anniversary Edition] (Hollywood) [11-17] - rock
  • Sun Ra: Exotica (Modern Harmonic) - jazz
  • Sun Ra: Singles Volume 2: The Definitive 45s Collection 1962-1991 (Strut/Art Yard) [04-28] - jazz
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (Superior Viaduct) [11-08] - jazz
  • The Sun Ra Arkestra: The Magic City (1966, Cosmic Myth) - jazz
  • Radiohead: OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997-2017 (XL) [06-23] - pop/rock
  • Jimmy Reed: Mr Luck: Complete Vee-Jay Singles (Universal) [08-04] - blues
  • Hans Reichel: Wichlinghauser Blues (1973, Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
  • REM: Automatic for the People [25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (Hollywood) [11-17]
  • Arthur Russell: Instrumentals (1975-78, Audika) [02-24]
  • Leon Russell: On a Distant Shore [Deluxe Edition] (Palmetto) [09-29]
  • Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid/Jewels of Thought/Deaf Dumb Blind (Impulse) - jazz
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope) [10-27] - jazz
  • The Searchers: Another Night: Sire Recordings 1979-1981 (Omnivore) [12-03]
  • Phil Seymour: Prince of Power Pop (Ace) [12-01]
  • Raymond Scott: Three Willow Park: Electronic Music From Inner Space 1961-1971 (Basta Music) [06-30] - electronic
  • Jackie Shane: Any Other Way (Numero Group) [10-30]
  • Woody Shaw: The Tour: Volume Two (HighNote) - jazz
  • The New Woody Shaw Quintet: Vol 1 at Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1982 (Jazzline) [11-03] - jazz
  • The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead [Super Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [10-20]
  • The Sneetches: Form of Play: A Retrospective (Omnivore) [04-28]
  • Soundgarden: Ultramega OK (SST) [10-31]
  • Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: The Fever: The Remastered Epic Recordings (Real Gone) [03-03]
  • Dusty Springfield: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions: A Brand New Me (Real Gone) [05-11]
  • Pauline Anna Strom: Trans-Millenia Music (RVNG Intl) [11-10] - electronic
  • Midori Takada: Through the Looking Glass (1983, We Release Whatever the Fuck We Want) [03-17] -
  • Terrorizer: World Downfall (1989, Napalm) [08-18] - metal
  • U2: The Joshua Tree [Deluxe Edition] (Island, 4CD) [06-02] - rock
  • U-Men: U-Men (Sub Pop -2CD) [11-03] - garage rock
  • Cedar Walton: Charmed Circle: Live at the Keystone Korner (HighNote) [02-24] - jazz
  • Lal & Mike Waterson: Bright Phoebus (1972, Domino [UK]) [08-04] - folk rock
  • Mike Westbrook: Live 1972 (Hux) - jazz
  • The Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 (Turtle) - jazz
  • The Who: Maximum A's & B's: The Complete Singles (Universal -5CD) [10-27]
  • Wilco: Being There [Deluxe Edition] (Reprise -5CD) [12-01]
  • Link Wray: Link Wray (1971, Future Days) [07-28] - rock
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Postcards (1982, Empire of Signs) [11-17] - electronic
  • Young Fathers: Tape One/Tape Two (Big Dada)
  • Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir Et Blanc (1983, Crammed Discs) [12-01]
  • Zeitkratzer: 20 Years of Zeitkratzer (Karlrecords) - jazz
  • 24 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's: Vol 15 (Blues Images) - blues
  • Afrobeats Hot Hits: New Urban Dance Grooves From Africa (Shanachie) [08-25] - African
  • Agrim Agadez (Sahel Sounds) [01-23] - African
  • Ape Records Vol 1 (Ape) [03-24] - electronic
  • At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight (Bear Family -20CD) [12-08] - country
  • Baby Driver [Music From the Motion Picture] (Columbia) [06-23]
  • Bedroomer Presents Main-Room (Bedroomer) [02-17] - electronic
  • Bloodshot Records' 13 Days of Xmas (Bloodshot) [11-17] - country
  • Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebratres 10 Years of the Story (An Album to Benefit War Child) (Looking Out Foundation) [05-05]
  • Even a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1979 (Light in the Attic) [10-20] -
  • Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World (Habibi Funk) [12-01] - Arabic
  • Howsla (Owsla) [05-05] - electronic
  • Jazz Loves Disney 1 (Decca) [12-09-2016] - jazz
  • Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol 1 (Anthology) [10-27]
  • New Orleans: Original Soundtrack and Out-Takes (Upbeat) - jazz
  • Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984 (Cherry Red) [07-28] - electronic
  • The Original Sound of Mali (Mr Bongo) [03-10] - African
  • The Photographs of Charles Duvelle: Disques Ocora and Collection Prophet (Sublime Frequencies) [07-14] -
  • Rock and Roll Music: The Songs of Chuck Berry (Ace)
  • Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs (Smithsonian/Folkways) [01-27] - folk
  • The Savory Collection Vol. 3: Honeysuckle Rose (National Jazz Museum in Harlem) [05-26] - jazz
  • The Savory Collection Vol. 4: Bobby Hackett and Friends (National Jazz Museum in Harlem) [12-15] - jazz
  • Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht (Numero Group) [05-00]
  • Singles [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack][Deluxe Edition] (Sony Legacy) [05-19] - soundtrack
  • Sounds of Sisso (Nyege Nyege) [12-07] - African
  • Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam (Jazzman) [03-17] - jazz
  • The Stars of Modern: California Soul Classics (Ace)
  • Studio One Rocksteady 2: The Soul of Young Jamaica (Soul Jazz) [01-27] - reggae
  • Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica From the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 (Ostinato) [02-24] -
  • T2: Trainspotting [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Polydor) [02-03] - soundtrack
  • Visceral Minds 2 (Fractal Fantasy) [08-17] - abstract
  • Wayfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares (Numero Group) [09-22] - acid rock
  • Welcome to Paradise: Italian Dream House 1989-93 Vol 1 (Safe Trip) [03-24]
  • Welcome to Zamrock! Vol 2: How Zambia's Revolution Led to a Rock Revolution 1972-1977 (Now-Again) [06-23] - African
  • Young Art Sound (Young Art) [02-03]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 0: 8
  • Priority 1: 2221
  • Priority 2: 293
  • Priority 3: 0

Total: 2522