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

  • 2 Chainz: Pretty Girls Like Trap Music (Def Jam) [06-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • 21 Savage: Issa Album (Slaughter Gang/Epic) [07-07] - hip-hop [*]
  • 21 Savage/Offset/Metro Boomin: Without Warning (Epic) [10-31] - hip-hop [*]
  • Espen Aalberg/Jonas Kullhammar/Torbjörn Zetterberg/Susana Santos Silva: Basement Sessions Vol. 4 (The Bali Tapes) (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • Greg Abate/Tim Ray Trio: Road to Forever (Whaling City Sound) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Rez Abbasi: Unfiltered Universe (Whirlwind) [11-10] - jazz [**]
  • John Abercrombie Quartet: Up and Coming (ECM) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Simultonality (Eremite) [04-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Actress: AZD (Ninja Tune) [04-14] - electronica [*]
  • Ryan Adams: Prisoner (Blue Note) [02-17] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Antonio Adolfo: Hybrido: From Rio to Wayne Shorter (AAM) [04-07] - jazz [B]
  • Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: Triple Fat Lice (Stones Throw -EP) [08-11] - hip-hop [***]
  • Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse (Naim) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Laura Ainsworth: New Vintage (Eclectus) [08-07] - jazz [**]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2CD) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Akmee: Neptun (Nakama) [06-22] - jazz [***]
  • Fatima Al Qadiri: Shaneera (Hyperdub -EP) [10-13] - bass music [B]
  • Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet: Diablo en Brooklyn (Saponegro) [09-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Carol Albert: Fly Away Butterfly (Cahara) [09-01] - jazz [**]
  • Alfjors: Demons 1 (Shhpuma) - jazz [**]
  • Algiers: The Underside of Power (Matador) [06-23] - post-punk [B]
  • Wali Ali: To Be (Mendicant) - jazz [**]
  • Tony Allen: A Tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note -EP) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Tony Allen: The Source (Blue Note) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Fabian Almazan: Alcanza (Biophilia) [06-02] - jazz [B-]
  • Goncalo Almeida/Rodrigo Amado/Marco Franco: The Attic (NoBusiness) - jazz [A-]
  • Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor: Live in Krakow (Not Two) [07-00] - jazz [A-]
  • Alvvays: Antisocialites (Polyvinyl) [09-08] - alt/indie [**]
  • Sebastien Ammann: Color Wheel (Skirl) - jazz [A-]
  • Chino Amobi: Paradiso (NON) [06-06] - electronic [B]
  • Amok Amor [Christian Lillinger/Petter Eldh/Wanja Slavin/Peter Evans]: We Know Not What We Do (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
  • AMP Trio: Three (self-released) - jazz [B]
  • Thomas Anderson: My Songs Are the House I Live In (Out There) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Anemone [Peter Evans/John Butcher/Frederic Blondy/Clayton Thomas/Paul Lovens]: A Wing Dissolved in Light (NoBusiness) [03-00] - jazz [***]
  • Jason Anick & Jason Yeager: United (Inner Circle Music) [03-10] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Anschell: Rumbler (Origin) [01-20] - jazz [**]
  • Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Arca: Arca (XL) [04-07] - electronic [B]
  • Arcade Fire: Everything Now (Columbia) [07-28] - alt-indie rock [A-]
  • Nicole Atkins: Goodnight Rhonda Lee (Single Lock) [07-21] [B]
  • Atomic: Six Easy Pieces (Odin) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Attias Quartet: Nerve Dance (Clean Feed) [03-10] - jazz [***]
  • Cardi B: Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 2 (KSR) [01-20] - hip-hop [*]
  • Joey Badass: All-Amerikkkan Badass (Pro Era/Cinematic) [04-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Sheryl Bailey & Harvie S: Plucky Strum Departure (Whaling City Sound) - jazz [*]
  • Julien Baker: Turn Out the Lights (Matador) [10-27] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Ballister: Slag (Aerophonic) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ballrogg [Klaus Ellerhusen Holm/Roger Arntzen/Ivar Grydeland]: Abaft the Beam (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Heather Bambrick: You'll Never Know (self-released) [02-10] - jazz [**]
  • Banda Magda: Tigre (GroundUP Music) - [*]
  • Denys Baptiste: The Late Trane (Edition) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Louise Baranger: Louise Baranger Plays the Great American Groove Book (Summit) [11-16] - jazz [B]
  • Rahsaan Barber: The Music in the Night (Jazz Music City) [11-03] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Bardfeld: The Great Enthusiasms (BJU) [09-29] - jazz [***]
  • Bardo Pond: Under the Pines (Fire) - psychedelic rock [B]
  • Bargou 08: Targ (Glitterbeat) [02-17] - [**]
  • Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile: Lotta Sea Lice (Matador) [10-13] - folk rock [*]
  • Joao Barradas: Directions (Inner Circle Music) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • William Basinski: A Shadow in Time (Temporary Residence) [01-20] - electronic [B]
  • Django Bates: Saluting Sgt Pepper (Edition) [07-07] - jazz [B]
  • Django Bates' Beloved: The Study of Touch (ECM) [11-03] - jazz [*]
  • Stefano Battaglia: Pelagos (ECM) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • John Beasley: MONK'estra Vol 2 (Mack Avenue) [09-01] - jazz [B]
  • Beck: Colors (Capitol) [10-13] - alt dance [B]
  • Gerald Beckett: Oblivion (Summit) - jazz [*]
  • Dave Bennett: Blood Moon (Mack Avenue) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Richard X Bennett: Experiments With Truth (Ropeadope) - jazz [**]
  • Richard X Bennett: What Is Now (Ropeadope) - jazz [**]
  • Sheryl Bentyne: Rearrangements of Shadows: The Music of Stephen Sondheim (ArtistShare) - jazz [B-]
  • Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Incidentals (ECM) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Ernaldo Bernocchi: Rosebud (RareNoise) [12-08] - jazz [*]
  • Peter Bernstein: Signs LIVE! (Smoke Sessions) [07-28] - jazz [**]
  • Ignacio Berroa Trio: Straight Ahead From Havana (Codes Drum Music) [08-07] - jazz [**]
  • Chuck Berry: Chuck (Dualtone) [06-09] - rock & roll [A-]
  • David Bertrand: Palmyra & Other Places (Blujazz) [11-07] - jazz [*]
  • Girma Beyene & Akale Wube: Ethiopiques 30: Mistakes on Purpose (Buda Musique) [01-13] - African [A-]
  • Gianni Bianchini: Type I (self-released) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Bibio: Phantom Brickworks (Warp) [11-03] - ambient [B]
  • Carlos Bica & Azul: More Than This (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • Bicep: Bicep (Ninja Tune) [09-01] - breakbeat [**]
  • Big Boi: Boomiverse (Epic) [06-16] - hip-hop [***]
  • Big Bold Back Bone: In Search of the Emerging Species (Shhpuma) [07-07] - jazz [B]
  • Big KRIT: 4eva Is a Mightly Long Time (BMG) [10-27] - hip-hop [***]
  • Big Thief: Capacity (Saddle Creek) [06-09] - rock [**]
  • Steve Bilodeau: The Sun Through the Rain (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Binker and Moses: Journey to the Mountain of Forever (Gearbox) [06-02] - jazz [**]
  • David Binney: The Time Verses (Criss Cross) [02-10] - jazz [**]
  • Scott H Biram: The Bad Testament (Bloodshot) [02-24] - alt country [**]
  • Bjork: Utopia (One Little Indian) [11-24] - folktronica [*]
  • Raoul Bjorkenheim Triad: Beyond (Eclipse) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Raoul Bjorkenheim Ecstasy: Doors of Perception (Cuneiform) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Jim Black/Oskar Gudjonsson/Elias Stemeseder/Chris Tordini: Mala Mute (Intakt) [01-00] - jazz [*]
  • Black Lips: Satan's Graffiti or God's Art (Vice) [05-05] - garage rock [*]
  • Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band: Body and Shadow (Blue Note) [11-10] - jazz [B-]
  • Robt Sarazin Blake: Recitative (Same Room -2CD) [04-07] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Blanck Mass: World Eater (Sacred Bones) [03-03] - experimental [*]
  • Bleachers: Gone Now (RCA) [06-02] - indie pop [*]
  • Theo Bleckmann: Elegy (ECM) [01-27] - jazz [*]
  • Mary J Blige: Strength of a Woman (Capitol) [04-28] - r&b [***]
  • Lena Bloch & Feathery: Heart Knows (Fresh Sound New Talent) [09-25] - jazz [*]
  • Blondie: Pollinator (BMG) [05-05] - pop rock [B]
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline -2CD) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Blue Note All Stars: Our Point of View (Blue Note -2CD) [09-23] - jazz [**]
  • Blue Notes Tribute Orkestra: Live at the Bird's Eye (self-released) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • Blushh + Maddie Ross: Split (self-released -EP) [11-16] [**]
  • Body Count: Bloodlust (Century Media) [03-31] - rap metal [***]
  • Bomba Estereo: Ayo (Sony Music Latin) [08-11] - Latin [**]
  • Boneshaker: Thinking Out Loud (Trost) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Jean-Francois Bonnel and His Swinging Jazz Cats: With Thanks to Benny Carter (Arbors) [01-07] - jazz [**]
  • Benjamin Booker: Witness (ATO) [06-02] - garage rock [***]
  • Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson]: Asteroidea (Intakt) [10-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Bourne: Upbeat and Sweet (Summit) - jazz [C]
  • Geof Bradfield: Birdhoused (Cellar Live) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Bobby Bradford/Hafez Modirzadeh: Live at the Magic Triangle (NoBusiness) - jazz [**]
  • Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams (ECM) [10-00] - jazz [**]
  • Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die (International Anthem) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Brand New: Science Fiction (Procrastinate! Music Traitors) [08-17] - indie rock [B]
  • Sam Braysher With Michael Kanan: Golden Earrings (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz [***]
  • Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger in the Alps (Dead Oceans) [09-22] - indie folk [*]
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater: Memphis . . . Yes I'm Ready (Okeh) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Brockhampton: Saturation (Question Everything/Empire) [06-09] - hipp-hop [*]
  • Brockhampton: Saturation II (Question Everything/Empire) [08-25] - alt hip-hop [**]
  • Brockhampton: Saturation III (Question Everything/Empire) [12-15] - hip-hop [**]
  • Action Bronson: Blue Chips 7000 (Vice/Atlantic) [08-25] - hip-hop [**]
  • Brother Ali: All the Beauty in This Whole Life (Rhymesayers) [05-05] - hip-hop [**]
  • The Brother Brothers: Tugboats EP (self-released -EP) [01-27] - country [B-]
  • Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh: Sex Tape (Trost) [05-01] - jazz [B-]
  • Peter Brotzmann/Steve Swell/Paal Nilssen-Love: Live in Tel Aviv (Not Two) [06-26] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Brovold & Jamie Saft: Serenity Knolls (Rare Noise) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Kyle Bruckmann's Degradient: Dear Everyone (Not Two -2CD) [05-00] - jazz [**]
  • Bryan and the Aardvarks: Sounds From the Deep Field (Biophilia) [04-28] - jazz [B-]
  • Don Bryant: Don't Give Up on Love (Fat Possum) [05-12] - funk/soul [*]
  • Buffalo Jazz Octet: Live at Pausa Art House (Cadence Jazz) - jazz [A-]
  • Bully: Losing (Sub Pop) [10-20] - alt/indie [**]
  • Burial: Subtemple/Beachfires (Hyperdub -EP) [05-26] - electronic [B]
  • Burning Ghosts: Reclamation (Tzadik) - jazz [***]
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: All You Zombies Dig the Luminosity (Avant Groidd) [05-11] - jazz-funk [***]
  • John Butcher/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: The Catastrophe of Minimalism (Ballance Point Acoustics) - jazz [**]
  • Chris Byars: The Music of Frank Strozier (SteepleChase) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Julie Byrne: Not Even Happiness (Ba Da Bing) [01-27] - folk [**]
  • Daniel Caesar: Freudian (Golden Child) [08-26] - r&b [*]
  • Call Super: Arpo (Houndstooth) [11-10] - techno [A-]
  • Jonas Cambien/Adrian Myhr: Simiskina (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Peter Campbell: Loving You: Celebrating Shirley Horn (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • Carn Davidson 9: Murphy (self-released) [11-03] - jazz [B]
  • Loyle Carner: Yesterday's Gone (AMF) [01-20] - rap [B]
  • Francois Carrier/Michel Lambert/Alexey Lapin: Freedom Is Space for the Spirit (FMR) - jazz [A-]
  • Francois Carrier/Michel Lambert/Rafal Mazur: Oneness (FMR) - jazz [A-]
  • Francois Carrier/Michel Lambert: Out of Silence (FMR) - jazz [A-]
  • Regina Carter: Ella: Accentuate the Positive (Okeh/Masterworks) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • Playboi Carti: Playboi Carti (AWGE/Interscope) [04-14] - hip-hop [*]
  • Cashmere Cat: 9 (Mad Love/Interscope) [04-28] - wonky [*]
  • The CCM Jazz Orchestra as James Bond: Nobody Does It Better (Summit) - jazz [**]
  • Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: Rev (Anzic) - jazz [**]
  • Chamber 4: City of Light (Clean Feed) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Brian Charette Circuit Bent Organ Trio: Kurrent (Dim Mak) - jazz [*]
  • Bill Charlap Trio: Uptown Downtown (Impulse!) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Charly Bliss: Guppy (Barsuk) [04-21] - indie rock [**]
  • Chastity Belt: I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art) [06-02] - indie rock [*]
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Decaying Orbit (self-released) - jazz [A-]
  • Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors (Cuneiform) - jazz [A-]
  • Chicano Batman: Freedom Is Free (ATO) [03-03] - pop rock [B-]
  • Tyler Childers: Purgatory (Hickman Holler) [08-04] - folk [**]
  • Billy Childs: Rebirth (Mack Avenue) [03-24] - jazz [B-]
  • Corey Christiansen: Dusk (Origin) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • Chronixx: Chronology (Soul Circle Music) [07-07] - reggae [*]
  • Cigarettes After Sex: Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan) [06-09] - dream pop [A-]
  • Zack Clarke: Random Acts of Order (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Gerald Clayton: Tributary Tales (Motema) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Cleric: Resurrection (Figure -EP) [01-00] - techno [*]
  • Cleric: Retrocausal (Web of Memory) [12-08] - noisecore [B-]
  • The Clientele: Music for the Age of Miracles (Merge) [09-22] - indie rock [***]
  • Alex Cline's Flower Garland Orchestra: Oceans of Vows (self-released, 2CD) - jazz [***]
  • Cloud Nothings: Life Without Sound (Carpark) [01-27] - indie rock [**]
  • Club D'Elf: Live at Club Helsinki (Face Pelt, 2CD) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • Amber Coffman: City of No Reply (Columbia) [06-02] - indie pop [**]
  • Anat Cohen Tentet: Happy Song (Anzic) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver (ECM) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Anat Cohen: Rosa Dos Ventos (Anzic) [04-28] - jazz [B]
  • Anat Cohen & Marcello Goncalves: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (Anzic) - jazz [**]
  • Richie Cole: Latin Lover (RCP) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse: Morphogenesis (Pi) [06-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Collectif Spatule: Le Vanneau Huppe (Aloya) [03-06] - jazz [**]
  • Collective Order: Vol. 2 (self-released) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Invitation (OA2) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Michelle Coltrane: Awakening (Blujazz) - jazz [**]
  • Eva Cortes: Crossing Borders (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [*]
  • Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed) [09-00] - jazz [***]
  • Gustavo Cortinas Snapshot: Esse (OA2) [01-20] - jazz [*]
  • Larry Coryell's 11th House: Seven Secrets (Savoy Jazz) - jazz [*]
  • The Courtneys: II (Flying Nun) [02-17] - indie pop [**]
  • Rose Cousins: Natural Conclusion (Old Farm Pony) [02-03] - folk [B]
  • Cowboys and Frenchmen: Bluer Than You Think (Outside In Music) [10-13] - jazz [*]
  • Stanley Cowell: No Illusions (SteepleChase) [06-15] - jazz [**]
  • CP Unit: Before the Heat Death (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • Carl Craig: Versus (InFine) [05-05] - electronic [A-]
  • Sandy Cressman: Entre Amigos (Cressman Music) [02-03] - jazz [*]
  • Rodney Crowell: Close Ties (New West) [03-31] - country [***]
  • Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales (Intakt) - jazz [*]
  • Allison Crutchfield: Tourist in This Town (Merge) [01-27] - indie pop [**]
  • Bill Cunliffe: Bachanalia (Metre) [06-02] - jazz [B-]
  • CunninLynguists: Rose Azura Njano (A Piece of Strange Music/RBC) [10-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • CupcakKe: Queen Elizabitch (self-released) [03-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jason Paul Curtis: These Christmas Days (self-released) [11-24] - Christmas [U]
  • FCT = Francesco Cusa Trio Meets Carlo Atti: From Sun Ra to Donald Trump (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Miley Cyrus: Younger Now (RCA) [09-27] - pop [*]
  • Daddy Issues: Deep Dream (Infinity Cat) [05-19] - indie rock [A-]
  • Ori Dagan: Nathaniel: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (Scat Cat) [11-03] - jazz [B]
  • Pan Daijing: Lack (Pan) [07-28] - experimental [B-]
  • Tim Daisy: Red Nation "1" (Relay) [01-19] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Daisy/Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Relay) [04-27] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Daisy: Music for Lying Still (Relay -EP) [09-25] - jazz [**]
  • Dalava: The Book of Transfigurations (Songlines) [04-07] - Czech folk/fusion [*]
  • Damaged Bug: Bunker Funk (Castle Face) [03-10] - neo-psychedelia [B]
  • David's Angels: Traces (Kopasetic) - jazz [*]
  • Roger Davidson Trio With Hendrik Meurkens: Oracao Para Amanha/Prayer for Tomorrow (Soundbrush) [06-14] - jazz [**]
  • Rick Davies: Thugtet (Emlyn) [05-01] - jazz [**]
  • Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Transient Takes (Malcom) - jazz [***]
  • Richard Dawson: Peasant (Domino) [06-02] - avant-folk [B]
  • Jack DeJohnette/Larry Grenadier/John Meddeski/John Scofield: Hudson (Motema) [06-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Jon De Lucia Group: As the River Sings (Fresh Sound New Talent) [01-00] - jazz [***]
  • Deer Tick: Vol 1 (Partisan) - Americana [*]
  • Deer Tick: Vol 2 (Partisan) - Americana [*]
  • Joey DeFrancesco and the People: Project Freedom (Mack Avenue) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • DEK Trio: Construct 1: Stone (Audiographic) [08-14] - jazz [A-]
  • DEK Trio: Construct 2: Artfacts (Audiographic) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • DEK Trio: Construct 3: Divadlo 29 (Audiographic) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Lana Del Rey: Lust for Life (Interscope) [07-21] - dream pop [A-]
  • Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson Quartet: Waltz New (OA2) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Corey Dennison Band: Night After Night (Delmark) [09-15] - blues [***]
  • The Deslondes: Hurry Home (New West) - Americana [B]
  • Dev: I Only See You When I'm Dreamin' (Devishot) [09-08] - pop [A-]
  • Marc Devine Trio: Inspiration (ITI) [10-13] - jazz [***]
  • Dial & Oatts/Rich DeRosa/WDR Big Band: Rediscovered Ellington (Zoho) [08-18] - jazz [*]
  • Whit Dickey/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Vessel in Orbit (AUM Fidelity) - jazz [***]
  • The Brian Dickinson Quintet: The Rhythm Method (Addo) [01-28] - jazz [*]
  • Die Enttauschung: Lavaman (Intakt) [11-00] - jazz [A-]
  • Diet Cig: Swear I'm Good at This (Frenchkiss) [04-07] - alt/indie rock [***]
  • Jeff Dingler: In Transit (self-released) [09-17] - jazz [**]
  • Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors (Domino) [02-21] - art pop [C]
  • Beth Ditto: Fake Sugar (Virgin) [06-16] - pop [***]
  • Angelo Divino: Love A to Z (self-released) [11-04] - jazz [B-]
  • Akua Dixon: Akua's Dance (Akua's Music) [02-10] - jazz [**]
  • DKV Trio: Latitude 41.88 (Not Two) [11-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Fabiano Do Nascimento: Tempo dos Mestres (Now-Again) [02-17] - samba [**]
  • Dog Leg Dilemma: Not This Time (self-released) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Chano Dominguez: Over the Rainbow (Sunnyside) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Dalton Domino: Corners (Lightning Rod) [04-28] - country [**]
  • Miles Donahue: The Bug (Whaling City Sound) [07-28] - jazz [*]
  • Matthieu Donarier/Santiago Quintans: Sun Dome (Clean Feed) - jazz [B-]
  • Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf Music) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Mike Downes: Root Structure (Addo) [09-27] - jazz [*]
  • Downtown Boys: Cost of Living (Sub Pop) [08-11] - post-punk [**]
  • Chet Doxas: Rich in Symbols (Ropeadope) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • Dr Mint: Voices in the Void (Orenda) [01-27] - jazz [*]
  • Drake: More Life (Young Money/Cash Money) [03-18] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kaja Draksler Octet: Gledalec (Clean Feed -2CD) - jazz [B]
  • Mark Dresser: Modicana (NoBusiness) - jazz [**]
  • Dua Lipa: Dua Lipa (Warner) [06-02] - electropop [**]
  • Laura Dubin Trio: Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (self-released, 2CD) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Scott DuBois: Autumn Wind (ACT) [10-27] - jazz [***]
  • Duchess: Laughing at Life (Anzic) [02-10] - jazz [*]
  • Duo Baars Henneman & Dave Burrell: Transdans (Wig) - jazz [B]
  • Bob Dylan: Triplicate (Columbia) [03-31] - trad pop [C+]
  • EABS: Repetitions (Letters to Krzysztof Komeda) (Astigmatic) [05-17] - jazz [***]
  • Dominique Eade & Ran Blake: Town and Country (Sunnyside) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Jason Eady: Jason Eady (Old Guitar) [04-21] - country [A-]
  • Open Mike Eagle: Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group) [09-15] - hip-hop [**]
  • Justin Townes Earle: Kids in the Street (New West) [05-26] - Americana [**]
  • Steve Earle & the Dukes: So You Wannabe an Outlaw (Warner Bros) [06-16] - alt-country [A-]
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: The Being Inn (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
  • Sinne Eeg: Dreams (ArtistShare) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day Quartet: On Parade in Parede (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Harris Eisenstadt/Mivos Quartet: Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be (NoBusiness) - jazz [*]
  • Harris Eisenstadt: Recent Developments (Songlines) [03-10] - jazz [**]
  • Eliane Elias: Dance of Time (Concord) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • EMA: Exile in the Outer Ring (City Slang) [08-25] - noise rock [**]
  • Eminem: Revival (Aftermath/Shady/Interscope) [12-15] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Emperor X: Oversleepers International (Tiny Engines) [05-05] [***]
  • Brian Eno: Reflection (Warp) [01-01] - ambient [**]
  • Christoph Erb/Jim Baker/Frank Rosaly: . . . Don't Buy Him a Parrot . . . (Hatology) - jazz [***]
  • Noga Erez: Off the Radar (City Slang) [06-02] - electropop [B]
  • Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: Sensations of Tone (Intakt) [01-00] - jazz [A-]
  • Kevin Eubanks: East West Time Line (Mack Avenue) [04-07] - jazz [*]
  • Peter Evans/Agusti Fernandez/Mats Gustafsson: A Quietness of Water (Not Two) [02-00] - jazz [*]
  • ExpEAR & Drew Gress: Vesper (Kopasetic) [11-15] - jazz [***]
  • Adam Fairhall: Friendly Ghosts (Efpi) [08-11] - jazz [***]
  • The Fall: New Facts Emerge (Cherry Red) [07-28] - post-punk [*]
  • Erica Falls: Home Grown (Southern Girls) [05-16] - r&b [**]
  • Fat Tony: MacGregor Park (First One Up) [08-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • The Feelies: In Between (Bar/None) [02-24] - jangle pop [**]
  • Feist: Pleasure (Interscope) [04-28] - indie pop [B]
  • David Feldman: Horizonte (self-released) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Lorenzo Feliciati: Elevator Man (RareNoise) [11-17] - jazz [**]
  • Bob Ferrel: Bob Ferrel's Jazztopian Dream (Bob Ferrel Music) - jazz [*]
  • Fever Ray: Plunge (Rabid/Mute) [10-27] - electropop [*]
  • Joe Fiedler: Like Strange (Multiphonics Music) - jazz [***]
  • Filthy Friends: Invitation (Kill Rock Stars) [08-25] - alt/indie rock [*]
  • Craig Finn: We All Want the Same Things (Partisan) - alt/indie rock [A-]
  • Nick Finzer: Hear & Now (Outside In Music) [02-17] - jazz [*]
  • Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up (Nonesuch) [06-16] - folk [C+]
  • Floating Points: Reflections - Mojave Desert (Luaka Bop) [06-30] - downtempo [**]
  • Billy Flynn: Lonesome Highway (Delmark) [03-24] - blues [B]
  • Forest Swords: Compassion (Ninja Tune) [05-05] - electronic [B-]
  • The Four Bags: Waltz (NCM East) - jazz [*]
  • Four Tet: New Energy (Text) [09-29] - electronica [**]
  • Craig Fraedrich With Trilogy and Friends: All Through the Night (Summit) - jazz [*]
  • Craig Fraedrich: Out of the Blues (Summit) - jazz [B-]
  • Nick Fraser: Is Life Long? (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Free Radicals: Outside the Comfort Zone (Free Rads) [09-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Dori Freeman: Letters Never Read (MRI) [10-20] - folk [A-]
  • David Friesen: Structures (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan: Small Town (ECM) [05-26] - jazz [**]
  • Art Fristoe Trio: Double Down (Merry Lane) [06-02] - jazz [B]
  • Fred Frith/Hans Koch: You Are Here (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace (Libra) [01-27] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii: Invisible Hound (Cortez Sound) [02-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura: Kisaragi (Libra) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Satoko Fujii Quartet: Live at Jazz Room Cortez (Cortez Sound) [10-20] - jazz [B]
  • Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima (Libra) - jazz [**]
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Triple Double (Firehouse 12) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Champian Fulton & Scott Hamilton: The Things We Did Last Summer (Blau) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Future: Future (Epic/A1/Freebandz) [02-17] - hip-hop [**]
  • Future: Hndrxx (Epic/A1/Freebandz) [02-24] - hip-hop [**]
  • Future Islands: The Far Field (4AD) [04-07] - synthpop [*]
  • (Sandy) Alex G: Rocket (Domino) [05-19] - indie rock [B]
  • Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet: The Pythiad (Origin Classical) [08-18] - classical [B-]
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg: Rest (Because Music) [11-17] - indie pop [**]
  • Brent Gallaher: Moving Forward (V&B) [01-06] - jazz [B]
  • Hal Galper and the Youngbloods: Live at the Cota Jazz Festival (Origin) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • Joana Gama/Luis Fernandes/Richardo Jacinto: Harmonies (Shhpuma) - jazz [***]
  • Lee Gamble: Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub) [10-20] - IDM [*]
  • Nubya Garcia: Nubya's 5ive (Jazz Re:freshed) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Hillary Gardner/Ehud Asherie: The Late Set (Anzic) [10-27] - jazz [*]
  • Laszlo Gardony: Serious Play (Solo Piano) (Sunnyside) [07-14] - jazz [*]
  • Gabriel Garzon-Montano: Jardin (Stones Throw) [01-27] - funk/soul [B]
  • Gas: Narkopop (Kompakt) [04-21] - ambient [B]
  • Gato Libre: Neko (Libra) - jazz [**]
  • Gato Preto: Tempo (Unique) [03-24] - electronic [A-]
  • Charles Gayle Trio: Solar System (ForTune) [12-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Howe Gelb: Future Standards (Fire) [01-27] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Kate Gentile: Mannequins (Skirl) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Camilla George Quartet: Isang (Ubuntu Music) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Philipp Gerschlauer/David Fiuczynski: Mikrojazz: Neue Expressionistische Musik (Rare Noise) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Julian Gerstin Sextet: The One Who Makes You Happy (self-released) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • Ghost Train Orchestra [Byron Carpenter]: Book of Rhapsodies Vol II (Accurate) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • Ghostpoet: Dark Days + Canapes (Play It Again Sam) [08-18] - hip hop [**]
  • Paul Giallorenzo Trio: Flow (Delmark) - jazz [**]
  • Freddie Gibbs: You Only Live 2wice (ESGN/Empire) [03-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People: Weather or Not (Whaling City Sound, 2CD) [02-24] - jazz [B]
  • Terry Gibbs: 92 Years Young: Jammin' at the Gibbs House (Whaling City Sound) - jazz [***]
  • Yedo Gibson/Hernâni Faustino/Vasco Trilla: Chain (NoBusiness) - jazz [**]
  • Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway (Nonesuch) [02-24] - Americana [**]
  • Perfect Giddimani: Live My Life Again (Giddimani) [07-07] - reggae [*]
  • David Gilmore: Transitions (Criss Cross) [02-15] - jazz [*]
  • Girlpool: Powerplant (Anti-) [05-12] - alt/indie rock [B]
  • Jean-Brice Godet: Lignes De Cretes (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • Gogol Bordello: Seekers and Finders (Cooking Vinyl) [08-25] - alt/indie rock [**]
  • The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra: Dreaming Big (Goldfox) - jazz [*]
  • Ben Goldberg School: Vol 1: The Humanities (BAG) [06-09] - jazz [**]
  • Golden Pelicans: Disciples of Blood (Goner) [04-21] - post-punk [***]
  • Goldfrapp: Silver Eye (Mute) [03-31] - art pop [*]
  • GoldLink: At What Cost (Squaaash Club/RCA) [03-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Vitor Goncalves: Vitor Goncalves Quartet (Sunnyside) [01-20] - jazz [*]
  • Alex Goodman: Second Act (Lyte) [06-23] - jazz [B]
  • Gorilla Mask: Iron Lung (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Grandaddy: Last Place (30th Century/Columbia) [03-03] - alt/indie rock [**]
  • Pasquale Grasso/Renaud Penant/Ari Roland: In the Mood for a Classic (ITI Music) - jazz [**]
  • Frank Gratkowski/Simon Nabatov: Mirthful Myths (Leo) [02-00] - jazz [**]
  • Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue) [02-24] - jazz [B-]
  • Gordon Grdina Quartet: Inroads (Songlines) - jazz [***]
  • Pasquale Grasso/Renaud Penant/Ari Roland: In the Mood for a Classic (ITI Music) [04-07] - jazz [**]
  • Josh Green & the Cyborg Orchestra: Telepathy & Bop (self-released) [03-02] - jazz [*]
  • Chris Greene Quartet: Boundary Issues (Single Malt) [04-14] - jazz [B]
  • Jimmy Greene: Flowers: Beautiful Life Volume 2 (Mack Avenue) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Tee Grizzley: My Moment (300/Atlantic) [04-07] - hip-hop [*]
  • Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: Jersey (Motema) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Mats Gustafsson & Craig Taborn: Ljubljana (Clean Feed) - jazz [B]
  • Jari Haapalainen Trio: Fusion Madness (Moserobie) - jazz [**]
  • Jari Haapalainen Trio: Fusion Nation (Moserobie) - jazz [**]
  • Marika Hackman: I'm Not Your Man (Sub Pop) [06-02] - indie folk [**]
  • Noah Haidu: Infinite Distances (Cellar Live) [02-15] - jazz [**]
  • Haim: Something to Tell You (Columbia) [07-07] - pop rock [**]
  • Rich Halley/Carson Halley: The Wild (Pine Eagle) - jazz [A-]
  • Charlie Halloran: Ce Biguine! (self-released) [05-03] - jazz [**]
  • Laurel Halo: Dust (Hyperdub) [06-23] - ambient pop [*]
  • Halsey: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (Astralwerks) [06-02] - electropop [**]
  • Larry Ham/Woody Witt: Presence (Blujazz) [03-27] - jazz [*]
  • Hamell on Trial: Tackle Box (New West) [08-11] - folk [A-]
  • Hamell on Trial: Big Mouth Strikes Again: Hamell Live (New West) [08-11] - folk [A-]
  • Ross Hammond + Jon Bafus: Masonic Lawn (Prescott) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Hard Working Americans: We're All in This Together (Melvin) [08-04] - alt-indie rock [***]
  • Aldous Harding: Party (4AD) [05-19] - folk [B]
  • Harriet Tubman: Araminta (Sunnyside) - jazz [A-]
  • Calvin Harris: Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 (Sony) [06-30] - dance pop [*]
  • Keyon Harrold: The Mugician (Legacy) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Hart: Touch of Blue (Blue Canoe) [02-09] - jazz [B-]
  • Taylor Haskins & Green Empire: The Point (Recombination) [11-07] - jazz [*]
  • Mariem Hassan: La Voz Indomita (del Sahara Occidental) (Nubenegra) [02-10] - Saharan [***]
  • Joao Hasselberg & Pedro Branco: From Order to Chaos (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Hans Hassler: Wie Die Zeit Hinter Mir Her (Intakt) [10-15] - jazz [*]
  • Alexander Hawkins: Unit[e] (self-released) [07-02] - jazz [**]
  • Alexander Hawkins-Elaine Mitchener Quartet: Uproot (Intakt) [11-00] - jazz [**]
  • H Hawkline: I Romanticize (Heavenly) [06-02] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Louis Hayes: Serenade for Horace (Blue Note) [05-26] - jazz [***]
  • Wade Hayes: Old Country Song (Conabor) [06-09] - country [B]
  • Heads of State: Four in One (Smoke Sessions) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Hear in Now [Mazz Swift/Tomeka Reid/Silvia Bolognesi]: Not Living in Fear (International Anthem) [06-07] - jazz [**]
  • Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott: Crooked Calypso (Virgin EMI) [07-23] - alt/indie rock [*]
  • Tim Heidecker: Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs (Jagjaguwar) [11-08] - comedy music [B]
  • The Heliocentrics: A World of Masks (Soundway) [05-26] - jazz fusion [***]
  • Natalie Hemby: Puxico (GetWrucke) [01-13] - Americana [**]
  • Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas: The World of Captain Beefheart (Knitting Factory) [11-10] - rock [A-]
  • Rebecca Hennessy's Fog Brass Band: Two Calls (self-released) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Arve Henriksen: Towards Language (Rune Grammofon) [01-16] - jazz [B]
  • Oscar Hernandez & Alma Libre: The Art of Latin Jazz (Origin) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Vincent Herring: Hard Times (Smoke Sessions) - jazz [*]
  • Emily Herring: Gliding (Eight 30) [10-13] - country [B]
  • Fred Hersch: Open Book (Palmetto) [09-08] - jazz [***]
  • Lilly Hiatt: Trinity Lane (New West) [08-25] - alt/indie [**]
  • Dylan Hicks: Ad Out (Soft Launch) - singer-songwriter [**]
  • The Great Harry Hillman: Tilt (Cuneiform) - jazz [**]
  • Cynthia Hilts: Lyric Fury (Blond Coyote) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Robyn Hitchcock: Robyn Hitchcock (Yep Roc) [04-21] - psychedelic pop [*]
  • Dre Hocevar: Surface of Inscription (Clean Feed) - jazz [B-]
  • Florian Hoefner: Coldwater Stories (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Hofbauer: Ghost Frets (Creative Nation Music) - jazz [***]
  • Eric Hofbauer: Prehistoric Jazz Volume 4: Reminiscing in Tempo (Creative Nation Music) [11-03] - jazz [***]
  • Mats Holmquist: Big Band Minimalism (Summit) - jazz [C+]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Veins (Stones Throw -EP) [03-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • Honest John: International Breakthrough (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Tristan Honsinger/Antonio Borghini/Tobias Delius/Axel Dorner: Hook Line and Sinker (De Platenbakakkerij) - jazz [*]
  • Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now (Sub Pop) [02-10] - alt pop/rock [A-]
  • Adam Hopkins: Party Pack Ice (pfMENTUM -EP) [08-10] - jazz [*]
  • Jazzmeia Horn: A Social Call (Prestige) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Ray Wylie Hubbard: Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can (Bordello/Thirty Tigers) [08-18] - alt-country [A-]
  • Joseph Huber: The Suffering Stage (self-released) [04-21] - [***]
  • Humcrush: Enter Humcrush (Shhpuma) - jazz [**]
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Navigator (ATO) [03-10] - Americana [*]
  • J Hus: Common Sense (Black Butter/Epic) [05-12] - grime [**]
  • Hvalfugl: By (self-released) [06-03] - jazz [**]
  • Jason Kao Hwang: Sing House (Euonymous) [05-05] - jazz [***]
  • Ibeyi: Ash (XL) [09-29] [*]
  • Ibibio Sound Machine: Uyai (Merge) [03-17] - African [**]
  • Idles: Brutalism (Bailey) [03-10] - post-punk [***]
  • Innocent When You Dream: Dirt in the Ground (self-released) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Jon Irabagon/John Hegre/Nils Are Dronen: Axis (Rune Grammofon) [02-17] - jazz [*]
  • Sherman Irby & Momentum: Cerulean Canvas (Black Warrior) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • Irreversible Entanglements: Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem/Don Giovanni) [09-26] - jazz [A-]
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound (Southeastern) [06-16] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Ishmael Ensemble: Songs for Knotty (Banoffee Pies -EP) [02-00] - [B]
  • Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over (ECM) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Dylan Jack Quartet: Diagrams (Creative Nation Music) [09-22] - jazz [***]
  • Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant (ECM) [01-13] - jazz [**]
  • Ahmad Jamal: Marseille (Jazz Village) - jazz [**]
  • Jose James: Love in a Time of Madness (Blue Note) [02-15] - r&b [*]
  • Danny Janklow: Elevation (Outside In Music) - jazz [B]
  • BJ Jansen: Common Ground (Ronin Jazz) - jazz [**]
  • Japandroids: Near to the Wild Heart of Life (Anti-) [01-27] - indie rock [**]
  • Japanese Breakfast: Soft Sounds From Another Planet (Dead Oceans) [07-14] - dream pop [**]
  • Jay-Z: 4:44 (Roc Nation/UMG) [06-30] - hip-hop [**]
  • The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: The Music of John Lewis (Blue Engine) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • The Jazz Passengers: Still Life With Trouble (Thirsty Ear) - jazz [**]
  • Garland Jeffreys: 14 Steps to Harlem (Luna Park) [04-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Jentsch Group Quartet: Fractured Pop (Fleur de Son) [04-07] - jazz [*]
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain: Damage and Joy (ADA/Warner) [03-24] - alt rock [**]
  • Dusan Jevtovic: No Answer (Moonjune) - jazz [*]
  • JID: The Never Story (Dreamville/Interscope) [03-10] - hip-hop [***]
  • Jlin: Black Origami (Planet Mu) [05-19] - footwork [**]
  • Howard Johnson and Gravity: Testimony (Tuscarora) - jazz [**]
  • Max Johnson: In the West (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Billy Jones: 3's a Crowd (Acoustical Concepts) [03-24] - jazz [B]
  • Paul Jones: Clean (Outside In Music) [08-04] - jazz [B]
  • Sean Jones: Live From Jazz at the Bistro (Mack Avenue) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: Soul of a Woman (Daptone) [11-17] - r&b [*]
  • Jonwayne: Rap Album Two (The Order Label) [02-17] - hip-hop [***]
  • Ju: Summa (Rare Noise) [03-31] - jazz [B]
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Kin Sonic (Glitterbeat) [03-03] - African [**]
  • Noah Kaplan Quartet: Cluster Swerve (Hatology) - jazz [A-]
  • Keith Karns Big Band: An Eye on the Future (Summit) - jazz [C+]
  • Kasai Allstars & Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste: Around Felicite (Crammed Discs) [04-28] - African [**]
  • Kasai Allstars: Felicite Remixes (Crammed Discs) [04-28] - African [*]
  • Brian Kastan: Roll the Dice on Life (Kastan) [01-01] - jazz [C+]
  • Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Find the Common Shine a Light (Greenleaf Music) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Kehlani: SweetSexySavage (Atlantic) [01-27] - r&b [*]
  • Kelela: Take Me Apart (Warp) [10-06] - contemporary r&b [**]
  • Stacey Kent: I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions (Okeh) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Kesha: Rainbow (Kemosabe/RCA) [08-11] - pop [*]
  • Khalid: American Teen (Right Hand/RCA) [03-03] - alt r&b [A-]
  • King Krule: The OOZ (True Panther Sounds) [10-13] [B]
  • Lauren Kinhan: A Sleepin' Bee (Dotted i) - jazz [B]
  • Kneebody: Anti-Hero (Motema) [03-03] - jazz [B]
  • Kirk Knuffke: Cherryco (SteepleChase) [04-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Kokotab: Flying Heart (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Kondi Band: Salone (Strut) [06-02] - African [***]
  • Lee Konitz: Frescalalto (Impulse) [02-10] - jazz [***]
  • The Koreatown Oddity: Finna Be Past Tense (Stones Throw) [02-24] - hip-hop [**]
  • Diana Krall: Turn Up the Quiet (Verve) [05-05] - jazz [***]
  • Alison Krauss: Windy City (Capitol) [02-17] - country [A-]
  • Pierre Kwenders: Makanda at the End of Space the Beginning of Time (Bonsound) [09-08] - [*]
  • Steve Lacy: Steve Lacy's Demo (Three Quarter -EP) [02-24] - hip-hop [B]
  • Alex Lahey: I Love You Like a Brother (Dead Oceans) [10-06] - alt/indie [***]
  • Andrew Lamb/Warren Smith/Arkadijus Gotesmanas: The Sea of Modicum (NoBusiness) [09-00] - jazz [*]
  • Oliver Lake Featuring Flux Quartet: Right Up On (Passin' Thru) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • LAMA + Joachim Badenhorst: Metamorphosis (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Kendrick Lamar: Damn (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) [04-14] - rap [A-]
  • Andrew Lamb: The Sea of Modicum (NoBusiness) - jazz [*]
  • Michel Lambert: Alom Mola (Jazz From Rant) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Brian Landrus Orchestra: Generations (BlueLand) [07-28] - jazz [**]
  • Nikki Lane: Highway Queen (New West) [02-17] - alt-country [**]
  • Jon Langford: Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls (Bloodshot) [09-22] [***]
  • Steve Langone Trio: Breathe (Whaling City Sound) [07-28] - jazz [**]
  • Large Unit: Fluku (PNL) [10-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Zara Larsson: So Good (Epic/TEN) [03-17] - dance pop [**]
  • Matt Lavelle: Quartet (Unseen Rain) [01-18] - jazz [***]
  • Matt Lavelle's 12 Houses: End Times (Unseen Rain) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (DFA/Columbia) [09-01] - dance-punk [**]
  • Lean Left: I Forgot to Breathe (Trost) [04-03] - jazz [**]
  • Led Bib: Umbrella Weather (RareNoise) [01-20] - jazz [*]
  • LeeAnn Ledgerwood: Renewal (SteepleChase) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Jihye Lee Orchestra: April (self-released) [02-24] - jazz [B-]
  • LEF: Hypersomniac (RareNoise) [12-08] - jazz [B-]
  • Chad Lefkowitz-Brown: Onward (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian) [02-17] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Joao Lencastre's Communion 3: Movements in Freedom (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Ted Leo: The Hanged Man (SuperEgo) [08-31] - rock [B-]
  • Les Amazones d'Afrique: Republique Amazone (RealWorld) [03-10] - African [A-]
  • Les Filles De Illighadad: Eghass Malan (Sahelsounds) [10-29] - African [**]
  • The Billy Lester Trio: Italy 2016 (Ultra Sound) [11-03] - jazz [*]
  • Daniel Levin Quartet: Live at Firehouse 12 (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Allegra Levy: Cities Between Us (SteepleChase) - jazz [***]
  • Gregory Lewis Organ Monk: The Breathe Suite (self-released) [05-05] - jazz [*]
  • Endless Field [Jesse Lewis/Ike Sturm]: Endless Field (Biophilia) [06-23] - jazz [B]
  • Mark Lewis: New York Session (Audio Daddio) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • The Liberation Music Collective: Rebel Portraiture (Ad Astrum) [08-17] - jazz [*]
  • Liebman/Murley Quartet: Live at U of T (U of T Jazz) [12-15] - jazz [***]
  • Mr Lif & Brass Menazeri: Resilient (Waxsimile) [11-03] - hip-hop [*]
  • Lil Uzi Vert: Luv Is Rage 2 (Atlantic) [08-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Arto Lindsay: Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy) [04-21] - [A-]
  • Live Human: Scratch Bop (Cosmic) [01-00] - jazz [**]
  • Llop: J Imp (El Negocito) - jazz [*]
  • Charles Lloyd New Quartet: Passin' Thru (Blue Note) [07-17] - jazz [***]
  • Mike Longo Trio: Only Time Will Tell (CAP) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • David Lopato: Gendhing for a Spirit Rising (Global Coolant -2CD) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • L'Orange: The Ordinary Man (Mello Music Group) [10-27] - hip-hop [**]
  • Lord Echo: Harmonies (Soundway) [04-07] - funk/soul [A-]
  • Lorde: Melodrama (Lava/Republic) [06-16] - art pop [A-]
  • Lost Bayou Ramblers: Kalenda (Rice Pump) [08-11] - cajun [A-]
  • Low Cut Connie: Dirty Pictures (Part 1) (Contender) [05-19] - indie rock [B]
  • Rob Luft: Riser (Edition) [07-17] - jazz [B]
  • Luka Productions: Fasokan (Sahel Sounds) [01-23] [**]
  • Carmen Lundy: Code Noir (Afrasia Productions) [02-17] - jazz [B]
  • Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts: Milano (30th Century/Columbia) [10-27] - alt/indie [***]
  • Harold Mabern: To Love and Be Loved (Smoke Sessions) [08-25] - jazz [*]
  • Doug MacDonald: Jazz Marathon 2 (BluJazz, 2CD) [02-06] - jazz [***]
  • Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra: Common Ground (Addo, 2CD) - jazz [B]
  • Nick Maclean Quartet: Rites of Ascension (Browntasaurus) [12-01] - jazz [*]
  • Mad Professor/Jah9: Mad Professor Meets Jah9 in the Midst of the Storm (VP) [09-08] - reggae [**]
  • Made to Break: Trebuchet (Trost) [11-10] - jazz [A-]
  • The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (Nonesuch) [03-10] - indie pop [B-]
  • Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery (JMood) - jazz [***]
  • Alex Maguire/Nikolas Skordas Duo: Ships and Shepherds (Slam, 2CD) [05-19] - jazz [B]
  • Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': TajMo (Concord) [05-04] - blues [B]
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Agrima (self-released) [10-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Ed Maina: In the Company of Brothers (self-released) [05-06] - jazz [B]
  • Tony Malaby/Mat Maneri/Daniel Levin: New Artifacts (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Manchester Orchestra: A Black Mile to the Surface (Loma Vista) [07-28] - indie rock [B]
  • Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears (Clean Feed) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Aimee Mann: Mental Illness (SuperEgo) [03-31] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Ben Markley Big Band: Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton (OA2) [02-17] - jazz [*]
  • Markley & Balmer: Standards & Covers (Soona Songs) [10-30] - jazz [*]
  • Roc Marciano: Rosebudd's Revenge (Quality Control/300/Atlantic) [02-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Marker: Wired for Sound (Audiographic) [12-11] - jazz [B]
  • Laura Marling: Semper Femina (More Alarming) [03-10] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Delfeayo Marsalis: Kalamazoo (Troubadour Jass) - jazz [**]
  • Luis Jose Martins: Tentos - Invencoes E Encantamentos (Shhpuma) - jazz [*]
  • Mas Que Nada: Sea Journey (Blujazz) - jazz [B]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Blue Skylight (Capri) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Spoek Mathambo: Mzansi Beat Code (TEKA) [04-14] - African [*]
  • Rob Mazurek: Chants and Borders (Clean Feed) [03-10] - jazz [**]
  • Rob Mazurek: Rome (Clean Feed) [07-07] - jazz [*]
  • Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School: The Twilight Fall (Browntasaurus) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Christian McBride Big Band: Bringin' It (Mack Avenue) [09-22] - jazz [B-]
  • Robert McCarther: Stranger in Town (Psalms 149 Music) [02-15] - jazz [C+]
  • Brian McCarthy Nonet: The Better Angels of Our Nature (Truth Revolution) - jazz [***]
  • Ernest McCarty Jr & Jimmie Smith: A Reunion Tribute to Erroll Garner (Blujazz) - jazz [A-]
  • Makaya McCraven: Highly Rare (International Anthem) [11-17] - jazz [***]
  • Zara McFarlane: Arise (Brownswood) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Roy McGrath: Remembranzas (JL Music) [11-07] - jazz [B]
  • John McLean/Clark Sommers Band: Parts Unknown (Origin) [05-19] - jazz [B-]
  • Joe McPhee/Damon Smith/Alvin Fielder: Six Situations (Not Two) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Joe McPhee/Pascal Niggenkemper/Stale Liavik Solberg: Imaginary Numbers (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • JD McPherson: Undivided Heart & Soul (New West) [10-06] - rockabilly [*]
  • Gary Meek: Originals (self-released) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • MEM3: Circles (self-released) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Vic Mensa: The Autobiography (Roc Nation) [07-28] - hip-hop [B]
  • Meridian Trio: Triangulum (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Bob Merrill: Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs by Joe Bushkin (Accurate) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Tift Merritt: Stitch of the World (Yep Roc) [01-27] - Americana [*]
  • Emi Meyer: Monochrome (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Lisa Mezzacappa: AvantNOIR (Clean Feed) [01-20] - jazz [**]
  • Lisa Mezzacappa: Glorious Ravage (New World) [10-00] - jazz [*]
  • Michete: Cool Tricks 3 (self-released) [11-20] - hip-hop [B]
  • Alma Micic: That Old Feeling (Whaling City Sound) - jazz [**]
  • The Microscopic Septet: Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues (Cuneiform) [02-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Migos: Culture (QC/YRN/300) [01-27] - hip-hop [***]
  • Miguel: War & Leisure (ByStorm/RCA) [12-01] - r&b [*]
  • Jason Miles: Kind of New 2: Blue Is Paris (Lightyear) [05-12] - jazz [*]
  • Ron Miles: I Am a Man (Yellowbird) [11-22] - jazz [***]
  • Molly Miller Trio: The Shabby Road Recordings (self-released) - jazz [B]
  • The Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra: Welcome to Swingsville! (BluJazz) [02-06] - jazz [*]
  • Mind Games [Angelika Niescier/Denman Maroney/James Ilgenfritz/Andrew Drury]: Ephemera Obscura (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • Billy Mintz: Ugly Beautiful (Thirteenth Note) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • MIR 8: Perihelion (Shhpuma) - jazz [*]
  • Father John Misty: Pure Comedy (Sub Pop) [04-07] - singer-songwriter [B-]
  • Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace (Pi) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Nicole Mitchell and Haki Madhubuti: Liberation Narratives (Black Earth Music) - jazz [A-]
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side (ECM -2CD) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Discussions (Wide Hive) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Yoko Miwa Trio: Pathways (Ocean Blue Tear Music) [05-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Liudas Mockunas: Hydro (NoBusiness) - jazz [**]
  • Mdou Moctar: Sousoume Tamachek (Sahel Sounds) [09-01] - [*]
  • Modern Mal: The Misanthrope Family Album (Mal) [*]
  • Charnett Moffett: Music From Our Soul (Motema) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Mokoomba: Luyando (OutHere) [03-10] - African [B]
  • Juana Molina: Halo (Crammed Discs) [04-07] - folktronica [*]
  • Marcus Monteiro: Another Part of Me (Whaling City Sound) [07-28] - jazz [***]
  • The Moonlandingz: Interplanetary Class Classics (Transgressive) [03-24] - neo-psychedelia [B]
  • Thurston Moore: Rock N Roll Consciousness (Caroline) [04-28] - alt rock [*]
  • Jason Moran and the Bandwagon: Thanksgiving at the Vanguard (Yes) [04-01] - jazz [*]
  • Paul Moran: Smokin' B3 Vol 2: Still Smokin' (Prudential) [10-29] - jazz [B-]
  • John Moreland: Big Bad Luv (4AD) [05-05] - Americana [A-]
  • Lorrie Morgan/Pam Tillis: Come See Me & Come Lonely (Goldenlane) [11-10] - country [**]
  • Gurf Morlix: The Soul & the Heal (Rootball) [02-03] - alt singer-songwriter [**]
  • Michael Morreale: Love and Influence (Blujazz, 2CD) - jazz [*]
  • Van Morrison: Roll With the Punches (Caroline) [09-22] - blues [B]
  • Van Morrison: Versatile (Legacy) [12-01] [*]
  • Donny Most: Mostly Swinging (Summit) - jazz [**]
  • Kjetil Moster/Jeff Parker/Joshua Abrams/John Herndon: Ran Do (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup) [02-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Paint (Hot Cup) [10-20] - jazz [***]
  • Kyle Motl: Transmogrification (Metatrope) [05-29] - jazz [**]
  • Kyle Motl Trio: Panjandrums (Metatrope) [11-06] - jazz [***]
  • Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me (PW Elverum & Sun) [03-24] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives (Warp) [09-08] - future garage [B]
  • The Mountain Goats: Goths (Merge) [05-19] - indie rock [***]
  • The MUH Trio [Roberto Magris/Frantisek Uhlir/Jaromir Helesic]: Prague After Dark (JMood) - jazz [***]
  • Mumpbeak: Tooth (Rare Noise) [05-26] - jazz [B]
  • Muna: About U (RCA) [02-03] - indie pop [*]
  • Doug Munro and La Pompe Attack: The Harry Warren Songbook (GotMusic) [03-01] - jazz [***]
  • Mura Masa: Mura Masa (Polydor) [07-14] - alt r&b [*]
  • Murs: Captain California (Strange Music) [03-10] - rap [**]
  • Musique Noire: Reflections: We Breathe (self-released) - jazz [*]
  • Brad Myers & Michael Sharfe: Sanguinaria (Hopefulsongs) (Colloquy) [03-03] - jazz [*]
  • Simon Nabatov/Max Johnson/Michael Sarin: Free Reservoir (Leo) [09-00] - jazz [***]
  • Quinsin Nachoff: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio (Whirlwind) [05-19] - jazz [A-]
  • Zaid Nasser: The Stroller (SteepleChase) [08-15] - jazz [**]
  • The National: Sleep Well Beast (4AD) [09-08] - indie rock [***]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Seeni Valeurs (Jive/Epic) [08-01] - African [A-]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Raxas Bercy 2017 (self-released) [12-26] - African [A-]
  • The Necks: Unfold (Ideologic Organ) [02-10] - jazz [***]
  • Negative Press Project: Eternal Life: Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds (Ridgeway) - jazz [*]
  • Willie Nelson: God's Problem Child (Legacy) [04-28] - country [**]
  • NERD: No One Ever Really Dies (I Am Other/Columbia) [12-15] - hip-hop [**]
  • Vadim Neselovskyi Trio: Get Up and Go (Neuklang) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Ed Neumeister & His NeuHat Ensemble: Wake Up Call (MeisteroMusic) [07-15] - jazz [*]
  • New Order: NOMC15 (Pledge Music -2CD) [05-26] - new wave [***]
  • The New Pornographers: Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works/Concord) [04-07] - alt/indie rock [***]
  • The New Vision Sax Ensemble: Musical Journey Through Time (Zak Publishing) [06-12] - jazz [*]
  • New York Electric Piano: State of the Art (Fervor) - jazz [*]
  • Larry Newcomb Quartet With Bucky Pizzarelli: Living Tribute (Essential Messenger) [06-02] - jazz [*]
  • Randy Newman: Dark Matter (Nonesuch) [08-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Sam Newsome: Sopranoville: Works for Prepared and Non-Prepared Soprano (Some New Music) [03-20] - jazz [*]
  • Sam Newsome and Jean-Michel Pilc: Magic Circle (Some New Music) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • Jeb Loy Nichols: Country Hustle (Inkind) [03-03] - singer-songwriter [B-]
  • Gard Nilssen's Complete Unity: Live in Europe (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love/Frode Gjerstad: Nearby Faraway (PNL) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Matt North: Above Ground Fools (self-released) - rock [A-]
  • North Mississippi Allstars: Prayer for Peace (Legacy) [06-02] - blues-rock [***]
  • Dick Oatts: Use Your Imagination (SteepleChase) - jazz [**]
  • Maciej Obara Quartet: Unloved (ECM) [11-03] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn Oberg: Nothing Rhymes With Orange (self-released -EP) [07-28] [*]
  • Uwe Oberg/Rudi Mahall/Michael Griener: Lacy Pool 2 (Leo) [05-00] - jazz [***]
  • Conor Oberst: Salutations (Nonesuch) [03-17] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Ian O'Beirne's Slowbern Big Band: Dreams of Daedelus (self-released) - jazz [B]
  • Bill O'Connell: Monk's Cha Cha: Live at the Carnegie-Farian Room (Savant) [02-24] - jazz [B]
  • Oddisee: The Iceberg (Mello Music Group) [02-24] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdes: Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico (Motema) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: Drool (Father/Daughter/Sooper) [03-03] - rap [B-]
  • Linda May Han Oh: Walk Against Wind (Biophilia) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Zephaniah OHora & the 18 Wheelers: This Highway (MRI) [05-26] - country [**]
  • Miles Okazaki: Trickster (Pi) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Old 97's: Graveyard Whistling (ATO) [02-24] - alt/indie [***]
  • One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2017 (UNT) - jazz [B]
  • Johnny O'Neal: In the Moment (Smoke Sessions) [10-06] - jazz [*]
  • Orchestra Baobab: Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng (Nonesuch/World Circuit) [03-31] - West African [A-]
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: The Punishment of Luxury (White Noise) [09-01] - electropop [***]
  • Orchestre Les Mangelepa: Last Band Standing (Strut) [10-20] - African [A-=]
  • Aruan Ortiz: Cub(an)ism (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • Matt Otto With Ensemble Iberica: Iberica (Origin) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Oui' 3: Occupy Your Mind (ITI) [01-20] - jazz [B]
  • Eivind Opsvik: Overseas V (Loyal Label) - jazz [***]
  • Kelly Lee Owens: Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound) [03-24] - tech house [B]
  • Oxbow: Thin Black Duke (Hydra Head) [05-19] - experimental rock [*]
  • Keith Oxman: East of the Village (Capri) - jazz [**]
  • Ozomatli: Non-Stop: Mexico to Jamaica (Cleopatra) [05-05] - Latin [*]
  • Brad Paisley: Love and War (Arista Nashville) [04-21] - country [B]
  • The Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook: Volumes I & II (Cuneiform, 2CD) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Eddie Palmieri: Sabiduria/Wisdom (Ropeadope) [04-21] - jazz [***]
  • Pan-Scan Ensemble: Air and Light and Time and Space (Hispid/PNL) [02-24] - jazz [**]
  • Diana Panton: Solstice/Equinox (self-released) [10-02] - jazz [*]
  • Paramore: After Laughter (Fueled by Ramen) [05-12] - alt/indie rock [***]
  • The Paranoid Style: Underworld USA (Bar/None) [10-27] - alt/indie rock [***]
  • Emile Parisien/Vincent Peirani/Andreas Schaerer/Michael Wollny: Out of Land (ACT) - jazz [B]
  • Phil Parisot: Creekside (OA2) [11-17] - jazz [**]
  • Chris Parker: Moving Forward Now (self-released) [10-06] - jazz [B-]
  • Evan Parker/Mikolaj Trzaska/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: City Fall: Live at Cafe Oto (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-17] - jazz [**]
  • Evan Parker & RGG: Live @ Alchemia (Fundacja Sluchaj) [02-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Teri Parker: In the Past (self-released) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • William Parker & Stefano Scodanibbio Duo: Bass Duo (Centering) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • William Parker Quartets: Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity -2CD) [06-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Aaron Parks/Ben Street/Billy Hart: Find the Way (ECM) [04-21] - jazz [*]
  • Nicki Parrott: Dear Blossom: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie (Arbors) - jazz [*]
  • Nicki Parrott: Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Songbook (Venus) [03-15] - jazz [**]
  • Sarah Partridge: Bright Lights & Promises: Redefining Janis Ian (Origin) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Jonah Parzen-Johnson: I Try to Remember Where I Come From (Clean Feed) [07-07] - jazz [**]
  • Chris Pasin and Friends: Baby It's Cold Outside (Planet Arts) [10-06] - jazz [B]
  • Elan Pauer: Yamaha/Speed (Creative Sources) [02-00] - jazz [***]
  • Mario Pavone: Vertical (Clean Feed) [05-00] - jazz [***]
  • Nicholas Payton: Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone/Ropeadope) [02-10] - jazz [*]
  • Gary Peacock Trio: Tangents (ECM) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Michael Pedicin: As It Should Be: Ballads 2 (Groundblue) - jazz [*]
  • Penguin Cafe: The Imperfect Sea (Erased Tapes) [05-05] - modern classical [**]
  • The Perceptionists: Resolution (Mello Music Group) - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pere Ubu: 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo (Cherry Red) [09-27] [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 1: Titan (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 2: Tarvos (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 3: Pandora (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 4: Hyperion (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 5: Rhea (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 6: Saturn (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: The Art of Perelman-Shipp Volume 7: Dione (Leo) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Heptagon (Leo) [10-00] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver: Octagon (Leo) [10-00] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman With Matthew Shipp and Jeff Cosgrove: Live in Baltimore (Leo) [10-00] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Live in Brussels (Leo -2CD) [10-00] - jazz [**]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley: Philosopher's Stone (Leo) - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Joe Hertenstein: Scalene (Leo) - jazz [A-]
  • Perfume Genius: No Shape (Matador) [05-05] - art pop [B-]
  • Frank Perowsky Jazz Orchestra: Gowanus (Jazzkey) [10-27] - jazz [*]
  • Peter Perrett: How the West Was Won (Domino) [06-30] [A-]
  • Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Front Porch Sessions (Family Owned) [03-10] - blues [**]
  • Allison Pierce: Year of the Rabbit (Masterworks) [05-05] - folk [B]
  • Matt Piet: The Bitter Angles of Our Nurture (self-released) [12-01] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Piet & Tim Daisy: Stroke One Strike Two (self-released) - jazz [***]
  • Matt Piet/Paul Giallorenzo: Wood Wire and Steel (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • Matt Piet/Raoul Van Der Welde/Frank Rosaly: Out of Step (self-released) - jazz [***]
  • Pink: Beautiful Trauma (RCA) [10-13] - pop [**]
  • Lucas Pino: The Answer Is No (Outside In Music) [09-29] - jazz [***]
  • John Pizzarelli: Sinatra & Jobim @ 50 (Concord) - jazz [B-]
  • Platform: Flux Reflux (Clean Feed) - jazz [B]
  • Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes (Strange and Beautiful) [11-22] - blues [A-]
  • Stuart Popejoy: Pleonid (Leo) [02-01] - jazz [**]
  • Gregory Porter: Nat "King" Cole & Me (Blue Note) [10-27] - jazz [C+]
  • Lewis Porter/Phil Scarff Group: Three Minutes to Four (Whaling City Sound) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Portico Quartet: Art in the Age of Automation (Gondwana) [08-25] - jazz [**]
  • Debbie Poryes Trio: Loving Hank (OA2) - jazz [**]
  • Franciszek Pospieszalski Sextet: 1st Level (ForTune) [03-19] - jazz [B]
  • Chris Potter: The Dreamer Is the Dream (ECM) [04-28] - jazz [*]
  • Dave Potter: You Already Know (Summit) - jazz [**]
  • Awa Poulo: Poulo Warali (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [01-20] - African [**]
  • Simona Premazzi: Outspoken (PRE) - jazz [*]
  • Noah Preminger: Meditations on Freedom (self-released) - jazz [***]
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band: So It Is (Legacy) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Angaleena Presley: Wrangled (Thirty Tigers) [04-21] - country [A-]
  • Margo Price: All American Made (Third Man) [10-20] - country [**]
  • Priests: Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon) [01-27] - punk revival [**]
  • Princess Nokia: 1992 Deluxe (Rough Trade) [11-10] - hip-hop [***]
  • Chuck Prophet: Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (Yep Roc) [02-10] - Americana [*]
  • Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent (Domino) [09-29] - post-punk [***]
  • Public Enemy: Nothing Is Quick in the Desert (Enemy) [06-29] - hip-hop [***]
  • Jure Pukl/Matija Dedic: Hybrid (Whirlwind) [09-22] - jazz [***]
  • Wojciech Pulcyn: Tribute to Charlie Haden (ForTune) [09-22] - jazz [**]
  • Queens of the Stone Age: Villains (Matador) [08-21] - alt rock [B]
  • Quelle Chris: Being You Is Great I Wish I Could Be You More Often (Mello Music Group) [02-10] - alt hip-hop [B-]
  • Michael Rabinowitz: Uncharted Waters (Cats Paw) [04-28] - jazz [*]
  • Errol Rackipov Group: Distant Dreams (OA2) [06-16] - jazz [*]
  • Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim (Mute) [09-15] - rock [*]
  • Rag'n'Bone Man: Human (Sony UK) [02-10] - soul [B-]
  • Rapsody: Laila's Wisdom (Def Jam) [09-22] - hip-hop [**]
  • Rashad: LevelUp (Self Made) [03-05] - hip-hop [**]
  • Ada Rave Trio: The Sea the Storm and the Full Moon (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Real Estate: In Mind (Domino) [03-17] - jangle pop [B]
  • Red Planet/Bill Carrothers: Red Planet With Bill Carrothers (Shifting Paradigm) [04-14] - jazz [**]
  • Mike Reed: Flesh & Bone (482 Music) [08-25] - jazz [***]
  • Reflections in Cosmo: Reflections in Cosmo (RareNoise) [01-20] - jazz [**]
  • The Regrettes: Feel Your Feelings Fool! (Warner Bros) [01-13] [**]
  • Nadia Reid: Preservation (Basin Rock) [03-03] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Dave Rempis/Matt Piet/Tim Daisy: Hit the Ground Running (Aerophonic) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Rempis: Lattice (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [***]
  • The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Cochonnerie (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Re-TROS: Before the Applause (Modern Sky Entertainment) [09-15] - rock [A-]
  • The Reunion Project: Veranda (Tapestry) - jazz [**]
  • Eric Revis: Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed) [08-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Jamie Reynolds: Grey Mirror (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz [**]
  • Jason Rigby: Detroit-Cleveland Trio: One (Fresh Sound New Talent) [04-28] - jazz [***]
  • Karriem Riggins: Headnod Suite (Stones Throw) [02-24] - hip-hop [**]
  • Stephen Riley/Peter Zak: Deuce (SteepleChase) [01-01] - jazz [***]
  • Eve Risser/Benjamin Duboc/Edward Perraud: En Corps/Generation (Dark Tree) [03-20] - jazz [**]
  • Eve Risser/Kaja Draksler: To Pianos (Clean Feed) [11-00] - jazz [B]
  • Riverside [Dave Douglas/Chet Doxas/Steve Swallow/Jim Doxas]: The New National Anthem (Greenleaf Music) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Tom Rizzo: Day and Night (Origin) [05-19] - jazz [B]
  • Carol Robbins: Taylor Street (Jazzcats) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Troy Roberts: Tales & Tones (Inner Circle) [01-05] - jazz [**]
  • Rocco John: Peace and Love (Unseen Rain) [03-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: The French Press (Sub Pop) [03-10] - jangle pop [**]
  • Roots Magic: Last Kind Words (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Jeremy Rose: Within & Without (Earshift Music) - jazz [*]
  • Whitney Rose: South Texas Suite (Six Shooter, EP) [01-27] - country [***]
  • Whitney Rose: Rule 62 (Six Shooter) [10-06] - Americana [**]
  • Daniel Rosenthal: Music in the Room (American Melody) [11-14] - jazz [*]
  • Rostam: Half-Light (Nonesuch) [10-00] [**]
  • Scott Routenberg Trio: Every End Is a Beginning (Summit) - jazz [*]
  • ROVA Saxophone Quartet/Kyle Bruckmann/Henry Kaiser: Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Vitor Rua and the Metaphysical Angels: Do Androids Dream of Electrid Guitars? (Clean Feed -2CD) - jazz [*]
  • Mark Rubin Jew of Oklahoma: Songs for the Hangman's Daughter (Rubinchik) [03-28] - folk [**]
  • Roswell Rudd/Fay Victor/Lafayette Harris/Ken Filiano: Embrace (RareNoise) - jazz [A-]
  • Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Glare of the Tiger (MOD Technologies) [03-10] - jazz [***]
  • Adam Rudolph: Morphic Resonances (MOD Technologies) [10-20] - jazz [*]
  • Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3 (Run the Jewels) [01-13] - rap [A-]
  • Rune Your Day: Rune Your Day (Clean Feed) - jazz [**]
  • The Sadies: Northern Passages (Yep Roc) [02-10] - alt-country [*]
  • Cecile McLorin Salvant: Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte With Iggy Pop: Loneliness Road (Rare Noise) [05-27] - jazz [**]
  • Saint Etienne: Home Counties (Heavenly) [06-02] - indie pop [***]
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Async (Milan) [04-28] - ambient [*]
  • Samo Salamon Sextet: The Colours Suite (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Samo Salamon/Szilard Mezei/Achille Succi: Planets of Kei: Free Sessions Vol 1 (Not Two) - jazz [***]
  • Sampha: Process (Young Turks) [02-03] - alt r&b [*]
  • San Francisco String Trio: May I Introduce to You (Ridgeway) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • The Angelica Sanchez Trio: Float the Edge (Clean Feed) [03-15] - jazz [**]
  • Marta Sanchez Quintet: Danza Imposible (Fresh Sound New Talent) [10-01] - jazz [**]
  • Christian Sands: Reach (Mack Avenue) [05-20] - jazz [**]
  • Oumou Sangare: Mogoya (No Format) [05-19] - African [A-]
  • Romeo Santos: Golden (Sony Latin) [07-21] - musica tropical [*]
  • A Savage: Thawing Dawn (Dull Tools) [10-13] - alt/indie rock [*]
  • Rina Sawayama: Rina (The Vinyl Factory -EP) [10-27] - pop [B-]
  • Scenes: Destinations (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [*]
  • Jenny Scheinman: Here on Earth (Royal Potato Family) [03-03] - jazz [***]
  • Schnellertollermeier: Rights (Cuneiform) [10-06] - jazz [*]
  • Louis Sclavis: Asian Fields Variations (ECM) - jazz [*]
  • Irene Schweizer/Joey Baron: Live! (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Oliver Schwerdt: Prestige/No Smoking (Euphorium -2CD) - jazz [***]
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Ruler Rebel (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Diaspora (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) [06-23] - jazz [**]
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The Emancipation Procrastination (Stretch Music/Ropeadope) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home (Eden River) [01-27] - jazz [**]
  • Brandon Seabrook: Die Trommel Fatale (New Atlantis) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Rev Sekou: In Times Like These (Zent) [05-05] [B-]
  • Luke Sellick: Alchemist (Cellar Live) [03-10] - jazz [**]
  • The Selva: The Selva (Clean Feed) [05-12] - jazz [*]
  • Serengeti: Jueles/Butterflies (self-released) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Shabazz Palaces: Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star (Sub Pop) [07-14] - hip-hop [***]
  • Shabazz Palaces: Quazarz vs the Jealous Machines (Sub Pop) [07-14] - experimental hip-hop [**]
  • Nadine Shah: Holiday Destination (1965) [08-25] - indie rock [*]
  • Shakira: El Dorado (Sony Latin Music) [05-26] - Latin pop [***]
  • Elliott Sharp With Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot: Err Guitar (Intakt) - jazz [**]
  • Sheer Mag: Need to Feel Your Love (Static Shock) [07-14] - power pop [**]
  • Shelter: Shelter (Audiographic) [03-01] - jazz [***]
  • Blake Shelton: Texoma Shore (Warner Bros Nashville) [11-03] - country [*]
  • The Shins: Heartworms (Columbia) [03-10] - indie pop [*]
  • Shinyribs: I Got Your Medicine (Mustard Lid) - country-soul [*]
  • Matthew Shipp Trio: Piano Song (Thirsty Ear) - jazz [A-]
  • Matthew Shipp: Invisible Touch at Taktlos Zurich (Hatology) - jazz [***]
  • Matthew Shipp Quartet: Not Bound (ForTune) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • ShitKid: EP 2 (PNKSLM -EP) [03-03] - postpunk [B]
  • ShitKid: Fish (PNKSLM) - postpunk [*]
  • Idit Shner: 9 Short Stories (OA2) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Paula Shocron/German Lamonega/Pablo Diaz: Tensegridad (Hatology) [06-30] - jazz [**]
  • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Sidelong (Bloodshot) [04-28] [***]
  • Shotgun Jazz Band: Steppin' on the Gas (self-released) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Jen Shyu: Song of Silver Geese (Pi) [11-10] - jazz [*]
  • Jared Sims: Change of Address (Ropeadope) [04-14] - jazz [***]
  • Alex Sipiagin: Moments Captured (Criss Cross) [04-27] - jazz [B]
  • Sirius: Acoustic Main Suite Plus the Inner One (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Rotem Sivan: Antidote (Alma) - jazz [**]
  • Bria Skonberg: With a Twist (Okeh) [05-19] - jazz [*]
  • Skyzoo: Peddler Themes (First Generation Rich/Empire) [07-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan (Panorama) [01-06] - jazz [***]
  • Sleaford Mods: English Tapas (Rough Trade) [03-03] - post-punk [***]
  • Sleater-Kinney: Live in Paris (Sub Pop) [01-27] - alt/indie [*]
  • Slow Is Possible: Moonwatchers (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Slowdive: Slowdive (Dead Oceans) [05-05] - dream pop [*]
  • Smino: Blkswn (Zero Fatigue/Downtown) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid (Western Vinyl) [10-06] - art pop [B]
  • Nate Smith: Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere (Ropeadope) [02-03] - jazz [B]
  • Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Effervescence (Spartacus) [02-24] - jazz [**]
  • Tommy Smith: Embodying the Light: A Dedication to John Coltrane (Spartacus) [07-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Wadada Leo Smith/Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii/Ikue Mori: Aspiration (Libra) [09-08] - jazz [**]
  • Wadada Leo Smith: Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM) [10-20] - jazz [**]
  • Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa (TUM) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Sneaks: It's a Myth (Merge, EP) [03-31] - alt rock [*]
  • Martial Solal & Dave Liebman: Masters in Bordeaux (Sunnyside) [09-27] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Soldier: The Eighth Hour of Amduat (Mulatta) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Jay Som: Everybody Works (Polyvinyl) [03-10] - indie rock [*]
  • Gunter Baby Sommer: Le Piccole Cose: Live at Theater Gutersloh (Intuition) - jazz [*]
  • Peter Sommer: Happy-Go-Lucky Locals (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • Songhoy Blues: Resistance (Fat Possum) [06-16] - Saharan [**]
  • Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi) [08-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Sorority Noise: You're Not as ___ as You Think (Triple Crown) [03-17] - emo [**]
  • Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita: Transparent Water (World Village) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Omar Souleyman: To Syria With Love (Mad Decent) [06-02] - [A-]
  • Sparks: Hippopotamus (BMG) [09-06] - art pop [B]
  • Chris Speed Trio: Platinum on Tap (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Spellling: Pantheon of Me (self-released) [09-09] [B]
  • Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Hide Ye Idols (Loyal Label) - jazz [*]
  • Spoon: Hot Thoughts (Matador) [03-17] - alt/indie rock [***]
  • St Vincent: Masseduction (Loma Vista) [10-13] - art pop [A-]
  • David Stackenas: Bricks (Clean Feed) - jazz [*]
  • Terell Stafford: Forgive and Forget (Herb Harris Music -16) [-2016] - jazz [A-]
  • Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet: December Avenue (ECM) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Lyn Stanley: The Moonlight Sessions: Volume Two (AT Music) [10-06] - jazz [***]
  • Mavis Staples: I'll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration (Blackbird Production Partners) [06-02] - gospel/soul/r&b [**]
  • Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black (Anti-) [11-17] - r&b [***]
  • Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory (Def Jam) [06-23] - hip-hop [**]
  • Chris Stapleton: From a Room: Volume 1 (Mercury Nashville) [05-05] - Americana [***]
  • Chris Stapleton: From a Room: Volume 2 (Mercury Nashville) [12-01] - Americana [**]
  • Starlito & Don Trip: Step Brothers Three (Grind Hard) - hip-hop [A-]
  • Jason Stein Quartet: Lucille! (Delmark) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • John Stein/Dave Zinno: Wood and Strings (Whaling City Sound) - jazz [***]
  • Dayna Stephens: Gratitude (Contagious Music) [04-07] - jazz [**]
  • Mike Stern: Trip (Heads Up) [09-08] - jazz [*]
  • Colin Stetson: All This I Do for Glory (52Hz) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Becca Stevens: Regina (GroundUP) - jazz [B-]
  • Matthew Stevens: Preverbal (Ropeadope) [03-24] - jazz [B]
  • Stik Figa: Central Standard Time (Mello Music Group) [01-27] - hip-hop [***]
  • Stormzy: Gang Signs & Prayer (Merky) [02-24] - grime [*]
  • John Stowell/Ulf Bandgren Quartet: Night Visitor (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [*]
  • Dave Stryker: Strykin' Ahead (Strikezone) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives: Way Out West (Superlatone) [03-10] - [B]
  • Harry Styles: Harry Styles (Columbia) [05-12] - pop rock [B]
  • Hiromi Suda: Nagi (BluJazz) - jazz [*]
  • Sult/Lasse Marhaug: Harpoon (Conrad Sound/Pica Disk) [03-03] - jazz [*]
  • Rain Sultanov: Inspired by Nature (Ozella) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Summit Quartet: Live in Sant' Arresi (Audiographic) [09-27] - jazz [**]
  • Moses Sumney: Aromanticism (Jagjaguwar) [09-22] - art pop [*]
  • Sunny Sweeney: Trophy (Aunt Daddy) [03-10] - country [***]
  • Steve Swell: Music for Six Musicians: Hommage A Olivier Messiaen (Silkheart) - jazz [***]
  • Swet Shop Boys: Sufi La (Customs -EP) [04-22] - rap [A-]
  • Taylor Swift: Reputation (Big Machine) [11-10] - electropop [**]
  • Syd: Fin (Columbia) [02-02] - neo soul [A-]
  • Sylvan Esso: What Now (Loma Vista) [04-28] - indietronica [A-]
  • SZA: Ctrl (Top Dawg/RCA) [06-09] - alt r&b [**]
  • Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts (ECM) [02-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Takaaki: New Kid in Town (Albany) [11-27] - jazz [**]
  • Aki Takase/David Murray: Cherry Shakura (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
  • Talinka: Talinka (MoonJune) [12-04] - jazz [***]
  • Tamikrest: Kidal (Glitterbeat) [03-17] - Saharan [**]
  • Jeannie Tanner: Words & Music (Tanner Time, 2CD) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Dylan Taylor: One in Mind (Blujazz) - jazz [*]
  • Joris Teepe & Don Braden: Conversations (Creative Perspective Music) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Yosvany Terry/Baptiste Trotignon: Ancestral Memories (Okeh) - jazz [*]
  • Emma-Jean Thackray's Walrus: Walrus EP (Deptford Beach -EP) [09-19] - electronic [*]
  • Chris Thile/Brad Mehldau: Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (Nonesuch) [01-27] - jazz [B-]
  • Katie Thiroux: Off Beat (Capri) [08-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Thomas: The Colors of a Dream (Sea Tea) - jazz [*]
  • Fred Thomas: Changer (Polyvinyl) [01-27] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Throttle Elevator Music: Retrospective (Wide Hive) [01-06] - jazz [***]
  • Thundercat: Drunk (Brainfeeder) [02-24] - alt hip-hop [*]
  • Thurst: Cut to the Chafe (self-released) [01-20] - postpunk [**]
  • Tinariwen: Elwan (Anti-) [02-10] - Mali [A-]
  • Anna Tivel: Small Believer (Fluff and Gravy) [09-29] - folk [A-]
  • Nestor Torres: Jazz Flute Traditions (Alfi) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Vieux Farka Toure: Samba (Six Degrees) [04-00] - Mali [***]
  • Ralph Towner: My Foolish Heart (ECM) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Gabriele Tranchina: Of Sailing Ships and the Stars in Your Eyes (Rainchant Eclectic) [10-18] - jazz [**]
  • Traxman: Tekvision (Teklife) [11-03] - electronic [B-]
  • Trespass Trio: The Spirit of Pitesti (Clean Feed) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Klaus Treuheit/Lou Grassi: Port of Call (NoBusiness) - jazz [***]
  • Trichotomy: Known-Unknown (Challenge) - jazz [***]
  • Tricky: Ununiform (False Idols) [09-22] - trip hop [*]
  • Trio 3: Visiting Texture (Intakt) [03-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet: Ladilikan (World Circuit) [09-15] - world [*]
  • Trio Heinz Herbert: The Willisau Concert (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
  • Trio S: Somewhere Glimmer (Zitherine) [06-23] - jazz [*]
  • Triocity [Charles Pillow/Jeff Campbell/Rich Thompson]: I Believe in You (Origin) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Trombone Shorty: Parking Lot Symphony (Blue Note) [04-28] - jazz [B-]
  • Trouble Kaze: June (Circum-Disc) [03-03] - jazz [*]
  • Tune Recreation Committee: Voices of Our Vision (self-released) [03-29] - jazz [*]
  • Turnpike Troubadours: A Long Way From Your Heart (Bossier City) [10-20] - country [B]
  • Ty Dolla Sign: Beach House 3 (Atlantic) [10-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Tyler the Creator: Flower Boy (Columbia) [07-21] - experimental hip-hop [B]
  • Baron Tymas: Montreal (Tymasmusic) [01-23] - jazz [*]
  • Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Five (OA2) [05-19] - jazz [B]
  • Jeremy Udden/John McNeil/Akyer Kobrinsky/Anthony Pinciotti: Hush Point III (Sunnyside) [01-20] - jazz [*]
  • James Blood Ulmer With the Thing: Baby Talk: Live at the Molde International Jazz Festival 2015 (Trost) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Unhinged Sextet: Don't Blink (OA2) [08-18] - jazz [B]
  • The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: Veterans of Jazz (self-released) - jazz [D+]
  • University of Toronto 12Tet: Trillium Falls (UofT Jazz) [03-10] - jazz [B]
  • University of Toronto Jazz Orcherstra: Sweet Ruby Suite (UofT Jazz) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Urbanity: Urban Soul (Alfi) - jazz [B]
  • The US Army Blues: Swinging in the Holidays (self-released) - jazz [U]
  • Vagabon: Infinite Worlds (Father/Daughter) [02-24] - indie rock [*]
  • Valerie June: The Order of Time (Concord) [03-10] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Valley Queen: Destroyer (self-released -EP) [03-10] [B-]
  • The Vampires: The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke (Earshift Music) - jazz [*]
  • Ecca Vandal: Ecca Vandal (Dew Process) [10-20] - pop [**]
  • Ken Vandermark/Klaus Kugel/Mark Tokar: Escalator (Not Two) [07-24] - jazz [***]
  • Ken Vandermark: Momentum 2 & 3 (Audiographic) [12-11] - jazz [*]
  • Raphael Vanoli: Bibrax (Shhpuma) - jazz [*]
  • John Vanore: Stolen Moments: Celebrating Oliver Nelson (Acoustical Concepts) [08-18] - jazz [**]
  • Vector Families: For Those About to Jazz/Rock We Salute You (Sunnyside) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Carlos Vega: Bird's Up (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [*]
  • Velkro: Too Lazy to Panic (Clean Feed) [01-27] - jazz [A-]
  • David Virelles: Gnosis (ECM) [09-15] - jazz [*]
  • Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Ballet (Rare Noise) [04-28] - jazz [***]
  • Torben Waldorff: Holiday on Fire (ArtistShare) [04-30] - jazz [**]
  • Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Toxic: This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People (ESP-Disk) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • Colter Wall: Colter Wall (Young Mary's) [05-12] - country [A-]
  • The War on Drugs: A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic) [08-25] - indie rock [B]
  • David S Ware Trio: Live in New York 2010 (AUM Fidelity) [06-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Kamasi Washington: Harmony of Difference (Young Turks) [09-29] - jazz [*]
  • Bobby Watson: Made in America (Smoke Sessions) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Charlie Watts: Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band (Impulse) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Trevor Watts/Veryan Weston/Alison Blunt/Hannah Marshall: Dialogues With Strings: Live at Cafe Oto in London (Fundacja Sluchaj) [10-12] - jazz [*]
  • Waxahatchee: Out in the Storm (Merge) [07-14] - alt/indie rock [A-]
  • Jane Weaver: Modern Kosmology (Fire) [05-19] - dream pop [*]
  • David Weiss & Point of Departure: Wake Up Call (Ropeadope) [02-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Shea Welsh: Arrival (Blujazz) - jazz [B-]
  • Daniel Weltlinger: Samoreau: A Tribute to the Fans of Django Reinhardt (Rectify) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Galen Weston: The Space Between (Blujazz) - jazz [B]
  • Randy Weston: The African Nubian Suite (African Rhythms, 2CD) [01-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Ronny Whyte: Shades of Whyte (Audiophile) [05-05] - jazz [B]
  • Jurg Wickihalder/Barry Guy/Lucas Niggli: Beyond (Intakt) - jazz [***]
  • Wiki: No Mountains in Manhattan (XL) [08-25] - hip-hop [**]
  • Ken Wiley: Jazz Horn Redux (Krug Park Music) [09-01] - jazz [*]
  • Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto) [08-25] - jazz [*]
  • Mark Wingfield/Markus Reuter/Asaf Sirkis: Lighthouse (Moonjune) [11-00] - jazz [B]
  • Carl Winther & Jerry Bergonzi: Inner Journey (SteepleChase LookOut) [06-15] - jazz [***]
  • Alex Wintz: Life Cycle (Culture Shock Music) [05-19] - jazz [**]
  • Wire: Silver/Lead (Pinkflag) [03-31] - post-punk [*]
  • David Wise: Till They Lay Me Down (self-released) [01-06] - jazz [**]
  • Deanna Witkowski: Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns (Tilapia) [11-03] - jazz [B]
  • Florian Wittenberg: Don't Push the Piano Around (NurNichtNur) - jazz [**]
  • Wizkid: Sounds From the Other Side (Starboy/RCA) [07-14] - Nigerian/hip-hop [**]
  • Wolf Alice: Visions of a Life (Dirty Hit/RCA) [09-29] - indie rock [*]
  • Lee Ann Womack: The Lonely the Lonesome & the Gone (ATO) [10-27] - country [**]
  • Wooden Wand: Clipper Ship (Three Lobed) [05-05] - Americana [B]
  • Roy Woods: Say Less (OVO Sound/Warner Bros) [12-01] - r&b [**]
  • Nate Wooley: Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan) (Clean Feed) - jazz [A-]
  • Charlie Worsham: Beginning of Things (Warner Bros Nashville) [04-21] - country [B]
  • Lizz Wright: Grace (Concord) [09-15] - jazz [***]
  • Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues (eOne) [10-13] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Eric Wyatt: Look to the Sky (Whaling City Sound) [10-27] - jazz [**]
  • Jaime Wyatt: Felony Blues (forty Below -EP) [02-24] - [*]
  • Charli XCX: Number 1 Angel (Asylum) [03-10] - pop [A-]
  • Charli XCX: Pop 2 (Asylum) [12-15] - pop [***]
  • The XX: I See You (Young Turks) [01-13] - indie pop [A-]
  • Yaeji: Yaeji (Godmode -EP) [03-31] - deep house [**]
  • Yaeji: EP 2 (Godmode -EP) [11-03] - deep house [***]
  • Tal Yahalom/Almog Sharvit/Ben Silashi: Kadawa (self-released) - jazz [**]
  • Hideo Yamaki/Bill Laswell/Bjorn Bjorkenheim/Mike Sopko/Dominic James: Inaugural Sound Clash for the 2 Americas (MOD Technologies) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • Jim Yanda Trio: Home Road (Corner Store Jazz, 2CD) - jazz [*]
  • Dave Young/Terry Promane Octet: Vol 2 (Modica Music) - jazz [*]
  • Neil Young + Promise of the Real: The Visitor (Reprise) [12-01] - rock [B]
  • Reggie Young: Forever Young (Whaling City Sound) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • Young Thug: Beautiful Thugger Girls (300/Atlantic) [06-16] - rap [***]
  • Glenn Zaleski: Fellowship (Sunnyside) [02-24] - jazz [*]
  • Mark Zaleski Band: Days Months Years (self-released) [10-06] - jazz [**]
  • Bobby Zankel & the Wonderful Sound 6: Celebrating William Parker @ 65 (Not Two) [07-00] - jazz [**]
  • Msafiri Zawose: Uhamiaji (Soundway) [09-01] - African [*]
  • Zeal & Ardor: Devil Is Fine (MKVA) [02-24] - black metal [***]
  • Miguel Zenon: Tipico (Miel Music) [02-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Omri Ziegele Where's Africa: Going South (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Pablo Ziegler Trio: Jazz Tango (Zoho) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Michael Zilber: Originals for the Originals (Origin) [02-17] - jazz [**]
  • Waclaw Zimpel/Jakub Ziolek: Zimpel/Ziolek (Instant Classic) [10-12] - pop [**]
  • Dave Zinno Unisphere: River of January (Whaling City Sound) [10-27] - jazz [*]
  • Zola Jesus: Okovi (Sacred Bones) [09-08] - dark wave [B]
  • Chevere (Parma) - Latin [B]
  • Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams (Slate Creek) [05-26] - country [***]
  • Sky Music: A Tribute to Terje Rypdal (Rune Grammofon) - jazz [*]

Reissues, Etc.

  • Acetone: 1992-2001 (Light in the Attic) [09-15] - rock [B]
  • Vincent Ahehehinnou: Best Woman (1978, Analog Africa) [04-20] - Africa [**]
  • Otim Alpha: Gulu City Anthems (Nyege Nyege) [02-20] - African [B]
  • Louis Armstrong: The Standard Oil Sessions (1950, Dot Time) [07-20] - jazz [**]
  • Louis Armstrong: The Nightclubs (1950-58, Dot Time) - jazz [***]
  • Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu of Ethiopia (1972, Strut) [05-19] - [**]
  • Albert Ayler Quartet: Copenhagen Live 1964 (Hatology) [04-00] - jazz [**]
  • Albert Ayler: Stockholm Berlin 1966 (Hatology) [07-26] - jazz [***]
  • Derek Bailey & Greg Goodman: Extracting Fish-Bones From the Back of the Despoiler (1992, The Beak Doctor) [11-01] - jazz [U]
  • Joseph Bowie/Oliver Lake: Live at 'A SPACE' 1976 (Delmark/Sackville) [05-00] - jazz [**]
  • Alice Coltrane: World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop) [05-05] - jazz [**]
  • James Luther Dickinson: I'm Just Dead I'm Not Gone (Lazarus Edition) (Memphis International) - Americana [***]
  • Dion: Kickin' Child: The Lost Album 1965 (Norton) [05-12] [C-]
  • The Bill Evans Trio: On a Monday Evening (1976, Fantasy) [03-17] - jazz [***]
  • George Freeman: 90 Going on Amazing (Blujazz) - jazz [*]
  • Vinny Golia Wind Quartet: Live at the Century City Playhouse: Los Angeles, 1979 (Dark Tree) - jazz [***]
  • John Gruntfest & Greg Goodman: In This Land All the Birds Wore Hats and Spurs (1984-2008, The Beak Doctor) - jazz [U]
  • Gary Husband: A Meeting of Spirits (2006, Edition) - jazz [*]
  • Dick Hyman: Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festivals 1983-1988 (Arbors) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Abdullah Ibrahim: Ancient Africa (1973, Delmark/Sackville) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Hamad Kalkaba: Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974-1975 (Analog Africa -EP) [12-00] - African [A-]
  • Joe King Kologbo & the High Grace: Sugar Daddy (1980, Strut) [02-10] - African [***]
  • Azar Lawrence: Bridge Into the New Age (Prestige) [11-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane (2007, Resonance) [06-16] - jazz [***]
  • Kirk Lightsey & Harold Danko: Shorter by Two (Sunnyside) - jazz [**]
  • Arthur Lipner: Two Hands One Heart: Best of Arthur Lipner (Malletworks Media, 2CD) [02-03] - jazz [**]
  • Los Camaroes: Resurrection Los Vol 1 (1976, Analog Africa) [09-29] - African [**]
  • Paul McCandless: Morning Sun: Adventures With Oboe (Living Music) [10-20] - jazz [C+]
  • Hayes McMullan: Everyday Seem Like Murder Here (Light in the Attic) [02-17] - blues [***]
  • The Lloyd McNeill Quartet: Asha (1969, Soul Jazz) [05-26] - jazz [*]
  • The Lloyd McNeill Quartet: Washington Suite (1970, Soul Jazz) [03-31] - jazz [B]
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Duets With Anthony Braxton (1976, Sackville/Delmark) [09-15] - jazz [**]
  • Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam -2CD) [04-22] - jazz [***]
  • Motorhead: Under Cover (Silver Lining Music) [09-01] - hard rock [***]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Africa Rekk: Reedition (Jive/Epic) - African [**]
  • Willie Nelson: Willie's Stash Vol 2: Willie Nelson and the Boys (Legacy) [10-20] - country [*]
  • Itaru Oki/Nobuyoshi Ino/Choi Sun Bae: Kami Fusen (NoBusiness) - jazz [**]
  • Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa: Viajando Com O Som: The Lost 1976 Vice Versa Studio Sessions (Far Out) [09-08] - Brazil [**]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 1: Sonny Stitt (Omnivore 2CD) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 2: Pete Jolly (Omnivore) [02-03] - jazz [***]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 3: Lee Konitz (Omnivore) [06-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 4 With Bill Watrous (Omnivore) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 5: Jack Sheldon (Omnivore) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Art Pepper: Presents "West Coast Sessions!" Volume 6: Shelly Manne (Omnivore) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
  • Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet: New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown 2CD) [05-19] - jazz [***]
  • John Prine: September 78 (Oh Boy) - folk [***]
  • Professor Rhythm: Bafana Bafana (1995, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [10-13] - African [A-]
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Discipline 27-II (1973, Strut/Art Yard) [05-20] - jazz [B]
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Thunder of the Gods (Modern Harmonic) [04-07] - jazz [B-]
  • Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: My Brother the Wind Vol 1 (1969, Cosmic Myth) [10-00] - jazz [**]
  • Allen Ravenstine + Albert Dennis: Terminal Drive (1975, Smog Veil -EP) [B]
  • The Replacements: For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986 (Rhino) [10-06] - rock [**]
  • The Revelators: We Told You Not to Cross Us [20th Anniversary Edition] (1997, Crypt) [***]
  • Jim Riggs: Airstream Artistry: Jim Riggs' Best of the TWO (UNT -3CD) - jazz [*]
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Talk Tight (2015, Sub Pop -EP) [08-25] - alt-indie rock [A-]
  • The Rolling Stones: Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 (Eagle Rock) - rock & roll [**]
  • The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped: Paris (1995, Eagle Rock) [03-31] - rock & roll [**]
  • The Rolling Stones: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1972, Eagle Rock) [06-16] - rock [A-]
  • The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theater 2015 (Eagle Rock) [09-29] - rock [*]
  • The Rolling Stones: On Air (1963-65, Interscope) [12-01] - rock [**]
  • Chris Rogers: Voyage Home (2001, Art of Life) [02-03] - jazz [B]
  • Paul Rutherford/Sabu Toyozumi: The Conscience (1999, NoBusiness) - jazz [A-]
  • Jay Saunders: Nice! Jay Saunders' Best of the TWO (UNT -2CD) - jazz [*]
  • Sheer Mag: Compilation (2014-16, Wilsuns RC) [01-01] - power pop [***]
  • Neil Slater: Legacy: Neil Slater at North Texas (UNT -4CD) - jazz [B]
  • Buddy Terry: Awareness (1971, Wewantsounds) [09-29] - jazz [**]
  • Lucky Thompson: Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959 (Fresh Sound -4CD) [08-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Lucky Thompson: In Paris 1956: The All Star Orchestra Sessions (Fresh Sound) [08-18] - jazz [*]
  • The Three Sounds: Groovin' Hard: Live at the Penthouse 1964-1968 (Resonance) [01-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Ton-Klami [Midori Takada/Kang Tae Hwan/Masahiko Satoh]: Prophecy of Nue (1995, NoBusiness) - jazz [***]
  • Umoja: 707 (1988, Awesome Tapes From Africa -EP) [05-19] - African [**]
  • Bro Valentino: Stay Up Zimbabwe (1979-80, Analog Africa -EP) [08-10] - African [***]
  • Trevor Watts Amalgam: Closer to You (1976, Hi4Head) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Shina Williams & His African Percussionists: Agboju Logun (1984, Strut -EP) [06-16] - African [*]
  • Jim Yanda Trio: Regional Cookin' (1987, Corner Store Jazz) - jazz [*]
  • Neil Young: Hitchhiker (1976, Reprise) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • American Epic: The Soundtrack (Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) [05-12] [A-]
  • American Epic: The Collection (1916-36, Third Man/Columbia/Legacy, 5CD) [A]
  • American Epic: The Best of Blues (1927-36, Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) - blues [***]
  • American Epic: The Best of Country (Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) - country [A-]
  • Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 (Tiger's Milk/Strut) [10-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Battle Hymns (Quasi Band) - alt/indie rock [**]
  • The Bob's Burgers Music Album (Sub Pop) [05-12] - soundtrack [*]
  • Boombox 2: Early Independent Hip Hop Electro and Disco Rap 1979-83 (Soul Jazz) [06-02] - hip-hop [***]
  • Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (1977-93, Soul Jazz) - reggae [***]
  • Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81 (Soul Jazz) - electronica [*]
  • Miracle Steps: Music From the Fourth World 1983-2017 (Optimo) [04-14] [***]
  • Mono No Aware (Pan) [03-17] - ambient [*]
  • Now That's What I Call 90s Pop (UMG/Sony) [A-]
  • Now That's What I Call Tailgate Anthems (Sony Music Entertainment) [08-04] [*]
  • Ote Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya on Reunion Island 1975-1986 (Strut) [06-30] - world [*]
  • Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 (Music From Memory) [02-00] - [*]
  • Perseverance: The Music of Rick DeRosa at North Texas (UNT) - jazz [B-]
  • Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984 (Analog Africa) [06-15] - African [*]
  • The Rough Guide to Hillbilly Blues (World Music Network) - blues [A-]
  • The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues (World Music Network) [05-26] - blues [A-]
  • The Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (World Music Network) [10-06] - African [***]
  • Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power: Underground Jazz Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79 (Soul Jazz) [07-11] [*]
  • Space Energy & Light: Expermental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 (Soul Jazz) [06-30] - electronic [**]
  • Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From the Horn of Africa (1969-2002, Ostinato) [08-18] - African [***]
  • Zaire 74: The African Artists (Wrasse) [05-26] - African [**]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 4: 766
  • Priority 5: 419

Total: 1185