Music Tracking 2019

These are 2019 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

• !!!: Wallop (Warp) [08-30]
• 4WD [Nils Landgren/Michael Wollny/Lars Danielsson/Wolfgang Haffner]: 4 Wheel Drive (ACT) [03-15] - jazz [B-]
• 2 Chainz: Rap or Go to the League (Gamebread/Def Jam) [03-01] - trap rap [**]
• 03 Greedo: Still Summer in the Projects (Alamo) [04-19] - hip-hop
• 03 Greedo & Kenny Beats: Netflix & Deal (Alamo) [11-22] - trap rap
• 3teeth: Metawar (Century Media) [07-05] - industrial metal
• 3TM: Lake (We Jazz) [11-29] - jazz
• The 5 Browns: Christmas With the 5 Browns (Steinway and Sons) [11-01] - classical
• 8 Ball & MJG: Classic Pimpin' (Push Management) [01-02] - hip-hop
• 9T Antiope and Slavash Amini: Harmistice (Hallow Ground -EP) [06-07]
• 10k.Caash: The Creator (Def Jam) [05-10] - hip-hop
• The 14 Jazz Orchestra: The Future Ain't What It Used to Be (Dabon Music) [01-01] - jazz [B]
• 33EMYBW: Arthropods (SVBKVLT) [10-11] - electronic
• 36?: Milk Mountain (File Under: Music) [05-10] - alt/indie
• 38 Spesh: 1994 (TCF Music Group) [10-25] - hip-hop
• 42 Dugg: Young and Turnt (CMG & 4PF) [03-15] - hip-hop
• 65daysofstatic: Replicr, 2019 (Superball Music/Century Media) [09-27]
• 75 Dollar Bill: I Was Real (Thin Wrist) [06-28] - rock [***]
• 93Punx: 93Punx (Roc Nation) [08-23] - emo rap
• 96 Back: Excitable, Girl (Central Processing Unit) [03-01] - electronic
• 100 Gecs: 1000 Gecs (Dog Show) [05-31] - pop [B]
• 100 Gecs: Money Machine: AG Cook Remix () [10-23]
• 404: Guild One (Dirty Hit -EP) [02-28] - hip-hop
• 808 State: Transmission Suite (self-released) [10-11] - electronic
• 1349: The Infernal Pathway (Season of Mist) [10-18] - metal
• 3776: Saijiki (Natural Make) [08-28] - art pop
• 10 000 Russos: Kompromat (Fuzz Club) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Snoh Aalegra: Ugh, Those Feels Again (Artium) [08-06] - neo-soul [**]
• Abakos: Solar Soldier (Moonshine) [06-14]
• Greg Abate with the Tim Ray Trio: Gratitude: Stage Door Live @ The Z (Whaling City Sound) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Rez Abbasi: A Throw of Dice by the Silent Ensemble (Whirlwind) [10-19] - jazz [*]
• Christine Abdelnour/Chris Corsano: Quand Fond La Neige, Ou Va Le Blanc? (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Michael Abels: Us [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Back Lot Music) [03-15] - soundtrack
• Abjects: Never Give Up (Yippee Ki Yay) [02-15] - rock [**]
• John Calvin Abney: Safe Passage (Black Mesa) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Abnormality: Sociopathic Constructs (Metal Blade) [05-10] - death metal
• Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality (Eremite) [04-12] - jazz
• Absolutely Free: Geneva Freeport (Idee Fixe) [06-26] - elecltronic
• Kevin Abstract: Arizona Baby (Question Everything/RCA) [04-25] - hip-hop [**]
• Abuse of Power: What on Earth Can We Do (Triple-B) [06-14] - alt/indie
• The Accidentals: The Accidentals Live (Savage Kittens) [04-23] - folk
• AceMo: All My Life (1136843 DK) [01-28] - electronic
• AceMoMa: AceMoMa EP (Jenkem -EP) [07-10] - electronic
• Acid Arab: Jdid (Crammed Discs) [10-18] - Arabic house [*]
• Acid Carousel: Another Everything (Dreamy Life) [05-17]
• Jessica Ackerley: A New Kind of Water (self-released) [08-23] - jazz
• Ackley/Frith/Kaiser/Shelton: Unexpected Twins (Relative Pitch) [04-00] - jazz
• Acronym & Kali Malone: The Torrid Eye (Stilla Ton) [01-14] - ambient techno
• Claudia Acuna: Turning Pages (Delfin) [02-01] - jazz
• John Luther Adams: Become Desert (Cantaloupe) [06-14] - classical
• Mike Adams at His Honest Weight: There Is o Feeling Better (Joyful Noise) [06-14]
• Elliot Adamson: Tihkal (Idea) [03-14]
• Add-2: Jim Crow: The Musical (Add-2 Productions) [11-26] - hip-hop [A-]
• Charlotte Adigery: Zandoli (Deewee -EP) [02-08] - electronic [**]
• A.dixen: Death Tapes Vol 2 (Oen) [11-14] - electronic
• Alessandro Adriani: Morphic Dreams (Stroboscopic) [05-17] - electronic
• Stefan Aeby: Piano Solo (Intakt) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Aesop Rock & Tobacco [Malibu Ken]: Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers) [01-18] - hip-hop [***]
• Africa Express: Egoli (self-released) [07-12] - world
• Africa Negra: Alia Cu Omali (Mar & Sol) [04-06] - African
• Afrikan Sciences: Centered (self-released) [07-01] - house
• Afro-Blue Persuasion: Live at Haight Levels Vol 1 (Tramp) - jazz
• Afriqua: Colored (R&S) [10-04]
• Afrodeutsche: RR001 (River Rapid -EP) [07-26] - deep house
• Afterlife: Breaking Point (Hopeless) [01-11] - nu metal
• Areni Agbabian: Bloom (ECM) [04-26] - jazz [B]
• AGF: Commissioned Work (self-released) [06-14] - ambient
• Aggromance: Turbera (HierdaH Club de Baile) [06-11] - electronic
• Agoria: Drift (Sapiens/Mercury/Universal)
• Iago Aguado: Festina Lente (Underpool Music) [03-26] - jazz
• Matias Aguayo: Support Alien Invasion (Crammed Discs) [05-24] - electronic
• Oliver Hafke Ahmad: Future Blues (Urban Grooves Berlin) [05-17] - electronic
• Ahmed: Super Majnoon (East Meets West) (Otoroku) [12-13] - jazz
• Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia (Ropeadope) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Aila Trio: Aila Trio (Hoo-Ha) - jazz
• Cyrille Aimee: Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (Mack Avenue) [02-22] - vocal jazz [B]
• Airbourne: Boneshaker (Spinefarm) [10-25] - hard rock
• Akai Solo & Pink Siifu: Black Sand (Field-Left) [10-29] - hip-hop
• Akasha System: Echo Earth (100% Silk) [12-06] - electronic
• Akiko Hamilton Dechter: Equal Time (Capri) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Tetuzi Akiyama/Ken Ikeda/Chihei Hatakeyama: Erroribus Humanis Et Antinomy (Otooto) - jazz
• Tetuzi Akiyama/Nicolas Field/Gregor Vidic: Interpersonal Subjectivities (Astral Spirits) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Akua: Them Spirits (self-released -EP) [03-27] - r&b
• Akufen: My Blue House (Quartet Series -EP) [04-29] - deep house
• Fatima Al Qadiri: Atlantics [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Milan) [09-27] - soundtrack
• Alameda 5: Eurodrome (Instant Classic) [03-00]
• Albare: Albare Plays Jobim (Alfi) [12-20] - jazz [**]
• Goncalo Almeida/Martin van Duynhoven/Tobias Klein: Live at the Bimhuis (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Juan Alamo & Marimjazzia: Ruta Panoramica (Summit) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Alaskalaska: The Dots (Marathon Artists) [05-03] - indie pop
• Jeremie Albino: Hard Time (Sleepless) [08-09] - country
• Alcest: Spiritual Instinct (Nuclear Blast) [10-25] - black metal
• Susan Alcorn/Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark: Invitation to a Dream (Astral Spirits) [08-23] - jazz
• Susan Alcorn/Chris Corsano/Bill Nace: Live at Rotunda (Open Mouth) [09-06] - jazz
• Melissa Aldana: Visions (Motema) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Jason Aldean: 9 (Broken Bow) [11-22] - country
• Mats Aleklint/Per-Ake Holmlander/Paal Nilssen-Love: Fish & Steel (PNL) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends (ECM) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Art Alexakis: Sun Songs (BMG) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Eric Alexander: Leap of Faith (Giant Step Arts) [05-17] - jazz
• Eric Alexander: Eric Alexander With Strings (HighNote) [12-06] - jazz [*]
• Monty Alexander: Wareika Hill: Rastamonk Variations (MACD) [08-23] - jazz
• Taylor Alexander: Good Old Fashioned Pain (Hail Mary) [04-12] - country
• Abdu Ali: Fiyah!!! (self-released) [04-19] - electronic
• Azam Ali: Phantoms (Terrestrial Lane) [09-13] - electronic
• Sean Ali/Liela Bordreuil/Joanna Mattrey: I Used to Sing So Lyrical (Astral Spirits) [06-28] - jazz
• Don Aliquo/Michael Jefry Stevens: Live at Hinton Hall: The Innocence of Spring (Artists Recording Collective) [08-01] - jazz [**]
• Saba Alizadeh: Scattered Memories (Karlrecords) [02-15] - electronic
• All India Radio: Eternal (Spectra)
• All the V Words: All the V Words (self-released)
• Allah-Las: Lahs (Mexican Summer) [10-11] - garage rock
• Harry Allen/Mike Renzi: Rhode Island Is Famous for You (GAC) [03-20] - jazz [***]
• John Allee: Bardfly (Portuguese Knees) [10-11J|vocal jazz]
• JD Allen: Barracoon (Savant) [06-28] - jazz [A-]
• Lolly Allen: Coming Home (OA2) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Marshall Allen/Danny Ray Thompson/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balasz Pandi/Roswell Rudd: Ceremonial Healing (RareNoise) [04-13] - jazz
• Ellen Allien: Alientronic (BPitch) [05-17] - techno
• The Allman Betts Band: Down to the River (BMG) [06-28] - rock
• Karrin Allyson Sextet: Shoulder to Shoulder: Centennial Tribute to Women's Suffrage (eOne) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Fabian Almazan Trio: This Land Abounds With Life (Biophilia) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Joel Alme: Bort Bort Bort (Razzia) [10-04] - pop
• Herb Alpert: Over the Rainbow (Herb Alpert Presents) [09-20] - pop jazz
• Altarage: The Approaching Roar (Seasons of Mist) [01-25] - death metal
• Alter Bridge: Walk the Sky (Napalm) [10-18] - alt metal
• Altered Natives: Nine: Alpha (Eye 4 Eye) [11-01] - electronic
• Altin Gun: Gece (ATO) [04-26] - psychedelic rock [**]
• Bobby Alu: Flow (self-released) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Aly & AJ: Sanctuary (self-released -EP) [05-10] - pop
• AM Breakups: Soldier (Reservoir Sound) [02-15] - hip-hop
• Amaal: Black Dove (Public/Universal) [07-12]
• Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: No Place to Fall (Astral Spirits) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Rodrigo Amado/Gonçalo Almeida/Onno Govaert [The Attic]: Summer Bummer (NoBusiness) [05-07] - jazz [A-]
• Rodrigo Amado/Dirk Serries: Jazzblazzt (Raw Tonk) [09-09] - jazz [**]
• Kendra Amalie: Intuition (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [09-06] - psychedelic folk
• Amazondotcom: Mirror River (Subreal) [06-03] - electronic
• The Amazons: Future Dust (Fiction) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Oren Ambarchi: Simian Angel (Editions Mego) [07-05] - alt/indie
• Ambien Baby: En Transito (FATi) [04-12] - house
• Franco Ambrosetti Quintet: Long Waves (Unit) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Marco Ambrosini Ensemble Supersonus: Resonances (ECM) [06-21] - classical
• Amendola Vs Blades: Everybody Wins (Royal Potato Family) [10-11] - jazz
• American Football: American Football (Polyvinyl) [03-22] - emo
• American Pleasure Club: Fucking Bliss (Run for Cover) [03-29] - ambient pop
• Siavash Amini: Serus (Room40) [08-02] - electronic
• Amon Amarth: Berserker (Metal Blade) [05-03] - metal
• Franck Amsallem: Gotham Goodbye (Jazz & People) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Amygdala: Our Voices Will Soar Forever (Prosthetic) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Amyl and the Sniffers: Amyl and the Sniffers (ATO) [05-24] - garage punk
• Ana Roxanne: ~~~ (Leaving) [03-15] - electronic
• Fly Anakin and Tuamie: Emergency Raps Vol 4 (Mutant Academy) [ 01-25] - hip-hop
• Anamanaguchi: [USA] (Polyvinyl) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Anatolian Weapons: To the Mother of Gods (Beats in Space) [06-14]
• Ancient Pools: Cosine (Forged Artifacts and Feeding Tube) [04-12] - pop
• And the Kids: When This Life Is Over (Signature Sounds) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Andavald: Undir Skyggðarhaldi (Mystiskaos) [06-06]
• James Andean: Assemblance(s) ( Empreintes Digitales) [11-01] - jazz
• Matt Andersen: Halfway Home by Morning (True North) [03-22] - blues
• Claudia Anderson: Synthesis (Tresor -EP) [02-22] - electronic
• Jay Anderson: Deepscape (SteepleChase) [04-15] - jazz [**]
• Laurie Anderson/Tenzin Choegyal/Jesse Paris Smith: Songs From the Bardo (Smithsonian/Folkways) [09-27] - folk [***]
• Reid Anderson/Dave King/Craig Taborn: Golden Valley Is Now (Intakt) [09-20] - jazz [B-]
• Anderson .Paak: Ventura (Aftermath/12 Tone Music) [04-12] - hip-hop [***]
• Andres: Andres IV (Mahogani Music) [11-25] - deep house
• Roberta Wjm Andreucci/Mia Dyberg: Morph! (Duoscrapbook) - jazz
• Finn Andrews: One Piece at a Time (Nettwerk) [03-15] - alt/indie
• Max Andrzejewski's Hutte: Hutte & Guests Play the Music of Robert Wyatt (WhyPlayJazz) [10-04] - jazz
• Anemone: Beat My Distance (Royal Mountain) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Rebecca Angel: Santa Baby (Timeless Grooves, 1) [11-15] - Christmas jazz [***]
• Angel Dust: Pretty Buff (Roadrunner) [03-15] - rock
• Angel-Ho: Death Becomes Her (Hyperdub) [03-01] - electroic [*]
• Gretje Angell: In Any Key (Grevlinto) [07-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Angles 9: Beyond Us (Clean Feed) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Animistic Beliefs: Mindset:Reset (Solar One Music) [09-27] - electronic
• Anitta: Kisses (Warner Brasil) [04-05] - Latin pop
• Brittany Anjou: Enamigo Reciprokataj (Origin) [02-15] - jazz [**]
• Michaela Anne: Desert Dove (Yep Roc) [09-27] - country [*]
• Another Sky: Life Was Coming in Through the Blinds (Fiction) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Xacobe Martinez Antelo Trio: Capturas (self-released) [03-15] - jazz
• Anteros: When We Land (Distiller) [03-22] - indie pop
• Rosa Anschutz: RR4 (R-Label Group -EP) [08-30] - techno
• Anti-Lilly & Phoniks: That's the World (Dont Sleep) [07-17] - hip-hop
• Marc Anthony: Opus (Sony US Latin) [05-10] - Latin
• Laurie Antonioli: The Constant Passage of Time (Origin) [04-12] - vocal jazz [**]
• Antwood: Delphi (Planet Mu) [07-19] - deconstructed club
• Anunaku: Whities 024 (Whities) [10-16] - electronic
• AP6C [Alberto Pinton Sestetto Contemporaneo]: Layers (Clear Now) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Apex Manor: Heartbreak City (Merge) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Charlie Apicella & Iron City: Groove Machine (OA2) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Omar Apollo: Friends (self-released -EP) [04-10] - alt/indie
• Apologist: MFCS M/Reception (Marginal Frequecy -EP) [12-13] - jazz
• Apparat: LP5 (Mute) [03-22] - ambient
• Erlend Apneseth Trio/Frode Haltli: Salinka, Molika (Hubro) - jazz
• AQXDM: Infrared (Houndstooth) [10-18] - electronic
• Arabrot: Die Nibelungen (Pelagic) [04-05]
• Arashi [Akira Sakata/Johan Berthling/Paal Nilssen-Love]: Jikan (PNL) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• S Araw Trio XIII: Activated Clown (NNA Tapes) [ 01-11] - glitch
• Sivan Arbel: Change of Light (self-released) [04-02] - vocal jazz
• Dan Arcamone/Pangiotis Andreou/Steve Pruitt: Psalm (ARC) [07-26] - jazz
• Martin Archer: Another Fantastic Individual (Discus Music) [03-19] - jazz
• Maria Chiara Argiro: Hidden Seas (Cavalo) [09-27] - jazz
• Aries: Welcome Home (Wunderworld) [04-18] - hip-hop
• Ellen Arkbro: Chords (Subtext) [06-07] - electronic
• Arlt: Soleil Encule (Objet Design)
• Armchair Oracles: Caught in Light (Armchair Music) [04-12] - pop
• Joe Armon-Jones: Turn to Clear View (Brownswood) [09-20] - jazz [B]
• PP Arnold: The New Adventures of . . . PP Arnold (EarMusic) [08-09]
• Dayme Arocena: Sonocardiogram (Brownswood) [09-06] - jazz [B]
• Lynne Arriale Trio: Give Us These Days (Challenge) [05-18] - jazz
• Tom Arthurs/Isambard Khroustaliov/Julian Santorius: Hangkerum (Clean Feed) - jazz
• Masha Art & LRK Trio: Anesthesia (Losen) [03-15] - jazz
• Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (Pi -2CD) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• As You Hear [Veryan Weston/Pei Ann Yeoh/Beibei Wang]: Four Seasonings (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Byron Asher: Byron Asher's Skrontch Music (Sinking City) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Ehud Asherie Trio: Wild Man Blues (Capri) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Asian Da Brat: Unfuccwitable (1017 Eskimo/Alamo) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Peter Astor: Paradise (Tapete) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur: Plasma Splice Trifle (VHF) [06-07]
• Astralingua: Safe Passage (Midnight Lamp) [03-08]
• Astrid: A Porthole (I) (Gizeh) [05-10] - alt/indie
• ATEEZ: Treasure EP.Fin: All to Action (KQ Entertainment) [10-08] - K-pop
• Rodney Atkins: Caught Up in the Country (Curb) - country
• Felicia Atkinson: The Flower and the Vessel (Shelter Press) [07-05] - electroacoustic
• John Atkinson & Talya Cooper: Plains (Florabelle)
• Natacha Atlas: Strange Days (Whirlwind) [09-20] - electronic
• Atmosphere: Whenever (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [12-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Atomic: Pet Variations (Odin) [02-00] - jazz [**]
• Atomic Road Kings: Clean Up the Blood (Big Tone) - blues
• Attacca Quartet: Caroline Shaw: Orange (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) [04-19] - classical
• Michael Attias: Ëchos La Nuit (Out of Your Head) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Allison Au Quartet: Wander Wonder (self-released) [01-11] - jazz [**]
• Rich Aucoin: Release (Haven Sounds) [05-17]
• Aurora: A Different Kind of Human (Step II) (Glassnote) [06-07] - art pop
• Automatic: Signal (Stones Throw) [09-27] - new wave/post-punk revival
• Avalanche Party: 24 Carat Diamond Trephine (So Knee) [11-22] - alt/idie
• Avatar: Vox Populi (DumpTruck) [01-22] - hip-hop
• Avatarium: The Fire I Long For (Nuclear Blast)
• The Avett Brothers: Closer Than Together (Republic/Universal) [10-04] - alt folk
• A-WA: Bayti Fi Rasi (S-Curve) [05-31]
• Awatair: Awatair Plays Coltrane (Fundacja Sluchaj) [11-11] - jazz [***]
• Awon: Soulapowa (Dont Sleep) [04-02] - hip-hop
• Ayankoko: Kia Sao (Chinabot) [04-30]
• AYOK: 2K19 (Ayok) [02-20] - hip-hop
• Iggy Azalea: In My Defense (Bad Dreams/Empire) [07-19] - hip-hop [***]
• B Boys: Dudu (Captured Tracks) [07-26] - post-punk
• Baba Zula: Derin Derin (Glitterbeat) [09-27] - Turkey
• The BABAorchestra: Marigold (Thirsty Owl/Slow and Steady) - jazz
• The Babe Rainbow: Today (30th Century) [ 09-20] - neo-psychedelia
• BABii: HiiDE (Death Waltz) [07-05] - indie pop
• Baby Keem: Die for My Bitch (self-released) [07-19] - hip-hop
• Baby Rose: To Myself (Human Re Sources) [08-22] - r&b
• Baby Smoove: Purple Heart (Never Stop Cashin) [08-10] - hip-hop
• Baby Smoove: Baby (Never Stop Cashin) [11-03] - hip-hop
• Babymetal: Metal Galaxy (Cooking Vinyl) [ 10-11] - alt metal
• BabyTron: Bin Reaper (The Hip Hop Lab) [10-30] - hip-hop
• Backstreet Boys: DNA (RCA) [01-25] - electropop
• Backxwash: Deviancy (Grimalkin) [07-12] - hip-hop [***]
• John Bacon/Michael McNeill/Danny Ziemann: Refractions (Jazz Dimensions) [08-01] - jazz [***]
• Steve Baczkowski/Brandon Lopez/Chris Corsano: Old Smoke (Relative Pitch) [04-00] - jazz
• Bad Books: III (Loma Vista) [06-14] - indie folk
• Bad Breeding: Exiled (One Little Indian) - punk
• Bad Heaven Ltd: Strength (self-released) [08-02] - rock
• The Bad Plus: Activate Infinity (Edition) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Bad Religion: Age of Unreason (Epitaph) [05-03] - rock
• Bad Wolves: NATION (Eleven Seven) [10-25] - rock
• Badflower: OK, I'm Sick (Big Machine) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Badge Epoque Ensemble: Badge Epoque Ensemble (Telephone Explosion) [06-07]
• Mike Baggetta: Wall of Flowers (Joyful Noise) [03-15] - jazz
• BaianaSystem: O Futuro Nao Demora (Maquina De Louco) [02-15] - Brazil [***]
• Philip Bailey: Love Will Find a Way (Verve) [06-21] - vocal jazz [*]
• Chase Baird: A Life Between (Soundsabound) - jazz
• Ka Baird: Respires (RVNG Intl) [10-25] - electronic
• Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore: Ghost Forests (Three Lobed -18) [2018-11-09] - folk
• Duck Baker: Spinning Song (Triple Point) - jazz
• Tim Baker: Forever Overhead (Arts & Crafts) [04-19] - country
• Adam Baldych Quartet: Sacrum Profanum (ACT Music) - jazz
• Bali Baby: Bubbles Bali (Billmania Media) [01-10] - hip-hop [**]
• The Balderin Sali: Variations (Leo) - jazz
• Charlie Ballantine: Life Is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan (Green Mind -18) [2018-04-13] - jazz
• Baloji: Kaniama: The Yellow Version (Bella Uion) [05-03]
• Balthazar: Fever (PIAS) [01-25] - indie pop
• Baltra: Ted (self-released) [07-19] - electronic
• J Balvin & Bad Bunny: Oasis (Universal Music Latino) [06-28] - Latin [**]
• Band of Skulls: Love Is All You Love (SO/Silva Screen) [04-12] - alt rock
• Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill: In Amazonia (Ataraxia Music) [08-16] - rock
• Bangkok Lingo: Smells/Colours/Noise (Losen) [03-15] - jazz
• The Bangles/The Three O'Clock/The Dream Syndicate/Rain Parade: 3x4 (Yep Roc) [01-19] - alt/indie
• Bangzz: Fresh Cut (Self Aware) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Devendra Banhart: Ma (Nonesuch) [09-13] - indie folk
• Banks: III (Harvest) [07-12] - alt r&b
• Dan Banks/Jose Canha/Trevor Taylor/Josh Ison: Luminos (FMR) [06-00] - jazz
• Kelleigh Bannen: Favorite Colors (Whiskey Rain) [10-11] - country
• Patricia Barber: Higher (ArtistShare) [05-30] - vocal jazz
• Caterina Barbieri: Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego) [05-03] - progressive electronic [A-]
• Sara Bareilles: Amidst the Chaos (Epic) [04-05] - pop
• Barker: Utility (Ostgut Ton) [09-06] - minimal techno [***]
• Andrew Barker/John Dikeman: All Things Are Possible (Phantom Ear Music) - jazz
• Simon Barker/Scott Tinkler: Interweave (Kimnara) - jazz
• Alan Barnes + Eleven: 60th Birthday Celebration (Woodville) [07-12] - jazz
• Jimmy Barnes: My Criminal Record (Bloodlines) [05-31]
• Barnett & Coloccia: VLF (SIGE) [02-22]
• Courtney Barnett: MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) (Mom + Pop Music) [12-06] - alt/indie [**]
• Simone Baron & Arco Belo: The Space Between Disguises (GenreFluid) [11-08] - jazz [B-]
• Baroness: Gold & Grey (Abraxan Hymns) [06-14] - stoner metal
• Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj) [04-10] - jazz [***]
• Barrie: Happy to Be Here (Winspear) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Ali Barter: Hello, I'm Doing My Best (Inertia Music) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Juliana Barwick: Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune) [07-10]
• Basement Revolver: Wax and Digital (Sonic Unyon -EP) [10-18]
• Basic Rhythm: On the Threshold (Planet Mu) [05-10] - electronic
• William Basinski: On Time Out of Time (Temporary Residence) [03-08] - ambient
• Bask: Bask III (Season of Mist) [11-08] - metal
• Dave Bass: No Boundaries (Whaling City Sound) [08-02] - jazz
• Marcia Bassett/Bob Bellerue: Endless Parabolas (Humanhood) [09-26] - electronic
• Blick Bassy: 1958 (Tot Ou Tard) [03-08]
• Bastarda: Ars Moriendi (Lado) - jazz
• Bastille: Doom Days (Virgin/EMI) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Bat!: Bat Music for Bat People (Cleopatra) [05-10] - psychobilly
• Bat for Lashes: Lost Girls (AWAL) [09-06] - art pop
• Jon Batiste: Anatomy of Angels: Live at the Village Vanguard (Verve) [08-02] - jazz [*]
• Bathe: I'll Miss You (self-released) [05-03] - r&b
• Battles: Juice B Crypts (Warp) [10-18] - math rock
• Batu: False Reeds (Timedance -EP) [05-30] - techno
• Batushka: Hospodi (Metal Blade) [07-12] - metal
• Bruno Bavota: Get Lost (Temporary Residence) [10-04] - instrumental
• Bonnie Baxter: Axis (Hausu Mountain) [10-11] - electronic
• Rayland Baxter: Good Mmornin (ATO/Fontana North -EP) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Olcay Bayir: Ruya: Dream for Anatolia (ARC) [03-29] - world
• Bayonne: Drastic Measures (Mom + Pop) [02-22] - ambient
• Bayside: Interrobang (Hopeless) [10-04] - rock
• Bazzi: Soul Searching (Atlantic) [08-09] - pop
• BEA1991: Brand New Adult (self-released) [07-12] - trip hop
• Beabodoobee: Space Cadet (Dirty Hit -EP) [10-14] - alt/indie
• BCUC: The Healing (Buda Musique) [05-10] - South African [**]
• Beach Baby: Songs From the Limbo Lounge (self-released) [08-30]
• The Beaches: The Professional (Universal Music Canada -EP) [05-16] - alt/indie
• Beak>: Life Goes On (Invada) [06-21] - drone
• BEAM: 95 (Epic) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Beans on Toast: The Inevitable Train Wreck (self-released) [12-01] - folk [A-]
• Bear's Den: So That You Might Hear Me (Rounder) [04-26] - alt/indie
• The Kenyatta Beasley Septet: The Frank Foster Songbook (Art Vs Transit -2CD) [08-09] - jazz [**]
• The Beasts: Still Here (Bang!) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Beastwars: IV (Destroy) [06-28]
• Beat Circus: These Wicked Things (Innova) [03-22] - rock
• Beat Detectives: NYPD Records Volume 3: Nefertiti Abstract Movie (NYPD) [04-20] - hypnagogic pop
• The Beaumonts: This Is Austin: Recorded Live at the White Horse (Saustex) [09-06] - country
• Alex Beaupain: Pas Plus Le Jour Que La Nuit (Polydor) [10-25]
• Beaux Gris Gris & the Apocalypse: Love & Murder (Grow Vision Music) [03-30] - blues
• Mathieu Bec/Michel Doneda: A Peripheral Time (FMR) - jazz
• Beck: Hyperspace (Capitol/Virgin EMI) [11-22] - alt dance [B]
• Aaron Beckum: Obsolete (Swamp Moth Missionary Society) [05-20] - country
• Bedouin Soundclash: Mass (Easy Star) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Bedouine: Bird Songs of a Killjoy (Spacebomb) [06-21] - singer-songwriter
• Beeef: Bull in the Shade (581977 DK) [07-26] - rock
• Albert Beger Quartet: The Gate (NoBusiness) [05-00] - jazz [***]
• Bertrand Belin: Persona (Cinq 7/Wagram Music/Grosse Boite)
• Ilia Belorukov/Gabriel Ferrandini: Disquiet (Clean Feed) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Ilia Belorukov & Vasco Trilla: Laniakea (Astral Spirits) [10-18] - jazz [B-]
• Beloveds: Sa Tar Natten Dig Ater (Abrovinsch) [10-11] - jazz
• Nick Beggs: Words Fail Me (Esoteric Antenna) [10-25] - rock
• Begonia: Fear (Rex Baby/Sony Music Canada)
• Behavior: Spirits & Embellishments (Post Present Medium) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Beheaded: Only Death Can Save You (Agonia) [06-14] - metal
• Beirut: Gallipoli (4AD) [02-01] - indie pop
• Gregg Belisle-Chi: Book of Hours (Ears & Eyes) [05-03] - jazz
• Sasha Bell: Love Is Alright (Both Sides Now!) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Belle and Sebastian: Days of the Bagnold Summer (Matador) [09-13] - soundtrack
• Bellows: The Rose Gardener (Topshelf) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Belzebubs: Pantheon of the Nightside Gods (Century Media) [04-26] - melodic death metal
• Marco Benevento: Let It Slide (The Royal Potato Family) [09-20] - fusion
• Benny Sings: City Pop (Stones Throw) [02-22] - indie pop
• Benny the Butcher: The Plugs I Met (Griselda) [06-21] - hip-hop
• George Benson: Walking to New Orleans (Provogue) [04-26] - jazz
• Bent Knee: You Know What They Mean (Inside Out/Sony) [10-11]
• R Beny: Echo's Verse (Dauw) [05-15] - electronic
• Adam Berenson/Scott Barnum: Stringent and Sempiternal (Dream Play) [06-07] - jazz
• Beresford Hammond: Circle Inside the Folds (The 52nd) [03-22] - jazz
• Oddgeir Berg Trio: In the End of the Night (Ozella Music) [02-22] - jazz
• Karl Berger/Jason Kao Hwang: Conjure (True Sound) [10-01] - jazz [B]
• Antoine Berjeaut: Moving Cities (I See Colors) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• The David Berkman Sextet: Six of One (Palmetto) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Sasha Berliner: Azalea (self-released) [2019-12-12] - jazz
• Josh Berman/Paul Lytton/Jason Roebke: Trio Correspodences (Astral Spirits) [05-17] - jazz
• Josh Berman/Paul Lytton/Jason Roebke: Trio Discrepancies (Astral Spirits) [09-20] - jazz [U]
• Daniel Bernardes & Drumming GP: Liturgy of the Birds: In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• The Berries: Berryland (Run for Cover) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Better Oblivion Community Center: Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans) [01-24] - alt/indie [*]
• Better Off: Reap What You Sow (self-released) [03-03] - alt/indie
• Beyonce: Homecoming: The Live Album (Columbia) [04-17] - r&b [*]
• Beyonce: The Lion King: The Gift (Walt Disney) [07-19] - r&b
• Jerry Bergonzi: The Seven Rays (Savant) [04-12] - jazz [*]
• Berner: El Chivo (Bern One) [05-05] - hip-hop
• Berner & Curren$y: Pheno Grigio (Bern One/Jet Life) [07-07] - trap rap
• Lea Bertucci: Resonant Field (NNA Tapes) [07-19] - jazz [*]
• Bethlehem Steel: Bethlehem Steel (Exploding in Sound) [09-13]
• Bibio: Ribbons (Warp) [04-12] - electronic
• Carlos Bica/Daniel Erdmann/DJ Illvibe: I Am the Escaped One (Clean Feed) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Biche: La Nuit Des Perseides (Banquise)
• Khana Bierbood: Strangers From the Far East (Guruguru Brain) [01-11] - alt/indie
• Biffy Clyro: Balance, Not Symmetry (Warner) [05-17]
• Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band (New West) [11-22] - jazz
• Big Big Train: Grand Tour (English Electric) [05-17] - progressive rock
• Big Brave: A Gaze Among Them ((Red) Southern Lord) [05-10] - metal
• Big Business: The Beast You Are (Joyful Noise) [04-12] - sludge metap
• Big Eyes: Streets of the Lost (Greenway) [04-05] - garage rock
• Big KRIT: KRIT Iz Here (Multi Alumni) [07-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Big Search: Slow Fascination (30th Century) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Big Stick: LP (Drag Racing Underground) [07-05]
• Big Thief: UFOF (4AD) [05-03] - indie folk [A-]
• Big Thief: Two Hands (4AD) [10-11] - indie folk [**]
• Big Tone & House Shoes: Big Shoes (Fat Beats) [06-07] - hip-hop
• Big Wild: Superdream (Counter) [02-01] - 02-01
• The Big Yes: The Big Yes (Nakama) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Big/Brave: A Gaze Among Them (Southern Lord) [05-10] - metal
• Ryan Bingham: American Love Song (Thirty Tigers) [02-15] - roots rock
• Binker Golding & Elliot Galvin: Ex Nihilo (Byrd Out) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Binker Golding: Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers (Gearbox) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Scott H Biram: Sold Out to the Devil: A Collection of Gospel Cuts by the Rev Scott H Biram (Bloodshot) [11-22] - alt/indie
• The Nat Birchall Quartet: The Storyteller: A Musical Tribute to Yusef Lateef (Jazzman) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• Andrew Bird: My Finest Work Yet (Loma Vista) [03-22] - chamber pop
• Jade Bird: Jade Bird (Glassnote) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• The Bird and the Bee: Interpreting the Masters Vol 2: A Tribute to Val Halen (No Expectations/Release Me) [08-02] - pop
• Bis: Slight Disconnects (Last Night From Glasgow) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Bonnie Bishop: The Walk (Thirty Tigers) [10-04] - alt country [**]
• Michael Bisio/Kirk Knuffke/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Requiem for a New York Slice (Iluso) [03-25] - jazz [*]
• BJ the Chicago Kid: 1123 (Motown) [07-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Bjarki: Happy Earthday (!K7) [02-15] - IDM
• Andy Black: The Ghost of Ohio (Republic) [04-12]
• Black Alien: Abaixo De Zero: Hello Hell (Extrapunk Extrafunk) [04-12] - Brazil hip-hop [*]
• Black Belt Eagle Scout: At the Party With My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek) [08-30] - folk
• Black Dresses: Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches (Blacksquares) [08-01] - bubblegum
• Black Futures: Never Not Nothing (Music for Nations) [08-30]
• The Black Keys: Let's Rock (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch) [06-28] - garage rock
• Black Marble: Bigger Than Life (Sacred Bones) [10-25] - synthpop
• Black Midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade) [06-21] - experimental rock [**]
• Black Milk: Dive (Mass Appeal) [10-04] - hip-hop
• Black Moon: Rise of Da Moon (Duck Down Music) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Black Mountain: Destroyer (Jagjaguwar) [05-24] - psychedelic rock
• Black Peaches: Fire in the Hole (Hanging Moon) [05-17] - alt/indie
• Black Pumas: Black Pumas (ATO) [06-21] - retro soul
• Black Road: Witch of the Future (BloodRock) [10-31] - metal
• Black Star Riders: Another State of Grace (Nuclear Blast) [09-06] - metal
• Black Taffy: Elder Mantis (Leaving) [02-15] - electronic
• Black to Comm: Seven Horses for Seven Kings (Thrill Jockey) [01-25] - dark ambient [B]
• The Black Watch: Magic Johnson (ATOM) [08-09] - alt/indie
• Black Zone Magick Chant: Voyage Sacrifice (Shelter Press) [04-26] - drone
• Blackbear: Anonymous (Beartrap/Alamo/Interscope) [04-26] - soul
• Blackberry Smoke: Homecoming: Live in Atlanta (3 Legged) [11-15] - rock
• Blackfist: World Manumission Defense (Rawshit) [06-19] - hip-hop
• Blackpink: Kill This Love (YG Entertainment/Interscope) [04-05] - K-pop
• Blacks' Myths: Blacks' Myths II (Atlantic Rhythms) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Blackwater Holylight: Veils of Winter (Riding Easy) [10-11] - stoner metal
• Michelle Blades: Visitor (Midnight Special)
• Blaenavon: Everything That Makes You Happy (Transgressive) [10-25] - alt/indie
• James Blake: Assume Form (Polydor) [01-18] - alt r&b [B-]
• Johnathan Blake: Trion (Giant Step Arts) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Seamus Blake: Guardians of the Heart Machine (Whirlwind) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Yugen Blakrok: Anima Mysterium (IOT) [02-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Ran Blake/Clare Ritter: Eclipse Orange (Zoning) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
• Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild (Sacred Bones) [08-16]
• Mischa Blanos: Indoors (InFine) [09-20] - classical
• Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (So Ferocious) [02-19] - folk pop [A-]
• Blaqk Audio: Only Things We Love (BMG) [03-15] - alt dance
• Blarf: Cease & Desist (Stones Throw) [06-28] - comedy [B-]
• Bleached: Don't You Think You've Had Enough? (Dead Oceans) [07-12] - power pop
• Myriam Bleau: Lumens and Profits (Where to Now?) [02-15]
• Blessed: Salt (self-released) [04-05] - rock
• Blind Lemon Jazz: After Hours: New Pages in the American Songbook (Ofeh) [07-01] - vocal jazz [*]
• Blink-182: Nine (Columbia) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Blockhead: Free Sweatpants (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-18] - hip-hop
• Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent) [11-22] - death metal
• Blood Orange: Angel's Pulse (Domino) [07-12] - alt r&b [**]
• Blood Red Shoes: Get Tragic (Jazz Life) [01-25] - indie rock
• Jim Blomfield Trio: Strange Beauty (Every Way OK) (Pig) [02-02] - jazz
• Bloor: Drolleries (Astral Spirits) [01-25] - jazz
• Blu & Oh No: A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night (Native Sounds) [03-01] - hip-hop [**]
• Ray Blue: Work (Jazzheads) [10-12] - jazz [**]
• TK Blue: The Rhythms Continue (JaJa) [11-01] - jazz
• Blue Heron: Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs Vol 1 (self-released) [11-01] - classical
• Blue Jeans: Adult Hits (Life Like) [01-03] - alt/indie
• Blue Orchids: The Magic Record of Blue Orchids (Tiny Global) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Blue Shroud Band: Intensegrity: The Small Formations/Odes and Meditations for Cecil Taylor (Not Two) - jazz
• Blue Standard: A Good Thing (Big Time) [01-18] - jazz [B]
• Bluetech: Holotrope (Behind the Sky Music)
• Tim Bluhm: Sorta Surviving (Blue Rose) [03-29] - folk
• Mal Blum: Pity Boy (Don Giovanni) [07-12] - indie pop
• James Blunt: Once Upon a Mind (Asylum) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Blut Aus Nord: Hallucinogen (Debemur Morti) [10-11] - metal
• Boards of Canada: Societas x Tape (Warp) [06-23] - ambient
• Bochum Welt: Seafire (Central Processing Unit) [09-06] - electronic
• Bodega: Shiny New Model (What's Yr Rupture?) [10-11] - alt/indie
• The Body: Remixed (Thrill Jockey) [10-11] - experimental rock
• Body Meat: Truck Music (self-released) [04-16] - electronic
• Body of Light: Time to Kill (Dais) [07-26]
• Body Type: EP2 (Partisan) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Curt Boettcher: Looking for the Sun (High Moon) [10-25] - sunshine pop
• Christelle Bofale: Swim Team (Father/Daughter) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Silvia Bolognesi: Alive Shouts: An Homage to Bessie Jones (Fonterossa) [08-19] - jazz
• Bombadil: Beautiful Country (Ramseur) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Bon Iver: I,I (Jagjaguwar) [08-09] - art pop [B]
• Rosario Bonaccorso Quartet: A New Home (Via Veneto Jazz) [05-16] - jazz
• Bonerama: Bonerama Plays Zeppelin (Basin Street) [04-26] - jazz
• Cyril Bondi/Pierre-Yves Martel/Christoph Schiller/Angharad Davies: Awire (Another Timbre) - jazz
• AA Bondy: Enderness (Fat Possum) [05-10] - indie pop
• Bones [Ziv Taubenfeld/Shay Hazan/Nir Sabag]: Reptiles (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Bones UK: Bones UK (Sumerian) [06-12]
• Boneshaker: Fake Music (Soul What) [03-15] - jazz
• Federico Bonifazi Sextet: Autumn Colors Suite (SteepleChase) [02-01] - jazz
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: I Made a Place (Drag City) [11-15] - singer-songwriter
• Bonsai Club: Bonsai (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
• Richard Bonynge: Alfred Cellier: Dorothy (Naxos) [01-11] - opera
• Bonzo Squad: There's Always Tomorrow (self-released -EP) [12-01] - jazz [B]
• Bella Boo: Once Upon a Passion (Studio Barnhus) [11-01] - deep house
• Boogie: Everythings for Sale (Shady/Interscope) [01-25] - hip-hop [*]
• Bookworms: Floatingon Air/Hanging by a Thread (self-released) [01-22]
• Benjamin Boone/Philip Levine: The Poetry of Jazz: Volume Two (Origin) [01-18] - jazz [A-]
• Annie Booth: Spectral (Scottish Fiction) [05-10]
• Leila Bordreuil: Headflush (Catch Wave) [07-26] - jazz
• Bored Lord: Transexual Rave Hymns (Knightwerk) [04-19] - deep house
• Boreal Massif: We All Have an Impact (Pessimist Productions) [10-11] - ambient
• Boris: Love & Evol (Third Man) [10-04] - Japanese rock
• Borknagar: True North (Century Media) [09-27] - metal
• Born of Osiris: The Simulation (Sumerian) [01-11] - deathcore
• Itamar Borochov: Blue Nights (Laborie Jazz) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Samantha Boshnack's Seismic Belt: Live in Santa Monica (Orenda) [03-15] - jazz [A-]
• Pi'erre Bourne: The Life of Pi'erre 4 (SossHouse/Interscope) [06-21] - hip-hop
• John Boutte: A "Well Tempered" Boutte (Boutteworks) [03-31] - jazz
• Claudia Bouvette: Cool It (Cult Nation -EP) [06-18]
• Kete Bowers: Paper Ships (Current) [06-28]
• Tim Bowness: Flowers at the Scene (Inside Out Music) [03-01]
• Boy Harsher: Careful (Nude Club) [02-01] - darkwave [A-]
• Boy Scouts: Free Company (Anti-) [08-30] - indie folk
• CJ Boyd: Kin Ships (Joyful Noise -4CD) [02-08]
• Dale Ann Bradley: The Hard Way (Pinecastle) [03-22] - country
• Mary Bragg: Violets as Camouflage (Tone Tree) [03-01]
• Aziza Brahim: Sahari (Glitterbeat) [11-15] - Saharan
• Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley: Gold Cadillac (G-Three) [09-19] - blues
• Glenn Branca: The Third Ascension (MVD Audio) [10-04] - no wave
• Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues: Roots and Branches: The Songs of Little Walter (Alligator) [07-05] - blues
• Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (International Anthem) [10-11] - jazz [A-]
• Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann: LP1 (Greyfade) [06-21] - jazz vocal
• The Brand New Heavies: TBNH (Acid Jazz) [09-06]
• Brand of Sacrifice: God Hand (Unique Leader) [07-05] - metal
• Liz Brasher: Painted Image (Fat Possum) [01-18] - pop soul
• Andre Bratten: Pax Americana (Smalltown Supersound) [06-28] - electronic
• Anthony Braxton: GTM (Syntax) 2017 (New Braxton House -12CD) [01-25] - jazz
• Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (Firehouse 12 -4CD) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Randy Brecker & NDR Bigband: Rocks (Piloo) [02-22] - jazz [B]
• Randy Brecker/Ada Rovatti: Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond (Piloo) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Bremer/McCoy: Utopia (Luaka Bop) [10-18] - jazz [B]
• Patrick Brennan/Abdul Moimeme: Terraphonia (Creative Sources) [06-12] - jazz [*]
• Matt Brewer: Ganymede (Criss Cross) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
• Terrence Brewer & Pamela Rose: Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Strong Brew Music -EP) [09-03] - jazz [*]
• Rich Brian: The Sailor (88rising) [07-26] - pop rap
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Brian Jonestown Massacre (A Recordings) [03-15] - neo-psychedelia
• Bridges With Seamus Blake: Continuum (Amp Music) [02-15] - jazz
• Bishop Briggs: Champion (Island) [11-08] - alt singer-songwriter
• Bright Dog Red: How's By You? (Ropeadope) [09-13] - jazz
• Brightness: Brightness (I Oh You) [10-25]
• Brijean: Walkie Talkie (Native Cat) [06-28] - pop
• Bring Me the Horizon: Amo (RCA) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Thomas Brinkmann: Raupenbahn (Editions Mego) [11-08] - electronic
• William Brittelle: Spiritual America (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Alan Broadbent Trio: New York Notes (Savant) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Zack Brock/Matt Ulery/Jon Deitemyer: Wonderment (Woolgathering) [07-16] - jazz [**]
• Brockhampton: Ginger (Question Everything/RCA) [08-23] - hip-hop [**]
• Heather Woods Broderick: Invitation (Western Vinyl) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Chris Brokaw: End of the Night (Vin Du Select Qualitite) [05-24] - rock
• Broken English Club: White Rats II (LIES) [09-13] - electronic
• Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten: For Some Reason That Escapes Us (Differ) [09-30] - jazz
• Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (Innova) [05-10] - minimalism
• Brooks & Dunn: Reboot (Arista Nashville) [04-05] - country [B]
• Broken Shadows: Broken Shadows (Newvelle) - jazz
• Broken Social Scene: Let's Try the After (Vol 1) (Arts & Crafts) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Broken Social Scene: Let's Try the After (Vol 2) (Arts & Crafts) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Action Bronson & the Alchemist: Lamb Over Rice (ALC) [11-22] - hip-hop
• Bronx Slang: Bronx Slang (Fabyl) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Broods: Don't Feed the Pop Monster (Neon Gold/Atlantic) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Brother Ali: Secrets & Escapes (Rhymesayers) [11-01] - hip-hop
• Brother Oliver: Well, Hell (Forthright) [08-30]
• Peter Brotzmann/Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Han Bennink: Fifty Years After . . . Live at the Lila Eule 2018 (Trost) [09-19] - jazz [A-]
• Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh: South Moon Under (self-released) [09-00] - jazz
• Peter Brotzmann: I Surrender Dear (Trost) [11-22] - jazz [**]
• Peter Brotzmann Trio: Philosophy of Sound (Soul Silver) - jazz
• Analea Brown: Queendom (Mensch House) [03-22] - reggae
• Apollo Brown: Sincerely, Detroit (Mello Music Group) [10-29] - hip-hop [A-]
• Blade Brown: Bags & Boxes 4 (Catalyst) [08-16] - hip-hop
• Blanco Brown: Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs (BBR Music Group) [10-11] - country
• Chris Brown: Indigo (RCA) [06-28] - r&b
• Danny Brown: Uknowhatimsayin¿ (Warp) [10-04] - hip-hop [***]
• Ian Brown: Ripples (Polydor) [02-01] - neo-psychedelia
• Katerina Brown: Mirror (Mellowtone Music) [10-18] - vocal jazz [B]
• Rob Brown: Unexplained Phenomena (Futura Marge) [02-19] - jazz
• Zac Brown Band: The Owl (BMG) [09-20] - country
• Bruit Noir: II/III (Ici D'Ailleurs)
• Brutus: Nest (Sargent House) [03-29] - post-hardcore
• Zach Bryan: DeAnn (self-released) [08-24] - folk
• Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown: Truth and Lies (Spinefarm) [06-28] - rock
• Coco Bryce: Night on Earth (Fresh 86) [05-14]
• BTS: Map of the Soul: Persona (Big Hit Entertainment) [04-12] - K-pop
• Jakob Buchanan: A Language of My Own (Skirl) [05-10] - jazz
• Budokan Boys: Dad Is Bad (Baba Vanga) [05-24]
• The Budos Band: V (Daptone) [04-12] - r&b
• Buke and Gase: Scholars (Brassland) [01-18] - art pop
• Buku Abi: Don't Call Me (912160 DK -EP) [03-09] - r&b
• Bun B & Statik Selektah: TrillStatik (Empire) [04-20] - hip-hop
• Jane Bunnett & Maqueque: On Firm Ground/Tierra Firme (Linus Entertainment) [09-06] - jazz [B]
• Rockin' Johnny Burgin & Quique Gomez: Dos Hombrew Wanted (VizzTone) [02-22] - blues
• Burial: Clausto/State Forest (Hyperdub -EP) [06-14] - dubstep [B]
• Greg Burk: As a River (Tonos) [04-12] - jazz
• Burna Boy: African Giant (Atlantic) [07-25] - afrobeat [*]
• Burna Boy & DJDS: Steel and Copper (Bad Habit) [03-21]
• T-Bone Burnett: The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space (Verve Forecast) [04-12]
• Ronnie Burns: This Is Ronnie Burns (RPM) [09-20] - pop
• Will Burns/Hannah Peel: Chalk Hill Blue (Rivertones) [03-22]
• Joshua Burnside: Wear Bluebells in Your Hat if You're Goin' That Way (self-released) [01-11] - folk
• Lee Burridge & Lost Desert: Melt (All Day I Dream) [07-19]
• Art "Turk" Burton: Ancestral Spirits (T N' T Music) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• Nicole Bus: Kairos (Roc Nation) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Business of Dreams: Ripe for Anarchy (Slumberland) [02-01] - rock
• John Butcher/Rhodri Davies: Drunk on Dreams (Cejero) [02-02] - jazz
• Buttechno: Badtrip (Trip -EP) [11-09] - electronic
• The BVs: Cartography (iMD-KUS) [03-14] - alt/indie
• Chris Byars: A Hundred Years From Today (SteepleChase) [02-00] - jazz
• Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto (Firehouse 12) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• David Byrne: American Utopia on Broadway [Original Cast Recording] (Nonesuch) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Caamp: By and By (Mom + Pop) [07-26]
• Cabana Wear: Cabana Wear (Sludge People) [03-15]
• Camila Cabello: Romance (Simco/Epic) [12-06] - pop
• George Cables: I'm All Smiles (HighNote) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• The Cactus Blossoms: Easy Way (Walkie Talkie) [03-01] - alt country
• Daniel Caesar: Case Study 01 (Golden Chil) [06-28] - neo-soul
• Cage the Elephant: Social Cues (RCA) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Cagework: Cagework (Physical Education -EP) [07-05]
• Mariangela Cagnetta: E-motion (Caligola) - jazz
• Uri Caine: The Passion of Octavius Catto (816 Music) [08-30] - jazz
• Calboy: Wildboy (self-released) [05-31] - hip-hop
• JJ Cale: Stay Around (Because) [04-26] - rock
• Calva Louise: Rhinoceros (Modern Sky) [02-01] - power pop
• Calexico & Iron and Wine: Years to Burn (Sub Pop) [06-14] - Americana
• Calibre: Planet Hearth (Signature) [11-29] - drum and bass
• Call Super: All We Have Is Speed (Peach Discs) [06-10] - deep techno
• Bill Callahan: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City) [06-14] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Kirin J Callinan: Return to Center (EMI) [06-21] - art pop
• Alex Cameron: Miami Memory (Secretly Canadian) [09-13]
• Myles Cameron: Lonely Suburban Blackboy (self-released) [05-22] - r&b
• Michel Camilo: Essence (Resilience Music Alliance) [04-24] - jazz
• Phil Campbell: Old Lions Still Roar (Nuclear Blast) [10-25] - rock
• The Campfire Flies: Sparks Like Litle Stars (OverPop Music) [03-01] - pop [A-]
• Cam'ron: Purple Haze 2 (Killa Entertainment) [12-20] - hip-hop
• Canalon De Timbiqui: De Mar Y Rio (Llorona) [04-12] - Colombia
• Laura Cannell: The Sky Untuned (Brawl) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Laura Cannell & Polly Wright: Sing as the Crow Flies (Brawl) [08-02]
• Candlemass: The Door to Doom (Napalm) [02-22] - doom metal
• Ila Cantor: Encanto (Slow & Steady) [09-27] - jazz
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Tracing Back the Radiance (Mexican Summer) [07-12] - ambient
• Lewis Capaldi: Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (Capitol) [05-17] - alt/indie [*]
• Joey Cape: Let Me Know When You Give Up (Fat Wreck Chords) [07-05] - alt/indie
• Vinicio Capossela: Ballate Per Uomini E Bestie (La Cupa) [05-17] - vocal jazz
• Garrett T Capps: All Right, All Night (Shotgun House) [08-30]
• Car Bomb: Mordial (Holy Roar) [09-27] - mathcore
• Car Seat Headrest: Commit Yourself Completely (Matador) [06-17] - alt/indie [**]
• The Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 6 (History Always Favors the Winners) [03-14] - dark ambient
• Carey: The Driver (Already Dead Tapes) [06-28] - rock
• Caribou: Home (Merge) [10-08] - electronic
• Carl: Solid Bottom (Astral Spirits) [06-14] - jazz
• Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone) [02-15] - country [A-]
• Dillon Carmichael: I Do for You (Riser House -EP) [10-18] - country
• Loyle Carner: Not Waving, but Drowning (Virgin/EMI) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Rosie Carney: Bare (Akira) [01-25]
• Carnifex: World War X (Nuclear Blast) [08-02] - metal
• Carousel Kings: Plus Ultra (Victory) [05-31]
• Sabrina Carpenter: Singular: Act II (Hollywood) [07-19] - r&b
• Francois Carrier/Alexander Hawkins/John Edwards/Michel Lambert: Nirguna (Fundacja Sluchaj -2CD) [04-10] - jazz [***]
• Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science: Waiting Game (Motema) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Liz Carroll & Jake Charon: Half Day Road (self-released) [02-15]
• Matt Carson: No Regrets (Bunba) [04-05] - country [**]
• Daniel Carter/Tobias Wilner/Djibril Toure/Federico Ughi: New York United (577) [02-08] - jazz [***]
• Daniel Carter/Julian Priester/Adam Lane/Reggie Sylvester/David Haney: Live Constructions Volume 2 (Slam) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Daniel Carter/Stelios Milhas/Irma Nejando/Federico Ughi: Radical Invisibility (577) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Electric Telepathy Vol 1 (577) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes: End of Suffering (International Death Cult) [05-03] - rock
• James Carter Organ Trio: Live From Newport Jazz (Blue Note) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Ron Carter/Daniel Simmons Jr: The Brown Beatnik Tomes (Live at BRIC House) (Blue Note) [06-07] - jazz
• The Carter Family: Across Generations (Reviver Legacy) [10-18] - country [B]
• Carter Tutti Void: Triumvirate (Conspiracy International) [08-30]
• Eliza Carthy: Restitute (Topic) [05-10] - folk
• Andre Carvalho: The Garden of Earthy Delights (Outside In Music) [05-17] - jazz
• The Cash Box Kings: Hail to the Kings! (Alligator) [05-17] - blues
• Cashmere Cat: Princess Catgirl (Mad Love/Interscope) [09-20] - bubblegum bass [*]
• Cassius: Dreems (Justice/Love Supreme) [06-21] - house
• Edmar Castaneda/Gregoire Maret: Harp vs Harp (ACT) [06-14] - jazz
• Tommy Castro & the Painkillers: Killin' It Live (Allilgator) [02-01] - blues
• The Cat Empire: Stolen Diamonds (Two Shoes) [02-15] - pop
• Cat in a Bag: Cat in a Bag (Clean Feed) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Joshua Catania: Open to Now (Shifting Paradigm) [05-17] - jazz
• Catching Flies: Silver Linings (Indigo Soul) [07-05]
• Catfish and the Bottlemen: The Balance (Island) [04-26] - rock
• Catnapp: Break (Monkeytown) [07-05] - electronic
• Cattle Decapitation: Death Atlas (Metal Blade) [11-29] - death metal
• Paul Cauthen: Room 41 (Lightning Rod) [09-06] - country
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen (Ghosteen) [10-04] - pop/rock [B]
• Cave In: Final Transmission (Hydra Head) [06-07] - rock
• Cave Twins: Best Friends for Now (Tiger Spa) [03-15] - folk
• Celer: Xiexie (Two Acorns)
• Shanti Celeste: Tangerine (Peach Discs) [11-15]
• Celestial Trax: Serpent Power (True Aether) [02-22] - electronic
• Central: Om Dans (Help) [03-01] - house
• Ceremony: In the Spirit World Now (Relapse) [08-23] - post-punk
• Ceres: We Are a Team (Cooking Vinyl) [04-26] - alt/indie
• CFCF: Liquid Colours (BGM Solutions) [07-12] - drum and bass
• Cha Wa: Spyboy (Upt) [04-27] - jazz
• Eugene Chadbourne/Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets by Wadada Leo Smith (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Sarah Mary Chadwick: The Queen Who Stole the Sky (Rice Is Nice) [04-12] - singer-songwriter
• Chai: Punk (Burger) [03-15] - indie pop [*]
• Brighde Chaimbeul: The Reeling (River Lea) [03-01]
• The Chainsmokers: World War Joy (Disruptor/Columbia) [12-06] - electronic
• Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Inner Rhyme (In a Circle) [01-18] - jazz [**]
• Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts: Adventures of a Reluctant Superhero (Manphibian Music) [08-09] - hip-hop
• David Chalmin: La Terre Inviisible (Ici D'Ailleurs)
• Sebastian Chames: Reminiscing the Unknown Masters (self-released) [01-18] - jazz
• David Champagne: Bad Choices Make Good Stories (Agnostic Gospel) [05-01] - folk
• Greyson Chance: Portraits (GCM) [03-15] - pop
• Chance the Rapper: The Big Day (self-released) [07-26] - hip-hop [A-]
• Julien Chang: Jules (Transgressive) [10-11] - pop/rock
• Channel Tres: Black Moses (Godnode -EP) [08-16]
• Michael Chapman: True North (Paradise of Bachelors) [02-08] - folk
• Etienne Charles: Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol 1 (Culture Shock Music) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Tanika Charles: The Gumption (Record Kicks) [05-10] - r&b
• Charly Bliss: Young Enough (Barsuk) [05-10] - power pop [A-]
• Charly Bliss: Supermoon (Barsuk EP) [10-30] - power pop [**]
• Chase and Status: Rtrn II Jungle (Virgin EMI) [05-31] - drum and bass
• Chasms: The Mirage (Felte) [02-22] - electronic
• Chastity: Home Made Satan (Captured Tracks) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Chastity Belt: Chastity Belt (Hardly Art) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Chat Noir: Hyperuranion (RareNoise) [03-29] - jazz [B]
• Che Apalache: Rearrange My Heart (Free Dirt) [08-09]
• Cheekface: Therapy Island (New Professor Music) [03-20] - alt/indie [**]
• The Chemical Brothers: No Geography (Virgin EMI) [04-12] - techno [A-]
• Kristin Chenoweth: For the Girls (Concord) [09-27] - pop
• Cherry Glazerr: Stuffed & Ready (Secretly Canadian) [02-01] - indie rock [B]
• Cherubs: Immaculada High (Relapse) [07-26] - rock
• Cherushii & Maria Minerva: Cherushii & Maria Minerva (100% Silk) [02-15] - deep house
• Chicago Cellar Boys: Busy 'Til Eleven (Rivermont) [06-21] - jazz
• Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen: Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers (Cedille) [03-08] - classical
• Chief Keef & Zaytoven: GloToven (Glo Bang/RBC) [03-15] - trap rap
• Tyler Childers: Country Squire (Hickman Holler/RCA) [08-02] - country [A-]
• Wild Billy Childish & CTMF: Last Punk Standing . . . (Damaged Goods) [07-19] - garage rock revival
• Chilton: Little Birds (Dead Broke) [07-05] - alt/indie
• Chocolat: Jazz Engage (Dare to Care) [11-01]
• Maureen Choi Quartet: Theia (Barco) [03-31] - jazz
• Choosey & Exile: Black Beans (Fat Beats) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Chord Four: California Avant Garde (self-released) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Christian Fitness: You Are the Ambulance (Prescriptions) [05-23] - post-punk
• Corey Christiansen: La Proxima (Origin) [08-12] - jazz [*]
• Chromatics: Closer to Grey (Italians Do It Better) [10-02] - sythpop [B]
• Chronotape Project: Lotus Rising (Spotted Peccary)
• Lucinda Chua: Antidotes 1 (self-released -EP) [03-20]
• Chuquimamani-Condori: Quirquincho Medicine (self-released) [07-25] - ambient
• Stef Chura: Midnight (Saddle Creek) [06-07] - idie rock [**]
• Suzanne Ciani: Flowers of Evil (Finders Keepers) [06-07]
• Ciara: Beauty Marks (Beauty Marks Entertainment) [05-10] - pop
• Quinn Cicala: Talkin' to Breathe (Shibby) [09-06]
• Cigarettes After Sex: Cry (Partisan) [10-25] - ambient pop [***]
• The Cinematic Orchestra: To Believe (Domino) [03-15] - nu jazz [**]
• Circa Waves: What's It Like Over There? (Prolifica/PIAS) [04-05] - indie rock
• Luke Cissell: String Sextets Nos 1 & 2 (Silver Squid) [06-21]
• Diabel Cissokho: Rhythm of the Griot (Kafou Music) [11-15] - African [**]
• Citizen Cope: Heroin and Helicopters (Rainwater) [03-01] - folk
• City and Colour: A Pill for Loneliness (Dine Alone/Still) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Clairmont the Second: Do You Drive? (self-released) [01-31] - hip-hop
• Clairo: Immunity (Fader) [08-02] - indie pop [***]
• Clams Casino: Moon Trip Radio (self-released) [11-07] - instrumental hip-hop
• The Clandestine Quartet: One for the Fossa, Two for the Wolverine (ThirtyThree) [10-04] - jazz
• Clark: Kiri Variations (Throttle) [07-26] - ambient pop
• Gary Clark Jr: This Land (Warner Bros) [02-22] - blues rock [B]
• Mike Clark: Indigo Blue: Live at the Iridium (Ropeadope) - jazz
• Josienne Clarke: In All Weather (Rough Trade) [11-08] - indie folk
• Zack Clarke Trio: Vertical Shores (Clean Feed) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Claro Intelecto: Forgotten Wasteland (Delsin -EP) [07-01] - tech house
• Class Photo: Light Years Later (Jansen) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Sabrina Claudio: Truth Is (SC Entertainment) [10-04] - pop
• Claw the Thin Ice: Colour Phase (1321629 DK) [07-05] - alt/indie
• William Austin Clay: Return to Pop Island (Nino Tomorrow) [10-14] - pop
• The Claypool Lennon Delirium: South of Reality (Prawn Song/ATO) [02-22] - psychedelic rock
• Cleaning Women: Intersubjectivity (Svart) [02-15] - jazz
• Clear Soul Forces: Still (Fat Beats) [02-22] - hip-hop
• Chuck Cleaver: Send Aid (Shake It) [07-19] - alt/indie [***]
• Jake Clemons: Eyes on the Horizon (BFD) [09-06]
• Shana Cleveland: Night of the Worm Moon (Hardly Art) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Clever Austin: Pareidolia (Touching Bass) [05-15] - r&b
• Cleverlys: Blue (Mountain Home Music) [03-22] - country
• Cliff Notez: Why the Wild Things Are (HipStory) [09-11] - hip-hop
• Clinic: Wheeltappers and Shunters (Domino) [05-10] - indie rock
• Clipping.: Face (Deathbomb Arc/Fat Beats) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Clipping.: There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop) [10-18] - hip-hop [*]
• Cloak: The Burning Dawn (Season of Mist) [10-25] - metal
• Cloud Rat: Pollinator (Artoffact) [09-13] - metal
• Trish Clowes: Ninety Degrees Gravity (Basho) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Clowns: Nature/Nurture (Fat Wreck Chords) [04-12] - punk
• Club D'Elf: Night Sparkles (Live) (Face Pelt) [02-08] - jazz [***]
• Kyle Eyre Clyd: Eggshell (Yew) [10-28] - electronic
• Oliver Coates: John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Sky + Three High Places (RVNG Intl) [05-08] - classical
• The Coathangers: The Devil You Know (Suicide Squeeze) [03-08] - alt/indie [A-]
• Jimmy Cobb: This I Dig of You (Smoke Sessions) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Jimmy Cobb: Remembering U (Jimmy Cobb World) [08-30] - jazz [*]
• Cochemea: All My Relations (Daptone) [02-22] - jazz [**]
• Pete Coco: Lined With a Groove (Peter Coco Music) [03-04] - jazz
• Dennis Coffey: Down by the River (Detroit Music Factory) [05-31] - jazz
• Anat Cohen Tentet: Triple Helix (Anzic) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Avishai Cohen: Arvoles (Razdaz/Sunnyside) [06-14] - jazz [***]
• Avishai Cohen/Yonathan Avishai: Playing the Room (ECM) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Chris Cohen: Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks)
• Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy) [11-22] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Sam Cohen: The Future's Still Ringing in My Ears (39th Century) [05-17] - indie folk
• Marc Cohn & Blind Boys of Alabama: Work to Do (BMG) [08-09]
• Coil: The Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex + 2 (Musique Pour La Danse) [06-28] - downtempo
• Cold Kingdom: Into the Black Sky (self-released) [05-24]
• Cold War Kids: New Age Norms 1 (CWKTWO/AWAL) [11-01]
• Coldplay: Everyday Life (Atlantic) [11-22] - alt/indie
• Lloyd Cole: Guesswork (Ear) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Louis Cole: Live Sesh & Xtra Songs (Brainfeeder) [04-05] - r&b
• Paula Cole: Revolution (675) [09-13]
• Anthony Coleman: Catenary Oath (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• George Coleman: The Quartet (Smoke Sessions) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Javier Colina & Pepe Rivero: El Panuelo De Pepa (Cezanne Producciones) [03-01] - jazz
• Collard: Unholy (Virgin EMI) [05-10]
• Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few: The Unapologetic Negro (self-released) [06-11] - jazz
• Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol 1 (Hajanga -18) [2018-12-07] - jazz
• Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol 2 (Hajanga) [07-19] - jazz
• George Colligan: Again With Attitude (Iyouwe) - jazz
• Romain Collin: Tiny Lights: Genesis (XM) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Romain Collin: Tiny Lights: Blood (XM) [05-03] - jazz
• Romain Collin: Tiny Lights: Gold (XM) [05-24] - jazz
• Charlie Collins: Snowpine (Mirror) [05-31]
• Edwyn Collins: Badbea (AED) [03-29] - pop rock
• Quentin Collins Sextet: Road Warrior (Ubuntu) [09-13] - jazz
• Colour Haze: We Are (Elektrohasch) [12-13] - rock
• Lola Colt: Human Made (Part I) (Black Tigress -EP) [04-09]
• Colunia: Zephyr (self-released) [03-15] - jazz
• Coma: Voyage Voyage (City Slang) [11-22] - club/dance
• Combo Chimbita: Ahomale (Anti-) [05-03] - Latin
• Andrew Combs: Ideal Man (New West) [09-20] - alt-country
• Luke Combs: The Prequel (River House -EP) [06-07] - country
• Luke Combs: What You See Is What You Get (River House) [11-08] - country [**]
• Paul Combs: Unknown Dameron (Summit) [06-00] - jazz
• Comet Gain: Fireraisers Forever (Tapete) [10-11] - alt/indie
• The Comet Is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impulse!) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife (Impulse!) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Comfort: Not Passing (Anxious Music) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Comit: Remote Viewing (ASIP)
• Common: Let Love (Loma Vista) [08-30] - hip-hop
• Common Sense Composers' Collective/Friction Quartet: Spark (Innova) [05-10] - classical
• Complete Walkthru: Scrolls (Numbers) [09-20] - electronic
• Alberto Conde Iberian Roots Trio: The Wake of an Artist: Tribute to Bernardo Sassetti (Clean Feed) - jazz
• Frances Cone: Late Riser (Living Daylight) [01-18]
• Conforce: Dawn Chorus (Delsin) [10-25] - electronic
• Harry Connick Jr: True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter (Verve) [10-25] - vocal jazz [*]
• Ags Connolly: Wrong Again (Finstock Music) [11-01] - country
• Loren Connors and Daniel Carter: The Departing of a Dream Vol VII (Family Vineyard) - Jazz
• Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko: Traversees (Ma Case) [01-25] - African
• Ivan Conti: Poison Fruit (Far Out) [01-25]
• Control Top: Covert Contracts (Get Better) [04-05] - post-punk [A-]
• Conway: Everybody Is FOOD 3 (Griselda) [ 04-04] - hip-hop
• Conway: Look What I Became . . . (Griselda) [09-13] - hip-hop
• Seth Cooke: Weigh the Word (self-released) [01-27] - electronic
• Cool Mariner: Sharing Waves (Leaving) [02-15]
• Cool Original: I Never Said I Didn't Care (Good Cheer) [07-12] - alt/indie
• Erland Cooper: Sule Skerry (Phases) [05-17] - electronic
• Erland Cooper & Leo Abrahams: Seachange (Phases) [10-23] - new age
• Max Cooper: Yearning for the Infinite (MESH) [11-07] - electronic
• Cooper Moore/Stephen Gauci: Studio Sessions Vol. 1 (Gaucimusic) [03-27] - jazz [***]
• Copeland: Blushing (Tooth & Nail) [02-14] - alt/indie
• Eric Copeland: Trogg Modal Vol 2 (DFA) [03-29] - electronic
• Marc Copland: Gary (Illusions Music) [04-26] - jazz
• Marc Copland: And I Love Her (Illusions) [09-27] - jazz
• Imani Coppola: The Protagonist (Ipecac) [10-04] - alt singer-songwriter
• Ani Cordero: El Machete (Panapen) [09-20] - pop
• Santiago Cordoba: En Otros Lugares (Sounds and Colours) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Chick Corea/The Spanish Heart Band: Antidote (Concord) [06-28] - jazz [B-]
• Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 2 (Concord -2CD) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Jesse Mac Cormack: Now (Secret City) [05-03]
• Patrick Cornelius: This Should Be Fun (Posi-Tone) [04-12] - jazz
• Adrian Corker: Music for Lock Grooves (SN Variation) [06-28] - classical
• Charlotte Cornfield: The Shape of Your Name (Next Door) [04-05]
• Blair Coron: On the Nature of Things (self-released) [01-31] - alt/indie
• Karina Corradini: Bidge to Infinity (self-released) [04-19] - vocal jazz
• Corridor: Junior (Sub Pop) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Jhay Cortez: Famouz (N&E Entertainment) [05-24] - hip-hop
• Alessandro Cortini: Volume Massimo (Mute) [09-27] - dark ambient
• Cosey Fanni Tutti: Tutti (Conspiracy International) [02-08] - post-industrial
• Frankie Cosmos: Close It Quietly (Sub Pop) [09-06] - twee pop [**]
• Roxy Coss: Quintet (Outside In Music) [08-23] - jazz
• Graham Costello's Strata: Obelisk (BPQD) [02-01] - jazz
• Josie Cotton: Everything Is Oh Yeah (Cleopatra) [10-04] - new wave
• Counterparts: Nothing Left to Lose (Pure Noise) [11-01] - metalcore
• The Country Side of Harmonica Sam: Broken Bottle, Broken Heart (El Toro) [12-06] - country
• Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman: Time Gone Out (Intakt) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• The Cowboys: The Bottom of a Rotten Flower (Feel It) [02-14] - rock
• Kyle Cox: Perhaps One Day (self-released) [08-16] - jazz
• CP Unit: Riding Photon Time (Eleatic) [07-18] - jazz [A-]
• Chris Crack: Never Hated I Just Waited (New Deal Collectives) [05-13] - hip-hop
• Chris Crack: Pretty Niggas Only (New Deal Collectives) [07-31] - hip-hop
• Chris Crack: Crackheads Live l onger Than Vegans (New Deal Collectives) [03-18] - hip-hop
• Kyle Craft: Showboat Honey (Sub Pop) [07-12] - alt/indie
• Marlon Craft: Funhouse Mirror (Same Plate) [06-18] - hip-hop
• The Cranberries: In the End (BMG) [04-26] - pop rock
• Crazy P: Age of the Ego (Walk Don't Walk) [05-03] - deep house [***]
• Creeping Death: Wretched Illusions (eOne) [09-27] - metal
• Charley Crockett: The Valley (Son of Davy) [09-20] - country
• Benjamin Croft: 10 Reasons To . . . (33Jazz) [03-24] - jazz
• Theo Croker: Star People Nation (Sony Masterworks) [05-17] - jazz [B]
• Jonathon Crompton: Intuit (New Lab) - jazz
• Mikal Cronin: Seeker (Merge) [10-25] - trad rock
• Joy Crookes: Reminiscence EP (Speakerbox -EP) [01-25]
• Theon Cross: Fyah (Gearbox) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Cross Record: Cross Record (Ba Da Bing!) [08-02] - slowcore
• Cross Wires: A Life Extinct (Culture War) [11-01] - punk
• Crosscurrents Trio [Dave Holland/Zakir Hussain/Chris Potter]: Good Hope (Edition) [10-11] - jazz [A-]
• Sheryl Crow: Threads (Big Machine) [08-30]
• Rodney Crowell: Texas (RC1) [08-15] - country [***]
• Crows: Silver Tongues (Balley) [03-22] - garage rock
• Croy and the Boys: Howdy High-Rise (Spaceflight) [08-23] - country [**]
• Crumb: Jinx (self-released) [06-14] - indie pop
• Stephan Crump's Rosetta Trio: Outliers (Papillon) [02-19] - jazz [**]
• Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Channels (Intakt) [03-15] - jazz [A-]
• Crushed Beaks: The Other Room (Clue) [08-09] - alt/indie
• Nicola Cruz: Siku (ZZK) [01-25] - Andean
• Crypt Sermon: The Ruins of Fading Light (Dark Descent) [09-13] - metal
• Crypt Trip: Haze County (Heavy Psych) [03-08] - rock
• Crystal Lake: Helix (Cube) [11-28] - metal
• Cub Sport: Cub Sport (self-releasaed) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Alex Cuba: Sublime (Caracol) [09-20] - folk
• Ronnie Cuber: Straight Street (SteepleChase) [01-15] - jazz [***]
• Cucina Povera: Zoom (Night School) [01-25] - electronic
• Cuco: Para Mi (Interscope) [07-26] - alt r&b
• Jamie Cullum: Taller (Island) [06-07] - jazz
• Cult of Luna: A Dawn to Fear (Metal Blade) [09-20] - sludge metal
• Madison Cunningham: Who Are You Now (Verve Forecast) [08-16] - singer-songwriter
• Rosalie Cunningham: Rosalie Cunningham (Esoteric America) [07-26] - rock
• CUP: Spinning Creature (Northern Spy) [11-01]
• Cupertinos/Luis Toscano: Manuel Cardoso: Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets (Hyperion) [01-04] - classical
• Current Affairs: Object & Subject (Tough Love) [10-11]
• Colin Currie & Steve Reich: Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton (self-released) [04-12] - minimalism
• Denzel Curry: Zuu (Loma Vista) [05-31] - trap rap [**]
• Cursive: Get Fixed (Big Scary Monsters) [10-11] - rock
• Curtis + Garabedian + Sperrazza: New Year (Outside In Music) [05-31] - jazz
• Curtis Brothers: Algorithm (Truth Revolution) - jazz
• Custard Flux: Echo (self-released)
• Cynic: Traced in Air Remixed (Season of Mist) [09-27] - metal
• Billy Ray Cyrus: The SnakeDoctor Circus (BBR Music Group) [05-24] - country
• Miley Cyrus: She Is Coming (RCA -EP) [05-31] - pop
• Czarface/Ghostface Killah: Czarface Meets Ghostface (Silver Age) [ 02-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Czarface: A Double Dose of Danger (Silver Age -EP) [04-19] - hip-hop [*]
• Czarface: The Odd Czar Against Us (Silver Age) [12-06] - hip-hop [A-]
• Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves: Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim (Sunnyside) [08-30] - Brazilian jazz
• DaBaby: Baby on Baby (South Coast Music Group) [03-01] - hip-hop [**]
• DaBaby: Kirk (Interscope) [09-27] - trap rap [***]
• Lucy Dacus: 2019 (Matador -EP) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Rachael Dadd: Flux (Memphis Industries) [11-08]
• Daedelus: The Bittereinders (Brainfeeder) [09-20] - electronic
• Werner Dafeldecker: Small Worlds (Edition Telemark) - jazz
• Tony Dagradi: Down Time (Astral Music) [06-17] - jazz
• Tim Daisy's Vox 4: Roman Poems (Relay) [09-09] - jazz
• Daisy the Great: I'm Not Getting Any Taller (Paper Moon) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Carla Dal Forno: Look Up Sharp (Kallista) [10-04] - art pop
• Dallas Acid: The Spiral Arm (All Saints) [11-01] - pop/rock
• Gary Daly: Gone From Here (self-released) [05-31] - synth pop
• Piotr Damasiewicz & Power of the Horns: Polska (Astigmatic) [11-29] - jazz
• Damn Tall Buildings: Don't Look Down (self-released) [06-07] - country
• The Damned Things: High Crimes (Nuclear Blast) [04-26] -
• Lao Dan/Paul Flaherty/Randall Colbourne/Damon Smith: Live at Willimantic Records (Family Vineyard) [12-06] - jazz
• The Dandy Warhols: Why You So Crazy (Dine Alone) [01-25] - pop/rock
• Ami Dang: Parted Plains (Leaving) [08-02] - pop
• The Dangerous Summer: Mother Nature (Hopeless) [06-14] - rock
• Danish String Quartet: Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (ECM New Series) [09-13] - classical
• Danketsu 9: Towards a Walk in the Sun (Patient Sounds) [05-12] - jazz
• Harold Danko/Kirk Knuffke: Play Date (SteepleChase) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Daphni: Sizzling (Jiaolong) [06-19] - nu-disco
• Gus Dapperton: Where Polly People Go to Read (Awal) [04-19] - hypnagogic pop
• Avishai Darash: Samskara (A.MA) [05-30] - jazz
• Dark Blue: Victory Is Rated (12XU) [02-22] - post-punk
• Dark Lo: American Made (Next) [10-04] - hip-hop
• Dark Star Safari [Jan Bang/Erik Honore/Eivind Aarset/Samuel Rohrer]: Dark Star Safari (Arjunamusic) [05-10] - electronic
• The Darkness: Easter Is Cancelled (Cooking Vinyl) [10-04] - hair metal
• Charlene Darling: Saint-Guidon (A1000P) [10-29] - French
• The Darts: I Like You but Not Like That (Alternative Tentacles) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Datach'i: Bones (Timesig) [07-26] - IDM
• Daughter of Swords: Dawnbreaker (Nonesuch) [06-28] - folk
• Dave: Psychodrama (Neighbourhood) [03-08] - hip-hop [A-]
• Sarah Davachi: Pale Bloom (W 25th/Superior Viaduct) [05-31] - contemporary classical
• Pierre Daven-Keller: Kino Music (Kwaidan)
• Kelly David: Meditation in Green (Spotted Peccary)
• Davido: A Good Time (RCA) [11-22] - Afrobeat [***]
• Lise Davidsen: Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs/Wagner: Arias From Tannhauser (Decca) [05-31] - classical
• Marie Davidson: Chasing the Light (Ninja Tune -EP) [08-07] - techno
• Caroline Davis: Alula (New Amsterdam) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• Caroline Davis & Rob Clearfield's Persona: Anthems (Sunnyside) [09-27] - jazz
• Jeff Davis: The Fastness (Fresh Sound New Talent) [12-10] - jazz [***]
• Kate Davis: Trophy (Solitaire) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• Steve Davis: Correlations (Smoke Sessions) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Angel Bat Dawid: The Oracle (International Anthem) [02-08] - jazz [*]
• Dawn: New Breed (Local Action/Our Dawn) [01-25] - r&b
• Jean Dawson: Bad Sports (Handwritten) [05-17] - alt/indie
• Richard Dawson: 2020 (Weird World) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Day6: The Book of Us: Gravity (JYP Entertainment) [07-15]
• Lucky Daye: Painted (Keep Cool/RCA) [05-24]
• Dayseeker: Sleeptalk (Spinefarm) [09-27]
• Jesse Dayton: Mixtape Vol 1 (Blue Elan) [08-09] - country
• D-Block Europe: PTSD (self-released) [09-27] - hip-hop
• Angelo De Augustine: Tomb (Asthmatic Kitty) [01-11] - indie folk
• Erika De Casier: Essentials (Independent Jeep Music) [05-16] - indie pop
• Mark De Clive-Lowe: Heritage (Ropeadope) [02-08] - jazz [*]
• Mark De Clive-Lowe: Heritage II (Ropeadope) [03-29] - jazz [B]
• Arrington De Dionyso/Ben Bennett: Live at China Clou d1/12/2018 (self-released) - jazz
• Arrington De Dionyso: Shouting Over Deep Water Blues (Feeding Tube) [10-25] - jazz
• The Raymond De Felitta Trio: Pre-War Charm (Blujazz) [06-30] - jazz [***]
• Nina De Heney/Karin Johansson/Henrik Wartel: Quagmire (Creative Sources) [08-21] - jazz [*]
• De Lorians: De Lorians (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [07-26] - prog rock
• De Staat: Bubble Gum (Banquet) [01-18] - alt/indie
• The Dead C: We Don't Know Anymore (Aterhours Eden Prostitute) [05-27] - experimental
• Dead Heat: Certain Death (Edgewood) [02-21] - thrash metal
• Dead Horse One: The West Is the Best (Requiem for a Twister) [11-22] - shoegaze
• Dead Man's Whiskey: Under the Gun (Reloaded) (McCall) [02-01] - rock
• The Dead South: Sugar & Joy (Six Shooter) [10-11]
• Dead to a Dying World: Elegy (Profound Lore) [04-19] - metal
• Deadbeat and Cambria: Trinity Thirty (Constellation)
• Deadbeat Beat: How Far (Arrowhawk/Crystal Palace) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Deadly Avenger: Your God Is Too Small (Burning Witches) [04-19] - electronic
• Deadmau5: Here's the Drop (Mau5trap)
• Deafkids: Metaprogramacao (Neurot) [03-15]
• Fred Deakin: Presents the Lasters (Impotent Fury) [10-11] - downtempo
• Jamael Dean: Black Space Tapes (Stones Throw) [11-08] - jazz [*]
• Chuck Deardorf: Perception (Origin) [01-18] - jazz [**]
• Michael Dease: Never More Here (Posi-Tone) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Death and Vanilla: Are You a Dreamer? (Fire) [05-10]
• Death Grips: Gmail and the Restraining Orders (self-released) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Deathprod: Occulting Disk (Smalltown Supersound) [10-25] - dark ambient
• Deathspell Omega: The Furnaces of Palingenesia (NoEvDia) [05-24] - black metal
• Debit: System (NAAFI) [06-20] - electronic
• Dee-1: Gods and Girls (Mission Vision) [07-12] - hip-hop
• Deep Cut: Different Planet (Gare Du Nord) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Deep State: The Path to Fast Oblivion (Friendship Fever) [02-01] - alt/indie [B]
• Deer Tick: Mayonnaise (PTKF) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Deerhunter: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD) [01-16] - indie rock [B]
• Default Genders: Main Pop Girl 2019 (self-released) [02-04] - dream pop [**]
• Defeater: Defeater (Epitaph) [05-10] - post-hardcore
• The Defiants: Zokusho (Frontiers) [09-13] - rock
• Joey DeFrancesco: In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Deft: Cracks (20/20 LDN) [04-12] - electronic
• DEHD: Water (Fire Talk) [05-10] - rock
• Lana Del Rabies: Shadow World (Deathbomb Arc) [03-23] - electronic
• Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor/Interscope) [08-30] - alt/indie [A-]
• Vincent Delerm: Panorama (Tot Ou Tard)
• Deli Girls: I Don't Know How to Be Happy (Sweat Equity NYC) [02-22] - electronic
• Delicate Steve: Till I Burn Up (Anti-) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Deliluh: Beneath the Floors (Tin Angel) [11-15]
• The Delines: The Imperial (El Cortez) [01-11] - Americana [***]
• Fabienne Delsol: Four (Damaged Goods) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Mac DeMarco: Here Comes the Cowboy (Mac's Record Label) [05-10] - singer-songwriter
• Dengue Dengue Dengue: Zenit & Nadir (Enchufada) [10-04] - Peru
• Deniro: Monsoon (Tape Records Amsterdam -EP) [07-25] - electronic
• Jeremy Denk: C 1300-C 2000 (Nonesuch) [02-08] - classical
• Jeff Denson/Romain Pilon/Brian Blade: Between Two Worlds (Ridgeway) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• Lachlan Denton & Studio Magic: A Brother (Bobo Integral) [07-19]
• Denzler/Grip/Johansson: Zyklus 1 (Umlaut/SAJ) - jazz
• Bertrand Denzler/CoO: Arc (Potlatch) [06-00] - jazz
• Bertrand Denzler/Dominic Lash: Pivot (Spoonhunt) [04-19] - jazz [B-]
• Departure Chandelier: Antichrist Rise to Power (Nuclear War Now!) [02-28] - black metal
• Lauren Desberg: Out for Delivery (self-released) - jazz
• Desert Dwellers: Breath (Black Swan)
• Desert Sessions: Dessert Sessions, Vols. 11 & 12 (Matador) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Desertion Trio: Twilight Time (Long Song) [04-26] - jazz
• Trev Deshon: Stressin' (self-released) [07-19] - hip-hop
• Desolate: Exceptionalism (Fauxpas Musik) [11-01] - electronic
• Desperate Journalist: In Search of the Miraculous (Fierce Panda) [02-22] - post-punk
• Despised Icon: Purgatory (Nuclear Blast) [11-15] - deathcore
• Des'ree: A Love Story (Stargazer) [10-11]
• Bryce Dessner: El Chan (Deutsche Grammophon) [04-05] - classical
• Raheem DeVaughn: The Love Reunion (SoNo) [06-28] - r&b
• The Devil and the Almighty Blues: Tre (Blues for the Red Sun) [03-29] - blues
• Devil Master: Satan Spits on Children of Light (Relapse) [03-01] - metal
• The Devil Wears Prada: The Act (Tooth & Nail) [10-11] - metalcore
• Mykele Deville: Maintain (No Trend) [02-22] - hip-hop
• Devlin: The Outcast (Devlin Music) [03-15]
• Katie Dey: Solipsisters (Run for Cover) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Nicholas Deyoe: James Tenney: Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (New World) [03-15] - classical
• Alejandro Di Costanzo Trio: Barcino, La Ciudad de los Prodigios (Errabal) [04-28] - jazz
• Diabolic: The Disconnect (WarHorse) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Diagonal: Arc (Cobblers)
• Hannah Diamond: Reflections (PC Music) [11-22] - electropop
• Diamond D: The Diam Piece 2 (Dymond Mine) [05-10] - hip-hop
• Diamond Head: Coffin Train (Silver Lining Music) [05-24] - metal
• Jose Dias: After Silence Vol 1 (Clean Feed) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Diat: Positive Disintegration (Iron Lung) [02-22] - post-punk
• Mario Diaz De Leon: Cycle and Reveal (Denovali) [09-27] - classical
• Robert Dick/Joelle Leandre/Miya Masaoka: Solar Wind (Not Two) [07-00] - jazz
• Ben Dickey: A Glimmer on the Outskirts (SexHawkeBlack/Dualtone) [03-08] - folk
• Whit Dickey/Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream (NoBusiness) [05-00] - jazz [***]
• Whit Dickey Tao Quartets: Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM Fidelity -2CD) [06-17] - jazz [***]
• Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon: Solstice (New West) [03-22] - blues
• Dido: Still on My Mind (BMG) [03-08] - pop
• Joyce DiDonato: Songplay (Warner Classics/Erato) [02-01] - classical
• Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble Featuring Clarence Penn: Forward (self-released) [03-29] - jazz
• Ani DiFranco: No Walls: Mixtape (Righteous Babe) [05-09] - alt-folk [A-]
• Digawolf: Yellowstone (self-released) [02-22] - folk
• DIIV: Deceiver (Captured Tracks) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Dijon: Sci Fi 1 (Dark Green) [03-01] - r&b
• Sam Dillon: Force Field (Posi-Tone) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Jakob Dinesen: Keys & Strings (Stunt) [06-28] - jazz
• Dinosaur Pile-Up: Celebrity Mansions (Parlophone) [06-07] - post-grunge
• Francesco Diodati Yellow Squeeds: Never the Same (Auand) [01-25] - jazz
• Celine Dion: Courage (Sony) [11-15] - adult contemporary
• Kyle Dion: Saga (self-released) [03-08] - hip-hop
• The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: DIVA + the Boys (MCG Jazz) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• Diva Sweetly: In the Living Room (Seal Mountain) [01-18] - pop
• Dis Fantasy: Dis Fantasy (Deathbomb Arc -EP) [06-25]
• Dis Fig: Purge (PTP) [03-15] - electroic
• Dive Bar Saints: Home Free (Home Free) [09-06] - country
• The Divine Comedy: Office Politics (self-released) [06-07] - art pop
• Jordon Dixon: On! (self-released) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Native Son [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Milan) [04-05] - soundtrack
• DJ Haram: Grace (Hyperdub -EP) [07-05] - deconstructed club
• DJ Khaled: Father of Asahd (We the Best/Epic) [05-17] - pop rap
• DJ Manny: Let the Music Talk V1 (self-released) [01-27] - footwork
• DJ Manny: Let the Music Talk V2 (self-released) [04-17] - footwork
• DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess: One Place for the First Time (Jahmoni Music) [05-17] - electronic
• DJ Muggs x Mach-Hommy: Tuez-Les Tous (Soul Assassins) [03-29] - hip-hop
• DJ Muggs & Eto: Hell's Roof (Soul Assassins) [03-01] - hip-hop
• DJ Mustard: Perfect Ten (10 Summers/Interscope) [06-28] - hip-hop
• DJ Nate: Take Off Mode (Planet Mu) [04-26] - electronic
• DJ Nigga Fox: Cartas Na Manga (Principe Discos) [10-05] - electronic
• DJ Plead: Pleats Plead EP (Nervous Horizon -EP) [03-01] - electronic
• DJ Python: Derretirse (Dekmantel -EP) [06-10] - electronic
• DJ Shadow: Our Pathetic Age (Mass Appeal -2CD) [11-15] - electronic [**]
• DJ Sports: Akrasia (Help -EP) [01-18] - drum and bass
• Djinn: Djinn (Rocket) [05-17] - jazz
• Djo: Twenty Twenty (self-released) [09-13] - psychedelic
• Malik Djoudi: Temperaments (Cinq 7/Wagram Music) [03-22]
• DKV & Joe McPhee: The Fire Each Time (Not Two -6CD) [01-25] - jazz
• Dodie: Human () [01-18] - singer-songwriter
• Dog in the Snow: Vanishing Lands (Bella Union) [11-15]
• Katie Doherty & the Navigators: And Then (Steeplejack Music) [01-25] - pop
• Peter Doherty: Peter Doherty & the Puta Madres (Strap Originals) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Lou Doillon: Soliloquy (Barclay) [02-01] - pop
• Doja Cat: Hot Pink (Kemosabe/RCA) [11-07] - pop rap [**]
• Dolenz: Lingua Franca (Exit) [05-17]
• Doll Skin: Love Is Dead and We Killed Her (Hopeless) [06-28]
• Dolphin Midwives: Liminal Garden (Beacon Sound) [01-25]
• Chano Dominguez & Hadar Noiberg: Paramus (Sunnyside) [09-08] - jazz
• Dalton Domino: Songs From the Exile (Lightning Rod) [08-23] - country
• Dommengang: No Keys (Thrill Jockey) [05-17] - alt/indie
• Michel Doneda/Le Quan Ninh: Thirty Ways to Avoid Talking (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Phil Donkin's Masterfrown: Value (nWog) [04-26] - Jazz
• Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs (Secretly Canadian) [03-08] - alt/indie [A-]
• Doomsquad: Let Yourself Be Seen (Bella Union) [05-10] - indie pop
• Dope Knife: Things Got Worse (Brick) [05-17] - hip-hop
• Dopolarians: Garden Party (Mahakala) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: For the Kick of It (Between the Lines) - jazz
• Marcelo Dos Reis/Valentin Ceccaldi/Marco Franco/Luis Vicente: Points (Multikulti) - jazz
• The Dose: Saline (Index) [03-15]
• Rose Elinor Dougall: A New Illusion (Republic of Music) [04-05] - indie pop
• Dave Douglas/Uri Caine/Andrew Cyrille: Devotion (Greenleaf Music) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Dave Douglas: Engage (Greenleaf Music) [11-08] - jazz [A-]
• The Dove & the Wolf: Conversations (self-released) [05-03] - rock
• Kit Downes: Dreamlife of Debris (ECM) [10-25] - jazz
• Downfall of Gaia: Ethic of Radical Finitude (Metal Blade) [02-08] - black metal
• Downhaul: Before You Fall Asleep (Refresh) [03-29]
• Lila Downs: Al Chile (SME US Latin) [05-10] - Latin
• Mark Doyle: Watching the Detectives: Guitar Noir III (Free Will) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• William Doyle: Your Wilderness Revisited (self-released) [11-01] - electronic
• Drab Majesty: Modern Mirror (Dais) [07-12] - darkwave
• DragonForce: Extreme Power Metal (Metal Blade) [09-27] - power metal
• Drahla: Useless Coordinates (Captured Tracks) [05-03] - art punk
• Jamie Drake: Everything's Fine (AntiFragile Music) [09-20] - pop
• Dream Nails: Take Up Space (Unplugged) (self-released) [01-22]
• Dream State: Primrose Path (UNFD) [10-18]
• The Dream Syndicate: These Times (Anti-) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Dream Theater: Distance Over Time (Inside Out) [02-22] - progressive metal
• Dreamers: Launch Fly Land (Fairfax) [04-26]
• Dreezy: Big Dreez (Interscope) [01-25] - hip-hop [**]
• Drenge: Strange Creatures (Infectious) [02-22] - indie rock
• Mark Dresser Seven: Ain't Nothing but a Cyber Coup & You (Clean Feed) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Dressy Bessy: Fast Faster Disaster (Yep Roc) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Drifting in Silence: Away (Labille) [10-25] - electronic
• Drinker: Fragments (B3SCI) [05-03]
• Drinking Boys and Girls Choir: Keep Drinkinig!! (Damnably) [03-08]
• Elias Dris: Beatnik or Not to Be (Vicious Circle)
• The Driver Era: X (BMG) [06-28] - alt-indie
• Drivin N Cryin: Live the Love Beautiful (self-relased) [06-21] - rock
• Drobakid: Two Moons (self-released -EP) [04-12] - rock
• Drowse: Light Mirror (The Flenser) [06-07] - shoegaze
• Drugdealer: Raw Honey (Mexican Summer) [04-19] - psychedelic pop
• Drumming Cellist [Kristijan Krajncan]: Abraxas (Sazas) [04-06] - jazz [A-]
• The Drums: Brutalism (Anti-) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Dry Cleaning: Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks (It's OK -EP) [10-25]
• DSC [Leon Lee Dorsey/Greg Skaff/Mike Clark]: Monktime (Jazz Avenue 1) [09-13] - jazz [*]
• Du Blonde: Lung Bread for Daddy (Moshi Moshi) [02-22] - singer-songwriter
• Dude York: Falling (Hardly Art) [07-26] - power pop
• Duel: Valley of Shadows (Heavy Psych Sounds) [05-17] - rock
• Duenn: BGM (Line) [01-25] - classical
• Isnaj Dui: Sight Seeing (Fbox)
• Duke: Uingizaji Hewa (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-08] - electronic
• Rebecca DuMaine and the Dave Miller Combo: Chez Nous (Summit) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Dumb: Club Nites (Mint) [06-07] - punk [***]
• Dumb Things: Time Again (Coolin' by Sound) [11-08] - pop
• Dump Him: Dykes to Watch Out For (Get Better) [08-30] - punk [*]
• C Duncan: Health (Fatcat) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Duncecap: Miserable Then (Blackwoodz Studioz -EP) [12-06] - hip-hop
• Cy Dune: Desert (Lightning) [06-07] - rock
• Paul Dunmall Sun Ship Quartet: John Coltrane 50th Memorial Concert at Cafe Oto (Confront) - jazz
• Kyle Bobby Dunn: From Here to Eternity (Past Inside the Present) [03-24] - electronic
• Matthew "Doc" Dunn: Upper Canada Blues (Cosmic Range) [07-01] - folk rock
• Nick Dunston: Atlantic Extraction (Out of Your Head) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Kelman Duran: 13th Month (Apocalipsis -18) [2018-11-28] - electronic
• Sharman Duran: Questioning Reality (self-released) [06-01] - vocal jazz [**]
• Marc Durkee: Remains in Stasis (Darc Murkee) [01-18]
• Phil Durrant & Martin Vishnick: Rifinitori Di Momenti (Confront) - jazz
• Duster: Duster (Muddguts) [12-13] - slowcore
• Mark Dwane: Martian Apparitions (self-released)
• Mia Dyberg: Home (self-released) - jazz
• Mia Dyberg/Elo Massing/Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues/Tomo Jacobson: Egin (Creative Sources) - jazz
• Dyson Stringer Cloher: Dyson Stringer Cloher (Milk!) [10-04] - rock
• EABS: Slavic Spirits (Astigmatic) [06-07] - jazz
• Open Mike Eagle: The New Negroes: Season 1 Soundtrack (Comedy Central -EP) [06-03] - hip-hop [*]
• Justin Townes Earle: The Saint of Lost Causes (New West) [05-24] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Steve Earle & the Dukes: Guy (New West) [03-29] - country [***]
• Earprint: Easy Listening (Endectomorph) [10-18] - jazz
• Earth: Full Upon Her Burning Lips (Sargent House) [05-24] - psychedelic rock
• Eartheater: Trinity (Chemical X) [10-18] - electronic
• Earthen Sea: Grass & Trees (Kranky) [06-07] - electronic
• Earthgang: Mirrorland (Dreamville/Interscope) [09-06] - hip-hop [*]
• Earthquake Lights: Distress Signals (self-released) [04-12] - rock
• Dave East: Survival (Mass Appeal/Def Jam) [11-08] - hip-hop
• Callum Easter: Here or Nowhere (Lost Map) [04-05]
• Julius Eastman: The Nigger Series (Blume) [01-18]
• EB the Younger: To Each His Own (Bella Union) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Ebony Steel Band: Pan Machine (OM Swagger) [09-20]
• Ecce Shnak: Metamorphejawns (Records Man) [07-19]
• ECCO2K: E (Year0001) [11-27] - alt r&b
• Echoes of Swing: Winter Days at Schloss Elmau (ACT) [10-25] - jazz
• Yelena Eckemoff/Manu Katche: Colors (L&H Production) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Rosana Eckert: Sailing Home (OA2) [06-21] - vocal jazz [B]
• Eddy Current Suppression Ring: All in Good Time (Castle Face) [12-13]
• Marc Edwards/Guillaume Gargaud: Black Hole Universe (Atypeek Music) - jazz [**]
• Eerie Wanda: Pet Town (Joyful Noise) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Efdemin: New Atlantis (Ostgut Ton) [02-15] - minimal techno
• Efterklang: Altid Sammen (4AD) [09-20] - post-rock
• Egyptian Blue: Collateral Damage (YALA! -EP) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Mei Ehara: Even I (Kakubarhythm -EP) [10-02] - Japan
• Peter Ehwald: Septuor De Grand Matin (Jazzwerkstatt) [01-28] - jazz
• Mats Eilertsen: And Then Comes the Night (ECM) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Mats Eilertsen: Reveries and Revelations (Hubro) [06-14] - jazz
• Billy Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? (Darkroom/Interscope) [03-29] - pop [A-]
• Shauli Einav: Animi (Berthold) [03-08] - jazz
• Wendy Eisenberg + Shane Parish: Nervous Systems (Verses) [03-22] - jazz
• Douwe Eisenga: For Mattia (Trptk) [04-13] - jazz
• Harris Eisenstadt: Old Growth Forest II (Astral Spirits) [05-10] - jazz
• Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day Quartet Live (Clean Feed) [09-19] - jazz [**]
• Ekiti Sound: Abeg No Vex (Crammed Discs) [04-26] - African [**]
• El Leon De Oro/Peter Phillips: Amarae Morti (Hyperion) [02-01] - classical
• El Palacio De Linares: Largos Agotadores (Pretty Olivia) [02-01] - pop
• Idris Elba: Idris Elba Presents: The Yardie Mixtape [Music Inspired by the Motion Picture] (7wallace) [07-05]
• Elbow: Giants of All Sizes (Polydor/Verve) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Elcamino: Elcamino 2 (TCF/Next) [11-22] - hip-hop
• Elder Island: The Omnitone Collection (self-released) [02-08] - electronic
• Elder Ones [Amirtha Kidambi]: From Untruth (Northern Spy) [03-29] - vocal jazz [B]
• Petter Eldh: Petter Eldh Presents Koma Saxo (We Jazz) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Peter Eldridge/Kenny Werner: Somewhere (Rosebud Music) [07-05] - jazz [C-]
• Dorian Electra: Flamboyant (self-released) [07-17] - electropop
• Electric Guest: Kin (Atlantic) [10-18] - pop
• Electric Youth: Memory Emotion (Last Gang/Watts Arcade) [08-09] - synthpop
• Elektro Hafiz and Grup Ses: Varyete (Zel Zele) [07-05] - electronic
• Elephant9: Psychedelic Backfire I (Rune Grammofon) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Elephant9/Reine Fiske: Psychedelic Backfire II (Rune Grammofon) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• ELEW: ELEW Plays Rosenwinkel: Cubism (Heartcore) - jazz
• Eliane Elias: Love Stories (Concord) [08-30] - jazz [*]
• Faith Eliott: Impossible Bodies (OK Pal) [04-19]
• Elizabeth Colour Wheel: Nocebo (The Flenser) [03-15] - noise rock
• Elkhorn: Sun Cycle/Elk Jam (Feeding Tube) [04-12] - folk
• Missy Elliott: Iconology (Atlantic -EP) [08-23] - pop rap
• Moppa Elliott: Jazz Band/Rock Band/Dance Band (Hot Cup -2CD) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
• Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18: Joia! (Agari/Banana & Louie) [09-28]
• Robert Ellis: Texas Piano Man (New West) [02-14] - country [B]
• Elva: Winter Sun (Tapete) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Emamouse/Nicolo: Desolation (Absurd Trax) [06-28] - IDM
• Emancipator & 9 Theory: Cheeba Gold (Loci) [03-22] - electronic
• Emarosa: Peach Club (Hopeless) [02-08] - rock
• Pablo Embon: Reminiscent Moods (self-released) [07-08] - jazz [B-]
• Vincent Neil Emerson: Fried Chicken & Evil Women (La Honda) [09-13] - country
• Andy Emler/David Liebman: Journey Around the Truth (Signature Radio France) - jazz [*]
• Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles: Heart Songs (CGP Sounds/Thirty Tigers) [01-11] - jazz
• Emmeluth's Amoeba: Chimaera (Ora Fonogram) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Emotional Oranges: The Juice Vol 1 (Avant Garden) [05-10] - alt r&b
• Empath: Active Listening: Night on Earth (Get Better) [05-03] - rock [*]
• Empirical: Connection (Cuneiform) [05-19] - jazz
• Employed to Serve: Eternal Forward Motion () [05-10] - post-hardcore
• Emptyset: Blossoms (Thrill Jockey) [10-11] - experimental electronic
• Erin Enderlin: Faulkner County (Black Crow Productions) [11-01] - country [*]
• Moy Eng/Wayne Wallace: The Blue Hour (Patois) [07-26] - vocal jazz [B]
• Entr'acte: Soigne Ta Droite (Audiographic) [10-21] - jazz
• Epic Beard Men: This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Strange Famous) [03-29] - hip-hop [A-]
• Employed to Serve: Eternal Forward Motion (Spinefarm) [05-10] - metal
• The Entrepreneurs: Noise & Romance (Tambourhinoceros) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Equiknoxx: Eternal Children (self-released) [06-20] - dancehall
• Christoph Erb/Michael Vatcher: Yellow Live (Veto) - jazz
• Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution: Won't Put No Flag Out (BMC) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• ERP: Exomoon (Forgotten Future) [12-02] - electronic
• Errant Monks: Psychopposition (Tesla Tapes) [02-20] - electronic
• Errant Monks: The Limit Experience (Maternal Voice) [05-31] - elecgtronic
• E-Saggila: My World My Way (Northern Electronics) [08-02] - industrial techno
• Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: The Pearls (Intakt) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Esoteric: A Pyrrhic Existence (Season of Mist) [11-08] - doom metal
• The Estate Agents: Landlords (Gob Nation) [08-09]
• Andre Ethier: Croak in the Weeds (Telephone Explosion) [10-11] - country
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Be Known: Ancient/Future/Music (Spiritmuse) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Eto & Superior: Long Story Short (Below System) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Eto & Wally Clark: The Circle (Gummy Soul) [12-06] - hip-hop
• Eucalyptus: Kick it 'Till You Flip It (HAVNrecords) [03-30] - jazz
• Dominik Eulberg: Mannigfaltig (!K7) [09-06] - techno
• Ben Eunson: Ace (Ocean Road) - jazz
• Euphorium_freakestra: Grande Casino (Euphorium -18 -3CD) [2018-12-09] - jazz
• Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures: Monday Nights Vol 1 (Deko Music) [03-22] - jazz
• Ex Hex: It's Real (Merge) [03-22] - alt/indie [**]
• Exael: Dioxippe (Xpq?) [06-18] - electronic
• The Exbats: E Is 4 Exbats (Burger) [01-25] - rock [***]
• Exek: Some Beautiful Species Left (Anti-Fade) [09-06] - rock
• Exhumed: Horror (Relapse) [10-04] - death meatl
• Carolina Eyck and Eversines: Waves (Yeyeh) [04-15] - electronic
• Ezra Collective: You Can't Steal My Joy (Enter the Jungle) [04-26] - jazz fusion [B]
• FACS: Lifelike (Trouble in Mind) [03-29] - post-punk
• The Faim: State of Mind (BMG) [09-13]
• Emily Fairlight: Mother of Gloom (self-released) [05-04] - pop
• The Fall: Bend Siniser/The Domesday... (Beggars Banquet) [03-15] - alt/indie
• The Fallen State: A Deadset Endeavour (Last Man Music) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Falls of Rauros: Patterns in Mythology (Gilead Media) [07-19] - metal
• False: Portent (Gilead Media) [07-12] - metal
• False Advertising: Brainfreeze (Alcopop) [11-08]
• Falz: Moral Instruction (Bahd Guys Entertainment) [01-15] - Nigerian
• Fantasia: Sketchbook (Rock Soul) [10-11] - r&b
• Willie Farmer: The Man From the Hill (Big Legal Mess) [03-01] - blues
• Perry Farrell: Kind Heaven (BMG) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Chris Farren: Born Hot (Polyvinyl) [10-11] - indie pop
• Farruko: Gangalee (Sony Latin) [04-26] - reggaeton
• Fastball: The Help Machine (Zuni Tunes) [10-18] - rock
• Fat White Family: Serfs Up! (Domino) [04-19] - neo-psychedelia
• Fatamorgana: Terra Alta (La Vida Es Un Mus) [02-20] - electronica
• Maria Faust/Tim Dahl/Weasel Walter: Farm Fresh (Gotta Let It Out) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Kari Faux: Cry 4 Help (Change Minds) [03-08] - alt r&b
• Faux Ferocious: Pretty Groovy (Burger) [02-22] - rock
• Kalyn Fay: Good Company (Horton) [02-15] - folk
• Enrico Fazio Critical Mass: Wabi Sabi (Leo) [08-16] - jazz
• Fea: No Novelties (Blackheart) [11-15] - rock
• Richard Fearless: Deep Rave Memory (Drone) [11-22] - electronic
• Federale: No Justice (Jealous Butcher) [11-08] - rock
• Feels: Post Earth (Wichita) [02-22] - post-punk
• Feet: What's Inside Is More Than Just Ham (Clapped) [10-04]
• Avram Fefer Quartet: Testament (Clean Feed) [11-08] - jazz [***]
• Tanja Feichtmair: Omnixus + Solo (Leo) [01-21] - jazz
• The Felice Brothers: Undress (Yep Roc) [05-03] - Americana
• Femina: Perlas & Conchas (self-released) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Fen: The Dead Light (Prophecy Productions) [12-06]
• Sam Fender: Hypersonic Missiles (Polydor) [09-13] - indie rock
• Fenella: Fenella (Fire) [11-01]
• Fennesz: Agora (Touch) [03-29] - ambient [B]
• Ferla: It's Personal (self-released) [04-09] - alt/indie
• Lorenzo Feliciati/Michele Rabbia: Antikythera (RareNoise) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Gabriel Ferrandini: Volupias (Clean Feed) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Luc Ferrari: Music Promenade/Unheimlich Schon (Recollection GRM) [04-12] - electroacoustic
• Fet.Nat: Le Mal (Boiled) [02-15] - experimental
• Fever 333: Strength in Numb333rs (Roadrunner/333 Wreckords Crew) [01-18] - alt metal
• Fever Ray: Plunge Remix (Rabid) [12-13] - remix
• Fews: Into Red (Play It Again Sam) [03-01] - post-punk
• The Fictive Five: Anything Is Possible (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Fidlar: Almost Free (Mom + Pop) [01-25] - alt rock
• Joe Fiedler: Open Sesame (Multiphonics Music) [02-25] - jazz [***]
• Field Medic: Fade Into the Dawn (Run for Cover) [04-19] - indie folk
• Lee Fields & the Expressions: It Rains Love (Big Crown) [04-05] - funk
• Scott Fields Ensemble: Barclay (Ayler) - jazz
• Amina Figarova: Road to the Sun (AmFi) [02-26] - jazz
• Dominique Fils-Aime: Stay Tuned! (Ensoul) [02-22] - soul
• Filthy Friends: Emerald Valley (Kill Rock Stars) [05-03] - alt/indie [**]
• John Finbury: Sorte! (Green Flash Music) [05-01] - jazz
• David Finck: Bassically Jazz (Burton Avenue Music) [07-19] - jazz [*]
• Craig Finn: I Need a New War (Partisan) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Kelly Finnigan: The Tales People Tell (Colemine) [04-26] - soul
• Nick Finzer & Chris Ziemba: Live at Pinch Recording (Outside In Music) [09-20] - jazz
• Fire! Orchestra: Arrival (Rune Grammofon) [05-24] - jazz [B]
• Fire-Toolz: Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace) (Orange Milk) [08-30]
• Samantha Fish: Kill or Be Kind (Rounder) [09-20] - blues
• Colin Fisher Quartet: Living Midnight (Astral Spirits) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Fitz and the Tantrums: All the Feels (Elektra) [09-20] - pop
• Carolyun Fitzhugh: Living in Peace (Iyouwe) [03-15] - vocal jazz [B]
• Five Play: Live From the Firehouse Stage (5Play) [03-04] - jazz
• FKA Twigs: Magdalene (Young Turks) [11-08] - electronic [B]
• FKJ: Live @ Salar De Uyuni for Cercle (self-released) - jazz
• Paul Flaherty: Focused & Bewildered (Relative Pitch) [05-00] - jazz
• The Flaming Lips: King's Mouth (self-released) [04-13] - neo-psychedelia
• The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks (Warner Bros) [11-29] - pop/rock
• Flamingods: Levitation (Moshi Moshi) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Flash Amazonas: Binary Birds and Other Rubbish Surreal Things (Sello In-Correcto) [05-10] - Colombia
• Flatland Cavalry: Homeland Insecurity (self-released) [01-18] - country
• The Flesh Eaters: I Used to Be Pretty (Yep Roc) [01-18] - punk blues
• Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (Sub Pop) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Floating Points: Late Night Tales (LateNightTales) [03-29] - electronic
• Floating Points: Crush (Ninja Tune) [10-18] - IDM [**]
• Ben Flocks: Mask of the Muse (West Cliff) [08-16] - jazz
• Floorplan: So Glad/I Feel Him Moving (M-Plant -EP) [05-22] - house
• Floral Print: Floral Print (Tiny Engines) [08-02] - rock
• Flore Laurentienne: Volume 1 (Costume) [10-07]
• John Floreani: Sin (Hopeless) [06-07]
• Rosie Flores: Simple Case of the Blues (The Last Music Company) [02-15] - country [**]
• Florida Georgia Line: Can't Say I Ain't Country (Big Machine) [02-15] - country
• Florida Man: Tropical Depression (Spartan) [05-03] - noise rock
• Florist: Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy) [07-26] - indie folk
• Flowdan: Full Metal Jacket (Tru Thoughts) [05-24] - grime
• Mary Flower: Livin' With the Blues Again (Little Village Foundation) [07-25] - blues
• The Flower Kings: Waiting for Miracles (Century Media) [11-08]
• Flume: Hi This Is Flume (Future Classic) [03-20] - wonky
• Fly Pan Am: C'est Ca (Constellation) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Flying Fish Cove: At Moonset (Help Yourself) [04-05] - rock
• Flying Lotus: Flamagra (Warp) [05-24] - glitch pop [**]
• The Flying Luttenbachers: Shattered Dimension (Ugexplode) [03-01] - fusion
• Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 1) (Warner Bros) [03-08] - alt-dance
• Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 2) (Warner UK) [10-18] - art rock
• Lamin Fofana: Black Metamorphosis (self-released) [11-01] - electronic
• Eamon Fogarty: Blue Values (Jealous Butcher) [07-28] - alt/indie
• John Fogerty: 50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks (BMG) [11-08] - trad rock
• Fokn Bois: Afrobeats LOL (Fokn) [02-22] -
• Follakzoid: I (Sacred Bones) [08-01]
• Roberto Fonseca: Yesun (Mack Avenue/Wagram Music) [10-18] - jazz
• Luis Fonsi: Vida (Universal Latino) [02-01] - Latin
• Claude Fontaine: Claude Fontaine (Innovative Leisure) [04-26] - rock
• Fontaines DC: Dogrel (Partisan) [04-12] - post-punk [***]
• Robben Ford & Bill Evans: The Sun Room (Ear Music) [07-26] - jazz
• Foreign Beggars: Matriarchy (Peng House Music) [12-13] - hip-hop
• Forests: Spending Eternity in a Japanese Convenience Store (Sweetness Follows) [01-31] - rock
• Michael Formanek Very Practical Trio/Tim Berne/Mary Halvorson: Even Better (Intakt) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Robert Forster: Inferno (Tapete) [03-01] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• For Those I Love: For Those I Love (self-released) [06-05] - electronic
• Colt Ford: We the People (Average Joe's) [09-20] - country
• Forgjord: Ilmestykset (Werewolf) [04-19]
• Chris Forsyth: All Time Present (No Quarter) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Anat Fort Trio: Colour (Sunnyside) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter: Florence Beatrice Price: Symphonies (Naxos) [01-11] - classical
• Fred Fortin: Microdose (Grosse Boite) [08-23]
• Iona Fortune: Tao of I Volume 2 (Ecstatic) [09-05] - ambient
• Al Foster: Inspirations & Dedications (Smoke Sessions) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Calabria Foti: Prelude to a Kiss (Moco) [11-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• FouKi: ZayZay (7e Ciel) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Four: There You Go Thinking Again (Jazz Hang) - jazz [B]
• Four Letter Words: Pinch Point (Amalgam Music) - jazz
• Four Tet: Anna Painting (Text -EP) [08-29] - electronic
• Fidel Fourneyron: Que Vola (No Format) [01-26] - Latin jazz [***]
• Alex Fournier: Triio (Furniture Music) [06-02] - jazz [***]
• Fox: Juice Flow (Swing Ting) [10-18] - UK bass
• Mark Fox: Iridescent Sounds (Humble Genius) [09-15]
• Mimi Fox: This Bird Still Flies (Origin) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Fox Millions Duo: Biting Through (Thrill Jockey) [04-12] - jazz
• Foxes in Fiction: Trillium Killer (Orchid Tapes) [10-18]
• Foxhall Stacks: The Coming Collapse (Snappy Little Numbers) [09-20] - rock
• Foxygen: Seeing Other People (Jagjaguwar) [04-26] - glam rock
• Nils Frahm: Encores 2 (Erased Tapes -EP) [01-25] - post-minimalism
• Nils Frahm: All Encores (Erased Tapes) [10-18] - electronic
• Mulo Francel/Chris Gall: Mythos (Fine Music) [11-08] - jazz
• Ana Frango Eletrico: Little Electric Chicken Heart (Risco) [09-14] - MPB
• Emma Frank: Come Back (Justin Time) [09-06] - vocal jazz
• Frankie and the Witch Fingers: ZAM (Greenway) [03-01]
• Frankiie: Forget Your Head (Paper Bag) [09-20] - alt/indie
• The Franklin County Trucking Company: The Further Aventures of the Franklin County Trucking Company (Tri-Nut) [10-21] - country
• The Franklys: Framed (Halta Halta) [04-05] - rock
• Dretti Franks: Solarbeam (Rarestar) [05-01] - hip-hop
• Michael Franti & Spearhead: Stay Human Vol II (Thirty Tigers) [ 01-25] - hip-hop
• Nick Fraser/Kris Davis/Tony Malaby: Zoning (Astral Spirits) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Mabe Fratti: Pies Sobre La Tierra (Hole) [05-30] - pop
• Martin Frawley: Undone at 31 (Merge) [02-22] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Freddie Douggie: Live in Juneteenth (International Anthem) [06-18] - electronica [*]
• Fredo: Third Avenue (Since 93) [02-01]
• Free Love: Extreme Dance Anthems (Optimo -EP) [09-20] - acid techno
• Free Nationals: Free Nationals (OBE/Empire) [12-13] - neo soul
• Free Throw: What's Past Is Prologue (Triple Crown) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Dori Freeman: Every Single Star (Blue Hens Music) [09-27] - country [***]
• George Freeman: George the Bomb! (Blujazz/Southport) [04-02] - jazz [**]
• Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar De Nubes (Whirlwind) - jazz
• French 79: Joshua (Alter K)
• French Vanilla: How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Fresh: Withdraw (Specialist Subject) [06-07]
• Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum III (ACT) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Debby Friday: Death Drive (Fat Beats -EP) [08-16] - electronic
• Burnt Friedman: Musical Traditions in Central Europe: Explorer Series Vol 4 (Nonplace) [05-30] - tribal ambient
• Friends & Neighbors: What's Next (Clean Feed) - jazz
• Friendly Fires: Inflorescent (Polydor) [08-16] - acid house
• David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Interaction (Origin -2CD) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Friolento: Destroy All Bad Luck (Din Music -EP) [03-30]
• Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan: Epistrophy (ECM) [04-12] - jazz [*]
• Bill Frisell: Harmony (Blue Note) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• William Ryan Fritch: Deceptive Cadence: Music for Film Volume I & II (Lost Tribe Sound) [05-17] - classical
• Fred Frith: All Is Always Now: Live at the Stone (Intakt -3CD) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Friyie: ANF: Ain't Nothing Free (Bong) [03-22]
• Frog: Count Bateman (Audio Antihero) [08-16] - rock
• Froth: Duress (Wichita) [06-07] - shoegaze
• From Wolves to Whales: Strandwal (Aerophonic -2CD) [08-26] - jazz [***]
• Fruit Bats: In Real Life (Live at...) (Spacebomb) [02-22] - indie pop
• Fruit Bats: Gold Past Life (Merge) [06-21] - indie pop [*]
• Satoko Fujii: Solo Piano: Stone (Libra) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Satoko Fujii/Ramon Lopez: Confluence (Libra) [07-26] - jazz [***]
• Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda: Four (Long Song) [11-08] - jazz [***]
• Tomas Fujiwara: Seven Poets Trio (RogueArt) [09-00] - jazz
• Fujiya & Miyagi: Flashback (Impossible Objects of Desire) [05-31] - rock
• Haruna Fukazawa: Departure (Summit) [08-02] - jazz [*]
• Full of Hell: Weeping Choir (Relapse) [05-17] - metal
• Corey Fuller: Break (12k) [02-01] - ambient
• Larry Fuller: Overjoyed (Capri) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Champian Fulton & Cory Weeds: Dream a Little . . . (Cellar Live) [10-11] - vocal jazz
• Function: Existenz (Tresor) [12-06] - electronic
• Fur: Fur (Nice Swan) [02-14] - psychedelic rock
• Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes (Bella Union) [08-30] - alt/indie [A-]
• Fury: Failed Entertainment (Run for Cover) [05-03] - hardcore
• Andy Fusco: Vortex (SteepleChase) [06-15] - jazz [**]
• Jake Xerxes Fussell: Out of Sight (Paradise of Bachelors) [06-07] - singer-songwriter
• Future: Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd (Epic/Freebandz) [01-18] - trap rap [**]
• Future Teens: Breakup Season (Triple Crown) [08-30]
• The Futureheads: Powers (Nul) [08-30] - alt/indie
• G&D [Georgia Anne Muldrow/Declaime]: Black Love & War (Someothaship) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Jayda G: Significant Changes (Ninja Tune) [ 03-22] - deep house [*]
• Karol G: Ocean (Universal Latino) [05-03] - reggaeton
• Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program: Dance of the Cosmos (Akashik) [02-22] - electronic [**]
• (Sandy) Alex G: House of Sugar (Domino) [09-13] - psychedelic folk [B]
• Sheff G: The Unluccy Luccy Kid (Winners Circle/Empire) [09-27] - hip-hop
• G & D: Black Love & War (SomeOthaShip Connect) [08-09] - r&b
• Gabber Modus Operandi: Hoxxxya (SVBKVLT) [08-16] - electronic
• Roses Gabor: Fantasy & Facts (All Points) [02-22] - alt r&b
• Galactic: Already Ready Already (Tchoup-zilla) [02-08] - alt/indie
• Galcher Lustwerk: Information (Ghostly International) [11-22] - deep house
• Eric Gales: The Bookends (Provogue) [02-08] - blues
• The Galileo 7: There Is Only Now (Damaged Goods) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Liam Gallagher: Why Me? Who Not. (Warner Bros) [09-20] - Brit rock
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Black Star Dancing (Sour Mash) [06-14] - pop
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: This Is the Place (Sour Mash -EP) [09-27] - pop/rock
• Ricardo Gallen: Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas (IBS Classical) [08-16] - classical
• Gallant: Sweet Insomnia (Warner) [10-25]
• Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite (Origin) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Elliot Galvin: Modern Times (Edition) [04-19] - jazz
• Lee Gamble: In a Paraventral Scale (Hyperdub -EP) [02-01] - IDM
• Lee Gamble: Exhaust (Hyperdub) [11-15] - IDM
• Vyacheslav Ganelin/Deniss Pashkevich/Arkady Gotesman: Variations (Jersika) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Gang Starr: One of the Best Yet (self-released) [11-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble: Remember Me, My Dear (ECM) [11-18] - jazz [*]
• Ruth Garbus: Airmeister (Orindal) [08-30] - rock
• Kany Garcia: Contra El Viento (Sony) [05-17]
• Garcia Peoples: One Step Behind (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [10-18]
• Laszlo Gardony: La Marseillaise (Sunnyside) [10-24] - jazz [**]
• Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy: The Act of Falling From the 8th Floor (Whities) [09-06]
• The Garifuna Collective: Aban (Stonetree Music) [09-15] - Belize [**]
• Kevin Garrett: Hoax (KG Music) [03-22] - pop
• George Garzone/Peter Erskine/Alan Pasqua/Darek Oles: 3 Nights in LA (Fuzzy Music -3CD) [07-12] - jazz
• John T Gast: 5GTOUR (5 Gate Temple) [11-00] - electronic
• Gatecreeper: Deserted (Relapse) [10-04] - death metal
• Kevin Gates: I'm Him (Bread Winners' Association) [09-27] - hip-hop
• Gauche: A People's History of Gauche (Merge) [07-12] - art punk [***]
• Stephen Gauci/Sandy Ewan/Adam Lane/Kevin Shea: Live at the Bushwick Series (Gaucimusic) [03-25] - jazz [*]
• Ben Lamar Gay: Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks [This Is Bate Bola OST] (International Anthem) [03-15] - jazz [B]
• Willard Gayheart: At Home in Blue Ridge (Blue Hens Music) [05-24] - country
• Charles Gayle/Giovanni Barcella/Manolo Cabras: The Alto Sessions (El Negocito) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Charles Gayle/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Seasons Changing (Otoroku) - jazz
• Sara Gazarek: Thirsty Ghost (MRI) [08-23] - vocal jazz
• G-Eazy: Scary Nights (RCA -EP) [10-18] - trap rap
• Howe Gelb: Gathered (Fire) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Gender Roles: Prang (Big Scary Monsters) [08-30] - alt/indie
• Generationals: Reader as Detective (Polyvinyl) [07-19] - indie pop
• Gene on Earth: Local Fuzz (Limousine Dream) [06-00] - electronic
• Carla Geneve: Carla Geneve (Dot Dash) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Geometry [Kyoko Kitamura/Taylor Ho Bynum/Joe Morris/Tomeka Reid]: Geometry of Distance (Relative Pitch) [10-06] - jazz [*]
• Georgia: One Mind (Youth) [11-13] - alt/indie
• Geowulf: My Resignation (PIAS) [10-25]
• German Army: Salary of Stagnation (Conjunto Vacio) [09-29] - electronic
• Gesaffelstein: Hyperion (Columbia) [03-08] - electronic
• The Get Up Kids: Problems (Polyvinyl) [05-10] - power pop
• Ghold: Input>Chaos (Crypt of the Wizard) [05-03] - metal
• Ghost Light: Best Kept Secrets (self-released) [03-22]
• Ghost Orchard: Bunny (Orchid Tapes) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Ghost Rhythms: Live at Yoshiwara (Cuneiform) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Ghostface Killah: Ghostface Killahs (Now Generation) [09-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Giant Sand: Recounting the Ballads... (Fire) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Giant Swan: Giant Swan (Keck) [11-08] - techno
• Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Bandana (Keep Cool/RCA) [06-28] - hip-hop [A-]
• Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Symphony Orchestra: Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) (Domino) [03-29] - modern classical
• Polly Gibbons: All I Can Do (Resonance) [04-19] - jazz [B]
• Rhiannon Giddens: There Is No Other (Nonesuch) [05-03] - folk [***]
• Giggs: Big Bad . . . (No BS/Island) [02-21] - hip-hop
• Ioanna Gika: Thalassa (Sargent House) [04-05] - art pop
• Gilberto Gil: OK OK OK (Geleia Geral) [08-17] - Brazil
• Brantley Gilbert: Fire & Brimstone (Valory) [10-04] - country
• Paul Gilbert: Behold Electric Guitar (Music Theories) [05-17] - rock
• Lafayette Gilchrist: Dark Matter (self-released) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Vince Gill: Okie (MCA Nashville) [08-23] - country
• Jess Gillam: Rise (Decca) [04-26] - classical
• Lucas Gillan's Many Blessings: Chit-Chatting With Herbie (Jeru Jazz) [01-03] - jazz
• Luke Gillespie: Moving Mists (Patois) [07-12] - jazz [*]
• Elena Gilliam/Michael Le Van: Then Another Turns (Blujazz) [06-15] - vocal jazz [***]
• Girl Band: The Talkies (Rough Trade) [09-27] - noise rock [*]
• Girl Ray: Girl (Moshi Moshi) [11-22] - pop
• Girl Unit: Song Feel (Night Slugs) [04-05] - UK bass
• Girli: Odd One Out (Virgin EMI) [04-05] - electropop
• Girlpool: What Chaos Is Imaginary (Anti-) [02-01] - alt/indie [B]
• Girls on Grass: Dirty Power (self-released) [04-05] - alt/idie [**]
• Giuda: EVA (Burger) [03-29] - punk revival
• Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp: Season of Sadness (Iluso) [07-27] - jazz [B]
• Robert Glasper: Fuck Yo Feelings (Loma Vista) [10-03] - jazz [*]
• Jay Glass Dubs: Epitaph (Brokeh Versions) [01-25] - ambient
• Glass Animals: Dreamland (Polydor) [07-10]
• Glass Beach: The First Glass Beach Album (1290964) [05-18] - art rock
• The Gloaming: The Gloaming 3 (Real World) [02-22]
• Glok: Dissident (Bytes) [07-05]
• Gnash: We (Atlantic) [01-11] - alt/indie
• Gnoomes: MU! (Rocket) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragmala: A Garland of Ragas (Meta -2CD) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Charles Wesley Godwin: Seneca (self-released) [02-15] - folk [*]
• Matthias Goerne/Leif Ove Andsnes: Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op 24/Kerner-Lieder (Harmonia Mundi) [05-03] - classical
• GoGo Penguin: Ocean in a Drop [Music for a Film] (Decca -EP) [10-04] - jazz
• Gold: Why Aren't You Laughing? (Artoffact) [04-05] - rock
• Aaron Goldberg: At the Edge of the World (Sunnyside) [11-16] - jazz
• Ben Goldberg: Good Day for Cloud Fishing (Pyroclastic) [08-23] - jazz [B]
• Brandon Goldberg: Let's Play (BSG) [04-12] - jazz
• Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This (Decca) [11-01] - jazz
• Casey Golden: II (Muscle Beach) [11-22] - alt/indie
• Golden Daze: Simpatico (Autumn Tone) [02-15] - alt/indie
• GoldLink: Diaspora (Squaaash Club/RCA) [06-12] - hip-hop [***]
• Paulo Gomes: MAP + Chris Cheek (self-released) [04-01] - jazz
• Gong: The Universe Also Collapses (Kscope) [05-10]
• Gong Gong Gong: Phantom Rhythm (Wharf Cat) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Goo Goo Dolls: Miracle Pill (Warner Bros) [09-12]
• Good Morning: Basketball Breakdowns () [10-04] - alt/indie
• The Good Ones: Rwanda, You Should Be Loved (Anti-) [11-08] - East African
• The Good People: Good for Nuthin (Fresh Pressings) [01-15] - hip-hop
• Good Riddance: Thoughts and Prayers (Fat Wreck Chords) [07-19]
• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Gordian Knot (Music Content) [10-25] - jazz
• Goon: Heaven Is Humming (Partisan) [07-19] - indie rock
• GooNew: Back From Hell (Big 64 Entertainment) [10-01] - hip-hop
• Jay Gordon's Blues Venom: Slide Rules! (self-released) [11-15] - blues
• Kim Gordon: No Home Record (Matador) [10-11] - noise rock [A-]
• Gorilla Mask: Brain Drain (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Goro: Unbound Forever (self-released) [06-25] - electronic
• Miguel Gorodi Nonet: Apophenia (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
• GospelbeacH: Let It Burn ( Alive) [10-04] - trad rock
• The Gotobeds: Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)
• Peggy Gou: Moment (Gudu -EP) [04-19] - nu-disco
• Victor Gould: Thoughts Become Things (Blue Room) [07-12] - jazz
• Gal Gracen: Fantasy Gardens (Jaz) [09-06] - alt/indie
• Grae: New Girl (self-released -EP) [10-16] - alt/indie
• Georg Graewe/Ernst Reijseger/Gerry Hemingway: Concertgebouw Brugge 2014 (Fundacja Sluchaj) [11-11] - jazz [**]
• Grandchildren: Grandchildren (Rough Trade) [02-01]
• Ariana Grande: Thank U Next (Republic) [02-08] - pop [**]
• Pasquale Grasso: Solo Standards Vol 1 (Sony Masterworks -EP) [06-28] - jazz
• Pasquale Grasso: Solo Monk (Sony Masterworks - EP) [10-11] - jazz
• Pasquale Grasso: Solo Ballads Vol 1 (Sony Masterworks -EP) [08-16] - jazz
• David Gray: Gold in a Brass Age (Kobalt) [03-08] - pop/rock
• Devin Gray: Devin Gray's Algorhythmica (Rataplan -EP) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Devin Gray GPS Trio: Blast Beat Blues (Rataplan -EP) [11-29] - jazz [*]
• Rose Gray: Blue, Lately (self-released) [03-22] - pop
• Grayscale: Nella Vita (Fearless) [09-06]
• Great Grandpa: Four of Arrows (Double Double Whammy) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Adam Green: Engine of Paradise (30th Century) [09-06] - chamber pop
• Paul Green & Two Worlds: A Bissel Rhythm (Big Round) [02-08] - jazz
• Riley Green: Different 'Round Here (BMLG) [09-20] - country
• Burton Greene/Damon Smith/Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Life's Intense Mystery (Astral Spirits) [05-19] - jazz
• Chris Greene: Playscape (self-released) - jazz
• Hilliard Greene: Spirituals (Unseen Rain) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Jacques Greene: Dawn Chorus (Lucky Me) [10-18] - deep house
• Greensky Bluegrass: All for Money (Big Blue Zoo) [01-18] - rock
• Greet Death: New Hell (Deathwish) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Guillermo Gregorio & Brandon Lopez: 12 Episodes (Relative Pitch) [02-15] - jazz [**]
• Larry Grenadier: The Gleaners (ECM) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Grey Hairs: Health & Social Care (Gringo) [08-02]
• Greys: Age Hasn't Spoiled You (Carpark) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Gordon Grdina Quartet: Cooper's Park (Songlines) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin (PGM) [03-08]
• Rachel Grimes: The Way Forth (Temporary Residence) [11-01] - alt/indie
• Nick Grinder: Farallon (self-released) [02-22] - jazz [*]
• Grip: Snubnose (Stray Society/Human Re Sources) [10-11] - hip-hop
• Griselda: WWCD (Shady) [11-29] - hip-hop
• Gary Gritness: The Legend of Cherenkov Blue (Hypercolour) [04-19] - electronic
• Tee Grizzley: Scriptures (300 Entertainment) [06-07] - hip-hop
• Grlwood: I Sold My Soul to the Devil When I Was 12 (Sonablast!) [08-02] - punk
• Gross Net: Gross Net Means Gross Net (Felte) [08-30]
• Muriel Grossmann: Reverence (Dreamland) [12-15] - jazz [A-]
• Joel: Grunge Gospel: Side A (Black Cherry Music) [09-27] - r&b
• Guapdad 4000: Dior Deposits (TWNSHP) [10-25] - hip-hop
• Juan Luis Guerra y 440: Literal (Universal Music Latin) [05-31] - Latin
• Francesco Guerri: Su Mimmi Non Si Spara! (RareNoise) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Guided by Voices: Zeppelin Over China (GBV) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Guided by Voices: Warp and Woof (GBV) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Guided by Voices: Sweating the Plague (GBV) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Giovanni Guidi: Avec Le Temps (ECM) - jazz
• Mark Guiliana: Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! (Motema) [04-12] - jazz [B]
• Guillotine [Luis Lopes/Valentin Ceccaldi/Andreas Wildhagen]: Guillotine (Clean Feed) [03-00] - jazz
• Guitar Wolf: Love & Jett (self-released) [02-13] - rock
• Michael Gulezian: Thunder Heaven Light (Timbreline Music)
• Gum Takes Tooth: Arrow (Rocket) [01-25] - electronic
• Noah Gundersen: Lover (Cooking Vinyl) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Steve Gunn: The Unseen in Between (Matador) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Steve Gunn/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker: Flops in New York (Husky Pants) [11-01] - rock
• Gunna: Drip or Drown 2 (Young Stoner Life) [02-22] - hip-hop
• Larry Gus: Subservient (DFA) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Mats Gustafsson/Jason Adasiewicz: Timeless (Corbett vs Dempsey) [05-25] - jazz [*]
• Rigmor Gustafsson: Come Home (ACT) [02-22] - jazz
• Guster: Look Alive (Nettwerk) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Guts: Philantropiques (Heavenly Sweetness) [03-29]
• Hildur Guðnadottir: Chernobyl [Music from the Original TV Series] (Deutsche Gramophon) [05-31] - soundtrack
• Gypsies on the Autobahn: Suspended (Universal Ireland) [06-28]
• HAAi: Systems Up, Windows Down (Mute) [11-14] - electronic
• Iro Haarla, Ulf Krokfors & Barry Altschul: Around Again (TUM) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
• Augie Haas: Dream a Little Dream (Playtime Music) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Steve Hackett: At the Edge of Light (Inside Out) [01-25] - rock
• Marika Hackman: Any Human Friend (AMF) [08-09]
• Nili Hadida: Nili Hadida (Biche/All Points) [01-04]
• MT Hadley: Empty (PIAS) [11-08]
• Haelos: Any Random Kindness (Infectious Music) [05-10] - electronic
• Sammy Hagar & the Circle: Space Between (BMG) [05-10] - rock
• Hague & White: The Eleventh Hour (Monks Road) [01-11] - r&b
• Hillary Hahn: 6 Partitas by Anton Garcia Abril (Decca) [05-17] - classical
• Steve Haines: Steve Haines andthe Third Floor Orchestra (Justin Time) - jazz
• Keiji Haino/Merzbow/Balasz Pandi: Become the Discovered, Not the Discoverer (RareNoise) [09-27] - azz [*]
• Hajk: Drama (Jansen) [02-08] - alt/indie
• Franz Halasz: JS Bach: The Lute Suites (BIS) [06-07] - classical
• Half Alive: Now, Not Yet (RCA) [08-09] - indie pop
• Half Japanese: Invincible (Fire) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Half Noise: Natural Disguise (LAB) [10-04]
• Halfsour: Sticky (Fire Talk) [05-24] - rock
• La Tayna Hall: Say Yes (Blue Canoe) [11-08] - vocal jazz
• Hallelujah the Hills: I'm You (Discrete Pageantry) [11-15]
• Rich Halley: Terra Incognita (Pine Eagle) [08-09] - jazz [A-]
• Laurel Halo: DJ-Kicks (!K7) [03-22] - techno
• Jimmy Halperin: High and Outside (Cadence) - jazz
• Matthew Halsall: Oneness (Gondwana) [09-27]
• Frode Haltli: Border Woods (Hubro)
• Mary Halvorson & John Dieterich: A Tangle of Stars (New Amsterdam) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Hama: Houmeissa (Sahel Sounds) [01-18] - African [*]
• Scott Hamilton: Jazz at the Club: Live From Societeit De Witte (OAP) [05-26] - jazz [***]
• Scott Hamilton: Street of Dreams (Blau) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Scott Hamilton Quartet: Danish Ballads . . . & More (Stunt) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Hammerlands: Model Citizen (self-released) [07-19]
• Hammock: Silencia (Hammockmusic) [11-15] - alt/indie
• Ross Hammond y Poly Verghese: Across Oceans (Big Weezus Music) [07-05] - jazz
• Baptiste W Hamon: Soleil, Soleil Bleu (BMG)
• Hamza: Paradise (Rec 118/Just Woke Up) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Peter Hand Big Band: Hand Painted Dream (Savant) [08-23] - jazz
• Hand Habits: Placeholder (Saddle Creek) [03-01] - singer-songwriter
• Hands Off Gretel: I Want the World (Puke Pop) [03-29] - rock
• Glen Hansard: This Wild Willing (Anti-) [04-12] - singer-songwriter
• Trond Kallevag Hansen: Bedehus & Hawaii (Hubro) [04-05] - jazz
• Jan Harbeck Quartet: The Sound the Rhythm (Stunt/Sundance Music) [03-22] - jazz
• Harbinger: Extended (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Aldous Harding: Designer (4AD) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Alex Harding/Lucian Ban: Dark Blue (Sunnyside) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Jack Harlow: Confetti (Generation Now/Atlantic) [09-20] - trap rap
• The Harmaleighs: She Won't Make Sense (Nettwerk) [08-02]
• Harmony Rockets/Peter Walker: Lachesis/Clotho/Atropos (Tompkins Square -18) [2018-09-14] - alt/indie
• Harmony Woods: Make Yourself at Home (Skeletal Lightning) [10-04]
• Brian Harnetty: Shawnee, Ohio (Karlrecords) [04-26] - folk
• Tom Harrell: Infinity (HighNote) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Harrga: Heroiques Animaux De La Misere (Avon Terror Corps) [05-17]
• HARRIETT: Damani Nkosi & Ill Camille Are HARRIETT (Damcam) [10-28] - hip-hop
• Dave Harrington Group: Pure Imagination, No Country (Yeggs) [02-01] - experimental rock
• Harry Harris: I Feel Drunk All the Time (self-released) [06-21]
• Jason Hawk Harris: Love & the Dark (Bloodshot) [08-23] - country [C+]
• Lafayette Harris Jr: You Can't Lose With the Blues (Savant) [11-01] - jazz [*]
• Paula Harris: Speakeasy (Blu Gruv) [06-01] - vocal jazz
• Pauline Kim Harris: Heroine (Sono Luminus) [09-27]
• Thor Harris & Rob Halverson: Fields of Innards III (Joyful Noise) - jazz
• Joel Harrison: Still Point: Turning World (Whirlwind) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Annie Hart: A Softer Offering (Instant) [12-13]
• Beth Hart: War in My Mind (Provogue) [09-27] - blues
• John Hart: Crop Circles (SteepleChase) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Hash Redactor: Drecksound (Goner) [04-26] - alt/indie [**]
• Hasselman: 45 Drive (Pearl Music) [02-27] - techno
• Claire Hastings: Those Who Roam (Luckenbooth) [01-18] - Scottish folk
• Shuta Hasunuma: Oa (Northern Spy) [09-27] - electronic
• Gerrit Hatcher: Parables for the Tenor (Astral Spirits) - jazz
• Gerrit Hatcher: Burnt Pan Rolling Boil (Kettle Hole) - jazz
• Hatchie: Keepsake (Double Double Whammy) [06-21] - dream pop
• Juliana Hatfield: Weird (American Laundromat) [01-18] - power pop
• Juliana Hatfield: Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police (American Laundromat) [11-15] - power pop
• Haunt: If Icarus Could Fly (Shadow Kingdom) [05-17] - metal
• Haunter: Sacramental Death Qualia (I, Voidhanger) [09-13] - metal
• Steve Hauschildt: Nonlin (Ghostly International) [10-25] - ambient
• Hauschka: A Different Forest (Sony) [02-08] - modern classical
• Have a Nice Life: Sea of Worry (The Flenser) [11-08] - shoegaze
• Have Mercy: The Love Life (Hopeless) [08-02]
• Hawk Eyes: Advice (Drakkar Entertainment) [09-06] - rock
• Alexander Hawkins: Iron Into Wind: Piano Solo (Intakt) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders: Get the Money (Columbia) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Hawkwind: All Aboard the Skylark (Cherry Red) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Richard Hawley: Further (BMG) [06-07] - chamber pop
• Chuck Hawthorne: Fire Out of Stone (3 Notches Music) [07-26] - country
• The HawtThorns: Morning Sun (Forty Below) [08-09]
• Toby Hay: New Music for the 12 String Guitar (The State51 Conspiracy) [11-01]
• Haybaby: They Get There (Tiny Engines) [06-07] - rock
• Darren Hayman: 12 Astronauts (Where It's At Is Where You...) [07-19] - indie pop
• Kevin Hays/Lionel Loueke: Hope (Edition) [08-30] - jazz
• Kevin Hays/Mark Turner/Marc Miralta: Where Are You (Fresh Sound New Talent) [07-01] - jazz [***]
• Robin Hayward: Words of Paradise (Edition Telemark) [02-13] - jazz
• Miho Hazama: Dancer in Nowhere (Sunnyside) [02-08] - jazz [**]
• Hazy Sour Cherry: Tour De Tokyo (Damnably) [11-22] - pop
• H-Burns: Midlife (Vietnam) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Headie One: Music X Road (Relentless) [08-23] - hip-hop
• Health: Vol 4: Slaves of Fear (Loma Vista) [02-08] - electro-industrial
• Health & Beauty: Shame Engine/Blood Pleasure (Wichita) [11-22] - indie rock
• Heart Attack Man: Fake Blood (Triple Crown) [04-19]
• The Heavy: Sons (BMG) [05-17] - rock
• Thomas Heberer: X Marks the Spot (OutNow) [05-15] - jazz
• Tim Hecker: Anoyo (Kranky) [05-10] - ambient [B]
• The Hecks: My Star (Trouble in Mind) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Bjorn Marius Hegge: Ideas (Particular) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Tim Heidecker: Another Year in Hell (Jagjaguwar) [01-29] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Tim Heidecker: What the Broken-Hearted Do . . . (Jagjaguwar) [06-07] - singer-songwriter
• Nicola L Hein: The Oxymothastic Objectar (Shhpuma) - jazz
• Hejira: Thread of Gold (Lima Limo) [02-22] - alt/indie
• David Helbock: Playing John Williams (ACT) [08-30] - jazz
• Helm: Chemical Flowers (Pan) [05-17] - electronic
• Helms Alee: Noctiluca (Sargent House) [04-26] - sludge metal
• David Helpling: Rune (Spotted Peccary)
• Alex Hendriksen/Fabian Gisler: The Song Is You (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
• Catherine Christer Hennix: The Deontic Miracle: Selections From 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (Blank Forms Editions/Empty Editions) [07-12] - jazz
• Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal: Back at the House (Ruby Yacht) [10-25] - hip-hop
• Arve Henriksen: Captured Under Mountainsides/Cryosphere/Towards Language/Acousmograph (Rune Grammofon -4CD) [11-01] - jazz
• Ashley Henry: Beautiful Vinyl Hunter (Sony Music CG) [09-06]
• Joe Henry: The Gospel According to Water (Worksong) [11-15] - singer-songwriter
• Weldon Henson: Texas Made Honky Tonk (Hillbilly Renegade) - country [A-]
• HER: I Used to Know Her (RCA) [08-30] - neo-soul
• Her Crooked Heart: To Love to Leave to Live (SoDak) [05-31] - folk
• The Matthew Herbert Big Band: The State Between Us (Accidental) [03-29] - jazz
• Here Lies Man: No Ground to Walk Upon (Riding Easy) [08-16]
• Oscar Hernandez & Alma Libre: Love the Moment (Origin) [08-16] - jazz
• Holly Herndon: Proto (4AD) [05-10] - glitch pop
• Heroes Are Gang Leaders: The Amiri Baraka Sessions (Flat Langston's Arkeyes) - jazz [A]
• Steven Herring: Introducing Steven Herring (SteepleChase) - jazz
• Fred Hersch & the WDR Big Band: Begin Again (Palmetto) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• James Hersey: Innerverse (Glassnote) [04-05]
• Kristin Hersh: Crooked (Fire) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Daniel Herskedal: Voyage (Edition) [03-08] - jazz
• Dor Herskovits: Flying Elephants (Endectomorph) [09-20] - jazz
• Matt Herskowitz: Mirror Image (Justin Time) - jazz
• Hevreh Ensemble: A Path of Light (Ansonica) [05-24] - classical
• Elsa Hewitt: Citrus Paradisi (ERH) [03-01]
• Hey Colossus: Four Bibles (Alter) [05-17]
• Hickoids: All the World's a Dressing Room: Live in LA 08.24.2018 (Saustex) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Hide: Hell Is Here (Dais) [08-23] - post-industrial
• Hieroglyphic Being: Synth Expressionism/Rhythmic Cubism (On the Corner) [10-25] - electronic [A-]
• Hifiklub: E Lisboa (Shhpuma) - jazz
• Highasakite: Uranium Heart (Propeller) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Higher Brothers: Five Stars (88rising Music/12Tone Music) [02-22] - hip-hop
• The Highwomen: The Highwomen (Elektra) [09-06] - country [B]
• Marquis Hill: Love Tape (Black Unlimited Music Group) [10-11] - jazz
• The Hill Country Devil: Nicotine and China White (Gems on VHS) [03-28]
• Midori Hirano: Mirrors in Mirrors (Daisart) [03-05] - electronic
• Hiromi: Spectrum (Telarc) [09-18] - jazz [**]
• Olli Hirvonen: Displace (Ropeadope) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Hiss Golden Messenger: Terms of Surrender (Merge) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Alex Hitchcock Quintet: All Good Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
• Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Partridge: Planet England (Ape House -EP) [09-13]
• Ho99o9: Cyber Warfare (Toys Have Powers/999 Deathkit) [08-15] - hip-hop
• Laurence Hobgood: Tesseterra (Ubuntu Music) [94-26] - jazz [**]
• Florian Hoefner Trio: First Spring (ALMA) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• Eric Hofbauer's Five Agents: Book of Water (Creative Nation Music) [06-14] - jazz [***]
• Eric Hofbauer & Dylan Jack: Remains of Echoes (Creative Nation Music) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• The Hold Steady: Thrashing Thru the Passion (Frenchkiss) [08-16] - alt/indie [A-]
• James Holden: A Cambodian Spring [Original Soundtrack] (Border Community) [01-25] - soundtrack
• Holding Absence: Holding Absence (SharpTone) [03-01] - rock
• John Dee Holeman: Last Pair of Shoes (Music Maker) [08-02] - blues
• Holiday Ghosts: West Bay Playroom (PNKSLM) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Hollow Coves: Moments (Nettwerk) [10-18]
• Hollowstar: Hollowstar (self-released) [05-03] - rock
• Common Holly: When I Say to You Black Lightning (Barsuk) [10-18] - indie folk
• Jimmy "Duck" Holmes: Cypress Grove (Easy Eye Sound) [10-18] - blues
• Mike Holober/The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Hiding Out (Zoho) [08-09] - jazz [***]
• Holy Holy: My Own Pool of Light (Sony Music Australia) [08-02]
• Homeboy Sandman: Dusty (Mello Music Group) [10-18] - hip-hop [***]
• Homeshake: Helium (Royal Mountain) [02-15] - alt/indie
• The Honey Pot: Bewildered Jane (Mega Dodo)
• Honey Radar: Ruby Puff of Dust (What's Your Rupture?) [06-28] - rock
• Honeyblood: In Plain Sight (Marathon Artists) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Al Hood and the H2 Jazztet: Jazz Muses (Aquarian) [02-18] - jazz
• William Hooker: Cycle of Restoration (FPE) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• William Hooker: Symphonie of Flowers (ORG Music) [11-22] - jazz [**]
• Jesca Hoop: Stonechild (Memphis Industries) [07-05] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Hootie & the Blowfish: Imperfect Circle (Capitol Nashville) [11-01]
• Bunny Hoova: Longing (Them There) [07-26]
• Jazzmeia Horn: Love and Liberation (Concord) [08-23] - vocal jazz [***]
• Horndal: Remains (Prosthetic) [02-22]
• Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero (Zappo Productions) [04-12] - singer-songwriter
• An Horse: Modern Air (Grand Hotel van Cleef) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Horse Jumper of Love: So Divine (Run for Cover) [06-28] - alt/idie
• Horsebeach: The Unforgiving Current (Alone Together) [08-23]
• Wayne Horvitz European Orchestra: Live at the Bimhuis (Novara Jazz) [01-15] - jazz
• Hot 8 Brass Band: Take Cover (Tru Thoughts -EP) [02-22] - jazz [B]
• Hot Chip: A Bath Full of Ecstasy (Domino) [06-21] - synthpop [*]
• The Hot Sardines: Welcome Home/Bon Voyage (Eleven) [04-19] - vocal jazz [***]
• House and Land: Across the Field (Thrill Jockey) [06-14] - 06-14
• Randy Houser: Magnolia (Stoney Creek) [01-11] - country [**]
• Housewives: Twilight Splendour (Blank Editions) [03-22] - experimental rock
• Hovvdy: Heavy Lifter (Double Double Whammy) [10-18] - indie folk
• Brittany Howard: Jaime (ATO) [09-20] - neo-soul [B]
• Markus Howell: Get Right (Posi-Tone) [06-28] - jazzz
• Hozier: Wasteland, Baby! (Rubyworks) [03-01] - alt/indie
• HRNS: Naomi (Warm Winters) [03-22] - ambient
• HTRK: Venus in Leo (Ghostly) [08-30] - ambient pop
• Joseph Huber: Moondog (self-released) [07-12] - country
• David Huckfelt: Stranger Angels (Tone Tree Music) [02-22] - folk
• Gregor Huebner: El Violin Latino Vol 3: Los Sonadores (Zoho) [01-25] - jazz
• Jack Hues and the Quartet Featuring Syd Arthur: Nobody's Fault but My Own (Dawn Chorus -EP) [03-08] - jazz
• Charlotte Hug & Lucas Niggli: Fulguratio (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Charlotte Hug: Son-Icon Music (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Hugar: Varda (Masterworks)
• Julia Hulsmann Quartet: Not Far From Here (ECM) [11-01] - jazz
• Orjan Hulten Orion: Minusgrader (Artogrush) [02-01] - jazz
• Human Feel [Chris Speed/Andrew D'Angelo/Kurt Rosenwinkel/Jim Black]: Gold (Intakt) [01-18] - jazz [*]
• M Huncho: Utopia (Island) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Kelly Hunt: Even the Sparrow (Rarebird) [05-17] - country
• Marc Hurtado: Hurt (Des Astres D'Or) [08-01] - electronic
• Shafiq Husayn: The Loop (Nature Sounds) [03-29] - soul
• Husky Loops: I Can't Even Speak English (30th Century) [09-06] - alt/indie
• Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson: Diwan (Golden Girl) [05-17] - jazz
• The Hussy: Looming (Dirtnap) [09-27] - pop/rock
• ERR: stream no grade: Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love
• Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love (Sacred Bones) [trance] - ***
• HVL: Rhythmic Sonatas (Bassiani) [04-18] - techno
• Chrissie Hynde With the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble: Valve Bone Woe (BMG) [09-06] - jazz [B]
• Hyperculte: Massif Occidental (Bongo Joe)
• I Hate Models: L'Age Des Metamorphoses (Perc Trax)
• I Jahbar and Friends: Inna Duppy SKRS Soundclash (Bokeh Versions) [08-02] - reggae [B-]
• I Love Your Lifestyle: The Movie (Dog Knights) [03-03]
• I Prevail: Trauma (Fearless) [03-29] - alt metal
• I the Mighty: Unplugged in LA (Equal Vision) [07-12] - rock
• IAMDDB: Swervvvvv.5 (Union IV) [02-22] - hip-hop
• Iamthemorning: The Bell (Kscope) [08-02]
• Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien (Merge) [03-22] - electronic [**]
• Abdullah Ibrahim: The Balance (Gearbox) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Abdullah Ibrahim: Dream Time (Enja) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Ida Mae: Chasing Lights (Thirty Tigers) [06-07]
• Ider: Emotional Education (Glassnote) [07-19] - indie pop
• IDK: Is He Real? (Warner) [09-04] - hip-hop
• Idle Hands: Mana (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) [05-10] - metal
• Idles: A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live at Le Bataclan (Partisan) [12-06] - post-punk
• Idlewild: Interview Music (Empty Word) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Frank Iero and the Future Violents: Barriers (UNFD) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Ifriqiyya Electrique: Laylet El Booree (Glitterbeat) [04-05] - experimental rock
• Iglooghost/Kai Whiston/BABii/: XYZ (Gloo) [09-18] - UK bass
• Iguana Death Cult: Nude Casino (Innovative Leisure) [10-25]
• Ikarus: Mosaismic (Ronin Rhythm) [02-00] - jazz
• Jung Jae Il: Parasite [Original Soundtrack] (Sacred Bones) [05-30] - soundtrack
• Ile: Almadura (Sony Music Latin) [05-10] - Latin rock
• Ilgen-Nur: Power Nap (Power Nap) [08-30] - rock
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered 5 (Ill Considered Music) [01-15] - jazz [***]
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered 6 (Ill Considered Music) [01-15] - jazz [A-]
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered 8 (Ill Considered Music) [08-19] - jazz [***]
• Illenium: Ascend (Astralwerks) [08-16] - electronic
• Immortal Bird: Thrive on Neglect (20 Buck Spin) [07-05] - metal
• Imperial Teen: Now We Are Timeless (Merge) [07-12] - alt/indie
• In Flames: I, the Mask (Nuclear Blast) [03-01] - metal
• Indianola: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Handwritten Distribution) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Indoor Pets: Be Content (Wichita) [03-08] - power pop [*]
• The Infamous Stringdusters: Rise Sun (Tape Time) [04-05]
• The Infinites: The Infinites (First Humans) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Kingfish (Alligator) [05-17] - blues
• Injury Reserve: Injury Reserve (Senaca Village) [05-17] - experimental hip-hop [***]
• Insignificant Other: I'm So Glad I Feel This Way About You! (Counter Intuitive) [04-17] - alt/indie [*]
• Insomnium: Heart Like a Grave (Century Media) [10-04] - death metal
• Inspectah Deck: Chamber No 9 (Urban Icon) [07-12] - hip-hop
• Instupendo: Boys by Girls EP (self-released -EP) [06-05] - alt/indie
• Intellexual: Intellexual (FanTasy) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Inter Arma: Sulphur English (Relapse) [04-12] - sludge metal
• International Teachers of Pop: International Teachers of Pop (Desolate Spools) [02-08] - synthpop
• Intocable: Percepcion (UMLE/Fonovisa) [03-15] - Mexican
• IPT: Diffractions (ForTune) [09-24] - jazz [***]
• Jon Irabagon: Invisible Horizon (Irabbagast -2CD) [10-15] - jazz
• Rafael Anton Irisarri: Solastalgia (Room40) [06-21] - ambient
• Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Crosswinds (Intakt) [01-18] - jazz [**]
• Ironomori: Kotonoha (Kitchen)
• Irreversible Entanglements: Homeless/Global (International Anthem -EP) [12-12] - jazz [**]
• Eiko Ishibashi: The Dream My Bones Dream (Drag City -18) [2018-11-16] - rock
• Ishmael Ensemble: A State of Flow (Severn Songs) [05-03]
• Penelope Isles: Until the Tide Creeps In (Bella Union) [06-12] - alt/indie
• ISS: Alles 3rd Gut (Sorry State) [12-06] - alt/indie
• Itasca: Spring (Paradise of Bachelors) [11-01]
• Ithaca: The Language of Injury (Holy Roar) [02-01] - metal
• Takaaki Itoh: Killing All Anarchists (Oaks -EP) [03-29] - techno
• It's Sunday: Tissue Issues (CryBaby & Howlin Banana)
• Peter Ivers: Introducing Peter Ivers (RVNG Intl) [11-08] - pop/rock
• Anne Mette Iversen's Ternion Quartet: Invincible Nimbus (BJU) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Ethan Iverson Quartet With Tom Harrell: Common Practice (ECM) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Grace Ives: 2nd (Dots Per Inch Music) [04-22] - glitch pop
• Jeremy Ivey: The Dream and the Dreamer (Anti-) [09-13] - country
• ERR: grade bad priority: The Ivory Elephant: Stoneface
• The Ivory Elephant: Stoneface (Kozmik Artifactz) [06-28] - 573463 DK2 [rock]
• Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems (ECM) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Bobby J From Rockaway: Summer Classics (Make Noise) [07-26] - hip-hop [**]
• JackBoys & Travis Scott: JackBoys (Cactus Jack/Epic -EP) [12-27] - mixtape [*]
• Julia Jacklin: Crushing (Polyvinyl) [02-22] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Joe Jackson: Fool (Edel) [01-18] - piano rock
• Keefe Jackson/Benjamin Vergara/Jim Baker/Phil Sudderberg: The Hallowed Plant (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet: Whenufindituwillknow (Golden) [02-08] - jazz [**]
• Jacquees: King of R&B (Cash Money) [11-05] - r&b
• Jade Imagine: Basic Love (Milk!) [08-02] - indie rock
• Jah Division: Dub Will Tear Us Apart . . . Again (Ernest Jenning) [01-25] - reggae
• Jail Socks: It's Not Forever (No Sleep -EP) [09-27]
• JaJaWeDa: Pioneer Works Vol 1 (Balance Point Acoustics) - jazz
• Jakuzi: Hata Payi (City Slang) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Nicky Jam: Intimo (Codiscos) [11-01] - pop
• Ahmad Jamal: Ballades (Jazz Village) [09-13] - jazz
• Jambinai: Onda (Bella Union) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Hayden James: Between Us (Future Classic) [06-14] - house
• Jason James: Seems Like Tears Ago (Melodyville) [10-04] - country
• Loraine James: For You and I (Hyperdub) [09-30] - glitch hop [**]
• Jameszoo & Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley: Melkweg (Brainfeeder) [05-17]
• Henry Jamison: Gloria Duplex (Akira) [02-08] - folk
• Michael Janisch: Worlds Collide (Whirlwind) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• The Japanese House: Good at Falling (Dirty Hit) [03-01] - indietronica [*]
• Bryony Jarman-Pinto: Cage & Aviary (Tru Thoughts) [07-26] - r&b
• Ben Jarrell: Troubled Times (Country Roots) [03-29] - country
• Keith Jarrett: Munich 2016 (ECM -2CD) [11-01] - jazz [*]
• Yves Jarvis: The Same but by Different Means (Anti-) [03-01] - psychedelic folk
• Jatayu: Chango Tales (self-released) [01-11] - misc
• Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Ephemeral Certainties (Delmark) [08-02] - jazz [A-]
• Jaws: The Ceiling (self-released) [04-05] - dream pop
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Jazz and Art (Blue Engine) - jazz
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Swing Symphony (Blue Engine) [07-01] - jazz
• Jealous of the Birds: Wisdom Teeth (Atlantic -EP) [02-01] - alt/indie [**]
• Jeanines: Jeanines (Slumberland) [06-00]
• Patrice Jegou: If It Ain't Love (Prairie Star) [03-22] - jazz
• Jelly Boy: Everybody Is a Universe (Cannibal Hymns) [04-05] - indie rock
• Gethen Jenkins: Western Gold (5 Music) [07-26] - country [*]
• Lauren Jenkins: No Saint (Big Machine) [03-15] - country [**]
• Jerome Jennings: Solidarity (Iola) [11-09] - jazz [***]
• Clarice Jensen: Drone Studies (Geographic North) [09-06] - electronic
• Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated (604/School Boy/Interscope) [05-17] - pop [***]
• Jerkcurb: Air Con Eden (Handsome Dad) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Jess by the Lake: Under the Red Light Shine (Svart) [06-07] - rock
• J-E-T-S: Zoopsa (Innovative Leisure) [05-24] - electronic
• Ellen Jewell: Gypsy (Signature Sounds) [08-16]
• Park Jiha: Philos (Glitterbeat) [06-21]
• Jimbo Pap: It Can Always Get Worse (Fiesta Red) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Jimmy Eat World: Surviving (RCA) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Pureum Jin: The Real Blue (Cellar Live) [06-07] - jazz
• Jinjer: Macro (Napalm) [10-25] - progressive metal
• Cody Jinks: After the Fire (Late August) [10-11] - alt country [***]
• Cody Jinks: The Wanting (Late August) [10-18] - alt country [**]
• JME: Grime MC (Boy Better Know) [11-29] - grime
• Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet: Fanm D'Ayiti (New Amsterdam) [08-30] - classical
• Per "Texas" Johansson/Torbjorn Zetterberg/Konrad Agnas: Orakel (Moserobie) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Per Texas Johansson: Strak Pa Himlen Och Stora Hus (Moserobie) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• John: Out Here on the Fringes (Pets Care) [10-04]
• Cody Johnson: Ain't Nothin to It (CoJo Music/Warner) [01-18] - country
• Hobo Johnson: The Fall of Hobo Johnson (Reprise) [09-13] - emo rap
• Jeff Johnson/Phil Keagy: Cappadocia (Arkmusic)
• The Jonas Brothers: Happiness Begins (self-released) [06-07] - pop
• Booker T Jones: Note by Note (Edith Street) [11-01] - r&b
• Durand Jones & the Indications: American Love Call (Dead Oceans) [03-01] - soul
• Georgette Jones: Skin (self-released) [09-12] - country [**]
• Howard Jones: Transform (Sony) [05-10]
• Jim Jones: El Capo (Vamplife) [05-31] - hip-hop
• Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind: CollectiV (MaSonic) [05-08] - rock
• Lanskey Jones: Dangerfield (World's Fair) [02-20] - hip-hop
• Lyric Jones & Nameless: Ga$ Money (self-released) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Norah Jones: Begin Again (Blue Note) [04-12] - vocal jazz [B]
• India Jordan: DNT STP MY LV (Local Action -EP) [05-03] - tech house
• Marc Jordan: Both Sides (Linus Entertainment) [04-05] - jazz
• Kathryn Joseph: Bones You Have Thrown Me & Blood I've Spilled (Hits the Fan) [01-11]
• Josin: In the Blank Space (Mvka) [01-25] - art pop
• Paul Jost: Simple Life (PJ Music) [03-29] - jazz
• Jelena Jovovic: Heartbeat (self-released) [06-07] - vocal jazz [B-]
• Joyero: Release the Dogs (Merge) [08-23] - dream pop
• Simon Joyner: Pocket Moon (Grapefruit) [10-25] - alt singer-songwriter
• C Joynes & the Furlong Bray: The Borametz Tree (Feeding Tube) - pop/rock
• Jpegmafia: All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT) [09-13] - hip-hop [**]
• Jtamul: Lubuni (Planet Mu -EP) [05-01]
• The Juan MacLean: The Brighter the Light (DFA) [09-20] - alt dance
• Juanes: Mas Futuro Que Pasado (National Own) [11-29] - Latin pop
• Jubilee: Call for Location (Mixpak) [11-01]
• Judiciary: Surface Noise (Closed Casket Activities) [01-25]
• Judy and the Jerks: Music for Donuts EP (Thrilling Living -EP) [04-19] - alt/indie [C+]
• Juice Wrld: Death Race for Love (Interscope) [03-08] - hip-hop [B-]
• Julie's Haircut: In the Silence Electric (Rocket) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Larry June: Early Bird (The FreeMinded) [02-15] - hip-hop
• Larry June: Mr Midnight (The FreeMinded) [07-05] - hip-hop
• Barb Jungr: Bob, Brel & Me (Absolute) - jazz
• Jungstotter: Love Is (PIAS)
• The Junior League: Adventureland (Greensleaves Sound/Kool Kat Musik) [07-26] - rock
• Jupiter Styles: Ultra St Opera (self-released) [10-25] - rock
• Damien Jurado: In the Shape of a Storm (Mama Bird) [04-12] - indie folk
• Laura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In (Edition) [07-19] - jazz [B]
• Vic Juris: Two Guitars (SteepleChase) [04-15] - jazz
• JustJohn x Dom Dias: Don III (Warner -EP) [04-20] - hip-hop
• Mette Juul: Change (Universal Music Group) - jazz
• J-Walk: Mediterranean Winds (Sometime Songs) [07-26]
• J-Zbel: Dog's Fart Is So Bad the Cat Throws Up (Brothers From Different Mothers) [06-06] - drum and bass
• K.Flay: Solutions (Interscope/Night Street) [07-12] - pop rock
• Seba Kaapstad: Thina (Mello Music Group) [05-17]
• Kacy & Clayton: Carrying On (New West) [10-04] - folk
• Kadavar: For the Dead Travel Fast (Nuclear Blast) [10-11] - rock
• Ahmed Ag Kaedy: Akaline Kidal (Sahel Sounds) [03-01] - Mali [**]
• Noah Kahan: Busyhead (Republic) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Kaiju the Unconquerable: Cringeworthy (Leviathans Grin) [05-20] - hip-hop
• Kaina: Next to the Sun (Sooper) [07-12] - indie pop
• Henry Kaiser/Anthony Pirog/Jeff Sipe/Tracy Silverman/Andy West: Five Times Surprise (Cuneiform) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Kaiser Chiefs: Duck (Polydor) [07-26] - pop rock
• Goran Kajfes Tropiques: Into the Wild (Headspin) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Kaleta & Super Yamba Band: Medaho (Ubiquity) [09-06] - Afrobeat
• Jaakko Eino Kalevi: Dissolution (Weird World) [11-22] - alt/indie
• Kayhan Kalhor & Rembrandt Ferichs Trio: It's Still Autumn (Kepera) [04-05] - jazz
• Kalle Kalima/Knut Reiersrud: Flying Like Eagles (ACT) [08-30] - jazz
• Egil Kalman & Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds (Shhpuma) [11-15] - jazz [B]
• Kamancello: Kamancello II: Voyage (Kamancello) [05-31]
• Kammerflimmerei: Perhaps (CHE!) [05-19] - jazz
• Doon Kanda: Labyrinth (Hyperdub) [11-29] - electronic
• Kandiafa: Mali Country (Alter K) [10-11]
• Kandodo 3: K3 (Rooster) [06-21] - rock
• Tara Kannangara: It's Not Mine Anymore (self-released) [05-31] - pop
• Kano: Hoodies All Summer (Parlophone) [08-30] - hip-hop [*]
• Kaputt: Carnegie Hall (Upset the Rhythm) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Eleni Karaindrou: Tous Des Oiseaux (ECM New Series) [01-25] - classical
• Karen & the Sorrows: Guaranteed Broken Heart (Ocean Born Mary Music) [10-18] - country
• Karenn: Kind of Green (Voam Club Archive) [04-22] - techno
• Karenn: Grapefruit Regret (Voam) [11-08] - techno
• Emil Karlsen: Flux (Noumenon) [01-11] - jazz
• Sundara Karma: Ulfilas' Alphabet (Sony UK) [03-01] - indie pop
• Karyyn: The Quanta Series (Mute) [03-25] - ambient pop
• Kash Doll: Stacked (Republic) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Makar Kashitsyn: Jazz Animals (Rainy Days) [09-27] - jazz
• Kaspiann: Cancel EP (Planet Rhythm) [04-08] - techno
• Ras Kass: Soul on Ice 2 (Mello Music Group) [09-06] - hip-hop [***]
• Katarsis 4: Katarsis 4 (NoBusiness) [10-00] - jazz [**]
• Philippe Katerine: Confessions (Cinq 7/Wagram Music)
• Justin Kauflin: Coming Home (self-released) [09-14] - jazz
• Mark Kavuma: The Banger Factory (Ubuntu Music) [07-19] - jazz [*]
• Kayo Dot: Blasphemy (Prophecy) [09-06] - metal
• Kaytranada: Bubba (RCA) [12-13] - pop [**]
• Kazu: Adult Baby (!K7) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Keane: Cause and Effect (Island) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: The Hope I Hold (Greenleaf Music) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Keb' Mo': Oklahoma (Concord) [06-14] - blues
• Keel Her: With Kindness (O Genesis) [06-07]
• Kefaya & Elaha Saroor: Songs of Our Mothers (Bella Union) [09-27] - Afghanistan
• Kehlani: While We Wait (Atlantic/TSNMI) [02-22] - r&b [**]
• Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc (Naive) [02-15] - Mali [***]
• Nina Keith: Maranasati 19111 (Grind Select) [08-30]
• Kel Assouf: Black Tenere (Glitterbeat) [02-15] - Saharan [A-]
• Kele: 2042 (!K7/Kola) [11-08] - pop/rock
• Keleketla!: Keleketla! (Ahead of Our Time) [07-03] - Afrobeat
• Kelela & Asmara: Aquaphoria (Warp) [06-28] - ambient
• Roger Kellaway: The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway (IPO) [11-01] - jazz [A-]
• Kevin Keller: Ice Worlds (self-released)
• Nancy Kelly: Remembering Mark Murphy (SubCat) [04-26] - jazz
• Kemba: Gilda (Republic) [09-20] - hip-hop
• Dermot Kennedy: Without Fear (Riggins) [09-27] - singer-songwriter
• Julia Kent: Temporal (The Leaf Label) [01-25] - post-minimalism
• Matt Kerekes: Ruby (Atlantic) [04-19] - alt/idie
• Keren Ann: Bleue (Wrasse) [03-15]
• Lily Kershaw: Arcadia (Nettwerk) [11-15]
• Keto: Blackened Pool (self-released -18) [2018-10-29] - folk
• Keuning: Prismism (Pretty Faithful) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Key!: So Emotional (Hello!) [06-24] - hip-hop
• Khalid: Free Spirit (RCA) [04-05] - r&b [***]
• Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y: 2009 (Atlantic/Jet Life) [02-08] - hip-hop
• Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness (Island) [02-15] - r&b
• Sean Khan: Distant Voice (BBE) - jazz
• Steve Khan: Patchwork (Tone Center) [08-23] - jazz
• Khruangbin: Hasta El Cielo (Dead Oceans) [07-12] - dub
• Kid Koala: Music to Draw To: Io (Arts & Crafts) [01-25] - ambient
• Amirtha Kidambi/Lea Bertucci: Phase Eclipse (Astral Spirits) [11-08] - jazz
• Angelique Kidjo: Celia (Verve) [04-19] - salsa [*]
• Kiefer: Superbloom (Stones Throw) [10-11] - jazz
• Phil Kieran: Life Cycling (Maeve) [11-29]
• David Kikoski: Phoenix Rising (HighNote) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• Kilchhofer/Anklin: Moto Perpetuo (Marionette) [03-00] - electronic
• David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights: Bobbie's a Girl (Merge) [09-20] - indie pop
• Kills Birds: Kills Birds (KRO) [09-20] - rock
• Killswitch Engage: Atonement (Metal Blade) [08-16] - metalcore
• Lim Kim: Generasian (self-released) [10-15] - K-pop
• Will Kimbrough: I Like It Down Here (Daphne Soundly) [04-19]
• Kimchi Moccasin Tango: Yankee Zulu (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Izumi Kimura/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Illuminated Silence (Fundacja Sluchaj) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Kinbrae: Landforms (Truant) [04-19] - ambient
• Soweto Kinch: The Black Peril (self-released) [11-29] - jazz
• Kindness: Something Like a War (Female Energy) [09-06] - alt r&b
• The BB King Blues Band: The Soul of the King (Ruf) [05-10] - blues
• Emily King: Scenery (ATO) [02-01] - r&b
• The King Khan Experience: Turkey Ride (Ernest Jenning/Khannibalism) [05-24] - rock
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Fishing for Fishies (ATO) [04-26] - stoner metal
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Infest the Rats' Nest (ATO) [08-16] - stoner metal
• King Midas Sound: Solitude (Cosmo Rhythmatic) [02-14] - drone
• King Nun: Mass (Dirty Hit) [10-04]
• King Prawn: The Fabulous New Sounds of . . . King Prawn (Cherry Red) [04-19] - alt/indie
• King Princess: Cheap Queen (Zelig) [10-25] - pop soul
• Mateo Kingman: Astro (AYA) [07-26] - Ecuador electronic
• Kinlaw & Franco Franco: Mezzi Umani Mezze Macchine (Avon Terror Corps) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Kino Trio: Il Cielo Sopra Berlino (Babel) [04-26] - jazz
• Kishi Bashi: Omolyari (Joyful Noise) [05-31] - chamber pop
• Matt Kivel: Last Night in America (Cascine) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka (Polydor) [11-01] - pop/rock [*]
• Kiwi Jr: Football Money (Mint) [03-29] - indie rock
• Frode Kjekstad: In Essence (Losen) [11-29] - jazz
• Petros Klampanis: Irrationalities (Enja) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Klashnekoff: Iona (2019 SON) [06-28] - hip-hop
• Kleft: H+ Sexualis (Domestic Exile) [02-01] - electronic
• Katinka Kleijn: Stir (Drag City) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Klein: Lifetime (Ijn) [09-06] - post-industrial
• Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos Cristal (Sunnyside) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• KMFDM: Paradise (Metropolis) [09-27] - industrial
• Kneebody: Chapters (Edition) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Kneeling in Piss: Tour De Force (The Fah-Q Catalog) [07-19]
• Knifeplay: Pearlty (718200 DK) [03-13] - rock
• Chris Knight: Almost Daylight (Drifters Church) [10-11] - country [A-]
• KNLO: Sainte-Foy (7e Ciel) [06-07]
• Knocked Loose: A Different Shade of Blue (Pure Noise) [08-23] - metalcore
• Johanna Knutsson: Tollarp Transmissions (Kontra-Musik) [04-22] - electronic
• Kobo: Periode D'Essai (Polydor) [05-24] - hip-hop
• Kobra and the Lotus: Evolution (Napalm) [09-20] - metal
• Hans Koch/Jacques Demierre: Incunabulum (Herbal) - jazz
• Suzan Kocher: Suzan Kocher's Suprafon (Unique) [11-08] - psychedelic rock
• Michael Kocour: East of the Sun (OA2) [01-18] - jazz [*]
• Kodian Trio: III (Trost) [09-19] - jazz [***]
• Koeosaeme: Obanikeshi (Orange Milk) [05-19]
• Koffee: Rapture (Promised Land) [ 03-14] - dancehall
• Kokoko!: Fongola (Transgressive) [07-05] - synthpunk [**]
• Kokoroko: Kokoroko (Brownswood) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Shuhei Kokuryo: First Episode (self-released) [03-08] - jazz
• Komeshi Trio: The Master Speaks Thrice (Astral Spirits) [10-15] - jazz
• Kompromat: Traum Und Existenz (Clivage Music)
• ERR: stream no grade: Oumar Konate: I Love You Inna
• Oumar Konate: I Love You Inna (Clermont Music) [07-09] - Mali
• Hiro Kone: A Fossil Begins to Bray (Dais) [11-08]
• Lee Konitz Nonet: Old Songs New (Sunnyside) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• Konradsen: Saints and Sebastian Stories (Cascine) [10-25] - art pop
• Konstrukt + Ken Vandermark: Kozmik Bazaar (Karlrecords) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Calig Kontra: Simian Automatic (Manekinekopro) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey With Jurg Frey and Alfred Zimmerlin: Zeit (Leo) - jazz
• Konx-om-Pax: Ways of Seeing (Planet Mu) [06-14] - electronic
• Kool AD: Spanish Castle Magic (self-released) [03-18] - hip-hop
• Larry Koonse: New Jazz Standards Vol 4 (Summit) [03-22] - jazz [B]
• Kopy/Tentenko: Super Mild (Tal) [11-15] - electronic
• Korn: The Nothing (Roadrunner) [09-13] - nu metal
• Sarathy Korwar: More Arriving (The Leaf Label) [07-26] - jazz [A-]
• Akira Kosemura: Diary 2016-19 (Schole)
• Kota the Friend: Foto (Flybys) [05-15] - hip-hop
• Sofia Kourtesis: Sofia Kourtesis (Studio Barnhus) [03-01]
• Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Miri (OutHere) [01-25] - African [A-]
• Kornel Kovacs: Stockholm Marathon (Studio Barnhus) [04-26] - house
• Mark Kozelek With Petra Haden: Joey Always Smiled (Caldo Verde) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Kr!z: Mantra (Token -EP) [04-12] - techno
• Caroline Kraabel: Last1 Last2 (Emanem) [03-00] - jazz
• Nina Kraviz: Stranno Stranno. Neobjatno. (Tpwn -EP) [07-22] - techno
• Jonathan Kreisberg: Capturing Spirits (New for Now Music) [11-15] - jazz
• K-Rino: Mind Vision (SoSouth) [12-13] - hip-hop
• Brian Krock: Liddle (Outside In Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Krokofant: Q (Rune Grammofon) [09-27] - jazz [B]
• Mike Krol: Power Chords (Merge) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Krept & Konan: Revenge Is Sweet (Virgin EMI) [11-01]
• Eliot Krimsky: Wave in Time (Pretty Purgatory) [02-22] - electronic
• Bobby Krlic [The Haxan Cloak]: Midsommar [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Milan) [07-05] - soundtrack
• Kronos Quartet: Terry Riley: Sun Rings (Nonesuch) [08-30] - minimalism [*]
• Lucy Kruger & the Lost Boys: Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls (Unique) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Krum & Theory Hazit: Here's Mud in Your Eye (FiveSe7en Music) [10-22] - hip-hop
• K-Trap: No Magic (self-released) [06-27] - hip-hop
• Joachim Kuhn: Melodic Ornette Coleman: Piano Works XIII (ACT) [02-22] - jazz [*]
• Kukangendai: Palm (Ideologic Organ) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Kuzu: Hiljaisuus (Astral Spirits/Aerophonic) [02-26] - jazz [A-]
• Kuzu: Lift to Drag (Medium Sound) - jazz
• KVL: Volume 1 (Astral Spirits) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• K-X-P: IV (Svart) [05-17] - electronic
• L7: Scatter the Rats (Blackheart) [05-03] - riot grrrl [***]
• La Boa: Maquina (Mambo Negro) [10-18] - Colombia
• La Dispute: Panorama (Epitaph) [03-22] - emo
• La Feline: Vie Future (Kwaidan)
• LA Guns: The Devil You Know (Nexus) [03-13] - hard rock
• La La Lars: La La Lars II (Headspin) [06-03] - jazz [**]
• Lava La Rue: Stitches (self-released) [09-18] - mixtape
• La Santa Cecilia: La Santa Cecilia (Rebeleon) [10-18] - rock en espanol
• Labrinth: Euphoria [Original Score From the HBO Series] (Milan) [10-04] - soundtrack
• Albrecht La'Brooy: Healesville (Apollo) [07-26] - electronic
• Lacuna Coil: Black Anima (Century Media) [10-11] - metal
• Steve Lacy: Apollo XXI (3Qtr) [05-24] - neo soul [*]
• Lady Antebellum: Ocean (Big Machine) [11-15] - country
• Lady Donli: Enjoy Your Life (Makiyayi) [08-09]
• Lady Lamb: Even in the Tremor (Ba Da Bing!) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Lala Lala: The Lamb (Sub Pop) [09-28] - alt/indie
• Miranda Lambert: Wildcard (RCA Nashville) [11-01] - country [A-]
• Mary Lambert: Grief Creature (Tender Heart) [11-22]
• Lady Lykez: Muhammad Ali EP (Hyperdub -EP) [05-17] - hip-hop [*]
• Lady Midnight: Death Before Mourning (Sound Verite) [05-24] - electronic
• Ladytron: Ladytron (!K7) [02-15] - synthpop
• Lafawndah: Ancestor Boy (Concordia) [03-22] - art pop
• The LaFontaines: Junior (SO) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Julian Lage: Love Hurts (Mack Avenue) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Lagwagon: Railer (Fat Wreck Chords) [10-04] - hardcore
• Felix Lajko & Volosi: Felix Lajko & Volosi (Fono) [05-29] - world
• Lakou Mizik: HaitiaNola (Cumbancha) [10-25] - world [*]
• Alex Lahey: The Best of Luck Club (Dead Oceans) [05-17] - power pop [**]
• LAL: Dark Beings (Coax) [05-17]
• The Baba Andrew Lamb Trio: The Night of the 13th Moon (LFDS) [02-04] - jazz [A-]
• Lamb: The Secret of Letting Go (Cooking Vinyl) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Catherine Lamb: Point/Wave (Another Timbre) - jazz
• Lambchop: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) (City Slang/Merge) [03-22] - sophisti-pop
• Adam Lambert: Velvet: Side A () [09-27] - pop/rock
• Ross Lambert: Magnit-Iz-Dat (Earshots) [07-27] - jazz
• Mohamed Lamouri: Underground Rai Love (Almost Music)
• Landline: Landline (Loyal Label) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Fred Lane and the Disheveled Monkeybiters: Icepick to the Moon (Feeding Tube) - jazz
• Mary Lane: Travelin' Woman (Women of the Blues) [03-08] - blues
• Mark Lanegan Band: Somebody's Knocking (Heavenly) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Klaus Lang & Golden Fur: Beissel (Another Timbre) - jazz
• Lankum: Livelong Day (Rough Trade) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Pablo Lanouguere Quintet: Eclectico (self-released) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• Lapalux: Amnioverse (Brainfeeder) [11-08] - electronic
• Lapis Trio: The Travelers (Shifting Paradigm) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• Travis Laplante: Human (New Amsterdam) [11-01] - jazz [B]
• Lapsley: These Elements (XL -EP) [12-06] - art pop
• Laraaji & Lyghte: Celestial Realms (Morning Trip) [02-08] - new age
• Large Unit & Fendika: EthioBraz (PNL) [12-13] - jazz [A-]
• Stoney LaRue: Onward (One Chord Song) [11-01] - country
• Las Nubes: SMVT (Sweat) [06-14] - Latin
• Timo Lassy & Teppo Makynen: Timo Lassy & Teppo Makynen (We Jazz) - jazz
• Last in Line: II (Frontiers) [02-22] - metal
• The Last Poets: Transcending Toxic Times (Ropeadope -2CD) [05-10] - hip-hop [**]
• Bill Laswell: Means of Deliverance: Solo (Innerhythmic) [10-16] - jazz
• Olivier Latry: Bach to the Future (La Dolce Volta) [07-19] - classical
• Mary Lattimore/Mac McCaughan: New Rain Duets (Three Lobed) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava: Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom/Nine Sacred Choruses (Ondine) [06-14] - classical
• Lau: Midnight and Closedown (Reveal) [02-08]
• Pak Yan Lau/Lionel Malric: Duo Pour 454 Chordes (El Negocito) - jazz
• Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase: Kasumi (Intakt) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Jim Lauderdale: From Another World (Yep Roc) [06-21] - country
• Laughing Bastards: Unanimal (Ham) - jazz
• Bill Laurance: Cables (Flint Music) [03-29] - jazz
• Laurence-Anne: Premiere Apparition (Duprince) [02-08]
• Dustin Laurenzi: Snaketime: The Music of Moondog (Astral Spirits) [03-29] - jazz
• Sven Laux and Daniela Oren: The Writings (Dronarivm) [04-12] - electronica
• Matt Lavelle Quartet: Hope (Unseen Rain) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• Avril Lavigne: Head Above Water (BMG) [02-15] - rock
• Liz Lawrence: Pity Party (Second Breakfast) [10-25]
• Theo Lawrence: Sauce Piquante (Tomika/BMG)
• Tracy Lawrence: Made in America (Lawrence Music Group) [08-16] - country
• Shannon Lay: August (Sub Pop) [08-23] - indie folk
• LCD Soundsystem: Electric Lady Sessions (DFA/Columbia) [02-08] - electropop
• LDY OSC: Sot (Kontra Musik) [10-14] - electronic
• Nguyen Le: Overseas (ACT Music) [10-25] - jazz
• Nguyen Le Quartet: Streams (ACT Music) [02-22] - jazz
• Remy Le Boeuf: Assembly of Shadows (SoundSpore) [11-01] - jazz [B]
• Remy Le Boeuf: Light as a Word (Outside In Music) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Cate Le Bon: Reward (Mexican Summer) [05-24] - art pop [B]
• Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox: Myths 004 (Mexican Summer -EP) [11-01] - art pop
• Le Butcherettes: Bi/Mental (Rise) [02-01] - art rock
• Le Grand: Plastic Jazz (BLKC -EP) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Le Rex: Escape of the Fire Ants (Cuneiform) [04-05] - jazz
• Le SuperHomard: Meadow Lane Park (Elefant/Alter K) [02-21] - pop
• Le Villejuif Underground: When Will the Flies in Deauville Drop (Born Bad)
• Ada Lea: What We Say in Private (Saddle Creek) [07-19] - singer-songwriter
• The Leaf Library: About Minerals (Inner Space Travels) [06-03] - electronic
• Leafcutter John: Yes! Come Parade With Us (Border Community) [04-19]
• Learic & Es-K: Thought Instruments (Equal Eyes) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Dylan Leblanc: Renegade (ATO) [06-07] - alt country
• Xavier Lecouturier: Carrier (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [B]
• Jake Leckie: The Abode (Outside In Music) [01-25] - jazz
• Led Bib: It's Morning (RareNoise) [09-27] - jazz [B]
• Mike LeDonne: Partners in Time (Savant) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix (New West) [11-22] - singer-songwriter
• Felix Lee: Inna Daze (Planet Mu) [09-27] - electronic
• Gabe Lee: Farmland (Torrez Music Group) [03-22] - country [***]
• Lauren Lee: Windowsill (Ears & Eyes) [10-18] - jazz
• Okkyung Lee: Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel Flower Bird) (Tzadik -18) [2018-05-18] - jazz
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Gratitude (Dirty Hit) [03-15] - singer-songwriter
• Leggy: Let Me Know Your Moon (Sheer Luck) [03-08] - alt/indie
• The Legion: Three the Bronx Way (Fat Beats) [02-01] - hip-hop
• Shira Legman/Michael Pisaro: Barricades (Elsewhere) - jazz
• Steve Lehman Trio/Craig Taborn: The People I Love (Pi) [08-30] - jazz [A]
• Leif: Loom Dream (Whities) [06-21] - ambient
• K Leimer: Irrational Overcast (First Terrace) [07-05]
• Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Barre Phillips/Thomas Lehn: Willisau (Jazzwerkstatt) [04-19] - jazz [B]
• The Leisure Society: Arrivals and Departures (Ego Drain) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Jens Lekman & Annika Norlin: Correspondence (Secretly Canadian) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Peter Lemer Quintet: Son of Local Colour (ESP-Disk) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• The Lemonheads: Varshons 2 (Fire) [02-08] - alt/indie
• Joao Lencastre's Communion 3: Song(s) of Hope (Clean Feed) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Joao Lencastre: Parallel Realities (FMR) - jazz
• Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet: Live in Moscow (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Jamie Lenman: Shuffle (Big Scary Monsters) [07-05]
• LenneBrothers Band: Rocking Live Around the Fire Station (AGR Television) [09-27] - rock
• Ari Lennox: Shea Butter Baby (Interscope) [05-07] - neo-soul [*]
• Hubert Lenoir: Darlene (Simone) [02-02]
• Kim Lenz: Slowly Speeding (Blue Star) [02-22] - country [**]
• Lenzman: Bobby (Metalhedz) [03-29]
• Leon: Leon (BMG) [03-01] - pop
• Craig Leon: Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol 2: The Canon (RVNG Intl) [05-10] - electronic
• Michael Leonhart Orchestra: Suite Extracts Vol 1 (Sunnyside) [08-30] - jazz
• L'Epee: Diabolique (A) [09-06] - psychedelic rock
• Leprous: Pitfalls (InsideOut Music) [10-25] - art rock
• Danny Lerman: Ice Cat (Blujazz) - jazz [B-]
• Lerosa: Bucket of Eggs (Acid Test) [08-23] - electronic
• Les Violons De Bruxelles: Barcelone (Lejazzetal) [04-15] - jazz
• Jason Lescalleet: This Is What I Do Volume 21 (Glistening Examples) [03-14] - drone
• Billy Lester: From Scratch (Newvelle) [06-00] - jazz
• Alex Levin: A Sunday Kind of Love (Alex Levin Music -19) [2019-10-20] - jazz
• Levitation Room: Headspace (Greenway) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Levitation Orchestra: Inexpressible Infinity (Astigmatic) [11-15] - jazz
• Aaron Lewis: State I'm In (Valory Music) [04-12] - country
• George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell: Voyage and Homecoming (RogueArt) [01-18] - jazz
• James Brandon Lewis: An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch) [02-01] - jazz [A-]
• Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage: Bad Wiring (Don Giovanni) [11-01] - folk [A-]
• Jenny Lewis: On the Line (Warner Bros) [03-22] - indie pop [*]
• Ramsey Lewis: VII (Ropeadope) [09-27] - jazz
• Lewsberg: Lewsberg (self-released)
• Hua Li: Dynasty (Next Door)
• Oliver Lieb: Violet Sky (Tronic -EP) [03-11] - techno
• Liebman Rudolph & Drake: Chi (RareNoise) [02-22] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach: Eternal Voices (Jazzline) [06-07] - jazz
• David Liebman/Jeff Coffin/Victor Wooten/Chester Thompson/Chris Walters/James DaSilva: On the Corner Live! The Music of Miles Davis (Ear Up) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Lifafa: Jaago (Suryakant Sawhney) [01-01] - deep house
• Life: A Picture of Good Heath (Afghan Moon) [09-30] - alt/indie
• Life of Agony: The Sound of Scars (Napalm) [10-11] - metal
• Lifted: 2 (Pan) [06-07] - nu jazz
• Murray A Lightburn: Hear Me Out (Dangerbird) [02-22]
• Chris Lightcap: SuperBigmouth (Pyroclastic) [10-04] - jazz [B]
• Lighght: Gore-Tex in the Club, Balenciaga Amongst the Shrubs (Shadow Gazing) [08-16] - leftfield
• Grace Lightman: Silver Eater (Handsome Dad) [07-19] - art pop
• Lightning Bolt: Sonic Citadel (Thrill Jockey) [10-11] - noise rock [*]
• Lightning Bug: October Song (Marbled Arm) [09-06]
• Lightning Dust: Spectre (Western Vinyl) [10-04] - indie rock
• Lights: Skin & Earth (Acoustic) (Universal Canada) [07-12]
• Lil Durk: Love Songs 4 the Streets 2 (Alamo) [08-02] - hip-hop
• Lil Keed: Long Live Mexico (300 Entertainment) [06-14] - hip-hop
• Lil Flip & EJ Carter: H Town to Pi Town (Clover Town) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Lil Nas X: 7 (Columbia -EP) [06-21] - hip-hop [*]
• Lil Peep: Everybody's Everything (Columbia) [11-15] - hip-hop
• Lil Pump: Harverd Dropout (Warner Bros) [02-22] - trap rap
• Lil Tjay: True 2 Myself (Columbia) [10-11] - trap rap [*]
• The Lilac Time: Return to Us (BMG) [10-11] - indie pop
• Lilith: Safer Off (Take This to Heart) [08-09] - alt/indie
• Damian Lillard: Big DOLLA (Front Page music) - hip-hop
• Christian Lillinger: Open Form for Society (Plaist Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Lillie Mae: other Girls (Third Man) [08-16] - country
• Lily & Horn Horse/Banny Grove: 4 Partners Road (Nicey Music) [04-30] - alt/indie
• Lily & Madeleine: Canterbury Girls (New West) [02-22] - pop
• Brad Linde's Dix Out: There Will Be Some Changes Made (Bleebop) [04-09] - jazz
• Jesper Lindell: Everyday Dreams (Alive) [11-29] - singer-songwriter
• Lindemann: F&M (Caroline/Spinefarm) [11-22] - heavy metal
• Lindstrom: On a Clear Day I Can See You Forever (Smalltown Supersound) [10-11] - electronic
• Lingua Ignota: Caligula (Profound Lore) [01-19] - death industrial
• Liniker E Os Caramelows: Goela Abaixo (self-released) [03-22] - soul jazz
• Lioness: Pride & Joy (Posi-Tone) [03-08] - jazz
• Liquid Quintet [Agusti Fernandez/Artur Majewski/Albert Cirera/Rafal Mazur/Ramon Prats]: Flux (Fundacja Sluchaj) [11-11] - jazz [**]
• Lisel: Angels on the Slope (Luminelle) [07-26] - art pop
• Little Boots: Jump (On Repeat) [08-02] - indie pop
• Little Brother: May the Lord Watch (Imagine Nation Music/For Members Only/Empire) [08-20] - hip-hop [**]
• Little May: Blame My Body (Universal Music Australia) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Little Musket: Fever Blister (self-released -EP) [07-19] - punk
• Little Scream: Speed Queen (Merge) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Little Simz: Grey Area (Age 101) [03-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul: Summer of Sorcery (self-released) [05-03] - rock
• Liturgy: HAQQ (YLYLCYN) [11-12] - black metal
• Kedr Livanskiy: Your Need (2MR) [05-03] - house [B]
• Lizzo: Cuz I Love You (Nice Life/Atlantic) [04-19] - hip-hop [A-]
• Fredrik Ljungkvist Trio: Atlantis (Moserobie) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Duncan Lloyd: Outside Notion (Afternoon in Bed) [05-24]
• Frederic Lo: Hallelujah! (Water Music)
• Tove Lo: Sunshine Kitty (Island) [09-20] - pop
• Loamlands: Lez Dance (Cruisin') [05-24] - alt/indie
• Local Natives: Violet Street (Loma Vista) [04-26] - indie pop
• Locked Groove: Sunset Service (Hotflush)
• Mark Lockheart: Days on Earth (Edition) [01-18] - jazz
• Damon Locks/Black Monument Ensemble: Where Future Unfolds (International Anthem) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Nils Lofgren: Blue With Lou (Castle Track Road) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Loft: And Departt From Mono Games (TriAngle) [05-03] - techno
• Jeff Lofton: Jericho (self-released) [07-29] - jazz [**]
• Aubrey Logan: Your Mom's Favorite Songs (Resonance -EP) [01-18] - vocal jazz [*]
• Aubrey Logan: Where the Sunshine Is Expensive (Resonance) [03-22] - vocal jazz
• Logic: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Def Jam) [05-10] - hip-hop
• Logos: Imperial Flood (Different Circles) [ 04-12] - electronic
• Mariano Loiacono: Vibrations (DBN) [02-22] - jazz
• Dr Mark Lomax, II: 400: An African Epic (CFG Multimedia -12CD) [01-23] - jazz [A]
• Lomelda: M for Empathy (Double Double Whammy) [03-01] - indie folk
• Sam Brady Long: Satie, Dilated (Unclench) [01-12] - new age
• Long Beard: Means to Me (Double Double Whammy) [09-13] - alt/indie
• The Long Ryders: Psychedelic Country Soul (Omnivore) [02-15] - country-rock
• Daniel Lopatin: Uncut Gems [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Warp) [12-13] - electronic
• Luis Lopes: Love Song: Post Ruins (Shhpuma) [05-17] - jazz
• L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae: Complicate Your Life With Violence (Mello Music Group) [10-04] - hip-hop [A-]
• Jeff Lorber: Eleven (Concord) [09-27] - pop jazz
• Lord Haiti: On My Soul 1.5 (self-released) [07-19] - alt/indie
• The Lord Weird Slough Feg: The New Organon (Cruz Del Sur) [06-21] - metal
• Michelle Lordi: Break Up With the Sound (Cabinet of Wonder) [11-01] - jazz
• Alex LoRe & Weirdear: Karol (Challenge) [09-06] - jazz
• Lorelei K: Lightbender (self-released) [10-25] - pop
• Lorelle Meets the Obsolete: De Facto (Sonic Cathedral) [01-11] - psychedelic rock
• Lorn: Drown the Traitor Within (Wednesday Sound) [06-30] - electronic
• Los Coast: Samsara (New West) [06-14] - r&b
• Los Lobos: Llego Navidad (Rhino) [10-04] - Latin
• Los Piranas: Historia Natural (Glitterbeat) [10-11] - Colombia
• Los Straitjackets: Channel Surfing (Yep Roc) [06-21] - pop/rock
• Los Wembler's De Iquitos: Vision Del Ayahuasca (Barbes) [06-28] - Peru
• Loscil: Equivalents (Kranky) [08-16] - drone
• Russ Lossing: Changes (SteepleChase) [01-15] - jazz [***]
• Russ Lossing: Motian Music (Sunnyside) [02-22] - jazz [**]
• Lost Bayou Ramblers: Rodents of Unusual Size [Music From the Motion Picture] (self-released) [03-29] - cajun
• Lost Souls of Saturn: Lost Souls of Saturn (R&S) - electronic
• Lost Under Heaven: Love Hates What You Become (Mute) [01-18] - indietronica
• The Lost Words: Spell Songs (Quercus) [07-12] - folk
• Lotian: World Wide WEB (Toxic State) [04-19] - punk
• Alice Phoebe Lou: Paper Castles (self-released) [03-08] - singer-songwriter
• Maurice Louca: Elephantine (Northern Spy) [02-01] - Jazz [*]
• Louder Than Death: Stop Und Fick Dich (In the Red) [08-23] - punk
• Godwin Louis: Global (Blue Room Music) [02-22] - jazz
• Manu Louis: Cream Parade (Igloo) [05-10] - jazz
• Sarah Louise: Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Thrill Jockey) [01-25] - folk
• L'Oumigmag: Habitant (self-released) [06-06] - jazz
• Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry (ECM) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Low Hum: Room to Breathe (Last Gang) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Low Jack: Jingles Du Lieu-dit (Editions Gravats) [06-13]
• Low Roar: Ross (Tonequake) [11-08]
• Lowcaster: Flames Arise (Ripple)
• Rosie Lowe: Yu (Wolf Tone) [05-10] - synth funk [**]
• Lower Dens: The Competition (Ribbon) [09-06] - art pop
• Lowest of the Low: Agitpop (Warner Music) [05-31]
• Lowly: Hifalutin (Bella Union) [04-12] - indietronica
• Lowtec: Light Surfing (Avenue 66) [01-25] - ambient techno
• LPX: Junk of the Heart (LPX -EP) [03-22] - alt dance
• LSD: Labrinth, Sia, Diplo Present . . . LSD (Columbia) [04-12] - electropop [B-]
• L-space: Music for Megastructures (Last Night From Glasgow) [04-19] - electroic
• Kelsey Lu: Blood (Columbia) [04-19] - art pop [**]
• Lucette: Deluxe Hotel Room (Rock Creek Music/Thirty Tigers) [05-17]
• Lucille Furs: Another Land (Requiem Pour Un Twister)
• Lucki: Freewave 3 (self-released) [02-15] - trap rap
• Lucki: Days B4 III (Empire) [10-25] - hip-hop
• Tamara Lukasheva Quartet: Homebridge (Traumton) [01-25] - jazz
• Lumen Drones: Umbra (Hubro)
• The Lumineers: III (Decca) [09-13] - folk pop
• Lage Lund: Terrible Animals (Criss Cross) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Harder on the Outside (Hot Cup) [02-01] - jazz [***]
• Jon Lundbom/Bryan Murray: Beats by Balto! Vol 1 (Chant) [03-18] - jazz [A-]
• Erik Lundin: Zebrapojken (Mansa Banda) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Carmen Lundy: Modern Ancestors (Afrasia) [10-25] - vocal jazz
• Francis Lung: A Dream Is U (Memphis Industries) [08-02] - indie pop
• WH Lung: Incidental Music (Melodic) [04-05] - neo-psychedelia
• Lungbutter: Honey (Constellation) [05-31] - punk
• Martina Lussi: Diffusion Is a Force (Latency) [02-01] - electronic
• Lust for Youth: Lust for Youth (Sacred Bones) [06-07] - synthpop
• Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club: My Journey Through Literature in Music (Holistic MusicWorks) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
• Julian Lynch: Rat's Spit (Ya Reach/Underwater Peoples) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Quiana Lynell: A Little Love (Concord Jazz) [04-05] - jazz [B]
• Jeff Lynne's ELO: From Out of Nowhere (Columbia) [11-01]
• Julie Lyon/Tom Cabrera: Poemas Del Hogar (Unseen Rain) [06-14] - vocal jazz
• M83: Knife + Heart (Mute) [03-08] - alt/indie
• M83: DSVII (Mute) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Yo-Yo Ma: Salonen: Cello Concerto (Sony Masterworks) [03-08] - classical
• Mabel: High Expectations (Polydor) [08-02] - r&b
• Doug MacDonald Quartet: Organisms (self-released) [02-19] - jazz [**]
• Doug MacDonald: Califournia Quartet (Dmacmusic) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Doug MacDonald & the Tarmac Ensemble: Jazz Marathon 4: Live at Hangar 18 (DMAC) [10-15] - jazz [*]
• J Macfarlane's Reality Guest: Ta Da (Hobbies Galore/Night School) [06-14] - indie pop
• Mach-Hommy: Wap Konn-Joj! (self-released) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Machine Gun Kelly: Hotel Diablo (Bad Boy/Interscope) [07-05] - pop rap
• Machinefabriek: With Voices (Western Vinyl) [01-18] - electronic
• Bill MacKay: Fountain Fire (Drag City) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Bill MacKay & Katika Kleijn: Stir (Drag City) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Macseal: Super Enthusiast (6131) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Mad Moon: Mad Moon - Mad Space (Akai Solo) [12-27] - hip-hop
• Madder Rose: To Be Beautiful (Trome) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Maddie & Tae: One Heart to Another (Mercury Nashville) [04-26] - country
• Maddie & Tae: Everywhere I'm Goin' (Mercury Nashville) [10-18] - country
• Made to Break: F4 Fake (Trost) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• Madmadmad: Proper Music (STAC) [03-22] - electronic
• Madness of Crowds: Tulips (Hippo Machine) - jazz
• Madonna: Madame X (Interscope) [06-14] - pop [A-]
• Madonnatron: Musica Alla Puttanesca (Trashmouth) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Chris Madsen: Bonfire (Outside In Music) [11-02] - jazz
• Peter Madsen: Curiouser & Curiouser (Playscape) [04-30] - jazz
• Madteo: Dropped Out Sunshine (DDS) [11-14] - electronic
• Madwort's Menagerie: Madwort's Menagerie (Madwort) - jazz
• Valentina Magaletti & Julian Sartorius: Sulla Pelle (Marionette) [08-30] - jazz
• Veronica Maggio: Fiender Ar Trakigt (Universal) [09-27] - pop
• Magic Circle: Departed Souls (20 Buck Spin)
• Magic Shoppe: Circles (Cardinal Fuzz)
• Magna Pia: Eostre (Soma) [02-15] - electronic
• Magnapop: The Circle Is Round (HHBTM) [09-27] - alt pop/rock
• The Magpie Salute: High Water II (Provogue) [10-18]
• Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone (JMood) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Mahalia: Love and Compromise (Warner UK) [09-06] - r&b
• Rudi Mahall/Olaf Rupp/Kasper Tom: Rudi Mahall/Olaf Rupp/Kasper Tom (Barefoot) - jazz
• Mahatma X: A Mobtown Suite Vol II (Home Assembly Music) [05-10] - hip-hop
• The Maine: You Are OK (8123) [03-29] - alt/indie
• J Majik: Full Circle (Infrared) [05-01] - drum and bass
• Major Stars: Roots of Confusion Seeds... (Drag City) [07-19] - alt/indie
• Making Movies: Ameri'kana (3/2) [05-24]
• Jan Maksimovic/Dimitrij Golovanov: Thousand Seconds of Our Life (NoBusiness) [05-00] - NoBusiness [J|jazz]
• Malboro Bled: Malboro Bled (self-released) [06-11] - jazz
• Malci: Papaya! (WHY) [05-02] - hip-hop
• Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real (Green Eyes) [01-11] - jazz
• Malibu: One Life (Joyful Noise) [11-01]
• Jesse Malin: Sunset Kids (Wicked Cool) [08-30]
• Stephen Malkmus: Groove Denied (Matador) [03-15] - indietronica
• Mall Grab: Growing Pains (Looking for Trouble -EP) [07-12] - electronic
• Stephen Mallinder: Um Dada (Dais) [10-11]
• Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code (Ideal) [06-28] - electronic
• Slauson Malone: A Quiet Farewell 2016-2018 (self-released) [04-18] - hip-hop
• Matt Maltese: Krystal (7476) [11-08] - indie pop
• Maluba Orchestra: Maluba Orchestra (Stunt) [08-23] - jazz
• Maluma: 11:11 (Sony) [05-17] - Latin pop [**]
• Mammoth Penguins: There's No Fight We Can't Both Win (Fika) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Mandolin Orange: Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc) [02-01] - bluegrass
• Gucci Mane: Woptober II (1017 Brick Squad/Atlantic) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust (Sunnyside) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Mango X Mathman: Casual Work (Weapon of Choice) [11-08] - hip0-hop
• Mannequin Pussy: Patience (Epitaph) [06-21] - punk [**]
• Jae Mansa: Relationships and Money (Eoarn Entertainment) [12-13] - hip-hop
• Johnny Mansfield: Elftet (Edition) [06-21] - jazz
• Mansionair: Shadowboxer (Glassnote) [ 03-01] - alt/indie
• Mapache: Mapache (Yep Roc) [11-29] - alt/indie
• Mappe Of: The Isle of Ailynn (Paper Bag) [11-01]
• Maps: Colours Reflect Time Loss (Mute) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Maral: Mahur Club (Astral Plane) [09-20] - electronic
• Marble Arch: Children of the Slump (Geographie) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Roc Marciano: Marcielago (Marci) [12-02] - hip-hop
• Todd Marcus: Trio+ (Stricker Street) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Gia Margaret: There's Always Glimmer (Orindal) [05-24]
• Zela Margossian Quintet: Transitions (Art as Catharsis) [11-29] - jazz
• Olivier Marguerit: A Terre! (Vietnam) [02-01]
• Marianas Trench: Phantoms (604) [ 03-01] - pop
• Charlie Marie: Charlie Marie (self-released -EP) [05-03] - country [**]
• Marina: Love + Fear (Atlantic UK) [04-26] - electropop
• Marker: New Industries (Audiographic) - jazz
• Markers: Heaven in the Dark Earth (God Unknown) [02-22] - 02-22
• Ben Markley Quartet Featuring Joel Frahm: Slow Play (OA2) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Busby Marou: The Great Divide (Warner Australia) [09-27]
• Branford Marsalis Quartet: The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul (Okeh) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Wynton Marsalis: Bolden: Music From the Original Soundtrack (Blue Engine) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Hugh Marsh: Violinvocations (Western Vinyl) [02-15] - electroacoustic
• Marshall: Layers (Nettwerk) [06-21]
• Marshmello: Joytime III (Joytime Collective) [07-02] - electronic
• Billie Marten: Feeding Seahorses by Hand (Sony UK) [04-26]
• Martha: Love Keeps Kicking (Dirtnap) [04-05] - power pop [**]
• Claire Martin: Believin' It (Linn) [04-29] - vocal jazz
• Claire Martin/Jim Mullen: Bumpin' (Stunt) [02-15] - vocal jazz
• Kevin Richard Martin: Sirens (Room40) [05-31] - ambient
• Melanie Martinez: K-12 (Atlantic) [09-06] - electropop
• Pedro Martins: Vox (Heartcore) [02-08] - jazz
• Martyn: Odds Against Us (Ostgut Ton -EP) [07-26] - uk garage
• Kendell Marvel: Solid Gold Sounds (Easy Eye Sound) [10-11] - country
• Maserati: Enter the Mirror (Temporary Residence) [06-12] - alt/indie
• Hope Masike: The Exorcism of a Spinster (Riverboat) [07-29] - African
• Masked Intruder: III (Pure Noise) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Josh Mason: Coquina Dose (Florabelle)
• Steve Mason: About the Light (Double Six/Domino) [01-18] - singer-songwriter
• James Massiah: Natural Born Killers (Ride for Me) (Levels) [09-18] - electronic
• Greta Matassa: Portrait (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [B]
• Mathematik: ReAL/iS-HiM (Urbnet) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Jorgen Mathisen's Instant Light: Mayhall's Object (Clean Feed) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
• Per Mathisen: Sounds of 3 Edition 2 (Losen) [06-28] - jazz
• Matmos: Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey) [03-15] - IDM
• Keiko Matsui: Echo (Shanachie) [02-22] - jazz
• Mattiel: Satis Factory (ATO) [06-14] - alt/indie
• The Mattson 2: Paradise (Company) [06-07] - jazz-rock
• Anna Maurer: Visionariness (ATS) [05-07] - jazz
• The Mauskovic Dance Band: The Mauskovic Dance Band (Soundway) [05-24] - world [**]
• Mavi: Let the Sun Talk (self-released) [10-18] - hip-hop
• The Mavericks: Play the Hits (Mono Mundo) [11-01] - country
• Agathe Max & Natalia Beylis: The Garden of Paradise (Fort Evil Fruit) [07-11] - electronic
• Maxo: Lil Big Man (Def Jam) [03-15] - abstract hip-hop
• Maxo Kream: Brandon Banks (Big Persona/RCA) [07-19] - trap rap [**]
• Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny! (Uncle Marvin Music) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• John Mayall: Nobody Told Me (Forty Below) [02-22] - blues
• Mayhem: Daemon (Century Media) [10-25] - black metal
• Marilyn Mazur: Marilyn Mazur's Shamania (RareNoise) [02-22] - jazz [**]
• Rob Mazurek: Desert Encrypts Vol 1 (Astral Spirits) [08-16] - jazz
• Rob Mazurek: Love Waves/Ecstatic Charge (Astral Spirits) [08-16] - jazz
• Rob Mazurek: Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV (Astral Spirits) [08-16] - jazz
• Nick Mazzarella Trio: Counterbalance (Astral Spirits) [06-28] - jazz
• MC Frontalot: Net Split, or the Fathomless Heartbreak of Online Itself (Level Up) [03-08] - hip-hop [**]
• MC Lars & Mega Ran: The Dewey Decibel System (Horris/Random Beats) [06-07]
• MC Yallah X Debmaster: Kubali (Hakuna Kulala) [09-27] - hip-hop [*]
• Bryan McAllister: Very Stable Genius (Orenda) [03-01] - jazz
• James McArthur & the Head Gardeners: Intergalactic Sailor (Moorland) [10-11] - folk
• Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School: Aftermath (self-released) [11-01] - jazz
• Leyla McCalla: Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
• Dan McCarthy: Epoch (Origin) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Dan McCarthy: City Abstract (Origin) [10-16] - jazz [B]
• Paul McCartney: Amoeba Gig (Capitol) [07-19] - pop/rock
• Delbert McClinton: Tall, Dark & Handsome (Hot Shot) [07-26] - blues
• Cass McCombs: Tip of the Sphere (Anti-) [02-08] - singer-songwriter
• John McCowen: Mundanas I-V (Edition Wandelweiser) [01-02] - jazz
• Tom McDermott: Meets Scott Joplin (Arbors) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Reba McEntire: Stronger Than the Truth (Big Machine) [04-05] - country [*]
• Kyle McEvoy: Always Fading (1631) [03-29] - classical
• Claron McFadden/Roberta Alexander/Nancy Braithwaite/Michael Stirling/Vaughan Schlepp: To Paradise With Onions: Songs and Chamber Works of Edith Hemenway (EtceteraNOW) [01-14] - jazz
• Zara McFarlane: East of the River Nile (Brownswood) [03-01] - vocal jazz
• Taylor McFerrin: Love's Last Chance (Awal) [08-16] - pop
• The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Along for the Ride (Summit) [06-07] - jazz [B]
• Reese McHenry: No Dados (Suah Sounds) [04-12]
• Duff McKagan: Tenderness (Universal) [05-31] - rock
• Nellie McKay: Bagatelles (Palmetto -EP) [10-25] - cabaret [*]
• Jenna McLean: Brighter Day (Moddl) [02-21] - vocal jazz [*]
• Angie McMahon: Salt (Dualtone) [07-26]
• Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At the Hill of James Magee (Trost) [01-18] - jazz [***]
• Joe McPhee/Piotr Michalowski/Andrew Drury: Live at Edgefest () [J|jazz]
• Joe McPhee/Paal Nilssen-Love: Song for the Big Chief (PNL) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Me Lost Me: The Lay of the Land (867242 DK) [05-29] - electronic
• Chuck Mead: Close to Home (Plowboy) [06-21] - country
• Meat Puppets: Dusty Notes (Megaforce) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Meatraffle: Bastard Music (Delayed) [08-30]
• Adam Meckler Orchestra: Magnificent Madness (Ropeadope) [05-03] - jazz
• Dave Meder: Passage (Outside In Music) [02-08] - jazz [***]
• Medhane: Own Pace (Grand Closing) [11-12] - hip-hop
• Meemo Comma: Sleepmoss (Planet Mu) [10-25]
• Will of the People [Haftor Medboe]: Will of the People (Copperfly) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Meditations & Prayers: Stabat Mater (Giraffa) [04-01] - jazz
• Meg & Dia: Happysad (Pure Noise) [07-26] - 07-26
• Mega Bog: Dolphine (Paradise of Bachelors) [06-28] - lo-fi
• Megan Thee Stallion: Fever (300 Entertainment) [05-17] - trap rap [***]
• Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel (Nonesuch) [05-17] - jazz [B]
• Brad Mehldau: Mon Chien Stupide [Bande Originale Du Film] (My Melody) [10-28] - jazz soundtrack
• Tobias Meinhart: Berlin People (Sunnyside) [03-22] - jazz
• Meitei: Komachi (Metron) [04-12] - electronic
• Mekons: Deserted (Bloodshot) [03-29] - post-punk [***]
• Rod Melancon: Pinkville (Blue Elan) [04-05] - country-rock
• Melii: Phases (Interscope) [03-27] - r&b
• The Membranes: What Nature Gives . . . Nature Takes Away (Cherry Red) [05-07]
• Men I Trust: Oncle Jazz (self-released) [09-13] - indie pop
• Maria Mendes: Close to Me (Justin Time) [10-25] - vocal jazz
• Mental Abstrato: Uzoma (self-released) [08-23] - jazz
• Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria: Are Sing Sinck, Sing (Constellation) [05-10] - drone
• The Menzingers: Hello Exile (Epitaph) [10-04] - pop punk
• Meow Meow + Thomas Lauderdale: Hotel Amour (Heinz) [03-22] - jazz
• Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited (Partisan) [01-28] - alt-country [B]
• Mereba: The Jungle Is the Only Way Out (Interscope) [02-27] - r&b
• Anna Meredith: Eighth Grade [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Columbia) [07-13] - soundtrack
• Anna Meredith: FIBS (Moshi Moshi) [10-25] - electronic [B]
• Merival: Lesson () [06-21]
• Mermaidens: Look Me in the Eye (Flying Nun) [09-06] - alt/indie
• Alice Merton: Mint (Paper Plane/Mom + Pop) [01-18] - pop rock
• Mess: Learning How to Talk (Mess) [03-29]
• The Messthetics: Anthropocosmic Nest (Dischord) [09-06] - alt/indie [*]
• Methyl Ethel: Triage (4AD) [02-15] - psychedelic pop
• Metro Crowd: Planning: (Maple Death) [03-22] - post-punk
• Metronomy: Metronomy Forever (Because) [09-13] - synthpop
• Metropolitan Jazz Octet Featuring Dee Alexander: It's Too Hot for Words: Celebrating Billie Holiday (Delmark) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Hendrik Meurkens: Cobb's Pocket (In+Out) - Jazz
• Meursault: Crow Hill (Common Grounds) [06-21] - electronic
• Camila Meza & the Nectar Orchestra: Ambar (Sony Masterworks) [04-03] - vocal jazz [B]
• Mgla: Age of Excuse (Northern Heritage) [09-02] - black metal
• Nathan Micay: Blue Spring (Lucky Me) [05-03] - electronic
• Julia Michaels: Inner Monologue Part 1 (Republic -EP) [01-24] - pop
• Lea Michele: Christmas in the City (Sony Masterworks) [10-25] - Christmas
• Microtub: Chronic Shift (Bohemian Drips) [08-30] - jazz [B]
• Microwave: Death Is a Warm Blanket (Pure Noise) [09-13] - post-hardcore [*]
• Middle Kids: New Songs for Old Problems (Domino -EP) [05-24] - indie rock
• Midland: Let It Roll (Big Machine) [08-23] - country
• Midnite Snaxxx: Music Inside (Slovenly) [12-06] - alt/indie
• Miggy Augmented Orchestra: Colorful (ArtistShare) - jazz
• Haviah Mighty: 13th Floor (self-released) [05-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Miguel: Te Lo Dije EP (RCA -EP) [04-05] - r&b
• Sei Miguel: O Carro De Fogo De Sei Miguel (Clean Feed) - jazz
• Xose Miguelez: Ontology (Origin) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Mika: My Name Is Michael Holbrook (Republic/Virgin EMI) [10-04] - pop [**]
• Levon Mikaelian Trio: Untainted (self-released) [03-26] - jazz [**]
• MIKE: Tears of Joy (10k) [06-21] - abstract hip-hop [**]
• Mike & the Moonpies: Cheap Silver & Solid Country Gold (Prairie Rose) [08-02] - country [*]
• Mikron: Severance (Central Processing Unit) [02-01] - ambient techno
• Massimiliano Milesi: Oofth (Auand) [03-22] - jazz
• The Milk Carton Kids: The Only Ones (Milk Carton) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Milky Chance: Mind the Moon (Universal Music Australia) [11-15] - alt/indie
• Olan Mill: Sacred Geometry (Dronarivm) [09-27] - electronic
• Millencolin: SOS (Epitaph) [02-15] - alt/indie
• The Millennial Club: She's So Insane (self-released -EP) [05-21]
• Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Glitter Wolf (The Royal Potato Family) [02-01] - jazz [A-]
• Buddy & Julie Miller: Breakdown on 20th Ave South (New West) [06-21] - Americana [**]
• Dave Miller Trio: Just Imagine (Summit) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Dominic Miller: Absinthe (03-01) [ECM] - jazz
• Joel Miller: Unstoppable (Multiple Chord Music) [10-04] - jazz
• Kid Millions & Jim Sauter: Safe and Sane (Astral Spirits) [05-03] - jazz
• Ronnie Milsap: The Duets (G-Force) [01-18] - country
• Dom Minasi: Remembering Cecil (Unseen Rain) [04-02] - jazz [***]
• Mini Mansions: Guy Walks Into a Bar . . . (Fiction) [07-26] - psychedelic pop
• Miniature Tigers: Vampires in the Daylight (self-released) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Minimal Violence: InDreams (Technicolour) [04-26] - electronic
• Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vanska: Mahler 1 (BIS) [08-02] - classical
• Minor Pieces: The Heavy Steps of Dreaming (Fat Cat) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Phil Minton/John Butcher/Gino Robair: Blasphemious Fragments (Rastascan) - jazz
• Minua: Still Light (Traumton) [02-01] - jazz
• The Minus 5: Stroke Manor (Yep Roc) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Minyo Crusaders: Echoes of Japan (Mais Um) [04-26]
• Misery Index: Rituals of Power (Season of Mist) [03-08] - metal
• Mister Water Wet: Bought the Farm (West Mineral) [06-27] - electronic
• Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors (Pi) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra: Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College March 19-20, 2018 (Wide Hive) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Gabriele Mitelli/Rob Mazurek: Star Splitter (Clean Feed) [05-00] - jazz [*]
• Jay Mitta: Tatizo Pesa (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-18]
• Yoko Miwa Trio: Keep Talkin' (Ocean Blue Tear Music) [06-14] - jazz [***]
• Mizmor: Cairn (Gilead Media) [09-06]
• Mndsgn: Snaxx (Stones Throw) [06-14] - jazz fusion
• MNNQNS: Body Negative (Fat Cat) [08-30] - alt/indie
• Mdou Moctar: Blue Stage Sessions (Third Man) [01-18] - Saharan [A-]
• Mdou Moctar: Ilana: The Creator (Sahel Sounds) [03-29] - Saharan [***]
• Model Man: City Songs Pt 1 (Mahogany -EP) [04-24]
• Rod Modell: Captagon (Tresor) [07-05] - techno
• Modern Nature: How to Live (Bella Union) [08-23] - indie folk
• Modern Rituals: Yearning (Holy Roar -EP) [04-12]
• Modeselektor: Who Else (Monkeytown) [02-22] - electronic
• MoE + Mette Rasmussen: Tolerancia Picante (Conrad Sound) [03-25] - jazz
• Abul Mogard: And We Are Passing Through Silently (Houndstooth) [03-15] - electronic
• Billy Mohler: Focus! (Make) [03-18] - jazz [A-]
• Moken: Missing Chapters (MoodSwing) [08-08]
• Tony Molina: Songs From San Mateo County (Smoking Room) [07-19] - alt/indie
• Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Molly: All That Ever Could Have Been (Sonic Cathedral) [06-28] - shoegaze
• MoMA Ready: The NYC Dance Project (self-released) [07-18] - house
• Monarch: Beyond the Blue Sky (El Paraiso)
• Ben Monder: Day After Day (Sunnyside) [04-12] - jazz
• Monnone Alone: Summer of the Mosquito (Lost & Lonesome) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Mono: Nowhere Now Here (Temporary Residence) [01-25] - post-rock
• Mono: Before the Past: Live From Electrical Audio (Temporary Residence) [11-08] - experimental rock [*]
• The Monochrome Set: Fabula Mendax (Tapete) [09-27] - indie pop
• Monolord: No Comfort (Relapse) [09-30] - metal
• Monomotion: Fujisan (Fake Music) [07-26]
• Monopiece/Jaap Blonk: Monopiece + Jaap Blonk (Shhpuma) [05-17] - jazz [B]
• Derel Monteith: Connemara: Solo Piano Improvisations (self-released) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Derel Monteith Trio: Quantity of Life (self-released) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Montoya: Otun (ZZK) [05-10] - Ecuador electronic
• Coco Montoya: Coming in Hot (Alligator) [08-23] - blues
• Moodymann: Sinner (KDJ) [06-21] - electronic
• Betty Moon: Hellucination (Evolver) [05-17]
• Dylan Moon: Only the Blues (RVNG Intl) [08-30]
• Eli Moon: Bodies (Meridian) [10-18]
• Moon Boots: Bimini Road (Anjunadeep) [09-06] - electronic
• Moon Duo: Stars Are the Light (Sacred Bones) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Moon Tooth: Crux (Modern Static) [03-29] - progressive metal
• Moor Mother: Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (Don Giovanni) [11-08] - hip-hop [**]
• Dallas Moore: Tryin' to Be a Blessing (Sol) [10-04] - country
• Justin Moore: Late Nights and Longnecks (Big Machine) [07-26] - country
• NO Moore/John Edwards/Eddie Prevost: Darkened, Yet Shone (Matchless) - jazz
• Steve Moore: Beloved Exile (Temporary Residence) [05-10] - ambient
• Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel (Daydream Library) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Thurston Moore/Frank Rosaly: Marshmallow Moon Decorum (Corbett vs Dempsey) [06-13] - jazz [*]
• Mope City: News From Home (01-18) [Tenth Court] - alt/indie
• Bernie Mora & Tangent: No Agenda (Rhombus) [10-01] - jazz [C+]
• Kevin Morby: Oh My God (Dead Oceans) [04-26] - singer-songwriter
• Gaby Moreno and Van Dyke Parks: ¡Spangled! (Nonesuch) [ 10-04] - Latin
• Mark Morgan: Department of Heraldry (Open Mouth) - jazz
• Idan Morim: IM (Outside In Music) [06-28] - jazz
• Gurf Morlix: Impossible Blue (Rootball) [02-08] - folk [**]
• Allison Moorer: Blood (Autotelic) [10-25] - country [A-]
• Joe Morris & Evan Parker: The Village (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Maren Morris: Girl (Columbia Nashville) [03-08] - country [B]
• Devin Morrison: Bussin' (NBN) [04-03] - r&b
• Van Morrison: Three Chords & the Truth (Exile/Caroline) [10-25] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Mark Morriss: Look Up (Reckless Yes) [09-20] - alt/idie
• Morrissey: California Son (BMG) [05-24] - chamber pop
• Mohammad Reza Mortazavi: Ritme Jaavdanegi (Latency) [11-01]
• Mark Morton: Anesthetic (Spinefarm) [03-01] - alt metal
• The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling: Lucky Guy! (Alligator) [08-09] - blues
• Emile Mosseri: The Last Black Man in San Francisco [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Lakeshore) [06-07] - soundtrack
• MoStack: Stacko (Virgin EMI) [06-07] - hip-hop
• Motionless in White: Disguise (Roadrunner) [06-07] - nu metal
• Motorpsycho: The Crucible (Stickman) [02-15] - psychedelic rock
• Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock (Merge) [02-08] - alt rock [**]
• Mount Eerie & Julie Doirion: Lost Wisdom Pt 2 (PW Elversum & Sun) [11-08] - slowcore
• Mount Liberation Unlimited: Mount Liberation Unlimited (Studio Barnhus) [05-31] - electronic
• The Mountain Goats: In League With Dragons (Merge) [04-26] - alt/indie [**]
• Mourning [a] BLKstar: Reckoning (Don Giovanni) [05-10] - soul
• Jack Mouse Group: Intimate Adversary (Tall Grass) [01-01] - jazz [*]
• Moutin Factory Quintet: Mythical River (Laborie Jazz) - jazz [B-]
• Move D: Building Bridges (!K7) [07-12] - deep house
• Moving Panoramas: In Two (Modern Outsider) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Mozes and the Firstborn: Dadcore (self-released) [01-25] - pop
• Mozzy: Internal Affairs (Mozzy/Empire) [05-27] - hip-hop
• Mr Ben & the Bens: Who Knows Jenny Jones (Bingo) [11-22] - indie pop
• Mr Muthafuckin' eXquire: Mr Muthafuckin' eXquire (Chocolate Rabbit) [07-12] - hip-hop
• Mr Tophat: Dusk to Dawn, Pts 1-3 (Twilight Enterprise) [06-28] - electronic
• Mree: The Middle (Nettwerk -EP) [01-11] - indie folk
• Msylma: Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum (Halcyon Veil) [03-08]
• Mudhoney: Morning in America (Sub Pop) [09-20] - alt/indie
• The Muffs: No Holiday (Omnivore) [10-18]
• Mukqs: SD Biomix (Orange Milk) [05-03] - electronic
• Pep Mula: Mula II (Underpool) [05-28] - jazz
• John Mulaney: John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (Drag City) [12-24] - children
• Mulatto: Hit the Latto (Pitstop/Stream Cut -EP) [12-12] - hip-hop
• Mark Mulcahy: The Gus (Mezzotint) [07-05] - alt/indie
• Georgia Anne Muldrow: VWETO II (Mello Music Group) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Kjetil Mulelid Trio: What You Thought Was Home (Rune Grammofon) - jazz
• Sebastian Mullaert: A Place Called Inkonst (Kontra Musik)
• Guillaume Muller: Sketches of Sound (self-released) [10-01] - jazz [*]
• Muna: Saves the World (RCA) [09-06] - synthpop [**]
• Munya: Munya (Luminelle) [03-08] - indie pop
• Andrew Munsey: High Tide (Birdwatcher) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• AJ Munson: Cigarettes & Coffee (self-released) [01-07] - hip-hop
• The Murder Capital: When I Have Fears (Human Season) [08-16] - post-punk [*]
• Murlo: Dolos (Coil) [02-22] - electronic
• The Murlocs: Manic Candid Episode (Flightless) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Greg Murphy Trio: Bright Idea (Whaling City Sound) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Nick Murphy: Run Fast Sleep Naked (Downtown) [04-26] - alt r&b
• James Murray: Embrace Storms (Slowcraft)
• Keith Murray: Lord of the Metaphor 2 (Def Squad) [05-18] - hip-hop
• Sequoyah Murray: Before You Begin (Thrill Jockey) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Murs: The Iliad Is Dead and the Odyssey Is Over (Jamla/Empire) [08-09] - hip-hop [A-]
• Mush: Induction Party (Memphis Industries) [05-31] - shoegaze
• Rina Mushonga: In a Galaxy (PIAS) [02-15] - pop
• Michael Musillami/Rich Syracuse: Dig (Playscape) [09-02] - jazz
• The Muslims: Mayo Supreme (Don't Panic) [04-01] - punk
• Rachel Musson/Pat Thomas/Mark Sanders: Shifa: Live at Cafe Oto (577) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Mustard: Perfect Ten (10 Summers/Interscope) [06-28] - hip-hop
• Mutant Joe: Home Invasion Anthems (self-released) [10-24] - hip-hop
• Mutate3k: Static (Edited Arts) [11-08] - electronic
• Mute: Mute (Fresh Sound New Talent) [12-13] - jazz [A-]
• Muzi: Zeno (We.The.Bundu) [10-11] - electronic
• Corey Mwamba: Nth (Discus) [10-01] - jazz
• Mwenso & the Shakes: Emergence (The Process of Coming Into Being) (Ropeadope) [08-02] - jazz
• MXMJoY: PEACE (London Field) [02-22] - pop
• My Disco: Environment (Downwards) [03-01]
• Robert Aeolus Myers: Talisman (Origin Peoples) [04-26] - electronic
• John Myrtle: Here's John Myrtle (Bingo -EP) [07-26]
• The Mystery Lights: Too Much Tension! (Wick) [05-10] - rock
• Simon Nabatov Quintet: Last Minute Theory (Clean Feed) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Simon Nabatov: Readings: Red Cavalry (Leo) [04-15] - jazz [*]
• Simon Nabatov: Readings: Gileya Revisited (Leo) [04-15] - jazz [*]
• Quinsin Nachoff's Flux: Path of Totality (Whirlwind) [02-08] - jazz [A-]
• ERR: stream no grade: Nacka Forum: Sa Stopper Festen
• Nacka Forum: Sa Stopper Festen (Moserobie) [12-22] - jazz
• Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky: Droneflower (Sacred Bones) [04-26] - ethereal wave
• Youn Sun Nah: Immersion (Warner Music) [03-08] - jazz
• Najee: Center of the Heart (Shanachie) [11-15] - jazz
• Phillip Nangle: 2 Karimba 3 Octave (self-released) [01-02] - South Africa
• Nao: Arcana (Shhpuma) - jazz
• Anthony Naples: Fog FM (Incenso) [06-13] - techno
• Qasim Naqvi: Teenages (Erased Tapes) [05-03] - electronica [*]
• Nas: The Lost Tapes II (Def Jam) [07-19] - rap
• Jonny Nash: Make a Wilderness (Music From Memory) [02-15] - ambient
• Rebecca Nash: Peaceful King (Whirlwind) [07-26] - jazz
• Ted Nash/Steve Cardenas/Ben Allison: Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs (Plastic Sax) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Rico Nasty/Kenny Beats: Anger Management (Sugar Trap) [04-25] - hip-hop [**]
• Nasty Cherry: Season 1 (Vroom Vroom -EP) [11-22] - pop
• The National: I Am Easy to Find (4AD) [05-17] - alt/indie [**]
• The National Lights: Whom the Sea Will Keep (BloodShake -EP) [02-22] - folk
• Native Harrow: Happier Now (Loose Music) [02-01] - folk-pop
• Nature Work: Nature Work (Sunnyside) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Michael Nau: Less Ready to Go (ORG Music) [09-26]
• NCT 127: We Are Superhuman (SM Entertainment -EP) [05-24] - K-pop
• Youssou N'Dour: History (Naive/Believe) [05-17] - African [A-]
• Neak: Kwesbaar (Gold Standard Collective) - hip-hop
• Aurora Nealand/Steve Marquette/Anton Hatwich/Paul Thibodeaux: Kobra Quartet (Astral Spirits) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Necking: Cut Your Teeth (Mint) [07-05] - post-punk
• Nedarb: Amity (Baby Gang) [01-01] - trap rap
• Paul Nedzela: Introducing Paul Nedzela (Outside In Music) [07-12] - jazz
• Nefew: Spray Paint My Name on the Walls (Bases Loaded) [04-16] - hip-hop
• Negativland: True False (Seeland) [10-25] - sound collage
• Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile (RVNG Intl) [03-08] - Latin [*]
• Roberto Negro & Theo Ceccaldi: Montevago (Full Rhizome) - jazz
• Negroni's Trio: Acustico (Sony Music Latin) [10-25] - jazz
• Nekfeu: Les Etoiles Vagabondes (Seine Zoo) [06-06]
• Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) (Fantasy) [06-14] - country rock [*]
• Sean Nelson: Nelson Sings Nilsson (Equivocal) [05-24] - rock
• Robert Nelson: Nul N'Est Roe En Son Royaume (7e Ciel) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Willie Nelson: Ride Me Back Home (Legacy) [06-21] - country [A-]
• Nems: Gorilla Monsoon (Lyfer Gang) [05-31] - hip-hop
• Neon Vectors: Bigger Grooves (self-released) [11-19] - house
• Nerija: Blume (Domino) [08-02] - jazz fusion [*]
• Nervus: Tough Crowd (Get Better) [09-27]
• Nina Nesbitt: The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change (Cooking Vinyl) [02-01] - r&b
• Marius Neset & London Sinfonietta: Viaduct (ACT Music) [11-22] - jazz
• Neutrals: Kebab Disco (Emotional Respose) [06-06] - alt/indie
• Nueland: Neuland (Amplified Media Servies) [11-22] - ambient
• New Order: Sigma(NO,12K,LG,17MIF) New Order + Liam . . . (Mute) [07-12] - new wave
• New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint (Storyville) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• The New Pornographers: In the Morse Code of Brake Lights (Concord) [09-27] - alt/indie [*]
• New Years Day: Unbreakable (Century Media) [04-26] - alt metal
• New York Philharmonic/Jaap Van Zweden: Julia Wolfe: Fire in My Mouth (Decca) [08-30] - classical
• New York Voices: Reminiscing in Tempo (Origin) [08-16] - vocal jazz [B]
• Ne-Yo: Another Kind of Christmas (Capitol) [10-11] - holidays
• NF: The Search (Capitol) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Ni: Noble Impulse + Normal Insanity (Tenzenmen) [01-02] - Japan
• Jeb Loy Nichols: June Is Short, July Is... (Compass) [10-04] - retro-soul
• Maayan Nidam: Sea of Thee (Perlon -18) [12-03-2018] - minimal
• Angelika Niescier/Christopher Tordini/Gerald Cleaver: New York Trio Feat Jonathan Finlayson (Intakt) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Night Beats: Myth of a Man (Heavenly) [01-18] - alt/indie
• The Night Cafe: 0151 (TNC) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Night Flowers: Fortune Teller (Dirty Bingo) [10-25] - indie pop
• Night Moves: Can You Really Find Me (Domino) [06-28] - alt/indie
• Nihiloxica: Biiri (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-13] - African
• Nil/Resplendent: Lesser Free Trade (self-released) [04-17]
• Jorge Nila: Tenor Time (Tribute to the Tenor Masters) (Ninjazz) [01-04] - jazz [***]
• Nile: Vile Nilotic Rites (Nuclear Blast) [11-01] - metal
• Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: To Whom Who Buys a Record (Odin) [07-12] - jazz [A-]
• Paal Nilssen-Love: New Brazilian Funk (PNL) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Paal Nilssen-Love: New Japanese Noise (PNL) [01-25] - jazz [*]
• Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Screen Off (PNL) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Nimmo: The Power (self-released) [06-20]
• Carlos Nino: Bliss On Dear Oneness (Leaving) [11-22] - ambient
• The Ninth Wave: Infancy (Distiller) [04-26]
• The Niro Featuring Gary Lucas: The Complete Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas Songbook (Esordisco) [11-08] - alt/indie [B]
• Hermann Nitsch: Albertina Quartett (Trost) [07-19] - jazz
• Nivhek: After Its Own Death/Walking in a Spiral Towards the House (Yellow Electric) [02-08] - electronic [*]
• Tony Njoku: Your Psyche's Rainbow Panorama (Silent Kid) [10-04]
• Nkisi: 7 Directions (UIQ) [01-17] - techno
• No One Knows What the Dead Think: No One Knows What the Dead Think (Willowtip) [09-20] - metal
• Noah: Thirty (Flau) [10-18]
• Nobject [Martin Kuchen/Rafal Mazur/Vasco Trilla]: X-Rayed (Fundacja Sluchaj) [06-03] - jazz [**]
• Nobigdyl: Lowercase Tape (Indie Tribe) [11-08] - hip-hop
• Liam Noble: The Long Game (Edition) [06-07] - jazz
• NoCap: The Hood Dictionary (self-released) [11-19] - hip-hop
• Nocturnus AD: Paradox (Profound Lore) [05-24] - death metal
• Nodding God: Nodding God Play Wooden Child (House of Mythology) [05-10]
• Ian Noe: Between the Country (National Treasury) [05-31] - country [***]
• Laura Noejovich: Laura Has New Standards (Enchanted Meadow) [11-02] - jazz [C+]
• Alexander Noice: Noice (Orenda) [08-23]
• Jim Noir: AM Jazz (Dook) [12-20] - pop/rock
• Aimee Nolte: Looking for the Answers (Alpine Field) [04-12] - jazz
• Nomad Stones: Unriddled (Brutal Panda) [07-12] - rock
• Nomadico: Gentefication (Yaxteq) [11-22] - electronic
• None: Damp Chill of Life (Hypnotic Dirge) [04-11]
• Nonlocal Forecast: Bubble Universal (Hausu Mountain) [03-01] - vaporwave
• Sean Noonan: Tan Man's Hat (RareNoise) [03-25] - jazz [B]
• Terkel Norgaard: With Ralph Alessi (We Jazz) [05-17] - jazz
• Daniel Norgren: Wooh Dang (Superpuma) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Tujiko Noriko: Kuro [OST] (Pan) [04-26] - soundtrack
• Norma Jean: All Hail (Solid State) [10-25]
• Richard Norris: Abstractions Vol 1 (Group Mind) [02-21]
• Richard Norris: Abstractions Vol 2 (Group Mind) [06-21]
• The North: Plays the Music of Kenny Wheeler (AMM) [09-20] - jazz
• North Mississippi Allstars: Up and Rolling (New West) [10-04] - blues-rock
• North Sea Radio Orchestra/John Greaves/Annie Barbazza: Folly Dololey: Songs From Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom (Dark Companion) [05-17] - prog rock
• Northern Ranger: Eastern Stranger (self-released -EP) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Northlane: Alien (UNFD) [08-02] - metal
• Not Waving & Dark Mark: Downwelling (Ecstatic) [08-02] - minimal synth
• Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Two (Live at Sydney Opera House) (Noton) [11-15] - electronic
• Nots: 3 (Goner) [05-10] - alt/indie [**]
• Heather Nova: Pearl (Saltwater) [06-28]
• Aaron Novik: The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres (Avant LaGuardia) [07-20] - jazz [*]
• Nubiyan Twist: Jungle Run (Strut) [02-15] - r&b [B]
• Numenorean: Adore (Season of Mist) [04-12] - atmospheric black metal
• Aymee Nuviola: A Journey Through Cuban Music (Top Stop Music) [05-03] - Cuban
• Nuvolascura: Nuvolascura (Zegema Beach) [01-22] - rock
• Atle Nymo: Solo for Trio (Losen) - jazz
• O: A Terre! (Vietnam)
• Amy O: Shell (Winspear) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Christinna O: Girl in Passing (New Professor Music) [07-15] - r&b
• Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG) [03-15] - art rock [**]
• O Terno: <Atras/Alem> (Risco) [04-23] - chamber pop
• Maciej Obara Quartet: Three Clowns (ECM) [10-25] - jazz
• Tim O'Brien: Tim O'Brien Band (Howdy Skies) [03-15] - folk
• Obuxum: Re-Birth (Urbnet) [08-23] - electronic
• Danny Ocean: 54+1 (Atlantic) [03-22] - pop
• Elijah Ocean: Back to the Lander (New Wheel Music) [12-06] - country
• The Ocean Blue: Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves (Korda) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver: What Is to Be Done (Clean Feed) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Bill O'Connell and the Afro Caribbean Ensemble: Wind Off the Hudson (Savant) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• Octavian: Endorphins (self-released) [06-13] - hip-hop
• Octo Octa: For Lovers (Technicolour -EP) [03-01] - tech house
• Octo Octa: Resonant Body (T4T LUV NRG) [09-06] - leftfield [***]
• Lucy O'Day and the Simon Latarche Trio: Honeymoon (self-released) - jazz
• Odd Okoddo: Auma (Pingipung) [10-18]
• Oddly Imploded: They Just Sit About (Shhpuma) - jazz
• Paul O'Dette: Albert De Rippe: Un Perfaict Sonneur De Leut (Harmonia Mundi) [10-18] - classical
• Leslie Odom Jr: Mr (S-Curve) [11-08] - vocal pop
• Senri Oe: Hmmm (Sony) [09-04] - jazz
• Of Mice & Men: Earth & Sky (Rise) [09-27] - alt metal
• Of Monsters and Men: Fever Dream (Republic) [07-26] - pop rock
• OFB: Frontstreet (Rattrap Reality) [08-16] - hip-hop
• Off With Their Heads: Be Good (Epitaph) [08-16] - punk rock
• Offset: Father of 4 (Motown/Quality Control) [02-22] - hip-hop
• O'Flynn: Aletheia (Silver Bear) [09-06] - tropical house
• OGJB Quartet [Oliver Lake/Graham Haynes/Joe Fonda/Barry Altschul]: Bamako (TUM) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• The Ogun Meji Duo: Spirits of the Egungun (CFG Multimedia) [01-23] - jazz [A-]
• Linda May Han Oh: Aventurine (Biophilia) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Oh, Rose: While My Father Sleeps (Park the Van) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Oh Sees: Face Stabber (Castle Face) [08-16] - garage rock
• Sean O'Hagan: Radium Calls, Radium Calls (Drag City) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Garrick Ohlsson: Brahms: Late Piano Works: Clavierstucke, Fantasias, Intermezzos (Hyperion) [01-04] - classical
• Josefin Ohrn + the Liberation: Sacred Dreams (Rocket) [04-26]
• Ohtis: Curve of Earth (Full Time Hobby) [03-29] - folk
• Oiseaux-Tempete: From Somewhere Invisible (Sub Rosa)
• The O'Jays: The Last Word (S-Curve) [04-19] - soul
• OjeRum: Alting Falder I Samme Rum (Sound in Silence) [05-29]
• Okada: Life Is But an Empty Dream (n5MD) [05-24]
• Miles Okazaki: The Sky Below (Pi) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Kele Okereke: 2042 (Kola) [11-08] - African
• May Okita: Art of Life (Origin) [01-18] - vocal [**]
• Vikingur Olafsson: JS Bach: Works & Reworks (Deutsche Grammophon) [11-01] - classical
• Alicia Olatuja: Intuition: Songs From the Minds of Women (Resilience Music) [02-22] - r&b
• Old Crow Medicine Show: Live at the Ryman () [10-04] - country
• Old Dominion: Old Dominion (RCA) [10-25] - country
• Old Man Saxon: Goldman Sax (Saxon Kincy -EP) [04-24] - hip-hop [**]
• Old Solar: SEE (627384 DK) [01-17] - rock
• Olden Yolk: Living Theatre (Trouble in Mind) [05-17] - baroque pop
• Oli XL: Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer (Bloom) [07-22] - UK bass
• Andrew Oliver/David Horniblow: The Complete Morton Project (Lejazzetal) [05-06] - jazz
• Olivia Jean: Night Owl (Third Man) [08-30] - alt/indie
• Isabelle Olivier/Rez Abbasi: OASIS (Enja/Yellowbird) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Angel Olsen: All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar) [10-04] - alt singer-songwriter [*]
• Matt Olson: 789 Miles (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Henrik Olsson/Ola Rubin: Olsson/Rubin (Barefoot) [11-19] - jazz [**]
• Olympia: Flamingo (Universal Music Australia) [07-05]
• Omma: 1905 (Antinote) [10-20] - electronic
• Omni: Networker (Sub Pop) [11-01]
• Ona: Full Moon, Heavy Light (Hickman Holler) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Ola Onabule: Point Less (Rugged Ram) [08-30] - vocal jazz [B]
• Aki Onda: A Method to Its Messiness (Thalamos) [02-13] - electronic
• JS Ondara: Tales of America (Verve Forecast) [02-01]
• Ondness: Not Really Now Not Any More (Holuzam) [05-30]
• One Eleven Heavy: Desire Path (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [09-20] - alt/indie
• One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2019 (North Texas Jazz) [11-22] - jazz [*]
• One Step Closer: From Me to You (Triple-B) [01-04] - alt/indie
• One True Pairing: One True Pairing (Domino) [09-20] - pop/rock
• Dona Onete: Rebujo (AmpliDiversao) [05-24] - Latin
• Tish Oney With the John Chlodini Trio: The Best Part (Blujazz) [08-30] - jazz [B-]
• Oompa: Cleo (OompOutLoud) [08-10] - hip-hop [A-]
• Oozing Wound: High Anxiety (Thrill Jockey) [03-15] - crossover thrash
• Opeth: In Cauda Venenum (Nuclear Blast) [09-27] - neo-prog
• Orchestra Entropy: Rituals (Discus) [07-02] - jazz
• Bill Orcutt: Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia) [10-11]
• Ordinary Elephant: Honest (Berkalin) [05-03]
• Meara O'Reilly: Hockets for Two Voices (Canteloupe -EP) [10-25]
• Organ Tapes: Hunger in Me Living (Tobago Tracks) [05-24]
• Origami Angel: Somewhere City (Chatterbot) [11-15]
• Ela Orleans: Movies for Ears (Night School) [02-13] - electronic
• Orodruin: Ruins of Ecstasy (Shadow Kingdom) [10-18] - metal
• Orouni: Partitions (December Square)
• Jim O'Rourke: To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye (Sonoris -4CD) [12-13] - experimental
• Jim O'Rourke: Steamroom 43 (Steamroom) [02-20] - experimental
• Bobby Oroza: This Love (Big Crown) [05-03]
• Carola Ortiz: Spirala (Balaio) [10-12] - jazz
• Joell Ortiz: Monday (Mello Music Group) [08-30] - hip-hop
• Anders Osborne: Buddha and the Blues (self-released) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Oslo 14 Vocal Ensemble: Ut=inn (Losen) [10-11] - vocal jazz
• Oso Oso: Basking in the Glow (Triple Crown) [08-16] - emo
• Sam Ospovat: Ride Angles (Skirl) [05-03] - jazz [**]
• Ossia: Devil's Dance (Blackest Ever Black) [02-08] - dark ambient
• Ossuarium: Living Tomb (20 Buck Spin) [02-01] - metal
• Daniel O'Sullivan: Folly (O Genesis) [04-05]
• Ot To Not To: Loved to Happen (New Info) [02-15] - alt r&b
• Otoboke Beaver: Itekoma Hits (Damnably) [04-26] - hardcore punk [**]
• Nao Otsuka: Tumblin (self-released) [01-09] - electronic
• Our Last Night: Let Light Overcome (self-released) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways) [02-22] - folk [A-]
• Out to Dinner: Different Flavors (Posi-Tone) - jazz
• Outer Spaces: Gazing Globe (self-released) [06-28]
• Ouzo Bazooka: Transporter (Tantana) [01-11] - rock
• Over the Rhine: Love & Revelation (Great Speckled Dog) [03-15]
• Kassa Overall: Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (self-released) [01-11] - jazz [**]
• Overkill: The Wings of War (Nuclear Blast) [02-22] - metal
• Jake Owen: Greetings From Jake Owen (Big Loud) [03-29] - country
• Ulysses Owens Jr: Songs of Freedom (Resilience Music) [01-25] - jazz [*]
• Danny Oxenberg and Bear Galvin: Early Abstractions Vol 1 (Three:Four) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Oxyd: The Lost Animals (Onze Heures Onze) - jazz
• Ozuna: Nibiru (Aura Music) [11-29] - reggaeton
• Mike Pachelli: High Standards (Fullblast) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Painted Faces: Tales From the Skinny Apartment (ESP-Disk -19) [2019-11-08] - experimental rock [B-]
• Paisiel [Joao Pais Filipe/Julius Gabriel]: Paisiel (Rocket) [03-22] - jazz
• Palehound: Black Friday (Polyvinyl) [06-07] - alt/indie
• The Ed Palermo Big Band: A Lousy Day in Harlem (Sky Cat) [04-12] - jazz
• Charlemagne Palestine + Rrose: The Goldennn Meeenn + Sheeenn (Eaux) [04-25]
• Amanda Palmer: There Will Be No Intermission (Cooking Vinyl) [03-08] - chamber pop
• Jason Palmer: Rhyme and Reason (Giant Step Arts -2CD) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Jason Palmer: Sweet Love: Jason Palmer Plays Anita Baker (SteepleChase) [08-15] - jazz
• Palmistry: Afterlife (Mixpack) [05-17] - electronic
• Pamcy: Binibini (Healthy Tapes) [07-30] - electronic
• Pan American: A Son (Kranky) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Panda Bear: Buoys (Domino) [02-08] - folktronica
• Paniyolo & Akio Watanabe: Passage of Sky (Schole)
• Christophe Panzani: Les Mauvais Temperaments (Jazz & People) [11-08] - jazz
• Jimbo Pap: It Can Always Get Worse (Fiesta Red) [09-13] - country
• Papa Roach: Who Do You Trust? (Eleven Seven) [01-18] - rock
• Papoose: Underrated (Honorable/Empire) [02-15] - hip-hop
• Papooz: Night Sketches (Half Awake) [03-08] - electronic
• Paranoid London: PL (self-released) [08-30] - electronic
• The Paranoid Style: A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life (Bar/None) [07-26] - alt/indie [***]
• The Paranoyds: Carnage Bargain (Suicide Squeeze) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Jon Pardi: Heartache Medication (Capitol/Snakefarm) [09-27] - new trad
• Emile Parisien Quartet: Double Screening (ACT) [01-00] - jazz
• Evan Parker/Paul G Smyth: Calenture and Light Leaks (Weekertoft) [03-02] - jazz [**]
• Evan Parker/Paul G Smyth: The Dogs of Nile (Weekertoft) - jazz
• Evan Parker & Kinetics: Chiasm (Clean Feed) [05-00] - jazz [A-]
• Evan Parker/Matthew Wright Trance Map+: Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf (Intakt) [08-19] - jazz
• Evan Parker/Lotte Anker/Torben Snekkestad: Inferences (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-14] - jazz [*]
• Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Concert in Vilnius (NoBusiness) [10-24] - jazz [***]
• Evan Parker/Joe McPhee/Lol Coxhill/Chris Corsano: Tree Dancing (Otoroku) - jazz
• Evan Parker/Agusti Fernandez/Ivo Sans: Locations (Vector) - jazz
• Evan Parker: Work in Progress (Vortex Jazz Club) - jazz
• Marianne Parker: Pages Intimes: Haitian Works for Solo Piano (self-releasesd) [02-11] - Haitian
• William Parker/In Order to Survive: Live/Shapeshifter (AUM Fidelity -2CD) [07-05] - jazz [A-]
• Andrea Parkins/Matthew Ostrowski: Elective Affinities (Infrequent Seams) [11-08] - jazz
• Zeena Parkins/Wobbly: Triplicates (Relative Pitch) [07-01] - jazz
• Charlie Parr: Charlie Parr (Red House) [08-30] - folk
• Nicki Parrott: From New York to Paris (Arbors) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Richard Reed Parry: Quiet River of Dust Vol 2: That Side of the River (Anti-) [06-21] - indie folk
• Parsnip: When the Tree Bears Fruit (Anti Fade) [08-09] - alt/indie
• Alan Parsons: The Secret (Frontiers) [04-26] - prog pop
• Partch Ensemble: Sonata Dementia (Bridge) [06-07] - jazz
• Partisans: Nit De Nit (Whirlwind) - jazz
• Party Knullers X Jaimie Branch: Live at the Casa (self-released) - jazz
• Tayla Parx: We Need to Talk (Taylamade/Atlantic) [04-05] - r&b
• Bennett Paster: Indivisible (self-released) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• PAT [Jacolby Satterwhite & Nick Weiss]: Love Will Find a Way Home (Pioneer Works Press) [10-25] - electronic
• Pataphysical: Periphera (12th Isle) [09-30] - electronic
• Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes (Spark) [03-01] - jazz
• Patience: Dizzy Spells (Winona) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Patio: Essentials (Fire Talk) [04-05] - post-punk
• John Patitucci: Soul of the Bass (self-released) [04-05] - jazz
• Rozina Patkai: Taladim (Tom-Tom) [11-01] - Hungarian [**]
• Patriarchy: Asking for It (Dero Arcade) [11-08] - electronic
• Patten: Flex (555-5555) [09-20] - electronic
• Rahsaan Patterson: Heroes & Gods (Shanachie) [05-17] - r&b
• Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier: Corpse Flower (Ipecac) [09-13] - art rock
• Jai Paul: Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (XL) [06-01] - alt r&b [**]
• Junius Paul: Ism (International Anthem) [11-22] - jazz [*]
• Zachary Paul: Meditation on Discord (Touch)
• Zed Yun Pavarotti: French Cash (Artside) [05-17] - hip-hop
• Pavo Pavo: Mystery Hour (Bella Union) [01-25] - alt/indie
• J Pavone String Ensemble: Brick and Mortar (Birdwatcher) [10-04] - jazz [B]
• Jessica Pavone: In the Action (Relative Pitch) [02-15] - jazz [**]
• Mario Pavone Dialect Trio: Philosophy (Clean Feed) [07-21] - jazz [***]
• Paws: Your Church on My Bonfire (Ernest Jenning) [04-26] - indie rock
• Liam Payne: LP1 (Capitol) [12-06] - electropop
• Nicholas Payton: Relaxin' With Nick (Smoke Sessions -2CD) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Vinnie Paz & Tragedy Khadafi: Camouflage Regime (Iron Tusk Music/Enemy Soil) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Peach Pyramid: Bright Blue (Oscar St) [09-30] - rock
• Peaer: A Healthy Earth (Tiny Engines) [08-16] - emo
• Pearring Sound: Nothing but Time (self-released) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Orville Peck: Pony (Sub Pop) [03-22] - alt-country [B-]
• Pedro the Lion: Phoenix (Polyvinyl) [01-18] - alt/indie [*]
• Wayne Peet Trio: What The? (pfMENTUM) [04-00] - jazz
• Ricardo Peixoto: Scary Beautiful (self-released) - jazz
• Katarina Pejak: Roads That Cross (Ruf) [02-15] - blues
• Pelada: Movimiento Para Cambio (Pan) [10-04] - UK bass
• Rich Pellegrin: Down (OA2) [02-15] - jazz [B]
• Pelican: Nighttime Stories (Southern Lord) [06-07] - post-metal
• Drew Pelisek: In Over Time (Pale Hush) [09-27] - rock
• Jeremy Pelt: Jeremy Pelt, the Artist (HighNote) [02-08] - jazz [*]
• Jack Penate: After You (XL) [11-29] - alt/indie
• Pendant: Through a Coil (Tiny Engines) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Penguin Cafe: Handfuls of Night (Erased Tapes) [10-04] - instrumental
• Pentagram Home Video: Who's There? I'm Here, You're Here (Death Waltz) [02-22] - electronic
• People Like Us: The Mirror (Discrepant) [10-18] - plunderphonics
• People Under the Stairs: Sincerely the P (Piecelock 70) [02-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Ken Peplowski/Diego Figueiredo: Amizade (Arbors) [05-10] - azz [*]
• Aleksi Perala: Sunshine 3 (Clone/DUB) [02-04] - ambient techno
• Aleksi Perala: Resonance (Trip) [11-29] - electronic
• Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red) [07-12] - alt/indie [**]
• Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Nate Wooley: Strings 3 (Leo) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Nate Wooley/Matthew Shipp: Strings 4 (Leo) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Efflorescence: Volume 1 (Leo -4CD) [07-26] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Live in Nuremberg (SMP) [11-15] - jazz
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Ineffable Joy (ESP-Disk) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Patricia Zarate Perez: Violetas (Cholo Music) [05-29] - jazz
• Perfect Son: Cast (Sub Pop) [02-15] - synthpop
• G Perico: Ten-Eight (Roc Nation) [08-23] - hip-hop
• Periphery: Periphery IV: Hail Stan (3Dot) [04-05] - progressive metal
• Miles Perkin Quartet: The Point in Question (Clean Feed) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• The Pernice Brothers: Spread the Feeling (Ashmont) [11-22] - alt/indie [*]
• Peter Perrett: Humanworld (Domino) [06-07] - alt/indie [A-]
• Sandro Perri: Soft Landing (Constellation) [09-06]
• Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford (On-U Sound) [05-31] - dub [A-]
• Lee Scratch Perry: Heavy Rain (On-U Sound) [12-06] - dub [A-]
• Lee Scratch Perry: Life of the Plants (Stones Throw -EP) [10-25] - reggae [***]
• PJ Perry Featuring Bill Mays: This Quiet Room (Cellar Live) [08-09] - jazz
• Houston Person: I'm Just a Lucky So and So (HighNote) [07-26] - jazz [A-]
• Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold: Lousy (Lauren) [09-23]
• Joe Pesci: Still Singing (BMG) [11-29] - jazz vocal
• Pet Shop Boys: Agenda (X2 -EP) [04-12] - dance-pop [**]
• Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (X2) [04-12] - dance-pop [A-]
• Petbrick: I (Rocket) [10-25] - industrial rock
• Peter Cat Recording Co: Bismillah (Panache) [06-07] - jazz pop
• Mark Peters: Ambient Innerland (Sonic Cathedral) [10-12] - ambient
• Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next Big Band: Listen Up! (Onyx) [11-12] - jazz
• Ralph Peterson & the Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive: Volume 6 at the Sidedoor (Onyx Productions) [05-20] - jazz [**]
• Peterson Kohler Collective: Winter Colors (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Petite League: Rattler (Zap World) [07-26] - rock
• Petlib: Maker (Beth Shalom) [08-09] - rock
• Petr Aleksander: Closer, Still (Nettwerk) [02-09] - indie classical
• Petra: The Building (Concord) [10-11]
• Kim Petras: Clarity (BunHead) [06-28] - pop
• Petrol Girls: Cut & Stitch (Hassle) [05-24] - garage rock
• Pets: Superdestroyer (Lonely Ghost) [10-01]
• Petty: How Low We In (self-released) [10-31] - hip-hop
• Peuk: Peuk (Fons) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Pharmakon: Devour (Sacred Bones) [08-30] - industrial
• Pheeyownah: Silver (Labrador) [05-03]
• Teymur Phell: Master Volume (self-released) [11-22] - jazz
• Phicus + Martin Kuchen: Sumpflegende (Fundacja Sluchaj) [04-10] - jazz [*]
• Anne Phillips: Live at the Jazz Bakery (Conawago) [10-01] - vocal jazz [B-]
• Zach Phillips: The Wine of Youth Demos ()
• Phora: Bury Me With Dead Roses (self-released) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Photonz: Angel Heart (Naive) [06-21] - electronic
• Photonz: Nuit (Dark Entries) [10-11] - techno
• Physical Therapy: It Takes a Village: The Sounds of Physical Therapy (Allergy Season) [05-03]
• Sandrine Piau/Le Concert DeLa Loge Julien Chauvin: Si J'ai Aime (Alpha) [05-24] - classical
• Alberto Pibiri & the Al Peppers: The Nacho Blues (Alberto Pibiri Music) [08-01] - jazz [*]
• PicaPica: Together & Apart (Rough Trade) [06-07] - indie folk
• Rebecca Pidgeon: Sudden Exposure to Light/Comfort (Toy Canteen) [07-26]
• Jim Piela: Out of Orbit (Orenda) [02-08] - jazz [***]
• Pijn & Conjurer: Curse These Metal Hands (Holy Roar) [08-16]
• Laurence Pike: Holy Spring (The Leaf Label) [05-17] - free improv
• Roberta Piket: Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz (Thirteenth Note) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Pile: Green and Gray (Exploding in Sound) [05-03] - post-hardcore
• Pinch: Reality Tunnels (Tectonic) [06-26] - electronic
• The Pineapple Thief: Hold Our Fire (Kscope) [11-15] - pop/rock
• The Pinheads: Is This Real (Farmer and the Owl) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Pink: Hurts 2B Human (RCA) [04-26] - pop [***]
• Ariel Pink: Loverboy (Mexican Summer) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Ariel Pink: Odditties Sodomies,Vol... (Mexican Summer) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Ariel Pink: Underground (Mexican Summer) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Pink Siifu/Yungmorpheus: Bag Talk (Bag Talk) [12-26] - hip-hop
• Pink Sweat$: Volume 2 (Human Re Sources -EP) [03-28] - r&b
• Pinkish Black: Concept Unification (Relapse) [06-14]
• Pinky Pinky: Turkey Dinner (Innovative Leisure) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Benoit Pioulard: Sylva (Morr Music) [11-22] - indie electronic
• Benoit Pioulard & Sean Curtis Patrick: Avocationals (Beacon Sound) [03-15] - electronic
• Pip Blom: Boat (Heavenly) [05-31] - indie pop [***]
• The Pirate Ship Quintet: Emitter (Denovali) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Piroshka: Brickbat (Bella Union) [02-15] - indie pop
• Michael Pisaro: Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Dumpf Edition) - jazz
• Pissgrave: Posthumous Humiliation (Profound Lore) [03-01] - death metal
• Pist Idiots: Ticker (Space 44) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Pivot Gang: You Can't Sit With Us (self-released) [04-19] - trap rap
• Pixies: Beneath the Eyrie (Infectious) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Pixx: Small Mercies (4AD) [06-07] - art pop
• Pizzagirl: First Timer (Heist or Hit) [10-11]
• The John Pizzarelli Trio: For Centennial Reasons: 100 Year Salute to Nat King Cole (Ghostlight) [02-08] - vocal jazz [**]
• Pkew Pkew Pkew: Optimal Lifestyles (Dine Alone) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Plague Vendor: By Night (Epitaph) [06-07] - punk
• Plaid: Polymer (Warp) [06-07] - electronic
• Plant43: Three Dimensions (Central Processing Unit) [03-29] - electronic
• Ben Platt: Sing to Me Instead (Atlantic) [03-29] - pop
• Mat Playford: Solar (Awesome Soundwave) [07-05]
• Pleasure Leftists: The Gate (Feel It) [07-12] - alt/indie
• Thelma Plum: Better in Blak (Warner) [06-12]
• PNL: Deux Freres (QLF) [04-05] - hip-hop
• The Po' Ramblin' Boys: Toil, Tears & Trouble (Rounder) [08-23] - country
• Harley Poe: Have a Great Life (self-released) [04-20] - folk
• Point North: Retrograde (We Are Triumphant) [02-01] - rock
• Gilles Poizat: Horse in the House (Carton)
• Caroline Polachek: Pang (Columbia) [10-18] - art pop [*]
• Polish Club: Iguana (Universal) [06-14]
• Kerry Politzer: Diagonal (self-released) - jazz
• Ryan Pollie: Ryan Pollie (Anti-) [05-17] - alt/indie
• Polo G: Die a Legend (Columbia) [06-07] - trap rap [**]
• Karine Polwart: Karie Polwart's Scottish Songbook (Hegri) [08-02] - folk
• Polyorchard: Black Mountain (Out and Gone) - jazz
• Polyorchard: Sommian (Out and Gone) - jazz
• Pom Poko: Birthday (Bella Union) [02-22] - dance punk [*]
• Pond: Tasmania (Marathon Artists) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Pontiac Streator/Ula Straus: 11 Items (West Mineral) [07-18] - electronic
• Iggy Pop: Free (Loma Vista) [09-06] - art rock
• Pop 1280: Way Station (Weyrd Son) [12-06]
• Porangui: Porangui (Sol Creation) [03-01] - world
• Charlie Porter: Immigration Nation (OA2) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Ryan Porter: Force for Good (World Galaxy) [06-14] - jazz
• Portico Quartet: Memory Streams (Gondwana) [10-04] - nu jazz [*]
• Portraits Jazz Project: Portraits Featuring Adalia Tara (self-released) - jazz
• Mike Posner: A Real Good Kid (Island) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Possessed: Revelations of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast) [05-10] - death metal
• Possible Humans: Everybody Split (Trouble in Mind)
• Post Malone: Hollywood's Bleeding (Republic) [09-06] - hip-hop [B]
• Sarah Potenza: Road to Rome (self-released) [03-08] - country
• Chris Potter: Circuits (Edition) [02-22] - jazz [B-]
• Grace Potter: Daylight (Fantasy) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Pottery: No 1 (Partisan) [05-10] - art punk
• Potty Mouth: Snafu (Get Better) [03-01] - pop punk
• Powder: Powder in Space (DJ Mix) (Beats in Space) [02-15] - electronica [**]
• Power Glove: Playback (So Bad) [05-17] - electronic
• Pozi: PZ1 (Prah) [04-05]
• Lisa Prank: Perfect Love Song (Father/Daughter) [10-04] - punk-pop
• Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer) [02-08] - folk [B-]
• The Prefects: Going Through the Motions (Call of the Void) [11-29] - pop/rock
• Noah Preminger: After Life (Criss Cross) [05-06] - jazz [**]
• Noah Preminger Group: Zigsaw: Music of Steve Lampert (self-released) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Noah Preminger: Preminger Plays Preminger (Newvelle) - jazz
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band: A Tuba to Cuba (Sub Pop) [06-28] - jazz [*]
• Tim Presley & White Fence: I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk (Drag City) [01-25] - psychedelic pop
• Kyle Press: Overtones, Drones, and Saxophones (No Rent) [04-02] - jazz
• Press Club: Wasted Energy (self-released) [08-16] - alt/indie
• Pretty Sneaky: 3 (self-released -EP) [07-01] - techno
• Pretty Vicious: Beauty of Youth (Big Machine) [07-12] - garage rock
• Priests: The Seduction of Kansas (Sister Polygon) [04-05] - post-punk [***]
• The Prime Movers: The Prime Movers Blues Band (Modern Harmonic) [12-13] - blues
• Prince Daddy & the Hyena: Cosmic Thrill Seekers (Counter Intuitive) [06-28] - punk
• Bill Pritchard & Frederic Lo: Rendez-vous Streets (Water Music) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Proc Fiskal: Shleekit Doss (Hyperdub -EP) [09-13]
• Justus Proffit: LA's Got Me Down (Bar/None) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Prolapse: Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes (Jetset) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Pronoun: I'll Show You Stronger (Rhyme & Reason) [05-24] - synthpop
• The Proper Ornaments: Six Lenins (Tapete)
• Prosper & Stabfinger: Fire in the Remix (Bombstrikes) [02-15]
• Ian Prowse: Here I Lie (Kitchen Disco) [04-26]
• Psalm One: Flight of the Wig (Charm Lab) [06-19] - hip-hop
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: And Now What for the Whatchamacallit (Marathon Artists/What Reality?) [05-31] - psychedelic rock
• The Psychotic Monks: Private Meaning First (Vicious Circle) [03-29] - alt/indie
• PTU: Am I Who I Am (Trip) [06-21] - electronic
• Pumarosa: Devastation (Fiction) [11-15]
• Punk Kong: Pull Ninja (El Negocito) [05-26] - jazz
• PUP: Morbid Stuff (Rise/BMG) [04-05] - pop punk [B]
• Massimo Farjon Pupillo: Massimo Farjon Pupillo (Oltrarno) [04-16]
• Puppy: The Goat (Spinefarm) [01-25] - metal
• Pure Bathing Culture: Night Pass (Infinite Companion) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains (Drag City) [07-12] - alt/indie [***]
• Pursuit Grooves: Bess (What Rules) [11-15]
• PVRIS: Hallucinations (Warner -EP) [10-25] - electropop
• Pye Corner Audio: Hollow Earth (Ghost Box) [02-15] - prog electronic
• Pyur: Oratorio for the Underworld (Subtext) [10-14] - electronic
• Qualiatik: Discarnate (Psychoid Devices -EP) [06-17]
• Quando Rondo: From the Neighborhood to the Stage (Quando Rondo/Never Broke Again/Atlantic) [05-10] - hip-hop
• Quantic: Atlantic Oscillations (Tru Thoughts) [06-21]
• Quatuor Diotima: Bela Bartok: Integrale Des Quatuors A Cordes (Naive) [04-05] - classical
• The Quebe Sisters: The Quebe Sisters (self-released) [09-20] - country
• Queen Key: Eat My Pussy (Again) (Machine Entertainment Group) [03-21] - hip-hop [A-]
• Queen Moo: Faint Sounds of Us Hanging Out (TwoMoo) [07-05] - rock
• Queen of Jeans: If You're Not Afraid, I'm Not Afraid (Topshelf) [08-23]
• Queen Zee: Queen Zee (Sasstone) [02-08] - garage punk
• Queensryche: The Verdict (Century Media) [03-01] - metal
• Quelle Chris: Guns (Mello Music Group) [03-29] - hip-hop [***]
• The Quiet Temple: The Quiet Temple (Point of Departure/Wichita) [07-19] - instrumental rock
• Ted Quinlan: Absollutely Dreaming (self-released) [11-29] - Jazz
• David Quinn: Wanderin' Fool (self-released) [04-05] - country
• Quireboys: Amazing Disgrace (Off Yer Rocka) [04-05] - rock
• Quirke: Steal a Golden Hail (Whities) [12-06] - electronic
• RaaDie: Vast Potential (Traumton) [01-25] - jazz
• Michele Rabbia/Gianluca Petrella/Eivind Aarset: Lost River (ECM) [05-31] - jazz [B]
• Rabit: The Dope Show (self-released) [01-10] - electronic
• The Raconteurs: Help Us Stranger (Third Man) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Bogdan Raczynski: Rave 'Till You Cry (Disciples) [04-05] - techno
• Radamiz: Nothing Changes If Nothing Change (Payday) [10-04] - hip-hop
• Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else: Hot Spring (Run for Cover) [05-17] - indie folk
• Radiator Hospital: Sings Music for Daydreaming (Salinas) [05-10] - rock
• Kojey Radical: Cashmere Tears (Asylum/Atlantic) [09-13] - grime [*]
• Radical Empathy Trio: Reality and Other Imaginary Places (ESP-Disk) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Eliane Radigue: Occam Ocean 2 (Shilin) [08-00] - drone
• Harish Raghavan: Calls for Action (Whirlwind) [11-08] - jazz
• Michael Ragonese: Day to Day (self-released) [06-01] - jazz
• The Rails: Cancel the Sun (Psychonaut Sounds) [08-16] - pop/rock
• Lena Raine: Oneknowing (Local Action) [03-29]
• Rainer Veil: Vanity (Modern Love) [05-09] - ambient techno
• Tom Rainey Trio With Mary Halvorson and Ingrid Laubrock: Combobulated (Intakt) [02-01] - jazz [***]
• Shez Raja: Journey to Shambhala (Raja) - jazz
• Jordan Rakei: Origin (Ninja Tune) [06-14] - r&b
• Rakta: Falha Commun (Damada Noite) [04-01] - postpunk
• Lenin Ramirez: Seguimos Adelante (DEL) [09-13] - Mexican
• Rammstein: Rammstein [Untitled] (Vertigo/Capitol) [05-17] - industrial metal
• Tyler Ramsey: For the Morning (Fantasy) [04-05] - alt/indie
• RAMZi: Multiquest Niveau 1: Camoufle (FATi) [11-26] - electronic
• Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/Marc Urselli/Balasz Pandi: Raqnaldo/Jarmusch/Urselli/Pandi (Trost) - jazz
• Robert Randolph & the Family Band: Brighter Days (Provogue) [08-23] - gospel
• Hania Rani: Esja (Gondwana) [04-05]
• Ranky Tanky: Good Time (Resilience Music Alliance) [07-12] - jazz
• Iiro Rantala: My Finnish Calendar (ACT) [08-30] - jazz
• RAP: Export (Jolly Discs) [02-28]
• Rapsody: Eve (Roc Nation) [08-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Mette Rasmussen/Julien Desprez: The Hatch (Dark Tree) [06-24] - jazz [**]
• Rastronaut: Calhariz/Massama N/Portas (Roska Kick & Snares) [10-18] - electronic
• Rat Boy: Internationally Unknown (Parlophone/Hellcat) [01-25] - rap rock
• Rat Fancy: Stay Cool (HHBTM) [06-07] - power pop
• Andrew Rathbun: Character Study (SteepleChase) - jazz
• Rational Anthem: It's Only Permanent (A-F) [11-01] - alt/indie
• Maja SK Ratkje: Sult (Rune Grammofon) [03-08]
• Ratso: Stubborn Heart (Lucky Number) [04-05]
• Enrico Rava/Joe Lovano: Roma (ECM) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Raveena: Lucid (Moonstone/Empire) [05-31] - r&b
• Bob Ravenscroft & Inner Journeys: Phantasmagoria (OA2) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Sugaray Rayford: Somebody Save Me (Forty Below) [03-01] - blues
• John Raymond: Real Feels Live Vol 2 (Sunnyside) [01-25] - jazz
• Real Life Rock & Roll Band: Hollerin' the Spirit (Geomancy) [10-03] - rock
• Red Hearse: Red Hearse (RCA) [08-16]
• Red Kite: Red Kite (RareNoise) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Red River Dialect: Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (Paradise of Bachelors) [09-27] - indie folk
• Trippie Redd: A Love Letter to You 4 (Ten Thousand Projects) [11-22] - hip-hop
• Redd Kross: Beyond the Door (Merge) [08-23] - power pop
• Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May (Nonesuch) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider: Sun on Sand (Nonesuch) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Redrago: Redrago (Life and Death)
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples: Anxiety Art (Pretty Olivia) [08-05] - indie pop
• Eli "Paperboy" Reed: 99 Cent Dreams (Yep Roc) [04-12] - blues
• Eric Reed: Everybody Gets the Blues (Smoke Sessions) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Refused: War Music (Spinefarm) [10-18] - post-hardcore
• Fionn Regan: Cala (Abbey) [08-09] - singer-songwriter
• Reut Regev R*Time: Keep Winning (Enja) [08-02] - jazz [A-]
• The Regrettes: How Do You Love? (Warner Bros) [08-09] - alt/indie [***]
• Regular Citizen: Sleeping Unique (Presto!?) [05-31] - electronic
• Sofia Rei & JC Maillard: Keter [John Zorn Masada Book 3] (Tzadik) [01-25] - jazz
• Scott Reich: Instar (Heart Dance)
• Ellen Reid: Prism (Decca Gold) [08-23] - opera
• Reliant K2: Reliant K2 (self-released) [11-24]
• Roseanne Reid: Trails (Last Man Music) [04-05] - country
• Sarah Belle Reid: Underneath and Sonder (Pfmentum) [10-18] - jazz
• Tomeka Reid/Filippo Monico: The Mouser (Relative Pitch) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
• Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New (Cuneiform) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Relaxer: Coconut Grove (Avenue 66) [10-18] - ambient techno
• Rema: Rema (Mavin/Jozing) [03-22] - African
• Dave Rempis/Brandon Lopez/Ryan Packard: The Early Bird Gets (Aerophonic) [02-26] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Rempis/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra + Jim Baker: Apsis (Aerophonic) [08-26] - jazz [A-]
• Resavoir: Resavoir (International Anthem) [06-28] - jazz [B]
• Cene Resnik Trio Watch for Dogs: Shades of Colors (Not Two) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Cene Resnik Free Stellar Trio + Rob Mazurek: Age of Chaos (Clean Feed) [07-21] - jazz
• The Resonars: No Exit (Trouble in Mind) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Response & Pliskin: We're All Disturbed (Western Lore) [07-12]
• Joe Restivo: Where's Joe? (Blue Barrel) [07-12] - jazz
• Dreamville: Revenge of the Dreamers III (Dreamville/Interscope) [07-05] - hip-hop [*]
• The Revelers: At the End of the River (Revelers) [11-08] - folk
• Revive the Rose: Revive the Rose (Snareguy) [05-25]
• Rex Orange County: Pony (RCA) [10-25] - indie pop [B]
• Rexx Life Raj: Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There (Rexx Life/Empire) [11-06] - hip-hop
• Ellynne Rey: The Birdsong Project (self-released) [05-01] - jazz [B]
• Graham Reynolds: Marfa: A Country & Western Big Band Suite (Golden Hornet) [11-22] - country
• Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross: Watchmen: Vol 1 [Music From the HBO Series] (Null) [11-04] - soundtrack
• Rowan Rheingans: The Lines We Draw Together (Red Dress) [08-23] - folk
• Thomas Rhett: Center Point Road (Valory) [05-31] - country
• The Rhyolite Sound: Mojave Gold (self-released) [10-25] - country
• Gruff Rhys: Pang! (Rough Trade) [09-13]
• The Rhythm Method: How Would You Know I Was Lonely? (Moshi Moshi) [06-21] - synth pop
• Jess Ribeiro: Love Hate (Barely Dressed) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Roddy Ricch: Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial (Dream Chasers) [12-06] - trap rap
• Robert Rich: Tactile Ground (Soundscape Productions) [02-01] - ambient
• Rich Ruth: Calming Signals (General General/Plant Life) [10-25] - jazz
• Dawn Richard: New Breed (Local Action) [01-25] - alt r&b
• Steph Richards: Take the Neon Lights (Birdwatcher) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Leo Richardson Quartet: Move (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
• Sorcha Richardson: First Prize Bravery (R&R Digital) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Ride: This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita) [08-16] - shoegaze
• Freya Ridings: Freya Ridings (Good Soldier/Capitol) [07-19] - indie pop
• Riel: Espacio Interior (Buen Dia) [05-10] - rock
• Right Hand Left Zone: Zone Rouge (Bubblewrap Collective) [11-15]
• Herlin Riley: Perpetual Optimism (Mack Avenue) [04-12] - jazz [*]
• Stephen Riley: Oleo (SteepleChase) [08-15] - jazz [***]
• Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys: 30 Years Live (Valcour) [06-14] - cajun
• Jason Ringenberg: Stand Tall (Courageous Chicken) [02-07] - country [A-]
• Riot Ensemble: Speak, Be Silent (Huddersfield Contemporary) [03-15] - classical
• RIP Hayman: Dreams of India & China (Recital) [04-19]
• Ripperton: Contrails (ESP Institute) [06-07]
• Rise: Strangers (Wise Queen)
• Rising: House of Waters (GroundUP) - jazz
• Rising Sun Daughter: I See Jane (Modern Works -EP) [10-04] - folk
• Eve Risser: Apres Un Reve (Clean Feed) [09-00] - jazz
• Manja Ristic: The Black Isle (Flag Day) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Josh Ritter: Fever Breaks (Pytheas) [04-26] - singer-songwriter
• Ritual Howls: Rendered Armor (Felte) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Rival Sons: Feral Roots (Low Country Sound/Atlantic) [01-25] - rock
• Diego Rivera: Connections (Posi-Tone) - jazz
• Steve Roach: Bloom Ascension (Projekt) [08-30]
• J Robbins: Un-Becoming (Dischord) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Alasdair Roberts: The Fiery Margin (Drag City) [09-13]
• David Ian Roberts: Traveling Bright (Cambrian)
• John Roberts: Can Thought Exist Without the Body (Brunette) [10-18] - electronic
• Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Troy Roberts: Days Like These (Toy Robot Music) - jazz
• Robbie Robertson: Sinematic (Universal) [09-20] - rock
• The Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Servants of the Sun (Silver Arrow) [06-14] - rock
• Emily Scott Robinson: Traveling Mercies (Tone Tree Music) [02-22] - folk [***]
• Michael Robinson: Spirit Lady (Azure Miles) [10-25] - raga
• Michael Robinson: Tunis Phantom (Azure Miles) - raga
• Scott Robinson: Tenormore (Arbors Jazz) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Tad Robinson: Real Street (Severn) [09-13] - blues
• Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis: Beautiful Lie (Next Waltz) [06-21] - country [**]
• Jim Robitaille Group: A View From Within (Whaling City Sound) [10-18] - jazz
• Christophe Rocher/Joe Fonda/Harvey Sorgen: New Origin (Not Two) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Rocket 808: Rocket 808 (12XU) [10-18] - rockabilly [B]
• The Rocket Summer: Sweet Shivers (LAB) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Rocketship: Thanks to You (Darla) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mettavolution (AT) [04-26]
• Alfredo Rodriguez/Pedrito Martinez: Duologue (Mack Avenue) [02-01] - Latin jazz [***]
• Maggie Rogers: Heard It in a Past Life (Capitol) [01-18] - synthpop [**]
• The Randy Rogers Band: Hellbent (Tommy Jackson) [04-26] - country
• Rome: Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro (Trisol) [01-18] - neofolk
• Romeo Elvis: Chocolat (Barclay) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Romperayo: Que Jue? (Souk -18) [2018-12-07] - Colombia
• Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble: Side Three: New Work (Edgetone) [03-11] - jazz [***]
• Leo Rondeau: Right on Time (self-released) [03-08] - country
• Wallace Roney: Blue Dawn-Blue Nights (HighNote) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Ronin Arkestra: Sonkei (Albert's Favorites) [09-25] - jazz
• Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings (RCA) [06-21] - pop [*]
• Lilien Rosarian: A Day in Bel Bruit (1321678 DK) [06-10] - elecronic
• Esther Rose: You Made It This Far (Father/Daughter) [08-23] - country
• Lucy Rose: No Words Left (Arts & Crafts) [03-22] - singer-songwriter
• Simon Rose/Steve Noble: North Sea Night (Not Two) - jazz
• Rose City Band: Rose City Band (Jean Sandwich) [05-24]
• Marlene Rosenberg: MLK Convergence (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Rosengarden Funeral Party: Martyr (Moon Sounds)
• Kurt Rosenwinkel Bandit 65: Searching the Continuum (Heartcore) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba: Hallowed (Advance Dance Disques) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Yoram Rosilio & the Anti Rubber Brain Factory: Ensuenos Burlescos, Peligrosos y Misticos de Tierras Mexicanas (LFDS) [05-12] - jazz
• Joel Ross: KingMaker (Blue Note) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Maddie Ross: Never Have I Ever (Sentimental) [05-10] - power pop
• Rick Ross: Port of Miami 2 (Epic/Maybach) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Ross From Friends: Epiphany (Brainfeeder) [08-16] - deep house
• Daniel Rotem: Serenading the Future (self-released) - jazz
• Rotten Girlz: Punk You (Sazas) - jazz [*]
• Claire Rousay: Aerophobia (Astral Spirits) [06-14] - jazz
• Ellen Rowe Octet: Momentum: Portraits of Women in Motion (Smokin' Sleddog) [01-01] - jazz
• Emily Rowed: April (604) [04-12]
• Royal Republic: Club Majesty (Nuclear Blast) [05-31] - rock
• Royal Trux: White Stuff (Fat Possum) [02-08] - garage rock [**]
• Rozi Plain: What a Boost (Memphis Industries) [04-05] - art pop
• RPM: Just Like Falling (Unseen Rain) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Rrose: Hymn to Moisture (Eaux) [11-08] - electronic
• RRoxymore: Face to Phase (self-released) [09-27] - electronic
• Vanessa Rubin: The Dream Is You: Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron (Nibur) [02-22] - jazz
• Rucci: Tako's Son (Empire) [08-16] - hip-hop
• Georg Ruby: Village Zone (JazzHAusMusik) [04-16] - jazz
• Jordan Rudess: Wired for Madness (Music Theories) [04-19] - rock
• Ruby Rushton: Ironside (22a) [04-05] - jazz [B]
• Rudimental: Toast to Our Differences (Asylum) [01-25] - electropop
• Dave Rudolph Quintet: Resonance (self-released) [01-04] - jazz [*]
• Chanda Rule: Sapphire Dreams (PAO) - vocal jazz [B]
• Charles Rumback: Cadillac Turns (Astral Spirits) [03-22] - jazz
• Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker: Little Common Twist (Thrill Jockey) [11-08] - jazz
• Runaway June: Blue Roses (Wheelhouse) [06-28] - country pop
• Bobby Rush: Sitting on Top of the Blues (Deep Rush) [08-16] - blues
• Patrice Rushen: Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984 (Strut) [07-19] - r&b [*]
• James Ruskin: Reality Broadcast Off (Blueprint -EP) [07-19] - techno
• Catherine Russell: Alone Together (Dot Time) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Tom Russell: October in the Railroad Earth (Proper) [03-15] - country
• Russian Circles: Blood Year (Sargent House) [08-02] - post-rock
• Russian Girlfriends: In the Parlance of Our Times (A-F) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Russkaja: No One Is Illegal (Starwatch Entertainment) [03-29] - rock
• Rustin Man: Drift Code (Domino) [02-01] - art rock
• Kelly Ruth: Forms (Pseudo Laboratories) [01-24] - noise
• Markus Rutz: Blueprints Figure One: Frameworks (OA2) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• RXM Reality: Devil World Wide (Hausu Mountain) [07-19] - electronic
• RY X: Unfurl (Infectious Music) [02-15] - folktronica
• Bill Ryder-Jones: Yawny Yawn (Domino) [07-26] - indie folk
• Rymden: Reflections & Odysseys (Jazzland) [02-08] - jazz
• Raphael Saadiq: Jimmy Lee (Columbia) [08-23] - r&b [A-]
• Ustad Saami: God Is Not a Terrorist (Glitterbeat) [01-18] - Pakistan [C]
• Sabaton: The Great War (Nuclear Blast) [07-19] - power metal
• Maverick Sabre: When I Wake Up (FAMM) [03-22] - r&b
• Sacred Paws: Run Around the Sun (Merge/Rock Action) [05-31] - post-punk
• Sacred Reich: Awakening (Metal Blade) [08-23] - thrash metal
• Sacri Monti: Waiting Room for the Magic Hour (Tee Pee) [07-05] - alt/indie
• Sada Baby: Bartier Bounty (Asylum) [01-25] - hip-hop
• SadGirl: Water (Suicide Squeeze) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: You Don't Know the Life (RareNoise) [01-25] - jazz [B]
• The Jamie Saft Quartet: Hidden Corners (RareNoise) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Sahbabil: 3P (Casting Ball -EP) [02-26]
• Saint Abdullah: Mechanical Flirtations (True Aether) [06-13]
• Saint Agnes: Welcome to Silvertown (Death or Glory Gang) [05-03] - rock
• Saint Jhn: Ghetto Lenny's Love Songs (Godd Complexx/Hitco) [08-23] - pop rap
• Saint Motel: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Part 1 (Elektra -EP) [10-16]
• Saint Vitus: Saint Vitus (Season of Mist) [05-17] - metal
• Takako Saito: Spontaneous Music (Edition Telemark) [01-18]
• Suso Saiz: Nothing Is Objective (Music From Memory) [04-08] - electronic
• Sakata/Yermenoglou/Di Domenico/Damianidis: Horyu-Ji (El Negocito) - jazz
• Salami Rose Joe Louis: Zdenka 2080 (Brainfeeder) [08-30] - art pop
• Samo Salamon & Freequestra: Free Sessions, Vol. 2: Freequestra (Sazas/Klopotec) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
• Samo Salamon/Szilard Mezei/Jaka Berger: Swirling Blind Unstilled (Klopotec) - jazz [**]
• Dua Saleh: Nur (Against Giants -EP) [01-03] - hip-hop [**]
• SAM: Fury's Laughter (Delaphine -EP) [06-17] - house
• Sampa the Great: The Return (Ninja Tune) [09-13] - neo-soul [**]
• San Fermin: The Cormorant I (Sony Masterworks) [10-04]
• Antonio Sanchez & Migration: Lines in the Sand (CAM Jazz) [01-25] - jazz
• David Sanchez: Carib (Ropeadope) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Marta Sanchez Quintet: El Rayo De Luz (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-22] - jazz [A-]
• Moises P Sanchez: Unbalanced: Concerto for Ensemble (Uno Musica) [04-12] - jazz
• Poncho Sanchez: Trane's Delight (Concord Picante) [09-20] - jazz [B]
• Emeli Sande: Real Life (Virgin EMI) [09-13] - pop
• Nick Sanders Trio: Playtime 2050 (Sunnyside) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• JC Sanford Quartet: Keratoconus (Shifting Paradigm) [09-27] - jazz
• Carmen Sandim: Play Doh (Ropeadope) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• Hama Sankare: Niafunke (Clermont Music) [04-12] - Malian [***]
• Sanna: Carbon Compound Combinations (KWAM YC) [05-17]
• Santana: In Search of Mona Lisa (Concord) [01-25] - rock
• Santana: Africa Speaks (Concord) [06-07] - Latin rock [B]
• Romeo Santos: Utopia (Sony Latin) [04-05] - Latin
• Lara Sarkissian: Peninsula (All Centre -EP) [07-05] - deconstructed club
• Molly Sarle: Karaoke Angel (PTKF) [09-20] - indie folk
• Sasami: Sasami (Domino) [03-08] - dream pop [*]
• Julie Sassoon/Willie Kellers: Waves (Jazzwerkstatt) [06-14] - jazz
• Toyohiko Satoh: Iki (Carpe Diem) [10-11] - Japanese
• Sauce Walka: New Sauce City (The Sauce Familia) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Dana Saul: Ceiling (Endectomorph) [09-13] - jazz [A-]
• Sault: 5 (Forever Living Originals) [05-05] - neo-soul [A-]
• Sault: 7 (Forever Living Originals) [09-27] - neo-soul [A-]
• Savage Mansion: Revision Ballads (Lost Map) [02-15]
• Saver: They Came With Sunlight (Pelagic) [03-08]
• Jack Savoretti: Singing to Strangers (BMG) [03-22]
• Saweetie: Icy (Artistry/Warner Bros -EP) [03-29] - trap rap
• Saxophone Summit: Street Talk (Enja/Yellowbird) [09-27] - jazz
• Say Anything: Oliver Appropriate (Dine Alone) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Scarecrow: Scarecrow (Ritual Sound)
• Schacke: Kisloty Forever (Kisloty -EP) [07-00] - ambient
• Schammasch: Hearts of No Light (Prosthetic) [11-08] - metal
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Thomas Johansson: As We See It . . . (Clean Feed) - jazz [***]
• Jenny Scheinman/Allison Miller: Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller's Parlour Game (Royal Potato Family) [08-02] - jazz [***]
• Rob Scheps: Comencio (SteepleChase) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Mighty Mike Schermer: Bad Tattoo (Finedog/VizzTone) [03-22] - blues
• Udo Schindler/Jaap Blonk: Hillside Talks (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Daniel Schlappi/Marc Copland: Alice's Wonderland (Catwalk) - jazz
• School of Language: 45 (Memphis Industries) [07-26] - indie pop
• Louis Sclavis: Characters on a Wall (ECM) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Schoolboy Q: CrasH Talk (Top Dawg/Interscope) [04-26] - trap rap
• Marianne Schuppe: Nosongs (Edition Wandelweiser) - jazz
• Rob Schwimmer: Heart of Hearing (Sunken Heights Music) [06-01] - jazz
• Fabrizio Sciacca Quartet: Gettin' It There (self-released) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• Scopes [Ben Van Gelder/Tony Tixier/Tom Berkmann/Mathias Ruppnig]: Scopes (Whirlwind) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Scorn: Cafe Mor (Ohm Resistance) [11-15]
• Bill Scorzari: Now I'm Free (self-released) [09-20] - folk
• Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Ancestral Recall (Ropeadope) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Dave Scott: In Search of Hipness (SteepleChase) [01-15] - jazz [*]
• Kendrick Scott Oracle: A Wall Becomes a Bridge (Blue Note) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• R Scott: Ghosts of Merced (Orenda) [06-15] - jazz
• Scrap Brain: A Journey Into Madness (Drunken Sailor) [04-05] - hardcore
• Script: Sunsets & Full Moons (Columbia) [11-08] - pop/rock
• Sea Change: Inside (Shapes) [11-15]
• Seablite: Grass Stains and Novelties (Emotional Response) [06-06] - indie pop
• Seaway: Fresh Produce (Pure Noise) [04-19] - rock
• Sebadoh: Act Surprised (Dangerbird) [05-24] - alt/indie
• SebastiAn: Thirst (Because Music) [11-08] - electronic
• Kit Sebastian: Mantra Moderne (Mr Bongo) [07-19] - psychedelic pop
• Sech: Suenos (Rich Music) [04-19] - Latin
• Secret Shame: Dark Synthetics (self-released -EP) [09-06] - alt/indie
• See You Space Cowboy: Songs for the Firing Squad (Pure Noise) [01-25] - rock
• See You Space Cowboy: The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds (Pure Noise) [09-27] - mathcore
• SEED Ensemble: Driftglass (Jazz Re:freshed) [02-08] - jazz [*]
• Seeker Lover Keeper: Wild Seeds (self-released) [08-09] - folk
• Ty Segall: Deforming Lobes (Drag City) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Ty Segall: First Taste (Drag City) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Ty Segall: Pig Man Lives Vol 1... (Sea Note) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Sego: Sego Sucks (Roll Call) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Seizures: Reverie of the Revolving Diamond (Sun Terrace) [10-04]
• Self Esteem: Compliments Please (Fiction) [03-01] - electropop
• Selfish Things: Logos (Pure Noise) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Will Sellenraad/Eric McPherson/Rene Hart: Greene Street Vol 1 (Deko) [-06-14] - jazz
• Asya Selyutina: Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes & Fugues Vol 1 (Naxos) [12-13] - classical
• The Selva: Canicula Rosa (Clean Feed) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Derek Senn: How Could a Man (self-released) [05-10] - folk [***]
• Senor Groove: Little Havana (Zoho) [04-05] - Latin jazz
• Sensaround: Heart/Noise (HellosQuare) [05-13] - experimental
• The Sensational Barnes Brothers: Nobody's Fault but Mine (Bible & Tire) [09-20] - blues
• Sensible Soccers: Aurora (Brandimusic) [03-15] - art pop
• Serengeti: Music From the Graphic Novel Kenny Vs the Dark Web (Burnco -EP) [02-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Rachel Sermanni: So It Turns (self-released) [08-23]
• Erick Sermon: Vernia (Def Squad) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Serpent Column: Mirror in Darkness (1516887 DK) [09-09] - metal
• Marco Serrato/Francesco Covarino: Bestemmia (Raw Tonk) [04-08] - jazz
• Sessa: Grandeza (RISCO) [04-25] - MPB
• Vivian Sessoms: Life II (Ropeadope) [05-17] - jazz
• Elena Setien: Another Kind of Revolution (Thrill Jockey) [02-15] - indie pop
• Setola Di Maiale Unit & Evan Parker: Live at Angelica 2018 (Setola di Maiale) - jazz
• SFJAZZ Collective: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Original Compositions (SFJAZZ) [04-05] - jazz
• Sfyria Trio: Rockefeller Concert (Astral Spirits) [08-23] - jazz
• Shadi: You Can't Hear Me (Deathbomb Arc) [08-02]
• Finlay Shakespeare: Domestic Economy (Editions Mego) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Shapednoise: Aesthesis (Numbers) [11-08] - electronic
• Julia Shapiro: Perfect Version (Hardly Art) [06-14] - dream pop
• Shards: Find Sound (Erased Tapes) [08-30]
• Elliott Sharp/Frances-Marie Uitti: Peregrinations (Zoar) [11-15] - jazz
• Avery Sharpe: 400: An African American Musical Portrait (JKNM) - jazz
• Jas Shaw: Exquisite Cops (Delicacies)
• Matthew Shaw: Among the Never Setting Stars (Blackest Rainbow) [01-25]
• The Sh-Booms: The Blurred Odyssey (Limited Fanfare) [03-22] - alt/indie
• She Keeps Bees: Kinship (Ba Da Bing!) [05-10] - alt/indie
• She Past Away: Disko Anksiyete (Metropolis) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Shed: Oderbruch (Ostgut Ton) [11-29] - electronic [***]
• Sheer Mag: A Distant Call (Wilsuns) [08-23] - garage rock [**]
• Ed Sheeran: No 6 Collaborations Project (Asylum) [07-12] - pop rap [**]
• Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Transitions (MSO) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Shelea: Pretty World: A Tribute to Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Bungalo/Breath of Life) [03-08] - vocal jazz
• Shellac: The End of Radio (Touch & Go) [06-14]
• Joan Shelley: Like the River Loves the Sea (No Quarter) [08-30] - indie folk
• Blake Shelton: Fully Loaded: God's Country (Warner Music Nashville) [12-13] - country
• Ben Shemie: A Skeleton (Hands in the Dark) [02-15] - experimental
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: The Traveler (Concord) [05-31] - blues
• Bob Sheppard: The Fine Line (Challenge) [05-03] - jazz [**]
• The Sherlocks: Under Your Sky (BMG) [10-04]
• Leo Sherman: Tonewheel (Outside In Music) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• Chris Shiflett: Hard Lessons (Each Beach) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Shigeto: Versions (Ghostly International) [09-20] - jazz
• Hideaki Shimada/Evan Parker/Roger Turner: Kanazawa Duos (Pico) - jazz
• Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature (ESP-Disk) [02-15] - jazz [A-]
• Matthew Shipp Trio/Nicole Mitchell: All Things Are (RogueArt) - jazz
• Matthew Shipp/Mark Helias/Gordon Grdina: Skin and Bones (Not Two) [07-00] - jazz [***]
• Matthew Shipp: Invisible Light: Live Sao Paulo (Ezzthetics) [08-30] - jazz
• Patrick Shiroishi/Vinny Golia/Dylan Fujioka/Alex Cline: Borasisi (Astral Spirits) [05-10] - jazz
• Shit and Shine: Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs (Riot Season) [11-22] - noise
• Jonny Shitbag & the Smokes: You Know There's Nothing to You . . . (Hidden Bay) [05-03] - rock
• ShitKid: [Detention] (PNKSLM) [05-10] - alt/indie [*]
• Shlohmo: The End (Friends of Friends) [03-22] - downtempo
• Paula Shocron/Pablo Diaz: Dialogos (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Shonen Knife: Sweet Candy Power (Good Charamel) [06-05]
• Shook Twins: Some Good Lives (Dutch) [02-15]
• Kalie Shorr: Open Book (self-released) [09-27] - country [*]
• Shortparis: Tak Zakalyalas' Stal (OOO Universal) [11-01]
• Nick Shoulders: Okay, Crawdad (self-released) [12-19] - country
• Shovels & Rope: By Blood (Dualtone) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Show Me the Body: Dog Whistle (Loma Vista) [03-29] - noise rock
• Shredders: Great Hits (Doomtree) [08-30] - hip-hop
• The Richard Shulman Trio: Waltzing Out of Town (RichHeart Music) [05-11] - jazz [*]
• ShunGu: A Black Market Album (Sunthings) [04-19]
• Shunkan: Cumberland Falls (Mad Mochi) [09-13] - rock
• Shura: Forevher (Secretly Canadian) [08-16]
• Shy FX: Raggamuffin Sound Tape (Cult.ure) [03-15] - drum and bass
• Shy Girls: Bird on the Wing (Keep Cool/RCA) [03-01] - idie pop
• Shy Glizzy: Covered N Blood (300 Entertainment) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Shxcxchcxsh: Word (Mord -EP) [01-18] - industrial techno
• Samantha Sidley: Interior Person (Release Me) [09-13]
• Sick Gazelle: Odum (War Crime) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Naomi Moon Siegel: Live at Earshot (Slow & Steady) [05-17] - jazz
• Signals Midwest: Pin (Lauren -EP) [08-02]
• Sigrid: Sucker Punch (Island) [03-08] - pop [**]
• Catherine Sikora: Warrior (self-released) [08-02] - jazz
• Paul Silbergleit: January (Blujazz) [08-01] - jazz [**]
• Yotam Silberstein: Future Memories (Jazz & People) [03-01] - jazz
• The Silence: Metaphysical Feedback (Drag City) [08-30] - rock
• Silk Road Assassins: State of Ruin (Planet Mu) [02-08] - electronic [*]
• Marcos Silva: Brasil: From Head to Toe (Green Egg) [05-03] - jazz [B]
• Silversun Pickups: Widow's Weeds (New Machine) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Gwilym Simcock: Near and Now (ACT) [04-28] - jazz [B]
• Simple Creatures: Strange Love (BMG -EP) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Simply Red: Blue Eyed Soul (BMG/UK) [11-08] - adult
• Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury (Atlantic/Elektra) [09-27] - Americana [***]
• Simulation: Death's Head Speaks (Hausu Mountain) [06-21]
• Sinkane: Depayse (City Slang) [05-31] - psychedelic pop
• Mariee Sioux: Grief in Exile (Night Bloom) [06-07] - folk
• Alex Sipiagin: NoFo Skies (Blue Room) [04-22] - jazz
• SiR: Chasing Summer (Top Dawg/RCA) [08-30] - r&b
• Sir Babygirl: Crush on Me (Father/Daughter) [02-15] - rock [***]
• Sir Was: Holding on to a Dream (Memphis Industries) [09-20] - alt r&b
• Sirkis/Bialas IQ: Our New Earth (Moonjune) [10-02] - jazz [**]
• Sirom: A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse (Tak:til/Glitterbeat) [10-04] - folk
• Sergi Sirvent Octopussy Cats: Flax-Golden Tales (Fresh Sound New Talent) [05-15] - jazz [**]
• Siskiyou: Not Somewhere (Constellation) [05-17]
• Sisso: Mateso (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [06-07] - electronic
• Sister John: Sister John (Last Night From Glasgow) [01-25]
• Skeleton Goode: Skeleton Goode (Mega Dodo) [11-15] - rock
• Richard Skelton: Border Ballads (Corbel Stone) [05-21]
• Skengdo & AM: Back Like We Never Left (Moves) [10-04] - hip-hop
• Skepta: Ignorance Is Bliss (Boy Better Know) [05-31] - hip-hop [**]
• Skinny Pelembe: Dreaming Is Dead Now (Brownswood) [05-24] - alt r&b
• The Skints: Swimming Lessons (Mr Bongo) [05-10]
• Erik Skov: Liminality (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Bria Skonberg: Nothing Never Happens (self-released) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Skudge: Clear/Wasp (Skudge -EP) [03-28] - techno
• Skyjack: The Hunger (Enja/Yellowbird) [05-10] - jazz
• Skyzoo & Pete Rock: Retropolitan (Mello Music Group) [11-08] - hip-hop [**]
• Phil Slater: The Dark Pattern (Earshift Music -2CD) [07-19] - jazz
• Slaughter Beach, Dog: Safe and Also No Fear (Big Scary Monsters) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Slaves: The Velvet Ditch (Virgin EMI -EP) [07-18] - alt/indie
• Slayer: The Repentless Killogy:... (Nuclear Blast) [11-08] - speed/thrash metal
• Slayyyter: Slayyyter (The Mixtape) (self-released) [09-17] - pop [**]
• SLD Trio: El Contorno Del Espacio (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Sleaford Mods: Eton Alive (Extreme Eating) [02-22] - alt/indie [**]
• Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won't Hold (Mom + Pop) [08-16] - alt/indie [B]
• Sleep D: Rebel Force (Incienso) [10-18] - electronic
• Sleep on It: Pride & Disaster (Equal Vision) [09-13]
• Sleeping With Sirens: How It Feels to Be Lost (Sumerian) [09-06] - pop punk
• Slikback: Tomo (Hakuna Kulala) [02-01] - electronic
• Slikback: Lasakaneku (Hakuna Kulala) [07-13] - deconstructed club
• Slingshot Dakota: Heavy Banding (Community) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Slipknot: We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner) [08-09] - alt metal
• Matt Slocum: Sanctuary (Sunnyside) [05-31] - jazz
• Sloth Racket: Dismantle Yourself (Luminous) - jazz
• Slow Hollows: Actors (Not Another World) [10-23]
• Slow Meadow: Happy Occident (Hammock Music) [10-18] - ambient
• Slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain (Method) [05-17] - hip-hop [***]
• The SLP: The SLP (Columbia) [08-30]
• Slum Sociable: LIF (Liberation -EP) [08-02] - alt/indie
• Sly & Robbie/Roots Radics: The Final Battle: Sly & Robbie vs Roots Radics (Serious Reggae/Afro) [04-15] - reggae [**]
• Sly & Robbie: Dub Serge (Taxi) [12-06] - reggae [*]
• Sly & the Family Drone: Gentle Persuaders (Love Love) [04-26]
• Sly Horizon: The Anatomy of Light (Iluso) [05-01] - jazz [*]
• Smallpeople: Afterglow (Smallville) [03-22] - electronic
• Smif-N-Wessun: The All (Bucktown USA Entertainment/Duck Down Music) [02-22] - hip-hop
• Carlton Jumel Smith: 1634 Lexington Avenue (Timmon) [05-10] - r&b
• Damon Smith: Winter Solos for Robert Ryman (Balance Point Acoustics) - jazz
• Jaden Smith: Erys (MSFTSMusic/Roc Nation) [07-05] - hip-hop
• Kenautis Smith & Lyfestile: From Which I Came (Something Wonderful) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Shane Smith & the Saints: Hail Mary (Geronimo West) [06-28] - country
• Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love: An Oratorio of Seven Songs (TUM) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Smith N' Weston: Get Down (self-released) [06-19] - Greece
• Smoke DZA & Benny the Butcher: Statue of Limitations (RFC/Cinematic) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Gary Smulyan & Ralph Moore Quintet: Bird's Eye Encounter! (Fresh Sound) [12-01] - jazz [**]
• The Snakes: The Snakes (Anti-Fade) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Snapped Ankles: Stunning Luxury (The Leaf Label) [03-01] - dance punk
• Snarky Puppy: Immigrance (GroundUP Music) [03-15] - jazz
• Sneaks: Highway Hypnosis (Merge) [01-25] - art pop [*]
• Todd Snider: Cash Cabin Sessions Vol 3 (Aimless) [03-15] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Jim Snidero: Waves of Calm (Savant) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• Snoop Dogg: I Wanna Thank Me (Doggystyle/Empire) [08-16] - hip-hop
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Trapline (Fontana North) [05-10] - hip-hop [A-]
• Matthew Snow: Iridescence (self-released) [11-29] - jazz [***]
• Emerson Snowe: That's Rock 'n' Roll (Liberation) [05-29] - alt/indie
• Soak: Grim Town (Rough Trade) [04-26] - indie pop
• Elza Soares: Planeta Fome (Deck) [09-13] - Brazilian [***]
• SOB X RBE & Hit Boy: Family Not a Group (Def Jam) [04-17] - hip-hop
• Sobhhi: Black I (Nuit Sans Fin -EP) [02-19] - r&b
• Soen: Lotus (Silver Lining Music) [02-01] - rock
• The Soft Cavalry: The Soft Cavalry (Bella Union) [07-05] - dream pop
• Soft Issues: Soft Issues (Opal Tapes) [06-07] - electronic
• Sohrab: Simple Minds (Marginal Returns) [06-24] - techno
• Soilwork: Verkligheten (Nuclear Blast) [01-11] - melodic death metal
• Sauti Sol: Afrikan Sauce (self-releasead) [01-31] - pop
• SOL Development: The SOL of Black Folk (self-released) [02-22] - hip-hop [**]
• Solange: When I Get Home (Saint/Columbia) [03-01] - r&b [*]
• ERR: grade bad priority: Emilio Solla International Jazz Orchestra: Puertos: Music From International Waters
• Emilio Solla International Jazz Orchestra: Puertos: Music From International Waters (Avantango) [08-20] - jazz [**]
• Phillip Sollman: New Atlantis (Ostgut Ton) [02-15] - electronic
• Jay Som: Anak Ko (Polyvinyl) [08-23] - dream pop [**]
• Somersaults [Olie Brice/Tobias Delius/Mark Sanders]: Numerology of Birdsong (West Hill) [09-10] - jazz [***]
• Maria Somerville: All My People (self-released) [03-01] - rock
• Something Blue [Alexa Tarantino/Nick Finzer/Sam Dillon/Art Hirahara/Boris Kozlov/Rudy Royston]: Maximum Enjoyment (Posi-Tone) [01-04] - jazz [*]
• Somos: Prison on a Hill (Tiny Engines) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Son Volt: Union (Transmit Sound) [03-29] - rock [*]
• Sonar With David Torn: Tranceportation (Volume 1) (RareNoise) [11-29] - jazz [A-]
• Alan Sond: Clown Around Town (Low Income $quad) [01-14]
• The Sonic Dawn: Eclipse (Heavy Psych) [02-01]
• Sonta: Hood Love Vol One (Machine Entertainment Group) [06-28] - r&b
• Sontag Shogun: It Billows Up (Youngbloods) - ambient
• Sophie: Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Remix Album (self-released) [07-29] - remix
• Sore Points: Not Alright (Slovenly -EP) [09-06]
• Jakob Sorensen [Bagland]: Cirkel (Jaeger Community) [02-15] - jazz
• Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell: The Adornment of Time (Pi) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Sorry Girls: Deborah (Arbutus) [10-18] - alt/indie
• SOS Gunver Ryberg: Entangled (Avian) [06-28] - techno
• Sote: Parallel Persia (Diagonal) [04-26] - electronic [*]
• Robert Sotelo: Infinite Sprawling (Upset the Rhythm) [09-27] - alt singer-songwriter
• Sotto Voce: Safety (self-released) [04-12]
• Soul Glo: The Nigga in Me Is Me (SRA) [06-07] - alt/indie
• Omar Souleyman: Shlon (Mad Decent/Because) [11-22] - folk dance [A-]
• The Souljazz Orchestra: Chaos Theories (Strut) [09-13] - jazz [*]
• Soundbwoy Killah: Halcyon Daze (Sneaker Social Club) [08-23] - future garage
• Soundgarden: Live From the Artists Den (Universal) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith: The Peyote Dance (Bella Union) [05-31] - alt/indie [*]
• Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith: Mummer Love (Bella Union) [11-08] - alt/indie [ **]
• Southfrap Alliance: Southfrap Vol 1: Dans Tes Morts (Southfrap) [03-15] - electronic
• John Southworth: Miracle in the Night (Tin Angel) [05-03]
• Carmen Souza: The Silver Messengers (Galileo Music Communication) [10-25] - vocal jazz
• Samthing Soweto: Isphithiphithi (Platoon) [09-20]
• Space Dimension Controller: Love Beyond the Intersect (R&S) [11-15] - electronic
• Spaceship: Outcrops (Where It's At Is Where You Are) [06-21]
• DJ Sparr: Electric Bands (Innova) [01-25] - new classical
• Spatialize: Beyond the Radar (self-released)
• Spaza: Spaza (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) [06-21] - jazz
• Spearmint: A You From the Future? (HitBack) [11-01]
• Special Request: Vortex (Houndstooth) [05-31] - electronic [A-]
• Special Request: Bedroom Tapes (Houndstooth) [06-28] - techno [***]
• Special Request: Offworld (Houndstooth) [10-11] - ambient techno [A-]
• The Specials: Encore (Island) [02-01] - ska [*]
• Chris Speed Trio: Respect for Your Toughness (Intakt) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Tom Speight: Collide (self-released) [04-12] - folk
• The Spellcasters: Music From the Anacostia Delta (Cuneiform) [05-10] - jazz
• Spellling: Mazy Fly (Sacred Bones) [02-22] - electronic [**]
• Alister Spence and Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe: Imagine Meeting You Here (Alister Spence Music) [01-18] - jazz [***]
• Caroline Spence: Mint Condition (Rounder) [05-03] - country [A-]
• Deem Spencer: Pretty Face (Deem Spencer & the Flower Shop) [02-28] - hip-hop
• Vinnie Sperrazza/Jacob Sacks/Masa Kamaguchi: Play Sonny Rollins (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-08] - jazz [*]
• Sphare Sechs: Transient Lunar Phenomenon (Cryo Chamber) [05-21] - electronic
• Spidergawd: V (Stickman)
• Spielbergs: This Is Not the End (By the Time It Gets Dark) [02-01] - noise pop
• Matthias Spillmann Trio: Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club (Clean Feed) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Spinn: Spinn (Modern Sky UK) [05-03] - indie rock
• Spiral Stairs: We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized (Nine Mile) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Spirit Adrift: Divided by Darkness (20 Buck Spin) [05-10] - heavy metal
• SP;MC: Vintage/Slugfest (Sentry -EP) [08-09] - uk garage
• Sports Team: Keep Walking (Holm Front) [03-07]
• Sports Team: Making Hay (Bright Antenna) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Lucy Spraggan: Today Was a Good Day (Cooking Vinyl) [05-03]
• Emily A Sprague: Mount Vision (self-released) [04-04] - ambient [**]
• Emily A Sprague: Watery Memory/Mount Vision (RVNG Intl) [05-24] - ambient [**]
• Spray Paint: Into the Country (12XU) [10-25] - rock
• Spring Roll: Episodes (Clean Feed) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars (Columbia) [06-14] - rock [B-]
• Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars: Songs From the Film (Columbia) [10-25] - rock
• Squaring Circles: Motion (Best & Fairest) [03-29] - alt/indie
• The St Pierre Snake Invasion: Caprice Enchante (self-released) [06-21] - rock
• Stahls Trio: Kalltorp Sessions: Volume One (Moserobie) - jazz [***]
• Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing (Smoke Sessions) [05-17] - vocal jazz [*]
• Chris Stamey: New Songs for the 20th Century (Omnivore) [06-28] - jangle pop
• Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans: The Ordovician Era (Don Giovanni) [01-18] - folk [*]
• Lyn Stanley: London Calling: A Toast to Julie London (A.T. Music) [02-15] - vocal jazz [*]
• Lyn Stanley: London With a Twist: Live at Bernie's (A.T. Music) [05-10] - vocal jazz [**]
• Mavis Staples: Live in London (Anti-) [02-08] - r&b [**]
• Mavis Staples: We Get By (Anti-) [05-24] - r&b [A-]
• Ben Stapp/Joe Morris: Mind Creature Sound Dasein (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-20] - jazz [*]
• Scott Stapp: The Space Between the... (Napalm) [07-19] - post-grunge
• Starcrawler: Devour You (Rough Trade) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Ringo Starr: What's My Name (Polydor) [10-25] - pop/rock
• State Faults: Clairvoyant (No Sleep) [06-21] - post-hardcore
• Stats: Other People's Lives (Memphis Industries) [02-15] - alt dance
• Status Quo: Backbone (EarMusic) [09-06] - rock
• Stealing Sheep: Big Wows (Heavenly) [04-19] - synthpop
• Steel Blossoms: Steel Blossoms (Billy Jam) [04-26] - country
• Steel Pulse: Mass Manipulation (Rootfire Cooperative) [05-17] - reggae
• The Steel Woods: Old News (Woods Music) [01-18] - country [B-]
• Oli Steidle & the Killing Popes: Ego Pills (Shhpuma) [03-22] - jazz [B-]
• Rubin Steiner: Say Hello to the Dawn of Paradox (Platinum) [09-06] - alt/indie
• Lennon Stella: Love, Me (Columbia) [11-17] - pop
• Stellari String Orchestra: Vulcan (Emanem) [03-00] - jazz
• Stelzer/Murray: Commuter (Humanhood) [01-03] - electronic
• Stenny: Stress Test (Ilian Tape) [06-14] - techno
• Stenny: Upsurge (Ilian Tape) [11-19] - breakbeat
• Chip Stephens/Stenn Wilson: Sadness & Soul (Capri) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Stereophonics: Kind (Parlophone) [10-25]
• Mike Stern-Jeff Lorber Fusion: Eleven (Concord) [09-27] - jazz [C+]
• Joanna Sternberg: Then I Try Some More (Team Love) [07-12] - pop
• Michael Jefry Stevens & the Mountain Chamber Jazz Ensemble: The Poet Is in the House (ARC) [11-01] - jazz [B]
• Fox Stevenson: Killjoy (AntiFragile Music) [10-18] - electronic
• Laura Stevenson: The Big Freeze (Don Giovanni) [03-29] - indie folk
• Sufjan Stevens & Timo Andres: The Decalogue (Asthmatic Kitty) [10-18] - soundtrack
• Rod Stewart: You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Rhino) [11-22] - adult contemporary
• Robert Stillman: Reality (Orindal) [02-22] - jazz
• Tim Stine Quartet: Knots (Clean Feed) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Eric St-Laurent: Bliss Station (Katzen Musik) [12-06] - jazz
• STL GLD: The New Normal (AR Classic) [02-01] - hip-hop [**]
• Kelley Stoltz: My Regime (Banana & Louie) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Allen Stone: Building Balance (ATO) [11-08] - neo-soul
• Carl Stone: Himalaya (Unseen Worlds) [09-20] - plunderphonics
• Carl Stone: Baroo (Unseen Worlds) [03-01] - electronic
• Stormzy: Heavy Is the Head (Merky/Atlantic) [12-13] - hip-hop [**]
• Dexter Story: Bahir (Soundway) [03-15] - world [*]
• Andy Stott: It Should Be Us (Modern Love -EP) [11-08] - UK bass
• George Strait: Honky Tonk Time Machine (MCA Nashville) [03-29] - country [B]
• Colin Stranahan/Glenn Zaleski/Rick Rosato: Live at Jazz Standard (Capri) [09-30] - jazz [*]
• Strand of Oaks: Eraserland (Dead Oceans) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Sean Strage: Street Urchin 2 (Nah Bro/Def Squad) [03-28] - hip-hop
• Strange Ranger: Remembering the Rockets (Tiny Engines) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Strangejuice: Raising Cannibals (self-released) [05-11] - alt/indie
• Ulla Straus: Big Room (Quiet Time Tapes) [04-05] - electronic
• Stray Cats: 40 (Surfdog) [05-24] - rock
• Stray From the Path: Internal Atomics (UNFD) [11-01] - rock
• Stray Kids: Cle 1: Miroh (JYP Entertainment -EP) [03-25] - K-pop
• Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus: 11 Items (West Mineral) [07-18] - electronic
• Zhenya Strigalev/Federico Dannemann: The Change (Rainy Days) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• String Machine: Death of the Neon (Earthwalk Collective) [08-01] - folk
• Billy Strings: Home (Rounder) [09-27] - country
• The Stroppies: Whoosh (Tough Love) [03-01] - jangle pop
• Strung Out: Songs of Armor and Devotion (Fat Wreck Chords) [08-09] - alt/indie
• Dave Stryker: Eight Track III (Strikezone) [05-03] - jazz [**]
• Dave Stryker: Eight Track Christmas (Strikezone) [11-01] - Xmas jazz [B]
• Stubbleman: Mountains and Plains (Crammed Discs) [04-26]
• Daniel Studer: Extended for Strings & Piano (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
• Harry Styles: Fine Line (Columbia) [12-13] - pop [C+]
• Styles P: SP the Goat: Ghost of All Time (Empire -EP) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Subhumans: Crisis Point (Pirates Press) [09-13] - punk
• Subjective: Act One: Music for Inanimate Objects (Sony Masterworks) [01-18] - electronic
• Sudan Archives: Athena (Stones Throw) [11-01] [**]
• Carol Sudhalter Quartet: Live at Saint Peter's Church (Alfa Projects) [01-18] - jazz [**]
• Substance: Rise and Shine (Ostgun Ton -EP) [01-25] - techno
• Suga Free: The Resurrection (Buss Clinic) [05-05] - hip-hop
• Sugarfoot: In the Clearing (Crispin Glover) [06-07] - rock
• $uicideboy$ & Travis Barker: Live Fast, Die Whenever (G*59 -EP) [05-24] - horrorcore
• Denis Sulta: Aye Spoake Te Sumwuhn & They Listenhd (Ninja Tune) [11-08] - electronic
• Sum 41: Order in Decline (Hopeless) [07-19] - pop punk
• Summer Cannibals: Can't Tell Me No (Tiny Engines) [06-28] - alt/indie
• Anu Sun: Sanguine Regum (Ropeadope) [02-08] - r&b
• Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory (Endectomorph Music) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Sun Runners: Lust for Life (Apron) [02-15] - electronic
• Sun Speak: Moon Preach (Flood Music) [10-25] - jazz
• Sunday Service Choir: Jesus Is Born (INC) [12-25] - gospel
• Susanne Sundfor: Music for People in TGrouble:... (Bella Union) [11-29] - alt singer-songwriter
• Sunflower Bean: King of the Dudes (Mom + Pop -EP) [01-25] - alt/indie [**]
• Sunn O))): Life Metal (Southern Lord) [04-26] - drone metal [B-]
• Sunn O))): Pyroclasts (Southern Lord) [10-25] - drone metal
• Sunwatchers: Illegal Moves (Trouble in Mind) [02-22] - pop/rock
• Supa Bwe: Just Say Thank You (Freddy Got Magic/Empire -EP) [04-10] - hip-hop [*]
• Super Furry Animals: Guerrilla (BMG) [11-22] - alt/indie
• Super Low: Super Low (self-released) [07-14] - rock
• SuperM: SuperM (The 1st Mini Album) (SM/Capitol) [10-04] - K-pop
• Surachai: Come, Deathless (BL_K Noise) [01-25] - industrial techno
• Surf Curse: Heaven Surrounds You (Danger Collective) [09-13] - indie pop
• Surfbort: You Don't Exist (Modern Sky) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Susanna & the Brotherhood of Our Lady: Garden of Earthly Delights (Susanna Sonata) [02-22] - alt/indie
• Norbert Susemihl/Chloe Feoranzo/Harry Mayronne/Barnaby Gold: The New Orleans Dance Hall Quartet: Tricentennial Hall Dance 17, October (Sumi) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
• Suss: High Line (Northern Spy) [11-08] - ambient
• Spencer Sutherland: None of This Has Been About You (SM1/BMG) [03-15] - pop
• Kelley Suttenfield: When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young () - vocal jazz
• Tierney Sutton Band: ScreenPlay (BFM Jazz) [05-17] - vocal jazz [***]
• Christian Meaas Svendsen + Nakama + Rinzai Zen Center Oslo: New Rituals (Nakama) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Svetlost: Odron Ritual Orchestra (PMG) [09-19] - jazz [***]
• Leo Svirsky: River Without Banks (Unseen Worlds) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Rajna Swaminathan: Of Agency and Abstraction (Biophilia) [04-26]
• Swans: Leaving Meaning. (Young God) [10-25] - post-rock
• Swan's Chamber: Swan's Chamber (Leaving) [03-01] - rock
• Earl Sweatshirt: Feet of Clay (Tan Cressida/Warner -EP) [11-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Ann Sweeten: Before Today, Beyond Tomorrow (Orange Band)
• Steve Swell/Robert Boston/Michael Vatcher: Brain in a Dish (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Swervedriver: Future Ruins (Dangerbird) [01-25] - alt/indie
• Taylor Swift: Lover (Republic) [08-23] - pop [A-]
• Veronica Swift: Confessions (Mack Avenue) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Swim Deep: Emerald Classics ( Cooking Vinyl) [10-04] - indie electronic
• Swimming Tapes: Morningside (self-released) [05-24] - indie pop
• Swindle: No More Normal (Brownswood) [01-25] - grime [B-]
• SWMRS: Berkeley's on Fire (Fueled by Ramen) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Synestet: Les Usures (self-released) [06-06] - jazz
• Tom Syson: Different Coloured Days (self-released) - jazz
• Tami T: High Pithed and Moist (Trannytone) [02-20] - pop
• Tacocat: This Mess Is a Place (Sub Pop) [05-03] - power pop
• Tadzio: The Sick Room (1027750 DK) [04-22] - alt/indie
• Tanya Tagaq: Toothsayer (03-01) [Six Shooter -EP] - alt/indie [**]
• Rachid Taha: Je Suis Africain (Naive) [09-20] - rai [A-]
• Emi Takada: Why Did I Choose You? (self-released) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Aki Takahashi: Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (Mode) [06-21] - classical
• Aki Takase Japanic: Thema Prima (BMC) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Aki Takase: Hokusai: Piano Solo (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Aki Takase/Rudi Mahall: Fifty Fifty (Trouble in the East) - jazz
• Garry Tallent: More Like Me (D'Ville) [08-02] - rock
• The Tallest Man on Earth: I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. (Rivers/Birds) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Tallies: Tallies (Kanine) [01-11] - alt/indie
• Talos: Far Out Dust (BMG) [02-08] - alt/indie
• Tamaryn: Dreaming the Dark (Dero Arcade) [03-22] - pop
• Akira Tana & Otonowa: Love's Radiance (Ai San San) (Vega Music) [01-01] - jazz
• Clive Tanaka Y Su Orquesta: Pre-Sunrise Authority (Friends of Friends) [08-23] - electronic
• Fumiya Tanaka: Right Moment (Perlon) [11-29] - tech house
• Tandem Felix: Rom-Com (self-released) [10-10] - rock
• Sarah Tandy: Infection in the Sentence (Jazz Re:freshed) [03-08] - jazz
• Tanith: In Another Time (Metal Blade) [05-24] - metal
• Tank and the Bangas: Green Balloon (Verve) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Taphari: Earth's No Fun (Mister Saturday Night) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Alexa Tarantino: Winds of Change (Posi-Tone) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• Avey Tare: Cows on Hourglass Pond (Domino) [03-22] - neo-psychedelia
• Tartit: Amankor/The Exile (Riverboat) [01-25] - Tuareg
• Aaron Lee Tasjan: Karma for Cheap: Reincarnated (New West) [08-30] - singer-songwriter
• TATU: Truth: Live in St Petersburg (2007, Neformat Music) [01-28]
• Tayhana: Tierra Del Fuego (Naafi) [11-18]
• Tavishi: Voices in My Head (Chinabot) [01-04] - electronic
• Tawiah: Starts Again (First World) [10-18]
• Gregory Taylor: Retinue (Palace of Lights) [06-21] - electronic
• Joanne Shaw Taylor: Reckless Heart (Silvertone) [03-15] - blues
• Julian Taylor Band: Avalanche (Gypsy Soul) [03-29]
• Claude Tchamitchian: In Spirit: Contrebasse Solo (Emouvance) - jazz
• The Tea Club: If/When (self-released) [08-16] - rock
• Teamonade: This Is Your Onlyl Warning (1036078 DK) [02-15] - alt/indie
• Tech N9ne: N9NA (Strange Music) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Techno Bert: Neue Dimensionen (Mannequin) [12-04] - electronic
• Tedeschi Trucks Band: Signs (Fantasy) [02-15] - rock
• Semi Tee: I'm Only Twentyone (Jozi Entertainment) [06-19] - electronic
• Teebs: Anicca (Brainfeeder) [10-25] - IDM
• TeejayX6: The Swipe Lessons (TF Entertainment) [09-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Teen: Good Fruit (Carpark) [03-01] - synthpop
• Teen Daze: Bioluminescence (Flora) [04-26] - electronic
• Teenage Bottlerocket: Stay Rad! (Fat Wreck Chords) [03-15] - punk
• Teenage Cavegirl: Candy Cigarettes (self-released) [06-01] - punk
• Joris Teepe & Don Braden: Conversations (OAP) [02-17] - jazz
• Teeth of the Sea: Wraith (Rocket) [02-22] - post-rock
• Tegan and Sara: Hey, I'm Just Like You (Warner Bros) [09-27] - alt singer-songwriter [**]
• Telefon Tel Aviv: Dreams Are Not Enough (Ghostly International) [09-27] - IDM
• Telekinesis: Effluxion (Merge) [02-22] - alt/indie
• The Telescopes: Exploding Head Syndrome (Tapete) [02-01] - dream pop
• Temp Illusion: Autolected (Zabte Sote) [02-15] - electronic
• Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons (Republic) [06-14] - spoken word [*]
• Luke Temple: Both-And (Native Cat) [09-13]
• Paula Temple: Edge of Everything (Noise Manifesto) [05-03] - industrial techno
• Alfie Templeman: Don't Go Wasting Time (Chess Club -EP) [11-15]
• Temples: Hot Motion (ATO) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Ten Tonnes: Ten Tonnes (Warner Bros UK) [05-03] - indie rock
• Tenderlonious: Hard Rain (22A) - electronic
• Tenesha the Wordsmith: Peacocks & Other Savage Beasts (On the Corner) [09-30]
• Tengger: Spiritual 2 (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [06-07] - electronic
• Dan Tepfer: Natural Machines (Sunnyside) [05-17] - jazz
• Tereshkova: Chunks of Monochrome Rainbows (Astral Spirits) [06-14] - jazz
• Terror Jr: Unfortunately, Terror Jr (Atlantic) [01-25] - pop
• Thank You Scientist: Terraformer (Evil Ink) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Jacky Terrasson: 53 (Blue Note) [09-27] - jazz
• Terraza Big Band: One Day Wonder (Outside In Music) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Terrible People: Like Clean Air (Tired) [06-04]
• Terror Danjah: Invasion (Tru Thoughts) [09-13] - electronic
• The Teskey Brothers: Run Home Slow (Ivy League) [08-02]
• Tesla: Shock (Universal) [03-08] - rock
• Test Dept: Disturbance (One Little Indian) [03-01] - rock
• Carl Testa: Sway Prototypes: Volume 1 (self-released) [07-05] - jazz
• Carl Testa: Sway Prototypes: Volume 2 (self-released) [07-05] - jazz
• Texas Hippie Coalition: High in the Saddle (Entertainment One) [05-31] - rock
• TGB: III (Clean Feed) - jazz
• Th Da Freak: Freakenstein (Howlin Banana)
• That Dog: Old LP (UMe) [10-04] - alt/indie [A-]
• Yves Theiler Trio: We (Intakt) [04-29] - jazz [**]
• Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar (Moonjune) [01-18] - jazz [A-]
• Thelma: The Only Thing (1055235 DK2) [02-22] - art pop
• Theodore: Inner Dynamics (United We Fly)
• These New Puritans: Inside the Rose (Infectious) [03-22] - art pop
• Thick: Thick (Epitaph -EP) [03-26] - punk [*]
• Thigh Master: Now for Example (Goner) [09-27] - alt/indie
• Thingy: Morbid Curiosity (Joyful Noise) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Pat Thomas/John Butcher/Stale Liavik Solberg: Fictional Souvenirs (Astral Spirits) [05-10] - jazz
• Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Tony Orrell: Bley School (577) [11-12] - jazz [***]
• Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band: Obiaa! (Strut) [10-04] - African [**]
• Philip Thomas: Morton Feldman Piano (Another Timbre -5CD) [09-20] - modern classical
• Prins Thomas: Ambitions (Smalltown Supersound) [04-05] - progresive electronic
• Rafael Thomaz: Invencoes Para Violao E Percussao (Tratore) [07-19] - Brazilian
• Isaiah J Thompson: Plays the Music of Buddy Montgomery (WJ3) [09-18] - jazz
• Travis Thompson: Reckless Endangerment (Epic) [09-19] - hip-hop
• Daniel Thorne: Lines of Sight (Erased Tapes) [03-15] - ambient
• Hayden Thorpe: Diviner (Domino) [05-24] - art pop
• Those Darn Gnomes: Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow (Nefarious Industries) [06-28]
• Threnody [Berthling/Kuchen/Noble]: A Paradigm of Suspicion (Trost) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• Throes: In the Hands of an Angry God (Holy Roar) [07-26] - metal
• Thunder: Please Remain Seated (BMG) [01-18] - rock
• Thunderpussy: Milk It (Stardog/Republic -EP) [10-25]
• Thyla: What's on Your Mind (REX -EP) [02-01]
• Thylacine: Roads Vol 1 (Intuitive) [01-18]
• Yann Tiersen: All (Mute) [02-15] - ambient pop
• Yann Tiersen: Portrait (Muse) [12-06]
• Tiger Trio [Joelle Leandre/Myra Melford/Nicole Mitchell]: Map of Liberation (RogueArt) [07-00] - jazz
• Tiger Village: Modern Drummer (Hausu Mountain) [03-29] - electronic
• Christopher Tignor: A Light Below (Western Vinyl) [19-11] - electronic
• Tijuana Panthers: Carpet Denim (Innovative Leisure) [07-12] - alt/indie
• John Tilbury: The Tiger's Mind (Cubus)
• Timespine: Urban Season (Shhpuma) [11-16] - jazz
• Tinariwen: Amadjar (Anti-) [09-06] - Saharan [**]
• Tinashe: Songs for You (self-released) [02-21] - alt r&b
• Tindersticks: No Treasure but Hope (City Slang) [11-15] - chamber pop
• Tiny Moving Parts: Breathe (Hopeless) [09-13]
• Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls (Ba Da Bing!) [02-01] - dream pop
• Ashley Tisdale: Symptoms (Big Noise) [05-03] - pop
• Titus Andronicus: An Obelesk (Merge) [06-21] - punk
• Anna Tivel: The Question (Fluff & Gravy) [04-19] - folk
• TNGHT: II (Warp/Lucky Me -EP) [11-12] - wonky
• Tobi: Still (self-released)
• Amon Tobin: Fear in a Handful of Dust (Nomark) [04-26] - electroacoustic
• Amon Tobin: Long Stories (Nomark) [10-25] - electronic
• Pat Todd and the Outsiders: The Past Came Callin' (Hound Gawd!) [06-07] - punk
• Toh-Kichi [Satoko Fujii/Taysuya Yoshida]: Baikamo (Libra) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Jonah Tolchin: Fires for the Cold (Yep Roc) [09-13] - Americana [*]
• Simon Toldam Trio: Omhu (ILK Music) [02-15] - jazz
• Neil Tolliday: Mallumo (Utopia) [10-04] - electronic
• Jenny Tolman: There Goes the Neighborhood (self-released) [07-19] - country
• Tom of England: Sex Monk Blues (LIES) [10-07] - rock
• Tomb Mold: Planetary Clairvoyance (20 Buck Spin) [07-19] - death metal
• Fumi Tomita: The Elephant Vanishes (OA2) [04-19] - jazz [B]
• Daniel Tompkins: Castles (Kscope) [05-31]
• Tone Spliff: Ardore Melodico (Mind Write Music) [05-06] - hip-hop
• Tool: Fear Inoculum (Volcano/RCA) [08-30] - prog metal
• Topdown Dialectic: Vol 2 (Peak Oil) [09-20] - ambient
• Patrick Topping: Watch What Ya Doing (Trick) [02-15] - electgronic
• Rafael Toral/Mars Williams/Tim Daisy: Elevation (Relay) [10-21] - jazz
• Torche: Admission (Relapse) [ 07-12] - stoner metal
• David Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith: Sun of Goldfinger (ECM) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Toro Y Moi: Outer Peace (Carpark) [01-18] - alt r&b [*]
• Toro Y Moi: Soul Trash (self-released) [01-22]
• Toth: Practice Magic and Seek Professional Help When Necessary (Northern Spy) [05-10] - indie pop
• Katie Toupin: Magnetic Moves (TMG) [06-14] - alt/indie
• Tourist: Everyday (Monday) [02-15] - electronic
• Tourist: Wild (Monday) [10-18] - deep house
• Tourist Activities: Off My Mind (Den Tapes) [01-07] - pop
• Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet: Live at the Jazz Cafe 091218 (Lyte) - jazz
• Devin Townsend: Empath (Hevy Devy/Inside Out) [03-29] - progressive metal
• Toy: Happy in the Hollow (Tough Love) [01-25] - neo-psychedelia
• T-Pain: 1UP (Cinematic Music Group) [02-27] - hip-hop
• AJ Tracey: AJ Tracey (self-released) [02-08] - pop rap [**]
• Magen Tracy & the Missed Connections: Long Fuse Burning (self-released) [08-16] - singer-songwriter
• Meghan Trainor: The Love Train (Epic -EP) [02-08] - pop
• Miguel Trapaga/Teresa Folgueira: Guitar Double Concertos (Naxos) [05-10] - Spanish
• Trapper Keaper: Meets Tim Berne & Aurora Nealand (Ears & Eyes) [04-12] - jazz [***]
• Penelope Trappes: Penelope Redeux (Houndstooth) [06-07] - singer-songwriter
• Trash Kit: Horizon (Upset the Rhythm) [07-05] - post-punk
• Rian Treanor: Ataxia (Planet Mu) [03-15] - deconstructed club
• Tree: We Grown Now (Soul Trap Music) [03-25] - hip-hop
• Tree: The Wild End (Soul Trap/Parallel Thought) [05-31] - hip-hop
• Tree & Vic Spencer: Nothing Is Something (Soul Trap Music) [01-13] - hip-hop
• Trentemoller: Obverse (In My Room) [09-27] - indie electronic
• Rebecca Trescher: Where We Go (Enja/Yellowbird) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Triad God: Triad (Presto!?) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Tribe of Colin: Age of Aquarius (Honest Jon's) [09-06]
• Dwight Trible: Mothership (Gearbox) [03-19] - jazz [*]
• Trigger: Pull (Shhpuma) [08-09] - jazz [B]
• Trimdon Grange Explosion: Trimdon Grange Explosion (Feeding Tube) [01-18]
• Trio Ramberget: Musik Att Somna Till (self-released) [01-10] - ambient
• TripleGo: Yeux Rouges (Twareg) [11-01]
• Tropical Fuck Storm: Braindrops (Joyful Noise) [08-23] - art punk [*]
• Mick Trouble: Here's the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response) [07-12] - alt/indie
• Walter Trout: Survivor Blues (Provogue) [01-25] - blues
• Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: La Misteriosa Musica Della Regina Loana (ECM) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Robin Trower: Coming Closer to the Day (Provogue) [03-22] - blues
• TRP.P: 2TRP.P (Pirates Blend) [09-06] - hip-hop
• TR/ST: The Destroyer - 1 (House Arrest) [04-19] - synthpop
• TR/ST: The Destroyer - 2 (Grouch) [11-01] - synthpop
• Trudy and the Romance: Sandman (B3SCI) [05-24] - indie pop
• True Moon: II (Lovely)
• Chico Trujillo: Mambo Mundial (Barbes) [09-13] - Latin
• Trupa Trupa: Of the Sun (Glitterbeat) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Truth: The Fight for Survival (Hendrix St) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Truth Club: Not an Exit (Tiny Engines) [05-03] - post-punk
• Tuba Skinny: Some Kind-a-Shake (self-released) [04-12] - jazz [***]
• Alexander Tucker: Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey) [08-23] - experimental rock
• Rosie Tucker: Never NotNever Not Never Not (New Professor Music) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Tanya Tucker: While I'm Livin' (Fantasy) [08-23] - country [**]
• Tucker Brothers: Two Parts (self-released) [10-03] - jazz [B]
• Tui: Pretty Little Mister (self-released) [06-28] - folk
• Lina Tullgren: Free Cell (Captured Tracks) [08-23] - indie folk
• Tunes of Negation: Reach the Endless Sea (Cosmo Rhythmatic) [10-18]
• Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Sphere (Edition) - jazz
• Jeremy Tuplin: Pink Mirror (Trapped Animal) [04-05] - indie pop
• Frank Turner: No Man's Land (Polydor) [08-16] - singer-songwriter
• Klas Jervfors Turner: Suburban Dreams (Krokodil) [04-10] - jazz
• Turning Jewels Into Water: Map of Absences (FPE) [03-15] - electronic [***]
• Turnover: Altogether (Run for Cover) [11-01] - indie pop
• John Turville: Head First (Whirlwind) [01-22] - jazz
• Francois Tusques: Alors Nosferatu Combina Un Plan Ingenieux (Cacophonic) - jazz
• Andrew Tuttle: Alexandra (Someone Good) [06-26]
• Doug Tuttle: Dream Road (Burger) [05-31] - rock
• Molly Tuttle: When You're Ready (Compass) [04-05] - country [**]
• Tuxedo: Tuxedo III (Fat Beats Distribution) [07-19] - alt dance
• Twain: New Miami Sound (Keeled Scales) [01-25] - folk
• Jeff Tweedy: Warmer (dBpm) [04-13] - Americana
• Twen: Awestruck (Frenchkiss) [09-20] - alt/indie
• Twice: Fancy You (JYP) [04-22] - K-pop
• The Twilight Sad: It Won/t Be Like This All the Time (Rock Action) [01-18] - post-punk [B]
• Twin Peaks: Lookout Low (Grand Jury) [09-13] - alt/indie
• Twin Talk: Weaver (37d03d) [02-08] - jazz
• Twins: New Cold Dream (2MR) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Two Door Cinema Club: False Alarm (Glassnote) [06-21] - indie pop
• Two People: First Body (Terrible) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Tycho: Weather (Mom + Pop) [07-12] - downtempo
• William Tyler: Goes West (Merge) [01-25] - American primitivism [**]
• Tyler the Creator: Igor (Columbia) [05-17] - hip-hop [**]
• Tylor & the Train Robbers: Best of the Worst Kind (self-released) [04-26] - country
• Paul Tynan: Quartet (Origin) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• Typical Sisters: Hungry Ghost (Outside In Music) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Tzusing & MESH: Split (PAN -EP) [02-19] - uk bass
• Ubi: Under the Influence (Strange Music) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Uboa: The Origin of My Depression (self-released) [02-14] - alt/indie
• UCC Harlo: United (Subtext) [03-22]
• Jeremy Udden: Three in Paris (Sunnyside) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Federico Ughi: Transoceanico (577) [03-22] - jazz [A-]
• Matt Ulery: Delicate Charms (Woolgathering) [10-15] - jazz
• Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: Impromptus and Other Short Works (WhyPlayJazz) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Gebhard Ullmann/Hans Ludemann/Oliver Potratz/Eric Schaefer: MikroPULS (Intuition) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• Umut Adan: Bahar (Riverboat) [02-22] - Turkish psychedelia
• Uncommon Nasa & Kount Fif: City as School (Man Bites Dog) [10-31] - hip-hop
• Underworld: Drift Songs (Smith Hyde) [10-25]
• Underworld: Drift Series 1: Sampler Edition (Smith Hyde) [11-01] - techno
• Underworld: Drift Series 1 [Box Set] (Caroline -6CD) [11-01] - electronic
• Une Misere: Sermon (Nuclear Blast) [11-01] - metal
• The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: Global Reach (self-released) - jazz [C]
• Unidentified Pattern: El Desespere (Duro) [12-27] - electronic
• The United States Air Force Band: The Jazz Heritage Series: 2019 Radio Broadcasts (self-released) - jazz [C]
• Unkle: The Road: Part II/Lost Highway (Songs for the Def) [03-29] - electronic
• Unknown Mobile: Daucile Moon (Pacific Rhythm) [07-15]
• Unloved: Heartbreak (Heavenly) [02-01] - alt/indie
• Upsammy: Wild Chamber (Nous'klaer Audio) [05-13] - electronic
• Upset: Upset (Lauren) [11-22] - pop punk
• Uranium Club: The Cosmo Cleaners (Static Shock) [03-15] - rock
• Urbanity: Urbanity (Alfi) [02-01] - jazz [B]
• Stein Urheim: Simple Pieces & Paper Cut-Outs (Hubro) [08-30] - blues
• Urochromes: Trope House (Wharf Cat) [05-31] - noise rock
• The Utopia Strong: The Utopia Strong (Rocket) [09-13]
• UV-TV: Happy (Deranged) [07-19] - alt/indie
• Vacationer: Wavelengths (Paxico) [09-27] - rap
• Warren Vache: Songs Our Fathers Taught Us (Arbors) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Vagabon: Vagabon (Nonesuch) [10-18] - indie pop
• Yelfris Valdes: For the Ones (Musica Macondo) [10-04] - jazz
• Matt Valentine: Preserves (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Kiki Valera: Vivencias En Clave Cubana (Origin) [10-16] - jazz [***]
• Marcos Valle: Sempre (Far Out) [06-28] - Brazilian pop
• Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride (Columbia) [05-03] - alt/indie [**]
• The Vampires: Pacifica (Earshift) [02-15] - jazz
• Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar) [01-18] - alt/indie [*]
• Flin Van Hemmen: Casting Spells & the Coves (Neither/Nor) - jazz
• Reinier Van Houdt/Bruno Duplant: Lettres Et Replis (Elsewhere) - jazz
• Foy Vance: To Memphis (Atlantic UK) [09-06] - country
• Ken Vandermark/Terrie Ex: Scaffolding (Terp) - jazz
• Ken Vandermark/Mats Gustafsson: Verses (Corbett vs Dempsey) [06-06] - jazz [**]
• Ken Vandermark: Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019 (Audiograph -5CD) [08-06] - jazz
• Kalia Vandever: In Bloom (self-released) [05-03] - jazz
• Vandoliers: Forever (Bloodshot) [02-22] - country
• Vanishing Twin: The Age of Immunology (Fire) [06-07] - dream pop
• Ameer Vann: Emmanuel (Winston Wolf -EP) [09-18] - trap rap
• Varg: Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear (Northern Electronics) [05-03] - techno
• Varg: Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit) (Northern Electronics) [05-03] - techno
• Variable Geometry Orchestra: Mare Tranquillitatis (Creative Sources) - jazz
• Vastum: Orificial Purge (20 Buck Spin) [10-25] - death metal
• Jimmie Vaughan: Baby, Please Come Home (Last Music) [05-17] - blues
• Vaura: Sables (Profound Lore) [04-26] - post-punk
• The Vegan Leather: Poor Girls/Broken Boys (Midnight Pink) [10-25]
• Vegyn: Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds (PLZ Make It Ruins) [11-08] - IDM
• Ally Venable: Texas Honey (Ruf) [03-22] - blues
• Maenad Veyl: Body Count (self-released) [04-22] - electronic
• VC-118A: Inside (Delsin) [03-08] - techno
• Vein/Norrbotten Big Band: Symphonic Bop (Double Moon) [03-08] - jazz
• Velvet Negroni: Neon Brown (4AD) [08-30]
• Venom Prison: Samsara (Prosthetic) [03-15] - metal
• Vendredi Sur Mer: Premiers Emois (Profil De Face) [03-22]
• Verbz: Pathways (Group Bracil) [11-08] - hip-hop
• Versing: 10000 (Hardly Art) [05-03] - noise rock
• Versus: Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning) [08-16] - rock
• Vestbo Trio: Gentlemen . . . (Dog Hound) [01-11] - jazz [*]
• Vetiver: Up on High (Mama Bird) [11-01] - Americana
• Mat Vezio: Garde-Fou (Simone) [10-04]
• Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket: Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. (Moment of Collapse) [11-22] - alt/indie
• Viagra Boys: Street Worms (Year0001) [09-28] - post-punk
• Andrés Vial/Dezron Douglas/Eric McPherson: Gang of Three (Chromatic Audio) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Luis Vicente/Vasco Trilla: A Brighter Side of Darkness (Clean Feed) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Fay Victor: Barn Songs (Northern Spy) [11-15] - vocal jazz [**]
• Adia Victoria: Silences (Atlantic) [02-22] - singer-songwriter
• Rebekah Victoria: Songs of the Decades (Patois) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• The Victoriana: Fleetingly, but Completely (Dream) [04-13] - alt/indie
• Vilda: Vildaluodda/Wildprint (Bafe's Factory) [04-04]
• Villages: Villages (self-released) [03-22] - folk
• Claudia Villela: Encantada Live (Taina Music) [04-12] - vocal jazz [*]
• Vimur: Master of Fates (Boris) [03-01]
• Levon Vincent: World Order Music (Novel Sound) [11-20] - electronic
• Bryce Vine: Carnival (Sire) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots From Chicago (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Violent Femmes: Hotel Last Resort (PIAS) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Violet: Bed of Roses (Dark Entries) [09-20]
• Fabio Viscogliosi: Rococo (Objet Disque)
• Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: Frkwys Vol 15: Serenitatem (RVNG Intl) [04-05] - ambient
• Vitriol: To Bathe From the Throat of Cowardice (Century Media) [09-06] - metal
• Vivian Girls: Memory (Polyvinyl) [09-20] - indie pop
• Joni Void: Mise En Abyme (Constellation) [03-29] - sound collage
• Leif Vollebekk: New Ways (Secret City) [11-01]
• Volbeat: Rewind, Replay, Rebound () [08-02] - hard rock
• Joris Voorn: Four (Spectrum (NL)) [11-15] - electronic
• Claudia Vorbach: Is There a Time? (Phonector -18) [2018-12-07] - singer-songwriter
• Hana Vu: Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway (Luminelle) [10-25] - dream pop
• Leon Vynehall: DJ-Kicks (!K7) [02-08] - electronic
• Waajeed: Ten Toes Down (Dirt Tech Reck) [07-26] - electronic
• Roger Alan Wade: Simmering Rage (Johnny Knoxville) [01-18] - country
• Devin Brahja Waldman: Brahja (RR Gems) [09-11] - jazz [***]
• Kelsey Waldon: White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy) [10-04] - country [A-]
• Wale: Wow . . . That's Crazy (MGM/Warner) [10-11] - hip-hop
• Walk Off the Earth: Here We Go! (Orchard) [10-25] - pop/rock
• Ash Walker: Aquamarine (Night Time Stories) [07-19] - jazz
• Brad Walker Quartet: Live at Snug Harbor (self-released) - jazz
• Joshua Ray Walker: Wish You Were Here (State Fair) [01-25] - country
• Mike Walker: Ropes (Madhouse) [03-22] - jazz
• Seth Walker: Are You Open? (Royal Potato Family) [02-15] - blues
• Summer Walker: Over It (Interscope) [10-04] - r&b [B]
• Tom Walker: What a Time to Be Alive (Relentless) [03-01] - singer-songwriter
• Alice Wallace: Into the Blue (Rebelle Road) [01-18] - country [*]
• Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: The Rhythm of Invention (Patois) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Michael Vincent Waller: Moments (Unseen Worlds) [10-04] - classical
• Wallows: Nothing Happens (Atlantic) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Jennifer Walshe: All the Many Peopls (Migro) [05-31]
• Wand: Laughing Matter (Drag City) [04-19] - psychedelic rock
• Wander: March (Headless Queen) [03-01] - rock
• Wandering Monster: Wandering Monster (Ubuntu Music) [01-25] - jazz
• Wanderwelle & Bandhagens Musikforening: Victory Over the Sun (Semantica) [10-21] - electronic
• Jackson Wang: Mirrors (Team Wang/JYP Entertainment) [10-25]
• Michael Wang: Bone of the Wang Volume 1 (Next Level) - jazz
• WaqWaq Kingdom: Essaka Hoisa (Phantom Limb) [11-15] - electronic
• Greg Ward Presents Rogue Parade: Stomping Off From Greenwood (Greenleaf Music) [01-11] - jazz [B-]
• M Ward: What a Wonderful Industry (self-released) [01-18] - alt/indie
• Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear: Started With a Family (Starts With Music) [09-06] - folk
• Warfogged: I: Voice (Artisan Era) [05-10] - prog metal
• Warmduscher: Tainted Lunch (The Leaf Label) [11-01]
• Warmth: Wildlife (Archives) [07-17] - electronic
• The Warp/The Weft: Dead Reckoning (self-released)
• Dionne Warwick: Dionne Warwick and the Voices of Christmas (S-Curve) [10-18] - xmas
• Waste of Space Orchestra: Syntheosis (Swart) [04-05] - sludge metal
• Andrew Wasylyk: The Paralian (Athens of the North) [02-01]
• The Waterboys: Where the Action Is (Cooking Vinyl) [05-24]
• Nick Waterhouse: Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Waterparks: Fandom (Hopeles) [10-11] - pop rock
• Waterstrider: Way Out (30th Century) [06-28] - alt/indie
• Aaron Watson: Red Bandana (BIG Label) [06-21] - country
• Bobby Watson/Vincent Herring/Gary Bartz: Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions) [11-29] - jazz [*]
• Dale Watson: Call Me Lucky (Red House) [02-15] - country
• Patrick Watson: Wave (Secret City/Domino) [10-18] - chamber pop
• Trevor Watts/Stephen Grew: Let It Be: Live in Liverpool (Fundacja Sluchaj) [02-26] - jazz [*]
• Juan Wauters: La Onda De Juan Pablo (Captured Tracks) [01-25] - singer-songwriter
• Juan Wauters: Introducing Juan Pablo (Captured Tracks) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Rod Wave: Ghetto Gospel (Alamo) [11-01] - hip-hop
• Wavoka Gentle: Start Clanging Cymbals (Nude) [06-07]
• We Are Only Human Once: The Prettiest Boys in Town (Morning Breath) [08-16] - lo-fi
• We Lost the Sea: Triumph & Disaster (Bird's Robe/Dunk!/Holy Roar/Transition Loss) [10-04]
• Weatherday: Come In (Porcelain Music) [04-29] - alt/indie
• Jane Weaver: Loops in the Secret Society (Fire) [06-21] - electronic
• Anna Webber: Clockwise (Pi) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Club (Secretly Canadian) [05-24] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Cory Weeds Quintet: Live at Frankie's Jazz Club (Cellar Live) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Weeping Icon: Weeping Icon (Fire Talk) [09-27] - hardcore punk
• Weezer: Weezer (Teal Album) (Crush/Atlantic) [01-24] - pop rock
• Weezer: Weezer (Black Album) (Crush/Atlantic) [03-01] - pop rock
• Walt Weiskopf European Quartet: Worldwide (Orenda) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• Dan Weiss Trio Plus 1: Utica Box (Sunnyside) [11-08] - jazz
• Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not the Truth of God (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Leo Bud Welch: The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name (Easy Eye Sound) [03-08]
• Paul Weller: Other Aspects: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Parlophone) [03-08] - Brit rock
• Declan Welsh & the Decadent West: Cheaply Bought Expensively Sold (Modern Sky) [10-18]
• Devon Welsh: True Love (You Are Accepted) [10-11]
• Cory Wells: The Way We Are (Pure Noise) [11-15] - rock
• Noel Wells: It's So Nice (1356704 DK2) [08-30] - singer-songwriter
• Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties: Routine Maintenance (Hopeless) [05-10] - alt/indie
• Kanye West: Jesus Is King (GOOD/Def Jam) [10-25] - hip-hop/gospel [B-]
• Mike Westbrook Orchestra: Catania (Westbrook -2CD) - jazz
• Westkust: Westkust (Run for Cover) [03-01] - shoegaze
• G Calvin Weston/The Phoenix Orchestra: Dust and Ash (577) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Westside Gunn: Flygod Is an Awesome God (Griselda) [07-05] - hip-hop
• Westside Gunn: Hitler Wears Hermes 7 (Grizelda) [11-01] - hip-hop
• Wet Tuna: Water Weird (Three Lobed) [10-11] - rock
• Koe Wetzel: Harold Saul High (YellaBush) [06-21] - country
• Weval: The Weight (Kompakt) [03-01] - electronic
• Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising (Sub Pop) [04-05] - alt/indie [B-]
• Jeff Whalen: 10 More Rock Super Hits (Supermegabot Music Concern) [02-15] - rock
• Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm: Bonegasm (Sunnyside) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Whenyoung: Reasons to Dream (Virgin EMI) [05-24]
• While She Sleeps: So What? (Sleeps Brothers) [03-01] - metal
• Whiskey Myers: Whiskey Myers (Wiggy Thump) [09-27] - country
• Stevie Whisper: Stevie Whisper's Donkey Milk (Yes Belgrade) [04-05] - post-punk
• Whistling Arrow: Whistling Arrow (God Unknown) [11-22] - rock
• Kai Whiston: No World as Good as Mine (LUX) [11-06] - experimental
• Matthew Whitaker: Now Hear This (Resilience) [08-09] - jazz
• Rodney Whitaker: Common Ground: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Rodney Whitaker: All Too Soon: The Music of Duke Ellington (Origin) [10-16] - jazz [***]
• Dee White: Southern Gentleman (Easy Eye Sound/Warner Music Nashville -18) [08-24-2018] - country [**]
• Emily Jane White: Immanent Fire (Talitres) [11-08] - alt/indie
• John Paul White: The Hurting Kind (Single Lock) [04-12] - folk
• Joshua White: 13 Short Stories (Fresh Sound New Talent) [10-01] - jazz
• Xylouris White: The Sisypheans (Drag City) [11-08] - international fusion
• White Denim: Side Effects (City Slang) [03-29] - neo-psychedelia
• White Fence: I Have to Feed Larry's... (Drag City) [01-25] - alt/indie
• White Lies: Five (PIAS) [02-01] - post-punk
• White Reaper: You Deserve Love (Elektra) [10-18] - alt/indie
• Whitechapel: The Valley (Metal Blade) [03-29] - deathcore
• Whitehorse: The Northern South Vol 2 (Six Shooter) [01-18]
• Whitesnake: Flesh & Blood (Frontiers) [05-10] - hard rock
• Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra: Songs From the Sun Ra Cosmos (Modern Harmonic) [05-03] - jazz [**]
• Trixie Whitley: Lacuna (Unday) [03-29]
• Whitney: Forever Turned Around (Secretly Canadian) [08-30] - idie folk
• The Who: Who (Polydor) [12-06] - rock [B]
• Betty Who: Betty (self-released) [02-15] - pop [**]
• Whodat/Viola Klein: Workshop 26 (Workshop -EP) [04-19] - house
• Whoop-szo: Warrior Down (You've Changed)
• Why?: Aokohio (Joyful Noise) [08-30] - pop/rock
• Ryan Whyman: Fantasies & Memories (self-released) [05-14] - jazz
• Wicca Phase Springs Eternal: Suffer On (Run for Cover) [02-15] - alt r&b
• Jacob Wick & Phil Sudderberg: Combinatory Pleasures (Astral Spirits) [03-01] - jazz
• Jacob Wick: Feel (Thin Wrist) [02-22] - jazz
• Carrie Wicks: Reverie (OA2) [10-16] - vocal jazz [*]
• Mareike Wiening: Metropolist Paradise (Greenleaf Music) [11-01] - jazz [*]
• WiFiGawd: Return of Da Big Dawg (DTLA) [09-04] - hip-hop
• WiFiGawd & Hi-C: Underworld Order (Volume 1) (DTLA) [06-29] - hip-hop
• Josephine Wiggs: We Fall (The Sound of Sinners) [05-17] - chamber pop
• Wiki: Oofie (Wikiset) [11-08] - hip-hop
• Tobias Wiklund: Where the Spirits Eat (Stunt) [03-22] - jazz
• Wilco: Ode to Joy (dBpm) [10-04] - alt/indie [*]
• Wild Classical Music Ensemble: Tout Va Bien Se Passer (Het Komt Allemaal Ruel Gold) (Born Bad) [03-29]
• The Wild Reeds: Cheers (Dualtone) [03-08]
• Wild Side: Who the Hell Is Wild Side? (Triple B) [05-07]
• Seb Wildblood: Sketches of Transition (AMT) [07-26] - ambient house
• The Wildhearts: Renaissance Men (Graphite) [05-03] - rock
• Lula Wiles: What Will We Do (Smithsonian Folkways) [01-25] - folk
• Sam Wilkes: Live on the Green (Leaving) [11-08] - jazz
• Rich Willey's Boptism Big Band: Down & Dirty (Wise Cat) [06-07] - jazz
• Abigail Williams: Walk Beyond the Dark (Blood Music) [11-15] - atmospheric black metal
• Hannah Williams & the Affirmations: 50 Foot Woman (Record Kicks) [10-18]
• Jeff Williams: Bloom (Whirlwind) [04-26] - jazz
• Joy Williams: Front Porch (Sensibility) [05-03] - country
• Kamaal Williams: New Heights/Snitches Brew (Black Focus) [01-25] - electric jazz
• Kamaal Williams: DJ-Kicks (!K7) [11-08] - jazz-funk
• Saul Williams: Encrypted & Vulnerable (Pirates Blend) [07-18] - spoken word [*]
• Wilma Vritra: Burd (Bad Taste) [04-05] - hip-hop [*]
• The Dave Wilson Quartet: One Night at Chris' (self-released) [05-27] - jazz [***]
• Sam Wilson: Groundless Apprehensions (self-released) [04-05] - jazz
• Siobhan Wilson: The Departure (Suffering Fools) [05-10] - pop
• Sissel Wincent: Assorted Lights (Rosten) [03-11] - electronic
• Wing Walker Orchestra: Hazel (Ears & Eyes) [02-15] - jazz [*]
• Mark Wingfield & Gary Husband: Tor & Vale (Moonjune) [06-14] - jazz [B]
• A Winged Victory for the Sullen: The Undivided Five (Ninja Tune) [11-01] - ambient
• Mark Winkler: I'm With You: Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troupe (Cafe Pacific) [08-06] - vocal jazz
• George Winston: Restless Wind (RCA) [05-03] - new age
• Winterbourne: Echo of Youth (Universal Music Australia) [08-23] - alt/indie
• Anna Wise: As If It Were Forever (self-released) [10-18] - art pop
• Sam Wise: Sorry You Were Saying (Platoon) [11-29] - hip-hop
• Witch Vomit: Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave (20 Buck Spin) - death metal
• Witching Waves: Persistence (Specialist Subject) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Within Temptation: Resist (Vertigo Berlin) [02-01] - metal
• Wives: So Removed (City Slang) [10-04]
• Wizard Apprentice: Dig a Pit (Cruisin') [05-10] - alt/indie
• Woahnows: Young and Cool (Specialist Subject) [02-22]
• Daniel Wohl: Etat (Nonesuch) [05-31]
• Aida Bird Wolfe: Birdie (Songbrook -18) [2018-11-15] - jazz
• Alexander Wolfe: Little Death (Dharma) [03-29] - pop
• Chelsea Wolfe: Birth of Violence (Sargent House) [09-13] - dark folk
• Christian Wolff: Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music (Sub Rosa) [05-06] - classical
• Michael Wolff: Swirl (Sunnyside) [01-25] - jazz
• Woman's Hour: Ephyra (Practice) [02-15] - art pop
• Ronnie Wood & His Wild Five: Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry (BMG) [11-15] - rock [***]
• Billy Woods & Kenny Segal: Hiding Places (Blackwoodz Studioz) [03-29] - hip-hop [***]
• Billy Woods: Terror Management (Blackwoodz Studioz) [10-04] - hip-hop [**]
• Donovan Woods: The Other Way (Meant Well) [05-03]
• Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! (Jagjaguwar) [05-10] - alt r&b [A-]
• Matt Woods: Natural Disasters (Lonely Ones) [06-28] - country
• Woody: My Diary (self-released -EP) [09-03] - electronic
• Nate Wooley: Columbia Icefield (Northern Spy) [02-22] - jazz [*]
• Woolworm: AWE (Mint) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Robert Worby: Factitious Airs (Electronic Music) (Persistence of Sound) [05-20] - electronic
• Worshipper: Light in the Wire (Tee Pee) [05-17] - alt/indie
• Wovoka Gentle: Start Clanging Cymbals (Nude Music) [06-07] - psychedelic pop
• Wreckless Eric: Transience (Southern Domestic) [05-17] - alt/indie [*]
• Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment IV (Arte Boreal) [01-23] - jazz
• Wretch 32: Upon Reflection (Polydor) [10-18]
• Dizzy Wright: Nobody Cares, Work Harder (Empire) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Shannon Wright: Providence (Vicious Circle)
• Robag Wruhme: Venq Tolep (Pampa/Bigwax)
• Wschod: Wschod (Clean Feed) [01-25] - jazz [**]
• Suzi Wu: Error 404 () [03-22]
• Wy: Softie (Beatnik Creative) [04-30] - alt/indie
• Wych Elm: Rat Blanket (Post Mortem -EP) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Ed Wynne: Shimmer Into Nature (Kscope) [01-25] - rock
• Ry X: Unfurl (Infectious Music) [02-15] - alt/indie
• X Ambassadors: Orion (Kidinakorner/Interscope) [06-14]
• The Xcerts: Wildheart Dreaming (Raygun) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Charli XCX: Charli (Asylum) [09-13] - electropop [**]
• Xin: Melts Into Love (Subtext) [09-19] - ambient
• Xiu Xiu: Girl With Basket of Fruit (Polyvinyl) [02-08] - post-industrial
• XL Middleton: 2 Minutes Till Midnight (Fat Beats) [06-07] - hip-hop
• XP the Marxman & IceRocks: Nomads (DXA/Mijo Music) [08-31] - hip-hop
• XT: Palina'tufa (Empty Editions) [06-28] - jazz
• XXX: Language (Bana -18) [2018-11-28] - Korean
• XXXtentacion: Bad Vibes Forever (Bad Vibes Forever/Empire) [12-06] - hip-hop
• Y La Bamba: Mujeres (Tender Loving Empire) [02-08] - dream pop
• Emily Yacina: Remember the Silver (self-released) [12-06] - pop
• Yagya: Stormur (A Strangely Isolated Place) [05-06] - electronic
• Yaima: Antidote (self-released)
• Yak: Pursuit of Momentary Happiness (Third Man) [02-08] - alt/indie
• Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon: Goshu Ondo Suite (AUM Fidelity) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Yong Yandsen/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Paal Nilssen-Love: Hungry Ghosts (Nakama) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Yao Bobby & Simon Grab: Diamonds (Lavalava) [09-19] - reggae
• Nilufer Yanya: Miss Universe (ATO) [03-22] - alt/indie [A-]
• John Yao's Triceratops: How We Do (See Tao) [10-16] - jazz [**]
• Yatta: Wahala (PTP) [08-02] - blues
• Yawners: Just Calm Down (La Castanya) [03-22] - 03-22
• The Yawpers: Human Question (Bloodshot) [04-19] - alt/indie [**]
• YBN Cordae: The Lost Boy (Atlantic) [07-26] - hip-hop [A-]
• Jason Yeager: New Songs of Resistance (Outside In Music) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Trisha Yearwood: Every Girl (Gwendolyn) [08-30] - country
• Yeasayer: Erotic Reruns (self-released) [06-07] - indie pop
• La Yegros: Suelta (Canta La Selva) [03-22] - Latin
• Yellow Eyes: Rare Field Ceiling (Gilead Media) [06-28] - metal
• Yeruselem: The Sublime (Debemir Morti Productions) [02-08]
• Yes! Trio: Groove Du Jour (Jazz & People) [10-11] - jazz
• Yeule: Serotonin II (Bayonet) [10-25] - synthpop
• YG: 4Real 4Real (Def Jam) [05-24] - trap rap
• Derya Yildirim: Kar Yagar (Bongo Joe)
• YMTK: What You Wish For (Just Pan/PYC/Empire) [04-12] - r&b
• YNW Melly: We All Shine (P2019) [01-18] - trap rap
• YNW Melly: Melly vs Melvin (P2019) [11-22] - trap rap
• Yohuna: Mirroring (Orchid Tapes) [06-07] - dream pop
• Shinichiro Yokota: I Know You Like It (Far East) [06-18] - electronic
• Yola: Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch) [02-22] - Americana [*]
• Yonaka: Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow (Asylum) [05-31] - alt/indie
• Thom Yorke: Anima (XL) [06-27] - electropop [B-]
• James Yorkston: The Route to the Harmonium (Domino) [02-22] - folk
• Pete Yorn: Caretakers (Shelly) [08-09] - alt/indie
• You Should Get to Know Us: Hole in Whatever (Desert Mine Music) [01-18] - alt/indie
• You Tell Me: You Tell Me (Memphis Industries) [01-11] - art pop
• Avery R Young: Tubman (FPE) [07-19] - r&b
• Buck Young: Buck II: Where Do You Want It? (No Rent) [09-10]
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Colorado (Reprise) [10-25] - pop/rock [***]
• Will Young: Lexicon (Cooking Vinyl) [06-21]
• Young Dolph & Key Glock: Dum and Dummer (Paper Route/Empire) [07-26] - trap rap
• Young Guv: Guv I (Run for Cover) [08-02] - power pop
• Young Guv: Guv II (Run for Cover) [10-25] - power pop
• Young MA: Herstory in the Making (MA Music/3D) [09-27] - pop rap [*]
• Young Nudy & Pi'erre Bourne: Sli'mere (RCA) [05-10] - trap rap [***]
• Young Thug: So Much Fun (300/Atlantic/YSL) [08-16] - trap rap [***]
• YoungBoy Never Broke Again: AI YoungBoy 2 (Never Broke Again) [10-11] - hip-hop
• Brandee Younger: Soul Awakening (self-released) [06-07] - vocal jazz [***]
• YoungstaCPT: 3T (Y?GEN) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Your Old Droog: It Wasn't Even Close (Gogul Mogul) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Your Old Droog: Transportation (Mongoloid Banks) [06-14] - hip-hop
• Youth Fountain: Letters to Our Former Selves (Pure Noise) [03-08] - rock
• Youth Group: Australian Halloween (Ivy League) [10-11] - alt/indie
• Yowler: Black Dog in My Path (Double Double Whammy) [10-12] - alt/indie
• Yu Su: Roll With the Punches (Second Circle -EP) [05-15] - downtempo
• Yuna: Rouge (Verve) [07-12] - singer-songwriter
• Yung Baby Tate: Girls (self-released) [02-05] - hip-hop
• Ateshkhan Yuseinov: Strange Suite (Riverboat) [08-30] - Balkan
• Rafael Zaldivar: Consecration (Effendi) [03-01] - jazz
• Zamilska: Uncovered (Untuned) [05-10] - electronic
• Simone Zanchini & Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Play the Music of Nino Rota (In+Out) [11-08] - jazz
• Alice Zawadzki: Within You Is a World of Spring (Whirlwind) [10-11] - jazz
• Zlatko Kaucic Quintet: Morning Patches (Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-14] - jazz [*]
• Paul Zauner's Blue Brass feat David Murray: Roots n' Wings (PAO/Blujazz) [08-01] - jazz [***]
• Zeal & Ardor: Live in London (MVKA) [03-22] - metal
• Annika Zee: Factory Pageant (self-released) [ 02-28]
• Denny Zeitlin: Remembering Miles (Sunnyside) [05-10] - jazz
• ZelooperZ: Dyn-o-mite (Bruiser Brigade) [05-10] - hip-hop
• ZelooperZ: Wild Card (Bruiser Brigade) [02-28] - hip-hop
• Rah Zen: Upon the Apex (Dome of Doom) [07-12] - electronic
• Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera (Miel Music) [08-30] - jazz [A-]
• Torbjorn Zetterberg & the Great Question: Live (Corbett vs Dempsey) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Sui Zhen: Losing, Linda (Cascine) [09-27] - synthpop
• Zico: Thinking (Kakao M) [09-30]
• Michael Zilber: East West: Music for Big Bands (Origin -2CD) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Zilla Rocca: 96 Mentality (Three Dollar Pistol Music) [05-21] - hip-hop
• Dann Zinn: Day of Reckoning (Origin) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Dave Zinno Unisphere: Stories Told (Whaling City Sound) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• Zion80: The Book of Beri'ah Vol 8: Hod (Tzadik) [08-23] - jazz
• Ziur: ATO (Planet Mu) [11-15]
• Zo!: FourFront (Foreign Exchange Music) [08-09] - r&b
• Zonal: Wrecked (Relapse) [10-25]
• John Zorn: The Hierophant (Tzadik) - jazz
• John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ Vol 7: St John the Divine 2013 (Tzadik) [09-20] - jazz
• John Zorn: Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi (Tzadik) [06-28] - jazz
• John Zorn: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus (Tzadik) - jazz
• Damon Zucconi: Untitled Substance (Zero Grow) [01-11] - IDM
• Jonathan Zwartz: Animarum (Waterfront) [02-02] - jazz
• Cache 01 (SVBKLT) [04-26] - electronic
• Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (Dualtone) [11-22] - folk
• Jobcentre Rejects: Vol.... (On the Dole) [09-27] - British metal
• Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack (Motown) [11-15]
• Songs That Saved My Life Vol 2 (Hopeless) [11-08] - rock
• This Is Toolroom 2019 (Edits) (Toolroom) [02-01] - electronic [**]
• Thousands of Eyes in the Dark (Ghostly International) [11-22] - ambient
• Total Solidarity: Benefit Compilation for Grassroot LGBTQIA+ Organizations in Poland (Oramics) [08-17]
• Weaponize Your Sound (Optimo Music) [03-08] - electronic [**]