Music Tracking 2021
These are 2021 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically
by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are
in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in
blue indicate that I have a physical copy
(albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green
are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such
source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.
Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5).
The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests,
reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what
I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something
I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been
noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some
specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to
ASAP.
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New Releases
- @-Quartet: En Seguida! (DVL -20) - jazz
- ---__--___: The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Mondoj) [09-10]
- 2B3 [Mike Abbott/Jeff Jenkins/Mike Marlier]: Jimi (self-released) [08-05] - jazz
- The 8-Bit Big Band: Backwards Compatible (self-released) - jazz
- 9 Horses: Omegah (Adhyaropa) - jazz
- 22Gz: The Blixky Tape 2 (Atlantic) [03-18] - hip-hop
- 24/7 Diva Heaven: Stress (Noisolution)
- 27Delly: Fly Since Birth () - hip-hop
- 36: Music for Isolation (Suite) (3Six)
- 88rising, Niki & DJ Snake: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: The Album (Hollywood/Marvel Music/Interscope) [09-01]
- 96 Back: Love Letters, Nine Through Six (Local Action) [11-05] - techno
- 100grandroyce, 103rd: Triple Crown () - hip-hop
- 454: 4 Real () [03-16] - hip-hop
- 1914: Where Fear And Weapons Meet ()
- Getulio Abelha: Marmota (Rec-Beat) - Brazil
- Abra Cadabra: Product of My Environment (No Label -20) [2020-12-04] - UK hip-hop
- Gracie Abrams: This Is What It Feels Like (Interscope) [11-12] - indie pop
- Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script: Cloud Script (RogueArt) - jazz
- Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality (Eremite) [01-01] - jazz
- Absolute: Wonderland ()
- Absolutely Free: Aftertouch (Boiled)
- Abstract Mindstate: Dreams Still Inspire () - hip-hop
- Abstract Orchestra: Madvillain Vol 1 (ATA) [03-12] - jazz
- Accept: Too Mean To Die ()
- The Accidentals: Time Out Session 1 (Savage Kittens) [05-07]
- AC/DC: Power Up (Columbia) [11-13] - hard rock
- AceMoMa: A Future (House of Altr) [03-29] - breakbeat
- Acid Tongue: Arboretum ()
- Jessica Ackerley: Morning/Mourning (Cacophonous Revival) [05-28] - jazz
- Poppy Ackroyd: Pause () [11-12]
- Action/Adventure: Pulling Focus (Pure Noise -EP) [04-30] - pop punk
- Ad Nauseam: Imperative Imperceptible Impulse () [02-12] - avant-garde metal
- Charli Adams: Bullseye (Color Study) [07-16] - pop rock
- Justin Adams & Mauro Durante: Still Moving () [10-29]
- Nicki & Patrick Adams: Lynx (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Adeline Hotel: Good Timing (Ruination) [02-19] - folk
- Adeline Hotel: The Cherries Are Speaking () [10-22]
- Adjective Animal: America's Got Talons ()
- Admiral Fallow: The Idea of You (Chemikal Underground) [11-05]
- Antonio Adolfo: Jobim Forever (AAM Music) [07-31] - jazz
- Adrabesa Quartet: Phoenix (MoonJune -20) - jazz
- AdultBook: Grecian Urn ()
- Aerial East: Try Harder (Partisan) [02-12] - singer-songwriter
- Aespa: Savage (SM Entertainment) - K-pop
- AFI: Bodies () [06-11] - alt rock
- Afterlight: Afterlight () [09-17]
- Afro Cluster: The Reach ()
- Johan Agebjorn & Mikael Ogren: Artefact (Spotted Peccary)
- Aging/Land Trance: Embassy Nocturnes (Tombed Visions)
- Agnes: Magic Still Exists (Universal) [10-22] - pop
- Agusa: En Annan Varld ()
- AHI: Prospect (Thirty Tigers) [11-05]
- AJR: OK Orchestra (AJR Productions) [03-26] - indie pop
- Akai Solo & Navy Blue: True Sky () - hip-hop
- Josef Akin: Flightcase (Sola Terra) - jazz
- Akmu: Next Episode (YG Entertainment) - K-pop
- The Alchemist: This Thing of Ours 1 (ALC) - hip-hop
- The Alchemist: This Thing of Ours 2 (ALC) - hip-hop
- Al-Dos Band: Doing Our Thing With Pride (Kalita)
- Rauw Alejandro: Vice Versa (Sony Music Latin) [06-25] - Latin pop
- Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders: Jeffery Alexander and the Heavy Lidders (Arrowhawk) [08-06]
- Susanna Aleksandra: The Siren (Eclipse Music)
- Akeem Ali: Mack in the Day Starring Keemy Casanova ( Winners United)
- Kareem Ali: All These Moments ()
- Alien Boy: Don't Know What I Am () [08-20] - shoegaze
- Alizzz: Tiene Que Haber Algo Mas ()
- Al-Jicc: Chants () [09-03] - jazz
- Allblack: TY4FWM () - hip-hop
- Lina Allemano/Nick Fraser: Trumpet Drums REMIX Festival (Lumo) [11-01] - jazz
- Marina Allen: Candlepower (Fire) [06-04] - singer-songwriter
- Alyssa Allgood: What Tomorrow Brings (Cellar) - jazz
- Allie: Maybe Next Time () [08-27]
- Dot Allison: Heart-Shaped Scars (SA) [07-30] - folk
- Malik Alston: Presents Painted Pictures Air (The Jazz Diaries)
- Alora Crucible: Thymiamatascension () [ 08-20]
- Alpha Maid: Chuckle () [03-19]
- Alpha Wann: Don Dada Mixtape Vol 1 (Don Dada -20) [2020-12-18] - trap rap
- Obay Alsarani: Sandbox () - electronic
- Altar of Eden: Chimeras (Sound Grotesca)
- The Altered Hours: Convertible (Pizza Pizza)
- Altin Gun: Alem (ATO) [07-23] - synthpop
- Aluna: Higher Ground: Testaments () [08-31]
- Rodrigo Amarante: Drama (Polyvinyl) [07-16] - singer-songwriter
- Gaby Amarantos: Purake (DeckDisc) - Brazil
- Amazondotcom: War Bride () [09-13] - dubstep
- Amenra: De Doorn (Relapse) [06-25] - sludge metal
- American Aquarium: Slappers, Bangers, and Certified Twangers (Losing Side) [05-07] - country
- Amigo the Devil: Born Against (Liars Club) [04-16] - singer-songwriter
- Mikal Amin, Sir Tumes, Lond Division, & Professor Brian Oblivion: Moses Herman Jacobs () - hip-hop
- Amor: Amor/Lemur (Night School) [01-22] - alt dance
- Tori Amos: Ocean to Ocean (Decca) [10-29] - pop
- Amusement Parks on Fire: An Archaea (self-released) [06-25]
- Anaiis: This Is No Longer a Dream () [09-10]
- Chuck Anderson: Spontaneity (self-released) - jazz
- Marisa Anderson & William Tyler: Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey) [08-27] - American primitivism
- Vijay Anderson Trio: Studio Sessions Vol 10 (Gaucimusic) - jazz
- John Andrews & the Yawns: Cookbook (Woodsist) [05-14]
- David Angel: Out on the Coast (Basset Hound Music) - jazz
- Angel Du$t: Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs () [ 10-22]
- Jan Van Angelopoulos: Streams (Terenga Beat)
- Angels & Airwaves: Lifeforms () [09-24] - alt rock
- Thomas Ankersmit: Perceptual Geography (Shelter Press) [04-30] - electroacoustic
- Anna Phoebe: Sea Souls (Eat the Peach) [09-26]
- Anne-Marie: Therapy (Asylum) [07-23] - dance pop
- Another Chemical Love Story: Another Chemical Love Story () [10-29]
- Another Michael: New Music and Big Pop (Run for Cover) [02-19] - indie pop
- Another New Thing: XYZZY (Dipped in Gold) [02-19]
- Anthrax: Serfs Out (Grow Your Own) - metal
- The Antlers: Green to Gold (Anti-) [03-26] - alt/indie
- Antonis Antoniou: Kkismettin (Ajabul) [04-02]
- Anunaku: 042 (AD 93) [04-09] - electronic
- Anz: All Hours (Ninja Tune) [10-15] - UK bass
- Ichiko Aoba: Windswept Adan (Hermine -20) [2020-12-02] - Japanese folk
- Apartment House: John Cage: Number Pieces (Another Timbre -4CD) - classical
- Apathy: Where the River Meets the Sea () - hip-hop
- Apifera: Overstand (Stones Throw)
- April Magazine: If the Ceiling Were a Kite: Vol I () [10-08]
- Apta: Rainbow Islands (Polytelchnic Youth) [03-06]
- Arabrot: Norwegian Gothic (Pelagic) [04-09] - noise rock
- Archie the Goldfish: Water and Light (Funkiwala) [07-16] - jazz
- Architects: For Those That Wish to Exist (Epitaph) [02-26] - metalcore
- Luca Argel: Samba De Guerrilha ()
- Aries: Believe in Me, Who Believes in You ()
- Juliette Armanet: Bruler Le Feu () [11-19]
- Joan Armatrading: Consequences () [06-18] - pop
- Arm's Length: Everything Nice (self-released -EP) [02-26] - midwest emo
- Maria Arnal I Marcel Bages: Clamor ()
- Troen Arnesen Quartet: Tread Lightly (Losen) - jazz
- Tristan Arp: Sculpturegardening () [10-15]
- Arrested Development: For the FKN Love () - hip-hop
- Art d'Ecco: In Standard Definition (Paper Bag) [04-23] - glam rock
- Art of Time Ensemble: Ain't Got Long ()
- Art School Girlfriend: Is It Light Where You Are () [09-10]
- Jelani Aryeh: I've Got Some Living to Do () [07-30]
- ASC: An Increase in Entropy (Samurai Music)
- Ashe: Ashlyn ()
- Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham: Sankofa Season (Kitto)
- Assertion: Intermission ()
- Asukrai: Pandronica (self-released)
- At the Gates: The Nightmare of Being (Century Media) [07-02] - death metal
- Ata Canani: Warte, Mein Land, Warte ()
- Vasko Atanasovski: Phoenix (MoonJune -20) - jazz
- Athletic Progression: Cloud High in Dream, but Heavy in the Air (Touching Bass)
- Attacca Quartet: Real Life ()
- Bess Atwell: Already Always () [09-24] - indie folk
- The Aubreys: Karaoke Alone () [11-05]
- Audiobooks: Astro Tough (Heavenly) [10-01] - art pop
- Gaspard Auge: Escapades (Genesis/Ed Banger/Because Music) [06-25] - electro-disco
- Avelino: Ego Kills () [07-23] - UK hip-hop
- Daniel Avery: Together in Static (Phantasy) [06-24] - IDM
- Avon Terror Corps x Exist Festival: Resist to Exist (Avon Terror Corps) [06-04]
- Awon & Phoniks: Nothing Less () - hip-hop
- Mariana Aydar and Fejuca: Aqui Em Casa (Vol 1) () - Brazil
- Ben Aylon: Xalam (Riverboat) [05-28] - African
- Mac Ayres: Magic 8Ball (Dixon Court) - r&b
- Aywee Tha Seed: Smokey Ways to Chill (Beat Jazz International)
- Azita: Glen Echo (Drag City) [03-05] - art pop
- Katy B: Peace and Offerings () [10-29]
- Babe Rainbow: Changing Colours (Flightless) [05-18]
- Babii: Miirror () [05-21] - UK bass
- Baby Boys: Threesome (Transgressive) [03-12] - art pop
- Baby Strange: Land of Nothing () [04-30]
- BabyTron: Bin Reaper 2 () - hip-hop
- Susana Baca: Palabras Urgentes (Real World) [10-08] -
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: Expansions (Big Crown)
- Bachelor: Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl/Lucky Number) [05-28] - alt/indie
- Daniel Bachman: Axacan (Three Lobed) [05-07] - free folk
- BackRoad Gee: Reporting Live (From the Back of the Roads) (23 Formation Music)
- Bad Bad Hats: Walkman (Don Giovanni) [09-17]
- Bad Waitress: No Taste ()
- Badge Epoch: Scroll (Badge Epoque) [08-20]
- Badsista: Hits De Verao (Summer Hits) Vol 2 (self-released) [02-05]
- Badsista: Gueto Elegance ()
- Baekhyun: Bambi (SM Entertainment) - K-pop
- Bahama Soul Club: Bohemia After Dawn (Buyu -20) - jazz
- Jay Bahd: Return of Okomfo Anokye () [06-20]
- B-Ahwe: Motions () [09-17]
- Baio: Dead Hand Control () [01-29] - indie pop
- Baiuca: Embruxo ()
- Hak Baker: Misled () [10-29] - singer-songwriter
- Jalen Baker: This Is Me, This Is Us (Outside In Music) [06-04] - jazz
- Baker Boy: Gela (Island) [10-15]
- Balkan Taksim: Disko Telegraf (Buda Musique) [05-28] - Romanian
- Balmorhea: The Wind (Deutsche Grammophon) [04-09] - modern classical
- Balthazar: Sand (Play It Again Sam) [02-26] - sophisti-pop
- J Balvin: Jose (Suenos Globales) [09-10] - Latin
- The Bamboos: Hard Up () [05-07]
- Band of Holy Joy: Dreams Take Flight (Tiny Global) [05-14]
- Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson: Refuge (Dead Oceans) - ambient
- Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill: In Disequilibrium () [09-24]
- Bill Banfield: Hey, Holla When You Hear Me ()
- Bizzy Banks: Same Energy () [07-22] - hip-hop
- Lloyd Banks: The Course of the Inevitable () [06-04] - hip-hop
- Banoffee: Tear Tracks (Prim8 Music)
- Richard Barbieri: Under a Spell () [02-26]
- Brigitte Bardini: Stellar Lights (Ruby Valley)
- Andrew Barker + Jon Irabagon Duo: Anemone (Radical Documents) - jazz
- The Barlow: Horseshoe Lounge () - country
- Lou Barlow: Reason to Live (Joyful Noise) [05-28]
- Ted Barnes: 17 Postcards () [03-19]
- Steffen Basho-Junghans: The Dancer on the Hill (Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records -20) - jazz
- Basic Rhythm: Electronic Labyrinth (Planet Mu) [05-14] - electronic
- Basside: Fuck It Up () - hip-hop
- Janet Batch: You Be the Wolf ()
- Batuqueiros E Sua Gente With Douglas Germano: Partido Alto () - Brazil
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol 9 () [03-05]
- Blaze Bayley: War Within Me ()
- Guillermo Bazzola: Lost & Found (Gnu Town -20) - jazz
- Beabadoobee: Our Extended Play () [06-23] - dream pop
- Beach Bunny: Blame Game (-EP)
- Beach Fuzz: Beach Fuzz (self-released -EP) [08-27] - alt/indie
- Beach House: Once Twice Melody EP ()
- Beachy Head: Beachy Head (Graveface)
- Bear Garden: Sunshine Fruit (Bolero) - jazz
- Beartooth: Below (Red Bull) [06-25] - post-hardcore
- Beast in Black: Dark Connection ()
- Beautify Junkyards: Cosmorama (Ghost Box) [01-15] - psychedelic folk
- Doug Beavers: Sol (Circle 9 -20) [2020-12-04] - jazz
- Bedouine: Waysides (The Orchard) [10-22] - chamber folk
- Freya Beer: Beast (Sisterhood)
- Madison Beer: Life Support ()
- Beverley Beirne: Dream Dancer (33 Jazz) - jazz
- Bob Bellerue: Radioactive Desire (Elevator Bath) - jazz
- Bell Orchestre: House Music (Erased Tapes) [03-19] - post-rock
- Andrew Belle: Nightshade ()
- Belmondo Quintet: Brotherhood (B Flat) - jazz
- BeMyFiasco: Where I Left You () - soul
- Benedek: Mr Goods (LIES)
- The Jeff Benedict Big Big Band: The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful (Groovy Panda) - jazz
- Beneficence & Confidence: Stellar Mind () - hip-hop
- Roni Ben-Hur: Stories (Dot Time) - jazz
- Michel Benita: Looking at Sounds (ECM) - jazz
- Daniel Bennett Group: New York Nerve (Manhattan Daylight) - jazz
- Richard X Bennett: RXB3 (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Benny Sings: Music (Stones Throw) [04-09] - indie pop
- Bent: Up in the Air (99: Wave -20) [2020-11-06] - downtempo
- Adam Berenson/Scott Barnum/Bob Moses: Assemblages (Dream Play) [11-01] - jazz
- Natalie Bergman: Mercy (Third Man) [05-07] - singer-songwriter
- Dan Berkson: Dialogues (Freestyle) - jazz
- Berlin Mallet Group: Sogni D'Oro (Malletmuse) - jazz
- Bernhoft: Dancing on My Knees ()
- Bernice: Eau de Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
- Matt Berninger: Serpentine Prison () [10-16] - chamber pop
- Sarah Bernstein: Exolinger (577 -20) [2020-11-06] - jazz
- Matt Berry: The Blue Elephant (Acid Jazz) [05-14] - psychedelic rock
- Lea Bertuci: A Visible Length of Light (Cibachrome Editions)
- Berwyn: Tape 2/Formalhaut () [06-18]
- Berwyn: Demotape/Vega (Heritage) [09-18] - UK hip-hop
- The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Fat Cat) [01-29] - alt/indie
- The Best of the Worst: Better Medicine (Bad Time) [02-19] - ska-punk
- Between the Buried and Me: Colors II () [08-20] - prog metal
- The Bevis Frond: Little Eden (Fire) [09-10]
- Yaya Bey: The Things I Can't Take With Me (Big Dada) [06-17]
- BIA: For Certain (Epic -20) [2020-12-11] - hip-hop
- Justin Bieber: Justice (Def Jam) [03-19]
- Big Big Train: Common Ground () [07-31]
- Big Boi & Sleepy Brown: Big Sleepover () - hip-hop
- Big Brave: Vital (Southern Lord)
- Big O & P-Rawb: The Complexity () - hip-hop
- Big Red Machine: How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Jagjaguwar) [08-27] - chamber pop
- Big Sean: Detroit 2 () - hip-hop
- Big Sean and Hit-Boy: What You Expect (FE/Def Jam) - hip-hop
- Big Sticks & Nite Tyme: The Vibe Out () - hip-hop
- Big30: King of Killbranch (Bread Gang/N-Less) - hip-hop
- Big/Brave: Vital (Southern Lord) [04-23] - drone metal
- Bigyuki: Neon Chapter (Universal) [10-13] - jazz
- Biig Piig: The Sky Is Bleeding () [05-21]
- Elliot Bild & the Zone: ISMS (self-released -20) - jazz
- Mariel Bildsten: Backbone (Outside In Music -20) [2020-11-13] - jazz
- Sofie Birch & Johan Caroe: Repair Techniques (Stroom) [08-04] - abient
- Jade Bird: Different Kinds of Light (Glassnote) [08-13] - indie rock
- Birds of Maya: Valdez (Drag City) [06-25] - garage rock
- Birdy: Young Heart (Atlantic) [04-30] - indie pop
- Jane Birkin: Oh! Pardon Tu Dormais . . . (Kachalou) [02-05] - French pop
- Bisbaye: Le Sens De La Fin (Cuneiform) [01-29] - experimental rock
- The Biscondi Organ Trio: Lockdown (Hudson City) - jazz
- Bishop Ivy: Parasocial ()
- Michael Monhart/Michael Bisio/Ben Chadabe: MMBC Terma (self-released) - jazz
- Wiliam Black: Pieces ()
- Black Coffee: Subconsciously (Ultra) [02-05] - deep house
- Black Dice: Mod Prog Sic () [10-01]
- Black Dresses: Forever in Your Heart () [02-14] - electro-industrial
- Black Honey: Written & Directed () [03-19] - indie rock
- Black Mail: Une Hallucination Francaise ()
- Black Swan: Repetition Hymns (Past Inside the Present)
- Black Veil Brides: The Phantom Tomorrow () [10-29] - alt metal
- Jelani Blackman: Unlimited () [10-29]
- Blackmore's Night: Nature's Light () [03-12]
- Blackstarkids: Puppies Forever () [10-15]
- Blackwater Holylight: Silence/Motion ()
- Bladee: The Fool () [05-28] - cloud rap
- Ruben Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta: Swing! (Ruben Blades Productions) [04-30] - Latin
- Ruben Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta: Salsa Plus! (Ruben Blades Productions) [04-23] - Latin
- Blak Madeen: Let the Good Get Even () - hip-hop
- Blak Saagan: Se Ci Fosse La Luce Sarebbe Bellissimo ()
- Guy Blakeslee: Postcards From the Edge (Entrance) [02-05]
- Blancmange: Commercial Break (Blanc Check) [09-17]
- Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux (Sacred Bones) [02-26] - prog electronic
- Blanco: City of God () [08-20] - UK hip-hop
- Mykki Blanco: Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep () [06-18] - pop rap
- Blank Gloss: Melt (Kompakt) [06-18] - ambient
- Blaqbonez: Sex Over Love ()
- Samuel Blaser/Marc Ducret: Voyageurs (Jazzdor Series) - jazz
- Alex Bleeker: Heaven on the Faultline (Night Bloom) [03-05]
- Ray BLK: Access Denied (Island) [10-01] - pop rap
- BLK JKS: Abantu/Before Humans (Glitterbeat) [05-21]
- BLK ODYSSY: BLK Vintage ()
- Olivia Block: Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea (self-released) [11-29] - electronic
- Priscilla Block: Priscilla Block (Mercury Nashville -EP)
- Block Ensemble: Hugs & Bugs (Clean Feed) [10-00] - jazz
- Blockhead: Space Werewolves Will Be the End of Us (Future Archive)
- Pip Blom: Welcome Break (Heavenly) [11-12]
- Blood Wizard: Western Spaghetti () [03-05]
- Bloodkin: Black Market Tango () [04-09]
- Bloody Head: The Temple Pillars Dissolve Into the Clouds (Hominid Sounds) [05-03] - noise rock
- Bloop: Proof (Lumo) - jazz
- Bloto: Kwasy I Zasady ()
- Blowers: Blowers (Spooky/Chaputa!)
- Blue Orchids: Speed the Day (Tiny Global)
- Blue Rojo: Solitario () [11-17]
- Ilan Bluestone: Impulse ()
- FS Blumm & Nild Frahm: 2x1=4 ()
- Bnny: Everything () [08-20] - indie rock
- Max Bober: Somos (Edition Wandelweiser) - jazz
- Eric Bobo & Stu Bangas: Empires () - hip-hop
- Sega Bodega: Romeo (Nuxxe) [11-12] - art pop
- The Body: I've Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey) [01-29] - power electronics
- The Body & Big/Brave: Leaving None but Small Birds (Thrill Jockey) [10-01] - psychedelic folk
- Body Void: Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth ()
- Mirna Bogdanovic: Confrontation (Klaeng -20) - jazz
- Ben Bohmer: Begin Again () - electronic
- Boi Akih: Storyteller (Bromo -EP) - jazz
- Baptiste Boiron/Bruno Chevillon/Frederic Gastard: La (Ayler) - jazz
- Michele Bokanowski: Rhapsodia/Battlements Solitaires (Recollection GRM)
- Jason Boland and the Stragglers: The Light Saw Me () - country
- Joe Bonamassa: Time Clocks (Provogue) [10-29] - blues rock
- Bondo: 77 (self-released -EP) [11-16]
- Ben Bondy: Glans Intercum (West Mineral)
- Bone Cutter: Bone Cutter (-EP)
- Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney: Superwolves (Drag City) [04-30]
- Dan Bonsanti: Cartoon Bebop (self-released) - jazz
- BoomBaptist, Elaquent, & Juicy the Emissary: Komfort Food (Cream Dream)
- Matt Booth & Palindromes: Mythomania (Ears & Eyes) [06-04] - jazz
- David Borden: Heaven-Kept Soul (Cuneiform) [03-19] - electronic
- Gabriel Borden: Borden on Borden: Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden (Cuneiform) [03-19] - jazz
- Patricia Bosshard/Onceim - CoO: Sillons - Reflets ()
- Ben Bostick: Grown Up Love () [08-20]
- Boston Bun: There's a Nightclub Inside My Head () [04-23]
- Boston Manor: Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures () [10-29]
- Christer Bothen 3: Omen (Bocian) [01-30] - jazz
- David Boulter: Lover's Walk () [06-18]
- Bowerbirds: Becalmyounglovers ()
- Boy Jugo: Time for Jazz ()
- Boys Noize: +/- (Boysnoie) [09-24] - EBM
- Boylife: Gelato () [10-08] - alt r&b
- The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness: Songs From Another Life (Bobo Integral) [02-25] - indie pop
- Pony Bradshaw: Calico Jim () - country
- Billy Bragg: The Million Things That Never Happened (Cooking Vinyl) [10-29] - singer-songwriter
- Brahim! Band: Brahim! (self-released) - jazz
- Brand of Sacrifice: Lifeblood (Blood Blast)
- Jack Brandfield: I'll Never Be the Same (Gut String) - jazz
- Brasuka: A Vida Com Paixao (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Stefan Braun & Mateusz Smoczynski: Keep On Turnin' (Seifert -20) - jazz
- The Brazilian Trio: Aguas Brasileiras (Zoho Music -20) - jazz
- Breeze: Only Up () [08-26]
- Breeze Brewin: Hindsight (Matic) [01-21] - hip-hop
- Bremer/McCoy: Natten (Luaka Bop) [10-29]
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Hunter and the Dog Star (Shuffle) [02-19]
- Bridge City Sinners: Unholy Hymns () - country
- Bright Dog Red: In Vivo (Ropeadope) - jazz
- Brijean: Feelings (Ghostly International) [02-26] - nu-disco
- Brin, Dntl, More Eaze: Futurangelics (Cached Media) - ambient
- Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Survival Horror (RCA -20) [2020-10-30] - metal
- Bris: Tricky Dance Moves (TrueStory Entertainment)
- Huey Briss: Grace Park Legend () - hip-hop
- BRKN: Drama (Groove Attack) [04-23] - hip-hop
- Don Broco: Amazing Things (SharpTone) [10-22] - alt metal
- Brodka: Brut ()
- Frankie Bromley: Forgiveness (CLR -EP)
- The Bronx: Bronx VI (Cooking Vinyl) [08-27] - punk
- Bronx Slang: Substance () - hip-hop
- Bronze Nazareth & Recognize Ali: Season of the Seven () - hip-hop
- The Brother Brothers: Calla Lily (Compass) [04-16]
- The Brothers Steve: Dose (Big Stir)
- Brothertiger: Fundamentals Vol III (Satanic Panic)
- Alexander Brott: The Aesthetic Attitude (Fresh Sound) - jazz
- Apollo Brown & Stalley: Blacklight (Mello Music Group) [11-19] - hip-hop
- Echo Brown: Struggles (The North Quarter -EP)
- Keith Brown Trio: African Ripples (Space Time) - jazz
- Nora Brown: Sidetrack My Engine ()
- Jackson Browne: Downhill From Everywhere (Inside) [07-23]
- Bruiser Brigade Records: TV62 (Bruiser Brigade) [05-14] - hip-hop
- Bruit: The Machine Is Burning . . . ()
- Tristan Brunsch: Am Rest ()
- Peter Bruntnell: Journey to the Sun (Domestico) [06-11]
- A Bu Trio: One Step East (Jz Music) - jazz
- Dewa Budjana: Naurora (MoonJune) - jazz
- Allie Crow Buckley: Moonlit and Devious (self-released)
- Buffalo Daughter: We Are the Times (Anniversary) [09-17]
- Buffalo Nichols: Buffalo Nichols (Fat Possum) [10-15] - blues
- Jeb Loy Nichols: Jeb Loy ()
- Buffet Lunch: The Power of Rocks (Upset the Rhythm) [05-07]
- Jake Bugg: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning () [08-20] - singer-songwriter
- Bull: Discover Effortless Living () [03-26]
- Bullet for My Valentine: Bullet for My Valentine (Spinefarm)
- The Buoys: Unsolicited Advice for Your DIY Disaster ()
- Molly Burch: Romantic Images () [07-23] - indie pop
- Bertrand Burgalat: Reve Capital () [06-18] - French pop
- The Burner Band: Signs and Wonders () - country
- Christopher Burnett: The Standards Vol 1 (ARC) - jazz
- Burnt Belief: Mutual Isolation (Alchemy) - jazz
- Guy Buttery/Mohd Amjad Khan/Mudassir Khan: One Morning in Gurgaon (Riverboat) -
- Armin van Buuren: A State of Trance Forever ()
- Byrell the Great and Precious: Snack Time () - club music
- Cabaret Voltaire: BN9Drone (Mute) [04-23]
- Cactus Lee: Texas Music Forever (709) [01-15]
- Cadence Weapon: Parallel World (eOne) [04-30] - hip-hop
- Gwen Cahue: Margin Call (Quest) [08-20] - jazz
- Ethel Cain: Inbred (Homie Shit Magazine -EP) [04-23] - slowcore
- Landon Caldwell: Deep Strand (Trouble in Mind) [03-12]
- Caleborate: Light Hit My Skin (Caleborate) [03-26] - hip-hop
- Calibre: Feeling Normal (Signature) [02-26] - dubstep
- Calicoco: Underneath (Dadstache)
- Califato 1/4: La Contracena ()
- Caligonaut: Magnified as Giants ()
- Mira Calix: Absent Origin (Warp) [11-05] - electronic
- Caliza: El Descenso ()
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Blind Date Party (Drag City) [12-10]
- Calva Louise: Euphoric () [10-15]
- Calyx: Stay Gone (Salinas/Chumpire/Ethospine/Plastic Miracles) [02-12] - art rock
- Camera: Prosthuman (Bureau B) [02-19]
- Camilo: Mis Manos (Sony) [03-19] - Latin
- Pablo Martin Caminero: Al Toque (Karonte) [09-03] - jazz
- Jeremy Camp: When You Speak ()
- Camp Trash: Downtiming () [01-22] - emo-pop
- Canal Irreal: Canal Irreal ()
- Cande y Paulo: Cande y Paulo (Decca) [06-04] - vocal jazz
- Canibus: Kaiju () - hip-hop
- Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis: May Sounds (Brawl)
- Cannibal Corpse: Violence Unimagined (Metal Blade) [04-16] - death metal
- Jerry Cantrell: Brighten () [10-29] - alt/indie
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed: You Can See Your Own Way Out ()
- Caoilfhionn Rose: Truly () [04-09] - art pop
- Caparezza: Exuvia ()
- Car Culture: Dead Rock (Lighthead)
- Alessia Cara: In the Meantime (Def Jam) [09-24] - pop
- Caravan: It's None of Your Business () [10-08]
- Carcass: Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) [09-17] - death metal
- Career Crooks: Never at Peace () - hip-hop
- Carm: Carm (37d03d) [01-22]
- Carol: Soiled (self-released -EP) [05-14]
- Chelsea Carmichael: The River Doesn't Like Strangers (Native Rebel) [10-22] - jazz
- Dillon Charmichael: Son of A (Riser House) - country
- Matt Carmichael: Where Will the River Flow (Pothole Music) - jazz
- John Carpenter: Lost Themes III: Alive After Death () [02-05] - prog electronic
- Marques Carroll: The Ancestors' Call (self-released) - jazz
- Cartel Madras: The Serpent and the Tiger () - hip-hop
- Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes: Sticky (AWAL) [10-15] - alt/indie
- Dylan Cartlidge: Hope Above Adversity () [07-09]
- Andre Carvalho: Lost in Translation (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Ca$ablanca & Cap Chino: Korea-Town () - hip-hop
- Peter Case: The Midnight Broadcast (Bandaloop) [03-12]
- Justin Cashion: Paranoid Narrative ()
- Daniel Casimir: Boxed In (Jazz Re:freshed) - jazz
- Edmar Castaneda: Family (Arpa y Voz) [05-21] - jazz
- Robert Castelli: Party at One World Plaza (Castelli-in-Cielo -20) - jazz
- Tommy Castro: A Bluesman Came to Town () - blues
- Catbite: Nice One (Bad Time) [08-06] - ska punk
- The Catenary Wires: Birling Gap (Shelflife) [06-18]
- Cautious Clay: Deadpan Love (The Orchard) [06-25] - alt r&b
- Cave of Swimmers: Aurora (self-released) [02-23] - metal
- Cavetown: Man's Best Friend () [06-04] - bedroom pop
- Kate Ceberano: Sweet Inspiration (02-05)
- Cee Knowledge: The Calidelphian () - hip-hop
- Celeste: Not Your Muse () [01-29] - neo-soul
- Celestial: I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (Ecstatic)
- Cemento: Killing Life (Iron Lung)
- Central Cee: Wild West () [03-12] - drill
- CFCF: Memoryland (BGM Solutions) [04-09] - electronic
- Eddie Chacon: Pleasure, Joy and Happiness (Day End) [07-31] - neo-soul
- Chain Reaktor: Homesick ()
- Tom Challenger: Imasche (self-released)
- Jorja Chalmers: Midnight Train (Italians Do It Better) [05-28] - synthpop
- Chamber 4: Dawn to Dusk (JACC) [07-30] - jazz
- Cole Chaney: Mercy () - country
- Pearl Charles: Magic Mirror (Kanine) [01-15] - soft rock
- Cheap Trick: In Another World (BMG) [04-09] - power pop
- Casey Chesnutt: Down Mexico Way EP ()
- Christina Chatfield: Sutro (Mysteries of the Deep)
- Requin Chagrin: Bye Bye Baby (KMS Disques) [04-09] - dream pop
- Charged Particles With Tod Dickow: Live at the Baked Potato: The Music of Michael Brecker (Summit) [10-08] - jazz
- Claire Chase: Density 2036 (2013-2015) (Corbett vs Dempsey) [02-19] - jazz
- Claire Chase: Density 2036 (2016-2017) (Corbett vs Dempsey) [02-19] - jazz
- Evan Cheadle: Fault Line Serenade (self-released) [06-11]
- Tania Caroline Chen/Wadada Leo Smith: Every Leaf (self-released -20) [2020-01-18] - jazz
- Central Cee: Wild West () [03-12] - drill
- Censored Dialogue: Afro Pessimist ()
- Cheval Sombre: Time Wait for No One (Sonic Cathedral) [02-26] - slowcore
- Cheval Sombre: Days Go By (Sonic Cathedral) [05-28] - slowcore
- Chihuahua: Violent Architecture (self-released)
- Chika: Once Upon a Time () - hip-hop
- Child's Pause: Eyes to the Right (Thrilling Living)
- Wild Billy Childish & CTMF: Where the Wild Purple Iris Grows (Damaged Goods) [08-06]
- Children of Zeus: Balance () [06-04]
- John Chin Featuring Richard Julian: Anything Mose! (Jinsy) - jazz
- Rachel Chinouriri: Four° in Winter () [04-23] - neo-soul
- Chip: Snakes & Ladders () [01-29] - hip-hop
- Pamai Chirdkiatisak: Dreamer (self-released -18) - jazz
- David Christian & Pinecone Orchestra: For Those We Met on the Way ()
- Lucinda Chua: Antidotes 2 (4AD) [05-07] - singer-songwriter
- Eric Church: & (EMI Nashville -EP) [04-20] - country
- Cimafunk: El Alimento ()
- Cindy: 1:2 () [10-01] - dream pop
- Francesco Ciniglio: The Locomotive Suite (Whirlwind) - jazz
- Mark Cisneros/Nik Francis/Luke Stewart: We Were Here Before (CAA) - jazz
- Citizen: Life in Your Glass World () [03-26] - post-punk revival
- The City Champs: Luna '68 (Big Legal Mess) - jazz
- City of Dawn & the Corrupting Sea: Mosaic of the Senses (Somewherecold)
- City of Dawn: Avenoir (Ingrown)
- Civic: Future Forecast (Flightless)
- CL: Alpha (Very Cherry/Sony) [10-21] - K-pop
- Fay Claassen & David Linx with WDR Big Band Koln: And Still We Sing (Jazzline) [09-10] - jazz
- Stina Marie Claire: A Souvenir of a Terrible Year () [10-01]
- Clamm: Beseech Me () [04-09]
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: New Fragility (CYHSY) [02-12] - indie pop
- Clark: Playground in a Lake (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-26] - modern classical
- Mike Clark and Michael Zilber: Mike Drop (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Randal Clark: Imaginary World (Blue Hour) - jazz
- Scott Clark: This Darkness (Out of Your Head) - jazz
- Josienne Clarke: A Small Unknowable Thing (Corduroy Punk) [08-13]
- Claud: Super Monster (Saddest Factory) [02-12] - indie pop
- Casper Clausen: Better Way () [01-08] - indietronica
- Merry Clayton: Beautiful Scars (Motown) [04-09] - gospel
- CLBRKS & Dweeb: The Library of Babel () - hip-hop
- Jon Cleary: The New Orleans Collection: So Swell (Newvelle) - jazz
- Cleopatrick: Bummer () [06-04] - hard rock
- Clever Girls: Constellations () [03-26]
- Clinic: Fantasy Island (Domino) [10-22] - neo-psychedelia
- Closer: Within One Stem (Lauren) [03-12] - screamo
- Clozee: Nouvelle Era () - electronic
- Club Queens: CQ2 (Club Queen) - club music
- Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino: Blue Blue Blue (Cinematic Music Group)
- Biffy Clyro: The Myth of the Happily Ever After (14th Floor) [10-22] - alt/indie
- Coach Party: After Party () [04-13] - indie rock
- The Coast Jazz Orchestra: The Temp (Music by Taylor Ho Bynum, Words by Matthea Harvey) (self-released) [02-17] - jazz
- Cobalt Chapel: Orange Synthetic () [01-29] - neo-psychedelia
- Cobrah: Cobrah () [05-12] - hip house
- Cochonne: Emergency ()
- Todd Cochran TC3: Then and Again, Here and Now (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Jarvis Cocker: Chansons D'Ennui Tip-Top (ABKCO) [10-22] - chanson
- Coco: Coco () [10-29]
- Code Quartet: Genealogy (Justin Time) [04-23] - jazz
- Codenine: LVNDR () - hip-hop
- Turner Cody & the Soldiers of Love: Friends in High Places (Capitane) [06-04]
- Tony Coe & John Horler: Dancing in the Dark (Gearbox) [08-13] - jazz
- Coevality: Multiple Personalities () [04-09] - prog rock
- Sam Coffey & Iron Lungs: Real One ()
- Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne: Rakes & Misfits (Grimdon) [03-05]
- Pat Coil: How Deep Is the Ocean (Burton Avenue) [06-04] - jazz
- Cola Boyy: Prosthetic Boombox (MGMT/Record Makers) [06-18] - hypnagogic pop
- Cold Beat: War Garden (self-released)
- Cold Water Swimmers: Holiday at the Secret Lake (DIY or Die)
- Coldplay: Music of the Spheres (Parlophone) [10-15] - pop
- Henry Cole & Villa Locura: Buscando La Vida (La Musica Artesanal) [11-19] - jazz
- Steve Cole: Smoke and Mirrors (Artistry/Mack Avenue) [06-18] - jazz
- Maya Jane Coles: Night Creature () [10-29]
- Jon Coley: If All I Ever Wanted Was All I Ever Needed (Jon Coley Music) [09-10]
- Colleen: The Tunnel and the Clearing (Thrill Jockey) [05-21] - ambient pop
- Shirley Collins: Crowlink (Domino -EP) [07-30] - folk
- Paul Colombo Group: Rio Crystal (Vectordisc) - jazz
- Coma World: Coma World () [02-05]
- Conclave: Conclave (Love Injection) [06-18] - jazz
- Concrete Winds: Nerve Butcherer ()
- Alex Conde: Descarga for Bud (Sedajazz) - jazz
- Configa & DJ Views: The Year After () - jazz
- The Connells: Steadman's Wake ()
- Clarissa Connelly: The Voyager () [11-13] - art pop
- Joanna Connor: 4801 South Indiana Avenue (Keeping the Blues Alive) [02-26]
- Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella: People Need People () - jazz
- Steve Conte: Bronx Cheer (Wicked Cool)
- Converge & Chelsea Wolfe: Bloodmoon: I (Epitaph) [11-19] - sludge metal
- Conway the Machine & Big Ghost Ltd: If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed () - hip-hop
- Hattie Cooke: Bliss Land (Castles in Space) [07-09]
- Cool Sounds: Bystander () [02-12] - indie pop
- Cool Ghouls: At George's Zoo (Empty Cellar) [03-12]
- Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories (EarMusic) [02-26] - hard rock
- Corbin: Ghost With Skin () [10-31] - alt r&b
- Ivan Cornejo: Alma Vacia (Manzana) [08-20]
- Charlotte Cornfield: Highs in the Minuses ()
- Gustavo Cortinas: Desafio Candente (Woolgathering) - jazz
- Alessandro Cortini: Scuro Chiaro ()
- Jhay Cortez: Timelezz (Universal Music Latino) [09-03] - Latin pop
- Larry Coryell: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call (ACT Music) [03-19] - jazz
- Larry Coryell: Last Swing With Ireland (Angel Air) - jazz
- Jeff Cosgrove: History Gets Ahead of Itself (self-released) - jazz
- Cosha: Mt Pleasant () [07-02] - alt r&b
- Graham Costello's Strata: Second Lives (Gearbox) [05-07] - jazz
- Elisabeth Coudoux: Emiszatett: Earis (Impakt) [05-14] - jazz
- Cathal Coughlan: Song of Co-Akin (Dimple Discs) [03-26] - singer-songwriter
- Counting Crows: Butter Miracle, Suite One (BMG -EP) [05-11]
- The Courettes: Back in Mono () [10-15]
- Chris Crack: Sheep Hate Goats (New Deal Collective)
- Cradle Of Filth: Existence Is Futile ()
- Marlon Craft: How We Intended () - hip-hop
- Samantha Crain: I Guess We Live Here Now (Real Kind) [04-09]
- Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: 4 (Puro Fantasia -EP) [01-01]
- Cranes [Matthias Muller/Eve Risser/Christian Marien]: Formation - Deviation (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Stoney Creation: If It Resonates . . . (self-released -EP) [05-28] - r&b
- Creeper: American Noir () [07-30] - pop rock
- Tex Crick: Live in . . . New York City (Mac's Record Label) [03-26]
- Crimeapple: YDFWC? () - hip-hop
- Crimeapple & DJ Muggs: Cartagena () - hip-hop
- Marilyn Crispell/Eddie Prevost/Harrison Smith: ConcertOTO (Matchless) - jazz
- Cro: Trip64 ()
- AJ Croce: By Request (Compass) [02-05]
- Dan Croll: On Top () [07-23] - singer-songwriter
- Brian Crosby: Imbrium () [03-26]
- David Crosby: For Free (BMG) [07-23] - singer-songwriter
- Crowded House: Dreamers Are Waiting (EMI) [06-04]
- Adrian Crowley: The Watchful Eye of the Stars (Chemikal Underground) [04-30]
- Crown: The End of All Things ()
- Cruelkamui: Substitute (self-released)
- Crumb: Ice Melt (Crumb) [04-30] - psychedelic pop
- Crystal Tides: Eat Your Words () [05-28]
- Cub Scout Bowling Pins: Clang Clang Ho () [07-02]
- Gemma Cullingford: Let Me Speak (Outre) [07-30]
- Spencer Cullum: Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection (YK) [11-12] - folk rock
- Joel Culpepper: Sgt Culpepper () [07-23] - funk
- Cult Figures: Deritend (Gard Du Nord)
- The Cult of Dom Keller: They Carried the Dead in a UFO () [05-21]
- Cult of the Damned: The Church Of (Blah) - hip-hop
- Cultura Profetica: Sobrevolando Instrumental ()
- Cure for Paranoia: Bamf ()
- Curren$y and Harry Fraud: Regatta (Jet Life) - hip-hop
- Curren$y: Still Stoned on Ocean () - hip-hop
- Current Joys: Voyager () [05-14] - indie pop
- Curse Ov Dialect: Dark Days Bright Nights () - hip-hop
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Ain't No Storm (Imani/88 Keys) - jazz
- Jeremiah Cymerman: Citadels & Sanctuaries (5049) [08-20] - jazz
- Cynic: Ascension Codes () [11-26] - prog metal
- CZN: Commutator () [05-21] - ambient dub
- D Smoke: War & Wonders (WoodWorks/Empire) [09-24] - hip-hop
- Linn Da Quebrada: Trava Linguas (self-released) - Brazil
- Dabin: Between Broken ()
- Sturle Dagsland: Sturle Dagsland () [02-05] - experimental rock
- Pan Daijing: Jade (PAN) [06-04] - experimental
- Dakim: Regos_Chillin' (Ddust Direct)
- Dalham: Funf () [11-19]
- Dalriada: Oszel ()
- Dal:um: Similar & Different (Glitterbeat) [06-25]
- Dam Funk: Architecture III (Glydezone) [04-23]
- Damon & Naomi: A Sky Record (20/20/20) [08-13] - slowcore
- Dan + Shay: Good Things () [08-13]
- Barbara Dang & Muzzix: Michael Pisaro-Liu: Tombstones (Elsewhere) [10-19] - jazz
- Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia ()
- Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Cloudland (ACT Music) - jazz
- Gene Dante: DL/UX ()
- Nina Dante + Bethany Younge: Lizard Tongue ()
- Danz CM: The Absurdity of Human Existence () [03-12]
- Dare: Against All Odds (Revelation) [08-21] - hardcore punk
- Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe: Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe (Rare Bird/Kitten Robot)
- Dark Time Sunshine: Lore () - hip-hop
- The Darkness: Motorheart ()
- Steve Darko: Midnight Swim () - electronic
- Darkside: Spiral (Matador) [07-23] - art rock
- Carroll V Dashiell Jr: Lineage (CD Baby) [06-21] - jazz
- Sarah Davachi: Antiphonals (Late Music) [09-10] - ambient
- John Daversa Jazz Orchestra: All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren (Tiger Turn) - jazz
- Angharad Davies: Gwneud A Gwneud Eto/Do and Do Again (All That Dust)
- Steve Dawson: At the Bottom of a Canyon in the Branches of Tree (Pravda) [07-16]
- Dawuna: Glass Lit Dream ()
- Daya: The Difference (Sandlot) [05-14] - pop
- Lucky Daye: Table for Two ()
- Yussef Dayes Trio: Welcome to the Hills (Cashmere Thoughts) - jazz
- Dazy: Maximumblastsuperloud: The First 24 Songs () [08-20] - power pop
- D-Block Europe: Home Alone 2 () [11-09] - hip-hop
- DDG & OG Parker: Die 4 Respect (Epic) [03-19] - hip-hop
- Roxanne De Bastion: You & Me, We Are the Same () [09-03]
- De Beren Gieren: Less Is Endless () [02-19]
- Thomas De Pourquery Supersonic: Back to the Moon (Lying Lions) - jazz
- De Schuurman: Bubbling Inside (Nyege Nyege Tapes) - club music
- The Dead Daisies: Holy Ground ()
- Summer Dean: Bad Romantic () - country
- Deap Vally: Digital Dream () [02-26]
- Deap Vally: Marriage () [11-19] - indie rock
- Deap Vally: American Cockroach () [06-18] - garage rock
- Dear Laika: Pluperfect Mind () [10-29] - art pop
- Death by Unga Bunga: Heavy Male Insecurity (Jansen)
- Death Goals: The Horrible and the Miserable (self-released) [06-04] - screamo
- Deathirl & Totalfuckingbliss: Death DLX ()
- Deathretro: Deathretro (Cosmic Glue)
- Death's Dynamic Shroud.Wmv: Faith in Persona () [11-01] - vaporwave
- Lucas Debargue/Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica: Zal: The Music of Milosz Magin ()
- Santi Debriano: Flash of the Spirit (Truth Revolution) - jazz
- Manni Dee: A Low Level Love (Perc Trax) [06-18] - techno
- Dee Gees: Hail Satin ()
- The Deep Dark Woods: Changing Faces (Six Shooter) [05-14]
- Deep Tan: Creeping Speedwells () [06-04] - post-punk
- Deerhoof: Actually, You Can (Joyful Noise) [10-22] - indie rock
- Del Amitri: Fatal Mistakes (Cooking Vinyl) [05-28]
- Del Water Gap: Del Water Gap () [10-08]
- Vladislav Delay: Rakka II (Cosmo Rhythmatic) [04-16] - electronic
- Toya Delazy: Afrorave Vol 1 () - electronic
- Benoit Delbecq 4: Gentle Ghosts (Jazzdor) - jazz
- Delgres: 4:00 AM (PIAS) [04-09] - jazz
- Delilah Bon: Delilah Bon (Trash Queen)
- Christopher Dell/Christian Lillinger/Jonas Westergaard: Beats (Plaist) [01-29] - jazz
- Adrian Democ: Hlaholika (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Tanya Dennis: White Sails Blue Skies (Paloma) - jazz
- Dana Dentata: Pantychrist (Roadrunner)
- Bertrand Denzler/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell: What Do You See When You Are Sleeping? (Conront) [01-31] - jazz
- Bo DePena: It's About to Get Western () - country
- Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Noktvrn () [11-19] - black metal
- Derupeto Quartet: Derupeto (Nobel) - jazz
- Desperate Journalist: Maximum Sorrow! () [07-02] - dream pop
- Bryce Dessner: Impermanence/Disintegration (37d03d) - jazz
- Blu DeTiger: How Did We Get Here? () [03-05]
- Duke Deuce: Duke Nukem ()
- Taylor Deupree: Mur (Dauw) [03-26]
- The Devil Wears Prada: ZII () [05-21] - metalcore
- Devin the Dude: Soulful Distance () - hip-hop
- Richard DeviParlamane: Systik (BL_K Noise)
- De'Wayne: Stains (Hopeless) [06-18] - alt/indie
- Dennis Deyoung: 26 East Vol 2 ()
- Diablo Swing Orchestra: Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole (Candlelight) [11-02] - avant-garde metal
- Li Diaguo: Xiao Gong ()
- Diamante Electrico: Miro Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer ()
- Madi Diaz: History of a Feeling (Anti-) [08-27] - singer-songwriter
- Peter DiCarlo: Onward (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
- Robert Dick/Nicola L Hein: Structures of Unreason (Shhpuma) - jazz
- Dictaphone: Goats & Distortions 5 (Denovali)
- Die Arzte: Dunkel ()
- Digga D: Made in the Pyrex (02-25) [CGM]
- Digital Resistance: Alternative Facts (Grimace)
- DijahSB: Head Above the Waters (AWAL) - hip-hop
- Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt: Lucy & Aaron () [07-13] - tape music
- Dina Ogon: Dina Ogon (Sing a Song Fighter) [10-08]
- Dinner: Dream Work (Captured Tracks)
- Dion: Stomping Around ()
- Kyle Dion: Sassy () - r&b
- Nina Dioz: Amor, Locura Y Otros Vicios ()
- Patterson Dipper: Unearthing () [01-28]
- Silas J Dirge: The Poor Devil () - country
- Dirty Honey: Dirty Honey ()
- The Dirty Nil: Fuck Art (Dine Alone) [01-01] - rock
- Disclosure: DJ Kicks (!K7) - electronic
- Divide and Dissolve: Gas Lit (Invada) [01-29] - drone metal
- The Divorcees: Drop of Blood () - country
- DJ Clent: LEC 2 () - club music
- DJ Earl: Bass + Funk & Soul (Moveltraxx -20) [2020-12-04] - electronic
- DJ Format: Devil's Workshop (Project Blue Book) [04-30]
- DJ Friction: Synesthesia (Berlin Production Music)
- DJ Khaled: Khaled Khaled (We the Best/Roc Nation/Epic) [04-30] - hip-hop
- DJ Manny: Signals in My Mind () [07-23] - footwork
- DJ Muggs the Black Goat: Dies Occidendum () - hip-hop
- DJ Nu-Mark: Run for Cover (Hot Plate)
- DJ Pitch: It's Not What You Said, It's Because You Spoke (Edited Arts)
- DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: The Makin Magick II Album () [11-26] - house
- DJ Seinfeld: Mirrors ()
- DJ Toner: Blessed Are the Weird People (Vinyl Digital)
- DJ Tron: Feathers of Funk (Burning Sole)
- Django Django: Glowing in the Dark (Because Music) [02-12] - indie pop
- Djinn: Transmission ()
- Malik Djoudi: Troie () [09-24]
- Dltzk: Teen Week (Deadair) [02-26] - indietronica
- DMX: Exodus (Def Jam) [05-28] - hip-hop
- Dntel: The Seas Trees See (Morr Music)
- Do Nothing: Glueland () [03-12] - post-punk
- Dodie: Build a Problem (Doddieoddie) [05-07] - alt-pop
- The Dodos: Grizzly Peak () [11-12]
- Julie Doiron: I Thought of You (You've Changed) [11-26]
- Dolphin Midwives: Body of Water () [07-09] - electroacoustic
- Micky Dolenz: Dolenz Sings Nesmith () [05-21]
- Bo Dollis Jr and the Wild Magnolias: My Name Is Bo (Gallatin Street)
- Denise Donatelli: Whistling in the Dark . . . The Music of Burt Bacharach (Savant) - jazz
- Michel Doneda/Frederic Blondy/Tetsu Saitoh: Spring Road 16 (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Emma Donovan & the Putbacks: Under These Streets () [09-17]
- Doof: NCL DooFus 2: Swamp Phonk () - hip-hop
- Doran: Doran () [11-05]
- Christy Doran/Stefan Banz: Aerosols (Between the Lines) - jazz
- Tashi Dorji/Marshall Trammell: Duo Damage Vol 1: Live in Portland (SIGE) - jazz
- Giuseppe Doronzo/Pino Basile: Aterraterr (Tora) - jazz
- Leon Lee Dorsey: Thank You Mr Mabern! (Jazz Avenue 1 -20) - jazz
- Leon Lee Dorsey/Manuel Valera/Mike Clark: Freedom Jazz Dance (Jazz Avenue 1) [08-20] - jazz
- Dowally: Early Bird // Night Owl () [02-19]
- Ed Dowie: The Obvious I (Needle Mythology) [03-26]
- Downhaul: Proof (Refresh) [05-21] - indie rock
- Riley Downing: Start It Over (New West) [05-14]
- William Doyle: Great Spans of Muddy Time (Tough Love) [03-19] - art pop
- Dr Dre: The Contract (-EP) [10-15] - hip-hop
- Dr Joy: Dr Joy (Idee Fixe) [09-17]
- Draco Rosa: Sound Healing 1:11 ()
- Dragon Sound: Miami Connection (Enjoy the Ride)
- Drakeo the Ruler: The Truth Hurts () [02-23] - hip-hop
- Drakeo the Ruler: So Cold I Do 'Em 2 (Stinc Team) - hip-hop
- Dream Theater: A View From the Top of the World () [10-22] - prog metal
- Dream Unending: Tide Turns Eternal (20 Buck Spin) [11-19] - death doom metal
- Dreamwell: Modern Grotesque (self-released) [02-26] - screamo
- Driftmachine: Spume & Recollection () [03-12] - ambient dub
- Johnny Drille: Before We Fall Asleep ()
- Drinking Boys and Girls Choir: Marriage License ()
- Dropkick Murphys: Turn Up That Dial (Born & Bred) [04-30] - celtic punk
- Drug Store Romeos: The World Within Our Bedrooms (Fiction) [10-09] - dream pop
- Drunken Kong: Dark Moon (Terminal M)
- Du Blonde: Homecoming (Daemon TV) [04-02] - alt/indie
- Deelee Dube: Trying Times (Concord) - jazz
- Duda Beat: Te Amo La Fora (self-released) - Brazil
- Ryan Dugre: Three Rivers () [02-19]
- Duke Deuce: Duke Nukem () - hip-hop
- Sal Dulu: Xompulse (Sal Dulu) [02-19]
- Dummy: Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind) [10-22]
- Dumpstaphunk: Where Do We Go From Here? (The Funk Garage)
- Adrianne Duncan: Gemini (LA Modern Jazz Series) - jazz
- Paul Dunmall/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Bright Awakening (RogueArt) - jazz
- Bruno Duplant/Frederic Tentelier: Nocturnes (3 Etudes) (Inexhaustible Editions) - jazz
- Duo Libertaire: Hint of Monk (Intrication) - jazz
- Danielle Durack: No Place () [01-15] - indie pop
- Kelman Duran: Night in Tijuana (Scorpio Red)
- Duran Duran: Future Past () [10-22] - synthpop
- Dusky: Joy ()
- Dvne: Etemen Aenka () [03-19] - prog metal
- DVSN & Ty Dolla $ign: Cheers to the Best Memories () [08-20] - r&b
- John Dwyer/Nick Murray/Brad Caulkins/Greg Coates/Tom Dolas: Witch Egg (Rock Is Hell) - jazz
- Dwyer/Sawyer/Kerlin/Dolas/Caulkins/alone/Rodriguez/Boye/Soubiran/Myers-Ionita/Renteria: Moon Drenched (Castle Face)
- Dying Wish: Fragments of a Bitter Memory () [10-01] - metalcore
- Jordan Dykstra/Koen Nutters: In Better Shape Than You Found Me (Elsewhere) - jazz
- Joe Dyson: Look Within (self-released) - jazz
- EABS: Discipline of Sun Ra (Astigmatic) [02-05] - jazz
- Jason Eady: To the Passage of Time () - country
- Eartheater: Phoenix: La Petite Mort Edition (PAN)
- Anderson East: Maybe We Never Die (Elektra) [08-20]
- Dave East & Harry Fraud: Hoffa () [07-30] - hip-hop
- Asun Eastwood & Finn: The SOUL () - hip-hop
- Easy Life: Life's a Beach (Island) [05-28] - indie pop
- Chris Eckman: Where the Spirit Rests () [06-04]
- Rachel Eckroth: The Garden (Rainy Days) [09-03] - jazz
- Editrix: Tell Me I'm Bad ()
- Edward II: Dancing Tunes (Cadiz Music) [03-12]
- Donald Edwards: The Color of Us Suite (Criss Cross) - jazz
- Sinne Eeg & Thomas Fonnesbaek: Staying in Touch (Stunt) [07-09] - jazz
- Zoe Efstathiou/Oda Dyrnes: Kyaness (Allekung) - jazz
- Efterklang: Windflowers (City Slang) [10-08] - chamber pop
- Moka Efti Orchestra: Erstausgabe (Six Degrees) - jazz
- Mats Eilertsen: Solitude Central (Hemli) [02-05] - jazz
- Mats Eilertsen: Hymn for Hope (Hemli) - jazz
- Eilien: Digital Lovers (Genot Centre) [05-09]
- Tomas R Einarsson: Latinball I Buðardal (Lucky -20) - jazz
- Wendy Eisenberg: Bent Ring (Dear Life) [11-05] - jazz
- Douwe Eisenga: Open (V2) - jazz
- Ekoda: Dissociation (Noonesu)
- El Michaels Affair: Yeti Season () [03-26] - psychedelic pop
- Elbow: Flying Dream 1 (Polydor) [11-19]
- Jorge Elbrecht: Presentable Corpse 002 () [05-28]
- Elder Island: Swimming Static (Elder Island) [05-28] - art pop
- Dorian Electra: My Agenda ()
- Electric Jalaba: El Hal (Strut) -
- Electric Youth & Pilotpriest: Come True (Waxwork/Milan)
- Eleventh Dream Day: Since Grazed () [04-02]
- Danny Elfman: Big Mess (Anti-) [06-11] - art rock
- Elhae: Aura III ()
- Elizabeth & the Catapult: Sincerely, E ()
- Erick Arc Elliott: Future Proof () [01-22] - hip-hop
- Richard Elliot: Authentic Life (Shanachie) - pop jazz
- Rufus Isabel Elliot: A/am/ams (Come Ashore, Turn Over) (Glarc)
- Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18: Mas (Banana & Louie) [02-26]
- Barbara Ellison: CyberSongs (Unsounds) [02-27] - jazz
- Pete Ellman Big Band: For Pete's Ache (One Too Tree) - jazz
- Elusive: Nu Nu (World Galaxy Alpha Pup)
- Emanative & Liz Elensky: The Volume of the light ()
- Emanuel: Alt Therapy (Universal)
- Ember With Orrin Evans: No One Is Any One (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Embryo: Auf Auf (Madlib Invazion) [11-08] -
- Dzijan Emin & the Magical Orchestra: Live in Ohrid (ZJM) - jazz
- Employed to Serve: Conquering (Spinefarm) [09-17] - metalcore
- Empyrium: Uber Den Sternen () [02-26] - dark folk
- Endless Boogie: Admonitiions (No Quarter) [11-12] - blues rock
- Enhyphen: Border: Carnival (Belift Lab)
- Enji: Ursgal () [06-25]
- Enny: Under Twenty Five (FAMM)
- Enumclaw: Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot -EP) [04-30] - grunge
- Equiknoxx: Equiknoxx Meets Feel Free Hi Fi (Digital Sting) [03-26] - dancehall
- Katharina Ernst: Le Temps (Trost/Ventil) - jazz
- Alejandro Escovedo: La Cruzada ()
- Esoctrilihum: Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath ()
- Espanto: Cemento ()
- Ethereal Shroud: Trisagion () [12-10] - atmospheric black metal
- Euphorium Freakestra: Soundz Offfe Drzk Wahuh (Euphorium) - jazz
- Evanescence: The Bitter Truth () [03-26] - alt/indie
- Alan Evans Trio: Elephant Head (Vintage League Music)
- Eve 6: Grim Value () [06-24]
- Every Time I Die: Radical (Epitaph) [10-22] - metalcore
- Sam Evian: Time to Melt (Fat Possum) [10-29]
- Evidence: Unlearning Vol 1 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [06-25] - hip-hop
- Evile: Hell Unleashed ()
- Evripidis and His Tragedies: Neos Kosmos ()
- Ex Deo: The Thirteen Years of Nero ()
- EXEK: Good Thing They Ripped the Carpet ()
- The Exit Bags: Tower of Quiet () [10-22] - avant folk
- Exodus: Persona Non Grata ()
- Explosions in the Sky: Big Bend [An Original Soundtrack for Public Television] (Temporary Residence)
- EX:RE: With 12 Ensemble ()
- Eyehategod: A History of Nomadic Behavior () [03-12] - sludge metal
- Eyevin Nonet: Thomas Chapin III: Unearthed (Corne De Brume) - jazz
- Fabulous Red Diesel: The Queensbury Sessions (Priestless) [07-30] - jazz
- FACS: Present Tense (Trouble in Mind) [05-21] - experimental rock
- Facta: Blush (Wisdom Teeth) [04-02] - ambient house
- FAFF: The Last Piglette (Kouncil Cat)
- Failure: Wild Type Droid () [12-03]
- Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble: Different Roots (Red Piano) - jazz
- Fake Fruit: Fake Fruit (Rocks in Your Head)
- Chet Faker: Hotel Surrender () [07-16] - downtempo
- Roger Fakhr: Fine Anyway (Habibi Funk) - jazz
- Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture: Badiare EP () [11-05]
- Familiar Action: Familiar Action () [05-06]
- Famous: The Valley () [05-28] - post-punk
- The Fantastics!: Take a Shot (BBE)
- Fantomes: It's OK ( ) [02-26]
- Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening (ArtistShare) - jazz
- Farhot: Kabul Fire Vol 2 (Kabul Fire) -
- Farmer Dave & the Wizards of the West: FDWOW (Curation) [01-22] - space rock
- Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard: Once (Talitres) [04-30]
- Farruko: La 167 (Sony Music Latin) [10-01] - Latin pop
- Joey Fatts: G Way 2 () - hip-hop
- Fauzia: Flashes in Time () [02-05] - hypnagogic pop
- Fear Factory: Aggression Continuum (Nuclear Blast) [06-18] - industrial metal
- Fears: Oiche () [05-07]
- Michael Feinberg: Hard Times (Fresh Sound) - jazz
- Mark Feldman: Sounding Point (Intakt) [03-05] - jazz
- Feu! Chatterton: Palais D'Argile (Caroline) [03-12] - art pop
- Field Music: Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries) [04-23] - prog pop
- Field Works: Cedars (Temporary Residence) [03-05]
- Ruby Fields: Been Doin' It for a Bit (self-released) [09-24] - indie rock
- Fievel Is Glauque: God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess (La Loi) - Plunderphonics
- Fightmilk: Contender (Reckless Yes)
- Figmore: Jumbo Street (Fresh Selects) [03-18] - funk
- Diego Figueiredo: Antarctica (Arbors) - jazz
- Figure of Speech: Figure of Speech? (B-Block)
- Dominique Fils-Aime: Three Little Words (En Soul)
- FilthyDirty: The Rise and Fall of Blasphemouth (Cracked Ankles)
- Fine Place: Flat White Moon (Night School) [11-19]
- Finneas: Optimist () [10-15] - singer-songwriter
- Fire-Toolz: Eternal Home (Hausu Mountain) [10-15] - avant metal
- Samantha Fish: Faster (Rounder) [09-10]
- Conrad Fisher: Homemade () - country
- Marsha Fisher: New Ruins (Full Spectrum)
- Willy Fishman: ¡Guachi Guau! ()
- Fiver: Fiver With the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition ()
- Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill: In the Game () [09-10]
- The Flatland Quartet: Songs From the Urban Forest (Gold Lion Arts) - jazz
- Flee Lord: Delgado (LordMobb) [08-27] - hip-hop
- Flee Lord & DJ Muggs: Rammellzee (Soul Assassins) [03-26] - hip-hop
- The Fleshtones: Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc) [02-26]
- Flight Facilities: Forever () [11-12] - nu-disco
- Dave Flippo: Dedications: Jazz From Planet Flippo (Oppilf) - jazz
- Floatie: Voyage Out (Exploding in Sound)
- Flock of Dimes: Head of Roses (Sub Pop) [04-02] - alt/indie
- Flowerpornoes: Morgenstimmung ()
- Roman Flugel: Eating Darkness ()
- Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Jacob Felix Heule/Kanoko Nishi-Smith: Non-Dweller (Humbler) - jazz
- Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Matteo Liberatore/Joanna Mattrey/Ava Mendoza: Death in the Gilded Age (Tripticks Tapes) [08-13] - jazz
- The Flying Luttenbachers: Negative Infinity (UgExplode) [07-09] - jazz
- Flying Raccoon Suit: Afterglow (self-released) [03-19] - indie rock
- Flyjack: Pan Am (Big Indie)
- John Francis Flynn: I Would Not Live Always () [07-30]
- Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane: Lost in the Cedar Wood () [05-14] - folk
- Flyte: This Is Really Going to Hurt () [04-09] - indie folk
- Flyying Colours: Fantasy Country ()
- Focalistic: President Ya Straata ()
- Fluisteraars: Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking (Eisenwald)
- Folamour: The Journey () [06-18]
- Tim Foljahn: I Dreamed a Dream (Cart/House) [05-07]
- Foo Fighters: Medicine at Midnight (RCA) [02-05] - alt/indie
- Foodman: Yasuragi Land () [07-09] - IDM
- For Your Health: In Spite Of (Twelve Gauge) [02-12] - screamo
- Robben Ford: Pure (Ear) - jazz
- Foushee: Time Machine () - r&b
- Fox: Squang Dangs in the Key of Vibes () [07-02]
- Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays New Zealand (TBone) - jazz
- Zack Fox: Shut the Fuck Up Talking to Me ()
- Foxing: Draw Down the Moon (Hopeless) [08-06] - alt/indie
- Chloe Foy: Where Shall We Begin (self-released) [06-11] - chamber pop
- Fractal Universe: The Impassable Horizon ()
- Nils Frahm: Graz (Erased Tapes) [03-29]
- Peter Frampton: Peter Frampton Forgets the Words (UMe) [04-23]
- Thiago Franca: The Importance of Being Espetacular (Mais Um Discos)
- Mulo Francel: Mountain Melody (GLM) [10-15] - jazz
- Dylan Francis: Happy Machine ()
- Francois & the Atlas Mountains: Banane Bleue () [02-26] - French pop
- Henry Fraser/John McCowen/Sam Weinberg: Thip (Tripticks Tapes) - jazz
- The Fratellis: Half Drunk Under a Full Moon () [04-02] - indie rock
- Rosie Frater-Taylor: Bloom () [06-04]
- Mabe Fratti: Sera Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos () [06-25] - ambient pop
- Fraxinus: Position [Displacement] (Powerplant) - club music
- Aaron Frazer: Introducing . . . (Dead Oceans) [01-08] - pop soul
- Pia Fraus: Now You Know It Still Feels the Same (Seksound)
- Fredo: Money Can't Buy Happiness () [01-29] - UK hip-hop
- Fredo: Independence Day () [08-06] - UK hip-hop
- Freiburger Barockorchester/Gottfried Von Der Goltz: Beethoven: Symphony No 7 (Harmonia Mundi) - classical
- Amaro Freitas: Sankofa (Far Out) - jazz
- Fresh: The Summer I Got Good at Guitar () [04-30] - emo
- Stephen Fretwell: Busy Guy (Speedy Wunderground) [07-16]
- Fricky: Fricktion ()
- Conny Frischauf: Die Drift (Bureau B) [01-15]
- Romulo Froes: Agora E Minha Voz: Um Labirinto Em Cade Pe () - Brazil
- Romulo Froes: Agora E Minha Voz: Calado () - Brazil
- Frog of Earth: Frog of Earth (Wherethetimegoes)
- Frost: Day and Age () [05-14]
- Frozen Soul: Crypt of Ice () [01-08] - death metal
- Fryars: God Melodies () [07-16] - art pop
- Fruit Bats: The Pet Parade (Merge) [03-05] - indie pop
- Fucked Up: Year of the Horse () [05-07] - post-hardcore
- Masayoshi Fujita: Bird Ambience (Erased Tapes) [05-28]
- Shinya Fukumori: Another Story (Nagalu) - jazz
- Full of Hell: Garden of Burning Apparitions (Relapse) [10-01] - deathgrind
- Champian Fulton: Live From Lockdown (Champian) [09-14] - vocal jazz
- Maxine Funke: Seance (A Colorful Storm) [07-16]
- Funky DL: Jazz Dust (Washington Classics)
- Fur: When You Walk Away () [11-05] - pop
- Louis Futon: Couchsurfing () - electronic
- Fuubutsushi: Yamawarau (Cached Media)
- FYI Chris: Earth Scum () [03-05] - breakbeat
- Gus G: Quantum Leap ()
- Jayda G: DJ Kicks (!K7) [05-14] - electronic
- Karol G: KG0516 (Universal Music Latin) [03-26] - Latin pop
- Gaadge: Yeah? (Crafted Sounds) [03-19]
- Marta Gabriel: Metal Queens (Listenable) [07-16] - metal
- Gabriels: Bloodline () [12-03] - neo-soul
- Steve Gadd Band: At Blue Note Tokyo (BFM Jazz) [04-02] - jazz
- Dave Gahan & Soulsavers: Imposter () [11-12]
- Gajanas: Cihkkojuvvon (Bafe's Factory) [02-06] -
- Gallant: Neptune () - r&b
- Galvanizer: Prying Sight of Imperception ()
- Lee Gamble: Flush Real Pharynx 2019-2021 (Hyperdub) [09-10] - electronic
- Angelica Garcia: Echo Electrico ()
- Daniel Garcia Trio: Via De La Plata (ACT) [09-24] - jazz
- Drew Gardner: Drew Gardner (Eiderdown) [03-05]
- Gus Garside & Herve Perez: The Unexpected Visitor (577) - jazz
- Jocelyn Garth: Tell Him I Said Hello () - jazz
- Orla Gartland: Woman on the Internet (New Friends Music) [08-20] - indie pop
- Gatecreeper: An Unexpected Reality () [01-15] - death metal
- Kevin Gates: Only the Generals Pt II () [02-19] - hip-hop
- Stephen Gauci/Santiago Leibson/Shawn Lovato/Colin Hinton: Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gaucimusic -20) - jazz
- Bertrand Gauguet/John Tilbury: Contre-Courbes (Akousis) [03-01] - jazz
- Gazelle Twin & NYX: Deep England (NYX Collective) [03-19] - post-industrial
- Gazo: Drill FR () [02-26]
- GBSR Duo With Mira Benjamin: Barbara Monk Feldman: Verses (Another Timbre) - jazz
- GCOM: E2-XO ()
- Geese: Projector (Partisan) [10-29] - indie rock
- Gel: Violent Closure (-EP)
- Sam Gendel: Fresh Bread (Leaving) [02-26] - jazz
- Sam Gendel/Sam Wilkes: Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar/More Songs (Leaving) [07-21] - jazz
- Sam Gendel/Josiah Steinbrick: Mouthfeel/Serene (Full Bloom) [05-21] - jazz
- Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz: Live a Little (Psychic Hotline) [05-13] - jazz
- Genghis Tron: Dream Weapon (Relapse) [03-26] - progressive metal
- Tommy Genesis: Goldilocks X () [09-10] - pop rap
- Genn: Liminal () [03-30]
- Leo Genovese: Sin Tiempo (Ears & Eyes) - jazz
- Virginia Genta: Suono Non Buono (Troglosound/Townlathe) - jazz
- Gentleman's Dub Cub: Down to Earth () [03-19]
- Claire George: The Land Beyond the Light (Cascine) [05-21] - pop
- Lisa Gerrard/Jules Maxwell/James Chapman: Burn (Atlantic Curve)
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: Sofia Gubaidulina: Nelson + Repin ()
- Jim Ghedi: In the Furrows of Common Place (Basin Rock) [01-22] - folk
- Ghlow: Slash and Burn () [04-02] - industrial rock
- Giant Claw: Mirror Guide () [05-14] - prog electronic
- Yohan Giaume: Whisper of a Shadow (Life Celebration Project) - jazz
- Barry Gibb: Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol 1 (Capitol) [01-08] - adult conteporary
- Billy F Gibbons: Hardware (Concord) [06-04] - southern rock
- Debbie Gibson: The Body Remembers ()
- (G)I-DLE: I Burn (Cube Entertainment) - K-pop
- Paul Gilbert: Werewolves of Portland ()
- Behn Gillece: Still Doing Our Thing (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth: Utopian Ashes (Silvertone) [07-02] - chamber pop
- Zozo Ginsburg: Blue Mountains (self-released)
- Bendik Giske: Cracks (Smalltown Supersound) [08-27]
- Giveon: When It's All Said and Done . . . Take Time ()
- Frode Gjerstad Trio + 1: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (Circulasione Totale) - jazz
- The GJQ: The GJQ ()
- Glaive: All Dogs Go to Heaven ()
- Will Glaser: Climbing in Circles (Ubuntu -20) - jazz
- Will Glaser: Some Drum Sounds (self-released) - jazz
- Glok: Pattern Recognition (Bytes) [10-15]
- Nicole Glover: Strange Lands (Savant) - jazz
- Glume: The Internet () [04-30] - synthpop
- Dobet Gnahore: Couleur ()
- Gnod: La Mort Du Sens (Rocket) [11-05] - noise rock
- The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: Ways of Hearing () [10-30]
- The Gobs: 1-2-3-4!! () - punk
- God Body Disconnect: The Dormancy (Cryo Chamber)
- The God Fahim & Your Old Droog: Tha Wolf on Wall St (Monogoloid Banks) - hip-hop
- God's Hate: God's Hate (Closed Casket Activities)
- Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho: In Abendrot: Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss () [04-16] - classical
- Gojira: Fortitude (Roadrunner) [04-30] - death metal
- Issa Gold: Tempus (Overland Hills) - hip-hop
- Goldband: Betaalbare Romantiek ()
- Brandon Goldberg: In Good Time (self-released) - jazz
- Golden Brown: Gems and Minerals (self-released) [10-22]
- Golden Child: Game Changer () [08-02]
- Vivien Goldman: Next Is Now () [08-13]
- The John Goldsby Trio: Segment (Basic Lion Music -20) - jazz
- Vinny Golia: Even to This Day . . . Movement One: Inoculations for Orchestra and Soloists (Ninewinds/PfMentum) - jazz
- The Vinny Golia Quartet: Left, Outside . . . ! (Nine Winds -19) [2019-11-30] - jazz
- Ruth Goller: Skylla (Vula Viel)
- Selena Gomez: Revelacion (Interscope) [03-12] - Latin pop
- Gone to Color: Gone to Color (self-released)
- Neil Gonsalves Trio: Blessings and Blues (self-released) - jazz
- Brock Gonyea: Where My Heart Is EP () - country
- Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World (Rainy Days) - jazz
- Dayramir Gonzalez: Tributo A Juan Formell & Los Van Van (Producciones Abdala) [09-03] - jazz
- Jose Gonzalez: Local Valley (Mute) [09-17] - singer-songwriter
- Lucy Gooch: Rain's Break () [06-25] - ambient pop
- The Good People: The Greater Good () - hip-hop
- Goodbye World: At Death's Door (Youth Attack)
- Matthew Goodheart/Jon Raskin/Vladimir Tarasov: Goodheart Raskin Tarasov Trio (Temescal) - jazz
- Felipe Gordon: A Landscape Onomatopeya ()
- Martin Gore: The Third Chimpanzee () [01-29] - electronic
- Gorgon City: Olympia () [06-25] - prog house
- Gorillaz: Meanwhile () [08-26] - dub
- Gotham [Talib Kweli & Diamond D]: Gotham () - hip-hop
- Victor Gould: In Our Time (Blue Room Music) - jazz
- Renee Goust: Planet Her ()
- Dino Govoni: Hiding in Plain Sight (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
- Gov't Mule: Heavy Load Blues (Fantasy) [11-12]
- Gowe: Jazznight () - hip-hop
- Grandbrothers: All the Unknown () [01-15] - post-minimalism
- Grandmas House: Grandmas House () [10-15]
- John Grant: Boy From Michigan (Bella Union) [06-25] - synthpop
- Grasscut: Overwinter (Lo) [02-12]
- Pasquale Grasso: Solo Ballads (Sony Masterworks) [04-09] - jazz
- Grave Flowers Bongo Band: Strength of Spring (Castle Face) [04-30]
- Milford Graves/Jason Moran: Live at Big Ears (Yes) [04-02] - jazz
- David Gray: Skellig (AWAL) [02-19] - singer-songwriter
- David Gray: Skellig (AWAL) [02-19] - singer-songwriter
- Andrew Green: Dime Dancing: The Music of Steely Dan (Shifting Paradigm -20) - jazz
- Green Lung: Black Harvest (Svart)
- Green-House: Music for Living Spaces () [05-07] - ambient
- Jacques Greene: ANTH01 () - electronic
- The Greenway Group: 65 St Marks Ploace (Some One Too) - jazz
- Jonny Greenwood: Spencer (Mercury KX)
- Peter Gregson: Patina (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Tom Grennan: Evering Road () [03-12] - pop soul
- Anna Greta: Nightjar in the Northern Sky (ACT) [10-29] - vocal jazz
- Staci Griesbach: My George Jones Songbook (Staci Griesbach Music) - vocal jazz
- The Grid/Fripp: Leviathan () [06-25]
- Griff: One Foot in Front of the Other (Warner) [06-18] - electropop
- Grip: I Died for This!? () [08-27] - hip-hop
- The Grip Weeds: DiG () [11-12]
- Griz: Rainbow Brain () - electronic
- Pasquale Grosso: Solo Balads (Sony Masterworks) [04-09] - jazz
- Pasquale Grosso: Pasquale Plays Duke (Sony Masterworks) - jazz
- Ground: Ozunu (Chill Mountain) [05-05]
- Growing: Diptych (Silver Current) [04-30]
- G-Space: The Path of Least Resistance () - electronic
- Guapdad 4000 & !llmind: 1176 (Paradise Rising) [03-19] - hip-hop
- Guardian Singles: Guardian Singles (Trouble in Mind)
- Gucci Mane: Ice Daddy (Atlantic) - hip-hop
- Guided by Voices: Earth Man Blues (GBV) [04-30] - alt/indie
- Guided by Voices: It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (GBV) [10-22] - alt/indie
- Guilty Simpson & Gensu Dean: Ego () - hip-hop
- Jean-Luc Guionnet: L'Epaisseur De L'Air (Thin Wrist) - jazz
- Jean-Luc Guionnet/Will Guthrie: Electric Rag (Ali Buh Baeh/Editions Memoirs) - jazz
- Gully Boys: Favorite Son ()
- The Gun Club: Fire of Love ()
- Noah Gundersen: A Pillar of Salt (Cooking Vinyl) [10-08]
- Shannon Gunn: On a Mountain () - jazz
- Steve Gunn: Other You (Matador) [08-27] - folk rock
- Gustaf: Audio Drag for Ego Slobs (Royal Mountain) [10-01]
- Mats Gustafsson/Joachim Nordwall: Shadows of Tomorrow/The Brain Produces Electric Waves (Astral Spirits -EP) [05-14] - jazz
- GWSN: The Other Side of the Moon (The Wave Music) - K-pop
- Junior H: $ad Boyz 4 Life ()
- Chung Ha: Querencia ()
- Steve Hackett: Surrender of Silence (Inside Out) [09-10]
- Haftbefehl: Das Schwarze Album ()
- Tim Hagans/NDR Bigband: A Conversation (Waiting Moon) [06-04] - jazz
- Haiku Salut: The Hill, the Light, the Ghost (Secret Name) [08-27] - folktronica
- Luke Haines: Setting the Dogs on the Post Punk Postman (Cherry Red) [04-30] - alt/indie
- Haiyti: Mieses Leben ()
- Half Waif: Mythopoetics (Anti-) [07-09] - art pop
- Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles Vol 1 (Tzadik) - jazz
- Judith Hamann: Days Collapse (Another Timbre -20) - jazz
- Anthony Hamilton: Love Is the New Black () - r&b
- Peter Hammill: In Translation (Fie!)
- Hammock: Elsewhere (Hammock Music)
- Ross Hammond: It's Been Here All Along (Prescott) [10-23] - jazz
- Ross Hammond & Jay Nair: Hope (Prescott) - jazz
- Connie Han: Pretty Woman () - jazz
- Hand Habits: Fun House (Saddle Creek) [10-22] - singer-songwriter
- Cory Hanson: Pale Horse Rider (Drag City) [04-16] - psychedelic rock
- Haptic: Weird Undying Annihilation (Notice)
- Hard Feelings: Hard Feelings (Domino)
- The Hard Ons: I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken ()
- Harker: Axiom (Wiretap) [04-23]
- Jack Harlow: That's What They All Say (Generation Now/Atlantic -20) [2020-12-11] - hip-hop
- Harmony Woods: Graceful Rage ()
- Sinead Harnett: Ready Is Always Too Late () [05-21] - r&b
- Allan Harris: Kate's Soulfood (Love Productions) [02-12] - jazz
- Bruce Harris: Soundview (Cellar Music Group) [06-04] - jazz
- Zacc Harris Group: Small Wonders (Shifting Paradigm)
- Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk (AGS) - jazz
- Courtney Hartman: Glade (Reckoner) [11-05] - folk
- Harvey Dug: Nu Grip (Harvey_Dug) [05-31] - hip-hop
- John Hasselback III: Entrance (self-released) - jazz
- Chihei Hatakeyama: Late Spring (Gearbox) [04-07]
- Juliana Hatfield: Blood (American Laundromat) [05-14] - indie rock
- Dave Hause: Blood Harmony ()
- Havana Swim Club: Havana Swim Club (self-released)
- Irena and Vojtech Havlovi: Melodies in the Sand (Melody as Truth) [03-05] - ambient
- Hamish Hawk: Heavy Elevator (Assal) [09-17]
- Hawthonn: Earth Mirror (Ba Da Bing!)
- Mayer Hawthorne: Rare Changes () - r&b
- Colin Hay: I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself () [08-06]
- Yoshinori Hayashi: Pulse of Defiance (Smalltown Supersound) [04-09] - jungle
- Hayley and the Crushers: Fun Sized (Rum Bar)
- Rip Hayman: Waves: Real and Imagined (Recital) [06-04] - new age
- Max Haymer: Whirlwind: Live at Sam First (Emerald City -20) - jazz
- Lou Hayter: Private Sunshine (Skint) [05-28] - sophisti-pop
- Headie One: Too Loyal for My Own Good () [10-01] - UK hip-hop
- Heartless Bastards: A Beautiful Life () [09-10]
- James Heather: Modulations EP2 () [05-28]
- Houeida Hedfi: Fleuves De L'Ame () [11-19]
- Nico Hedley: Painterly (Whatever's Clever) [09-03]
- Song Heejin: Soda (WatchaMusic) - K-pop
- Sylvaine Helary: Glowing Life (Ayler -20) - jazz
- Hellish Form: Remains ()
- Hello Cosmos: Golden Dirt (Cosmic Glue)
- Hello Psychaleppo: Jismal EP ()
- Helloween: Helloween (Nuclear Blast) [06-18] - power metal
- Helm: Axis (Dais)
- Amy Helm: What the Flood Leaves Behind () [06-18]
- Helsinki Chamber Choir/Nils Schweckendiek: Part: Passion () [09-03]
- Hemi Hemingway: The Lonely Hunter (Pnkslm)
- Luke Hemmings: When Facing the Things We Turn Away From () [08-13] - pop/rock
- Hen House: Equaliser () [11-05]
- Lauren Henderson: Musa (Brontosaurus) [06-11] - jazz
- Cory Henry: Best of Me ()
- Herbert: Musca (Accidental) [10-22]
- G Herbo: 25 () [07-02] - trap
- Here Lies Man: Ritual Divination (RidingEasy) [01-22] - stoner rock
- Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings () - jazz
- Jana Herzen: Live (Motema) - jazz
- Dave Heumann: At Heights We Sway, at Depths We Speak ()
- Hey, Ily!: Internet Breath (Lonely Ghost -EP) [04-30] - shoegaze
- Lee Hi: 4 Only (AOMG) - K-pop
- Lily Hiatt: Lately (New West) [10-15] - singer-songwriter
- Lauran Hibberd: Goober () [07-30] - indie rock
- HighSchool: Forever at Last () [11-01]
- Highway: The Way () - hip-hop
- Hilang Child: Every Mover () [01-08] - synthpop
- Hildegard: Hildegard (Section1) [06-04] - UK bass
- Becky Hill: Only Honest on the Weekend ()
- Judith Hill: Baby, I'm Hollywood (Regime Music Group)
- Kacy Hill: Simple, Sweet, and Smiling () [10-15] - synthpop
- Richard Hill Jr Quintet: The Lost Files () [07-26] - jazz
- Kent Hilli: The Rumble ()
- Lisa Hilton: Transparent Sky (Ruby Slippers) - jazz
- Himra: Ivoire Drill King ()
- Art Hirahara: Open Sky (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Hiraki: Stumbling Through the Walls ()
- Hiromi: Silver Lining Suite (Telarc) - jazz
- Midori Hirano: Soniscope () [09-10]
- Scott Hirsch: Windless Day () [10-08]
- Hitra: Transparence (AMP Music) [02-19] - jazz
- Arthur Hnatek Trio: Static (Whirlwind) - jazz
- Ho99o9: Ho99o9 Presents Territory: Turf Talk Vol 1 () - hip-hop
- Hoavi: Invariant (Peak Oil) -
- Carol Hodge: This Crippling Space Between (Midnight Stamp)
- Rutger Hoedemaekers: The Age of Oddities (FatCat/130701)
- Christopher Hoffman: Asp Nimbus (Out of Your Head) [03-26] - jazz
- Susanna Hoffs: Bright Lights (Baroque Folk) [11-12]
- Malcolm Holcombe: Tricks of the Trade () [08-20]
- Holding Absence: The Greatest Mistake of My Life (SharpTone) [04-16] - alt/indie
- Holiday Ghosts: North Street Air () [05-21]
- Celia Hollander: Timekeeper (Leaving)
- Gregori Hollis: Landing () - jazz
- Michael Arthur Holloway: Strange Cargo (self-released) - jazz
- Holy Holy: Hello My Beautiful World () [08-20]
- Holy Other: Lieve () [11-19]
- Home Is Where: I Became Birds (Knifepunch) [03-05] - Midwest emo
- Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 () [02-12] - classical
- Honest Mechanik: Honest Mechanik ()
- Hooded Menace: The Tritonus Bell ()
- Hooveriii: Water for the Frogs (Reverb Appreciation Society)
- Horizons Quartet: Horizons Quartet (PM) [06-25] - jazz
- The Horrors: Lout () [03-12]
- The Horrors: Against the Blade () [11-05] - industrial rock
- Makram Aboul Hosn: Transmigrations (self-released) - jazz
- Houndmouth: Good for You (Dualtone) [11-05] - indie folk
- Houseplants: Dry Goods () [09-17]
- Emma Houton: The Bath (Trapped Animal) [05-21] - electronic
- Ben Howard: Collections From the Whiteout (Island) [03-26] - singer-songwriter
- Brittany Howard: Jaime (Reimagined) () [07-23]
- Howlin' Rain: The Dharma Wheel (Silver Current) [10-08]
- HRSMN [Canibus/Kurupt/Killah Priest/Ras Kass]: The Last Ride () - hip-hop
- David Huckfelt: Room Enough, Time Enough () [02-26]
- Nick Hudson: Font of Human Fractures (self-released) [04-30]
- Michael Hudson-Casanova: Echoes of Thought (self-released) - jazz
- Fana Hues: Hues ()
- Hulder: Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry ()
- Human Feel: Speak to It (1996, Songlines) [09-09] - jazz
- Human Kind: Scintillating Beauty (self-released) - jazz
- Holly Humberstone: The Walls Are Way Too Thin () [11-12] - indie pop
- Andrew Hung: Devastations () [06-18]
- Hurry: Fake Ideas ()
- Hus Kingpin: Portishus (self-released) - hip-hop
- Josh Hvaal: Getting Better (Hot Creations)
- Kang Tae Hwan/Kang Hae Jin: Circle Point (Dancing Butterfly) [02-02] - jazz
- Hybrid: Black Halo (Distinctive) [07-09]
- The Hyena Kill: A Disconnect () [03-05] - alt metal
- Hype: From Beginning to End: End to New Beginnings (PURE)
- Hyperdontia: Hideous Entity ()
- Frida Hyvonen: Dream of Independence () [03-05] - art pop
- Ice Nine Kills: The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood () [10-15] - metalcore
- Lia Ices: Family Album ()
- ICP Septet + Joris Roelofs + Terrie Ex: Komen & Gaan (ICP) - jazz
- Ida Mae: Click Click Domino (Thirty Tigers) [07-16]
- IDK: USEE4YOURSELF (Warner) [07-09] - trap
- Iglooghost: Lei Line Eon (Gloo) [04-02] - prog electronic
- Ikizukuri + Susana Santos Silva: Suicide Underground Orchid (Multikulti) [04-02] - jazz
- Illenium: Fallen Embers ()
- Illuvia: Iridescence of Clouds (A Strangely Isolated Place) -
- ILoveMakonnen: My Parade (Timeless Magic) [04-13] - pop rap
- Imagine Dragons: Mercury: Act 1 () [09-03] - pop/rock
- Imany: Voodoo Cello ()
- Natalie Imbruglia: Firebird (BMG) [09-24] - pop
- In the Whale: Vanishing Point ()
- Information Society: ODDfellows (Hakatak International) [08-06]
- Inhaler: It Won't Always Be Like This () [07-09] - post-punk revival
- Innov Gnawa: Lila (Daptone) [04-30] -
- Insides: Soft Bonds () [01-15]
- Insub Meta Orchestra: Ten/Sync (Insub) - jazz
- International Music: Ententraum ()
- Ioulus: Oddkin (Rhizome) [03-05] - art pop
- Iosonouncane: IRA () [05-14] - post-industrial
- Iotunn: Access All Worlds ()
- IPA: Bashing Mushrooms (Cuneiform) [09-07] - jazz
- Ferg Ireland Trio: Ferg Ireland Trio (Mondegreen) - jazz
- Iron Maiden: Senjutsu (Parlophone) [09-03] - heavy metal
- Ayumi Ishito: Ayumi Ishito & the Spacemen Vol 1 (577) - jazz
- Ishmael Ensemble: Visions of Light (Severn Songs) [08-06]
- Penelope Isles: Which Way to Happy (Bella Union) [11-05]
- Ism: Japanese Flower (Umlaut) - jazz
- Isolation Berlin: Geheimnis ()
- Issam: Crystal ()
- It It Anita: Sauve ()
- Italian Spirit: In Japan (self-released) - jazz
- IU: LILAC (EDAM Entertainment) [03-25] - K-pop
- IZ Band/IZ: Drop by Old Heaven Books () [05-18]
- The J & F Band: Me and the Devil (Long Song) - jazz
- Ja Panik: Die Gruppe ()
- Jackson + Sellers: Breaking Point (Anti-) [10-22] - Americana
- Rene Jacobs: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis () [01-29] - classical
- Jadsa: Olho De Vidro (Balaclava) [03-26] - Brazilian
- Jah Wobble: Metal Box - Rebuilt in Dub (Cleopatra) [12-17] - reggae
- Jail Socks: Coming Down (Counter Intuitive) [09-03] - midwest emo
- Naissam Jalal: Un Autre Monde (Les Couleurs Du Son) - jazz
- James: All the Colours of You (Virgin) [06-04] - Britpop
- Astro James: Live at Deep Ellum Art Co ()
- Jose James: New York 2020 (Rainbow Blonde) [02-19] - jazz
- Luke James & Nu Deco Ensemble: A Live Sensation ()
- Seth James: Different Hat (Tiny Ass)
- David Janeway: Distant Voices (SteepleChase LookOut) [09-15] - jazz
- Japan Review: Kvetch Sounds () [10-29]
- Sarah Jarosz: Blue Heron Suite (Rounder) [05-07] - country
- Abby Jasmine: I Hate You 2 (Geffen) - hip-hop
- Jason & Jiminy: Songs for Borken Hearts () [07-06]
- JASSS: A World of Service () [11-26] - post-industrial
- The Jazz All Stars: The Jazz All Stars Vol 1 (Le Coq) - jazz
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration (Blue Engine -20) - jazz
- Jazzanova: Strata Records: The Sound of Detroit (BBE) [04-29] - jazz
- Jazzrausch Bigband: Techne (ACT Music) [04-30] - jazz
- The JCA Orchestra: Live at the BPC (JCA -20) [2020-11-06] - jazz
- JD's Electrio: Pyramid (Atjazz) - jazz
- Jedi Mind Tricks: The Funeral and the Raven () - hip-hop
- Jenevieve: Division ()
- Mick Jenkins: Elephant in the Room () [10-29] - hip-hop
- Jeph Jerman: Keep the Drum (Concussion Solos) (New Forces) - jazz
- Jevon: Fell in Love in Brasil () [02-05]
- Jhariah: A Beginner's Guide to Faking Your Death () [07-22] - pop punk
- Jhelisa: 7 Keys V.1 () [10-08]
- Jhelisa: 7 Keys V.2 () [10-08]
- Jim Bob: Who Do We Hate Today (Cherry Red)
- Jinjer: Wallflowers (Napalm) [08-27] - prog metal
- Cody Jinks: Mercy (Late August) [11-12] - country
- JME, Frisco & Shorty: Norf Face (Norf Face)
- Joan as Police Woman/Tony Allen/Dave Okumu: The Solution Is Restless (PIAS) [11-05]
- Ernesto Jodos: Confluence (Ears & Eyes) [07-16] - jazz
- Joe & the Shitboys: The Reson for Hardcore Vibes Again () [10-26]
- Joeboy: Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic ()
- Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre: Heirs of the Dog (Saustex) [05-21]
- John: Nocturnal Manoeveurs (Brace Yourself/Pets Cares) [10-08] - post-hardcore
- Elton John: The Lockdown Sessions (Mercury) [10-22] - pop
- Johnny B33: Aries Moon ()
- Johnny Football Hero: Complacency (Knuckle Down/PennPop -EP) [07-16] - midwest emo
- Addison Johnson: Dark Side of the Mountain () - country
- Chuck Johnson: The Cinder Grove (VDSQ) [02-05] - ambient
- Cody Johnson: Human the Double Album (Cojo Music/Warner Nashville) [10-08] - country
- Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy: Ravenna (Ark)
- Jillette Johnson: It's a Beautiful Day and I Love You (Moss Rose) [02-21]
- Richard D Johnson: First Glance (Afar Music) [08-20] - jazz
- JoJo: Trying Not to Think About It (Warner/Clover Music -EP) [10-01] - pop
- Nick Jonas: Spaeman (Island) [03-12] - pop
- Caleb Landry Jones: Gadzooks Vol 1 () [09-24] - art pop
- Ed Jones/Emil Karlsen: From Where the Light Falls (FMR) - jazz
- Jim Jones and Harry Fraud: The Fraud Department (The Fraud Department/Empire) - hip-hop
- Mike Jones: All by Myself (Jonesjazz) - jazz
- Percy Jones/Alex Skolnick/Kenny Grohowski/Tim Motzer: Pakt (MoonJune) - jazz
- Darius Jones: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy) [11-05] - jazz
- Jim Jones & Harry Fraud: The Fraud Department (Fraud Department/Empire) [02-19] - hip-hop
- Norah Jones: 'Til We Meet Again (Live) (Blue Note) [04-16] - vocal jazz
- Jonsi: Obsidian ()
- Toggi Jonsson: Hagi () [08-31] - jazz
- Haeun Joo: We Will Find (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Joony: Silent Battles () - hip-hop
- Jordana: Something to Say to You ()
- Theo Jorgensmann/Christopher Dell/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: At the Fields Edge (Not Two) - jazz
- Hayden Joseph: The Only One Who's Prayin' (Loud & Proud -20)
- Wesley Joseph: Ultramarine (Eeviltwinn) [06-18]
- Paul Jost Quartet: While We Were Gone (Paul Jost Music) [10-29] - jazz
- Joy Anonymous: Human Again ()
- The Joy Formidable: Into the Blue (Hassle) [08-20] - indie rock
- Joy on Fire: Hymn (Procrastination -20) - jazz
- Joystick: I Can't Take It Anymore (Bad Time/Stomp) [04-16] - ska punk
- Juanes: Origen ()
- Hannah Juanita: Hardliner () - country
- Judson Trio [Joelle Leandre/Mat Maneri/Gerald Cleaver]: Light and Dance (RogueArt) - jazz
- Juls: Sounds of My World () [10-08]
- Larry June: Orange Print () - hip-hop
- Sun June: Somewhere (Run for Cover) [02-05] - indie pop
- Valerie June: The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy) [03-12] - country soul
- Junglepussy: JP4 (Friends Of/Jagjaguwar)
- Damien Jurado: The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa) [05-14]
- ER Jurken: I Stand Corrected (Country Thyme) [04-23]
- JUS: GoFundMe Corvette () - hip-hop
- Chris Jusell/Chaz Prymek/Matthew Sage/Patrick Shiroishi: Setsubun (Cached) [02-02] - jazz
- Whitney K: Two Years (Maple Death) [02-19]
- K, Le Maestro: Whip Music () - funk
- Kaada: Misinterpretation ()
- KAAN: Kaizen () - hip-hop
- Kafari: Blanket of Black (Hot Record Societe) [08-06]
- Kaleo: Surface Sounds ()
- Antony Kalugin: Chameleon Shapeshifter ()
- Kam-Bu: Black on Black (Atlas Artists) - hip-hop
- Kamggarn: Kamggarn ()
- Kansas Smitty's: Plunderphonia (7K!) - jazz
- Kaonashi: Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year (Equal Vision) [05-21] - mathcore
- Olivia Kaplan: Tonight Turns to Nothing (Olivia Kaplan)
- Karma Kid & Luke Fono: Bossa (Fool's Gold)
- Kas: Like Sunlit Threads (Ilian Tape) [02-25] - breakbeat
- Jap Kasai: Own °C (Chinabot) [05-10] - IDM
- Seth Kasselman: UV Catamaran ()
- Kat Von D: Love Made Me Do It ()
- Katie Jo: Pawn Shop Queen () - country
- Mark Kavuma & the Banger Factory: Arashi No Oto (Banger Factory) - jazz
- Kaya: Mahal Ko () - hip-hop
- Kayak: Out Of This World ()
- Kayawoto: Maouland () - African
- Kayo Dot: Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike () [10-29] - avant metal
- Liam Kazar: Due North (Woodsist/Mare) [08-06]
- KDAP: Influences (Arts & Crafts) [07-16]
- Phil Keaggy: Acoustic Sketches Vol 3 (self-released)
- Mat Kearney: January Flower ()
- Charlotte Keefe: Right Here Right Now (Discus) [06-11] - jazz
- Keen Dreams: The Second Body (Whatever's Clever/Strange Daisy) [05-14]
- David Keenan: What Then? (Rubyworks)
- Keinemusik: Send Return ()
- John Paul Keith: The Rhythm of the City (Wild Honey) [02-19]
- Toby Keith: Peso in My Pocket (Show Dog Nashville) [12-10] - country
- Kele: The Waves Pt 1 () [05-28] - art rock
- Kevin Keller: Shimmer (Kevin Keller Productions)
- Tim Kelly: Ride Through the Rain () - country
- Bre Kennedy: Note to Self ()
- Dom Kennedy: Westside With Love III ()
- Sophia Kennedy: Monsters (City Slang) [05-07] - art pop
- Hollie Kenniff: The Quiet Drift (Western Vinyl) - ambient
- KennyHoopla & Travis Barker: Survivors Guilt: The Mixtape (Mogul Vision/Arista) [06-11] - pop punk
- Stacey Kent: Songs From Other Places (Exceleration/Token) [09-17] - vocal jazz
- KenTheMan: What's My Name (Asylum Worldwide) - hip-hop
- Kero Kero Bonito: Civilisation (Polyvinyl) [09-10] - electropop
- Dale Kerrigan: Noise Bitch () [06-25] - noise rock
- Eli Keszler: Icons (LucyMe) [06-25] - jazz
- Key: Bad Love (SM Entertainment) - K-pop
- Key Glock: Yellow Tape 2 (Paper Route Empire) - hip-hop
- Keys N Krates: Original Classic () - electronic
- Khalab & M'berra Ensemble: M'berra (Real World) [04-23] - African
- Sean Khan: Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane (BBE) - jazz
- Khemmis: Deceiver (Nuclear Blast) [11-19] - metal
- Ki Oni: Indoor Plant Life ()
- Kick the Cat: Gurgle (self-released) - jazz
- Kid Congo & the Pink Monkeybirds: Swing From the Sean DeLear EP ()
- Kid Kapichi: This Time Next Year () [02-05] - indie rock
- Amirtha Kidambi & Lea Bertucci: End of Softness (Astral Spirits -20) [2020-06-05] - jazz
- Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore: Neutral Love (Astral Editions) [05-07] - jazz
- Kidd G: Down Home Boy () [09-24] - hip-hop
- David Kikoski With Boris Kozlov: Sure Thing (HighNote) [02-12] - jazz
- Tarah Kikuchi: Science (self-released -EP) [08-12]
- Killah Priest: Lord Sun Heavy Mental 1.1 () - hip-hop
- Killah Priest & SHROOM: The Mantra () - hip-hop
- Kills Birds: Married () [11-12]
- Izumi Kimura/Cora Venus Lunny/Anthony Kelly: Folding (Farpoint) - jazz
- Elizabeth King & the Gospel Souls: Living in the Last Days (Big Legal Mess) [04-02] - gospel
- Janette King: What We Lost () [06-25]
- Little Freddie King: The New Orleans Collection: Going Upstairs (Newvelle) - jazz
- King Buffalo: Acheron ()
- King Crimson: Music Is Our Friend: Live in Washington and Albany, 2021 (Panegyric) - prog rock
- King Deetoy/Kabza de Small/DJ Maphorisa: Petle Petle () [02-05] - house
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: LW (Flightless) [KGLW] - neo-psychedelia
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Butterfly 3000 (KGLW) [06-11] - neo-psychedelia
- King Woman: Celestial Blues (Relapse) [07-30] - sludge metal
- Kings of Convenience: Peace or Love (EMI) [06-18] - folk pop
- Kings of Leon: When You See Yourself () [03-05] - alt/indie
- Caroline Kingsbury: Heaven's Just a Flight (Fortune Tellers Music) [04-16]
- Kirby: Sis, He Wasn't the One () - r&b
- John Carroll Kirby: Septet (Stones Throw) [06-25] - jazz-funk
- Kiss Me, Killer: 2020 Vision (Grown Your Own)
- Kississippi: Mood Ring (Triple Crown) [08-06] - indie pop
- Kitner: Shake the Spins (Relief Map) [10-01]
- David Kitt: Laser Days (self-released)
- Kizis: Tidibabide/Turn (Tin Angel) [02-12] - art pop
- KK's Priest: Sermon of the Sinner ()
- Klein: Harmattan (Pentatone) [11-19]
- Matti Klein Soul Trio: Live on Tape (Shuffle Stack)
- Klenke Quartett/Nicola Jurgensen/Stephan Katte: Mozart: Clarinet Quintet/Modern Quintet () [07-23] - classical
- Jenny Klukken: Color in Motion (self-released) [07-16] - jazz
- KMRU: Logue (Injazero) [05-14] - ambient
- Chaz Knapp: Organ Drunes (Figure Eight)
- Katie Knipp: The Well (Heart Songs)
- Knocked Loose: A Tear in the Fabric of Life () [10-13] - metalcore
- Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter: Anticipation (American Dreams) [03-12]
- Daniel Knox: Won't You Take Me With You (HP Johnson Presents) [01-15] - singer-songwriter
- Vivian Koch: Beyond Contact (AD93)
- Kolezanka: Place Is (Bar None)
- Konduku: Parlama (Spazio Disponible)
- Hiro Kone: Silvercoat the Throng () [09-24] - ambient
- Konus Quartett/Klaus Lang: Drei Allmenden (Cubus) - jazz
- Alex Koo/Attila Gyarfas/Ralph Alessi: Identified Flying Object (WERF) - jazz
- Kool Keith: Keith's Salon (Logistic/Telegraph) [06-04] - hip-hop
- Marieke Koopman: Chapter One (Challenge) - jazz
- Lex Korten: Forward (self-released) [06-14] - jazz
- KORR: Tombe De La Voute (We Insist) [05-14] - jazz
- Kosine: Truth Serum ()
- Kota the Friend & Statik Selektah: To Kill a Sunrise (Kota the Friend) - hip-hop
- Sofia Kourtesis: Fresia Magdalena (Ninja Tune -EP) [03-19] - house
- Koyo: Drives Out East () [07-06]
- Annette Krebs: Konstruktion 1&2 Sah (self-released) - jazz
- Susan Krebs: Daybreak (GreenGig Music) - jazz
- Sylvie Kreusch: Montbray ()
- Nicholas Krgovich: This Spring: Songs by Veda Hille (Tin Angel) [05-21]
- K-Rino: A Blessing and a Burden () - hip-hop
- Dan Kroha: Detroit Blues () - blues
- Lucy Kruger & the Lost Boys: Transit Tapes (For Women Who Move Furniture Around) (Unique) [06-04]
- Krum: Black Lung () - hip-hop
- KSHMR: Harmonica Andromeda ()
- K-Trap: Trapo () [09-10]
- Ktyb, 4lfa Et Mahdi Machfar: Bon Vent ()
- Kucka: Wrestling () [04-30] - alt r&b
- The KUH Trio: Old Souls (ATS) - jazz
- Femi Kuti: Stop the Hate (Partisan) [02-05] - Afrobeat
- Made Kuti: For(e)ward (Partisan) [02-05] - Afrobeat
- Kutiman: Surface Currents () [02-23]
- KUU!: Artificial Sheep (ACT) [08-27] - jazz
- The KVB: Unity (Invada) [11-26]
- Ben Kweller: Circuit Boredom () [01-01]
- Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: Candy Racer () [10-27] - J-pop
- Don L: Roteiro Pra Ainou (Vol 2) () - Brazil
- LA Guns: Checkered Past ()
- La Luz: La Luz (Hardly Art) [10-22] - neo-psychedelia
- La Novia: Le Soleil Ni Meme La Lune (La Novia) [01-01]
- Lava La Rue: Butter-Fly () [02-19] - alt r&b
- Lady Dan: I Am the Prophet () [04-23] - indie folk
- Ladyhawke: Time Flies (BMG) [11-19]
- Pokey LaFarge: In the Blossom of Their Shade (New West) [10-15] - Americana
- Natalia Lafourcade: Un Canto Por Mexico Vol II ()
- Matt LaJoie: Red Resonant Earth (Flower Room) [10-22]
- Lake Street Dive: Obviously (Nonesuch) [03-12] - pop soul
- Lakeyah: My Time (Quality Control Music) - hip-hop
- Tammy Lakkis: Notice (Portage Garage Sounds) [03-26] - electronic
- Lala &ce: Everything Tasteful () [01-29]
- Lala Lala: I Want the Door to Open () [10-08]
- Jess Lamb and the Factory: You Are (Harrison Skydeck)
- Lambchop: Showtunes (Merge) [05-21] - chamber pop
- Lamp of Murmuur: Submission and Slavery ()
- Francois Lana Trio: Cathedrale (Leo) - jazz
- Domenico Lancelloti: Raio (Aaaa) [02-02]
- Tory Lanez: Alone at Prom ()
- Sinikka Langeland: Wolf Rune (ECM) [04-09] - Norwegian folk/jazz
- Langkamer: West Country () [09-15]
- Rhys Langston: Stalin Bollywood ()
- Daniel Lanois: Heavy Sun (Missing Piece) [03-19]
- Lanterna: Hidden Drives (Badman)
- LANY: Gg Bb Xx (Interscope) [09-03] - pop
- Joke Lanz & Ute Wassermann: Half Dead Half Alive: Live in Nickelsdorf (Klang Galerie) - jazz
- Thierry Larose: Cantalou (Bravo Musique)
- Zara Larsson: Poster Girl () [03-05] - dance pop
- Dominic Lash Quartet: Limulus (Spoonhunt) - jazz
- The Lasso: 2121 ()
- Timo Lassy/Teppo Makynen: Live Recordings 2019-2020 (We Jazz) - jazz
- The Lathums: How Beautiful Life Can Be () [09-24]
- Olivier Latry: Liszt: Inspirations () [06-25]
- Jim Lauderdale: Hope (Yep Roc) [07-30] - country
- Laufey: Typical of Me ()
- Audrey Lauro/Giotis Damianidis: Dark Ballads (Silent Water/Mr Nakayasi) - jazz
- Shannon Lay: Geist (Sub Pop) [10-08] - folk
- Laylow: L'Etrange Histoire De Mr Anderson () [07-16] - French hip-hop
- Le GGRIL: Sommes (CircumDisc/Tour de Bras) - jazz
- Le Ren: Leftovers (Royal Mountain)
- Leandrul: Psychosis of Dreams (Handsmade)
- Michael League: So Many Me (GroundUP Music) [06-25] - art pop
- Joelle Leandre: Beauty/Resistance (Not Two -3CD) - jazz
- Paul Leary: Born Stupid () [02-21] - folk rock
- Leather Rats: No Live 'Til Leather '98 (Bokeh Versions) [05-07]
- Iury Lech: Ontonanology () [02-26]
- Pablo Ledesma/Paula Shocron/Mono Hurtado/Pablo Diaz: Inmanencia (Nendo Dango) [08-20] - jazz
- Ledisi: Ledisi Sings Nina () - jazz
- Bobby Lee: Origin Myths (Tompkins Square) [03-05]
- Buzzy Lee: Spoiled Love (Future Classic) [01-29] - indie pop
- Charmaine Lee: KNVF (Erratum Musical) - jazz
- Lauren Lee: The Queen of Cups (Ears & Eyes) [04-30] - jaz
- Okkyung Lee: Na-Reul (Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Yong Lee: Touch (Fluxus) [06-29] - jazz
- Chad Lefkowitz-Brown: Quartet Sessions (self-released) - jazz
- Chad Lefkowitz-Brown and the Global Big Band: Open World (self-released) - jazz
- Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Andris Nelsons: Sofia Gubaidulina: Orchestral Works ()
- Oliver Leith: Me Hollywood (Another Timbre)
- Hubert Lenoir: Pictura De Ipse: Musique Directe () [09-15] - art pop
- Carin Leon: Inedito ()
- Anna Leone: I've Felt All These Things (Half Awake) [10-08] - singer-songwriter
- Leprous: Aphelion () [08-27] - prog rock
- Jinx Lennon: Liferafts for Latchicos (Septic Tiger) [04-23] - punk
- Leroy: Dariacore () [05-14] - pop
- L'Etau [Keith Tippett/Michael Pilz/Jean-Noel Cognard]: Script Original (Disques Bloc Thyristors/trAce Label) - jazz
- Gaetano Letizia: Chartreuse (self-released) - jazz
- Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno: Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno () - country
- Mica Levi: Blue Alibi () [01-27] - psychedelic folk
- Mike Levine: Just Chillin (self-released) - jazz
- George Lewis/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Minds in Flux () [08-27] - classical
- Lilli Lewis: Americana () - country
- Molly Lewis: The Forgotten Edge (Jagjaguwar -EP) [07-02] - alt/indie
- Liars: The Apple Drop (Mute) [08-06] - art rock
- Joost Lijbaart: Free (Challenge -20) - jazz
- Lice: Wasteland: What Ails Our People Is Clear (Settled Law) [01-08] - experimental rock
- Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach: Empathy: Five Improvised Soundscapes 2018-2020 (Jazzline -5CD) - jazz
- Light Conductor: Sequence Two (Constellation) [10-29]
- Lightning Bug: A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum) [06-25] - dream pop
- Kirk Lightsey: I Will Never Stop Loving You (Jo Jo) [09-03] - jazz
- Liily: TV or Not TV () [10-22]
- Lil Baby/Lil Durk: The Voice of the Heroes (Quality Control) [06-04] - hip-hop
- Lil Durk: The Voice ()
- Lil Durk and Lil Baby: The Voice of the Heroes (Quality Control/Alamo/Motown) [06-04] - hip-hop
- Lil Huddy: Teenage Heartbreak (Immersive/Sandlot/Geffen)
- Lil Playah: You Think I Care! () - hip-hop
- Lil Tjay: Destined 2 Win (Columbia) [04-02] - hip-hop
- Lil Ugly Mane: Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern () [10-12] - neo-psychedelia
- Lil Yachty: Michigan Boy Boat (Quality Control/Capitol) [04-23] - hip-hop
- Lucia Nimcova & Sholto Dobie: Dilo (Mappa)
- Liminanas/Laurent Garnier: De Pelicula (Berreto Music) [09-10] - psychedelic rock
- Limp Bizkit: Still Sucks () [10-31] - nu metal
- L'Imperatrice: Tako Tsubo ()
- Chloe Yu Nong Lin: Pi Sound ()
- Mason Lindahl: Kissing Rosy in the Rain (Tompkins Square) [01-22] - avant folk
- Maggie Lindemann: Paranoia ()
- Matthias Lindermayr: Triptych (Squama) - jazz
- Jakob Lindberg: Bach on the Rauwolf Lute (BIS) - classical
- Anthony Linell: Winter Ashes ()
- Lionmilk: I Hope You Are Well (Leaving) - ambient
- Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition () [ 02-11] - dance pop
- Lipstick Jodi: More Like Me (Quite Scientific) [06-04]
- Liquid Tension Experiment: 3 ()
- Liquids: Life Is Pain Idiot (self-released)
- Lisasinson: Perdona Mama (Elefant)
- Lisel & Booker Stardrum: Mycelial Echo (Luminelle) [04-09] - ambient pop
- Ira B Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Mazel Tov Kocktail! (Tall Man) - jazz
- Little G Weevil: Live Acoustic Session (Hunnia)
- Little Snake: A Fragmented Love Story, Written by the Infinite Helix Architect (Brainfeeder) [06-04] - electronic
- Liv.e: CWTTY+ [Couldn't Wait to Tell You . . .] (In Real Life) [07-30] - r&b
- Kedr Livanskiy: Liminal Soul (2MR) [10-01] - electronic
- Lucy Liyou: Practice (Full Spectrum)
- Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Loose Cannon (Brooklyn Basement)
- Lo Talker: A Comedy of Errors ()
- Lo Village: Lost in America () [02-22]
- Javi Lobe: Memories of the Future (1631)
- Annea Lockwood: Becoming Air/Into the Vanishing Point (Black Truffle)
- Lorne Lofsky: This Song Is New (Modica Music) - jazz
- Logic: Bobby Tarantino III () - hip-hop
- Logic1000: You've Got the Whole Night to Go () - electronic
- Lojay & Sarz: LV N ATTN (self-released -EP) [06-04]
- Lokoy: Badminton ()
- Lola in Slacks: Moon Moth (Last Night From Glasgow)
- Nick Lombardelli: Secret Suite (self-released -20) - jazz
- Fred Lonberg-Holm/Abdul Moimeme/Carlos Santos: Transition Zone (self-released) - jazz
- London Grammar: Californian Soil (Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound) [04-16] - art pop
- Lone: Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman) [10-29] - breakbeat
- Lonely Guest: Lonely Guest (False Idols) [10-22] - trip hop
- Lonely the Brave: The Hope List (Easy Life) [01-22] - alt/indie
- Loney Dear: A Lantern and a Bell ()
- Norman W Long: Black Brown Gray Green (Hausu Mountain)
- Cecilia Lopez: RED (Db) (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Lord Apex: Smoke Sessions 3 () [04-20] - UK hip-hop
- Lorenzo BITW: Pantea () [05-14]
- Loris: Rastros () - club music
- The Los Sundowns: The Los Sundowns ()
- Loscil: Clara (Kranky) [05-28] - ambient
- Lost Horizons: In Quiet Moments () [02-26] - dream pop
- Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon: Too Little Too Late () - hip-hop
- Russ Lossing: Meta Morphism (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Thomas Lossius Septet: Seven Words for Ekstasia (AMP) [06-11] - jazz
- Lotic: Water (Houndstooth) [10-29] - art pop
- Maurice Louca: Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) (Sub Rosa/Northern Spy) [09-24] - jazz
- Greg Loughman: RE: Connection ( self-released) [09-24] - jazz
- Louisahhh: The Practice of Freedom () [03-12] - electro-industrial
- The Lounge Society: Silk for the Starving () [06-18] - post-punk
- Gary Louris: Jump for Joy () [06-04]
- Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil . . . The Art of Starting Over (Island) [04-02] - pop
- The William Loveday Intention: Will There Ever Be a Day That You're Hung Like a Thief? (Damaged Goods)
- Lizzie Loveless: You Don't Know (EggHunt) [09-17]
- Loveshadow: Loveshadow (Music From Memory) [06-21]
- Bobbie Lovesong: On the Wind (self-released) [04-30]
- Low Hummer: Modern Tricks for Living () [09-17]
- Low Island: If You Could Have It All Again () [04-16] - synthpop
- Allen Lowe: A Love Supine: Ascension Into the Maelstrom (ESP Disk) - jazz
- Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy: Son (Carrying Colour) [11-12]
- LP: Churches () [12-03]
- Lydia Luce: Dark River (Tone Free Music) [02-26]
- Lucero: When You Found Me () - country
- Clara Luciani: Coeur () [06-11] - French pop
- Lucero: When You Found Me () - country
- The Lucid Dream: The Deep End () [04-30]
- Steve Lukather: I Found the Sun Again (The Players Club) [02-26] - hard rock
- Lunar Octet: Convergence (Summit) [05-07] - jazz
- Lunch Money Life: Tarmac the Lake () [08-13] - prog rock
- Francis Lung: Miracle (Memphis Industries) [06-18] - indie pop
- WH Lung: Vanities (Melodic) [10-08] - neo-psychedelia
- Rene Lussier: Le Tesor De La Langue (ReR Megacorp) - jazz
- Lustmord & Karin Park: Alter (Pelagic) [06-25]
- Lute: Gold Mouf (Dreamville/Interscope) [10-04] - hip-hop
- Luwten: Draft () [04-30] - art pop
- Sue Lynch/NO Moore/Crystabel Riley: Secant/Tangent (Dxdy) - jazz
- Bantam Lyons: Mardell ()
- Maassai: With the Shifts () [01-23] - hip-hop
- Mabiland: Ninxs Rotxs ()
- Frank Macchia: Songs for Tracy (Cacophony) - jazz
- Amy Macdonald: The Human Demands (Infectious)
- Jean-Marie Machado: Majakka (La Buissonne) [02-05] - jazz
- Bill MacKay & Nathan Bowles: Keys (Drag City) [04-09] - bluegrass
- Holly Macve: Not the Girl (Modern Sky)
- Maeckes: Pool ()
- Maenad Veyl & the Sarcasm Ensemble: Comfort in Misery ()
- Johnny Mafia: Sentimental (Howlin' Banana)
- Magna Carda: To the Good People () - hip-hop
- MAGS: Say Things That Matter (Take This to Heart)
- Tkay Maidza: Last Year Was Weird, Vol 3 () [07-09] - pop rap
- The Maine: XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time ()
- Sananda Maitreya: Pandora's PlayHouse () [03-15]
- Makthaverskan: For Allting () [11-12]
- Alex Malheiros: Tempos Futuros (Far Out) [11-26] - Latin
- Jesse Malin: Sad and Beautiful World ()
- Mall Grab: Steel City Dance Discs Volume 20 (Steel City Dance Discs)
- Matt Maltese: Good Morning It's Now Tomorrow () [10-08] - soft rock
- Maluma: 7 DJ: 7 Dias En Jamaica ()
- Abe Mamet: The Abe Mamet Trio (LMB) [11-12] - jazz
- Mammoth WVH: Mammoth WVH () [06-11] - hard rock
- Manchester Orchestra: The Million Masks of God (Loma Vista) [04-30] - alt/indie
- Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: Quiet Is the Star (Roomspin) - jazz
- Mandrake Handshake: Shake the Hand That Feeds You () [05-14]
- Maneskin: Teatro D'Ira Vol I ()
- Manic Street Preachers: The Ultra Vivid Lament (Sony) [09-10] - alt/indie
- M.anifest: Madina to the Universe ()
- Chico Mann: Double Life (Ubiquity) [11-20] - Afrobeat
- Clara Mann: Consolations () [02-24]
- Janis Mann & Kenny Werner: Dreams of Flying (Pancake) - jazz
- Mannequin Pussy: Perfect () [05-21] - indie rock
- Manslaughter 777: World Vision Perfect Harmony (Thrill Jockey) [03-26] - breakbeat
- Mapache: 3 (self-released) [11-19]
- Maple Glider: To Enjoy Is the Only Thing ()
- Mapstation: My Frequencies, When We (Bureau B) [02-26]
- Amari Mar: Grand Rising () - hip-hop
- Mara TK: Bad Meditation () [05-07]
- April March: In Cinerama ()
- Marconi Union: Signals (Just Music)
- Mare Cognitum: Solar Paroxysm (I Voidhanger) [03-19] - black metal
- Desire Marea: Desire (Izimakade) [01-10] - deconstructed club
- Triston Marez: Triston Marez () - country
- Mariah the Scientist: RY RY World (RCA) [07-09] - funk/soul
- The Marias: Cinema () [06-25] - indie pop
- Gabriel Ahkmad Marin: Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar (Worlds Within Worlds) [11-12] - jazz
- Marine Eyes: Idyll ()
- Marinero: Hella Love (Hardly Art) [05-21]
- Mariza: Mariza Canta Amalia (Parlophone -20) [2020-11-20] - Portuguese
- Amber Mark: Softly EP ()
- Martha Marlow: Medicine Man () [05-21]
- Kasper Marott: Full Circle (Axces) [01-15] - electronic
- Reaux Marquez: No Roads ()
- Johnny Marr: Fever Dreams Pt 1 () [10-15]
- Ellis Marsalis With Jason Marsalis: The New Orleans Collection: For All We Know (Newvelle) - jazz
- Alexis Marshall: House of Lull, House of When () [07-23] - death industrial
- Billie Marten: Flora Fauna (Fiction) [05-21] - singer-songwriter
- Marteria: 5. Dimension (Green Berlin) [10-15] - hip-hop
- The Martha's Vineyard Ferries: Suns Out Gung Out (Ernest Jenning) [02-26]
- Kevin Richard Martin: Return to Solaris (Phantom Limb) [06-25] - ambient
- Lucia Martinez/Agusti Fernandez/Barry Guy: Bosque De Niebla (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-03] - jazz
- Zibuokle Martinaityte: Saudade ()
- MARV: Keyboard Suite I (Enmossed)
- Pascal Marzan/Alex Ward: (VU) (Copepod -20) - jazz
- Mas MusiQ: Auti 'ESharp ()
- Ruth Mascelli: A Night at the Baths (Disciples)
- Sue Maskaleris: Love Is the Key (Jazilian) - jazz
- Kenny Mason: Angelic Hoodrat: Supercut () - hip-hop
- Willy Mason: Already Dead (Cooking Vinyl) [08-06] - art rock
- Massage: Still Life ()
- Massiv in Mensch: Turkis und Schwar (Katyusha)
- Master Peace: Public Display of Affection () [07-01]
- Mastodon: Hushed and Grim (Reprise) [10-29] - prog metal
- Maston With L'Eclair: Souvenir (Innovative Leisure) [09-10]
- Mads Mathias: I'm All Ears () - jazz
- Jackson Mathod: Travels in a Confined Space (self-released)
- Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird: These 13 (Wegawam Music/Southern Broadcast) [03-05] - country
- Joanna Mattrey: Dirge (Dear Life) - jazz
- Mildred Maude: Sonic Cathedral ()
- MAV & Hobgoblin: Angelz & Demonz 3 () - hip-hop
- MAV & Spanish Ran: Breakfast at Sues () - hip-hop
- Ed Maverick: Eduardo ()
- MAVI: End of the Earth (self-released -EP) [02-22] - hip-hop
- Max I Million: Uncut Gems (Coalmine)
- Maximo Park: Nature Always Wins (PIAS) [02-26] - new wave
- Ego Ella May: Fieldnotes () - soul
- Magda Mayas' Filamental: Confluence (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Magda Mayas/Tina Doublas: Objects of Interest (Room40) - jazz
- John Mayer: Sob Rock (Columbia) [07-16] - pop rock
- Elias Mazian: All Night (DGTL -EP)
- MC Carol: Borogodo ()
- Jill McCarron Trio With Will Anderson: Jazz Motif (self-released) - jazz
- Dan McCarthy: A Place Where We Once Lived (self-released) - jazz
- Paul McCartney: McCartney III (Capitol -20) [2020-12-18] - pop rock
- Mac McCaughan: The Sound of Yourself (Merge) [09-24] - indie pop
- Walt McClements: A Hole in the Fence (American Dreams) [08-13]
- Parker McCollum: Gold Chain Cowboy () - country
- Fergus McCreadie: Cairn (Edition) [01-29] - jazz
- Jim McCulloch: When I Mean What I Say (Violette)
- Joel McCullough: Starsign (self-released)
- Noel McKay: Blue Blue Blue () - country
- Murray McLauchlan: Hourglass (True North) [07-09]
- James Vincent McMorrow: Grapefruit Season (Sony)
- Dave McMurray: Grateful Deadication () - jazz
- Shannon McNally: The Waylon Sessions (Compass) [05-28] - country
- Dean McPhee: Witch's Ladder (Hood Faire) [04-30]
- Joe McPhee/John Edwards: Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (Idyllic Noise) - jazz
- Joe McPhee/Michael Bisio/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Juma Sultan: The Sweet Spot (RogueArt) - jazz
- Me and That Man: New Man, New Songs, Same Shit ()
- Me Rex: Megabear ()
- Media Jeweler: The Sublime Scripture of Being Alive ()
- Buck Meek: Two Saviors (Keeled Scales) [01-15] - singer-songwriter
- Gary Meek: Monterey Groove () - jazz
- Meek Mill: Expensive Pain () [10-01] - hip-hop
- Meemo Comma: Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter () [03-19] - IDM
- Meskerem Mees: Julius () [11-12] - singer-songwriter
- Meet Me @ the Altar: Model Citizen (Fueled by Ramen) [08-13] - pop punk
- Mega Bog: Life, and Another (Paradise of Bachelors) [07-23] - art pop
- Nicholas Meier/Dewa Budjana Group: Flying Spirits (Blue Canoe -20) - jazz
- Vincent Meissner Trio: Bewegtes Feld (ACT) [05-28] - jazz
- Melting Mind: Melted Mind (Troglosound) - jazz
- Melvins: Working With God (Ipecac) [02-26] - stoner rock
- The Memory Band: Colours (Hungry Hill)
- Men I Trust: Untourable Album (self-released) [08-15] - downtempo
- Javier Mena: I Entisiasmo ()
- Menagerie: Many Worlds (Freestyle)
- Mendelson: Le Dernier Album ()
- Vinicius Mendes/Alex Dias/Gabriel Bruce/Victor Vieira-Branco: Duascidades (self-released) - jazz
- Vince Mendoza: Freedom Over Everything (Modern) - jazz
- Meroli: Notturni (Space Echo) - jazz
- Merzbow: Scandal (Room40) [05-28] - noise
- Mess Esque: Mess Esque (Drag City) [10-22]
- Meta Meta and Marcelo Cabral: Orita Meta: Ore () - Brazil
- Roxane Metayer: Eclipse Des Ocelles (Morc)
- Hendrik Meurkens: Manhattan Samba (Height Advantage) - jazz
- Mexican Institute of Sound: Distrito Federal (self-released)
- Adi Meyerson: I Want to Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life (Adi Meyerson) [08-06] - jazz
- Mhaol: Gender Studies () [10-29]
- Julia Michaels: Not in Chronological Order () [04-30]
- Michigan Rattlers: That Kind of Life () - country
- Rale Micic: Only Love Will Stay (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
- Microcorps: Xmit (Alter) [04-16] - industrial techno
- Microtub: Sonic Drift (Sofa Music) - jazz
- Stephan Micus: Winter's End (ECM) - jazz
- Middle Kids: Today We're the Greatest (Domino) [03-19] - indie rock
- Midnight Sister: Painting the Roses (Jagjaguwar) [01-15] - art pop
- Midwife: Luminol ()
- Miesha & the Spanks: Singles EP (Miesha Louie)
- Haviah Mighty: Stock Exchange () [11-12] - hip-hop
- Migos: Culture III (Capitol/Motown/Quality Control) [06-11] - hip-hop
- Miguel Migs: Shaping Visions ()
- Miguel: Art Dealer Chic 4 (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA) [04-08] - r&b
- Mild High Club: Going Going Gone () [09-17] - psychedelic pop
- Robbie Miller: Little Love () [02-12]
- Drake Milligan: Drake Milligan (-EP) - country
- Steve Million: Jazz Words (self-released) [08-20] - jazz
- Millionz: Provisional Licence () [09-17] - UK drill
- Parker Millsap: Be Here Instead () [04-09] - country
- Milquetoast & Co: Shiny (Little) Mind ()
- Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske: Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske () [03-26] - electroacoustic
- Dom Minasi: Eight Hands One Mind (Unseen Rain) - jazz
- Mine: Hinuber ()
- Andy Mineo: Never Land II () [09-24]
- Mini Skirt: Casino ()
- Ministry: Moral Hygiene () [10-01] - indusrial metal
- Kylie Minogue: Disco: Guest List Edition ()
- Minotaur Shock: Qi (Bytes) [01-29]
- Mirage: Mirage (Peatonal West) [01-01]
- Danielle Miraglia: Bright Shining Stars (VizzTone) - jazz
- Mirrors: Mirrors ()
- Miss Grit: Impostor () [02-05] - noise pop
- Mister Goblin: Four People in an Elevator and One of Them Is the Devil () [02-19] - indie rock
- Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile: Snark Horse (Pi -6CD) [07-30] - jazz
- Roscoe Mitchell/Jerzy Mazzoll/Slawek Janicki/Qba Janicki: For Sure (Bocian -20) - jazz
- Roscoe Mitchell/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: A Railroad Spike Forms the Voice (Balance Point Acoustics) [05-14] - jazz
- Dennis Mitcheltree: Nevermind the Circus () - jazz
- MitiS: Lost (Opehlia)
- MNDR: Hell to Be You Baby ()
- Mndsgn: Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw) [06-04] - psychedelic soul
- Moby: Reprise () [05-28] - art pop
- Mocky: Overtones for the Omniverse () [07-30] - third stream
- Mod Con: Modern Condition () [10-22]
- Model Home: Both Feen En Th Infinite () - hip-hop
- Modern Nature: Island of Noise (Bella Union) [11-19]
- Kerry Moffit: What Goes Around Comes Around (Turning Circles Music) - jazz
- Jesse Mogale: Heritage From an African Continent (Jaymog -20) - jazz
- Moire: Good Times (Hypercolour) [05-14] - electronic
- MOL: Diorama (Nuclear Blast) [11-05] - metal
- Molten: Dystopian Syndrome ()
- Pau Molto: French Horn Jazz Project () - jazz
- MoMA Ready: Body 21 () [02-24] - electronic
- Momus: Athenian ()
- Tony Monaco/Hendrik Meurkens/Reid Hoyson/Mark Lucas: Strollin' (Reid Hoyson Productions) - jazz
- Adrian Moncada: Inhabitable Imagination (Inhabitable Imagination Music) - jazz
- Monde UFO: 7171 (self-released) [10-31]
- Moneybagg Yo: A Gangsta's Pain (CMG/N-Less/Interscope) [04-23] - hip-hop
- Jane Monheit: Come What May (Club44) - vocal jazz
- Mono: Pilgrimage of the Soul (Temporary Residence) [09-17] - post-rock
- Monobody: Comma ()
- Monster Magnet: A Better Dystopia (Napalm) [05-21]
- Jimmy Montague: Casual Use ()
- French Montana: They Got Amnesia (Epic) - hip-hop
- Marisa Monte: Portas (Sony) [07-01] - MPB
- Marcelo Monteiro: Deyeh (self-released) - jazz
- Donny Montell: 1987 ()
- Montgomery and Turner: Sounds Passing Through Circumstances (Astral Editions)
- Moo Latte: Snax (U Know Me)
- Moon Tooth: Phototroph (Pure Noise) [05-13] - metal
- Moontype: Bodies of Water () [04-02] - indie rock
- Christy Moore: Flying Into Mystery (Sony)
- Dallas Moore: The Rain () - country
- Gary Moore: How Blue Can You Get (Provogue) [04-30]
- Steve Moore: Analog Sensitivity (Be With) [02-19] - space ambient
- Valentino Mora: Underwater (Spazio Disponible) [03-22] - ambient techno
- Jason Moran: The Sound Will Tell You (Yes) - jazz
- Morcheeba: Blackest Blue (Fly Agaric) [05-14] - trip hop
- Enrico Morello: Cyclic Signs (Auand) [03-19] - jazz
- Berta Moreno Afro-Jazz Soul Project: Tumaini (Tiger Turn) [04-30] - jazz
- Solea Morente: Aurora Y Enrique ()
- Chloe Moriondo: Blood Bunny (Fueled by Ramen) [05-07] - indie pop
- Alanis Morissette: The Storm Before the Calm (Epiphany) [06-17]
- Suomi Morishita: Ein (Tomte's) - jazz
- Morray: Street Sermons (Pick Six/Interscope) [04-28]
- David John Morris: Monastic Love Songs () [05-21]
- Joe Morris/Damon Smith: Gusts Against Particles (Open Systems) - jazz
- The Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger ()
- Federico Mosconi: Dreamers and Tides (Dronarium)
- Mosquitoes: Mosquitoes (World of Echo) [03-05]
- Motifv: Dilated Minds () - electronic
- Motorpsycho: Kingdom of Oblivion (Stickman) [04-16] - prog rock
- Sarah Moule: Stormy Emotions (33 Jazz) - jazz
- A Mountain of One: Custards Last Stand (Amore) - downtempo
- Mouse on Mars: AAI (Thrill Jockey) [02-26] - IDM
- Benjamin Moussay: Promontoire (ECM) - jazz
- Mousv: El Sahaba ()
- Mouth Painter: Tropicale Moon (Feeding Tube) [09-03]
- Mr Jukes & Barney Artist: The Locket () [08-06] - UK hip-hop
- Mr Mitch: Lazy (Gobstopper)
- Mr Twin Sister: Al Mundo Azul () [11-19] - indie pop
- Msaki: Platinumb Heart ()
- The Muckers: Endeavor (Greenway)
- The Mudd Club: Bottle Blonde (Raving Pop Blast)
- Mujeres Podridas: Muerte En Paraiso ()
- Georgia Anne Muldrow: VWETO III (Foreseen Entertainment/Epistrophik Peach Sound) [05-21] - instrumental hip-hop
- Kjetil Mulelid: Piano (Rune Grammofon) [03-12] - jazz
- Viktoria Mullova/Alasdair Beatson: Beethoven: Sonatas 4, 5 & 7 () [03-26] - classical
- Mundo Primitivo: Paisage Interior (Static Shock)
- Connor Munroe: Then + Now (self-released) - jazz
- Muqata'a: Kamil Manqus (Hundebiss) [02-05] - wonky
- Murcof: The Alias Sessions () [05-21] - dark ambient
- The Murlocs: Bittersweet Dreams (ATO) [06-25] - garage rock
- Greg Murphy: Cool Water (Whaling City Sound) [02-05] - jazz
- John Murry: The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes (Submarine Cat) [07-16] - folk rock
- Musa Dagh: Musa Dagh ()
- The Musalini & O Finess: No Squares in My Circle () - hip-hop
- Museum of Love: Life of Mammals (Skint) [07-09]
- Mush: Lines Redacted (Memphis Industries) [02-12] - post-punk
- Music on Hold: 30 Minutes Of () [02-05]
- Musk Ox: Inheritance () [07-09] - chamber folk
- Muzi: Interblaktic ()
- Mu-Ziq: Scurlage (Analogical Force) [05-28] - IDM
- MXLX: Nebula Rasa (Kindarad!) [03-26]
- My Bloody Sex Party: Vol 2 (Zoomin' Night)
- My Morning Jacket: My Morning Jacket (ATO) [10-22] - neo-psychedelia
- Myd: Born a Loser () [04-30] - deep house
- Aaron Myers: The Pride Album (self-released) [04-30] - jazz
- Myka 9 & Profound: Nine Clouds () - hip-hop
- John Myrtle: Myrtle Soup () [06-18]
- Marissa Nadler: The Path of the Gods (Sacred Bones) [10-29] - psychedelic folk
- Naked Days: My Head Hz () [02-06] - singer-songwrier
- Naked Raygun: Over the Overlords () [08-02]
- Hamza Namira: Mawlood Sanat ()
- Nancy: The Seven Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues () [01-15] - neo-psychedelia
- Nao: And Then Life Was Beautiful (Little Tokyo) [09-24] - neo-soul
- Anthony Naples: Chameleon () [09-03] - downtempo
- Napoleon Da Legend & Amerigo Gazaway: The World Changed (Soulmates)
- Nappy Nina & JWords: Double Down (LucidHaus) - hip-hop
- The Narcotix: Mommy Issues ()
- Israel Nash: Topaz (self-released) [03-12] - singer-songwriter
- Nasty Cherry: The Movie () [04-02] - pop rock
- Native Soul: Teenage Dreams () [09-14]
- The Natvral: Tethers (Kanine) [04-02] - indie folk
- Rachika Navar: Our Hands Against the Dusk ()
- Rachika Nayar: Our Hands Against the Dusk (NNA Tapes) [03-05] - glitch
- Jacky Naylor: The Industrial Suite (Ubuntu) [04-09] - jazz
- NCT 127: Sticker (SM Entertainment) [09-17] - K-pop
- Lael Neale: Acquainted With Night (Sub Pop) [02-19] - alt/indie
- Camila Nebbia: Colibri Rojo (Ears & Eyes) - jazz
- Necessary People: These Are the Necessary People () - hip-hop
- Neek Bucks: Neighborhood HOV () - hip-hop
- Mike Neer: Keepin' It Real (Mike Neer Music) - jazz
- Neighborhood Brats: Confines of Life (Dirt Cult)
- Bill Nelson: Dazzlebox (self-released)
- Josh Nelson: Live at Bluewhale Volume 1 (Steel Bird Music) - jazz
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: A Few Stars Apart (Fantasy) [06-11] - country rock
- Net Gala: ? Shinpa (Svbkvlt) - club music
- Jennifer Nettles: Always Like New () [06-25] - country
- Sarah Neufeld: Detritus (Paper Bag) [05-14] - modern classical
- Ed Neumeister Quartet: What Have I Done? (Meistero Music) [10-15] - jazz
- NEOV: Picture of a Good Life () [01-15] - indie pop
- Deb Never: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? () [09-10] - bedroom pop
- New Bums: Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City) [03-19]
- New Faces: New Sounds (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- New Memphis Colorways: It Is What It Isn't (Owl Jackson Jr) - jazz
- The New Muse 4Tet: Blue Lotus (self-released) - jazz
- New Pagans: The Seed, the Vessel, the Roots and All (Big Scary Monsters)
- The New World Jazz Composers Octet: The Next Stage (Big and Phat Jazz) - jazz
- NewDad: Waves () [03-26] - indie pop
- Newgrounds Death Rugby: Pictures of Your Pets ()
- Newmen: Futur II ()
- Farnell Newton: Feel the Love (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Ngaiire: 3 () [08-27] - art pop
- Nice Girl: Ipsum (Public Possession) [12-06] - electronic
- Nicolay: Analog Dreams (The Foreign Music Exchange) - electronic
- Nicki Nicole: Parte De Mi () [10-29]
- Maggie Nicols: Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound (Takuroku -20) [2020-12-07]
- Night Beats: Outlaw R&B (Fuzz Club) [06-04] - psychedelic rock
- Nightmares on Wax: Shout Out! To Freedom . . . (Warp) [10-29] - downtempo
- Nightshift: Zoe ()
- Willie Nile: The Day the Earth Stood Still () [08-13]
- The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 1: To the Nth (self-released -20) - jazz
- Ninajirachi & Kota Banks: True North () [04-16]
- Carlos Nino & Friends: More Energy Fields, Currrent (International Anthem) [05-07]
- Nite Jewel: No Sun (Gloriette) [08-27] - ambient pop
- Andrew Nixon/Joe Goretti/Ed Croft: In Congruence (self-released) - jazz
- No Rome: It's All Smiles () [12-03] - alt r&b
- No Stress: Prelude No 1 (YK) [03-02] - jazz
- Erica Nockalls: Dark Music From a Warm Place (Gentlemen)
- Noctiferia: Reforma () [05-28]
- Cedric Noel: Hang Time () [11-12]
- NOFX: Single Album ()
- Jim Noir: Deep Blue View (Dook) [08-06]
- NoMBe: Chromatopia (Th3rd Brain) [05-07]
- Nonexistent: Nonexistent (Downwards)
- Alex Norris: Fleet From the Heat (SteepleChase) - jazz
- The Kody Norris Show: All Suited Up ()
- Richard Norris: Hypnotic Response (Inner Mind) [06-11]
- Not Waving: How to Leave Your Baby () [05-14] - electronic
- Nothing but Thieves: Moral Panic II () [07-23] - alt/indie
- Nothing, Nowhere: Trauma Factory () [02-19] - emo pop
- NOV3L: Non-Fiction () [05-28]
- Nova Twins: Supernova (Marshall) [06-17] - noise rock
- Antonina Nowacka: Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca (TakuRoku)
- Roy Noyes: Arc Minutes ()
- Noyz82: Blade Runner Basquiat () - hip-hop
- Nun Gun: Mondo Decay ()
- Audrey Nuna: A Liquid Breakfast (Arista)
- Maarja Nuut: Hinged () [08-20] - art pop
- Karen Nyame KG: Sensei II (KG)
- Lina Nyberg & Daniel Karlsson: The Night and the Music (Prophone) [04-30] - jazz
- Obijuan x Philanthrope: Saxred Gin (Bad Taste)
- Observe Since 98: Le Dernier Royaume () - hip-hop
- Obscura: A Valediction ()
- Elijah Ocean: Born Blue () - country
- Geoffrey O'Connor: For as Long as I Can Remember () [08-06]
- Octo Octa: She's Calling (T4T LUV NRG) - electronic
- Stanley Odd: Stay Odd (Handsome Tramp) [04-12]
- Odd Beholder: Sunny Bay () [09-10]
- Oddfellow's Casino: The Cult of Water (Nightjar) [04-02]
- Odette: Herald () [02-05] - art pop
- Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Virtual Birdland (Zoho) - Latin jazz
- Offset 5: Deflections (self-released) - jazz
- The Offspring: Let the Bad Times Roll (Concord)
- Emeka Ogboh: Beyond the Yellow Haze (A-Ton) [01-15] - ambient
- Dag Erik Ogsvold: Back Then () - country
- Oh My Girl: Dear Ohygirl (WM Entertainment) - K-pop
- Oh Wonder: 22 Break () [10-08] - indie pop
- Ohbliv: Rugged Tranquility Volume 1 & 2 (Paxico)
- Vikingur Olafsson: Mozart & Contemporaries ()
- Old Dominion: Time, Tequila & Therapy (Arista Nashville) - country
- Old Sea Brigade: Motivational Speaking (Nettwerk) [05-14]
- David Olney and Anana Kaye: Whispers and Sighs ()
- Angel Olsen: Aisles (Jagjaguwar -EP) [08-20] - synthpop
- Tomoko Omura: Branches, Vol 2 (Outside In Music) [06-18] - jazz
- Ona Snop: Intermittent Damnation (No Time -20) [2020-12-01] - grindcore
- One Million Eyes: Brama () [03-01]
- One Step Closer: This Place You Know (Run for Cover) [09-24] - melodic hardcore
- Oneus: Blood Moon (RBW) - K-pop
- Onewe: Planet Nine: Alter Ego (RBW) - K-pop
- Only Sun: Tangled Mind () [05-21]
- Onyx: Onyx 4 Life ()
- Ophidian I: Desolate ()
- Ora the Molecule: Human Safari (Mute) [07-23] - indie pop
- Bill Orcutt: A Mechanical Joey ()
- Orchestre TPMD: We're Ok. But We're Lost Anyway ()
- Orden Ogan: Final Days ()
- The Orielles: La Vita Olistica (Heavenly) [03-26] - indie pop
- Origami Angel: Gami Gang (Counter Intuitive) [04-30] - emo-pop
- Declan O'Rourke: Arrivals (East-West) [03-05]
- Jim O'Rourke: Best That You Do This for Me (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Orquesta Akokan: 16 Rayos (Daptone) [10-22]
- Joell Ortiz: Autograph () - hip-hop
- Os Amantes: Os Amantes (Elemess) - Brazil
- The Oscillation: Untold Futures (All Time low) [10-29]
- Ossler: Regn Av Glas (St4t/Bengans)
- Others by No One: Book II: Where Stories Come From (self-released) [10-22] - prog metal
- Ouri: Frame of a Fauna ()
- Ours: Ours ()
- Out to Dinner: Play On (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Sam Outlaw: Popular Mechanics ()
- Ovlov: Buds () [11-19] - indie rock
- Bones Owens: Bones Owens (Black Ranch/Thirty Tigers) [02-26]
- Charles Owens Trio: 10 Years (LA.Reserve) - jazz
- P4rkr: Drive-by Lullabies (Dismiss Yourself) [09-17] - electronic
- Paal: Soothing Songs for a Cultured Affair (Midnight Shift) - drum & bass
- Dorothea Paas: Anything Can't Happen (Telephone Explosion) [05-07] - indie pop
- Pachyman: The Return of . . . Pachyman (ATO) [08-13]
- Packs: Take the Cake (Fire Talk) [05-21] - alt/indie
- Fito Paez: Los Anos Salvajes ()
- Julian Page: Lost and Found (Temporal Acuity -20) - jazz
- Pageants: Sun and Settled Days (Eye Dull)
- Patrick Paige II: If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (self-released) - hip-hop
- Painted Shrines: Heaven and Holy () [03-05] - folk rock
- PAKT: PAKT (Moonjune) - jazz
- Pale Waves: Who Am I? () [02-12] - pop rock
- Paloma Mami: Suenos De Dali () [03-18] - r&b
- Panam Panic: Love of Humanity (Melius Prod) - jazz
- Pan-Amerikan Native Front: Little Turtle's War ()
- Panopticon: . . . And Again Into the Light (Bindrune) [05-15] - atmospheric black metal
- Danna Paola: KO ()
- Papangu: Holoceno () [06-25] - avant-garde metal
- Paperbark: What Was Left Behind (Constellation Tatsu)
- Para One: Spectre: Machines of Loving Grace ()
- Paradox: Heresy II ()
- Parannoul: To See the Next Part of the Dream (self-released) [02-23] - shoegaze
- Parcels: Day/Night () [11-05] - yacht rock
- Pardoner: Came Down Different (Bar/None)
- Charlie Parr: Last of the Better Days Ahead (Smithsonian Folkways) - blues
- Paris Texas: Boy Anonymous () [05-14] - experimental hip-hop
- Paris Texas: Red Hand Akimbo (-EP) - hip-hop
- Han-Earl Park: Of Life, Recombinant (New Jazz and Improvised Music) - jazz
- Evan Parker Electroacoustic Quartet: Concert in Iwaki (Uchimizu) - jazz
- Evan Parker: Winns Win (Byrd Out) - jazz
- Jeff Parker/Rob Mazurek: Some Jellyfish Live Forever (RogueArt) [04-00] - jazz
- Lewis Parker: Frequency of Perception () - hip-hop
- William Parker: Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity -10CD) [01-29] - jazz
- Emmanuelle Parrenin & Detlef Weinrich: Jours De Greve () [01-10]
- Parris: Soaked in Indigo Moonlight () [11-19]
- The Parrots: Dos () [10-29]
- Jeremy Parsons: Things to Come () - country
- Alan Pasqua: Day Dream (Gretabelle Music) - jazz
- Passalacqua: Passalacqua LP () - hip-hop
- Rosa Passos: Dunas: Live in Copenhagen () - jazz
- Marissa Paternoster: Peace Meter () [12-03]
- Joanna Patterson: The Show Must Go On () - jazz
- Chris Pattishall: Zodiac (self-released) [02-19] - jazz
- John Patitucci/Vinnie Colaiuta/Bill Cunliffe: Trio (Le Coq) - jazz
- Jessica Pavone: Lull (Chalkin) [10-22]
- Paxton/Spangler Septet: Anthem for the New Nation (Eastlawn) [07-09] - jazz
- Stephane Payen/Ingrid Laubrock/Chris Tordini/Tom Rainey: All Set (RogueArt) - jazz
- Rita Payes and Elisabeth Roma: Como La Piel ()
- Potter Payper: Thanks for Waiting () [10-01]
- Pays P: Ca V Aller (Peculiar Works)
- Molly Payton: Slack () [10-01]
- Nicholas Payton: Quarantind With Nick (Paytone -20) [2020-03-03] - jazz
- Vinnie Paz: Burn Everything That Bares Your Name () - hip-hop
- PDPII, Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves: Shelter Press ()
- Peace Chord: Peace Chord () [02-05]
- Pearl & the Oysters: Flowerland (Feeltrip)
- Hayden Pedigo: Letting Go (Mexican Summer) [09-24] - American primitivism
- Pierrick Pedron: Fifty-Fifty: New York Sessions (Gazebo) [03-05] - jazz
- Pell: Floating While Dreaming II (self-released)
- Pelt: Reticence/Resistance (Three Lobed) [10-29]
- The People in Fog: 1977 (Sound of Vast) [06-28]
- Pepe Deluxe: Phantom Cabinet Vol 1 (Catskills) [10-22] - prog pop
- Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Special Edition Box: Procedural Language (SMP) - jazz
- Ivo Perelman: Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Sluchaj -9CD) [10-00] - jazz
- Don Peretz: Dikson (Deepdig) - jazz
- Perfect Angels: Exit From the Ultra-World (Zach Phillips) [04-15]
- Perfume Genius: Ugly Season (Matador) [06-17] - art pop
- Karen Peris: A Song Is Way Above the Lawn (Therese) [10-08] - chamber pop
- Perkins & Federwisch: One Dazzling Moment (Strategic Tape Reserve)
- Gene Perla: 3 Trios (PM) - jazz
- Bruno Pernadas: Private Reasons () [04-23] - prog pop
- Leonie Pernet: Le Cirque De Consolation () [11-19]
- Rich Perry: Happy Destiny (SteepleChase) - jazz
- The Person: Tide Life (Growing Bin) [02-26]
- Perturbator: Lustful Sacrements (Blood Music)
- Maisie Peters: You Signed Up for This (Gingerbread Man) [08-27] - pop
- Petey: Lean Into Life (Terrible) [09-03]
- Sara Petite: Rare Bird (JTMMusic) [02-26]
- Peyton: PSA () [07-23]
- Phabo: Soulquarius (Soulection) - r&b
- Pharaon De Winter: France Forets ()
- Phew: New Decade () [10-22] - electronic
- Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris: Afterglow (Challenge) [01-22] - jazz
- Pieranunzi Fonnesbaek Duo: The Real You: A Bill Evans Tribute (Stunt) [01-29] - jazz
- Barre Phillips: Thirty Years in Between (Victo) - jazz
- Zach Phillips: Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat () [09-06] - jazz
- Phobophobes: Modern Medicine () [06-25]
- The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: The Third Quarter (WalkingPath -20) - jazz
- Adam Pieronczyk: Oaxaca Constellation (self-released) - jazz
- Adam Pieronczyk: I'll Colour Around It (self-released) - jazz
- Antoine Pierre/Urbex Electric: Suspended: Live at Flagley (OutNote -20) - jazz
- Pile: Songs Known Together, Alone ()
- Sam Pilnick's Nonet Project: The Adler Suite (Next Level) - jazz
- The Pine Hill Haints: The Song Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy (Single Lock)
- The Pineapple Thief: Nothing but the Truth (Kscope) [10-21] - prog rock
- Diego Pinera: Odd Wisdom (ACT Music) [03-05] - jazz
- Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin: Smokebreak () - hip-hop
- The Pink Stones: Introducing . . . the Pink Stones (Normaltown) [04-09]
- Pink Suits: Political Child (self-relased)
- Pink Sweat$: Pink Planet (Atlantic)
- Pinkshift: Saccharine (self-released -EP) [04-02] - pop punk
- Alberto Pinton Trio: All the Difference (Clear Now) - jazz
- Piroshka: Love Drips and Gathers (Bella Union) [07-23]
- Michael Pisaro-Liu: Revolution Shuffle (Erstwhile) [12-03]
- Pistol Annies: Hell of a Holiday (RCA Nashville) [10-22] - country
- Adam Pits: A Recurring Nature (On Rotation) [07-16] - house
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Reference) - classical
- Pixey: Free to Live in Colour () [03-23]
- Pixey: Sunshine State () [10-29]
- Planetary Assault Systems: Sky Scraping () -
- Jeff Platz/Max Goldman/Brendan Carniaux: With Orbit (self-released) - jazz
- PLO Man & C3D-E: Public Static V (Acting Press)
- PLS.trio: Cosmonauts (Dot Time) - jazz
- The Point: Phonkadelic ()
- Poison Ruin: Poisin Ruin (Urge) [02-11] - post-punk
- Polo & Pan: Cyclorama (Hamburger) [06-25] - tropical house
- Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan: Still as Your Sleeping ()
- Polyorchard: An Excess of Primary Forms (Out and Gone) - jazz
- Pom Poko: Cheater (Bella Union) [01-15] - alt/indie
- Pond: 9 () [10-01] - neo-psychedelia
- Pooh Shiesty: Shiesty Season (4PF/CMG) [02-05] - hip-hop
- Poorstacy: Party at the Cemetary () [10-08] - post-hardcore
- Pop 1280: Museum on the Horizon ()
- Pop Smoke: Faith () [07-16] - pop rap
- Poppy: EAT (NXT Soundtrack) () [06-08] - alt metal
- Porches: All Day Gentle Hold! (Domino) [10-08] - synthpop
- Porij: Baby Face () [09-17]
- Michel Portal: MP85 (Label Bleu) - jazz
- George Porter Jr and Runnin' Pardners: Crying for Hope (self-released)
- Portrayal of Guilt: We Are Always Alone (Closed Casket Activities) [01-29] - screamo
- Portrayal of Guilt: Christfucker (Run for Cover) [11-05] - sludge metal
- Postdata: Twin Flames (Paper Bag) [03-05] - indie folk
- Poverty's No Crime: A Secret to Hide ()
- Brigid Mae Power: Burning Your Light (Fire -EP) [09-24]
- Powerwolf: Call of the Wild ()
- Keith Pray: Universal Blues (Praynation) - jazz
- Noah Preminger/Kim Cass: Thunda (Day Bridge) - jazz
- PremRock: Load Bearing Crow's Feet () - hip-hop
- Presha: Rats (Samauri Music)
- Press to MECO: Transmute () [08-20]
- Terry Presume: What Box? ()
- The Pretty Reckless: Death by Rock and Roll () [02-12] - hard rock
- Prettyboy D-O: Love Is War () [10-15]
- Eddie Prevost Band: Bean Soup and Bouquets (Matchless) - jazz
- Nigel Price Organ Trio: Wes Reimagined (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Katherine Priddy: The Eternal Rocks Beneath () [06-25]
- Primitive Knot: A New Ontology of Evil (Deathbed Tapes) - metal
- PRISM Quartet: Heritage/Evolution Volume 2 (XAS) [08-13] - jazz
- Private Function: Whose Line Is It Anyway (FOLC)
- Proc Fiskal: Siren Spine Sysex (Hyperdub) [09-24]
- Prolaps: Ultra Cycle Pt 2: Estival Growth (Hausu Mountain) [06-20] - hardcore breaks
- Propo'88 & Wildelux: Certified Craftsmen () - hip-hop
- Provoker: Body Jumper (Year0001) [08-13]
- Andrzej Przybielski & Oles Brothers: Short Farewell: The Lost Sessions (Audio Cave) - jazz
- Marcin Przybylowicz/PT Adamczyk/Paul Leonard-Morgan: Cyberpunk 2077 [Original Score] (Projekt Red -20) [2020-12-11] - soundtrack
- PS5: Unconscious Collective (Hyperjazz)
- Pseudo Intellectuals: Only Built for Food and Drinks () - hip-hop
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (What Reality?) [02-05] - heavy psych
- Psychic Hotline: The Wild World of Psychic Hotline (Disciples) [03-05]
- Public Service Broadcasting: Bright Magic (PIAS) [09-24] - indietronica
- Joe Pug: The Diving Sun ()
- Puma Blue: In Praise of Shadows () [02-05]
- Pupil Slicer: Mirrors (Prosthetic) [03-12] - mathcore
- Purple Kiss: Into Violet (RBW) - K-pop
- Pye Corner Audio: Entangled Routes () [11-26] - electronic
- Anika Pyle: Wild River (June) [02-12] - singer-songwriter
- Qlowski: Quale Futuro? ()
- Qrion: I Hope It Lasts Forever () - electronic
- Quadry: They Think We Ghetto ()
- Quando Rondo: Still Taking Risks (Quando Rondo/Never Broke Again/Atlantic) [05-07]
- Quantic & Nidia Gongora: Almas Conectadas ()
- Quartet Diminished: Station Three (Hermes) - jazz
- Queen Naija: Missunderstood Still . . . ()
- Quentin Ahmad DaGod: NOAH () - hip-hop
- Quickly, Quickly: The Long and Short of It (Ghostly International) [08-20] - alt r&b
- Quicksand: Distant Populations (Epitaph) [08-13] - post-hardcore
- Quinn: Drive-By Lullabies ()
- Quivers: Golden Doubt (Ba Da Bing!) [06-11] - jangle pop
- Raccoon City: For Nobody, Nowhere (Dog Knights Production) [08-06] - post-hardcore
- Eliane Radigue: Occam Ocean 3 () [08-27] -
- Joshua Radin: The Ghost and the Wall (Nettwerk) [07-23]
- Gerry Rafferty: Rest in Blue () [09-03]
- Rag'n'Bone Man: Life by Misadventure (Sony) [05-07] - pop soul
- Priya Ragu: Damnshestamil () [09-03] - r&b
- Lucy Railton and Kit Downes: Subaerial (SN Variations)
- Ralfy the Plug: Rapper Overnight 2 (Stinc Team)
- Rambutan: Parallel Systems () [06-17]
- Ran Cap Duoi: Ngu Ngay Ngay Ngay Tan The (Subtex) [07-16]
- Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/Marc Urselli/Balas Pandi: The Churning of the Ocean (Trost) - jazz
- Hania Rani: Music for Film and Theatre (Gondwana) [06-18]
- Ransom, Nicholas Craven: Director's Cut Scene Three (GoodFelons)
- Ransom & Rome Streetz: Coup De Grace (Momentum Entertainment) [10-29] - hip-hop
- Jon Raskin: Synergy Signals (Artifact) - jazz
- Jon Raskin: Book P of Practitioners (Temescal) - jazz
- Jon Raskin: The Long Table (Temescal) - jazz
- Jon Raskin Quartet: Up & Down, Sideways (Temescal) - jazz
- Rat Columns: Pacific Kiss ()
- Rat Heart: Rat Heart (Shotta Tapes) [07-15] - electronica
- Rata Negra: Una Vida Vulgar (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
- Ratboys: Happy Birthday Ratboy ()
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats: The Future (Stax) [11-05]
- Rats on Rafts: Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs a Net of Rabbit Paths (Fire) [01-29] - post-punk
- Rattletooth: Rabbit! Rabbit! Oh Wait Squirrel () [04-30] - punk
- Joseph Ray and Lakou Mizik: Leave the Bones (Anjunadeep) -
- RC & the Gritz: Live in Deep Ellum ()
- Really From: Really From (Topshelf) [03-12] - jazz-rock
- Recap: Count to Five ()
- The Reckless Night Ensemble: Pan Americanos: The Songs of Raymond Scott & Lalo Guerrero (Steady Beat) - jazz
- Red Fang: Arrows () [06-40] - stoner metal
- Red Kite: Apophenian Bliss () - jazz
- Red Ribbon: Planet X () [06-11]
- Red Velvet: Queendom (SM Entertainment) [08-16] - K-pop
- Redtenbacher's Funkestra: Big Funk Band (RSB)
- Renee Reed: Renee Reed (Keeled Scales) [03-26] - psychedelic folk
- Regional Justice Center: Crime and Punishment (Closed Casket Actdivities) [03-05] - powerviolence
- Sofia Rei: Umbral ()
- Lizzie Reid: Cubicle (Seven Four Seven Six) [02-10]
- Tomeka Reid/Joe Morris: Combinations (RogueArt) - jazz
- Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis: Whose Woods These Are (self-released) [05-24]
- Reigning Sound: A Little More Time With Reigning Sound (Merge) [05-21] - garage rock
- Tassia Reis: Prospera D+ (self-released) - Brazil
- Remble: It's Remble (Warner)
- Remi: Fried (House of Beige) [05-06]
- Remember Sports: Like a Stone (Father/Daughter) [04-23] - indie rock
- Dave Rempis/Avreeayl Ra: Bennu (Aerophonic) - jazz
- Remulak: Scrambled Eggs 2 (Remulak)
- Victor Rendon & Bronx Conexion Latin Jazz Big Band: Mambo Boulevard (Bronx Conexion Music) [04-01] - jazz
- Andrew Renfroe: Run in the Storm (self-released) - jazz
- Iara Renno: Pra Te Abracar () - Brazil
- Julio Resende: Fado Jazz Ensemble (Sony Music) [10-30] - jazz
- Resina: Speechless (FatCat/130701)
- The David Restivo Trio: Arancina (Chronograph) - jazz
- Markus Reuter/Tim Motzer/Kenny Grohowski: Shapeshifters (MoonJune -20) - jazz
- Revelers Hall Band: Revelers Hall Band ()
- Bebe Rexha: Better Mistakes () [05-07] - r&b
- Rezz: Spiral ()
- Rhye: Home () [01-22] - sophisti-pop
- Gruff Rhys: Seeking New Gods (Rough Trade) [05-21] - psychedelic pop
- Rhyton: Pharaonic Crosstalk (Feeding Tube -20) [2020-11-23]
- Roddy Ricch: Live Life Fast () - hip-hop
- Chris Richards: Wisconsin River (White Mare) [04-22]
- Max Richter: Voices 2 (Decca) - jazz
- Bino Rideaux and Blxst: Sixtape 2 (Def Jam) - hip-hop
- Ridiculous Bitch: Ridiculous Bitch () [03-20]
- Matt Ridley: The Antidote (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Al Riggs: I Got a Big Electric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep (self-released) [04-02]
- Riki: Gold (Dais)
- George Riley: Interest Rates: A Tape (self-released) - r&b
- Ripatti: Fun Is Not a Straight Line (Planet Mu) [06-25] - footwork
- Rise Against: Nowhere Generation (Loma Vista)
- David Ritschard: Blabarskungen (United Stage/Universal)
- Ritual Coak: Divine Invasions (Bubblewrap)
- River: Muthoni Drummer Queen ()
- Nelson Riveros: The Latin Side of Wes Montgomery (Zoho Music) - jazz
- Rivers Of Nihil: The Work ()
- Steve Roach: into the Majestic (Timeroom)
- Alasdair Roberts & Volvur: The Old Fabled River (Drag City) [07-23]
- Michael Robinson: Lotus-Pollen (Azure Miles -20) - jazz
- Robohands: Shapes (King Underground)
- Pete Rock X Amxxr: 21 Grams Worth It's Weight in Soul () - hip-hop
- Rodeola: Arlene ()
- Alfredo Rodriguez/Monir Hossn: Que Sera (Mack Avenue) - jazz
- Pete Rodriguez: Obstacles (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Kristiana Roemer: House of Mirrors (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Erin Rogers: 2000 Miles (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Rogue VHS: I Am: Rogue VHS ()
- Jean-Jacques Rojer: Soko (Sunnyside) [08-06] - jazz
- Angel Roman & Mambo Blue: Festive Interplay (self-released) - jazz
- Daniel Romano's Outfit: Cobra Poems (You've Changed) [09-10]
- Rome Streetz & Ankhlejohn: Genesis 1:27 () - hip-hop
- Rome Streetz & DJ Muggs: Death & the Magician (Soul Assassins) [02-26] - hip-hop
- Ronan: Reflections on Intrinsic Value (Eternal Ocean)
- The Roomsounds: Good Company ()
- Rosali: No Medium (Spinster Sounds) [05-07] - singer-songwriter
- Esther Rose: How Many Times (Father/Daughter) [03-26] - singer-songwriter
- Maggie Rose: Have a Seat () [08-20] - country
- Rose City Band: Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey) [06-25] - folk rock
- Diana Ross: Thank You () [11-05] - adult contemporary
- Joel Ross: Who Are You? () - jazz
- Kevin Ross: Drive 2 () - r&b
- Margo Ross: Prairie Life () [06-11]
- Ross From Friends: Tread () [10-22] - future garage
- Oscar Rossignoli: Inertia (Rossignoli Music)
- Daniel Rotem: Solo (self-released) - jazz
- Carmen Q Rothwell: Don't Get Comfy/Nowhere (Ruination -EP) [08-06] - art pop
- Sean Rowe: The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights ()
- Roy: Roy's Garage (Idee Fixe) [05-14]
- Royal Blood: Typhoons (Warner) [04-30] - alt dance
- The Royal Hounds: A Whole Lot of Nothin' () - country
- Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Wind Orchestra: Sousa: Music for Wind Band Vol 20 (Naxos) - classical
- Xenia Rubinos: Una Rosa (Anti-) [10-15] - art pop
- Shawn Rudiman: Flow State (Pittsburgh Tracks) [01-15] - electronic
- Rudimental: Ground Control (Asylum/Atlantic/Major Tom's)
- Ruf Der Heimat [Thomas Borgmann/hristof Thewes/Willi Kellers/Jan Roder]: Secrets (Jazzwerkstatt) - jazz
- The Ruins of Beverast: The Thule Grimoirs ()
- Run Logan Run: For a Brief Moment We Could Smell the Flowers () [09-17]
- Raf Rundell: OM Days () [04-09]
- Emma Ruth Rundle: Engine of Hell (Sargent House) [11-05] - singer-songwriter
- Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: The Helm of Sorrow (Sacred Bones) [01-15] - doom
- Olaf Rupp: Nobeach (Audiosemantics) - jazz
- Rural Tapes: Rural Tapes (Smuggler) [04-30]
- Russ: Chomp 2 (Russ My Way) [12-08] - hip-hop
- Rich Ruth: Where There's Life (self-released -EP) [06-25]
- Ruutu Poiss: Palav Aed (Wake Dream)
- RXK Nephew: Crack Dreams (New Breed Trapper) [08-24] - hip-hop
- RXK Nephew: Slitherman Activated (Towhead) [05-28] - hip-hop
- RY X: Blood Moon (Infectious) [06-17]
- Shaun Ryder: Visits From Future Technology () [08-20]
- Ustad Saami: East Pakistan Sky (Glitterbeat) [09-29] - Pakistan
- Les Sabler: Tranquililty (New Vista) [01-29] - pop jazz
- Sagan: Anti-Ark (Seeland)
- Sage Poet: Parable of the Chariot () - hip-hop
- Sahbabii: Do It for Demon () - hip-hop
- Saint Agnes: Vampire () [03-26] - punk rock
- Saint Sister: Where I Should End () [06-25]
- Shintaro Sakamoto: The Feeling of Love (Virgin) [07-17] - psychedelic
- Akira Sakata/Giovanni Di Domenico: And Life Also Same (Holidays) - jazz
- Naoko Sakata: Dancing for Spirits (Pomperipossa) [03-26] - modern classical
- Salamanda: Sphere (Metron)
- Samo Salamon/Dominique Pifarely/Michel Godard/Dejan Terzic: Live Ones: Vol 1 (self-released) [01-06] - jazz
- Salem: Salem II () [05-07] - pop punk
- Nathan Salsburg: Psalms (No Quarter) [08-20]
- Salt Cathedral: Carisma [Isolation Mixes] ()
- Ryan Sambol: Gestalt ()
- Emiliano Sampaio: Meretrio: Choros (self-released) [01-27] - jazz
- Johanna Samuels: Excelsior! (Mama Bird) [04-02]
- The Samurai Of Prog: The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales I ()
- San Holo: Bb U Ok? ()
- San Salvador: La Grande Folie (Pagans) -
- Mathias Sandberg: The Doctor (self-released -20) - jazz
- Sandy's: Magic Mind () [06-11]
- Bruno Sanfilippo: Tangible (AD21)
- Sangre Nueva: Goteo (Worldwide Unlimited -EP) [10-15] - reggaeton
- Myles Sanko: Memories of Love (Legere) [03-12]
- Sankofa: BLKTCHP () - hip-hop
- Suzanne Santo: Yard Sale () [11-05]
- Sao Paulo Underground and Tupperware: Saturno Magico (Keroxen) - jazz
- Ray Sapienz & the Congo Techno Ensemble: Na Zala Zala () - African
- Sarah Louise: Earth Bow () [04-30]
- Shubh Saran: Inglish ()
- Albertine Sarges: The Sticky Fingers (Moshi Moshi) [01-29] - art pop
- The Saskatchewan All Star Big Band: Saskatchewan Suite (Chronograph) - jazz
- Julie Sassoon: If You Can't Go Outside . . . Go Inside (Jazzwerkstatt) - jazz
- Sassy 009: Heart Ego () [10-22] - electropop
- Arthur Satan: So Far So Good ()
- Satan Club: Satan Club () [06-17]
- Satomimagae: Hanazono (RVNG) [04-13]
- The Chris Saunders Band: Dancing With the Widow St James (self-released) - jazz
- Tiwa Savage: Water & Garri ()
- Save Face: Another One for the Highlight Reel (Epitaph) [10-29] - emo-pop
- Saweetie: Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1 (Warner) [04-16] - hip-hop
- Scott Sawyer: Night Visions (self-released -20) - jazz
- Scale the Summit: Subjects (self-released) [06-25] - metal
- Dave Scanlon: Pink in Each, Bright Blue, Bright Green (Whatever's Clever) [01-15]
- Scarlxrd: Dead Rising ()
- Ingrid Schmoliner/Hamid Drake: Awon Ona (Klanggalerie) [07-01] - jazz
- Ingrid Schmoliner/Adam Pultz Melbye/Emilio Gordoa: Griff (Inexhaustible Editions) - jazz
- Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk: Eight Fragments of an Illusion (Azure Vista)
- Scorpion Kings: Rumble in the Jungle (Blaqboy) - African
- GS Schray: The Changing Account () [03-05]
- John Schneider: Truck On () - country
- Oliver Schwerdt/Barry Guy/Gunter "Baby" Sommer: One for My Baby and One More for the Bass (Euphorium -20) - jazz
- Claudio Scolari Project: Cosmology (Principal) [03-25] - jazz
- Craig Scott's Lobotomy: I Am Revolting (self-released) - jazz
- Scowl: How Flowers Grow (Flatspot) [11-19] - hardcore punk
- Scrimshire: Nothing Feels Like Everything () [10-15]
- Sea Fever: Folding Lines ()
- Brandon Seabrook/Simon Nabatov: Voluptuaries (Leo) - jazz
- Kit Sebastian: Melodi () [10-01]
- Sech: 42 ()
- Section H8: Welcome to the Nightmare (Flatspot) [07-30] - crossover thrash
- Sedibus: The Heavens (Orbscure -EP) [05-28] - ambient
- See Through 4: Permanent Moving Parts (All-Set! Editions) [03-12] - jazz
- Peggy Seeger: First Farewell (Red Grape Music) [04-09]
- SeeYouSpaceCowboy: The Romance of Affliction (Pure Cowboy) [11-05] - metalcore
- SeFa LoCo: Creosote (Rightbrain) - jazz
- Kenny Segal: Indoors () - hip-hop
- Cathy Segal-Garcia: Social Anthems Volume 1 (Origin) - jazz
- Ty Segall: Harmonizer (Drag City) [10-29] - garage rock
- Sel Balamir: Swell () [09-06]
- H Self: Broken Live On () - country
- The Selva +: Barbatrama (Shhpuma) - jazz
- Joao Selva: Navegar (Underdog) [04-02] - Brazil
- Sematary: Rainbow Bridge 3 (Haunted Mound) [04-29] - horrorcore
- Semiratruth: I Got Bandz for the Moonlandin' () - hip-hop
- Sen Senra: Corazon Cromado ()
- Trevor Sensor: On Account of Exile Vol 1 (High Black Desert) [06-18]
- Seth Sentry: Super Cool Tree House (High Score)
- Ursula Sereghy: OK Box (Gin & Platonic)
- Serendip Quartet: Queen of Fire (self-released) - jazz
- Rachel Sermanni: Swallow Me () [06-02]
- Joana Serrat: Hardcore From the Heart () [06-11]
- Bobby Sessions: Manifest () - hip-hop
- Seventeen: Attacca (Piedis Entertainment -EP) [10-22] - K-pop
- Sexyy Red: Ghetto Superstar ()
- SGJAZZ: SGJAZZ Vol 2 (Melting Pot Music)
- Sha: Monbijou (Ronin Rhythm) - jazz
- Shackleton: Departing LIke Rivers (Woe to the Septic Heart)
- Eliza Shaddad: The Woman You Want () [07-16]
- The Shadracks: From Human Like Forms (Damaged Goods) [08-13] - garage punk
- Red Shahan: Javelina () - contry
- Shakka: Roadtrip to Venus ()
- Sila Shaman: They Come Out at Night (Wave Eleven) - jazz
- Julia Shapiro: Zorked ()
- Amy Shark: Cry Forever () [04-30] - electropop
- Sharp 5: Shine a Bright Light (Valley Jazz) [09-20] - jazz
- Shaybo: Queen of the South () [08-20] - UK hip-hop
- Skeeter Shelton/Hamid Drake: Sclupperbep (Two Rooms) [09-10] - jazz
- Gemma Sherry: Music to Dream To (Tunley) - jazz
- Shihad: Old Gods () [10-08]
- The Shindellas: Hits That Stick Like Girls ()
- Amanda Shires: For Christmas (Silver Knife/Thirty Tigers) [11-12] - country
- Sia: Music [Songs From and Inspired by the Motion Picture] (Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic) [04-23] - soundtrack
- Silicone Prairie: My Life on the Silicone Prairie ()
- Sleigh Bells: Texis (Mom + Pop) [09-10] - noise pop
- Paul Stanley's Soul Station: Now and Then (UMe) [03-19] - soul
- Shannon & the Clams: Year of the Spider (Easy Eye Sound) [08-20] - garage rock
- Andy Shauf: Wilds (Anti-) [09-24] - indie pop
- Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea (Nonesuch) [01-22] - modern classical
- Jas Shaw: Solibruchstelle I: Become the Scenic Route () [03-02]
- She Drew the Gun: Behave Myself () [10-08] - neo-psychedelia
- Ed Sheeran: = (Asylum) [10-29] - pop
- Sheff G: Proud of Me Now () - hip-hop
- Shelley FKA Dram: Shelley (Atlantic/Empire) [04-29]
- Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael Occhipinti: The Weight of Hope (Modica Music) [10-29] - jazz
- Tony Shhnow: Authentic Goods ()
- Sean Shibe: Camino (Pentatone)
- Matthew Shipp/Evan Parker: Leonine Aspects (RogueArt) - jazz
- Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Re-Union (RogueArt) - jazz
- Shire T: Tomorrow's People ()
- Patrick Shiroishi: Hidemi (American Dreams) [10-29]
- Paula Shocron/Pablo Diaz: Algo En Un Espacio Vacio (Nendo Dango) - jazz
- Kelvin Sholar: Rites of Fire (Kasmavtsu) - jazz
- The Shootouts: Bullseye () - country
- Shordie Shordie & Murda Beatz: emory Lane ()
- Shortie No Mass: Here Goes Nothing () - hip-hop
- Nick Shoulders: Home on the Rage () - country
- Kaitlyn Shuko: Disposition () [01-15]
- Marco Shuttle: Cobalt Desert Oasis (Incienso)
- Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra: Tales From the Jacquard (Whirlwind) - jazz
- Maura Sigura Quartet: Terra Vetro (S'ard Music) - jazz
- Jaymie Silk: The Legend of Jack Johnson (Shall Not Fade)
- Susana Santos Silva/Torbjorn Zetterberg: Tomorrow (Porta Jazz) - jazz
- The Silver: Ward of Roses (Gilead Media) [10-15] - black metal
- Silver Synthetic: Silver Synthetic (Third Man) [04-09] - indie rock
- Jeffrey Silverstein: Torii Gates (Arrowhawk) [04-16]
- Janet Simpson: Safe Distance () [03-19]
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Theory of Ice (You've Changed) [03-12] - spoken word
- Sincere Engineer: Bless My Psyche (Hopeless) [09-10] - punk
- Iain Sinclair & London Experimental Ensemble: Dark Before Dark (577) - jazz
- Sir Sly: The Rise & Fall of Loverboy ()
- Sir Was: Let the Morning Come () [10-08]
- Asaf Sirkis: Solar Flash (MoonJune) [07-15] - jazz
- Ballake Sissoko: Djourou (No Format) [04-09] - chamber folk
- Sister John: I Am by Day (Last Night From Glasgow)
- Six Organs of Admittance: The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed)
- Nick Sizemore: Where the Lonesome Roam () - country
- Skillibeng: Crocodile Teeth LP ()
- Sketches of Influence: The Grind: Live at Middle C Jazz (self-released) - jazz
- Skillibeng: Crocodile Teeth (East Syde) [10-15] - reggae
- Skronk GBG: Majornas Morker (Outerdisk) - jazz
- Skullcrusher: Storm in Summer () [04-09] - singer-songwriter
- Alice Skye: I Feel Better but I Don't Feel Good () [07-23]
- Slant: 1X (Iron Lung) [02-26]
- Slaughter Beach, Dog: At the Moonbase (-20) [2020-12-24] - alt/indie
- Slaughter to Prevail: Kostolom () [08-13]
- Slaughterhouse: Fun Factory (Recess) [08-03]
- Sleep Token: This Place Will Become Your Tomb (Spinefarm)
- Sleepy Hallow: Still Sleep? (Winners Circle/RCA) [06-02]
- Slikback: Melt (self-released) [09-14] - electronic
- Sloppy Jane: Madison () [11-05] - art pop
- Slow Down Molasses: Minor Deaths (Noyes)
- Slowly Rolling Camera: Where the Streets Lead (Edition) - jazz
- Slut: Talks of Paradise ()
- Mark Small: One Day (self-released -20) - jazz
- Small Black: Cheap Dreams (100% Electronica) [04-09] - chillwave
- Smerz: Believer (XL) [02-26] - art pop
- Smile Machine: Bye for Now () [07-16]
- Smiling: Not Rock ()
- Smirk: EP ()
- Canaan Smith: High Country Sound () - country
- Gabriela Smith and Gabriel Cabezas: Lost Coast (Bedroom Community)
- Jorja Smith: Be Right Back (FAMM) [05-14]
- Linda Caitlin Smith: Ballad (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Nell Smith und the Flaming Lips: Where the Viaduct Looms ()
- Willow Smith: Lately I Feel Everything ()
- Smith & Burrows: Only Smith & Burrows Is Good Enough () [02-05] - pop rock
- Smith/Kotzen: Smith/Kotzen ()
- Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra: Bernstein Reimagined (MCG Jazz) - jazz
- Smoke Bellow: Open for Business (Trouble in Mind) [09-17]
- Smoothboi Ezra: Stuck () [06-11]
- SmooVth & Giallo Point: Amongst Wolves () - hip-hop
- Snag: Death Doula (Middle-Man/Zegema Beach) [07-02] - screamo
- Snapped Ankles: Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label) [07-02] - dance punk
- Sndtrak: And Then There Was Light ()
- Snips: 52 Beats (Barbershop)
- Wayne Snow: Figurine (Roche Musique) - r&b
- Snow Ellet: Suburban Indie Rock Star () [ 03-19] - power pop
- Snowpoet: Wait for Me (Edition) - jazz
- Soccer96: Dopamine (Moshi Moshi) [09-10]
- Social Haul: Social Haul () [06-11]
- Socioclast: Socioclast ()
- Soda Blonde: Small Talk () [07-09] - art pop
- Soil and "Pimp" Sessions: The Essence of Soil (JVC) [03-17] - jazz
- Solomun: Nobody Is Not Loved ()
- Somi: Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (Salon Africana) - vocal jazz
- Son Volt: Electro Melodier (Transmit Sound) [07-30] - Americana
- Nicole Zuraitis/Thana Alexa/Julia Adamy: Sonica (Outside In Music) [09-30] - jazz
- Sons of Raphael: Full-Throated Messianic Homage () [05-21] - psychedelic pop
- Sorry: Twistustwain () [04-06] - art pop
- Omar Sosa: An East African Journey (Ota) - jazz
- Sour Widows: Crossing Over (-EP)
- The Snuts: WL (Parlophone) [04-02] - indie rock
- Soccer Committee: Tell From the Grass (Morc) [06-21]
- Softcult: Year of the Rat () [04-16]
- Lara Solnicki: The One and the Other (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Solstice: Food for Thought (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Jimi Somewhere: Nothing Gold Can Stay () [02-05]
- Son Lux: Tomorrows III () [04-16] - glitch pop
- Astrid Sonne: Outside of Your Lifetime () [09-22] - prog electronic
- Soothsayers: We Are Many (Wah Wah 45s -20) - jazz
- Soul Sugar: Excursions in Soul Reggae Funk & Dub (Gee)
- Richard Sorce: Bossambal Brazil (Everjazz) - jazz
- Sourdure: De Mort Viva () [04-02]
- Southern Avenue: Be the Love You Want () [08-27]
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra: The Latin Jazz Project (ArtistShare) [05-08] - jazz
- Indigo Sparke: Echo () [02-19] - folk
- Sparks: Annette ()
- Gordan Spasovski Trio: Light Pillar (Zjm) - jazz
- Amy Speace With the Orphan Brigade: There Used to Be Horses Here (Proper/Wind Bone) [04-30] - singer-sogwriter
- Spearmint: Holland Park () [09-17]
- Special Request & Tim Reaper: Hooversound Presents Special Request & Tim Reaper (Hooversound)
- The Specials: Protest Songs 1924-2012 (Island) [10-01]
- Spectacular Diagnostics: Ancient Methods () - hip-hop
- Spectral Wound: A Diabolic Thrist () [04-16] - black metal
- Alister Spence Trio With Ed Kuepper: Asteroid Ekosystem (Alister Spence Music) - jazz
- Spencer: Are U Down? () [09-10] - r&b
- Vic Spencer: Psychological Cheat Sheet 2 () - hip-hop
- Spidergawd: VI ()
- The Spill Canvas: Conduit () [03-05]
- Spllit: Spllit Sides ()
- Spiritbox: Eternal Blue (Rise) [09-17] - alt metal
- Spirits Having Fun: Two ()
- John Splithoff: All In (Pleasant Love) [04-23]
- Lucy Spraggan: Choices ()
- Sydney Sprague: Maybe I Will See You at the End of the World () [02-26] - indie pop
- Spread Joy: Spread Joy () - punk
- Springtime: Springtime (Joyful Noise) [11-05] - experimental rock
- Sputnik Trio: What the Hate (Raw Tonk) - jazz
- Squirrel Flower: Planet (Polyvinyl) [06-25] - alt/indie
- St Lenox: Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times (Don Giovanni) [06-11]
- Oliver St Louis: Matters of the Heartless (First Word)
- Wesley Stace: Late Style (Omnivore) [09-17]
- Terell Stafford & the Temple University Jazz Band: Without You, No Me (BCM&D) - jazz
- The Stan Laurels: There Is No Light Without Dark (Big Stir)
- Starflyer 59: Vanity (Velvet Blue) [10-14]
- Ayra Starr: 19 & Dangerous (Mavin)
- Ringo Starr: Zoom In ()
- Stars Hollow: I Want to Live My Life (Acrobat Unstable) [05-07] - midest emo
- The Staves: Good Woman (Nonesuch) [02-05] - indie pop
- Steady Holiday: Take the Corners Gently ()
- Matty Stecks & Persiflage: Night Cravings (self-released) - jazz
- John Stein: Serendipity (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
- Step In [Carlo Morena/Joe Fonda/Felix Lecaros]: Voila La Tendresse (Not Two) - jazz
- The Steoples: Wide Through the Eyes of No One () [08-06] - neo-soul
- Michael Stephenson: Meets Alexander Claffy Trio () - jazz
- Rick Stepton: The Placebone Effect (self-released -20) - jazz
- Maxwell Sterling: Turn of Phrase (AD 93) [04-23] - prog electronic
- Leni Stern: Dance (LSR) - jazz
- Becca Stevens and Elan Mehler: Pallet on Your Floor (Newvelle -20) - jazz
- Sufjan Stevens: Convocations (Asthmatic Kitty) [05-06] - ambient
- Laura Stevenson: Laura Stevenson (Don Giovanni) [08-06] - singer-songwriter
- Luke Stewart: Works for Electric Bass Guitar (Tripticks Tapes) [08-17] - jazz
- Luke Stewart/Jarvis Earnshaw: Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet () - jazz
- Macie Stewart: Mouth Full of Glass ()
- Rod Stewart: The Tears of Hercules ()
- Stick Men: Owari (MoonJune) - jazz
- Stiff Richards: State of Mind ()
- Stigma: Too Long (Pessimist Productions)
- Still Corners: The Last Exit (Wrecking Light) [01-22] - dream pop
- Still Woozy: If This Isn't Nice, I Don't Know What Is ()
- Sting: The Bridge () [11-19]
- Stokley: Sankofa (BluRaffe/Perspective) [09-17] - funk
- Julia Stone: Sixty Summers (BMG) [04-30] - art pop
- Stone Giants: West Coast Love Stories () [07-02] - prog electronic
- Storefront Church: As We Pass (Sargent House)
- Storey Boys: Patterns () - country
- Andy Stott: Never the Right Time (Modern Love) [04-16] - UK bass
- STR4TA: Aspects (Brownswood) [03-26]
- Strand of Oaks: In Heaven (Thirty Tigers) [10-01] - Americana
- Cecilie Strange: Blikan (April) - jazz
- Strange Boy: Holy/Unholy ()
- The Stranglers: Dark Matters (Coursegood) [09-10] - rock
- Will Stratton: The Changing Wilderness (Bella Union) [05-07]
- Strawberry Guy: Sun Outside My Window (Melodic) [10-29]
- Strawbs: Settlement (Cherry Red) [02-26] - folk rock
- Stray Kids: Noeasy () - K-pop
- Liz Stringer: First Time Really Feeling (Milk!) [04-30]
- Stubborn Heart: Made of Static () [06-04]
- Styx: Crash of the Crown () - metal
- Yu Su: Yellow River Blue (Music From Memory) [01-22] - ambient dub
- Subterranean Masquerade: ()
- Succumb: XXI (Caligari)
- Suffering Hour: The Cyclic Reckoning ()
- Sugar Horse: The Live Long After () [08-27] - post-metal
- Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter: Transcendent (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Tash Sultana: Terra Firma () [02-19] - neo-soul
- Sultan + Shepard: Something Everything ()
- Moses Sumney: Live From Blackalachia (Tuntum) [12-10] - art pop
- Sunburned Hand of the Man: Pick a Day to Die (Three Lobed) [03-12] - krautrock
- Sunny War: Simple Syrup (Hen House/Org Music) [03-26] - folk
- Sunroof: Electronic Music Improvisations Vol 1 (Mute) [05-21] - prog electronic
- Super American: Sup () [10-22] - pop punk
- Superbloom: Pollen ()
- Superimpose: With (Inexhaustible Editions) - jazz
- Supermilk: Four by Three () [07-02]
- Superstate: Superstate () [08-27]
- Surfbort: Keep On Truckin' () [10-11]
- Charu Suri: The Book of Ragas Volume II (Amala) - jazz
- Suss: Night Suite (Northern Spy) [10-22] - ambient
- Susto: Time in the Sun ()
- Suuns: The Witness (Joyful Noise) [09-03] - art rock
- Skuli Sverisson With Bill Frisell: Strata (Newvelle) - jazz
- Swallow the Sun: Moonflowers () [11-19] - gothic metal
- Swamptooth: B-Flat Earth () - country
- Swap Meet!: Hell () - club music
- Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Superwolves (Drag City)
- Ian Sweet: Show Me How You Disappear () [03-05] - alt/indie
- Matthew Sweet: Catspaw (Omnivore) [01-15] - power pop
- Sweet Megg & Ricky Alexander: I'm in Love Again (Turtle Bay) - jazz
- Sweet Trip: A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals () [05-28] - dream pop
- Swim School: Making Sense of It All () [08-20]
- Swindle: The New World (BMG)
- SWR Big Band/Magnus Lindgren/John Beasley: Bird Lives (ACT) [11-12] - jazz
- Max Syedtollan/Plus-Minus Ensemble: Four Assignments (Glarc)
- T Bear: Fresh Bear Tracks (Quarto Valley) [04-16]
- Taahliah: Angelica (Untitled) [05-28]
- Craig Taborn: 60 X Sixty (Pyroclastic) [09-14] - jazz
- Lee Taemin: Advice (SM Entertainment) - K-pop
- Mauricio Tagliari: Mao: Dancas Tipicas De Cidades Imaginarias () [07-16]
- Soshi Takeda: Floating Mountains (100% Silk)
- Taking Meds: Terrible News From Wonderful Men (Smartpunk) [11-19] - post-hardcore
- Tala Vala: Modern Hysteric (Number Witch) [02-21] - jazz
- Brendan Tallon: Love in These Times (Mercenary)
- Simin Tander: Unfading (Jazzhaus -20) - jazz
- Carter Tanton: Carter Tanton (Western Vinyl) [05-07]
- Tanya Morgan: Don & Von (HipNott) - hip-hop
- Tanz Mein Herz: Quattro (Standard In-Fi) [01-21] - avant-folk
- Tapes and Topographies: In Muted Forms (Shimmering Minds)
- Taqbir: Victory Belongs to Those Who Fight for a Right Cause (La Vida Es Un Mus)
- Taraka: Welcome to Paradise Lost ()
- Katelyn Tarver: Subject to Change () [11-12]
- Tasha: Tell Me What You Miss the Most (Father/Daughter) [11-05] - folk pop
- Andrew Tasselmyer: Piano Frameworks (Andrew Tasselmyer)
- Yaniv Taubenhouse: Moments in Trio Volume Three: Roads (Fresh Sound) - jazz
- Alexis Taylor: Silence (Orbistor) [09-17] - singer-songwriter
- Gloria Ann Taylor: Be Worthy (Ubiquity -EP) [10-22] - r&b
- Tot Taylor: Frisbee () [09-17]
- Team Scheisse: Ich Hab Dir Blumen Von Der Tankstelle Mitgebracht (Jetzt Wird Gekusst) ()
- Tears/OV: Pluto's Return (Bloxham Tapes)
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN) ()
- Teenage Fanclub: Endless Arcade (Merge) [04-30] - jangle pop
- Towa Tei: LP (Mach/Columbia) [03-03] - synthpop
- Tejada: Year of the Living Dead () [02-26] - tech house
- Tek 9 & Sonar Circle: Anachronistic () [05-07] - Engle
- TEKE::TEKE: Shirushi () [05-07] - psychedelic rock
- Tekniq: Librah () [04-09]
- The Telephone Numbers: The Ballad of Doug ()
- The Telescopes: Songs of Love and Revolution (Tapete) [02-05] - shoegaze
- Tems: If Orange Was a Place (RCA/Since 93) [09-14] - neo-soul
- Ten Ka: Sonic Geometry: Structures, Patterns and Forms (Jersika) - jazz
- Teni: Wondaland ()
- Tents: Limbo ()
- Tenue: Territorios ()
- Soichi Terada: Asakusa Light (Rush Hour Music) [12-13] - electronic
- Francesca Ter-Berg: In Eynem (Phantom Limb) [04-16] - chamber folk
- Billy Test Trio: Coming Down Roses (self-released) [08-31] - jazz
- Texas: Hi (BMG) [05-28]
- TF: Skanless Summer () - hip-hop
- Th1rt3en: A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism ()
- Thala: Adolescence () [09-17]
- Thastrom: Dom Som Skiner () [11-12]
- Daniel Thatcher: Waterwheel (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
- Th1rt3en: A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism () - hip-hop
- The The: The Comeback Special ()
- Theoreme: Les Artisans (Maple Death) [12-04]
- They Might Be Giants: BOOK (Idlewild) [11-12] - indie pop
- Robin Thicke: On Earth and in Heaven () - r&b
- Chris Thile: Laysongs (Nonesuch) [06-04]
- Third Son: Retrograde (Polymath) [06-04]
- Thirdface: Do It With a Smile (Exploding in Sound) [03-05] - hardcore punk
- This Is the Kit: Off Off Oddities (Rough Trade)
- Thollem: Thollem's Astral Travelling Sessions With Alex Cline & Susan Alcorn (Astral Spirits) - jazz
- Irma Thomas: The New Orleans Collection: Love Is the Foundation (Newvelle) - jazz
- Paul Thorn: Never Too Late to Call (Thirty Tigers) [08-06]
- Hayden Thorpe: Moondust for My Diamond (Domino) [10-15] - art pop
- ThouxanBanFauni: Time of My Life (self-released)
- Three Layer Cake [Brandon Seabrook/Mike Watt/Mike Pride]: Stove Top (RareNoise) [05-14] - jazz
- Thrice: Horizons/East (Epitaph) [09-17] - rock
- Throwing Snow: Dragons (Houndstooth) [06-25]
- Thunder: All The Right Noises ()
- Thurst: I'm Gen X () [09-24]
- Thy Catafalque: Vadak (Season of Mist) [07-25] - avantgarde metal
- Tia Maria Producoes: Lei Da Tia Maria ()
- Ben Tiberio: Rare Peace (Outside In Music) [09-17] - jazz
- Yann Tiersen: Kerber (Mute) [08-27] - minimalism
- Tigercub: As Blue as Indigo (Blame) [06-18] - alt/indie
- Tigers Jaw: I Won't Care How You Remember Me (Hopeless) [03-05]
- Tiggs Da Author: Blame It on the Youts () [03-12] - UK hip-hop
- Tightill: Strassenpop ()
- TiKA: Anywhere but Here (Next Door)
- Time Binding Ensemble: Nothing New Under the Sun (Kit) [03-12] - ambient
- Tindersticks: Distractions (City Slang) [02-19] - chamber pop
- Tirana-Tirona All Stars: Tirana 100 (Municipality of Tirana) -
- Tobacco City: Tobacco City USA (Scissor Tail) [07-30]
- Amon Tobin: How Do You Live () [09-24] - prog electronic
- Mia Doi Todd: Music Life ()
- ToiToiToi: Vaganten (Ghost Box)
- Tomaga: Intimate Immensity (Hands in the Dark) [03-16] - post-rock
- Tomahawk: Tonic Immobility (Ipecac) [03-26] - alt/indie
- MF Tomlinson: Strange Time (self-released) [04-09] - progressive folk
- Tomorrow X Together: The Chaos Chapter: Freeze (Big Hit) [05-31] - K-pop
- Tomorrox X Together: Still Dreaming (Big Hit) [01-20] - K-pop
- Tomu DJ: Fruit 2 () [08-06] - ambient house
- Tones and I: Welcome to the Madhouse (Elektra) [07-16] - pop
- Tonstartssbrandht: Petunia (Mexican Summer) [10-22] - psychedelic pop
- Topdown Dialectic: Vol 3 () [10-08] - dub techno
- Martina Topley-Bird: Forever I Wait (AWAL) [09-10] - art pop
- Tortusa: Bre (Jazzland) [03-26] - jazz
- Antonio Tosques & Multi-Form Band: Touch Me (Azzurra) - jazz
- Amanda Tosoff: Earth Voices (Empress Music Group) - jazz
- Zvonimir Tot's Jazz Stringtet: Sarabande Blue (Groove Art) - jazz
- Toth: You and Me and Everything ()
- Samba Toure: Binga (Glitterbeat) [04-09] - African
- Myke Towers: Lyke Mike (Whiteworld Music/Warner Music Latina) [04-23]
- Paul Towndrow: Deepening the River (Keywork) - jazz
- Toyah: Posh Pop (Edsel) [08-37]
- Trace Mountains: House of Confusion (Lame-O) [10-22]
- AJ Tracey: Flu Game () [04-16] - UK hip-hop
- Transatlantic: The Absolute Universe () [02-05]
- The Transcendence Orchestra: All Skies Have Sounded (Editions Mego) [06-08]
- Penelope Trappes: Penelope Three (Houndstooth) [05-28] - ambient pop
- Trash Boat: Don't You Feel Amazing? (Hopeless)
- Treetop Flyers: Old Habits ()
- Tremonti: Marching in Time ()
- Trha: Endlhetoneg ()
- Tribulation: Where the Gloom Becomes Sound (Metal Blade) [01-29] - gothic metal
- Trigaida: Elate (Etheraudio)
- Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad Y Cancion Tagalog (Iridium -20) - jazz
- Trippie Redd: Trip at Knight () - hip-hop
- Triptides: Alter Echoes (Alive Naturalsound) [03-19]
- Tristen: Aquatic Flowers (Mama Bird) [06-04]
- Travis Tritt: Set in Stone () - country
- Trivium: In the Court of the Dragon (Roadrunner) [10-08] - melodic metalcore
- Trophy Scars: Astral Pariah () [09-10] - art rock
- Tsuruda: Siege () - electronic
- Dara Tucker: Dreams of Waking: Music for a Better World (Green Hill Music) - vocal jazz
- Rosie Tucker: Sucker Supreme (Epitaph) [04-30]
- Ailsa Tully: Holy Isle () [09-02]
- Tulsa: Ese Extasis ()
- Yves Tumor: The Asymptotical World (Warp -EP) [07-15]
- Turbulance: Turbulance (Cooperation)
- Turner: Daydream and Stars (Stoned Gospel)
- Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers: A Cassowary Apart (Bedroom Suck) [02-12]
- Molly Tuttle: But I'd Rather Be With You Too ()
- Tuvaband: Growing Pains & Pleasures () [05-21]
- Tuyo: Chegamos Sozinhos Em Casa [Deluxe] (self-released) - Brazil
- TV Priest: Uppers (Sub Pop) [02-05] - post-punk
- Twenty One Pilots: Scaled and Icy (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [05-21] - indie pop
- Twice: Taste of Love (JYP/Republic -EP) [06-11] - K-pop
- Twice: Formula of Love: O+T=?3 (JYP Entertainment) [11-12] - K-pop
- Twilight Archive: Recent Detours (Electrophonogram)
- Twin Shadow: Twin Shadow () [07-09] - psychedelic pop
- Twofold: Trax With Love () - electronic
- TXT: The Chaos Chapter: Freeze (Big Hit Music) - K-pop
- Griff Tyler: While I Have Your Attention ()
- Tylor and the Train Robbers: Non-Typical Find () - country
- Typical Sisters: Love Beam () - jazz
- Bar Tzabary: Rock 'n' Roll Batsahoraim ()
- Ugly Shadows: EP (A World Divided)
- Ulla: Limitless Frame (Motion Ward) [05-10] - ambient
- UMI: Introspection Reimagined ()
- Umlaut Big Band: Mary's Ideas (Umlaut) - jazz
- Uncle Ben's Remedy: Easy Ways to Here () - country
- Undo K From Hot: GAS Get a Star () [05-04]
- UNDP Collective: Esto Si Se Llama Querer (UnderPool) [05-14] - jazz
- Unknown Me: Binshintai () [04-30] - electronic
- Unknown T: Adolescence (Island) [07-30] - UK hip-hop
- Underscores: Fishmonger (Underscores) [03-25] - pop
- Uptown Jazz Tentet: What's Next (Irrabagast -20) [2020-10-01] - jazz
- Carrie Underwood: My Savior () [02-05]
- Unwed Sailor: Truth or Consequences (Spartan) [05-14]
- Upper Wilds: Venus (Thrill Jockey) [07-23]
- UQiYO: Tokyo Utopia (Namy&) [10-08]
- Urban Village: Udondolo (No Format) [01-22]
- USE Trio: Twilight (LabelWhoAble) - jazz
- UV-TV: Always Something (Paper Cup Music) [05-28] - indie rock
- V9: Murk With a Mouth () [11-19]
- The Vaccines: Back in Love City () [09-10]
- Van Buren Records: Bad for Press (self-released)
- Sharon Van Etten: Epic Ten (Ba Da Bing) - alt/indie
- Greta Van Fleet: The Battle at Garden's Gate (Lava/Republic) [04-16]
- Paul Van Gysegem Quintet: Square Talks (El Negocito) - jazz
- Van Holzen: Aus Der Ferne ()
- Vandalismus: Bombers From Burundi ()
- Ken Vandermark/Istvaan Grencso/Robert Benko: Burning River Melting Sea (Systems vs Artifacts/Audiographic) - jazz
- Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley: The Chicago Manual of Style (Superpang) - jazz
- Ken Vandermark: Snapshots Vol 1 (Kilogram) - jazz
- Chad VanGaalen: World's Most Stressed Out Gardener (Sub Pop) [03-19] - neo-psychedelia
- Vangelis: Juno to Jupiter (Decca) [09-24] - space ambient
- Jordan VanHemert: I Am Not a Virus (Big Round) - jazz
- Vanille: Soleil '96 (Bonbonbon)
- Vanishing Twin: Ookii Gekkou (Fire) [10-15] - neo-psychedelia
- VanJess: Homegrown ()
- Vapour Theories: Celestial Scuzz (Fire) [02-22] - drone
- Bence Vas & Big Band: Overture Et Al. (self-released -20) [2020-12-10] - jazz
- Vasconcelos Sentimento: Furto (Far Out) [07-30] - experimental
- Rebecca Vasmant: With Love From Glasgow (Rebecca & Nathan) [06-04]
- Beresford Vasseur: Beresford Vasseur (The 52nd) - jazz
- Vaudou Game: Noussin (Hot Casa)
- Papo Vazquez/Mighty Pirates Troubadours: Chapter 10: Breaking Cover (Picaro) [11-13] - jazz
- VC-118A: Spiritual Machines (Delsin) [06-14] - IDM
- Alan Vega: Mutator (Sacred Bones) [04-23] - post-industrial
- Alan Vega/Ben Vaughn/Barb Dwyer/Palmyra Delran: After Dark () [07-30]
- Moreno Veloso: Every Single Night (Corbett vs Dempsey) [11-26] - jazz
- Vels Trio: Celestial Greens (Rhythm Section International)
- The Velveteers: Nightmare Daydream (Easy Eye Sound) [10-08] - pop
- Kiko Veneno: Hambre ()
- Erik Verwey: People Flow (self-released -20) - jazz
- Vex: Average Minds Think Alike (self-released)
- Gabriel Vicens: The Way We Are Created (Inner Circle Music) - jazz
- James Vickery: Songs That Made Me Feel () [07-16]
- Vientre: Estado De Imago (self-released) [04-09] - post-hardcore
- Raoul Vignal: Years in Marble ()
- Vika & Linda: The Wait () [09-17]
- Vilde Tuv: Melting Songs () [05-07]
- Carmen Villain: Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita () [01-22] - ambient
- Sonny Vincent: Snake Pit Therapy (Svart)
- Vincint: There Will Be Tears ()
- Vindata: With Opened Eyes () [06-04]
- The Vintage Caravan: Monuments (Napalm) [04-16]
- Rien Virgule: La Consolation Des Violettes (Murailles Music)
- Visionist: A Call to Arms () [03-05] - neoclassical darkwave
- Vistas: What Were You Hoping to Find? () [08-20] - indie pop
- Christian Vogel: Rebirth of Wonky () -
- Volk: Cashville (Romanus)
- Dlina Volny: Dazed ()
- Volumes: Happier? (Fearless) [11-19] - metalcore
- Steve Von Till: Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems (Neurot)
- Vreid: Wild North West () [04-30]
- VTSS: Borderline Tendencies (VEYL) [03-15] - techno
- Hana Vu: Public Storage () [11-05] - dream pop
- Philipp Wachsmann/Kalle Moberg/Paul Lytton: The Punk and the Gaffers (Kamo) - jazz
- Martha Wainwright: Love Will Be Reborn (Cooking Vinyl) [08-30] - folk rock
- Wale: Folarin II (Maybach Music Group/Warner) [10-22] - hip-hop
- Karima Walker: Waking the Dreaming Body (Orindal) [02-26] - ambient
- Ryley Walker: Course in Fable (Husky Pants) [04-02] - prog folk
- Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo: Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants) [02-05] - psychedelic rock
- Eli Wallace/Beth McDonald: Solo/Duo (Eschatology) - jazz
- Morgen Wallen: Dangerous: The Double Album (Big Loud/Republic) [01-08] - country
- The Wallflowers: Exit Wounds (New West) [07-09] - roots rock
- Wallice: Off the Rails ()
- Johannes Wallmann: Elegy for an Undiscovered Species (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
- Frank Waln: In the Key of Lakota () - hip-hop
- John Walsh: Irlandalucia (Air Music Group) - jazz
- Dominik Wania: Lonely Shadows (ECM) - jazz
- Wanton Witch: Wanton Witch (Stroboscopic Artefacts) - techno
- Alex Ward: Gated (Discus Music) [07-13] - jazz
- Tom Ward/Martina Verhoeven/Dirk Serries/Cath Roberts: Imaginary Junction (A New Wave of Jazz) [10-30] - jazz
- Wardruna: Kvitravn () [01-22] - dark folk
- Dillon Warnek: Now That It's All Over ()
- Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: Interim Report, March 1979 () [02-26]
- PM Warson: True Story (Legere)
- Wasted Cathedral: I'm Gonna Love You 'Til the End of Time (self-released) [10-15]
- Andrew Wasylyk: Balgay Hill: Morning in Magnolia () [08-20]
- Watchhouse: Watchhouse (Thirty Tigers) [08-13]
- Water From Your Eyes: Structure (Wharf Cat) [08-27] - art pop
- Nick Waterhouse: Promenade Blue (Innovative Leisure) [04-09] - rock & roll
- The Watershed: Don't Forget You're Welcome () - hip-hop
- Sara Watkins: Under the Pepper Tree (New West) [03-26] - standards
- Rod Wave: SoulFly (Alamo) [03-26] - hip-hop
- Wavves: Hideaway () [07-16] - indie rock
- Tion Wayne: Green With Envy () [09-17] - UK hip-hop
- We Are Scientists: Huffy () [10-08]
- We Were Promised Jetpacks: Enjoy the View (Big Scary Monsters) [09-10] - indie rock
- Web Web x Max Herre: Web Max (Compost) - jazz
- The Dave Weckl Band: Live in St Louis Chesterfield Festival 2019 (Autumn Hill) [04-09] - jazz
- Wednesday: Twin Plagues (Orindal) [08-13] - shoegaze
- Weezer: OK Human (Crush Music/Atlantic) [01-29] - rock
- Weezer: Van Weezer (Crush Music/Atlantic) [05-07] - rock
- Carl Weingarten: Ember Days (Multiphase)
- Dan Weiss/Miles Okazaki: Music for Drums and Guitar (Cygnus) [10-29] - jazz
- Paul Weller: Fat Pop (Volume 1) (Polydor) [05-14] - pop rock
- Matt Weston: Four Lies in the Eavesdrop Business (self-released) - jazz
- Wet: Letter Blue () [10-22]
- Judy Wexler: Back to the Garden (Jewel City Jazz) - jazz
- Kenneth Whalum: Broken Land 2 () [07-16] - r&b
- Jason Whatley: On the Beak (self-released -20) - jazz
- While She Sleeps: Sleeps Society (Search & Destroy/Spinefarm) [04-16] - alt metal
- Whispering Sons: Several Others ()
- Matthew Whitaker: Connections (Resilience Music Alliance) - jazz
- Matthew E White: K Bay (Domino) [09-10] - art pop
- Matthew E White & Lonnie Holley: Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection (Spacebomb/Jagjaguwar) [04-09] - psychedeic soul
- Tony Joe White: Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound) [05-07] - country rock
- White Denim: Crystal Bullets/King Tears (English Mallard) [07-23]
- White Flowers: Day by Day (Tough Love) [06-11] - dream pop
- The White Ring: Show Me Heaven () [02-19]
- White Ward: False Light (Debemur Morti) [ 06-17] - blackgaze
- Whitechapel: Kin () [10-29] - deathcore
- Richard Whiteman: Very Well & Good (Cornerstone) - Jazz
- Harrison Whitford: Afraid of Nothing ()
- Amanda Whiting: After Dark (Jazzman)
- Hailey Whitters: Living the Dream () - country
- Matthew E White: K Bay (Domino) - alt/indie
- Wild Blue Herons [Darlene Cooper/Bill Sample]: You & I () [11-19] - jazz
- Wild Pink: A Billion Little Lights (Royal Mountain) [06-18] - indie rock
- The Wildhearts: 21st Century Love Songs (Graphite)
- Andreas Willers: Haerae (Evil Rabbit -20) [2020-12-12] - jazz
- William the Conqueror: Maverick Thinker (Chrysalis) [03-05]
- AA Williams: Songs From Isolation () [03-19] - singer-songwriter
- Chris Ryan Williams: Of Yours (self-released) [05-02] - jazz
- Sam Williams: Glasshouse Children ()
- Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion (Ty Cerdd)
- Spike Wilner Trio: Aliens & Wizards (Cellar Music Group) - jazz
- Brian Wilson: At My Piano (Universal)
- Charlotte Day Wilson: Alpha () [07-09] - neo-soul
- Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth (Brother Mister/Mack Avenue) [04-23] - jazz
- Mose Wilson: Mose Wilson () - country
- Steven Wilson: The Future Bites (Arts & Crafts) [01-29] - art pop
- Winds: Look at the Sky (Natural Music) [04-09]
- Wine Lips: Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party ()
- Virginia Wing: Private Life (Fire) [02-12] - alt/indie
- A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing) [02-26]
- Witch Camp (Ghana): I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be (Six Degrees) [03-12] - African
- Witch Fever: Reincarnate () [10-15]
- Deanna Witkowski: Force of Nature: The Music of Mary Lou Williams (MCG Jazz) - jazz
- Wizkid: Made in Lagos ()
- Andrew WK: God Is Partying () [09-10] - heavy metal
- Wode: Burn in Many Mirrors () [04-02] - black metal
- Frank Woeste: Pocket Rhapsody II (ACT Music) - jazz
- Jon Wolfe: Dos Corazones () - country
- Michael Wolff: Live at Vitellos (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Erik Wollo: Winter Tide (Projekt)
- Michal Wolski & Grzegorz Bojanek: Oxygen (Minicromusic)
- Wolves in the Throne Room: Primordial Arcana () [08-20] - atmospheric black metal
- Cory Wong: Cory and the Wongnotes (Roundwound)
- Anthony Wonsey: Lorraine's Lullaby () - jazz
- Oliver Wood: Always Smilin' (Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers) [05-21]
- Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text -2CD) [04-16] - jazz
- Roddy Woomble: Lo! Soul () [05-21]
- Wooze: Get Me to a Nunnery () [10-22]
- Work Money Death: The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises (ATA) [02-05] - jazz
- The Workers: Altburon (Wide Ear -20) - jazz
- Lyle Workman: Uncommon Measures (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die: Illusory Walls (Epitaph) [10-08] - midwest emo
- Charlie Worsham: Sugarcane (Warner Nashville) - country
- Raphael Wressnig & Igor Prado: Groove & Good Times (Pepper Cake) - jazz
- Wretch 32: Little Big Man () [05-27]
- Evan Wright: Sound From Out the Window () [08-25] - singer-songwriter
- Wristmeetrazor: Replica of a Strange Love (Prosthetic) [06-11] - melodic metalcore
- Writhing Squares: Chart for the Solution (Trouble in Mind)
- Sven Wunder: Natura Morta (self-released) [06-11]
- Eric Wyatt: A Song of Hope (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
- Wyldest: Monthly Friend () [05-28] - indie pop
- X Ambassadors: The Beautiful Liar ()
- Xeno & Oaklander: Vi/Deo (Dais) [10-22] - electronic
- Min Xiao-Fen: White Lotus (Outside In Music) [06-25] - jazz
- Xiu Xiu: Oh No (Polyvinyl) [03-26] - experimental rock
- Xixa: Genesis (Julian) [02-19]
- XPACT: XPACT II (FMR) - jazz
- Ya Tseen: Indian Yard (Sub Pop) [04-30] - art pop
- Yaima: Earth Trilogy One & Two ( Yaima Music)
- Nana Yamato: Before Sunrise (Dull Tools) [02-05] - synthpop
- Raed Yassin: Archeophony () [11-27]
- Yat-Kha: We Will Never Die (The Lollipoppe Shoppe) -
- Yeat: 4L () [06-10] - hip-hop
- Yeat: Up 2 Me (TwizzyRich) [09-10] - trap
- Yebba: Dawn () [09-10] - neo-soul
- Yellow Ostrich: Soft ()
- Yes: The Quest ()
- Yes/And: Yes/And ()
- YG & Mozzy: Kommunity Service (Empire/4Hunnid) [05-21] - hip-hop
- Li Yilei: ?/OF (Metron)
- Xiola Yin: Self-Containd Illusion (The Peak) (Dinzu Artefacts)
- Yndi: Noir Bresil (Nascimento/Grand Musique) [05-28] - Brazilian
- Yoo Doo Right: Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (Mothland)
- York: The SoulJazz Experience Vol 1 (Upper Level)
- Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke: Diverso Lontano Incomprehensibile (Artesuono) - jazz
- James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra: The Wide, Wide River (Domino) [01-22] - chamber folk
- You Am I: The Lives of Others (The You Am I Set) [05-14]
- You Me at Six: Suckapunch (Underdog) [01-15] - alt/indie
- You'll Never Get to Heaven: Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train () [11-19] - ambient pop
- Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker: Post Wook (Husky Pants) [12-03]
- Deon Young: RNB Drill: The Lost Files () - hip-hop
- Will Young: Crying on the Bathroom Floor () [08-06]
- Young Dolph & Key Glock: Dum and Dummer 2 ()
- The Young Hearts: The Modern State () [01-29]
- Young MA: Off the Yak ()
- Young Nudy: Dr Ev4l (PDE/Same Plate/RCA) [05-18] - hip-hop
- Young Nudy: Rich Shooter (RCA) - hip-hop
- Young Slo-Be: Slo-Be Bryant 3 (KoldGreedy Entertainment/Thizzler on the Roof)
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again: Sincerely, Kentrell (Never Broke Again/Atlantic) - hip-hop
- Adrian Younge: The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead) [02-26] - jazz
- Y*O*U*N*G*M*A*N & Celestaphone: A Year of Octobers (Drumhex)
- Richard Youngs: CXXI (Black Truffle)
- Younha: End Theory (C9 Entertainment) - K-pop
- Your Old Droog: Time () - hip-hop
- Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim: The YOD Fahim () [02-19] - hip-hop
- Youra: Gaussian (Mun Hwa In) - K-pop
- Yung: Ongoing Dispute () [01-22] - indie rock
- Yung Bleu: Moon Boy () - hip-hop
- Yungmorpheus & Eyedress: Affable With Pointed Teeth (Lex) [10-01] - hip-hop
- Yungmorpheus & Ewonee: Thumbing Thru Foliage (Bad Taste) [03-05] - hip-hop
- Pamela Z: A Secret Code () [06-18]
- Zahara: Puta ()
- Ani Zakareishvili: Mtirala (CES) -
- Zao: The Crimson Corridor (Observed/Observer) - metal
- Zayn: Nobody Is Listening ()
- Florian TM Zeisig: Music for Parents (Metro) - ambient
- ZelooperZ: Van Gogh's Left Ear () [07-08] - experimental hip-hop
- The Zenmenn: Ener the Zenmenn (Music From Memory) [04-12]
- Zhu: Dreamland 2021 () [04-30] - alt r&b
- Don Zilla: Ekizikiza Mubwengula (Hakuna Kulala) - electronic
- ZillaKami: Dog Boy () - hip-hop
- Eric Zinman/Mario Rechtern/Weasel Walter: Mermaids and Sirens Know (Studio 234) - jazz
- Dave Zinno and Unisphere: Fetish (Whaling City Sound) [09-03] - jazz
- Ziur: Antifate () [05-07] - deconstructed club
- Ziur: Now Now ()
- Zo! & Tall Black Guy: Abstractions ()
- The Zolas: Come Back to Life (Light Organ)
- Rob Zombie: The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy () [03-12] - industrial metal
- Zopa: La Dolce Vita ()
- John Zorn: John Zorn's Bagatelles (Tzadik -4CD) - jazz
- John Zorn: Gnosis: The Inner Light (02-12) [J|jazz]
- John Zorn: Teresa Da Avila (Tzadik) [03-19] - jazz
- John Zorn: Chaos Magic (Tzadik) [04-16] - jazz
- John Zorn: Heaven and Earth Magick (Tzadik) - jazz
- John Zorn: New Masada Quartet (Tzadik) [10-29] - jazz
- John Zorn: The Ninth Circle (Tzadik) - jazz
- John Zorn: Parables (Tzadik) [07-22] - jazz
- John Zorn: Nostradamus: The Death of Satan (Tzadik) [08-06] - jazz
- Gabriel Zucker: Leftover Beats From the Edges of Time (ESP Disk) [07-24] - jazz
- Zuli: All Caps (UIQ -EP) [03-12] - breakbeat
- Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn: Dedications (Mons) - jazz
- Zuzu: Queensway Tunnel () [11-12] - indie pop
Reissues, Etc.
- 4 Mars: Super Somali Sounds From the Gulf of Tadjoura (Ostinato) - African
- Monty Alexander: Love You Madly: Live at Bubba's (1982, Resonance -20) - jazz
- Mose Allison: The Complete Atlantic & Elektra Albums 1962-1983 (Strawberry) - vocal jazz
- Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton: Katanga! (1963, Blue Note) [06-04] - jazz
- Laurie Anderson: Big Science (1981, Nonesuch)
- Marian Anderson: Beyond the Music: Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Sony Classical -15CD) [08-27] - classical
- Carlos Argentino Con La Sonora MAGtancera: ¡A Vivir! (Vampisoul)
- Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic) - jazz
- The Arpeggia Jazz Ensemble: Le-Le (Jazz Room)
- The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Manewry Jazzowe '82 (1982, OMX) [02-05] - jazz
- The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Jazz Jamboree '91 (1991, OMX) [02-02] - jazz
- ASC: No Stars Without Darkness (Silent Season)
- Ash Ra Tempel: Schwingungen (1972, MG Art) [11-05] - rock
- Aunt Sally: Aunt Sally (1979, Mesh-Key)
- The Avalanches: Since I Left You [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (XL)
- Albert Ayler Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- The Band: Stage Fright [50th Anniversary Edition] (UMG -2CD) - rock
- Chris Barber: A Trailblazer's Legacy (1951-2018, Last Music -4CD) [04-24] - jazz
- TL Barrett: I Shall Wear a Crown (Numero Group) [09-24] - gospel
- Robbie Basho: Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (Tompkins Square)
- BBQ [Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett]: Vorwiegend Blaus Gezwitscher (SAJ) [03-02] - jazz
- BBQ With Fred Frith: Free Postmodernism USA 1981 (SAJ -20) [2020-10-17] - jazz
- The Beach Boys: Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Capitol) [08-27] - rock
- Beatchild: Nostalgia Beats of 2008-2020 (BBE)
- The Beatles: Let It Be [Super Deluxe Special Edition] (Apple/UMe -4CD) - rock
- Be-Bop Deluxe: Live in the Air Cage (Cherry Red)
- Andy Bell: Another View (Sonic Cathedral)
- Tim Berne's Bloodcount: 5 (1997, Screwgun) [09-03] - jazz
- Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Attention Spam (1997, Screwgun) [09-03] - jazz
- Karen Black: Dreaming of You (1971-1976) (Anthology) [07-16] - folk
- Black Sabbath: Sabotage ()
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: The Witch Doctor (Blue Note) - jazz
- Bloodcount: 5 (1997, Screwgun) [09-03] - jazz
- Bloodcount: Attention Spam (1997, Screwgun) [09-03] - jazz
- Colin Blunstone: One Year [50th Anniversary Edition] ()
- Arthur Blythe: Katowice 2003 (OMX -2CD) [01-29] - jazz
- David Bowie: Toy (2001, Parlophone) [11-26]
- David Bowie: Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001 ()
- David Bowie: The Width of a Circle ()
- Rev Alex Bradford: Feel Like Running for the Lord: Early Recordings 1951 to 1961 (City Hall) - gospel
- Brainiac: Attic Tapes (Touch and Go)
- Anthony Braxton: Freedom Years (1969-76, Freedom) - jazz
- Marion Brown: Le Temps Fou (Le Tres Jazz Club) - jazz
- Brown Sugar: Brown Sugar ()
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live in Indiana 1958 (American Jazz Classics) [04-21] - jazz
- The Dave Brubeck Trio: Live at the Wiener Konzerthaus 1967 (Derry Music) [02-13] - jazz
- Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club [25th Anniversary Edition] (World Circuit)
- Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: 20th Century Mixtapes: Groiddest Schizznits (Trugroid -3CD -19) - jazz
- Byzantium: Halfway Dreaming: Anthology 1969-1975 ()
- Susan Cadogan: The Girl Who Cried ()
- Can: Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute) [12-03] - krautrock
- Caravan: Who Do You Think We Are? (Madfish -35CD) - prog rock
- Doug Carn: Revelation (1973, Black Jazz/Real Gone Music) [05-28] - jazz
- Johnny Cash: Live at the Carousel Ballroom April 24 1968 (BMG) [06-29] - country
- Castlemusic: Live at the Music Gallery (2006, Idee Fixe) [12-21]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: B-Sides & Rarities Part II (Mute)
- Century of Sound: 1927 (Mixcloud)
- The Charlatans: A Head Full of Ideas (Then)
- Ray Charles: True Genius (Tangerine) [09-10]
- Sonny Clark: My Conception (1959, Blue Note Tone Poet) - jazz
- Graham Collier: British Connection (My Only Desire)
- John Coltrane: Lush Life (Craft) - jazz
- Lol Coxhill: Coxhill '85 (Slam) - jazz
- Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Deja Vu [50th Anniversary] ()
- Connie Crothers/Tom Hamilton: Two Improvisations: Live in Concert (2015, Data Day Music) [11-05] - jazz
- Alvin Curran: Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (1978, Black Truffle) [08-06]
- Alice Damon: Windsong (1990, Morning Trip) [10-22] - new age
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (1959, Analogue Productions) [05-21] - jazz
- Nathan Davis With Georges Arvanitas Trio: Live in Paris: The ORTF Recordings 1966/67 (Sam) [09-10] - jazz
- Dazy: Maximumblastsuperloud: The First 24 Songs (Convulse) [08-20]
- The dB's: I Thought You Wanted to Know: 1978-1981 (Propeller Sound)
- Elton Dean Quartet: They All Be on This Old Road (1976, Ogun) - jazz
- Henryk Debich & Orchestra of the Polish Radio and TV: City (1978, GAD)
- Desmond Dekker: King of Ska: Live at Dingwell's () - reggae
- Toumani Diabate & the London Symphony Orchestra: Korolen (2008, World Circuit) [04-23] - modern classical
- DJ Notoya: Presents: Tokyo Glow (Nippon Columbia/WeWantSounds)
- DJ Shadow: Endtroducing . . . 25 (Half Speed Master) (Island)
- DJ Sprinkles: Gayest Tits & Greyist Shits: 1998-2017 12-Inches & One-Offs (Comatose) -
- Dome of Doom: Decade of Doom (Dome of Doom) [09-21] - hip-hop
- Donnie: The Colored Section [Deluxe Edition] (Motown)
- Dave Douglas/Misha Mengelberg: Buenos Aires 2000 (OMX) [01-26] - jazz
- Drive-By Truckers: Live at Plan 9, July 13, 2006 (New West) [11-27]
- Dyke & the Blazers: Down on Funky Broadway: Phoenix (1966-1967) (Craft) - funk
- Dyke & the Blazers: Message: Hollywood (1968-1970) (Craft) - funk
- Bob Dylan: Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol 16 1980-1985 (Sony Legacy -5CD)
- Eboni Band: Eboni Band (1980, We Are Busy Bodies) - Africa
- Bill Evans Trio: On a Friday Evening (1975, Craft) [06-25] - jazz
- Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) (1956-80, Concord -5CD) [06-25] - jazz
- Bill Evans Trio: Trio '65 (Verve) [06-17] - jazz
- Eve: Canto Aberto (1979, Komos Jazz) [06-19] - Brazilian
- Faust: 1971-74 (Bureau B)
- Female Species: Tale of My Lost Love (Numero Group) [04-09]
- Fleeting Joys: Despondent Transponder ()
- Aretha Franklin: Aretha ()
- Free Fall: Alchemia 2006 (2006, OMX -2CD) [01-12] - jazz
- Frazey Ford: Indian Ocean (Nettwerk -14) [2014-10-14] - folk
- Mark Fry: Dreaming With Alice (Now Again)
- Ryo Fukui: Mellow Dream (WRWTFWW -18) [2018-05-25] - jazz
- Rory Gallagher: Rory Gallagher: 50th Anniversary Edition Box Set (UMe)
- Gang of Four: 77-81 ()
- The Gangsters: The Gangsters (1970s, Albina Music Trust -18) [2018-11-16] - jazz
- Garbage: Garbage [Remastered Reissue] (BMG)
- Garbage: Beautiful Garbage (UMe)
- Erroll Garner: Symphony Hall Concert (1964, Mack Avenue) [09-17] - jazz
- Erroll Garner: Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert (1959-73, Mack Avenue) [07-02] - jazz
- Stan Getz Quartet/Astrud Gilberto: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1966 (The Lost Recordings) - jazz
- Nikki Giovanni: Truth Is on Its Way/Like a Ripple on a Pond/The Way I Feel (Modern Harmonic)
- Goat: Headsoup ()
- Goldie & the Gingerbreads: Thinking About the Good Times: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 ()
- Fritz Gore & the Talismen: Fritz Gore & the Talismen (Perfect Toy)
- Georg Graewe/Kjell Nordeson/Jon Raskin Trio: Live at NIR Studios (2009, Temescal) - jazz
- Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (Rhino) - rock
- Shakey Graves: Roll the Bones X [10th Anniversary Edition] (Dualtone -2CD) [04-02] - folk
- Owen Gray: Owen Gray Sings () - reggae
- Derrick Harriott: Greatest Reggae Hits ()
- George Harrison: All Things Must Pass [50th Anniversary Edition] (Capitol)
- PJ Harvey: Is This Desire: Demos (UMC/Island)
- PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea: Demos (UMC/Island)
- The Hawks: Obviously 5 Believers ()
- Eddie Hazel: Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs (Real Gone Music) - funk
- Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Destiny Street Complete (Omnivore) [01-21] - new wave
- Hello: The Complete Singles Collection (Cherry Red)
- Joe Henderson: The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions (Mosaic -5CD) - jazz
- Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (1965, Blue Note) [02-18] - jazz
- His Name Is Alive: A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979-1990) (Disciples) [02-12]
- Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford: Early Years and Unheard Pearls 1970-1973 (Kent)
- Lightnin' Hopkins: King of Dowling Street (Sunset Blvd) - blues
- Allan Holdsworth: Leverkusen '97 (Manifesto) - jazz
- Wayne Horvitz: Live Forever Vol 1: The President: New York in the 80s (1982-88, Other Room Music) [02-26] - jazz
- Keith Hudson: The Black Breast Has Produced Her Best, Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood (1974, Superior Viaduct) [W|reggae]
- Phyllis Hyman: Old Friend: The Deluxe Collection 1976-1998 ()
- Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1983 (The Decoding Society) - jazz
- Jackson Conti [Madlib & Ivan Mamao Conti]: Sujinho (Madlib Invazion)
- Jam & Lewis: Jam & Lewis Vol 1 () [07-09]
- Etta James: The Montreux Years|1977-93, BMG (06-25) [B|blues]
- Tommy James & the Shondels: Celebration: The Complete Roulette Recordings 1966-1973 ()
- Japan: Quiet Life [2021 Remaster] (BMG)
- Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (1976, ECM) [02-19] - jazz
- Keith Jarrett: Facing You [50th Anniversary] (1971, ECM) - jazz
- Abner Jay: I Don't Have Time to Lie to You (Mississippi)
- Bobo Jenkins: Decoration Day Blues (Soul Jazz) - blues
- Bobo Jenkins: My All New Life Story (Third Man) [06-12] - blues
- Hideto Kanai & King's Roar: Ode to Birds (1975, Three Blind Mice/Craftman) [08-18] - jazz
- Kids on a Crime Spree: We Love You So Bad (Slumberland)
- Kiko Kids Jazz: Tanganyika Na Uhuru (Mississippi) [07-23] - African
- King Geedorah: Take Me to Your Leader (Big Dada)
- Hans Koch & Paul Lovens: Nephlokokkygia 1992 (Ezz-thetics) [04-00] - jazz
- Eero Koivistoinen: The Original Sin (Svart) [03-12] - jazz
- L7: Wargasm: The Slash Years 1992-1997 (Cherry Red)
- Bill Laswell/Jack DeJohnette/Graham Haynes/Elliott Sharp: Saalfelden (1998, self-released) [02-06] - jazz
- Mary Lattimore: Collected Pieces II (Ghostly International) [10-29] - experimental
- Bunny Lee: Run Soundboy Run () - reggae
- Peggy Lee: Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee Sings the Great American Songbook (Omnivore) - jazz
- John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection (Capitol)
- Jackie Leven: Straight Outta Caledonia (School Daze)
- Igor Levit: On DSCH (Sony Classical) [09-10] - classical
- Lilys: A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (Frontier)
- Abbey Lincoln: It's Magic (1958, Riverside) [07-00] - jazz
- Little Feat: Electric Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios 1974 (Rhino) [11-26]
- Jimmy London: Bridge Over Troubled Waters () - reggae
- Nick Lowe: The Convincer [20th Anniversary Edition] (Yep Roc) [09-17]
- Agustin Pereyra Lucena Quartet: La Rana (Far Out) [10-15] - Brazil
- Rene Lussier: CompletementMarteau (2009-15, ReR MegaCorp/CircumDisc) [06-11] - jazz
- Mamaki Boys: Patriote (Sahel Sounds)
- John Mayall: The First Generation 1965-1974 (Madfish Music -35CD) - blues-rock
- Kevin McCormick & David Horridge: Light Patterns (1982, Smiling C) [07-08] - ambient
- Eugene McDaniels: Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse [50th Anniversary Edition] (Real Gone Music)
- Hany Mehanna: Music for Airplanes: A Collection of Instrumental Showpieces and Scores for Egyptian Films and TV-Series (1973-1980) (Souma)
- MESH: Live and Alternate Versions 2014-2019 () - club music
- Kim Jung Mi: Now (1973, Repsychled) - Korean
- Mistreater: Hell's Fire (1981, Jobcentre) [05-21] - metal
- The Misunderstood: Children of the Sun: Complete Recordings 1965-1966 ()
- Joni Mitchell: The Reprise Albums (1968-1971) (Rhino -4CD) [06-25] - singer-songwriter
- Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto: The Custodian's Mix (1968, Impulse) [06-12] - jazz
- Wes Montgomery: The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings (1965, Jazzline) [03-19] - jazz
- Motorhead: No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith ()
- The Mumps: Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You've Got Mumps ()
- Musica Elettronica Viva: Spacecraft (Our Swimmer) - jazz
- My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (1991, Domino)
- My Bloody Valentine: 1988-91 & Rare Tracks ()
- Fred Neil: 38 MacDougal (1965, Light in the Attic)
- Nirvana: Nevermind [30th Anniversary Edition] (Polydor)
- Nirvana UK: Soglife: The Vinyl Boxset ()
- No Safety: Spill (1991-92, Cuneiform) [07-23] - jazz
- No Safety: Live at the Knitting Factory (1993, Cuneiform) [07-23] - jazz
- No Safety: Live in Italy 1994 (1994, Cuneiform) [07-23] - jazz
- Daniel Norgren: Horrifying Deatheating Bloodspider (Superpuma)
- Laura Nyro: American Dreamer ()
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture & Morality: The Singles (Virgin)
- Orchestre Anassouna-Jazz De Parakou-Nord Dahomey: Bakassine Gabou (Acid Jazz/Albarika Store) -
- Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou Dahomey: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou Dahomey (Superfly)
- Oregon: 1974 (Moosicus) - jazz
- Buck Owens and His Buckaroos: I Wouldn't Live in New York City (Omnivore) - country
- Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Collection 1941-54 (Acrobat) [05-11] - jazz
- Charlie Parker: Bird in LA (1945-52, Verve) [07-20] - jazz
- Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Ensemble With Sainkho Namtchylak: Fixing the Fluctuating Idea (1996, Victo) [03-19] - jazz
- Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Volume Eleven: Atlanta (1980, Widow's Taste) - jazz
- Perfume Genius: Immediately Remixes (Matador) [06-12] - alt/indie
- Lee Scratch Perry & Friends: Black Art From the Black Ark (Pressure Sounds) - reggae
- Shep Pettibone: Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone: The Classic 12" Master-Mixes ()
- The Plastic People of the Universe: Egon Bondy's Happy Heart Club Banned (1978, Guerilla) - experimental rock
- The Poets of Rhythm: Discern/Define (Daptone)
- Pop-O-Pies: The White EP (415/Liberation Hall)
- Gregory Porter: Still Rising (Blue Note) [11-05] - jazz
- Russell Porter: A Stone's Throw (Tompkins Square)
- Bud Powell: 1962 Copenhagen (SteepleChase) [08-15] - jazz
- Tom Prehn: Centrifuga & Sohlverv (1964, Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Pretenders: Pretenders/Pretenders II (Rhino)
- Prezens: XForm (2007, Screwgun -20) [2020-12-04] - jazz
- Primal Scream: Demodelica (CMG)
- Professor Longhair: The Bach of Rock (Sunset Blvd -20) - r&b
- Joe Pug: The Diving Sun (self-released) [03-21]
- Pure Hell: Noise Addiction (2006, Cherry Red -16) - metal
- Pylon: Chomp (New West)
- QOW Trio: QOW Trio (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2 Revisited (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Radical Dads: Mega Rarities (self-released)
- Radiohead: KID A MNESIA (XL)
- Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band: Egypt Strut (Strut) [06-12] - jazz
- The Real Thing: The Anthology 1972-1997 (Cherry Red)
- Dan Reeder: Every Which Way [Deluxe] (Oh Boy) [02-26]
- REM: New Adventures in Hi-Fi [25th Anniversary Edition] (Warner)
- The Replacements: Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash [Deluxe Edition] (Rhino)
- Marc Ribot: Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (1989-93, Knockwurst) [06-25] - jazz
- Freddy Roland Y Su Orquesta: Con Su Muneca Pecosa (Vampisoul)
- The Rolling Stones: Fully Finished Studio Outtakes () - rock
- The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You [Deluxe Edition] () - rock
- The Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??! [Deluxe Edition] (1995, Geffen/UMe) [03-12] - hip-hop
- The Rootsman: Essentials 1996-1998 (Akuphone) - dub
- Patrice Rushen: Straight From the Heart [2021 Reissue] (Strut)
- Gene Russell: Talk to My Lady () - jazz
- Pharoah Sanders/Charles Lloyd: Billy Higgins Tribute (2001, OMX) [01-08] - jazz
- Scritti Politti: Cupid & Psyche '85 ()
- Seefeel: Rupt and Flux (1994-1996) ()
- The Selecter: Too Much Pressure [Deluxe Edition] (1979-80, Chrysalis -3CD) [04-23] - new wave
- Sex Pistols: 76-77 ()
- Horace Silver Quintet: 6 Pieces of Silver (1956, Blue Note) [11-09] - jazz
- Nina Simone: The Montreux Years (1968-90, BMG) [05-28] - jazz
- Frank Sinatra: Sing and Dance With Frank Sinatra (Impex -20) - jazz
- Nancy Sinatra: Boots (1966, Light in the Attic) [09-17] - rock
- The Sisters of Mercy: BBC Sessions 1982-1984 (Warner Music UK)
- Steve Slagle: Nascentia (Panorama) [02-25] - jazz
- Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin On ()
- Small Faces: Live 1966 ()
- Linda Smith: Till Another Time: 1988-1996 ()
- Snoop Dogg: Snoop Dogg Presents Algorithm (Def Jam) [11-19] - hip-hop
- Southside Johnny: Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits Remastered (2008, Pacific) - jazz
- Special Interest: Trust No Wave: The 2016 Demos (2016, Disciples -EP) [05-14] - noise rock
- SPP: L'Albero Delle Meduse (2009, The Museum of Viral Memory) - jazz
- Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (Legacy) [11-19] - rock
- Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things (Warp)
- Stephen: Radar of Small Dogs (Yellow Electric)
- Stereo Total: Chanson Hysterique 1995-2005 ()
- Sun Ra and His Outer Space Arkestra: A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (Modern Harmonic) [02-05] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut) - jazz
- Super Furry Animals: Rings Around the World [20th Anniversary Edition] (BMG)
- Eddie Suzuki New Hawaii: High Tide (1973, Aloha Got Soul) [06-25] - Hawaii
- The Sweet Inspirations: Let It Be Me: The Atlantic Recordings ()
- Synergetic Voice Orchestra: Mios (1989, Metron)
- T2: It'll All Work Out in Boomland ()
- Phuong Tam: Magical Nights: Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966) (Sublime Frequencies -20) [2020-10-26] - Vietnamese
- Tangled Shoelaces: Turn My Dial: M Squared Recordings and More 1981-84 ()
- Sebastiao Tapajos/Pedro Dos Santos: Vol 1 (Vampisoul)
- Horace Tapscott & Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Century City Playhouse 9/9/79 (Nimbus West -20) [2020-12-00] - jazz
- Horace Tapscott: The Call (Nimbus West) - jazz
- Harry Taussig: Fate Is Only Twice (Tompkins Square)
- Cecil Taylor: Music From Two Continents: Live at Jazz Jamboree '84 (Fundacja Sluchaj) [11-30] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor: Mixed to Unit Structures Revisited (Ezz-thetics) [08-10] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor: Corona (1996, Corbett vs Dempsey) [08-00] - jazz
- Telex: This Is Telex (Mute)
- Third Ear Band: Alchemy: The Albums 1969-72 (Esoteric)
- Barbara Thompson: Live at the BBC () - jazz
- Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: The Found '77 Masters ()
- Mary Timony: Mountains [20th Anniversary Expanded Edition] ()
- TP Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou: Rep Pop Du Benin Unite Africaine (Acid Jazz) - African
- Randy Travis: Storms of Life [35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (Warner Nashville) [09-09] - country
- Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings [Box Set] () - jazz
- Turin Brakes: The Optimist [20th Anniversary Edition] (Two Piers)
- Tina Turner: Foreign Affair [Deluxe Edition] (Rhino)
- McCoy Tyner: Expansions (1968, Blue Note) [08-06] - jazz
- Blue Gene Tyranny: Degrees of Freedom Found (Unseen Worlds -6CD) [06-11]
- U2: Achtung Baby [30th Anniversary Edition] ()
- Vacation: Vacation (Don Giovanni)
- Van Der Graaf Generator: The Charisma Years Box (Virgin)
- Sharon Van Etten: Epic Ten (Ba Da Bing!)
- Ken Vandermark/Free Music Ensemble: Warszawa 2006 (OMX) [01-19] - jazz
- Tata Vasquez & His Orchestra: Ecstasy (Jazzroom) - jazz
- Jimmie Vaughan: The Pleasure's All Mine (The Last Music Co -20) - blues
- Jimmie Vaughan: The Jimmie Vaughan Story [Deluxe Edition] () - blues
- Sarah Vaughan: Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969 (The Lost Recordings) [04-16] - vocal jazz
- Enno Velthuys: A Glimpse of Light (Dead Mind) [04-07]
- Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years (BMG) [08-27] - blues
- Weeknd: The Highights (XO) [01-25] - r&b
- The Who: The Who Sell Out [Super Deluxe Edition] ()
- Barney Wilen & Alain Jean-Marie: Montreal Duets (1993, Elemental) [02-12] - jazz
- Deniece Williams: Free: The Columbia/ARC Recordings 1976-1988 () - soul
- Leslie Winer: When I Hit You - You'll Feel It (Light in the Attic) [07-30] - post-punk
- Kathrine Winfield Big Band: Orca () - jazz
- The Wormholes: You Never See the Stars When It Rains 1994-99 ()
- Leo Wright: Blues Shout + Suddenly the Blules (Essential Jazz Classics) [04-09] - jazz
- Lester Young Quartet: Collates (1949-51, Essential Jazz Classics) [04-09] - jazz
- La Monte Young/The Forever Bad Blues Band: Just Stompin' (Just Dreams)
- Yumbo: The Fruit of Errata ()
- Frank Zappa: Zappa '88: The Last US Show (Zappa) [06-18] - rock
- @0 () - electronic
- Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserocking Music (Alligator -3CD) [04-03] - blues
- Almost Famous [Music From the Motion Picture/20th Anniversary Edition] () - soundtrack
- Amethyst: New Sounds From Moon Glyph Records (Moon Glyph) [08-27]
- Anastenaria: Tracian Firewalking Ritual Music (Canary) [10-18] -
- Belong to the Wind (Forager) [03-20] - folk
- Beyond the Pale Horizon: British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972 ()
- Chicago/The Blues/Today! (1966, RSD) [06-12] - blues
- Choctaw Ridge: New Fables of the American South 1968-1973 (Ace) [06-15] - country
- Club Coco (Bongo Joe) [05-28] - world
- Bills & Aches & Blues: 40 Years of 4AD (4AD)
- Buganda Royal Music Revival (Nyege Nyege)
- Can I Be a Witness: Stax Southern Groove ()
- Changui: The Sound of Guantanamo (Petaluma -3CD) - Cuban
- The Craig Charles Trunk of Funk Volume 2 (Soul Bank Music)
- Club Coco (Bongo Joe)
- The Craig CharlesTrunk of Funk Vol 2 (Soul Bank Music)
- College Music Records Presents Back on Track (College Music)
- Color De Tropico Vol 2 (El Palmas Music)
- Country Funk Volume III: 1975-1982 (Light in the Attic) - country
- Cross the Bridge: Polish-American Dances & Songs, Feb 1926-March 1931 (Canary)
- Curses Present Next Wave Acid Punx (Eskimo)
- The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live! ()
- Dark Nights [Death Metal Soundtrack] () [06-18] - death metal
- Deewee: Deewee Foundations (Because Music)
- Delfonic & Kapote Illegal Jazz Vol 4 & 5 (Toy Tonics) - jazz
- DJ Cam & Frederic Beneix Present Wine4Melomanes (BBE)
- Do You Have the Force? Jon Savage's Alternate History of Electronica 1978-1982 (Caroline True)
- Doomed & Stoned in Scotland (Doomed & Stoned) [03-23] - metal
- Duke Reid International Disco Series (Doctor Bird) [04-00] - reggae
- Erased Tapes 20 - 0 (Erased Tapes)
- Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music (Dust to Digital -20) [2020-12-13] - world
- For the Good Times: The Songs of Kris Kristofferson (Ace -20) [2020-12-19]
- Full Beam! For Gees Only Vol 3 (Red Laser)
- Get on Board the Soul Train ()
- Good Good Feeling! More Motown Girls ()
- Habibi Funk 015: An Eclectic Selection From the Arab World, Part 2 (Habibi Funk) [08-06] - Arabic
- Hard Five: A Five Year Duro Retrospective (Duro)
- Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal (Royal Potato Family) [11-12]
- Hoga Nord 100: The Effect Will Last Forever (Hoga Nord)
- I Can't Complain but Sometimes I Still Do (Regelbau -EP) [01-00] - electronic
- Impulse Records: Music, Message & the Moment (Impulse) - jazz
- In the Echo: Field Recordings From Earlsfort Terrace (Ergodos) [09-30]
- Jazz Is Dead Remixes JID010 (Jazz Is Dead) - jazz
- Jon Savage's 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come (Ace) [02-20]
- Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album () [02-12] - hip-hop
- Joseph Kabasele and the Creation of Surboum African Jazz (Planet Ilunga)
- Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion Selected by Don Letts (Late Night Tales)
- Late Night Tales: Jordan Rakei (Late Night Tales)
- Don Letts Presents: Late Night Tales: Version Excursion ()
- Lowrider Soul Vol 2 (Kent)
- May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Light in the Attic)
- The Metallica Blacklist ()
- Mathias Modica Presents the Kraut Jazz Futurism (Kryptox)
- Musik Music Musique 2.0: The Rise of Synth Pop 1981 ()
- Naya Beat Volume 1: South Asian Dance and Electronic Music 1983-1992 (Naya Beat) [06-25] - world
- Outlines (ANMA & Cognitiva)
- Party for Joey: A Sweet Relief Tribute to Joey Spampinato ()
- Passage: Guided Meditations From Okayplayer (Okayplayer)
- People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Songbook (Kent) [09-18]
- Pirate's Choice 2 ()
- Pop Psychedelique: The Best of French Psychedelic Pop 1964-2019 (Two-Piers)
- Power of Soul: The Music of CTI (Komos Jazz) [08-20] - jazz
- The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four (Gill Music)
- Profundo Nero (Dekmantel)
- Psychedelic Soul: Produced by Norman Whitfield (Kent) [07-17] - r&b
- Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America's Musicians' Emergency Fund (Mack Avenue) - jazz
- Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records (Craft)
- Rockets of Love! Power Pop Gems From the 70s, 80s & 90s (Big Beat) [05-18]
- The Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan (World Music Network) [01-29] - jazz
- Sabor Surf: Compiled by El Palmas & El Dragon Criollo (El Palmas Music) [11-05] - Venezuelan surf
- Separate Paths Together: An Anthology of British Male Singer-Songwriters 1965-75 (Grapefruit)
- Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk and the Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984 (Cherry Red)
- Singles, Winter 20/21 (Dream Catalog)
- Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap (Smithsonian -9CD) [08-20] - hip-hop
- Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988 (Light in the Attic)
- Soul Power '68 ()
- The Sound of Limo (Limousine Dream) - electronic
- The Sound of Philadelphia International Records: Volumes 1 and 2 (United Souls/Legacy)
- Sounds of Pamoja (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [09-17] - Afrofuturism
- Spiritual Jazz 13 NOW! (Jazzman) - jazz
- Staring at the Rude Boys: The British Ska Revival 1979-1989 (Cherry Red)
- Sum 10 (Second State Audio)
- Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From the British Psychedelic Scene 1966-1968 ()
- This Love Was Real: LA Vocal Groups 1959-1964 (Ace)
- Too Slow to Disco Presents Yacht Soul: The Cover Versions (How Do You Are?)
- Tresor 30 (Tresor) [10-01] - techno
- Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgium 1968-1979 (Sbdan) [06-11] - jazz
- Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age 1993-1997 (Music From Memory) - ambient
- Wamono A to Z Vol III: Japanese Light Mellow Funk, Disco & Boogie 1978-1988] (Wamono A to Z)
- We Jazz Records 7 Singles Box Vol 3 (We Jazz) - jazz
Priority Counts
- Priority 0: 0
- Priority 1: 3415
- Priority 2: 165
- Priority 3: 1
Total: 3581
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