Music Tracking 2022
These are 2022 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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- 2 Chainz: Dope Don't Sell Itself () [02-04] - trap
- 2nd Grade: Easy Listening (Double Double Whammy) [09-30] - lo-fi
- 5 Seconds of Summer: 5SOS5 (BMG) [09-23] - new wave
- 6kitty: Tux (6kitty)
- 36: Colours in the Dark (3Six)
- 40 Watt Sun: Perfect Light (Svart/Cappio) [01-21] - slowcore
- 42 Dugg & EST Gee: Last Ones Left (CMG/Warlike/Interscope) [04-08] - hip-hop
- 50 Foot Wave: Black Pearl (Fire) [04-15]
- 100 Gecs: Snake Eyes (Dog Show/Atlantic -EP) [12-02] - hyperpop
- 404 Guild: False Dawn (Dirty Hit) [12-09]
- 454: Fast Trax 3 () [09-02]
- 1300: Foreign Language () [04-29]
- 1990s Chris: The Space Between Paydays () [02-04]
- !!!: Let It Be Blue (Warp) [05-06] - electropop
- †††: Permanent.Radiant (Warner -EP) [12-09] - darkwave
- Σtella: Up and Away (Sub Pop) [06-17]
- $NOT: Ethereal (300 Entertainment) [02-11] - hip-hop
- Dominique A: Le Monde Reel () [09-16]
- A&M Octet: New Roots (self-released) - jazz
- A-ha: True North (Music for Nations) [10-21]
- Abadir: Mutate () [07-22] - hard drum
- Mindi Abair: Forever () [03-18] - pop jazz
- Kaoru Abe No Future: Another Wrong Way, Again (Presses Precaires) - jazz
- Abhorrent Expanse: Gateways to Resplendence (Amalgam) - death metal
- Chris Abrahams/Jim Denley/Robbie Avenaim: Weft (Relative Pitch -21) - jazz
- Abraxas: Monte Carlo (Suicide Squeeze) [10-28] - psychedelic rock
- Absent in Body: Plague God (Relapse) [03-25] - sludge metal
- Acausal Intrusion: Seeping Evocation (I, Voidhanger) [09-30] - technical death metal
- Acid Klaus: The Imagined Career Trajectory of Superstar DJ & Dance Pop Producer, Melvin Harris (Zen FC)
- Acid Mothers Reynols: Acid Mothers Reynols Vol 2 ()
- Will Ackerman: Positano Songs (West River)
- Action Bronson: Cocodrillo Turbo (Loma Vista) [04-29] - hip-hop
- Tony Adamo: Better Than Picasso at Midnite (Saint Jaz) - jazz
- Adams/Dunn/Haas: Future Moons (Ansible Editions) - jazz
- Eve Adams: Metal Bird (self-released) [01-14] - singer-songwriter
- John Luther Adams: Houses of the Wind (Cold Blue) - classical
- Jeanne Added: By Your Side () [09-30]
- Ade: Et Alors? ()
- Adios Amores: Sus Mejores Canciones ()
- Lucy Adlington: Ventricles (self-released -EP) [02-14]
- Antonio Adolfo: Octet and Originals (AAM Music) - Brazilian jazz
- Adults: For Everything, Always (Fika)
- The Advisory Circle: Full Circle () [09-30]
- Adwaith: Bato Mato (Libertino) [07-01]
- Aespa: Girls (SM Entertainment -EP) [07-08] - K-pop
- Aeviterne: The Ailing Facade (Profound Lore) [03-18] - death metal
- Afghan Whigs: How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG) [09-09] - alt/indie
- African-American Sound Recordings: Tamika's Lodge () [03-11] - nu jazz
- Afrorack: The Afrorack (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-27]
- Agile Experiments: Challenger/Edwards/De Rose (Dave De Rose) - jazz
- Sophie Agnel/John Butcher: La Pierre Tachee (Ni Vu Ni Connu) [01-01] - jazz
- Christina Aguilera: Aguilera ()
- Agvirre: _ _ _ _ _ _ (Surviving Sounds -EP) [01-28]
- Air Waves: The Dance (Fire) [09-09]
- Akai Solo: Spirit Roaming () [11-11] - hip-hop
- Ryoko Akama: Songs for a Shed (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Noel Akchote: Music for the Film Loving Highsmith (Ayler) [04-03] - jazz
- Alai K: Kila Mara () [02-28]
- Alaskalaska: Still Life () [10-14]
- Alawari: Alawari (April) - jazz
- Federico Albanese: Before and Now Seems Infinite (Mercury KK) [02-25] - modern classical
- Albare & Co: Freedom (self-released) - jazz
- Albertine Sarges: Family of Things (Moshi Moshi -EP) [11-25]
- Jason Aldean: Georgia (Macon/Broken Bow) [04-22] - country
- Rob Aldridge & the Proponents: Mind Over Matters () [01-21]
- Rauw Alejandro: Saturno (Sony Latin) [11-11] - reggaeton
- Alex the Astronaut: How to Grow a Sunflower Under Water (Nettwerk) [07-22]
- Alexander 23: Aftershock () [07-15]
- Alexisonfire: Otherness (Dine Alone) [06-24] - post-hardcore [-]
- Alienationist: Don't Worry, You Can Always Be Reborn as a Screenshot ()
- Aliment: Incondicional ()
- Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat: Chasing the Phantom () [07-22]
- All Better: How to Be Alone (Sugar Free) [05-06]
- All India Radio: The Generator of All Infinity (All India Radio)
- Alla Boara: Le Tre Sorelle (Shifting Paraigm) - jazz
- Allegories: Endless (Hidden Pony) [04-29]
- Jimmie Allen: Tulip Drive () [06-24]
- Marina Allen: Centrifics (Fire) [09-16]
- Joseph Allred: The Rambles and Rags of Shiloh ()
- Jennifer Allum/John Butcher/Ute Kanngiesser/Eddie Prevost: Sounds of Assembly (Meenna) - jazz
- Almeida/Gibson/Melo Alves/Trilla/Vicente: Dog Star (Spontaneous Music Tribune -21) - jazz
- Rodrigo Almonte: Distancia (Odradek -21) - jazz
- Alter Bridge: Pawns & Kings (Napalm) [10-14] - alt metal
- AlterModerns: Side Effects of Reality () [10-07]
- Altered Images: Mascara Streakz (Cooking Vinyl) [08-26]
- Alunah: Strange Machine (Heavy Psych Sounds) [04-15]
- Cristian Alvear/Cyril Bondi: Latidometrica/Definite Body, at Sea (Insub) - jazz
- Amaia: Cuando No Se Quien Soy ()
- The Amazons: How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? (Fiction) [09-09]
- Zoh Amba: O Life, O Light Vol 1 (577) [05-20] - jazz
- American Aquarium: Chicamacomico (self-released) [06-10] - country
- Yuval Amihai: My 90s Summer (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
- Amon Amarth: The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade) [08-05] - death metal
- Amorphis: Halo (Atomic Fire) [02-11] - prog metal
- Tori Amos: Ocean to Ocean (Decca)
- Anal Stabwound: Reality Drips Into the Mouth of Indifference ()
- Analepsy: Quiescence (Miasma) [04-15] - metal
- Anarchistwood: Chiasmata () [03-10]
- Anberlin: Silverline (Equal Vision -EP) [ 07-29]
- And Also the Trees: The Bone Carver (Border)
- And So I Watch You From Afar: Jettison (Velocity) [02-18] - post-rock
- And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone) [07-15] - indie rock
- Anelis Assumpcao: Sal () -
- Marisa Anderson: Still, Here (Thrill Jockey) [09-23]
- Dan Andriano & the Bygones: Dear Darkness (Epitaph) [02-11]
- Paolo Angeli: Rade (AnMa ReR Megacorp) - jazz
- Villano Antillano: La Sustancia X ()
- Animals as Leaders: Parrhesia (Sumerian) [03-25]
- Anorak Patch: By Cousin Sam (Nice Swan -EP) [ 04-29]
- Deaton Chris Anthony: Sid the Kid (Dirty Hit) [07-29]
- Anthropods: Anthropods (Discus Music -21) - jazz
- Anxious: Little Green House (Run for Cover) [01-21] - emo
- Apartment House: John Cage: Hymnkus/Thoreau Drawings/Two (Another Timbre) - modern classical
- Apink: Horn (IST) [02-14] - K-pop
- Apollo Ghosts: Pink Tiger (You've Changed) [03-11]
- Joe Appleford: Dystopian Dreams, Utopian Nightmares (AWAL) [08-19]
- APRE: A001 () [03-01]
- Aquakultre: Don't Trip (Forward Music Group) [07-22]
- ARC Trio and the John Daversa Big Band: The Music of MSM Schmidt (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- Arch Enemy: Deceivers (Century Media) [08-12] - metal
- Archibald Slim: Worldly Ways (POW)
- Architects: For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road (Epitaph) [03-25]
- Architects: The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit (Epitaph) [10-21] - alt metal
- Archive: Call to Arms & Angels () [04-29]
- Ardamus: Psychedelic City Cowboy $hit () [10-21] - hip-hop
- Ellen Arkbro/Johan Graden: I Get Alone Without You Very Well (Thrill Jockey) [09-23] - alt/indie
- Eslabon Armado: Nostalgia () [05-05]
- The Armed: Ultrapop: Live at the Masonic () [07-15]
- Arms Length: Never Before Seen, Never Again Found ()
- ArrDee: Pier Pressure (Island) [03-18] - UK hip-hop
- Art D'Ecco: After the Head Rush (Paper Bag) [06-24]
- Artificial Brain: Artificial Brain (Profound Lore) [06-03] - technical death metal
- Armoured Flu Unit: The Mighty Roar () [09-03]
- Arno: Opex ()
- Arp: New Pleasures (Mexican Summer) [07-15]
- Art vs Science: Big Overdrive ()
- Artsick: Fingers Crossed (Slumberland) [01-21]
- As It Is: I Went to Hell and Back (Fearless) [02-04] - pop punk
- Asa: V () [02-25]
- ASC: Original Soundtrack (A Strangely Isolated Place) - ambient
- Asgeir: Time on My Hands (One Little Independent) [10-28]
- Tom Ashbrook: Ko:da (The Other Songs -EP) [03-25]
- Ashenspire: Hostile Architecture (Code 66/Aural Music) [07-15] - metal
- Tom Aspaul: Life in Plastic () [05-30]
- The Assist: Council Pop ()
- Pete Astor: Time on Earth (Tapete) [10-07] - indie rock
- Astragal: Pure Cashmere (The Nothing Song) [04-01] - post-punk
- Oli Astral: From the Astral () [01-14] - crossover jazz
- Astrel K: Flickering I () [04-29]
- Astronoid: Radiant Bloom (3Dot) [06-04]
- Asylums: Signs of Life () [10-28]
- Ateq & Orion: Cyclorama ()
- Felicia Atkinson: Image Language (Shelter Press) [06-24] - ambient
- Shinichi Atobe: Love of Plastic (DDS) [01-13] - deep house
- Orlando Furioso [Vicente H Atria]: Orlando Furioso (Aguirre) [09-09] - jazz
- Attlas: Carry It With You () [03-11] - ambient techno
- August Is Falling: The Simple Plan EP (-EP) [09-02] - pop punk
- Author & Punisher: Kruller (Relapse) [02-11] - drone metal
- Automatic: Excess (Stones Throw) [06-24]
- Autopsy: Morbidity Triumphant (Peaceville) [09-30] - metal
- Avail Hollywood: Love, Lies & Loyalty () - blues
- Avantasia: A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society ( -EP) [10-21] - metal
- Avatarium: Death, Where Is Your Sting (AFM) [10-21] - metal
- Carlos Averhoff Jr: Together (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice: To Live & Die in Space & Time ()
- Seth Avett: Sings Greg Brown ()
- Kee Avil: Crease (Constellation) [03-11]
- Awolnation: My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers, and Me () [05-06]
- Awon & Soul.Dope.95: Infinite Wisdom () [10-17] - hip-hop
- Alex Apolo Ayala: Bambula (Truth Revolution) [02-11] - jazz
- Aysanabee: Watin (self-released) [11-04]
- Ab Baars/Terrie Ex/Kaja Draksler: When the Hills Run Across the Fields: Live in Nickelsdorf (Fundacja Sluchaj) [05-26] - jazz
- Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band: Sonbonbela (Sublime Frequencies) - African
- Babeheaven: Sink Into Me (Believe) [03-18] - indie pop
- Babehoven: Sunk (Double Double Whammy -EP) [03-04] - indie folk
- Babehoven: Light Moving Time (Double Double Whammy) [10-28]
- Babii: Screamer () [07-27]
- Daniel Bachman: Almanac Behind (Three Lobed) [11-18] - free folk
- The Backseat Lovers: Weaiting to Spill (Capitol) [10-28]
- Baby Dave: Monkey Brain (self-released) [04-22]
- Baby Strange: World Below (Icons Creating Evil Art) [06-17]
- Baby Tate: Mani/Pedi ()
- Babyface: Girls Night Out () [10-21]
- Babyface Ray: Face (Empire) [01-28] - trap
- BabyTron: Bin Reaper 3: Old Testament (Hip Hop Lab/Empire) [10-28] - hip-hop
- Bad Boy Chiller Crew: Disrespectful (Relentless) [02-18] - hip house
- Bad Breeding: Human Capital (One Little Independent) [07-08]
- Bad Omens: The Death of Peace of Mind (Sumerian) [02-25] - industrial metal
- Joey Bada$$: 2000 (Pro Era/Cinematic/Columbia) [07-22] - pop rap
- Badge Epoque Ensemble: Clouds of Joy (Telephone Explosion) [09-09]
- Mike Baggetta/Jim Keltner/Mike Watt: Everywhen We Go (Big Ego) [11/18] - jazz
- Clint Bahr: Puzzle Box (MoonJune) [03-31] - jazz
- Elles Bailey: Shining in the Half Light (Outlaw) [02-25] - country
- Stephen Bailey: GG Ryder (Third Eye Stimuli)
- Bakar: Nobody's Home (Black Butter) [02-25] - indie pop
- Joel Baker: Hush Now My Fears () [11-11]
- Bala Desejo: Sim Sim Sim () -
- Baldrian Quartett: Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy: Streichquartette: Entschlummern Sollst Du, Solst Entschlummern (Bruit) - classical
- Bali Baby: Baliprint ()
- Joshua Dylan Balis: We're on Fire () [05-13]
- Mat Ball: Amplified Guitar () [07-01] - drone
- Ball Park Music: Weirder & Weirder ()
- Charlie Ballantine: Failing Grace (Green Mind) - jazz
- Ballister: Chrysopoeia (Aerophonic/Not Two) - jazz
- Bambara: Love on My Mind (Wharf Cat -EP) [02-25] - post-punk
- Bananarama: Masquerade (In Synk) [07-22] - dance pop
- Band Gand Lonnie Bands: Scorpion Eyes (TF) - hip-hop
- Rigoberta Bandini: La Emperatriz ()
- Bandmanrill: Club Godfather (Warner) [10-28] - hip-hop
- Banks: Serpentina (AWAL) [04-08]
- Jacob Banks: Lies About the War (Nobody) [08-26]
- Lloyd Banks: The Course of the Inevitable 2 (Money by Any Means/Empire) [07-15] - hip-hop
- Banu: TransSoundScapes () [10-07]
- Quinton Barnes: For the Love of Drugs () [10-21]
- Gregor Barnett: Don't Go Throwing Roses in My Grave (Epitaph) [02-18] - singer-songwriter
- Alexis Baro: Mi Raiz (My Roots) () - jazz
- Zach Barocas New Freedom Sound: Eight Freedoms (self-released) [08-12] - jazz
- Brad Barr: The Winter Mission () [01-21]
- Kris Barras Band: Death Valley Paradise (Mascot) [03-04]
- Barrie: Barbara (Winspear) [03-25] - indie pop
- Basement Revolver: Embody () [02-18] - dream pop
- Wiliam Basinski & Janek Schaefer: . . . On Reflection (Temporary Residence) [04-29] - ambient
- Battalions: King of a Dead World (APF) [10-21]
- The Battery Farm: Flies () [11-18]
- Pascal Battus/Michel Doneda: Miracle (Potlatch -21) - jazz
- Batu: Opal (Timedance) [04-29]
- Peter Matthew Bauer: Flowers ()
- Baum Sae: Communication (self-released) [07-29] - jazz
- Jean-Effiam Bavouzet/Gabor Takacs-Nazgy/Manchester Camerata: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22, KV 482; Piano Concerto No 23, KV 488; Overture to 'Der Schauspieldirektor', KV 486 (Chandos) [04-01] - classical
- Rayland Baxter: If I Were a Butterfly (ATO) [11-04]
- James Bay: Leap (EMI/Republic) [07-08]
- Andrew Bayer: Duality 1/2 ()
- Baynk: Adolescence (Allpoints) [01-14]
- The BBB Featuring BNernie Dresel: The Pugilist (self -21) - jazz
- Beach Bunny: Emotional Creature (Mom + Pop) [07-22] - power pop
- Beach Rats: Rat Beat ()
- Bear's Den: Blue Hours ()
- Beast Nest: Sicko () [01-28] - experimental
- Beatenberg: On the Way to Beatenberg (-EP) [11-11]
- Jeff Beck/Johnny Depp: 18 (Rhino) [07-15]
- Stephen Becker: A Calm That Shifts (NNA Tapes) [10-14]
- Burak Bedikyan: Introspection (SteepleChase) - jazz
- Been Stellar: Been Stellar (So Young -EP) [08-12]
- Behemoth: Opvs Contra Natvram () [09-16]
- Belief: Belief (Lex) [07-15]
- Bertrand Belin: Tambour Vision () [05-06] - art pop
- Bellah: Adultsville () [09-23] - r&b
- Ghalia Benali/Kiya Tabassian: Constantinople ()
- Benee: Lychee (Republic -EP) [03-04] - indie pop
- Laura Benitez and the Heartache: California Centuries ()
- Alec Benjamin: Un(Commentary) (Elektra) [04-15] - indie pop
- Charlotte Rose Benjamin: Dreamtina () [04-22]
- Johannes Berauer: Vienna Chamber Diaries Plus Strings (Basho) - classical
- Adam Berenson: Homages and Worlds (Dream Play) - jazz
- Espen Berg: The Trondheim Concert (NXN) [10-28] - jazz
- Oddgeir Berg Trio: While We Wait for a Brand New Day (Ozella Music) - jazz
- Tim Bernardes: Mil Coisas Invisiveis (Psychic Hotline/Coala) [06-14] - Brazil
- Durand Bernarr: Wanderlust ()
- Tim Berne + Nasheet Waits: Tangled (Screwgun) - jazz
- Berries: How We Function (Xtra Mile) [07-08]
- Besvarjelsen: Atlas (Magnetic Eye) -
- Between Bodies: Electric Sleep ()
- BFTT: Redefines (Tobago Tracks) [05-05] - IDM
- Bhopal's Flowers: Joy of the 4th (Sound Effect)
- Bibi: Lowlife Princess - Noir (FeelGhood Music) [11-18]
- Bibi Club: Le Soleil Et La Mer () [08-26] - indie pop
- Big Bad Brotzmann Quintet: Bambule! (Euphorium) - jazz
- Big Big Train: Welcome to the Planet (English Electric) [01-28]
- Big G: My Lucky Day () - blues
- The Big Moon: Here Is Everything (Fiction) [10-14] - indie pop
- Bilderbuch: Gelb Ist Das Feld ()
- JP Bimeni & the Black Belts: Give Me Hope (Lovemonk)
- Shawny Binladen: Wick City (WCF the Label) [03-31]
- Benjamin Biolay: Saint-Clair (Polydor) [09-09] - new wave
- Sofie Birch: Holotropica (Intercourse) [05-27] - ambient
- Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka: Languoria (Mondog) [10-07] - ambient
- Alex Bird: You Are the Light and the Way (self-released -21) - jazz
- Andrew Bird: Inside Problems (Loma Vista) [06-03]
- Bird in the Belly: After the City () [02-25]
- Birds in Row: Gris Klein ()
- Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook (Trio) - jazz
- Galya Bisengalieva: Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive (One Little Independent)
- Bruce Bishop: A Dream Set Free () - jazz
- Michael Bisio: Inimitable (Mung) - jazz
- Michael Bisio/Matthew Shipp: The Flow of Everything (Fundacja Sluchaj) [01-21] - jazz
- Bitch: Bitchcraft (Kill Rock Stars) [02-04]
- Bitter Branches: Your Neighbors Are Failures (Equal Vision) [02-25] - hardcore punk
- Biznaga: Bremen No Existe ()
- Brant Bjork: Bougainvillea Suite (Heavy Psych Sounds) [10-28]
- The Black Angels: Wilderness of Mirrors (Partisan) [09-16] - psychedelic rock
- Black Anvil: Regenesis (Season of Mist) [11-04] - metal
- Black Doldrums: Dead Awake (Fuzz Club) [03-11]
- Black Dresses: Forget Your Own Face (Blacksquares) [02-15] - electro-industrial
- Black Eyed Peas: Elevation (Epic) [11-11] - pop
- Black Jesus Experience: Good Evening Black Buddha ()
- Black Lips: Apocalypse Love (Fire) [10-14]
- Black Lung: Dark Waves (Heavy Psych Sounds) [05-27]
- Black Magnet: Body Prophecy (20 Buck Spin) [07-29] - industrial metal
- Black Market Karma: Aped Flair and Hijacked Ideas () [09-29]
- Black Midi: Hellfire (Rough Trade) [07-15] - avant-prog
- Black Rave Culture: Black Rave Culture Vol 2 () [06-03] - ghettotech
- Black Sherif: The Villain I Never Was () [10-05]
- Black Sky Giant: End of Days Pilgrimage (self-released) - stoner metal
- Black Star: No Fear of Time (self-released) [05-03] - hip-hop
- BlackBraid: BlackBraid I () [08-26] - metal
- Blackcloudsummoner: Chaos Never Dies (self-released -EP) [01-24]
- Blackhaine: Armour II (Because Music -EP) [06-10] - UK hip-hop
- Blackwinterwells: Crystal Shards (Eyeball) [04-29]
- Bladee: Spiderr (Year0001) [09-30] - cloud rap
- Blackwinterwells: Crystal Shards (Eyeball) [04-29]
- Jean-Michel Blais: Aubades (Mercury KX) [02-04] - chamber music
- Mykki Blanco: Stay Close to Music (Transgressive) [10-14]
- Blaqbonez: Young Preacher ()
- Ewan Bleach Quartet: Ewan, the Night 'N the Music (self) - jazz
- Bleed From Within: Shrine (Nuclear Blast) [06-03] - metal
- Blessed: Circuitous (Flemish Eye) [10-28]
- Blind Eye: Decomposed () [07-08]
- Blind Guardian: The God Machine (Nuclear Blast) [09-02] - power metal
- The Blinders: Electric Kool-Aid (Part 1) (-EP) [01-21]
- Blklstrs: Leisure Centre (Exploding in Sound -EP) [11-18]
- Blood Command: Praise Armageddonism (Hassle) [07-01] - metal
- Blood Incantation: Timesave Zero (Century Media) [02-25] - space abient
- Blood Red Shoes: Ghosts on Tape (Velveteen) [01-14] - indie rock
- Bloodbath: Survival of the Sickest (Napalm) [09-09] - metal
- Bloodmist: Arc (5049) - jazz
- Bloodmoney Perez & Messiah Musik: Second Hand Accounts () [01-28] - hip-hop
- Bloodywood: Rakshak (self-released) [02-18] - nu metal
- Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias: See Our Way (Radiolegs) [04-01] - jazz [+]
- Blossoms: Ribbon Around the Bomb (EMI) [04-29] - indie pop
- Blue Lab Beats: Motherland Journey (Blue Adventure) [02-25] - neo-soul
- Blue Orchids: Angus Tempus Memoir () [07-00]
- Nicki Bluhm: Avondale Drive (Compass) [06-03]
- Daniel Blumberg: The World to Come [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Mute) [01-14] - soundtrack
- Ian Blurton's Future Now: Second Skin (Pajama Party/Seeing Red)
- Blushing: Possessions (Kanine) [02-18]
- Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti) [05-20] - metal
- Blxckie: The4mula ()
- Blxst: Before You Go () [04-22] - r&b
- BNXN fka Buju: Bad Since '97 ()
- BoA: Forgive Me (SM Entertainment -EP) [11-22] - K-pop
- Naima Bock: Giant Palm (Sub Pop) [07-01] - indie folk
- Ian Boddy: Coil (DIN)
- Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo: Revolve (DIN)
- Bodega: Broken Equipment (What's Your Rupture?) [03-11] - art punk
- Bodi Bill: I Love U I Do (Sinnbus) [03-25]
- Body Type: Everything Is Dangerous but Nothing's Surprising (Poison City) [05-20]
- Bodyjar: New Rituals () [02-04]
- Bodysnatcher: Bleed-Abide (MNRK Heavy) [04-22] - metal
- Claus Boesser-Ferrari: The Wind Cries Mary (Acoustic Music) [07-23] - jazz
- Lucia Boffo: Nomade (Ears & Eyes) [03-04] - jazz
- BOJ: Gbagada Express (Moves) [04-22]
- Kate Bollinger: Look at It in the Light (Ghostly International -EP) [04-22]
- Alice Boman: The Space Between (PIAS) [10-21]
- Bomber: Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm) [03-25]
- Bon Voyage Organisation: (Loin Des) Rivages (L'Invitation Musicale) [03-04]
- Bondi D'Incise/Blutwurst Ensemble: Zgodnosc (Insub)
- Bonny Light Horseman: Rolling Golden Holy (37d03d) [10-07] - Americana
- Betty Boo: Boomerang () [10-14]
- The Boo Radleys: Keep on With Falling (Boostr) [03-11] - pop rock
- Lia Booth & Jason "Spicy G" Goldman: There's Only One (self-released) - jazz
- Boris: Heavy Rocks (Relapse) [08-12] - stoner metal
- Amy K Bormet: Tell Me What It's Like (Strange Woman) [05-16] - jazz
- Boston Manor: Datura (SharpTone) [10-14]
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Odyssey Opera: Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (BMOP Sound) [09-27] - jazz
- Boulevards: Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina Mud (Normaltown) [02-11]
- Matthew Bourne/Emil Karlsen: The Embalmer (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Claudia Bouvette: The Paradise Club () [05-20]
- Wade Bowen: Somewhere Between the Secret and the Truth (Bowen Sounds) [08-12] - country
- Bowling for Soup: Pop Drunk Snot Bread (Brando) [04-22]
- The Bowling Green: Self-Titled (Landline) [11-25]
- Tim Bowness: Butterfly Mind (InsideOut) [08-05]
- Boy Harsher: The Runner [Original Soundtrack] (Nude Club) [01-21]
- Boyhood: My Dread () [11-18]
- Boyo: Echoes Like Memories () [03-11]
- The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness: The Third Wave Of . . . ()
- Andrea Brachfeld & Insight: Evolution (Origin) - jazz
- Brainwaltzera: Itsame () [04-01] - IDM
- Brakence: Hypochondriac ()
- Michelle Branch: The Trouble With Fever (Nonesuch) [09-16]
- Branko: OBG ()
- bRavenous: Ghosts of Rockingham Vol 1 () [03-18] - hip-hop
- bRavenous: Ghosts of Rockingham Vol 2 () [07-29] - hip-hop
- Braxe & Falcon: Step by Step (Domino -EP) [06-24] - synthpop
- Anthony Braxton/James Fei: Duet (Other Minds) 2021 (Other Minds) [09-02] - jazz
- Tyondai Braxton: Telekinesis (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) [11-11] -
- Breanna Barbara: Nothin' but Time (Fuzz Club)
- Breaka: We Move () [02-18] - breakbeat
- Breland: Cross Country (Atlantic) [09-09] - country
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Fire Doesn't Grow on Trees (A) [06-24]
- Olie Brice Trio/Octet: Fire Hils (West Hill) - jazz
- Brigade: Dissonance () [05-13]
- Brim: California Gold (Royal Oakie)
- Brimheim: Can't Hate Myself Into a Different Shape () [01-28] - singer-songwriter
- Brittle Brian: Biodiesel (LocalHost3000)
- Jack Broadbent: Ride (Crow's Feet) [04-08] - blues
- Brockhampton: TM (Question Everything/RCA) [11-18] - hip-hop
- Brockhampton: The Family (Question Everything/RCA) [11-17] - pop rap
- Broken Bells: Into the Blue (AWAL) [10-07] - indie pop
- The Bros Landreth: Come Morning () [05-13]
- The Brother Brothers: Cover to Cover (Compass) [08-05]
- The Brother Moves On: $/he Who Feeds You . . . Owns You (Native Rebel) [10-28]
- Brother Smith: La Sinfonia Del Vaquero Suburbano () - country
- Peter Brotzmann/Keiji Haino: The Intellect Given Birth to Here (Eternity) Is Too Young (Black Editions) [09-12] - jazz
- Alex Brown: The Dark Fire Sessions (self) - jazz
- Blade Brown/K-Trap: Joints () [03-25] - UK hip-hop
- Kane Brown: Different Man () [09-09] - country pop
- The Brown Brothers: Explain Relativity (Brincadeiro -21) - jazz
- Brutus: Unison Life (Sargent House) [10-21] - post-hardcore
- Zach Bryan: Summertime Blues (Belting Bronco/Warner Music -EP) - country
- Michael Buble: Higher (Reprise) [03-25]
- Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler: For All Our Days That Tear the Heart (EMI) [06-10]
- Mariel Buckley: Everywhere I Used to Be (Birthday Cake) [08-12] - country
- Buddy: Superghetto (RCA) [03-25]
- Built to Spill: When the Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop) [09-09] - indie rock
- Buke and Gase/Rahrah Gabor: Buke and Gase + Rahrah Gabor (Brassland -EP) [ 02-11]
- Basia Bulat: The Garden (Secret City) [02-25]
- Bunuel: Killers Like Us (Profound Lore) - heavy noise-rock
- Burd Ellen: A Tarot of the Green Wood () - folk
- Dai Burger: Back in Ya Mouf (self-released -21) [2021-12-10] - hip-hop
- Rob Burger: Marching With Feathers (Western Vinyl) [02-11]
- Tim Burgess: Typical Music (Bella Union) [09-23] - psychedelic pop
- T Bone Burnett/Jay Bellerose/Keefus Ciancia: The Invisible Light: Spells (Verve) [08-05]
- Joshua Burnside: Late Afternoon in the Meadow (1887) () [11-18]
- Bush: The Art of Survival (BMG) [10-07]
- Lauren Bush: Dream Away (self -21) - vocal jazz
- Sam Bush: Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways) - folk
- Buster Shuffle: Go Steady ()
- John Butcher/Thomas Lehn/Gino Robair: Shaped & Chased (Ni Vu Ni Connu) - jazz
- John Butcher/Angharad Davies/Matt Davis/Dominic Lash/Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Nodosus (Empty Birdcage) - jazz
- Taurey Butler: One of the Others (Justin Time) - jazz
- Igor Butman: Only Now (self) - jazz
- Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: Backhand Deals (Communion Records) [02-25]
- Buzzcocks: Sonics in the Soul (Cherry Red) [09-23]
- Bvdub: Violet Opposition () [02-04]
- Valentin Caamano: All the Gods (Tiny Moon) - jazz
- Cabal: Magno Interitus (Nuclear Blast) [10-21]
- Cactus Lee: Perfect Middle Hall ()
- Cafe Kaput: Maritime: Themes & Textures (Clay Pipe Music) [03-11] - ambient
- Cage Fight: Cage Fight (Candlelight) [05-13]
- Cakes Da Killa: Svengali (Young Art) [10-28] - hip-hop
- Calamine: Lesbienne Woke Sur L'Autotune () [07-08]
- Zachary Cale: Skywriting ()
- Caliban: Dystopia (Century Media) [04-22]
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Blind Date Party (Drag City -21) [2021-12-10]
- The Callous Daoboys: Celebrity Therapist (MNRK) [09-02] - mathcore
- Cam'ron & A-Trak: U Wasn't There (Empire) [09-23] - hip-hop
- Cameron/Horne/Flaten/Thomas: Place Is the Space (Personal Archives) - jazz
- Alex Cameron: Oxy Music (Secretly Canadian) [03-11] - soft rock
- Lisa Cameron/Damon Smith/Alex Cunningham: Time Without Hours (Storm Cellar) [10-11] - jazz
- Camilo: De Adentro Pa Afuera () [09-06]
- Camp Trash: The Long Way, the Slow Way () [07-01] - emo
- Lomond Campbell: Under This Hunger Moon We Fell (One Little) [11-04]
- Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs: External Combustion () [03-04]
- Rodrigo Campos/Jucara Marcal/Gui Amabis: Sambas Do Absurdo, Vol 2 () [W|]
- Cancer Bats: Psychic Jailbreak (Bat Skull/New Damage) [04-15]
- Candelabrum: Nocturnal Trance () [04-29] - atmospheric black metal
- Candlemass: Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm) [11-18] - metal
- Candy: Heaven Is Here (Relapse) [06-24] - metal
- Laura Cannell: Antiphony of the Trees () [03-11]
- Cannons: Fever Dream (Columbia) [03-25]
- Chris Canterbury: Quaalude Lullabies ()
- Ilaria Capalbo: Karthago (Bluenord) - jazz
- Lucio Capece/Katie Porter: Phase to Phase (Ftarri) - jazz
- Cecile Cappozzo Quintet: Hymne D'Automne (Ayler) - jazz
- Garrett T Capps & Nasa Country: People Are Beautiful (Spaceflight)
- Caracara: New Preoccupations (Memory Music) [03-25] - indie rock
- Cardinal Black: January Came Close ()
- S Carey: Break Me Open (Jagjaguwar) [04-22]
- Rosie Carney: I Wanna Feel Happy (Color Study) [05-27]
- Caroline No: Caroline No (Grapefruit) [02-04] - alt/indie
- Carpenter Brut: Leather Terror (No Quarter) [04-01] - darksynth
- Carpool: For Nasal Use Only () [09-23] - emo-pop
- Nica Carrington: Times Like These (self-released) - vocal jazz
- Carrion Vael: Abhorrent Obsessions (Unique Leader) [08-12] - metal
- Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/Eric Plaks/Zach Swanson/Jon Panikkar: Open Question Vol 1 (577) [01-22] - jazz
- Tom Caruana: Strange Planet (Tea Sea) [03-04] - hip-hop
- Casper: Alles War Schon Und Nichts Tat Weh ()
- Cassels: A Gut Feeling () [02-04]
- Cassyette: Sad Girl () [11-10]
- Matt Castillo: How the River Flows (Texace) [03-04] - country
- Castrator: Defiled in Oblivion (Dark Descent) [07-22] - death metal
- Philip Catherine/Paulo Morello/Sven Faller: Pourquoi (Enja/Yellowbird) [01-09] - jazz
- Cats in Space: Kickstart the Sun ()
- Caleb Caudle: Forsythia (Soundly Music) [07-10] - country
- Nick Cave: Seven Psalms (Cave Things -EP) [06-17] - spoken word
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: La Panthere Des Neiges (Lakeshore -21) [2021-12-17] - soundtrack
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Blonde () [09-28] - ambient
- Cave States: Liminal (self-released) [07-10]
- Cavetown: Worm Food (Sire) [11-04] - indie pop
- CB: A Drillers Perspective 2 () [07-08] - UK drill
- CB3: Exploration (Majestic Mountain)
- CEO Trayle: HH5 (Do What You Love/10K Projects) - hip-hop
- Celeste: Assassine(s) (Nuclear Blast) [01-28] - black metal
- Celestial Season: Mysterium I (Burning World) [04-22] - metal
- Central: Up and Down () [09-30] - tech house
- Central: Softness () [08-12] - house
- Helena Celle: Music for Counterflows (False Walls) [07-15]
- Ceramic Animal: Sweet Unknown () [03-04]
- Ernesto Cervini: Joy (Three Pines) - jazz
- The Chainsmokers: So Far So Good (Disruptor/Columbia) [05-13] - shitcore
- Greg Chako: Friends, Old & New (Mint 400) - jazz
- Kerri Chandler: Spaces and Places () [09-26] - house
- Johnny Chang/Keir GoGwilt: Hope Lies Fallow (Another Timbre)
- Tom Chaplin: Midpoint (BMG) [09-02]
- Charger: Warhorse ()
- Tanika Charles: Papillon De Nuit: The Night Butterfly (Record Kicks) - vocal jazz
- Catherine Marie Charlton: Simple Gifts: Solo Piano for the Holidays (self-released) - jazz
- Justin Chart: Live in Los Angeles (Universal -21) - jazz
- Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room (Universal) - jazz
- Chase and Status: What Came Before (Virgin EMI) [06-10]
- Chastity: Suffer Summer (Deathwish) [01-13] - indie rock
- Cheerbleederz: Even in Jest (Alcopop!) [07-27]
- The Chemistry Set: Pink Felt Trip (Fruits De Mer) [06-03]
- Eric Chenaux: Say Laura (Constellation) [02-18]
- Chelsea: Evacuate Revisited ()
- Antoine Chessex/Francisco Meirino/Jerome Noetinger: Maiandros (Cave12) - jazz
- Chez Kane: Powerzone ()
- Chief and the Doomsday Device: Flux Populi (Frownland)
- Child of Illusion: Khimaira (Relative Pitch) [05-13] - jazz
- Matt Choboter's Hypnopompia: Sleep Inertia (Songlines) - jazz
- Chrisman: Makila (Hakuna Kulala) -
- Christian Death: Evil Becomes Rule (Season of Mist) [05-06] - metal
- Christine and the Queens: Redcar Les Adorable Etoiles (Prologue) (Because Music) [11-11] - synthpop
- Evan Christopher: Blues in the Air: The Music of Sidney Bechet (Camille Productions) [07-31] - jazz
- Quinn Christopherson: Write Your Name in Pink (PIAS) [09-16]
- Chrome Canyon: Director (Stones Throw) [02-11]
- Chris Church: Darling Please () [01-21]
- Cigar: The Visitor () [09-09]
- Circa Survive: A Dream About Death (Rise -EP) [02-04] - metal
- Cirrus: Chorale (SabMusic -21) - jazz
- Ablaye Cissoko/Cyrille Brotto: Instant (Ma Case)
- City of Caterpillar: Mystic Sisters (Relapse) [09-30] - post-hardcore
- Civil War: Invaders () [06-17]
- Clamm: Care (Chapter Music) [08-19]
- Claude: A Lot's Gonna Change ()
- Willie Clayton: Caesar Soul & Blues () - blues
- Clean Cut Kid: Hiss (Alcopop!) [11-11]
- Benjamin Clementine: And I Have Been (Preserve Artists) [10-28]
- Clever Hopes: Artefact () [01-20]
- Jimmy Cliff: Refugees () [08-12] - reggae
- Cliffdiver: Exercise Your Demons () [05-06] - pop punk
- Cloakroom: Dissolution Wave (Relapse) [01-28] - shoegaze
- Cloud Rat: Threshold (Artoffact) [10-07] - grindcore
- Michel Cloup: Backflipp Au-Dessus Du Chaos ()
- Clutch: Sunrise on Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker) [09-16] - stoner rock
- Coach Party: Nothing Is Real (Chess Club -EP) [04-29]
- Coast Contra: Apt 505 () [03-24] - hip-hop
- Cash Cobain & Chow Lee: 2 Slizzy 2 Sexy (Deluxe) (self-released) [04-01] - hip-hop
- Peter Coccoma: A Place to Begin () [05-20]
- The Cockney Rejects: Power Grab ()
- Laura Cocks: Field Anatomies (Carrier) [02-22] - electroacoustic
- Coconut Cream: What Kind of Music Do You Like to Listen To? (Broth -EP) [02-18]
- Diane Coffee: With People (Polyvinyl) [04-29]
- The Coffis Brothers: Turn My Radio Up (Blue Rose) - Americana
- Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind (Roadrunner) [06-24]
- Ezra Cohen: The Sweet Million (Relief Map/Dead Broke Rekerds) [04-01]
- Gabriela Cohen: Blue No More () [01-21]
- Sam Cohen: Slow Fawn ()
- Coin: Uncanny Valley () [03-25] - indie pop
- Col3trane: Lush Life (Trane of Thought) [05-06] - r&b
- Cold Years: Goodbye to Misery (Inside Job/MNRK UK) [04-22]
- Anthony Coleman & Brian Chase: Arcades (Chaikin) [03-25] - jazz
- Brandon Coleman: Interstellar Black Space () [05-20]
- Collective Soul: Vibrating () [08-12]
- Jon Collin: Bridge Variations (Discreet)
- Collins: Skinis () [07-22]
- Judy Collins: Spellbound (Cleopatra) [02-25] - singer-songwriter
- Color Green: Color Green (Aquarium Drunkard)
- Colour Haze: Sacred (Elektrohasch)
- Combo Chimbita: Ire (Anti-) [01-28] - cumbia
- The Cookers Quintet: The Path (Muzak) [06-22] - jazz
- ChimyTina [Martina DaSilva & Dan Chmielinski]: Constellations (La Reserve) [06-17] - jazz
- Andrew Combs: Sundays (Tone Tree Music) [08-19]
- Comeback Kid: Heavy Steps (Nuclear Blast) [01-21] - hardcore punk
- The Comfort: Experience Everything. Live and Die ()
- The Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Holding Pattern (JazzHaus Musik) - jazz
- Conjurer: Pathos (Nuclear Blast) [07-01] - metal
- Connie Constance: Miss Power (PIAS) [11-04]
- Will Joseph Cook: Every Single Thing (Bad Hotel) [06-10]
- The Cool Greenhouse: Sod's Toastie (Melodic) [11-11]
- The Cool Kids: Before Shit Got Weird (Sounds Like Fun/Empire) [03-03] - hip-hop
- Cool Sounds: Like That () [10-07]
- Claude Cooper: Myriad Sounds () [01-28] - jazz
- Shane Cooper & Mabuta: Finish the Sun (Dox) - jazz
- Mike Cooper: Oceans of Milk and Treacle ()
- Pabi Cooper: Cooperville ()
- Cooper Moore & Stephen Gauci: Conversations Vol 2 (577) [02-04] - jazz
- Cooper Moore/Stephen Gauci: Live at Roulette ( Gaucimusic) [08-12] - jazz
- Cordae: From a Bird's Eye View (Atlantic) [01-14] - hip-hop
- Dale Cornish: Traditional Music of South London (The Death of Rave) [10-21] - electronic
- Hugh Cornwell: Moments of Madness (HIS) [10-21] - rock
- The Coronas: Time Stopped () [10-07]
- Eliane Correa & La Evolucion: Signo de Fuego (Somas Mas) [04-08] - jazz
- Barney Cortez: Hullabaloo ()
- Chris Cortez: Live at Blue Bamboo (Blue Bamboo) [09-01] - jazz
- Cosey Fanni Tutti: Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes (Conspiracy International) [09-16] - soundtrack
- Cosmic Putrefaction: Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones (Profound Lore) [05-06] - metal
- Cosmic Guilt: Cosmic Guilt () [04-19]
- Frankie Cosmos: Inner World Peace (Sub Pop) [10-21] - bedroom pop
- Alison Cotton: The Portrait You Painted of Me (Rocket) [05-20] - modern classical
- Coughin' Vicars: Ritual Discipline () [01-28]
- Jemima Coulter: Grace After a Party (Hand in Hive) [07-29]
- Counterparts: A Eulogy for Those Still Here (Pure Noise) [10-07] - metalcore
- Courting: Guitar Music (PIAS) [09-23] - post-punk
- Martin Courtney: Magic Sign (Domino) [06-24]
- Cowboy Junkies: Songs of the Recollection (Proper) [03-25]
- The Cowsills: Rhythm of the World (Omnivore) [09-30] - folk
- Carl Cox: Electronic Generations () -
- Crack Cloud: Tough Baby (Meat Machine) [09-16] - post-punk
- Isla Craig: Echo's Reach ()
- Kurt Crandall: Starts On the Stops (Yester Year) - blues
- Crashed Out: Against All Odds ()
- Nicholas Craven/Boldy James: Fair Exchange No Robbery (Nicholas Craven Productions) [09-30] - hip-hop
- Crawlers: Loud Without Noise () [11-04]
- The Creator Tyler: Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia) [06-24]
- Creeping Jean: When's the Blowout? (Mature Charlton) [04-29]
- Cremation Lily: Dreams Drenched in Static (The Flenser) [04-15] - post-industrial
- Joe Crepusculo: Trovador Tecno ()
- Crime of Passing: Crime of Passing (Feel It)
- Crippled Black Phoenix: Banefyre (Season of Mist) [09-09] - metal
- Crobot: Feel This (Mascot) [06-03]
- David Crosby & the Lighthouse Band: Live at the Capitol Theatre ()
- George Crotty: Chronotope (self-released) - jazz
- Crowbar: Zero and Below (MNRK Heavy) [03-04] - sludge metal
- Crows: Beware Believers (Bad Vibrations) [04-01] - garage rock
- CRRDR: Damnbow (self-released) - electronic
- Cruel Liars: Mightmare (Kill Rock Stars) - country
- Cruel Santino: Subaru Boys: Final Heaven (Monster Boys/Interscope) [03-04] - alt r&b
- Cryalot: Icarus (AWAL -EP) [09-02] - electropop
- Crystal Eyes: The Sweetness Restored (Bobo Integral) [04-22]
- CS + Kreme: Orange (The Trilogy Tapes) [11-04] - experimental
- Cuarteto Latinoamericano: Ruperto Chapi: String Quartets 3 & 4 (Sono Luminus) [01-28] - chamber music
- Cubicolor: Sometime Not Now ()
- Cucina Povera & Ben Vince: There I See Everything ()
- Cuco: Fantasy Gateway (Interscope) [07-22]
- Gemma Cullingford: Tongue Tied () [09-02]
- The Cult: Under the Midnight Sun (Black Hill) [10-07] - hard rock
- Cult of Luna: The Long Road North (Metal Blade) [02-11] - sludge metal
- Grace Cummings: Storm Queen (ATO) [01-14] - singer-songwriter
- Jeremy Cunningham/Dustin Laurenzi/Paul Bryan: A Better Ghost (Northern Spy) - jazz
- Cupido: Sobredosis De Amor ()
- Alvin Curran: Drumming Up Trouble () [09-02]
- Current 93: If a City Is Set Upon a Hill (House of Mythology) [03-11] - neofolk
- Cursed Arrows: Crone (Tarantula Tapes)
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis/Laurent Nicoud: Substrate (Unit) - jazz
- Custard Flux: Phosphorus (Custard Flux)
- Andrew Cyrille/Elliot Sharp/Richard Teitelbaum: Evocation (Infrequent Seams) - jazz
- Noah Cyrus: The Hardest Part (Columbia) [09-16] - pop
- D-Block Europe: Lap 5 () [09-23]
- Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Dadawah: Peace & Love: Wadadasow (Antarctica Starts Here) - reggae
- Daddy: To a Krumm Oblivion (Michael Foster) [04-01]
- Daddy Yankee: Legendaddy (El Cartel/Republic) [03-24] - reggaeton
- Daeva: Through Sheer Will and Black Magic (20 Buck Spin) [10-14] - metal
- Caleb Dailey: Warm Evenings, Pale Mornings: Beside You Then (Moone)
- Dailey & Vincent: Let's Sing Some Country () - country
- Pan Daijing: Tissues (Pan) [01-21] - opera
- Daisy Brain: Disconnected Happy (Virgin -EP) [04-08]
- Dalek: Precipice (Ipecac) [ 04-29] - hip-hop
- Jon Daly: Ding Dong Delicious (Northern Spy) [06-10]
- Dama Scout: Gen Wo Lai (Come With Me) (Hand in Hive) [04-22]
- The Damned: A Night of a Thousand Vampires (Live in London) ()
- Dance System: In Your System (System) [04-01]
- Ami Dang: The Living World's Demands (Phantom Limb/Leaving) [11-04]
- Johnny Ray Daniels: Whatever You Need (Bible & Tire) [04-15] - gospel
- Matt Daniel: All I'll Ever Need (self-released) [02-11] - country
- Avishai Darash Featuring Marmoucha Orchestra: Andalusian Love Song (Marmoucha/SENA) - jazz
- Dark Funeral: We Are the Apocalypse (Century Media) [03-18] - metal
- Darkher: The Buried Storm () [04-15] - ethereal wave
- Darkthrone: Astral Fortress (Peaceville) [10-28] - metal
- Dartz: The Band From Wellington, New Zealand (Flying Nun)
- Das Kondensat: 2 (Why Play Jazz -21)
- Dashboard Confessional: All the Truth That I Can Tell (Hidden Note/AWAL) [02-25]
- Craig David: 22 (BMG) [09-30]
- Ashley Davies: Gold ()
- Datura: Arcano Chemical () [01-27]
- Dawes: Misadventures of Doomscroller (Rounder) [07-22]
- Jean Dawson: Chaos Now* (Dew Process) [10-07] - alt/indie
- Richard Dawson & Circle: Henki () [11-26] - art rock
- Steve Dawson: Gone, Long Gone (Black Hen) [03-18]
- Day & Taxi [Christoph Gallio/Silvan Jeger/Gerry Hemingway]: Run, the Darkness Will Come! (Pergaso -21) - jazz
- Dayglow: People in Motion (Very Nice Records/AWAL) [10-07] - synthpop
- Dazegxd: vKiss () [05-30]
- Dazy: Outofbody (Lame-O/Convulsive) [10-28]
- Lorenzo De Finti Quartet: Mysterium Lunae (Losen) - jazz
- Gaston De La Cruz Quinteto: Constelaciones (Discos ICM) [08-18] - jazz
- Gloria De Oliveira & Dean Hurley: Oceans of Time ()
- De'Wayne: My Favorite Blue Jeans (Hopeless) [10-28] - alt/indie
- Dead Cross: II (Ipecac) [10-28] - hardcore punk
- Dead Meadow: Force Form Free (Blues Funeral)
- The Dead South: Easy Listening for Jerks Part 1 (Six Shooter -EP) [03-04] - country
- The Dead South: Easy Listening for Jerks Part 2 (Six Shooter -EP) [03-04] - country
- Deadletter: Heat! (So -EP) [11-18] - post-punk
- Deaf Club: Productive Disruption (Three One G) [01-06] - hardcore punk
- Deaf Havana: The Present Is a Foreign Land (So) [07-15]
- The James Dean Joint: Cabinbuzz (Spacehawk) [07-11]
- The Dear Hunter: Antimai (Cave & Canary Goods) [07-01] - prog rock
- Dear Rouge: Spirit (Pheromone) [04-08]
- Dear Spring: Moments (Open Your Ears -EP) [06-03]
- Death's Dynamic Shroud: Darklife (100% Electronica) [09-23] - glitch pop
- Deathcrash: Return (Untitled (Recs)) [01-28] - slowcore
- Debit: The Long Count (Modern Love) [02-18] - dark ambient
- Decapitated: Cancer Culture (Nuclear Blast) [05-27] - death metal
- Decius: Vol 1 (The Leaf Label) [11-04] - acid house
- DeepChord: Functional Designs () [09-30] - ambient techno
- Deerr: Punkal ()
- Defcee & Boathouse: For All Debts Public and Private (Closed Sessions) [04-19] - hip-hop
- Dehd: Blue Skies (Fat Possum) [05-27]
- Dei Kjenslevare: Kjenslevarulv () [02-04]
- Deja Vega: Personal Hell (Paperhead) [01-21] - punk rock
- Delicate Steve: After Hours ()
- Deliluh: Fault Lines (Tin Angel) [06-10]
- Delivery: Forever Giving Handshakes () [11-11]
- Dell Lillinger Westergaard & Maneri: Monuments (Edition Niehler Werft) - jazz
- Georg Demel Quartett: Pale Blue Dot (Unit -21) - jazz
- Matt DeMello: Confetti in a Coalmine () [07-29]
- Demiricous: Chaotic Lethal (Post) - metal
- Dendrons: 5-3-8 (Innovative Leisure) [08-26]
- Luis Deniz: El Tinajon () - jazz
- Deniz Tek: Long Before Day ()
- Travis Denning: Might as Well Be Me (Mercury Nashville -EP) [08-05] - country
- Depresion Sonora: El Arte De Morir Muy Despacio ()
- Der Verboten: Der Verboten (Wide Ear -21) - jazz
- Staraya Derevnya: Boulder Blues () [08-05] - krautrock
- Derviche: Murs Absurdes (Ayler) - jazz
- Deserta: Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte) [02-25]
- The Deslondes: Ways & Means (New West) [07-08]
- Marcel Dettmann: Fear of Programming () [11-25] - techno
- Erik Deutsch: La Nuit Blanche (Ropeadope) [03-04] - jazz
- Minami Deutsch: Fortune Goodies (Guruguru Brain)
- Devil Master: Ecstasies of Never Ending Night (Relapse) [04-29] - metal
- The Devil Wears Prada: Color Decay (Solid State) [09-16] - metalcore
- Kevin Devine: Nothing's Real, So Nothing's Wrong (Triple Crown) [03-25]
- Andrew Raffo Dewar: Ekphrasis Suite (Rastascan -21) - jazz
- Alela Diane: Looking Glass () [10-14]
- The Diasonics: Origin of Forms () [01-28]
- Fatoumata Diawara: Maliba (-EP) [03-10] - African
- Madi Diaz: Same History, New Feelings (Anti- -EP) [03-04]
- Carl Didur: Maybe Next Time ()
- Die! Die! Die!: This Is Not an Island Anymore (self-released) [02-18]
- Die Hochstapler: Beauty Lies Within (Umlaut) - jazz
- Die Nerven: Die Nerven () [10-07] - alt rock
- The Difference Machine: Unmasking the Spirit Fakers () [06-28] - hip-hop
- John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Volume 1 (577) - jazz
- Mike Dimes: In Dimes We Trust (Encore) [03-08] - hip-hop
- Dirty Bird: Wagenmuzik (Gum Studio) [07-14] - 2-step
- Dischordia: Triptych (Transcending Obscurity) [04-29]
- Disco Doom: Mt Surreal (Exploding in Sound) [09-16]
- Disq: Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek) [10-07] - indie rock
- Jochen Distelmeyer: Gefuhlte Wahrheiten ()
- The Districts: Great American Painting (Fat Possum) [03-11]
- Disturbed: Divisive (Reprise) [11-18] - metal
- Ditz: The Great Regression (Alcopop!) [03-04] - post-punk
- The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway (Diva) - jazz
- Divanhana: Zavrzlama (CPL Music)
- Dividers: Crime of Passion (Primordial Void) [06-17]
- Kenyon Dixon: Closer (self-released) [05-05] - alt r&b
- DJ Drama & Jeezy: Snofall (YJ Music/Def Jam) [10-31] - hip-hop
- DJ Khaled: God Did (We the Best/Epic) [08-26] - hip-hop
- DJ Meatman: Death of Meatman (-EP)
- DJ MT7: Pior E Nada ()
- DJ Muggs & Rigz: Gold () [01-14] - hip-hop
- DJ Q: Est 2003 () [09-23] - 2-step
- DJ Pippi & Willie Graff: Follow Your Dreams () [07-08]
- DJ Python: Club Sentimientos Vol 2 (Incienso -EP) [01-21] - ambient house
- DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: Bewitched! () [08-30] - house
- DJ Skothan x DJ Scriby x DJ MaRiiO: The Gqom Trilogy LP ()
- DJ Tobzy Imole Giwa: Cruise Beat Album ()
- Djevel: Naa Skrider Natten Sort (Aftermath Music) [11-23] - metal
- Ivo Djokovic: Vera (Fifth on Acid)
- John Doe: Fables in a Foreign Land (Fat Possum) [05-20]
- Dog Unit: Turn Right and Right Again (Brace Yourself -EP) [03-11]
- Peter Doherty & Frederic Lo: The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime () [03-18]
- Doldrum: The Knocking, or the Story of the Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance () [05-27] - black metal
- Magnus Dolerud/Hans Backenroth/Oscar Johansson Werre: Trio Circle (Prophone) - jazz
- Thomas Dollbaum: Wellswood () [05-20]
- James Domestic: Carrion Repeating () [03-09]
- Domestic Terminal: All the Stories Left to Tell () [07-23]
- Chano Dominguez/Rubem Dantas/Hamilton de Holanda: Chabem (Altafonte) [02-16] - jazz
- Michel Doneda: Path Under (Micro-label) - jazz
- Roberta Donnay: Blossom-ing! (self-released) - jazz
- Donnie Ray: I'm Just the Man for You () - blues
- DoomCannon: Renaissance (Brownswood) [07-15]
- Dopapod: Dopapod () [05-27]
- Dope Lemon: Rose Pink Cadillac (BMG) [01-07] - hypnagogic pop
- Doric String Quartet/Timothy Ridout: Mendelssohn: The String Quartets (Chandos) [03-04] - classical
- Dorothy: Gifts From the Holy Ghost (Spinefarm) [04-22] - metal
- Iann Dorr: On to Better Things (10k) [01-21] - pop rap
- Dave Douglas Quintet: Songs of Ascent: Book 2 -- Steps (Greenleaf Music) [10-07] - jazz
- Johnny Dowd: Homemade Pie () [01-01]
- Cat Dowling: Animals () [01-28]
- Chet Doxas: Rich in Symbols II (Justin Time) - jazz
- Aoife Doyle: Infinitely Clear () [04-22]
- Tara Nome Doyle: Vaermin (Modern) [01-28] - indie pop
- Dragonette: Twennies (BMG) [10-28]
- Drakeo the Ruler: Keep the Truth Alive (Stinc Team) [09-30] - hip-hop
- Paul Draper: Cult Leader Tactics (Kscope) [01-28]
- The Dream Syndicate: Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions (Fire) [06-10]
- Dream Unending: Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin) [11-11] - doom metal
- Dream Widow: Dream Widow (Roswell -EP) [03-25] - thrash metal
- Dreamstruck [Marilyn Crispell/Joe Fonda/Harvey Sorgen]: With Grace in Mind (Fundacja Sluchaj) [08-26] - jazz
- Dreamville: D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape (Dreamville) [03-31] - hip-hop
- Bernie Dresel: The Pugilist (self-released -21) - jazz
- Jorge Drexler: Tinta Y Tiempo (Sony Espana) [04-22]
- Dropkick Murphys: This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music) [09-30] - folk rock
- Dropper: Don't Talk to Me (Dirt Dog) [02-10]
- Drudkh: All Belong to the Night (Season of Mist) [11-11] - atmospheric black metal
- Drug Couple: Stoned Weekend () [02-18]
- Drugdealer: Hiding in Plain Sight (Mexican Summer) [10-28]
- Kevin Drumm: Future When It Comes (self-released) [01-26]
- The Dry Retch: Operation Uranus () [01-22]
- Dub War: Westgate Under Fire (Earache) [08-05]
- Dukwa: Precipice (Ipecac)
- Dumb: Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint) [11-04]
- Dummy: Mono Retriever/Pepsi Vacuum (Sub Pop)
- C Duncan: Alluvium (Bella Union) [05-06]
- JB Dunckel: Carbon () [06-24]
- Cy Dune: Against Face (Lightning Studios) [03-03]
- Dune Rats: Real Rare Whale (Ratbag/BMG) [07-29] - pop punk
- Dune Sea: Orbital Distribution (All Good Clean)
- DunkelpeK: Fire's Hush (AKP) - jazz
- Nick Dunston: Spider Season (Out of Your Head) [07-15] - jazz
- Peggy Duquesnel: Piano for My Soul (Joyspring Music) [02-17] - new age
- Hilario Duran/David Virelles: Front Street Duets (Alma) - jazz
- Carolina Durante: Cuatro Chavales ()
- The Dusseldorf Dusterboys: Duo Duo ()
- Dust Star: Open Up That Heart (Lame-O) [08-05]
- Duster: Together (Numero Group) [04-01] - slowcore
- Gui Duvignau: Baden (Sunnyside) - jazz
- D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings: Troika (Inside Out Music) [02-25]
- Mark Dwane: Parallel Universe (self-released)
- Dylan: The Greatest Thing I'll Never Learn (Island) [10-28]
- Dynastic: I Know There's Something Left for You () [02-04]
- Gogi Dzodzuashvili and Mzia Arabuli: Ias Utkharit (CES) - world
- Eades: Delusion Spree (Heist or Hit) [03-04] - post-punk
- Eamon: Nop Matter the Season (Now-Again)
- Earthen Sea: Ghost Poems () [04-15]
- Earthless: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Nuclear Blast) [01-28] - heavy psych
- Dave Easley: Byways of the Moon (Big Ego -21) [2021-12-03] - jazz
- Angela Easterling: Witness () [10-28]
- Easy Life: Maybe in Another Life . . . (Island) [10-07] - indie pop
- Yelena Eckemoff: Colors Live at KITO Bremen (L&H Production) - jazz
- Rachel Eckroth: Common Mutatios (Rainy Days -EP) [02-11] - jazz
- Ecstatic Vision: Elusive Mojo (Heavy Psych Sounds) [05-13] - heavy stoner rock
- Edena Gardens: Edena Gardens () [10-28] - space rock
- Iris Ederer/NO Moore/Eddie Prevost: Traktor (Shrike) - jazz
- Editors: EBM (PIAS) [09-23] - synthpop
- Editrix: Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell (EIS)
- John Edwards/NO Moore/Eddie Prevost/Alan Wilkinson: EMPoWered (577 -21) - jazz
- Joel Eel: Love Infinity (Perpetual Care) [05-12] - IDM
- Eerie Wanda: Internal Radio (Joyful Noise) [09-23]
- EggS: A Glitter Year () [11-04]
- Ego Ella May: Fieldnotes Pt II (-EP) [03-08] - neo-soul
- James Ehnes/Sir Andrew Davis/BBC Orchestra: Berg: Violin Concerto/Three Orchestral Pieces/Piano Sonata/Passacaglia (Chandos) [10-07] - classical
- Markus Eichenberger/Christoph Gallio: Unison Polyphony (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
- Eight Bells: Legacy of Ruin (Prophecy) [02-25] - doom metal
- Billie Eilish: Guitar Songs (Darkroom/Interscope -EP) [07-21]
- Ekkstacy: Misery (United Masters) [09-30]
- Ekoda & Angel Starbath: Wandering Soul (self-released)
- El Alfa: Sabiduria () [04-08]
- El Payo: In Motion ()
- Elder: Innate Passage (Armageddon Shop) [11-25] - stoner rock
- Brett Eldredge: Songs About You (Rhino) [06-17]
- Electric Callboy: Tekkno (Century Media) [09-16] - metalcore
- Elevator: The Words You Spoke Still Move Me (Arts & Crafts) [05-06]
- Elf Power: Artificial Countrysides (Yep Roc) [07-15] - alt/indie
- Danny Elfman: Bigger Messier (Anti-) [08-12] - remix
- Eliminator: Ancient Light () [01-14] - metal
- Elio: Elio's Inferno () [08-05] - electropop
- Eliza: A Sky Without Stars ()
- Elkhorn: Distances (Feeding Tube)
- Mark Ellestad: Discreet Angel (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Ellevator: The Words You Spoke Still Move Me (Arts & Crafts) [05-06]
- Rufus Isabel Elliot & Harry Gorski-Brown: Three Sexual Pieces for Solo Violin (This and This and This) () [02-17]
- Joey Ellis: Peaceful Place (Oti-O) - jazz
- Tinsley Ellils: Devil May Care (Alligator) - blues
- ELMA: Licentia Poetica (Hevhetia) - jazz
- Chase Elodia: Portrait Imperfect (Biophilia) - jazz
- E-L-R: Vexier (Prophecy) [03-11] - doom metal
- Joe Ely: Flatland Lullaby (Rack 'Em) [10-21]
- Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow: Zhigeist () [03-11] - hip-hop
- Emeralds: Solar Bridge (Ghostly International) [09-30]
- Andy Emler/Claude Tchamitchian/Eric Echampard [ETE Trio]: The Useful Report (La Buissone) [02-11] - jazz
- Tom Emlyn: News From Nowhere () [05-30]
- Emotional Oranges: The Juice: Vol III () [12-09]
- END & Cult Leader: Gather & Mourn (Closed Casket Activities -EP) [09-09] - metalcore
- Clara Engel: Their Invisible Hands () [04-15] - singer-songwriter
- English Teacher: Polyawkward (Nice Swan -EP) [04-22] - art punk
- Enhypen: Manifesto: Day 1 (Be:LIFT/HYBE -EP) [07-04] - K-pop
- Enjoyable Listens: The Enjoyable Listen () [03-11]
- Brian Ennels & Infinity Knives: King Cobra (Phantom Limb) [06-17] - hip-hop
- Roger Eno: The Turning Year (Deutsche Grammophon) [04-22] - ambient
- Entel: Melodies in Harmony ()
- Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble: Mermaid's Purse ()
- Enumclaw: Save the Baby (Luminelle) [10-14]
- Envy of None: Envy of None () [04-08] - art pop
- The Ephemeron Loop: Psychonautic Escapism () [05-20] - experimental
- Epica: The Alchemy Project (Atomic Fire) [11-11]
- Epik High: Epik High Is Here ?, Pt 2 () [02-14]
- Elwood Epps & Togetherness!: Live at Resonance (self-released) - jazz
- Erasure: Day-Glo (Based on a True Story) (Mute) [08-12]
- Christoph Erb/Magda Mayas/Gerry Hemingway: Bathing Music (Veto) - jazz
- Carl Erdmann: Bizzarrophytes ()
- Erin Anne: Do Your Worst () [06-10]
- Eros: A Southern Code () [09-01] - electronic
- Peter Erskine/Alan Pasqua/Darek Oles: Live in Italy (Fuzzy Music) - jazz
- Erupt: Left to Rot (Static Shock -EP) [03-18] - stenchcore
- Escuela Grind: Memory Theater (MNRK Heavy) [09-30] - metal
- EST Gee: I Never Felt Nun () [09-16] - hip-hop
- Etch: The Further Adventures of the Cosmic B-Boy () [03-04]
- Eucalyptus: Moves (Telephone Explosion) [05-13] - jazz
- Juanita Euko: Mabanzo (self-released) - African
- Eunoia: Psyop of the Year (Nefarious Industries) [04-01]
- Eve 6: Hyper Relevisation () [09-22] - alt/indie
- Eventless Plot: Anisixia (Edition Wandelweiser -21) - jazz
- Evergrey: A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) (Napalm) [05-20] - prog metal
- Ex-Void: Bigger Than Before ()
- EXEK: Advertise Here (Castle Face) [02-04]
- Exhumed: To the Dead (Relapse) [10-21] - metal
- Experiment 637: Sleepwater () [09-23]
- Extinction AD: Culture of Violence (Unique Leader) [03-18]
- Extra Arms: What Is Even Happening Right Now? (Forge Again) [06-03]
- Ezmeralda: En Atomos Volando () [03-25] - ambient
- George Ezra: Gold Rush Kid (Columbia) [06-10] - pop/rock
- Fable: Shame ()
- Fader: Quartz (Blanc Check) [05-06]
- Faetooth: Remnants of the Vessel ()
- Failure: Wilde Type Droid ()
- The Faim: Talk Talk (BMG) [07-08]
- Fake Palms: Lemons (Hand Drawn Dracula) [09-16]
- Falling Fences: The Wild Sea (self-released) [10-21]
- Falls of Rauros: Key to a Vanishing Future (Gilead Media/Eisenwald) [03-25] - metal
- False Heads: Sick Moon (Scruff of the Neck) [09-30]
- Falujah: Empyrean (Nuclear Blast) [09-09] - metal
- The Family Crest: The War Act II ()
- Famyne: II: The Ground Below (Svart) [05-13]
- Fanclubwallet: You Have Got to Be Kidding Me (AWAL) [05-20]
- Forrest Fang: The Lost Seasons of Amorphia (Projekt)
- A Far Cry & Shara Nova: The Blue Hour ()
- Vicky Farewell: Sweet Company (Mac's Record Label) [04-08]
- Fashion Club: Scrutiny (Felte) [06-17]
- Fastball: The Deep End (33 1/3) [06-17]
- Wo Fat: The Singularity (Ripple Music) [05-06] - metal
- Father John Misty: Live at Electric Lady (Bella Union -EP) [09-15]
- Faust: Punkt (Bureau B) [05-13] - krautrock
- Kari Faux: Lowkey Superstar (Don Giovanni) [09-24] - hip-hop
- Feeder: Torpedo (Big Teeth) [03-18]
- Feid: Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo Te Pirateamos El Album () [09-14]
- Simone Felice: All the Bright Coins () [01-28]
- Fellowship: The Saberlight Chronicles (Scarlet) [07-15]
- Femuline Gaymeova: Todrick Hall ()
- Femur: People Parts () [09-30]
- Fenella: The Metallic Index (Fire) [11-11]
- Fennec: A Couple of Good Days () [03-11] - deep house
- Massy Ferguson: Joe's Meat & Grocery () [02-04]
- Fern Maddie: Ghost Story (self-released) [06-01]
- Plinio Fernandes: Saudade (Decca Gold) [07-08] - jazz
- Jacopo Ferrazza: Fantasia (Teal Dreamers Factory) - jazz
- Shiva Feshareki: Turning World (NMC) [05-27]
- Ficino Ensemble and Michelle O'Rourke: Folk Songs ()
- Fievel Is Glauque: Flaming Swords (La Loi) [11-25]
- Fickle Friends: Are We Gonna Be Alright? (Cooking Vinyl) [01-14] - synthpop
- Ken Field & Alieno de Bootes (Alessandro Pizzin): Alien Field (Cuneiform) [08-12] - jazz
- Field Guides: Ginkgo (Whatever's Clever) [06-24]
- Field Medic: Grow Your Hair Long if You're Wanting to See Something That You Can Change (Run for Cover) [10-14] - indie folk
- Field School: When Summer Comes ()
- Field Works: Stations (Temporary Residence) [04-01]
- Lee Fields: Sentimental Fool (Daptone) [10-28]
- Diego Figueiredo: Follow the Signs (Arbors) - jazz
- Final Light: Final Light (Red Creek) [06-24]
- Catrin Finch/Seckou Keita: Echo (Bendigedig) [05-27] - jazz
- David Finck: BASSic Instinct (Burton Avenue -21) - jazz
- Jem Finer: Hrdy Grdy (Thanet Tape Centre)
- Tim Finn & Nick Manzanera: The Ghost of Santiago (Expression) [07-28]
- Fire!: Requies (Rune Grammofon) - jazz
- Fireboy DML: Playboy (YBNL Nation/Empire) [08-05] - Afrobeat
- First Hate: Cotton Candy () [05-27]
- Brent Fischer Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition (Clavo) [09-24] - jazz
- Carl Fischer: Maynard Ferguson Spirit Medley (self-released) - jazz
- Fishbach: Avec Les Yeux () [02-25] - French pop
- Fit for an Autopsy: Oh What the Future Holds (Nuclear Blast) [01-14] - deathcore
- Fito Paez: The Golden Light ()
- Fitz & the Tantrums: Let Yourself Free (Warner) [11-11]
- George FitzGerald: Stellar Drifting (Domino) [09-02]
- Fivio Foreign: BIBLE (Columbia/RichFish) [04-08] - UK drill
- Fjort: Nichts ()
- Flanger Magazine: After the Bend ()
- The Flatliners: New Ruin (Fat Wreck Chords) [08-05] - pop punk
- Fletcher: Girl of My Dreams (Capitol) [09-16] - pop
- Flexfab & Ziller Bas: Mugogo! ()
- Antonio Flinta: Secrets of a Kiri Tree (self-released -21) - jazz
- Flo: The Lead () [07-08] - r&b
- Floating Action: Ting ()
- Floating Points: Someone Close () [11-09] - electronic
- Flock: Flock (Strut) [05-20]
- Florence + the Machine: Dance Fever (Live at Madison Square Garden) () [10-14]
- Flower-Corsano Duo: Halcyon (VHF)
- Flowerovolve: A Mosh Pit in the Clouds (-EP) [11-10]
- Lannie Flowers: Flavor of the Month ()
- Flowertruck: Partly Cloudy (Spunk/Virgin) [09-02]
- Gabby Fluke-Mogul: Love Songs (Relative Pitch) [06-10] - jazz
- Flume: Palaces (Future Classic/Transgressive) [05-20]
- The Flying Luttenbachers: Terror Iridescence (ugExplode) [04-08] - jazz
- FM: Thirteen ()
- Folly Group: Human and Kind (Technicolour -EP) [03-25]
- Robert Lester Folsom: Sunshine Only Sometimes: Archives Vol 2: 1972-1975 (Anthology) [11-11]
- Jean-Marc Foltz & Stephan Oliva: Indigo () - jazz
- Fooks Nihil: Tranquility (Unique)
- Foot: You Are Weightless (Paul Holden)
- FOQL: Wehikul () [09-08]
- Steve Forbert: Moving Through America () [05-13]
- Forenzics: Shades and Echoes () [02-04]
- Forests: Get in Losers, We're Going to Eternal Damnation () [04-01] - pop punk
- Michael Formanek Drome Trio: Were We Where We Were (Circular File) [03-18] - jazz
- Michael Formanek Quartet: Other Zones (Circular File) [09-02] - jazz
- Carla dal Forno: Come Around (Kallista) [11-04] - minimal wave
- Kevin Fort: Perspectives (Jerujazz) - jazz
- Fort Romeau: Beings of Light (Ghostly International) [02-11] - deep house
- Josephine Foster: Godmother (Fire) [01-28] - freak folk
- Matt Foster: True Needs () [10-26]
- Foushee: Softcore (RCA) [11-18] - punk
- Lancey Foux: Life in Hell () [10-28] - alt r&b
- The Rodger Fox Big Band: Reimagined! The Roger Fox Big Band Plays Sir Dave Dobbyn (T-Bones) - jazz
- Foxtails: Fawn (Skeletal Lightning) [01-14] - screamo
- Foxy Shazam: The Heart Behead You () [02-14] - rock
- Nils Frahm: Old Friends New Friends (Leiter -21) [2021-12-03] - ambient
- Nils Frahm: Music for Animals (Leiter) [09-23] -
- Aoife Nessa Frances: Protector (Partisan) [10-28]
- Carlos Franzetti Trio: In the Wee Small Hours (Sunnyside) [01-28] - jazz
- Dylan Fraser: 2030 Revolution (-EP) [08-19]
- George Freeman: Everybody Say Yeah! (Southport) - jazz
- Jemma Freeman & the Cosmic Something: Miffed (Trapped Animal) [11-25]
- Fresh: Raise Hell (Specialist Subject/Get Better) [07-01] - indie rock
- Fresh Pepper: Fresh Pepper (Telephone Explosion) [06-17]
- Jurg Frey: Reinier Van Houdt: Lieues D'Ombres (Elsewhere) - jazz
- Maia Friedman: Under the New Light (Last Gang) [03-11]
- Friends of Hell: Friends of Hell (Rise Above) [03-18] - metal
- Friendship: Love the Stranger (Merge) [07-29] - alt-country
- Frog Eyes: The Bees (Paper Bag) [04-29]
- The Front Bottoms: Theresa (Fueled by Ramen -EP) [09-02] - alt/indie
- Frontperson: Parade (Oscar Street) [04-29]
- Fucked Up: Oberon (Tankcrimes -EP) [10-07] - post-hardcore
- Fujiya & Miyagi: Slight Variations (Impossible Objects of Desire) [09-30] - alt dance
- Funeral Chic: Roman Candle (Prosthetic) [07-29]
- Furis Ignis: Decapitate the Aging World () [01-14]
- Jake Xerxes Fussell: Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors) [01-21] - singer-songwriter
- Joel Futterman: Intervals II (Fundacja Sluchaj) [08-19] - jazz
- Joel Futterman/Chad Fowler/Steve Hirsh: Ebb & Flow (Mahakala Music -2CD) [03-25] - jazz
- Future: I Never Liked You (Epic/Freebandz) [04-29] - hip-hop
- Future Teens: Self Help () [09-23]
- Fuubutsushi: Yamawarau (Cached Media) [05-07] - jazz
- Fuubutsushi: Birthingbodies EP ()
- Sean Fyfe Quartet: Late Night (Cellar) - jazz
- Kenny G: New Standards (Concord Jazz -21) [2021-12-03] - jazz
- G36 (The Bug) vs JK Flesh: Disintegration Dubs ()
- Denis Gabel: The Good Spirits Part 2 (Mons) - jazz
- Gaerea: Mirage (Season of Mist) [09-23] - metal
- Diamanda Galas: Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations) [08-26]
- Galaxian: We Are Power ()
- Galio DJ: Quibuala ()
- Nicolle Galyon: Firstborn () [07-22]
- The Game: Drillmatic: Heart vs Mind (Virgin/100 Entertainment) [08-12] - hip-hop
- Miha Gantar: Introducing (Clean Feed -5CD) [06-17] - jazz
- Helen Ganya: Polish the Machine (Bella Union) [11-18]
- Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner: Bach: St John Passion (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-04] - baroque
- Marie-Laure Garnier/arie Perbost/Aude Extremo/Nikola Nikolov/Xavier Phillips/Heloise Luzzati/David Kadouch/Celia Oneto Bensaid/Marie Vermeulin/Constance Luzzati/Quatuor Hermes/Orchestre National Avignon-Provence/Debora W: Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque (La Boite a Pepites -3CD) [11-04] - classical
- Julien Gasc: Re Eff () [09-23]
- (G)I-Dle: I Never Die (Cube Entertainment) [03-14] - K-pop
- Lukas Gabric Quartet: Double Standard (Alessa) [03-03] - jazz
- Eric Gales: Crown (Provogue) [01-28]
- Tony Gallardo: Selected Works ()
- Johnny Gandelsman: This Is America: An Anthology (Circle)
- The Garbage & the Flowers: Cinnamon Sea (Fire -EP) [05-13]
- Gabi Garbutt & the Illuminations: Cockerel (self-released) [05-20]
- Xavier Garcia & Lionel Marchetti: Symphonie (Stellage)
- Melody Gardot/Philippe Powell: Entre Eux Deux () [05-20] - vocal jazz
- Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy: Between the Bullet and the Front Sight, Casting Lots ()
- Martin Garrix: Sentio ()
- The Gathering: Beautiful Distortion (Psychonaut) [04-29]
- Stephen Gauci/Joe Hertenstein Featuring Alexander von Schlippenbach & Jan Roder: Soundlift Berlin-New York (GauciMusic) - jazz
- Stephen Gauci/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Francisco Mela: Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gaucimusic) [11-04] - jazz
- Gav & Jord: Writings Ov Tomato ()
- Dana Gavanski: When It Comes (Flemish Eye) [04-29]
- Gaye Su Akyol: Anadolu Ejderi (Glitterbeat)
- Sara Gazarek: Vanity (MRI) [10-31] - vocal jazz
- Amerigo Gazaway: The Coolout Corner (Summer Mixtape) (self-released)
- Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru (self-released) [07-01] -
- Grant Geissman: Blooz (MESA/Bluemoon) [08-19] - jazz
- Sam Gellaitry: VF Vol II () [09-23] - indietronica
- Sam Gendel + Antonia Cytrynowicz: Live a Little (Psychic Hotline) [05-13] - nu jazz
- Sam Gendel: Blueblue (Leaving) [10-14] - jazz
- Sam Gendel: Cicada Lite: Live in Texas (Unseen Worlds) [07-29] - jazz
- Alyssa Gengos: Mechanical Sweetness (EggHunt) [02-25]
- M Geddes Gengras: Expressed, I Noticed Silence (Hausu Mountain) [07-15]
- Leo Genovese: Ritual (577) [03-04] - jazz
- The Gentle Cycle: Landslide Eyes () [03-22]
- Gentle Sinners: These Actions Cannot Be Undone (Rock Action) [05-13]
- Gently Tender: Take Hold of Your Promise! ()
- Camilla George: Ibio-Ibio (Ever)
- Nico Georis: Desert Mirror EP (Leaving -EP) - ambient
- AO Gerber: Meet Me at the Gloaming (Hand in Hive/Father/Daughter) [10-14] - indie folk
- Gewandhausorchester/Andris Nelsons: Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5/Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod (Deutsche Grammophon) [02-11] - classical
- Gewandhausorchester/Herbert Blomstedt: Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 Unfinished & 9 Great (Deutsche Grammophon) [07-14] - classical
- Naama Gheber: Old Mother Hubbard (Sassy's in Town -SP) - vocal jazz
- Naama Gheber: You're Driving Me Crazy (Sassy's in Town -SP) - vocal jazz
- Naama Gheber: Dream Dancing (Sassy's in Town -SP) - jazz
- Naama Gheber: If I Knew Then (Sassy's Back in Town -SP) - vocal jazz
- Ghost Funk Orchestra: A New Kind of Love (Colemine) [10-28]
- Ghost Power: Ghost Power (Duophonic) [04-29]
- Ghost Woman: Ghost Woman (Full Time Hobby) [07-01] - indie rock
- Ghostly Kisses: Heaven, Wait () [01-28] - art pop
- Ghoulies: Halloween Special Vol 1 () [10-31]
- Ghum: Bitter () [06-17]
- Gi Gi: Sunchoke () [08-03] - ambient dub
- Eliza Gilkyson: Songs From the River Wind (Howlin' Dog) [01-14]
- Ruby Gill: I'm Gonna Die With This Frown on My Face () [09-02]
- Tania Gill Quartet: Disappearing Curiosities (self) - jazz
- Scout Gillett: No Roof No Floor (Captured Tracks) [10-28]
- James Gilmore: Decorating Time (Ears & Eyes -21) - jazz
- Gimp Fist: Unification ()
- Giraffes? Giraffes!: Death Breath (self-released)
- Girl Ultra: El Sur () [04-29]
- Girlpuppy: When I'm Alone (Royal Mountain) [10-28] - indie rock
- Girls' Generation: Forever 1 (SM Entertainment) [08-05] - K-pop
- Girls in Synthesis: The Rest Is Distraction () [10-14] - post-punk
- Parker Gispert: Golden Years (New West) [09-02]
- Giuda: Live at Punk Rock Raduno ()
- Giveon: Give or Take (Epic) [06-24] - r&b
- Glacier Veins: Lunar Reflections () [03-11]
- Gladie: Don't Know What You're in Until You're Out ()
- Robert Glasper: Black Radio III [Supreme Edition] () [10-14] - jazz
- Alice Glass: Prey//IV (Eating Glass) [02-16] - electropop
- Glass Hammer: At the Gate (Glass Hammer)
- Glass Museum: Reflet (Sbdan) [04-29] - jazz
- GloRilla: Any ways, Life's Great . . . (Universal/CMG) [11-11] - hip-hop
- Gnod: Hexen Valley (Rocket) [04-01]
- Goat: Oh Death (Rocket) [10-21]
- Goatwhore: Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven (Metal Blade) [10-07] - metal
- Godeater: Vespera () [09-30] - deathcore
- The Godfathers: Alpha Beta Gamma Delta ()
- Gold Dust: The Late Great Gold Dust (Centripetal Force)
- Gold Panda: The Work (City Slang) [11-11] - ambient
- The Golden Age of Wrestling: Crossface Chicken Wing () [02-25]
- Golden Brown: Luminous () [04-08]
- Goldfinger: Never Look Back (Deluxe) (Big Noise Music Group) [08-05]
- Eric Goletz: A New Light (Consolidated Artists Productions -21) - jazz
- Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart: Perpetual Pendulum (Smoke Sessions) [03-25] - jazz
- Golgothan: Leech (Lacerated Enemy) - death metal
- Mac Gollehon: The End Is the Beginning (Nefarious Industries) - jazz
- Phillip Golub: Filters (Greyfade) [10-28]
- Valentina Goncharova: Ocean: Symphony for Electric Violin and Other Instruments in 10+ Parts () [05-16]
- Wesley Gonzalez: Wax Limousine (Moshi Moshi) [03-18]
- Goo Goo Dolls: Chaos in Bloom (Warner) [08-12]
- The Good Ones: Rwanda . . . You See Ghosts, I See Sky (Six Degrees) [04-08]
- Goodnight Louisa: Human Danger () [01-21] - electropop
- Goon: Hour of Green Evening () [07-15] - indie rock
- Goose: Dripfield ()
- Emilio Gordoa/Don Malfon/John Edwards/Dag Magnus Narvesen: Substantial Myths (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-24] - jazz
- Matt Gordy Jazz Tonite Sextet: Be With Me (self) - jazz
- Gospel: The Loser (Dog Knights Productions) [05-13] - prog rock
- Goss: I Feel Like Planet Earth (Universal Music) [02-25]
- Goyo: En Letra De Otro () [02-24]
- Forbes Graham: Another Day, Another Vector (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Magnus Granberg: Night Will Fade and Fall Apart (Thanatosis) - jazz
- Magnus Granberg: How Lonely Sits the City? (Version for Quartet) (Meenna) - jazz
- Grandamme: Holy Mountain (Def Presse) [09-30]
- Granular Bastards: Tacit Ground (Discordian -21) - jazz
- Darrell Grant: The New Black (Lair Hill) - jazz
- Darrell Grant: Live at Birdland (Lair Hill) [07-08] - jazz
- Conan Gray: Superache (Republic) [06-24] - pop rock
- Gracie Gray: Anna () [02-04]
- Saya Gray: 19 Masters (Dirty Hit) [06-09] - indie folk
- Grave Infestation: Persecutionof the Living (Invictus Productions) - death metal
- Graywave: Rebirth (Church Road -EP) [06-24]
- Great American Ghost: Torture World (-EP) [01-20]
- Great Lakes: Contenders (HHBTM) [02-04]
- Great Looks: Bummer Year ()
- Greber: Fright Without () [09-09]
- Anthony Green: Boom. Done. () [07-22]
- Dave Green Trio + Evan Parker: Raise Four (Trio) - jazz
- Pat Green: Miles and Miles of You (Pat Green Music) [08-26] - country
- Tim Green: Eastbound Silhouettes ()
- William Clark Green: Baker Hotel (Bill Grease) [03-25] - country
- Chris Greene Quartet: PlaySpace 2: Play Harder (Single Malt) - jazz
- Diunna Greenleaf: I Ain't Playin' (Little Village) - blues
- Katie Alice Greer: Barbarism (FourFour) [06-24]
- Greet Death: New Low () [06-24] - slowcore
- David Vito Gregoli and Ricky Kej: Wild Monsson (self-released)
- John Gregorius: In Awe (Spotted Peccary)
- Greta: Forever We'll Be Dancing () [02-04]
- Grey Daze: The Phoenix (Loma Vista) [06-17]
- Greyhaven: This Bright and Beautiful World (Rude/Equal Vision) [04-15] - metalcore
- Yam Grier: Zyah Belle () - r&b
- Charlie Griffiths: Tiktaalika (InsideOut) [06-17]
- Asmik Grigorian & Lukas Geniusas: Rachmaninov: Dissonance (Alpha) [03-25] - classical
- Grim Streaker: Mind (-EP) [03-04]
- Grim104: Imperium ()
- Alexandra Grimal: Refuge (Relative Pitch) [06-17] - jazz
- Rachel Grimes: The Blue Hour () [10-14]
- Tee Grizzley: Chapters of the Trenches (Grizzley Gang/300 Entertainment) [10-14] - hip-hop
- Group Listening: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol 2 (Prah) [01-28]
- David Grubbs & Jan St Werner: Translation From Unspecified () [05-20]
- Katarina Gryvul: Tysha (Standard Deviation)
- Gudsforladt: Friendship, Love & War ()
- Guerilla Toss: Famously Alive (Sub Pop) [03-25] - noise pop
- The Guidance: This Is Now () [01-14]
- Guided by Voices: Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV) [03-04] - alt/indie
- Guided by Voices: Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (Rockathon) [07-01] - indie rock
- Mark Guiliana: Music for Doing (Colorfield) - jazz
- Guillotine Crowns: Hills to Die On () [04-29] - hip-hop
- Guitarricadelafuente: La Cantera () [05-06] - flamenco
- Gabe Gurnsey: Diablo (Phantasy Sound) [09-09]
- Mats Gustafsson & Nu Ensemble: Archival Series 002 (self-released) - jazz
- Mats Gustafsson/Tony Lugo: Vertical (Superpang) - jazz
- Robin Guthrie: Springtime (Soleil Apres Minuit -EP) [01-04] - post-rock
- Gwar: The New Dark Ages (Pit) [06-03] - metal
- Gyasi: Pronounced Jah-See (Alive Naturalsound)
- Caity Gyorgy: Featuring () - jazz
- HAAi: Baby, We're Ascending (Mute) [05-27]
- Haavard: Haavard () [11-11] - folk
- Cerys Hafana: Edyf ()
- Hagan: Textures () [10-07] - amapiano
- Sammy Hagar and the Circle: Crazy Times (Sammy Hagar) [09-30]
- Nina Hagen: Unity (Gronland) [12-09]
- Robert Haigh: Human Remains (Unseen Worlds) - 03-18
- Luke Haines & Peter Buck: All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out (Cherry Red) [10-28]
- Haiyti: I Laugh Myself Dead ()
- Nick Hakim: Cometa (ATO) [10-21]
- Halestorm: Back From the Dead (Atlantic) [05-06] - metal
- Half Man Half Biscuit: The Voltarol Years (RM Qualtrough) [02-25]
- Jimmy Hall: Ready Now () [09-16]
- Lani Hall: Seasons of Love (Herb Alpert Presents) - jazz
- Nathan Hall & the Sinister Locals: Golden Fleece (Hip Rep)
- Charlie Halloran: The Alcoa Sessions (ArtistShare) - jazz
- The Halo Effect: Days of the Lost (Nuclear Blast) [08-12] - metal
- Annie Hamilton: The Future Is Here but It Feels Kinda Like the Past () [05-20]
- Hammered Hulls: Careening (Dischord) [10-28] - punk
- Kirk Hammett: Portals (Blackened -EP) [04-23] - metal
- HamsandwicH: Magnify () [09-30]
- Daigo Hanada: Satori (Moderna) [03-04]
- The Hanging Stars: Hollow Heart (Loose) [03-25]
- Hanging the Nihilist: Prophetic Blasphemy (Prime Collective) [ 06-03]
- Darren Hanlon: Life Tax ()
- Inger Hannisdal: North South East West (Jazzland) [10-28] - jazz
- Scott Hardware: Ballad of a Tryhard (Telephone Explosion) [03-04]
- Haress: Ghosts () [05-13]
- Harkin: Honeymoon Suite (Hand Mirror) [06-17]
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers: Look Up! (Colemine) [09-16] - gospel
- Jack Harlow: Come Home the Kids Miss You (Generation Now/Warner) [05-06] - pop rap
- Georgia Harmer: Stay in Touch (Arts & Crafts) [04-22]
- Brian Harnetty: Words & Silences ()
- Rabii Harnourne & VB Kuhl: Gnawa Electric Laune II ()
- Honey Harper: Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky (ATO) [10-28]
- Zacc Harris Group: Small Wonders (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
- Dave Hartl: Tales From the Plague (self-released -21) - jazz
- Paula Hartmann: Nie Verliebt ()
- Jennifer Hartswick: Something in the Water (Mack Avenue) - jazz
- Victor Haskins: Ikigai (self-released) - jazz
- Jimmy Haslip: ARCeology: The Music of MSM Schmidt (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- Samuel Hasselhorn/Joseph Middleton: Schuert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Harmonia Mundi) [05-06] - classical
- Hater: Sincere (Fire) [05-06]
- Hath: All That Was Promised (Willowtip) [03-04] - black metal
- Hatriot: The Vale of Shadows (Massacre) [07-22]
- Haunt: Windows of Your Heart (Iron Grip) [07-14] - metal
- The Haunted Youth: Dawn of the Freak (Mayway) [11-04]
- Haunter: Discarnate Ails (Profound Lore) [05-06] - metal
- Kate Havnevik: Lightship (Continentica) [01-21]
- Hawa: Hadja Bangoura (4AD) [11-04]
- Maya Hawke: Moss (Mom + Pop) [09-23] - folk pop
- Colin Hay: Now and the Evermore (Compass) [03-18]
- Darren Hayes: Homosexual (Powdered Sugar) [10-07]
- Kevin Hays/Bill Stewart: American Ballad (RGT) [06-27] - jazz
- The Headhunters: Speakers in the House (Ropeadope) [11-04]
- Thomas Headon: Victoria (Such a Good Company -EP) [03-11]
- Healing Potpourri: Paradise ()
- Health: Disco 4 :: Part II (Loma Vista) [04-08] - electro-industrial
- HEAT: Force Majeure ()
- James Heather: Invisible Forces (Ahead of Our Time) [04-22]
- Heaven for Real: Energy Bar (Mint) [09-16] - indie rock
- The Heavy Heavy: Life and Life Only (-EP) [06-01]
- Hegge: Beyond Your Wildest Streams (Particular) [02-18] - jazz
- Tim Heidecker: High School (Spacebomb) [06-24]
- Heidrunna: Melodramatic () [04-21]
- Elliah Heifetz: First Generation American (self-released) [04-01]
- Heilung: Drif (Season of Mist) [08-19] - dark folk
- Heith: X, Wheel ()
- Hekla: Xiuxiuejar (Phantom Limb)
- Gilad Hekselman: Far Star (Edition) [05-13] - jazz
- Lande Hekt: House Without a View () [09-23] - indie pop
- Sven Helbig: Skills () [02-04]
- The Hellacopters: Eyes of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast) [04-01] - hard rock
- Helms Alee: Keep This Be the Way (Sargent House) [04-29]
- Helpless: Caged in Gold (Church Road) [03-25] - mathcore
- David Helpling: In (Spotted Peccary)
- Helven: Volume 1 (-EP) [01-14]
- Samm Henshaw: Untidy Soul (Dorm Seven/AWAL) [01-28] - r&b
- Maximilian Hering: Nostalgia (Klangraum) [01-07] - jazz
- Heriot: Profound Morality (Church Road -EP) [04-29] - sludge metal
- Yaron Herman: Alma () - jazz
- Hermanos Gutierrez: El Bueno Y El Malo (Easy Eye Sound) [10-28] - jazz
- Mari Herzer: Cheia () -
- Richard X Heyman: 67,000 Miles an Album () [10-21] - alt rock
- Charlie Hickey: Nervous at Night (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) [05-20]
- DeShawn Hickman With Charlie Hunter: Drums, Roots & Steel (The Little Village Foundation) - jazz
- High Command: Eclipse of the Dual Moons (Southern Lord) [11-25] - metal
- High Pulp: Pursuit of Ends (Anti-) [04-15]
- High Vis: Blending (Dais) [09-30]
- Utada Hikaru: BAD Mode (Epic) [01-19] - art pop
- Marian Hill: Why Can't We Just Pretend? () [04-13]
- Veda Hille: Beach Practice ()
- Lisa Hilton: Paradise Cave (Ruby Slippers) - jazz
- Hilyard: A Wake in Shadows (Stereoscenic)
- Hissing: Hypervirulence Architecture (Profound Lore) [07-15] - metal
- Robyn Hitchcock: Shufflemania (self-released) [10-21]
- HiTech: HiTech (FXHE) [09-02] - hip-hop
- Ho99o9: Skin ( DTA) [03-11] - digital hardcore
- Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra: Conspiracy (Mons) - jazz
- Will Hoge: Wings on My Shoes ()
- David Hohme: Where My Heart Is Vol 4 ()
- Robin Holcomb: One Way or Another, Vol 1 (Songlines) [10-14] - jazz
- Sigurd Hole: Roraima (self) - jazz
- Patrick Holland: You're the Boss (Sinderlyn/Next Door) [07-29] - bedroom pop
- Freya Josephine Hollick: The Real World () [09-30]
- Hollywood Undead: Hotel Kalifornia (BMG) [08-12] - metalcore
- Holy Coves: Druids and Bards () [10-14]
- Holy Fawn: Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega/Triple Crown) [09-09] - post-metal
- Rick Holmstrom: Get It! (LuEllie) [03-04]
- Holodrum: Holodrum () [02-25]
- Home Counties: In a Middle English Town (Alcopop! -EP) [02-11]
- Honeyglaze: Honeyglaze (Speedy Wunderground/Heist or Hit) [04-29] - indie rock
- Hoodoo Gurus: Chariots of the Gods (Big Time/EMI) [03-11]
- Hook: From, Hook () [01-23] - cloud rap
- Jesca Hoop: Order of Romance (Memphis Industries) [09-16] - singer-songwriter
- Hooveriii: A Round of Applause (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [07-29]
- Horn: Verzet (Black Metal) [05-17] - black metal
- Jana Horn: Optimism (No Quarter) [01-21] - indie folk
- Bruce Hornsby: 'Flicted (Zappo) - jazz
- Horrid1 & Sav'o: Violent Siblings () [01-14]
- Horse Jumper of Love: Natural Part (Run for Cover) [06-17]
- Hot Milk: The King and Queen of Gasoline (Music for Nations -EP) [08-05]
- Hot Water Music: Feel the Void (Equal Vision/End Hits) [03-18]
- The House of Love: A State of Grace (Cherry Red) [09-16]
- Housekeys: Exploded Views (Slow Echo)
- Billy Howerdel: What Normal Was (Rise) [08-09] - alt rock
- Elaine Howley: The Distance Between Heart and Mouth (Touch Sensitive) [08-12]
- Reid Hoyson: Your Move (self) - jazz
- HTRK: Death Is a Dream () [04-29] - ambient pop
- The HU: Rumble of Thunder (Better Noise Music) [09-02]
- Warren Hue: Boy of the Year (88rising) [07-29]
- Fana Hues: Flora + Fana () [03-25] - r&b
- Jack Hues & the Quartet: Epigonal Quark (Dawn Chorus)
- Hugar: Rift (XXIM) [01-21]
- The Howard Hughes Suite: High & Lonesome (self-released) - jazz
- Hugjiltu: Cycle (Dusty Ballz) - jazz
- Hulder: The Eternal Fanfare (20 Buck Spin -EP) [07-01] - metal
- Chris Humphrey: The Voice of Clark Terry (Phreydom Music) - jazz
- M Huncho: Chasing Euphoria () [05-20] - UK hip-hop
- Johnny Hunter: Want () [06-24]
- Hunting: You've Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart) (Nevado) [11-11]
- Shirley Hurt: Shirley Hurt (Telephone Explosion) [12-02]
- Hush & Bobby J From Rockaway: 7182313 () [06-28] - hip-hop
- Christian Lee Hutson: Quitters (Anti-) [04-01]
- Hyd: Clearing (PC Music) [11-11] - electropop
- Hypaphonik: Altair () [03-25]
- Hyper.Object: Inter.Independence (Phonogram Unit) [04-01] - jazz
- I Just Came From the Moon: And Ud (April) [02-25] - jazz
- I Prevail: True Power (Fearless) [08-19] - metalcore
- I Was a King: Follow Me Home ()
- I_O Lights: Warehouse Summer (Armada Music)
- I-sef U-sef: Consistency () [02-14]
- Iamamiwhoami: Be Here Soon (To Whom It May Concern) [06-03] - art pop
- Iamkyami: The Kenny Klubhouse (Heist or Hit -EP) [04-29]
- Janis Ian: The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl) [01-21]
- Ianai: Sunir (Svart) [06-10]
- Ibaraki: Rashomon (Nuclear Blast) [05-06] - metal
- Ibeyi: Spell 31 (XL) [05-06] - art pop
- Ic3peak: Kiss of Death () [04-22]
- Iceberg: Final Thaw (Astral Spirits) [07-29] - jazz
- Iceboy Violet: The Vanity Project (2 B Real) [02-26] - hip-hop
- IDK: Simple. (Clue/Warner) [05-06] - hip-hop
- If I Die Today: The Abyss in Silence (Argonauta) [04-29]
- Ignite: Ignite (Century Media) [03-25] - melodic hardcore
- Andreas Ihlebaek: A Summer Night's Home Session (NXN)
- Iiteration: Forgiven (Dream Catalog) [12-22] - ambient
- Ikarus: Plasma (Ronin Rhythm) - jazz
- ILe: Nacarile (Sony) [10-21]
- Ilmiliekki Quartet: Ilmiliekki Quartet (We Jazz) - jazz
- Imagine Dragons: Mercury: Act 2 (Interscope) [07-01] - alt-pop
- Immolation: Acts of God (Nuclear Blast) [02-18] - death metal
- Imperial Triumphant: Spirit of Ecstasy (Century Media) [07-22] - avant-garde metal
- Implore: The Burden of Existence (Church Road) [10-28] - metal
- Inclination: Unaltered Perspective () [10-21] - hardcore punk
- Infected Rain: Ecdysis () [01-07] - metalcore
- Infernal Mosquitos: Antigua (Superpang)
- The Inflorescence: Remember What I Look Like (Kill Rock Stars)
- Ingested: Ashes Lie Still (Metal Blade) [11-04] - deathcore
- Kathy Ingraham: Everlasting Cool (Peirdon) - vocal jazz
- Richard Inman: Come Back Through ()
- The International Nothing: Just None of Those Things (Ftarri) - jazz
- Interpol: The Other Side of Make-Believe (Matador) [07-15] - post-punk
- The Interrupters: In the Wild (Hellcat) [08-05] - ska punk
- Invt: La Chamba (Invt) -
- Into a Circle: Steel Box () [04-12]
- Marketa Irglova: Lilo (Marketa Irglova)
- Ironflame: Where Madness Dwells () [M|]
- Greta Isaac: I Think You'd Hate It Here (-EP) [04-01]
- Chris Isaak: Everybody Knows It's Christmas (Universal) [11-18] - holiday
- Ish Kevin: Trappish II ()
- Eiko Ishibashi: Drive My Car [Original Soundtrack] (-21) [2021-08-18] - soundtrack
- Eiko Ishibashi: For McCoy () [01-22] - ambient
- Iskwe & Tom Wilson: Mother Love () [07-22]
- Islandman: Godless Ceremony () [08-26]
- Alex Isley & Jack Dine: Marigold () [03-30] - r&b
- Isomonstrosity: Isomonstrosity (Brassland) [11-18]
- Ithaca: They Fear Us (Hassle) [07-29] - metalcore
- Itta: Eyewalk () [04-22]
- IV and the Strange Band: Southern Circus (Black Country Rock) [06-17] - country
- Alex Izenberg: I'm Not Here (Weird World) [05-20]
- Jack J: Opening the Door (Mood Hut) [04-08] - hypnagogic pop
- J-Walk: Mellotronique () [09-24]
- J-Wonn: Mr Right Now () - blues
- Peter Jablonski: Peter Jablonski Plays Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Works (Ondine) [02-11] - classical
- Chloe Jackson-Reynolds: The Winter Concert (self-released) - jazz
- Joscan Jacozo: Herencia Criolla (self-released) - jazz
- Jacques: Limportanceduvide () [02-11]
- Chelsea Jade: Soft Spot (Carpark) [04-29]
- Jade Imagine: Cold Memory (Marathon Artists) [10-21]
- Volker Jaekel: Short Stories (Jazzwerkstatt -21) - jazz
- Jagwar Twin: 33 () [09-30]
- Jambinai: Apparition (Bella Union -EP) [11-11]
- Boldy James & Real Bad Man: Killing Nothing () [05-20] - hip-hop
- Joe James: Crawl () [06-17]
- The Janitors: Noisolation Sessions Vol 2 (Cardinal Fuzz)
- Jaguar Jonze: Bunny Mode (Nettwerk) [06-03]
- Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Fair Exchange No Robbery (Nicholas Craven Productions) [09-30] - hip-hop
- Early James: Strange Time to Be Alive (Easy Eye Sound) [08-19] - roots rock
- James and the Cold Gun: False Start (Venn/Loosegroove -EP) [04-29]
- Jameszoo: Blind (Brainfeeder) [03-11]
- Jane Inc: Faster Than I Can Take (Telephone Explosion) [04-22] - art pop
- Japanese Breakfast: Sable [Original Video Game Soundtrack] ()
- Dora Jar: Comfortably in Pain (Original Sin -EP) [03-05] - alt-pop
- Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxymore (Sony) [10-21] - IDM
- The Ben Jarrell Band: Up and Headed West () - country
- Yves Jarvis: The Zug (Anti-/Flemish Eye) [05-13]
- Jaws the Shark: Another Day in Paradise (Nice Swan -EP) [02-11]
- The Jazz Butcher: The Highest in the Land (Tapete) [02-04]
- Jazz Funk Soul [Everette Harp/Paul Jackson Jr/Jeff Lorber]: Forecast (Shanachie) [08-05] - pop jazz
- Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw: Threnody: The Music of Jim McNeely (JOC) [09-09] - jazz
- The Jazz Professors: Blues and Cubes (Flying Horse) - jazz
- Jazz Spastiks: Intomental () [07-29]
- JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus (Effendi -21) - jazz
- Jeanines: Don't Wait for a Sign (Slumberland) [04-22]
- Jenna and the Janes: Earth Dog Year () [04-01]
- Jennylee: Heart Tax (Jennys) [04-23]
- Eunhye Jeong: Nolda (ESP-Disk -21) - jazz
- Jermiside & the Expert: The Overview Effect () [05-06] - hip-hop
- Oscar Jerome: The Spoon () [09-23]
- Jerry Only: Anti-Hero ()
- Jeshi: Universal Credit (Because Music) [05-27]
- Jesse the Tree: Pigeon Man () [08-19] - hip-hop
- Jethro Tull: The Zealot Gang (Inside Out Music) [01-28] - folk rock
- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: Changeup (Legacy) [03-25]
- Jewel: Freewheelin' Woman (Words Matter Media) [04-15]
- Sheng Jie & Shen Jing: Parallel Weaving (WV Sorcerer) [02-04] - drone
- OG Jigg: The Land Dictates the Lay of the Stone (Earth Memory)
- Park Jiha: The Gleam (Tak:til) [02-25] - post-minimalism
- Jilk: Haunted Bedrooms (Castles in Space)
- Carlos Jimenez: Woods (CJMartinete) - jazz
- Santiago Jimenez: Still Kicking! ()
- Sona Jobarteh: Badinyaa Kumoo (African Guild)
- Jogging House: Weight () [01-18]
- Johann Johannsson: Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-18] - classical
- Johnossi: Mad Gone Wild () [02-11]
- Daniel Johns: FutureNever (BMG Music Australia) [04-22]
- Jack Johnson: Meet the Moonlight (Brushfire/Republic) [06-24]
- Duquette Johnston: The Social Animals (Single Lock) [02-25]
- Joji: Smithereens (88rising/Warner) [11-04] - dream pop
- Coco Jones: What I Didn't Tell You () - r&b
- Glenn Jones: Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey) [06-24]
- Jeter Jones: Da Legend of Sweet Jeter Jones () - blues
- Jim Jones: Jim Jones Presents the 12 Days of Xmas (VL/Empire)
- Joost: Fryslan ()
- Jordana: Face the Wall (Grand Jury) [05-20]
- Journey: Freedom ()
- Joyful Joyful: Joyful Joyful (Idee Fixe) [04-29]
- Joyfultalk: Familiar Science (Constellation) [05-06] - jazz
- Simon Joyner: Songs From a Stolen Guitar ()
- Joyride!: Miracle Question (Salinas) [04-15] - punk
- Joys Union Group: Boredom Euphoria ()
- Joywave: Cleanse (Cultco/Hollywood) [02-11] - indie pop
- JPW: Something Happening/Always Happening ()
- Judah & the Lion: Revival () [06-10]
- Juice WRLD: Fighting Demons (Grade A -21) [2021-12-10] - hip-hop
- Jukebox the Ghost: Cheers (BMG) [05-27] - power pop
- Julmud: Tuqoos (Bilna'es) [03-30]
- Larry June: Spaceships on the Blade (Empire) [08-19] - hip-hop
- Juninho Count: Avalanches Dos Baile 2.0 ()
- Junior Boys: Waiting Game (City Slang) [10-28] - ambient pop
- Junior Brother: The Great Irish Famine () [09-02]
- Damien Jurado: Reggae Film Star (Maraqopa) [06-24]
- Justice: Planisphere (Ed Banger)
- Jutra: Subrealizm () - jazz
- Whitney K: Hard to Be a God ()
- K-Trap: The Last Whip II () [09-30] - UK drill
- Kabaka Pyramid: The Kalling (Ghetto Youths International/Bebble Rock) - reggae
- Ben Kaczor: Petrovo Uho ()
- Gabriel Kahane: Magnificent Bird (Nonesuch) [03-25]
- Kaina: It Was a Home (City Slang) [03-04]
- Kalaha + Hilal Kaya With Aarhus Jazz Orchestra: Tutku (April) [08-25] - jazz
- Steve Kaldestad: Live at Frankie's Jazz Club (Cellar) - jazz
- Kaleidobolt: This One Simple Trick (Svart) [05-06]
- The Kaleidoscope Kid: The Kaleidoscope Kid () [04-22]
- Anna Kaluza/Jan Roder: Am Frankfurter Tor (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Kamikaze Nurse: Stimuloso (Mint) [06-03]
- Kamikaze Palm Tree: Mint Chip (Drag City) [08-12]
- Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert: The Flowers That Bloom in Spring ()
- Miles Kane: Change the Show (BMG) [01-21] - pop rock
- Avi Kaplan: Floating on a Dream (Fantasy) [05-20]
- Kardashev: Liminal Rite (Metal Blade) [06-10] - metal
- Karen: Karen () [09-12]
- Nyokabi Kariuki: Peace Places: Kenyan Memories (SA -EP) [02-25]
- Kasabian: The Alchemist's Euphoria (Columbia) [08-12] - alt dance
- Kase + Klassik: Live at the Opera House (B Side) [02-25] - jazz
- Tim Kasher: Middling Age (15 Passenger) [04-15]
- Kavinsky: Reborn (Fiction) [03-25] - synthwave
- Kawala: Better With You (EMI) [03-04]
- Willow Kayne: Playground Antics (Columbia -EP) [02-01] - pop rap
- Jas Kayser: Jas 5ive (Jazz Re:freshed) - jazz
- Keb' Mo': Good to Be . . . (Rounder) [01-22] - blues
- Tasman Keith: A Colour Undone (AWAL) [07-07]
- Kellarissa: Voice Leading (Mint) [04-01]
- KEN Mode: Null (Artoffact) [09-23] - sludge metal
- Dro Kenji: With or Without You () - hip-hop
- Dermot Kennedy: Sonder (Riggins/Interscope/Island) [12-18]
- Ryan Kennedy: (02-04)
- The Kernal: Listen to the Blood (Single Lock) - country
- Key: Gasoline () [08-30] - K-pop
- Khalid: Scenic Drive (The Tape) (RCA -21) [2021-12-03] - r&b
- Wiz Khalifa: Multiverse (Taylor Gang/Asylum) [07-29] - hip-hop
- Kicked in the Teeth: Salt Rocket to Nowhere () [02-25]
- Kid Kapichi: Here's What You Could Have Won (Spinefarm) [09-23] - post-punk
- Kid Cudi: Entergalactic (Republic) [09-30] - hip-hop
- Angelique Kidjo/Ibrahim Maalouf: Queen of Sheba (Mister Ibe) [06-24] - African
- Kids on a Crime Spree: Fall in Love Not in Line (Slumberland) [01-21] - noise pop
- Kids Return: Forever Melodies () [10-07]
- Kihyun: Youth () [10-24] - K-pop
- Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain) [05-06] - psychedelic
- Kiko El Crazy: Llego El Domi () [03-10]
- Kill Alters: Armed to the Teeth LMOMM () [02-11]
- Killah Priest: Horrah Scope () [04-30] - hip-hop
- Killing Joke: Lord of Chaos (Spinefarm -EP) [03-25]
- Katie Kim: Hour of the Ox () [09-09] - dream pop
- Yaya Kim: Aka Yaya (self-released) [01-17] - art pop
- Kinbrae & Clare Archibald: Birl of Unmap () [02-11]
- Soweto Kinch: White Juju (Soweto Kinch) - jazz
- Kinetika Bloco: Legacy (Banger Factory) - jazz
- Elizabeth King: I Got a Love (Bible & Tire) [06-24] - gospel
- Marcus King: Young Blood (American/Republic) [08-26]
- King Bastard: It Came From the Void () [01-14] - metal
- King Buffalo: Regenerator (Stickman) [09-02] - stoner rock
- King Garbage: Heavy Metal Greasy Love (Ipecac) [04-01]
- King George: Juke Joint Music () - blues
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Omnium Gatherum (KGLW) [04-22] - psychedelic pop
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (KGLW) [psychedelic pop] - 10-07
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Laminated Denim (KGLW) [10-12] - psychedelic rock
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Changes (KGLW) [10-28] - psychedelic pop
- King Hannah: I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang) [02-25]
- King Klave: King Klave (Klave's Paradise) [09-02] - jazz
- King Stingray: King Stingray (Cooking Vinyl) [08-05]
- Lola Kirke: Lady for Sale (Third Man) [04-29]
- Kisskadee: Black Hole Era (Anxiety Blanket) [05-06]
- Hayley Kiyoko: Panorama (Atlantic) [07-29] - pop
- Klammer: The Day Before Yesterday (Heavy Metal) [02-25]
- Ani Klang: Ani Klang () [07-22]
- Klangwelt: Here and Why (Spheric Music)
- Klein: Star in the Hood () [11-01] - sound collage
- Knifeplay: Animal Drowning (Topshelf) [10-19] - shoegaze
- Steve Knight: Persistence (self-released) - jazz
- Knoll: Metempiric (self-released) [06-24]
- Kodak: All Get Out (Rude/Equal Vision) [06-03]
- Kodak Black: Back for Everything (Dollaz N Dealz/Sniper Gang/Atlantic) [02-25] - hip-hop
- Kode9: Escapology (Hyperdub) [07-15] - IDM
- Kolb: Tyrannical Vibes (Ramp Local) [09-30]
- Kolumbo: Gungo Ho ()
- Koma Saxo With Sofia Jernberg: Koma West (We Jazz) [03-18] - jazz
- Kontusion: Kontusion (-EP) [03-25]
- The Kooks: 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark (Lonely Cat) [07-22]
- Korb: III (Dreamlord)
- Cliff Korman: Brasilified (Tiger Turn) - jazz
- Korn: Requiem (Loma Vista) [02-04] - nu metal
- Kosmos Trio: Brev Til En Ven (April) [10-14] - jazz
- Koudlam: Precipice Fantasy Part I () [10-28]
- Kornel Kovacs: Hotel Koko () [10-21] - UK garage
- Yordan Kostov Ensemble: Intertwining a Fugue (SJF -21) - jazz
- Kraftklub: Kargo ()
- Krallice: Crystalline Exhaustion () [01-28] - black metal
- Kramer: Music for Films Edited by Moths (Joyful Noise) [08-26] - ambient
- Kreator: Hate Uber Alles (Nuclear Blast) [06-03] - metal
- Kreidler: Spells and Daubs (Bureau B) [01-28]
- Allegra Krieger: Precious Thing (Northern Spy) [03-04]
- James Krivchenia: Blood Karaoke (Reading Group) [04-15]
- KRS-One: Imamcru12 () [02-22] - hip-hop
- Krush Puppies: Love Kills the Demons (Holm Front -EP) [05-06]
- Kublai Khan TX: Lowest Form of Animal (Rise -EP) [04-01] - metalcore
- Kuedo: Infinite Window (Brainfeeder) [07-29] - electronic
- Kula Shaker: 1st Congregational Church of Eternal Love and Free Hugs (Strange FOLK) [06-10] - psychedelic rock
- Takuya Kuroda: Midnight Crisp (First Word) [10-22] - jazz
- Kurokuma: Born of Obsidian () [02-04] - metal
- Mike Kuster: Better Late Than Never (self-released) [02-08] - country
- The Kut: Grit ()
- Kutu: Guramayle ()
- Kynsy: Something to Do With Love (AWAL -EP) [09-14]
- L'objectif: We Aren't Getting Out but Tonight We Might (Chess Club -EP) [06-03]
- La Colonie De Vacances: Echt (Vicious Circle) [01-22]
- La Femme: Teatro Lucido () [11-04] - Latin pop
- La Perla: Callejera (Mambo Negro) - Colombian
- La Roche: Liye Liye (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- Labrinth: Euophoria Season 2 Original Score ()
- Lava La Rue: Hi-Fidelity (-EP) [07-29] - neo-soul
- Lack the Low: God-Carrier () [03-11] - art pop
- Lacuna Coil: Comalies XX (Century Media) [10-14] - metal
- Natalia Lacunza: Tiene Que Ser Para Mi ()
- Lady Bird: WE (Alcopop!) [02-25]
- Lady Neptune: Noz (Night School -EP) [05-06] - hardcore
- Natalia Lafourcade: De Todas Las Flores (Sony) [10-28] - singer-songwriter
- Meschiya Lake & the New Movement: Looking the World Over (Sungroove) [05-06] - jazz
- Lake Street Dive: Fun Machine: The Sequel (Fantasy) - jazz
- Lala & Ce & Low Jack: Baiser Mortel () [10-28]
- Daniela Lalita: Trececerotres () [09-16] - art pop
- Lamb of God: Omens (Nuclear Blast) [10-07] - metal
- AJ Lambert: Manhattan Beach, Swept by Ocean Breezes () [02-11]
- Kirsten Lambert: From a Window to a Screen (Bellaju Music) [10-28] - jazz
- Uele Lamore: Loom (XXIM) [01-28]
- Lampen: Lampen (We Jazz) - jazz
- Lane 8: Reviver ()
- Klaus Lang: Tehran Dust (Another Timbre)
- Daniel Lanois: Player, Piano (Modern) [09-23]
- Abigail Lapell: Stolen Time () [04-22]
- Large Plants: The Carrier (Ghost Box)
- Mary LaRose: Out There [Music of Eric Dolphy] (Little (i) Music) [10-08] - jazz
- Dominic Lash/Pat Thomas: New Oxford Brevity (Spoonhunt) - jazz
- Lass: Bumaye (Chapter Two) [06-17] - Afrian
- Katie Lass: Hypnopomp () [11-04]
- Last Bandoleros: Tex Flex Folklorico ()
- Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena: West Kensington (Three Lobed) [05-20]
- Jim Lauderdale: Game Changer (Sky Crunch) [08-26] - country
- Lucas Laufen: Weathering () [05-13]
- The Laughing Chimes: Zoo Avenue EP (Slumberland)
- Launder: Happening (Ghostly International) [07-15] - shoegaze
- Laundry Day: We Switched Bodies (Polo and Fomo) [02-11]
- Laura Jean: Amateurs () [11-04]
- Gabor Lazar: Boundary Object (Planet Mu)
- Laya: Um, Hello (-EP) [04-08] - r&b
- The Lazy Eyes: SongBook (Lunatic) [04-22] - psychedelic pop
- Lazy Queen: A Human Reaction () [03-18]
- Le Sserafim: Antifragile (Source Music/HYBE -EP) [10-17] - K-pop
- Le Vent Du Nord: 20 Printemps () [01-28]
- Patrick Leagas: Stefn () [03-23]
- Andrew Leahey & the Homestead: American Static Vol 2 () [05-06]
- Joelle Leandre & Paul Lovens: Off Course (Fou) [08-28] - jazz
- Lisa LeBlanc: Chiac Disco (Bonsound) [03-18] - folk
- Jake Leckie: The Guide (Ropeadope) [04-08] - jazz
- Amos Lee: Dreamland (Dualtone) [02-11]
- Ben Lee: I'm Fun () [04-08]
- Gabe Lee: The Hometown Kid () [10-28] - country
- John Lee: The Artist (Celar) [05-06] - jazz
- Robbie Lee: Prismatist (Relative Pitch -21) - jazz
- Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci: Winds Bells Falls ()
- Leftfield: This Is What We Do (Virgin) [12-02]
- John Legend: Legend (Republic) [09-09]
- Leimgruber/Turner/Dorner/da Boff/Flesh: Untitled (London Leipzig Luzern) (Euphorium -21) - jazz
- Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz: Moacir De Todos Os Santos () - Brazil
- Thapelo Lekoane: Tapestry (self-released -21) - vocal jazz
- Noah Lemish: Twelve (TPR) [10-21] - jazz
- Jose Lencastre: Common Ground (Phonogram Unit) [04-01] - jazz
- Nick Leng: Spirals () [07-22]
- Jamie Lenman: The Atheist (Big Scary Monsters) [11-25]
- Julian Lennon: Jude (BMG) [09-09]
- Leon: Circles (BMG) [03-04] - pop soul
- Nick Leon: Xtasis () [07-29] - Latin electronic
- Def Leppard: Diamond Star Halos (Universal) [05-27]
- Coi Leray: Trendsetter (Republic) [04-08] - pop rap
- Sondre Lerche: Avatars of Love () [04-01] - art pop
- Leroux/Van Isacker/Vanderstraeten: Als Ik Niets Meer Van De Kano Zie (Aspen Edities) - jazz
- Les Big Bird: Eternal Light Brigade (Chimp Limbs)
- Les Cris De Paris/Geoffrey Jourdain: Schutz: David & Solomon; Psalmi; Canticum Canticorum () [03-18] - classical
- Les Epopees/Stephane Fuget: Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria () [06-24] - classical
- Les Louanges: Crash () [01-21]
- Kristine Leschper: The Opening, or Closing of a Door (Anti-) [03-04] - dream pop
- Dario Lessing: Frequency (Modern) [02-25]
- The Let Go: Delete My Feelings (Chess Club -EP) [03-18]
- Lethal Bizzle: Lethal B v Lethal Bizzle (Skint Gang) [06-10]
- Lettuce: Unify () [06-03]
- Jim Levendis: The Big Band Project (self-released) - jazz
- Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch: Ravage (Fatcat/130701)
- Aaron Lewis: Frayed at Both Ends (self-released) [01-28] - country
- Molly Lewis: Mirage ()
- Luna Li: Duality (In Real Life) [03-04]
- Life: North East Coastal Town (The Liquid Label) [08-19]
- Lighght: Seodra () [03-04]
- Lightning in a Twilight Hour: Overwintering (Elefant) [04-01] - dream pop
- The Lightning Seeds: See You in the Stars (BMG) [10-14]
- Li'l Andy: The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930) (Li'l Andy)
- Lil Baby: It's Only Me (Motown/Quality Control Music/UMG) [10-14] - hip-hop
- Lil Durk: 7220 (Alamo/Sony) [03-11] - hip-hop
- Lila Tirando A Violeta: Desire Path () [04-08] - neoperreo
- Christian Lillinger: Konus (Plaist Music) [02-25] - jazz
- Limousine Beach: Limousine Beach (Tee Pee)
- Bob Lind: Something Worse Than Loneliness (Ace) [02-25]
- Johan Lindvall Trio: This Is Not About You (Jazzland) - jazz
- Thomas Linger: Out In It (Cellar) - jazz
- Liraz: Roya (Glitterbeat) [10-07]
- Liss: I Guess Nothing Will Be the Same (Escho/Real Life) [06-10]
- Lissie: Carving Canyons () [09-16]
- Son Little: Like Neptune (Anti-) [09-09]
- Little Big Town: Mr Sun (Capitol Nashville) [09-16] - country
- Living Hour: Someday Is Today (Kanine/Next Door) [09-02] - dream pop
- Lucy Liyou: Welfare/Practice (American Dreams) [05-20]
- The Local Honeys: The Local Honeys (La Honda) [07-15] - country
- Local Suicide: Eros Anikate () [05-13]
- Mark Lockheart: Dreamers (Edition) [01-28]
- Tony Logue: Jericho () [01-07] - country
- Lomepal: Mauvais Ordre () [09-16]
- London Odense Ensemble: Jaiyede Suite Pt 1 (El Paraiso) - jazz
- The Lone Below: Love Songs for Losers (Dualtone) [11-04]
- Long Knife: Curb Stomp Earth ()
- L'Orage: Triangle (self-released) [01-17] - jazz
- The Lord + Petra Haden: Devotional () [10-21]
- Lord Apex & El Lif Beatz: Joga Bonito () [10-21]
- Jill Lorean: This Rock (Monohands) [04-01]
- Lorna Shore: Pain Remains (Century Media) [10-14] - deathcore
- Los Palms: Skeleton Ranch () [11-25]
- Los Punsetes: AFDTRQHOT ()
- Lost Cat: Lost Cat (Lolipop)
- Lost Dog Street Band: Glory (Lost Dog Street Band) [01-21]
- LostAlone: The Warring Twenties () [09-30]
- Loud: Aucune Promesse (Joyride) [05-20] - hip-hop
- The Lounge Society: Tired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground) [08-26]
- Lous and the Yakuza: Iota (Columbia) [11-11]
- Demi Lovato: Holy Fvck (Island) [08-19] - alt rock
- Helen Love: This Is My World () [01-28]
- Love A: Meisenstaat ()
- The William Loveday Intention: The Baptiser () [04-29]
- Isabella Lovestory: Amor Hardcore (self-released) [10-05] - Latin
- Arroyo Low: 2020 (Bodan Kuma) - ambient
- Low End Activist: Hostile Utopia (Sneaker Social Club) [06-17]
- Low Island: Life in Miniature () [11-04]
- Lowertown: I Love to Lie (Dirty Hit) [10-21]
- The Loyal Seas: Strange Mornings in the Garden () [05-20]
- LS Dunes: Past Lives (Fantasy) [11-11] - post-hardcore
- Lu Chin Chen: NA Meeting () [02-22]
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One: Revel in Time (Inside Out Music) [02-18] - prog metal
- Luci: Juvenilia () [09-30] - hip-hop
- Lucius: Second Nature (Mom + Pop) [04-08]
- Lucki: Flawless Like Me ()
- Lucky Fonz III: Hemellichamen ()
- Steven Lugerner/Garret Lang/Albert Tootie Heath: It Takes One to Know One (Slow & Steady) [04-15] - jazz
- Lukah: Raw Extractions () [09-16] - hip-hop
- Lumenette: All Around My Head (Hammock Music)
- The Lumineers: Brightside (Dualtone) [01-14] - folk pop
- Luminous Foundation: Haig Fras (Belbury Music/Heavy Rural) [03-14]
- Carmen Lundy: Fade to Black (Afrasia Productions) [09-30] - jazz
- Rene Lussier: Au Diable Vert (ReR Megacorp/Circum-Disc) [09-30] - jazz
- Lera Lynn: Something More Than Love (Icons Creating Evil Art) [07-15]
- Logan Lynn: New Money (Kill Rock Stars) [01-21]
- Trudy Lynn: Golden Girl (Nota Blue) - blues
- Lyves: Change (Awal -EP) [11-18]
- Lyzza: Mosquito (Big Dada) - electronic
- Yo-Yo Ma/John Williams/New York Philharmonic: A Gathering of Friends () - 10-14
- Meg Mac: Matter of Time () [09-16]
- Doug MacDonald: I'll See You in My Dreams (DMAC Music) - jazz
- Mach-Hommy/Tha God Fahim: Duck Czn: Tiger Style () - hip-hop
- Machine Gun Kelly: Mainstream Sellout (Bad Boy/Interscope) [03-25] - pop punk
- Machine Head: Of Kingdom and Crown (Nuclear Blast) [08-26] - groove metal
- Fraser MacPherson: From the Pen Of . . . (Cellar) - jazz
- Macula Dog: Orange 2 (Wharf Cat) [10-07]
- Doug MacLeod: A Soul to Claim (Reference) - jazz
- Madmess: Rebirth (Hassle -21) [2021-12-10]
- Madrugada: Chimes at Midnight ()
- Peter Madsen's CIA Trio: 88 Butterfly (Playscape) - jazz
- Massimo Magee: Toneflower (577) [08-05] - jazz
- Magnolia Park: Baku's Revenge (Epitaph) [11-04] - pop punk
- Magnum: The Monster Roars (Steamhammer) [01-14]
- Mah Moud: Abdalla (Pirates Blend) [10-01]
- Rudi Mahall/Jan Roder/Olaf Rupp: Audiosemantics (06-30) [J|jazz]
- Mainliner: Burst Osaka 2022 (self-released) - psych-rock
- Maita: I Just Want to Be Wild for You (Kill Rock Stars)
- Malaa: Don Malaa () [09-30] - tech house
- Tony Malaby/Angelica Sanchez/Tom Rainey: Huapango (Rogue Art) [03-07] - jazz
- Malevolence: Malicious Intent (Nuclear Blast) [05-20] - metal
- Malibu: Palaces of Pity () [11-18] - ambient
- Mall Grab: What I Breathe (Looking for Trouble) [08-05] - EDM
- Stephen Mallinder: Tick Tick Tick (Dais) [07-15]
- Mallrat: Butterfly Blue (Nettwerk) [05-13]
- Mama's Broke: Narrow Line (Free Dirt) [05-13] - folk
- Mamalarky: Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk) [09-30] - indie rock
- Mamamoo: Mic On (RBW -EP) [10-11] - K-pop
- Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard: The Harvest (New Heavy Sounds) [03-25]
- MAN/BAN: MAN-BAN (Dropa Disc -21) - jazz
- Manegarm: Ynglingaattens Ode (Napalm) [04-15] - metal
- Dan Mangan: Being Somewhere (Arts & Crafts) [10-28]
- Mannheimer Schlagwerk: The Numbers Are Dancing (Solaire -21) - jazz
- Joyce Manor: 40 oz to Fresno (Epitaph) [06-10]
- Mantar: Pain Is Forever and This Is the End (Metal Blade) [07-15] - metal
- Mapache: Roscoe's Dream (Innovative Leisure) [06-10]
- Maple Mars: Someone's Got to Listen (Big Stir)
- Maral: Ground Groove (Leaving) [10-18] - post-industrial
- Ben Marc: Glass Effect (Innovative Leisure) [04-22]
- Jucara Marcal: EPDEB () -
- Florent Marchet: Garden Party () [06-10]
- Lionel Marchetti & Abdul Moimeme: Ciel-Cristal (Sonoscopia) - jazz
- Marci: Marci (Arbutus) [08-05] - dream pop
- Brian Andrew Marek: American Debris (Rubberstamp) [02-01]
- Zela Margossian Quintet: The Road (Ropeadope) [02-25] - jazz
- Margot: Inertia (-EP) [05-13]
- Arny Margret: They Only Talk About the Weather (One Little Independent)
- Lasse Marhaug: Context (Smalltown Supersound) [08-27]
- Maria BC: Hyaline (Father/Daughter) [05-27] - dream pop
- Maridalen: Bortenfor (Jazzland) [03-25] - jazz
- Marillion: An Hour Before It's Dark () [03-04]
- Market: The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong (Western Vinyl) [04-29]
- Kal Marks: My Name Is Hell (Exploding in Sound) [08-05] - indie rock
- Rocio Marquez + Bronquio: Tercer Cielo ()
- Duncan Marquiss: Wires Turned Sideways in Time () [03-04]
- Jason Marshall: New Beginnings (Cellar) - jazz
- Mart Avi: Blade (Porridge Bullet) [04-29]
- Selina Martin: Time Spent Swimming (No Label) [11-25]
- Walter Martin: The Bear (Ile Flottante) [03-25]
- The Mary Veils: Esoteri Hex (Pnkslm) [03-25]
- The Mary Wallopers: The Mary Wallopers ()
- Masked Pickle: 7 (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Jordaan Mason: Rewrite the Words Again () [10-21]
- Mass Worship: Portal Tombs (Century Media) [ 02-04] - death metal
- Massive Wagons: Triggered! (Earache) [10-28]
- Master Boot Record: Personal Computer (Metal Blade) [05-13] - metal
- Mata Atlantica: Retiro E Ritmo (7D Media) - jazz
- Matchess: Sonescent (Drag City) [02-25]
- Material Girl: i85mixx21-22 (No Agreements) [03-25] - hip-hop
- Matisyahu: Matisyahu () [03-04]
- Matters Unknown: We Aren't Just (New Soil) [10-28] - jazz
- Mattie: Jupiter's Purse (Leaving -EP) [02-22]
- Mattiel: Georgia Gothic (Heavenly/ATO) [03-18]
- Mildred Maude: Sleepover () [10-22]
- Maule: Maule (Gates of Hell) [01-14] - metal
- Benedicte Maurseth: Harr () - Norwegian
- Matt Maverick: American Dream () [01-07] - country
- Maverick Sabre: Don't Forget to Look Up () [01-28]
- Miraa May: Tales of a Miracle (Island) [05-27]
- Maya Lucia: Miss Girl World () [08-19]
- John Mayall: The Sun Is Shining Down (Forty Below) [01-28] - blues
- Nyati Mayi & the Astral Synth Transmitters: Lulanga Tales ()
- Rob Mazurek: All Distances Inform (Rogue Art) [02-04] - jazz
- Rob Mazurek Quartet: Father's Wing (Rogue Art) [02-04] - jazz
- MC3: Sounds of the City (Phonocene) - jazz
- Barney McAll: Precious Energy (Extracelestial Arts) [02-18] - jazz
- Lizzy McAlpine: Five Second Flat (Harbour Masters/AWAL) [04-08]
- Bill McBirnie: Forever (Extreme Flute -21) - jazz
- Deidre McCalla: Endless Grace (self-released) [05-19] - folk
- Dan McCarthy: Songs of the Doomed: Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout (TPR) - jazz
- Joe McCarthy's Afro Bop Alliance Big Band: The Pan American Nutcracker Suite (Angel Face) - jazz
- Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson: Night Comes Falling ()
- Jono McCleery: Moonlit Parade () [04-29]
- Delbert McClinton: Outdated Emotion (Thirty Tigers) [05-13]
- Cass McCombs: Heartmind (Anti-) [08-19]
- Andy McCoy: Jukebox Junkie ()
- Wills McKenna/Norman W Long/Ishmael Ali/Bill Harris: Anemoi (Amalgam) - jazz
- Bret McKenzie: Songs Without Jokes (Sub Pop) [08-26] - singer-songwriter
- Val McKnight: Ain't Nothin' Like a Country Boy () - blues
- Jensen McRae: Are You Happy Now? (Human Re Sources) [03-22] - singer-songwriter
- The Del McCoury Band: Almost Proud (McCoury Music) [02-18] - bluegrass
- Larry McCray: Blues Without You (KTBA) [03-25] - blues
- Jamie McDell: Jamie McDell (self-released) [02-25] - country
- Aaron McDonnell: Too Many Days Like Saturday Night () [02-04] - country
- June McDoom: June McDoom (Temporary Residence -EP) [10-28] - singer-songwriter
- Rachel McElhiney: I Love It Here (-EP) [05-29]
- Ben McElroy: How I Learnt to Disengage From the Pack () [01-28]
- James Vincent McMorrow: The Less I Knew () [06-20]
- Joe McPhee/Jen Clare Paulson/Brian Labycz: The Mystery J (Corbett vs Dempsey -21) - jazz
- Joe McPhee/Michael Bisio/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Juma Sultan: The Sweet Spot (RogueArt) - jazz
- Joe McPhee/John Edwards/Klaus Kugel: Existential Moments (Not Two) - jazz
- McPhee Marker: McPhee Marker (Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Wilson Meadows: Wilson, Last Name Meadows () - blues
- Meat Wave: Malign Hex (Swami)
- Mechina: Venator (self) [01-01] - symphonic metal
- Medicine Singers: Medicine Singers (Joyful Noise) [07-01]
- Mediopicky: Mediopicky ()
- Meekz: Respect the Come Up (Neighbourhood) [11-18] - UK hip-hop
- Meer: Playing House (Karisma -21) - jazz
- Mega Ran & Amerigo Gazaway: Stranger: Back to the Lab (self-released)
- Megadeth: The Sick, the Dying . . . and the Dead! (Tradecraft) [09-02] - thrash metal
- Megalon: Pandora's Box (Above Board Projects)
- Elan Mehler: There Is a Dance (Newvelle) - jazz
- Melby: Looks Like a Map () [10-11] - indie rock
- Melingo: S'il Vous Plait ()
- John Mellencamp: Strictly a One-Eyed Jack (Republic) [01-21] - heartland rock
- Melody's Echo Chamber: Emotional Eternal (Domino) [04-29]
- Melody's Echo Chamber: Unfold (Domino/Fat Possum) [09-30] - neo-psychedelia
- Melting Palms: Noise Between the Shades () [08-26]
- Melts: Maelstrom (Mother Sky) [06-17]
- Melvins: Bad Mood Rising (Amphetamine Reptile) [08-14] - sludge metal
- MeMo: Business of Healing () [04-29]
- Memphis May Fire: Remade in Misery (Rise) [06-03] - metal
- Maria Mendes: Saudade, Colours of Love (Challenge) - jazz
- Rose Mercie: ¿Kieres Agua? () [05-04]
- Magi Merlin: Gone Girl (-EP) [05-27]
- Merina Gris: Zerua Orain ()
- Elias Merino & Daniel Del Rio: Structures for Wave Field Synthesis (Superpang) [01-01] - electroacoustic
- Alice Merton: SIDES (Mom + Pop) [06-17] - indie pop
- Merzbow & Lawrence English: Eternal Stalker (Dais)
- Meshuggah: Immutable (Atomic Fire) [04-01] - groove metal
- Messa: Close (Svart) [03-11] - doom metal
- Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains (Boominati/Republic) [12-02] - trap
- Metrolight: Copyright Strike (Tee Pee -EP) [02-11] - electropop
- Hendrik Meurkens/The WDR Big Band: Samba Jazz Odyssey (Zoho Music) - jazz
- Meyhem Lauren & Daringer: Black Vladimir () [08-26] - hip-hop
- MGMT: 11-11-11 (MGMT) [11-11] - neo-psychedelia
- Michaela Anne: Oh to Be That Free (Yep Roc) - country
- Michelle: After Dinner We Talk Dreams (Transgressive) [03-04] - r&b
- Midland: The Last Resort: Greetings From (Big Machine) [05-06]
- Midnight: Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade) [03-04] - speed metal
- The Midnight: Heroes (Counter) [09-09]
- Midnight Oil: Resist (Sony) [02-18]
- Midwich Cuckoos: Death or Glory () [04-08]
- Anna Mieke: Theatre () [11-18]
- Mighty Mystic: Giant () [03-18]
- Miiesha: Smoke & Mirrors () [06-10]
- Mike: Beware of the Monkey (10K) [12-21] - hip-hop
- Mike, Wiki & the Alchemist: One More (ALC) [11-25] - hip-hop
- Mikey Mike: Life on Earth Vol 2 () [11-11]
- Milky Chance: Trip Tape II () [10-05]
- Adam Miller: Gateway () [02-11]
- Mike Miller: Trust (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- Rainy Miller: Desquamation (Fire, Burn. Nobody) (Head II) [11-02]
- Roger Clark Miller: Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (Cuneiform) - jazz
- Pip Millett: When Everything Is Better, I'll Let You Know () [10-21]
- Drake Milligan: Dallas/Fort Worth (Stoney Creek) [09-15] - country
- Milly: Eternal Ring () [09-30] - shoegaze
- Miloe: Gaps (Loma Vista -EP) [09-16]
- Dom Minasi: Me Myself and I (Unseen Rain -21) - jazz
- Mind Fiber: Ya Cha Ban (Dusty Ballz) - jazz
- Minder: Sanctuary () [11-25]
- Mindforce: New Lords (Triple B) [09-16] - hardcore punk
- Minibeast: On Ice (self-released) [04-01]
- Minikingz: Iconicy () [07-29]
- Mint Green: All Girls Go to Heaven (Pure Noise) [06-03]
- Ela Minus & DJ Python: [Heart] () [09-16] - electronic
- Minute Taker: Wolf Hours () [01-28]
- Miraculous Mule: Old Bones, New Fire () [08-06]
- Arif Mirbaghi/Kaveh Ghaffari/Farhad Safari: Saqqakhaneh Vol 2 (Qame Feraq -EP) [01-05] - jazz
- Misery Index: Complete Control (Century Media) [05-13] - metal
- Miso Extra: Great Taste (Beatnik Creative -EP) [03-04]
- Mister Goblin: Bunny (Exploding in Sound) [04-22]
- Nicole Mitchell & Fabio Paolozzi: Medusae (Don Giovanni) [09-05] - jazz
- Gabriele Mitelli/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Three Tsuru Origami (We Insist) - jazz
- Miyeon: My (Cube Entertainment -EP) [04-27] - K-pop
- Mizmor & Thou: Myopia (Gilead Media) [04-22]
- ML Wah: Mirrored Night ()
- MO: Motordrome (Sony Music UK) [01-28] - synthpop
- Mo Troper: MTV (Lame-O) [09-02] - twee-pop
- Mdou Moctar: Afrique Refait (A Remix Album) () -
- Moby: Reprise/Remixes (Deutsche Grammophon) [05-20] - electronic
- Modern Error: Victim of a Modern Age () [01-21] - melodic hardcore
- The Modern Folk One: The Modern Folk One ()
- Modern Nature: Island of Noise (Bella Union) [01-28] - indie folk
- Modern Studies: We Are There (Fire) [02-18] - folk rock
- Elizabeth Moen: Wherever You Aren't () [11-11]
- Abul Mogard: In a Few Places Along the River () [02-01] - ambient
- Moin: Paste (AD 93) [10-28] - experimental rock
- Tony Molina: In the Fade (Run for Cover) [08-12]
- Mom Jeans: Sweet Tooth (Counter Intuitive) [02-25] - emo-pop
- Chris Mondak: Glass Spheres (Summit) - jazz
- Ben Monder/Tony Malaby/Tom Rainey: Live in Lisbon (Robalo Music) - jazz
- Drori Mondlak & Karolina Strassmayer: Freescapes (Lilypad) - jazz
- Mondo Grosso: Big World (ASAB) [02-09] - deep house
- Monkey House: Remember the Audio () - jazz
- The Monochrome Set: Allhallowtide (Tapete) [03-11]
- Monodrama: Mndrmooaa (Everlasting) [01-14] - jazz
- Monophonics: Sage Motel (Colemine) [05-13]
- Monoscopes: Painkillers and Wine (Big Black Car) [01-28]
- Michael Monroe: I Live Too Fast to Die Young (Silver Lining) [06-10]
- Monsta X: Shape of Love (Starship -EP) [04-26]
- Monster Rally: Botanica Dream () [07-22] - instrumental hip-hop
- Monster Truck: Warriors ()
- French Montana & Harry Fraud: Montega () [06-24] - hip-hop
- Elisa Monteiro: Muda (PMC [Producao de Musica Contemporaea) - jazz
- Roy Montgomery: Audiotherapy (Grapefruit) [03-04] - experimental
- Monuments: In Stasis (Century Media) [04-15] - metal
- Moodring: Stargazer (UNFD) [06-10]
- Franc Moody: Into the Ether () [09-02] - nu-disco
- Suzi Moon: Dumb and In Luv ()
- Moon Panda: What on Earth (Fierce Panda) [03-04]
- Moon Tooth: Phototroph (Pure Noise) [05-13] - metal
- Moonchild: Starfruit (Tru Thoughts) [02-11]
- Andy Moor & Tommaso Rolando: Sessione Pre Angiou (Torto Editions) - jazz
- Art Moore: Art Moore (Anti-) [08-05] - singer-songwriter
- Mandy Moore: In Real Life (Verve) [05-13]
- NO Moore: Llanfechain (Scatter) - jazz
- Thurston Moore/Mats Gustafsson/Stephen O'Malley: Born Without Word/At a Worn (Slowboy -21) - jazz
- Thurston Moore: Screen Time (Southern Lord) [02-25]
- Mopes: Unwound () [02-18] - hip-hop
- More Kicks: Punch Drunk (Dirtnap)
- Moreish Idols: Float (Speedy Wunderground -EP) [08-12]
- Gabriel Moreno: The Year of the Rat (self-released) [01-16]
- Mike Moreno: Standards From Film (Criss Cross) - jazz
- Justin Morell: Exit Music for Intelligent Life on Earth (Sonic Frenzy) - jazz
- Tommaso Moretti: Inside Out (Bace) [05-06] - jazz
- Mud Morganfield: Portrait (Delmark) [11-22] - blues
- Chloe Moriondo: Puppy Luv (Fueled by Ramen -EP) [04-08]
- Chloe Moriondo: Suckerpunch (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [10-07] - elecropop
- Meg Morley Trio: Journey Through Home (33Jazz) - jazz
- MorMor: Semblance (Don't Guess) [11-04]
- David John Morris: Wyld Love Songs ()
- Jay Morris Group: Tell My Story () - blues
- Kendra Morris: Nine Lives (Karma Chief) [02-18]
- Rae Morris: Rachel@Fairyland () [07-08]
- Angeline Morrison: The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs (self-released) [05-01]
- Angeline Morrison: The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience (Topic) [10-07]
- Carla Morrison: El Renacimiento (Cosmica) [04-29]
- Mortuous: Upon Desolation () [09-16] - death metal
- Shannen Moser: The Sun Still Seems to Move (Lame-O) [09-30]
- Moth Cock: Invisible Pranks (Hausu Mountain)
- Mother of Graves: Where the Shadows Adorn (Wise Blood) [10-14] - metal
- Motherhood: Winded () [06-24]
- Mothermary: I Am Your God (Italians Do It Better) [01-28] - synthpop
- Motionless in White: Scoring the End of the World () [06-10] - metalcore
- Motor Sister: Get Off (Metal Blade) [05-06] - metal
- Motorcade: See You in the Nothing (Idol)
- Motorpsycho: Ancient Astronauts (Stickman) [08-19]
- Moundabout: Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones () [07-29]
- Mount Kimbie: MK 35: Die Cuts/City Planning (Warp) [11-04] - techno
- Mount Westmore: Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort () [12-09] - hip-hop
- Mountain Coast: Phases (Shifting Paradigm) [09-16] - jazz
- Ana Moura: Casa Guilhermina (Sony) [11-11] - fado
- Moynihan: Black Brook () [09-30]
- MPU101: MPU102 ()
- Mt Joy: Orange Blood (Island) [06-17]
- Mt Oriander: Then the Lightness Leaves and I Become Heavy Again () [10-21] - emo
- μ-Ziq: Goodbye (Planet Mu -EP) [04-01] - electronic
- μ-Ziq: Magic Pony Ride (Planet Mu) [06-10] - electronic
- Mud City Manglers: Heart Full of Hate () [01-28]
- Muddy Monk: Ultra Dynamic Kid () [04-01]
- Nick Mulvey: New Mythology (Fiction) [06-10]
- Marcus Mumford: (Self-Titled) (Island) [09-16]
- Municipal Waste: Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast) [07-01] - metal
- MuniMuni's: MuniMuni's 33 (MuniMuni's) [03-25] - jazz
- Munly & the Lupercalians: Kinnery of Lupercalia: Undelivered Region (SCAC)
- Mura Masa: Demon Time (Polydor) [09-16] - glitch hop
- Murder by Death: Spell/Bound (Many Hats) [07-29] - country
- Murkage Dave: The City Needs a Hero () [05-27]
- The Murlocs: Rapscallion (ATO) [09-16] - alt/indie
- Muscadine Bloodline: Dispatch to 16th Ave (Stancaster Music) [02-04] - country
- Muse: Will of the People (Helium 3/Warner) [08-26] - alt rock
- Charlie Musselwhite: Mississippi Son () [06-03]
- Rachel Musson/NO Moore/Olie Brice/Eddie Prevost: Under the Sun (Matchless) - jazz
- Mustasch: A Final Warning: Chapter One (Tritonus -EP -21)
- Mutautu: Graveyard of Giants (Mutautu)
- My Disco: Alter Schwede (-21) [2021-11-29]
- My Sleeping Karma: Atma (Napalm)
- Whiskey Myers: Tornillo (Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers) [07-29] - country
- Kim Myhr: Up to the Sun Shall Go Your Heartche (Hubro) [06-15] - jazz
- Kim Myhr: Sympathetic Magic (Hubro) [08-19] - jazz
- Mysie: Joyride (70Hz -EP) [05-13]
- Mythic Sunship: Light/Flux () [09-30]
- N Chambers: Mirage Colony () [01-31]
- Bill Nace: Through a Room (Drag City) [11-11]
- Nadja: Luminous Rot (Southern Lord -21) [2021-05-21] - metal
- Marissa Nadler: The Wrath of the Clouds (Sacred Bones -EP) [02-04] - singer-songwriter
- Leona Naess: Brood X () [06-03]
- Nikki Nair: Renormalization Support Group () [09-09] - electronic
- Nate Najar: Jazz Samba Pra Sempre (BlueLine) - jazz
- Nancy: English Leather (Blame) [10-28] - glam rock
- Napalm Death: Resentment Is Always Seismic: A Final Throw of Throes (Century Media -EP) [02-11] - grindcore
- Napoleon Da Legend & Clypto: Maison De Medici () [03-11] - hip-hop
- Narcissus: A Sense of Place () [10-21]
- Natural Flavorsz: Homage ()
- Nav: Demons Protected by Angels (XO/Republic) - hip-hop
- Nayeon: Im Nayeon (JYP -EP) [06-24] - K-pop
- NCT Dream: Glitch Mode (SM Entertainment) [03-28] - K-pop
- Ne-Yo: Self Explanatory (Motown) [07-15]
- Tyree Neal: Young Goat of the Blues () - blues
- Nebula: Transmissions From Mothership Earth (Heavy Psych Sounds) [07-22]
- Nechochwen: Kanawha Black (Bindrune) [05-13] - black metal
- The Necromancers: Where the Void Rose (Necromancers) -
- Negative Plane: The Pact . . . (Invictus) [04-30] - black metal
- Negroni's Trio: Esperanzas/Hopes (Sony Latin) - jazz
- Neighbor Lady: For the Birds (Park the Van) [07-01]
- Ana Nelson: Bridges (Ana Nelson Music) [09-02] - jazz
- Bill Nelson: Electra (In Search of the Golden Sound) (Dreamsville)
- Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Strauss (Deutsche Grammophon) [05-06] - classical
- Haru Nemuri: Shunka Ryougen (TO3S) [04-22] - J-rock
- Emily Nenni: On the Ranch (New West) - country
- Neptune Power Federation: Le Demon De L'amour (Cruz Del Sur) [02-18] - fuzz metal [-]
- Nina Nesbitt: Alskar (Cooking Vinyl) [09-02] - pop
- Marius Neset/Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner: Manhade (Chandos) [01-07]
- New Impressionz: Energy Set 3 ()
- New Jeans: New Jeans (Ador -EP) [08-01] - K-pop
- New Monuments: Language Is the Skin (Torn Light) - jazz
- New Standard Quintet: Another Time, Another Place (New Standard Music) - jazz
- NewDad: Banshee (Fair Youth -EP) [02-09]
- NHC: Intakes & Outtakes () [02-04] - hard rock
- Nicfit: Fuse (Upset the Rhythm) [01-14] - garage punk
- Caleb Nichols: Ramon (Kill Rock Stars) [06-24]
- Nickelback: Get Rollin' (BMG) [11-18] - hard rock
- Nicole Fau Naiv: Moon Rally () [04-08]
- Tomas Niesner: Becvou () [04-01]
- Night Demon: Year of the Demon (Century Media) [03-25] - metal
- Night Is Alive: Old New Borrowed & Blue (Night Is Alive) [01-05] - jazz
- Night Palace: Diving Rings (Park the Van) [04-01]
- Night Shop: Forever Night (Dangerbird) [02-11]
- Night Tales: Proof ()
- The Nightingales: The Last Laugh () [10-14]
- Nightlands: Moonshine (Western Vinyl) [07-15]
- Nightmare: Cruel Liars () [10-14]
- Nightports/Tom Herbert: Nightports w/Tom Herbert (The Leaf Label) [04-29]
- Nightshift: Made of the Earth (Trouble in Mind)
- Nigo: I Know Nigo! (Victor Victor/Republic) [03-25] - hip-hop
- Nik Colk Void: Bucked Up Space (Mego) [04-08]
- Niki: Nicole (88rising) [08-12] - indie pop
- Nikolaienko: Nostalgia Por Mesozoica (Muscut) [04-01] - tribal ambient
- Molly Nilsson: Extreme (Dark Skies Association) [01-15] - synthpop
- The Ninth Wave: Heavy Like a Headache (Distiller) [03-18] - post-punk
- Nite: Voices of the Kronian Moon (Season of Mist) [03-25] - metal
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Dirt Does Dylan ()
- Liew Niyomkarn: I Think of Another Time When You Heart It ()
- NLE Choppa: Me Vs Me (Warner) [01-28] - trap
- Nnamdi: Please Have a Seat (Secretly Canadian) [10-07] - art pop
- No Rome: It's All Smiles (Dirty Hit -21) [2021-12-03] - alt r&b
- NOBRO: Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (Dine Alone -EP) [02-23]
- NoCap: Mr Crawford (Never Broke Again/Atlantic) [04-29] - hip-hop
- Mike Nock/Hamish Stuart/Julien Wilson/Jonathan Zwartz: Another Dance (Lionsharerecords) [02-04] - jazz
- Andrew Rathbun's Nodes: Incubated Dilemma Machine (Koshkil) [10-21] - jazz
- Jerome Noetinger & Lasse Marhaug: Top (Erstwhile) [02-22] - EAI
- Hatis Noit: Aura (Erased Tapes) [06-24]
- Nok Cultural Ensemble: Njhyi () [10-14]
- Adam Nolan: Listen to Me Now (self) - jazz
- Nadje Noordhuis: Full Circle (Newvelle) [12-16] - jazz
- Norma Jean: Deathrattle Sing for Me (Solid State) [08-12] - metalcore
- Nosaj Thing: Continua (LuckyMe) [10-27]
- NoSo: Stay Proud of Me (Partisan) [07-08]
- Nordic Union: Animalistic (Frontiers) [08-12]
- Novelist: 4 Tha Homiez () [05-27] - UK hip-hop
- November Ultra: Bedroom Walls () [04-08]
- Thandi Ntuli: Bik Elijah & the Children of Meroe (Next Music) [07-08] - jazz
- The Nu Band: Renual (Not Two) - jazz
- Nu Genea: Bar Mediterraneo (NG/Carosello) [05-13] - funk
- Nudista: Halfway Here (Sad Club -EP) [04-01]
- NUG: Napping Under God ()
- Paolo Nutini: Last Night in the Bittersweet (Atlantic) [07-01]
- Nutrients: Different Bridges (Earth Libraries) [08-05]
- Nwando Ebizie: The Swan () [07-22]
- NYO Jazz: We're Still Here (self-released) - jazz
- NZE NZE: Adzi Akai () [10-21] - post-industrial
- Marc O: L'Homme De L'Ombre (Plastic Sound) [06-25]
- Roisin O: Courageous () [04-29]
- Chris Oatts: Personalities (BCM&D) - jazz
- Aoife O'Donovan: Age of Apathy (Yep Roc) [01-21] - singer-songwriter
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Fandango at the Wall in New York (Tiger Turn) [09-29] - jazz
- Damian O'Neill: An Crann () [11-25]
- Jim O'Rourke/Eiko Ishibashi/Joe Talia: Patrick (self-released)
- Gilbert O'Sullivan: Driven () [07-22]
- Roberto Occhipinti: The Next Step () - jazz
- Ocean Grove: Up in the Air Forever (UNFD) [04-22]
- Oceanator: Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl) [04-08]
- Oceans of Slumber: Starlight and Ash (Century Media) [07-22] - gothic rock
- October Drift: I Don't Belong Anywhere () [10-14] - shoegaze
- Tom Odell: Best Day of My Life (Mtheory) [10-28] - indie pop
- Of Montreal: Freewave Lucifer F*ck F*ck F*ck (Polyvinyl) [07-29] - art pop
- Of Virtue: Sinner (Arising Empire -EP) [08-12]
- Office Culture: Big Time Things (Northern Spy) [09-30]
- OG Keemo: Mann Beisst Hund ()
- Emeka Ogboh: 6°30'33.372"N 3°22'0.66"E () [07-29] - ambient dub
- Dina Ogon: Dina Ogon ()
- Oh Hiroshima: Myriad (Napalm) [03-04] - post rock
- Ohyung: Imagine Naked! (NNA Tapes) [04-22]
- Ojerime: Bad Influence (Never Seven) [10-14] - alt r&b
- Takuro Okada: Betsu No Jikan ()
- Hiroki Okano: Beyond the Dreamsphere (Domo)
- Oki: Tonkori in the Moonlight (Mais Um Discos) [02-04]
- The Oklahoma Kid: Tangerine Tragic (Arising Empire) [06-03] - metalcore
- OKZharp: Outside the Ride (Hyperdub -EP) [08-05] - footwork
- Old Fire: Voids (Western Vinyl)
- Old Town Crier: You ()
- Omah Lay: Boy Alone () [07-15]
- Omar-S: Can't Change (FXHE) [04-22] - funky house
- Ombiigizi: Sewn Back Together (Arts & Crafts) [02-10]
- Omerta: Collection Particuliere () [06-03]
- Hinako Omori: A Journey . . . (Houndstooth) [03-18]
- Once Human: Scar Weaver (EarMusic) [02-11] - groove metal
- One Eleven Heavy: Poolside ()
- One Flew West: The Blur () [03-25]
- One Leg One Eye: And Take the Black Worm With Me () - folk
- One More Grain: Beans on Toast With Pythagoras () [03-18]
- Oneida: Success (Joyful Noise) [08-19]
- Onew: Dice (SM Entertainment -EP) [04-11] - K-pop
- Oni: Loathing Light (Ironshore) [06-17]
- Onsegen Ensemble: Realms (Svart)
- Onsloow: Onsloow () [01-21]
- Opus 5: Swing on This (Criss Cross) - jazz
- Opus Kink: 'Til the Stream Runs Dry (-EP) [06-17]
- Orango: Mohican (Stickman)
- William Orbit: The Painter (Warner) [08-26]
- The Orchids: Dreaming Kind () [09-02]
- ORD: Apri Och Tystnad (Havtorn) [03-18] - jazz
- ORD: Hemligheter Pa Vagen (self-released) - jazz
- Ordnance Survey: Nomos: O Riada Reimagined (Scintilla)
- The Order of the 12: Lore of the Land (Group Mind) [02-04]
- Organ Tapes: Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jim De Ge Yao (Worldwide Unlimited) [04-28] - ambient pop
- The Orielles: Tableau (Heavenly) [10-07] - dream pop
- Orion Sun: Getaway (Mom + Pop -EP) [03-11]
- ORk: Screamnasium (Kscope) [10-21]
- Bobby Oroza: Get on the Otherside (Big Crown) [06-10]
- Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos/Rebecca Martin/Larry Grenadier: After Midnight (CARA) [01-12] - vocal jazz
- Orthodox: Proceed (Alone) - doom metal
- Rude Skott Osborn Trio: The Virtue of Temperance (El Paraiso)
- Joan Osborne: Radio Waves (Womanly Hips) [02-18]
- Osees: A Foul Form (Castle Face) [08-12] - garage punk
- Kresten Osgood: Plays the Organ for You (April) [06-03] - jazz
- Osheyack: Intimate Publics (Svbkvlt) [06-08] - deconstructed club
- Miles Osland: Collaborations Volume 3: Swedish Connections (Mark) - jazz
- Oso Oso: Sore Thumb (Triple Crown) [03-18] - indie rock
- John Oswald/Henry Kaiser/Paul Plimley: At One Time (Improvisations for Cecil Taylor) (Metalanguage -21) - jazz
- Otoboke Beaver: Super Champon (Damnably) [05-06] - punk
- The Otolith: Folium Limina (Blues Funeral) - doom
- Ouat: The Strange Adventures of Jesper Klint: Ouat Plays Per Henrik Wallin (Umlaut) [11-16] - jazz
- Quinn Oulton: Alexithymia (DeepMatter) - jazz
- Our Lady Peace: Spiritual Machines II () [01-28]
- Out of Service: The Ground Beneath Me () [06-03]
- Out to Dinner: Food Is Medicine (Posi-Tone) [09-23] - jazz
- Ovens: Ovens (Tank Crimes)
- Abiodun Oyewole: Gratitude (AFAR) [01-28] - African
- Oysterband: Read the Sky () [03-04]
- Abbie Ozard: Water Based Lullabies (House Anxiety -EP) [07-01]
- P'tit Belliveau: Un Homme Et Son Piano (Bonsound) [04-01]
- Anne Paceo: SHAMANES () - jazz
- Alix Page: Old News (-EP) [01-28]
- PAKT [Percy Jones/Alex Skolnick/Kenny Grohowski/Tim Motzer]: Live in Buffalo, December 15, 2021 (Moonjune) [02-15] - jazz
- Palace: Shoals (Fiction) [01-21] - indie rock
- Palaye Royale: Fever Dream (Sumerian) [10-28]
- Leo PaLayeng: Riddles of Tong Kicol ()
- Pale Blue Eyes: Souvenirs (Full Time Hobby) [09-02]
- Pale Waves: Unwanted (Dirty Hit) [08-12]
- Nerina Pallot: I Don't Know What I'm Doing () [06-17]
- Palm: Nicks and Grazes (Saddle Creek) [10-14]
- Palmistry: Tinkerbell ()
- Pan-American: The Patience Fader (Kranky) [02-18] - ambient
- Misha Panfilov: The Sea Will Outlive Is All ()
- Misha Panfilov: Momentum ()
- Misha Panfilov: Penza Penza ()
- Panic! at the Disco: Viva Las Vengeance (Fueled by Ramen) [08-19] - glam rock
- Panic Shack: Baby Shack (Brace Yourself -EP) [04-08]
- Pantha Du Prince: Garden Gaia (Modern) [ 08-26] - electronic
- Papa Roach: Ego Trip (Eleven Seven/Ada/Warner) [04-08] - alt rock
- Jerry Paper: Free Time (Stones Throw) [04-15]
- Papercuts: Past Life Regression (Slumberland) [04-01]
- Papir: 7 () [01-14] - krautrock
- Lee Paradise: Lee Paradise & Co (Telephone Explosion) [10-28]
- Giuseppe Paradiso: Parallel Dimensions (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Paranoid Void: Travels in My Universe (self-released)
- Jon Pardi: Mr Saturday Night (Capitol Nashville) [09-02] - country
- Paris Combo: Quesaco? (Six Degrees) [05-06]
- Shane Parish: Liverpool () [03-04]
- Jeff Parker/Eric Revis/Nasheet Waits: Eastside Romp (RogueArt) - jazz
- Aaron Parks/Matt Brewer/Eric Harland: Volume One (self-released) [03-03] - jazz
- Aaron Parks/Matt Brewer/Eric Harland: Volume Two (self-released) [06-06] - jazz
- Parkway Drive: Darker Still (Epitaph) [09-09]
- Parov Stelar: Moonlight Love Affair (Etage Noir)
- Emmanuelle Parrenin: Targala, La Maison Qui N'en Pas Une (Johnkool) [03-18] - avant-folk
- Theo Parrish: DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward () [10-28] - electronica
- Particle Kid: Time Capsule () [04-22]
- Partner Look: By the Book (Trouble in Mind) [02-04]
- Party Dozen: The Real Work (Temporary Residence) [07-08]
- Stefan Pasborg: Ritual Dances (Sunnyside) [02-11] - jazz
- Chris Patrick: X-Files ()
- Steve Patrick and the Music City Orchestra: Reflections (Green Hill) - jazz
- Jessica Pavone: When No One Around You Is There but Nowhere to Be Found (Relative Pitch) [01-28] - jazz
- PE: The Leather Lemon (Wharf Cat) [03-25]
- Peach Pit: From 2 to 3 (Columbia) [03-04] - indie pop
- Pedro the Lion: Havasu (Polyvinyl) [01-20] - indie rock
- Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra: The Unfolding (Real World) [04-01] - ambient
- Peel Dream Magazine: Pad (Slumberland) [10-07]
- Pehuenche: Vida Ventura ()
- Vincent Peirani: Jokers (ACT) - jazz
- Pendant: Harp (Saddle Creek) [04-08] - indietronica
- Greentea Peng: Greenzone 108 (EMI) [09-09]
- Garcia Peoples: Dodging Dues (No Quarter) [01-14] - psychedelic rock
- Peregrine: The Awful Things We've Done () [03-18]
- Perel: Jesus Was an Alien () [05-13] - EBM
- Ivo Perelman Quartet: Magic Dust (Mahakala Music) [02-18] - jazz
- Ivo Perelman: Reed Rapture in Brooklyn (Mahakala Music) [10-26] - jazz
- Perera Elsewhere: Home (Friends of Friends) [09-30]
- Perez: Rex () [05-27]
- M Ross Perkins: E Pluribus M Ross (Colemine) [03-18]
- Christina Perri: A Lighter Shade of Blue (Elektra) [07-15]
- Lydia Persaud: Moody31 (Next Door) [04-29]
- Persher: Man With the Magic Soap (Thrill Jockey) [10-21] - sludge metal
- Personal Trainer: Big Love Blanket (The Industry) [11-04]
- Jonathan Personne: Jonathan Personne () [08-26]
- Pet Fox: A Face in Your Life (Exploding in Sound) [06-17]
- Petbrick: Liminal ()
- Deanna Petcoff: To Hell With You, I Love You (Royal Mountain) [04-08]
- Gretchen Peters: The Show: Live From the UK (Proper) [08-19] - country
- Mark Peters: Red Sunset Dreams (Sonic Cathedral) [09-16]
- Benjamin Petit: Dear John (Art District) [10-14] - jazz
- Donatas Petreikis: Another Spirit (Muzika) [02-25] - jazz
- The Pat Petrillo Big Rhythm Band: The Power Station Sessions (Autumn Hill) - jazz
- Phantasm: John Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts () [02-11] - classical
- Pharis & Jason Romero: Tell 'Em You Were Gold ()
- PHF: Purest Hell () [05-27] - glitch pop
- The Philadelphia Experiment [Uri Caine/Christian McBride/Ahmir Thompson/DJ Logic]: Live at Newport Jazz 2017 (Newport Jazz) [11-01] - jazz
- Grant-Lee Phillips: All That You Can Dream (Yep Roc) [05-20]
- Phobophilic: Enveloping Absurdity (-EP) [09-16] - death metal
- Phony: At Some Point You Stop (Joyful Noise) [07-29]
- Pianos Become the Teeth: Drift (Epitaph) [08-26]
- Darren Pickering Small Worlds: Volume 1 (Rattle) [07-21] - jazz
- Pictish Trail: Island Family (Fire) [03-18]
- Rebecca Pidgeon: Parts of Speech Pieces of Sound (Toy Canteen)
- Roberta Piket/Harvie S/Billy Mintz: You've Been Warned (Sunnyside) [08-12] - jazz
- Jean-Michel Pilc: Alive: Live at Diese Onze, Montreal (Justin Time) [02-25] - jazz
- Pillow Queens: Leave the Light On (Royal Mountain) [04-01] - indie rock
- Pimpon: Pozdrawiam () [04-20]
- Pinch Points: Process (Exploding in Sound) [03-18]
- Pinegrove: 11:11 (Rough Trade) [01-28] - alt-country
- Pink Mountaintops: Peacock Pools (ATO) [05-06]
- Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man: Real Bad Flights () - hip-hop
- PinkPantheress: To Hell With It (Remixes) (Parlophone) [01-28] - atmospheric drum & bass
- Pinkshift: Love Me Forever (Hopeless) [10-21]
- Trevor Pinnock: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (Deutsche Grammophon) [04-08] - baroque
- Pioneer 11: Humanoid (POW)
- Pip Blom: Welcome Break (Heavenly) [11-12] - indie rock
- Pit Pony: World to Me (Clue) [07-01] - garage rock
- Pixies: Doggerel (BMG) [09-30]
- Pixy: Reborn () [06-15] - K-pop
- A Place for Owls: A Place for Owls () [08-30]
- A Place to Bury Strangers: See Through You (Dedstrange) [02-04] - noise rock
- Plastic Mermaids: It's Not Comfortable to Grow (Sunday Best) [09-30]
- Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales: Consumed in Key () [04-01]
- Plosivs: Plosivs (Swami) [03-17]
- Pluraltone: This Is the Show () [03-17]
- The Po' Ramblin' Boys: Never Slow Down (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-25] - country
- Romeo Poirier: Living Room (Faitiche) [10-07] - ambient
- Pole: Tempus (Mute) [11-18]
- Polica: Madness (Memphis Industries) [06-03]
- Steve Poltz: Stardust & Satellites (Red House) [02-18] - country
- Polyphia: Remember That You Will Die (Rise) [10-28] - math rock
- Lou Pomanti: Lou Pomanti & Friends () - jazz
- Pomme: Consolidation ()
- Danielle Ponder: Some of Us Are Brave (Future Classic) [09-16] - r&b
- Pontiac Streator: Sone Glo () [06-16]
- Julien Pontvienne-Abhra: Seven Poems on Water () - jazz
- Pool Kids: Pool Kids (Skeletal Lightning) [07-22]
- Chris Pope & the Chords UK: Big City Dreams ()
- Max Pope: Counting Sheep (Virgin) [07-01]
- Poppy: Stagger (-EP)
- Porcupine Tree: Closure/Continuation (Sony UK) [06-24]
- Porij: Outlines (AWAL -EP) [09-07] - alt dance
- Post Malone: Twelve Carat Toothache (Republic) [06-03] - pop rap
- Daphne Parker Powell: The Starter Wife () [10-14]
- Poster Paints: Poster Paints () [10-14]
- Muff Potter: Bei Aller Liebe ()
- Sophie Powers: Red in Revenge (Set -EP) [05-20]
- Powerwolf: The Monumental Mass: A Cinematic Metal Event (Napalm) [07-08] - metal
- Prairie Wolf: Live at the Aztlan Theatre 7/16/2022 ()
- Praise: All in a Dream (Revelation) [05-06]
- Praises: In This Year: Hierophant (Hand Drawn Dracula) [06-17]
- Sam Prekop & John McEntire: Sons Of (Thrill Jockey) [07-22]
- Yvonnick Prene: Listen (Sunnyside '23) [2023-01-20] - jazz
- Preoccupations: Arrangements (Flemish Eye) [09-09] - post-punk
- Press Club: Endless Motion () [10-14] - post-hardcore
- Pretty Sick: Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile (Dirty Hit) [09-30] - garage rock
- Eddie Prevost: Collider: Or, 'Whose Drum Is It, Anyhway?' (Matchless) - jazz
- Len Price 3: Ip Do Dip ()
- A Pride of Lions [Joe McPhee/Daunik Lazro/Joshua Abrams/Guillaume Seguron/Chad Taylor]: No Questions No Answers (RogueArt) [02-07] - jazz
- Pridelands: Light Bends (Resist/SharpTone) [01-14] - metalcore
- Eldritch Priest: Omphaloskepsis (Halocline Trance) - jazz
- Priestgate: Eyes Closed for the Winter (-EP) [03-25]
- Primer: Incubator () [04-15]
- Primitive Knot: Ur-Metal (Deathbed Tapes) [08-12]
- Primus: Conspiranoid (ATO -EP) [04-22] - experimental rock
- Prince Daddy & the Hyena: Prince Daddy & the Hyena (Pure Noise) [04-15] - emo-pop
- Prince Wally: Moussa () [09-30]
- Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation: Let's Save the World Suite (Composers Concordance) [09-02] - jazz
- The Proclaimers: Dentures Out (Cooking Vinyl) [09-16]
- Profiler: Profiler (SharpTone -EP) [06-24] - nu metal
- Project Gemini: The Children of Scorpio () [05-20]
- Proper.: The Great American Novel (Father/Daughter) [03-25]
- Protoje: Third Time's the Charm () [09-23] - dancehall
- Psalm One x Custom Made: Bigg Perrm () - hip-hop
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: Night Gnomes (What Reality?) [04-22] - psychedelic rock
- PsychoYP: YPSZN3 ()
- Psyclon Nine: Less to Heaven () [08-19] - industrial
- Psychic Temple: Plays Planet Caravan (Big Ego)
- Psychonaut: Violate Consensus Reality (Pelagic) [10-28] - prog metal
- Psycroptic: Divine Council (Prosthetic) [08-05]
- PUBLIQuartet: What Is American (Bright Shiny Things) [06-17] - jazz
- Greg Puciato: Mirrorcell (Federal Prisoner) [07-01] - metal
- The Pulsebeats: Lookin' Out () [01-14]
- Punch Brothers: Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch) [01-14] - prog bluegrass
- Puppy: Pure Evil (Rude) [05-06]
- Pure Reason Revolution: Above Cirrus (Inside Out) [05-06]
- Purity Ring: Graves (Music Fellowship -EP) [06-03] - electropop
- Purple Dawn: Peace & Doom Session Vol II (Electric Valley) [03-11] - stoner metal
- Putochinomaricon: Jaja Equisde (Distopia Aburrida) (Elefant)
- PVA: Blush (Ninja Tune) [10-14] - electropop
- Ben Quad: I'm Scared That's All There Is () [07-01] - emo
- Jo Quail: The Cartographer (By Norse Music) [05-06]
- Quatuor Ebene: 'Round Midnight (Erato -21) [2021-10-15] - classical
- Quavo & Takeoff [Unc & Phew]: Only Built for Infinity Links (Quality Control Music/Motown/UMG) [10-07] - hip-hop
- Queen Kwong: Couples Only (Sonic Ritual) [07-12]
- Queensryche: Digital Noise Alliance (Century Media) [10-07]
- Steve Queralt & Michael Smith: Sun Moon Town () [10-14] - spoken word
- Adrian Quesada: Boleros Psicodelicos (ATO) [06-03]
- Adrian Quesada: Jaguar Sound (ATO) [11-18]
- Anna Laura Quinn: Open the Door (Outside In Music) [02-18] - jazz
- David Quinn: Country Flesh (Down Home) [04-15] - country
- Quinquis: Seim (Mute) [05-20]
- Juan Carlos Quintero: Table for Five! (Moondo Music) - jazz
- Rabbit Junk: Apocalypse for Beginners () [10-21]
- Genevieve Racette: Satellite () [03-18]
- Ariane Racicot: Envolee (Multiple Chord) - jazz
- Bogdan Raczynski: Addle (Planet Mu) [03-18]
- Ragawerk: Ragawerk (Bellaphon) - jazz
- Eliane Radigue & Frederic Blondy: Occam XXV (Organ Reframed) [03-04] - minimalism
- Ralfy the Plug: Pastor Ralfy 2 (Stinc Team) [02-20] - hip-hop
- Ralfy the Plug: Skateboard P (Stinc Team) [06-19] - hip-hop
- Rammstein: Zeit (Vertigo Berlin) [04-29] - industrial metal
- Marion Rampal: Tisse () - jazz
- The Range: Mercury (Domino) [06-10] - future garage
- Ransom: No Rest for the Wicked ()
- Ras-I: Kingman (Ras-I Musique) - reggae
- Rat Tally: In My Car () [08-12] - indie pop
- Rattlesnake Milk: Chicken Fried Snake (Feels So Good)
- Michael Rault: Michael Rault (Wick) [06-10]
- The Rave-Ups: Tomorrow () [02-04]
- Raveena: Asha's Awakening (Warner/Moonstone) [02-11] - r&b
- Raw Poetic: Space Beyond the Solar System (22nd Century) [12-09] - hip-hop
- Amy Ray: If It All Goes South ()
- Arin Ray: Hello Poison ()
- Shilpa Ray: Portrait of a Lady (Northern Spy) [04-29]
- Sugaray Rayford: In Too Deep () [03-04]
- Raz & Alfa: The Cycle ()
- Re:ni: ITX023: Revenge Body (Ilan Tape)
- Real Lies: Lad Ash (Unreal) [04-22] - electronic
- The Red Clay Strays: Moment of Truth (self-released) [04-29] - country
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Return of the Dream Canteen (Warner) [10-14] - alt rock
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples: Summer at Land's End (Slumberland) [02-04] - jangle pop
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples: They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland) [10-14]
- Dan Reed Network: Let's Hear It for the King ()
- Reef: Shoot Me Your Ace (Raging Sea) [04-29]
- Karl Ivar Refseth Trio: Devotion (Traumton) [02-18] - jazz
- Peter Rehberg: At GRM (Portraits GRM)
- Regressive Left: On the Wrong Side of History (Bad Vibrations -EP) [07-15]
- Steve Reich: Reich/Richter () [06-10] - minimalism
- Tomeka Reid/Kyoko Kitamura/Taylor Ho Bynum/Joe Morris: Geometry of Trees (Relative Pitch) [05-20] - jazz
- Sam Reider: Petrichor (Slow & Steady) - jazz
- Christian Reif & Julia Bullock: Walking in the Dark () [12-09]
- Rachel Reis: Meu Esquema () -
- Swami John Reis: Ride the Wild Night () [02-18]
- The Relay: The Relay (Same Island Music) - jazz
- REM: Chronic Town (A&M)
- Renforshort: Dear Amelia (Interscope)
- Tha Retail Simps: Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots in the Dark (Total Punk) [03-01] - punk
- The Reverse Cowgirls: Fortis Et Fidus () [01-08]
- Revocation: Netherheaven (Metal Blade) [09-09] - technical death metal
- Rex Orange County: Who Cares? (Sony) [03-11] - bedroom pop
- Rexx Life Raj: The Blue Hour () [07-15] - hip-hop
- Taiyo Rey: Visitor (Saul Stokes)
- Jessie Reyez: Yessie () [09-16]
- Thomas Rhett: Where We Started (Big Machine) [04-01] - country
- Ribbon Stage: Hit With the Most () [10-21] - jangle pop
- Roddy Ricch: Feed Tha Streets III (Atlantic) [11-18] - hip-hop
- Sorcha Richardson: Smiling Like an Idiot () [09-23]
- Max Richter: The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed (Deutsche Grammophon) [06-10] - classical
- Yannick Rieu Generation Quartet: Qui Qu'en Grogne (Yari) - jazz
- Sylvain Rifflet With Verneri Pohjola: Cake Walk From a Spaceship (Eclipse Music) [02-25] - jazz
- Al Riggs: Themselves ()
- James Righton: Jim, I'm Still Here (Deewee) [07-08]
- Rigorous Institution: Cainsmarsh () [05-06]
- George Riley: Running in Waves (PLZ Make It Ruins) [09-09]
- Terry Riley: Organum for Stefano (I Dischi Di Agelica) [04-26] - minialism
- LeAnn Rimes: God's Work (Everle/Thirty Tigers) [09-16] - country
- Rimzee: Cold Feet () [10-14] - UK hip-hop
- Juliana Riolino: All Blue (You've Changed) [10-14]
- Riot City: Electric Elite () [10-05] - heavy metal
- Ripped to Shreds: Jubian (Relapse) [10-14] - metal
- Manja Ristic: Him, Fast Sleeping, Soon He Found in Labyrinth of Many a Round, Self-Rolled () [07-12]
- Ritual Dictates: No Great Loss () [10-07] - metal
- Rival Consoles: Overflow (Erased Tapes -21) [2021-12-03] - IDM
- Rival Consoles: Now Is (Erased Tapes) - ambient
- River Whyless: Monoflora () [ 04-08] - indie pop
- RM: Indigo ()
- Ari Roar: Made to Never Use () [01-14]
- Robert, SonnyJim & the Purist: Orange Is the New Black () [03-25]
- Cath Roberts & Olie Brice: Conduit (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Troy Roberts: Nu-Jive: Nations United (self-released) - jazz
- Perry Robinson/Mark Whitecage/Ken Filiano/Lou Grassi: Live@VisionFest20 (Not Two) - jazz
- Robocobra Quartet: Living Isn't Easy () [06-17]
- J Rocc: A Wonderful Letter (Stones Throw) [06-17]
- Tess Roby: Ideas of Space () [04-22]
- Ernesto Rodrigues/Jose Lencastre/Miguel Mira/Hernani Faustino/Joao Lencastre: Affinity Suite (Creative Sources) [06-03] - jazz
- Julius Rodriguez: Let Sound Tell All (Verve) [06-10]
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story: 4 Hands (Erased Tapes) [01-28]
- Roger Universe: Earth Express (Spheric Music)
- Rojuu: Kor Kor Lake ()
- Role Model: RX (Interscope) [04-08]
- Matthew J Rolin: Passing ()
- Rolo Tomassi: Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK) [02-04] - post-metal
- Romance: Once Upon a Time ()
- Daniel Romano: La Luna (You've Changed) [09-09]
- Rome Streetz: Kiss the Ring (Griselda/Empire) [09-30] - hip-hop
- Dan Romer: Station Eleven () [01-13]
- Romero: Turn It On! (EMI/Cool Death)
- Ada Rook: Ugly Death No Redemption Angel Curse I Love You ()
- Caitlin Rose: Cazimi (Pearl Tower) [11-18]
- Chelsea Rose: Truth or Consequences () [06-03]
- Jimetta Rose: How Good It Is () [08-12]
- Roska: Peace () [08-09]
- Florian Ross: Tunes & Explorations (Toy Piano) - jazz
- Lara Rosseel: Hert (WERF) [03-11] - jazz
- Vanessa Rosetto: The Actress (ErstSolo) [08-04] - field recordings
- Francois-Xavier Roth/Marie-Ange Todorovitch: Pelleas Et Melisande () [01-28] - classical
- Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni: As Long as the Light () [01-21]
- Claire Rousay: Everything Perfect Is Already Here (Shelter Press) [04-22]
- Claire Rousay & More Eaze: Never Stop Texting Me (Orange Milk) [ 02-11] - hyperpop
- Josh Rouse: Going Places (Yep Roc) [07-29] - singer-songwriter
- Peter Rowan: Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel) [06-24] - bluegrass
- Lou Roy: Pure Chaos (Balloon Machine) [04-29]
- Royal Arctic Institute: From Catnap to Coma (Already Dead Tapes)
- Sofie Royer: Harlequin (Stones Throw) [09-23] - art pop
- Royksopp: Profound Mysteries (PIAS) [04-29] - art pop
- Royksopp: Profound Mysteries II (Dog Triumph) [08-19] - downtempo
- Royksopp: Profound Mysteries III (Dog Triumph) [11-18]
- Royksopp: Profound Mysteries Remixes (Dog Triumph)
- Andreas Roysum/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Kresten Osgood: Music Improvised on September 23rd 2021 (Astral Spirits) - jazz
- rRoxymore: Perpetual Now () - electronica
- RS Producoes: Saude Em 1° Lugar ()
- RSS BOY 1: Mythology () [06-10]
- RTR: 61 Cygni ()
- Run Logan Run: Nature Will Take Care of You (Worm Discs) - jazz
- Run the Jewels: RTJ Cu4tro () [11-11] - remix
- Todd Rundgren: Space Force (Cleopatra) [10-14] - art pop
- Emma Ruth Rundle: Orpheus Looking Back (Sargent House -EP) [03-25]
- Runkus & Toddla T: OUT:SIDE () [07-22]
- Jana Rush: Dark Humor (Planet Mu -EP) [03-25] - footwork
- Wojciech Rusin: Syphon (AD93) [02-04] - electroacoustic
- Russian Circles: Gnosis (Sargent House) [08-19] - post-metal
- Rusty: The Resurrection of Rust (Capitol -EP) [07-01] - pub rock
- Ruts DC: Counter-Culture? ()
- RXM Reality: Sick for You (Hausu Mountain) [03-25]
- Molly Ryan: Sweepin' the Blues Away (Turtle Bay) [11-11] - jazz
- Sam Ryder: There's Nothing but Space, Man (PLG UK Frontline/Palophone) [12-09]
- Saada Bonaire: 1992 (Captured Traks) [05-06] - trip hop
- Sadistic Ritual: The Enigma, Boundless (Prosthetic) [05-20]
- Sadurn: Radiator (Run for Cover) [05-06]
- Safa: Ibtihalat (UIQ) [04-29] - IDM
- Anna Sage: Anna Sage (Klonosphere) [04-15]
- Timucin Sahin's Flow State: Funk Poems for 'Bird' (Panoramic) [11-04] - jazz
- Selene Saint-Aime: Potomitan (Komos) [03-25] - jazz
- Saint Jude: Signal (Slow Dance) [11-18]
- Nathan Salsburg: Landwerk No 3 ()
- Shintaro Sakamoto: Like a Fable () [06-03]
- Akira Sakata/Takeo Moriyama: Mitochrondria (Trost) - jazz
- Salamanda: Ashbalkum (Human Pitch) [06-10] - new age
- Samon Salamon & New Freequestra: Free Distance Vol 2: Poems Are Opening (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-15] - jazz
- Salma E Mac: Voo Livre () -
- Emma Salokoski With Ilmiliekki: Joulu Joule Jul (We Jazz) - jazz
- Josef Salvat: Islands (Leafy Outlook) [02-18]
- Salvation Jayne: A Mouthful of Magnificent Spite () [02-18]
- Angelica Salvi: Habitat () [11-04]
- Samanta Liza: Days of END ()
- Samana: All One Breath (Music for Heroes) [03-11]
- Sammal: Aika Iaulaa (Svart)
- Will Samson: Active Imagination (Human Chorus) [05-06]
- Emeli Sande: Let's Say for Instance (Chrysalis) [05-06]
- Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage: Ink of the Rosy Morning () [04-01] - folk
- Karl Sanders: Saurian Apocalypse (Napalm) [07-22]
- Bruno Sanfilippo: Redes (AD21)
- Sanhedrin: Lights On (Metal Blade) [03-04] -
- Romeo Santos: Forumla Vol 3 (Sony Music Latin) [09-01] - Latin
- Saoirse: Two Bruised Egos (Trust -EP) [04-29]
- Saor: Origins (Season of Mist) [06-24] - atmospheric black metal
- Sarah Ruth and Monte Espina: Cuatro Estaciones (Full Spectrum) [10-07] - ambient
- Sarahsson: The Horgenaith () [07-15] - post-industrial
- Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages (Jazzwerkstatt -21) - jazz
- Satan: Earth Infernal (Metal Blade) [04-01] - heavy metal
- Joe Satriani: The Elephants of Mars (Edel Music & Entertainment) [04-08] - prog rock
- Paul Thomas Saunders: Figure in a Landscape () [10-21]
- Savak: Human Error/Human Delight () [04-15]
- Saviour: Shine & Fade ()
- Saweetie: The Single Life (Icy/Warner -EP) [11-18]
- Scott Sawyer: Change of Scene (self-released) - jazz
- Say She She: Prism (Karma Chief) [10-07]
- Say Sue Me: The Last Thing Left (Damnably) [05-13]
- Saxon: Carpe Diem (Silver Lining) [02-04] - metal
- Scandinavian Music Group: Ikuinen Ystava (Sony Music Finland) - Scandinavian
- Scarcity: Aveilut (The Flenser) [07-15] - metal
- Scene Queen: Bimbocore (-EP)
- SCH: Autobahn () [11-18]
- Schacke: Apocalyptic Decadence () [07-15] - industrial techno
- Udo Schindler & Xu Fengxia: WINDundWOLKEN (Arch-Musik -21) - jazz
- Broede Schirmer Unit: Berlin, Germany (FMR -21) - jazz
- Schisms: Break Apart the Idea of Separation () [03-11]
- Schmyt: Universum Regelt ()
- Dan Schnelle: Shine Thru (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Jo Schornikow: Altar (Keeled Scales) [05-20]
- Gina Schwarz & Multiphonics 8: Way to Blue (Cracked Anegg) [09-09] - jazz
- Melanie Scholtz & Jo Skaansar: Kindred (self-released) - jazz
- Klaus Schulze: Deus Arrakis (SPV)
- Scorpions: Rock Believer (Vertigo Berlin) [02-25] - hard rock
- Marilyn Scott: The Landscape (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- Scrounge: Sugar, Daddy (Fierce Panda) [09-09]
- Scudfm: Innit () [02-04]
- Scuti: Intoxication (-EP) [01-21] - UK drill
- Sea Change: Mutual Dreaming () [02-11]
- Sea Girls: Homesick (Polydor) [03-18]
- Seagull Kinevil: Tolls & Trolls () [09-17]
- Seatbelts: A World Inbetween () [03-18]
- Seawind of Battery: Clockwatching ()
- The Second Hand Orchestra: Reimagining the Wide, Wide River (Sing a Song Fighter) [01-22] - jazz
- Seedsmen to the World: Seedsmen to the World () [05-13]
- Seketxe: Funjada (Kandendue Kaluanda) (Chasing Dreams) [05-29] - hip-hop
- Abel Selaocoe: Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) (Warner Classics)
- The Jim Self/John Chiodini Duo: Hangin' Out (Basset Hound) - jazz
- Self Esteem: Prima Facie [Original Theatre Soundtrack by Rebecca Lucy Taylor] () [06-14] - soundtrack
- Ty Segall: Hello, Hi (Drag City) [07-22] - garage rock
- Sello: SelloTape () [10-14]
- Sally Seltmann: Early Moon (Universal) [08-12]
- Ayal Senior: Az Yashir ()
- Senses Fail: Hell Is in Your Head (Pure Noise) [07-15] - post-hardcore
- Senza Testa: Reverberations of Mahakali ()
- Seratones: Love & Algorhythms (New West) [04-29]
- Surya Sen: At What Cost? (Loaded) [04-29]
- Seratones: Love & Algorhythms (New West) [04-29]
- Sergeant Thunderhoof: This Sceptred Veil () [06-03]
- Rachel Sermanni: Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea (self-released) [06-16]
- Kapil Seshasayee: Laal () [11-18]
- Sessa: Estrela Acesa () [06-24] - psychedelic folk
- Sethstat: White Night: Live at PMG Recordings Festival 11 (PMG Jazz) [01-05] - jazz
- Elena Setien: Unfamiliar Minds (Thrill Jockey) [01-28]
- Seulgi: 28 Reasons (SM Entertainment -EP) [10-04] - K-pop
- Seven Lions: Beyond the Veil ()
- Seventeen: Face the Sun (Pledis/HYBE) [05-27]
- Seventeen: Sector 17 () [07-18] - K-pop
- Seventh Storm: Maledictus (Atomic Fire) [08-12]
- Sex Magick Wizards: Your Bliss My Joy (Rune Grammofon -21) [2021-09-10] - jazz
- Coby Sey: Conduit (AD 93) [09-09] - UK hip-hop
- Alessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music (Amp) - jazz
- Shabason & Krgovich: At Scaramouche (Idee Fixe) [10-07]
- ShaSimone: Simma Down () [09-16] - UK drill
- Shake Stew: Heat (Traumton) [03-25] - jazz fusion
- Shapeshifter: Dark Ritual (-EP) [01-07] - powerviolence
- Sally Shapiro: Sad Cities (Italians Do It Better) [02-18] - synthpop
- Jairus Sharif: Water & TOols ()
- Caroline Shaw/Attacca Quartet: Evergreen ()
- India Shawn: Before We Go (Deeper) ()
- Allison Shearer: View From Above (self-released) [02-18] - jazz
- Shearwater: The Great Awakening (Polyborus) [06-10] - art pop
- The Shed Project: The Curious Mind of a Common Man () [04-29]
- Jack Sheen: Sub () [04-29]
- The Sheepdogs: Outta Sight ()
- Suzanne Sheer: The Blue Hour (Cake Productions) [06-10]
- Will Sheff: Nothing Special (ATO) [10-07]
- Ben Shemie: Desiderata (Joyful Noise) [07-15] - electronic
- Derek Sherinian: Vortex (InsideOut) [07-01]
- Tony Shhnow: Reflexions () - hip-hop
- Sean Shibe: Lost & Found (PentaTone) [08-26] - classical crossover
- Yasuaki Shimizu: Kiren (Palto Flats) [02-25] - electronic
- Shinedown: Planet Zero (Atlantic) [07-01]
- Patrick Shiroshi & Jeff Tobias: Patrick Shiroshi & Jeff Tobias (Topos Press) [04-14] - jazz
- Shirt: I Turned Myself Into Myself ()
- Shit & Shine: Phase Corrected (Riot Season) [03-25]
- ShittyBoyz: Trifecta 2 (The Hip Hop Lab/Empire) [08-05] - hip-hop
- Adam Shoenfeld: All the Birds Sing () [01-28]
- The Shop Window: A 4 Letter Word () [11-25]
- Shout Out Louds: House () [02-18]
- Shovel Dance Collective: The Water Is the Shovel of the Shore () [12-01]
- Shovels & Rope: Manticore (Dualtone) [02-18] - pop/rock
- Show Me the Body: Trouble the Water (Loma Vista) [10-28] - post-hardcore
- Shutups: I Can't Eat Nearly as Mucyh as I Want to Vomit () [10-21]
- The Scott Silbert Big Band: Jump Children (self-released) - jazz
- Shortie No Mass: Here Goes Nothing (-21) [2021-12-16] - hip-hop
- Shuffle Demons: All In (Stubby) - jazz
- Sick Joy: We're All Gonna F***ing Die () [07-08]
- Todd Sickafoose: Time to 1.5 () - jazz
- Side-Eye & Grace: Illuminate (self-released) [08-20] - jazz
- Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues: More Different Voices (Dawnserley) - blues
- Siete Catorce: Cruda (Subreal) [04-26] -
- Sigh: Shiki (Peaceville) [08-26] - metal
- Germaine Sijstermans: Betula (Elsewhere) - jazz
- Yotam Silberstein: Universos (Jazz and People) - jazz
- Alan Silva/Itaru Oki/Matoko Sato/Rihar Comte: Celebration (Nunc) [01-24] - jazz
- Silverbacks: Archive Material (Full Time Hobby) [01-21] - post-punk
- Silverstein: Misery Made Me (UNFD) [05-06]
- Silversun Pickups: Physical Thrills (New Machine) [08-19] - alt/indie
- Mehmet Ali Simayli: Portrait of a Dream (Unit) [01-22] - jazz
- Dee Dee Simon: Dee Dee Simon () - blues
- Simple Minds: Direction of the Heart (BMG) [10-21]
- Simple Plan: Harder Than It Looks (self-released) [05-06]
- Dylan Sinclair: No Longer in the Suburbs (Five Stone) [05-11] - r&b
- Sintesis/Eme Alfonso/X Alfonso: Ancestros Sinfonico (El Cerrito) - jazz
- Sipho: She Might Bleed (-EP) [02-18]
- Sirintip: Carbon (Ropeadope) - jazz
- Erika Sirola: Who? (Elektra) [08-05]
- Sirom: The Liquified Throne of Simplicity () [04-08]
- Sister Ray: Communion (Royal Mountain) [05-13]
- Six by Six: Six by Six (InsideOut) [08-19]
- Skid Row: The Gang's All Here (EarMusic) [10-14]
- Skillet: Dominion (Atlantic) [01-14] - hard rock
- Skin Tension: Omni () [02-06]
- The Skinner Brothers: Soul Boy II () [02-18]
- Skopje Jazz Inc: Incorporated (ZJM) - jazz
- Skullcrusher: Quiet the Room (Secretly Canadian) [10-14] - indie folk
- Slackrr: A Place That Feels Like Home (Lost Music Collective) [03-11]
- Slaegt: Goddess (Century Media) [03-18] - metal
- Slander: Thrive ()
- Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators: 4 (Gibson) [02-11] - rock
- Sam Slater: I Do Not Wish to Be Known as a Vandal () [06-10]
- Slavo Rican Assembly: Intercosmic (Riverboat) [10-21] - jazz
- Slikback: Kekkan ()
- Slipknot: The End, So Far (Roadrunner) [09-30] -
- Sloan: Steady (Yep Roc) [10-21]
- The Slocan Ramblers: Up the Hill and Through the Fog (SloMusic) [06-10] - bluegrass
- Matt Slocum: With Love and Sadness (Sunnyside) [03-18] - jazz
- Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency (Origin) - jazz
- Slowbleed: The Blazing Sun, a Fiery Dawn (Creator-Destructor) [01-15] - metalcore
- Slowly Slowly: Daisy Chain ()
- Sly5thAve & Roberto Verastegui: Agua De Jamaica (Tru Thoughts) [03-25] - jazz
- Small Island Big Song: Our Island (self-released)
- Small Sur: Attic Room ()
- Carmel Smickersgill: We Get What We Get & We Don't Get Upset (Prah -EP) [04-15]
- Smidley: Here Comes the Devil () [11-11]
- Simona Smirnova: Bird Language ( Simona Smirnova Music) - jazz
- Caitlyn Smith: High () [04-08]
- Darden Smith: Western Skies (self-released) [03-25]
- Emma Smith: Meshuga Baby (Wingsor Castle) - vocal jazz
- Samantha Savage Smith: Fake Nice () [04-22]
- Tuk Smith & the Restless Hearts: Ballad of a Misspent Youth ()
- Wadada Leo Smith/Henry Kaiser/Alex Varty: Pacifica Koral Reef (577) [01-07] - jazz
- The Smith Street Band: Life After Football () [11-25]
- Mordecai Smyth: Things Are Getting Stranger on the Shore (Mega Dodo)
- Paul G Smyth/John Wiese: The Outlier! (Weekertoft) - jazz
- Snarky Puppy: Empire Central (GroundUP Music) [09-30] - jazz
- Sniffany & the Nits: The Unscratchable Itch (Prah) [07-08]
- Snoop Dogg: Back on Death Row () - hip-hop
- Snoop Dogg: The Metaverse: The NFT Drop Vol 2 () - hip-hop
- Snooper: Town Topic (Electric Outlet)
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids: I'm Good, HBU (self-released) [12-02] - hip-hop
- Snow Ellet: Glory Days () [06-10] - power pop
- Snowdrops: Missing Island (Injazero) [11-25]
- Snuff: Crepuscolo ()
- The Snuts: Burn the Empire (Parlophpone) [09-30] - indie rock
- Soak: If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade) [05-20]
- Kristina Socanski: Philip Glass: Solo Piano (Oclassica) - minimalism
- Soccer96: Inner Worlds (Moshi Moshi) [05-06]
- Soft Ffog: Soft Ffog (Is It Jazz?) - jazz
- The Soft Hills: Viva Chi Vede () [07-22]
- The Soft Moon: Exister (Sacred Bones) [09-23]
- The Soft Pink Truth: Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey) [10-21]
- Softcult: Year of the Snake (-EP) [02-04]
- Sohn: Trust ()
- Soilwork: Overgivenheten (Nuclear Blast) [08-19] - metal
- Solar: Face (RBW -EP) [03-16] - K-pop
- Som: The Shape of Everything (Pelagic) [01-21] - post-metal
- Somali Yacht Club: The Space (Season of Mist) [04-22] - metal
- Somaticae: Kleis () [06-05]
- Somewhere South of Here: Leave Me for the Crows () [09-14]
- Sonica: Sonica (Outside In) - jazz
- Sonja: Loud Arriver () [09-16] - metal
- Astrid Sonne: Ephemeral Camera Feed (Escho -EP) [03-18]
- Arun Sood: Searching Erskine () [03-04]
- Soon: Soon () [02-25]
- Soothsayers: Meets Victor Rice & Friends (Red Earth) - jazz
- Sophie & the Broken Things: Delusions of Grandeur (Petaluma) [02-25] - country
- Soreption: Jord (Unique Leader) [06-10]
- Sorry: Anywhere but Here (Domino) [10-07] - indie rock
- Sothiac: Superluna (33Xtreme) - jazz
- Soul Blind: Feel It All Around (Other People) [11-11]
- Soul Revivers: On the Groove (Acid Jazz) [03-11]
- Soul Revivers: Grove Dub (Acid Jazz)
- Soulfly: Totem (Nuclear Blast) [08-05] - groove metal
- Sound of Ceres: Emerald Sea (Joyful Noise) [06-17]
- The Sound of Science: The Sound of Science (Castles in Space) [05-06] - psychedelic pop
- The Soundcarriers: Wilds (Phosphonic) [01-21] - neo-psychedelia
- Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith: The Perfect Vision ()
- Pedro Alves Sousa: Ma Estrela (Shhpuma) - jazz
- Thom Southern: Plaza () [02-11]
- Space Ghost: Private Paradise ()
- Spaceface: Anemonia () [01-28]
- Spacepilot: Hycean Worlds (Orbit 577) - jazz
- Spacey Jane: Here Comes Everybody (AWAL) [06-24]
- Spanish Love Songs: Brave Faces Etc () [04-15]
- Indigo Sparke: Hysteria (Sacred Bones) [10-07] - singer-songwriter
- Spear of Destiny: Ghost Population ()
- Spector: Now or Whenever (Moth Noise) [01-07] - synthpop
- Spellbook: Deadly Charms (Cruz Del Sur) [09-23] - doom metal
- Greg Spero: The Chicago Experiment (Ropeadope) [01-28] - jazz
- Spew: Hate Dealer (self-released) [01-11]
- Spielbergs: Vestli (Big Scary Monsters) [08-19]
- Spinning Jenny: The Great Story ()
- Spite: Dedication to Flesh ()
- Spook: Spook (WERF) [03-11] - jazz
- Spoon: Lucifer on the Moon [Remix] (Matador) [11-04] - alt/indie
- Sports Team: Gulp! (Island) [09-23] - indie rock
- Kika Sprangers: Mind's Eye ()
- Springbok: Involutions (We See Music) - jazz
- Spirit World: Deathwestern () [11-22]
- St Paul & the Broken Bones: The Alien Coast (ATO) [01-28] - soul
- Stabbing Westward: Chasing Ghosts (COP International) [03-18]
- Stacks: Love and Language () [05-27]
- Stand Atlantic: FEAR (Fuck Everything and Run) (Hopeless) [05-06] - punk
- Caylie Staples: Future Memory (self-released) [03-24]
- Staples Jr Singers: When Do We Get Paid () [05-12] - soul
- Star Feminine Band: In Paris (Born Bad) [09-30] - African
- Starcrawler: She Said (Big Machine) [09-16] - alt/indie
- Stargaze: One (Transgressive) [11-25]
- Janus Stark: Face Your Biggest Fear ()
- Ringo Starr: EP3 (UME -EP) [09-16]
- Stars: From Capelton Hill (Last Gang) [05-27]
- State Champs: Kings of the New Age (Pure Noise) [05-13]
- Static Abyss: Labyrinth of Veins (Peaceville) [04-22]
- Static Dress: Rouge Carpet Disaster (Venn) [05-18] - metalcore
- Status/Non-Status: Surely Travel () [09-23]
- Stayc: Young-Luv.Com (High Up Entertainment -EP) [02-21] - K-pop
- Steamboat Switzerland: Terrifying Sunset (Trost) [01-28] - jazz
- Luke Steele: Listen to the Water (EMI) [05-13]
- Steffi: The Red Hunter () [10-24] - techno
- Maeve Steele: Overland (self-released -EP) [09-16]
- Michiel Stekelenburg: Trio Onoda (ZenneZ) - jazz
- Jordan Stephens: Le Me Die Inside You () [02-11]
- Stereophonics: Oochya! (Stylus/Ignition) [03/04] - pop rock
- Quinn Sternberg: Cicada Songs (Mind Beach) - jazz
- Stereotyped: Delusions of the Strange () [07-15]
- Colin Stetson/Billy Martin/Elliott Sharp/Payton McDonald: Void Patrol (Infrequent Seams) - jazz
- Colin Stetson: Chimaera I (Room40) [11-11] - jazz
- Stick Men: Tentacles (MoonJune) - jazz
- Stick to Your Guns: Spectre (End Hits) [07-29]
- Still/Form: From the Rot Is a Gift () [08-19] - metal
- Robert Stillman: What Does It Mean to Be American? (Kit) [01-21]
- Stimulator Jones: Round Spiritual Ring (Stones Throw) [07-08]
- Kelley Stoltz: Stylist () [06-10]
- Stone: Punkadonk (Polydor -EP) [11-18]
- Carl Stone: We Jazz Reworks Vol 2 (We Jazz) [10-21] - jazz
- Stone Foundation: Outside Looking In (100%) [02-18]
- Stony Sugarskull: Princess () [11-18]
- John Storgards: Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (Dacapo) [02-11]
- Stratovarius: Survive (EarMusic) [09-23] - power metal
- Straw Man Army: SOS () [04-15]
- Stray From the Path: Euthanasia (UNFD) [09-09] - hardcore punk
- Stray Kids: Oddinary (JYP -EP) [03-18] - K-pop
- Stray Kids: Maxident (JYP -EP) [10-07] - K-pop
- Angela Strehli: Ace of Blues (Antone's/New West) [11-18] - blues
- Barbra Streisand: Live at the Bon Soir () [11-04]
- Strigoi: Viscera (Season of Mist) [09-30] - metal
- String Machine: Hallelujah Hell Yeah (self-released) [02-25]
- Billy Strings: Me/And/Dad () [11-18] - bluegrass
- Strom: The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Glitterbeat)
- The Stroppies: Levity (Tough Love) [05-06] - jangle pop
- Robert Storey: The Eventual Window () [11-26]
- Nick Storring: Music From Wei () [08-19]
- Str4ta: Str4tasfear () [11-11]
- Tove Stryke: Hard (Sony) [06-03]
- Studio Bros: Different ()
- Studio Dan/Anthony Coleman: . . . Im Gebirg (ROS) - jazz
- Stupeflip: Stup Forever ()
- Cassiopeia Sturm & Patrick Shiroishi: The Invention of the Saxophone (Surface World) [07-08] - jazz
- Subjective: The Start of No Regret (Sony) [03-25]
- Alison Sudol: Still Come the Night ()
- AJ Suede & Small Professor: Hundred Year Darkness () [04-14] - hip-hop
- AJ Suede & Televangel: Metatron's Cube () [01-14] - hip-hop
- Suede Razors: No Mess, No Fuzz, Just Rock'n'Roll ()
- Tawanda: Smile (Resonance) [10-28] - jazz
- The Suffers: It Starts With Love (Missing Piece) [06-03]
- Brev Sullivan: Ira: The Tribute Album (Blue Road Studio) - jazz
- Misha Sultan: Roots () [05-06]
- Sumerlands: Dreamkiller (Reprise) [09-16] - metal
- Summrs: Fallen Raven ()
- Moses Sumney: Live From Blackalachia (Tuntum -21) [2021-12-10] - art pop
- Sun of Goldfinger: Ozmir (Screwgun) [06-07] - jazz
- Sun Voyager: Sun Voyager (Ripple)
- Sun's Signature: Sun's Signature (Partisan -EP) [06-18] - art pop
- Sundara Karma: Oblivion! (Chess Club -EP) [04-01]
- Sunglaciers: Subterranea () [03-25] - indie rock
- The Sunset Sound Featuring Shelby Lynne: Dreamtime ()
- Sunsleeper: While You Can (Rude) [10-07]
- Supercrush: Melody Maker (-EP) [06-03]
- Superpoze: Nova Cardinale ()
- Charu Suri: Ragas & Waltzes (Amala) - jazz
- Surprise Chef: Education & Recreation (Big Crown) [10-14]
- Susanna: Elevation (SusannaSonata) [03-25]
- SUSS: SUSS (Northern Spy) - ambient
- Harvey Sutherland: Boy (House Anxiety) [04-29] - nu-disco
- Neil Swainson: Fire in the West (Cellar) [08-19] - jazz
- Swamp Dogg: I Need a Job . . . So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune () [02-25] - southern soul
- Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard: Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (BIS) - classical
- Annie B Sweet/Los Estanques: Burbuja Comoda Y Elefante Inesperado ()
- Swim Deep: Familiarise Yourself With Your Closest Exit (self -EP) [03-11]
- Cole Swindell: Stereotype ()
- Swiss Jazz Orchestra & Christoph Irniger: The Music of Pilgrim (Stadt Zurich Kultur/nWog) [10-21] - jazz
- Swsh: Goodboy () [04-29]
- Syberia: Statement of Death (Metal Blade/Blacklight Media) [05-06] - metal
- Curt Sydnor: Heaven Is Begun (Passerine) - jazz
- Sylvaine: Nova (Season of Mist) [03-04] - post-metal
- Sylvie: Sylvie (Full Time Hobby -EP) [10-14]
- SZA: CTRL (Deluxe) () - r&b
- Szun Waves: Earth Patterns (The Leaf Label) [08-19] - jazz
- T Truman: Luxury Star (-EP) [03-10]
- Taeyeon: Invu (SM Entertainment) [02-14] - K-pop
- Taipei Houston: Once Bit Never Bored (C3) [11-04]
- Talk Show: Touch the Ground (-EP) [09-23]
- Heidi Talbot: Sing It for a Lifetime () [05-20]
- Billy Talent: Crisis of Faith (Warner Music Canada) [01-21] - pop punk
- Tallah: The Generation of Danger (Earache) [11-18] - metalcore
- Tallies: Patina (Kanine) [07-29]
- Talmont: Laid Under Heavy Lights () [01-21]
- Tamarisk: Plays a Word for Sun (Waveform Alphabet) - jazz
- Tamino: Sahar ()
- Tan Cologne: Earth Visions of Water Spaces (Labrador) [09-09] - dream pop
- Tangerine Dream: Raum (Kscope) [02-25] - prog electronic
- Tangerinecat: Glass () [04-28]
- Taper's Choice: Choice Tapes Vol 1 ()
- Taper's Choice: Choice Tapes Vol 2 ()
- Taper's Choice: Choice Tapes Vol 3 ()
- Taper's Choice: Choice Tapes Vol 4 ()
- Taper's Choice: Choice Tapes Vol 5 ()
- Silvia Tarozzi/Deborah Walker: Canti Di Guerra, Di Lavoro E D'Amore (Unseen Worlds) [06-10]
- Tarta Relena: Fiat Lux (Le Castanya/The Indian Runners -21) [2021-12-03] - Catalan folk
- Tasche de la Rocha: Tasche de la Rocha & the Psychedelic Roses (Sinking City) [10-21]
- Yaniv Taubenhouse: Hope (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
- Taxi Consilium: Spiritual Car Wash (PMGJazz) - jazz
- Hudson Taylor: Searching for the Answers () [06-03]
- Joanne Shaw Taylor: Nobody's Fool (Keeping the Blues Alive) [10-28] - blues
- Julian Taylor: Beyond the Reservoir (Howling Turtle) [10-14] - folk
- Lewis Taylor: Numb () [07-15]
- Claude Tchamitchian Quintet: Ways Out (Emouvance) [06-27] - jazz
- Hagop Tchaparian: Bolts (Text) [10-21]
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: I Am the Moon: I Crescent (Fantasy) [06-03] - blues
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: I Am the Moon: II Ascension (Concord) [07-01] - blues
- Teen Suicide: Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast (Run for Cover) [08-26]
- Teezee: Arrested by Love (TooLoud/Metallic) [02-18]
- Tegan and Sara: Still Jealous (Mom + Pop) [02-11]
- Tegh & Adel Poursamadi: Ima () [07-22]
- Gerardo Teissonniere: Beethoven: The Last Sonatas: Piano Sonatas Op 109, 110, 111 (Steinway & Sons) [03-04] - classical
- John Tejada: Sleepwalker () [03-18]
- Telefis: A Haon (Dimple Discs) [03-04]
- The Televisionaires: Mad About You (Hi-Tide)
- Temple of Void: Summoning the Slayer (Relapse) [06-03] - metal
- Alfie Templeman: Mellow Moon (Chess Club) [05-27]
- The Temptations: Temptations 60 (UMe) [01-28]
- Tenci: A Swollen River, a Well Overflowing (Keeled Scales) [11-04]
- Tenebra: Moongazer (New Heavy Sounds) [04-29]
- Tengger: Earthing (self-released) [03-21]
- Tennyson: Rot (Counter) [02-18] - alt-pop
- Jimi Tenor: Multiversum (Bureau B) [05-20]
- Tensal: K (Tensal)
- Soichi Terada: Asakusa Light () [01-07] - deep house
- Roza Terenzi & D Tiffany: Edge of Innocence () [ 05-19] - techno
- Terrence Etc: Vortex (Brainfeeder) [08-19]
- Territorial Gobbing: Can't Recall () [01-31]
- Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon: Cheb Terro vs DJ Die Soon () [03-25]
- Terror: Pain Into Power (End Hits) [05-06] - metal
- Test Card: Patterns () [02-18] - indietronica
- Thaiboy Digital: Back 2 Life (Year0001) [11-18] - trap
- Thank: Thoughtless Cruelty (Exploding in Sound) [02-04] - noise rock
- Thee Sacred Souls: Thee Sacred Souls (Daptone) [09-09] - retro soul
- Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 2: Remixes (MoonJune -21) - jazz
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