Music Tracking 2023

These are 2023 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, ~ indicates the grade is for a previous release of the album). 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 prioritization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

• 6lack: Since I Have a Lover (Interscope) [03-24] - hip-hop [**]
• 100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs (Dog Show/Atlantic) [03-17] - hyperpop [*]
• 75 Dollar Bill: Singularity 06: Anchor Dragging Behind (The State51 Conspiracy -EP) [02-21] - ambient [***]
• 1010benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) [03-22] - hip-hop [A-]
• Deena Abdelwahed: Jbal Rrsas (Infine Music) [09-06] - hard drum [***]
• Gracie Abrams: Good Riddance (Interscope) [02-24] - alt-pop [***]
• Acid Arab: Trois (Crammed Discs) [02-03] - electronic [**]
• Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: Afro Futuristic Dreams (Strut) [09-22] - jazz [***]
• Actress: LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune) [11-03] - IDM [**]
• Colby Acuff: Western White Pines (Sony Music Nashville) [08-18] - country [***]
• Jason Adasiewicz: Roy's World (Corbett vs Dempsey) [06-30] - jazz [A-]
• Jason Adasiewicz: Roscoe Village: The Music of Roscoe Mitchell (Corbett vs Dempsey) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Adekunle Gold: Tequila Ever After (Def Jam) [07-28] - African [**]
• Tanner Adell: Buckle Bunny (Columbia -EP) [07-23] - country [***]
• Aesop Rock: Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [11-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: Hindsight (Origin) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound) [07-07] - dub [**]
• Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra: Cosmic Synchronicities (Blue Spiral) [10-01] - jazz [***]
• Arooj Aftab/Vijay Iyer/Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile (Verve) [03-24] - jazz [**]
• Konrad Agnas: Rite of Passage (Moserobie) [03-17] - jazz [***]
• Agust D: D-Day (Big Hit Music/HYBE) [04-21] - K-pop [*]
• Aila Trio: Shaped by Sea Waves (Edgetone) [04-04] - jazz [***]
• Ambrose Akinmusire: Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song (Nonesuch) [12-15] - jazz [*]
• Akmee: Sacrum Profanum (Nakama -22) [2022-12-31] - jazz [**]
• Lauren Alaina: Unlocked (Big Loud -EP) - country [**]
• Alaska & Steel Tipped Dove: The Structural Dynamics of Flow (Fused Arrow) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
• Susan Alcorn/Patrick Holmes/Ryan Sawyer: From Union Pool (Relative Pitch) [01-27] - jazz [*]
• Susan Alcorn/Jose Lencastre/Hernani Faustino: Manifesto (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Susan Alcorn/Septeto Del Sur: Canto (Relative Pitch) [11-10] - jazz [**]
• Rauw Alejandro: Playa Saturno (Duars Entertainment/Sony Music Latin) [07-07] - reggaeton [**]
• Ralph Alessi Quartet: It's Always Now (ECM) [03-17] - jazz [***]
• Constantine Alexander: Firetet (self-released) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Eric Alexander: A New Beginning: Alto Saxophone With Strings (HighNote) - jazz [**]
• Alfa Mist: Variables (Anti-) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Jim Alfredson: Family Business (Posi-Tone) [05-05] - jazz [**]
• Algiers: Shook (Matador) [02-24] - post-punk [*]
• Alia Trio: Shaped by Sea Waves (Edgetone) [07-07] - jazz [U]
• Aline's Etoile Magique: Eclipse (Elastic) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Don Aliquo: Growth (Ear Up) - jazz [**]
• Lina Allemano/Uwe Oberg/Matthias Bauer/Rudi Fischerlehner: SOG (Creative Sources) [05-30] - jazz [***]
• Lina Allemano Four: Pipe Dream (Lumo) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• Lina Allemano/Axel Dorner: Aphelia (Relative Pitch) [08-18] - jazz [*]
• Lina Allemano: Canons (Lumo) [12-08] - jazz [*]
• The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses (Triangle7) [06-30] - jazz [B]
• JD Allen: This (Savant) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Joe Alterman: Joe Alterman Plays Les McCann: Big Mo & Little Joe (Joe Alberman Music) [08-11] - jazz [**]
• Altin Gun: Ask (Glitterbeat) [03-31] - Anatolian rock [*]
• Aluna: Mycelium (Mad Decent) [07-07] - dance-pop [A-]
• Amaarae: Fountain Baby (Interscope) [06-09] - soul [A-]
• Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge: Beyond the Margins (Trost) [10-20] - jazz [A]
• Zoh Amba: O Life, O Light Vol 2 (577) [06-09] - jazz [***]
• Zoh Amba/Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt: The Flower School (Palilalia) [07-21] - jazz [*]
• Farida Amadou/Jonas Cambien/Dave Rempis: On the Blink (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [A-]
• Roxana Amed/Frank Carlberg: Los Trabajos Y Las Noches (Sony Music Latin) [06-09] - Latin jazz [*]
• Emil Amos: Zone Black (Drag City) [08-04] - soundtrack [*]
• Matt Andersen: The Big Bottle of Joy (Sonic) [03-10] - blues [**]
• Ray Anderson: Marching On (Double Moon -22) [2022-09-23] - jazz [**]
• Ray Anderson & Bobby Previte: Double Trouble (Double Moon) [11-03] - jazz [***]
• Andre 3000: New Blue Sun (Epic) [11-17] - ambient [B]
• Anitta: Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story (Republic -EP) [08-17] - funk carioca [**]
• Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian) [07-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Alex Anwandter: El Diablo En El Cuerpo (5 AM) [05-26] - Chile [**]
• Aphex Twin: Blackbox Life Recorder 21f/In a Room F760 (Warp -EP) [07-28] - electronic [*]
• Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet The Griots Speak: Destiny Calling (OA2) [06-16] - jazz [***]
• Florian Arbenz/Jorge Vistel/Wolfgang Puschnig/Oren Marshall/Michael Arbenz: Conversation #8: Ablaze (Hammer -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [***]
• Florian Arbenz/Greg Osby/Arno Krijger: Conversation #9: Targeted (Hammer) [04-07] - jazz [***]
• Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10: Inland (Hammer) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Amber Arcades: Barefoot on Diamond Road (Fire) [02-10] - indie pop [*]
• Vicente Archer: Short Stories (Cellar) [06-09] - jazz [**]
• Nia Archives: Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall (Island -EP) [03-10] - electronic [*]
• Armand Hammer: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (Fat Possum) [09-29] - hip-hop [***]
• Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society: Inception (Black Earth Music) [06-30] - jazz [B]
• Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade From Paris to Paris: Live at Sons D'Hiver (RogueArt, 2CD) - jazz [A-]
• Artchipel Orchestra With Jonathan Coe: Suspended Moment: The Music of Jonathan Coe (British Progressive Jazz) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Artemis: In Real Time (Blue Note) [05-05] - jazz [*]
• Christian Artmann: The Middle of Life (Sunnyside) [06-02] - jazz [B]
• Asake: Work of Art (YBNL Nation) [06-16] - Afrobeats [**]
• Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Dave Askren/Jeff Benedict: Denver Sessions (Tapestry) [03-17] - jazz [**]
• ASO: ASO (Low Lying) [06-02] - trip hop [A-]
• Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff: Magg Tekki (Mississippi) [11-10] - African [*]
• Nanny Assis: Rovanio: The Music of Nanny Assis (In + Out) [06-23] - Brazil jazz [**]
• Atlantic Road Trip: One (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Atmosphere: So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [05-05] - hip-hop [***]
• Atmosphere: Talk Talk EP (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [12-01] - hip-hop [**]
• Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: Les Jardins Mystiques Vol 1 (Brainfeeder -3CD) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• Aunty Rayzor: Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala) [09-01] - afrobeats [***]
• AVA Trio: Ash (Tora, EP) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Avelino: God Save the Streets (More Music/OddChild Music) [04-14] - UK hip-hop [**]
• B Cool-Aid: Leather Blvd (Lex) [03-31] - hip-hop [*]
• Jeff Babko/David Piltch: The Libretto Show (Tudor Tones) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Daniel Bachman: When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed) [11-17] - drone [*]
• Baby Rose: Through and Through (Secretly Canadian) [04-28] - neo-soul [*]
• Baby Queen: Quarter Life Crisis (Polydor) [11-10] - pop [A-]
• Bad Bunny: Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana (Rimas Entertainment) [10-13] - Latin rap [**]
• Dmitry Baevsky: Kid's Time (Fresh Sound New Talent -22) [2022-12-02] - jazz [***]
• John Bailey: Time Bandits (Freedom Road) - jazz [**]
• Corinne Bailey Rae: Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers) [09-15] - art pop [**]
• Jalen Baker: Be Still (Cellar) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Balimaya Project: When the Dust Settles (New Soil) [07-21] - jazz [***]
• Kelsea Ballerini: Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (Black River, EP) [02-14] - country [**]
• Bambii: Infinity Club (Innovative Leisure, EP) [08-04] - electronic [***]
• David Bandrowski & the Rhumba Defense: French Onion Superman (self-released -22) [2022-09-19] - jazz [**]
• Maria Baptist Quintet: Essays on Jazz (self-released) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Bar Italia: Tracey Denim (Matador) [05-19] - slacker rock [***]
• Bar Italia: The Twits (Matador) [11-03] - slacker rock [***]
• Richard Baratta: Off the Charts (Savant) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Matt Barber: The Song Is You (MB) [04-15] - jazz [*]
• Caterina Barbieri: Myuthafoo (Light-Years) [06-16] - electronic [**]
• Bark: Loud (Dial Back Sound) [09-05] - alt/indie [**]
• Joao Barradas: Solo II: Live at Festival D'Aix-En-Provence (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Kenny Barron: The Source (Artwork) [01-20] - jazz [***]
• Bruce Barth Trio: Dedication (Origin -22) [2022-09-16] - jazz [**]
• The Baseball Project: Grand Salami Time (Omnivore) [06-30] - alt/indie [**]
• Patricia Bastos: Vos Da Taba (self-released) [10-27] - Brazil [A-]
• Michael Bates: Metamorphoses: Variations on Lutoslawski (Anaklasis) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Jon Batiste: World Music Radio (Verve) [08-14] - pop soul [**]
• Dave Bayles Trio: Live at the Uptowner (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [A-]
• BC Camplight: The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union) [05-12] - art pop [B]
• Bdrmm: I Don't Know (Rock Action) [06-30] - alt/indie [*]
• Be Your Own Pet: Mommy (Third Man) [08-25] - punk [**]
• Beach Fossils: Bunny (Bayonet) [06-02] - dream pop [B]
• McKendrick Bearden: Bright as the Mines Out (self-released) [02-24] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Carlos "Bechegas"/Joao Madeira/Ulrich Mitzlaff: Open in Finder (4DaRecord) [11-01] - jazz [*]
• Gordon Beeferman/Michael Evans/Michael Foster/Shelley Hirsch: Glow (Tripticks Tapes) [01-27] - jazz [*]
• Tor Einar Bekken/Inga-Mei Steinbru: Jungle One Jungle Two Jungle Blues (self-released) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• William Bell: One Day Closer to Home (Wilbe) [04-14] - r&b [**]
• Belle and Sebastian: Late Developers (Matador) [01-13] - indie pop [***]
• Benny Benack III: Third Time's the Charm (La Reserve/Bandstand Presents) [06-30] - jazz [**]
• Beneficence/Jazz Spastiks: Summer Night Sessions (Ill Adrenaline) [10-20] - hip-hop [A]
• Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix (Whirlwind) - jazz [A-]
• Richard X Bennett & Matt Parker: Parker Plays X (BYNK) [05-13] - jazz [***]
• Espen Berg: The Hamar Concert (NXN) [10-23] - jazz [**]
• Espen Berg: Water Fabric (Odin) [11-24] - jazz [A-]
• Jerry Bergonzi: Extra Extra (Savant) - jazz [*]
• Berlioz: Jazz Is for Ordinary People (self-released -EP) [06-23] - deep house [*]
• Sarah Bernadette: Sad Poems on My Phone (Blujazz, EP) - singer-songwriter [B]
• Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Sky (Dreck to Disk) [09-05] - jazz [*]
• Tim Berne/Hank Roberts/Aurora Nealand: Oceans And (Intakt) [04-21] - jazz [B]
• Duane Betts: Wild & Precious Life (Royal Potato Family) [07-14] [*]
• Eric Bibb: Ridin' (Stony Plain) [03-24] - blues [***]
• Carlos Bica: Playing With Beethoven (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [B]
• Big Freedia: Central City (Queen Diva) [06-23] - hip-hop [B-]
• Big O: In the Company of Others (Vintage Soundz) [09-01] - hip-hop [*]
• BigXthaPlug: Amar (United Masters) [02-10] - hip-hop [*]
• Biig Piig: Bubblegum (RCA) [01-20] - dance pop [*]
• Daniel Bingert: Ariba (Moserobie) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
• Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud (Third Man) [02-24] - post-punk [***]
• Adam Birnbaum: Preludes (Chelsea Music Festival) [10-10] - jazz [**]
• Selwyn Birchwood: Exorcist (Alligator) [06-09] - blues [*]
• Ice Cold Bishop: Generational Curse (Epic) [03-24] - hip-hop [A-]
• John Bishop: Antwerp (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [**]
• Michael Bisio/Timothy Hill: Inside Voice/Outside Voice (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [*]
• Bktherula: LVL5 P1 (Warner, EP) [02-17] - hip-hop [*]
• Jim Black & the Schrimps: Ain't No Saint (Intakt) - jazz [A-]
• Black Belt Eagle Scout: The Land, the Water, the Sky (Saddle Creek) [02-10] [**]
• Black Country New Road: Live at Bush Hall (Ninja Tune) [03-24] [*]
• Black Milk: Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal) [07-19] - hip-hop [*]
• Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band: Kings Highway (Stoner Hill) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Johnathan Blake: Passage (Blue Note) [08-10] - jazz [**]
• Michael Blake: Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M) [05-26] - jazz [*]
• Robert Sarazin Blake: One Summer Night: Live at the 2018 Subdued Stringband Jamboree (Same Room) [01-23] - folk [**]
• Ron Blake: Mistaken Identity (7ten33 Productions) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Mykki Blanco: Postcards From Italia (Transgressive, EP) [09-22] - jangle pop [*]
• BlankFor.Ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract (Red Hook) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Carsie Blanton: Body of Work (self-released) [04-21] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Samuel Blaser: Routes (Enja) [05-12] - jazz [***]
• Rory Block: Ain't Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain -22) [2022-10-07] - blues [**]
• Blockhead: The Aux (Backwoodz Studioz) [11-17] - hip-hop [***]
• Blonde Redhead: Sit Down for Dinner (Section1) [09-29] - indie pop [*]
• Blondshell: Blondshell (Partisan) [04-07] - indie rock [*]
• Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Rune Kitchen (Balance Point Acoustics) [03-28] - jazz [*]
• Blue Cranes: My Only Secret (Jealous Butcher/Beacon Sound) [08-11] - jazz [B]
• Blue Lake: Sun Arcs (Tonal Union) [06-23] - new age [**]
• Blue Moon Marquee: Scream, Holler & Howl (Ilda) [09-09] - blues [*]
• John Blum: Nine Rivers (ESP-Disk) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• John Blum/David Murray/Chad Taylor: The Recursive Tree (Relative Pitch) [11-24] - jazz [A-]
• Blur: The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone) [07-21] - alt/indie [*]
• Bombino: Sahel (Partisan) [09-15] - African [***]
• Joe Bonamassa: Tales of Time (J&R Adventures) [04-14] - blues [B-]
• Benjamin Boone: Caught in the Rhythm (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
• Antonio Borghini: Banquet of Consequences (We Insist!) [11-02] - jazz [***]
• Itamar Borochov: Arba (Greenleaf Music) [09-09] - jazz [***]
• Bounaly: Dimanche à Bamako (Sahel Sounds) [11-17] - African [A-]
• Bowmanville: Bowmanville (StonEagleMusic) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Boygenius: The Record (Interscope) [03-31] [B]
• Boygenius: The Rest (Interscope, EP) [10-13] [B]
• Don Braden: Earth Wind and Wonder Volume 2 (self-released) [08-25] - jazz [B]
• Geof Bradfield Quintet: Quaver (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [***]
• Geof Bradfield/Richard D Johnson/John Tate/Samuel Jewell: Our Heroes (Afar Music) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Muireann Bradley: I Kept These Old Blues (Tompkins Square) [12-08] - blues [***]
• Pony Bradshaw: North Georgia Rounder (Black Mountain Music) [01-27] - country [**]
• Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (International Anthem) [08-25] - jazz [***]
• Anthony Branker & Imagine: What Place Can Be for Us? A Suite in Ten Movements (Origin) - jazz [A-]
• Patrick Brennan Sonic Openings: Tilting Curvaceous (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Hailey Brinnel: Beautiful Tomorrow (Outside In Music) [03-17] - jazz [***]
• Vilhelm Bromander: In This Forever Unfolding Moment (Thanatos) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
• Brothers Osborne: Brothers Osborne (EMI Nashville) [09-15] - country-rock [*]
• Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Naked Nudes [Brotz 80th at ADA 2021] (Trost) [03-03] - jazz [*]
• Peter Brotzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts (ACT) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
• Apollo Brown & Planet Asia: Sardines (Mello Music Group) [09-08] - hip-hop [***]
• Danny Brown: Quaranta (Warp) [11-17] - hip-hop [A-]
• Rob Brown: Oblongata (RogueArt) [10-09] - jazz [A-]
• Rob Brown: Oceanic (RogueArt) [10-09] - jazz [***]
• VV Brown: Am I British Yet? (YOY) [10-27] - 10-27 [***]
• Kyle Bruckmann/Tim Daisy/Phillip Greenlief/Lisa Mezzacappa: Semaphore (Relay) [02-14] - jazz [**]
• Peter Bruun/Soren Kjaergaard/Josas Westergaard: Thesauros (ILK -22) [2022-02-08] - jazz [*]
• Paul Brusger: A Soul Contract (SteepleChase) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan (Warner) [08-25] - country [***]
• Zach Bryan: Boys of Faith (Warner, EP) [09-22] - country [**]
• ML Buch: Suntub (15 Love) [10-27] - dream pop [*]
• Jane Bunnett and Maqueque: Playing With Fire (True North/Linus Entertainment) [03-10] - jazz [*]
• Buck 65: 14 KT Gold (self-released -EP) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
• Buck 65: Super Dope (self-released) [05-05] - hip-hop [A-]
• Buck 65: Punk Rock B-Boy (self-released) [11-03] - hip-hop [A]
• Buck 65/Doseone/Jel: North American Adonis (Handsmade) [11-24] - hip-hop [***]
• Bully: Lucky for You (Sub Pop) [06-02] - indie rock [**]
• Bex Burch: There Is Only Love and Fear (International Anthem) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Burrell: Harlem Rhapsody (Parco Della Musica) [03-31] - jazz [***]
• Tre Burt: Traffic Fiction (Oh Boy) [10-06] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Ludovica Burtone: Sparks (Outside In Music) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite (Patois) [06-09] - jazz [***]
• John Butcher/Dominic Lash/Emil Karlsen: Here and How (Bead) [07-16] - jazz [**]
• John Butcher/Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Fathom (577) [09-15] - jazz [*]
• Butcher Brown: Solar Music (Concord Jazz) [10-06] - jazz [B]
• Chouk Bwa & the Angstromers: Somanti (Bongo Joe) [10-06] - Haiti [**]
• Chris Byars Quartet: Look Ahead (SteepleChase) [04-21] - jazz [***]
• Dee Byrne: Outlines (Whirlwind) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Julie Byrne: The Greater Wings (Ghostly International) [07-07] - alt/indie [**]
• Daniel Caesar: Never Enough (Republic) [04-07] - neo-soul [*]
• Gail Caesar: Guitar Woman Blues (Music Maker) [01-06] - blues [**]
• Calcanhar: Jump (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [*]
• Adriana Calcanhotto: Errante (Modern/BMG) [03-31] - MPB [**]
• John Cale: Mercy (Domino) [01-20] - alt-pop [*]
• Call Super: Eulo Cramps (Can You Feel the Sun) [10-06] - electronic [**]
• Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto) [02-10] - vocal jazz [**]
• Jim Campilongo/Steve Cardenas: New Year (Sunnyside) [09-01] - jazz [B]
• Rodrigo Campos: Pagode Novo (YB Music) [03-01] - Brazil [***]
• Canadian Jazz Collective: Septology: The Black Forest Session (HGBS Blue) [03-31] - jazz [*]
• Laura Cantrell: Just Like a Rose: The Anniversary Sessions (Propeller Sound) [06-09] - country [A-]
• Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (Capitol) [05-19] - pop [*]
• Gunhild Carling: Good Evening Cats (Jazz Art -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [***]
• Mackenzie Carpenter: Mackenzie Carpenter (Valory Music -EP) - country [***]
• Ken Carson: A Great Chaos (Opium/Interscope) [10-13] - hip-hop [**]
• Daniel Carter/Leo Genovese/William Parker/Francisco Mela: Shine Hear Vol 1 (577) [07-07] - jazz [**]
• Andre Carvalho: Lost in Translation Vol II (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• Peter Case: Doctor Moan (Sunset Boulevard) [03-31] - jazz [B]
• Cash Box Kings: Oscar's Motel (Alligator) [03-17] - blues [**]
• CASisDEAD: Famous Last Words (XL) [10-27] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Edmar Castañeda World Ensemble: Viento Sur (self-released) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• Sara Caswell: The Way to You (Anzic) [03-03] - jazz [***]
• Cat Clyde: Down Rounder (Second Prize) [02-17] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Filipe Catto: Belezas Sao Coisis Acesas Por Dentro (Joia Moderna) - Brazil [*]
• Valentin Ceccaldi: Bonbon Flamme (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
• CESVR/Fleezus/Febem: Brime! (Butterz/Beatwise -EP -21) [2021-08-21] - Brazil [***]
• CESVR/Fleezus/Febem: Brime! (Deluxe Edition) (Butterz/Beatwise) [11-17] - Brazil [***]
• Eddie Chacon: Sundown (Stones Throw) [03-31] - neo-soul [*]
• Sarah Mary Chadwick: Messages to God (Kill Rock Stars) [09-15] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Chai: Chai (Sub Pop) [09-22] - pop/rock [**]
• Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina (Blue Note) [02-03] - jazz [**]
• Joan Chamorro & Friends: Jazz House Sessions With Scott Hamilton (Associacio Sant Andreu Jazz Band) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• Rasheed Chappell & the Arcitype: Sugar Bills (Project City Music Group) [09-15] - hip-hop [A-]
• Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly (Partisan) [06-30] [**]
• Che Noir: Noir or Never (Poetic, EP) - hip-hop [**]
• The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling (Virgin EMI) [09-08] - electronic [*]
• Ed Cherry: Are We There Yet? (Cellar) [01-20] - jazz [**]
• Chicago Edge Ensemble: The Individualists (Lizard Breath) [09-10] - jazz [**]
• Chief Adjuah: Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope) [07-28] - jazz [***]
• Tyler Childers: Rustin' in the Rain (Hickman Holler) [09-08] - country [***]
• Billy Childs: The Winds of Change (Mack Avenue) [03-17] - jazz [**]
• Chino XL & Stu Bangas: God's Carpenter (Brutal Music/1332) [09-25] - hip-hop [A-]
• Chory Thicket [Christy Doran/Ronan Guilfoyle/Gerry Hemingway]: A Breath of Time (Auricle) [08-03] - jazz [**]
• Christine and the Queens: Paranoia, Angels, True Love (Because Music) [06-09] [B]
• Chucky Smash: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (King of the Beats) [03-13] - hip-hop [*]
• Chuquimamani-Condori: DJ E (self-released) [11-15] - electronic [*]
• Cigar Box Serenaders: Spasm (self-released) [01-18] - jazz [**]
• Margo Cilker: Valley of Heart's Delight (Fluff and Gravy) [09-15] - country [***]
• Citric Dummies: Zen and the Arcade of Beating Your Ass (Feel It) [11-03] - punk [*]
• City Girls: Raw (Quality Control/Motown) [10-20] - hip-hop [**]
• Clark: Sus Dog (Throttle) [05-26] - electronic [B]
• Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark (Warner) [05-19] - country [***]
• Mike Clark: Kosen Rufu (Wide Hive) [09-08] - jazz [A-]
• Scott Clark: Dawn & Dusk (Out of Your Head) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Cautious Clay: Karpeh (Blue Note) [08-18] - jazz [*]
• Gerald Cleaver: 22/23 (Positive Elevation/577) [05-26] - jazz [***]
• Slaid Cleaves: Together Through the Dark (Candy House Media) [03-03] - country [***]
• The Clientele: I Am Not There Anymore (Merge) [07-28] - alt/indie [*]
• CMAT: Crazymad, for Me (CMATBaby/AWAL) [10-13] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Brent Cobb: Southern Star (Ol' Buddy/Thirty Tigers) [09-22] - country [**]
• Jeff Coffin/Jordan Perlson/Viktor Krauss: Coffin/Perlson/Krauss (Ear Up) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Avishai Cohen/Abraham Rodriguez Jr: Iroko (Naive/Believe) [05-05] - jazz [*]
• Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series Volume 5: Featuring Houston Person (Bandstand Presents) [11-10] - jazz [A-]
• Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Emergence (PlayOn) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• George Coleman: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar) [05-19] - jazz [A-]
• Isaiah Collier: Parallel Universe (Night Dreamer) [11-24] - jazz [***]
• Tom Collier: Boomer Vibes Volume 1 (Summit) [03-10] - jazz [*]
• Shirley Collins: Archangel Hill (Domino) [05-26] - British folk [*]
• Jessi Colter: Edge of Forever (Appalachia) [10-27] - country [**]
• Luke Combs: Gettin' Old (River House Artists) [03-24] - country [*]
• Djeli Moussa Condé: Africa Mama (Accords Croises) [01-27] - African [***]
• Conway the Machine: Won't He Do It (Drumwork/Empire) [05-05] - hip-hop [**]
• Hollie Cook: Happy Hour in Dub (Merge) [08-11] - dub [*]
• The Chick Corea Elektric Band: The Future Is Now (Candid) [11-03] - jazz [*]
• Patrick Cornelius: Book of Secrets (Posi-Tone) [06-30] - jazz [**]
• Chembo Corniel Quintet: Artistas, Musicos y Poetas (Chemboro) - jazz [***]
• Corook: Best of Carook (So Far) (Atlantic -22) [2022-11-04] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Corook: Serious Person (Part 1) (Atlantic, EP) [06-02] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Corook: Serious Person (Part 2) (Atlantic, EP) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Bethany Cosentino: Natural Disaster (Concord) [07-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Mario Costa/Cuong Vu/Benoit Delbecq/Bruno Chevillon: Chromosome (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe: The Rite of Spring/Spectre D'Un Songe (Pyroclastic) [05-19] - jazz [**]
• Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera (Intakt) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
• Craven Faults: Standers (The Leaf Label) [05-12] - prog electronic [***]
• Creation Rebel: Hostile Environment (On-U Sound) [10-15] - reggae [A-]
• Charley Crockett: Live from the Ryman (Son of Davy) [08-18] - country [A-]
• Theo Croker: Live in Paris (Masterworks -22 -EP) [2022-03-18] - jazz [*]
• Theo Croker: By the Way (Masterworks -EP) [02-17] - jazz [*]
• Crosslegged: Another Blue (self-released) [01-27] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions (New West) [05-05] - country [**]
• The Cucumbers: Old Shoes (self-released) [07-21] - alt/indie [A-]
• Cydnee With a C: Confessions of a Fangirl (Bread & Butter -EP) [04-05] - pop [*]
• Andrew Cyrille: Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt) - jazz [**]
• Miley Cyrus: Endless Summer Vacation (Columbia) [03-10] - pop [**]
• Czarface: Czartificial Intelligence (Silver Age/Virgin) [12-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Chuck D as Mistachuck: We Wreck Stadiums: Homage to Rap & Baseball Heroes (SpitSLAM) [03-31] - hip-hop [***]
• Maria Da Rocha/Ernesto Rodrigues/Daniel Levin/Joao Madeira: Hoya (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [**]
• Claire Daly With George Garzone: VuVu for Frances (Daly Bread) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Dan Ex Machina: Ex's Sexts (self-released) [10-20] - alt/indie [A-]
• Harold Danko: Trillium (SteepleChase) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• James P Johnson: De Organizer/The Dreamy Kid (Excerpts) (2006, Naxos) [08-08] - classical [*]
• Das Kondensat: Andere Planeten (WhyPlayJazz) [04-07] - jazz [A-]
• Christie Dashiell: Journey in Black (self-released) [09-22] - jazz [**]
• Dave and Central Cee: Split Decision (Neighbourhood, EP) [06-04] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Davido: Timeless (DMW/Columbia) [03-31] - Afropop [**]
• Clarence "Bluesman" Davis: Shake It for Me (Music Maker) [05-26] - blues [A-]
• Caroline Davis' Alula: Captivity (Ropeadope) [10-13] - jazz [A-]
• Evelyn Davis/Fred Frith/Phillip Greenlief: Lantskap Logic: Hidden Danger Lets Me In (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Jordan Davis: Bluebird Days (MCA Nashville) [02-17] - country [*]
• Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic, 2CD) [09-01] - jazz [A-]
• Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: Dancing on the Edge (Sophomore Lounge) [10-27] - alt/indie [**]
• Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem for Jazz (International Anthem) [03-24] - jazz [B]
• Day & Taxi: Live in Baden (Clean Feed) [01-23] - jazz [***]
• Day Tripper: What a Time to Be Dead (self-released) [01-11] - hip-hop [**]
• Yussef Dayes: Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch) [09-08] - jazz fusion [A-]
• Dazegxd & Quinn: DSX.FM (DeadAir, EP) [04-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Indigo De Souza: All of This Will End (Saddle Creek) [04-28] - indie pop [*]
• Olivia Dean: Messy (EMI) [06-30] - pop [*]
• Michael Dease: The Other Side: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [03-17] - jazz [*]
• Michael Dease: Swing Low (Posi-Tone) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Declaime and Theory Hazit: Rocketman (SomeOthaShip) [09-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Deer Tick: Emotional Contracts (ATO) [06-16] - alt/indie [*]
• Defprez: It's Always a Time Like This (Closed Sessions -EP) [04-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Lana Del Rey: Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Interscope/Polydor) [03-24] - art pop [**]
• Helena Deland: Goodnight Summerland (Chivi Chivi) [10-13] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Iris DeMent: Working on a World (Flariella) - folk [A-]
• Orhan Demir: Solo Guitar: Freedom in Jazz Vol 3 (Hittite) [02-00] - jazz [***]
• Depeche Mode: Memento Mori (Columbia/Mute) [03-24] - synthpop [B-]
• Alabaster DePlume: Come With Fierce Grace (International Anthem) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Hannah Diamond: Perfect Picture (PC Music) [10-06] - electropop [*]
• Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko (Wagram Music) [05-12] - African [*]
• Aaron Diehl & the Knights: Zodiac Suite (Mack Avenue) [09-15] - jazz [B-]
• John Dierker/Jeff Arnal: Astral Chronology (Mahakala Music -EP) [12-01] - jazz [**]
• Marike van Dijk Nonet: Stranded (Brooklyn Jazz Underground/ZenneZ) [09-22] - jazz [**]
• Christian Dillingham: Cascades (Greenleaf Music) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Mike Dillon & Punkadelick: Inflorescence (Royal Potato Family) [01-27] - jazz [*]
• Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society (Sounds of Crenshaw -EP) [04-14] - r&b [B]
• Mike DiRubbo: Inner Light (Truth Revolution) [11-17] - jazz [***]
• Disclosure: Alchemy (Apollo/AWAL) [07-14] - UK garage [B]
• McKinley Dixon: Beloved! Paradise! Jazz! (City Slang) [06-02] - hip-hop [*]
• DJ +1: Aromaticas (Tambien) [08-25] - electronic [*]
• DJ Black Low: Impumelelo (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [03-17] - amapiano [***]
• DJ Danifox: Ansiedade (Principe) [04-28] - downtempo [**]
• DJ Finale: Mille Morceau (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-21] - African [A-]
• DJ Girl: Hellworld (Planet Mu) [03-24] - techno [**]
• DJ K: Panico No Submundo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [07-14] - beat bruxana [**]
• DJ Maphorisa/Tman Xpress: Chukela (New Money Gang) [10-06] - amapiano [***]
• DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: Destiny (Spells on the Telly) [08-13] - house [*]
• DJ Shadow: Action Adventure (Mass Appeal) [10-27] - EDM [*]
• DJ Ws Da Igrejinha: Caca Fantasma Vol 1 (Dalama) [07-28] - Brazil [B]
• Dogo Du Togo: Dogo Du Togo (self-released -22) [2022-10-28] - African [*]
• Doja Cat: Scarlet (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-22] - pop rap [***]
• Marcelo Dos Reis: Flora (JACC) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Marcelo Dos Reis & Luis Vicente: (Un)prepared Pieces for Guitar and Trumpet (Cipsela) [10-01] - jazz [A-]
• David Dove/Joe McPhee: Where's the Wine? (CIA) [12-23] - jazz [***]
• Dragonchild: Dragonchild (FPE) [04-21] - Ethiopian [**]
• Drain: Living Proof (Epitaph) [05-05] - hardcore punk [*]
• Drake: For All the Dogs (OVO Sound) [10-06] - pop rap [B]
• Dream Wife: Social Lubrication (Lucky Number) [06-09] - pop punk [***]
• Mark Dresser: Tines of Change (Pyroclastic) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• Dropkick Murphys: Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck Music) [05-12] - punk [*]
• Dry Thrust: The Less You Sleep (Trost) [01-20] - jazz [*]
• Antoine Drye With Strings: Retreat to Beauty (Oblation Vol 3: Providence!) (Cellar Music) [10-20] - jazz [*]
• Chris Duarte: Ain't Giving Up (Provogue) [04-14] - blues [*]
• Marc Ducret: Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [03-10] - jazz [***]
• Paul Dunmall/Olie Brice: The Laughing Stone (Confront) [04-23] - jazz [***]
• Paul Dunmall Ensemble: It's a Matter of Fact (Discus Music) [03-24] - jazz [**]
• Paul Dunmall New Quartet: World Without (577) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Paul Dunmall: Bright Light a Joyous Celebration (Discus Music) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• Nick Dunston: Skultura (Fun in the Church) [09-29] - jazz [B]
• Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band: Cry Me a River (Alma) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Baxter Dury: I Thought I Was Better Than You (Heavenly) [06-02] - art pop [B]
• Jeremy Dutton: Anyone Is Better Than Here (self-released) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Mia Dyberg Trio: Timestretch (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [*]
• Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba (Brownswood) [05-12] - jazz [**]
• Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom (Legacy) [06-02] - singer-songwriter [***]
• EABS Meets Jaubi: In Search of a Better Tomorrow (Astigmatic) [05-12] - jazz [***]
• Jason Eady: Mississippi (Old Guitar) [08-11] - country [**]
• Open Mike Eagle: Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering (Auto Reverse) [08-25] - hip-hop [***]
• East Axis: No Subject (Mack Avenue) - jazz [***]
• Easy Star All-Stars: Ziggy Stardub (Easy Star) [04-21] - dub [B-]
• Silke Eberhard/Celine Voccia: Wild Knots (Relative Pitch) - jazz [**]
• Michael Echaniz: Seven Shades of Violet (Rebiralost) (Ridgeway) [09-08] - jazz [*]
• Yelena Eckemoff: Lonely Man and His Fish (L&H Production, 2CD) [04-28] - jazz [***]
• Rachel Eckroth: One (Blackbird Sessions) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Vince Ector Organotomy Trio +: Live @ the Side Door (Cabo Verde) [03-17] - jazz [**]
• Nataniel Edelman Trio: Un Ruido De Agua (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Ekiti Sound: Drum Money (Crammed Discs) [06-23] - African [*]
• The Ekphrastics: Special Delivery (Harriet) [04-22] - alt/indie [*]
• El Michels Affair & Black Thought: Glorious Game (Big Crown) [04-14] - hip-hop [A-]
• Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry (Spiritmuse) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Ana Frango Eletrico: Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (Mr Bongo) [10-20] - Brazil [**]
• William Lee Ellis: Ghost Hymns (Yellow Dog) [06-23] - blues [***]
• Kurt Elling/Charlie Hunter/Neal Smith: SuperBlue: Guilty Pleasures (Edition, EP) [02-17] - vocal jazz [*]
• Kurt Elling/Charlie Hunter: SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree (Edition) [09-15] - vocal jazz [B]
• Eluvium: (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (Temporary Residence) [05-12] - ambient [*]
• Elzhi X Oh No: Heavy Vibrato (Nature Sounds) [12-01] - hip-hop [A-]
• Ember: August in March (Imani) [08-11] - jazz [A-]
• Avalon Emerson: & the Charm (Another Dove) [04-28] - electgronic [***]
• Andy Emler MegaOctet: No Rush! (La Buissonne) [02-03] - jazz [**]
• Emperor X: Suggested Improvements to Transportation Infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor (Dreams of Field, EP) [03-09] - tech folk [**]
• En Attendant Ana: Principia (Trouble in Mind) [02-24] - alt/indie [B]
• The End: Why Do You Mourn (Trost) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd for Tadd: "Central Avenue Swing" & "Our Delight" (Tighten Up) [08-25] - jazz [***]
• Enji: Ulaan (Squama) [07-28] - Mongolian [B]
• Ensemble 0: Jojoni [Made to Measure Vol 49] (Crammed Discs) [04-28] - minimalism [**]
• Entoto Band: Entoto Band (Guitar Globetrotter) [02-01] - Ethiopian [**]
• Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet: Rising Sun (Motema Music) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Espen Eriksen Trio/Andy Sheppard: As Good as It Gets (Rune Grammofon) [10-06] - jazz [**]
• Ilhan Ersahin/Dave Harrington/Kenny Wollesen: Your Head You Know (Nublu -EP) [07-14] - jazz [*]
• Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds (Smoke Sessions) [04-14] - jazz [B-]
• Tianna Esperanza: Terror (BMG) [02-17] [***]
• Gabriel Espinosa: Bossas and Boleros (Zoho) [06-23] - jazz [B-]
• Falkner Evans: Through the Lines (CAP) [01-13] - jazz [**]
• Orrin Evans: The Red Door (Smoke Sessions) [06-16] - jazz [B]
• Peter Evans [Being & Becoming]: Ars Memoria (More Is More) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Everything but the Girl: Fuse (Buzzin' Fly/Virgin) [04-21] - electropop [*]
• FACS: Still Life in Decay (Trouble in Mind) [04-07] - post-punk [**]
• Jad Fair and Samuel Lock Ward: Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars) [02-10] [**]
• Drayton Farley: Twenty on High (Hargrove/Thirty Tigers) [03-03] - country [B]
• Joe Farnsworth: In What Direction Are You Headed? (Smoke Sessions) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• Robert Connelly Farr: Pandora Sessions (self-released) [11-19] - blues [***]
• Margherita Fava: Tatatu (self-released) - jazz [A-]
• Drayton Farley: Twenty on High (Hargrove) [03-03] - country [B]
• Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove: Decay (Backwoodz Studioz) [07-21] - hio-hop [B-]
• Kari Faux: Real B*tches Don't Die! (Drink Sum Wtr) [05-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Feeble Little Horse: Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek) [06-09] - postpunk [***]
• The Feelies: Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground (Bar/None) [10-13] [**]
• Michael Feinberg: Blues Variant (Criss Cross) [01-06] - jazz [***]
• Feist: Multitudes (Polydor) [04-14] [*]
• Mark Feldman/Dave Rempis/Tim Daisy: Sirocco (Aerophonic) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
• Alan Ferber Nonet: Up High, Down Low (Sunnyside) [07-21] - jazz [**]
• Fever Ray: Radical Romantics (Rabid/Mute) [03-10] - electropop [**]
• Amanda Fields: What, When and Without (Are and Be) [02-28] - country [**]
• Diego Figueiredo: My World (Arbors) [07-07] - jazz [**]
• Sammy Figueroa: Something for a Memory (Busco Tu Recuerdo) (Ashe) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Robert Finley: Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound) [10-27] - blues [**]
• Nick Finzer: Dreams Visions Illusions (Outside In Music) [04-14] - jazz [***]
• Don Fiorino/Andy Haas: Accidentals (Resonant Music) - jazz [A-]
• Fire! Orchestra: Echoes (Rune Grammofon) [04-14] - jazz [***]
• Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton: Death Wish Blues (Rounder) [05-19] - blues [**]
• Five-Way Split: All the Way (Ubuntu Music) [03-17] - jazz [*]
• Mick Flannery: Goodtime Charlie (Oh Boy) [09-15] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love: Guts & Skins (PNL) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Bela Fleck/Zakir Hussain/Edgar Meyer: As We Speak (Thirty Tigers) [05-12] - jazz [*]
• Mike Flips/Nord1kone/Seize: Life Cycles (SpitSLAM) [09-08] - hip-hop [**]
• Flying Pooka! [Dani Oore & Florian Hoefner]: The Ecstasy of Becoming (Alma) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Greg Foat & Eero Koivistoinen: Feathers (Jazzaggression) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Sue Foley: Live in Austin Vol 1 (Stony Plain) [10-27] - blues [**]
• Miya Folick: Roach (Nettwerk) [05-26] - indie pop [**]
• Roberto Fonseca: La Gran Diversión (3ème Bureau/Wagram) [09-22] - jazz [**]
• Foo Fighters: But Here We Are (Roswell/RCA) [06-02] - art rock [B-]
• Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: As Things Do (Intakt) [05-19] - jazz [***]
• Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame (Tapete) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions (Sunnyside) [03-03] - jazz [**]
• Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game (Artwork) [11-17] - jazz [*]
• Aldo Fosko Collective: This One Time (Hitchtone) [05-23] - jazz [**]
• Michael Foster: The Industrious Tongue of Michael Foster (Relative Pitch -22) [2022-08-19] - jazz [*]
• Ruthie Foster: Healing Time (Blue Corn Music -22) [2022-11-18] - blues [B]
• Four Elements & Beyond: Clock the Chemistry (Four Elements & Beyond) [02-05] - hip-hop [***]
• Chad Fowler/George Cartwright/Kelley Hurt/Christopher Parker/Luke Stewart/Steve Hirsh/Zoh Amba: Miserere (Mahakala Music) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Mimi Fox Organ Trio: One for Wes (Origin) - jazz [*]
• Caesar Frazier: Tenacity (As We Speak) (TrackMerchant -22) - jazz [*]
• Caesar Frazier: Live at Jazzcup (Stunt) - jazz [**]
• Fred Again/Brian Eno: Secret Life (Text) [05-05] - ambient [B]
• George Freeman: The Good Life (HighNote) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Paulo Fresu/Omar Sosa: Food (Tuk Music) [05-19] - jazz [**]
• Eric Friedlander: She Sees (Skipstone) [05-23] - jazz [*]
• Debby Friday: Good Luck (Sub Pop) [03-24] - electropop [A-]
• Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons to Rest (RogueArt) - jazz [***]
• Frog & Henry: Italy & England: 2020-2022 (self-released '22) [2022-11-26] - jazz [**]
• Romulo Froes and Tiago Rosas: Na Goela (YB Music) [02-28] - Brazil [**]
• Frog Squad: Special Noise (Mahakala Music) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• The Front Bottoms: You Are Who You Hang Out With (Fueled by Ramen) [08-04] - alt/indie [*]
• Fruit Bats: A River Running to Your Heart (Merge) [04-14] - folk pop [*]
• The Fugs: Dancing in the Universe (Fuga) [10-26] [**]
• Satoko Fujii/Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion (Ayler) [02-09] - jazz [***]
• Satoko Fujii: Torrent: Piano Solo (Libra) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• Arina Fujiwara: Neon (self-released) [10-02] - jazz [*]
• Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March On (self-released, EP) [03-03] - jazz [***]
• Tomas Fujiwara: Pith (Out of Your Head) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Robbie Fulks: Bluegrass Vacation (Compass) [04-07] - bluegrass [***]
• Champian Fulton: Meet Me at Birdland (Champian) [04-07] - jazz [**]
• Funkwrench Blues: Soundtrack for a Film Without Pictures (Need to Know) [06-29] - jazz [*]
• Jayda G: Guy (Ninja Tune) [06-09] - dance pop [***]
• Peter Gabriel: I/O (Real World) [12-01] - art rock [**]
• Gabriels: Angels & Queens (Atlas Artists/Parlophone) [07-07] - soul [**]
• Asher Gamedze: Turbulence and Pulse (International Anthem/Mushroom Hour) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• The Garden of Joy: Bouncin' Around (self-released) [02-24] - jazz [**]
• Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets: Pan Africa (Impact Jazz) [01-13] - jazz [***]
• Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Jerusalem (Mississippi) [04-07] - African [***]
• George Gee Swing Orchestra: Winter Wonderland (self-released) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Geese: 3D Country (Partisan) [06-23] - art punk [B-]
• Gel: Only Constant (Convulse -EP) [03-31] - hardcore punk [B]
• Sam Gendel: Cookup (Nonesuch) [02-24] - jazz [B]
• Leo Genovese/Demian Cabaud/Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero (Sunnyside) - jazz [**]
• Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (Pi -3CD) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• George: Letters to George (Out of Your Head) - jazz [***]
• Georgia: Euphoric (Domino) [07-28] - pop [***]
• Max Gerl: Max Gerl (JMI) [07-28] - jazz [*]
• The Ghost: Vanished Pleasures (Relative Pitch) [07-28] - jazz [***]
• Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet: Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
• Paul Giallorenzo Trio: Play (Delmark) [03-12] - jazz [*]
• Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook (Whaling City Sound) [06-16] - jazz [***]
• Rhiannon Giddens: You're the One (Nonesuch) [08-18] - folk [**]
• Lafayette Gilchrist: Undaunted (Morphius) [08-04] - jazz [**]
• Hannah Gill: Everybody Loves a Lover (Turtle Bay) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Vince Gill & Paul Franklin: Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys (MCA Nashville) [08-04] - country [*]
• Girl Ray: Prestige (Moshi Moshi) [08-04] - nu-disco [B]
• Girl Scout: Real Life Human Garbage (Made, EP) [02-15] - alt/indie [**]
• Bara Gisladottir: Silva (Sono Luminus) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Frode Gjerstad With Matthew Shipp: We Speak (Relative Pitch) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Margaret Glaspy: Echo the Diamond (ATO) [08-18] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Glitter Wizard: Kiss the Boot (Kitten Robot -EP) [03-07] - glam rock [B]
• Gloss Up: Before the Gloss Up (Quality Control) [01-20] - hip-hop [***]
• Gloss Up: Shades of Gloss (Quality Control) [08-11] - hip-hop [**]
• The Go! Team: Get Up Sequences Part Two (Memphis Industries) [02-03] - noise pop [***]
• Charles Wesley Godwin: Family Ties (self-released) [09-22] - country [*]
• Samuel Goff/Camila Nebbia/Patrick Shiroishi: Diminished Borders (Cacophonous Revival) [11-17] - jazz [***]
• GoGo Penguin: Everything Is Going to Be OK (XXIM) [04-14] - jazz [**]
• Alison Goldfrapp: The Love Invention (Skint/BMG) [05-12] - pop [***]
• Vinny Golia/Max Johnson/Weasel Walter: No Refunds (Unbroken Sounds) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Ricardo Dias Gomes: Muito Sol (Hive Mind) [06-09] - Brazil [***]
• Brad Goode: The Unknown (Origin) - jazz [**]
• The Sofia Goodman Group: Secrets of the Shore (Joyous) [07-14] - jazz [*]
• Gorillaz: Cracker Island (Parlophone/Warner) [02-24] - electropop [B]
• Gov't Mule: Peace . . . Like a River (Concord) [06-16] - blues [B-]
• Darrell Grant's MJ New: Our Mr Jackson (Lair Hill) [10-06] - jazz [**]
• Skip Grasso: Becoming (Barking Coda Music) - jazz [B]
• Frank Gratkowski/Simon Nabatov: Tender Mercies (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [*]
• Devin Gray: Most Definitely (Rataplan) [06-09] - jazz [**]
• Gordon Grdina/Mat Maneri/Christian Lillinger: Live at the Armoury (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola: Stay With It (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Guillermo Gregorio/Damon Smith/Jerome Bryerton: The Cold Arrow (Balance Point Acoustics) [12-01] - jazz [**]
• Guillermo Gregorio: Two Trios (ESP-Disk) [12-01] - jazz [U]
• Muriel Grossmann: Devotion (Third Man, 2CD) [12-01] - jazz [***]
• Laura Groves: Radio Red (Bella Union) [ 08-11] - art pop [*]
• Grrrl Gang: Spunky! (Big Romantic) [08-22] - punk [*]
• Grupo Frontera: El Comienzo (VHR Music) [08-03] - Latin [**]
• Gabriel Guerrero & Quantum: Equilibrio (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [**]
• Gunna: A Gift & a Curse (YSL/300 Entertainment) [06-16] - hip-hop [***]
• Mats Gustafsson: Hidros 9: Mirrors (Trost) [09-15] - jazz [*]
• Mats Gustafsson & Ensemble E: EE Opus One (Trost) [09-15] - jazz [B]
• Wolfgang Haffner: Silent World (ACT) [01-27] - jazz [***]
• Noah Haidu: Standards (Sunnyside) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Rich Halley Quartet: Fire Within (Pine Eagle) [12-01] - jazz [A-]
• Charlie Halloran and the Tropicales: Shake the Rum (self-released -22) [2022-03-25] - jazz [***]
• Charlie & the Tropicales: Presents for Everyone! (self-released) [11-03] - holiday jazz [**]
• Laurel Halo: Atlas (Awe) [09-22] - electronic [B]
• Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View (Gondwana) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Hamell on Trial: Bring the Kids (Saustex) [11-17] - alt/indie [**]
• Scott Hamilton: Talk to Me, Baby (Blau -22) - jazz [***]
• Scott Hamilton Quartet: At Pizza Express Live (PX) [04-14] - jazz [***]
• Hands & Tongues: 3 Meta-Dialogues (4DaRecord) [12-08] - jazz [B-]
• The Handsome Family: Hollow (Loose) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Cory Hanson: Western Cum (Drag City) [06-30] - alt/indie [*]
• Hardy: The Mockingbird & the Crow (Big Loud) [01-20] - country [**]
• Jack Harlow: Jackman (Generation Now/Atlantic) [04-28] - hip-hop [*]
• Allan Harris: Live at Blue Llama Jazz Club (Love Productions/Live at Blue Llama) [07-28] - jazz [**]
• Jaimee Harris: Boomerang Town (Thirty Tigers) [02-17] - country [**]
• Kevin Harris & the Solution: Jazz Gumbo (Blujazz) [05-01] - jazz [B-]
• Lafayette Harris Jr: Swingin' Up in Harlem (Savant) [03-10] - jazz [*]
• Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr: Congo Square Suite (Truth Revolution) [04-28] - jazz [B]
• PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan) [07-07] - alt/indie [*]
• Gerrit Hatcher: Solo Five (Kettle Hole) [05-12] - jazz [***]
• Fritz Hauser & Pedro Carneiro: Pas De Deux (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [B]
• Hamish Hawk: Angel Numbers (Post Electric) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Alexander Hawkins Trio: Carnival Celestial (Intakt) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Mayer Hawthorne: For All Time (P&L) [10-27] - soul [*]
• Louis Hayes: Exactly Right! (Savant) [04-21] - jazz [**]
• Phil Haynes/Drew Gress/David Liebman: Coda(s): No Fast Food III (Corner Store Jazz) [06-15] - jazz [***]
• Kevin Hays/Ben Street/Billy Hart: Bridges (Smoke Sessions) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Miho Hazama's M_unit: Beyond Orbits (Edition) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
• Headie One x K-Trap: Strength to Strength (self-released) [09-22] - UK drill [**]
• Thomas Heberer/Ken Filiano/Phil Haynes: Spontaneous Composition (Corner Store Music -22) - jazz [**]
• Tim Hecker: No Highs (Kranky) [04-07] - ambient [***]
• Eirik Hegdal/Jeff Parker/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Oyvind Skarbo: Superless (Oyvind Jazzforum) [11-03] - jazz [***]
• Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular) - jazz [*]
• Heinali: Kyiv Eternal (Injazero) [02-24] - ambient [*]
• Aaron Yale Heisler: The Bechet Century: A Centenary Celebration of the Music of Sidney Bechet (2nd Bechet Century) [06-01] - jazz [**]
• Eddie Henderson: Witness to History (Smoke Sessions) [07-08] - jazz [***]
• Lauren Henderson: Conjuring (Brontosaurus) [04-21] - jazz [***]
• Carlos Henriquez: A Nuyorican Tale (self-released) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Marina Herlop: Nekkuja (Pan) [10-27] - art pop [*]
• Benjamin Herman: Nostalgia Blitz (Dox) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
• Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto) - jazz [***]
• Nitai Hershkovits: Call on the Old Wise (ECM) [11-10] - jazz [*]
• Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces: Folk Songs Reimagined (Cellar) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Anthony Hervey: Words From My Horn (Outside In Music) [06-09] - jazz [**]
• Scott Hesse Trio: Intention (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Henry Hey: Trio: Ri-Metos (self-released) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Hieroglyphic Being: There Is No Acid in This House (Soul Jazz -22) [2022-10-27] - electronic [***]
• High Pulp: Days in the Desert (Anti-) [07-28] - jazz [**]
• HIIT: For Beauty Is Nothing but the Beginning of Terror (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Anna Hillburg: Tired Girls (Speakeasy Studios) [10-13] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Lisa Hilton: Coincidental Moment (Ruby Slippers) [12-01] - jazz [**]
• Makiko Hirabayashi Trio: Meteora (Enja) [09-22] - jazz [***]
• Art Hirahara: Echo Canyon (Posi-Tone) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Keigo Hirakawa: Pixel (Origin) [06-19] - jazz [**]
• Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland (Telarc) [10-06] - jazz [*]
• The Hives: The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Disques Hives) [08-11] - garage rock [***]
• Eric Hofbauer/The Five Agents: Waking Up! (Creative Nation Music) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Jasper Hoiby's 3 Elements: Earthness (Edition) [11-24] - jazz [***]
• Malcolm Holcombe: Bits & Pieces (Singular) [06-23] - country [***]
• The Hold Steady: The Price of Progress (Positive Jams) [03-31] - indie rock [A-]
• James Holden: Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities (Border Community) [03-31] - electronic [*]
• Lonnie Holley: Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar) [03-10] - soul [*]
• Home Is Where: The Whaler (Wax Bodega) [06-16] - emo [**]
• Homeboy Sandman: Rich (Dirty Looks) [08-04] - hip-hop [**]
• Homeboy Sandman: I Can't Sell These Either (self-released) [11-17] - hip-hop [A-]
• William Hooker: Flesh and Bones (Org Music) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Hope D: Clash of the Substance (Hope D) [02-10] - indie rock [**]
• Horse Lords: Live in Leipzig (RVNG Intl) [03-03] - experimental rock [*]
• Heather Lynne Horton: Get Me to a Nunnery (Pauper Sky) [09-22] - country [B-]
• Ron Horton: A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle) [12-14] - jazz [A-]
• Munir Hossn/Ganavya: Sister, Idea (Ropeadope) [04-07] - jazz [*]
• Hotline TNT: Cartwheel (Third Man) [11-03] - shoegaze [*]
• Francois Houle Genera Sextet: In Memoriam (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Ben Howard: Is It? (Island) [06-16] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Hozier: Unreal Unearth (Island) [08-18] - singer-songwriter [**]
• The Human Hearts: Viable (Open Boat) [10-20] - alt/indie [**]
• Ian Hunter: Defiance Part 1 (Sun) [04-21] [*]
• Jason Kao Hwang Critical Response: Book of Stories (True Sound) [06-31] - jazz [A-]
• David Ian: Vintage Christmas Trio Melody (Prescott) [09-22] - jazz [B]
• Ice Spice: Like . . ? (10K Projects/Capitol, EP) [01-20] - hip-hop [*]
• Ice Spice: Like . . ? [Deluxe] (10K Projects/Capitol) [07-21] - 07-21 [H|hip-hop]
• Wata Igarashi: Agartha (Kompakt) [05-26] - electronic [**]
• Illegal Crowns: Unclosing (Out of Your Heads) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• Imperio Pacifico: Clubs Hit (Variz) [01-06] - leftfield [**]
• Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Live in London (Alligator -2CD) [10-13] - blues [*]
• Mikko Innanen/Stefan Pasborg/Cedric Piromalli: Can You Hear It? (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• IPA: Grimsta (Cuneiform) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Nabihah Iqbal: Dreamer (Ninja Tune) [04-28] - electronic [***]
• Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Ghost Cat (Intakt) - jazz [**]
• Irreversible Entanglements: Protect Your Light (Impulse!) [09-08] - jazz [A]
• Gregory Alan Isakov: Appaloosa Bones (Dualtone) [08-18] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes (Southeastern) [06-09] [A-]
• Ayumi Ishito: Ayumi Ishito & the Spacemen Vol 2 (577) [04-28] - jazz [*]
• Islandman Feat. Okay Temiz/Muhlis Berberoglu: Direct-to-Disc Sessions (Night Dreamer) [03-10] - [A-]
• Ja'king the Divine: Parables of the Sower (Copenhagen Crates) [01-28] - hip-hop [***]
• Javon Jackson: With Peter Bradley: Soundtrack and Original Score (Solid Jackson) [06-16] - jazz [***]
• Kara Jackson: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September) [04-14] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Boldy James/Rich Gains: Indiana Jones (self-released) [01-20] - hip-hop [**]
• Jose James: On & On (Rainbow Blonde) [01-20] - vocal jazz [*]
• Loraine James: Gentle Confrontation (Hyperdub) [09-22] - electronic [*]
• The Japanese House: In the End It Always Does (Dirty Hit) [06-30] [*]
• Javier Red's Imagery Converter: Life & Umbrella (Desafio Candente) [05-12] - jazz [A-]
• Val Jeanty/Candice Hoyes/Mimi Jones: Nite Bjuti (Whirlwind) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Jelly Roll: Whitsitt Chapel (BBR Music Group) [06-02] - country [**]
• Mick Jenkins: The Patience (BMG) [08-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Christine Jensen: Day Moon (Justin Time) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loveliest Time (Silent) [07-28] - pop [***]
• Jlin: Perspective (Planet Mu -EP) [09-29] - electronic [***]
• Maria Joao & Carlos Bica Quartet: Close to You (JACC) [09-16] - vocal jazz [A-]
• Eric Johanson: The Deep and the Dirty (Ruf) [07-28] - blues [*]
• Per Texas Johansson: Orkester Omnitonal (Moserobie) [06-10] - jazz [***]
• Per Texas Johansson: Den Samsta Lonningen Av Alla (Moserobie) [06-10] - jazz [***]
• Jeremiah Johnson: Hi-Fi Drive By (Ruf -22) [2022-10-21] - blues [B]
• Cody Johnson: Leather (Warner Music Nashville) [11-03] - country [B]
• Russ Johnson Quartet: Reveal (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [**]
• Jonas Brothers: The Album (Republic) [05-12] - pop [*]
• Darius Jones: Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz) [09-29] - jazz [A-]
• Durand Jones: Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans) [05-05] - r&b [*]
• Mike Jones Trio: Are You Sure You Three Guys Know What You're Doing? (Capri) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Rickie Lee Jones: Pieces of Treasure (BMG/Modern) [04-28] - vocal jazz [B-]
• Stephen Jones & Ben Haugland: Road to No-Where (OA2) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Marc Jordan: Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Linus Entertainment) [04-23] [*]
• Sass Jordan: Bitches Blues (Stony Plain -21) [2021-06-03] - blues [*]
• Anders Jormin/Lena Willemark: Pasado En Claro (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [**]
• Wesley Joseph: Glow (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-17] - UK hip-hop [B]
• JPEGMafia & Danny Brown: Scaring the Hoes (AWAL) [03-24] - hip-hop [*]
• Kala Jula & Gangbe Brass Band: Asro (Buda Musique) [02-14] - African [**]
• Larry June and the Alchemist: The Great Escape (Empire) [03-31] - hip-hop [*]
• Jungle: Volcano (Caiola/AWAL) [08-11] - synth funk [*]
• Barb Jungr and Her Trio: My Marquee (Marquee) [06-30] - vocal jazz [**]
• JustVibez + Negro Justice: Art of the Craft (self-released) [04-07] - hip-hop [**]
• K-Lone: Swells (Wisdom Teeth) [07-06] - electronic [*]
• Kabeaushe: The Coming of Gaze (Hakuna Kulala) [05-12] - African [*]
• Kabeaushe: Hold On to Deer Life, There's a Blcak Boy Behind You! (Monkeytown) [11-10] - African [B]
• Noah Kahan: Stick Season (Mercury/Republic -22) [2022-10-14] - indie folk [***]
• Kaisa's Machine: Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music) [07-07] - jazz [**]
• Steven Kamperman: Maison Moderne (Trytone) [09-29] - jazz [U]
• Faten Kanaan: Afterpoem (Fire) [02-24] - electronic [*]
• Bobby Kapp: Synergy: Bobby Kapp Plays the Music of Richard Sussman (Tweed Boulevard) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• Karol G: Manana Sera Bonito (Universal Music Latino) [02-23] - Latin [***]
• Kate NV: Wow (RVNG Intl) [03-03] - prog electronic [B]
• Kaytramine [Amine/Kaytranada]: Kaytramine (Venice Music) [05-19] - pop rap [***]
• Kaze & Ikue Mori: Crustal Movement (Libra) [03-17] - jazz [A-]
• Ryan Keberle's Collectiv Do Brasil: Considerando (Alternate Side) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Jason Keiser: Shaw's Groove (OA2) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Tyler Keith & the Apostles: Hell to Pay (Black & Wyatt) [03-03] - rock [**]
• Kelela: Raven (Warp) [02-10] - alt r&b [**]
• Arthur Kell/Speculation Quartet: Live at Lunatico (Origin) [11-17] - jazz [***]
• Ruston Kelly: The Weakness (Rounder) [04-07] - country [*]
• Jon-Erik Kellso and the EarRegulars: Live at the Ear Inn (Arbors) - jazz [***]
• Kesha: Gag Order (Kemosabe) [05-19] - art pop [*]
• Kid Abstrakt & Leo Low Pass: Still Dreaming (Melting Pot Music) [05-05] - hip-hop [A-]
• Kid Koala: Creatures of the Late Afternoon (Envision) [04-14] - electronica [**]
• Kiko El Crazy: Pila'e Teteo (Rimas) - reggaeton [**]
• Kill Bill: The Rapper: Fullmetal Kaiju (Exociety) [04-26] - hip-hop [**]
• Killer Mike: Michael (Loma Vista) [06-16] - hip-hop [***]
• Sunny Kim/Vardan Ovsepian/Ben Monder: Liminal Silence (Earshift Music) [11-10] - vocal jazz [C+]
• Kimbra: A Reckoning (self-released) [01-27] - alt-pop [**]
• Izumi Kimura/Cora Venus Lunny: Invisible Resistances (Fairpoint -22) [2022-09-01] - jazz [*]
• Izumi Kimura/Gerry Hemingway: Kairos (Fundacja Sluchaj) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
• Elle King: Come Get Your Wife (RCA) [01-27] - country [A-]
• King Kashmere X Alecs DeLarge: The Album to End All Alien Abductions (High Focus) [06-20] - hip-hop [*]
• King Krule: Space Heavy (XL/Matador) [06-09] - singer-songwriter [*]
• John Carroll Kirby: Blowout (Stones Throw) [06-30] - electronic [B-]
• Snorre Kirk: Top Dog (Stunt) [03-24] - jazz [***]
• Guillermo Klein Quinteto: Telmo's Tune (Sunnyside) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Terry Klein: Leave the Light On (self-released) [11-10] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Knower: Knower Forever (self-released) [06-02] - electropop [B]
• Max Koch: Ten Bulls (Jazzwerkstatt) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
• Tony Kofi & Alina Bzhezhinska: Altera Vita (For Pharoah Sanders) (BBE -EP) [02-03] - jazz [B]
• Frank Kohl: Pacific (OA2) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Lia Kohl: The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams) [03-10] - ambient [**]
• Koma Saxo: Post Koma (We Jazz) [11-10] - jazz [*]
• Toshinori Kondo/Massimo Pupillo/Tony Buck: Eternal Triangle (I Dischi Di Angelica -22) [2022-10-05] - jazz [*]
• Kool Keith & Real Bad Man: Serpent (Real Bad Man) [03-24] - hip-hop [***]
• Kool Keith: Black Elvis 2 (Mello Music Group) [06-16] - hip-hop [**]
• Benjamin Koppel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Perspective (Cowbell Music) [07-17] - jazz [**]
• Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage to Freedom (Cowbell Music) [10-31] - jazz [***]
• Sarathy Korwar: KAL (Real World) (The Leaf Label) [04-07] - jazz [**]
• Sofia Kourtesis: Madres (Ninja Tune) [10-27] - electronic [**]
• Karina Kozhevnikova & Krugly Band: Polyphonic Circle (Leo) [03-07] - jazz [**]
• Russell Kranes: Anchor Points (OA2) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Andrew Krasilnikov: Bloody Belly Comb Jelly (Rainy Days) [09-29] - jazz [B]
• Floy Krouchi/James Brandon Lewis/Benjamin Sanz: Cliffs (Off -22) - jazz [A-]
• Alexey Kruglov: Synchronization of Time (Leo -22) [2022-12-22] - jazz [B]
• Marie Kruttli: Transparence (Intakt) [03-17] - jazz [*]
• Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty (ACT) [06-30] - jazz [**]
• Jason Kush: Finally Friday (MCG Jazz) [03-03] - jazz [***]
• Talib Kweli & Madlib: Liberation 2 (Luminary) [03-06] - hip-hop [***]
• L'Rain: I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer) [10-13] - experimental pop [**]
• John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [*]
• La Securite: Stay Safe (Mothland) [06-16] - new wave [A-]
• Yazmin Lacey: Voice Notes (On Your Own/Believe) [03-03] - r&b [**]
• Ladytron: Time's Arrow (Cooking Vinyl) [01-20] - synthpop [*]
• Mon Laferte: Autopoietica (Universal Music Mexico) [11-10] - Latin [A-]
• Julian Lage: The Layers (Blue Note, EP) [03-17] - jazz [**]
• Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation) [05-19] - indie rock [**]
• Oliver Lake/Mathias Landaeus/Kresten Osgood: Spirit (Sfar) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Lalalar: En Kotu Iyi Olur (Bongo Joe) [09-08] - Turkish [***]
• Lambrini Girls: You're Welcome (Big Scary Monsters -EP) [05-19] - punk [***]
• Jon Langford: Gubbins (self-released) [10-06] - alt/indie [***]
• Jon Langford & the Men of Gwent: Lost on Land & Sea (Country Mile) [11-10] - alt/indie [***]
• Ella Langley: Excuse the Mess (Sawgood) [05-19] - country [*]
• Lankum: False Lankum (Rough Trade) [03-24] - avant-folk [**]
• Lapgan: History (Veena Sounds) [08-25] - hip-hop [*]
• Jessy Lanza: Love Hallucination (Hyperdub) [07-28] - electronic [*]
• Lapsley: Cautionary Tales of Youth (Believe) [01-20] - alt-pop [**]
• Large Unit: New Map (PNL -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
• Large Unit: Clusterfuck (PNL -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
• David Larsen: The Peplowski Project (self-released) [05-19] - jazz [**]
• The Adam Larson Trio: With Love, From Kansas City (Outside In Music -22) [2022-09-02] - jazz [**]
• The Adam Larson Trio: With Love, From New York (Outside In Music) [04-07] - jazz [**]
• Las Vegas Boneheads: Sixty and Still Cookin' (Curt Miller Music) [04-01] - jazz [B]
• Mary Lattimore: Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International) [10-06] - ambient [*]
• Ingrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic) [03-31] - jazz [***]
• Ingrid Laubrock: Monochromes (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [*]
• Laufey: Bewitched (AWAL) [09-08] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were (ACT) - jazz [**]
• Matt Lavelle: In Swing We Trust (Unseen Rain -22) [2022-09-30] - jazz [**]
• Matt Lavelle: The House Keeper (Unseen Rain) [04-27] - jazz [**]
• Matt Lavelle/Claire Daly/Chris Forbes: Harmolodic Duke (Unseen Rain) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Bettye LaVette: LaVette! (Jay-Vee) [06-16] - soul [A-]
• Jo Lawry: Acrobats (Whirlwind) - jazz [A-]
• Pascal Le Boeuf: Ritual Being (SoundSpore) [08-25] - jazz [***]
• Le Boeuf Brothers: Hush (Soundspore) [04-21] - jazz [**]
• Marthe Lea Band: Herlighetens Vei (Motvind) [12-15] - jazz [A-]
• Joelle Leandre: Zurich Concert (Intakt) - jazz [**]
• Joelle Leandre/Craig Taborn/Mat Maneri: hEARoes (RogueArt) [05-07] - jazz [***]
• Leap Day Trio: Live at the Cafe Bohemia (Giant Step Arts) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Jeff Lederer With Mary LaRose: Schoenberg on the Beach (Little (i) Music) [10-06] - jazz [*]
• Jeff Lederer/Morningside Tone Collective: Balls of Simplicity: Jeff Lederer Notated Works 1979-2021 (Little (i) Music) [10-06] - jazz [**]
• Mike LeDonne/Eric Alexander/Jeremy Pelt/Vincent Herring/Kenny Washington/Peter Washington: The Heavy Hitters (Cellar) - jazz [**]
• Gabe Lee: Drink the River (Torrez Music Group) [07-14] - Americana [A-]
• Gordon Lee Quartet: How Can It Be? (PJCE) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Jim Legxacy: Homeless N*gga Pop Music ((!)) [04-26] - UK hip-hop [B]
• Steve Lehman/Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina (Pi) [09-15] - jazz [A]
• Brennen Leigh: Ain't Through Honky-Tonkin' Yet (Signature Sounds) [06-16] - country [***]
• The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks) [05-05] - soft rock [C+]
• MJ Lenderman and the Wind: Live and Loose! (Anti-) [11-17] - country [**]
• Lenhart Tapes: Dens (Glitterbeat) [11-10] [***]
• Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Jinx Lennon: Walk Lightly When the Jug Is Full (Septic Tiger) [04-14] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Carin Leon: Colmillo De Leche (Socios/Oplaai) [05-19] - Mexican [**]
• Jamie Leonhart: The Illusion of Blue (Side A) (self-released -EP -22) - jazz [B-]
• Jamie Leonhart: The Illusion of Blue (Side B) (self-released -EP -22) - jazz [B-]
• Janel Leppin: The Brink (Shiny Boy Press) [10-20] - jazz [*]
• Asbjorn Lerheim/Roger Arntzen/Michiyo Yagi/Tamaya Honda: Chrome Hill Duo Meets Dojo: Live at Aketa No Mise (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• Yosef Gutman Levitt/Tal Yahalom: Tsuf Harim (Soul Song) - jazz [***]
• Gregory Lewis: Organ Monk Going Home (Sunnyside) [08-04] - jazz [*]
• James Brandon Lewis Trio: Eye of I (Anti-) - jazz [A-]
• James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms, 2CD) [09-08] - jazz [A]
• Jenny Lewis: Joy'all (Blue Note) [06-09] [**]
• Mark Lewis: Sunlight Shines In (Audio Daddio) [03-24] - jazz [**]
• SG Lewis: AudioLust & HigherLove (PMR/EMI) [01-27] - synthpop [***]
• Lewsberg: Out and About (self-released) [09-15] - alt-rock [**]
• Dave Liebman: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) - jazz [***]
• Helge Lien Trio/Tore Brunborg: Funeral Dance (Ozella Music) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Max Light: Henceforth (SteepleChase) [06-16] - jazz [**]
• Lil Tjay: 222 (Columbia) [07-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape (Generation Now/Atlantic) [06-30] - hip-hop [**]
• Lil Wayne: Tha Fix Before Tha VI (Young Money) [09-29] - hip-hop [B]
• Lil Yachty: Let's Start Here (Quality Control Music/UMG) [01-27] - hip-hop [*]
• Lindstrom: Everyone Else Is a Stranger (Smalltown Supersound) [07-14] - electronica [**]
• Johan Lindstrom/Norrbotten Big Band: Johan Lindstrom & Norrbotten Big Band (Moserobie) [05-12] - jazz [**]
• Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks (Resonance) [09-15] - Brazilian [**]
• Liquid Mike: A Beer Can and a Bouquet (self-released) [2022-08-19] - alt/indie [**]
• Liquid Mike: S/T [Self-Titled] (Kitschy Spirit, EP) [03-10] - alt/indie [***]
• Aynsley Lister: Along for the Ride (Straight Talkin' -22) [2022-11-11] - blues [B]
• Little Simz: No Thank You (Forever Living Originals) [2022-12-12] - hip-hop [A-]
• Liv.e: Girl in the Half Pearl (In Real Life) [02-10] - r&b [**]
• Lloyiso: Seasons (Universal -EP) [03-31] - afropop [*]
• Location Location Location [Michael Formanek/Anthony Pirog/Mike Pride]: Damaged Goods (Cuneiform) [06-30] - jazz [*]
• Joe Locke: Makram (Circle 9) [02-17] - jazz [*]
• Damon Locks/Rob Mazurek: New Future City Radio (International Anthem) [07-28] - jazz [*]
• Zack Lober: No Fill3r (Zennez) - jazz [*]
• Nils Lofgren: Mountains (Cattle Track Road) [07-21] - rock [B]
• Logic: College Park (Three Oh One/BMG) [02-24] - hip-hop [*]
• The Mark Lomax Trio: Tapestry (CFG Multimedia) - jazz [A-]
• Dave Lombardo: Rites of Percussion (Ipecac) [05-05] - metal [**]
• Fred Lonberg-Holm/Tim Daisy: Current 23 (Relay) [04-01] - jazz [**]
• London Brew: London Brew (Concord) [03-31] - jazz [***]
• The Long Ryders: September November (Cherry Red) [03-10] - country rock [**]
• Luis Lopes Abyss Mirrors: Echoisms (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Brandon Lopez: Vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (Tao Forms) [04-14] - jazz [**]
• Brandon Lopez Trio: Matanzas (Relative Pitch) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Cecilia Lopez & Ingrid Laubrock: Maromas (Relative Pitch) [11-10] - jazz [**]
• Harold Lopez-Nussa: Timba a la Americana (Blue Note) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Alex LoRe & Weirdear: Evening Will Find Itself (Whirlwind) [05-19] - jazz [**]
• Los Mohanes: La Tumbia (2017, Moli Del Tro) [06-02] - cumbia [*]
• Loscil & Lawrence English: Colours of Air (Kranky) [02-03] - ambient [*]
• Russ Lossing: Alternate Side Parking Music (Aqua Piazza) [07-07] - jazz [***]
• Antti Lotjonen Quintet East: Circus/Citadel (We Jazz) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Maurice Louca Elephantine Band: Moonshine (Sub Rosa/Northern Spy) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry [Marilyn Crispell/Carmen Castaldi]: Our Daily Bread (ECM) [05-05] - jazz [*]
• Lydia Loveless: Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again (Bloodshot) [09-22] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Andy Fairweather Low: Flang Dang (Last Music) [04-07] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Low Cut Connie: Art Dealers (Contender) [09-08] - alt-pop [B]
• Lowcountry: Lowcountry (Ropeadope) [07-28] - vocal jazz [***]
• Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: America: The Rough Cut (ESP-Disk) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
• Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: In the Dark (ESP-Disk, 3CD) [04-28] - jazz [A-]
• Bill Lowe and the Signifyin' Natives Ensemble: Sweet Cane: Suites and Other Pedagogical Prompts (Mandorla Music) [06-10] - jazz [***]
• Chien Chien Lu: Built in System: Live in New York (Giant Step Arts) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet: Drifters (Trytone) [12-08] - jazz [A-]
• Lage Lund: Most Peculiar (Criss Cross) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Martin Lutz Group: LoLife/HiLife (Gateway) [09-29] - jazz [***]
• M(h)aol: Attachment Styles (Tulle) [02-03] - punk [**]
• M83: Fantasy (Mute/Virgin) [03-17] - dream pop [B]
• Baaba Maal: Being (Marathon Artists) [03-31] - African [**]
• Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza (DMAC Music) - jazz [B]
• Doug MacDonald Trio: Edwin Alley (DMAC Music) [08-01] - jazz [**]
• Mach-Hommy/Tha God Fahim: Notorious Dump Legends Vol 2 (self-released) [03-03] - hip-hop [*]
• Machine Girl: Neon White Soundtrack Part 1: The Wicked Heart (self-released -22) [2022-06-16] - electronic [**]
• Machine Girl: Neon White Soundtrack Part 2: The Burn That Cures (self-released -22) [2022-06-16] - electronic [*]
• Madlib/Meyhem Lauren/DJ Muggs: Champagne for Breakfast (Soul Assassins) [04-07] - hip-hop [***]
• Madre Vaca: Knights of the Round Table (Madre Vaca) [11-21] - jazz [*]
• Taj Mahal: Savoy (Stony Plain) [04-28] - blues [A-]
• Mahalia: IRL (Atlantic) [07-14] - r&b [***]
• Tkay Maidza: Sweet Justice (4AD) [11-03] - r&b [**]
• The Malpass Brothers: Lonely Street (Billy Jam) [05-12] - country [***]
• Man on Man: Provincetown (Polyvinyl) [06-16] - alt/indie [***]
• Mandy, Indiana: I've Seen a Way (Fire Talk) [05-19] - post-industrial [**]
• Mat Maneri Quartet: Ash (Sunnyside) [08-11] - jazz [***]
• Manzanita Quintet: Osmosis (Origin) - jazz [*]
• Maps: Counter Melodies (Mute) [02-10] - electronic [*]
• Gia Margaret: Romantic Piano (Jagjaguwar) [05-26] - ambient [*]
• Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier (Out of Your Head) [10-23] - jazz [*]
• Denman Maroney/Scott Walton/Denis Fournier: O Koσmoσ Meta (RogueArt -22) [2022-11-14] - jazz [***]
• Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Uptown on Mardi Gras Day (Troubadour Jass) - jazz [***]
• Gabriela Martina: Homage to Gramilis (self-released) [07-14] - jazz [*]
• Astghik Martirosyan: Distance (Astghik Music) [10-06] - jazz vocal [*]
• Sean Mason: The Southern Suite (Blue Engine) [10-27] - jazz [*]
• Bill Mays: Autumn Serenade (Sunnyside) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem) [03-27] - jazz [**]
• MC Yallah: Yallah Beibe (Hakuna Kulala) [04-14] - Africa [A-]
• Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime (Mack Avenue) [02-24] - jazz [A-]
• Ashley McBryde: The Devil I Know (Warner Music Nashville) [09-08] - country [**]
• Pete McCann: Without Question (McCannic Music) [08-04] - jazz [***]
• Brian McCarthy Nonet: After|Life (Truth Revolution) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Donny McCaslin: I Want More (Edition) [06-16] - jazz [B]
• Chad McCullough: The Charm of Impossibilities (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [A-]
• John Paul McGee: A Gospejazzical Christmas (Jazz Urbano) [11-16] - jazz [B]
• Nellie McKay: Hey Guys, Watch This (Hungry Mouse) [08-25] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Robin McKelle: Impressions of Ella (Doxie) [06-02] - jazz [***]
• Lori McKenna: 1988 (CN) [07-12] - country [A-]
• Sarah McKenzie: Without You (Normandy Lane Music) [10-27] - vocal jazz [*]
• Dave McMurray: Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• Joe McPhee & John Edwards: Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (For James Baldwin and John Coltrane) (Klanggalerie -22) [2022-11-14] - jazz [**]
• Joe McPhee/Mette Rasmussen/Dennis Tyfus: Oblique Strategies (Black Truffle) [08-18] - jazz [B]
• Ryan Meagher: AftEarth (Atroefy) [05-19] - jazz [***]
• Dom Martin: Buried in the Hail (Forty Below) [09-22] - blues-rock [*]
• Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (Nonesuch) [02-10] - jazz [B]
• Francisco Mela Featuring Cooper-Moore and William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls Vol 2 (577) [01-20] - jazz [***]
• Melenas: Ahora (Trouble in Mind) [09-28] [**]
• Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt) [11-17] - jazz [A-]
• Lubomyr Melnyk: The Sacred Thousand (Jeriska) [05-02] - jazz [***]
• Memphis LK: Too Much Fun (Dot Dash -EP) [01-13] - electropop [**]
• Memphis LK: True Love and Its Consequences (Dot Dash -EP) [11-24] - electropop [***]
• Greg Mendez: Greg Mendez (Forged Artifacts, EP) [05-05] - indie pop [B-]
• Vince Mendoza/Metropole Orkest: Olympians (Modern) [03-03] - jazz [B-]
• Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation (AUM Fidelity) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Vic Mensa: Victor (Roc Nation) [09-15] - hip-hop [*]
• Mercury [Nicolas Caloia & Lori Freedman]: Skin (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Hailu Mergia: Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [11-03] - Ethiopian [**]
• Lyia Meta: Always You (self-released) [06-16] - jazz [B]
• Pat Metheny: Dream Box (Modern) [06-16] - jazz [*]
• Metric: Formentera II (Metric Music) [10-13] - indie rock [***]
• Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains (Boominati/Republic -22) [2022-12-02] - hip-hop [**]
• Metro Boomin: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [Soundtrack From & Inspired by the Motion Picture] (Boominati/Republic) [06-02] - hip-hop [*]
• Metropolitan Jazz Octet: The Bowie Project (Origin) - jazz [B]
• Mette Henriette: Drifting (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [B]
• Colette Michaan: Earth Rebirth (Creatrix Music) [10-15] - jazz [*]
• Stephan Micus: Thunder (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [B]
• Haviah Mighty: Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang) [07-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Sei Miguel Unit Core: Road Music (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [B]
• Sei Miguel: The Original Drum (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• MIKE: Burning Desire (10K) [10-13] - hip-hop [*]
• MIKE/Wiki/The Alchemist: Faith Is a Rock (ALC) [09-22] - hip-hop [*]
• Palle Mikkelborg/Jakob Bro/Marilyn Mazur: Strands: Live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall (ECM) [11-24] - jazz [*]
• Militarie Gun: Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista) [06-23] - hardcore [B]
• Luiz Millan: Brazilian Match (Jazz Station) [04-21] - jazz [**]
• Allison Miller: Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• Buddy & Julie Miller: In the Throes (New West) [09-22] - country [**]
• Dominic Miller: Vagabond (ECM) [04-21] - jazz [*]
• Rainy Miller/Space Afrika: A Grisaille Wedding (Fixed Abode) [11-16] - UK hip-hop [B]
• Steve Millhouse: The Unwinding (SteepleChase) [02-22] - jazz [***]
• Steve Million: Perfectly Spaced (Calligram) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Blake Mills: Jelly Road (New Deal/Verve Forecast) [07-14] - folk rock [B]
• Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2 (Young Money/Republic) [12-08] - hip-hop [A-]
• Kylie Minogue: Tension (BMG) [09-22] - dance pop [**]
• Joni Mitchell: Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino) [07-28] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Matt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb (Out of Your Head) [04-14] - jazz [***]
• Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra and Space Trio: At the Fault Zone Festival (Wide Hive) [06-09] - jazz [B-]
• Tyler Mitchell Octet: Sun Ra's Journey (Cellar) [01-20] - jazz [***]
• Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans) [09-15] - pop [*]
• Model/Actriz: Dogsbody (True Panther Sounds) [02-24] - noise rock [***]
• Noshir Mody: A Love Song (self-released) [05-26] - jazz [*]
• Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet (Contagious Music) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Lesley Mok: The Living Collection (American Dreams) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• Moka Only: In and of Itself (Urbnet/Fontana North) [05-19] - hip-hop [***]
• Mokoomba: Tusona: Tracings in the Sand (Out Here) - African [**]
• Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns: Weejuns (Rune Grammofon) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Nils Petter Molvaer/Norwegian Radio Orchestra: Certainty of Tides (Modern) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure (Wondaland/Bad Boy/Atlantic) [06-09] - funk [A-]
• Aja Monet: When the Poems Do What They Do (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-09] - spoken word [A-]
• Victoria Monet: Jaguar II (RCA) [08-25] - r&b [**]
• Money for Guns: All the Darkness That's in Your Head (Money for Guns) [08-19] - alt/indie [**]
• Bonnie Montgomery: River (Gar Hole) [11-03] - country [*]
• Coco Montoya: Writing on the Wall (Alligator) [09-01] - blues [B]
• Andrew Moorhead: Interleaved (OA2) [03-17] - jazz [B]
• Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes) - jazz [A-]
• Gurf Morlix: Caveman (Rootball -22) [2022-10-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Gurf Morlix: I Challenge the Beast (Rootball) [04-01] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Megan Moroney: Lucky (Sony Music Nashville) [05-05] - country [***]
• Willie Morris: Conversation Starter (Posi-Tone) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Van Morrison: Moving on Skiffle (Exile/Virgin) [03-10] [B]
• Van Morrison: Accentuate the Positive (Exile/Virgin) [11-03] [**]
• Todd Mosby: Land of Enchantment (MMG) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• Joshua Moshe: Inner Search (La Sape) [10-06] - jazz [**]
• Paul Mottram: Seven Ages of Man (Ubuntu Music) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
• Simon Moullier: Isla (self-released) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Simon Moullier: Inception (Fresh Sound New Talent) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• The Mountain Goats: Jenny From Thebes (Merge) [10-27] - soft rock [**]
• Move: The City (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Azuka Moweta & Anioma Brothers Band: Nwanne Bu Ife (Palenque -22) [2022-12-02] - African [***]
• Mozart Estate: Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping (West Midlands/Cherry Red) [01-27] - synthpop [*]
• MSPAINT: Post-American (Convulse) [03-10] - punk [**]
• MUEJL [Michel Stawicki/Uygur Vural/Elisabetta Lanfredini/Joao Madeira/Luiz Rocha]: By Breakfast (4DaRecord) [02-03] - jazz [*]
• Jenni Muldaur/Teddy Thompson: Once More: Jenni Muldaur & Teddy Thompson Sing the Great Country Duets (Sun) [09-08] - country [A-]
• Tisziji Munoz: Burning Down Hades (Ra Kalam) [04-23] - jazz [***]
• Mat Muntz: Phantom Islands (Orenda) [02-24] - jazz [B-]
• Roisin Murphy: Hit Parade (Ninja Tune) [09-08] - electropop [***]
• David Murray/Questlove/Ray Angry: Plumb (Outside In Music) [07-21] - jazz [A-]
• Michael Musillami/Rich Syracuse/Jeff Siegel: Flight of Evangeline (Playscape -22) [2022-00-00] - jazz [**]
• Michael Musillami Trio: Block Party (Playscape) - jazz [**]
• Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders (ECM) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Nat Myers: Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound) [06-23] - blues [A-]
• Simon Nabatov 3+2: Verbs (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Simon Nabatov: Extensions (Unbroken Sounds) [11-03] - jazz [***]
• Quinsin Nachoff: Stars and Constellations (Adyharopa) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Estee Nack: Nacksaw Jim Duggan (Griselda) [05-19] - hip-hop [*]
• Nakhane: Bastard Jargon (Star Red/BMG) [03-31] - African [**]
• Nakibembe Embaire Group: Nakibembe Embaire Group (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-16] - African [**]
• Nas: Magic 2 (Mass Appeal) [07-21] - hip-hop [**]
• Nas: Magic 3 (Mass Appeal) [09-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Graham Nash: Now (BMG) [05-19] [B-]
• Roy Nathanson: 82 Days (Enja/Yellowbird) [10-27] - jazz [***]
• Nation of Language: Strange Disciple (PIAS) [09-15] - synthpop [*]
• The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD) [04-28] - alt/indie [***]
• The National: Laugh Track (4AD) [09-18] - alt/indie [***]
• Native Soul: Teenage Dreams (Awesome Tapes From Africa -21) [2021-09-24] - amapiano [A-]
• Natural Information Society: Since Time Is Gravity (Aguirre/Eremite) [04-14] - jazz [A-]
• Navy Blue: Ways of Knowing (Def Jam) [03-23] - hip-hop [A-]
• Naya Bazz [Rez Abbasi/Josh Feinberg]: Charm (Whirlwind) [05-12] - jazz [**]
• Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note) [06-16] [*]
• Ndox Electrique: Ted Ak Mame Coumba Lamba Ak Mame Coumba Mbang (Bongo Joe) [11-03] - Africa [*]
• Neak: Die Wurzel (self-released) [02-27] - hip-hop [**]
• Near Miss: The Natural Regimen (Kettle Hole) [07-07] - jazz [***]
• Camila Nebbia: Una Ofrenda a la Ausencia (Relative Pitch) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• The Necks: Travel (Northern Spy) [02-24] - jazz [**]
• Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires: Loving You (ATO) [06-23] - country [***]
• Tracy Nelson: Life Don't Miss Nobody (BMG) [06-09] - blues [**]
• Willie Nelson: I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard (Legacy) [03-03] - country [**]
• Willie Nelson: Bluegrass (Legacy) [09-15] - bluegrass [*]
• Marius Neset: Geyser: Live at Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms (ACT Music) [10-27] - jazz [A-]
• Ivan Neville: Touch My Soul (The Funk Garage) [04-21] - r&b [**]
• The New Pornographers: Continue as a Guest (Merge) [03-31] - indie rock [*]
• The New Wonders: The New Wonders (Turtle Bay) [09-23] - jazz [**]
• NewJeans: Get Up (ADOR, EP) [07-21] - K-pop [**]
• Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc: Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged (Some New Music) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Sam Newsome/Dave Liebman: Soprano-Logues (Some New Music) [06-01] - jazz [*]
• Nickel Creek: Celebrants (Thirty Tigers) [03-24] - prog bluegrass [B]
• Angelika Niescier/Tomeka Reid/Savannah Harris: Beyond Dragons (Intakt) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
• Lucas Niggli Sound of Serendipity Tentet: Play! (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Nihiloxica: Source of Denial (Crammed Discs) [09-29] - industrial techno [A-]
• Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family (We Jazz) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
• Elsa Nilsson's Band of Pulses: Pulses (Ears & Eyes) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• No-No Boy: Empire Electric (Smithsonian Folkways) [09-28] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Noertker's Moxie: In Flitters: 49 Bits From B*ck*tt (Edgetone) [11-07] - jazz [***]
• Billy Nomates: Cacti (Invada) [01-13] - post-punk [**]
• Noname: Sundial (self-released) [08-11] - hip-hop [A-]
• Nondi: Flood City Trax (Planet Mu) [04-07] - juke [*]
• Jesper Nordberg: Trio (Gotta Let It Out) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Nostalgia 77: The Loneliest Flower in the Village (Jazzman) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Nourished by Time: Erotic Probiotic 2 (Scenic Route) [04-21] - synthpop [B]
• Thandi Ntuli With Carlos Nino: Rainbow Revisited (International Anthem) [11-17] - jazz [**]
• Aymee Nuviola: Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) - jazz [**]
• Atle Nymo Trio: Circle Steps (Arc) [12-08] - jazz [**]
• Kevin O'Connell Quartet Featuring Adam Brenner: Hot New York Minutes (Ignoramus Music) [05-15] - jazz [**]
• Arturo O'Farrill: Legacies (Blue Note) [04-28] - jazz [*]
• Lisa O'Neill: All of This Is Chance (Rough Trade) [02-10] - folk [**]
• Maciej Obara Quartet: Frozen Silence (ECM) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Octo Octa: Dreams of a Dancefloor (T4T LUV NRG, EP) [09-15] - electronic [**]
• Oddisee: To What End (Outer Note) [01-20] - hip-hop [***]
• Offset: Set It Off (Motown) [10-13] - hip-hop [*]
• Linda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours (Biophilia) [06-02] - jazz [B]
• Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy: O Yinne! (Philophon) [06-02] - African [***]
• Okonski: Magnolia (Colemine) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Dave Okumu & the 7 Generations: I Came From Love (Transgressive) [04-14] [*]
• Joy Oladokun: Proof of Life (Amigo/Verve Forecast/Republic) [04-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Old Crow Medicine Show: Jubilee (ATO) [08-25] - country-rock [B]
• Angel Olsen: Forever Means (Jagjaguwar -EP) [04-14] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Omawi [Warelis/Govaert/De Joode]: Waive (Relative Pitch) [11-10] - jazz [**]
• OMD [Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]: Bauhaus Staircase (100%) [10-27] - synthpop [**]
• Omnigone: Against the Rest (Bad Time) [03-31] - ska-punk [*]
• Oneohtrix Point Never: Again (Warp) [09-29] - glitch [B]
• Ryoko Ono/Satoko Fujii: Hakuro (self-released) [11-03] - jazz [***]
• Rita Ora: You & I (BMG) [07-14] - r&b [**]
• Orbital: Optical Delusion (London) [02-17] - techno [*]
• Bill Orcutt: Jump on It (Palilalia) [04-28] - folk [*]
• Aruan Ortiz Trio: Serranias: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt) [03-17] - jazz [***]
• Aruan Ortiz: Pastor's Paradox (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
• Joell Ortiz & L'Orange: Signature (Mello Music) [12-08] - hip-hop [*]
• Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Igbo Amaka (Palenque) [03-13] - African [A-]
• Kresten Osgood/Bob Moses/Tisziji Munoz: Spiritual Drum Kingship (Gotta Let It Out) [06-16] - jazz [A-]
• Margaux Oswald/Jesper Zeuthen: Magnetite (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
• Matt Otto: Umbra (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [**]
• Kassa Overall: Animals (Warp) [05-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Overmono: Good Lies (XL) [05-12] - future garage [*]
• Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band: Renderings (MAMA) [07-21] - jazz [***]
• Endea Owens and the Cookout: Feel Good Music (BassBae Music) [08-31] - jazz [**]
• Genesis Owusu: Struggler (Ourness/AWAL) [08-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Oyvindland Med Eirik Hegdal & Erik Johannessen: Nonett (Ora Fonogram) [10-27] - jazz [**]
• Engin Ozsahin: Conversations in Chaos (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Afonso Pais/Tomas Marques: The Inner Colours of Bogin's Outline (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [B]
• Palehound: Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl) [07-14] - alt/indie [**]
• Pangaea: Changing Channels (Hessle Audio) [10-06] - UK bass [***]
• Paramore: This Is Why (Atlantic) [02-10] - post-punk [*]
• Parannoul: After the Magic (Top Shelf) [01-28] - shoegaze [B]
• Parchman Prison Prayer: Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) [09-15] - gospel [**]
• Pardoner: Peace Loving People (Bar/None) [06-23] - post-punk [*]
• Emile Parisien/Roberto Negro: Les Métanuits (ACT) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Christopher Parker & the Band of Guardian Angels: Yeah Yeah! (Mahakala Music) - jazz [**]
• Evan Parker/Matthew Wright Trance Map+ Peter Evans/Mark Nauseef: Etching the Ether (Intakt) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Graham Parker & the Goldtops: Last Chance to Learn the Twist (Big Stir) [09-08] [**]
• Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine (Transgressive) [05-26] - neo-soul [A-]
• Gretchen Parlato/Lionel Loueke: Lean In (Edition) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• Bruno Parrinha: Da Erosao (4DaRecord) [05-28] - jazz [*]
• Bruno Parrinha/Vine Leaf: Tales of Senses (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
• Emanuele Parrini/Samo Salamon/Vasco Trilla: Eating Poetry (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Dolly Parton: Rockstar (Butterfly/Big Machine) [11-17] - country [B]
• Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Hold Your Fire (Neuklang) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Michel Pastre/Louis Mazetier/Guillaume Nouaux: Fine Ideas (Camille Productions) [06-24] - jazz [***]
• Joel Paterson: Wheelhouse Rag (Jalopy) [08-18] - folk [**]
• Jeb Patton: Preludes (Cellar Music) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Jessica Pavone: Clamor (Out of Your Head) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• Hery Paz: Jardineros (577) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Vinnie Paz: All Are Guests in the House of God (Iron Tusk Music) [11-17] - hip-hop [**]
• Nicholas Payton: Drip (PayTone) [09-26] - jazz [B]
• Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra: Take Me to the Ragtime Dance (Rivermont) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• Pierrick Pedron/Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Pedron Rubalcaba (Gazebo) [06-09] - jazz [***]
• Grant Peeples: A Murder of Songs (self-released) [02-03] - singer-songwriter [**]
• People of Earth: People of Earth (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [05-05] - Latin jazz [**]
• Jeremy Pelt: The Art of Intimacy Vol 2: His Muse (HighNote) [03-10] - jazz [*]
• Pere Ubu: Trouble on Big Beat Street (Cherry Red) [05-26] - postpunk [**]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych I (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych II (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [**]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Tryptych III (SMP -22) [2022-12-16] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris: Elliptic Time (Mahakala Music -22) - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Ray Anderson/Joe Morris/Reggie Nicholson: Molten Gold (Fundacja Sluchaj) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Elliott Sharp: Artificial Intelligence (Mahakala Music) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Dave Burrell/Bobby Kapp: Trichotomy (Mahakala Music) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Jeff Cosgrove: Live in Carrboro (Soul City Sounds) [04-07] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Aruan Ortiz/Lester St Louis: Prophecy (Mahakala Music) [08-07] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/James Emery: The Whisperers (Mahakala Music) [08-11] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matt Moran: Tuning Forks (Ibeji Music) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Rich Perry: Progression (SteepleChase) [10-15] - jazz [**]
• Pest Control: Don't Test the Pest (Quality Control HQ) [02-10] - punk [*]
• Maisie Peters: The Good Witch (Gingerbread Man) [06-23] - pop [**]
• Sara Petite: The Empress (Forty Below) [06-09] - alt country [A-]
• Scott Petito: Many Worlds (Planet Arts) [02-07] - jazz [B]
• Kim Petras: Feed the Beast (Island) [06-23] - pop [*]
• Phiik & Lungs [aka Lonesword]: Another Planet 4 (Tase Grip/Break All) [02-18] - hip-hop [*]
• Ethan Philion Quartet: Gnosis (Sunnyside) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• Jean-Michel Pilc: Symphony (Justin Time) [02-17] - jazz [*]
• Ted Piltzecker: Vibes on a Breath (OA2) [08-26] - jazz [*]
• Pink: Trustfall (RCA) [02-17] - dance pop [**]
• Pink Monads: Multiple Visions of the Now (4DaRecord) [07-24] - jazz [**]
• Yune Pinku: Babylon IX (Platoon, EP) [04-28] - pop [**]
• PinkPantheress: Heaven Knows (Warner UK) [11-10] - alt-pop [***]
• Pipe: Pipe (Third Uncle) [08-04] - punk [**]
• Augusto Pirodda Septet: The Monkey and the Monk (El Negocito -22) [2022-08-26] - jazz [**]
• Anthony Pirog: The Nepenthe Series Vol 1 (Otherly Love) [11-03] - jazz [*]
• Pizza Hotline: Level Select (We Release Whatever the Fuck We Want) [01-01] - electronic [A-]
• John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen (Palmetto) [04-21] - jazz [***]
• Rozi Plain: Prize (Memphis Industries) [01-13] - art pop [*]
• Peso Pluma: Genesis (Double P) [06-22] - Mexican trap [**]
• Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Perpetual Novice) [02-14] - art pop [*]
• Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Abri Cyclonique (Real World) [02-17] - gwo ka [**]
• Pony: Velveteen (Take This to Heart) [05-19] - alt/indie [*]
• Dougie Poole: The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) [02-24] - alt-country [*]
• Iggy Pop: Every Loser (Gold Tooth/Atlantic) [01-06] - new wave [*]
• Popcaan: Great Is He (OVO Sound) [01-27] - dancehall [**]
• Marek Pospieszalski: No Other End of the World Will There Be: Based on the Works of Polish Female Composers of the 20th Century (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Tineke Postma: Aria (Edition) [05-05] - jazz [**]
• Chris Potter: Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) [02-17] - jazz [***]
• Grace Potter: Mother Road (Fantasy) [08-18] - country-rock [A-]
• Shelton Powe: Shelton Powe (Music Maker -22) [2022-11-04] - blues [**]
• Margo Price: Strays (Loma Vista) [01-13] - country [*]
• Precarious Towers: Ten Stories (Shifting Paradigm) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Simona Premazzi: Wave in Gravity: Solo Piano (PRE) - jazz [**]
• Noah Preminger/Kim Cass: The Dank (Dry Bridge -EP) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• Pretenders: Relentless (Rhino) [09-01] - rock [*]
• Eddie Prevost/NO Moore/James O'Sullivan/Ross Lambert: Chord (Shrike) [06-08] - jazz [*]
• John Primer: Teardrops for Magic Slim: Live at Rosa's Lounge (Blues House) [02-24] - blues [***]
• Prince Kaybee: Gemini (self-released -22) [2022-06-17] - amapiano [**]
• Princess Nokia: I Love You but This Is Goodbye (Arista -EP) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Prins Emanuel: Diagonal Musik II (Music for Dreams) [11-03] - ambient [**]
• Public Image Ltd: End of World (PIL Official) [08-11] - post-punk [*]
• Darden Purcell: Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood (Origin) [09-15] - vocal jazz [**]
• Purelink: Signs (Peak Oil) [09-15] - ambient dub [*]
• Quantic: Dancing While Falling (PIAS) [11-10] - r&b [***]
• Quartet San Francisco/Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band/Take Six: Raymond Scott Reimagined (Violinjazz) [07-21] - jazz [***]
• Quasi: Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop) [02-10] - indie rock [B-]
• Queen Esther: Rona (EL) [06-02] - alt-pop [*]
• Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman . . . (Matador) [06-16] - stoner rock [B-]
• R Ring: War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni) [01-27] - alt/indie [*]
• Bruno Raberg: Solo Bass: Look Inside (Orbis Music) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• Rachael & Vilray: I Love a Love Song (Nonesuch) [01-13] - jazz [*]
• Nate Radley & Gary Versace: Snapshots (SteepleChase) [06-22] - jazz [**]
• Rae Sremmurd: Sremm 4 Life (EarDruma/Interscope) [04-07] - pop rap [*]
• Priya Ragu: Santhosam (Warner) [10-20] - dance-pop [**]
• Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound (Manushi) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Joakim Rainer Trio: Light.Sentence (Sonic Transmissions) [02-03] - jazz [**]
• Renee Rapp: Snow Angel (Interscope) [08-18] - alt-pop [B]
• Mette Rasmussen/Paul Flaherty/Zach Rowden/Chris Corsano: Crying in Space (Relative Pitch) [01-27] - jazz [***]
• Ratboys: The Window (Topshelf) [08-25] - indie rock [**]
• Andrew Rathbun: The Speed of Time (SteepleChase) [09-22] - jazz [***]
• Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk: Away Back In (Def Presse) [08-25] - 08-25 [H|hip-hop]
• Raye: My 21st Century Blues (Human Re Sources) [02-03] - pop soul [**]
• Mason Razavi: Six-String Standards (OA2) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Jason Rebello/Tim Garland: Life to Life (Whirlwind) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Recognize Ali: Back to Mecca II (Greenfield Music) [03-24] - hip-hop [***]
• Joshua Redman: Where Are We (Blue Note) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Eric Reed: Black, Brown, and Blue (Smoke Sessions) [03-10] - jazz [**]
• Ishmael Reed and the West Coast Blues Caravan of All-Stars: Blues Lyrics by Ishmael Reed (Reading Group) [08-05] - blues [A-]
• Mike Reed: The Separatist Party (We Jazz/Astral Spirits) [10-27] - jazz [A-]
• Regal86: La Onda: Groove In-Groove Out (self-released) [02-03] - techno [***]
• Remembrance Quintet: Do You Remember? (Sonboy) [10-13] - jazz [***]
• Dave Rempis/Elisabeth Harnik/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Tim Daisy: Earscratcher (Aerophonic) [01-13] - jazz [A-]
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Harvesters (Aerophonic) [07-18] - jazz [A-]
• Ren: Sick Boi (The Other Songs) [10-13] - UK hip-hop [A-]
• Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog: Connection (Knockwurst) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Chase Rice: I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go to Hell (Broken Bow) [02-10] - country [A-]
• Xavier Richardeau: A Caribbean Thing (Continuo Jazz) [10-20] - jazz [*]
• Doug Richards Orchestra: Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Logan Richardson: Holy Water (Wax Industry) [04-28] - jazz [B]
• Mike Richmond: Turn Out the Stars (SteepleChase) [03-17] - jazz [**]
• Amy Rigby: Cut & Run (Southern Domestic -22) [2022-09-02] [**]
• Amy Rigby: Cut Two (Southern Domestic) [12-01] [**]
• Diego Rivera: Love & Peace (Posi-Tone) [02-03] - jazz [**]
• Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Amusement/Island) [09-22] - pop [A-]
• Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Smokey Robinson: Gasms (TLR) [04-28] - soul [**]
• Sebastian Rochford/Kit Downes: A Short Diary (ECM) [01-20] - jazz [B]
• Olivia Rodrigo: Guts (Geffen) [09-08] - pop [A]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Joao Madeira/Hernani Faustino: No Strings Attached (Creative Sources) [04-16] - jazz [**]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Florian Stoffner/Bruno Parrinha/Joao Madeira: Altered Egos (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [***]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Flak/Joao Madeira/Jose Oliveira: The Giving Tree Moving On (Creative Sources) [06-01] - jazz [**]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Dirk Serries/Joao Madeira/Jose Oliveira: Dripping (Creative Sources) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• The Rodriguez Brothers: Reunited: Live at Dizzy's Club (RodBros Music) [07-14] - jazz [*]
• Jason Roebke: Four Spheres (Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Aksel Roed's Other Aspects: Do You Dream in Colours? (Is It Jazz?) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Andre Roligheten: Marbles (Odin) [11-03] - jazz [A-]
• The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds (Polydor) [10-20] - blues rock [B]
• Rome Streetz: Wasn't Built in a Day (De Rap Winkel) [02-27] - hip-hop [*]
• Rent Romus/Heikki Koskinen: Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament (Edgetone) [04-04] - jazz [*]
• Dex Romweber: Good Thing Goin' (Propeller Sound) [05-05] - blues rock [*]
• Romy: Mid Air (Young) [09-08] - dance-pop [A-]
• Roots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road: Retold Pasts and Present Day Musings (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [***]
• Monika Roscher Bigband: Witchy Activities and the Maple Death () [05-05] - jazz [**]
• Caroline Rose: The Art of Forgetting (New West) [03-24] - indie pop [*]
• Esther Rose: Safe to Run (New West) [04-21] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Frankie Rose: Love as Projection (Slumberland) [03-10] - synthpop [B]
• Whitney Rose: Rosie (MCG) [05-19] - country [***]
• Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles (One Trick Dog) [02-10] - jazz [*]
• Dan Rosenboom: Polarity (Orenda) [04-28] - jazz [***]
• Jeff Rosenstock: Hellmode (Polyvinyl) [09-01] - punk [*]
• Kurt Rosenwinkel: Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard (Heartcore) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Brandon Ross: Of Sight and Sound (Sunnyside) [02-03] - jazz [*]
• Sam Ross: Live at the Mira Room Vol II (self-released) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Ned Rothenberg: Crossings Four (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Jim Rotondi Quintet: Over Here (Criss Cross) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Rough Image: Rough Image (WV Sorcerer) [04-07] - experimental rock [***]
• Jay Royale: Criminal Discourse (self-released) [06-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy: Day (Greenleaf Music) [05-05] - jazz [*]
• Andreas Roysum Ensemble: Mysterier (Motvind) [10-27] - jazz [**]
• Bobby Rozario: Spellbound (Origin) [08-26] - jazz [***]
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses (Top Side Music) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Adam Rudolph/Tyshawn Sorey: Archaisms 1 (Defkaz) [10-23] - jazz [***]
• Bobby Rush: All My Love for You (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) - blues [**]
• Allison Russell: The Returner (Fantasy) [09-08] [A-]
• Rust Dust: Twere but It Were so Simple (Omad) [03-10] - folk [**]
• Markus Rutz: Storybook (Jmarq) - jazz [**]
• RVG: Brain Worms (Ivy League/Fire) [06-02] - alt/indie [**]
• Jerome Sabbagh: Vintage (Sunnyside) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Taiko Saito: Tears of a Cloud (Trouble in the East) [04-28] - jazz [*]
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 (Milan) [01-17] - minimalism [B]
• Naoko Sakata: Infinity (Pomperipossa) [09-23] - jazz [*]
• Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: Home Is Here (Tapestry) [05-12] - jazz [**]
• Cecile McLorin Salvant: Melusine (Nonesuch) [03-24] - vocal jazz [*]
• Samia: Honey (Grand Jury) [01-27] - indie pop [*]
• Sampha: Lahai (Young) [10-20] - alt r&b [*]
• Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band: Vox Humana (Jazzheads) [05-12] - jazz [***]
• The Angelica Sanchez Nonet: Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic) [10-27] - jazz [***]
• Brandon Sanders: Compton's Finest (Savant) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra: Playland at the Beach (Little Village) [10-28] - jazz [**]
• Arman Sangalang: Quartet (Calligram) [08-04] - jazz [**]
• Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?: Turkish Hipster (Dunya) [07-21] - jazz [B]
• Joe Santa Maria: Echo Deep (Orenda) [11-03] - jazz [B-]
• A Savage: Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade) [10-06] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Say She She: Silver (Colemine) [09-29] - funk [***]
• SBTRKT: The Rat Road (AWAL) [05-05] - indietronica [B]
• Ignaz Schick/Oliver Steidle: Ilog3 (Zarek) [07-02] - jazz [***]
• Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) [03-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Fie Schouten/Vincent Courtois/Guus Janssen: Vostok: Remote Islands (Relative Pitch) [11-24] - jazz [**]
• Nicky Schrire: Nowhere Girl (Anzic) [06-09] - jazz [*]
• Laura Schuler Quartett: Suenos Paralelos (Antidro) [03-10] - jazz [**]
• John Scofield: Uncle John's Band (ECM) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Harlem Suite (Ropeadope) [03-31] - jazz [*]
• Bill Scorzari: The Crosswinds of Kansas (self-released -22) [2022-08-19] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Dave Scott: Song for Alice (SteepleChase) [01-15] - jazz [**]
• Jeffrey Scott: Going Down to Georgia on a Hog (Music Maker) [03-03] - blues [***]
• Kendrick Scott: Corridors (Blue Note) [03-03] - jazz [**]
• Knoel Scott/Marshall Allen: Celestial (Night Dreamer) [07-28] - jazz [***]
• Travis Scott: Utopia (Cactus Jack/Epic) [07-28] - hip-hop [**]
• Screaming Females: Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni) [02-17] - indie rock [B]
• Scree: Jasmine on a Night in July (Ruination) [03-10] - jazz [B]
• Seablite: Lemon Lights (Mt St Mtn) [09-29] - dream pop [*]
• Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions: Brutalovechamp (Pyroclastic) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• The Selva: Camarao-Girafa (Clean Feed) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Marina Sena: Vicio Inerente (Sony Music Brasil) [04-27] - Brazil [***]
• Serengeti: Ajai II (self-released) [03-03] - hip-hop [*]
• Sara Serpa & André Matos: Night Birds (Robalo Music) [09-29] - vocal jazz [B]
• Dave Sewelson/William Parker/Steve Hirsch: The Gate (Mahakala Music -22) - jazz [***]
• Dave Sewelson/Stephen Moses/Jochem van Dijk/Steve Holtje: Orca Uprising (MechaBenzaiten) [09-29] - jazz [B]
• Sexmob: The Hard Way (Corbett vs Dempsey) [05-12] - jazz [***]
• Sexyy Red: Hood Hottest Princess (Heavy on It) [06-09] - hip-hop [*]
• Shabazz Palaces: Robed in Rareness (Sub Pop -EP) [10-27] - hip-hop [*]
• Kavita Shah: Cape Verdean Blues (Folkalist) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• Shaheed & DJ Supreme: The Art of Throwing Darts (Communicating Vessels) [08-18] - hip-hop [***]
• Shakti: This Moment (Abstract Logix) [06-23] - jazz [*]
• Shalom: Sublimation (Saddle Creek) [03-10] - alt/indie [***]
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Dirt on My Diamonds Volume 1 (Provogue) [11-17] - blues [B]
• Elijah Shiffer: Star Jelly (self-released) [02-03] - jazz [A-]
• Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 1 (self-released) [11-06] - jazz [***]
• Matthew Shipp/Mark Helias: The New Syntax (RogueArt -22) [2022-11-14] - jazz [***]
• Matthew Shipp: The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala Music) [09-22] - jazz [**]
• Patrick Shiroishi: I Was Too Young to Hear Silence (American Dreams) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• The Shootouts: Stampede (Soundly Music) [02-24] - country [***]
• Nick Shoulders: All Bad (Gar Hole) [09-08] - country [**]
• Louis Siciliano: Ancient Cosmic Truth (Musica Presente -EP) [01-06] - jazz [**]
• Todd Sickafoose: Bear Proof (Secret Hatch) [09-29] - jazz [**]
• Apostolos Sideris: Past-Presented (Parallel) [11-03] - jazz [*]
• Antero Sievert: Dear Bossa (JMI) [06-23] - jazz [***]
• Sigur Ros: Atta (Krunk/BMG) [06-16] - ambient [B-]
• Lisa Marie Simmons/Marco Cremaschini: NoteSpeak 12 (Ropeadope) [02-24] - vocal jazz [A-]
• Paul Simon: Seven Psalms (Owl/Legacy) [05-19] [B]
• Edward Simon: Femininas: Songs of Latin American Women (ArtistShare) [06-08] - jazz [*]
• Guilty Simpson: Escalation (Uncommon) [10-13] - hip-hop [**]
• Alex Sipiagin Quintet: Mel's Vision (Criss Cross) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Sister Zo: Arcana (All Centre -EP) [04-28] - electronic [A-]
• Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other (Capitol) [10-13] - pop [**]
• Jae Skeese: Abolished Uncertainties (Empire) [03-24] - hip-hop [A-]
• Skech185 & Jeff Markey: He Left Nothing for the Swim Back (Backwoodz Studioz) [02-03] - hip-hop [**]
• Isach Skeidsvoll: Dance to Summon (Ultraaani) [04-14] - jazz [***]
• Lauritz Skeidsvoll & Isach Skeidsvoll Duo: Chanting Moon, Dancing Sun: Live at Molde International Jazz Festival (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Sketch185 & Jeff Markey: He Left Nothing for the Swim Back (Backwoodz Studioz) [02-03] - hip-hop [**]
• Skrillex: Quest for Fire (OWSLA/Atlantic) [02-17] - electronic [*]
• Skrillex: Don't Get Too Close (OWSLA/Atlantic) [02-18] - electronic [**]
• Skyzoo & the Other Guys: The Mind of a Saint (First Generation Rich) [01-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Slayyyter: Starfucker (Fader) [09-22] - electropop [***]
• Sleaford Mods: UK Grim (Rough Trade) [03-10] - UK hip-hop [***]
• Slow Pulp: Yard (Anti-) [09-29] - alt/indie [**]
• Slowdive: Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans) [09-01] - shoegaze [**]
• Slowthai: Ugly (Method/Universal) [03-03] - UK hip-hop [A-]
• SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude (Slow & Steady) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Caitlyn Smith: High & Low (Monument) [04-14] - country [*]
• Jimi "Primetime" Smith & Bob Corritore: The World in a Jug (Vizztone/SWMAF) [02-10] - blues [***]
• Jorja Smith: Falling or Flying (FAMM) [09-29] - r&b [***]
• Peter Smith Trio: Dollar Dreams (Real Magic) [03-03] - jazz [**]
• Sam Smith: Gloria (Capitol) [01-27] - pop [B]
• Steve Smith and Vital Information: Time Flies (Wounded Bird, 2CD) [05-05] - jazz [**]
• Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric: Fire Illuminations (Kabell) [03-31] - jazz [A-]
• Walter Smith III: Return to Casual (Blue Note) [04-07] - jazz [*]
• Smoke DZA & Flying Lotus: Flying Objects (The Smoker's Club, EP) [09-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Smoking Time Jazz Club: Six Blues, Five Joys & a Stomp (self-released) [02-13] - jazz [A-]
• Jim Snidero: Far Far Away (Savant) - jazz [***]
• Snooper: Super Snooper (Third Man) [07-14] - punk [***]
• Soggy Po Boys: It's Good to Laugh Again (self-released '22) [2022-11-07] - jazz [***]
• Cleo Sol: Heaven (Forever Living Originals) [09-15] - neo-soul [*]
• Cleo Sol: Gold (Forever Living Originals) [09-29] - neo-soul [**]
• Emilio Solla/Antonio Lizana: El Siempre Mar (Tiger Turn) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• Something Blue: Personal Preference (Posi-Tone) [01-06] - jazz [*]
• Son Volt: Day of the Doug: The Songs of Doug Sahm (Transmit Sound) [04-22] - country [*]
• Sonar With David Torn and J Peter Schwalm: Three Movements (7d) [06-23] - jazz [**]
• Alan Sondheim: Galut: Ballads of Wadi-Sabi (ESP-Disk) [04-28] - experimental [**]
• Kate Soper Feat Sam Pluta: The Understanding of All Things (New Focus -22) [2022-03-04] - electronic [B]
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Continuing (Pi) [06-30] - jazz [A-]
• Mark Soskin/Jay Anderson: Empathy (SteepleChase) [05-18] - jazz [***]
• Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente: Cometa (Sunnyside) [08-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Guido Spannocchi: Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna (Audioguido) [04-20] - jazz [***]
• Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (Island) [05-26] - art pop [B-]
• Sparks Quartet [Eri Yamamoto/Chad Fowler/William Parker/Steve Hirsh]: Live at Vision Festival XXVI (Mahakala Music) [10-27] - jazz [**]
• Speaker Music: Techxodus (Planet Mu) [09-08] - electronica [**]
• Speakers Corner Quartet: Further Out Than the Edge (OTIH) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Lessons (Rucksack) [03-24] - hip-hop [**]
• Chris Speed Trio: Despite Obstacles (Intakt) [06-16] - jazz [***]
• Speedy Ortiz: Rabbit Rabbit (Wax Nine) [09-01] - indie rock [**]
• Simon Spillett Big Band: Dear Tubby H (Mister PC) [09-11] - jazz [***]
• Russ Spiegel: Caribbean Blue (Ruzztone Music) [10-23] - jazz [**]
• Hemlocke Springs: Going . . . Going . . . Gone! (Good Luck Have Fun, EP) [09-29] - electropop [***]
• Squid: O Monolith (Warp) [06-09] [**]
• Terell Stafford: Between Two Worlds (Le Coq) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis: Calibrating Friction (New Amsterdam) [09-15] - jazz [*]
• Chris Stamey: The Great Escape (Car) [07-07] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Joe Stamm Band: Wild Man (self-released) [08-11] - country [*]
• Chris Stapleton: Higher (Mercury Nashville) [11-10] - country [*]
• Steep Canyon Rangers: Morning Shift (Yep Roc) [09-08] - bluegrass [*]
• Jason Stein/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Hum (Irritable Mystic) [06-02] - jazz [**]
• Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger: Umbra (Intakt) [05-19] - jazz [***]
• Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger: Penumbra (Plaist -22) [2022-12-09] - jazz [**]
• Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere (ECM) [03-17] - jazz [*]
• Marnie Stern: The Comeback Kid (Joyful Noise) [11-03] - math rock [**]
• Joanna Sternberg: I've Got Me (Fat Possum) [06-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet: Precipice (ARC) [05-05] - jazz [A-]
• Sufjan Stevens: Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty) [10-06] - indie folk [*]
• Sultan Stevenson: Faithful One (Whirlwind) [03-24] - jazz [**]
• Tamara Stewart: Woman (self-released) [04-11] - country [**]
• Stik Figa & the Expert: Ritual (Rucksack) [06-16] - hip-hop [A-]
• Loren Stillman: Time and Again (Sunnyside) [11-17] - jazz [***]
• The Streets: The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light (679/Warner Music UK) [10-13] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: The Universe's Wildest Dream (Strick Music) [01-13] - jazz [*]
• The Dave Stryker Trio: Prime (Strikezone) - jazz [***]
• Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives: Altitude (Snakefarm) [05-19] - bluegrass [B]
• Stuck: Freak Frequency (Born Yesterday) [05-26] - punk [**]
• Yuhan Su: Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• Jonathan Suazo: Ricano (Ropeadope) [08-04] - jazz [***]
• AJ Suede & Televangel: Parthian Shots (Fake Four) [03-02] - hip-hop [*]
• Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory (Endectomorph Music) [10-27] - jazz [***]
• Sundy Best: Feel Good Country (self-released) [02-03] - country [*]
• Surgeon: Crash Recoil (Tresor) [03-17] - techno [***]
• Susanne Sundfor: Blomi (Bella Union) [04-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Superposition: Glaciers (Kettle Hole) [08-14] - jazz [**]
• Superviolet: Infinite Spring (Lame-O) [04-21] - rock [*]
• Rob Sussman: Top Secret Lab (Sus4music) [12-12] - jazz [*]
• Rajna Swaminathan: Apertures (Ropeadope) [04-28] - jazz [**]
• Earl Sweatshirt & the Alchemist: Voir Dire (ALC/Tan Cressida) - hip-hop [*]
• Sweeping Promises: Good Living Is Coming for You (Sub Pop) [06-30] - alt/indie [**]
• Steve Swell/Joe McPhee/Chris Corsano: Sometimes the Air Is (Mahakala Music) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Veronica Swift: Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue) [09-15] - vocal jazz [B-]
• SZA: SOS (Top Dawg/RCA -22) [2022- 12-09] - r&b [**]
• Tani Tabbal Quartet: Intentional (Mahakala Music) [10-08] - jazz [***]
• Tainy: Data (Neon16) [06-29] - reggaeton [*]
• Aki Takase: Carmen Rhapsody (BMC) [02-03] - jazz [**]
• Aki Takase/Alexander von Schlippenbach: Four Hands Piano Pieces (Trost) [04-28] - jazz [B]
• David Tamura + Toadal Package: Final Entrance (JPN) [08-20] - jazz [**]
• Eldad Tarmu: Tarmu Jazz Quartet (Queen of Bohemia) - jazz [**]
• Grzegorz Tarwid Trio: Flowers (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Dudu Tassa/Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit) [06-09] - world [*]
• Brit Taylor: Kentucky Blue (Cut a Shine) [02-04] - country [***]
• Willie Tea Taylor & the Fellership: The Great Western Hangover (self-released) [10-27] - country [**]
• Techno Cats: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [08-14] - jazz [*]
• Felo Le Tee/Mellow & Sleazy: The III Wise Men (New Money Gang) [07-15] - amapiano [A-]
• Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: I Love You (Domestic La La) [10-06] - pop punk [**]
• Tele Novella: Poet's Tooth (Kill Rock Stars) [10-06] - alt/indie [*]
• Emilio Teubal: Futuro (Not Yet) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• That Mexican OT: Lonestar Luchador (Manifest/Good Talk/Good Money Global) [07-28] - hip-hop [**]
• Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project: Mi Hogar (Outside In Music) - jazz [**]
• The Third Mind: The Third Mind 2 (Yep Roc) [10-27] [***]
• Thollem/Terry Riley/Nels Cline: The Light Is Real (Other Minds) [12-08] - jazz [*]
• Leon Thomas III: Electric Dusk (Ezmny/Motown) [08-18] - r&b [**]
• Micah Thomas: Reveal (Artwork) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Isaiah J Thompson: The Power of the Spirit (Blue Engine) [03-17] - jazz [***]
• Rich Thompson: Who Do You Have to Know? (Origin) - jazz [*]
• Teddy Thompson: My Love of Country (self-released) [08-18] - country [**]
• Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One (Pi) [05-26] - jazz [A-]
• Dlala Thukzin: Permanent Music 3 (Dlala) [09-15] - amapiano [***]
• Tinariwen: Amatssou (Wedge) [05-19] - Saharan [*]
• Tinashe: BB/ANG3L (Nice Life, EP) [09-08] - r&b [*]
• Kris Tiner/Tatsuya Nakatini: The Magic Room (Epigraph) [08-04] - jazz [**]
• Tiny Ruins: Ceremony (Ba Da Bing) [04-28] - folk [*]
• Tirzah: Trip9love (Domino) [09-05] - alt r&b [*]
• TisaKorean: Let Me Update My Status (Jazzzy) [03-24] - hip-hop [B]
• Titanic: Vidrio (Unheard of Hope) [10-20] - post-minimalism [**]
• Azu Tiwaline: The Fifth Dream (IOT) [07-07] - electronic [A-]
• Don Toliver: Love Sick (Cactus Jack/Atlantic) [02-24] - hip-hop [B]
• MF Tomlinson: We Are Still Wild Horses (Prah) [02-17] - singer-songwriter [*]
• A Tonic for the Troops: Realm of Opportunities (Odin) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Tomu DJ: Crazy Trip (No Bias, EP) [08-11] - electronic [***]
• Josie Toney: Extra (Like You Mean It) [04-07] - country [**]
• David Toop & Lawrence English: The Shell That Speaks the Sea (Room40) [06-02] - electronic [B]
• Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM) [03-17] - jazz [*]
• Lukas Traxel: One-Eyed Daruma (We Jazz) [03-10] - jazz [***]
• Rian Treanor & Ocen James: Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-20] - electroacoustic [**]
• Trespass Trio Feat. Susana Santos Silva: Live in Oslo (Clean Feed) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Trio Grande: Urban Myth (Whirlwind) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Trio San: Hibiki (Jazzdor) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• Triogram: Triogram (Circle Theory Media) - jazz [**]
• Gianluigi Trovesi: Stravaganze Consonanti (ECM) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Dan Trudell: Fishin' Again: A Tribute to Clyde Stubblefield & Dr Lonnie Smith (OA2) - jazz [***]
• True Stomach of a Bird [Ulf Mengersen/Lina Allemano/Kamil Korolczuk]: Computation Intensive Spontaneousness (self-released) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Erik Truffaz: Rollin' (Blue Note) [04-14] - jazz [**]
• Erik Truffaz: Clap! (Blue Note) [10-27] - jazz [*]
• Juanma Trujillo: Contour (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Truth Cult: Walk the Wheel (Pop Wig) [03-03] - hardcore [*]
• Tuba Skinny: Hot Town (self-released) [05-05] - jazz [***]
• The Tubs: Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind) [01-27] - jangle pop [*]
• Dara Starr Tucker: Dara Starr Tucker (Green Hill Productions) [06-03] - jazz [**]
• Tanya Tucker: Sweet Western Sound (Fantasy) [06-02] - country [**]
• Tujiko Noriko: Crepuscule I & II (Editions Mego) [01-13] - ambient [B]
• Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (Warp) [03-17] - art rock [**]
• Brad Turner Quintet: The Magnificent (Cellar) [09-22] - jazz [*]
• Mark Turner Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard (Giant Step Arts) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Turnpike Troubadours: A Cat in the Rain (Bossier City) [08-25] - country-rock [B]
• Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: City of Gold (Nonesuch) [07-21] - bluegrass [***]
• Two Shell: Lil Spirits (Mainframe Audio -EP) [02-10] - techno [A-]
• Dan Tyminski: God Fearing Heathen (8 Track Entertainment) [06-23] - bluegrass [A-]
• Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington: Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Six (2022 [2023], OA2) [07-21] - jazz [B]
• Tyvek: Overground (Ginkgo) [11-10] - punk [A-]
• U SCO: Catchin' Heat (New Atlantis) [05-05] - jazz [**]
• Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus (Interscope) [03-03] - pop [**]
• Jeremy Udden: Wishing Flower (Sunnyside) [10-27] - jazz [*]
• Ulaan Passerine: Sun Spar (Worstward -22) [2022-09-02] - jazz [B]
• Stephen Ulrich: Music From This American Life (Barbes) [02-03] - folk guitar [***]
• Uncle Waffles: Asylum (Kreativekornerr) [03-31] - amapiano [**]
• Uncle Waffles: Solace (Ko-Sign/Encore) [08-11] - amapiano [**]
• Underscores: Wallsocket (Mom + Pop) [09-22] - glitch pop [***]
• US Girls: Bless This Mess (4AD) [02-24] - synthpop [**]
• V Knuckles & Phoniks: The Next Chapter (Don't Sleep) [10-20] - hip-hop [***]
• Billy Valentine: Billy Valentine and the Universal Truth (Flying Dutchman) [03-24] - vocal jazz [***]
• Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake: Eternal River (Corbett vs Dempsey) [04-07] - jazz [***]
• Sachal Vasandani & Romain Collin: Still Life (Edition -22) [2022-07-15] - vocal jazz [B-]
• Veeze: Ganger (Navy Wavy) [06-27] - hip-hop [*]
• Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott: East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [***]
• Ally Venable: Real Gone (Ruf) [03-23] - blues [*]
• Vin Venezia: The Venetian (Innervision) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Andrea Veneziani: The Lighthouse (self-released) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
• Alex Ventling/Hein Westgaard: In Orbit (Nice Things) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Martina Verhoeven Quintet: Driven: Live at Roadburn 2022 (Klanggalerie -22) [2022-10-14] - jazz [***]
• VHS Head: Phocus (Skam) [04-06] - glitch hop [*]
• Luis Vicente 4tet: House in the Valley (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Fay Victor: Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful (Northern Spy) [08-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Ramana Vieira: Tudo De Mim (All of Me) (self-released) [05-01] - jazz [*]
• Albert Vila Trio: Reality Is Nuance (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-10] - jazz [**]
• Daniel Villarreal: Lados B (International Anthem) [10-06] - jazz [A-]
• Liba Villavecchia Trio: Birchwood (Clean Feed) [06-23] - jazz [***]
• Claudia Villela: Cartas Ao Vento (Taina Music) [09-08] - Brazil [***]
• David Virelles: Carta (Intakt) [06-18] - jazz [**]
• Pabllo Vittar: Noitada (Sony Music) [02-08] - Brazil [**]
• Pabllo Vittar: After (Sony Music) [07-27] - Brazil [*]
• Maddie Vogler: While We Have Time (Origin) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Katie Von Schleicher: A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night (Sipsam) [10-20] - indie pop [*]
• Waco Brothers: The Men That God Forgot (Plenty Tuff) [03-31] - alt/indie [**]
• Morgan Wade: Psychopath (Ladylike/RCA) [08-25] - country [A-]
• Rufus Wainwright: Folkocracy (BMG) [06-02] - folk [B]
• Brad Walker + Extended: Side by Side (self-released) [04-07] - jazz [***]
• Joe Louis Walker: Weight of the World (Forty Below) [02-17] - blues [B]
• Colter Wall: Little Songs (Black Hole/La Ronda) [07-14] - country [***]
• Morgan Wallen: One Thing at a Time (Big Loud) [03-03] - country [*]
• JD Walter: The Last Muse (Arkadia) [09-23] - jazz [B-]
• Sunny War: Anarchist Gospel (New West) [02-03] - Americana [***]
• The War and Treaty: Lover's Game (Mercury Nashville) [03-10] - country [**]
• Greg Ward's Rogue Parade: Dion's Quest (Sugah Hoof) - jazz [B-]
• Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! (PMR/EMI) [04-28] - post-disco [A-]
• Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Time Capsule (Planet Arts) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Nadia Washington: Hope Resurgence (New) - jazz [B-]
• Walter Wolfman Washington: Feels So at Home (Tipitina's Record Club) - blues [*]
• Water From Your Eyes: Everyone's Crushed (Matador) [05-26] - art pop [A-]
• Web Web x Mar Herre: Web Max II (Compost) [10-27] - jazz [*]
• Anna Webber: Shimmer Wince (Intakt) [10-20] - jazz [**]
• Anna Webber/Matt Mitchell: Capacious Aeration (Tzadik) [11-03] - jazz [**]
• Colin Webster Large Ensemble: First Meeting (Raw Tonk) [06-05] - jazz [***]
• Wednesday: Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans) [04-07] - rock [*]
• Sam Weinberg Trio With Chris Lightcap & Tom Rainey: Implicatures (Astral Spirits) [05-19] - jazz [A-]
• Alex Weiss: Most Don't Have Enough (Ears & Eyes) - jazz [*]
• Alex Weitz: Rule of Thirds (Outside In Music) [04-28] - jazz [***]
• Ben Wendel: All One (Edition) [04-21] - jazz [B]
• Bobby West: Big Trippin' (Soulville Sound) [01-16] - jazz [*]
• Hein Westgaard Trio: First as Farce (Nice Things) [09-01] - jazz [A-]
• Westside Gunn: And Then You Pray for Me (Griselda/Empire) [10-13] - hip-hop [**]
• Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm: Grit & Grace (Sunnyside) [10-20] - jazz [***]
• Hailey Whitters: I'm in Love (Big Loud/Pigasus -EP) [07-28] - country [**]
• Mareike Wiening: Reveal (Greenleaf Music) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• WiFiGawd & Soudiere: 36 Chambers of Pressure Vol 2 (Purple Posse -EP) [02-24] - hip-hop [B]
• Havard Wiik/Tim Daisy: Slight Return (Relay) [08-21] - jazz [***]
• Wiki & Tony Seltzer: 14K Figaro (Wikset Enterprise) [11-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Wilco: Cousin (dBpm) [09-29] - indie rock [*]
• Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (New Amsterdam) [06-16] - classical [***]
• Sam Wilkes: Driving (Wilkes) [10-06] - experimental [*]
• Buster Williams: Unalome (Smoke Sessions) [02-24] - jazz [B]
• Hank Williams IV: Honky Tonk Habit (Lone Star Reserve -EP) [08-11] - country [*]
• Mars Williams/Vasco Trilla: Critical Mass (Not Two) [06-14] - jazz [***]
• Jess Williamson: Time Ain't Accidental (Mexican Summer) [06-09] - alt country [***]
• Lucinda Williams: Stories From a Rock 'n' Roll Heart (Highway 20) [06-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Simon Willson: Good Company (Fresh Sound New Talent) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble: Folia: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (Sunnyside) [01-13] - jazz [**]
• WILSN: Those Days Are Over (Ivy League) [01-18] - alt/indie [***]
• Dan Wilson: Things Eternal (Brother Mister/Mack Avenue) [05-19] - jazz [**]
• Stephen Wilson Jr: Son of Dad (Big Loud) [09-15] - country [A-]
• Wimps: City Lights (Youth Riot) [10-13] - punk [***]
• Ben Winkelman: Heartbeat (OA2) [09-15] - jazz [B]
• Withered Hand: How to Love (Reveal) [04-28] [***]
• Joe Wittman/Vito Dieterle/Jesse Breheney/Josh Davis: Night Out (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [*]
• Joe Wittman: Trio Works (self-released) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• John Wojciechowski: Swing of the Pendulum (Afar Music) [08-18] - jazz [**]
• Warren Wolf: Chano Pozo: Origins (self-released) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Ben Wolfe: Unjust (Resident Arts) [02-03] - jazz [***]
• Billy Woods & Kenny Segal: Maps (Backwoodz Studioz) [05-05] - hip-hop [A-]
• Jamila Woods: Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar) [10-13] - r&b [***]
• Wreckless Eric: Leisureland (Tapete) [08-25] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Jack Wright: What Is What (Relative Pitch) [11-24] - jazz [***]
• Lizz Wright: Holding Space: Live in Berlin (Blues & Greens -22) [2022-06-15] - vocal jazz [**]
• Jaime Wyatt: Feel Good (New West) [11-03] - country [B]
• Peter Xifaras: Fusion (Music With No Expiration) [10-01] - fusion [*]
• Yaeji: With a Hammer (XL) [04-07] - electronic [*]
• Eri Yamamoto: Colors of the Night Trio (Mahakala Music) [09-29] - Mahakala Music [J|jazz]
• Miki Yamanaka: Shades of Rainbow (Cellar Music) [09-08] - jazz [**]
• Yeule: Softscars (Ninja Tune) [09-22] - glitch pop [***]
• YMA & Jadsa: Zelena (Matraca -EP) [05-26] - Brazil [*]
• Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World (Matador) [02-10] - indie rock [A-]
• Yonic South: Devo Challenge Cup (Wild Honey -EP) [02-03] [*]
• Libby York: Dreamland (OA2) [01-20] - vocal jazz [**]
• Jacob Young/Mats Eilertsen/Audun Kleive: Eventually (ECM) [05-12] - jazz [**]
• Neil Young: Before and After (Reprise) [12-08] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Young Fathers: Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune) [02-03] - art pop [***]
• Young Nudy: Gumbo (RCA) [02-28] - hip-hop [*]
• Young Thug: Business Is Business (Atlantic) [06-23] - hip-hop [**]
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 16: Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison (Jazz Is Dead) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 17: Lonnie Liston Smith (Jazz Is Dead) [04-28] - jazz [*]
• Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 18: Tony Allen (Jazz Is Dead) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Brandee Younger: Brand New Life (Impulse) [04-07] - jazz [*]
• Dhafer Youssef: Street of Minarets (Back Beat Edition) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Youth Lagoon: Heaven Is a Junkyard (Fat Possum) [06-09] [*]
• Yungmorpheus: From Whence It Came (Lex) [04-28] - hip-hop [*]
• Yungmorpheus & Real Bad Man: The Chalice & the Blade (Real Bad Man) [11-17] - hip-hop [**]
• Bobby Zankel/Wonderful Sound 8: A Change of Destiny (Mahakala Music) [09-22] - jazz [***]
• Jeppe Zeeberg: Occasionally, Good Things Do Happen (self-released) [09-10] - jazz [B-]
• Denny Zeitlin: Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin (Sunnyside) [06-30] - jazz [B]
• Miguel Zenon/Dan Tepfer: Internal Melodies (Main Door Music) [11-10] - jazz [***]
• Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero, Vol 2 (Miel Music) [08-25] - jazz [***]
• Bailey Zimmerman: Religiously: The Album (Warner Nashville/Elektra) [05-12] - country [**]
• John Zorn: New Masada Quartet Vol 2 (Tzadik) [03-10] - jazz [***]
• John Zorn: The Fourth Way (Tzadik) [03-31] - jazz [***]
• John Zorn: 444 (Tzadik) [04-17] - jazz [*]
• John Zorn: Multiplicites II: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects (Tzadik) [04-17] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn/Bill Laswell: Memoria (Tzadik) [05-19] - jazz [*]
• John Zorn: Quatrain (Tzadik) [07-21] - jazz [*]
• John Zorn: Full Fathom Five (Tzadik) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: Homenaje A Remedios Varo (Tzadik) [09-15] - jazz [***]
• John Zorn: Nothing Is as Real as Nothing (Tzadik) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: Parrhesiastes (Tzadik) [11-17] - jazz [**]
• Zulu: A New Tomorrow (Flatspot) [03-03] - metalcore [*]
• Nicole Zuraitis: How Love Begins (Outside In Music) [07-07] - jazz [*]
• Barbie: The Album (Atlantic) [07-21] - soundtrack [***]
• Red Hot + Ra: Nuclear War: A Tribute to Sun Ra Volume 1 (Red Hot Org) [05-26] - jazz [**]
• Red Hot + Ra: Solar [Sun Ra in Brasil] (Red Hot Org) [10-27] - jazz [***]