Music Tracking 2024

These are 2024 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

• 4Batz: U Made Me a St4r (4Batz/Gamma -EP) [05-03] - hip-hop
• 21 Savage: American Dream (Slaughter Gang/Epic) [01-12] - hip-hop [**]
• 40 Watt Sun: Little Weight (Fisher's Folly/Cappio) [09-06] - doom metal
• 49 Winchester: Leavin' This Holler () - country
• 070 Shake: Petrichor (GOOD Music/Def Jam) [11-15] - alt-pop
• 156/Silence: People Watching (Sharp Tone) [09-13] - metalcore
• 200 Stab Wounds: Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade) [06-28] - death metal
• 1010Benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) [03-22] - alt-pop [A-]
• 1349: The Wolf and the King (Season of Mist) [10-04] - black metal
• أحمد [Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (Fönstret) [04-08] - jazz [A-]
• أحمد [Ahmed]: Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• اسم [ISM] [Pat Thomas/Joel Grip/Antonin Gerbal]: Maua (577) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• ¥$: Vultures 2 (YZY) [08-03] - pop rap
• Àbáse: Awakening (Oshu) [07-05] - jazz fusion
• Aborted: Vault of Horrors (Nuclear Blast) [03-15] - metal
• Gracie Abrams: The Secret of Us ()
• Acceleration Due to Gravity: Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup -EP) - jazz [***]
• Accept: Humanoid (Napalm) [04-26] - metal
• Jessica Ackerley: All of the Colours Are Singing (AKP) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Actress: Statik (Smalltown Supersound) [06-07] - electronic [*]
• Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton: The Transcendental (SteepleChase LookOut) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Adeem the Artist: Anniversary (Four Quarters) [05-03] - country [**]
• Nick Adema: Urban Chaos (ZenneZ) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Neil Adler: Emi's Song (self-released) [05-29] - jazz [**]
• Adult Jazz: So Sorry So Slow (Spare Thought) [04-26] - art pop
• Advancing on a Wild Pitch: Disasters, Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt) [02-23] - blues [**]
• Okaidja Afroso: Àbòr Édín (Chechekule) - African [*]
• Arooj Aftab: Night Reign (Verve) [05-31] - Pakistan jazz [***]
• Agriculture: Living Is Easy (The Flenser) [05-03] - blackgaze
• AI.Divino: Pyroglyphs () [03-23] - hip-hop
• Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) [03-08] - vocal jazz [**]
• Albare: Beyond Belief (AM) [02-12] - jazz [*]
• Erlend Albertsen Bassspace: Name of the Wind (Dugnad Rec) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• The Alchemist/Oh No/Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC/Gangrene) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Monty Alexander: D Day (Pee Wee) [03-29] - jazz
• Ricky Alexander: Just Found Joy (Turtle Bay) [04-26] - jazz
• Neal Alger: Old Souls (Calligram) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Alkaline Trio: Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (Rise) [01-26] - pop punk
• JD Allen: The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful (Savant) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Marina Allen: Eight Pointed Star (Fire) [06-07] - singer-songwriter
• Alyssa Allgood: From Here (Next) [04-19] - jazz
• Alliance [Sharel Cassity/Colleen Clark]: Alliance (Shifting Paradigm) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Allie X: Girl With No Face (Twin Music) [02-23] - synthpop [***]
• Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil (Origin) [05-17] - vocal jazz [**]
• Gonçalo Almeida: States of Restraint (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Livio Almeida: The Brasilia Sessions (Zoho) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Altus: Mythos (Biophilia) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Holman Álvarez: Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) [11-08] - jazz [U]
• John Alvey: Loft Glow (Jazz Music City) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore: TexiCali (Yep Roc) [06-21] - country [A-]
• Gino Amato: Latin Crsossroads (Ovation) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Oren Ambarchi: With Pats on the Head, Just One Too Few Is Evil One Too Many Is Good That's All It Is (Black Truffle) [01-19] - jazz
• Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted II (Drag City) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Robby Ameen: Live at the Poster Museum (Origin) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• Amen Dunes: Death Jokes (Sub Pop) [05-10] - art rock
• American Aquarium: The Fear of Standing Still () - country
• Amery: Continue as Amery (Night School) [05-31] - indie pop
• Amigo the Devil: Yours Until the War Is Over (Liars Club/Ragtime Music Group) [02-23] - dark cabaret
• Amblare: Amblare (Melodic Virtue) [04-05]
• John Ambrosini: Songs for You (self-released) [06-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• Roxana Amed: Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin) [05-02] - Latin jazz [***]
• Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) [10-25] - alt/indie [A-]
• Anciients: Beyond the Reach of the Sun (Season of Mist) [08-30] - prog metal
• Bob Anderson: Live! (Jazz Hang) [03-29] - vocal jazz [*]
• Laurie Anderson: Amelia (Nonesuch) [08-30] - 08-30 [A-]
• Thomas Anderson: Hello, I'm From the Future (Out There) [04-01] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Erika Angell: The Obsessions With Her Voice (Constellation) [03-08]
• Jason Anick/Jason Yeager: Sanctuary (Sunnyside) [10-11] - jazz [U]
• Anitta: Funk Generation (Republic) [04-26] - favela funk [***]
• Sam Anning: Earthen (Earshift Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions (Origin) [01-19] - jazz [*]
• Antistatic: Relics (Cuneiform) [01-26] - jazz
• Anycia: Princess Pop That (United Masters) [04-26] - hip-hop [***]
• Apathy: Connecticut Casual: Chapter 2 (Dirty Version) [04-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet the Griots Speak: Call to Action/Call to Prayer (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Apparition: Disgraced Emanations From a Tranquil State (Profound Lore) [03-22] - death metal
• AraabMuzik: Aggro Dr1ft (Milan)
• Arab Strap: I'm Totally Fine With It 👍 Don't Give a Fuck Anymore 👍 (Rock Action) [05-10] - post-punk
• Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (Trost) [09-00] - jazz
• Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 & #11: ON! (Hammer) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island) [04-10] - electronic [A-]
• Maria Chiara Argirò: Closer (Innovative Leisure) [04-26] - art pop
• Tim Armacost: Something About Believing (TMA) [08-02] - jazz
• Sergio Armaroli/Francesca Gemmo/Barry Guy: At Sotto Il Mare [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [10-04] - jazz
• Armiture: Mother Engine (Dots Per Inch Music) [02-09]
• Daymé Arocena: Alkemi (Brownswood) [02-23] - Latin jazz [*]
• Arrested Development: Bullets in the Chamber (Vagabond Productions) [01-12] - hip-hop [*]
• Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human (Challenge) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• ASP: Japanese Girl (Avex Creative)
• Pete Astor: Tall Stories & New Religions () [03-15]
• Ateez: Golden Hour: Part 1 (KQ Entertainment -EP) [05-31] - K-pop
• Shinichi Atobe: Ongaku 1 (DDS -1) [04-19]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. I: LuMiSong (Out of Your Head) [03-01] - jazz [B+(**)]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. II: Kardamon Fall (Out of Your Head) [10-18] - jazz [B+(***)]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. I + II: LuMiSong + Kardamon Fall (Out of Your Head) [10-18] - jazz [B+(***)]
• The Attic & Eve Risser: La Grande Crue (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Aurora: What Happened to the Heart? (Glassnote) [06-07] - alt-pop
• Avalanche Kaito: Talitakum (Glitterbeat) - African
• Avery Anna: Breakup Over Breakfast (Warner Music Nashville) [07-19]
• Awon & Parental: Sublime (HHV) [02-09] - hip-hop [***]
• Ab Baars/Joost Buis/Berlinde Deman: Cecil's Dance (Catalytic-Sound) [01-08] - jazz
• Bab L' Bluz: Swaken (Real World) [05-10] - Morocco [*]
• Babehoven: Water's Here in You (Double Double Whammy) [04-26] - indie folk
• The Baby Seals: Chaos (Trapped Animal) [04-19]
• Bacchae: Next Time (Get Better) [07-05] - post-punk [***]
• Sebastian Bach: Child Within the Man (Reigning Phoenix) [05-10] - metal
• Bad Moves: Wearing Out the Refrain (Don Giovanni) [09-13] - power pop [***]
• Badbadnotgood: Mid Spiral: Order (XL -EP) [05-22] - jazz fusion
• Art Baden: How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Baekhyun: Hello, World (INB100 -EP) [09-06] - K-pop
• David Bailis: Tree of Life (Create or Destroy) [10-11] - jazz [U]
• Andy Baker: From Here, From There (Calligram) [10-04] - jazz [U]
• Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Adam Bałdych: Passacaglia (ACT Music) [01-26] - jazz
• Charlie Ballantine: Love Letters & Graffiti (Green Mind) [06-07] - jazz
• Kelsea Ballerini: Patterns (Black River) [10-25] - country
• Ballister: Smash and Grab (Aerophonic) [01-16] - jazz [A-]
• Jan Bang: Reading the Air (Punkt Editions) [01-19] - jazz
• Ashtyn Barbaree: Sent Through the Ceiling (Artists 3 60) [10-25] - Americana [***]
• Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic: Six Words (Jazz Music City) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Andrew Barker/William Parker/Jon Irabagon: Bakunawa (Out of Your Head) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place (Artwork/PIAS) [05-10] - jazz [A-]
• Basher: May Day (Sinking City) [05-31] - jazz
• Basic: This Is Basic (No Quarter) [09-06] - fusion [***]
• John Basile: Heatin' Up (StringTime Jazz) [04-01] - jazz [*]
• BassDrumBone: Afternoon (Auricle) [06-24] - jazz [***]
• Bat for Lashes: The Dream of Delphi (AWAL) [05-31] - art pop
• Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These (Sunnyside) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• BbyMutha: Sleep Paralysis (True Panther) [04-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) [08-09] - indie pop [A-]
• Beachwood Sparks: Across the River of Stars (Curation) [07-19] - neo-psychedelia
• Beak>: >>>> (Invada) [05-28] - krautrock
• Jazmin Bean: Traumatic Livelihood (Island) [02-23] - indie pop [**]
• Beans: Zwaard (Tygr Rawwk) [03-13] - hip-hop [*]
• Beatenberg: The Great Fire of Beatenberg (Leafy Outlook) [04-05]
• Bégayer: Évohé Bègue (Murailles Music/Via Parigi/Le Saule)
• Albert Beger/Ziv Taubenfeld/Shay Hazan/Hamid Drake: Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [A-]
• Beholder Quartet: Suspension of Disbelief (Sachimay) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
• Beings: There Is a Garden (No Quarter) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Evan Nicole Bell: Runaway Girl (Humingbird -EP) [01-11] - blues [*]
• Alex Beltran: Rift (Calligram) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) [07-12] - jazz
• Benny the Butcher: Everybody Can't Go (Def Jam) [01-26] - hip-hop
• Oddgeir Berg Trio: A Place Called Home (Ozella) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Bruno Berle: No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline) [04-05] - Brazil [***]
• Tim Berne/Hank Roberts/Aurora Nealand [Oceans And]: Lucid/Still (Screwgun) [04-22] - jazz
• The Bevis Frond: Focus on Nature (Fire) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Yaya Bey: Ten Fold (Big Dada) [05-10] - alt-r&b [***]
• Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia) [03-29] - country-pop [**]
• Pat Bianchi: Three (21H) [02-09] - jazz [***]
• Eric Bibb: Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm (Repute) [04-05] - blues [**]
• Bibi Club: Feu De Garde (Secret City) [05-10] - indie pop
• Carlos Bica: 11:11 (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Big Bambi: Compositions for Bass Guitar & Bassoon, Vol. I (Greene Avenue Music) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Big Brave: A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - doomgaze
• Big Chief Solo-Ra: The Primer (self-released) [03-28] - hip-hop
• Big Freedia With the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: Live at the Orpheum Theater (Queen Diva) [04-19] - hip-hop [***]
• Big Hit/Hit-Boy/The Alchemist: Black & Whites () [05-28] - hip-hop
• Big Special: Postindustrial Hometown Blues (So) [05-10] - post-punk
• Andrew Bird Trio: Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista) [05-24] - vocal jazz
• The Bird Calls: Old Faithful (Ruination) [05-31] - folk
• BKtherula: LVL5 P2 (Warner)
• Bruna Black/John Finbury: Vã Revelação (Green Flash) [05-14] - vocal jazz [**]
• Luke Black: Chainsaws in Paradise (Amuseio) [05-24] - electropop
• Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power (HighNote) [02-16] - jazz [B]
• The Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow) [03-15] - blues-rock
• Black Curse: Burning in Celestial Poison (Supulchral Voice) [10-25] - black metal
• The Black Dahlia Murder: Servitude (Metal Blade) [09-27] - death metal
• Black Dresses: Laughingfish ()
• Black Grape: Orange Head (Dgaff) [01-19] - alt dance
• The Black Keys: Ohio Players (Nonesuch) [04-05]
• Black Lives: People of Earth (Jammin' Colors) [04-19] [***]
• Bladee: Cold Visions (Trash Island) [04-24] - rage/tread
• Carsie Blanton: After the Revolution (self-released) [03-21] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Carsie Blanton: The Red Album Vol. 1 (self-released -EP) - folk [***]
• Bleachers: Bleachers (Dirty Hit) [03-08] - alt-pop
• Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media) [10-04] - prog death metal
• Blu/Shafiq Husayn: Out of the Blue (Nature Sounds) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Blu & Evidence: Los Angeles (Bigger Picture Music/New World Color) [07-12] - hip-hop [**]
• T.K. Blue: Planet Bluu (Jaja) [10-25] - jazz [U]
• Blue Bendy: So Medieval (The State 51 Conspiracy) [04-12] - art pop
• Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse (Decca) [04-19] - nu jazz [B]
• Blue Moods: Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) [01-05] - jazz [***]
• Blueprint: Falling Down (Weightless -EP) [04-13] - hip-hop
• John Blum Quartet Featuring Marshall Allen: Deep Space (Astral Spirits) [08-21] - jazz
• Blunt Chunks: The Butterfly Myth (Telephone Explosion) [04-19]
• Bnny: One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk) [04-05] - dream pop
• Naima Bock: Below a Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop) [09-27] - chamber folk
• Bodega: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (Chrysalis) [ 04-12] - art punk
• Sega Bodega: Dennis (Harmonia Mundi) [04-26] - glitch pop
• The Body: The Crying Out of Things (Thrill Jockey) [11-08] - industrial metal
• The Body & Dis Fig: Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - death industrial
• Body Bag Ben/Vega7 the Ronin: Kawasaki Killers (Body Bag Productions/Fat Beats) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Body Bag Ben/XP the Marxman: Good Times, Bad Times () [06-28] - hip-hop
• Boeckner: Boeckner! (Sub Pop) [03-15] - art pop
• Stix Bones/Bob Beamon: Olimpik Soul (BONE Entertainment) [01-12] - jazz [*]
• Bonny Light Horseman: Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar) [06-07] - folk-rock
• Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn: Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid Classics) [06-07] - classical
• Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson]: Rewilder (Intakt) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Borknagar: Fall (Century Media) [02-23] - metal
• Bòsc: Bòsc (La Crue/La Grande Folie)
• Bossman Dlow: Mr. Beat the Road (Alamo) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Boston Manor: Sundiver (SharpTone) [ 09-06] - alt-rock
• Geoff Bradfield: Colossal Abundance (Calligram) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Aziza Brahim: Mawja (Glitterbeat) [02-23] - maghreb pop [**]
• Anthony Branker & Imagine: Songs My Mom Liked (Origin) [06-21] - Jaz [***]
• Brat: Social Grace (Prosthetic) [03-15] - metalcore
• Alan Braufman: Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) [09-06] - jazz [A-]
• Olie Brice/Rachel Musson/Mark Sanders: Immense Blue (West Hill) [01-14] - jazz [**]
• Leon Bridges: Leon (Columbia) [10-04] - pop soul
• Bridgetown Sextet: Functionizin' (Rivermont) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Nex Gen (Sony) [05-24] - alt metal
• British Murder Boys: Active Agents and House Boys (Downwards)
• Johnny Britt: After We Play (J-Jams) [03-17] - pop jazz
• Britti: Hello, I'm Britti (Easy Eye Sound) [02-02] - singer-songwriter [B+(**)]
• Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center Vol Two (Outside In Music) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• The Bobby Broom Organi-sation: Jamalot Live (Steele) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Brother Ali: Love & Service (Travelers Media) [04-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (Trost) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [A-]
• Brown Horse: Reservoir (Loose Music) [01-19] - alt-country
• Bruiser Wolf: My Story Got Stories (Fake Shore Drive/Bruiser Brigade) [01-12] - hip-hop
• Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (Belting Bronco/Warner) [07/04] - country [**]
• Betty Bryant: Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) [01-26] - jazz
• Martin Budde: Back Burner (Origin) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Buddy: Don't Forget to Breathe (Empire) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Bullion: Affection (Ghostly International) [04-26] - electronic
• The Buoys: Lustre (Sony) [07-12] - alt/indie [***]
• Eshon Burgundy: Eyes on the One From Nazareth (self-released -EP) [04-18] - hip-hop
• Burial: Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (XL -EP) [02-09] - electronic [*]
• Anne Burnell & Mark Burnell: This Could Be the Start of Something Big (Spectrum Music) [10-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love (Provogue) [04-05] - blues [**]
• John Butcher + 13: Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax) [02-01] - jazz
• Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Vegas) [06-01] - jazz [***]
• Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: Skinwalker (Communion) [04-12] - alt/indie
• Chris Byars: Boptics (SteepleChase) [06-13] - jazz [**]
• Cage the Elephant: Neon Pill (RCA) [05-17] - indie pop
• Ana Loua Caiano: Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado () - Portuguese
• Cakes Da Killa: Black Sheep (Young Art) [03-22] - hip-hop [**]
• John Cale: POPtical Illusion (Domino) [06-14] - art rock [***]
• Caligula's Horse: Charcoal Grace (InsideOut) [01-26] - prog metal
• Kirin J Callinan: If I Could Sing (PIAS/Worse) [02-02] - art pop
• Summer Camargo: To Whom I Love (Blue Engine) [03-15] - jazz
• Jonas Cambien: Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• Camera Obscura: Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Isobel Campbell: Bow to Love (Cooking Vinyl) [ 06-14]
• Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams: All This Time (Royal Potato Family) [04-05] - Americana
• Candy: It's Inside You (Relapse)
• Cane Hill: A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find (Out of Line) [11-01] - metalcore
• Gerald Cannon: Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Jerry Cantrell: I Want Blood (Double J Music) [10-18] - alt-metal
• Vinicius Cantuaria: Psychedelic Rio (Sunnyside) [03-22] - jazz
• Caporaso Ensemble: Encounter (Psychosomatic) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic: Strange Arts (Slow & Steady) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Gunhild Carling: Jazz Is My Lifestyle! (Jazz Art) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Willi Carlisle: Critterland (Signature Sounds) [01-26] - country [**]
• Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet (Island) [08-23] - pop [***]
• Melissa Carper: Borned in Ya (Mae Music) [07-19] - country [A-]
• Eladio Carrión: Sol Maria (Rimas) [01-19] - hip-hop
• Daniel Carter & Playfield: Magic Heart (577) [01-19] - jazz
• Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2 (577) [07-05] - jazz
• James Carter: Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: Dilate (self-released) [01-03] - jazz [*]
• Erika de Casier: Still (4AD) [02-21] - r&b
• Kim Cass: Levs (Pi) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Cast: Love Is the Call (Cast) [02-16] - britpop
• The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way (Warner Music Nashville -EP) [02-09] - country [**]
• Matt Castillo: Pushing Borders () - country
• Cavalier: Different Type Time (Backwoodz Studioz) [04-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God (PIAS) [08-30] - baroque pop
• Caveira: Ficar Vivo (Shhpuma) [03-29] - jazz
• Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: A Canadian Songbook (Three Pines) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• A Certain Ratio: It All Comes Down to This (Mute) [04-19] - new wave [**]
• Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Radio Afloat (In a Circle) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
• A. Chal: Espíritu (Gazi World) [02-27]
• Matt Champion: Mika's Laundry (RCA) [03-22]
• Chanel Beads: Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar) [04-19] - dream pop
• Manu Chao: Viva Tu (Because Music) [09-20] - world [A-]
• Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again (Blue Note) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic) [06-07] - electropop [***]
• Charly Bliss: Forever (Lucky Number) [08-16] - power pop
• Chastity Belt: Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Chat Pile: Cool World (The Flenser) [10-11] - sludge metal
• Cheekface: It's Sorted (self-released) [01-22] - indie rock
• Chemtrails: The Joy of Sects (Pnkslm) [01-19] - glam rock
• Annie Chen: Guardians (JZ Music) [02-23] - jazz [B]
• Eric Chenaux Trio: Delilghts of My Life (Constellation) [05-31] - jazz
• Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 (43B) [05-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Childish Gambino: Atavista (RCA) [05-13] - hip-hop
• John Chin/Jeong Lim Yang/Jon Gruk Kim: Journey of Han (Jinsy Music) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Rachel Chinouriri: What a Devastating Turn of Events (Elektra) [05-03] - alt/indie [**]
• The Chisel: What a Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise) [02-09] - hardcore punk [*]
• Mina Cho's Grace Beat Quartet: "Beat Mirage" (International Gugak Jazz Institute) [02-09] - jazz [**]
• The Choir Invisible [Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperazza/Chris Tordini]: Town of Two Faces (Intakt) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Julie Christmas: Ridiculous and Full of Blood (Red Creek) [06-14] - metal
• Chromeo: Adult Contemporary (BMG) [02-16] - electropop [**]
• The Church: Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars (Communicating Vessels/Easy Action) [03-29] - dream pop
• Cigarettes After Sex: X's (Partisan) [07-12] - dream pop
• Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios) [03-29] - psychedelic pop [*]
• Marc Ciprut: Moonshine (White Label) [07-11] - jazz [B]
• Civerous: Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin) [03-22] - death metal
• Clairo: Charm (Clairo) [07-12] - sophisti-pop [***]
• Gary Clark Jr.: JPEG RAW (Warner) [03-22] - blues [B-]
• Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar: Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar Trio (self-released) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Carl Clements: A Different Light (Greydisc) [05-23] - jazz [***]
• Cloud Nothings: Final Summer (Pure Noise) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley: Journey to Where (Stoney Lane) [03-08] - jazz
• Ed Clute: Shadows on the Moon (Rivermont) - jazz
• Cnts: Thoughts & Prayers () [03-29] - noise rock
• Cash Cobain: Play Cash Cobain (Giant Music) [08-23] - hip-hop
• Amelia Coburn: Between the Moon and the Milkman () [03-08] - singer-songwriter
• Coco & Clair Clair: Girl (Nice Girl World) [08-30] - hip-hop [A-]
• Coco Chatru Quartet: Future (Trygger Music) [03-28] - jazz [***]
• Coffin Storm: Arcana Rising (Peaceville) [03-29] - metal
• Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold (ECM) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Cola: The Gloss (Fire Talk) [06-14] - post-punk
• J. Cole: Might Delete Later (Dreamville/Interscope) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley: Nothing (Brainfeeder) [08-09] - synth funk
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) [10-25] - jazz [A-]
• Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: The Almighty (Division 81) [04-24] - jazz [**]
• Alfredo Colón: Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Commodore Trio: Communal - EP (self-relesed - EP) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Common & Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. I (Loma Vista) [07-12] - hip-hop [***]
• Commoner: A Commoner's Quest () [03-27] - doom metal
• Confidence Man: 3AM (La La La) (Chaos/Polydor) [10-18] - dance-pop
• Confucius MC & Pitch 92: Stop Signs (HHV) [02-02] - hip-hop
• Jon Connor: III (All Varsity Music Group) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Conway the Machine: Slant Face Killah () [05-10] - hip-hop
• A.G. Cook: Britpop (New Alias) [05-10] - electronic [**]
• Anastasia Coope: Darning Woman (Jagjaguwar) [05-31] - freak folk
• Greg Copeland: Empire State (Franklin & Highland -EP) [09-06] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Copywrite: The Last Supper () [05-10] - hip-hop
• Coral Morphologic & Lick León: Projections ofa Coral City (Balmat) [04-05]
• The Core: Roots (Moserobie) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) [05-10] - jazz [B]
• Corridor: Mimi (Bonsound) [04-26] - indie rock
• Chris Corsano/Joe Baiza/Mike Watt: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio (Yucca Alta) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Gustavo Cortinas: Live in Chicago (Desafio Candente) [02-09] - jazz
• Alison Cotton: Engelchen (Rocket)
• Couch Slut: You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda) [04-19] - metal
• Counterparts: Heaven Let Them Die (Pure Noise -EP) [11-07] - metalcore
• Marion Cousin/Elöise Decazes: Com a Lanceta Na Mão (Pagans/Le Saule/La République Des Granges)
• Cower: Celestial Devestation (Human Worth)
• Crack Cloud: Red Mile (Jagjaguwar) [07-26] - art punk
• Crawlers: The Mess We Seem to Make (Polydor) [02-16] - alt/indie
• Crimeapple & Big Ghost Ltd: Bazuko () [05-31] - hip-hop
• Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy (Son of Davy) [04-26] - country [**]
• Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy Chapter II: Visions of Dallas (Son of Davy) [07-22] - country [***]
• Crooked Little Sons: Regenerate () [03-15]
• Jeff Crosby: Another Petal Falls Off of the Rose () - country
• Sheryl Crow: Evolution (Valory Music Group) [03-29] - pop
• Crumb: Amama (Crumb) [05-17] - psychedelic pop
• Stephan Crump: Slow Water (Papillon Sounds) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Crypt Sermon: The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent) [06-14] - heavy metal
• Ivanna Cuesta: A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Grace Cummings: Ramona (ATO) [04-05]
• Cuntroaches: Skin Graft ()
• The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Universal Music) [11-01] - gothic pop [*]
• Buck Curran: One Evening and Other Folks Songs (Obsolete/ESP-Disk) [06-28] - folk [*]
• Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 (PH/Loma Vista/Concord) [07-19] - hip-hop
• Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani -2CD) [11-01] - jazz [U]
• Zaccai Curtis: Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Jeremiah Cymerman: Body of Light (5049) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Cyril Cyril: Le Futur Ça Marche Pas (Bongo Joe) [04-26] - post-punk
• D-Block Europe: Rolling Stone (UMG/D-Block/EGA) [01-12] - UK hip-hop
• Daggerboard: Escapement (Wide Hive) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Amalie Dahl's Dafnie: Står Op Med Solen (Aguirre) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Dal Sasso Big Band: Chick Corea's Three Quartets Revisited (Jazz & People) [05-17] - jazz
• Tyler Daley: Son of Zeus (self-released) [03-08] - soul
• The Dandy Warhols: Rockmaker (Sunset Blvd/Beat of the World) [03-15] - neo-psychedelia
• The Dare: What's Wrong With New York? (Republic) [09-06] - new rave [*]
• Douglas Dare: Omni (Erased Tapes) [05-10] - art pop
• Dark Tranquililty: Endrtime Signals (Century Media) [08-16] - metal
• Darkest Hour: Perpetual Terminal (MNRK) [02-23] - metal
• Darkthrone: It Beckons Us All (Peaceville) [04-26] - black metal
• Das Body: True Vulture () [01-26] - art pop
• Sarah Davachi: The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir (Late Music) [09-13] - drone
• Michelle David & the Tru-Tones: Brothers & Sisters (Record Kicks) [04-05] - soul
• Guy Davis: The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.) [08-23] - blues [***]
• Jamale Davis: Run With the Hunted (SteepleChase) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• The Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• On Ka'a Davis: Here's to Another Day and Night for the LWA of the Woke (Tzadik) [05-00] - jazz [*]
• Seth Andrew Davis/Will Yager: April 8th, 1969 (Ox Cart New Music) [06-06] - jazz
• Jean Dawson: Glimmer of God (P+) [10-18] - art pop
• Andra Day: Cassandra (Cherith) (Warner) [05-10] - soul
• Day Dream: Duke & Strays Live: Works by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Corner Store Jazz -2CD) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Lucky Daye: Algorithm ()
• Lola De La Mata: Oceans on Azimuth (self-released)
• Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project (Musæum Clausum) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More (4AD) [11-22]
• George Dearborne: Lotta Honky Tonkin' Left in Me (Wingate) [07-12] - country [**]
• Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv & Galen Tipton: You Like Music (Ghost Diamond) [03-15] - footwork
• M.L. Deathman: Acid Horse 23 (Tesla Tapes)
• Deceased . . .: Children of the Morgue (Hells Headbangers) [08-30] - metal
• The Decemberists: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB/Thirty Tigers) [06-14] - indie rock
• Dehd: Poetry (Fat Possum) [05-10] - indie pop
• Benoit Delbecq/Etienne Renard/Guilhem Flouzat: Triple Fever (dStream) [01-16] - jazz
• The Dengie Hundred With Gemma Blackshaw: Who Will You Love (Tain)
• Departure Chandelier: Satan Soldier of Fortune (Nuclear War Now!) [01-14] - black metal
• Hania Derej Quartet: Evacuation (ZenneZ) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Jason Derulo: Nu King (Atlantic) [02-16] - soul
• Devouring the Guilt: Not to Want to Say (Kettle Hole) [06-08] - jazz [***]
• Dharma Down: Owl Dreams (Dharma Down) [10-11] - jazz [U]
• Al Di Meola: Twentyfour (Ear Music) [07-19] - jazz
• Mickey Diamond & Ral Duke: Super Shredder () [04-05] - hip-hop
• Álvaro Díaz: Sayonara (Universal Music Latino) [05-17] - Latin
• Madi Diaz: Weird Faith (Anti-) [02-09] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project (BMG) [03-01] - metal
• Ani DiFranco: Unprecedented Sh!t (Righteous Babe) [05-17] - anti-folk [*]
• DIIV: Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy) [05-24] - shoegaze [*]
• Jorrit Dijkstra: PorchBone () [J|jazz]
• Dillon & Batsauce: What Have We Done () [07-12] - hip-hop
• Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything (Drag City) [06-14] - post-rock
• Divr: Is This Water (We Jazz) [02-02] - jazz [*]
• The Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet: Standards Deluxe (self-released) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• DJ Anderson do Paraiso: Queridão (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-01] - baile funk [B]
• DJ Illogik: Time & Tenacity () [03-13] - hip-hop
• DJ Ws da Igrejinha: Caça Fantasma, Vol. 1 ()
• Dödsrit: Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades) [03-22] - metal
• Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg/Capitol) [08-30] - hip-hop [**]
• Dog Unit: At Home (Brace Yourself) [04-05] - post-rock
• Arnaud Dolmen/Leonardo Montana: LéNo (Quai Son) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Giuseppe Doronzo/Andy Moor/Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Welf Dorr/Elias Meister/Dmitry Ishenko/Kenny Wollesen: So Far So Good (self-released) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Douglas: Gifts (Greenleaf Music) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Kit Downes: Dr. Snap (Bimhuis) [04-26] - jazz
• William Doyle: Springs Eternal (Tough Love) [02-16] - art pop
• Drahla: Angeltape (Captured Tracks) [04-05] - art punk
• Rose Droll: With Strangers ()
• Drug Church: Prude (Pure Noise) [10-04] - punk
• The Drums: Jonny (Anti-) [04-05]
• Drunk Mums: Beer Baby (Legless) [03-07] - garage punk
• Ducks Ltd.: Harm's Way (Carpark) [02-09] - jangle pop [**]
• Dummy: Free Energy (Trouble in Mind) [09-06] - neo-psychedelia
• Duncecap: Pay or Dispute (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-26] - hip-hop
• Thembi Dunjana: God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi (AfricArise) [06-28] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall Quintet: Soultime Again (Stoney Lane) [01-19] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders: Wildlife (Fundacja Słuchaj) [03-20] - jazz
• Nick Dunston: Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger: Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Morten Duun: Code Breaker (Cmntx) [07-19] - jazz [*]
• Gui Duvignau/Jacob Sacks/Nathan Ellman-Bell: Live in Red Hook (Sunnyside) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Dyke Drama: Up Against the Bricks (Salinas) [09-16] - pop punk
• Dave East, Mike & Keys: Apt 6E (FTD) [05-31] - hip-hop
• Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon (L&H Production) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Edition Redux: Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic -23) [2023-12-22] - jazz [***]
• Eels: Being Dead (Bayonet) [09-27] - garage rock
• Taylor Eigsti: Plot Armor (GroundUP) [03-01] - jazz
• Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (Interscope) [05-17] - pop [A-]
• Einstürzende Neubauten: Rampen: APM (Alien Pop Music) (Potomak) [04-05] - post-industrial
• Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder (American Dreams) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• Ekko Astral: Pink Balloons (Topshelf) [04-17] - postpunk [***]
• El Khat: Mute (Glitterbeat) [09-13] - world [*]
• Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Elbow: Audio Vertigo (Polydor) [03-22] - art rock [B]
• Elephant9: Mythical River (Rune Grammofon) [04-19] - jazz
• James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg: All Gist (Paradise of Bachelors) [04-10]
• John Ellis Quartet: Bizet: Carmen in Jazz (Blue Room Music -23) [2023-12-22] - jazz
• Tinsley Ellis: Naked Truth (Alligator) [02-09] - blues [**]
• Jacken Elswyth: At Fargrounds ( Wrong Speed)
• Joe Ely: Driven to Drive ()
• Elyanna: Woledto (Universal Arabic Music) [04-10]
• Emel: MRA (Yotanka) [04-19] - electropop
• Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) [07-12] - pop rap [**]
• Emmeluth's Amoeba: Nonsense (Moserobie) [02-09] - jazz [A-]
• Signe Emmeluth: Banshee (Motvind) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Empirical: Wonder Is the Beginning (Whirlwind) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Empress Of: For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant) [03-22] - alt-pop [**]
• English Teacher: This Could Be Texas (Island) [04-12] - art rock [***]
• Enoch: Waiting for Something to Happen () [03-08] - hip-hop
• Enterprise Earth: Death: An Anthology (MNRK) [02-02] - deathcore
• Erick the Architect: I've Never Been Here Before (self-released) [02-23] - hip-hop
• Ernest: Nashville, Tennessee () [04-12] - country
• Erotic Secrets of Pompeii: Mondo Maleficum () [01-25] - art rock
• Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Bernstein in Vienna (Origin) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Wayne Escoffery: Alone (Smoke Sessions) [08-30] - jazz
• John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Alejandro Escovedo: Echo Dancing (Yep Roc) [03-29] - folk
• Ethel & Layale Chaker: Vigil (In a Circle) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• John Etheridge: Blue Spirits Live (Dyad) [01-26] - jazz
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Oran Etkin: Open Arms (Ground Up Music) [01-12] - jazz
• Etran De L'Aïr: 100% Saharan Guitar (Sahel Sounds) [09-13] - Saharan rock [***]
• Julieta Eugenio: Stay (Cristalyn) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Eunuchs: Harbour Century ()
• Jeff Evans Porkestra: Willow Pillow (self-releaed -EP) [04-19] - country [***]
• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) [08-12] - jazz [*]
• Peter Evans: Extra (We Jazz) [10-25] - jazz
• Everliven Sound & Slimline Mutha: Echo Chamber (self-released) [03-13] - hip-hop
• Everything Everything: Mountainhead (BMG) [03-01] - art pop
• Sam Evian: Plunge (Flying Cloud/Thirty Tigers) [03-22] - indie pop
• EvilGiane & Slimesito: Evilslime (Surf Gang) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Ex-Easter Island Head: Norther (Rocket)
• Ezra Collective: Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan) [09-27] - jazz funk
• Christian Fabian Trio: Hip to the Skip (Spicerack) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Joe Fahey: Andrea's Exile (Rough Fish) [08-16] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust (Carpark) [08-23]
• Falling in Reverse: Popular Monster (Epitaph) [08-16] - rap metal
• Alon Farber Hagiga With Dave Douglas: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem (Origin) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Fastball: Sonic Ranch (Sunset Blvd) [06-14]
• Fat Dog: Woof. (Domino) [09-06] - new rave
• Fat White Family: Forgiveness Is Yours (Domino) [04-26] - post-punk
• Faune: Des Fantômes (Standard In-Fi)
• Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe: 3rd Mutation: Moth (Bush Flash) [04-19] - jazz [A-]
• Fcukers: Baggy$$ (Technicolour -EP) [09-06] - alt dance
• Tanja Feichtmair/Mara Kolibri/Stefan Krist/Josef Novotny/Fredi Pröll/Julius Winter/Uli Winter: Adschi (Creative Sources) [02-27] - jazz
• Ezra Feinberg: Soft Power (Tonal Union) [05-31] - ambient
• Doug Ferony: Alright Okay You Win (Ferony Enterprizes Music) [10-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizk (International Anthem) [05-03] - vocal jazz [***]
• R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap (Ruby Yacht) [01-26] - hip-hop [***]
• Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers (Rounder) [03-22] - bluegrass [***]
• Field Music: Limits of Language (Memphis Industries) [10-11] - art pop
• Lawrence Fields: To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes (Fat Possum) [10-25] - art pop
• Fine: Rocky Top Ballads (Escho) [06-07]
• Kelly Finnigan: A Lover Was Born (Colemine) [10-18] - soul
• Nick Finzer: Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Fire!: Testament (Rune Grammofon) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa (Origin) [09-20] - vocal jazz [***]
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera (Nuclear Blast) [08-23] - metal
• Fletcher: In Search of the Antidote (EMI) [03-22] - pop
• Rod Fleeman Trio: Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge Volume 3 (Green Lady Radio) - jazz
• FLO: Access All Areas (Island) [11-15] - dance-pop
• Flo Milli: Fine Ho, Stay (RCA) [03-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Floating Points: Cascade (Ninja Tune) [09-13] - IDM [A-]
• Flukten: Flukten (Odin) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Flung: All Heartbeat (Get Better) [04-05]
• Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) [03-29] - blues [***]
• The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise) [06-28] - folk rock
• Joe Fonda Quartet: Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song) [11-15] - jazz [U]
• Fontaines D.C.: Romance (XL) [08-23] - indie rock [**]
• Adam Forkelid: Turning Point (Prophone) [03-05] - jazz [***]
• Elin Forkelid: Songs to Keep You Company on a Dark Night (Sail Cabin) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Forq: Big Party (GroundUP) [09-13] - jazz [*]
• Keeley Forsyth: The Hollow (FatCat) [05-10] - art pop
• Fort Romeau: Romantic Gestures, Vol. 1 (Romantic Gestures) [03-01]
• Fortunxte: I'm Still Healing (Fulfilled/Richwayz Life Entertainment) [04-23] - hip-hop
• Foster the People: Paradise State of Mind (Atlantic) [08-16] - indie pop
• Four + Six: Four + Six (Jazz Hang) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Four Tet: Three (Text) [03-15] - electronica [***]
• Fousheé: Pointy Heights (RCA/Trackmasters) [09-13] - indie pop
• Chad Fowler/Shanyse Strickland/Sana Nagano/Melanie Dyer/Ken Filiano/Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Fox Green: Light Darkness (self-released) [06-12] - alt/indie [A-]
• Foxing: Foxing (Grand Paradise) [09-13] - art rock
• Frail Body: Artificial Bouquet (Deathwish) [03-29] - screamo
• Fer Franco: Ritos de Paso (self-released)
• Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard of Hope) [06-28] - art pop
• Eric Frazier: That Place Featuring "Return of the Panther Woman" (EFP Productions) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Fred Again . .: Ten Days (Atlantic) [09-06] - prog house [**]
• Fredo Bang: Yes, I'm Sad (Def Jam) [01-19] - hip-hop
• Ace Frehley: 10,000 Volts (MNRK) [02-23] - hard rock
• Amaro Freitas: Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Jürg Frey: Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre) [05-27] - jazz
• Friends & Neighbors: Circles (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [***]
• Sam Fribush Trio: People Please (Flybird Music) [03-15] - jazz
• David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness (Origin) [02-24] - jazz [B]
• David Friesen: A Light Shining Through (Origin) [11-22] - jazz [U]
• Friko: Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here (ATO) [02-16] - indie rock
• Bill Frisell: Orchestras (Blue Note) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Ben Frost: Scope Neglect (Mute) [03-01] - metal
• Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black (Libra) [01-24] - jazz [***]
• Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days of Summer (Libra) [09-13] - jazz [U]
• Full of Hell: Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities) [04-26] - grindcore
• The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Sob Story (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Funeral: I Know Something You Don't ()
• FUR [Hélène Duret/Benjamin Sauzereau/Maxime Rouayroux]: Bond (BMC) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Jake Xerxes Fussell: When I'm Called (Fat Possum) [07-12] - Americana
• Joel Futterman: Innervoice (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [U]
• Future & Metro Boomin: We Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic Boominati Worldwide) [03-22] - hip-hop [**]
• Future & Metro Boomin: We Still Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic/Boominati Worldwide) [04-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Future Islands: People Who Aren't There Anymore (4AD) [01-26] - synthpop [*]
• Future Palace: Distortion (Arising Empire) [09-06] - alt-metal
• Joel Futterman/William Parker: Why (Soul City Sounds) - jazz [***]
• Fuubutsushi: Meridians (Cached.Media) [07.08] - jazz
• Rui Gabriel: Compassion (Carpark) [06-21] - indie rock
• Diamanda Galas: In Concert (Intravenal Sound Operations)
• Liam Gallagher/John Squire: Liam Gallagher/John Squire (Parlophone)
• Ganavya: Like the Sky I've Been Too Quiet (Naive/Virgin) [03-15] - vocal jazz
• Ganavya: Daughter of a Temple (Leiter) [11-15] - vocal jazz
• Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC) [04-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Miha Gantar: New York City (Clean Feed) [04-30] - jazz
• Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog (Clandestine) [03-15] - jazz
• Angélica Garcia: Gemelo (Partisan) [06-07] - art pop
• Nubya Garcia: Odyssey (Concord Jazz) [09-24] - jazz [B]
• Amanda Gardier: Auteur (Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson) (self-released) [01-26] - jazz [A-]
• Hilary Gardner: On the Trial with the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Tim Garland: Moment of Departure (Ubuntu Music) [05-03] - jazz
• Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Orla Gartland: Everybody Needs a Hero (New Friends Music) [10-04] - indie pop
• Gatecreeper: Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - death metal
• Gel: Persona (Blue Grape Music -EP) [08-16] - hardcore punk
• Sam Gendel/Sam Wilkes: The Doober (Leaving) [05-01] - jazz
• Myriam Gendron: Mayday (Thrill Jockey) [05-10] - folk [**]
• Sheida Gharachedaghi/Mohammad Reza Aslani: Chess of the Wind (Mississippi)
• Ghetts: On Purpose, With Purpose (Warner) [02-23] - UK hip-hop
• Ghost Dubs: Damaged (Pressure) [07-05] - ambient dub
• Ghost Trees: Intercept Method (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
• Ghostface Killah: Set the Tone (Guns & Roses) (Mass Appeal) [05-10] - hip-hop
• Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown (Domino) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Freddie Gibs: You Only Die 1nce (ESGN) [10-31] - hip-hop
• Claudia Gibson: The Fields of Chazy (self-released) [03-01] - folk [**]
• Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band: Life Songs (Alternate Side) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• Behn Gillece: Stick Together (Posi-Tone) [04-26] - jazz
• David Gilmour: Luck and Strange (Sony) [09-06] - prog rock
• Ginger Root: Shinbangumi (Ghostly International) [09-13] - pop
• Girl and Girl: Call a Doctor (Sub Pop) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Girl in Red: I'm Doing It Again Baby! (Columbia) [04-10] - alt-pop [**]
• Girl Scout: Headache (235 Music) [11-08] - alt/indie
• Girls in Synthesis: Sublimination () [05-03] - post-punk
• Frode Gjerstad Trio: Unknown Purposes (Circulasione Totale) [09-04] - jazz [***]
• Frode Gjerstad/Margaux Oswald/Ivar Myrset Asheim: Another Step (Circulasione Totale) [09-04] - jazz [*]
• Glacial Tomb: Lightless Expanse (Prosthetic) [09-20] - death metal
• John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young -EP) [02-24]
• John Glacier: Duppy Gun (Young -EP) [06-20]
• Margaret Glaspy: The Sun Doesn't Think (ATO -EP) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Philip Glass: Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain) [01-26] - minimalism
• Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much (Polydor) [07-19] - synthpop
• Glass Beach: Plastic Death (Run for Cover) [01-19] - prog rock [B-]
• Glassing: From the Other Side of the Mirror (Pelagic) [04-26] - metal
• Glitterer: Rationale (Anti-) [02-23] - power pop
• Roby Glod/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: No Toxic (Nemu) [01-02] - jazz [A-]
• GloRilla: Ehhthang Ehhthang (CMG/Interscope) [04-05] - hip-hop [***]
• Nicole Glover: Plays (Savant) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Gnod: Spot Land (Rocket)
• Jose Gobbo Trio: Current (self-released) [02-05] - jazz [**]
• Goblin Band: Come Slack Your Horse! (Broadside Hacks)
• God Is an Astronaut: Embers (Napalm) [09-06] - post-rock
• Ben Goldberg/Todd Sickafoose/Scott Amendola: Here to There (Secret Hatch) [10-25] - jazz [U]
• Adam Goldfarb: Fire Lapping at the Creek (Infrequent Seams) [04-12] - jazz
• Lori Goldston: Convolutions (Nyahh)
• The Vinny Golia Quintet 2024: Almasty (Nine Winds) [04-15] - jazz [**]
• Ruth Goller: Skyllumina (International Anthem) [03-01]
• Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Dayramir González: V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) [04-12] - jazz [B]
• Good Looks: Lived Here for a While (Keeled Scales) [06-07] - indie rock
• The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive (Joyous) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Charles Goold: Triptych Lespri (La Reserve) [06-28] - jazz
• Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South (ArtistShare) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Kim Gordon: The Collective (Matador) [03-08] - alt/indie [A-]
• Harry Górski-Brown: Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats (Glarc)
• GospelbeacH: Wiggle Your Fingers (Curation) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Gossip: Real Power (Columbia) [03-22] - alt/indie [**]
• Gouge Away: Deep Sage (Deathwish) [03-15] - grunge
• Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy: Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) [01-12] - jazz [**]
• Ciara Grace: Write It Down (self-released) [***]
• Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head (Polyvinyl) [02-16] - punk/folk [***]
• María Grand With Marta Sánchez: Anohin (Biophilia) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Grandaddy: Blu Wav (Dangerbird) [02-16] - indie pop [B]
• Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine (Republic) [03-08] - dance-pop [**]
• Grande Mahogany: As Grande As (Laundry Music) [02-09] - psychedelic rock
• John Grant: The Art of the Lie (Bella Union) [06-14] - art pop
• Frank Gratkowski/Ensemble Modern: Mature Hybrid Talking (Maria de Alvear World Edition) - jazz [**]
• Gravelshard: Gravelshard (Phonogram Unit) [06-01] - jazz
• Conan Gray: Found Heaven (Republic)
• Saya Gray: Qwerty II ()
• Gordon Grdina/Christian Lillinger: Duo Work (Attaboygirl) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: With Fathieh Honari (Attaboygirl) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Green Day: Saviors (Reprise) [01-19] - power pop
• Geordie Greep: The New Sound (Rough Trade) [10-04] - avant-prog
• Guillermo Gregorio: Two Trios (ESP-Disk -23) [2023-12-01] - jazz [***]
• Griff: Vertigo (Warner Music UK) [07-12] - dance-pop
• The Gringo Pistoleros: The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien (self-released) [05-31] - country [**]
• Erik Griswold/Chloe Kim/Helen Svoboda: Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Gregory Groover Jr.: Loveabye (Criss Cross) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes (We Insist!) [05-21] - jazz [***]
• Grupo Frontera: Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada () [05-10] - Latin
• Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [**]
• Morgan Guerin: Tales of the Facade (Candid) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• Giovanni Guidi: A New Day (ECM) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Joy Guidry: Amen (Whited Sepulchre) [05-10] - dark ambient
• Gumbo: Stir the Pot (A Tiny Universe) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Gunna: One of Wun (YSL/300 Entertainment) [05-09] - hip-hop
• Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn (Carrier)
• Gustaf: Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain) [04-05] - art punk
• Andy Haas: For the Time, Being (Resonant Music) - jazz [U]
• The Haas Company [Featuring Andy Timmons]: Vol. 1: Galactic Tide (Psychiatric) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• The Haas Company [Featuring Frank Gambale]: Vol. 2: Celestial Latitude (Psychiatric) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• Marika Hackman: Big Sigh (Chrysalis) [01-12] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Noah Haidu: Standards II (Sunnyside) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Russell Haight: Go Forth (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Hainbach: Breve (Seil) [09-17] - ambient
• Sahra Halgan: Hiddo Dhawr (La Région/Danaya Music) [01-29] - African [***]
• Jared Hall: Influences (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Nigel Hall & DJ Harrison: The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire (Regime Music Group) [05-10] - soul
• Hallé/Sir Mark Elder: Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat/Symphony No. 2 in E Flat (Hallé) [05-03] - classical
• Rich Halley 4: Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle) [10-25] - jazz [A-]
• Halsey: The Great Impersonator (Columbia) [10-25] - pop [A-]
• Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Hamferð: Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk (Metal Blade) [03-22] - doom metal
• Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants (Blue Engine) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Peter Hand: Blue Topaz (Whaling City Sound) [01-19] - jazz
• Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Hannah Frances: Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination) [03-01] - folk rock [*]
• Barbara Hannigan/Bertrand Chamayou: Messaien (Alpha) [05-24] - classical
• Ed Harcourt: El Magnifico (Deathless) [03-29] - chamber pop
• The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet (Matador) [10-04] - indie rock [*]
• Alex Harding/Lucian Ban: Blutopia (Sunnyside) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• The Harlem Gospel Travelers: Rhapsody (Colemine) [08-23] - gospel
• Sinéad Harnett: Boundaries (Matador) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi: Speak, Moment (AKP) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed Volume II: Life Signs (Motéma) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Joel Harrison & Alternative Guitar Summit: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I (AGS) [07-24] - jazz [*]
• Keyon Harrold: Foreverland (Concord) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
• Lalah Hathaway: Vantablack ()
• The Havels, Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi: Four Hands (Animal Music)
• Hamish Hawk: A Firmer Hand (So) [08-16] - indie rock
• Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho (Intakt) [04-19] - vocal jazz [*]
• Hawkwind: Stories From Time and Space (Cherry Red) [04-05] - space rock [B]
• Richard Hawley: In This City They Call You Love (BMG) [05-31] - singer-songwriter
• Koryn Hawthorne: On God (Provident) [02-09] - gospel
• Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: Loophole (Modern Sky) [05-17] - folk-rock
• Heems & Lapgan: Lafandar (Veena Sounds) [02-16] - hip-hop [A]
• Heems: Veena (Veena Sounds) [08-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular) - jazz [*]
• Aaron Yale Heisler: Zoot's Soprano EP [Alternate Takes and Remixes From the Bechet Century] (Bathurst Manor -EP) [03-27] - jazz [B]
• Alex Heitlinger Jazz Orchestra: Slush Pump Truck Stop (SteepleChase) [ 02-23] - jazz [B]
• Helado Negro: Phasor (4AD) [02-09] - indietronica [**]
• Hellbutcher: Hellbutcher (Metal Blade) [05-31] - black metal
• Hello Mary: Emita Ox (Frenchkiss) [09-13] - indie rock
• Alden Hellmuth: Good Intentions (Fresh Sound New Talent) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time (ECM) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Cory Henry: Church ()
• Jihee Heo: Flow (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Enrique Heredia Trio: Plays Herbie Nichols (Fresh Sound) [01-25] - jazz [***]
• Hermanos Gutiérrez: Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound) [07-14] - Latin [A-]
• Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening (ECM) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Jake Hertzog: Longing to Meet You (self-released) [06-01] - Jjazz [**]
• Monika Herzig's Sheroes: All in Good Time (Zoho) [07-22] - jazz [**]
• Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Haley Heynderickx: Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird) [11-01] - indie folk
• Hi! Capybaras: A/M/Y/G/D/A/L/A (self-released)
• Hiatus Kaiyote: Love Heart Cheat Code ()
• Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora (Soft Launch) [09-06] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Lauran Hibberd: Girlfriend Material () [03-22]
• The High Llamas: Hey Panda (Drag City) [03-29] - glitch pop
• High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (MNRK) [04-19] - sludge metal
• High Vis: Guided Tour (BIAS/Dais) [10-18] - alt rock
• Hinds: Viva Hinds (Lucky Number) [09-06] - indie pop [A-]
• Christopher Hoffman: Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Robin Holcomb: One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies) [05-31] - jazz
• John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) [11-15] - jazz [U]
• Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto) [06-14] - jazz [B]
• Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves (Domino) [03-22] - art pop [*]
• Home Counties: Exactly as It Seems (Submarine Cat) [05-03] - dance-punk [*]
• Homeboy Sandman: Rich II (self-released) [06-07] - hip-hop [**]
• Homeshake: CD Wallet (Shhoamkee) [03-08] - slowcore
• Hyeseon Hong Jazz Orchestra: Things Will Pass (Pacific Coast Jazz) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Jon Hopkins: Ritual (Domino) [08-30] - ambient
• Jazzmeia Horn: Messages (Empress Legacy) [10-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Horse Jumper of Love: Disaster Trick (Run for Cover) [08-16] - slowcore
• Hot Club of San Francisco: Original Gadjo (Hot Club) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• François Houle/Kate Gentile/Alexander Hawkins: Fatrasies (Victo) [05-10] - jazz
• House of All: Continuum (Tiny Global) [04-02] - post-punk
• Houses of Heaven: Within/Without (Felte) [04-26]
• Hovvdy: Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts) [04-26] - alt/indie [*]
• Brittany Howard: What Now (Island) [02-09] - psychedelic soul [**]
• Fana Hues: Moth ()
• Hulder: Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin) [02-09] - black metal
• Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig [Helveticus]: Our Way (Blaser Music) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• Ian Hunter: Defiance Part 2: Fiction (Sun) [04-19]
• Nailah Hunter: Lovegaze (Fat Possum) [01-12] - art pop
• Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch) [02-24] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound) [09-15] - jazz [U]
• I Am Three: In Other Words (Leo) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope (Merge) [05-03] - African [**]
• Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox) [01-12] - jazz [*]
• Ice Spice: Y2K! (10K/Capitol/Dolo) [ 07-26] - hip-hop [***]
• Shawneci Icecold/Vernon Reid/Matthew Garrison & Grant Calvin Weston: Future Prime (Underground45) [09-01] - jazz [U]
• Idaho: Lapse (Arts & Crafts) [05-31] - indie rock
• Idles: Tangk (Partisan) [02-16] - art punk [**]
• Iglooghost: Tidal Memory Exo (LuckyMe) [05-10] - electronic
• Ihsahn: Ihsahn (Candlelilght) [02-16] - metal
• Il Sogno Del Marinaio: Terzo (Improved Sequence)
• Ill Considered: Precipice (New Soil) [03-22] - jazz [***]
• Ill Considered: Infrared (New Soil) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Illuminati Hotties: Power (Hopeless) [ 08-23] - twee pop [**]
• Imperial Valley: IV (Folded Time)
• Infant Island: Obsidian Wreath (Secret Voice) [01-12] - metal
• Randy Ingram: Aries Dance (Sounderscore) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Mikko Innanen Autonomous: Hietsu (Fiasko) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Inter Arma: New Heaven (Relapse) [04-26] - metal
• Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) [01-23] - jazz [***]
• Jon Irabagon: Survivalism (Irabbagast) [01-23] - jazz [*]
• Jon Irabagon Trio + One: Dinner & Dancing (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [***]
• Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3 Part 2: Exuberant Scars (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [**]
• Iron & Wine: Light Verse (Sub Pop) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Brandon Isaac: Another Level of Existence: Mastery of Acceptance (self-released) [05-27] - hip-hop
• Jason Isbell: Live From the Ryman Vol. 2 (Southeastern) [10-04] - country-rock
• Itasca: Imitation of War (Paradise of Bachelors) [02-09] - singer-songwriter
• Ive: Ive Switch (Starship Entertainment -EP) [04-29] - K-pop [A-]
• Bon Iver: Sable, (Jagjaguwar -EP) [10-18] - singer-songwriter
• Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) [01-19] - jazz [*]
• Iyamah: In Two Worlds (self-released) [04-05] - soul
• Vijay Iyer: Compassion (ECM) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• Ize Trio: The Global Suites (self-released) [08-02] - jazz [*]
• J.P.: Coming Out Party () [06-07]
• J.U.S X Squadda B: 3rd Shift (Bruiser Brigade) [08-06] - hip-hop [***]
• Javon Jackson/Nikki Giovanni: Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) [08-23] - jazz [A-]
• Keefe Jackson/Raoul van der Weide/Frank Rosaly: Live at de Tanker (Kettle Hole) [08-04] - jazz [***]
• Laird Jackson: Life (self-released) - vocal jazz [U]
• Eric Jacobson: Heading Home (Origin) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Jahari Massamba Unit: YHWM Is Love (Law of Rhythm) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Arushi Jain: Delight (Leaving) [03-29] - electronic [B-]
• James: Yummy (Virgin/Nothing but Love Music) [04-12] - pop-rock
• Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Penalty of Leadership () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Boldy James/Conductor Williams: Across the Tracks (Near Mint) [06-28] - hip-hop [**]
• Colin James: Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain) [08-23] - blues [B]
• José James: 1978 (Rainbow Blonde) [04-05] - vocal jazz
• Janel & Anthony: New Moon in the Evil Age (Cuneiform) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Janine Jansen/Klaus Mäkelä/Oslo Philharmonic: Sibelius/Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (Decca) [06-07] - classical
• Sebastiaan Janssen/Hubert Kostkiewicz/Ken Vandermark/Marta Warelis: Koniec (Audiographic) [04-05] - jazz
• Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol (Anti-) [10-18] - indie rock
• Dora Jar: No Way to Relax When You Are on Fire (Island) [09-13] - indie pop
• Bryony Jarman-Pinto: Below Dawn (Tru Thoughts) [05-10] - neo-soul
• Jawnino: 40 (True Panther) [05-03] - UK hip-hop
• Jazz at the Ballroom: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared (Jazz at the Ballroom) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• The Jazz Defenders: Memory in Motion (Haggis) [04-19] - jazz
• Jazz Ensemble of Memphis: Playing in the Yard (Memphis International) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• Cassandra Jenkins: My LIght, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans) [07-12] - sophisti-pop
• Mathias Højgaard Jensen: Is as Is (Fresh Sound New Talent) [05-31] - jazz [A-]
• The Jesus and Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club) [03-08] - noise pop [**]
• The Jesus Lizard: Rack (Ipecac) [09-13] - noise rock
• Jimin: Muse (Big Hit/HYBE) [07-19] - K-pop
• JIN: Happy (Big Hit/HYBE -EP) [11-15] - K-pop
• Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Jlin: Akoma (Planet Mu) [03-22] - electronic [***]
• Nathalie Joachim: Ki Moun Ou Ye (Nonesuch) [02-16] - art pop
• Joan as Police Woman: Lemons, Limes and Orchids (PIAS) [09-20] - art pop
• Job for a Cowboy: Moon Healer (Metal Blade) [02-23] - metal
• Joel and the Neverending Sextet: Marbled (Motvind) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Colin Johnco: Crabe Géant (Johnkôôl)
• Johnny Blue Skies [Sturgill Simpson]: Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain) [07-12] - country [**]
• Chuck Johnson: Sun Glories (Western Vinyl) [08-16] - ambient
• Josh Johnson: Unusual Object (Northern Spy) [04-05] - jazz
• Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns (self-released) [08-30] - jazz [B]
• Karen Jonas: The Rise and Fall of American Kitsch (self-released) [08-08] - country [*]
• Caleb Landry Jones: Hey Gary, Hey Dawn (Sacred Bones) [04-05]
• Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Kelly Jones: Inevitable Incredible (Ignition) [05-03] - singer-songwriter
• Norah Jones: Visions (Blue Note) [03-08] - vocal jazz [*]
• Danny Jonokuchi Big Band: A Decade (Bandstand Presents) [08-23] - jazz [*]
• I. Jordan: I Am Jordan (Ninja Tune) [05-10] - electronic [*]
• JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (AWAL) [08-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Judas Priest: Invincible Shield (Columbia) [03-08] - metal
• Julia-Sophie: Forgive Too Slow (Ba Da Bing!) [07-26] - art pop
• Julie: My Anti-Aircraft Friend (Atlantic) [09-13] - shoegaze [*]
• Justice: Hyperdrama (Because Music) [04-26] - electronic
• Ka: The Thief Next to Jesus (Iron Works) [08-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Eddie Kaine & Big Ghost Ltd;: Last Exit to Crooklyn () [04-02] - hiop-hop
• Goran Kajfeš Tropiques: Tell Us (We Jazz) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Ariel Kalma/Jeremiah Chiu/Marta Sofia Honer: The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Benji Kaplan: Untold Stories (self-released) [05-01] - jazz [*]
• Pandelis Karayorgis/George Kokkinaris: Out From Athens (Driff) [05-20] - jazz [**]
• Karl Bartos: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Tapete) [02-09] - soundtrack
• Ras Kass/RJ Payne/Havoc: Guttr () [05-03] - hip-hop
• Kassian: Supercontinent (-EP) [05-24] - deep house
• Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine (Free Dirt) [05-17] - folk
• Katseye: SIS (Soft Is Strong) (HYBE/Geffen -EP) [08-16] - dance-pop
• Alex Kautz: Where We Begin (Sunnyside) [07-05] - jazz [*]
• Kaytranada: Timeless (RCA) [06-07] - alt-r&b [***]
• Kaze: Unwritten (Circum/Libra) [02-09] - jazz [***]
• Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Music Is Connection (Alternate Side) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Kehlani: Crash (Atlantic) [06-21]
• Jason Keiser: Kind of Kenny (OA2) [10-25] - jazz [U]
• Roger Kellaway: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Simone Keller: Hidden Heartache (Intakt) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Walter Kemp 3: Black Whole Live (self-released) [01-26] - jazz
• Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go (Napalm) [10-11] - hard rock
• Khruangbin: A La Sala (Dead Oceans) [04-05] - neo-psychedelia
• Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds: That Delicious Vice (In the Red) [04-19] - garage rock
• Kid Cudi: Insano () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: New Monuments (We Jazz) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Rebecca Kilgore: A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg (Cherry Pie Music) [10-28] - vocal jazz [U]
• Laryssa Kim: Contezza (City Tracks) [02-16] - art pop
• Izumi Kimura/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Sluchaj) [04-01] - jazz [***]
• Elizabeth King: Soul Provider (Bible & Tire) [04-12] - gospel
• Kerry King: From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix) [05-17] - metal
• Marcus King: Mood Swings (Republic) [04-05] - neo-soul
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 (P(doom)) [08-09] - boogie rock
• Kings of Leon: Can We Please Have Fun (LoveTap/Capitol) [05-10] - garage rock
• King of Pigs: After Victory Comes Defeat () [04-17]
• Cassie Kinoshi's SEED.: Gratitude (International Anthem) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Sarah Kinsley: Escaper (Verve Forecast) [09-06] - indie pop
• Kip & JJ Loui: Breadface EP (Kaplooey) [06-19] - singer-songwriter
• Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry (Anti-) [01-26] - indie folk [**]
• Lola Kirke: Country Curious (One Riot -EP) [04-20] - country [*]
• Neal Kirkwood Big Band: Night City (Brooklyn Jazz Underground) [02-23] - jazz
• Anni Kiviniemi Trio: Eir (We Jazz) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes (Polydor) [11-15]
• Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Maria Warelis: Tendresse (Relative Pitch) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Kneecap: Fine Art (Heavenly) [06-14] - hip-hop [A-]
• Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (Pure Noise) [05-10] - metalcore
• Mark Knopfler: One Deep River (British Grove/EMI) [04-12]
• Julien Knowles: As Many, as One (Biophilia) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Kirk Knuffke: Super Blonde (SteepleChase) [09-20] - jazz [A-]
• Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Kokoko!: Butu (Transgressive) - African
• Cliff Korman Trio: Urban Tracks (SS) [12-06] - jazz [U]
• Lenny Kravitz: Blue Electric Light (BMG) [05-24]
• Allegra Krieger: Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine (Double Double Whammy) [09-13] - singer-songwriter
• KRM & KMRU: Disconnect (Phantom Limb) [06-14] - dark ambient
• KVB: Tremors (Invada) [04-05] - darkwave
• Jim Kweskin: Never Too Late: Duets With Friends (Storysound) [01-26] - folk [***]
• Kyle: Smyle Again (Independently Popular/APG) [03-08] - hip-hop
• Anysia Kym: Truest (10k -EP) [03-21] - hip-hop [*]
• L'Impératrice: Pulsar (Microqlima) [06-07]
• La Luz: News of the Universe (Sub Pop) [05-24] - neo-psychedelia
• Lava La Rue: Starface (Dirty Hit) [07-19] - alt-pop
• Lady Blackbird: Slang Spirituals (Foundation Music Productions/BMG) [09-13] - soul
• Lady Gaga: Harlequin (Interscope) [09-27] - jazz? [*]
• Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Miranda Lambert: Postcards From Texas (Republic Nashville) [09-13] - country [A-]
• Dawn Landes: The Liberated Woman's Songbook (Fun Machine Music) [03-29] - folk [*]
• Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners: Where It Really Starts (Tiny Global Productions) [03-08] - alt-country [**]
• LaRussell & Hit-Boy: Rent Due (Good Company -EP) [02-23] - hip-hop
• Harald Lassen: Opplevelser Fra N (Jazzland) - jazz
• Timo Lassy & Jaukka Eskola: Nordic Stew (Dox) [02-23] - jazz
• The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (Island) [02-02] - baroque pop [*]
• Last Word Quintet: Falling to Earth (Origin) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Latto: Sugar Honey Iced Tea (Streamcut/RCA) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Jim Lauderdale: My Favorite Place (Sky Crunch) [06-21] - country
• Bill Laurance/The Untold Orchestra: Bloom (ACT Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Matt Lavelle & the 12 Houses: The Crop Circles Suite Part One (Mahakala Music) [04-11] - jazz [***]
• Andy Laverne: Spot On (SteepleChase) [02-22] - jazz [**]
• LDL [Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Thomas Lehn]: In the Endless Wind (Wide Ear) [04-27] - jazz
• Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio (SoundSpore) [03-16] - jazz [B]
• Joëlle Léandre/Elisabeth Harnik/Zlatko Kaučič: Live in St. Johann (Funcadja Sluchaj) [05-14] - jazz
• Ledisi: Good Life (BMG) [02-03] - r&b
• Mike LeDonne: Wonderful! (Cellar Music Group) [02-16] - jazz
• Ellie Lee: Escape (Sori-E Naite Music) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) [05-31] - jazz
• Sam Lee: Songdreaming (Cooking Vinyl) [03-15] - folk
• Oisin Leech: Cold Sea () [03-08] - indie folk
• Lemadi Trio: Canonical Discourse (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [U]
• The Lemon Twigs: A Dream Is All We Know (Captured Tracks) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Ravyn Lenae: Bird's Eye (Atlantic) [08-09] - r&b
• José Lencastre/Zbigniew Kozera/Vasco Trilla: Chymeia (Phonogram Unit) [02-02] - jazz
• MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks (Anti-) [09-06] - country rock [***]
• Adrianne Lenker: I Won't Let Go of Your Hand (-EP) [03-11]
• Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GambsART) [11-08] - jazz [U]
• Carin León: Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 () [05-30]
• David Leon: Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Kiran Leonard: Real Home (Memorials of Distinction) [04-17] - pop
• Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Leprous: Melodies of Atonement (Inside Out) [08-30] - prog metal
• Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse (Real World) [02-16] - African [***]
• Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF (Frenchkiss) [05-10] - post-punk [**]
• Omer Leshem: Play Space (Ubuntu Music) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration (Intakt) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Jeffrey Lewis: Ghosterbusters (-EP) - anti-folk
• Molly Lewis: On the Lips (Jagjaguwar) [02-16] [*]
• Luna Li: When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life) [08-23] - soft rock
• Casimir Liberski/Tatsuya Yoshida: Troubled Water (Totalism) [03-21] - jazz
• The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (Casablanca/Republic) [04-05] - alt/indie [B]
• David Liebman & the CNY Jazz Orchestra: If a White Horse From Jerusalem . . . (CNY Jazz Arts Foundation) [08-10] - jazz [**]
• Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake 2 (Atlantic) [11-01] - trap
• Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Études (Decca) [04-19] - classical
• Lime Garden: One More Thing (So Young) [02-16] - indie rock
• The Linda Lindas: No Obligation (Epitaph) [10-11] - alt/indie [**]
• Linkin Park: From Zero (Machine Shop/Warner) [11-15] - nu metal
• Lip Critic: Hex Dealer (Partisan) [05-17] - synth punk
• Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism (Warner) [05-03] - dance-pop [A-]
• Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (self-released) [02-02] - alt/indie [**]
• Little Feat: Sam's Place (Hot Tomato) [05-17] - blues-rock
• Little Man Tate: Welcome to the Rest of Your Life (Best of Three) [02-23]
• Little Simz: Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals -EP) [02-09] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson: Closing Time (OA2) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• LL Cool J: The Force (Def Jam) [09-06] - hip-hop [A-]
• Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) [03-15] - jazz [A-]
• Rosemary Loar: Vagabond Heart/Curação Vagabundo (Atlor Music) [07-18] - vocal jazz [***]
• Locksmith: No Atheists in Foxholes (Landmark Entertainment) [03-15] - hip-hop
• The Bruce Lofgren Group: Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• Logic1000: Mother (Because Music) [03-22] - deep house
• Loma: How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
• Frank London/The Elders: Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• London Grammar: The Greatest Love (Ministry of Sound) [09-13] - alt-pop
• Jake Long: City Swamp (New Soil) [05-17] - jazz fusion
• Jennifer Lopez: This Is Me . . . Now () [02-16]
• Lord Spikeheart: The Adept (Hækalu) [04-19] - metal
• Los Angeles Philharmonic: John Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Nonesuch) [04-26] - opera
• Los Campesinos!: All Hell (Heart Swells) [07-19] - indie rock
• Lotus Crash: Lotus Crash [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [11-15] - jazz
• Love Fiend: Handle With Care (In the Red) [07-12]
• The Lovely Eggs: Eggsistentialism (Egg) [05-17] - garage rock
• Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1 (ESP-Disk -2CD) [09-03] - jazz [A-]
• Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 2 (ESP-Disk -2CD) [09-03] - jazz [A]
• Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets: Indoor Safari (Yep Roc) [09-13] - pub rock [*]
• Rosie Lowe: Lover, Other (Blue Flowers Music) [08-16] - alt-r&b
• Lucifer: Luciver V (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
• Lucy Rose: This Ain't the Way You Go Out (Communion) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Old Man Luedecke: She Told Me Where to Go (Outside) [05-24] - country [B]
• Lúireach: Landless ( Glitterbeat) [06-07]
• Corb Lund: El Viejo (New West) [02-23] - country [***]
• Lupe Fiasco: Samurai (1st and 15th Too) [06-28] - hip-hop [**]
• John Lurie: Painting With John (Royal Potato Family) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• LustSickPuppy: Carousel From Hell (self-released) [04-26] - electro-industrial
• Brady Lux: Ain't Gone So Far (6483357 Records DK) [01-27] - country [***]
• Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird) [08-09] - jazz [A-]
• Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7 (Holistic MusicWorks) [10-25] - jazz [U]
• Lynks: Abomination (Heavenly) [04-12] - electropop
• Shelby Lynne: Consequences of the Crown (Monument) [08-16] - country [B]
• Hayoung Lyou: The Myth of Katabasis (Endectomorph Music) [11-15] - jazz [U]
• Lyrics Born: Goodbye, Sticky Rice (Mobile Home) [10-25] - hip-hop [A-]
• M-Dot: Daze of Greed () [03-08] - hip-hop
• Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session (DMAC Music) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Doug MacDonald and the Coachella Valley Trio: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (DMAC Music) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Mach-Hommy: #Richaxxhaitian (Mach-Hommy) [05-17] - hip-hop [***]
• Machacha: Kunst.Art () [05-05] - hip-hop
• Jordan Mackampa: Welcome Home, Kid! (AWAL) [02-16] - soul
• João Madeira/Margarida Mestre: Voz Debaixo (4DaRecord) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Orlando Madrid: From This Moment Forward (OM) [01-12] - jazz
• Johnny Mafia: 2024: Année du Dragon (Howlin' Banana) [02-09] - pop punk
• Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop) [08-23] - synthpop [**]
• The Taj Mahal Sextet: Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod) [03-08] - blues [***]
• Mahti: Musiikki 3 (Riot Season)
• Mai-Liis: Kaleidoscope (OA2) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Make Them Suffer: Make Them Suffer (Greyscale/SharpTone) [11-08] - metalcore
• Nduduzo Makhathini: Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Malcria: Fantasias Histericas (Iron Lung) - Mexican
• Mall Girl: Pure Love (Jansen) [01-26] - indie pop
• Rose Mallett: Dreams Realized (Carrie-On Productions) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) [02-09] - minimalism [*]
• Post Malone: F-1 Trillion (Mercury/Republic) [08-16] - country
• Man/Woman/Chainsaw: Eazy Peazy (Fat Possum -EP) [11-08] - post-punk
• Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven (Epitaph) [03-01] - indie rock [**]
• David Maranha/Rodrigo Amado: Wrecks (Nariz Entupido) [10-25] - jazz [U]
• Roc Marciano: Marciology (Marci Enterprises) [03-29] - hip-hop [*]
• Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio (ACT Music) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Sunna Margrét: Finger on Tongue (No Salad)
• The Marías: Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
• Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat (Chryalis/Partisan) [10-25] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass) [08-30] - jazz [A-]
• Brian Marsella/Jon Irabagon: Blue Hour (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [*]
• Masamoon: B.I.D.S. (Beautifully Ignorant Disrespectful Sh*t) () [05-07] - hip-hop
• Kenny Mason: 9 (RCA) [03-14] - hip-hop
• Abbey Masonbrink: Rising (self-released) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Masta Ace & Marco Polo: Richmond Hill (Fat Beats) [01-26] - hip-hop [**]
• Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis (Capri) [10-04] - jazz [U]
• The Mavericks: Moon & Stars () [05-17] - Americana
• Mavi: Shadowbox (Mavi 4 Mayor Music) [08-09] - hip-hop [**]
• Shawn Maxwell: J Town Suite (Cora Street) [05-01] - jazz [**]
• Paula Maya: Rio De Janeiro (Yellow House) [08-01] - Brazilian vocal jazz [B]
• Maysa: Remix for Your Soul (Blue Velvet Soul) [03-29] - dance
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit: Spectral Fiction (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [01-19] - jazz
• Rob Mazurek: Milan (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Live at the Adler Planetarium ( International Anthem) [09-27] - jazz
• MC Juice/All Natural/Georgia Anne Muldrow: Calisthenics () [03-29] - hip-hop
• MC5: Heavy Lifting (EarMusic) [10-18] - hard rock [**]
• Lizzy McAlpine: Older (RCA) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Christian McBride/Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Nicole McCabe: Live at Jamboree (Fresh Sound) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat (Anti-) [04-12] - folk [A-]
• James McClaskey & the Rhythm Band: Later on Blues (BigTone) [ 04-10] - jazz [**]
• Ron McClure: Just Sayin' (SteepleChase) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Del McCoury Band: Songs of Love and Life (McCoury Music) [06-28] - bluegrass
• Fergus McCreadie: Stream (Edition) [05-03] - jazz
• Scotty McCreery: Rise & Fall (Triple Tigers) [05-10] - country
• Chad McCullough: In These Hills, Beyond (Calligram) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Thollem McDonas: Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk) [10-18] - jazz [U]
• Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Universal) [06-14] - vocal jazz [**]
• Mike McGinnis + 9: Outing: Road Trip II (Sunnyside) [02-16] - jazz [**]
• Declan McKenna: What Happened to the Beach? (Tomplicated) [02-09] - indie pop
• Jon McKiel: Hex (You've Changed) [05-03] - singer-songwriter
• Eliza McLamb: Going Through It (Royal Mountain) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Terence McManus: Music for Chamber Trio (Rowhouse Music) [09-24] - jazz [***]
• Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry (Infrasonic Press) [10-01] - jazz [***]
• Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark: Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love: I Love Noise (PNL) [12-06] - jazz
• Charles McPherson: Reverence (Smoke Sessions) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• JD McPherson: Nite Owls (New West) [09-27] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Rəhman Məmmədli: Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2 (Bongo Joe) - world
• Mega Ran X Jermiside: The Lure of Light (Hipnott) [03-22] - hip-hop
• Megan Thee Stallion: Megan (Hot Girl) [06-28] - hip-hop [***]
• Elan Mehler: Trouble in Mind (Sunnyside) [01-12] - jazz
• Francisco Mela/Zoh Amba: Causa y Efecto (Vol. 2) (577) [02-02] - jazz
• Melt-Banana: 3+5 (Azap) [08-23] - noise rock
• Melts: Field Theory (Fuzz Club) [04-12] - post-punk
• Melvins: Tarantula Heart (Ipecac) [04-19] - sludge metal
• Shawn Mendes: Shawn (Island) [11-15] - folk pop
• Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson: Of It but Not Is It (Mahakala Music) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Mercury Rev: Born Horses (Bella Union/Believe Music) [09-06] - chamber pop
• The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Meth: Shame (Prosthetic) [02-02] - sludge metal
• Pat Metheny: MoonDial (BMG) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Metz: Up on Gravity Hill (Sub Pop/Dine Alone) [04-12] - post-hardcore
• MGMT: Loss of Life (Mom+Pop) [02-24] - neo-psychedelia
• Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints (Loma Vista/VLNS) [08-02] - hip-hop
• Microwave: Let's Start Degeneracy (Pure Noise) [04-26] - indie rock
• Midnight: Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade) [03-08] - speed metal
• Midnight Sons: Money Has No Owners (Chong Wizard) [03-29] - hip-hop [**]
• Raul Midón: Lost & Found (ReKondite ReKords) [04-26] - soul [C+]
• Midwife: No Depression in Heaven (The Flenser) [09-06] - slowcore
• MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball (10k -EP) [03-06] - hip-hop [*]
• Sonny Miles: Gamma (Protect the Culture) [02-16] - soul
• Milkweed: Folklore 1979 (Broadside Hacks)
• Andy Milne and Unison: Time Will Tell (Sunnyside) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Elijah Minnelli: Perpetual Musket (FatCat)
• Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä/Jennifer Johnston/Women of the Minnesopta Chorale/Minnesota Boychoir: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (BIS) [06-07] - classical
• John Minnock: A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire (Dot Time) [04-18] - vocal jazz
• Kylie Minogue: Tension II (BMG) [10-18] - dance-pop
• Misha: Radiant (self-released) [04-05] - soul
• Mista Sinista: ReBorn () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Matt Mitchell: Illimitable (Obliquity) [05-03] - jazz
• Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles (Pi) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako Chicago Sound System (FPE) [08-23] - jazz [A-]
• Yuka Mito: How Deep Is the Ocean (Nana Notes) [10-11] - jazz [B]
• Mizu: Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes) [03-22] - ambient
• Mk.gee: Two Star & the Dream Police (R&R Digital) [02-09] - alt r&b [**]
• Moby: Always Centered at Night (Mute) [06-14] - electronic [*]
• Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice (Matador) [05-03] - Saharan [***]
• Modney: Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Molchat Doma: Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones) [09-06] - darkwave
• Jesus Molina: Selah (Dynamo Production) [05-24] - jazz [B]
• Ben Monder: Planetarium (Sunnyside) [09-27] - jazz
• Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released) [05-04] - jazz [A-]
• Mono: Oath (Temporary Residence) [06-14] - post-rock
• Monolake: Studio (Imbalance Computer Music) [09-06] - ambient techno [***]
• Jimmy Montague: Tomorrow's Coffee (self-released) [02-28] - alt/indie
• Montanera: A Flor de Piel (Western Vinyl)
• Bruno Montrone: Unaware Beauty (A.MA) [03-29] - jazz
• Thurston Moore: Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series) [10-04] [**]
• Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Warp) [03-29] - modern classical [***]
• Gurf Morlix: In Love at Zero Degrees (Rootball) [10-08] - Americana [**]
• Megan Moroney: Am I Okay? (Columbia Nashville) [07-12] - country [***]
• Tim Motzer/Gregg Bendian: The Eternal (1k) [01-04] - jazz
• Moor Mother: The Great Bailout (Anti-) [03-07] - hip-hop [*]
• Kelly Moran: Moves in the FIeld () [03-29]
• John Moreland: Visitor (Old Omens/Thirty Tigers) [04-05] - country [***]
• Mork: Syv (Peaceville) [09-20] - black metal
• Willie Morris: Attentive Listening (Posi-Tone) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Mother of Graves: The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore) [10-18] - death metal
• Simon Moullier: Elements of Light (Candid) [09-20] - jazz [U]
• Mount Eerie: Night Palace (PW Elverum & Sun) [11-01] - slacker rock
• Mount Kimbie: The Sunset Violent (Warp) [04-05] - indie rock
• Move: Free Baile: Live in Shenzhen (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Mr. Personality: Socially Attractive (self-released -EP) [05-31]
• MRCY: Volume 1 (Dead Oceans) [05-10] - soul
• Ms. Boogie: The Breakdown (self-released) [01-12] - drill [*]
• Msaki x Tubatsi: Synthetic Hearts Part II (No Format!) [05-24] - African
• Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja (Odin) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Riley Mulherkar: Riley (Westerlies) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Viktoria Mullova & Alasdair Beatson: Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 1 and 8 (Signum Classics) [05-03] - chamber music
• Mumbles: In the Pocket of Big Sad () [03-29] - indie rock
• Mumu Fresh: The Healing (self-released) [05-14] - soul
• Mura Masa: Curve 1 (Pond) [08-23] - electropop
• Martha Skye Murphy: Um (AD 93) [06-14] - ambient pop
• David Murray Quartet: Francesca (Intakt) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
• Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well (MCA Nashville) [03-15] - country [A-]
• Mustard: Faith of a Mustard Seed (10 Summers) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Mute: After You've Gone (Endectomorph Music) [05-13] - jazz [***]
• Mxmtoon: Liminal Space (AWAL) [11-01] - bedroom pop
• My Dying Bride: A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast) [04-19] - metal
• Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra: Hereafter (Sofa Music) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Jasmine Myra: Rising (Gondwana) [05-03] - jazz
• Simon Nabatov: Raging Bulgakov (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Simon Nabatov Quartet Feat. Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music (Clean Feed) [04-25] - jazz [***]
• Nacka Forum: Peaceful Piano (Moserobie) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• Nada Surf: Moon Mirror (New West) [09-13] - power pop
• Naemi: Dust Devil (3XL) [04-25]
• NAHreally & the Expert: Blip () [03-29] - hip-hop
• Nails: Every Bridge Burning (Nuclear Blast) [ 08-30] - grindcore
• David Nance: David Nance & Mowed Sound (Third Man) [02-09] - psychedelic rock
• Nascent: Don't Grow Up Too Soon ()
• Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel: The Room (Real World) [01-26] - chamber jazz [**]
• Milton Nascimento/Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza (Concord) [08-09] - Brazilian jazz
• Kate Nash: 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars) [06-21] - alt/indie [A]
• Navy Blue: Memoirs in Armour (Freedom Sounds) [08-02] - hip-hop [***]
• Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) [08-02] - vocal jazz [**]
• The Necks: Bleed (Northern Spy) [10-11] - jazz [*]
• Necrophobic: In the Twilight Grey (Century Media) - metal
• Necrot: Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes) [04-12] - death metal
• Richard Nelson/Makrokosmos Orchestra: Dissolve (Adhyâropa) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Willie Nelson: The Border (Legacy) [05-31] - country [A-]
• Willie Nelson: Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy) [11-01] - country [**]
• Nemahsis: Verbathim () [ 09-13]
• The New Mastersounds: Old School (One Note) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• New Orleans Klezmer All Stars: Tipish (self-released) [04-23] - jazz
• The New Orleans Night Owls: St. Louis Rag and Other Ragtime Classics (Rivermont) - jazz
• The New Wonders: Steppin' Out (Turtle Bay) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• NewDad: Madra (Fair Youth/Atlantic) [01-26] - shoegaze
• Sam Newsome/Max Johnson: Tubes (Unbroken Sounds) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Ngwaka Son Systéme: Iboto Ngenge (Eck Echo) [02-24] - African [***]
• Night Motor: Vessels () [04-29]
• Night Tapes: Assisted Memories (Nettwerk -EP) [06-07] - dream pop
• Nightwish: Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast) [09-20] - symphonic metal
• Nile: The Underground Awaits Us All (Napalm) [08-23] - death metal
• Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic -7CD) [02-09] - jazz
• Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go? (Stunt) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Carlos Niño & Friends: Placenta (International Anthem) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Tony Njoku: Last Bloom (Prah)
• NLE Choppa: Slut Szn (Warner) [09-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Che Noir: The Color Chocolate, Volume 1 (Poetic Movement -EP) [01-26] - hip-hop [**]
• The Nordic Quintet: Originals (AMM) [01-26] - jazz
• Normani: Dopamine (RCA) [06-14] - pop rap [**]
• Nourished by Time: Catching Chickens (XL -EP) [03-22] - alt r&b
• Jade Novah: Where Have I Been? (Let There Be Art) [03-01] - soul
• Nubiyan Twist: Find Your Flame (Strut) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• NxWorries: Why Lawd? () [06-14] - hip-hop
• O.: WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground) [06-21] - nu jazz [*]
• The Michael O'Neill Sextet: Synergy: With Tony Lindsay (Jazzmo) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Mali Obomsawin/Magdalena Abrego [Deerlady]: Greatest Hits (Out Of Your Head) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [**]
• The Obsessed: Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music) [02-16] - doom metal
• Oceans of Slumber: Where Gods Fear to speak (Season of Mist) [09-13] - prog metal
• Lothar Ohlmeier/Tobias Klein: Left Side Right (Trytone) [02-16] - jazz [**]
• Okay Kaya: Oh My God - That's So Me (Jagjaguwar) [09-06] - indie pop
• Miles Okazaki: Miniature America (Cygnus) [07-19] - jazz [B]
• Nils Økland Band: Gjenskinn (Hubro) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• ØKSE: ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) [08-09] - rap jazz [A-]
• Ol' Burger Beats: 74: Out of Time (Coalmine) [02-16] - hip-hop [**]
• Alicia and Michael Olatuja: Olatuja (Whirlwind) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Old 97's: American Primitive (ATO) [04-05] - alt/indie [*]
• Old Mountain: Another State of Rhythm (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Omni: Souvenir (Sub Pop) [02-16] - post-punk
• Ona K: Full, New, Luna (Catpig) [01-22] - r&b
• One Another Orchestra: One Another Orchestra (Nato) [03-24] - jazz
• One for All: Big George (Smoke Sessions) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• Oneida: Expensive Air (Joyful Noise) [07-19] - psychedelic rock
• Only the Poets: One More Night (-EP) [05-31]
• Oolong: Oolong (self-released) [04-20]
• The Ophelias: Ribbon (self-released -EP) [04-12] - chamber pop
• Oranssi Pazuzu: Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast) [10-11] - metal
• Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Four Guitars Live (Palilalia) [03-22] - jazz [A-]
• Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses (self-released) [03-28] - jazz
• Oruã: Passe (Transfusão Noise) [07-19] - psychedelic rock
• Osees: Sorcs 80 (Castle Face) [08-09] - garage punk
• Oso Oso: Life Till Bones (Yunahon Entertainment) [08-09] - emo-pop
• Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund: e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music) [05-31] - jazz
• Royel Otis: Pratts & Pain (Ourness) [02-16] - indie pop
• Roberto Ottaviano: Lacy in the Sky With Diamonds (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [A-]
• Sam Outlaw: Terra Cotta (Black Hills) [03-07] - country [*]
• Chuck Owen & Resurgence: Magic Light (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Christopher Owens: I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (True Panther) [10-18] - singer-songwriter
• Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate (Dirty Hit) [10-18] - prog house
• Ulysses Owens Jr and Generation Y: A New Beat (Cellar Music) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Oxygen Destroyer: Guardian of the Universe (Redefining Darkness) [08-09] - death metal
• Makoto Ozone: Gemini (Ubuntu Music) [01-19] - jazz
• Michael Pagán: Paganova (Capri) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Painkiller: Samara (Tzadik) [11-24] - jazz
• Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL) [04-05] - sophisti-pop [***]
• Pallbearer: Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - doom metal
• Henrik Palm: Nerd Icon (Svart) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Paris Paloma: Cacophony (Nettwerk) [08-30] - folk pop
• Paloma Faith: The Glorification of Sadness (Sony) [02-16] - dance-pop
• Mavis Pan: Rising (self-released) [10-04] - jazz [U]
• Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast Jazz) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator (Bar/None) [02-02] - rock [A-]
• Parannoul: Sky Hundred (Longinus) [08-03] - shoegaze
• Emile Parisien Quartet: Let Them Cook (ACT) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) [11-22] - jazz
• William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-22] - folk [*]
• Shane Parish: Repertoire (Palilalia) [05-17] - jazz
• Rob Parton's Ensemble 9+: Relentless (Calligram) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Partynextdoor: Partynextdoor 4 (P4) (OVO Sound/Santa Ana) [04-26] - alt-r&b
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone (We Jazz) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Chris Patrick: The Calm (CXR) [04-03] - hip-hop
• Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Groove Junkies (Origin) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Paysage d'Hiver: Die Berge (Kunsthall Produktionen) [11-08] - black metal
• Hery Paz: River Creatures (Porta Jazz) [01-30] - jazz [***]
• Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (Big Machine) [06-07] - country [***]
• Pearl Jam: Dark Matter (Republic) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Katy J Pearson: Someday, Now (Heavenly) [09-20] - art pop
• Orville Peck: Stampede (Warner) [08-02] - country
• Pedro the Lion: Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
• Peel Dream Magazine: Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf) [09-04] - art pop
• Peeling Flesh: The G Code (Unique Leader) [09-06] - metal
• Peggy Gou: I Hear You (XL) [06-07] - house
• Jeremy Pelt: Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) [03-02] - jazz [*]
• Nathy Peluso: Grasa (5020/Sony) [05-24] - art pop
• Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Ken Peplowski: Unheard Bird (Arbors) [04-05] - jazz [B-]
• Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• Perc: The Cut Off (Perc Trax)
• Perdurabo: Magnetar () [01-26] - electronic
• Ivo Perelman/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: Interaction (Ibeji Music) [01-28] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Chad Fowler/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music (RogueArt) [04-00] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Tom Rainey: Duologues 1: Turning Point (Ibeji Music) - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation (Soul City Sounds) [05-24] - jazz
• Pernice Brothers: Who Will You Believe (New West) [04-05] - chamber pop
• Peter Perrett: The Cleansing (Domino) [11-01] - singer-songwriter
• Lee "Scratch" Perry & Youth: Spaceship to Mars () [08-30] - reggae
• Persher: Sleep Well (Thrill Jockey)
• Eric Person: Rhythm Edge (Distinction) [10-01] - jazz [B]
• Houston Person/Peter Beets: Live in Holland: Houston Person Meets Peter Beets Trio (Maxanter) - jazz [A-]
• Personal Trainer: Still Willing (Bella Union) [08-02] - post-hardcore
• Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ -EP) [10-25] - hardcore punk [***]
• Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless (Parlophone) [04-26] - new wave [A-]
• Peter Cat Recording Co.: Beta बेटा () [08-09] - sophisti-pop
• Kim Petras: Slut Pop Miami () [02-16]
• Grace Petrie: Build Something Better () [03-08] - folk rock
• Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk (Just One Recording/Thirty Tigers) [06-28] - vocal jazz [***]
• Phantogram: Memory of a Day (Neon Gold) [10-18] - alt-pop
• Phosphorescent: Revelator (Verve) [04-05] - Americana
• Nacho Picasso & Televangel: Jesse's Revenge () [07-12] - hip-hop
• Kate Pierson: Radios & Rainbows (Lazy Meadow Music) [09-20] - art pop [**]
• Dave Pietro: The Talisman (SteepleChase) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Pillow Queens: Name Your Sorrow (Royal Mountain) [04-19] - indie rock
• Pissed Jeans: Half Divorced (Sub Pop) [03-01] - alt/indie [*]
• Planet Asia/Local Astronauts: No Retirement (Local Astronauts/Goldchain Music) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Planet D Nonet: Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Playfield [Carter/Muhr/Ishito/Plaks/Namenwirth/Takahashi/Swanson/Panikkar: Playfield (577) [01-19] - jazz
• PNY Quintet: Over the Wall (RogueArt) [03-00] - jazz [**]
• Poeji: Nant (Squama) [08-09] - jazz
• Polo Perks/AyooLii/FearDorian: A Dog's Chance (3500) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Pom Pom Squad: Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (City Slang) [10-25] - alt-pop
• Pollycock: Magic Mothers () [05-31]
• Pom Poko: Champion (Bella Union) [08-16] - indie rock
• Pony Boy All-Star Big Band: This Is Now: Live at Boxley's (Pony Boy) [08-09] - jazz [**]
• Bolis Popul: Letter to Yu (Deewee) [03-08] - electronic [***]
• Poppy: Negative Spaces (Sumerian) [11-15] - metalcore
• Porches: Shirt (Domino) [09-13] - slacker rock
• Porij: Teething (Play It Again Sam) [04-26] - electronic [**]
• Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me (Secretly Canadian) [10-18] - indie rock
• Potatohead People: Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz) [05-10] - electronic
• Chris Potter/Brad Mehldau/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Eagle's Point (Edition) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Potter Payper: Thanks for Hating (36TL) [02-23] - UK hip-hop
• Pouty: Forget About Me (Get Better) [02-09] - postpunk [**]
• Jonathan Powell: Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) [08-09] - jazz [***]
• Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer) [ 05-03] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Pregoblin: Pregoblin II ()
• Yvonnick Prené/Geoff Keezer: Jobim's World (Sunnyside) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Present: This Is NOT the End (Cuneiform) [03-29] - jazz
• Katherine Priddy: The Pendulum Swing (Cooking Vinyl) [02-16] - singer-songwriter
• Dafnis Prieto: 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Primal Scream: Come Ahead (BMG) [11-08] - funk rock
• John Primer & Bob Corritore: Crawlin' Kingsnake (VizzTone) [03-29] - blues [***]
• Jeanfrançois Prins: Blue Note Mode (GAM) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Prize Horse: Under Sound (New Morality Zine) [02-16] - metal
• Katie Pruitt: Mantras (Rounder) [04-05] - country [**]
• H. Pruz: No Glory (Mtn Laurel) [03-29] - singer-songwriter
• Public Acid: Deadly Struggle (Beach Impediment) [02-23] - hardcore punk
• Public Service Broadcasting: The Last Flight (So) [10-04] - post-rock
• Dan Pugach Big Band: Bianca (Outside In Music) [03-08] - jazz
• Punchlove: Channels (Kanine) [03-01] - shoegaze
• Tutu Puoane: Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory) [03-15] - vocal jazz [*]
• Pye Corner Audio: The Endless Echo (Ghost Box) [04-05] - ambient
• Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones) [02-09] - new wave [***]
• QOW Trio: The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
• Quadeca: Scrapyard (DeadAir) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Quatuor Bozzini: Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 (Collection QB)
• Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good (Stunt) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Queen Esther: Things Are Looking Up (EL) [04-09] - blues [A-]
• Reggie Quinerly: The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• R.N.A. Organism: R.N.A.O. Meets P.O.P.O. (Mesh-Key)
• Bruno Råberg Tentet: Evolver (Orbis Music) [06-01] - jazz [**]
• RaiNao: Capicú (Sonar) [02-24] - Latin
• Jordan Rakei: The Loop (Decca) [05-10] - alt r&b
• Rapsody: Please Don't Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation) [05-17] - hip-hop [**]
• Real Bad Man & Lukah: Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Old Soul Music/Real Bad Man) [03-29] - hip-hop [**]
• Real Estate: Daniel (Domino) [02-24] - jangle pop
• Recognize Ali: As You Sow So Shall You Reap () [02-09] - hip-hop
• Red Clay Strays: Made by These Moments () - country
• Redd Kross: Redd Kross (In the Red) [06-28] - power pop
• Reut Regev's R*Time: It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) [11-15] - jazz [U]
• Remedy [Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein]: Live at Jazzkammer (420 CPW) [05-27] - jazz [**]
• Cene Resnik/Samo Salamon/Samuel Ber: The Thinkers (Samo) [10-21] - jazz [***]
• Emilio Reyna: Los Niños Perdidos (Ropeadope Sur) [05-17] - jazz
• Reyna Tropical: Malegría (Psychic Hotline) [03-29] - Latin
• Rodrigo Recabarren/Yago Yazquez/Pablo Menares: Familia (Greenleaf Music) [02-23] - jazz
• Red Hot Org & Meshell Ndegeocello: Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City (Red Hot Organization) [04-10]
• Reef the Lost Cauze: The Triumphant (Good MuSick) [02-02] - hip-hop
• Kenny Reichert: Switch (Calligram) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3 (Cuneiform) [04-26] - jazz [A-]
• Tomeka Reid/Isadora Edwards/Elisabeth Coudoux: Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz
• Dave Rempis/Pandelis Karayorgis/Jakob Heinemann/Bill Harris: Truss (Aerophonic/Drift) [04-23] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Rempis/Tashi Dorji Duo: Gnash (Aerophonic) [06-25] - jazz [***]
• Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Joshua Abrams/Tyler Damon: Propulsion (Aerophonic) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Travis Reuter: Quintet Music (self-released) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Reverso: Shooting Star [Etoile Filante] (self-released) [01-19] - jazz
• Revival Season: Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly) [02-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross: Challengers [Original Soundtrack] (Milan) [04-26] - soundtrack
• Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross/Boys Noize: Challengers [Mixed] by Boys Noize (The Null Corporation)
• Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade) [01-26] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Zach Rich: Solidarity (OA2) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) [08-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Rich Ruth: Water Still Flows (Third Man) [06-21] - jazz
• Steph Richards: Power Vibe (Northern Spy) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Max Richter: In a Landscape (Decca) [09-06] - post-minimalism
• Ride: Interplay (Wichita) [03-29] - shoegaze [*]
• Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions (self-released) [03-04] - jazz [***]
• Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) [08-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Ripped to Shreds: Sanshi (Relapse) [09-27] - death metal
• RiTchie: Triple Digits [112] (self-released) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Diego Rivera: With Just a Word (Posi-Tone) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• RM: Right Place, Wrong Person (HYBE/Big Hit) [05-24] - r&b
• Troy Robers: Green Lights (Toy Robot Music) [05-10] - jazz
• Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt: Backstage Raver (World Music) [05-16] - dream pop
• Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) [05-14] - jazz [A-]
• Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape) [10-08] - jazz [U]
• Porter Robinson: Smile! :D (Mom+Pop/Sample Sized) [07-26] - indie rock
• Terre Roche: Inner Adult (self-released) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Moses Rockwell Featuring Plain Old Mike: Regular Henry Sessions (Hipnott) [03-01] - hip-hop [***]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parinha/João Madeira: Into the Wood (Creative Sources) [01-09] - jazz [A-]
• Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen (Verve) [06-14] - jazz
• Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me (Capitol) [04-10] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Daniel Romano & Outfit: Too Hot to Sleep (You've Changed) [03-01] - country
• Rosali: Bite Down (Merge) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Discordia (Earshift Music) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Maggie Rose: No One Gets Out Alive (Big Loud) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Rose Hotel: A Pawn Surrender (Strolling Bones) [06-07] - indie pop
• Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End (Sunnyside) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Joel Ross: Nublues (Blue Note) [02-09] - jazz [A-]
• Jim Rotondi: Finesse (Cellar Music) [02-09] - jazz [B]
• Claire Rousay: Sentiment (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - ambient pop [*]
• Ada Rovatti: The Hidden World of Piloo (Piloo) [01-19] - jazz
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Hamilton De Holanda: Collab (Sony Music Brazil) [07-19] - jazz
• Jeff Rupert: It Gets Better (Rupe Media) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Alice Russell: I Am (Tru Thoughts) [04-05]
• Catherine Russell/Sean Mason: My Ideal (Dot Time) [08-26] - jazz [A-]
• Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da (Domino) [01-12] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Joana Sá: A Body as Listening (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz
• Jerome Sabbagh: Heart (Analog Tone Factory) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Laetitia Sadier: Rooting for Love (Drag City) [02-24] - ambient pop
• Sadistik/Maulskull: Oblivion Theater () [02-23] - hip-hop
• Taliba Safiya: Black Magic (self-released) - blues [*]
• Saigon/Fredro: The Jordan Era (Payday) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Dali de Saint Paul/Maxwell Sterling: Penumbra (Accidental Meetings)
• Anne Sajdera: It's Here (Bijuri) [09-20] - jazz [U]
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (Milan)
• Samo Salamon/Vasil Hadzimanov/Ra-Kalam Bob Moses: Dances of Freedom (Samo) [01-15] - jazz [A-]
• Salma e Mac: S&M (self-released) [09-06] - Brazil
• Jeymes Samuel: The Book of Clarence [The Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Geneva Club/Roc Nation) [01-12] - soundtrack
• Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Moster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void (Intakt) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis Tre (We Jazz) [02-23] - jazz [B]
• Carla Santana/José Lencastre/Maria do Mar/Gonçalo Almeida: Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz) [01-08] - jazz [***]
• Sault: Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals) [07-06] [*]
• Greg Saunier: We Sang, Therefore We Were () [04-26]
• A. Savage: The Loft Sessions (Rough Trade -EP) [04-03] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Ann Savoy: Another Heart (Smithsonian Folkways) [04-19] - Cajun [*]
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks: Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• ScHoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) [03-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT! Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters Celebrate Clark Terry (Capri) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Frank Paul Schubert/Michel Pilz/Stefan Scheib/Klaus Kugel: Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu) [05-01] - jazz [***]
• Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky (Cellar) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (Arabesque) [05-01] - jazz [A-]
• Claudio Scolari Project: Intermission (Principal) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
• Claudio Scolari Project: Opera 8 (Principal) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Dred Scott/Moses Patrou/Tom Beckham/Matt Pavolka: Cali Mambo (Ropeadope) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Bianca Scout: Pattern Damage ()
• Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Seafood Sam: Standing on Giant Shoulders (Drink Sum Wtr) [04-19] - hip-hop
• See You Space Cowboy: Coup De Grâce (Pure Noise)
• Ty Segall: Three Bells (Drag City) [01-26] - prog rock
• Hannah Selin: Dream Journal & the Apocalypse (Gold Bolus) [04-12] - classical
• Mei Semones: Kabutomushi (Bayonet) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Altin Sencalar: Discover the Present (Posi-Tone) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Senyawa: Vajranala (The State51 Conspiracy)
• Serengeti: KDIV (Othar) [05-03] - hip-hop [A-]
• Ben Seretan: Allora (Tiny Engines) [07-26] - indie rock
• Sara Serpa: Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) [11-15] - vocal jazz [U]
• Serpentwithfeet: Grip (Secretly Canadian) [02-16] - alt-r&b
• Dirk Serries/Rodrigo Amado/Andrew Lisle: The Invisible (Klanggalerie) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Sexyy Red: In Sexyy We Trust (Rebel) [05-24] - hip-hop
• Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) [04-10] - jazz [**]
• Shabazz Palaces: Exotic Birds of Play (Sub Pop) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Shaboozey: Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (Republic/Empire) [05-31] - country [*]
• Shae Universe: Love's Letter (self-released) [02-14] - neo-soul
• Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath (EMI North) [02-23] - art pop [*]
• Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Music Latin) [03-22] - Latin [***]
• Shannon & the Clams: The Moon Is in the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound) [05-10] - power pop
• Elliott Sharp: Ere Guitar (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz
• Caroline Shaw & So Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch) [06-14] - post-minimalism
• She-Nut: Demarcation (Get Better -EP) [03-22]
• Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Third Man) [03-01] - power pop [**]
• Shellac: To All Trains (Touch and Go) [05-17] - math rock
• Maya Shenfeld: Under the Sun (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - drone
• Brindley Sherratt/Julius Drake: Fear No More (Delphian) [04-26] - classical
• Matthew Shipp/Steve Swell: Space Cube Jazz (RogueArt) [01-15] - jazz [***]
• Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Matthew Shipp: The Data (RogueArt) [06-17] - jazz [***]
• Patrick Shiroishi: Glass House (Otherly Love) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2) [04-26] - jazz [A-]
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations (Abeyance) [03-29] - country [**]
• The Shop Window: Daysdream () [05-03]
• Wayne Shorter: Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) [08-23] - jazz [***]
• Showrocka & Mickey Factz: Manifest Destiny (Pay the Rappers) [04-19] - hip-hop
• ShrapKnel: Nobody Planning to Leave (Backwoodz Studioz) [06-07] - hip-hop [B]
• Michael Shrieve: Drums of Compassion (7D Media) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Jacob Shulman: High Firmament (Endectomorph) [03-01] - jazz [B]
• Jacob Shulman: Ferment Below (Endectomorph) [03-01] - jazz [B]
• Shygirl: Club Shy (Because Music -EP) [02-09] - dance-pop [*]
• Sia: Reasonable Woman (Atlantic) [05-03] - pop
• Zofie Siege: Gems in Dirt (Nuova Materia)
• Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi (Blue Note) [07-12] - jazz
• Yotam Silberstein: Standards (Jojo) [02-23] - jazz
• Flavio Silva: Eko (Break Free) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits: On Different Paths (Truth Revolution) [01-26] - jazz
• Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (Warp) [09-06] - jazz fusion [***]
• Sinkane: We Belong (City Slang) [04-05]
• Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol 2: Book W (Form Is Possibility -2CD) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Sipaningkah: Langkah Suruik (Chinabot)
• Alex Sipiagin: Horizons (Blue Room Music) [05-24] - jazz
• SiR: Heavy ()
• Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-24] - Afrobeat [*]
• Ballaké Sissoko/Derek Gripper: Ballaké Cissoko & Derek Gripper (Matsuli Music) [05-10] - African [***]
• Mama Sissoko: Live (Meruba-ML) [02-16] - African
• Rotem Sivan: Dream Louder (self-released) [01-12] - jazz
• Six Organs of Admittance: Time Is Glass (Drag City) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Skee Mask: ISS010 (Ilian Tape) [03-28] - electronic [**]
• Jae Skeese & Superior: Testament of the Times (RRC Music/BarsOverBs) [03-08] - hip-hop [A-]
• Skilla Baby: The Coldest (Geffen/Rebel Music) [04-26] - hip-hop
• Skillet: Revolution (self-released) [11-01] - hard rock
• Håkon Skogstad: 8 Concepts of Tango (Øra Fonogram) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Bria Skonberg: What It Means (Cellar Live) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• M Slago/Homeboy Sandman: And We Are Here (Fly 7 Music) [08-09] - hip-hop [***]
• Slash: Orgy of the Damned (Gibson) [05-17] - blues
• Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista) [01-19] - alt/indie [B]
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of the Last Human Being (Avant Night)
• Slift: Ilion (Sub Pop) [01-19] - heavy psych
• Margaret Slovak & Chris Maresh: A Star's Light Does Fall (Slovak Music) [11-01] - jazz [U]
• Slow Hollows: Bullhead (Danger Collective) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Small Black Arrows: The British Museum () [05-31]
• The Smashing Pumpkins: Aghori Mhori Mei (Tirty Tigers/Martha's) [08-02] - alt-metal
• The Smile: Wall of Eyes (XL) [01-26] - art rock [B]
• Ches Smith: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) [02-02] - jazz [*]
• Connie Smith: Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches (Fat Possum) [04-11] - country [**]
• Ronny Smith: Struttin' (Pacific Coast Jazz) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Sy Smith: Until We Meet Again (Foreign Exchange Music) [01-26] - r&b
• TV Smith: Handwriting (JKP/Easy Action) [05-03] - punk [***]
• Wadada Leo Smith & Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies (Fundacja Sluchaj) [01-30] - jazz
• Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• Walter Smith III: Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Chris Smither: All About the Bones (Signature Sounds) [05-03] - folk [A-]
• SML: Small Medium Large (International Anthem) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Jim Snidero: For All We Know (Savant) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Red Future (Savage Mob) [09-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Snow Patrol: The Forest Is the Path (Polydor) [09-13] - post-britpop
• Soccer Mommy: Evergreen (Loma Vista) [10-25] - alt/indie
• Soft Kill: Escape Forever (Cercle Social) [04-12] - post-punk
• Soft Play: Heavy Jelly (BMG) [07-19] - garage punk
• Vera Sola: Peacemarker (Spectraphonic/City Slang) [02-02] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Sólstafir: Hinj Helga Kvöl (Century Media) [11-08] - post-metal
• Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring]: Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Daniel Son & Futurewave: Bushman Bodega (WavGodMusic) [07-12] - hip-hop [*]
• Sonic Tender: Odd Objects (Robalo Music) [02-16] - jazz
• Astrid Sonne: Great Doubt (Escho) [01-26] - art pop
• Sophie: Sophie (Transgressive) [09-25] - EDM
• Tyshawn Sorey/Adam Rudolph: Archaisms II (Meta) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Suspectible Now (Pi) [10-11] - jazz [U]
• Omar Souleyman: Erbil (Mad Decent) [03-29] - dabke [***]
• Space: Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Kavain Wayne Space & XT: Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves) [03-15] - jazz
• Alena Spanger: Fire Escape (Ruination) [03-22]
• Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Swing Forever (Ovation) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God (Sub Pop) [09-27] - alt-pop
• Spectral Voice: Sparagamos (Dark Descent) [02-09] - metal
• Spectral Wound: Songs of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore) [08-23] - black metal
• Spectres: Presence () [03-15]
• Speed: Only One Mode (Flatspot/Last Ride) [07-12] - metalcore
• Brittney Spencer: My Stupid Life (Elektra) [01-19] - country
• Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Sunday (Loyal Label) [01-19] - jazz
• Simon Spiess Quiet Tree: Euphorbia (Intakt) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Spirit of the Beehive: You'll Have to Lose Something (Saddle Creek) [08-23] - neo-psychedelia
• Split System: Vol. II (Legless) [02-09] - garage rock [***]
• Splitter Orchester: Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia -3CD) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Kandace Springs: Run Your Race (SRP) [04-05] - vocal jazz
• Sprints: Letter to Self (City Slang) [01-05] - post-punk [A-]
• Squarepusher: Dostrotime (Warp) [03-01] - drill and bass [***]
• St. Vincent: All Born Screaming (Virgin) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: Wildernauts (Don Giovanni) [01-18] - folk [**]
• Anthony Stanco: Stanco's Time (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Vince Staples: Dark Times (Def Jam/Blacksmith) [05-23] - hip-hop [***]
• The Staples Jr. Singers: Searching (Luaka Bop) [06-14] - gospel
• Star Splitter [Gabriele Mitelli/Rob Mazurek]: Medea (We Insist!) [05-21] - jazz [B]
• Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 (Mavin Global Holdings) [05-31] - afrobeats [**]
• State Champs: State Champs (Pure Noise) [11-08] - pop-punk
• The Staves: All Now (Nonesuch) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Gwen Stefani: Bouquet (Interscope) [11-15] - soft rock
• Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• Jason Stein: Anchors (Tao Forms) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet: Umbra II (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Stetsasonic: Here We Go Again (SpitSLAM) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Colin Stetson: The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada) [09-13] - post-minimalism
• Leslie Stevens: Leslie Stevens (Lyricland) [02-23] - country
• Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers (Pi) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• Still Corners: Dream Talk (Wrecking Light) [04-05] - dream pop
• Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U (Bison) [04-10] - art rock [B-]
• Geoff Stradling & the StradBand: Nimble Digits (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Chuck Strangers: A Forsaken Lover's Plea (Lex) [03-15] - hip-hop
• The Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer: Groove Street (Strikezone) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Suburban Lawns: Baby (Rubellan)
• Mai Sugimoto: Sunlight Filtering Through the Leaves (Asian Improv) [02-02] - jazz
• Sulida: Utos (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Sum 41: Heaven :x: Hell (Rise) [03-29] - alt metal
• Moses Sumney: Sophcore (Tuntum -EP) [08-02] - alt-r&b [*]
• Kevin Sun: The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• Kevin Sun: Quartets (Endectomorph Music, 2CD) [10-18] - jazz [U]
• Sunburned Hand of the Man: Nimbus (Three Lobed)
• Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary (Live at London Bridge Studio) (self-released) [05-03] - post-hardcore
• Sunny Five [Tim Berne/David Torn/Ches Smith/Devin Hoff/Marc Ducret]: Candid (Intakt) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Superposition: II (We Jazz) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• John Surman: Words Unspoken (ECM) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Suuns: The Breaks (Joyful Noise) [09-06] - art-rock
• Anders Svanoe: Astro Eclipse: State of the Baritone Vol. 6 (Irabbagast) [06-04] - jazz
• Swamp Dogg: Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St (Oh Boy) [05-31] - bluegrass [***]
• Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department (Republic) [04-19] - pop [A-]
• Mohammad Syfkhan: I Am Kurdish (Nyahh)
• Takács Quatet: Schubert: String Quartet in G Major D887/String Quartet in B Flat Major D112 (Hyperion) [06-07] - classical
• Aki Takase Japanic: Forte (Budapest Music Center) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Takkak Takkak: Takkak Takkak (Nyege Nyege Tapes) - African
• Ohad Talmor/Chris Tordini/Eric McPherson: Back to the Land (Intakt -2CD) [09-25] - jazz [***]
• Christian Tamburr/Dominick Farinacci/Michael Ward-Bergeman: Triad (Ropeadope) [03-22] - jazz
• Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black: NatJim (Libra) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft (Libra) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Tapir: The Pilgrim, Their God & the King of My Decrepit Mountain ()
• Tarbaby: You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) [06-25] - jazz [***]
• Aaron Lee Tasjan: Stellar Evolution (Blue Élan) [04-12] - power pop
• Kaidi Tatham: Fusion Moves (Reel People Music) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Tatyana: It's Over (Sinderlyn) [03-22]
• Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made (Curtis Taylor Music) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Teens in Trouble: What's Mine (Asian Man) [03-29]
• Alfie Templeman: Radiosoul (Chess Club) [06-07] - indie pop
• Tems: Born in the Wild (RCA) [06-07] - r&b
• Terminal Nation: Echoes of the Devil's Den (20 Buck Spin) [05-03] - metal
• Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer]: Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Jonathan Tetelman/PFK-Prague Philharmonia: The Great Puccini (Deutsche Grammophon) - classical
• TGB: Room 4 (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Tha Dogg Pound: W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) () - hip-hop
• Tha God Fahim: Dump Goat 2 (5360114 DK) [02-19] - hip-hop
• That Mexican OT: Texas Technician (Manifest/GoodTalk/Good Money/Interscope) [03-01] - hip-hop
• The The: Ensoulment (Cineola/EarMusic) [09-06] - alt-rock
• Thee Marloes: Perak (Big Crown) [08-09] - soul jazz
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein: Gershwin Rhapsody (Decca) [02-23] - jazz
• This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy) [06-14] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Thollem: Worlds in a Life, Two (ESP-Disk) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Fred Thomas: Window in the Rhythm (Polyvinyl) [10-04] [*]
• Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• Micah Thomas: Mountains (Artwork) [09-13] - jazz
• Russell Thompkins Jr.: Riding Solo (SoulMusic/Platinum Garage) [02-02] - r&b
• D. Clinton Thompson: Donnie's Mood (Borrowed) [03-15]
• Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (Storysound) [06-21] - folk [*]
• Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore (New West) [05-31]
• Thou: Umbilical (Sacred Bones) [05-31] - metal
• TiaCorine: Almost There (South Scope/Interscope -EP) [02-02] - hip-hop [**]
• Bryson Tiller: Bryson Tiller (RCA) [04-05] - alt r&b
• Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger (Merge) [02-24] - post-punk [B]
• Tinashe: Quantum Baby (Nice Life) [08-16] - alt-r&b [**]
• Tindersticks: Soft Tissue (Lucky Dog/City Slang) [09-13] - slowcore
• Viktoria Tolstoy: Stealing Moments (ACT) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Tomorrow X Together: The Star Chapter: Sanctuary (Big Hit/HYBE -EP) [11-04] - K-pop
• Tonus: Analog Deviation (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [U]
• Zach Top: Cold Beer & Country Music (Leo33) [05-07] - country [**]
• Kavus Torabi: The Banishing (Believers Roast)
• Rafael Toral: Spectral Evolution (Moikai) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Toro Y Moi: Hole Earth (Dead Oceans) [09-06] - alt-pop
• Torres: What an Enormous Room (Merge) [01-26] - art rock
• Samuel Torres & the Latin Chamber Ensemble: A Dance for Birds (Blue Conga) [05-24] - jazz
• Trance Map (Evan Parker and Matthew Wright): Horizons Held Close (Relative Pitch) [11-15] - jazz
• Transition Unit: Fade Value (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [U]
• Rebecca Trescher Tentet: Character Pieces (self-released) [05-03] - jazz
• Triples: Assemble24 (Modhaus) [05-08] - K-pop
• Tropical Fuck Storm: Tropical Fuck Storm's Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed) [09-27] [*]
• Trueno: El Último Baile () [02-23] - pop rap
• Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare -3CD) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Juanma Trujillo: Howl (Endectomorph Music) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Truth & Devotion: Heaven at Last (Holy Grail) [01-15] - gospel
• Akiko Tsugura: Beyond Nostalgia (SteepleChase) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! (Sentimental) [03-22] - alt/indie [***]
• Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Steve Turre: Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Twenty One Pilots: Clancy (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [05-24] - alt-pop
• Twice: With You-th (JYP/Republic -EP) [03-24] - K-pop
• Twisters: The Album (Atlantic)
• Twin Pillars: 48 Pillars of Power: Volume 1 (self-released) [05-25] - hip-hop
• Two Shell: Two Shell (Young) [10-25] - electronic
• Tyla: Tyla (Epic) [03-22] - pop [**]
• Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia (Columbia) [10-28] - hip-hop
• Tzompantli: Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force (20 Buck Spin) [05-17] - death metal
• Oded Tzur: My Prophet (ECM) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Kali Uchis: Orquídeas (Geffen) [01-12] - Latin [A-]
• David Udell: It's Worth It (self-released) [06-18]
• Federico Ughi: Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577) [03-08] - jazz
• Ugly: Twice Around the Sun (self-released -EP) [04-03] - art rock
• Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God (Debemur Morti) [06-14] - metal
• Lisa Ullén: Heirloom (Fönstret) [02-12] - jazz [**]
• Ultimate Thunder: A Spider Will Come to Eat Your Flesh (Easy Listening) [05-10] - experimental rock
• The Umbrellas: Fairweather Friend (Tough Love) [01-26] - jangle pop [*]
• Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats: Nell' Ora Blu (Rise Above) [05-10] - psychedelic rock
• Undeath: More Insane (Prosthetic) [10-04] - death metal
• Uniform: American Standard (Sacred Bones) [08-23] - sludge metal
• Unknown T: Blood Diamond (Stay Solid/Island) [01-12] - UK hip-hop
• USA Nails: Feel Worse (One Little Independent) [03-22] - noise rock
• Usher: Coming Home (Mega) [02-09] - r&b
• The Vaccines: Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations (Super Easy) [01-12] - punk-rock revival
• Valebol: Valebol (Otherly Love) [04-05]
• Joey Valence & Brae: No Hands ( JVB) [06-07] - hip-hop
• Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) [04-05] - alt/indie [**]
• Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Peter Van Huffel/Meinrad Kneer/Yorgos Dimitriadis: Synomilies (Evil Rabbit) [10-01] - jazz
• Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion: From Me to You (String Damper) [05-13] - vocal jazz
• Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Vanishing: Shelter of the Opaque (The State51 Conspiracy)
• Julia Vari Feat Negroni's Trio: Somos (Alternative Representa) [02-16] - vocal jazz [A-]
• Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band: Cajun Bleu (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
• April Varner: April (Cellar Music) [06-29] - jazz
• Vedo: Next Chapter (New Wav/Empire) [05-17] - soul
• Alan Vega: Insurrection (In the Red) [05-31] - synth punk
• Vegyn: The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (Plz Make It Ruins) [04-05] - trip hop
• Piet Verbist: Flamenco Jazz Summit: El Mar Empieza Aquí (Origin) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere (OA2) [05-17] - vocal jazz [**]
• Benjamin Vergara & Amanda Irrarrazabal: Último Sosiego (577) [01-04] - jazz
• Martina Verhoeven Quintet: Indicator Light (Live at Paradox 2023) (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [U]
• Verraco: Breathe . . . Godspeed (Timedance -EP) [05-31] - electronic [***]
• Luis Vicente Trio: Come Down Here (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Vicious Blade: Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness) [09-27] - death metal
• Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms -2CD) [04-05] - jazz [A]
• Villagers: That Golden Time (Domino) [05-10] - chamber folk
• Shawna Virago: Blood in Her Dreams () [05-31]
• Vitrol: Suffer & Become (Century Media) [01-26] - metal
• Void Patrol: Live @ Victo (Les Disques Victo) [03-08] - jazz
• Vola: Friend of a Phantom (Mascot) [11-01] - prog metal
• Hana Vu: Romanticism (Ghostly International) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Bob Vylan: Humble as the Sun (Ghost Theatre) [04-05] - UK rap [A-]
• Tashi Wada: What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl)
• Morgan Wade: Obsessed (Ladylike/RCA Nashville) [08-16] - country [A-]
• Kelsey Waldon: There's Always a Song (Oh Boy) [05-10] - country [***]
• Alan Walker: A Little Too Late (Aunt Mimi's) [06-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Alice Wallace: Here I Am () - country
• Ian Wallace & OP!: Words & Sounds Vol 1.5 (self-released) [01-16] - hip-hop
• Wallows: Model (Atlantic) [05-24] - indie pop
• Jack Walrath: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) [03-12] - jazz [***]
• Jennifer Walshe/Tony Conrad: In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks) [05-24] - jazz
• Ben Waltzer: The Point (Calligram) [10-04] - jazz [U]
• Joanna Wang: Hotel La Rut (Sony Music) [05-06] - prog pop
• Marta Warelis/Andy Moor: Escape (Relative Pitch) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Kenny Warren: Sweet World (Out of Your Head) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement (Young) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Mamiko Watanabe: Being Guided by the Light (Jojo) [02-23] - jazz
• Suki Waterhouse: Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop) [09-13] - indie pop
• WateRR & Wavy Da Ghawd: Washed Ashore () [02-01] - hip-hop
• Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Anti-) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Weasel Walter Large Ensemble: Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization (Improved Sequence) [03-29] - jazz
• Jane Weaver: Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire) [04-05] - art pop
• Philip Weberndoerfer: Tides (Shifting Paradigm) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Faye Webster: Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian) [03-01] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song: Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson (Amber Inn) [06-01] - vocal jazz [*]
• The Weeknd: Dancing in the Flames (XO/Republic) [09-13] - synthpop
• Judith Wegmann/Jens Ruland/Robert Torche: Kon. Takte [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [09-21] - jazz
• Randy Weinstein: Harmonimonk (Random Chance) [05-15] - jazz [**]
• Dan Weiss: Even Odds (Cygnus) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Gillian Welch/David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony) [08-23] - folk [***]
• Paul Weller: 66 (Polydor) [05-24] - soft rock
• Jesse Welles: Hells Welles () - country
• Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: In Lieu of Flowers (Hopeless) [04-12] - folk-rock [B-]
• Hein Westergaard/Katt Hernandez/Raymond Strid: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn (Gotta Let It Out) [02-25] - jazz [**]
• Stian Westerhus & Maja S. K. Ratkje: All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) [03-15] - jazz [B]
• Westside Gunn & DJ Drama: Still Praying (Griselda) [11-01] - hip-hop
• Western Jazz Collective: The Music of Andrew Rathbun (Origin) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack (Interscope) [03-15] - hip-hop [A-]
• Kirk Whallum: Epic Cool (Mack Avenue) [05-17] - pop jazz
• Wheel: Charismatic Leaders (Inside Out) [05-03] - prog metal
• Andy Wheelock/Whee 3 Trio: In the Wheelhouse (OA2) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• While She Sleeps: Self Hell (Spinefarm) [03-29] - metalcore
• Conchúr White: Swirling Violets (Bella Union) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Jack White: No Name (Third Man) [07-19] - garage rock [**]
• Amanda Whiting: The Liminality of Her (First Word) [03-22] - jazz
• WHO Trio: Live at Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [06-12] - jazz [***]
• Cecily Wilborn: Kuntry Gurl Playplist (self-released) - country [*]
• Friso van Wijck: Friso van Wijck's Candy Container (TryTone) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Wilco: Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm -EP) [06-28] - alt/indie [*]
• Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: Willson Williams (One Little Independent) [04-26] [*]
• Pharrell Williams: Virginia (Black Yacht Rock, Vol. 1: City of Limitless Access) (Black Yacht Rock)
• Yasmin Williams: Acadia (Nonesuch) [10-04] - American primitivism
• Kelly Willis/Melissa Carper/Brennen Leigh: Wonder Women of Country (Brooklyn Basement -EP) [03-15] - country [**]
• Willow: Empathogen (Three Six Zero/Gamma)
• Charlotte Day Wilson: Cyan Blue (XL) [05-03] - r&b
• Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind (BBR) [08-23] - country [***]
• Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Adam Wiltzle: Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal (Kranky) [04-05] - ambient
• Kathrine Windfeld: Aldebaran (Stunt) [03-29] - jazz
• Mark Winkler: The Rules Don't Apply (Café Pacific) [01-12] - vocal jazz [**]
• Norma Winstone/Kit Downes: Outpiost of Dreams (ECM) [05-07] - vocal jazz [***]
• Luke Winslow-King: Flash-a-Magic (Bloodshot) [09-06] - blues-rock [*]
• Wintersun: Time II (Nuclear Blast) [08-30] - metal
• Carl Winther/Richard Andersson/Jeff "Tain" Watts: Waw! (Hobby Horse) [06-07] - jazz
• Wishy: Triple Seven (Winspear) [08-16] - shoegaze
• Wisp: Pandora (Interscope -EP) [04-05]
• Wojtek the Bear: Shaking Hands With the NME () [04-12] - indie pop
• Remi Wolf: Big Ideas (Island) [07-12] - dance-pop
• Chelsea Wolfe: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista) [02-09] - darkwave [**]
• Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn: Duo (ACT Music) [01-26] - jazz
• Marv Won: I'm Fine, Thanks for Asking (Mello Music Group) [04-05] - hip-hop
• WoochieWobbler: Is My Future Bright? (3455092 DK -EP) [01-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Jack Wood & Nichaud Fitzgibbon: Movie Magic: Great Songs From the Movies (Jazz Hang) [10-01] - vocal jazz [U]
• Al Wootton: Lifted From the Earth (Berceuse Heroique)
• Lizz Wright: Shadow (Blues & Greens) [04-12] - vocal jazz [*]
• Wu-Lu: Learning to Swim on Empty (Warp)
• Wunderhorse: Midas (Communion) [08-30] - alt/indie
• X: Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum) [08-02] - postpunk [*]
• Xaviersobased: Keep It Goin Xav (34Ent) [01-15] - hip-hop [*]
• Jamie XX: In Waves (Young) [09-20] - electropop [A-]
• Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor (Ninja Tune) [09-13] - art pop [***]
• Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (Island) [03-01] - art punk [**]
• John Canning Yates: The Quiet Portraits (Violette) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Ye & Ty Dolla Sign: Vultures (Yzy) [02-10] - hip-hop
• Yeat: 2093 (Field Trip/Capitol) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Yes Indeed: King of Blue (Meaksuma)
• Yobs: Yobs () [05-03]
• Thom Yorke: Confídenza (XL) [04-26] - soundtrack
• Yoth Iria: Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle Productions) [11-08] - metal
• Lola Young: This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway (Island) [06-21] - alt-pop
• Michon Young: Love Is My Lane (self-released) [04-26] - soul
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Fu##in' Up (Reprise) [04-26] - rock [***]
• Young Jesus: The Fool (Saddle Creek) [05-24] - art rock
• Young Jonn: Jiggy Forever (Chocolate City Music)
• Young Miko: Att. (The Wave Music Group) [04-05] - pop rap
• Your Old Drug: Movie (self-released) [06-20] - hip-hop
• yPLO: ob TRU (Feedback Moves) [01-24] - jazz
• Yung Lean & Bladee: Psykos (Year0001/World Affairs) [03-13] - post-punk
• Yungmorpheus & Alexander Spit: Waking Up & Choosing Violence () [06-28] - hip-hop
• Rachel Z: Sensual (Dot Time) [03-29] - jazz
• Zanias: Ecdysis () [02-16]
• Zawose Queens: Maisha (Real World) [06-07] - African
• Zayn: Room Under the Stairs ()
• Zeal & Ardor: Greif (self-released) [08-23] - alt-metal
• Denny Zeitlin: Panoply (Sunnyside) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Miguel Zenón: Golden City (Miel Music) [08-30] - jazz [A-]
• Tucker Zimmerman: Dance of Love (4AD) [10-11] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Dann Zinn: Two Roads (Ridgeway) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: Her Melodious Lay (Tzadik) - jazz
• Zsela: Big for You ()
• Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance (self-released) [05-11] - jazz [**]
• The Zutons: The Big Decider (Icepop) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet and Friends Meet Sun Ra (Red Hot +) [06-21] - jazz [**]

Reissues, Etc.

• John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway (1975, ECM) [05-31] - jazz
• Cannonball Adderley: Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Cannonball Adderley: Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music) [04-20] - jazz [***]
• The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Live in Montreal: May 1975 (Liberation Hall) [05-17] - jazz
• África Negra: Antologia Vol. 2 (1979-90, Bongo Joe) [08-02] - African [A-]
• The Monty Alexander Trio: Montreux Alexander: Live! at the Montreux Festival (1976, MPS) [04-20] - jazz
• Armand Hammer: BLK LBL (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-24] - hip-hop
• Louis Armstrong: Louis in London (1968, Verve) [07-12] - jazz [A-]
• Art Ensemble of Chicago: A Jackson in Your House (1969, BYG Actuel) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Atrás del Cosmos: Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (1980, Blank Forms Editions) [04-19] - jazz [A-]
• Albert Ayler With Don Cherry: 1964 Recordings [First Visit Completed] (Ezz-Thetics) [07-26] - jazz
• Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live [First Visit] (1964, Ezz-Thetics) [11-15] - jazz
• Derek Bailey/Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [***]
• Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective) [04-20] - jazz [**]
• Duck Baker: Breakdown Lane: Free Jazz Guitar 1976-1998 (ESP-Disk) [11-01] - jazz [U]
• Robbie Basho: Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings (Tompkins Square -5CD) [12-06]
• William Basinski: September 23rd (1982, Temporary Residence) [09-23] - electronic [*]
• Steve Beresford/Anne Marie Beretta: Dancing the Line (1985, WeWantSounds) [09-06] - jazz
• Black Artist Group: For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Ran Blake/Dave Knife Fabris: Live Amsterdam 2006 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [09-19] - jazz
• Arthur Blythe Quartet: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet: Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [A-]
• Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata: Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle) [05-24] - jazz [A-]
• Anthony Braxton: Solo Bern 1984 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [04-19] - jazz
• Anthony Braxton: Solo Bern 1984 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [09-22] - jazz
• Broadcast: Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp) [05-03] - electronic [B]
• Marion Brown: Three for Shepp to Gesprächsfetzen Revisited (1966-68, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
• Jack Bruce: Smiles and Grins: Broadcast Sessions 1970-2001 (Esoteric) [03-29] - jazz
• The Bug: Machine (Relapse) [09-09] - illbient
• Raymond Burke: The Southland Recordings 1958-1960 (Jazzland) [04-09] - jazz [*]
• Burnt Sugar/The Arkestkra Chamber: The Reconstru-Ducted Repatriation Road-Rage ReMiXeS (Avantgroidd) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• George Cartwright's GloryLand PonyCat: Black Ants Crawling (2003, Mahakala Music) [02-11] - jazz [**]
• Children of the Sun: Ofamfa (1971, Moved-by-Sound) [06-03] - jazz
• Codeine: The White Birch (Numero Group) [07-00] - noise rock
• Codeine: Frigid Stars LP (Numero Group) [07-00] - noise rock
• Codeine: Barely Real (Numero Group) [07-00] - noise rock
• Nat King Cole: Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) [04-20] - jazz [**]
• Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) [03-22] - jazz [A-]
• John Coltrane Quartet + Stan Getz + Oscar Peterson: Live/Dusseldorf March 28th, 1960 (Lantower) [03-25] - jazz [*]
• John Coltrane 4tet: Live in France July 27/28 1965: The Complete Concerts (Fingerpoppin) - jazz
• Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South (PH/Loma Vista/Concord) [11-15] - hip-hop
• Ford Dabney's Syncopated Orchestras: After Midnight (1917-22, Archeophone) [05-17] - jazz
• Die Like a Dog [Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/William Parker/Hamid Drake]: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994, Cien Fuegos) [07-19] - jazz
• DJ Notoya: Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87 (Wewantsounds/Electric Bird) [03-15] - jazz-funk [B-]
• Eric Dolphy: At the Five Spot to Iron Man Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
• Georgann Eubanks: Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology (Music Maker -4CD) [01-08] - blues
• Bill Evans: The Legendary Trio at Birdland 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
• Bill Evans: In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music, 2CD) [11-29] - jazz [U]
• Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus (1979-93, Jazz in Britain, 3CD) [05-29] - jazz [***]
• Joe Fonda: From the Source (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj -23) [2023-12-15] - jazz
• Franco & OK Jazz: Franco Luambo Makiadi Presents Les Editions Populaires (1968-1970) (Planet Ilunga) [02-29] - African [A-]
• Jan Garbarek Quartet: Afric Pepperbird (1970, ECM) [01-03] - jazz [***]
• Gastr del Sol: We Have Dozens of Titles (1993-98, Drag City) - jazz [**]
• Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker: WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Gebru: Souvenirs (1977-85, Mississippi) [02-23] - Africa [***]
• Stan Getz: Unissued Session: Copenhagen 1977 (SteepleChase) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Stan Getz & Bill Evans: Previously Unreleased Recordings (1963, Verve) [02-23] - jazz
• Ghetto Brothers: Power-Fuerza (1972, Vampisoul) [01-16] - Latin funk [*]
• Terry Gibbs Dream Band: Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) [10-11] - jazz [U]
• Johnny Griffin Quartet: Live in Valencia 92 [The Jordi Suñol Archives 3] (Storyville) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Grupo Irakere: Grupo Irakere (1976, Mr Bongo) [01-26] - Cuban [A-]
• Grupo Irakere: Teatro Amadeo Roldan Recital (1974, Mr Bongo) [03-15] - Cuban
• Vince Guaraldi: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) [07-05] - jazz
• Margo Guryan: Words and Music (1957-68, Numero Group) [06-07] - jazz
• Gush: Afro Blue (1998, Trost) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child (1968, Blue Note) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Hampton Hawes: For Real! (1958, Craft) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
• Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?: The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Aaron Yale Heisler: Guitar Sketches (Toronto 2008-24) (Bathurst Manor) [04-08] - jazz [***]
• Joe Henderson: Power to the People (1969, Craft) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto, 2CD) [11-01] - jazz [U]
• Bobby Hutcherson: Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic -7CD) - jazz
• Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: L'Intercommunal (1976-78, Souffle Continu) [06-14] - jazz
• Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes: Uganda (Dawn of African Rock) (1972, Mr Bongo) [02-16] - African
• Fumio Itabashi: Watarase (1982, Wewantsounds) [04-00] - jazz
• Skip James: Today! (Craft) [06-07] - blues
• Al Jarreau: Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) [12-06] - jazz [U]
• The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long (1988, Ubuntu Music) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Sven-Åke Johansson und Alexander von Schlippenbach: Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten Beim Turmbau zu Babel (1994, Trost) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Pete Jolly: Seasons (1970, Future Days) - jazz [*]
• Louis Jordan: World Broadcast Recordings 1944/45 (Circle) [05-01] - jazz
• B.B. King: In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) [11-29] - blues [U]
• Harold Land: The Fox (1960, Craft) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music, 2CD) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Love Child: Never Meant to Be 1988-1993 (12XU) [03-08] - rock [***]
• Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru: Solo/Duo/Trio/Quartet (2005, JMood) [03-01] - jazz [A-]
• Shelly Manne & His Men: Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) [04-20] - jazz [**]
• Charlie Mariano: Boppin' in Boston 1947-1953 (Fresh Sound) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Brother Jack McDuff: Ain't No Sunshine: Live in Seattle (1972, Reel to Real) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 12, 1975 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 1] (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [***]
• Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life (1975, ECM) [08-09] - jazz [**]
• Microstoria: Init Ding + _Snd (1995-96, Thrill Jockey) [01-26] - ambient [*]
• Ron Miles: Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) - jazz [***]
• Charles Mingus: Incarnations (1960, Candid) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Charles Mingus: Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) [01-05] - jazz
• Hank Mobley: Workout (1962, Blue Note Classic Vinyl) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Louis Moholo-Moholo: Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono: Quiet Logic (1998, WRWTFWW) [02-23] - ambient [A-]
• Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News [20th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (Legacy) [04-05]
• Lee Morgan: Search for the New Land (1964, Blue Note) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Lee Morgan: City Lights (LMRR) [03-22] - jazz
• Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (1963, Blue Note) - jazz [A-]
• Lee Morgan: The Very Best of Lee Morgan (Blue Note) - jazz [A-]
• Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (Blue Note) - jazz
• Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights (1963, Philips) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Abdallah Oumbadougou: Amghar: The Godfather of Tuareg Music Vol 1 (Strong Place) [03-01] - Saharan rock
• Tony Oxley: Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) [06-15] - jazz [***]
• Austin Peralta: Endless Planets [Deluxe Edition] (2011, Brainfeeder) [02-09] - jazz [A-]
• Sergio Prudencio: Antología 1: Obras Para La Orquesta Experimental De Instrumentos Nativos (Buh) [02-23] - modern classical
• Rail Band: Buffet Hotel De La Gare, Bamako (1973, Mississippi) [04-05] - African [A-]
• Phil Ranelin: The Found Tapes: Live in Los Angeles (1978-1981, ORG Music) [01-28] - jazz [***]
• Lou Reed: Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007, Light in the Attic) [01-12] - ambient [**]
• Emily Remler: Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29] - jazz [U]
• Olivia Rodrigo: Guts (Spilled) (Geffen) [03-22]
• Raphael Roginski: Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (2013, Unsound) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance -3CD) [04-20] - jazz [A-]
• Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1958, Blue Note) [02-12] - jazz [***]
• Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) [07-26] - jazz
• Pharoah Sanders: Festival de Jazz de Nice, Nice, France, July 18, 1971 (1971, Kipepeo Publishing) [02-04] - jazz [***]
• Maria Schneider: Decades (ArtistShare) - jazz
• Travis Scott: Days Before Rodeo (Cactus Jack/Sony/Epic) [08-23] - hip-hop
• Septet Matchi-Oul: Terremoto (1971 Souffle Continu) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Archie Shepp: Poem for Malcolm (1969, BYG Actuel) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Wayne Shorter: Odyssey of Iska (1970, Blue Note Tone Poet) [07-05] - jazz [**]
• Nina Simone: Blackbird: The Colpix Recordings (1959-1963) (Soul Music) [03-29] - jazz
• Pat Smythe Quartet: New Dawn: Live 1973 (British Progressive Jazz) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Todd Snider: Songs for the Daily Planet (Purple Version) (Aimless) - folk [**]
• Todd Snider: Viva Satellite (Purple Version) (Aimless) [04-26] - folk [*]
• Soft Machine: Høvikkoden 1971 (Cuneiform) [05-31] - jazz
• Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears (1993, Goofin') [02-09] - rock [***]
• Tomasz Stanko Quartet: September Night (2004, ECM) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• The Louis Stewart Trio: Louis the First (1975, Livia) [03-05] - jazz [***]
• Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society: Father of Origin (1970, Eremite) [08-24] - jazz
• Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective, 2CD) [04-20] - jazz [*]
• Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill (1984, Sundazed/Modern Harmonic) [05-24] - jazz [B]
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986, Strut) [05-31] - jazz
• Sun Ra Akrestra: Live at Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan 8-8-1988 (Super Fuji Discs) - jazz
• Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29] - jazz [U]
• Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance -3CD) [04-20] - jazz [A-]
• Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [03-01] - jazz
• Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [10-31] - jazz
• John Taylor/Norma Winstone/Kenny Wheeler: Azimuth (1977, ECM) [03-29] - jazz
• Richard Teitelbaum: Asparagus (1975-76, Black Truffle) [03-29] - jazz
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Singles Collection As & Bs 1939-1950 (Acrotab -3CD) [04-09] - gospel
• Charles Tolliver/Music Inc.: Live at the Captain's Cabin (Cellar Music -2CD) [11-29] - jazz
• Alan Tomlinson Trio: Loft 1993 (Scatter Archive) [03-25] - jazz [**]
• Unholy Modal Rounders: Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77 (Don Giovanni) [09-06] - folk [A]
• Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One: A Centennary Tribute: Her 50 Finest 1944-62 () - vocal jazz
• Mal Waldron: The Quest (1962, Craft/OJC) [09-27] - jazz [B]
• Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino: Reminscent Suite (1973, BBE) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
• Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music, 2CD) [04-20] - jazz [A-]
• Bobby Watson: Love Remains (1986, RED) - jazz [A]
• Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song (1996, ECM) [05-31] - jazz [B]
• Gerald Wiggins: Classic Trio Sessions 1956-1957 (Fresh Sound) - jazz
• Cootie Williams: Concerto for Cootie: Selected Recordings 1928-62 (Acrobat) [01-09] - jazz
• Jessica Williams: Orgonomic Muic (1981, Sundazed) [03-22] - jazz
• Mars Williams & Hamid Drake: I Know You Are but What Am I (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) [03-01] - jazz [A-]
• Mars Williams/Darin Gray/Chris Corsano: Elastic (2012, Corbett vs. Dempsey) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Jack Wood: The Gal That Got Away: The Best of Jack Wood, Featuring Guest Niehaud Fitzgibbon (Jazz Hang) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• The John Wright Trio: South Side Soul (1960, Craft) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• Congo Funk: Sound Madness From the Shores of the Mighty Congo River: Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982 (Analog Africa) [04-05] - African [***]
• Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89 (Soul Jazz) [04-10] - electro [**]
• Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense (A24 Music) [05-17]
• Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora 1980-93 (Soundway) [05-10] - African
• In the Beginning There Was Rhythm (Soul Jazz) [05-10] - synth-pop [***]
• The Jazz Dispensary: The Freedom Sound! The People Arise (1963-76, Craft) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut) [08-02] - African [A-]
• Legends & the Lost: Rare & Hot Jazz 1929-1931 (Frog) - jazz
• Les Belgicains: Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70 (Covadia) [04-19] - African [**]
• Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers (Oh Boy) [04-19]
• Love Hides All Faults: Deep Gospel Soul Selected by Jumbo (Elusive Vinyl/Pyramid) - gospel
• Merengue Típico, Nueva Generación! (Bongo Joe) [02-09] - merengue [A-]
• Miami Sound: More Funk and Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-1974 (Soul Jazz) - funk [**]
• My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy) [04-12] - country
• Nigerian Guitar Roots: Juju, Guitar Band Highlife 1936-1968 (El Sur -2CD) - African
• The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic) [04-20] [**]