Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 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

  • 2hollis: Star (Interscope) [04-04] - experimental hip-hop [**]
  • $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) [07-18] - hip-hop [***]
  • Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Addison Rae: Addison (As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) [06-06] - alt-pop [*]
  • Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) [04-18] [**]
  • Adult Mom: Natural Causes (Epitaph) [05-09] [**]
  • Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) [05-30] - hip-hop [***]
  • Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) [07-18] - African [*]
  • Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) [02-28] - jazz [B]
  • Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (Fönstret) [09-12] - jazz [*]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (Sciensonic -EP) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (ARC) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (Saponegro) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) - jazz [**]
  • Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville) [03-15] - jazz [B]
  • Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) [09-26] - jazz [**]
  • Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) [05-23] - jazz [***]
  • Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) [08-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) [08-08] - dance-pop [A-]
  • Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation) [08-13] - jazz [*]
  • Zoh Amba: Sun (Smalltown Supersound) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (AD93) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (Drag City) [08-29] - post-rock [***]
  • Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (Lex) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • The Ancients [Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker]: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04] - noise pop [***]
  • Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) [03-21] - soul [A-]
  • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) [02-28] - new age [*]
  • Apathy: Mom & Dad (Dirty Version/Coalmine) [06-13] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (Trost -24) [2024-09-13] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Arbenz/Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) [05-09] - indie rock [*]
  • Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) [04-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) - jazz [*]
  • Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) [02-25] - jazz [**]
  • Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) [09-26] - ethio-jazz [***]
  • Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) [01-17] - country [**]
  • Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (Zamzama) [04-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) [03-28] - electronic [B]
  • Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) [03-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) [01-05] - Latin [***]
  • David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) [08-15] - jazz [**]
  • Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) [04-18] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Jon Balke: Skrifum (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [***]
  • Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) [02-28] - alt-pop [**]
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) [03-25] - hip-hop [***]
  • Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) [07-11] - downtempo [***]
  • Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Basic: Dream City (No Quarter -EP) [03-07] - fusion [*]
  • Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) [02-21] - indietronica [B]
  • Jon Batiste: Big Money (Verve/Interscope) [08-22] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) [02-28] - indietronica [***]
  • Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (AWAL) [04-25] - power pop [**]
  • Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Benny Benack III: This Is the Life (Bandstand Presents) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) [03-21] - electropop [**]
  • Antonia Bennett: Expressions (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) [04-04] [***]
  • Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (Barefoot) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (Sony Music Argentina) [05-21] - rock en espaņol [**]
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) [04-18] - jazz [***]
  • The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-) [08-29] - jangle pop [***]
  • Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-20] - neo-soul [*]
  • Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD) [09-05] - indie rock [A-]
  • Gina Birch: Trouble (Third Man) [07-11] - post-punk [**]
  • Michael Bisio: NuMBq (Mahakala Music) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (self-released) [04-06] - jazz [**]
  • Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) [04-04] - art rock [B]
  • Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) [02-13] - hip-hop [**]
  • Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (self-released) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (Blue Note) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) [08-09] - jazz [U]
  • Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) [05-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (M.C.) [07-25] - blues [***]
  • Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (Future Archive) [02-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan) [05-02] - alt/indie [**]
  • Blood Orange: Essex Honey (RCA/Domino) [08-29] - alt-pop [*]
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (Outline) [06-26] - jazz [**]
  • Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) [07-29] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) [04-11] - art pop [*]
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Benjamin Booker: Lower (Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) [01-24] [**]
  • Booker T & the Bleeds: Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . Da Prez (Mahakala Music) [01-17] - jazz [B]
  • Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) [12-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Brom: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) [02-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewice/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (SteepleChase) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (Escapism) [07-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Rob Brown: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [B]
  • Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) [04-28] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) [02-27] - jazz [**]
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two (Avant Groid Musica) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) [01-08] - darkwave [B]
  • Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain) [08-08] - darkwave [*]
  • Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) [05-02] - indie rock [**]
  • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) [09-19] - hip-hop [**]
  • Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano) [02-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) [04-04] [B-]
  • Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (The End) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds) [06-27] - country [***]
  • Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Hwy 87) [08-08] - country [A-]
  • Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (EMI/Universal) [06-20] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Caroline: Caroline 2 (Rough Trade) [05-30] - post-rock [B]
  • Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Valory Music) [05-07] - country [*]
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island) [08-29] - pop [A-]
  • Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (Candid) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Erika de Casier: Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music) [05-08] - alt r&b [**]
  • Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (Sunnyside) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia) [01-24] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Chance the Rapper: Star Line (self-released) [08-15] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik) [04-11] - jazz [*]
  • Brian Charette: Borderless ( SteepleChase) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (SteepleChase) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) [06-30] - jazz [**]
  • Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz) [02-22] - jazz [**]
  • Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) [01-14] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler/RCA) [07-25] - country [A-]
  • The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) [02-28] - jangle pop [A-]
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Chrome Hill: En Route (Clean Feed) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) [05-02] - country [*]
  • Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) [03-14] - art pop [B]
  • Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (Blue Note) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (Origin) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) [03-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (Roc Nation) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) [08-29] - indie rock [A-]
  • Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) [02-21] - jazz [B]
  • Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (Trygger Music) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (Versa) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn) [01-29]] - jazz [B]
  • Liz Cole: I Want to Be Happy (self-released) [01-28] - jazz [B]
  • Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (Savant) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla/Roc Nation) [04-11] - funk [***]
  • Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) [03-14] - indie pop [**]
  • Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (self-released) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (Silver Sphinx) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) [04-18] - alt/indie [**]
  • Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) [02-28] - alt-pop [***]
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Alyn Cosker: Onta (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Cosmic Ear: Traces (We Jazz) [05-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Lone Star Rider/Island) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Lone Star Rider/Island) [08-08] - country [***]
  • Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) [03-07] - country [A-]
  • Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (New West) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released) [03-21] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) [01-31] - funk [**]
  • Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (MCEO/Columbia) [05-30] - art pop [**]
  • Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) [06-06] - country [**]
  • Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) - country [**]
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) [07-25] - alt/indie [*]
  • Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse) [05-02] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Weird World/Domino) [02-14] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal [*]
  • Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released) [09-09] - folk [**]
  • Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house [***]
  • Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) [02-14] - country soul [**]
  • Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) [03-07] - chamber jazz [**]
  • Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) [03-28] [**]
  • The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) [02-28] - alt-country [*]
  • Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar) [05-31] - jazz [U]
  • Dijon: Baby (R&R/Warner) [08-15] - alt-r&b [*]
  • John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [B]
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) [03-07] - indie rock [*]
  • McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (City Slang) [06-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-25] - Afrobeat [***]
  • DJ Haram: Beside Myself ( Hyperdub) [07-18] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo [**]
  • DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-23] - electronic [***]
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) [04-04] - indie pop [*]
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Doja Cat: Vie (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-26] - dance-pop [**]
  • Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place Music) - r&b [*]
  • Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (Fresh Sound New Talent) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) [03-07] - hip-hop [B]
  • Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-10] - hip-hop [**]
  • Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (Hands Made -EP) [07-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Double Virgo: Shakedown (Year0001) [07-03] - post-grunge [***]
  • Dave Douglas: Alloy (Greenleaf Music) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI North) [02-28] - dream pop [*]
  • Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) [09-12] - synthpop [*]
  • Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) [01-10] - roots rock [B]
  • Earscratcher: Otoliths (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death -EP) [07-09] - alt/indie [*]
  • Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) [08-22] - Americana [**]
  • Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation: This Time (Sunnyside) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) [05-11] - jazz [***]
  • Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) [02-07] - country [***]
  • Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) [03-08] - jazz [B]
  • Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (Ndagga) [05-09] - world [**]
  • Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) [08-29] - Peru [**]
  • Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (self-relesed -EP) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [08-15] - hip-hop [*]
  • The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) [04-06] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 002 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) [01-17] - jangle pop [*]
  • FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) [02-07] - post-punk [A-]
  • Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) [04-24] - hip-hop [*]
  • Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) [03-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
  • Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) [03-28] [A-]
  • Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Fieldwork: Thereupon (Pi) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Fines Double: Espejismo (self-released) [01-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) [01-24] - art pop [*]
  • Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar) [07-25] - indie folk [B]
  • Food House: Two House (self-released) [02-28] - hyperpop [B]
  • Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Robert Forster: Strawberries (Tapete) [05-23] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) [01-10] - indie rock [*]
  • Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (self-released) [06-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin) [03-31] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Mike Freeman Zonavibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) [07-24] - jazz [***]
  • Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop) [08-01] - dance-pop [***]
  • From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics) [06-27] - Americana [***]
  • Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (SoFa) [04-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (Libra) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (Libra) [05-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Michika Fukumori: Eternity (Summit) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Robbie Fulks: Now Then (Compass) [09-05] - folk [B]
  • Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (Turtle Bay) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union) [05-16] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) [04-11] - r&b [***]
  • Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) [05-30] - alt rock [A-]
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) [08-29] - jazz [U]
  • Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan) [09-26] [B]
  • Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (Open Mind Jazz) [08-15] - jazz [*]
  • GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) [03-07] - pop [*]
  • Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (ESGN/ALC) [07-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) [04-18] - folk [***]
  • Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (Morphius) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) [02-14] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (Patois) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (Mr Bongo) [05-16] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (XXIM) [06-20] - nu jazz [**]
  • Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (Entropic) [04-28] - jazz [C+]
  • Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) [06-20] - alt-country [**]
  • Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (J.M.I.) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (LP345) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) [01-17] - dance-pop [***]
  • Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve) [08-22] - jazz [*]
  • Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released) - jazz [A-]
  • Groovology: Almost Home (Sugartown) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) [03-05] - jazz [***]
  • Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (Resonant Music) [08-01] - jazz [***]
  • The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • The Haas Company Featguring Jerry Goodman: Thirteen (Psychiatric) [08-01] - jazz [B]
  • Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (Tare) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III (Sunnyside) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Haim: I Quit (Columbia) [06-20] - alt-pop [***]
  • Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Phil Haynes & Free Country: Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (Edition) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) [01-13] - jazz [**]
  • Heat On: Heat On (Cuneiform) [06-27] - jazz [A-]
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (La Reserve/Diggers Factory) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Andmers Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions) [10-01] - jazz [U]
  • Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (ECM) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho) [03-21] - jazz [B-]
  • Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (Savant) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (Soft Launch) [08-12] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18] - electronic [***]
  • The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (Eastern Conference) [06-06] - hip-hop [***]
  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) [04-04] - jazz [B]
  • History Dog: Root Systems (Otherly Love) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic [*]
  • The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (PIAS) [08-29] - garage rock [***]
  • Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) [06-13] - electronic [A-]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released -EP) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released -EP) [04-04] - hip-hop [*]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released -EP) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (ARC Music) [09-26] - China/India [*]
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) [02-21] - alt/indie [***]
  • William Hooker: Jubilation (ORG Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-24] - African [***]
  • The Horrors: Night Life (Fiction/Universal) [03-21] - post-punk [**]
  • Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (Matador) [02-14] - twee pop [**]
  • Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World (Get Better) [08-22] - punk [B-]
  • Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter) [09-12] - folk [***]
  • Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (Optical Substance) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) [05-02] - art-pop [***]
  • Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Ill Considered: Balm (New Soil) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) [04-04] - hip-hop [**]
  • Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (Intakt) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) [03-07] - Americana [A-]
  • Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) [01-03] - jazz [*]
  • Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (RCA) [09-12] - dance pop [**]
  • Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Jane in Ether: Oneiric (Confront) [01-25] - jazz [*]
  • Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) [03-21] - indie pop [*]
  • Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) [01-17] - slacker rock [B]
  • Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) [03-07] - K-pop [B]
  • Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) [08-01] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Eunhye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) [08-08] - hip-hop [***]
  • Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) [07-25] - country [*]
  • Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Desert (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic) [01-20] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva) [01-03] - jazz [***]
  • Rico Jones: Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (Dot Time) [01-24] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) [02-07] - jazz poetry [A-]
  • Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (BarsOverBs) [02-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) [02-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) [01-31] - African [*]
  • Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Karol G: Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) [06-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (RCA) [08-15] - synth funk [***]
  • Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (Circum/Libra) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (self-released -EP) [09-05] - jazz [U]
  • Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) [04-11] - African [**]
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) [02-11] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Rick Keller: Heroes (Vegas) [08-11] - jazz [U]
  • Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (Ramble) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) [03-06] - jazz [***]
  • Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle) [05-20] - jazz [***]
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African [B-]
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) [03-15] - jazz [***]
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) [05-01] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) [03-28] - jazz [ *]
  • KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Kneebody: Reach (GroundUP Music) [04-18] - jazz [B]
  • Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) [05-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (Royal Potato Family) [09-19] - jazz [***]
  • Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) [07-11] - afrobeat [B]
  • Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore) [09-19] - jazz [B]
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune -EP) [08-01] - deep house [**]
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (Down the Road) [03-28] - bluegrass [**]
  • Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (Red Hot Org) [07-06] - chamber music [**]
  • KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) [03-21] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Joachim Kühn: Échappée (Intakt) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (Jalopy) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (Jazzdor) [05-03] - jazz [**]
  • Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) [03-07] - electropop [***]
  • Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) [01-10] - punk [A-]
  • Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [B-]
  • Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL) [08-22] - jazz pop [**]
  • Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (XL) [07-18] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) [04-24] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) [04-04] [***]
  • Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (Ultra Sound) [09-12] - jazz [**]
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) [03-21] - anti-folk [A-]
  • Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (Matador) [06-06] - garage punk [B]
  • Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (Young Money/Republic) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi ( Pacific Coast Jazz) [09-12] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (OA2) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness) [05-16] - jazz [***]
  • Little Simz: Lotus (Little Simz) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kedr Livansky: Myrtus Myth (2MR) [03-07] - art pop [B]
  • Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (Nice Life/Atlantic) [06-27] - mixtape [*]
  • Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released) [08-14] - jazz [U]
  • Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez) [10-03] - jazz [U]
  • Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Tony Logue: Dark Horse (Jenny Ridge Productions) [02-21] - country [***]
  • Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) [01-28] - African [***]
  • Loot: Loot (ICP) [03-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) [05-25] - jazz [**]
  • Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba ( Blue Note) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (Blue Art) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Lorde: Virgin (Republic) [06-27] - alt-pop [B]
  • Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (Denouement) [03-26] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) [02-07] - blues [***]
  • M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) [05-16] - art punk [***]
  • Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) [01-01] - jazz [*]
  • Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca) [05-26] - jazz [***]
  • Joe Magnarelli: Concord (SteepleChase) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (JMood) [09-01] - jazz [U]
  • Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (Concord Jazz) [05-23] - blues [***]
  • Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya (Umsakazo) [07-25] - African [A-]
  • John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Emi Makabe: Echo ( Sunnyside) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) [02-14] - power pop [*]
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-07] - afrofuturism [***]
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Maruja: Tír na nÓg (Music for Nations -EP) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Maruja: Pain to Power (Music for Nations) [09-12] - post-rock [B]
  • Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) [06-09] - jazz [***]
  • Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) [09-26] - jazz [B]
  • Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [***]
  • Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (Summit) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West) [06-30] - country [A-]
  • Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (Challenge) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Joe McPhee: I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) [02-21] - pop [***]
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) [02-21] - metal [*]
  • Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) [08-29] - jazz [B]
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Mekons: Horror (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [A]
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (Puro Unity -EP) [09-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) [02-28] - r&b [*]
  • MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) [01-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • MindsOne: Stages (Fort Lowell) [02-07] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) [01-17] - electropop [**]
  • Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (Parco Della Musica) [02-00] - jazz [*]
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) [02-05] - jazz [*]
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) [02-28] - Saharan rock [***]
  • Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [05-02] - dance-punk [**]
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) [01-24] - shoegaze [*]
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer Live in Bergen (Edition) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) [04-04] - dream pop [**]
  • Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (Floki Studios) [05-16] - funk [*]
  • Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (Mountainrose Sparrow) [08-08] - country [*]
  • Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) [04-01] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (ESP-Disk) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch) [09-25] - jazz [***]
  • Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) [04-01] - Americana [**]
  • Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) [03-07] - post-grunge [***]
  • Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) [05-16] [**]
  • Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) [03-27] - jazz [*]
  • Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) [07-21] - blues [A]
  • Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (Whaling City Sound) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) [06-20] - jazz [**]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (self-released) [04-04] - African [***]
  • Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) [02-21] - r&b [***]
  • Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (Legendary) [02-14] - hip-hop [***]
  • Qasim Naqvi: Endling (Erased Tapes) [05-30] - jazz [*]
  • Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (Drag City) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) [04-25] - country [A-]
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (Apt. B Productions) [02-28] - hip-hop [**]
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Andy Nevada: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) [08-08] - jazz [U]
  • Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse -EP) [06-20] - country [**]
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (Invada) [05-16] - post-punk [**]
  • Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (XL) [08-22] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (Marshall) [08-29] - industrial rock [**]
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (Out of Your Head) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk) [04-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia) [08-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (Noel Okimoto Music) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) [02-07] - alt-pop [**]
  • Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • The Onions: Return to Paradise (Hitt) [04-04] - pop [C+]
  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive4 (Hausu Mountain) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) [09-12] - hip-hop [***]
  • The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) [09-19] - punk [**]
  • Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill) [05-24] - jazz [***]
  • PAL: Under Your Radar (self-released -EP) [03-07] - skronk [***]
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) [02-28] - tropical rock [*]
  • Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself) [07-18] - garage punk [A-]
  • Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Bruno Parrinha/Carlos "Zingaro"/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Enleiro (4DaRecord) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (Calligram) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (Edition) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) [04-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) [03-21] - neo-soul [A-]
  • Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) [03-04] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) [03-28] [B]
  • Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (Innervision) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (Family Owned) [02-13] - blues [**]
  • Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (Lizard Breath) [05-15] - jazz [***]
  • Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (self-released) [01-12] - country [A-]
  • Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) [01-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner -EP) [05-09] - dance pop [***]
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) [04-22] - jazz [**]
  • PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) [04-04] - tech house [**]
  • Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (Rounder) [05-16] - country [***]
  • Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-21] - indie rock [*]
  • Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) [09-26] - electronic [*]
  • Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Noah Preminger: Ballads (Chill Tone) [02-25] - jazz [***]
  • PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (Backwoodz Studioz) [03-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (Backwoodz Studioz) [08-15] - hip-hop [***]
  • Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (Sub Pop) [01-31] - trad jazz [***]
  • Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Warp) [05-09] - glitch pop [**]
  • Private Property: Private Property (Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) [01-17] - punk-jazz [***]
  • The Prize: In the Red (Anti Fade) [09-19] - power pop [**]
  • Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (Enemy) [06-27] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pulp: More (Rough Trade) [06-06] - art rock [*]
  • PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (Rise) [05-02] - indie rock [*]
  • The Quantum Blues Quartet: Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (Matic) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (Dionysus) [06-13] - electopop [**]
  • Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (Ravita Music) [08-15] - jazz [B]
  • The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (F&F) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (Blue Note) [06-20] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (Smoke Sessions) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thirst (Unmusic) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) [06-04] - jazz [U]
  • Resavoir & Matt Gold: Horizon (International Anthem) [05-23] - jazz [B]
  • Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Serpentine (Cuneiform) [09-26] - jazz [U]
  • Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (New West) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow) [07-04] - folk [*]
  • Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (Meson) [05-15] - jazz [*]
  • Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumiere (Zoning) [01-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [01-05] - jazz [**]
  • Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [**]
  • Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (Glory) [09-01] - jazz [C]
  • Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) [07-11] - jazz [***]
  • Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) [03-21] - blues [**]
  • Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. (From the Private Collection) [03-18] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Sverre Sæbo Quintet: If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Samo Salamon/Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo) [04-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura (Tapestry) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (Nonesuch) [09-19] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Samia: Bloodless (Grand Jury) [04-25] - pop [***]
  • Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language (Pacific Coast Jazz) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (Transgressive) [01-10] - alt-pop [A-]
  • Gina Saputo: Daydream (GSJQ Productions) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Michael Sarian: Esquina (Greenleaf Music) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Sault: 10 (Forever Living Originals) [04-19] [*]
  • Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (Grong) [04-01] - jazz [***]
  • Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift: Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik) [04-17] - jazz [***]
  • Stefan Schultze/Peter Ehwald/Tom Rainey: Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released) [10-17] - singer-songwriter [U]
  • Mark Scott III: Soft Light (Miller Three Publishing) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Scowl: Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans) [ 04-04] - post-grunge [***]
  • Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Polydor) [04-25] - alt-pop [***]
  • Altin Sencalar: Unleashed (Posi-Tone) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Shame: Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) [09-05] - post-punk revival [B]
  • The Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (K/Perennial Death) [03-21] [*]
  • Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork [***]
  • Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (Music Maker -EP) [06-01] - blues [**]
  • Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [**]
  • Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (American Dream) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa (Chill Tone) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Kalie Shorr: My Type (Pound It Out Loud -EP) [08-01] - country [***]
  • ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (Fused Arrow) [08-05] - hip-hop [**]
  • Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) [02-28] - dance-pop [***]
  • Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (self-released) [09-12] - jazz [U]
  • Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) [05-02] - jazz [B]
  • Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) [02-11] - punk [*]
  • Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Alex Sipiagin: Daydream (SkyDeck Music) - jazz [B]
  • Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) [06-27] - jazz [*]
  • Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) [03-06] - hard dance [A-]
  • Skaiwater: #mia (GoodTalk/Capitol -EP) [02-14] - hip-hop [*]
  • Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) [04-01] - electronic [B-]
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [05-30] - jazz [***]
  • Slick Rick: Victory (Mass Appeal) [06-13] - hip-hop [***]
  • Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu) [07-18] - UK bass [*]
  • Ches Smith: The Self (Tzadik) [03-01] - jazz [*]
  • Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • ERR: stream no grade: Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1
  • Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • Junior Smith and His Remote Rangers: Junior Smith's Remote Round Up (self-released) [01-30] - jazz [*]
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information: New Perspective (Drum Legacy) [02-07] - jazz [B]
  • Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (Intakt) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Snowpoet: Heartstrings (Edition) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Something Blue: In the Beginning (Posi-Tone) [06-20] - jazz [*]
  • Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) [01-17] - African [***]
  • Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) [04-11] - jazz [*]
  • Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) [06-27] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Sparks: MAD! (Transgressive) [05-23] - art pop [B-]
  • Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Land of Hopes & Dreams (Columbia) [05-20] [A-]
  • Sprints: All That Is Over (City Slang/Sub Pop) [09-26] - garage punk [***]
  • Squid: Cowards (Warp) [02-07] - art rock [*]
  • Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (Sunnyside) [09-19] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus Music) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (Jalopy) [09-19] - folk [B-]
  • Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Duophonic/Warp) [05-23] - indietronica [*]
  • Laura Stevenson: Late Great (Really) [06-27] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (Edition) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Luke Stewart/Silt Rembrance Ensemble: The Order (Cuneiform) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (International Anthem) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (Cloverdale) [05-23] - country [A-]
  • Bartees Strange: Horror (4AD) [02-14] - indie rock [*]
  • Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) [01-10] - jazz [B-]
  • Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (Sunnyside) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Sumac and Moor Mother: The Film (Thrill Jockey) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (Endectomorph Music -EP) [05-09] - jazz [*]
  • Sun & Rain: Waterfall (Out of Your Head) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge) [08-22] - indie rock [**]
  • Swans: Birthing (Young God/Mute) [05-30] - post-rock [B]
  • Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida/Warner) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (Aunt Daddy) [08-01] - country [A-]
  • Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Music) [02-28] - UK hip-hop [***]
  • Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) [09-26] - jazz [A-]
  • Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann/Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Tanto (Innocent) [03-18] - jazz [***]
  • Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (Libra) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (Vegas) [08-18] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (Taylormade/Def Jam) [08-22] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Kae Tempest: Self Titled (Island) [ 07-04] - UK hip-hop [A-]
  • Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (Brownswood/Parlophone) [04-25] - neo-soul [B]
  • These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (Domino) [05-23] - art pop [*]
  • Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (Nyahh) [09-18] - jazz [***]
  • Pat Thomas: Hikmah (TAO Forms) [11-07] - jazz [U]
  • Patricia Thomson: Your Love (PT Designs Productions) [10-01] - jazz [U]
  • Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (Casa De Copas) [08-08] - bluegrass [***]
  • Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi) [09-26] - jazz [U]
  • Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • The Third Mind: Live Mind (Yep Roc) [02-14] - Americana [**]
  • The Third Mind: Right Now! (Yep Roc) [09-19] - Americana [***]
  • Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) [05-29] - jazz [***]
  • Diala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (Dlala) [04-25] - African [***]
  • Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (Leo33) [08-29] - country [**]
  • Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (FMR) [07-01] - jazz [U]
  • Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • Tropos: Switches (Endectomorph Music) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (Margetoile) [08-01] - jazz [*]
  • Premik Russell Tubbs & Margee Minier-Tubbs: The Bells (Margetoile) [10-15] - jazz [U]
  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind) [03-07] - jangle pop [*]
  • Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming (4AD) [06-16] [*]
  • Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Mark Turner: Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (Bossier City) [04-11] - country [*]
  • Turnstile: Never Enough (Roadrunner) [06-06] [*]
  • Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch) [08-15] - bluegrass [**]
  • William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) [04-25] - new age [*]
  • Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (Columbia) [07-21] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kali Uchis: Sincerely (Capitol) [05-09] - pop soul [**]
  • UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (1332) [03-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (Pi) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl) [04-25] - indie rock [**]
  • Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [07-11] - world/electronic [*]
  • Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas) [03-01] - jazz [**]
  • UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1: Double or Nothing (Vegas) [08-25] - jazz [B]
  • Us3: Soundtrack (Us3) [08-22] - pop jazz [B]
  • Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) [02-07] - new wave [*]
  • Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Chris Varga: Breathe (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (Copenhagen Crates) [03-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (Origin) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (Raw Tonk) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys (Shrimptech/YEAR0001) [04-25] - art punk [***]
  • Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (Enid) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) - jazz [*]
  • Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (self-released) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Vlure: Escalate (Music for Nations) [09-26] [**]
  • Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (ADW) [08-01] - jazz [***]
  • Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost (Oh Boy) [06-20] - country [***]
  • Michael Waldrop: Native Son (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (Ladylike/Sony) [08-01] - country [***]
  • Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (Jules) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (New West) [02-21] - alt-country [*]
  • The War and Treaty: Plus One (Mercury/UMG Nashville) [02-14] - country [B-]
  • Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (Carpark) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan) [04-13] - jazz [B]
  • Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (Matador) [08-22] [A-]
  • Reggie Watkins: Rivers (BYNK) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • WDR Big Band: Bluegrass (MCG Jazz) [03-01] - jazz [*]
  • The Weather Station: Humanhood (Fat Possum) [01-17] - art pop [*]
  • Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (Out of Your Head) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Wednesday: Bleeds (Dead Oceans) [09-19] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (Pi) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Jesse Welles: Middle (self-released) [02-21] - folk rock [**]
  • Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino) [07-11] - indie rock [**]
  • Wheelhouse: House and Home (Aerophonic) [07-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Hailey Whitters: Corn Queen (Pigasus/Big Loud) [06-06] - country [A-]
  • Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (Ear Up) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • Wayne Wilkinson: Holly Tunes (self-released) [11-07] - jazz [U]
  • Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic) [08-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (International Anthem) [08-28] - jazz [**]
  • Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Simón Willson: Feel Love (Endectomorph Music) [09-25] - jazz [**]
  • Steven Wilson: The Overview (Fiction) [03-14] - prog rock [*]
  • Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (Sunnyside) [06-20] - jazz [*]
  • Sarah Wilson: Incandescence (Brass Tonic) [07-18] - jazz [*]
  • Jessica Winter: My First Album (Lucky Number) [07-11] - alt-pop [**]
  • Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice (Earthly Habit) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Carolyn Wonderland: Truth Is (Alligator) [05-16] - blues [**]
  • Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) [05-09] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Brandon Woody: For the Love of It All (Blue Note) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Wretch 32: Home? (AWAL) [05-02] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (36 Chambers/DNA Music) [04-12] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Clay Wulbrecth: The Clockmaster (Instru Dash Mental) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Y: Y (Hideous Mink -EP) [04-04] - dance-punk [**]
  • Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (Sunnyside) [01-31] - jazz [***]
  • John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points in Time (See Tao) [07-11] - big band [**]
  • Yoko Yates: Eternal Moments (Banka) [09-19] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Yeule: Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (Ninja Tune) [05-30] - indietronica [**]
  • YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (AD 93) [03-21] - art punk [A-]
  • Motoharu Yoshizawa/Kim Dae Hwan: Way of the Breeze (1993, NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (Reconstruction) [08-15] - alt-country [A-]
  • Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise) [04-18] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (The Other Shoe/Reprise) [06-13] - country rock [A-]
  • The Young Mothers: Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) [02-21] - jazz-hop [**]
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor (Jazz Is Dead) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (Impulse!) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/Flo Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Na Parede (4DaRecord) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (4DaRecord) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • James Zito: Zito's Jump (self-released) [04-15] - jazz [*]
  • Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [B]

Reissues, Etc.

  • Bar-B-Q Killers: Part 1: The Last Shit (Chunklet Industries -EP) [06-01] - garage rock [B]
  • Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 2 (1968, Red) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Blackbyrds: City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962, Craft) [03-25] - blues [A-]
  • The Bitter Ends: The Bitter Ends (Trouble in River City) [05-01] - post-punk [A-]
  • Borghesia: Clones (1984, Dark Entries) [05-07] - electronic [**]
  • Charles Brackeen: Rhythm X (1968, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Johnny Bragg: Let Me Dream On (Org Music) [03-07] - r&b [*]
  • The Brass Company: Colors (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Anthony Braxton: B-X0 N0-47A (1969, BYG) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (Old Heaven Books) [03-24] - jazz [***]
  • Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974, Numero Group) [06-13] - experimental [*]
  • Dave Burrell/Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Stanley Cowell: Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Stanley Cowell: Regeneration (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Such Great Friends (1983, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Marshall Crenshaw: From the Hellhole (Yep Roc) [08-29] [B-]
  • Walter Davis Jr: A Being Such as You (1979, Red) [04-14] - jazz [*]
  • The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Manu Dibango: Dibango 82 (1982, We Want Sounds) [04-04] - African jazz [**]
  • Armen Donelian: Stargazer (Sunnyside) [10-03] - jazz [**]
  • Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [***]
  • Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998, In Sheep's Clothing) [06-27] - electronic [***]
  • Marco Eneidi Quartet: Wheat Fields of Kleyehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) [04-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ellery Eskelin: Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Bill Evans: Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Shamek Farrah: First Impressions (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith: The World of the Children (1976, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) [02-25] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1972, Misissippi) [05-23] - African [B]
  • Dexter Gordon: Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) [07-04] - jazz [**]
  • John Gordon: Step by Step (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Green Cosmos: Abendmusiken (1981-82, Frederiksberg) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964, Craft -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • Woody Guthrie: Woody at Home: Vol 1 + 2 (1951-52, Shamus) [08-14] - folk [*]
  • Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (Tzadik) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Billy Harper: Capra Black (1973, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Joe Henderson: Multiple (1973, Craft) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • John Hicks: Hells Bells (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • John Hicks: Steadfast (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich 2.5 (self-released) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973, BMG) [02-28] - blues [A-]
  • William Hooker: A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition (2005-22, Domino) [09-05] - electropop [**]
  • Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Hüsker Dü: Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 (1985, Numero Group -EP) [07-01] - postpunk [**]
  • Hüsker Dü: Nov. 3, Salt Lake City (Numero Group) [07-29] - postpunk [*]
  • Keith Jarrett: New Vienna (2016, ECM) [05-30] - jazz [***]
  • Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers: African Party [Deluxe Edition] (1967, Innovative Collective/BBE Music) [01-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Lonnie Johnson With Elmer Snowden: Blues & Ballads (1960, Craft) [03-14] - blues [*]
  • Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010, Sunnyside) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Kynard: Woga (1972, We Want Sounds) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Mazinga: Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Rubber Wolf?) [01-12] - punk [***]
  • Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles [IA11 Edition] (2012, International Anthem) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Nellie McKay: Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos (Omnivore) [05-09] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Misha Mengelberg/Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Mac Miller: Balloonerism (REMember Music/Warner) [01-17] - hip-hop [***]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance -2CD) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
  • James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [05-23] - African [***]
  • Gerry Mulligan: Nocturne (1992, Red) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Kinloch Nelson: Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 (Tompkins Square) [08-22] - folk guitar [**]
  • Jovino Santos Neto Quartet: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995 (Origin) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • The New York Bass Violin Choir: The New York Bass Violin Choir (Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • David "Fathead" Newman/Ellis Marsalis/Cornell Dupree: Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990, Amazing/Steady Boy) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Alick Nkhata: Radio Lusaka (Mississippi) [08-15] - African [***]
  • Kristen Noguès & John Surman: Diriaou (1998, Souffle Continu) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album (1998, TIBProd.) [02-15] - jazz [*]
  • Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (1999, TIBProd.) [01-02] - jazz [**]
  • Mark O'Leary Group: I See Further Than You (2001, TIBProd.) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom of Speech (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Cecil Payne: Zodiac (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Art Pepper: Geneva 1980 (Omnivore) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Art Pepper: An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2 (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (1972, Columbia) [05-02] - prog rock [*]
  • Grace Potter: Medicine (2008, Hollywood) [05-30] - country [***]
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Sings "Walkin' and Talkin'" and Other Smash Hits [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Yep Roc) [06-06] - blues [**]
  • Charlie Rouse: Two Is One (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • The Charlie Rouse Band: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (Resonance) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink: Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) [05-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Serengeti: Mixtape 2 (self-released) [03-07] - hip-hop [*]
  • Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Lives! (Aka the Burden of Black Genius) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1967-73, Sony/Legacy) [02-13] - soul [**]
  • Sly & the Family Stone: The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 (High Moon) [04-12] - soul [B]
  • Soft Works: Abracadabra (2002, MoonJune) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Game [Ten Year Edition] (2015, Vinyl Digital) [02-00] - hip-hop [***]
  • Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) [07-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Louis Stewart: I Thought About You (1977, Livia) [05-29] - jazz [**]
  • Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) [01-24] - electronic [A-]
  • Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) [04-16] - jazz [***]
  • Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Sun Ra: On Jupiter (1979, Saturn/Strut) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) [01-31] - jazz [***]
  • Atef Swaitat: Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) [07-20] - Arabic [***]
  • Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) [05-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • John Taylor: Tramanto (2002, ECM) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua (1969, BYG Actuel) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live in Tompkins Square Park 1967 (Inky Dot Media) [08-07] - jazz [**]
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 1: Song of Soil (1979, We Want Sounds) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 2: Colour of Dream (1979, We Want Sounds) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Tolliver With Gary Bartz/Herbie Hancock/Ron Carter/Joe Chambers: Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Tolliver's Music Inc: Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Orchestra: Impact (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Compassion (1977, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Tolliver: Live in Berlin: At the Quasimodo (1988, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Trigger: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 3 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977, Souffle Continu) [04-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) [02-01] - blues [*]
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 Mississippi -EP) [02-28] - alt/indie [*]
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) [03-20] - ambient [***]
  • Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) [03-07] - folk rock [***]
  • African Jazz Invites O.K. Jazz (1961-70, Planet Ilunga) [05-02] - African [***]
  • Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean (1950s-70s, Strut) [06-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (Bureau B) [03-21] - krautrock [B]
  • Music Is a Message From Space (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa) [05-02] - African [***]
  • Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Colection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois, 2CD) [03-31] - Latin jazz [*]
  • Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï: The Ecstatic Electro Sound of Original Raï Cassettes 1986-1991 (We Want Sounds) [03-25] - rai [***]
  • Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (Matsuli Music) [05-16] - African [**]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 4: 763
  • Priority 5: 255

Total: 1018