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 [**]
• 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: Interaction (Anzic) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• @xcrswx: Moodboard (Feedback Moves) [12-05] - jazz [***]
• $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) [07-18] - hip-hop [***]
• Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• Idris Ackamoor Ankhestra/Rhodessa Jones/Danny Glover: Artistic Being (Strut) [04-25] - 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 [***]
• Aesop Rock: I Heard It's a Mess There Too (Rhymesayers) [10-27] - hip-hop [A-]
• Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [***]
• Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) [07-18] - African [*]
• Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
• Agnas Bros.: Sista Försöket (Moserobie) [09-26] - jazz [***]
• Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) [01-31] - jazz [**]
• Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [*]
• Sophie Agnel: Learning (Otoroku) [10-03] - jazz [***]
• أحمد [Ahmed]: سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
• 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 [**]
• Eric Alexander: Like Sugar (Cellar Live) [09-12] - jazz [***]
• Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek) [09-12] - math pop [**]
• Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville) [03-15] - jazz [B]
• Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs (Lumo) [11-05] - jazz [***]
• Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) [01-10] - jazz [***]
• JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) [09-26] - jazz [**]
• Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG) [10-24] - alt-pop [***]
• 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 [***]
• Marshall Allen: The Omniverse Oriki (High Two) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
• Allo Darlin': Bright Nights (Slumberland) [07-11] - indie pop [**]
• ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) [01-24] - drumstep [A-]
• Joe Alterman Feat. Houston Person: Brisket for Breakfast (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
• Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) [08-08] - dance-pop [A-]
• Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) [08-01] - jazz [A-]
• Rodrigo Amado: The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) [10-10] - jazz [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 [***]
• Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (Glitterbeat) [05-23] - Arabic [**]
• David Amram: Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy) - jazz [A-]
• Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (Lex) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
• Ancient Infinity Orchestra: It's Always About Love (Gondwana) [09-26] - jazz [*]
• The Ancients [Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker]: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
• Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Bruno Angelini/Sakina Abdou/Angelika Niescier: Lotus Flowers (Abalone) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04] - noise pop [***]
• Annahstasia: Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-13] - singer-songwriter [*]
• 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-]
• Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy (Backwoodz Studioz/Rhymesayers) [11-07] - hip-hop [***]
• Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) - jazz [*]
• Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) [02-25] - jazz [**]
• Ashé Mystics: Fizzy Bubble Hummm (High Two) [08-29] - jazz [***]
• Ashnikko: Smoochies (Parlophone) [10-17] - electropop [***]
• Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) [09-26] - ethio-jazz [***]
• Ata Kak: Batakari (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [11-07] - African [***]
• Atmosphere: Jestures (Rhymesayers) [09-19] - hip-hop [A-]
• 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 [***]
• Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) [05-16] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• Kal Banx: Rhoda (Top Dawg Entertainment) [08-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Bar Italia: Some Like It Hot (Matador) [10-17] - indie rock [A-]
• Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
• MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) [03-25] - hip-hop [***]
• Kenny Barron: Songbook (Artwork) [11-14] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• Martin Bejerano: The Purple Project (Figgland) [11-21] - jazz [B-]
• Sonya Belaya: Dacha (Ropeadope) [10-10] - jazz [**]
• Believe: Spirits of the Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch) [09-26] - jazz [***]
• Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) [03-07] - jazz [***]
• Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) [08-00] - 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 [**]
• Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers: Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out) [09-12] - 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 español [**]
• 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 [*]
• Justin Bieber: Swag (Def Jam/Numbers) [07-11] - alt-pop [B]
• Justin Bieber: Swag II (Def Jam) [09-05] - pop-soul [B-]
• 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 [**]
• Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (Drag City) [09-26] - electronic [***]
• Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) [01-17] - jazz [**]
• Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) [08-22] - 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 [***]
• Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) [05-21] - hip-hop [***]
• Blawan: SickElixir (XL) [10-10] - UK bass [*]
• Theo Bleckmann: Love and Anger (Sunnyside) [10-31] - vocal jazz [B]
• Lena Bloch/Kyoko Kitamura: Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-14] - jazz [**]
• 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 [**]
• Jane Ira Bloom/Brian Shankar Adler: Once Like a Spark (Adhyâropa) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Bloomers: Cyclism (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [***]
• Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) [01-03] - jazz [**]
• Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) [07-29] - hip-hop [A-]
• Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus: Is That Jazz? (Fonterossa) [04-08] - jazz [***]
• Silvia Bolognesi: Jungle Duke (Caligola) - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (Black Truffle) [09-12] - jazz [**]
• Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) [03-28] - jazz [***]
• Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) [10-24] - jazz [A-]
• Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) [07-18] - jazz [***]
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
• Bright Eyes: Kids Table (Dead Oceans -EP) [10-03] [*]
• Jakob Bro Large Ensemble: New Morning (Loveland Music) [01-31] - jazz [*]
• Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
• Jakob Bro & Midori Takada: Until I Met You (Loveland Music) [09-12] - jazz [**]
• Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marilyn Crispell/Andrew Cyrille: The Montclair Session (Loveland Music) [10-01] - jazz [*]
• Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marcus Gilmore: Murasaki (Loveland Music) [10-03] - jazz [**]
• 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-]
• Danny Brown: Stardust (Warp) [11-07] - hip-hop [***]
• Rob Brown/Brandon Lopez/Juan P Carletti: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• David Broza & Omer Avital: Brozajazz: Paris Alhambra (Magenta) [11-06] - vocal 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 [***]
• The Bug: Implosion (Pressure) [11-21] - ambient dub [*]
• 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 [*]
• Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel) [10-03] - Dj mix [**]
• Caitlin Cannon: Love Addict (self-released) [05-09] - country [*]
• Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) [05-02] - indie rock [**]
• Caelan Cardello: Chapter One (Jazz Bird) [08-29] - jazz [**]
• Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) [09-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Cardiacs: LSD (The Alphabet Business Concern) [09-19] - art punk [C+]
• 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-]
• Carrier: Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love) [10-24] - ambient dub [*]
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) [06-13] - jazz [***]
• Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) [02-28] - jazz [***]
• George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: South From a Narrow Arc (self-released) [01-13] - 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 [***]
• The Castellows: Homecoming (Warner Music Nashville) [05-30] - country [**]
• 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]
• Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (Tak:til) [06-27] - jazz/folk [*]
• 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 [**]
• Che: Rest in Bass (10K) [07-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) [05-23] - jazz [*]
• Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) [04-25] - jazz [***]
• Juan Chiavassa: Fourth Generation (Whirlwind) [10-10] - 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]
• Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors: Orangina (UnderPool) [09-17] - jazz [**]
• 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-]
• The Close Readers: Trees of Lower Hutt (Austin) [11-06] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Cat Clyde: Live at Rare Bird Farm: A Benefit Album for Western North Carolina (Socan Canada) [02-19] - country [**]
• CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) [08-29] - indie rock [A-]
• Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your 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 [**]
• Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
• Steve Cohn/Billy Stein: Up From the Soil (Hathor Music) [10-03] - jazz [U]
• 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 (HighNote) [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 . . . Add Voice (Silver Sphinx) [08-22] - jazz [***]
• Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (Tapete) [08-22] - indie rock [*]
• Haley Heynderickx/Max García Conover: What of Our Nature (Fat Possum) [11-21] - folk [***]
• The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) [04-18] - alt/indie [**]
• Convergence: Reckless Meter (Capri) [12-05] - jazz [*]
• Braxton Cook: Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk) [08-29] - jazz [*]
• Hollie Cook: Shy Girl (Mr Bongo) [10-10] - reggae [**]
• Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) [02-28] - jazz [*]
• Chick Corea: Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance (2020, Candid) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• Paul Cornish: You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) [08-22] - jazz [**]
• Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) [02-28] - alt-pop [***]
• Cortex & Hedvig Mollestad: Did We Really? (Sauajazz) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• 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-]
• The Cosmic Tones Research Trio: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) [10-24] - jazz [*]
• Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
• Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
• Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) [05-09] - ambient [B]
• 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 [*]
• Theo Croker/Sullivan Croker: Play (ACT Music) [11-14] - jazz [B]
• Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) [03-07] - country [A-]
• Joy Crookes: Juniper (Insanity) [09-19] - neo-soul [***]
• 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 Fleur 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-]
• Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG) [09-05] - art pop [***]
• Damana: Rhizome (Umulius) [11-28] - jazz [**]
• Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [***]
• Lao Dan: To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch) [05-23] - jazz [**]
• Lao Dan/Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness) [11-08] - jazz [U]
• Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) [06-06] - country [**]
• Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) - country [**]
• Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love (Resonance) [08-29] - jazz [**]
• Daoud: Ok (ACT Music) [08-29] - jazz [*]
• Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp (Neighbourhood) [10-24] - UK hip-hop [A-]
• Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
• Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
• Brittany Davis/Evan Flory-Barnes/D'Vonne Lewis: Black Thunder (Loosegroove) [06-13] - jazz [***]
• 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]
• Laura De Jongh: Fundus (Klankhaven -EP) [06-08] - jazz [*]
• De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky (Mass Appeal) [11-21] - hip-hop [**]
• Dead Pioneers: Po$t American (Hassle) [04-11] - punk [A-]
• Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal [*]
• Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music) [04-04] - jazz [*]
• Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (Capitol/Polydor) [09-26] - pop soul [*]
• Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house [***]
• Deena: This Is the Time (-EP) [09-19] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
• Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) [08-22] - alt-metal [B-]
• Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round (Blue Note) [03-28] - vocal jazz [**]
• The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) [02-14] - country soul [**]
• Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) [10-10] - country [***]
• Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released) [09-09] - folk [**]
• Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite) [07-14] - jazz [**]
• Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) [03-07] - chamber jazz [**]
• Dena DeRose: Mellow Tones (HighNote) [05-30] - vocal jazz [**]
• Erez Dessel: Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [07-11] - jazz [*]
• Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) [03-28] [**]
• The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) [02-28] - alt-country [*]
• Madi Diaz: Fatal Optimist (Anti-) [10-10] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• 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]
• Sam Dillon: My Ideal (Cellar Music) [07-25] - jazz [**]
• 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 K: Radio Libertadora! (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [08-08] - Brazil funk [**]
• DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo [**]
• DJ Love/DJ Danz/DJ Ericnem: Budots World: 3-Hit Combo! (Eastern Margins) [12-03] - EDM [***]
• DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-23] - electronic [***]
• DJ Travella: Twende Dance Classics (Nyege Nyege Tapes -EP) [02-26] - afrobeat [***]
• 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 [***]
• Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune (Dot Dash) [11-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) [03-07] - hip-hop [B]
• Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra: Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase) [05-16] - jazz [**]
• Pierre Dørge/Kirk Knuffke: Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase) [11-14] - jazz [***]
• 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 [*]
• Chandler Dozier: Bakersfield East ( -EP) [08-29] - country [***]
• Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas: A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
• Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) [04-04] - jazz [***]
• Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-14] - jazz [***]
• Nick Dunston: Colla Voce: Praylewd (Out of Your Head) [01-31] - jazz [B]
• Nick Dunston: Reverse Broadcast (Carrier) [06-06] - jazz [B]
• Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) [09-12] - synthpop [*]
• Mia Dyberg/Axel Filip: Hobby House (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• 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 [A-]
• Ryan Ebaugh/Matt Crane/Cameron Presley: Detergent (ScatterArchive) [11-24] - jazz [***]
• Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) [03-14] - jazz [***]
• Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) [02-28] - jazz [***]
• Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death -EP) [07-09] - alt/indie [*]
• Editrix: The Big E (Joyful Noise) [07-25] - experimental rock [*]
• Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) [08-22] - Americana [**]
• Effie: Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It's Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie (Sound Republica -EP) [08-01] - hyperpop [B]
• 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 [***]
• El Infierno Musical: II (Klanggalerie) [08-07] - jazz [**]
• El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown) [09-05] - hip-hop [B-]
• Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
• Kurt Elling/Christian Sands: Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) [08-22] - vocal jazz [B-]
• John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
• Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Ornithology/Maqām) [03-21] - jazz [*]
• Amir ElSaffar: New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) [11-07] - jazz [***]
• Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) [02-07] - country [***]
• Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
• Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (Verve/Opal) [06-06] - ambient [*]
• 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 [*]
• EsDeeKid: Rebel (Lizzy/XV -EP) [06-20] - UK hip-hop [*]
• Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) [08-29] - Peru [**]
• Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) [05-09] - jazz [**]
• Silvana Estrada: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote) [10-17] - chamber folk [*]
• Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (self-relesed -EP) [03-14] - country [**]
• Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) [05-02] - jazz [**]
• Peter Evans' Being & Becoming: Ars Ludicra (More Is More) [10-17] - jazz [***]
• Peter Evans, Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - 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 [*]
• The Expert: Vivid Visions (Rucksack) [09-26] - hip-hop [**]
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Last Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey -2CD) [08-15] - Jjazz [A-]
• FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) [02-07] - post-punk [A-]
• Carter Faith: Cherry Valley (MCA Nashville) [10-03] - country [**]
• 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 [***]
• Feeo: Goodness (AD 93) [10-10] - ambient [B]
• Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
• R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It (Ruby Yacht/Alpha Pup) [10-24] - hip-hop [***]
• 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 [***]
• Robert Finley: Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool You (Easy Eye) [10-10] - blues [A-]
• Craig Finn: Always Been (Tamarac) [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 [*]
• Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream (Polydor/Republic) [10-31] - art rock [*]
• Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet: Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) [08-26] - 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]
• For Living Lovers: Natural Name (Sunnyside) [11-07] - jazz [*]
• For Those I Love: Carving the Stone (September) [08-08] - spoken word [***]
• Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) [10-24] - jazz [***]
• Al Foster: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) [12-05] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk) [10-10] - prog folk [B]
• 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 [***]
• Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) [10-31] - jazz [***]
• From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics) [06-27] - Americana [***]
• Fuerza Regida: 111xpantia (Rancho Humilde/Street Mob/Sony Music Latin) [05-02] - Latin [**]
• 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-]
• Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick (Libra) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
• Michika Fukumori: Eternity and a Day (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 [**]
• Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) [03-07] - alt-country [*]
• Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
• Alex G: Headlights (RCA) [07-18] - RCA [B-]
• 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 [**]
• Gaudi: Jazz Gone Dub (Dubmission) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• Julius Gawlik: It's All in Your Head (Unit) [11-20] - jazz [***]
• 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 [***]
• Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) [05-16] - jazz [*]
• Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) [10-24] - jazz [*]
• Frode Gjerstad/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen: Seven Tracks (Relative Pitch) [08-22] - 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+]
• Alison Goldfrapp: Flux (A.G.) [08-15] - electropop [**]
• Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) [02-14] - jazz [*]
• Vinny Golia/Ken Filiano/Michael TA Thompson: Catastasis (Nine Winds) [09-05] - jazz [**]
• The Vinny Golia Quintet: Out for Blood (Nine Winds) [12-29] - jazz [*]
• Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) [03-14] - 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 [**]
• Vanisha Gould: She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live -24) [2024-11-08] - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) [02-21] - art pop [*]
• Gordon Grdina/Jim Black: Martian Kitties (577) [03-25] - jazz [**]
• Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve) [08-22] - jazz [*]
• David Greenberger & the Hi-Ho Barbers: Ginger Ale (Pel Pel) [11-17] - spoken word [A-]
• Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) [07-25] - jazz [**]
• Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) [05-30] - jazz [**]
• David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released) - jazz [A-]
• Gregory Groover Jr.: Old Knew (Criss Cross Jazz) [11-07] - jazz [***]
• 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 [***]
• Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (No Quarter) [11-07] - psychedelic folk [**]
• John Gunther: Painting the Dream (Origin) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) [06-10] - jazz [***]
• Buddy Guy: Ain't Done With the Blues (Silvertone/RCA) [07-30] - blues [***]
• Gwenno: Utopia (Heavenly) [07-11] - art pop [*]
• 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-]
• Hamell on Trial: Dirty Xmas (Saustex) [11-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Scott Hamilton: Looking Back (Stunt) - jazz [**]
• Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
• Hang on the Box: Spiritual War (Beijing Modern Sky Cultural Development) - post-punk [**]
• Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) [06-13] - jazz [*]
• Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [**]
• Lafayette Harris Jr.: All in Good Time (Savant) [11-07] - jazz [**]
• Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) [04-18] - jazz [*]
• Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
• Billy Hart: Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Kat Hasty: Time of Your Life (Jackie Java/Thirty Tigers) [03-14] - country [**]
• Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) [05-16] - jazz [**]
• Alexander Hawkins/Taylor Ho Bynum: A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt) [09-12] - 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 [**]
• Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (1996-2025, 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 [**]
• Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock [***]
• Heat On [Lily Finnegan]: Heat On (Cuneiform) [06-27] - jazz [A-]
• Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
• Joshua Hedley: All Hat (New West) [10-24] - country [**]
• Heems: A Hundred Alibis (Veena -EP) [10-31] - hip-hop [B-]
• 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/Anders Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) [05-02] - jazz [*]
• Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions) [10-01] - jazz [***]
• Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (ECM) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• Fred Hersch/Rondi Charleston: Suspended in Time: A Song Cycle (Resilience Music Alliance) [02-07] - 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 [***]
• The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) [09-18] - jazz [**]
• Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) [01-31] - Brazilian jazz [*]
• Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone) [07-18] - jazz [*]
• Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) [04-04] - jazz [B]
• Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• 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 [***]
• Jim Hobbs/Timo Shanko: The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [**]
• Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) [10-03] - jazz [**]
• Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) [05-20] - jazz [**]
• 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-]
• Peter Holsapple: The Face of 68 (Label 51) [04-18] - jangle pop [B]
• 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 [**]
• Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man) [06-20] - shoegaze [B]
• Nathan Hubbard: Territory Games (Castor & Pollux Music) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) [01-25] - 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 [***]
• Hvalfugl: Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [*]
• Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
• ICP Orchestra: Happy Birthday → Naar Zee Z.O.Z. (ICP) [07-02] - jazz [**]
• Johnny Iguana: At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark) [04-11] - jazz [**]
• 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 [**]
• Chris Ingham Quintet: Walter/Donald (Downhome) [05-13] - jazz [*]
• Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
• Instant Arts Quartet: Lingua Franca (High Two) [08-08] - 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 [*]
• Italian Surf Academy + Denver Butson: Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel) [05-06] - jazz [A-]
• Ternion Q Expanded: Marbles (Bju'ecords) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) [03-21] - jazz [**]
• Carrie Jackson: Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) [06-08] - jazz [**]
• Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) [08-01] - jazz [**]
• Jackzebra: Hunched Jack Mixtape (Surf Gang) [10-03] - cloud rap [B]
• Hannah Jadagu: Describe (Sub Pop) [10-24] - dream pop [*]
• Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (RCA) [09-12] - dance pop [**]
• Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [***]
• Nicholas Jamerson: The Narrow Way (Cloverdale) [09-12] - country [**]
• James K: Friend (AD93) [09-05] - ambient pop [**]
• 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]
• Jazzwrld & Thukuthela: The Most Wanted (Waltz Music Group/Empire) [09-18] - amapiano [**]
• 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-]
• Simon Jermyn/Otis Sandsjö/Petter Eldh/Lukas Akintaya: Obsany (Elastic) [02-28] - jazz [**]
• JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) [08-08] - hip-hop [***]
• Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) [07-25] - country [*]
• Jess Jocoy: Cul-de-Sac Kid (self-released) - country [**]
• Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) [01-24] - jazz [***]
• Sven-Åke Johansson With Pierre Borel/Seymour Wright/Joel Grip: Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku) [07-25] - jazz [***]
• Aubrey Johnson/Helen Sung/Dave Douglas: Lives of the Saints: Portraits in Song With Words by David Hadju (Sunnyside) [04-25] - vocal jazz [*]
• Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) [01-17] - 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 [***]
• Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (Empire) [09-26] - dance-pop [A-]
• 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 [**]
• Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (self-released) [12-03] - jazz [*]
• Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) [01-31] - African [*]
• Laura Jurd: Rites & Revelations (New Soil) [10-17] - jazz [A-]
• 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-]
• The Kasambwe Brothers: The Kasambwe Brothers (MASS MoCA) - African [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 [**]
• Tyler Keith: I Confess (Black & Wyatt) [11-28] - garage rock [**]
• KeiyaA: Hooke's Law (XL) [10-31] - soul [*]
• 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 [**]
• Kesha: . [Period] (Kesha) [07-04] - electropop [A-]
• Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) [03-06] - jazz [***]
• Killah Priest & Purpose: Abraxas 2 (Proverbs) [09-21] - hip-hop [*]
• Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle) [05-20] - jazz [***]
• Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African [B-]
• Kin'Gongolo Kiniata: Kiniata (Helico Music) [04-04] - African [A-]
• 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 [*]
• Kokayi: Live at Big Ears: The Standard Knoxville, TN (Why!Not) [08-28] - jazz [***]
• Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore) [09-19] - jazz [B]
• Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• Vladimir Kostadinovic: Iris (Criss Cross Jazz) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Mon Laferte: Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin) [10-24] - Latin [**]
• Lagon Nwar: Lagon Nwar (AirFono) [03-28] - jazz [***]
• Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) [01-10] - punk [A-]
• Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) [03-07] - jazz [**]
• Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [*]
• Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (Summer House/Epic) [09-26] - dance-pop [*]
• The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre (Island) [10-17] - baroque pop [B]
• 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 [**]
• Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer) [09-26] - singer-songwriter [**]
• 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-]
• Brennen Leigh: Don't You Ever Give Up on Love (Signature Sounds) [10-03] - country [A-]
• Leikeli47: Lei Keli Ft. 47/For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover) [06-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) [02-14] - jazz [*]
• Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian) [09-12] - baroque pop [***]
• 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] [***]
• Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GamsbART -24) [2024-11-08] - jazz [B]
• 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-]
• Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta/Defkaz) [05-23] - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Liquid Mike: Hell Is an Airport (AWAL) [09-12] - power pop [*]
• 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 [**]
• Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) [10-10] - jazz [*]
• Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) [03-21] - country [***]
• Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez) [10-03] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• David Lord: Way Over the Rainbow (Cloud Ear) [12-12] - jazz [*]
• Lorde: Virgin (Republic) [06-27] - alt-pop [B]
• Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (Denouement) [03-26] - jazz [*]
• Russ Lossing Trio: Moon Inhabitants (Sunnyside) [02-21] - jazz [*]
• Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert (Blaser Music) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Demi Lovato: It's Not That Deep (Island) [10-24] - dance-pop [*]
• Loveseat: Our Way (Reckless Pedestrian) [04-25] - Americana [A-]
• Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) [02-07] - blues [***]
• K. Curtis Lyle/Alex Cunningham: Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) [08-01] - jazz [**]
• M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) [05-16] - art punk [***]
• Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) [01-01] - jazz [*]
• Seth MacFarlane: Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve) [06-06] - 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 [***]
• 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 [*]
• Fabia Mantwill Orchesrtra: In.Sight (GroupUP Music) [07-25] - jazz [**]
• Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington (Origin) [11-21] - vocal jazz [**]
• 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 [**]
• Nicolas Masson: Renaissance (ECM) [03-14] - jazz [**]
• Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) [06-06] - jazz [***]
• Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) [06-09] - jazz [***]
• MC BF & DJ Yuzak: Bebeto E Romário (Mandelão, EP) [09-17] - Funk brasilero [**]
• 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]
• Makaya McCraven: Techno Logic (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [**]
• Makaya McCraven: The People's Mixtape (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [***]
• Makaya McCraven: Hidden Out! (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [*]
• Makaya McCraven: PopUp Shop (2015, International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [**]
• Makaya McCraven: Off the Record (International Anthem) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• 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 [**]
• Dave McMurray: I Love Life Even When I'm Hurting (Blue Note) [11-14] - 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 Say'n (Smalltown Supersound) [03-07] - jazz [**]
• Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) [08-11] - 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 [**]
• Vaiano's Paisanos: Viaino's Paisanos Presents Rachel Meirs & Van Burchfield (Jalopy) [08-19] - folk [**]
• 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 [***]
• John Michel/Anthony James: Egotrip (Loudmouth) [05-23] - hip-hop [**]
• Tony Miceli: Nico's Dream (SteepleChase) [07-18] - jazz [**]
• Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) [02-28] - r&b [*]
• Miffle: Goodbye, World (self-released) [09-05] - ambient [*]
• MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) [01-31] - hip-hop [**]
• Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO) [10-10] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Neal Miner: Invisibility (Cellar Music) [09-05] - jazz [***]
• Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [*]
• Kelsey Mines/Erin Rogers: Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [B]
• Kelsey Mines/Vinny Golia: Collusion and Collaboration (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - jazz [B]
• 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 [*]
• Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (RogueArt) [10-13] - jazz [**]
• Mobb Deep: Infinite (Mass Appeal) [10-10] - hip-hop [B]
• 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 [**]
• Monaleo: Who Did the Body (Stomp Down/Columbia) [10-17] - hip-hop [**]
• 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 [*]
• Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) [04-01] - jazz [*]
• Kelly Moran: Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) [10-01] - ambient [***]
• Thomas Morgan: Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• 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 [***]
• Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (Columbia) [05-09] - country [***]
• Van Morrison: Remembering Now (Exile) [06-13] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) [04-01] - Americana [**]
• Gurf Morlix: Bristlecone (Rootball) [10-07] - Americana [A-]
• Fred Moten & Brandon López: Revision (TAO Forms) - jazz [***]
• Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [A-]
• Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) [03-07] - post-grunge [***]
• The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Thirty Tigers) [11-07] - indie folk [A-]
• Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) [05-16] [**]
• Azuka Moweta and His Anioma Brothers Band: Ekobe Global (Palenque) [01-01] - African [***]
• 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-]
• Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) [09-26] - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Max Nagl Quintett: Phasolny (Rude Noises) [06-19] - jazz [**]
• Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [11-06] - Afrobeat [**]
• Gasper Nali: Chule Chule Iwe (Spare Dog) [05-26] - African [A-]
• Nandipha808: No Vocal Album (Stena Academy) [12-05] - amapiano [***]
• 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 [**]
• Natural Information Society: Perseverance Flow (Eremite) [10-24] - jazz [***]
• Navy Blue: The Sword & the Soaring (Freedom Sounds) [11-11] - hip-hop [***]
• Nazar: Demilitarize (Hyperdub) [04-25] - kuduro [*]
• Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
• Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) [05-30] - jazz [**]
• Camila Nebbia/Michael Formanek/Vinnie Sperrazza: Live at Blow Out (Soundholes) [09-26] - jazz [***]
• Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Camila Nebbia/Gonçalo Almeida/Sylvain Darrifourcq: Hypomaniac (Defkaz) [10-15] - jazz [**]
• Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) [04-25] - country [A-]
• Willie Nelson: Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy) [11-07] - country [A-]
• Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (Apt. B Productions) [02-28] - hip-hop [**]
• Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
• Andy Nevala: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) [08-08] - jazz [***]
• Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse -EP) [06-20] - country [**]
• The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
• Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Great Intentions (Action Jazz) [09-26] - jazz [***]
• Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) [03-21] - jazz [***]
• Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (NLV) [08-08] - electronic [**]
• Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
• NMIXX: Blue Valentine (JYP Entertainment) [10-03] - K-pop [**]
• 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 [**]
• Ø: Sysivalo (Sähkö) [09-19] - electronic [B]
• 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 [***]
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) [08-28] - jazz [**]
• John O'Gallagher/Ben Monder/Andrew Cyrille/Billy Hart: Ancestral (Whirlwind) [10-24] - jazz [A-]
• 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 [**]
• Tom Ollendorff: Where in the World (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer (Warp) [11-17] - electronic [**]
• The Onions: Return to Paradise (Hitt) [04-04] - pop [C+]
• Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive4 (Hausu Mountain) [04-29] - jazz [**]
• Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) [09-05] - experimental rock [***]
• Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt) [08-29] - jazz [***]
• Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• Otherworld Ensemble: Soul Bird (Edgetone) [09-30] - jazz [**]
• Out Of/Into [Joel Ross/Gerald Clayton/Kendrick Scott/Matt Brewer/Immanuel Wilkins]: Motion II (Blue Note) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) [09-12] - hip-hop [***]
• Jake Owen: Dreams to Dream (Good Company) [11-07] - country [**]
• Keith Oxman: Home (Capri) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) [09-19] - punk [**]
• Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• PainKiller: The Great God Pan (Tzadik) [04-18] - 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-]
• Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music) [11-07] - jazz [***]
• Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) [05-23] - jazz [*]
• Zeena Parkins: Lament for the Maker (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - jazz [*]
• Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) [11-07] - 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 [***]
• Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland: Himmel Over Hav (Grappa) [06-26] - jazz [*]
• Nicholas Payton: Triune (Smoke Sessions) [08-29] - jazz [*]
• Hery Paz: Fisuras (Porta-Jazz/Carimbo) [11-26] - jazz [**]
• Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) [04-25] - hip-hop [A-]
• Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
• Grant Peeples: Code to Live By (Ping) [12-25] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• 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-]
• Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-30] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) [11-07] - jazz [*]
• Ivo Perelman/John Butcher: Duologues 4 ( Ibeji) [12-02] - jazz [A-]
• Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) [03-28] [B]
• Rich Perry: Dream (SteepleChase) [10-31] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• 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-]
• Robert Plant: Saving Grace (Nonesuch) [09-26] [*]
• Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) [04-04] - tech house [**]
• Mehmet Polat Quartet: Roots in Motion (Aftab) [03-28] - jazz [**]
• 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 [***]
• Noah Preminger: Dark Days (Criss Cross Jazz) [11-28] - 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 [A-]
• Princess Nokia: Girls (Artist House) [10-10] - hip-hop [***]
• 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 [**]
• Kojey Radical: Don't Look Down (Warner/Asylum/Bellyempty) [09-19] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Reneé Rapp: Bite Me (Interscope) [08-01] - alt-pop [**]
• Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) [01-17] - jazz [**]
• Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (Ravita Music) [08-15] - jazz [B]
• Emma Rawicz: Inkyra (ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz [B]
• Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 (1332/Brutal Music/Greenfield Music) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
• Recognize Ali & Tragedy Khadafi: The Past the Present and the Future () [07-04] - hip-hop [A-]
• Red River Dialect: Basic Country Mustard (Hinterground) [11-14] - folk rock [***]
• 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 [**]
• Cleo Reed: Cuntry (self-released) [07-17] - alt-country [*]
• Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (Smoke Sessions) [05-16] - jazz [**]
• Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thist (Unmusic) [10-24] - jazz [*]
• Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Kaiho - Live in Helsinki (Unmusic) [10-24] - jazz [*]
• Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) [06-04] - jazz [A-]
• Marcelo dos Reis "Flora": Our Time (JACC) [11-24] - jazz [***]
• Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (DeadAir) [04-04] - hyperpop [*]
• Dave Rempis/Nico Chkifi: Aula (Aerophonic) [01-31] - jazz [**]
• Dave Rempis/Russ Johnson/Jakob Heinemann/Jeremy Cunningham: Embers and Ash (Aerophonic) [08-05] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Chris Corsano: Dial Up (Aerophonic) [12-26] - jazz [***]
• Anaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44) [05-23] - jazz [**]
• 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 [*]
• Jason Rigby: Mayhem (Endectomorph Music) [08-22] - jazz [***]
• Crystabel Efemena Riley: Live at Ormside (Infant Tree -EP) [05-07] - jazz [*]
• Rio Da Yung OG: F.L.I.N.T. (Feeling Like I'm Not Through) (MINE Enertainment/Empire) [08-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumiere (Zoning) [01-01] - jazz [A-]
• Diego Rivera: West Circle (Posi-Tone) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Herb Robertson/Christopher Dell/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: Blue Transient (Nemu) [09-16] - jazz [***]
• Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [01-05] - jazz [**]
• Rick Roe: Wake Up Call: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [12-19] - jazz [A-]
• Joris Roelofs/Guus Janssen/Han Bennink: Rite of Spring (ICP) [05-08] - jazz [***]
• Juan Romeros Manuella Orkester: Lua Armonia (Supertraditional) [09-05] - jazz [**]
• Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [**]
• Rosalía: Lux (Columbia) [11-07] - flamenco pop [*]
• Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (Glory) [09-01] - jazz [C]
• Ted Rosenthal Trio: Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 (TMR) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• Juana Rozas: Tanya (Sony Music Argentina) [04-17] - Latin [**]
• Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
• Andreas Røysum Ensemble: With Marvin Tate (Motvind) [12-12] - jazz [***]
• Bobby Rozario: Healer (Origin) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) [07-11] - jazz [***]
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Yainer Horta/Joey Calveiro: A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (Calveiro Entertainment) [09-11] - 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 [**]
• Saint Etienne: International (Heavenly) [09-05] - dance-pop [***]
• Saint Pierre: Luck and Gravity (Mutchcrud Music) [10-17] - indie rock [***]
• Akira Sakata/Giotis Damianidis/Giovanni Di Domenico/Aleksandr Škorić/Paal Nilssen-Love/Petros Damianidis/Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Hyperentasis: Live in Thessaloniki (Defkaz) [10-10] - 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 [**]
• Dino Saluzzi: El Viejo Caminante (ECM) [07-11] - 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 [*]
• Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (Savant) [11-07] - 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] [*]
• Boz Scaggs: Detour (Concord) [11-17] - vocal jazz [**]
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (Grong) [04-01] - jazz [***]
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken: Double Reality Beyond Space and Time (Grong) [11-10] - jazz [A-]
• Brad Schrader: Late Nights With Brad Schrader (self-released) [11-20] - vocal jazz [U]
• Loren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra: So Many Memories (Turtle Bay) [11-07] - 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 [**]
• John Scofield/Dave Holland: Memories of Home (ECM) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
• Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released) [10-17] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• 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 [*]
• Rin Seo Collective: City Suite (Cellar Music) [10-03] - jazz [***]
• Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell: End of Something (Obliquity) [11-07] - jazz [*]
• Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
• Dave Sewelson/Steve Hirsh/Steve Swell/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Muscle Memory (Mahakala Music) [03-14] - jazz [***]
• Noura Mint Seymali: Yenbett (Glitterbeat) [11-07] - Saharan [***]
• Shame: Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) [09-05] - post-punk revival [B]
• Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (K/Perennial Death) [03-21] - alt-indie [*]
• Sharp Pins: Balloon Balloon Balloon (K/Perennial) [11-21] - alt-indie [**]
• Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
• Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork [***]
• Mark Sherman: Bop Contest (Miles High) [11-07] - jazz [**]
• Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (Music Maker -EP) [06-01] - blues [**]
• Shifa: Ecliptic (Discus Music) [07-25] - jazz [***]
• Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
• Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl (ATO) [09-26] - singer-songwriter [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 [***]
• Nick Shoulders: Refugia Blues (Gar Hole) [10-31] - country [**]
• ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (Fused Arrow) [08-05] - hip-hop [**]
• Shrunken Elvis: Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl) [09-05] - ambient [**]
• Deborah Shulman: We Had a Moment (Summit) [10-24] - vocal jazz [*]
• Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) [02-28] - dance-pop [***]
• Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (self-released) [09-12] - jazz [B]
• Silt Remembrance Ensemble [Luke Stewart]: The Order (Cuneiform) [04-25] - jazz [***]
• Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) [05-02] - jazz [B]
• Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) [02-11] - punk [*]
• Laura Ann Singh: Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) [10-24] - jazz [**]
• 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 [*]
• Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions (International Anthem) [09-26] - jazz [**]
• Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) [04-01] - electronic [B-]
• Skrillex: Hit Me Where It Hurts X (Atlantic/Owsla -EP) [11-21] - electronic [B]
• Slash Need: Sit & Grin (self-released) [10-21] [***]
• 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 [*]
• Smerz: Big City Life (Escho) [05-23] - art pop [**]
• Ches Smith: The Self (Tzadik) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love) [06-06] - jazz [***]
• 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 [***]
• SML: How You Been (International Anthem) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• Todd Snider: High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless) [10-17] - folk [A-]
• Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant) [02-21] - jazz [***]
• Snocaps: Snocaps (Anti-) [10-31] - indie rock [A-]
• Snowpoet: Heartstrings (Edition) [05-23] - jazz [*]
• Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music) [06-13] - jazz [*]
• Maria Somerville: Luster (4AD) [04-25] - dream pop [*]
• Something Blue: In the Beginning (Posi-Tone) [06-20] - jazz [*]
• Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) [01-17] - African [***]
• Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) [04-11] - jazz [**]
• Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) [04-11] - jazz [*]
• Omar Sosa: Sendas (Otá) [11-21] - jazz [*]
• Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) [06-27] - vocal jazz [***]
• Sparks: MAD! (Transgressive) [05-23] - art pop [B-]
• Vinnie Sperrazza/Jacob Sacks/Masa Kamaguchi: Play Elmo Hope (Fresh Sound) [10-28] - jazz [**]
• Spinifex: Maxximus (Trytone) [11-14] - jazz [***]
• Split System: Live in Stockholm 2023 (Legless) [07-17] - punk [A-]
• Split System: No Cops in Heaven/Pull the Trigger (Legless -EP) [10-02] - punk [**]
• Kandace Springs: Lady in Satin (SRP) [05-09] - jazz [*]
• 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-]
• Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World (Anti-) [11-07] - soul [A-]
• Ben Stapp: Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) [10-24] - jazz [**]
• Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Live at the Hungry Brain (Trost) [10-31] - jazz [***]
• 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 [**]
• Grant Stewart: Next Spring (Cellar Music) [10-10] - 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 [*]
• Thomas Strønen/Time Is a Blind Guide: Off Stillness (ECM) [10-17] - jazz [*]
• Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) [01-10] - jazz [B-]
• Yuhan Su: Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music) [10-17] - jazz [***]
• Sudan Archives: The BPM (Stones Throw) [10-17] - art pop [A-]
• Suede: Antidepressants (BMG) [09-05] - alt-rock [*]
• 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 一 (Endectomorph Music -EP) [05-09] - jazz [*]
• Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (二) (Endectomorph Music) [11-14] - 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-]
• Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) [10-03] - alt-pop [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 [**]
• Sophie Tassignon: A Slender Thread (Nemu) [06-27] - jazz [*]
• Ziv Taubenfeld/Helena Espvall/João Sousa: You, Full of Sources and Night (NoBusiness) [11-08] - jazz [A-]
• Chad Taylor Quintet: Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) [11-14] - 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]
• Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers: Glory (Mom + Pop Music) [11-07] - alt/indie [**]
• 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 [*]
• They Are Gutting a Body of Water: Lotto (Julia's War/ATO) [10-17] - shoegaze [*]
• 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 [***]
• Things of This Nature: Things of This Nature (Mahakala Music) [09-05] - jazz [*]
• Patricia Thomson: Your Love (PT Designs Productions) [10-01] - jazz [B]
• Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (Casa De Copas) [08-08] - bluegrass [***]
• Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi) [09-26] - jazz [***]
• 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 [***]
• Time Cow: Scaring 1100 Chickens to Death (Kullijhan) [03-21] - dancehall [*]
• Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) [01-31] - jazz [**]
• Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (Leo33) [08-29] - country [**]
• Tortoise: Touch (International Anthem) [10-24] - post-rock [**]
• Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne) [04-04] - jazz [*]
• Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (FMR) [07-01] - jazz [**]
• Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) [02-07] - jazz [***]
• Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) [04-11] - jazz [**]
• Maxine Troglauer: Hymn (Fun in the Church) [06-06] - 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 [B]
• 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 [***]
• 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 [**]
• Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (dBpm) [09-26] - singer-songwriter [**]
• 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 [*]
• Adia Vanheerentals: Taking Place (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [B]
• Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [**]
• Ken Vandermark: October Flowers for Joe McPhee (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [10-31] - jazz [**]
• Kalia Vandever: Another View (Northern View) [11-14] - 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 [***]
• Luís Vicente: Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta) [10-06] - jazz [*]
• Luis Vicente/John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: No Kings! (JACC) [10-06] - jazz [***]
• Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) - jazz [*]
• David Virelles: Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove) III [Theatrical Cut] (El Tivoli Productions) [10-03] - 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 [***]
• Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (Ladylike/Sony) [08-01] - country [***]
• Rufus Wainwright With the Pacific Jazz Orchestra: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers) [11-21] - 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 [**]
• Colter Wall: Memories and Empties (La Honda) [11-14] - country [**]
• Johannes Wallmann: Not Tired (Shifting Paradigm) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (Jules) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• Jennifer Walton: Daughters (Local Action) [10-24] - art pop [B]
• 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-]
• Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble: Groove in the Face of Adversity (Mack Avenue) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan/Sony Music) [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 [**]
• Jesse Welles: Pilgrim (self-released) [07-04] - folk rock [**]
• Jesse Welles: Devil's Den (self-released) [08-22] - folk rock [*]
• Jesse Welles: With the Devil (self-released) [08-22] - folk rock [**]
• Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (April '24-September '24) (self-relesed) [03-21] - folk-rock [A-]
• Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (October '24-December '24) (self-relesed) [09-26] - folk-rock [***]
• The Westerlies: Paradise (Westerlies) [06-13] - jazz [**]
• Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino) [07-11] - indie rock [**]
• Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) [01-31] - jazz [**]
• 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]
• Chris Williams: Odu: Vibrations II (AKP) [09-26] - prog electronic [**]
• 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 [**]
• WNC WhopBezzy/70th Street Carlos: Out the Blue (WNC) [11-10] - hip-hop [**]
• Wolf Alice: The Clearing (Columbia/RCA) [08-22] - alt-rock [*]
• Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) [02-14] - jazz [**]
• Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Liminal (Verve/Opal) [10-10] - ambient pop [**]
• Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal (Verve/Opal) [06-06] - ambient pop [**]
• Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
• Tommy Womack: Live a Little (Schoolkids) [12-05] - singer-songwriter [***]
• 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 [**]
• Stephane Wrembel: Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life) [11-14] - jazz [***]
• Wrens: Half of What You See (Out of Your Head) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
• 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 [**]
• Eri Yamamoto/Matthew Shipp: Horizon (Mahakala Music) [09-26] - jazz [**]
• 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]
• Yes Deer: Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Superpang) [02-28] - jazz [**]
• 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-]
• Lola Young: I'm Only F**king Myself (Island/Day One) [09-19] - indie pop [**]
• 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 [*]
• Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 23: Hyldon (Jazz Is Dead -EP) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Adrian Younge: Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead) [04-18] - jazz [*]
• Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (Impulse!) [06-13] - jazz [*]
• Zanussi 3: A Keen Beast (Sauajazz) [10-24] - jazz [***]
• Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
• Carlos "Zingaro"/Bruno Parrinha/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Enleio (4DaRecord) [04-25] - jazz [***]
• 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 (James Zito Music) [04-15] - jazz [*]
• Gabriel Zucker: Confession (Boomslang) [11-21] - jazz [**]
• Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [B]

Reissues, Etc.

• Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe: Sidewalks in Motion (2001, Survival) [01-31] - jazz [***]
• Ansamblul Hyperion: Conducerea Muzicală: Iancu Dumitrescu (1980, Corbett vs. Dempsey) [01-10] - electronic [A-]
• Derek Bailey/John Stevens: The Duke of Wellington (1989, Confront) [08-12] - jazz [*]
• 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 [***]
• Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta: Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983, Craft) [10-03] - Latin jazz [*]
• Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973, Muse/Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [**]
• Luke Bell: The King Is Back (2013-16, All Blue/Thirty Tigers) [11-07] - alt-country [A-]
• Han Bennink & Misha Mengelberg: ICP010 (1971, ICP) [11-25] - jazz [*]
• Big L: Harlem's Finest: Return of the King (Mass Appeal) [10-31] - hip-hop [***]
• The Bitter Ends: The Bitter Ends (Trouble in River City) [05-01] - post-punk [A-]
• Blackbyrds: City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) [07-11] - jazz [*]
• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962, Craft) [03-25] - blues [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 [**]
• Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) [06-04] - jazz [A-]
• Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [A-]
• Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (2015, 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-]
• Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey: On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) [01-17] - jazz [**]
• Ray Charles: No One Does It Like . . . Ray Charles! (1964-65, Tangerine) [11-21] - r&b [A-]
• Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy: African Skies (1993, Listening Position) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) [05-02] - jazz [**]
• Jacques Coursil: Black Suite (1969, BYG) [10-08] - 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-]
• Miles Davis: The Musings of Miles (1955, Craft) [04-18] - jazz [**]
• 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 [**]
• Docteur Nico: Presents African Fiesta Sukisa 1966-1974 (Planet Ilunga) [12-05] - African [A-]
• Michel Doneda & Frédéric Blondy: Points of Convergence (2014, Relative Pitch) [09-26] - 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 [***]
• Dub Syndicate: Obscured by Version (1989-96, On-U Sound) [02-28] - dub [***]
• Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998, In Sheep's Clothing) [06-27] - electronic [***]
• Marco Eneidi Quintet: Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (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 [**]
• Bill Evans: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft -3CD) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Bill Evans: Portraits at the Penthouse: Live in Seattle (1966, Resonance) [12-05] - jazz [**]
• The Bill Evans Trio: Moon Beams (1962, Craft) [05-30] - jazz [***]
• Ivan Farmakovskiy: Epic Power (2010, SteepleChase) [08-08] - 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 [**]
• Ella Fitzgerald: Live at the Concertgebouw 1961 (The Lost Recordings) - vocal jazz [**]
• Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [**]
• Fred Frith/Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (2002-05, Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [***]
• Fred Frith: Fred Frith and the Gravity Band (Klanggalerie) [01-11] - jazz [**]
• Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Muse/Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [*]
• Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1972, Misissippi) [05-23] - African [B]
• Herb Geller Quartet: Barcelona Session (1990, Fresh Sound) [11-28] - jazz [***]
• Melvin Gibbs: Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain) [10-14] - fusion [**]
• Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins: Sonny Side Up (1957, Verve) [12-24] - jazz [***]
• Benny Golson: Gone With Golson (1959, Craft) [07-25] - jazz [***]
• Dexter Gordon: Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) [07-04] - jazz [**]
• John Gordon: Step by Step (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Arkady Gotesman: Music for an Imaginary Ballet (2000-25, NoBusiness) [10-03] - jazz [A-]
• Green Cosmos: Abendmusiken (1981-82, Frederiksberg) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Griot Galaxy: Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
• 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 [**]
• Billy Harper: Trying to Make Heaven My Home (1979, MPS) [10-08] - 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 [***]
• Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released -EP) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
• Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria (Dirty Looks) [07-24] - hip-hop [**]
• Homeboy Sandman & Guidance: Tears of Joy (self-released -EP) [10-03] - 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 [**]
• Charlie Hunter/Bobby Previte/Skerik/Steven Bernstein: Omaha Diner (2013, SideHustle) [11-20] - 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 [*]
• Hüsker Dü: 1985: The Miracle Year (Numero Group) [11-07] - postpunk [**]
• Ibex Band: Stereo Instrumental Music (1976, Muzikawi) [04-11] - jazz [***]
• Khan Jamal: Give the Vibes Some (1974, Souffle Continu) [11-16] - jazz [***]
• 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 [*]
• Joseph Kamaru: Heavy Combination 1966-2007 (Disciples) [10-31] - African [A-]
• Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010, Sunnyside) [05-02] - jazz [**]
• Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook) [10-24] - jazz [**]
• Roland Kirk Quartet: Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (MIG) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) [11-28] - jazz [***]
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance -2CD) [11-28] - jazz [A-]
• Charles Kynard: Woga (1972, We Want Sounds) [06-27] - jazz [***]
• Oliver Lake: Live From Studio Rivbea 1975 & 1976 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 4] (NoBusiness) [11-20] - jazz [***]
• Yusef Lateef: Golden Flower: Live in Sweden (1967-72, Elemental Music) [12-05] - jazz [***]
• Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet: Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24, Cellar Music -2CD) [09-19] - jazz [**]
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Power to the People: Live at the One to One Concert (1972, Universal) [10-10] [**]
• Agustin Pereyra Lucena: Puertos De Alternativa (1988, Far Out) [06-20] - jazz [*]
• Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
• Edison Machado: Edison Machado & Boa Nova (1978, Far Out) [03-28] - Brazilian jazz [*]
• 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 [**]
• Cecil McBee: Mutima (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [*]
• Stephen McCraven: Wooley the Newt (1979, Moved-by-Sound) [09-12] - 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-]
• Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Thelonious Monk: Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) [12-12] - jazz [A-]
• James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [A-]
• Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan (1960, Craft) [06-27] - jazz [**]
• Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (1967, Blue Note) [12-25] - jazz [*]
• Morphine: Bootleg Detroit [Deluxe Edition] (1994, Rykodisc/Rhino) [04-12] - alt-rock [**]
• Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [05-23] - African [***]
• Mujician: In Concerts (1993-2010, Jazz in Britain) [10-23] - jazz [***]
• Gerry Mulligan: Nocturne (1992, Red) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Yusuf Mumin: Journey to the Ancient (We Want Sounds) [10-31] - 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 [***]
• Bobby Naughton Trio: Housatonic Rumble: Live at Charlie's Tap (1985, NoBusiness) [11-08] - 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 (1977, Resonance) [09-19] - jazz [*]
• Pharoah Sanders: Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) [09-30] - jazz [**]
• Jean Schwarz: Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002) (Transversales Disques) [11-07] - electronic [***]
• 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 [*]
• Serengeti: Ajai 2 the Reimagine (self-released) [02-17] - hip-hop [*]
• Serengeti: Universe (2022, CC King) [04-22] - hip-hop [B]
• Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble: [The Complete] Live at Antibes (1970, BYG/Actuel) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra: Luna Surface (1969, BYG-Actuel) [10-10] - jazz [**]
• Horace Silver: Silver in Seatte: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) [10-24] - jazz [A-]
• 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) [01-15] - 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: Tramonto (2002, ECM) [09-19] - jazz [**]
• Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia: Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) - jazz [**]
• Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua (1969, BYG Actuel) [02-21] - jazz [**]
• Those Poor Bastards: Songs of Desperation [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Tribulation) - country [*]
• 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: Presents Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2: Shades of Sound (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-]
• François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Après La Marée Noire: Vers Une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle (1979, Souffle Continu) [03-21] - jazz [A-]
• Charles Tyler Ensemble: Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) [12-05] - jazz [*]
• Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
• Mal Waldron: Candy Girl (1975, Strut) [09-05] - jazz [*]
• The Lost-Secret Dave Wells' Trombone City Band: Live at Carmelo's (1983, Fresh Sound) - jazz [*]
• Mike Westbrook Orchestra: The Cortège: Live at the BBC 1980 (Cadillac) [11-14] - jazz [**]
• Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) [02-01] - blues [*]
• Jessica Williams: Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) [11-21] - jazz [***]
• Tony Williams: Civilization (1986, Blue Note) [04-18] - jazz [*]
• X-Cetra: Summer 2000 [Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition] (2000, Numero Group) [01-17] - indie pop [A-]
• Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 Mississippi -EP) [02-28] - alt/indie [*]
• Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) [03-20] - ambient [***]
• Lester Young: Lester Leaps In: Live at Birdland 1951-1952 (Liberation Hall) [12-25] - jazz [***]
• Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) [03-07] - folk rock [***]
• Zig-Zag Band: Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998 (Analog Africa) [11-07] - African [A-]
• 3 Concerts Per a A.T.: In Der Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [12-12] - jazz [*]
• African Jazz Invites O.K. Jazz (1961-70, Planet Ilunga) [05-02] - African [***]
• Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64, Blue Note) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Born in the City of Tanta: Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi From Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75 (Sublime Frequencies) [03-25] - Arabic [***]
• The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) [10-31] - jazz [A-]
• 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 Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois, 2CD) [03-31] - Latin jazz [*]
• Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) [06-06] - 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: 1238
• Priority 5: 296

Total: 1534