1.16...Ella Fitzgerald...Ella at Zardi's...Verve

2.14...Nicola Ratti...The Collection...Room40

3.13...Superchunk...What A Time to Be Alive...Merge

4.13...Ilyas Ahmed...Closer to Stranger...MIE Music

5.13...Various Artists...Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Folk Tradition...Great Smoky Mountains Association

6.12...Lily Chao...Chinese Folk Songs...Akuphone

7.12...Red River Dialect...Broken Stay Open Sky...Paradise of Bachelors

8.12...memorygarden...district...Constellation Tatsu

9.12...The Nu-Rons...All My Life b/w Disco Hustle...Soul Junction

10.12...Sunwatchers...II...Trouble in Mind

11.11...Alexandra Atnif...Rhythmic Brutalism Vol. 1 & 2...EM Records

12.11...Grand Analog...Survival EP...self-released

13.10...RGB...Inferior Goods...Raundhaus

14.10...Kate McGarry/ Keith Ganz/ Gary Versace...The Subject Tonight Is Love...Brinxtown

15.9...los Yetis...los Yetis...Vinilisssimo

16.9...Various Artists...Usiende Ukalale: Omutibo from Rural Kenya...Olvido Records

17.9...Celer + Forest Management...Landmarks...Constellation Tatsu

18.9...Hookworms...Microshift...Domino

19.9...No Age...Snares Like a Haircut...Drag City

20.9...Hollie Cook...Vessel of Love...Merge

21.9...Hot Snakes...The Incomplete Hot Snakes...Sub Pop

22.8...Bat Fangs...Bat Fangs...Don Giovanni

23.8...Rose...Transference...Constellation Tatsu

24.8...Profligate...Somewhere Else...Wharf Cat

25.8...Various Artists...HardCore Harp...Electro-Fi

26.8...Ty Segall...Freedom's Goblin...Drag City

27.8...Various Artists...Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label...Numero Group

28.8...Evidence...Weather or Not...Rhymesayers Entertainment

29.7...Alvarius B....With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven Vol. 1...Abduction

30.7...ISS...ISS...Sorry State

31.7...Des Demonas...Des Demonas...In the Red

32.7...Matt Southern...Tiny Sun...self-released

33.7...los Chicos Malos...los Chicos Malos...Vampisoul

34.6...Born Ruffians...Uncle, Duke and the Chief...Yep Roc

35.6...Amigo...And Friends...self-released

36.6...Jon Shain   ...Gettin' Handy with the Blues: A Tribute to the Legacy of W.C. Handy...self-released

37.6...Grieves...Running Wild...Rhymesayers Entertainment

38.6...you and me (Aine O'Dwyer)...Beast Diaries...self-released

39.6...Tune-Yards...I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life...4AD

40.5...Hakobune...Parhelion...Constellation Tatsu

41.5...Various Artists...Our Voltage...Girlsville

42.5...H.C. McEntire...Lionheart...Merge

43.5...Xylouris White...Mother ...Bella Union

44.5...Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee...Farewell Transmission b/w The Dark Don't Hide It...Dead Oceans

45.5...She-Devils...She-Devils ...Secretly Canadian

46.5...Various Artists...Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973...Light in the Attic

47.5...Phumphuang Duanchan...Lam Phloen Phumphuang Duanchan...EM Records

48.5...Laurel Halo...Dust...Hyperdub

49.4...The James Hunter Six...Whatever It Takes...Daptone

50.4...S.E. Ward...Leaving...Bull City Records Presents

51.4...King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard...Polygondwanaland...ATO

52.4...Hanz...Plasty I ...Tri-Angle

53.4...Kalbata...Enkuan EP...Optimo Trax

54.4...Black Loops & Innocent Soul...High Cutz...Toy Tonics

55.4...Dub Oven...Skin 'N' Bones...Music From Memory

56.4...Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band...Dreaming in the Non-Dream...No Quarter

57.4...Boubacar Traore...Dounia Tabolo...Lusafrica

58.4...Super Static Fever...Silent Dynamic Torture...Numero

59.3...P.A.T. Junior...Four Days Before 11...self-released

60.3...Mammoth Grinder...Cosmic Crypt...Relapse

61.3...SUSS...Ghost Box...self-released

62.3...Reese McHenry & the Fox...High Comma...self-released

63.3...Do Make Say Think...Stubborn Persistent Illusions...Constellation

64.3...Bonnie 'Prince' Billy...Wolf of the Cosmos...Drag City

65.3...Rui Filipe Reis...Rui Filipe Reis...Rossio

66.3...Jon Brion...Lady Bird OST...Lakeshore/ Fire

67.3...Brooklyn Rider...Spontaneous Symbols...In a Circle

68.3...Lindstrom...It's Alright Between Us As It Is...Smalltown Supersound

69.3...Pagent Dove...Pagent Dove...self-released

70.3...Betty Davis...Nasty Gal ...Light in the Attic

71.3...Laraaji ...Vision Songs Vol. 1...Numero

72.3...Julian Lage ...Modern Lore...Mack Avenue

73.3...Various Artists...Soul of a Nation: Afro-centric Visions in the Age of Black Power 1968-79...Soul Jazz

74.2...Cash Rivers & the Sinners...Blue Balls Lincoln...Rockathon

75.2...Kris Davis & Craig Taborn...Octopus...Pyroclastic

76.2...Calapse...Vital Signs...Raundhaus

77.2...Wwoman...Let Us Sleep Together...self-released

78.2...Lee Hazlewood...Forty...Light in the Attic

79.2...Paul Giallorenzo Trio...Flow...Delmark  

80.2...Gordon Grdina Quartet...Inroads...Songlines

81.2...Various Artists...Country Music Heritage: The Legacy of CMH Records...CMH

82.2...Andy Haas...Taballah II...Resonant

83.2...Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet...Ladilikan...World Circuit

84.2...Boogat...San Cristobal Baile Inn...Maisonnette

85.2...Widowspeak...Expect the Best...Captured Tracks

86.2...Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno...Finding Shore...Dead Oceans

87.2...Conniption Fits...Misinformed Informants...Parhelion

88.1...Terminal Mind...Recordings...Sonic Surgery

89.1...Aine O'Dwyer...Locusts...Penultimate Press