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) - jazz
  • 10toeflex: En Habitant Avec Des Fantômes (-EP) [02-13]
  • Σtella: Adagio (Sub Pop)
  • Abbatia: Phantasma! In the Ends of the Loom () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - metal
  • Action Figures of Speech: Action Figures of Speech () [02-15] - hip-hop
  • Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird) [05-01] - jazz [U]
  • Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) [04-18]
  • Adwaith: Solas (Libertino) [02-07] - dream pop
  • Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) [02-28] - jazz [B]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti-) [03-28]
  • Olly Alexander: Polari (Polydor) [02-07] - synthpop
  • Alfa Mist/44th Move/Richard Spaven: Anthem (Black Acre) [03-14] - jazz
  • Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) [03-28] - metal
  • All Seeing Dolls: Parallel (A) [02-21]
  • Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville) [03-15] - jazz [B]
  • Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) [04-04] - metal
  • Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia, Volume 1 (Otherly Love) [05-23] - jazz
  • David Allred: The Beautiful World (Erased Tapes) [01-24]
  • Alpaca Sports: Another Day (Elefant) [01-17]
  • ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) [01-24] - drumstep
  • The Altons: Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone) [02-14]
  • Amber Asylum: Ruby Red (Prophecy Productions) [03-07] - chamber music
  • Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Sam Amidon: Salt River (River Lea) [01-24] - folk
  • Amplifier: Gargantuan () [03-07] - space rock
  • Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) [02-21] - ambient
  • The Ancients [Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker]: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-31] - jazz
  • Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) [04-04] - jazz
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04]
  • Anitek & Tabinstereo: Indigo Immaculate () [01-22] - hip-hop
  • Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) [03-21] - soul [A-]
  • Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) [03-21]
  • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Anxious: Bambi (Run for Cover) [02-21] - emo-pop
  • Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) [02-28] - new age [*]
  • Apocalypse Orchestra: A Plague Upon Thee () [02-14] - metal
  • Benjamin Appl: Lines of Life (Alpha) [02-14] - classical
  • Aran Angmar: ORdo Diabolilcum () [03-21] - metal
  • Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) [02-28] - alt-metal
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) [01-10] - jazz
  • Sergio Armaroli Quintet: Introducing a Very Heavy Person First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-17] - jazz
  • Joe Armon-Jones: All the Quiet (Part I) (Aquarii) [03-28] - jazz
  • Art d'Ecco: Serene Demon (Paper Bag) [02-14] - glam rock
  • Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) [02-25] - jazz [**]
  • Astropical: Astropical (Universal Music Latino) [03-07] - Latin pop
  • Avalanche Party: Der Traum Uber Alles (Kartel Music Group) [02-07]
  • Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) [01-17] - country [**]
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) [03-28]
  • Kinan Azmeh: Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) - jazz
  • Babe Rainbow: Slipper Imp and Shakaerator (P(doom)) [04-04] - psychedelic pop
  • Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) [03-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) [01-05] - Latin [***]
  • The Bad Seed/Murda Megz: From Us With Love () [02-06] - hip-hop
  • Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) [04-18]
  • Nicolas Baldeyrou: Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet Vol. 1 (Alpha) [03-14] - classical
  • Balefire: Balefire (Iron Bonehead -EP) [01-31] - metal
  • Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) [03-14] - trip hop
  • Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) [02-28] - alt-pop [**]
  • Massimo Barbiero & Markus Stockhausen: Stoicheia (self-released) - jazz
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • The Barlow: High Spirits () [04-25]
  • MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) [03-25] - hip-hop [***]
  • Basic: Dream City (No Quarter -EP) [03-07] - fusion [*]
  • Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) [02-21] - indietronica
  • BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews: Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works ( Resonus) [03-28] - classical
  • Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) [02-28] - indietronica [***]
  • Bee Hive Ski Race: Unlimited Violence Apologia (self-released) [01-03] - post-rock
  • Beirut: A Study of Losses (Pompeii) [04-18]
  • Kasan Belgrave: Dual Citizen (self-released) - jazz
  • Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Andy Bell: Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) [03-21] - electropop [**]
  • Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) [04-04]
  • Bergthron: Neu Asen Land () [01-06] - metal
  • Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Matt Berry: Heard Noises (Acid Jazz) [01-24] - psychedelic rock
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • Big Cheeko: Coulrophobia () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Biig Piig: 11:11 (RCA) [02-07] - dance-pop
  • Bilk: Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Scruff of the Neck) [01-24] - indie rock
  • The Bird Calls: Melody Trail (Ruination) [02-07] - indie folk
  • Michael Bisio: NuMBq (Mahakala Music) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Rebecca Black: Salvation (self-released) [02-27] - electropop
  • 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 [**]
  • Black Narcissus: There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten () [02-14] - post-rock
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • Blacktoothed: Headway (Arising Empire) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Bleed From Within: Zenith
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - 04-04 [M|metalcore]
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • Jaap Blonk: Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [04-04] - jazz
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Blue Lake: Weft (Tonal Union) [01-17] - chamber folk
  • Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) [01-03] - jazz
  • Blue Violet: Faux Animaux (Me & My) [ 01-24]
  • Jason Boland & the Stragglers: The Last Kings of Babylon () - country
  • Boldy James: Token of Appreciation () [02-27] - hip-hop
  • Bong-Ra: Black Noise (Debemur Morti) [02-21] - metal
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Bonnie Trash: Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula) [02-28] - metal
  • 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]
  • Rosa Bordallo: Isidro (Bad Auntie) [01-31]
  • Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Daniel Brandt: Without Us (Erased Tapes) [03-21]
  • Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) [03-07] - jazz
  • Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) [02-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Kane Brown: The High Road (RCA Nashville) [01-24] - country
  • Martin Luke Brown: Man Oh Man! (AMK) [02-21]
  • Rob Brown: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brown Horse: All the Right Weaknesses (Loose) [ 04-04]
  • Brown Spirits: Cosmic Seeds (Soul Jazz) [01-10] - krautrock
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Sara Bug: Into the Blue () [02-14]
  • Basia Bulat: Basia's Place (Secret City) [02-21] - chamber pop
  • The Burning Hell: Ghost Palace (You've Changed) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Joshua Burnside: Teeth of Time (Nettwerk) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • 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 [**]
  • Butch Bastard: Death Valley () [ 03-28]
  • Butcher Brown: Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz) [03-28] - jazz
  • David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring (self-released) - jazz
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) [01-08] - darkwave [B]
  • Rachael Calladine: The Game (33 Jazz) - vocal jazz
  • Calyces: Fleshy Waves of Probability (Dry Clean) [03-21] - metal
  • Calidore String Quartet: Beethoven: The Early Quartets (Signum) [01-24] - classical
  • Califone: The Villager's Companion (Jealous Butcher) [02-21] - psychedelic folk
  • Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann: Johann Sebastian Bach: THe First Cantata Year Vol. 6 (Hänssler) [01-03] - classical
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • Renaud Capuçon: Sibelius/Barber: Violin Concertos (Erato) [02-14] - classical
  • Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole (Def Jam) [02-14] - indie pop
  • Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano) [02-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) [04-04]
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter/Julie Fowlis/Karine Polwart: Looking for the Thread (Lambient Light) [01-24]
  • Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida (Teal Creek Music) - jazz
  • Isaac Castor & Foul Mouth: The Rabbit Hole 3: Smoking Caterpillar () [02-23] - hip-hop
  • Tommy Castro & the Painkillers: Closer to the Bone (Alligator) [02-07] - blues
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4l/Columbia) [01-24] - UK hip-hop
  • Eddie Chacon: Lay Low (Stones Throw) [01-31] - alt-r&b
  • Chalk: Conditions III (Nice Swan -EP) [02-21] - dance-punk
  • Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz) [02-22] - jazz [**]
  • Cheekface: Middle Spoon (self-released) [02-25] - ska punk
  • Gloria Cheng: Root Progressions () [01-24] - jazz/classical
  • Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) [04-25] - jazz
  • The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) [02-28] - jangle pop [A-]
  • Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone -EP) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Seong-Jin Cho: Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works (Deutsche Grammophon) [01-17] - classical
  • Choof: A Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence (Dead Set) [01-24]
  • Circa Waves: Death & Love, Pt. 1 (Lower Third/PIAS) [01-31] - indie rock
  • Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) [03-14] - art pop
  • Civilistjävel!: Följd (Felt) [02-14] - ambient
  • Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) [03-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Cloakroom: Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band: Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • CocoRosie: Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise) [03-28]
  • Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe (Virgin) [03-14] - prog rock
  • Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) [03-28]
  • 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 [***]
  • Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-25] - jazz
  • Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) [03-14] - indie pop
  • Brooke Combe: Dancing at the Edge of the World (Modern Sky) [01-31] - pop soul
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Confucius MC & Bastien Keb: Songs for Lost Travellers (Native Rebel) [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Miles Cooke: Ceci N'est Pas Un Portrait () [01-10] - hip-hop
  • Cootie Catcher: Shy at First (Cooked Raw) [03-05]
  • Marc Copland: Alter Ego: Lausanne 2012 (The Montreux Jazz Label) - jazz
  • Marc Copland: Dreaming (Innervoice Jazz) - jazz
  • Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Triology 3 (Candid) - jazz
  • Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) [02-28] - alt-pop [***]
  • Courting: Lust for Life, or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third) [03-14] - dance-punk
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Son of Davy) - country [**]
  • Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) [03-07] - country [A-]
  • Adrian Crowley: Measure of Joy (Valley of Eyes) [02-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released) [03-21] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Curren$y & Harry Fraud: Never Catch Us () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) [01-31] - funk [**]
  • Cynefin: Shimli (Recordladau Smotyn Du) [01-31]
  • Brian D'Addario: Till the Morning (Headstack) [03-20] - folk rock
  • Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Da Inphamus Amadeuz/The Punchline Academy: The Punchline Playbook: Lesson 1 () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) [03-28]
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [U]
  • D.D. Danahy: Half Baked () [01-28]
  • The Darkness: Dreams on Toast (Cooking Vinyl) [03-28]
  • Darkside: Nothing (Matador) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) - jazz
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Domino) [02-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Dawson Gool: Bark Mulch (-EP) [02-20]
  • A Day to Remember: Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled by Ramen) [M|metal]
  • Pierre De Bethmann Quartet: Agapé (Aléa) - jazz
  • Deacon Blue: The Great Western Road (Cooking Vinyl) [03-21] - pop rock
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal
  • Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Barry Deister Quintet: An African Suite (Trans-Pacific Jazz) - jazz
  • Dear Derrick Featuring Kool Keith: Galaxy Thot () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Death by Unga Bunga: Raw Muscular Power (Jansen) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) [03-07] - metal
  • Deathretro: The Art of Collision (Cosmic Glue) [02-28]
  • Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart (Sub Pop) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house
  • Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Maya Delilah: The Long Way Around (Blue Note) [03-28]
  • The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) [02-14] - country soul [**]
  • Delivery: Force Majeure (Heavenly) [01-17] - post-punk
  • Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) [03-07] - chamber jazz
  • Randal Despommier: South (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) [03-28]
  • Destruction: Birth of Malice (Napalm) [03-07] - metal
  • The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) [02-28] - alt-country [*]
  • Dezmin'd: Breathing's All That Matters () [05-23]
  • Alessandro Di Liberto: Punti Di Vista (GleAM) - jazz
  • Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding: Macon Georgia Giant (Wild Kingdom) [02-14]
  • Diaphane: München (Neither/Nor) - jazz
  • Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth (self-released) - jazz
  • John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [B]
  • DirtyDiggs: Gold Chain Music () [02-26] - hip-hop
  • Disrupted: Stinking Death () [01-24] - metal
  • Distrik22: Brooklyn Queens Expressway () [01-20] - hip-hop
  • Ditz: Never Exhale (self-released) [01-24] - post-punk
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) [03-07] - indie rock
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Louise Dodds: All I Know (AMP Music) - jazz
  • Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) [02-17] - metal
  • Domestic Drafts: Only the Singer () [02-28]
  • Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) [03-07] - hip-hop [B]
  • The Doohickeys: All Hat No Cattle () - country
  • Dorothy: The Way (Roc Nation) [03-14] - hard rock
  • Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-10] - hip-hop [**]
  • Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI) [02-28] - dream pop
  • Terry Draper: Infinity () [01-17]
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Dreamweavers: Woven in Time (Perdido) - jazz
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • C Duncan: It's Only a Love Song (Bella Union) [01-24] - chamber pop
  • Dunes: Land of the Blind () [01-17] - stoner rock
  • Dutch Interior: Moneyball (Fat Possum) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Dynazty: Game of Faces (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) [01-10] - roots rock
  • Dave East & Ransom: The Final Call () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Echolalia: Echolalia (Full Time Hobby) [02-28] - psychedelic folk
  • Chris Eckman: The Land We Knew the Best (Glitterhouse) [01-24] - alt-country
  • Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) - jazz
  • Edition Redux: Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) - jazz
  • Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Eidola: Mend ( Blue Swan/Rise) [01-17] - math rock
  • Ludovico Einaudi: The Summer Portraits (Ponderosa Music) [01-31]
  • Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Eclectic Maybe Band: Cosmic Light Clusters (Discus Music) [01-25] - jazz
  • Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Esme Emerson: Applesauce (Communion -EP) [03-07] - indie pop
  • Avi C. Engel: Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Somewherecold/Shaking Box) [01-03]
  • Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) [01-31] - ambient
  • Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) [03-08] - jazz [B]
  • Envy of None: Stygian Wavz (Kscope) [03-28]
  • Tara Erraught/Ruth Rosique/Julien Dran/Chamber Choir Ireland/National Symphony of Ireland/Jean-Luc Tingaud: Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande - Suite; Prométhée (Excerpts); Shylock; Songs (Naxos) [01-10] - classical
  • Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • EST Gee: I Ain't Feeling You (Interscope) [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone: Penumbra (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Everyone Says Hi: Everyone Says Hi (Prediction/Chrysalis) [01-31] - neo-psychedelia
  • Everything Is Recorded: Temporary (XL) [02-28] - art pop
  • The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) [04-06] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) [01-17] - jangle pop [*]
  • Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling (No Format) [02-14]
  • FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) [02-07] - post-punk [A-]
  • Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) [01-10] - metal
  • Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) [02-14] - IDM
  • Farma G: How to Kill a Butterfly () [01-31] - hip-hop
  • FastLife, Madhattan & Spanish Ran: Bergin Hunt & Fish () [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) [03-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
  • Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) [03-28] [A-]
  • Deborah Fialkiewicz: Genetic Radio I.D. () [03-17]
  • Fines Double: Espejismo () [01-28] - hip-hop
  • Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) [01-24] - art pop [*]
  • Flipturn: Burnout Days (MNRK) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Floodlights: Underneath (PIAS) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Florist: Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) [04-04]
  • Wolfgang Flür: Times (Cherry Red) [03-28]
  • Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk/Stop Talking) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Food House: Two House (self-released) [02-28] - hyperpop [B]
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Amanda Forsythe/Christian Immler/Carlotta Colombo/Jesse Blumberg/Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble/Paul O'Dette/Stephen Stubbs/Robert Mealy: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona/Livietta E Tracollo (CPO) [ 01-03] - classical
  • Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • John Foxx: Wherever You Are () [03-28]
  • Neal Francis: Return to Zero (ATO) [03-14]
  • François & the Atlas Mountains: Âge Fleuve (InFiné) [ 01-31]
  • Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) [01-10] - indie rock
  • Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin) [03-31] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Audio Antihero/Tapewormies) [02-14] - jangle pop
  • Frog Eyes: The Open Up (Paper Bag) [03-07] - art rock
  • Edith Frost: In Space (Drag City) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Jürg Frey: Longing Landscape (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • 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 [U]
  • Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) [03-07] - alt-country
  • G-Clef Da Mad Komposa & Jus-P: Xavier & Logan () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • G-Dragon: Übermensch (Empire/Galaxy) [02-25] - synthpop
  • Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) [04-25] - jazz [U]
  • Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) [02-07] - jazz
  • Helen Ganya: Share Your Care (Bella Union) [02-07]
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • The Gentle Spring: Looking Back at the World (Too Good to Be True) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Geowulf: The Child (Nettwerk) [01-17]
  • GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) [03-07] - pop [*]
  • Jim Ghedi: Wasteland (Basin Rock) [02-21] - British folk rock
  • Ruby Gill: Some Kind of Control (self-released) [03-28]
  • Thea Gilmore: These Quiet Friends (self-released) [02-28]
  • Girlpuppy: Sweetness (Captured Tracks) [03-28]
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) [02-14] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Glebe: Gaudí (Daggio) [01-17] - jazz
  • God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) [02-21] - metalcore
  • Charles Wesley Godwin: Lonely Mountain Town () - country
  • Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) - jazz
  • Golem Mecanique: Siamo Tutti in Pericolo (Ideologic Origin) [03-21]
  • Phillip Golub: Loop 7 (Greyfade) [02-07]
  • Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks: Gombert (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First (Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope) [03-21] - alt-pop
  • Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Grand Official: Supreme () [02-02] - hip-hop
  • Grave Digger: Bone Collector () [01-17] - metal
  • David Gray: Dear Life (Laugh a Minute) [01-17] - folk pop
  • Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) [01-17] - dance-pop [***]
  • Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) [02-21] - art pop
  • Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam (Run for Cover) [03-28]
  • The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) [01-24] - metal
  • Grentperez: Backflips in a Restaurant () [03-28] - indie pop
  • Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Michael Grigoni & Pan-American: New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky) [04-04]
  • Grima: Nightside (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Groovology: Almost Home (Sugartown) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • The Irv Grossman Sextet: Sound Advice (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) [03-05] - jazz [***]
  • David Grubbs: Whistles From Above (Drag City) [02-28] - post-rock
  • Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Guided by Voices: Universe Room (GBV) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Guiltless: Teeth to Sky ( Neurot) [03-07] - metal
  • Goya Gumbani: Warlord of the Weejuns () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Gustaffson: Black & White Movie (One Boat) [03-21]
  • The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric) [05-01] - jazz [U]
  • Hachiku: The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists) [02-28] - indie pop
  • Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Nicole Hale: Some Kind of Longing () [01-23]
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) [02-14] - post-hardcore
  • Handsome Gentlemen: Filmed by Quentin Tarantino () [02-01] - hip-hop
  • Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Happy Family: 4037 (Cuneiform -EP) [03-28] - rock
  • Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) [01-24] - metal
  • Omari Hardwick: BuffalOes & Butterflies () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Chris Harms: 1980 (Napalm) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Bryn Harrison: Towards a Slowing of the Past (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Stan Harrison: Some Pour Soul Has a Fire (self-released) - jazz
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Nanami Haruta: The Vibe (Origin) - jazz
  • Haunted Horses: Dweller (Three One G) [01-10] - noise rock
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () [01-17] - metal
  • Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain (Basin Rock) [01-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [U]
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [U]
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) [01-13] - jazz
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • Ralph Heidel: Anyways.Onto Better Things () [02-21] - jazz
  • Hekla: Turnar (Phantom Limb) [03-14] - dark ambient
  • Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) [01-31] - hard rock
  • The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Our of Your Head) [04-04] - jazz [U]
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho) [03-21] - jazz [B-]
  • Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole) [03-07] - jazz [U]
  • Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Flora Hibberd: Swirl (22Twenty) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) [01-17] - metal
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18]
  • Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Twilight (Plastique) [02-14]
  • Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) [01-31]
  • Arthur Hill: In the Middle of Somewhere (self-released -EP) [02-14]
  • Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke: Split Scale (Thrill Jockey) [01-24]
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Benny Holiday: Holiday Land () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) [02-21] - alt/indie [***]
  • Deborah Holland: I Made It This Far () [03-07]
  • Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) [03-21] - soul
  • Samuel Hollis & Tara Cunningham: Music for Moving Pictures II (-EP) [ 03-14]
  • Honesty: U R Here (Partisan) [02-07]
  • 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 [**]
  • HotWax: Hot Shock (Marathon Artists) [03-07] - alt/indie
  • House of All: House of All Souls (Tiny Global) [02-14] - post-punk
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Ider: Last to the World (Nettwerk) [02-21] - indie pop
  • ILL Tone Beats: The Outcome () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) [02-14] - prog electronic
  • Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) [03-21] - metal
  • In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance (Jazzland) - jazz
  • Index for Working Musik: Which Direction Goes the Beam (Tough Love) [04-04]
  • Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) [04-04]
  • Inhaler: Open Wide (Polydor) [02-07] - new wave
  • Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) [03-07] - Americana [A-]
  • Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) [01-03] - jazz [*]
  • Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Bob James/Dave Koz: Just Us (Just Koz Entertainment) [03-07] - pop-jazz
  • Sophie Jamieson: I Still Want to Share (Bella Union) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) [03-21] - indie pop [*]
  • Yves Jarvis: All Cylinders (In Real Life) [02-28] - prog soul
  • Jasmine.4.t: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) [01-17] - slacker rock
  • Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) [01-31] - gothic country
  • Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) [03-07] - K-pop [B]
  • Eunye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeshi: Airbag Woke Me Up (Because Music) [01-24] - UK hip-hop
  • Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant (InsideOut) [03-07] - folk rock
  • Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) [02-14] - ambient
  • Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) [02-07] - djent
  • Jisoo: Amortage (Blissoo/Warner/Empire -EP) [02-14] - K-pop
  • Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [U]
  • Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic) [01-20] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva) [01-03] - jazz [***]
  • Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) [02-07] - jazz poetry [A-]
  • Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Barb Jungr and Her Trio Featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen (Kristalyn) - vocal jazz
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) [01-31] - African [*]
  • Eddie Kaine & Machacha: Crown Me Kaine () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Eddie Kaine & Rim: Welcome to Stuyville () [01-08] - hip-hop
  • Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Jerry Kalaf: Safe Travels (self-released) - jazz
  • Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) - jazz
  • Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic) [05-01] - jazz [U]
  • Tom Keenlyside: Third Street Wobble (self-released) - jazz
  • KEG: Fun's Over (Alcopop!) [03-14] - art punk
  • Kele: The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (Kola) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) [02-11] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin) [04-18] - vocal jazz [U]
  • Gary Kemp: This Destination (EastWest/Warner Music UK) [01-31] - rock
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Marta Warelis: Tendresse (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) [05-01] - vocal jazz [U]
  • Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver: Hinterland () [03-07] - prog folk
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) [03-28] - jazz [ *]
  • Hans Koch & Florian Stoffner: Net (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Kool Keith & Dane Uno: The Yoohoo Bros. () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Thomas KAufmann/Camerata Bern: Exile (Alpha) [01-24] - classical
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia () [03-28] - bluegrass
  • Krept & Konan: Young Kingz II (Play Dirty) [02-07] - UK hip-hop
  • Krokofant: 6 (Is It Jazz?) [01-10] - jazz-rock
  • Kroppskännedom: Kroppskännedom (Morc) [ 02-12] - avant-folk
  • KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Christopher Kunz & Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht Disperation and Focus First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-10] - jazz
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Takuya Kuroda: Everyday (PPK) - jazz
  • Henny L.O. & Ewonee: The Coldest Season Ever () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • L.S. Dunes: Violet (Fantasy) [01-31] - emo
  • La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII - Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) [03-06] - black noise
  • Lab Rat: Lab Rat (self-released) [01-01] - D-beat
  • Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) [02-14] - metal
  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) [03-07] - electropop [***]
  • Lake: Bucolic Gene (Don Giovanni) [03-07]
  • Seth Lakeman: The Granite Way () [02-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) [01-10] - punk [*]
  • John Lamkin: Hot (self-released) - jazz
  • Larkin Poe: Bloom (Tricki-Woo) [01-24] - blues rock
  • Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • The Lathums: Matter Does Not Define (Modern Sky) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Le Sserafim: Hot (Source Music/HYBE) [03-14] - K-pop
  • Legacy of Lovers: Calm Cool Connections (-EP) [01-09]
  • Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island (Glassnote) [03-07] - indie rock
  • Edvard Graham Lewis: Alreet? (Upp) [01-24]
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) [03-21] - anti-folk [A-]
  • Lil Baby: Wham (Quality Control/Motown) [01-03] - hip-hop
  • Lilo: Blood Ties (Dalliance) [03-28]
  • The Limiñanas: Faded (Berreto Music/Because Music) [02-21] - garage rock
  • Lisa: Alter Ego (Lloud/RCA) [02-28] - pop
  • Brian Lisik: Goodnight, Detroit () [04-12] -
  • Kedr Livansky: Myrtus Myth (2MR) [03-07] - art pop [B]
  • Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk) [03-21] - ambient pop
  • Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • The Loft: Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same () [03-14] - jangle pop
  • Tony Logue: Dark Horse () - country
  • Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) [01-28] - African [***]
  • Andrea Longato: Thinking Heart (self-released) - jazz
  • David Longstreth/Stargaze/Dirty Projectors: Song of the Earth (Transgressive) [04-04]
  • Loot: Loot (ICP) [03-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Lots of Hands: Into a Pretty Room (Fire Talk) [01-17] - slacker rock
  • The Lottery Winners: Koko (Modern Sky) [03-21] - indie pop
  • Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) [02-14] - alt-metal
  • Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) [02-07] - blues [***]
  • Hans Luchs: The Spell Is Broken (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • The Lumineers: Automatic (Dualtone) [02-14] - indie folk
  • Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor: All Worlds (Sacred Bones) [03-07] - indietronica
  • Jo David Meyer Lynse: For Renstemt Klaver (Hubro) - jazz
  • M.anifest: New Road and Guava Trees () [03-13]
  • M.W.P.: Temple of Roses () [01-09] - hip-hop
  • Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) [01-01] - jazz [*]
  • Magana: Bad News (-EP) [01-25]
  • Ron Magril: Inspired (GleAM) - jazz
  • John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Emi Makabe: Echo ( Sunnyside) [05-16] - jazz
  • Heather Maloney: Exploding Star (Signature Sounds) [01-31] - singer-songwriter
  • Mandrake Handshake: Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) [02-14] - power pop [*]
  • Clara Mann: Rift (The State51 Conspiracy) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Matilda Mann: Roxwell (Sevenfoursevensix) [02-28] - indie-pop
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • Maranata: Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Marinero: La La La () [02-14]
  • Marmen Quartet: Ligeti & Bartók: String Quartets (BIS) [01-17] - chamber music
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-07] - afrofuturism [***]
  • Thomas Marriott: Screen Time (Imani/88 Keys) - jazz
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Masma Dream World: Please Come to Me () [02-21] - dark ambient
  • Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) [01-31] - downtempo
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Maruja: Tír Na Nóg (Music for Nations -EP) [02-21] - post-rock
  • The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father (self-released) - jazz
  • Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) [02-21] - metal
  • Maze Overlay & Slang Hugh: Word () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • MC Homeless: Stay Slick () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Brian John McBrearty: Remembering Repeating (Love Beyond Measure) [01-17]
  • Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Juliet McConkey: Southern Front () - country
  • Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) [02-21] - pop [***]
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (self-released) [02-21] - metal
  • Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) [03-23] - metal
  • Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • Mekons: Horror (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [A]
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Melin Melyn: Mill on the Hill (Kartel) [03-07]
  • Coleman Mellett: Sing You a Brand New Song (Mirror Image Distribution) - vocal jazz
  • Members of the Piatti Quartet/Simon Callaghan/Ashok Klouda: Chamber Music of William Busch (Lyrita) [01-03] - classical
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • The Men: Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club) [02-28] - garage punk
  • Men I Trust: Equus Asinus (self-released) [03-19] - bedroom pop
  • Otis Mensah & the Intern: Before the Noise My Cousin () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian) [02-14] - neo-soul
  • Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Michigander: Michigander (Totally Normal) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) [02-28] - r&b [*]
  • Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness (self-released) - jazz
  • MIEN: MIIEN (Fuzz Club) [04-18]
  • MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) [01-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • Allison Miller With the One O'Clock Lab Band: Big & Lovely (Royal Potato Family) [01-14] - jazz
  • Roger Clark Miller: Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (Cuneiform) [ 02-28] - experimental rock
  • MindsOne: Stages () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) [01-17] - electropop
  • Miss Tess: Cher Rêve () - country
  • Dennis Mitcheltree/Johannes Wallman: Holding Space (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) [02-28] - Saharan rock [***]
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) [01-24] - shoegaze [*]
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (The Flenser) [01-24] - avant-folk
  • The Moles: Composition Book (Splendid Research) [02-07]
  • Hedvig Mollestad RTrio: Bees in the Bonnett (Rune Grammofon) [05-09] - jazz
  • Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) [dream pop]
  • Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Monde UFO: Flamingo Tower (Fire) [03-07] - neo-psychedelia
  • Polly Money: T-shirt Nothing Else (Cool Online -EP) [03-21] - indie pop
  • The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required () [04-25]
  • Marlaena Moore: Because You Love Everything () [01-17] - dream pop
  • Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) [04-01] - jazz [*]
  • The Moran Tripp Band: Jumpers Hole () - country
  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) [03-21] - ambient
  • Jessica Lee Morgan: You Know What You Should Do? () [03-21]
  • Chloe Moriondo: Oyster (Fueled by Ramen) [ 03-28] - synthpop
  • Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) [04-01] - Americana [**]
  • Willie Morris: Unbound Inner (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Sam Moss: Swimming (self-released) [02-07] - Americana
  • Motherhood: Thunder Perfect Mind () [01-24]
  • Motorpsycho: Motorpsycho (Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab) [02-21] - prog rock
  • Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) [03-07] - post-grunge
  • Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now (Grappa) - jazz
  • Misha Mullov-Abbado: Effra (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Mumford & Sons: Rushmere (Island) [03-28] - folk pop
  • Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • The Murder Capital: Blindness (Human Season) [02-21] - post-punk
  • Murderers' Row & Snowgoons: Murderers' Row () [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Michael Murray's Colourfield: Rounded Nature (ZenneZ) - jazz
  • Museum of Light: Diviner (Spartan) [03-14] - stoner metal
  • Music Soup Organ Trio: Upbeat Mood () - jazz
  • Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) [01-03] - groove metal
  • My Morning Jacket: Is (ATO) [03-21] - alt/indie
  • Ty Myers: The Select (Columbia) [01-24] - country
  • The Names: Encore! () [02-07] - post-punk
  • Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) [02-21] - r&b
  • Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • The Nash Ensemble: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Sonatas Pour Divers Instruments; String Quartet (Hyperion) [01-10] - classical
  • Ittetsu Nasuda: Tailwind (self-released) - jazz
  • Patrick Naylor: Organza (Beeboss) - jazz
  • Naxatras: V (self-released) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Stefania Neonato/Christine Busch: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten fÜr Klavier und Violene op. 12 Nr. 3, Op. 30 Nr. 3, Op. 96 (SWR) [01-10] - classical
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs () [02-28] - hip-hop
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
  • Ninkharsag: The Black Swords of Winter (Vendetta -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) [03-14] - metal
  • No Tears Project [Christopher Parker & Kelley Hurt]: Humanitics (Mahakala Music) [02-25] - jazz
  • Novarupta: Astral Sands () [02-14] - metal
  • Geoffrey O'Connor: I Love What We Do (Dinosaur City) [02-14] - sophisti-pop
  • Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Adam O'Farrill: For These Steets (Out of Your Head) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) - jazz
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • Obverse: Obverse (-EP) [01-24] - prog rock
  • OC From NC: Project 25 () [01-01] - hip-hop
  • Daniel Ögren: Pine () [02-12]
  • Ohyung: You Are Always on My Mind (NNA Tapes) [03-28]
  • Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (Noel Okimoto Music) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) [02-07] - alt-pop [**]
  • Okonski: Entrance Music (Colemine) [02-28]
  • Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Ora the Molecule: Dance Therapy (Mute) [03-21] - synthpop
  • OsamaSon: Jump Out (Motion Music/Atlantic) [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Alice Sara Ott: John Field: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon) [02-07] - classical
  • Overpass: Dependent (Communion Music Group -EP) [02-28]
  • Oversize: Vital Signs (SharpTone) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • Martin Owen/BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba: Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos) [01-03] - classical
  • Blair Packham: The Impossible Dream () [03-04]
  • Nino Paid: Love Me as I Am (Signal/Columbia) [02-04] - hip-hop
  • Pain of Truth & Sunami: Coast to Coast Split (Daze/Triple B -EP) [03-03] - metalcore
  • Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) [01-03] - deathcore
  • Michael Cera Palin: We Could Be Brave (Big Scary Monsters) [03-07] - emo-pop
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) [02-28] - tropical rock [*]
  • Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) [01-17] - gospel
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Gun (Paris Texas -EP) [02-28] - synth punk
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Sword (Paris Texas -EP) [02-25] - synth punk
  • Parlando/Ian Niederhoffer/Aubree Oliverson: Censored Anthems (Delos) [02-28] - classical
  • Partynextdoor & Drake: $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (OVO Sound/Republic) [02-14] - alt-r&b
  • Pastel: Sounds in Motion (Spirit of Spike Island) [01-17] - britpop
  • Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) [01-03] - metal
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • John Patitucci: Spirit Fall () [02-14] - jazz
  • Nico Paulo: Interval_o (Forward Music Group -EP) [03-21]
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) [03-21]
  • Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-31] - metal
  • Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew (Sense) - jazz
  • Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) [03-04] - jazz [***]
  • Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) [03-28] [B]
  • Tommaso Perazzo/Marcello Cardillo/Buster Williams: Portrait of a Moment (Red) [05-30] - jazz
  • Jauron Perry: Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival (self-released) - jazz
  • Phill Most Chill/Djar One: Deal With It () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (Dark Descent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [02-07] - metal
  • Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses () - country
  • The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: As I Was Saying (Walking Path) - jazz
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious (Rocket) [04-04]
  • Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) [01-27] - hip-hop
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [U]
  • Pit Pony: Dead Stars (Clue) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) [04-22] - jazz [U]
  • Paige Plaisance: Louisiana Lonely () - country
  • Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Pop Evil: What Remains (MNRK Heavy) [03-21] - metal
  • Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-21] - indie rock [*]
  • Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) [02-14] - metal
  • Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brigid Mae Power: Songs for You (self-released) [01-09] - folk
  • Noah Preminger: Ballades (Chill Tone) [02-25] - jazz [***]
  • PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (Backwoodz Studioz) [03-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (Sub Pop) [01-31]
  • Prism Shores: Out From Underneath (Meritorio) [01-17] - shoegaze
  • Prison: Downstate (Drag City) [01-31] - psychedelic rock
  • Pulse: Body Is Reality () [02-07] - metal
  • Puma Blue: Antichamber (Blue Flowers) [02-18] - indie folk
  • Purified in Blood: Primal Pulse Thunder () [03-14] - metal
  • Pyres: Yun () [03-07] - metal
  • Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant () [02-28] - hip-hop
  • Ariane Racicot: Danser Avec Le Feu (self-released) - jazz
  • Raisa K: Affectionately (15 Love) [03-07] - art pop
  • Rapt: Until the Light Takes Us (Start Track) [02-21] - indie folk
  • Rats on Rafts: Deep Below (Fire) [02-07]
  • Raven: Gnosis (Incienso) [02-14] - ambient
  • Alison Rayner Quintet: Sema4 (Blow the Fuse) - jazz
  • Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Red Telephone: Delay the New Day () [01-31]
  • The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (F&F) [05-01] - jazz [U]
  • Redline the Ace: Origin Story () [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Peter Rehberg: Liminal States (Editions Mego) [01-31]
  • Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness (Chrysalis) [02-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Chen Reiss/Varduhi Abrahamyan/Daniel Behle/Tareq Nazmi/Audi Jugendchorakademie/Le Cercle de l'Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Alpha) [01-10] - classical
  • Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (DeadAir) [04-04] - hyperpop
  • Retromorphosis: Psalmus Mortis (Season of Mist) [02-21] - metal
  • Graham Reynolds: Mountain (Fire) [03-21]
  • Rialto: Neon & Ghost Signs (Fierce Panda) [04-25]
  • Rex Richardson: Elegy (Summit) - jazz
  • Dax Riggs: 7 Songs for Spiders (Fat Possum) [ 01-24] - stoner rock
  • Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumiere (Zoning) - jazz
  • Ritual Ascension: Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [ 02-28] - metal
  • Rizzle Kicks: Competition Is for Losers (BMG) [02-14] - UK hip-hop
  • Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali: At the Feet of the Beloved () [03-14] - qawwali
  • The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [01-05] - jazz [**]
  • Røry: Restøration () [01-31] - emo-pop
  • Alessi Rose: For Your Validation (AWAL -EP) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Rose City Band: Sol Y Sombra (Thrill Jockey) [01-24] - country rock
  • Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) [03-21] - blues [**]
  • Rwake: The Retun of Magik (Relapse) [03-14] - metal
  • Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. (From the Private Collection) [03-18] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Sacred Paws: Jump Into Life (Merge) [03-28]
  • Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics) [02-07] - classical
  • Bria Salmena: Big Dog (Sub Pop) [03-28]
  • Samo Salamon/Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo) [04-10] - jazz [U]
  • Sandwell District: End Beginnings (Point of Departure) [03-28]
  • Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (Transgressive) [01-10] - alt-pop [A-]
  • Sanhedrin: Heat Lightning (Metal Blade) [03-14] - metal
  • Saor: Amidst the Ruins (Season of Mist) [02-07] - metal
  • Gina Saputo: Daydream (GSJQ Productions) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Sarcator: Swarming Angels & Flies (Century Media) [01-17] - metal
  • Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen (Domino) [03-07] - alt-pop
  • Anna B Savage: You & I Are Earth (City Slang) [01-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Savoir Faire: Hopeless Nostalgic () [01-31]
  • Scare: In the End, Was It Worth It? () [02-21] - metal
  • Isabel Schickenetanz: Seelentrost () [01-17] - classical
  • Eric Schmitt: Wait for the Night (self-released) [04-11]
  • School Fair: Bird the Kid (self-released) [01-15] - post-punk
  • Mark Scott III: Soft Light (Miller Three Publishing) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Scour: Gold (Nuclear Blast) [02-21] - metal
  • Scowl: Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans) [ 04-04] - post-grunge
  • Seasonal Falls: Improvised Sinking (-EP) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Abel Selaocoe: Hymns of Bantu (Warner Classics) [02-21] - classical
  • Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Anoushka Shankar: Chapter III: We Return to Light (Leiter) [03-14] - Indian classical
  • Shapes Like People: Ticking Haze (Jangleshop) [03-07]
  • Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) [02-21] - prog metal
  • Brad Shepik: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) [01-31] - metal
  • Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) [02-28] - dance-pop [***]
  • Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) [03-06] - hard dance [***]
  • Skaiwater: #mia (GoodTalk/Capitol -EP) [02-14] - hip-hop [*]
  • Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville (Faction) [01-10] - dance-punk
  • Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) [04-01] - electronic [B-]
  • Skydaddy: Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles (-EP) [01-10] - chamber pop
  • Skullcap: Snakes of Albuquerque (Cuneiform) [05-30] - instrumental rock
  • Chloe Slater: Love Me Please ( AWAL -EP) [02-04] - indie rock
  • Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy (Mom+Pop) [ 04-04] - noise pop
  • Slik Jack/Vincent Pryce: Everyone's Gotta Pryce () [01-22] - hip-hop
  • The Slow Readers Club: Out of a Dream (self-released) [03-14]
  • Slowly Slowly: Forgiving Spree (Nettwerk) [01-24] - power pop
  • Smif-N-Wessun: Infinity () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Neil Smith: Anxious (Bella Union) [04-11]
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information: New Perspective (Drum Legacy) [02-07] - jazz [B]
  • Will Smith: Based on a True Story (Three Six Zero/NEON16/Slang Music) [03-28] - pop rap
  • Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Leaf Label) [03-28]
  • Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Ronald Snijders: Penta (Night Dreamer) - jazz
  • SOM: Let Some Light In (Pelagic) [03-14]
  • Somebody's Child: When Youth Fades Away (Frenchkiss) [ 03-28]
  • Sometime in February: Where Mountains Hide (03-21) [M|metal]
  • Son Lux: Risk of Make Believe (City Slang -EP) [01-17] - art pop
  • Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) [01-17] - African [***]
  • Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) [04-11] - jazz
  • Spellling: Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones) [03-28]
  • Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: Faure: La Bonne Chanson & Other Songs (Hyperion) [02-28] - classical
  • Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea (Rise/Pale Chord) [03-07] - alt-metal
  • SpiritWorld: Helldorado (Century Media) [03-21] - crossover thrash
  • Split Dogs: Here to Destroy (Venn) [02-28] - punk
  • Konrad Sprenger: Set (Black Truffle) [01-17] - post-minimalism
  • Squid: Cowards (Warp) [02-07] - art rock [*]
  • St. Lucia: Fata Morgana: Dawn (Nettwerk) [03-14]
  • Ringo Starr: Look Up (Roccabella/Lost Highway) [01-10] - country
  • Candi Staton: Back to My Roots (Beracah) [02-14] - soul
  • Steel Saddle: Steel Saddle () - country
  • Tamara Stefanovich: Organised Delirium ( PentaTone) [03-07] - classical
  • Stemeseder Elias/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Luke Stewart/Silt Rembrance Ensemble: The Order (Cuneiform) [04-25] - jazz
  • Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (International Anthem) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone) [01-10] - metalcore
  • Stinky: Solace () [02-21] - hardcore
  • Stormo: Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) [03-21] - screamo
  • Bartees Strange: Horror (4AD) [02-14] - indie rock
  • Will Stratton: Points of Origin (Bella Union) [03-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Caroline Strickland: Martha's Calling (-EP) [03-07]
  • Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) [01-10] - jazz [B-]
  • Johanna Summer/Jakob Manz: Cameo (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Masaaki Suzuki: Plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 6 (BIS) [01-03] - classical
  • Teddy Swims: I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) (Warner) [01-24] - r&b
  • Anthony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Group/Virgin) [02-28] - house
  • Hope Tala: Hope Handwritten (Jasmine Music) [02-28] - alt-r&b
  • Tamino: Every Dawn's a Mountain (Communion Group) [03-21] - chamber folk
  • Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) [01-31] - industrial
  • Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss (Norma Evangelium Draboli) [03-28] - metal
  • Telepathy: Transmissions (Pelagic) [03-28]
  • Tennessee Jet: Ranchero () - country
  • Terra Twin: Static Separation (Dance to the Radio -EP) [02-06]
  • Tetsuo: Gossamer () [01-19] - hip-hop
  • Thala: Avalanche (Fire) [02-14] - dream pop
  • Thecityisours: Will You Still Love Me? () [01-31] - metal
  • Rachel Therrien: Mi Hogar II (self-released) - jazz
  • Thin Lear: A Shadow Waltzed Itself (-EP) [03-07]
  • Third Coast Percussion: Glass: Aguas da Amazonia () [01-10] - minimalism
  • The Third Mind: Live Mind (Yep Roc) [02-14] - Americana [**]
  • Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Thornhill: Bodies (UNFD) [04-04] - alt metal
  • Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions (Fire) [03-14] - alt/indie
  • Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (AFM) [02-07] - hard rock
  • Thurnin: Harmr (Prophecy Productions) [03-14] - dark folk
  • Tiberius: Singing for Company (self-released) [03-21] - metal
  • Yann Tiersen: Rathlin From a Distance (Mute) [04-04]
  • Tiktaalika: Gods of Pangaea (InsideOut) [03-14] - metal
  • Tobacco City: Horses (Scissor Tail Editions) [03-07] - country rock
  • Tokyo Tea Room: No Rush (Nice Guys) [01-24] - bedroom pop
  • Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) [01-31] - jazz
  • Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie (Young Art) [03-07] - deep house
  • David Torn: Peace Upon You (self-released) [03-05] - jazz
  • Samba Touré: Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat) [01-24] - African
  • Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Penelope Trappes: A Requiem (One Little Independent) [04-04]
  • Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 3 (Planet Mu) [02-07] - footwork
  • Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How (Napalm) [01-10] - metal
  • Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (Outside In Music) [05-30] - jazz
  • Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger (Linn) [02-14] - classical
  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind) [03-07] - jangle pop
  • Tunng: Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby) [01-24] - folktronica
  • Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) [04-25]
  • U.e.: Hometown Girl ( 28912) [01-16] - ambient
  • Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) [03-14] - jazz
  • Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside) [04-18] - jazz [U]
  • University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas) [03-01] - jazz [**]
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar) [03-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Unreqvited: A Pathway to the Moon (Propecy Productions) [02-07] - blackgaze
  • Urn: Demon Steel (Osmose Productions) [03-28]
  • Vacuous: In His Blood (Relapse) [02-28] - metal
  • Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles (Concord) [04-11]
  • Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) [02-07] - new wave [*]
  • Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [U]
  • Gino Vannelli: The Life I Got (To My Most Beloved) () [02-07]
  • Chris Varga: Breathe (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Gizmo Varillas: Into the Night () [01-17]
  • Pictoria Vark: Nothing Sticks (03-21) [Get Better] - indie rock
  • Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • The Veils: Asphodels (V2) [01-24] - chamber pop
  • The Velveteers: A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound) [02-14] - alt-rock
  • Venturing: Ghostholding (DeadAir) [02-14] - shoegaze
  • Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (self-released) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Jimmy Vivino: Gonna Be 2 of Those Days (Gulf Coast) [02-14] - blues
  • Voice Actor & Squu: Lust (1) (Stroom) [01-14] - ambient dub
  • Joni Void: Every Life Is a Light (Constellation) [03-14]
  • Voidfallen: The Rituals of Resilience () [02-21] - metal
  • Vukovi: My God Has Got a GUn (SharpTone) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Vulture Feather: It Will Be Like Now (Felte) [02-14] - post-punk
  • Vundabar: Surgery and Pleasure (Loma Vista) [03-07] - dance-punk
  • Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (New West) [02-21] - alt-country [*]
  • The War and Treaty: Plus One (UMG) [02-14] - country
  • Warbringer: Wrath and Ruin (Napalm) [03-14] - metal
  • Josh Ward: Same Ol' Cowboy, Different Rodeo () - country
  • Wardruna: Birna (Music for Nations/Sony) [01-24] - ritual ambient
  • Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (Carpark) [03-28]
  • Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Safe Place (ACT Music) - jazz
  • The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper (Sun) [04-04]
  • WateRR & Machacha: Almighty II () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • 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 [*]
  • Weaving: Webs (Glamour Gowns) [03-14] - singer-songwriter
  • The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO/Republic) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Orion Weiss: Arc III (First Hand) [02-21] - classical
  • Jesse Welles: Middle (self-released) [02-21] - folk rock [**]
  • Justin Wells: Cynthiana () - country
  • Welly: Big in the Suburbs (Vertex Music) [03-21]
  • Westside Gunn: 12 () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Judy Wexler: No Wonder (Jewel City Jazz) - vocal jazz
  • Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather II (Ghostly International) [03-14] - ambient
  • Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) [01-31] - jazz
  • Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Whitechapel: Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade) [03-07] - death metal
  • Kim Wilde: Closer (Wildeflower/Cherry Red) [01-31] - synthpop
  • The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts () [03-07] - hard rock
  • The Wildwoods: Dear Meadowlark () [04-11]
  • Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Steven Wilson: The Overview (Fiction) [03-14] - prog rock
  • Winona Fighter: My Apologies to the Chief (Rise) [02-14] - pop punk
  • Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice () [02-07]
  • Denison Witmer: Anything at All (Asthmatic Kitty) [02-14] - indie folk
  • Wolf Eyes: Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton (ESP-Disk) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • The Wombats: Oh! The Ocean (AWAL) [02-14] - indie rock
  • Seth Parker Woods/Katinka Kleijn/Cory Smythe/Claire Chase: Ubique (Sono Luminus) [02-28] - modern classical
  • Landon Wordswell & Es-K: Remember to Breathe () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies: Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey) [02-21] - drone metal
  • Wren: Black Rain Falls (Church Road) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Clay Wulbrecth: The Clockmaster (Instru Dash Mental) [05-02] - jazz [U]
  • Jacob Wutzke: You Better Bet (Cellar Music Group) - jazz
  • Wyatt E.: Zamā Ultu Qeber Ziqquratu, Pt. 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-10] - doom metal
  • Y: Y (Hideous Mink -EP) [04-04] - dance-punk [**]
  • Haewon Yang: Plays the Piano Works of Harry Bulow () [01-01]
  • Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (Sunnyside) [01-31] - jazz [***]
  • Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez/Floros Floridis: Kouarteto (Maya) - jazz
  • Yawning Balch: Volume Three () [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (AD 93) [03-21] - art punk [A-]
  • Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarin Yoksa = If There Is No Tomorrow (Big Crown) [03-14] - Anatolian rock
  • Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT (Leiter) [02-27] - fusion
  • You, Infinite: You, Infinite (Pelagic) [02-28] - post-rock
  • Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Big Change Is Coming (Reprise) - rock
  • Young Knives: Landfill (Gadzook) [01-24] - art rock
  • 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 [*]
  • Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum) [02-21] - indie pop
  • Yukimi: For You (Ninja Tune) [03-28] - neo-soul
  • ZelooperZ & Real Bad Man: Dear Psilocybin () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Marina Zispin: Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Scenic Route) [03-07] - coldwave
  • James Zito: Zito's Jump (self-released) [04-15] - jazz [U]
  • Zora: Belladonna (Get Better) [01-17]
  • John Zorn & JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (Tzadik) [01-24] - classical
  • Zzzahara: Spiral Your Way Out (Lex) [01-10] - dream pop

Reissues, Etc.

  • Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live First Visit (1964, Ezz-Thetics) [02-28] - jazz
  • Paul Bley: Open, to Love (1973, ECM) - jazz [*]
  • Paul Bley Trio: Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics) [03-12] - jazz
  • Johnny Bragg: Let Me Dream On (Org Music) [03-07] - r&b [*]
  • Jakob Bro/Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Lee Konitz/Ben Street: Balladeering (2008, Loveland Music) [03-06] - jazz
  • Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm () - jazz
  • Curlew: East/West/Also (1990, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz
  • Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [***]
  • Ellery Eskelin Trio: New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) [02-07] - jazz
  • Bill Evans: Explorations (1961, Craft) - jazz
  • Patrick Forgas: Cocktail (1977, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz-rock
  • Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 53 (1976, Grateful Dead -3CD) [01-31] - jam rock
  • Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (Tzadik) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Helloween: March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) (Nuclear Blast) [03-28] - metal
  • Joe Henderson: Multiple (Craft) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich 2.5 (self-released) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973, BMG) - blues
  • William Hooker: A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Gregory Jackson: Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) - jazz
  • Elmore James: Hits & Rarities (Sunset Blvd.) - blues
  • Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers: African Party [Deluxe Edition] (1967, Innovative Collective/BBE Music) [01-17] - jazz [A-]
  • JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (Director's Cut) (self-released) [02-25] - hip-hop
  • Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-08] - jazz
  • Joe Maneri/Tyson Rogers & Jacob Braverman: In the Shadow First Visit (2002, Ezz-Thetics) [01-15] - jazz
  • Mazinga: Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Volume II (Rubber Wolf) [01-12] - punk
  • Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles [IA11 Edition] (2012, International Anthem) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • 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-]
  • Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [05-23] - African
  • PAZ: Variation and Creation: The Story of PAZ (Jazz in Britain -3CD) - jazz
  • Pellegrini Quartet: Luigi Nono: Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima/Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett a-moll op. 132 (1995, Ezz-Thetics) [03-01] - classical
  • Art Pepper: Geneva 1980 (Omnivore) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Jeannie Piersol: The Nest (High Moon) [01-24] - folk rock
  • The Reference Group: File Under Unpopular (2007-08, Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Max Roach: Deeds, Not Words (1958, Craft) - jazz
  • Serengeti: Mixtape 2 (self-released) [03-07] - hip-hop [*]
  • Small Faces: Greatest Hits: The Immediate Years (Charly) [04-26] - rock
  • Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Game [Ten Year Edition] (2015, Vinyl Digital) [02-00] - hip-hop [***]
  • Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) [01-24] - electronic [A-]
  • John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents (Cuneiform) [01-31] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-27] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-02] - jazz
  • Trigger: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 3 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) [02-01] - blues
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 Mississippi -EP) [02-28] - alt/indie [*]
  • Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) [03-07] - folk rock [***]
  • 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 [*]
  • Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Colection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois, 2CD) [03-31] - Latin jazz [*]
  • Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï (We Want Sounds) [03-25] - rai
  • Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader (Tompkins Square) [04-12]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 712
  • Priority 2: 43
  • Priority 3: 1
  • Priority 4: 159
  • Priority 5: 97

Total: 1012