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 [*]
  • 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]
  • Air Drawn Dagger: A Guide for Apparitions (Long Branch) [04-04]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti-) [03-28]
  • Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • 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
  • Ester Andujar: Inner Songs (Pentasonic) - jazz
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04] - noise pop [***]
  • 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 [**]
  • Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) [05-09] - indie rock
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) [04-18] - jazz [A-]
  • 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] - singer-songwriter
  • 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 [**]
  • 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 [***]
  • Beddy Rays: Do What Ya Wanna (self-released) [04-18]
  • Bee Hive Ski Race: Unlimited Violence Apologia (self-released) [01-03] - post-rock
  • Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Beirut: A Study of Losses (Pompeii) [04-18] - chamber folk
  • 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
  • Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metal
  • 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 [***]
  • Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (Barefoot) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Berry: Heard Noises (Acid Jazz) [01-24] - psychedelic rock
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) [04-18] - jazz [***]
  • 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 [**]
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metalcore
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • 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: AKA, More Songs About Bad Faith and Sexual Ambivalence (Partisan) [05-02] - alt/indie
  • Jaap Blonk: Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [04-04] - jazz
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Blue Foundation: Close to the Knife () [04-18] - dream pop
  • 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
  • Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) [04-11] - art pop
  • 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 [***]
  • Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems for Travellers (Skip) - 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
  • Broodman: Liminality (self-released) - 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-]
  • Kane Brown: The High Road (RCA Nashville) [01-24] - country
  • Martin Luke Brown: Man Oh Man! (AMK) [02-21]
  • Phil Brown: Rule of Three (A Caldera Productions) - jazz
  • 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
  • Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) [04-28] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) - jazz
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Buffet Lunch: Perfect Hit (Upset the Rhythm) [04-04]
  • Sara Bug: Into the Blue () [02-14]
  • Basia Bulat: Basia's Place (Secret City) [02-21] - chamber pop
  • Buried Realm: The Dormant Darkness () [04-04] - metal
  • 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
  • Royce Campbell/Vosbein Magee Big Band: Vagabond (Max Frank Music) - jazz
  • 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
  • Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) [05-02] - indie rock
  • 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]
  • Matt Carmichael: Dancing With Embers (self-released) - jazz
  • Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Valory Music) [05-07] - country [*]
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter/Julie Fowlis/Karine Polwart: Looking for the Thread (Lambient Light) [01-24]
  • Juan Carmona: Laberinto De Luz (Nomad Kultur) - jazz
  • Ken Carson: More Chaos (Opium/Interscope) [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Casper Skulls: Kit-Cat (Next Door) [04-11] - indie rock
  • 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
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4l/Columbia) [01-24] - UK hip-hop
  • Eddie Chacon: Lay Low (Stones Throw) [01-31] - alt-r&b
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) [04-04] - singer-songwriter
  • Chalk: Conditions III (Nice Swan -EP) [02-21] - dance-punk
  • Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) [02-25] - jazz
  • 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 [***]
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) - jazz
  • Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra) - jazz
  • The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) [02-28] - jangle pop [A-]
  • Chime Oblivion: Chime Oblivion (Deathgod) [04-18]
  • Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone -EP) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Seong-Jin Cho: Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works (Deutsche Grammophon) [01-17] - classical
  • Eugenia Choe: So We Speak (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Choof: A Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence (Dead Set) [01-24]
  • Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) [05-02] - country
  • Ciel: Spice (Nomad) [04-11] - UK hip-hop
  • 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
  • Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos () [04-11] - jazz
  • JD Cliffe: Misfit. (APLCO -EP) [04-16] - UK hip-hop
  • 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
  • Clutter: Loves You (PNKSLM -EP) [04-11]
  • 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]
  • Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn) [01-29]] - jazz [B]
  • Cold Specks: Light for the Midnight (Mute) [04-11]
  • 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 [++]
  • Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer () [ 04-11]
  • 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]
  • Claire Cope: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) - jazz
  • 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 [***]
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Alyn Cosker: Onta (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • 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
  • Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • 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
  • Cruce Signatus: II () [04-04] - metal
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released) [03-21] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Curren$y & Harry Fraud: Never Catch Us () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) [01-31] - funk [**]
  • Cynefin: Shimli (Recordladau Smotyn Du) [01-31]
  • Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Brian D'Addario: Till the Morning (Headstack) [03-20] - folk rock
  • Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Da Inphamus Amadeuz/The Punchline Academy: The Punchline Playbook: Lesson 1 () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) [03-28]
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • D.D. Danahy: Half Baked () [01-28]
  • The Darkness: Dreams on Toast (Cooking Vinyl) [03-28]
  • Darkside: Nothing (Matador) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Daughter of Swords: Alex (Psychic Hotline) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Davido: 5ive (Davido/Sony) [04-18]
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) - jazz
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Domino) [02-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Dawson Gool: Bark Mulch (-EP) [02-20]
  • A Day to Remember: Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled by Ramen) [M|metal]
  • Pierre De Bethmann Quartet: Agapé (Aléa) - jazz
  • Deacon Blue: The Great Western Road (Cooking Vinyl) [03-21] - pop rock
  • Dead Pioneers: Po$t American (Hassle) [04-11] - punk
  • 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
  • Diabolizer: Murderous Revelations (Dark Crescent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [04-11] - metal
  • Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding: Macon Georgia Giant (Wild Kingdom) [02-14]
  • Diaphane: München (Neither/Nor) - jazz
  • Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar) [05-31] - jazz [U]
  • 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
  • Divide and Dissolve: Insatiable (Bella Union) [04-18]
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) [03-07] - indie rock
  • DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-25] - Afrobeat [***]
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Louise Dodds: All I Know (AMP Music) - jazz
  • Jim Doherty: Jim Doherty's Spondance (Livia) - 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
  • Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) [04-18] - death metal
  • 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
  • Tara Nome Doyle: Ekko (FatCat) [04-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Dr. Purgatory: The Consumption: A Tragic Folkale in Six Parts (self-released) - jazz
  • Terry Draper: Infinity () [01-17]
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Dreamweavers: Woven in Time (Perdido) - jazz
  • The Driver Era: Obsession (TOO) [04-11]
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • Duckwrth: All American F*ckboy (Them Hellas/The Blind Youth) [H|alt-r&b]
  • 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
  • Paul van Dyk: This World Is Ours () [04-11] - trance
  • 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
  • Mats Eilertsen: 1 (Hemli) [03-28] - jazz
  • Ludovico Einaudi: The Summer Portraits (Ponderosa Music) [01-31]
  • Electric Gumbo: It's On! (Full Beam Music) - jazz
  • 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
  • The Empress: Square One (Cellar Music Group) - jazz
  • 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]
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • 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 [*]
  • F5ve: Sequence 01 (LDH Group) [05-05] - bubblegum bass
  • 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
  • Fantasy of a Broken Heart: Chaos Practicioner (Dots Per Inch -EP) [04-11] - neo-psychedelia
  • Farma G: How to Kill a Butterfly () [01-31] - hip-hop
  • FastLife, Madhattan & Spanish Ran: Bergin Hunt & Fish () [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) [03-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
  • Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) [03-28] [A-]
  • Deborah Fialkiewicz: Genetic Radio I.D. () [03-17]
  • Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Diego Figueiredo: I Love Samba (self-released) - jazz
  • Fines Double: Espejismo () [01-28] - hip-hop
  • Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) [01-24] - art pop [*]
  • Flipturn: Burnout Days (MNRK) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Floodlights: Underneath (PIAS) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Florist: Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) [04-04]
  • The Flower Kings: Love (InsideOut) [05-02] - symphonic prog
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • 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
  • Kevin Fort: Everything I Love (Jerujazz) - jazz
  • 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-]
  • Avery Friedman: New Thing (Audio Antihero) [04-18]
  • 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 [A-]
  • Michika Fukumori: Eternity (Summit) [06-06] - jazz [U]
  • Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) [03-07] - alt-country
  • Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
  • G-Clef Da Mad Komposa & Jus-P: Xavier & Logan () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • G-Dragon: Übermensch (Empire/Galaxy) [02-25] - synthpop
  • Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) [04-11] - r&b [***]
  • 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
  • Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) [04-18] - folk [***]
  • 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
  • Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (Entropic) [04-28] - jazz [C+]
  • 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 [**]
  • Kyle Gordon: Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful (BMG) [04-04] - comedy
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Grand Official: Supreme () [02-02] - hip-hop
  • Grandmas House: Anything for You (Dutchess Box -EP) [04-11]
  • 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
  • Peter Gregson: Peter Gregson (Decca) [04-11]
  • 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 [*]
  • Hachiku: The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists) [02-28] - indie pop
  • Donovan Haffner: Alleviate (self-released) - jazz
  • Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Nicole Hale: Some Kind of Longing () [01-23]
  • Halflives: How Much a Heart Can Take Before It Breaks (-EP) [04-11]
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • 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
  • Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Stan Harrison: Some Pour Soul Has a Fire (self-released) - jazz
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Lawrence Hart: Come in out of the Rain (Double Six) [04-04]
  • Nanami Haruta: The Vibe (Origin) - jazz
  • Hataalii: I'll Be Around (Panther Mountain) [04-04]
  • Haunted Horses: Dweller (Three One G) [01-10] - noise rock
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) [05-16] - jazz
  • Hawkwind: There Is No Space for Us (Cherry Red) [04-18] - space rock
  • 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 [B]
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) [01-13] - jazz
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock
  • Heavy Lungs: Caviar (FatCat) [04-18]
  • 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 [***]
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Sarah Hennies/Richard Valitutto: SOVT (Elsewhere) - jazz
  • Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise (Naive) - jazz
  • Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • 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]
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • 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] - electronic [***]
  • 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]
  • Jennie Hill: Floating (Rat Beach) - jazz
  • Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke: Split Scale (Thrill Jockey) [01-24]
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) [04-04] - jazz [B]
  • Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) - jazz
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic
  • 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 [***]
  • Horizon Trio: Horizon (self-released) - jazz
  • 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
  • Julia Hulsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) - jazz
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) [05-02] - art-pop
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Ider: Last to the World (Nettwerk) [02-21] - indie pop
  • Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) [04-11] - metal
  • 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
  • In the Woods: Otra (Prophecy) [04-11] - metal
  • 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
  • IQ: Dominion (Giant Electric Pea) [03-28] - neo-prog
  • 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-]
  • 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-]
  • Oscar Jerome: The Fork (New Soil) [04-04] - nu jazz
  • 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
  • Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) - jazz
  • 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 [***]
  • Joni: Things I Left Behind (Hand in Hive/Keeled Scales) [04-11]
  • 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 [*]
  • Dalila Kayros: Khthonie (Subsound) [04-04]
  • Tom Keenlyside: Third Street Wobble (self-released) - jazz
  • KEG: Fun's Over (Alcopop!) [03-14] - art punk
  • Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) [04-11] - African
  • 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 [**]
  • Gary Kemp: This Destination (EastWest/Warner Music UK) [01-31] - rock
  • Kills Birds: Crave (Lucky Number -EP) [04-11] - grunge
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African [B-]
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) [05-01] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver: Hinterland () [03-07] - prog folk
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) [03-28] - jazz [ *]
  • KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Knight: For Years Gone (self-released) - jazz
  • Hans Koch & Florian Stoffner: Net (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) [02-07] - 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 (Down the Road) [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 [**]
  • Kuunatic: Wheels of Ömon (Glitterbeat) [04-11] - experimental rock
  • 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
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [B-]
  • Laurenne/Louhimo: Falling Through Stars (Frontiers) [04-18]
  • Le Sserafim: Hot (Source Music/HYBE) [03-14] - K-pop
  • Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • 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
  • Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) [04-24]
  • Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) [94-04] [***]
  • Edvard Graham Lewis: Alreet? (Upp) [01-24]
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) [05-30] - jazz
  • Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) [03-21] - anti-folk [A-]
  • Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut) [06-01] - jazz [U]
  • Lik: Necro () [04-18] - death metal
  • 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] -
  • Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War (Easy Eye Sound) [04-18]
  • 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 [***]
  • Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) [05-25] - jazz [U]
  • 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
  • Lullahush: Ithaca (Future Classic) [04-11]
  • 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 [*]
  • Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca) [05-26] - jazz [U]
  • Peter Madsen Trio: Faces of Love (Playscape) - jazz
  • Magana: Bad News (-EP) [01-25]
  • Magnolia Park: Vamp (Epitaph) [04-11] - alt metal
  • 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
  • Mamalarky: Hex Key (Epitaph) [0-4-11] - indie rock
  • 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
  • Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) [01-31] - downtempo
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Marinero: La La La () [02-14]
  • Mark: The Firstfruit (SM Entertainment) [04-07] - K-pop
  • 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
  • Billy Marrows and Grande Familia: The Penelope Album Live (Discus Music) - jazz
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Malcolm Martineau: The Complete Songs of Ravel (Signum) [04-18] - classical
  • Maruja: Tír Na Nóg (Music for Nations -EP) [02-21] - post-rock
  • Masma Dream World: Please Come to Me () [02-21] - dark ambient
  • Janette Mason: ReWired (JMMusic) - jazz
  • Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father (self-released) - jazz
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) [06-06] - jazz [U]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) [06-09] - jazz [U]
  • Matron: Sunken State (-EP) [04-11]
  • 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 [**]
  • Mike McClelland Rm 210: You'll Hear It: The Music of Bob Fenton (Cornerstone) - jazz
  • Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl) [04-04] - ambient
  • Juliet McConkey: Southern Front () - country
  • Drayco McCoy: World Domination (self-released) [02-25] - hip-hop
  • Mclusky: The World Is Still Her and So Are We (Ipecac) [05-09] - noise rock
  • 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 [**]
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Mekons: Horror (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [A]
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Melvins: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • 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
  • Stéphane Mercier: Live at the Jazz Station (Step By) - jazz
  • Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian) [02-14] - neo-soul
  • Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • 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
  • Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic (self-released) - jazz
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) [01-17] - electropop
  • Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Miss Tess: Cher Rêve () - country
  • Matt Mitchell: Sacrosancticity (Obliquity) [05-23] - jazz
  • Dennis Mitcheltree/Johannes Wallman: Holding Space (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) [02-28] - Saharan rock [***]
  • Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [05-02] - dance-punk
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) [01-24] - shoegaze [*]
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (The Flenser) [01-24] - avant-folk
  • The Moles: Composition Book (Splendid Research) [02-07]
  • Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (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
  • Monteverdi Choir & Jonathan Sells: Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets (Soli Deo Gloria) [04-18] - choral
  • 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
  • Mark Morton: Without the Pain () [04-11] - southern rock
  • 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
  • Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) [03-27] - jazz [*]
  • 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
  • David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • 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. (Legendary) [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
  • Negros Tou Moria: Mavri Ellada () [04-04]
  • Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) [04-25] - country [A-]
  • 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
  • Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) [04-11] - metal
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs () [02-28] - hip-hop
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • NewDad: Safe (Atlantic -EP) [05-02] - dream pop
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
  • Nikhita: Solace (-EP) [04-04]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • 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) [01-17] - 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]
  • OK Go: And the Adjacent Possible (Paracadute) [04-11] - indie pop
  • 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
  • Christian Pabst: Rhythm Riot (JazzSick) - jazz
  • 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
  • Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story (self-released) - jazz
  • Panchiko: Ginkgo (Nettwerk) [ 04-04] - dream pop
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) [02-28] - tropical rock [*]
  • Diana Panton: Soft Winds and Roses (self-released) - vocal jazz
  • Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) [01-17] - gospel
  • Jon Pardi: Honkytonk Hollywood (Capitol Nashville) [04-11] - country
  • 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
  • Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner: Drag Drop Spin & Crawl () - jazz
  • 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 (Edition) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Nico Paulo: Interval_o (Forward Music Group -EP) [03-21]
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) [03-21]
  • 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
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner) [05-09] - dance pop
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Pit Pony: Dead Stars (Clue) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) [04-22] - jazz [**]
  • Jefferson Pitcher: The Bellows () [04-11]
  • 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
  • Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2) [05-16] - jazz [U]
  • 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
  • Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Warp) [05-09] - glitch pop
  • Private Property: Private Property (Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) [01-17] - punk-jazz [***]
  • Pulse: Body Is Reality () [02-07] - metal
  • Puma Blue: Antichamber (Blue Flowers) [02-18] - indie folk
  • Pup: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (Rise) [05-02] - indie rock
  • Purified in Blood: Primal Pulse Thunder () [03-14] - metal
  • Pyres: Yun () [03-07] - metal
  • Quade: The Foel Tower (AD 93) [04-18] - post-rock
  • Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant () [02-28] - hip-hop
  • Quickly, Quickly: I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International) [04-18] - art pop
  • 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
  • Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies (Tonal) [04-16]
  • 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 [***]
  • 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]
  • Ribbon Skirt: Bite Down (Mint) [04-11] - indie rock
  • Rex Richardson: Elegy (Summit) - jazz
  • Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (Mason) [05-15] - jazz [U]
  • 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 [**]
  • Ferdinando Romano: The Legends of Otranto (GleAM) - 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
  • Ted Rosenthal Trio: High Standards (TMR Music) - jazz
  • 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]
  • Matthieu Saglio/Camille Saglio: Al Alba (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics) [02-07] - classical
  • Sailorr: From Florida's Finest (BuVision) [05-09] - r&b
  • Bria Salmena: Big Dog (Sub Pop) [03-28]
  • Samo Salamon/Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo) [04-10] - jazz [A-]
  • 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
  • Michael Sarian: Esquina (Greenleaf Music) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Sault: 10 (Forever Living Originals) [04-19] [*]
  • 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
  • Mei Semones: Animaru (Bayonet) [05-02] - indie pop
  • Sevendials: A Crash Course in Catastrophe (Creation Youth/Cadiz Music) [04-11]
  • 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]
  • Blake Shelton: For Recreational Use Only (Wheelhouse) [05-09] - country
  • Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) [02-21] - prog metal
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork
  • Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) [01-31] - metal
  • Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) [02-28] - dance-pop [***]
  • Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) [02-11] - punk [*]
  • Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Stefan Sirbu: Reverie (self-released) - jazz
  • Sister Ray: Believer (Royal Mountain) [04-04] - folk rock
  • Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) [03-06] - hard dance [A-]
  • 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
  • Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (RCA) [05-09] - alt-metal
  • 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
  • Adrian Smith & Richie Kotzen: Black Light/White Noise (BMG) [04-04]
  • Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love) [06-06] - jazz [U]
  • Nell Smith: Anxious (Bella Union) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Peter Smith: Smitty Straightens Out (Real Magic) - jazz
  • 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
  • Lucy Southern: Lucy Southern (self-released) - jazz
  • Sissy Spacek: Entrance (Shelter Press) [04-04]
  • Spellling: Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones) [03-28]
  • Alister Spence Trio: Gather (Alister Spence Music) - jazz
  • 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 [*]
  • Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns (Mind Beach) - 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-]
  • Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (Sunnyside) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Johanna Summer/Jakob Manz: Cameo (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands () [05-09] - jazz
  • Superheaven: Superheaven (Blue Grape Music) [04-18] - post-grunge
  • 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
  • Simin Tander: The Wind (Jazzland) - jazz
  • Stefano Tanzi: Wrong Together (PlayCab) - jazz
  • Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) [01-31] - industrial
  • Teen Mortgage: Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner) [04-11] - garage punk
  • 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
  • Those Damn Crows: God Shaped Hole (Earache) [04-11] - alt-rock
  • 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
  • Tómarúm: Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic) [04-04] - metal
  • 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 [*]
  • ERR: stream no grade: Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny
  • Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (FMR) [07-01] - 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 [***]
  • Triology: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) - jazz
  • TripleS: Assemble25 (Modhaus) [05-12] - K-pop
  • Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (Outside In Music) [05-30] - jazz [U]
  • 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 [**]
  • Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (Bossier City) [04-11] - country
  • William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) [04-25]
  • U.e.: Hometown Girl ( 28912) [01-16] - ambient
  • Kali Uchis: Sincerely, (Capitol) [05-09] - pop soul
  • Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Ukandanz: Evil Plan (Compagne 4000 -EP) [04-04]
  • Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (Pi) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Ulery: Mother Harp (Woolgathering) - jazz
  • 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 [**]
  • 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
  • Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [U]
  • The Velveteers: A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound) [02-14] - alt-rock
  • Venturing: Ghostholding (DeadAir) [02-14] - shoegaze
  • Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) - jazz [*]
  • 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
  • Michael Waldrop: Native Son (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [U]
  • 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-]
  • 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] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • 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
  • Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (Pi) [06-06] - jazz [U]
  • 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
  • Tucker Wetmore: What Not To (UMG Nashville) [04-25] - country
  • 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]
  • John Andrew Wilhite: Bristol Silence () [05-09] - jazz
  • Evan Williams: The View From Halfway Down () [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 (Earthly Habit) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Witch Post: Beast (-EP) [04-18]
  • 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
  • Dustin Wong: Gloria (self-released) [04-01] - ambient
  • Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) [05-09] - hip-hop
  • 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
  • Wrath of Logarius: Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) [04-04] - metal
  • 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 [*]
  • 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
  • Yard: Yard (self-released -EP) [05-13]
  • 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 [*]
  • Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 23: Hyldon (Jazz Is Dead) [04-04] - jazz
  • Adrian Younge: Something About April III () [04-18]
  • Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum) [02-21] - indie pop
  • YT: Oi! (G2G) [03-28] - UK hip-hop
  • Yukimi: For You (Ninja Tune) [03-28] - neo-soul
  • Warren Zeiders: Relapse, Lies & Betrayal (Warner) [03-14] - country
  • 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 [*]
  • 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
  • Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962, Craft) [03-25] - blues [A-]
  • 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
  • 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 [***]
  • Jeff Bridges: Slow Magic, 1977-1978 (Light in the Attic) [04-11]
  • Jakob Bro/Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Lee Konitz/Ben Street: Balladeering (2008, Loveland Music) [03-06] - jazz
  • Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (Old Heaven Books) [03-24] - jazz [***]
  • Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) [01-17] - jazz
  • Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm () - jazz
  • Gene Clark & Carla Olson: So Rebellious a Lover (1987, Sunset Blvd)
  • George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (Whirlwind) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Stanley Cowell:: Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Stanley Cowell: Regeneration (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Such Great Friends (1983, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Curlew: East/West/Also (1990, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz
  • The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • 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 [A-]
  • Bill Evans: Explorations (1961, Craft) - 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 [**]
  • 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 [**]
  • John Gordon: Step by Step (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 53 (1976, Grateful Dead -3CD) [01-31] - jam rock
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964, Craft -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Guaraldi: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) - jazz
  • Margo Guryan: 28 Demos (Numero Group;) [04-04] - singer-songwriter
  • Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (Tzadik) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Billy Harper: Capra Black (1973, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Helloween: March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) (Nuclear Blast) [03-28] - metal
  • Joe Henderson: Multiple (Craft) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Henderson: Our Thing to In 'n Out Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • 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 & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released -EP) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released -EP) [04-04] - 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) [02-24] - 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
  • Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010, Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-08] - jazz
  • Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code (Ideologic Organ) [04-11] - drone
  • 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-]
  • James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [U]
  • Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [05-23] - African
  • 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 Sluggs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • The New York Bass Violin Choir: The New York Bass Violin Choir (Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom of Speech (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Cecil Payne: Zodiac (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • 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 [***]
  • 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 [*]
  • Jeannie Piersol: The Nest (High Moon) [01-24] - folk rock
  • Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd at Pompeii (Sony) [05-02] - prog rock
  • The Reference Group: File Under Unpopular (2007-08, Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Max Roach: Deeds, Not Words (1958, Craft) - jazz
  • Charlie Rouse: Two Is One (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • 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
  • Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) [05-09] - 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
  • 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 [*]
  • Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) [02-01] - blues [*]
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 Mississippi -EP) [02-28] - alt/indie [*]
  • Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) [03-07] - folk rock [***]
  • Neil Young: Coastal (Reprise) [04-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Electric Junk: Deutsche Rock, Psych and Kosmische 1970-1978 () [04-18]
  • Get Ready for the Countdown: Mod, Brit Soul, R&B & Freakbeat Nuggets () [04-18]
  • 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 [*]
  • Scarborough Jazz Festival Present: 2024 Live Festival Compilation (self-released) - jazz
  • Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East) [04-25] - 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 0: 0
  • Priority 1: 882
  • Priority 2: 39
  • Priority 3: 1
  • Priority 4: 251
  • Priority 5: 124

Total: 1297