Music Year 2011

This is my year-end list for records released in 2011. A frozen copy as of Jan. 18, 2012, is here. Post-freeze changes are marked in this color (except for re-orderings. These will be added up to Dec. 31, 2012, at which point enough will be enough -- the file may still be changed as ungraded records are belatedly graded, but no new records will be added.

For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed. Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a "-NN" (e.g., -10 for 2010) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases, often hard to figure out official dates, but they were unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.

New Records

1. Dan Raphael/Rich Halley/Carson Halley: Children of the Blue Supermarket (Pine Eagle)
2. Lobi Traore: Bwati Kono "In the Club" (Kanaga System Krush)
3. The Mekons: Ancient & Modern 1911-2011 (Bloodshot)
4. Avram Fefer/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor: Eliyahu (Not Two)
5. Jimmie Dale Gilmore/The Wronglers: Heirloom Music (Neanderthal Noise) [**]
6. Allen Lowe: Blues and the Empirical Truth (Music & Arts, 3CD)
7. Dave Alvin: Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc) [**]
8. ICP Orchestra: ICP 049 (ICP -10)
9. Todd Snider: Live: The Storyteller (Thirty Tigers/Aimless, 2CD)
10. Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)
11. Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance (Pi, 2CD)
12. Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
13. Raphael Saadiq: Stone Rollin' (Columbia)
14. Lupe Fiasco: Lasers (Atlantic) [**]
15. Das Racist: Relax (Greedhead) [**]
16. Mayer Hawthorne: How Do You Do (Universal Republic) [**]
17. The Weeknd: House of Balloons (mixtape) **
18. Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds) [**]
19. Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra (mixtape) **
20. Teddybears: Devil's Music (Big Beat/Atlantic) [**]
21. Cunninlynguists: Oneirology (RBC) **
22. Fucked Up: David Comes to Life (Matador) **
23. David Murray Cuban Ensemble: Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
24. TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light (Interscope) [**]
25. Kanye West/Jay-Z: Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
26. Wussy: Strawberry (Shake It) **
27. Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots (ATO/Red) [**]
28. Matt Lavelle: Goodbye New York, Hello World (Music Now!)
29. Ellery Eskelin Trio: New York (Prime Source)
30. De Nazaten & James Carter: For Now (Strotbrocck)
31. Fruit Bats: Tripper (Sub Pop) **
32. Terakaft: Aratan N Azawad (World Village) [**]
33. Tommy Smith: Karma (Spartacus)
34. Ted Rosenthal: Out of This World (Playscape)
35. Serengeti: Family & Friends (Anticon) [**]
36. Class Actress: Rapprocher (Carpark) **
37. Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
38. Big Baby Gandhi: Big Fucking Baby (mixtape) **
39. Adam Pieronczyk: Komeda: The Innocent Sorcerer (Jazzwerkstatt)
40. Tyshawn Sorey: Oblique - I (Pi)
41. Buck 65: 20 Odd Years (WEA Canada) **
42. Elzhi: Elmatic (Jae B Group) **
43. Pistol Annies: Hell on Heels (Columbia Nashville) [**]
44. Tinariwen: Tassili (Anti-) **
45. Steve Cropper: Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales (429) [**]
46. Low Cut Connie: Get Out the Lotion (self-released)
47. Emperor X: Western Teleport (Bar/None) [**]
48. Poly Styrene: Generation Indigo (Future Noise)
49. Tom Waits: Bad as Me (Anti-)
50. Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch) [**]
51. Bootsy Collins: Tha Funk Capital of the World (Megaforce) **
52. Merle Haggard: Working in Tennessee (Vanguard)
53. The Dirt Drifters: This Is My Blood (Warner Brothers) [**]
54. Blu: NoYork! (New World Color) **
55. Hot Chelle Rae: Whatever (RCA) **
56. Blaqstarr: Divine EP (NEET, EP) **
57. Viceversah: Shine Not Burn (AR Classic) **
58. Peter Stampfel/Jeffrey Lewis: Come on Board (self-released) **
59. Mathias Eick: Skala (ECM)
60. Darius Jones: Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)
61. The Grimm Teachaz: There's a Situation on the Homefront (1993, Breakfast) **
62. Rainbow Arabia: Boys and Diamonds (Kompakt)
63. Limousines: Get Sharp (Dangerbird) **
64. Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation) **
65. Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade: Brain Dance (Cuneiform)
66. Bombino: Agadez (Cumbancha) **
67. Generation Bass Presents: Transnational Dubstep (Six Degrees) [**]
68. Bibio: Mind Bokeh (Warp) **
69. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet (Delmark)
70. Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform, 2CD)
71. Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères (TUM)
72. Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi (ACT)
73. Alexis Cuadrado: Noneto Ibérico (Bju'ecords)
74. The Baseball Project: Vol. 2: High and Inside (Yep Roc) **
75. The Chris Byars Octet: Lucky Strikes Again (SteepleChase)
76. Starlicker: Double Demon (Delmark)
77. David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali: Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)
78. Jake Fryer/Bud Shank Quartet: In Good Company (Capri)
79. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton: Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center (Reprise, CD+DVD)
80. Claire Ritter: The Stream of Pearls Project (Zoning)
81. Maïkotron Unit: Ex-Voto (Jazz From Rant)
82. 9th Wonder: The Wonder Years (Traffic Entertainment) [**]
83. FAB Trio: History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
84. Yaala Ballin: On the Road (Gallery)
85. Connie Smith: Long Line of Heartaches (Sugar Hill) **
86. Miranda Lambert: Four the Record (RCA Nashville) [**]
87. Scroobius Pip: Distraction Pieces (Speech Development) **
88. Cornershop: Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of (Ample Play) **
89. Luis Lopes: Lisbon Berlin Trio (Clean Feed)
90. Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson: Live at the South Bank (Smalltown Superjazz, 2CD)
91. Hail Mary Mallon: Are You Gonna Eat That? (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
92. Jill Scott: The Light of the Sun (Blues Babe/Warner Bros.) [**]
93. Marcus Strickland: Triumph of the Heavy: Volume 1 & 2 (Strick Muzik, 2CD)
94. Side A: A New Margin (Clean Feed)
95. Joe McPhee/Michael Zerang: Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Song) (NoBusiness)
96. Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Riptide (Clean Feed)
97. Joe Fiedler Trio: Sacred Chrome Orb (YSL)
98. Harrison Bankhead Sextet: Morning Sun Harvest Moon (Engine) **
99. Omar Souleyman: Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies)
100. Jason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time (Delmark)
101. Charles Lloyd Quartet with Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert (ECM, 2CD)
102. Andrew Atkinson Quartet: Live: Keep Looking Forward (self-released)
103. Deborah Pearl: Souvenir of You: New Lyrics to Benny Carter Classics (Evening Star) [?]
104. J Mascis: Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop) **
105. Britney Spears: Femme Fatale (Jive)
106. Brian Charette: Learning to Count (SteepleChase)
107. William Elliot Whitmore: Field Songs (Anti-) **
108. The New Trio [Günter Baby Sommer/Floros Floridis/Akira Ando]: Melting Game (Jazzwerkstatt) **
109. James Carter Organ Trio: At the Crossroads (Emarcy)
110. Eliane Elias: Light My Fire (Concord) [?]
111. Hayes Carll: KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway) [**]
112. Phil Ranelin: Perseverance (Wide Hive) **
113. Evan Parker/Wes Neal/Joe Sorbara: At Somewhere There (Barnyard)
114. Swollen Members: Dagger Mouth (Suburban Noize) **
115. Action Bronson: Dr. Lecter (Fine Fabric Delegates) **
116. Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429) [**]
117. Lim: With Marc Ducret (Kopasetic) **
118. Available Jelly: Plushlok, Baarle-Nassau, Set 1 (Ramboy)
119. Säo Paulo Underground: Tres Cabeças Loucuras (Cuneiform) **
120. La Cherga: Revolve (Asphalt Tango)
121. Middle Brother (Partisan) **
122. Beth Ditto: EP (Columbia, EP) **
123. Jerry Leake & Randy Roos: Cubist Live (Rhombus Publishing)
124. Jerry Bergonzi: Convergence (Savant)
125. Honey Ear Trio: Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
126. Lucinda Williams: Blessed (Lost Highway)
127. Holshouser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC (Ramboy)
128. BLNRB: Welcome to the Madhouse (Out Here)
129. Inzinzac: Inzinzac (High Two)
130. New York Dolls: Dancing Backward in High Heels (429) [**]
131. Lydia Loveless: Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot) **
132. Moon Hotel Lounge Project: Into the Ojalá (Frosty Cordial)

Pending:

Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded.

• Bryan Anthony: A Night Like This (Mercator Media)
• Chris Bauer: In a Yuletide Groove: Harmonica Jazz for the Holidays (self-released)
• Liz Childs Quartet: Take Flight (self-released)
• The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: The Symphonic Celtic Album (Silva Screen)
• Norman David and the Eleventet: At This Time (CoolCraft)
• Jonathan Elias: Path to Zero: Prayer Cycle (Downtown)
• The Falconaires: Sharing the Freedom (The USAF Academy Band)
• Carlos Franzetti/Allison Brewster Franzetti: Alborada (Amapola)
• Nick Hempton: The Business (Posi-Tone)
• Elisabeth Lohninger Band: Christmas in July (JazzSick)
• Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol (ELM)
• Matt Panayides: Tapestries of Song (Pacific Coast Jazz)
• Planet Z: Planet Z Featuring Susan Aquila (Blue Chair)
• Lalo Schifrin: Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 (Aleph)
• TRP (The Reese Project): Evening in Vermont (Rhombus)
• The United States Air Force Band: The Jazz Heritage Series 2011 Radio Broadcasts (United States Air Force Band, 3CD)
• Bastian Weinhold: River Styx (self-released)

Also Noted:

Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade slots:

• Agogic (Table & Chairs)
• Ralph Alessi and This Against That: Wiry Strong (Clean Feed)
• Harry Allen: Rhythm on the River (Challenge)
• JD Allen Trio: Victory! (Sunnyside)
• Ben Allison: Action-Refraction (Palmetto) [**]
• An Horse: Walls (Mom & Pop) **
• Ernestine Anderson: Nightlife (High Note)
• The Antlers: Burst Apart (Frenchkiss) **
• Architecture in Helsinki: Moment Bends (Downtown) **
• Lynne Arriale: Convergence (Motéma)
• Art Brut: Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl) **
• ASAP Rocky: LiveLoveASAP (RCA/Polo Grounds Music) **
• Clint Ashlock Big Band: New Jazz Order (self-released)
• Available Jelly: Plushlok, Baarle-Nassau, Set 2 (Ramboy)
• Omer Avital: Free Forever (Smalls)
• Marcia Ball: Roadside Attractions (Alligator) **
• Ballister: Bastard String (self-released) **
• BANN [Seamus Blake/Jay Anderson/Oz Noy/Adam Nussbaum]: As You Like (Jazz Eyes)
• BassDrumBone: The Other Parade (Clean Feed)
• Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside) [?]
• Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol) **
• Bebop Trio (Creative Nation Music)
• The Louie Belogenis Trio: Tiresias (Porter)
• Daniel Bennett Group: Peace & Stability Among Bears (Bennett Alliance)
• Tim Berne: Insomnia (Clean Feed)
• Tim Berne/Jim Black/Nels Cline: The Veil (Cryptogramophone)
• Sarah Bernstein: Unearthish (Phase Frame Music)
• The B-52s: With the Wild Crowd! (Eagle) **
• Carlos Bica: Things About Carlos Bica & Azul (Clean Feed)
• Big K.R.I.T.: Return of 4 Eva (Greenstreets) [**]
• David Binney: Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
• Scott H. Biram: Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot) **
• Jim Black/Trevor Dunn/Oscar Noriega/Chris Speed: Endangered Blood (Skirl)
• Ran Blake/Dominique Eade: Whirlpool (Jazz Project)
• Anthony Branker & Word Play: Dialogic (Origin)
• Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker (Outline)
• Danny Brown: XXX (Fool's Gold) **
• Bryan and the Haggards: Still Alive and Kickin' Down the Walls (Hot Cup)
• Jaki Byard: A Matter of Black and White: Live at the Keystone Korner, Vol. 2 (1978-79, High Note)
• Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
• Uri Caine Trio: Siren (Winter & Winter) **
• The Cambodian Space Project: 2011: A Space Odyssey (Metal Postcard) **
• Kate Campbell: Two Nights in Texas (Large River Music) **
• Laura Cantrell: Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music (Spit & Polish) **
• Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio: Les Nuages en France (Mode/Avant)
• Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project: Seriously (Smog Veil)
• Carolina Chocolate Drops: Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminiscent Orchestrii (Nonesuch, EP) **
• François Carrier/Michel Lambert/Alexey Lapin: All Out (FMR)
• François Carrier/Alexey Lapin/Michel Lambert: Inner Spire (Leo)
• Erik Charlston: Jazz Brasil: Essentially Hermeto (Sunnyside)
• Bruno Chevillon/Tim Berne: Old and Unwise (Clean Feed)
• Clams Casino: Instrumentals (mixtape) **
• Common: The Dreamer/The Believer (Warner Brothers) **
• The Cookers: Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
• Cut Off Your Hands: Hollow (Frenchkiss) **
• The D.A.: You Kids! (self-released) **
• Joseph Daley Earth Tones Ensemble: The Seven Deadly Sins (Jaro) **
• Claire Daly Quintet: Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose (Daly Bread)
• DaVinci: Feast or Famine (SWTBRDS, EP) **
• Dead Cat Dance: Chance Episodes (Cuneiform)
• Death Cab for Cutie: Codes and Keys (Atlantic) **
• Deer Tick: Divine Providence (Partisan) **
• Del the Funky Homosapien: Golden Era (The Council) **
• Todd DelGiudice: Pencil Sketches (OA2)
• Brigitte DeMeyer: Rose of Jericho (BDM Music) **
• Disappears: Guider (Kranky) **
• Armen Donelian: Leapfrog (Sunnyside)
• Dave Douglas: Rare Metals [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1] (Greenleaf Music)
• Dave Douglas: United Front: Brass Ecstasy at Newport (Greenleaf Music) **
• Dave Douglas/So Percussion: Bad Mango [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 3] (Greenleaf Music)
• Open Mike Eagle: Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Hellfyre Club) **
• Steve Earle: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (New West) **
• Echoes of Swing: Message From Mars (Echoes of Swing)
• Egyptrixx: Bible Eyes (Night Slugs) **
• Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II (Songlines) **
• Harris Eisenstadt: September Trio (Clean Feed)
• Marty Ehrlich's Rites Quartet: Frog Leg Logic (Clean Feed)
• Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble: Inana (Pi)
• EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions) **
• Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: Lost in Translation (Mishka) **
• Farmers by Nature [Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn]: Out of This World's Distortions (AUM Fidelity)
• Agustí Fernández: El Laberint de la Memória (Mbari Musica)
• T-Model Ford and GravelRoad: Taledragger (Alive) **
• Fountains of Wayne: Sky Full of Holes (Yep Roc) **
• Erik Friedlander: Bonebridge (Skipstone)
• The Front Bottoms (Bar/None)
• Gang of Four: Content (Yep Roc) **
• Giacomo Gates: The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
• Ghostpoet: Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam (Brownswood) **
• Gold-Bears: Are You Falling in Love? (Slumberland) **
• Vinny Golia Quartet: Take Your Time (Relative Pitch) **
• Dennis González/João Paulo: So Soft Yet (Clean Feed)
• David Greenberger/Mark Greenberg: Tell Me That Before (Pel Pel)
• David Greenberger/Bangalore: How I Became Uncertain (Pel Pel)
• G-Side: The One . . . Cohesive (Slow Motion Soundz) **
• The Habit: Lincoln Has Won (Reel to Reel)
• Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies (Decca) **
• Scott Hamilton/Rossano Sportiello: Midnight at NOLA's Penthouse (Arbors) **
• Eric Harland: Voyager: Live by Night (Sunnyside)
• Harriet Tubman: Ascension (Sunnyside)
• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant) **
• Roy Haynes: Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)
• Julius Hemphill/Peter Kowald: Live at Kassiopeia (1987, NoBusiness, 2CD)
• William Hooker: Crossing Points (1992, NoBusiness)
• Sierra Hull: Daybreak (Rounder) **
• I Compani: Mangiare (Icdisc)
• Iceage: New Brigade (What's Your Rupture?) **
• Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy (TUM)
• Isolée: Well Spent Youth (Pampa) **
• Anne Mette Iversen Quartet: Milo Songs (Bju'ecords)
• Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta: Tirtha (ACT)
• Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise (Circus) **
• Jazz Spastiks and Junclassic: Mode 7 (Hipnott) **
• Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (Luna Park) **
• Darren Johnston's Gone to Chicago: The Big Lift (Porto Franco)
• Mamani Keita: Gagner l'Argent Français (No Format) **
• Kembe X: Self Rule (mixtape) **
• Killer Mike: PL3DGE (SMC) **
• Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light (Sunnyside)
• Lisa Kirchner: Something to Sing About (Albany)
• The Klezmatics: Live at Town Hall (Soundbrush, 2CD) **
• Edgar Knecht: Good Morning Lilofee (Ozella)
• Lee Konitz: Insight (1989-95, Jazzwerkstatt)
• Alison Krauss & Union Station: Paper Airplane (Rounder) **
• Ernie Krivda: Blues for Pekar (Capri)
• Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80: From Africa With Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory) **
• Lady Gaga: Born This Way (Streamline/Interscope) **
• The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule (BlueLand)
• Bill Laswell/Raoul Björkenheim/Morgan Ågren: Blixt (Cuneiform) **
• Jeff Lederer: Sunwatcher (Jazzheads)
• Jens Lekman: An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian, EP) **
• Jeffrey Lewis: A Turn in the Dream-Songs (Rough Trade) **
• Los Chicharrons: Roots of Life (Tummy Touch) **
• Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup)
• Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes (Hollistic Music Works)
• Tony Malaby: Tony Malaby's Novella (Clean Feed)
• Mambo Legends Orchestra: ¡Ten Cuidao! Watch Out! (Zoho, 2CD)
• René Marie: Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma) **
• Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra Versus Fanfare Ciocárlia: Balkan Brass Battle (Asphalt Tango)
• Pat Martino: Undeniable: Live at Blues Alley (High Note)
• Nilson Matta & Roni Ben-Hur: Mojave (Motéma)
• Terrence McManus: Transcendental Numbers (NoBusiness)
• Brad Mehldau & Kevin Hays: Modern Music (Nonesuch)
• Sei Miguel/Pedro Gomes: Turbina Anthem (NoBusiness)
• Mac Miller: Blue Slide Park (Rostrum) **
• Yoko Miwa Trio: Live at Scullers Jazz Club (self-released)
• Nils Petter Molvaer: Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear) *
• Michael Moore Quintet: Amsterdam (Ramboy)
• Michael Moore Quintet: Rotterdam (Ramboy)
• Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed, 2CD)
• Motörhead: The World Is Yours (UDR) **
• Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck (Merge) **
• Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers: Rambler's Call (Rebel -10) **
• Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers: Starlight Hotel (Signature Sounds) **
• Nacho Picasso: For the Glory (self-released) **
• Nanette Natal: Sweet Summer Blue (Benyo Music)
• New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard (Challenge)
• Nine 11 Thesaurus: Ground Zero Generals (The Social Registry)
• Nordeson Shelton: Incline (Singlespeed Music)
• Nordic Connect: Spirals (ArtistShare)
• Sean Nowell: Stockholm Swingin' (Posi-Tone)
• NY Jazz Initiative: Mad About Thad (Jazzheads)
• Obits: Moody, Standard and Poor (Sub Pop) **
• Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica (Software) **
• Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor: Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
• Owiny Sigoma Band: Tafsiri Sound (Brownwood, EP) **
• Michael Pedicin: Ballads (Jazz Hut)
• Ivo Perelman Quartet: The Hour of the Star (Leo)
• Houston Person: So Nice (HighNote)
• Phonte: Charity Starts at Home (HBD) **
• Rod Picott: Welding Burns (Welding Rod) [**]
• Augusto Pirodda: No Comment (Jazzwerkstatt) [?]
• Premier Roeles: Ka Da Ver (Vindu)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band & the Del McCoury Band: American Legacies (McCoury Music) **
• P.S. Eliot: Sadie (Salinas) **
• The Psychic Paramount: II **
• Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland: James Farm (Nonesuch)
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Montreal Parade (482 Music) **
• Júlio Resende Trio: You Taste Like a Song (Clean Feed)
• Matana Roberts: Live in London (Central Control) **
• Daniel Rosenthal: Lines (American Melody)
• Roswell Rudd: The Incredible Honk (Sunnyside)
• Bobby Sanabria: Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! (Jazzheads)
• Sandwell District: Feed-Forward (Sandwell District) **
• SBTRKT (Young Turks) **
• John Scofield: A Moment's Peace (Emarcy)
• Karl Seglem: Ossicles (Ozella)
• SFE: Positions & Descriptions: Simon H. Fell Composition No. 75 (Clean Feed)
• Shackleton: Fabric 55 (Fabric) **
• Matthew Shipp: Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear, 2CD)
• Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris: Broken Partials (Not Two) **
• Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music/Concord)
• Sims: Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree) **
• The Skull Defekts: Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey) **
• Sean Smith Quartet: Trust (Smithereen)
• Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM)
• SMOD (Nacional) **
• Sonic Liberation Front: Meets Sunny Murray (High Two)
• Spank Rock: Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a F---ing Liar (Bad Blood) **
• Terell Stafford: This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
• Joan Stiles: Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)
• George Strait: Here for a Good Time (MCA Nashville) **
• John Surman: Flashpoint: NDR Workshop - April '69 (1969, Cuneiform, CD+DVD)
• Jamaldeen Tacuma: For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt)
• Kayla Taylor Jazz: You'd Be Surprised (Smartykat)
• Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy (Capitol) **
• Sidi Touré & Friends: Sahel Folk (Thrill Jockey)
• Vieux Farka Touré: The Secret (Six Degrees) **
• Frank Turner: England Keep My Bones (Epitaph) **
• Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator (Sony Masterworks) **
• André Vasconcellos: 2 (Adventure Music)
• Vicious World: Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (Spinaround)
• Melvin Vines: Harlem Jazz Machine (Movi)
• Moritz von Oswald Trio: Horizontal Structures (Honest Jon's) **
• Larry Vuckovich: Somethin' Special (Tetrachord)
• Robag Wruhme: Thora Vukk (Pampa) **
• Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat: Everything's Getting Older (Chemikal Underground) **
• Withered Hand: Good News (Absolutely Kosher) **
• Watermelon Slim/Super Chikan: Okiesippi Blues (Northern Blues Music) **
• Walt Weiskopf Quartet: Recorded Live April 8, 2008 Koger Hall University of South Carolina (Capri)
• Kenny Wheeler: One of Many (CAM Jazz)
• Doug Webb: Renovations (Posi-Tone)
• Ezra Weiss: The Shirley Horn Suite (Roark)
• Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe (SMS Jazz)
• Wellstone Conspiracy: Humble Origins (Origin)
• Kenny Werner: Balloons (Half Note)
• Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy (Mack Avenue) **
• Wire: Red Barked Tree (Pink Flag) **
• Andrea Wolper: Parallel Lives (Jazzed Media)
• World Saxophone Quartet: Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt)
• Miguel Zenón: Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music) **
• Zomby: Dedication (4AD) **
• Antonio Adolfo: Chora Baião (AAM)
• Afrikan Sciences: Means and Ways (Deepblak) **
• AgesandAges: Alright Your Restless (Knitting Factory Works) **
• Ambrose Akinmusire: When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note) **
• Amina Alaoui: Arco Iris (ECM)
• Eric Alexander: Don't Follow the Crowd (High Note)
• Alias: Fever Dream (Anticon) **
• Aimée Allen: Winters & Mays (Azuline Music)
• Amadou & Mariam: Remixes (Nonesuch) **
• The Ambush Party (De Platenbakkerij)
• The Ames Room: Bird Dies (Clean Feed)
• AraabMUZIK: Electronic Dream (Duke Productions) **
• Arrive: "There Was . . ." (Clean Feed)
• Arthur's Landing (Strut) **
• Christian Artmann: Uneasy Dreams (self-released)
• Pablo Aslan Quintet: Piazzolla in Brooklyn (Soundbrush)
• Atomic: Here Comes Everybody (Jazzland) **
• Aurelio: Laru Beya (Sub Pop) **
• AWOL One & Factor: The Landmark (Fake Four) **
• Bad Meets Evil: Hell: The Sequel (Shady/Interscope) **
• Mike Baggetta Quartet: Source Material (Fresh Sound New Talent)
• Banquet of the Spirits: Caym: The Book of Angels Volume 17 (Tzadik) **
• Stefano Battaglia Trio: The River of Anyder (ECM)
• Battles: Gloss Drop (Warp) **
• Stephane Belmondo: The Same as It Never Was Before (Sunnyside)
• David Berkman: Self-Portrait (Red Piano) **
• Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly (Royal Potato Family) *
• Ketil Bjørnstad/Svante Henryson: Night Song (ECM)
• Black Milk/Danny Brown: Black and Brown (Fat Beats, EP) **
• Dan Blake: The Aquarian Suite (Bju'ecords)
• Rory Block: Shake 'Em on Down: A Tribute to Mississippi Fred McDowell (Stony Plain) **
• Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza: Paraphrase (Yeah-Yeah)
• Blow Your Head, Vol. 2: Dave Nada Presents Moombahton (Mad Decent) **
• T.K. Blue: Latinbird (Motéma)
• Blueprint: Adventures in Counter Culture (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
• BNJMN: Black Square (Rush Hour) **
• Eric Bobo/Latin Bitman: Welcome to the Ritmo Machine (Nacional) **
• Bones & Tones (Freedom Art)
• Bottle Rockets: Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With Bottle Rockets (Bloodshot) **
• Ralph Bowen: Power Play (Posi-Tone)
• Bobby Bradford/Mark Dresser/Glenn Ferris: Live in LA (Clean Feed)
• Charles Bradley: No Time for Dreaming (Daptone) **
• The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble: Mr. Machine (!K7) **
• Wolfert Brederode Quartet: Post Scriptum (ECM)
• Zach Brock: The Magic Number (Secret Fort)
• David Budway: A New Kiss (MaxJazz)
• Buraka Som Sistema: Komba (Enchufada) **
• Burial: Street Halo (Hyperdub, EP) **
• Greg Burk Trio: The Path Here (482 Music)
• Kenny Burrell: Tenderly: Solo Guitar Concert (High Note)
• The New Gary Burton Quartet: Common Ground (Mack Avenue) **
• Colbie Caillat: All of You (Universal Republic) **
• Michel Camilo: Mano A Mano (Decca) *
• Frank Carlberg: Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano)
• Fredrik Carlquist: Playing Cool (FCJazz)
• Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra: Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920s Chicago and Harlem (Accurate)
• François Carrier: Entrance 3 (Ayler)
• Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project (Concord) **
• Ron Carter: Ron Carter's Great Big Band (Sunnyside)
• Ernesto Cervini Quartet: There (Anzic)
• Kasey Chambers: Little Bird (Sugar Hill) **
• Marshall Chapman: Big Lonesome (Tall Girl -10) **
• Eric Church: Chief (Capitol Nashville) **
• Gerald Cleaver/Uncle June: Be It as I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
• Jimmy Cliff: Sacred Fire EP (Collective Sounds, EP) **
• Cloning Americana: For Which It Stands (Sunnyside)
• Todd Clouser: A Love Electric (Ropeadope)
• Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas (Sunnyside)
• Freddy Cole: Talk to Me (High Note)
• Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi: Think Thoughts (self-released)
• Com Truise: Galactic Melt (Ghostly International) **
• Laurence Cook/Eric Zinman: Double Action (Ayler)
• The Cool Kids: When Fish Ride Bicycles (Green Label Sounds) **
• Comet Gain: Howl of the Lonely Crowd (What's Your Rupture?) **
• Country Mice: Twister (Woo Woo) **
• Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears (Sunnyside)
• Shirley Crabbe: Home (MaiSong)
• Crooked Fingers: Breaks in the Armor (Merge) **
• Adam Cruz: Milestone (Sunnyside) **
• Da Cruz: Sistema Subversiva (Six Degrees) **
• Cults (In the Name Of/Columbia) **
• Mark Dagley: Mystery of the Guitar (Abaton Book)
• Kris Davis: Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)
• Kimya Dawson: Thunder Thighs (Great Crap Factory) **
• Deaf Center: Owl Splinters (Type) **
• Chuck Deardorf: Transparence (Origin)
• Dels: Gob (Big Dada) **
• The Dynamic Les DeMerle Band: Gypsy Rendezvous, Volume Two (Origin)
• Dessa: Castor, the Twin (Doomtree) **
• William Michael Dillon: Black Robes and Lawyers (self-released) **
• The Dirtbombs: Party Store (In the Red) **
• Mike DiRubbo: Chronos (Posi-Tone)
• Mike DiRubbo & Larry Willis: Four Hands, One Heart (Ksanti)
• DJ Quik: The Book of David (Mad Science) **
• DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, the Better (Verve) **
• The Dø: Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees) **
• Dave Douglas: Orange Afternoons [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 2] (Greenleaf Music)
• Benjamin Drazen: Inner Lights (Posi-Tone)
• Kermit Driscoll: Reveille (Nineteen-Eight)
• Dropkick Murphys: Going Out in Style (Born & Bred) **
• Lajos Dudas/Hubert Bergmann: What's Up Neighbor? (Jazz Sick)
• Baxter Dury: Happy Soup (Regal) **
• Yelena Eckemoff: Flying Steps (Yelena Music)
• Yelena Eckemoff: Grass Catching the Wind (Yelena Music)
• Eco D'Alberi: Eco D'Alberi (Porter)
• Joe Ely: Satisifed at Last (Rack 'Em) **
• Emika (Ninja Tune) **
• Empirical: Elements of Truth (Naim Jazz) **
• Orrin Evans: Freedom (Posi-Tone)
• Evidence: Cats and Dogs (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
• Kali Z. Fasteau/William Parker/Cindy Blackman: An Alternate Universe (Flying Note)
• Michael Feinberg: With Many Hands (self-released)
• James Ferraro: Far Side Virtual (Hippos in Tanks) **
• Scott Fields/Matthias Schubert: Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed)
• Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra: Moersbow/OZZO (Clean Feed)
• Fight Like Apes: The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner (Model Citizen) **
• FivePlay Jazz Quintet: Five of Hearts (Auraline)
• The Flail: Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Håkon Kornstad/Jon Christensen: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker - I: Live at Oslo Jazzvestival (Compunctio) **
• Flow Trio: Set Theory: Live at the Stone (Ayler)
• Joel Forrester/Phillip Johnston: Live at the Hillside Club (Asynchronous)
• Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece: Duotone (Posi-Tone)
• Danny Fox Trio: The One Constant (Songlines)
• Paolo Fresu: Mistico Mediterraneo (ECM)
• Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying . . . (Savoy Jazz)
• Bill Frisell: Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz)
• Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed (Libra)
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Eto (Libra)
• Curtis Fuller: The Story of Cathy & Me (Challenge)
• Chantale Gagné: Wisdom of the Water (self-released)
• Rob Garcia 4: The Drop and the Ocean (Bju'ecords)
• The Jeff Gauthier Goatette: Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
• Ruth Gerson: Deceived (Wrong) **
• David Gibson: End of the Tunnel (Posi-Tone)
• Vince Gill: Guitar Slinger (MCA Nashville) **
• Girls's Generation: Oh! (SM Entertainment -10) **
• The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries) **
• Otzir Godot: Kas Kas (Epatto -09)
• Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein: Bienestan (Sunnyside)
• Mac Gollehon: Odyssey of Nostalgia (American Showplace Music)
• Dennis González/Ingebirgt Håker Flaten: The Hymn Project (Daagnim) **
• Jerry Gonzalez: Jerry Gonzalez y el Comando de la Clave (Sunnyside)
• David Greenberger/Jupiter Circle: Never Give Up Study (Pel Pel)
• David Greenberger/Ralph Carney: OH, PA (Pel Pel)
• Grieves: Together/Apart (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
• The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff (ECM)
• Gutbucket: Flock (Cuneiform)
• Iro Haarla Quintet: Vespers (ECM)
• Tim Hagans: The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
• Jürgen Hagenlocher: Leap in the Dark (Intuition)
• Rich Halley Quartet: Requiem for a Pit Viper (Pine Eagle)
• Handsome Furs: Sound Kapital (Sub Pop) **
• Donald Harrison: This Is Jazz: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
• Taylor Haskins: Recombination (19/8)
• Werner Hasler/Karl Berger/Gilbert Paeffgen: Hasler/Paeffgen/Berger (NoBusiness)
• Kevin Hays: Variations (Pirouet)
• Ig Henneman Sextet: Cut a Caper (Stichting Wig)
• Mace Hibbard: Time Gone By (MHM)
• Lisa Hilton: Underground (Ruby Slippers)
• Art Hirahara: Noble Path (Posi-Tone)
• Marika Hughes: Afterlife Music Radio: 11 New Pieces for Solo Cello (DD)
• Marika Hughes: The Simplest Thing (DD)
• Julia Hülsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM)
• Hunx & His Punx: Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art) **
• Robert Hurst: Bob Ya Head (Bebob)
• Jason Kao Hwang/Edge: Crossroads Unseen (Euonymous)
• Hybrid 10tet: On the Move (BBB)
• Imelda May: Mayhem (Decca) **
• Iron Dog: Field Recordings 1 (Iron Dog Music)
• Etta James: The Dreamer (Verve Forecast) **
• Daniel Jamieson's Danjam Orchestra: Sudden Appearance (OA2)
• Sarah Jarosz: Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill) **
• Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me the Blues (VOTP) **
• Eileen Jewell: Queen of the Minor Key (Signature Sounds) **
• Darren Johnston/Aram Shelton/Lisa Mezzacappa/Kjell Nordeson: Cylinder (Clean Feed)
• Grace Jones: Hurricane (PIAS America) **
• Melvin Jones: Pivot (Turnaround)
• Kidd Jordan: On Fire (Engine) **
• Joy Kills Sorrow: This Unknown Science (Signature Sounds) **
• J-Rocc: Some Cold Rock Stuf (Stones Throw) **
• Kaze: Rafale (Libra)
• Robert Earl Keen Jr.: Ready for Confetti (Lost Highway) **
• Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers: Gift Horse (Vanguard) **
• Natalia Kills: Perfectionist (Interscope) **
• The Kills: Blood Pressures (Domino) **
• Kitty, Daisy & Lewis: Smoking in Heaven (Verve Forecast) **
• Søren Kjaergaard/Ben Street/Andrew Cyrille: Femklang (ILK) **
• Jan Klare/Jeff Platz/Meinrad Kneer/Bill Elgart: Modern Primitive (Evil Rabbit)
• Landon Knoblock/Jason Furman: Gasoline Rainbow (Fractamodi)
• Kode9 and the Spaceape: Black Sun (Hyperdub) **
• Adam Kolker: Reflections (Sunnyside)
• Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM)
• Korallreven: An Album by Korallreven (Acephale) **
• Femi Kuti: Africa for Africa (Knitting Factory)
• Ola Kvernberg: Liarbird (Jazzland) **
• Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows (Duck Down Music) **
• Oliver Lake & Jahi Sundance: Lakes at the Stone (Passin Thru) **
• Kendrick Lamar: Section.80 (Top Dawg Entertainment) **
• The Brian Landrus Quartet: Traverse (Blueland)
• Sinikka Langeland Group: The Land That Is Not (ECM) *
• Okkyung Lee: Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik) **
• Sonia Leigh: 1978 December (Southern Ground)
• The George Lernis Jazz Quartet: Shapes of Nature (self-released)
• Let's Wrestle: Nursing Home (Merge) **
• Daniel Levin: Inner Landscape (Clean Feed)
• Daniel Levin Quartet: Organic Modernism (Clean Feed)
• Helge Lien: Natsukashii (Ozella)
• Lil B: I'm Gay (I'm Happy) (BasedWorld) **
• Alex Lopez: We Can Take This Boat (Lopez Music)
• The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Egyptian/Columbia) **
• Mark Alban Lotz & Istak Köpek: Istanbul Improv Sessions May 4th (Evil Rabbit)
• Joe Lovano/Us Five: Bird Songs (Blue Note)
• Steven Lugerner: These Are the Words/Narratives (self-released, 2CD)
• Magnetic Man (Columbia) **
• Main Attrakionz: 808s and Dark Grapes II (Mishka) **
• Will Martina: The Dam Levels (self-released)
• Nicolas Masson: Departures (Fresh Sound New Talent)
• Mates of State: Mountaintops (Barsuk) **
• Spoek Mathambo: Nombolo One (Motel 11 Roadtrip Tapes) **
• Christian McBride: Conversations With Christian (Mack Avenue) **
• Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind (Indirecto, 2CD)
• Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac (Nonesuch, 2CD+DVD)
• Eddie Mendenhall: Cosine Meets Tangent (Miles High)
• Metta Quintet: Big Drum/Small World (Jazzreach)
• MIA: Vicki Leekx (mixtape -10) **
• Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (Entertainment One, 2CD) *
• Minks: By the Hedge (Captured Tracks) **
• Nicole Mitchell: Awakening (Delmark)
• Moby: Destroyed (Mute) **
• Soren Moller: Christian X Variations (Audial)
• Michael Moore Quartet: Easter Sunday (Ramboy)
• Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman: World Wide Rebel Songs **
• Carol Morgan Quartet: Blue Glass Music (Blue Bamboo Music)
• Ana Moura: Coliseu (World Village) **
• Leszek Mozdzer: Komeda (ACT)
• Maria Muldaur: Steady Love (Stony Plain) **
• Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drumfree (Material)
• Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl (ACT)
• Native Soul: Soul Step (Talking Drum)
• Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis: Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles (Blue Note) **
• New Tricks: Alternate Side (New Tricks)
• The New Universe Music Festival 2010 (Abstract Logix, 2CD)
• The New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News (Big and Phat)
• Randy Newman: The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (Nonesuch) **
• Nuriya: Tanita (2011, Musica Almaya) **
• Harold Lopez Nussa Trio: El País de las Maravillas (World Village) *
• Bill O'Connell: Triple Play Plus Three (Zoho)
• Mark O'Connor Quintet: Suspended Reality (OA2)
• Ocote Soul Sounds: Taurus (ESL Music)
• Nils Økland/Sigbjørn Apeland: Lysøen/Homage to Ole Bull (ECM)
• Old 97s: The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 (New West) **
• Harold O'Neal: Marvelous Fantasy (Smalls)
• Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt (Bee Jazz)
• Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up and Dance (Bee Jazz, 2CD)
• Orchestre Poly-Rythmo: Cotonou Club (Strut) **
• Oregon: In Stride (CAM Jazz -10)
• Christian Pabst Trio: Days of Infinity (Challenge)
• Evan Parker/Zlatko Kaucic: Round About One O'Clock (Not Two) **
• Peaking Lights: 936 (Not Not Fun) **
• Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red)
• Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Three-Part Odyssey (OA2)
• Oscar Peñas: From Now On (Bju'ecords)
• Ken Peplowski: In Search of . . . (Capri)
• Andy Petr: Rapper Turned Singer (Mixpak, EP) **
• Enrico Pieranunzi Latin Jazz Quintet: Live at Birdland (CAM Jazz -10)
• Jean-Michel Pilc: Essential (Motéma)
• Alex Pinto Quartet: Inner State (self-released)
• Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (Tzadik) *
• Plunge: Tin Fish Tango (Immersion)
• Noah Preminger: Before the Rain (Palmetto)
• Pusha T: Fear of God II: Let Us Pray (Decon) **
• Q.E.D. [Ben Thomas/Chris Stover/Alex Chadsey]: Yet What Is Any Ocean . . . (Origin)
• Rampersaud Shaw Martin Neal Krakowiak: Halcyon Science 130410 (Barnyard)
• Random Axe (Duck Down Music) **
• Mark Rapp's Melting Pot: Good Eats (Dinemec)
• The Rapture: In the Grace of Your Love (DFA) **
• Steve Reich: WTC 9/11 (Nonesuch) **
• Kate Reid: The Love I'm In (self-released)
• Michel Reis: Point of No Return (Armored)
• Rihanna: Talk That Talk (Def Jam) **
• Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre (Constellation) **
• The Roots: Undun (Def Jam) **
• Saigon: The Greatest Story Never Told (Suburban Noize) **
• Samo Salamon Trio: Almost Almond (Sanje)
• Sibiri Samaké: Dambe Foli (Kanaga System Krush) **
• Angelica Sanchez: A Little House (Clean Feed)
• Poncho Sanchez/Terence Blanchard: Chano y Dizzy! (Concord Picante) **
• Ximena Sariñana (Warner Brothers) **
• Jake Saslow: Crosby Street (14th Street)
• Schoolboy Q: Setbacks (Top Dawg) **
• Dred Scott: Prepared Piano (Robertson -09)
• Dred Scott Trio: Going Nowhere (Ropeadope)
• Seefeel (Warp) **
• Mark Segger Sextet: The Beginning (18th Note)
• Serengeti & Polyphonic: Bells and a Floating World (Anticon -10) **
• Shabazz Palaces: Black Up (Sub Pop) **
• Shakira: Live From Paris (Sony Latin Music) **
• The Lee Shaw Trio: Live at Art Gallery Reutlingen (ARC)
• Showbiz ft. KRS-One: Godsville (DITC) **
• Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder: The Key Is in the Window (Tzviryu Music)
• Jen Shyu/Mark Dresser: Synastry (Pi)
• Audrey Silver: Dream Awhile (Messy House)
• Alex Sipiagin: Destinations Unknown (Criss Cross) **
• Skrillex: More Monsters and Sprites (Big Beat/Atlantic, EP) **
• Matt Slocum: After the Storm (Chandra)
• Jim Snidero: Interface (Savant)
• Soft Metals (Captured Tracks) **
• Sonic Youth: Simon Werner A Disparu (SYR) **
• Cinzia Spata: Into the Moment (Koine)
• The Spokes: Not So Fast (Strudelmedia)
• St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (4AD) **
• Stalley: Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music) **
• Colin Stetson: Those Who Didn't Run (Constellation, EP): **
• John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Shot Through With Beauty (Origin)
• The Streets: Computers and Blues (679) **
• Ira Sullivan & Stu Katz: A Family Affair (Origin)
• Travis Sullivan: New Directions (Posi-Tone)
• Helen Sung: (Re)Conception (SteepleChase)
• The Tierney Sutton Band: American Road (BFM Jazz)
• Craig Taborn: Avenging Angel (ECM)
• Tarana: After the Disquiet (EP) (self-released, EP)
• Tegan and Sara: Get Along (Vapor) **
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge) **
• 13 & God: Own Your Ghost (Anticon)
• 3 Cohens: Family (Anzic)
• Times New Viking: Dancer Equired! (Merge) **
• Toro y Moi: Underneath the Pine (Carpark) **
• Boubacar Traoré: Mali Denhou (Lusafrica) **
• Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: Frère Jacques: Round About Offenbach (ECM)
• Tunnel Six: Lake Superior (OA2)
• Turn Around Norman: We Turn Around (TAND)
• William Tyler: Behold the Spirit (Tompkins Square) **
• Diego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation (CAM Jazz)
• Warren Vaché: Ballads and Other Cautionary Tales (Arbors) **
• Colin Vallon Trio: Rruga (ECM)
• Johnny Varro: Speak Low (Arbors) **
• Cuong Vu 4-tet: Leaps of Faith (Origin)
• Giancarlo Vulcano: Unfinished Spaces (Distant)
• The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian) **
• Kenny Werner with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Institute of Higher Learning (Half Note)
• Wilco: The Whole Love (Anti-) **
• Cedar Walton: The Bouncer (High Note)
• Yvonne Washington with Gary Norman: Trust in Me (Mercator Media)
• Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM)
• Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans: Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear)
• David Weiss & Point of Departure: Snuck Out (Sunnyside)
• Gillian Welch: The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony) **
• Neil Welch: Boxwork (Table & Chairs)
• White Denim: D (Downtown) **
• Wild Flag (Merge) **
• Ben Williams: State of Art (Concord Jazz) **
• Hank Williams III: Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town (Hank3, 2CD) **
• Jessica Williams Trio: Freedom Trane (Origin)
• Marty Williams: Long Time Comin' (In Moon Bay)
• Anthony Wilson: Campo Belo (Goat Hill)
• Betty Wright and the Roots: Betty Wright: The Movie (S-Curve) **
• YACHT: Shangri-La (DFA) **
• Sam Yahel: From Sun to Sun (Origin)
• Yuck: Yuck (Fat Possum) **
• Samir Zarif: Starting Point (Mythology)
• John Zorn: Nova Express (Tzadik) **
• Rez Abbasi's Invocation: Suno Suno (Enja) **
• Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire (Capitol) **
• Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms: Spacer (Delmark)
• Mario Adnet: More Jobim Jazz (Adventure Music)
• Afro Bop Alliance: Una Más (OA2)
• Aimtoronto Orchestra: Year of the Boar (Barnyard)
• Alabama Shakes (Rough Trade, EP) **
• Howard Alden: I Remember Django (Arbors) **
• Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues (Rounder) **
• Fabian Almazan Trio: Personalities (Biophilo)
• Eliane Amherd: Now and From Now On (ELI)
• Amikaeyla & Trelawny Rose: To Eva, With Love: A Celebration of Eva Cassidy Live! (Patois)
• AsGuests: Universal Mind (Origin)
• Astronautalis: This Is Our Science (Fake Four) **
• Stephen David Austin: A Bakersfield Dozen (self-released) **
• Austra: Feel It Break (Domino) **
• Katy B: On a Mission (Columbia) **
• Susana Baca: Afrodiaspora (Luaka Bop) **
• Matt Baker: Underground (self-released)
• Baloni: Fremdenzimmer (Clean Feed)
• Billy Bang/Bill Cole: Billy Bang/Bill Cole (Shadrack)
• Rahsaan Barber: Everyday Magic (Jazz Music City)
• John Basile: Amplitudes (StringTime Jazz)
• Pat Battstone and Richard Poole: Mystic Nights (Bat's Tones Music)
• The Belle Brigade (Reprise) **
• Sylvia Bennett: Sonrie (Out of Sight Music)
• Black Lips: Arabia Mountain (Vice) **
• Mary J. Blige: My Life II . . . The Journey Continues (Act 1) (Geffen) **
• Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves (Domino) **
• The Bloody Hollies: Yours Until the Bitter End (Alive) **
• Bomb the Music Industry!: Vacation (Really) **
• Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) **
• Randy Brecker with DR Big Band: The Jazz Ballad Song Book (Red Dot Music)
• Bright Eyes: The People's Key (Saddle Creek) **
• British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade) **
• Katie Bull: Freak Miracle (Innova)
• Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran: Cuban Rhapsody (ALMA)
• Kate Bush: Director's Cut (Fish People/EMI) **
• David Caceres: David Caceres (Sunnyside)
• Michael Cain: Solo (Native Drum Music)
• Uri Caine/Arditti String Quartet: Twelve Caprices **
• Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi (Domino) **
• Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frisell: Lágrimas Mexicanas (E1) **
• William Carn's Run Stop Run (Mythology)
• Tito Carrillo: Opening Statement (Origin)
• Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night at the Village Vanguard (Pirouet, 2CD)
• Cauldron: Burning Fortune (Earache) **
• Cerebral Ballzy (Williams Street, EP) **
• Chase and Status: No More Idols **
• Childish Gambino: Camp (Glassnote) **
• Maureen Choi: Quartet (self-released)
• Guy Clark: Songs and Stories (Dualtone) **
• Tony R Clef: Tuesday Afternoon (Big Round)
• Cloud Nothings: Cloud Nothings (Carpark) **
• Dennis Coffey (Strut) **
• Cecilia Coleman Big Band: Oh Boy! (PandaKat)
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements: The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
• Francis Coletta/Jonas Tauber: Port Saïd Street (Origin)
• Marc Copland: Crosstalk (Pirouet)
• Marc Copland/John Abercrombie: Speak to Me (Pirouet)
• Patrick Cornelius: Maybe Steps (Posi-Tone)
• Larry Coryell: With the Wide Hive Players (Wide Hive) **
• Yamandu Costa/Hamilton de Holanda: Live! (Adventure Music)
• François Couturier: Tarkovsky Quartet (ECM)
• Coyote Poets of the Universe: Pandora's Box (Square Shaped)
• Kevin Crabb: Waltz for Dylan (Crabbclaw)
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.: It's a Corporate World (Warner Brothers) **
• John Daversa: Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album (BFM Jazz)
• Ryan Davidson Trio (Debris Field)
• Elise Davis: Cheap Date (self-released) **
• Death Grips: Exmilitary (Third Worlds) **
• Darwin Deez (Lucky Number) **
• Joey DeFrancesco: 40 (High Note)
• Papa John DeFrancesco: A Philadelphia Story (Savant)
• Brett Dennen: Loverboy (Dualtone) **
• Michael Dessen Trio: Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed)
• Destroyer: Kaputt (Merge) **
• Al Di Meola: Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc) *
• DJ Diamond: Flight Muzik (Planet Mu) **
• Claire Dickson: Scattin' Doll (NDR)
• Chris Dingman: Waking Dreams (Between Worlds Music) *
• Doomtree: No Kings (Doomtree) **
• The Drums: Portamento (Frenchkiss) **
• Shauli Einav: Opus One (Plus Loin Music)
• Robert Ellis: Photographs (New West) **
• Shane Endsley and the Music Band: Then the Other (Low Electrical)
• Peter Erskine/Bob Mintzer/Darek Oles/Alan Pasqua: Standards 2: Movie Music (Fuzzy Music)
• John Escreet: The Age We Live In (Mythology)
• European Movement Jazz Orchestra: EMJO: Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
• Orrin Evans: Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
• Peter Evans Quintet: Ghosts (More Is More)
• Willie Evans Jr: Introducin' (High Water Music) **
• Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence) **
• Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori: Mulberry Street (Bju'ecords)
• Falty DL: You Stand Uncertain (Planet Mu) **
• Fattigfolket: Park (Ozella Music)
• The Feelies: Here Before (Bar/None) **
• The Felice Brothers: Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum) **
• Florence + the Lungs: Ceremonials (Universal Republic) **
• Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: Dirty Radio (Partisan) **
• The Four Bags: Forth (NCM East)
• Fourthought (Nambulo Music)
• Danny Frankel: The Interplanetary Note/Beat Conference (self-released -10)
• Fred Fried and Core: EnCore (Ballet Tree)
• Eleanor Friedberger: Last Summer (Merge) **
• Fujiya & Miyagi: Ventriloquizing (Yep Roc) **
• The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra: All Out of Peaches (New Folk)
• Hal Galper Trio: Trip the Light Fantastic (Origin)
• Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time (Sunnyside)
• Tania Gill: Bolger Station (Barnyard)
• Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra: Córdoba (Zoho)
• Girls Guns and Glory: Sweet Nothings (Lonesome Day) **
• Glows in the Dark: Beach of the War Gods (self-released)
• Otzir Godot: Drum Poems (Epatto)
• Gold Panda: DJ-Kicks (!K7) **
• Larry Goldings: In My Room (BFM Jazz)
• Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Nobody Will Be There (Damaged Goods, EP) **
• Danny Grissett: Stride (Criss Cross) **
• Danny Paul Grody: In Search of Light (Students of Decay) **
• Grouper: A/A: Alien Observer (Yellowcentric) **
• Grouper: A/A: Dream Loss (Yellowcentric) **
• Grouplove: Never Trust a Happy Song (Canvasback/Atlantic) **
• Grupo Falso Baiano: Simplicidade: Live at Yoshi's (Massaroca)
• David Guetta: Nothing but the Beat (Capitol) **
• Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone: Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear) *
• Sir Roland Hanna: Colors From a Giant's Kit (IPO) **
• Tom Harrell: The Time of the Sun (High Note)
• Stefon Harris/David Sanchez/Christian Scott: Ninety Miles (Concord Picante) **
• Joel Harrison String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
• Atsuko Hashimoto: . . . Until the Sun Comes Up (Capri)
• Tim Hecker: Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky) **
• Gilad Hekselman: Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)
• Joe Henry: Reverie (Anti-) **
• Yaron Herman Trio: Follow the White Rabbit (ACT)
• Fred Hersch: Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
• John Hiatt: Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns (New West) **
• High Fiddelity: Tell Me! (High Fiddelity)
• Marquis Hill: New Gospel (self-released)
• Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: The Sweet Science Suite (Mutable/Big Red Media) **
• Ari Hoenig: Lines of Oppression (Naïve) **
• Holy Ghost!: Holy Ghost! (DFA) **
• Honeyhoney: Billy Jack (Lost Highway) **
• Hot Club of Cowtown: What Makes Bob Holler (Proper) **
• Human Element (Abstract Logix)
• Van Hunt: What Were You Hoping For? (Godless Hotspot) **
• Jason Kao Hwang/Spontaneous River: Symphony of Souls (Mulatta)
• Ida Maria: Katla (Mercury) **
• Idaho: You Were a Dick (Talitres) **
• Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Brothers) **
• Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: Here We Rest (Lightning Rod) **
• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Race Riot Suite (Royal Potato Family)
• Maria Jameau and Blue Brazil: Gema (Challenge)
• Keith Jarrett: Rio (ECM, 2CD)
• Jazzvox Presents: In Your Own Backyard (OA2)
• Joan as Police Woman: The Deep Field (PIAS) **
• Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity)
• Etta Jones & Houston Person: The Way We Were: Live in Concert (2000, High Note)
• Grace Jones: Hurricane Dub (PIAS America) **
• Sean Jones: No Need for Words (Mack Avenue) **
• Tony Jones: Pitch, Rhythm, and Consciousness (New Artists)
• Dave Juarez: Round Red Light (Posi-Tone)
• Junior Boys: It's All True (Domino) **
• Benji Kaplan: Meditações No Violão (Circo Mistico)
• Toby Keith: Clancy's Tavern (Show Dog Nashville) **
• Kenny & Leah: All About Love (K&L)
• Wiz Khalifa: Rolling Papers (Atlantic) **
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts: I Wake Up Screaming (Strut) **
• Paul Kikuchi: Portable Sanctuary Vol. 1 (Present Sounds)
• Stan Killian: Unified (Sunnyside)
• King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine (Double Six) **
• King Midas Sound: Without You (Hyperdub) **
• AJ Kluth's Aldric: Anvils and Broken Bells (OA2)
• Kathleen Kolman: Dream On (Walkin' Foot Productions)
• Ben Kono: Crossing (19/8)
• Kool Keith: The Legend of Tashan Dorsett (Junkaelic) **
• Lenny Kravitz: Black and White America (Roadrunner) **
• Kuedo: Severant (Planet Mu) **
• Lama: Oneiros (Clean Feed)
• Travis Laplante: Heart Protector (Skirl)
• Avril Lavigne: Goodbye Lullaby (RCA) **
• Le Butcherettes: Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez Lopez Productions) **
• Adia Ledbetter: Take 2: Rendezvous With Yesterday (Jazzijua)
• Ledisi: Pieces of Me (Verve Forecast) **
• Mike LeDonne: Keep the Faith (Savant)
• Neil Leonard: Marcel's Window (Gasp)
• Les Doigts de l'Homme: 1910 (ALMA)
• Lil Wayne: Tha Carter IV (Motown/Cash Money)
• Little Dragon: Ritual Union (Peacefrog) **
• Amy London: Let's Fly (Motéma)
• Los Campesinos!: Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts) **
• The Low Anthem: Smart Flesh (Nonesuch) **
• Duda Lucena Quartet: Live (Borboleta)
• Tom Luer: Project Popular (Origin)
• Vincent Lyn: Heaven Bound (Budo)
• Shelby Lynne: Revelation Road (Everso) **
• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Mirror Traffic (Matador) **
• Denman Maroney: Double Zero (Porter)
• Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin) **
• Jessie Marquez: All I See Is Sky (Carena)
• Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder (Troubadour Jass)
• Jessica Lea Mayfield: Tell Me (Nonesuch) **
• Lisa Maxwell: Happy (self-released)
• Mazes: A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat) **
• Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle (ECM)
• Christian McBride Big Band: The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) **
• Martina McBride: Eleven (Universal Republic) **
• Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music)
• Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters: Imaginary Sketches (Origin)
• Bill McHenry: Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)
• Lori McKenna: Lorraine (Signature Sounds) **
• Joe McPhee/Jeb Bishop/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Michael Zerang: Ibsen's Ghosts (Not Two) **
• John Medeski & Lee Shaw: Together Again: Live at the Egg (ARC)
• Megafaun (Hometapes) **
• Susie Meissner: I'm Confessin' (Lydian Jazz)
• Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari: Tree of Life (Half Note)
• Memory Tapes: Player Piano (Carpark) **
• The Men: Leave Home (Sacred Bones) **
• Pat Metheny: What's It All About (Nonesuch)
• Metronomy: The English Riviera (Because) **
• Buddy Miller: The Majestic Silver Strings (New West) **
• MellowHype: BlackenedWhite (Fat Possum) **
• Silvano Monasterios: Unconditional (Savant)
• Randy Montana (Mercury Nashville) **
• Thurston Moore: Demolished Thoughts (Matador) **
• Martin Moretto: Martin Moretto Quintet (self-released)
• Paul Motian: The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter) **
• Motif: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)
• Alphonse Mouzon: Angel Face (Tenacious)
• Mozik (self-released)
• Mungolian Jetset: Schlungs (Smalltown Supersound) **
• Murs: Love + Rockets, Vol. 1: The Transformation (DD172) **
• Youssou N'Dour: Dakar-Kingston (Decca) **
• Josh Nelson: Discoveries (Steel Bird)
• Willie Nelson: Remember Me, Vol. 1 (R&J) **
• Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto: Current (Adventure Music)
• The Nice Guy Trio: Sidewalks and Alleys/Walking Music (Porto Franco)
• Olavi Trio & Friends: Triologia (TUM)
• Mark O'Leary/Peter Friis-Nielsen/Stefan Pasborg: Støj (Ayler)
• The Oscuro Quintet: Music for Tango Ensemble (Big Round)
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong (Slumberland) **
• Brad Paisley: This Is Country Music (Arista Nashville) **
• Sam Pannunzio: Goin' Home (Eastside Jazz)
• James Pants (Stones Throw) **
• Evan Parker & Konstrukt: Life at Akbank Jazz Festival (Re:konstrukt) **
• Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder (Popopomo Music)
• Alexis Parsons (Ellick)
• Alan Pasqua: Twin Bill: Two Piano Music of Bill Evans (BFM Jazz)
• Jeremy Pelt: The Talented Mr. Pelt (High Note)
• Lee "Scratch" Perry: Rise Again (MOD Technologies) **
• Oscar Peterson: Unmistakable [Zenph Re-Performance] (Sony Masterworks)
• Pilc Moutin Hoenig: Threedom (Motéma)
• Prince Polo: Brooklyn Bodega (DubShot) **
• Debbie Poryes/Bruce Williamson: Two & Fro (OA2)
• The Postelles (+1) **
• Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2CD) **
• Mike Prigodich: A Stitch in Time (Mexican Mocha Music)
• Scott Ramminger: Crawstickers (Arbor Lane Music)
• Enrico Rava Quintet: Tribe (ECM)
• Red Hot + Rio 2 (Entertainment One, 2CD) *
• R|E|D|S: Sign of Four (Origin)
• Lola Regenthal: With You (Origin)
• Greg Reitan: Daybreak (Sunnyside)
• Rufus Reid & Out Front: Hues of a Different Blue (Motéma)
• Nadav Remez: So Far (Bju'ecords)
• Rivulets: We're Fucked (Important) **
• Rocket From the Tombs: Barfly (Fire) **
• Carrie Rodriguez/Ben Kyle: We Still Love Our Country (Ninth Street Opus, EP) **
• Rose Hill Drive: Americana (Slow and Shirley) **
• Jochen Rueckert: Somewhere Meeting Nobody (Pirouet)
• Florencia Ruiz: Luz de la Noche (Light of the Night) (Adventure Music)
• Sanda: Gypsy in a Tree (Barbes)
• Scenes: Silent Photographer (Origin)
• Elliott Sharp: Binibon (Henceforth)
• Avery Sharpe: Running Man (JKNM)
• Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Soul of the Movement (Porto Franco)
• Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Beans/Hprizm: Knives From Heaven (Thirsty Ear)
• Liam Sillery: Priorité (OA2)
• Sleeping in the Aviary: You and Me, Ghost (Science of Sound) **
• Corey Smith: The Broken Record (Average Joe's) **
• Enoch Smith Jr.: Misfits (self-released)
• Sole and the Skyrider Band: Hello Cruel World (Fake Four) **
• John Stein: Hi Fly (Whaling City Sound)
• Andrew Sterman: Wet Paint (Innova)
• Rick Stone Trio: Fractals (Jazzand)
• Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato: Anticipation (Capri)
• Tove Stryke (Epic) **
• Jane Stuart: Don't Look Back (JSM)
• JC Stylles: Exhilaration and Other States (Motéma)
• Sultans of String: Move (self-released)
• The Sway Machinery: The House of Friendly Ghosts Vol. 1 (JDub) *
• Sunny Sweeney: Concrete (Republic Nashville) **
• Frank Tate: Thanks for the Memory: Frank Tate's Musical Tribute to Bobby Short (Arbors) **
• Dan Tepfer: Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
• The Thing: Mono (Smalltown Superjazz) **
• Those Darlins: Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang) **
• Tin/Bag: Bridges (MabNotesMusic)
• Toca Loca: Shed (Henceforth)
• Amon Tobin: ISAM (Ninja Tune) **
• Tune-Yards: Whokill (4AD) **
• Tycho: Dive (Ghostly International) **
• Tyler, the Creator: Goblin (Odd Future) **
• Jeremy Udden's Plainville: If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside)
• Ursa Minor: Showface (self-released)
• Ken Vandermark: Mark in the Water (Not Two) **
• Chad VanGaalen: Diaper Island (Sub Pop) **
• John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Contagious Words (Acoustical Concepts)
• The Tommy Vig Orchestra 2012: Welcome to Hungary! (Klasszikus Jazz) *
• Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer: Re: ECM (ECM, 2CD) *
• Alex Vittum: Prism (Prefecture)
• Giancarlo Vulcano: My Funny Detective (Distant Second)
• Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: To Hear From There (Patois)
• Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear) *
• Mark Weinstein: Jazz Brasil (Jazzheads)
• Mark Weinstein: El Cumbanchero (Jazzheads)
• Wild Beasts: Smother (Domino) **
• Hype Williams: One Nation (Hippos in Tanks) **
• Jeff Williams: Another Time (Whirlwind)
• Lucinda Williams: Blessed: Kitchen Tapes (Lost Highway)
• Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot (Cafe Pacific)
• Woody Witt: Pots and Kettles (Blue Bamboo Music)
• Yelawolf: Radioactive (Shady) **
• Chris Young: Neon (RCA Nashville) **
• Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum) **
• Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth: Live Solo Piano (Sunnyside)
• Zola Jesus: Conatus (Sacred Bones) **
• Adebisi Shank: This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House) **
• Trace Adkins: Proud to Be Here (Show Dog Universal) **
• Geri Allen: A Child Is Born (Motéma)
• And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Tao of the Dead (Superball Music) **
• Bill Anschell: Figments (Origin)
• Apparat: The Devil's Walk (Mute) **
• Arbouretum: The Gathering (Thrill Jockey) **
• Atlas Sound: Parallax (4AD) **
• Patti Austin: Sound Advice (Shanachie)
• Diego Barber: The Choice (Sunnyside)
• Patricia Barber: Monday Night: Live at the Green Mill Vol. 2 ( Fast Atmosphere) **
• Danny Barnes: Rocket (ATO/Red) **
• The Beets: Stay Home (Captured Tracks) **
• Beirut: The Rip Tide (Pompeii) **
• Big Sugar: Revolution Per Minute (Bread & Water) **
• James Blake: James Blake (Atlas) **
• Ran Blake: Grey December: Live in Rome (Tompkins Square) **
• Bombay Bicycle Club: A Different Kind of Fix (Island) **
• A.A. Bondy: Believers (Fat Possum) **
• JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound: Want More (Bloodshot) **
• Jeff Bridges (Blue Note) **
• Luke Bryan: Tailgates & Tanlines (Capitol Nashville) **
• Paul Burch: Words of Love: Songs of Buddy Holly (Perfect Sounds) **
• Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow (Anti-) **
• Buzz Bros Band: Ppff Unk (Buzz)
• Brent Canter: Urgency of Now (Posi-Tone)
• The Cars: Move Like This (Hear Music) **
• The Chain Gang of 1974: Wayward Fire (Modern Art) **
• Cinque: Catch a Corner (ALMA)
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow (Sensibility) **
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical (CYHSY) **
• Kelly Clarkson: Stronger (RCA) **
• Emmet Cohen: In the Element (BadaBeep)
• Edwyn Collins: Losing Sleep (Heavenly) **
• Chick Corea/Stefano Bollani: Orvieto (ECM)
• Mike Cottone: Just Remember (self-released)
• Mikal Cronin (Trouble in Mind) **
• Cut Copy: Zonoscope (Modular) **
• Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome **
• The Decemberists: The King Is Dead (Capitol) **
• Matija Dedic Trio: MD in NYC (Origin)
• Delicate Steve: Wondervisions (Luaka Bop) **
• Dengue Fever: Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy) **
• Dex Romweber Duo: Is That You in the Blue? (Bloodshot) **
• Lars Dietrich: Stand Alone (self-released)
• DJ Rashad: Just a Taste, Vol. 1 (Ghettophiles) **
• Eldar Djangirov: Three Stories (Masterworks Jazz)
• The Dodos: No Color (Frenchkiss) **
• Dollshot: Dollshot (Underwolf) []
• Jack Donahue: Parade: Live in New York City (Two Maples)
• Dum Dum Girls: He Gets Me High (Sub Pop, EP) **
• Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams (Sub Pop) **
• Duran Duran: All You Need Is Now (Tape Modern) **
• Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys (Fiction/Polydor) **
• Falkner Evans: The Point of the Moon (CAP)
• Feist: Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope) **
• 5 After 4: Rome in a Day (Alma)
• Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (RCA) **
• Colt Ford: Every Chance I Get (Average Joe's) **
• Foster the People: Torches (Columbia) **
• Friendly Fires: Pala (XL) **
• Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whisper **
• Game: The R.E.D. Album (DGC/Interscope) **
• Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact (4AD) **
• Garage a Trois: Always Be Happy, but Stay Evil (The Royal Potato Family) **
• Volker Goetze Orchestra: NY 10027 (G*Records)
• Jared Gold: All Wrapped Up (Posi-Tone)
• Ellie Goulding: Lights (Cherrytree/Interscope) **
• GRASS on Fire: Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Plays Catch a Fire (Mightly Gowanus)
• Noah Haidu: Slipstream (Posi-Tone)
• Emmylou Harris: Hard Bargain (Nonesuch) **
• Warren Haynes: Man in Motion (Stax) **
• Thomas Heberer's Clarino: Klippe (Clean Feed)
• Pablo Held: Glow (Pirouet)
• Magos Herrera: México Azul (Sunnyside)
• Pamela Hines Trio with April Hall: Lucky's Boy (Spice Rack)
• Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: Year of the Tiger (Innova) **
• Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica: Presents . . . Third River Rangoon (Tiki)
• Robert Hurst: Unrehurst Volume 2 (Bebob)
• Lia Ices: Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar) **
• Chris Isaak: Beyond the Sun (Vanguard) **
• Jessie J: Who Are You (Universal Republic) **
• Kambar Kalendarov & Kutman Sultanbekov: Jaw (Cantaloupe Music)
• The Karindula Sessions: Tradi-Modern Sounds From Southeast Congo (Crammed Discs) **
• Majid Khaliq: The Basilisk (self-released)
• Kid Koala: Space Cadet [Original Still Picture Score] (Ninja Tune) **
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay (Parallel Corners) **
• Jonathan Kreisberg: Shadowless (New for Now Music)
• Itai Kriss: The Shark (Avenue K)
• La Vida Boheme: Nuestra (Nacional) **
• Nguyên Lê: Songs of Freedom (ACT)
• Le Boeuf Brothers: In Praise of Shadows (19/8)
• Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears: Scandalous (Lost Highway)
• Lisa Lindsley: Everytime We Say Goodbye (self-released)
• Steve Lipman: There's a Song in My Heart (Locomotion)
• LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking (Interscope) **
• Theophilus London: Timez Are Weird These Days (Reprise) **
• The Lonely Island: Turtleneck & Chain (2011, Universal Republic) **
• Jennifer Lopez: Love? (Island) **
• Nick Lowe: The Old Magic (Yep Roc) **
• Curtis Macdonald: Community Immunity (Greenleaf Music)
• Thomas Marriott: Human Spirit (Origin)
• Branford Marsalis/Joey Calderazzo: Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music) **
• Master Musicians of Bukkake: Totem Three (Important) **
• M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute, 2CD) **
• Rhett Miller: The Interpreter: Live at Largo (Maximum Sunshine) **
• Miracles of Modern Science: Dog Year (self-released) **
• My Morning Jacket: Circuital (ATO) **
• David Nail: The Sound of a Million Dreams (MCA Nashville) **
• Tracy Nelson: Victim of the Blues (Delta Groove) **
• Marius Neset: Golden Xplosion (Edition) **
• New York Electric Piano: Keys to the City: Volumes 1 & 2 (Buffalo Puppy, 2CD)
• Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (Reprise) **
• Nikki Jean: Pennies in a Jar (S-Curve) **
• Oz Noy: Twisted Blues Volume 1 (Abstract Logix)
• Operation ID: Legs (Table & Chairs)
• Beata Pater: Blue (B&B)
• Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo: Afropean Affair (Chandra)
• Panda Bear: Tomboy (Paw Tracks) **
• Dolly Parton: Better Day (Dolly) **
• Josh T. Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute) **
• Peggy Sue: Acrobats (Yep Roc) **
• Pet Shop Boys: The Most Incredible Thing (Parlophone, 2CD) **
• Tan Ping: Paradise (Goody Heart Productions)
• Plan B: The Defamation of Strickland Banks (679/Atlantic) **
• Planningtorock: W (DFA) **
• Portugal. The Man: In the Mountain in the Cloud (Atlantic) **
• Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue (Blue Shorts)
• Eric Reed: The Dancing Monk (Savant)
• REM: Collapse Into Now (Warner Brothers) **
• Roots Manuva: 4everevolution (Big Dada) **
• Arrica Rose & the . . . 's: Let Alone Sea (Poprock)
• Dino Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes (ECM)
• John Samorian: Out on a Limb (self-released)
• Jonathan Scales: Character Farm & Other Short Stories (Le Rue)
• Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie XX: We're New Here (XL) **
• Screeching Weasel: First World Manifesto (Fat Wreck Chords) **
• Sara Serpa: Mobile (Inner Circle Music)
• Kenny Shanker: Steppin' Up (Posi-Tone)
• Blake Shelton: Red River Blue (Warner Brothers) **
• Sloan: The Double Cross (Yep Roc) **
• Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum) **
• Sonore: Cafe Oto/London (Trost) **
• The Taal Tantra Experience: Sixth Sense (Ozella)
• Teddy Thompson: Bella (Verve Forecast) **
• They Might Be Giants: Join Us (Idlewild) **
• Touché Amoré: Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me (Deathwish, EP) **
• The Twilight Singers: Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop) **
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Fat Possum) **
• The Unthanks: Last (Rough Trade) **
• Nicholas Urie: My Garden (Red Piano)
• Freddy V: Easier Than It Looks (Watersign Productions)
• Dave Valentin: Pure Imagination (High Note)
• Jim Van Slyke: The Sedaka Sessions (LML Music)
• Geoff Vidal: She Likes That (Arts and Music Factory)
• Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador) **
• Roseanna Vitro: The Music of Randy Newman (Motéma)
• Abigail Washburn: City of Refuge (Rounder) **
• Westchester Jazz Orchestra: Maiden Voyage Suite (WJO)
• Andréa Wood: Dhyana (Wood)
• Nate Wooley Quintet: (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)
• Wye Oak: Civilian (Merge) **
• Yellow Ostrich: The Mistress

• Active Child: You Are All I See (Vagrant) **
• Adele: 21 (XL) **
• Marsha Ambrosius: Late Nights & Early Mornings (J) **
• Arctic Monkeys: Suck It and See (Domino) **
• Maya Azucena: Cry Love (Half Note) **
• Beady Eye: Different Gear, Still Speeding (Dangerbird) **
• George Benson: Guitar Man (Concord)
• Björk: Biophilia (One Little Indian) **
• Chris Brown: F.A.M.E. (Jive) **
• Richard Buckner: Our Blood (Merge) **
• Taylor Ho Bynum/Joe Morris/Sara Schoenbeck: Next (Porter)
• Mindy Canter: Fluteus Maximus: One Session, One Take (Mindela Music)
• James Carter: Caribbean Rhapsody (Decca)
• Rondi Charleston: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Motéma)
• Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years (Matador) **
• Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto (Parlophone) **
• Come Sunday: Crosscurrents (self-released)
• Roxy Coss (self-released)
• Crystal Stilts: In Love With Oblivion (Slumberland) **
• Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful! (Origin)
• Deerhoof: Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl) **
• Chris Donnelly: Metamorphosis (Alma)
• Drake: Take Care (Universal Republic) **
• Peter Eldridge: Mad Heaven (Palmetto)
• Electric Six: Heartbeats and Brainwaves! (Metropolis) **
• Kurt Elling: The Gate (Concord) **
• Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) **
• Ford & Lopatin: Channel Pressure (Mexican Summer) **
• Alekos Galas: Mediterranean Breeze (Ehos -10)
• Gay for Johnny Depp: What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You (Shinebox) **
• Tianna Hall: Never Let Me Go (Blue Bamboo Music)
• Lalah Hathaway: Where It All Begins (Stax) **
• The Horrors: Skying (XL) **
• Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch) **
• Lloyd: King of Hearts (Interscope) **
• Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic) **
• Mastodon: The Hunter (Reprise) **
• John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon) **
• Jocelyn Medina: We Are Water (self-released)
• Matt Nathanson: Modern Love (Vanguard) **
• Richard Nelson Large Ensemble: Pursuit (Heliotrope)
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: 40 Acres and a Burro (Zoho)
• Okkervil River: I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar) **
• Open Graves with Stuart Dempster: Flightpatterns (Prefecture)
• Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found (ObliqSound) **
• Radiohead: The King of Limbs (TBD) **
• Rave On: Buddy Holly (Hear Music) **
• Ashton Shepherd: Where Country Grows (MCA Nashville) **
• Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers: Teenage and Torture (Knitting Factory Works) **
• SebastiAn: Total (Big Beat/Atlantic/Ed Banger/Because) **
• Patrick Stump: Soul Punk (Island) **
• The Summer Set: Everything's Fine (Razor & Tie) **
• Susan SurfTone: Shore (Acme Brothers)
• Storms/Nocturnes [Geoffrey Keezer/Joe Locke/Tim Garland]: Via (Origin)
• Tech N9ne: All 6's and 7's (Strange Music) **
• Anthony Wilson: Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)
• Zebrahead: Get Nice (Rude) **
• Glen Campbell: Ghost on the Canvas (Surfdog) **
• Dawes: Nothing Is Wrong (ATO) **
• Phil Dwyer Orchestra: Changing Seasons (ALMA)
• In One Wind: How Bright a Shadow! (Primary)
• Justice: Audio, Video, Disco (Elektra) **
• Low: C'mon (Sub Pop) **
• Bill Orcutt: How the Thing Sings (Editions Mego) **
• Mark O'Toole: The Crooner (self-released)
• Owl City: All Things Bright and Beautiful (Universal Republic) **
• Ponykiller: The Wilderness (Housecore)
• Beyoncé: 4 (Columbia) **
• James Blake: Enough Thunder (Atlas, EP) **
• Jackson Garrett: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (self-released)
• The Strokes: Angles (RCA) **
• Thompson Square: Thompson Square (Stoney Creek) **
• Mark Moultrup: Relaxin' . . . On the Edge (Mark Moultrip Music)
• People Like Us: Welcome Abroad (Illegal Art) **