Music Tracking 2024

These are 2024 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

• 1TakeJay: New 1Take ()
• 1tbsp: Megacity1000 (Sumoclic) [08-29] - house
• 2nd Grade: Scheduled Explosions (Double Double Whammy) [10-25] - jangle pop [*]
• 4Batz: U Made Me a St4r (4Batz/Gamma -EP) [05-03] - hip-hop
• 4Fargo: Express&B ()
• 21 Savage: American Dream (Slaughter Gang/Epic) [01-12] - hip-hop [**]
• 22° Halo: Lily of the Valley ()
• 22Gz: Brooklyn's Most Wanted ()
• 36: Dreamloops () - electronic
• 40 Watt Sun: Little Weight (Fisher's Folly/Cappio) [09-06] - doom metal
• 49 Winchester: Leavin' This Holler () - country
• 070 Shake: Petrichor (GOOD Music/Def Jam) [11-15] - alt-pop [**]
• 86TVs: 86TVs (Parlophone) [08-02] - indie rock
• '89 the Brainchild: Night Lives () [08-06] - cloud rap
• 156/Silence: People Watching (Sharp Tone) [09-13] - metalcore
• 200 Stab Wounds: Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade) [06-28] - death metal
• 454: Casts of a Dreamer () [10-01] - trap
• 1010Benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) [03-22] - alt-pop [A-]
• 1349: The Wolf and the King (Season of Mist) [10-04] - black metal
• 1999 Write the Future: Hella [ . . . ] (88rising/RCA) [02-09] - pop rap
• $uicideboy$: New World Depression (G59) [06-14] - hip-hop
• أحمد [Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (Fönstret) [04-08] - jazz [A-]
• أحمد [Ahmed]: Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• اسم [ISM] [Pat Thomas/Joel Grip/Antonin Gerbal]: Maua (577) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• +/- [Plus/Minus]: Further Afield (Ernest Jennings)
• μ-Ziq: Grush () - electronic
• ¥$ [Ye & Ty Dolla Sign]: Vultures 1 ( Yzy) [02-10] - hip-hop
• ¥$ [Ye & Ty Dolla Sign]: Vultures 2 ( Yzy) [08-03] - hip-hop
• _thesmoothcat & Wino Willy: Ready, Set (Sinking City) [03-15] - hip-hop
• A-Tweed: Riot Disco Punk (Human Endeavor -EP)
• AALY Trio [Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson]: Sustain (Silkheart) [11-18] - jazz [A-]
• Ab-Soul: Soul Burger (Top Dawg) [11-08] - hip-hop [***]
• Àbáse: Awakening (Oshu) [07-05] - jazz fusion
• Lorenzo Abattoir: Mess (Akt IV) (Nub Music) [05-31]
• Sakina Abdou/Toma Gouband/Marta Warelis: Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch) [11-29] - jazz [***]
• Abel [Dutch Rapper] & Sef: Ijsland (Burning Fik) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Able Noise: High Tide (World of Echo) [11-01] - post-rock
• Aborted: Vault of Horrors (Nuclear Blast) [03-15] - metal
• Gracie Abrams: The Secret of Us (Interscope) [06-21] - indie pop
• Abriction: So Far Away in Time . . . ()
• Acceleration Due to Gravity: Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup -EP) - jazz [***]
• Accept: Humanoid (Napalm) [04-26] - metal
• Chris Acker: Famous Lunch (Gar Hole) [10-11]
• Jessica Ackerley: All of the Colours Are Singing (AKP) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Taylor Acorn: Survival in Motion () [09-13]
• Actress: Daren J. Cunningham () - electronic
• Actress: Statik (Smalltown Supersound) [06-07] - electronic [*]
• Actress: Д​а​р​е​н Д​ж​. К​а​н​н​і​н​г​е​м (Smalltown Supersound) [11-15] - electronic
• Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton: The Transcendental (SteepleChase LookOut) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Ryan Adams: Star Sign ()
• Barry Adamson: Cut to Black () [05-16] - blues-rock
• Adeem the Artist: Anniversary (Four Quarters) [05-03] - country [**]
• Nick Adema: Urban Chaos (ZenneZ) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• ADHD: ADHD 9 (Enja/Yellowbird) [10-29] - jazz [*]
• Zach Adleman: We Make: Stories for a New Day (Cellar Music) - jazz
• Neil Adler: Emi's Song (self-released) [05-29] - jazz [**]
• Antonio Adolfo: Love Cole Porter (AAM Music) [06-10] - jazz
• Adult Jazz: So Sorry So Slow (Spare Thought) [04-26] - art pop
• Advancing on a Wild Pitch: Disasters, Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Aespa: Armageddon (SM Entertainment) [05-27] - K-pop
• Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt) [02-23] - blues [**]
• Okaidja Afroso: Àbòr Édín (Chechekule) - African [*]
• Arooj Aftab: Night Reign (Verve) [05-31] - Pakistan jazz [***]
• AG Club: Brodie World* ()
• Agriculture: Living Is Easy (The Flenser) [05-03] - blackgaze
• Christina Aguilera: The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera (5020 -EP) [09-23] - pop
• AI.Divino: Pyroglyphs () [03-23] - hip-hop
• Aili: Nandakke? (Eskimo/NEWS) [02-23]
• Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) [03-08] - vocal jazz [**]
• Aja: Ajasphère Vol. II (Grand Musique Management) [05-24] - ambient
• Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernhard Forck/Ernst Schlader: Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29 & 33, Clarinet Concerto (Pentatone) - classical
• Akai Solo: Dreamdropdragon (Break All) [10-25] - hip-hop
• Akriila: Epistolares (self-released) [08-22] - Latin
• Al-Qasar: Uncovered (We Want Sounds) [02-29] - Arabic
• Yemi Alade: Rebel Queen (Effyzle Music) [07-26] - afrobeats
• Albare: Beyond Belief (AM) [02-12] - jazz [*]
• J. Albert: I Want to Be Good So Bad () [07-15] - electronic
• Erlend Albertsen Bassspace: Name of the Wind (Dugnad Rec) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Jeremie Albino: Out Timein the Sun (Easy Eye Sound) [11-01] - Americana
• The Alchemist/Oh No/Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC/Gangrene) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Alcest: Les Chants de l'Aurore (Nuclear Blast) [06-21] - post-metal
• Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) [04-04] - jazz [**]
• Louise Alder/RTim Mead/Anna Stéphany/Stuart Jackson/Adam Plachetka/Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen: Handel: Theodora, HWV 60 (Alpha) [02-23] - baroque
• Rauw Alejandro: Cosa Nuestra (Duars Entertainment/Sony) [11-15] - Latin pop
• Eric Alexander: Timing Is Everything (Cellar Music) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Eric Alexander/Mike LeDonne: Together (Cellar Music) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Monty Alexander: D Day (Pee Wee) [03-29] - jazz
• Ricky Alexander: Just Found Joy (Turtle Bay) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Alfa Mist & Amika Quartet: Recurring: Live at King's Place (Sekito) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Neal Alger: Old Souls (Calligram) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Alyssa Algood: From Here (Next) [04-19] - vocal jazz
• Alkaline Trio: Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (Rise) [01-26] - pop punk
• Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus: Flip Side (Lumo) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• All Under Heaven: What Lies Ahead of Me ()
• Amy Allen: Amy Allen (AWAL) [09-06] - pop [***]
• JD Allen: The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful (Savant) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• JD Allen: A Garland of Holiday Songs (Savant) [11-22] - Xmas jazz
• Marina Allen: Eight Pointed Star (Fire) [06-07] - singer-songwriter
• Alyssa Allgood: From Here (Next) [04-19] - jazz
• Alliance [Sharel Cassity/Colleen Clark]: Alliance (Shifting Paradigm) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Allie X: Girl With No Face (Twin Music) [02-23] - synthpop [***]
• Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• Bernard Allison: Luther's Blues ()
• Luther Allison: I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil (Origin) [05-17] - vocal jazz [**]
• Alma Tree [Ra Kalam Bob Moses/Vascro Trilla/Pedro Melo Alves]: Sonic Alchemy (Carimbo Porta-Jazz) [01-31] - jazz
• Gonçalo Almeida: States of Restraint (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Livio Almeida: The Brasilia Sessions (Zoho) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Alora Crucible: Oak Lace Apparition (House of Mythology) [08-09]
• Alright Mela: Tasamoh (Mela Prod)
• Altus: Mythos (Biophilia) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Holman Álvarez: Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Pedro Melo Alves: Conundrum Vol. 1: Itself Through Disappearance (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• John Alvey: Loft Glow (Jazz Music City) [08-25] - jazz [**]
• Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore: TexiCali (Yep Roc) [06-21] - country [A-]
• Gui Amabis: Contrapangenia ()
• Amaarae: Roses Are Red, Tears Are Blue ()
• Amass: Gamekeepers Gallows () [05-31]
• Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads (Ovation) [09-01] - jazz [*]
• Oren Ambarchi: With Pats on the Head, Just One Too Few Is Evil One Too Many Is Good That's All It Is (Black Truffle) [01-19] - jazz
• Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted II (Drag City) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Ambré: I Do This Sh*t in My Sleep ()
• Franco Ambrosetti: Sweet Caress (Enja) - jazz
• Marsha Ambrosius: Casablanco ()
• Robby Ameen: Live at the Poster Museum (Origin) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• Amen Dunes: Death Jokes (Sub Pop) [05-10] - art rock
• American Aquarium: The Fear of Standing Still () - country
• Amery: Continue as Amery (Night School) [05-31] - indie pop
• Amigo the Devil: Yours Until the War Is Over (Liars Club/Ragtime Music Group) [02-23] - dark cabaret
• Amblare: Amblare (Melodic Virtue) [04-05]
• John Ambrosini: Songs for You (self-released) [06-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• Roxana Amed: Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin) [05-02] - Latin jazz [***]
• Shirlette Ammons: Spectacles (Puddin Pie) [04-26]
• Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) [10-25] - alt/indie [A-]
• Suzi Analogue: Onez (Disciples)
• Anciients: Beyond the Reach of the Sun (Season of Mist) [08-30] - prog metal
• And the Maiden: Hate My Body ()
• Arild Andersen/Daniel Sommer/Rob Luft: As Time Passes (April) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• Arild Andersen: Landloper (ECM) [11-29] - jazz [**]
• Bob Anderson: Live! (Jazz Hang) [03-29] - vocal jazz [*]
• Bret Anderson/Paraorchestra/Charles Hazlewood: Death Songbook (BMG/World Circuit) [04-19] - indie pop
• Emma Anderson: Spiralée (Pearlies Rearranged)
• John Anderson & the Band Geeks: True (Frontier) [08-23] - prog rock
• Laurie Anderson: Amelia (Nonesuch) [08-30] - 08-30 [A-]
• Marisa Anderson/Jim White: Swallowtail (Thrill Jockey)
• Thomas Anderson: Hello, I'm From the Future (Out There) [04-01] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Erika Angell: The Obsessions With Her Voice (Constellation) [03-08]
• Angles + Elle-Kari With Strings: The Death of Kalypso (Thanatosis Produktion) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Angry Blackmen: The Legend of ABM (Deathbomb Arc) [01-26] - hip-hop
• Jason Anick/Jason Yeager: Sanctuary (Sunnyside) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Animal Prince: Have Good Dreams ()
• Anitta: Funk Generation (Republic) [04-26] - favela funk [***]
• Ankhlejohn: Pride of a Man () [09-04] - hip-hop
• Sam Anning: Earthen (Earshift Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Anno: Anno () [11-01]
• Another Dancer: I Try to Be Another Dancer (Bruit Direct Disques)
• Another Sky: Beach Day ()
• Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions (Origin) [01-19] - jazz [*]
• The Anti-Queens: Disenchanted (Stomp) [05-17] - punk
• Antietam: Pitch & Yaw ()
• Antistatic: Relics (Cuneiform) [01-26] - jazz
• Maggie Antone: Rhinestoned (Love Big) [08-23]
• Alex Anwandter: Dime Precioso ()
• Anycia: Princess Pop That (United Masters) [04-26] - hip-hop [***]
• Apathy: Connecticut Casual: Chapter 2 (Dirty Version) [04-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet the Griots Speak: Call to Action/Call to Prayer (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Omar Apollo: God Said No (Warner) [06-28] - alt-pop
• Lucas Apostoleris: It's Been Good (self-released) - jazz
• Apparition: Disgraced Emanations From a Tranquil State (Profound Lore) [03-22] - death metal
• Aquaserge: La Fin de l'économie (Crammed Discs) [05-24]
• AraabMuzik: Aggro Dr1ft [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Milan)
• Arab Strap: I'm Totally Fine With It 👍 Don't Give a Fuck Anymore 👍 (Rock Action) [05-10] - post-punk
• Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (Trost) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Sivan Arbel: Oneness (Adhyârolpa) - vocal jazz
• Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 & #11: ON! (Hammer) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Arbor: Arbor (PK Music) - jazz
• Martin Archer & Walt Shaw: Biyartabiyu (Discus Music) - jazz
• Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island) [04-10] - electronic [A-]
• Maria Chiara Argirò: Closer (Innovative Leisure) [04-26] - art pop
• Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet: Something About Believing (TMA) [08-02] - jazz
• Sergio Armaroli/Francesca Gemmo/Barry Guy: At Sotto Il Mare [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [10-04] - jazz
• Armbruster: Can I Sit Here (Dear Life) [02-16] - drone [***]
• Armliock: Seashell Angel Lucky Charm ()
• Armiture: Mother Engine (Dots Per Inch Music) [02-09]
• Emad Armoush's Rayhan: Distilled Extractions (Afterday) - jazz
• Daymé Arocena: Alkemi (Brownswood) [02-23] - Latin jazz [*]
• Tristan Arp: A Pool, a Portal (Wisdom Teeth) [10-25] - ambient
• Arrested Development: Bullets in the Chamber (Vagabond Productions) [01-12] - hip-hop [*]
• Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human (Challenge) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• ARXX: Good Boy (Submarine Cat/Humming) [10-04]
• Asake: Lungu Boy (YBNL Nation/Empire) [08-09] - pop rap
• Ashe: Willson (self-released) [09-06] - indie pop
• Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Kassi Ashton: Made From the Dirt (MCA Nashville/Interscope)
• Reza Askari's ROAR: Zen World Cables (Boomslang) - jazz
• ASP: Japanese Girl (Avex Creative)
• Mulatu Astatke and Hoodna Orchestra: Tension (Batov) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Pete Astor: Tall Stories & New Religions () [03-15]
• Astral Bakers: The Whole Story () [02-09]
• Astrel K: The Foreign Department (Tough Love)
• Ateez: Golden Hour: Part 1 (KQ Entertainment -EP) [05-31] - K-pop
• Félicia Atkinson: Space as an Instrument (Shelter Press) [10-25] - ambient
• Shinichi Atobe: Ongaku 1 (DDS -1) [04-19]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. I: LuMiSong (Out of Your Head) [03-01] - jazz [B+(***)]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. II: Kardamon Fall (Out of Your Head) [10-18] - jazz [B+(***)]
• Michaël Attias: Quartet Music Vol. I + II: LuMiSong + Kardamon Fall (Out of Your Head) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• The Attic & Eve Risser: La Grande Crue (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Gabriel Auguste: La Grande Gomme () [ 03-15]
• Aurora: What Happened to the Heart? (Glassnote) [06-07] - alt-pop
• Avalanche Kaito: Talitakum (Glitterbeat) [04-12] - African [***]
• Willow Avalon: Homewrecker (Assemble Sound/Atlantic -EP)
• Cristóbal Avendaño and Silvia Moreno: Lancé esto al otro lado del mar () [04-19] - Chilean folk
• Avery Anna: Breakup Over Breakfast (Warner Music Nashville) [07-19]
• Awon & Parental: Sublime (HHV) [02-09] - hip-hop [***]
• Awon x Phoniks: Golden Era 2 (Don't Sleep) [08-09] - hip-hop [A-]
• Andrea Ayace Ayassot/Alfonso Santimone/Giulio Corini/Nelide Bandello: Live in Lugano (Flying Robert Music) - jazz
• The B Boys: We Get Down () [09-13] - hip-hop
• Ab Baars/Joost Buis/Berlinde Deman: Cecil's Dance (Wig) [01-08] - jazz [*]
• Baba Zula: Instanbul Sokaklari (Glitterbeat)
• Christoph de Babalon: Ach, Mensch (Midnight Shift -EP) [03-29] - darkstep
• Babe Report: Did You Get Better ()
• Baby Osama: Sexc Summer () [07-12] - hip-hop
• Baby Rose/BadBadNotGood: Slow Burn () - r&b
• The Baby Seals: Chaos (Trapped Animal) [04-19] - garage punk
• BabyChiefDoIt: Animals Only () [10-04] - hip-hop
• Sebastian Bach: Child Within the Man (Reigning Phoenix) [05-10] - metal
• Steve Baczkowski: Cheap Fabric (Relative Pitch) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Bad Bad Hats: Bad Bad Hats ()
• Bad Gyal: La Joia ()
• Bad Nerves: Still Nervous (Lowly/Suburban) [05-31] - garage punk
• Bad Omens: Concrete Jungle [The OST] (Sumerian) [05-31] - metal
• Bad Tuner: Look at Me but Through Me ()
• Denis Badault: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Yolk) [06-26] - jazz
• Bag of Bones: No One Gets Saved (577) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• Lee Baggett: Waves for a Begull () [ 11-01]
• Bagus Shidqi: Digital Indigenous 060: Njondhal Njondhil (1000Hz)
• Elles Bailey: Beneath the Neon Glow ()
• Joe Baione: Vibe Check (Joe Baione Music) - jazz
• Ka Baird: Ictum Exercises (Polyrhythmic Studies) (Astral Spirits) [11-15] - jazz
• Balance and Composure: With You in Spirit (No Sleep/Memory Music) [10-04] - emo
• Gabito Ballesteros: The GB () - Latin
• Balthvs: Harvest (Mixto) [07-19] -
• Balwezo Westijiz: Tower of Famine (Profound Lore) [06-14] - metal
• Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance (ECM) [08-30] - jazz
• Bonnie Banane: Nini (Péché Mignon) [04-05]
• Bill Banfield's Jazz Urbane: Take Time to Listen (Muse/Bluemoon) [07-19] - jazz
• Nye Banfield: Trails and Traces (self-released) [01-12] - jazz
• Chris Bangs: Dream World (Acid Jazz) - jazz
• Sam Barber: Restless Mind (Atlantic) [11-01]
• Reinier Bass & Ben van Gelder: This Is Water (DoYouMind?)
• Bab L' Bluz: Swaken (Real World) [05-10] - Morocco [*]
• Babehoven: Water's Here in You (Double Double Whammy) [04-26] - indie folk
• The Baby Seals: Chaos (Trapped Animal) [04-19]
• Bacchae: Next Time (Get Better) [07-05] - post-punk [***]
• Sebastian Bach: Child Within the Man (Reigning Phoenix) [05-10] - metal
• Bad Moves: Wearing Out the Refrain (Don Giovanni) [09-13] - power pop [***]
• The Bad Plus: Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• BADBADNOTGOOD: Mid Spiral: Order (XL -EP) [05-22] - jazz fusion
• Art Baden: How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Hyeonseon Baek: Longing (You & Me Music) [04-26] - jazz
• Baekhyun: Hello, World (INB100 -EP) [09-06] - K-pop
• Dmitry Baevsky: Roller Coaster (Fresh Sound New Talent) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• David Bailis: Tree of Life (Create or Destroy) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Andy Baker: From Here, From There (Calligram) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Adam Bałdych: Passacaglia (ACT Music) [01-26] - jazz
• Charlie Ballantine: Love Letters & Graffiti (Green Mind) [06-07] - jazz
• Kelsea Ballerini: Patterns (Black River) [10-25] - country [*]
• Ballister: Smash and Grab (Aerophonic) [01-16] - jazz [A-]
• Jan Bang: Reading the Air (Punkt Editions) [01-19] - jazz
• Ashtyn Barbaree: Sent Through the Ceiling (Artists 3 60) [10-25] - Americana [***]
• Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic: Six Words (Jazz Music City) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Barely Civil: I'd Say I'm Not Fine (Take This to Heart) [03-22] - emo
• Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teadro: Christian and Mauro (Specula) [10-25]
• Bark Culture: Warm Wisdom (Temperphantom) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Andrew Barker/William Parker/Jon Irabagon: Bakunawa (Out of Your Head) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Mimi Barks: This Is Doom Trap (Silent Cult) [09-26] - trap metal
• Carlos Barretto: Solo: Lonely Dog (self-released) [03-21] - jazz
• Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place (Artwork/PIAS) [05-10] - jazz [A-]
• Karl Bartos: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Tapete) [02-09] - soundtrack
• Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Spin (Ronin Rhythm) [11-29] - jazz [***]
• Basher: May Day (Sinking City) [05-31] - jazz
• Bashy: Being Poor Is Expensive (Bish Bash Bosh) [07-12] - UK hip-hop [A-]
• Basic: This Is Basic (No Quarter) [09-06] - fusion [***]
• John Basile: Heatin' Up (StringTime Jazz) [04-01] - jazz [*]
• The Bass Collective: Mabataku Mori (Nagalu) [03-16] - jazz
• BassDrumBone: Afternoon (Auricle) [06-24] - jazz [***]
• Bastille: "&" (Ampersand) (Best Laid Plans/EMI) [10-25] - chamber pop
• Bat for Lashes: The Dream of Delphi (AWAL) [05-31] - art pop
• Jon Batiste: Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (Verve) [11-15] - jazz/classical [*]
• The Battery Farm: Dark Web () [11-29]
• Battlesnake: The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple () [06-21] - metal
• Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These (Sunnyside) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• Jean-Efflam Bavouzet/Manchester Camerata/Gábor Takács-Nagy: Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 10 (Chandos) - classical
• Bawo: It Means Hope Where I'm From () [10-25] - UK hip-hop
• Zoe Bayani: You Don't Want Help ()
• BBsitters Club: Joel's Picks Vol. 2 ()
• BbyMutha: Sleep Paralysis (True Panther) [04-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) [08-09] - indie pop [A-]
• Beachwood Sparks: Across the River of Stars (Curation) [07-19] - neo-psychedelia
• Beak>: >>>> (Invada) [05-28] - krautrock
• Jazmin Bean: Traumatic Livelihood (Island) [02-23] - indie pop [**]
• Beans: Zwaard (Tygr Rawwk) [03-13] - hip-hop [*]
• Beardish: Song for Beating Hearts ()
• Bears in Trees: How to Build an Ocean: Instructions (I Sure Hope It Does) [04-26]
• Beatenberg: The Great Fire of Beatenberg (Leafy Outlook) [04-05] - Afropop [***]
• Alain Bédard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores (Effendi) - jazz [**]
• Bedbug: Pack Your Bags the Sun Is Growing ()
• Bedsore: Dreaming the Strife for Love (20 Buck Spin) [11-29] - metal
• Been Stellar: Scream From New York, NY (Dirty Hit) [06-21] - post-punk revival
• Bégayer: Évohé Bègue (Murailles Music/Via Parigi/Le Saule)
• Albert Beger/Ziv Taubenfeld/Shay Hazan/Hamid Drake: Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [A-]
• Beholder Quartet: Suspension of Disbelief (Sachimay) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
• Being Dead: Eels (Bayonet) [09-27] - garage rock [B-]
• Beings: There Is a Garden (No Quarter) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Maya Beiser: Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C (Islandia) [04-05] - minimalism
• The Belair Lip Bombs: Lush Life (Third Man) [08-26] - alt/indie
• Beledo: Floating in the Void (Moonjune) [09-19] - jazz
• Evan Nicole Bell: Runaway Girl (Humingbird -EP) [01-11] - blues [*]
• Ruby Bell: Greatest Hits (Dog Show -EP) [09-12]
• Belong: Realistic IX (Kranky) [08-09] - shoegaze
• Ilia Belorukov & Marina Džukljev: Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears (Acheulian Handaxe) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Alex Beltran: Rift (Calligram) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• BeMyFiasco: Pretty Little Love ()
• Alec Benjamin: 12 Notes (Elektra) [05-10] - singer-songwriter
• Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Benny the Butcher: Everybody Can't Go (Def Jam) [01-26] - hip-hop
• Benny the Butcher & 38 Spesh: Stabbed & Shot 2 () [08-18] - hip-hop
• Tab Benoit: I Hear Thunder () - blues
• Oddgeir Berg Trio: A Place Called Home (Ozella) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Amanda Bergman: You Hand Forever Checking on My Fever (Gamlestans Grammofonbolag) [06-07] - indie folk
• Bruno Berle: No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline) [04-05] - Brazil [***]
• Durand Bernarr: En Route (DSing -EP) [05-31]
• Tim Berne/Hank Roberts/Aurora Nealand [Oceans And]: Lucid/Still (Screwgun) [04-22] - jazz
• Peter Bernstein: Better Angels (Smoke Sessions) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Berwyn: Who Am I (Sony [UK]) [07-12] - UK hip-hop
• Better Lovers: Highly Irresponsible (SharpTone) [10-25] - metalcore
• The Bevis Frond: Focus on Nature (Fire) [03-01] - alt/indie
• Bewitcher: Spell Shock (Century Media) - metal
• Yaya Bey: Ten Fold (Big Dada) [05-10] - alt-r&b [***]
• Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia) [03-29] - country-pop [**]
• Laila Biali: Wintersongs (self-released) [11-01] - jazz
• Pat Bianchi: Three (21H) [02-09] - jazz [***]
• Eric Bibb: Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm (Repute) [04-05] - blues [**]
• Eric Bibb: In the Real World (Stony Plain/True North) - blues [**]
• Bibi Club: Feu De Garde (Secret City) [05-10] - indie pop
• Carlos Bica: 11:11 (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Big | Brave: A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - doomgaze
• Big Bambi: Compositions for Bass Guitar & Bassoon, Vol. I (Greene Avenue Music) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Big Big Train: The Likes of Us (InsideOut) [03-01] - prog rock
• Big Chief Solo-Ra: The Primer (self-released) [03-28] - hip-hop
• Big Freedia With the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: Live at the Orpheum Theater (Queen Diva) [04-19] - hip-hop [***]
• Big Hit/Hit-Boy/The Alchemist: Black & Whites () [05-28] - hip-hop
• Big Life: If You Like Bad Ideas, It's a Very Exciting Time () [06-07]
• Big Sean: Better Me Than You (FF to Def/Def Jam) [08-30] - hip-hop
• Big Special: Postindustrial Hometown Blues (So) [05-10] - post-punk
• Big Steff: Get Yo Scat Dirty, Vol. 2 () [01-27] - hip-hop
• BigXthaPlug: Take Care (United Masters) [10-11] - hip-hop [**]
• Bilal: Adjust Brightness (self-released) [09-27] - neo-soul
• Bilal/?uestlove/Robert Glasper/Burniss Earl Travis II: Live at Glasshaus () [06-14]
• Bilmuri: American Motor Sports (Columbia) [06-28] - alt-metal
• Bingo Fury: Bats Feet for a Widow (The State51 Conspiracy) [02-16] - jazz-rock
• Nat Birchall Unity Ensemble: New World (Ancient Archive of Sound) [03-24] - jazz [***]
• Nat Birchall: Dimensions of the Drums: Roots Reggae Instrumentals (Ancient Archive of Sound) [07-20] - jazz [***]
• Andrew Bird Trio: Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista) [05-24] - vocal jazz
• Towa Bird: American Hero (Interscope) [06-28] - singer-songwriter [***]
• The Bird Calls: Old Faithful (Ruination) [05-31] - folk
• Kimmi Bitter: Old School (self-released) [03-29] - country [**]
• BKtherula: LVL5 P2 (Warner) [03-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Bruna Black/John Finbury: Vã Revelação (Green Flash) [05-14] - vocal jazz [**]
• Luke Black: Chainsaws in Paradise (Amuseio) [05-24] - electropop
• Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power (HighNote) [02-16] - jazz [B]
• Black Country Communion: V () [06-14] - hard rock
• The Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow) [03-15] - blues-rock
• Black Curse: Burning in Celestial Poison (Supulchral Voice) [10-25] - black metal
• The Black Dahlia Murder: Servitude (Metal Blade) [09-27] - death metal
• Black Decelerant: Reflections, Vol. 2: Black Decelerant () - electronic
• Black Dresses: Laughingfish ()
• Black Grape: Orange Head (Dgaff) [01-19] - alt dance
• The Black Keys: Ohio Players (Nonesuch) [04-05]
• Black Lives: People of Earth (Jammin' Colors) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Blackberry Smoke: Be Right Here (3 Legged) [02-16] - southern rock
• Bladee: Cold Visions (Trash Island) [04-24] - rage/tread
• James Blake & Lil Yachty: Bad Cameo (Quality Control Music/Motown) [06-28] - art pop
• Blanco: Gilberto's Son () [11-15]
• Carsie Blanton: After the Revolution (self-released) [03-21] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Carsie Blanton: The Red Album Vol. 1 (self-released -EP) - folk [***]
• Bleachers: Bleachers (Dirty Hit) [03-08] - alt-pop
• Mary J. Blige: Gratitude (300 Entertainment/Mary Jane Productions) [11-15] - r&b
• Blind Pilot: In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (ATO) [08-16] - indie rock
• Mateusz Bliskowski/Grzegorz Nadolny/Piotr Biskupski: Imaginary Landscape (self-released) [04-13] - jazz
• Blitzen Trapper: 100's of 1000's Millions of Billions ()
• BLK ODYSSY: 1-800 Fantasy (Earthchild/Empire) [07-19] - neo-soul
• Olivia Block: The Mountains Pass (Black Truffle)
• Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media) [10-04] - prog death metal [*]
• Bloodest Saxophone Featuring Crystal Thomas: Extreme Heat (Dialtone) [03-07] - jump blues [*]
• Bloomsday: Heart of the Artichoke ()
• Blossoms: Gary (ODD SK) [09-20] - indie pop
• Błoto: Grzybnia (Astigmatic) [10-11] - jazz
• Jake Blount/Mali Obamsawin: Symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways) [09-27]
• Blu/Shafiq Husayn: Out of the Blue (Nature Sounds) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Blu & Evidence: Los Angeles (Bigger Picture Music/New World Color) [07-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Blu & Exile: Love (The) Ominous World () [09-20] - hip-hop
• T.K. Blue: Planet Bluu (JAJA) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Blue Bendy: So Medieval (The State 51 Conspiracy) [04-12] - art pop
• Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse (Decca) [04-19] - nu jazz [B]
• Blue Moods: Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) [01-05] - jazz [***]
• Blue Ranger: Close Your Eyes ()
• Blueprint: Falling Down (Weightless -EP) [04-13] - hip-hop
• Blues Pills: Birthday (BMG) [08-02] - blues rock
• John Blum Quartet Featuring Marshall Allen: Deep Space (Astral Spirits) [08-21] - jazz [A-]
• Blunt Chunks: The Butterfly Myth (Telephone Explosion) [04-19]
• Blush Response: Sprawl (Artotfact)
• Blushing: Sugarcoat (Kanine) [05-03]
• Blvxb: Valhalla ()
• Bnny: One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk) [04-05] - dream pop
• Bobby J From Rockaway & Dom Dirtee: Higher () - hip-hop
• Naima Bock: Below a Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop) [09-27] - chamber folk [B]
• Bodega: Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (Chrysalis) [ 04-12] - art punk
• Sega Bodega: Dennis (Harmonia Mundi) [04-26] - glitch pop
• Bodies of Water: The Journey Is Our Home ()
• The Body: The Crying Out of Things (Thrill Jockey) [11-08] - industrial metal
• The Body & Dis Fig: Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - death industrial
• Body Bag Ben/Vega7 the Ronin: Kawasaki Killers (Body Bag Productions/Fat Beats) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Body Bag Ben/XP the Marxman: Good Times, Bad Times () [06-28] - hip-hop
• Body Count: Merciless (Century Media) [11-22] - rap metal [***]
• Body Meat: Starchris (Partisan) [08-23] - glitch pop
• Body Meπa: Prayer in Dub (Hausu Mountain) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• Bodysync: Nutty ()
• Boeckner: Boeckner! (Sub Pop) [03-15] - art pop
• Kate Bollinger: Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind (Ghostly International)
• Silvia Bolognesi/Dudú Kouate/Griffin Rodriguez: Timing Birds (Astral Spirits) [04-19] - jazz [A-]
• Bon Jovi: Forever (Island) [06-07] - pop rock
• Stix Bones/Bob Beamon: Olimpik Soul (BONE Entertainment) [01-12] - jazz [*]
• Marcel Bonfim: Farewell/Despedida (Shifting Paradigm) [01-19] - jazz
• Bonny Light Horseman: Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar) [06-07] - folk-rock
• Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn: Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid Classics) [06-07] - classical
• Laci Kaye Booth: The Loneliest Girl in the World (Geffen) [05-17]
• Christiane Bopp/Bernard Santacruz/Bruno Tocanne: What About? (IMR/Musea) [12-18] - jazz
• Willi Bopp/Camille Émaille/Gianni Gebbia/Heiner Goebbels/Cécile Lartigau/Nicolas Perrin: The Mayfield (Intakt) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Karen Borca/Paul Murphy: Entwined (Relative Pitch) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Matthieu Bordenave: The Blue Land ( ECM) - jazz
• Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson]: Rewilder (Intakt) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Leila Bordreuil: 1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire (Hanson)
• Borknagar: Fall (Century Media) [02-23] - metal
• Bòsc: Bòsc (La Crue/La Grande Folie) [03-05]
• Bossman Dlow: Mr. Beat the Road (Alamo) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Boston Manor: Sundiver (SharpTone) [ 09-06] - alt-rock
• Surya Botofasina: Ashram Sun (Spiritmuse)
• Surya Botofasina/Nate Mercereau/Carlos Niño: Subtle Movements (Leaving) [01-12] - jazz
• Boulevards: Carolina Funk: Barn Burner on Tobacco Road (Normaltown)
• Becca Bowen: County Line (self-released)
• Nathan Bowles Trio: Are Possible ()
• Boynextdoor: 19.99 (CLink Ver.) (-EP) - K-pop
• Geoff Bradfield: Colossal Abundance (Calligram) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad/William Roper/Alex Cline: Frice (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-15] - jazz
• Pony Bradshaw: Thus Spoke the Fool () - country
• Aziza Brahim: Mawja (Glitterbeat) [02-23] - maghreb pop [**]
• Brama: Brama () [09-13]
• Anthony Branker & Imagine: Songs My Mom Liked (Origin) [06-21] - Jazz [***]
• Brat: Social Grace (Prosthetic) [03-15] - metalcore
• Alan Braufman: Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Guy Braunstein/Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège/Alondra de la Parra: Abbey Road Concerto (Alpha) - classical
• Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet: Sax QT (Lorraine) 2022 (I Dischi Di Angelica) [03-28] - jazz
• Kelly Bray/Caleb Duval: Bray/Duval (F.I.M.) [08-01] - jazz
• Bremer/McCoy: Kosmos () - jazz
• Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) [09-06] - jazz [A-]
• Breymer: When I Get Through ()
• Olie Brice/Rachel Musson/Mark Sanders: Immense Blue (West Hill) [01-14] - jazz [**]
• Leon Bridges: Leon (Columbia) [10-04] - pop soul
• Chris Bridgett: Speedboat on Chapel Street () [09-04]
• Bridgetown Sextet: Functionizin' (Rivermont) [01-27] - jazz [**]
• Allyson Briggs: Promises, Promises and Raindrops (self-released) - vocal jazz
• Bright Eyes: Five Dice, All Threes (Dead Oceans) [09-20] - indie folk
• Bright Light Bright Light: Enjoy Youth (YSKWN!) [05-17]
• Brigitte Calls Me Baby: The Future Is Our Way Out (ATO) [08-02] - jangle pop
• Brijean: Macro (Ghostly International) [07-12] - downtempo
• Luiza Brina: Prece (self-released) [04-30] - chamber-folk
• Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Nex Gen (Sony) [05-24] - alt metal
• British Murder Boys: Active Agents and House Boys (Downwards) [06-14]
• British Museum: Satan Is a Roof Over My Head (U G Organic Throat Blower)
• Felipe Brito: Não Deixe Para Amanhã (Outside In Muisic) [09-06] - jazz
• Johnny Britt: After We Play (J-Jams) [03-17] - pop jazz
• Britti: Hello, I'm Britti (Easy Eye Sound) [02-02] - singer-songwriter [B+(**)]
• Darien Brockington: Where Love Grows () - r&b
• Brodequin: Harbinger of Woe (Season of Mist Underground Activist) [03-22] - metal
• Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center Vol Two (Outside In Music) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Brian Bromberg: LaFaro (Be Squared) [04-05] - jazz
• Ronnie Baker Brooks: Blues in My DNA (Alligator) - blues
• The Bobby Broom Organi-sation: Jamalot Live (Steele) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Brother Ali: Love & Service (Travelers Media) [04-26] - hip-hop [*]
• Brothertiger: Fundamentals, Vol. V (self-released) [04-10] - ambient
• Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (2015, Trost) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link (NoBusiness) [05-27] - jazz [A-]
• Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Butterfly Mushroom (2015, Trost) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Brown Horse: Reservoir (Loose Music) [01-19] - alt-country
• Dirk Bruinsma: Low Reliefs (Cuneiform) [11-29] - jazz
• Bruiser Wolf: My Stories Got Stories (Fake Shore Drive/Bruiser Brigade) [01-12] - hip-hop
• Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (Belting Bronco/Warner) [07/04] - country [***]
• Bryan's Magic Tears: Smoke and Mirrors (Born Bad) [11-08]
• Betty Bryant: Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) [01-26] - jazz [A-]
• Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown: Electrified () [05-10] - blues rock
• Bryhm: Deep Sea Vents ()
• Martin Budde: Back Burner (Origin) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Buddy: Don't Forget to Breathe (Empire) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Sarah Buechi/Franz Hellmüller/Rafael Jerjen: Pink Mountain Sagas (Intakt) [09-27] - vocal jazz [**]
• The Bug: Machine (Pressure) [10-04] - dub
• The Bug Club: On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System (Sub Pop) [08-30] - garage rock
• Jake Bugg: A Modern Day Distraction (RCA) [ 10-04] - roots rock
• Bugman: The Proto Push () [08-16]
• Ellis Bullard: Honky Tonk Ain't Noise Pollution () - country
• The Bullfight: Amen, Demon (Brandy Alexander)
• Bullion: Affection (Ghostly International) [04-26] - electronic
• Bas Bulteel: Eye of the Storm (WERF) [09-12] - jazz
• The Buoys: Lustre (Sony) [07-12] - alt/indie [***]
• Eshon Burgundy: Eyes on the One From Nazareth (self-released -EP) [04-18] - hip-hop
• Burial: Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (XL -EP) [02-09] - electronic [*]
• Greg Burk/Michel Lambert: Wind Forms (Tonos) - jazz
• Anne Burnell & Mark Burnell: This Could Be the Start of Something Big (Spectrum Music) [10-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• T Bone Burnett: The Other Side (Verve Forecast) [04-19] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Johanna Burnheart: Bär (self-released) - jazz
• Cat Burns: Early Twenties (RCA) [07-12] - singer-songwriter
• Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love (Provogue) [04-05] - blues [**]
• George Burton: White Noise (self-released) - jazz
• John Butcher + 13: Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax) [02-01] - jazz [A-]
• John Butcher/Florian Stoffner/Chris Corsano: The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• John Butcher/Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Fathom (577) [09-15] - jazz
• Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Vegas) [06-01] - jazz [***]
• Anna Butterss: Mighty Vertebrate (International Anthem) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Kaitlin Butts: Roadrunner! (Soundly Music) [06-28] - country [*]
• Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: Skinwalker (Communion) [04-12] - alt/indie
• The BV's: Taking Picture of Taking Pictures ()
• Chris Byars: Boptics (SteepleChase) [06-13] - jazz [**]
• Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi: Altera Vita (BBE) [04-05] - jazz
• C6Fe2RN6: C6Fe2RN6 (Astral Spirits) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Ruben Caban: Kangana (self-released) [02-15] - jazz
• Camila Cabello: C,XOXO (Geffen/Interscope) [ 06-28] - alt-pop [*]
• George Cables: I Hear Echoes (HighNote) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• The Cactus Blossoms: Every Time I Think About You (Walkie Talkie) [08-30] - alt-country
• Cadence Weapon: Rollercoaster (MNRK) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Cage the Elephant: Neon Pill (RCA) [05-17] - indie pop
• Ana Lua Caiano: Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat) [03-15] - Portuguese
• Chloé Cailleton & Nathalie Darche: Quart d'Heure Américain: Pour vous remercier de ne pas dédaigner ce petit rien (Pépin & Plume) [09-13] - jazz
• Chris Cain: Good Intentions Gone Bad (Alligator) [07-19] - blues [*]
• Caixa Cubo: Modo Avião (Far Out) - jazz
• Cakes Da Killa: Black Sheep (Young Art) [03-22] - hip-hop [**]
• Luca Calabrese: I Shin Den Shin (Moonjune) - jazz
• Federico Calcagno Octet: Mundus Inversus (Habitable) - jazz
• John Cale: POPtical Illusion (Domino) [06-14] - art rock [***]
• Caligula's Horse: Charcoal Grace (InsideOut) [01-26] - prog metal
• Bill Callahan: Resuscitate! (Drag City) [07-26]
• David Lance Callahan: Down to the Marshes (Tiny Global) [09-27]
• Kirin J Callinan: If I Could Sing (PIAS/Worse) [02-02] - art pop
• Obed Calvaire: 150 Million Gold Francs (Ropeadope) [04-12] - jazz
• Calypso Valois: Apocalypso () [04-26]
• Summer Camargo: To Whom I Love (Blue Engine) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Jonas Cambien: Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• Camera Obscura: Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Isobel Campbell: Bow to Love (Cooking Vinyl) [ 06-14]
• Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams: All This Time (Royal Potato Family) [04-05] - Americana
• Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs: Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits (BMG) [06-14] - southern rock
• Candy: It's Inside You (Relapse) [06-07] - metalcore
• Cane Hill: A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find (Out of Line) [11-01] - metalcore
• Laura Cannell: The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined (Brawl) [08-16] - neo-medieval folk
• Chocho Cannelle: Yo Te Cielo (Modulor Music) [09-27] - jazz
• Gerald Cannon: Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Jerry Cantrell: I Want Blood (Double J Music) [10-18] - alt-metal
• Vinicius Cantuaria: Psychedelic Rio (Sunnyside) [03-22] - jazz
• Caoilfhionn Rose: Constellation (Gondwana) [05-24] - new age
• Caporaso Ensemble: Encounter (Psychosomatic) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Cappo: S.T.A.R.V.E. () [08-15]
• Grayson Capps: Heartbreak, Misery & Death () [10-25]
• Jorge Cariglino: After the Storm (Cezanne Productions) - jazz
• Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic: Strange Arts (Slow & Steady) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Caribou: Honey (Merge/City Slang) [10-04] - house [**]
• Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Gunhild Carling: Jazz Is My Lifestyle! (Jazz Art) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Willi Carlisle: Critterland (Signature Sounds) [01-26] - country [**]
• Carlita: Sentimental ()
• Hayes Carll/Band of Heathens: Hayes & the Heathens (BOH) [10-04] - country [***]
• Carn Davidson 9: Reverence (self-released) - jazz
• Robin Carolan: Nosferatu [Original Soundtrack] ()
• Caroline Says: The Lucky One (Western Vinyl) [10-11] - indie folk
• Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet (Island) [08-23] - pop [***]
• Melissa Carper: Borned in Ya (Mae Music) [07-19] - country [A-]
• Carpool: My Life in Subtitles ()
• Carrier: In Spectra (self-released) [05-24] - minimal techno
• Eladio Carrión: Sol Maria (Rimas) [01-19] - hip-hop
• J.R. Carroll: Dark Cloud () - country
• Ken Carson: A Great Chaos ()
• Daniel Carter & Playfield: Magic Heart (577) [01-19] - jazz
• Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2 (577) [07-05] - jazz
• Daniel Carter/Leo Genovese/William Parker/Francisco Mela: Shine Hear Vol. 2 (577) [09-06] - jazz [U]
• Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes: Dark Rainbow (International Death Cult) [01-26] - alt/indie
• James Carter: Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: Dilate (self-released) [01-03] - jazz [*]
• Erika de Casier: Still (4AD) [02-21] - r&b
• Kim Cass: Levs (Pi) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Cassyette: This World Fucking Sucks (23) [08-23] - nu metal
• Cast: Love Is the Call (Cast) [02-16] - britpop
• The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way (Warner Music Nashville -EP) [02-09] - country [**]
• Bruno Castellucci: Legacy (GAM) [10-18] - jazz
• Matt Castillo: Pushing Borders () - country
• Casual & Albert Jenkins: Starduster ()
• Caleb Caudle: Sweet Critters (Baldwin County Public/Missing Piece) [08-30] - country
• Cavalier: Different Type Time (Backwoodz Studioz) [04-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Cavalier & Child Actor: Cine (Backwoodz Studioz) [11-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God (Bad Seed/Play It Again Sam) [08-30] - baroque pop [C+]
• Caveira: Ficar Vivo (Shhpuma) [03-29] - jazz
• Caxtrinho: Queda Livre (QTV) [08-22] - jazz [***]
• CCL: Plot Twist (!K7) - electronic
• Cece Natalie: Miss Behaves (self-released) [07-26] - electropop
• Cecile Believe: Tender the Spark (Ambient Tweets/Supernature -EP) [08-08] - electropop
• Ceebo: Lambethnotla () [08-08]
• Cek & the Stompers: Mr. Red (Gulf Coast)
• Cementation Anxiety: Agnosiareign () [ 05-31]
• William Cepeda Afro-Puerto Rican Big Band: The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) - jazz
• Ceres: Magic Mountain (1996-2022) (Cooking Vinyl) [10-04] - emo
• Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: A Canadian Songbook (Three Pines) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• A Certain Ratio: It All Comes Down to This (Mute) [04-19] - new wave [**]
• Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Radio Afloat (In a Circle) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
• A. Chal: Espíritu (Gazi World) [02-27]
• Kasey Chambers: Backbone (Metropolitan Groove Merchants/Essence Music Group) [10-04] - country [**]
• Alain Chamfort: L'impermanence (PIAS) [03-22]
• Champeta w/Edna Martinez: Diblo Dibala Special (NAS) [05-11] - soukous [***]
• Matt Champion: Mika's Laundry (RCA) [03-22]
• Chanel Beads: Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar) [04-19] - dream pop
• Manu Chao: Viva Tu (Because Music) [09-20] - world [A-]
• Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra: Time Chamber (Da Vinci Jazz) [09-07] - jazz [**]
• Chapel of Disease: Echoes of Light (Ván)
• Brian Charette: You Don't Know Jack! (Cellar Music) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again (Blue Note) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic) [06-07] - electropop [A-]
• Charly Bliss: Forever (Lucky Number) [08-16] - power pop [A-]
• Chase Atlantic: Lost in Heaven (Fearless) [11-01] - alt r&b
• Chastity Belt: Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze) [03-29] - alt/indie
• Chat Pile: Cool World (The Flenser) [10-11] - sludge metal [**]
• Chatham County Line: Hiyo () - bluegrass
• Chatterton: Fields of This (7th Heaven) [ 03-29]
• Cheekface: It's Sorted (self-released) [01-22] - indie rock
• Cheer-Accident: Relics ( Cuneiform) [02-23] - experimental rock
• Chelsea Days: Mirror, Mirror ()
• Chelsea Reject: Rogue () [08-07]
• Chemtrails: The Joy of Sects (Pnkslm) [01-19] - glam rock
• Annie Chen: Guardians (JZ Music) [02-23] - jazz [B]
• Charles Chen: Charles, Play! (Cellar Music) [01-12] - jazz
• Eric Chenaux Trio: Delilghts of My Life (Constellation) [05-31] - jazz
• Kenny Chesney: Born () - country
• Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 (43B) [05-10] - hip-hop [***]
• Childish Gambino: Atavista (RCA) [05-13] - hip-hop
• Childish Gambino: Bando Stone & the New World () - hip-hop
• The Children's Hour: Going Home (Sea Note)
• Chime School: The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel ()
• John Chin/Jeong Lim Yang/Jon Gruk Kim: Journey of Han (Jinsy Music) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Chinese American Bear: Wah!!! (Moshi Moshi) [10-18] - indie pop
• Rachel Chinouriri: What a Devastating Turn of Events (Elektra) [05-03] - alt/indie [**]
• The Chisel: What a Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise) [02-09] - hardcore punk [*]
• Chlöe: Trouble in Paradise (Parkwood/Columbia) [08-09] - alt-r&b [***]
• Mina Cho's Grace Beat Quartet: "Beat Mirage" (International Gugak Jazz Institute) [02-09] - jazz [**]
• The Choir Invisible [Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperazza/Chris Tordini]: Town of Two Faces (Intakt) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Mahmoud Chouki: Caravan: From Marrakech to New Orleans (Gallatin Street) [07-25] - jazz [**]
• Julie Christmas: Ridiculous and Full of Blood (Red Creek) [06-14] - metal
• Chromeo: Adult Contemporary (BMG) [02-16] - electropop [**]
• Chrysanths: Leave No Shadow ()
• Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones) [08-02] - ambient pop
• Jacob Chung: The Sage (Cellar Music) - jazz
• The Church: Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars (Communicating Vessels/Easy Action) [03-29] - dream pop
• Church Chords: Elvis, He Was Schlager (Otherly Love)
• Ciel & CCL: Tilda's Goat Stare (Naff) [07-26] - tech house
• Cigarettes After Sex: X's (Partisan) [07-12] - dream pop [***]
• Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios) [03-29] - psychedelic pop [*]
• Cinnamon Gum: The Cinnamon Show ()
• Marc Ciprut: Moonshine (White Label) [07-11] - jazz [B]
• Citric Du: Zen and the Arcade of Beating Your Ass (Feel It)
• Civerous: Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin) [03-22] - death metal
• Clairo: Charm (Clairo) [07-12] - sophisti-pop [***]
• Amy Clark: Cadair Idris (New Soil) - jazz
• Gary Clark Jr.: JPEG RAW (Warner) [03-22] - blues [B-]
• Josienne Clarke: Parenthesis, I (Corduroy Punk) [05-10] - folk
• Carey Clayton: Headless ()
• The Clearwater Swimmers: The Clearwater Swimmers ()
• Gerald Cleaver: The Process (Positive Elevation/577) [08-16] - jazz
• Clem Snide: Oh Smokey () [09-27]
• Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar: Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar Trio (self-released) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Carl Clements: A Different Light (Greydisc) [05-23] - jazz [***]
• Dwayne Clemons: Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) - jazz
• Clinic Stars: Only Hinting ()
• Closeby: Hammer of My Own ()
• Cloud Nothings: Final Summer (Pure Noise) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley: Journey to Where (Stoney Lane) [03-08] - jazz
• Club 8: A Year With Club 8 (Club 8)
• Ed Clute: Shadows on the Moon (Rivermont) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Cnts: Thoughts & Prayers () [03-29] - noise rock
• Oliver Coates: Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time (RVNG) [10-18] - ambient
• Cash Cobain: Play Cash Cobain (Giant Music) [08-23] - hip-hop
• Amelia Coburn: Between the Moon and the Milkman () [03-08] - singer-songwriter
• Coco & Clair Clair: Girl (Nice Girl World) [08-30] - hip-hop [A-]
• Coco Chatru Quartet: Future (Trygger Music) [03-28] - jazz [***]
• Cocodri: Station Marécage (MaAuLa) [01-26] - jazz
• Coded Marking: Coded Marking () [10-11]
• CoffeeBlack & WTM Scoob: Love at First Sight () [04-24] - hip-hop
• Jeff Coffin: Only the Horizon (Ear Up) [07-19] - jazz
• Coffin Storm: Arcana Rising (Peaceville) [03-29] - metal
• Anat Cohen Quartetinho: Bloom (Anzic) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold (ECM) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Avishai Cohen: Bright Light (Naïve) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Chris Cohen: Paint a Room (Hardly Art) [07-12] - indie pop
• Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider (Mack Avenue) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• COIN: I'm Not Afraid of Music Anymore (10K Projects) [ 09-13] - indie pop
• Cola: The Gloss (Fire Talk) [06-14] - post-punk
• The Cold Stores: The Southern (Mascot) [09-06] - Southern rock
• Coldplay: Moon Music (Parlophone/Atlantic) [10-04] - art pop
• J. Cole: Might Delete Later (Dreamville/Interscope) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley: Nothing (Brainfeeder) [08-09] - synth funk
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) [10-25] - jazz [A-]
• Kevin Coleman: Imaginary Conversations (Centripetal Force) [03-19]
• Johnny Coley: Mister Sweet Whisper (Mississippi) [11-15] - jazz
• Scott Colley/Edward Simon/Brian Blade: Three Visitors (GroundUP Music) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: The Almighty (Division 81) [04-24] - jazz [**]
• Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: The World Is on Fire (Division 81) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• George Colligan: You'll Hear It (La Reserve) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Collision Course: Ländfill () [08-02]
• Alfredo Colón: Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Combat: Stay Golden (Counter Intuitive) [08-16] - power pop
• Luke Combs: Fathers & Sons (Columbia Nashville) [06-14] - country [**]
• Commodore Trio: Communal - EP (self-relesed - EP) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Common & Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. I (Loma Vista) [07-12] - hip-hop [***]
• Commoner: A Commoner's Quest () [03-27] - doom metal
• Concepción Huerta: The Earth Has Memory (Elevator Bath)
• Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen: Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols (Dacapo) - classical
• Conchis: Chapters ()
• Concrete Boys: It's Us Vol. 1 ()
• Concrete Winds: Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice) - metal
• Confidence Man: 3AM (La La La) (Chaos/Polydor) [10-18] - dance-pop [***]
• Confucius MC & Pitch 92: Stop Signs (HHV) [02-02] - hip-hop
• Clarissa Connelly: World of Work (Warp) [ 04-12] - singer-songwriter
• Jon Connor: III (All Varsity Music Group) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Destin Conrad: Submissive2 ()
• Contention: Artillery From Heaven (Daze) - hardcore
• Contour: Take Off From Mercy ()
• Convulsing: Perdurance (self-released) - metal
• Conway the Machine: Slant Face Killah () [05-10] - hip-hop
• A.G. Cook: Britpop (New Alias) [05-10] - electronic [**]
• Anastasia Coope: Darning Woman (Jagjaguwar) [05-31] - freak folk
• Erland Cooper: Carve the Runes, Then Be Content With Silence (Mercury KX) [09-20] - modern classical
• Jack Cooper: Jesus Green (Astral Spirits) [09-06] - jazz
• Greg Copeland: Empire State (Franklin & Highland -EP) [09-06] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Shemekia Copeland: Blame It on Eve () - blues
• Copywrite: The Last Supper () [05-10] - hip-hop
• Coral Morphologic & Lick León: Projections ofa Coral City (Balmat) [04-05] - ambient
• Cordae: The Crossroads (Atlantic) [11-15] - hip-hop
• The Core: Roots (Moserobie) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) [05-10] - jazz [B]
• Iván Cornejo: Mirada (Zaragoza/Interscope) [07-18] - alt-pop
• The Coronas: Thoughts & Observations () [09-27]
• Corridor: Mimi (Bonsound) [04-26] - indie rock
• Chris Corsano/Joe Baiza/Mike Watt: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio (Yucca Alta) [09-06] - jazz [*]
• Gustavo Cortiñas: Live in Chicago (Desafio Candente) [02-09] - jazz
• Alessandro Cortini: Emosfere (-EP) [08-07]
• Carly Cosgrove: The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty (Wax Bodega) [06-14] - emo-pop
• Cosmic Analog Ensemble: Les Grandes Vacances (Jakarta) [01-19] - lounge
• Alison Cotton: Engelchen (Rocket)
• Couch Slut: You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda) [04-19] - metal
• Coughin' Vicars: Cyrses & Prayers () [07-26]
• Counterparts: Heaven Let Them Die (Pure Noise -EP) [11-07] - metalcore
• A Country Western: Life on the Lawn ()
• The Courettes: The Soul of . . . the Fabulous Courettes () [09-27]
• Courteeners: Pink Cactus Café (Ignition) [10-25] - indie rock
• Courting: New Last Name (Lower Third/PIAS) [01-26] - indie rock
• Omar Courtz: Premera Musa (Mr. 305/Rimas) [09-20] - reggaeton
• Sylvie Courvoisier: To Be Other-Wise (Intakt) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Marion Cousin/Elöise Decazes: Com a Lanceta Na Mão (Pagans/Le Saule/La République Des Granges)
• Covan: Nayba () [01-24]
• The Coward Brothers: The Coward Brothers (New West) [11-24] [**]
• Cower: Celestial Devestation (Human Worth) [02-02] - noise rock
• Crack Cloud: Red Mile (Jagjaguwar) [07-26] - art punk
• Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: Estrella por Estrella (Puro Fantasia)
• Crawlers: The Mess We Seem to Make (Polydor) [02-16] - alt/indie
• Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini: Guinga (GroundUP Music) [04-12] - jazz
• Crimeapple & Big Ghost Ltd: Bazuko () [05-31] - hip-hop
• Crimeapple & Apollo Brown: This, Is Not That () - hip-hop
• Crimeapple & Preservation: El León () - hip-hop
• Marilyn Crispell: Forest (FSR) [10-24] - jazz
• Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy (Son of Davy) [04-26] - country [**]
• Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy Chapter II: Visions of Dallas (Son of Davy) [07-22] - country [***]
• Crooked Little Sons: Regenerate () [03-15]
• Steve Cropper & the Midnight Hour: Friendlytown () - blues
• Jeff Crosby: Another Petal Falls Off of the Rose () - country
• Sheryl Crow: Evolution (Valory Music Group) [03-29] - pop
• Crowded House: Gravity Stairs ()
• Crows: Reason Enough (Bad Vibrations) [09-27] - garage rock
• Crumb: Amama (Crumb) [05-17] - psychedelic pop
• Crumbs: You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
• Stephan Crump: Slow Water (Papillon Sounds) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Nicolá Cruz: Kinesia () [10-25]
• Cruza: Cruzafied (Def Jam) [06-14] - alt-r&b
• Crypt Sermon: The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent) [06-14] - heavy metal
• Ivanna Cuesta: A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Richie Culver: Hostile Environments () [ 06-14]
• Cumgirl8: The 8th Cumming (4AD) [10-04] - post-punk [*]
• Grace Cummings: Ramona (ATO) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird: Cunningham Bird ()
• Cuntroaches: Cuntroaches (Skin Graft)
• The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Universal Music) [11-01] - gothic pop [*]
• Buck Curran: One Evening and Other Folks Songs (Obsolete/ESP-Disk) [06-28] - folk [*]
• Curren$y & Trauma Tone: Highway 600 () - hip-hop
• Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 (PH/Loma Vista) [07-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Cursive: Devourer (Run for Cover) [09-13] - indie rock
• Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani -2CD) [11-01] - jazz [A-]
• Zaccai Curtis: Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Curtisy: What Was the Question () [05-03]
• Cuzzos: Stay Safe () [03-15] - hip-hop
• Cxloe: Shiny New Thing (self-released) [05-17] - synthpop
• Jeremiah Cymerman: Body of Light (5049) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Samara Cyn: The Drive Home (-EP) [10-25] - hip-hop
• Cyril Cyril: Le Futur Ça Marche Pas (Bongo Joe) [04-26] - post-punk
• Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice/Marek Stilec: Fucik: Dances & Marches (Marco Polo)
• Franco D'Andrea: Something Bluesy and More (Parco Della Musica) - jazz
• D'Eon: Leviathan ()
• D.Silvestre: D.Silvestre (self-released) [09-03]
• D0llywood1: This Is Just a Dream (and Soon I Will Awake) (self-released) [06-28] - hip-hop
• Emily D'Angelo: Freezing (Deutsche Grammophon) [08-30] - classical
• D'en Haut: D'en Haut (Pagans) [06-28]
• Karl D'Silva: Love Is a Flame in the Dark (Night School) [10-04] - synthpop [*]
• D-Block Europe: Rolling Stone (UMG/D-Block/EGA) [01-12] - UK hip-hop
• Da Beatminerz: Stifled Creativity (Soulspazm) - hip-hop
• Dääst: SS24 () [04-05]
• Tomasz Dąbrowski & the Individual Beings: Better (April) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Daggerboard: Escapement (Wide Hive) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Amalie Dahl's Dafnie: Står Op Med Solen (Aguirre) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Amalie Dahl/Jomar Jeppsson Søvik/Henrik Sandstad Dalen: Live in Europe (Nice Thing) [02-16] - jazz [**]
• Y Dail: Teigr () [04-05]
• Daisy Moon: System Creak (Peach Discs -EP) [06-14] - electronic [***]
• Dal Sasso Big Band: Chick Corea's Three Quartets Revisited (Jazz & People) [05-17] - jazz
• Tyler Daley: Son of Zeus (self-released) [03-08] - soul
• The Dam Jawn Featuring Dick Oatts: Forward! (self-released) - jazz
• Dame Area: Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (Humo Internacional/Mannequin) [09-13] - synth-punk
• Dancer: 10 Songs I Hate About You (Meritorio) [03-15] - art punk
• The Dandy Warhols: Rockmaker (Sunset Blvd/Beat of the World) [03-15] - neo-psychedelia
• Jesse Daniel: Countin' the Miles (Die True/Lightning Rod) - country
• Julia Danielle: Julia Danielle (Shifting Paradigm) [11-01] - jazz
• Devon Daniels Quintet: LesGo! (Sam First) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Danish Chamber Orchestra/Ádám Fischer: Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Naxos) - classical
• Jacqui Dankworth: Windmills (Perdido) [11-22] - jazz [*]
• Dar Disku: Dar Disku (Soundway) [09-27] - Arabic/nu-disco [*]
• The Dare: What's Wrong With New York? (Republic) [09-06] - new rave [*]
• Douglas Dare: Omni (Erased Tapes) [05-10] - art pop
• Dark Tranquililty: Endrtime Signals (Century Media) [08-16] - metal
• Darkest Hour: Perpetual Terminal (MNRK) [02-23] - metal
• Darkthrone: It Beckons Us All (Peaceville) [04-26] - black metal
• [Sylvain Darrifourcq]: Stretchin' With MilesDavisQuintetOrchestra (Hector) [06-01] - jazz
• Daryll-Ann: Spring (Excelsior)
• Das Body: True Vulture () [01-26] - art pop
• Dasha: What Happens Now ()
• Sarah Davachi: The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir (Late Music) [09-13] - drone
• Michelle David & the Tru-Tones: Brothers & Sisters (Record Kicks) [04-05] - soul
• Josephine Davies: Satori: Weatherwards (Whirlwind) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Rhodri Davies: Telyn Wrachïod (Amgen) [04-12] - free improv
• Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg: Accept When (Astral Spirits) [04-12] - jazz [*]
• Caroline Davis: Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Guy Davis: The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.) [08-23] - blues [***]
• Jamale Davis: Run With the Hunted (SteepleChase) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• The Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• On Ka'a Davis: Here's to Another Day and Night for the LWA of the Woke (Tzadik) [05-00] - jazz [*]
• Seth Andrew Davis/Will Yager: April 8th, 1969 (Ox Cart New Music) [06-06] - jazz
• Steve Davis: We See (Smoke Sessions) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Dawn Again: Every Dog's Hotel (Hell Yeah) [02-23]
• Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea: Reveries () - electronic
• Jean Dawson: Glimmer of God (P+) [10-18] - art pop
• Steve Dawson: Ghost () [06-07]
• Andra Day: Cassandra (Cherith) (Warner) [05-10] - soul
• Day Dream: Duke & Strays Live: Works by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Corner Store Jazz -2CD) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Lucky Daye: Algorithm (Keep Cool/RCA) [06-28] - r&b
• Dayglow: Dayglow ()
• Lola De La Mata: Oceans on Azimuth (self-released)
• Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project (Musæum Clausum) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• De Schuurman: Bubbling Forever (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [07-12] - Dutch house [A-]
• Eefje De Visser: Heimwee (Sony) [09-13] - synthpop
• Dead Pioneers: Dead Pioneers (Hassle) [09-16] - hardcore punk
• The Dead Shakers: So I Guess I Keep Making Albums Until I Die? ()
• The Dead South: Chains & Stakes (Six Shooter/DevilDuck) [02-09] - bluegrass
• Deadletter: Hysterical Strength (So) [09-13] - art punk
• Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More (4AD) [11-22] [**]
• Dan Dean: Vocalise (Dan Dean Music) - jazz
• Dean & Britta: A Peace of Us (Carpark) [11-22] [*]
• George Dearborne: Lotta Honky Tonkin' Left in Me (Wingate) [07-12] - country [**]
• Dearthworms: Sapsucker (Redundant Span) [ 07-26] - post-punk
• Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Michael Dease: Grove's Groove (Le Coq) [08-23] - jazz
• Death Lens: Cold World (Epitaph) [05-03] - alt rock
• Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv & Galen Tipton: You Like Music (Ghost Diamond) [03-15] - footwork
• M.L. Deathman: Acid Horse 23 (Tesla Tapes)
• Jean Deaux: Nowhere, Fast ()
• Deceased . . .: Children of the Morgue (Hells Headbangers) [08-30] - metal
• The Decemberists: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB/Thirty Tigers) [06-14] - indie rock
• Deejay Veiga: Tudo é no Guetto (Principe -EP)
• Deep Purple: =1 (EarMusic) [07-19] - hard rock
• Defeated Sanity: Chronicles of Lunacy (Season of Mist) [11-22] - metal
• Mila Degray: Silver Meteor 98 ()
• Dehd: Poetry (Fat Possum) [05-10] - indie pop
• Benoit Delbecq/Etienne Renard/Guilhem Flouzat: Triple Fever (dStream) [01-16] - jazz
• Delgres: Promis Le Ciel (PIAS) [02-16] - world
• Luca Dell'Anna: Tactile (Artesuono) - jazz
• Damien Dempsey: Hold Your Joy () [10-25]
• The Dengie Hundred With Gemma Blackshaw: Who Will You Love (Tain) [05-01]
• Dengue Dengue Dengue!: Agita2 (Club Romantico -EP) [10-29] - electronic [**]
• KJ Denhert: The Evening News (Mother Cyclone) [02-27] - jazz
• Departure Chandelier: Satan Soldier of Fortune (Nuclear War Now!) [01-14] - black metal
• Hania Derej Quartet: Evacuation (ZenneZ) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Jason Derulo: Nu King (Atlantic) [02-16] - soul
• Lea Desandre & Thomas Dunford: Idylle (Erato) [10-13] - classical
• Desarbres Ensemble: Live at 6th Spontaneous Music Festival 2022 (Spontaneous Live Series) [04-04] - jazz
• The Deslondes: Roll It Out (New West) - country
• Desperate Journalist: No Hero (Fierce Panda) [09-27] - post-punk
• Destroy Lonely: Love Lasts Forever ()
• Taylor Deupree: Sti.ll (Nettwerk/12k) - electronic
• James Devane: Searching (Umeboshi) - electronic
• Devouring the Guilt: Not to Want to Say (Kettle Hole) [06-08] - jazz [***]
• Dhangsha: Broadcast Signal Intrusion () [ 07-12]
• Dharma Down: Owl Dreams (Dharma Down) [10-11] - jazz [*]
• Al Di Meola: Twentyfour (Ear Music) [07-19] - jazz
• Dialect: Atlas of Green (RVNG) [09-20] - electronic
• Mickey Diamond & Ral Duke: Super Shredder () [04-05] - hip-hop
• Álvaro Díaz: Sayonara (Universal Music Latino) [05-17] - Latin
• Joan Diaz Trio: We Sing Bill Evans (Fresh Sound) - jazz
• Madi Diaz: Weird Faith (Anti-) [02-09] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project (BMG) [03-01] - metal
• The Dictators: The Dictators (Valley Entertainment)
• Camille Dietrich: Grates of Love ( Ornette Coleman Fiend Club) [07-19] - jazz
• Paul Dietrich: 5+4 (Shifting Paradigm) [10-13] - jazz
• Ani DiFranco: Unprecedented Sh!t (Righteous Babe) [05-17] - anti-folk [*]
• DIIV: Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy) [05-24] - shoegaze [*]
• Jorrit Dijkstra: PorchBone (Driff) [07-01] - jazz [***]
• Dillon & Batsauce: What Have We Done () [07-12] - hip-hop
• Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything (Drag City) [06-14] - post-rock
• Discovery Zone: Quantum Web (RVNG) [03-08] - synthpop
• Dissimulator: Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin) [01-26] - metal
• DisX3: Freedom (N&N)
• Divr: Is This Water (We Jazz) [02-02] - jazz [*]
• Kenyon Dixon: The R&B You Love: Soul of the '70s EP ()
• The Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet: Standards Deluxe (self-released) [02-01] - jazz [**]
• Dizze Rascal: Don't Take It Personal () - UK hip-hop
• DJ A-Tron & 03 Greedo: Crip, I'm Sexy (self-released) [11-13] - hip-hop
• DJ Anderson do Paraiso: Queridão (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-01] - baile funk [B]
• DJ Babatr: Rise of the Raptor (-EP) [08-09]
• DJ Harrison: Shades of Yesterday ()
• DJ Harrison/Nigel Hall: The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire ()
• DJ Illogik: Time & Tenacity () [03-13] - hip-hop
• DJ Kolt: Verdadeiro (Principe -EP)
• DJ Love: Budots World (Reloaded) (Eastern Margins) [08-07]
• DJ Lycox: Guetto Star (Principe) [10-25] - batida
• DJ Muggs & Raz Fresco: The Eternal Now () [07-26] - hip-hop
• DJ Ws da Igrejinha: Caça Fantasma, Vol. 1 ()
• Djevel: Natt Til Ende () [11-15] - metal
• Malik Djoudi: Vivant () [09-13]
• Djrum: Meaning's Edge (Houndstooth -EP) [11-22] - electronic [**]
• Doc Sleep: Cloud Sight Fade () - electronic
• Dödsrit: Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades) [03-22] - metal
• Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg/Capitol) [08-30] - hip-hop [**]
• Dog Unit: At Home (Brace Yourself) [04-05] - post-rock
• Doja Cat: Scarlet 2 Claude () - pop rap
• John Dokes: Our Day (Swing Theory Entertainment) [05-10] - jazz
• Arnaud Dolmen/Leonardo Montana: LéNo (Quai Son) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Dolmen Gate: Gateways to Eternity (No Remorse)
• DOLO2K: In the Name of Harman () [05-08] - hip-hop
• Dolores Forever: It's Nothing (Sweat Entertainment) [09-27] - indie pop
• Domestic Terminal: Sanctuary () [ 06-21] - indie rock
• Michel Doneda/Lê Quan Ninh/Núria Andorrà: El Retorn De L'Escolta: A La Memòria De Marianne Brull (Fundacja Słuchaj) [04-06] - jazz [B]
• Andreas Dorau: Im Gebüsch (Tapete)
• Doris: Ultimate Love Songs Collection (Janine) [07-06] - experimental hip-hop [*]
• Tashi Dorji: We Will Be Wherever the Fires Are Lit (Drag City)
• Axel Dörner/Oliver Schwerdt/Julian Sartorius: Jul Fuel (Euphorium) - jazz
• Giuseppe Doronzo/Andy Moor/Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Axel Dörner/Guilherme Rodrigues/Jung-Jae Kim/Stephen Flinn: Chess Music (Creative Sources -23) [2023-12-10] - jazz
• Welf Dorr/Elias Meister/Dmitry Ishenko/Kenny Wollesen: So Far So Good (self-released) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• Mo Dotti: Opaque (MD)
• Dave Douglas: Gifts (Greenleaf Music) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Natalie Douglas: Back to the Garden (Club 44) - jazz
• Kit Downes: Dr. Snap (Bimhuis) [04-26] - jazz
• William Doyle: Springs Eternal (Tough Love) [02-16] - art pop
• Donato Dozzy: Magda (Spazio Disponibile) [01-19] - electronic
• Drahla: Angeltape (Captured Tracks) [04-05] - art punk
• Drake: 100 Gigs () - hip-hop
• Drakeo the Ruler: The Undisputed Truth (Stinc Team) [12-01] - hip-hop
• Eris Drew: Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II: Rock the House (T4T LUV NRG) [04-17] - breakbeat
• Driftmachine & Ammer: Sonic Behaviour (Umor Rex)
• The Drin: Elude the Torch ()
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Tragedy as Catharsis (No Funeral) [11-05] - mathcore
• Rose Droll: With Strangers ()
• The Droptines: The Droptines () - country
• Drug Church: Prude (Pure Noise) [10-04] - punk
• Drug Store Raid: Background Music for Family Arguments ()
• The Drums: Jonny (Anti-) [04-05]
• Drunk Mums: Beer Baby (Legless) [03-07] - garage punk
• Drunk Uncle: O, Brittle Weather! ()
• Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty (Daemon TV) [11-15] - power pop
• Dubbeltrion: Bringing Scandi-Baltic Powerhousejazz to the People (Sonic Transmissions) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Ducks Ltd.: Harm's Way (Carpark) [02-09] - jangle pop [**]
• Dummy: Free Energy (Trouble in Mind) [09-06] - neo-psychedelia
• Duncecap: Pay or Dispute (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-26] - hip-hop
• JB Dunckel: Paranormal Musicality () [01-19]
• Thembi Dunjana: God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi (AfricArise) [06-28] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall Quintet: Soultime Again (Stoney Lane) [01-19] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders: Wildlife (Fundacja Słuchaj) [03-20] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall/Tobias Delius/Olie Brice/Mark Sanders: No Better Than Butcher Bird (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-13] - jazz
• Paul Dunmall/Kevin Figes: Duos (Discus) [11-08] - jazz [*]
• Paul Dunmall: Red Hot Ice (Discus) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Paul Dunmall Quartet: Here Today Gone Tomorrow (RogueArt) [12-09] - jazz [A-]
• Nick Dunston: Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• DUOT & ZARM Ensemble: DUOT With Strings (Fundacja Słuchaj -23) [2023-10-15] - jazz
• Duppy: Now You See Me 2 () [09-27] - UK hip-hop
• Carlitta Durand: Make Me Stay () - r&b
• Duster: In Dreams ()
• Dutch Criminal Record: Novium (AntiFragile) [08-23]
• Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger: Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Morten Duun: Code Breaker (Cmntx) [07-19] - jazz [*]
• Cheryl Duvall & Patrick Giguère: Intimes Exubérances (Redshift) - jazz
• Gui Duvignau/Jacob Sacks/Nathan Ellman-Bell: Live in Red Hook (Sunnyside) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Dvne: Voidkind (Metal Blade) [04-19] - prog metal
• Steve Dyer: Enhlizweni: Song Stories From My Heartland (Ropeadope) - jazz
• Dyke Drama: Up Against the Bricks (Salinas) [09-16] - pop punk
• Sheila E.: Bailar () - Latin
• John Early: Now More Than Ever (Thirty Tigers) [09-13]
• The Early November: The Early November ()
• Earth Tongues: Anemone (Neither/Nor) [02-25] - jazz
• Earthen Sea: Recollection (Kranky) [11-15] - electronic
• Earthgang: Perfect Fantasy (Dreamville/SinceThe80s) [10-29] - hip-hop
• Earthtone9: In Resonance Nexus () [ 06-21] - alt-metal
• Dave East, Mike & Keys: Apt 6E (FTD) [05-31] - hip-hop
• Tim Easton: Find Your Way ()
• Eat-Girls: Area Silenzio (Bureau B) [11-08]
• Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon (L&H Production) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Edition Redux: Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic -23) [2023-12-22] - jazz [***]
• Euan Edmonds: Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) [11-15] - jazz
• Effluence: Necrobiology (Putrefactive) - metal
• The Eggman Whoooooo!: Fuzzy Eggs, Please () [10-25]
• Eggy: Waiting Game ()
• Lara Eidi: Sun (self-released) [09-04] - jazz
• Taylor Eigsti: Plot Armor (GroundUP Music) [03-01] - jazz [B-]
• Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (Interscope) [05-17] - pop [A-]
• Einstürzende Neubauten: Rampen: APM (Alien Pop Music) (Potomak) [04-05] - post-industrial
• Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder (American Dreams) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• Ekko Astral: Pink Balloons (Topshelf) [04-17] - postpunk [***]
• Jessica Ekomane/Laurel Halo: Manifolds/Octavia (Portraits GRM)
• El Comité: Carrousel (Caramba) - jazz
• El Cousteau: Merci, Non Merci (self-released) - hip-hop
• Sara El Hachimi: Pencil in My Pocket (Current Moves) [04-11] - jazz
• El Malilla: Ñerostars (La Esquina/Virgin) [07-15]
• Philippe El Hage/Youssef Hbeisch: A Confused World (Musical Expression Institute) [11-01] - jazz
• El Khat: Mute (Glitterbeat) [09-13] - world [*]
• El Perro Del Mar: Big Anonymous (City Slang) [02-16] - art pop
• Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi: Pollution Opera (Danse Noise)
• Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Elbow: Audio Vertigo (Polydor) [03-22] - art rock [B]
• The Elephant: In the Room (Original Cultures) [03-29] - jazz
• Elephant9: Mythical River (Rune Grammofon) [04-19] - jazz
• Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal: Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Elephants: Mythical River () - jazz
• Eliane Elias: Time and Again (Candid) [07-28] - jazz [**]
• Eliza & the Delusionals: Make It Feel Like a Garden (Cooking Vinyl) [07-19] - indie rock
• Elke: Divine Urge (Congrats) [ 10-25]
• James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg: All Gist (Paradise of Bachelors) [04-10]
• Kurt Elling/Sullivan Fortner: Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) [08-30] - jazz [B-]
• Kurt Elling: Wildflowers Vol. 2 (Edition) [11-08] - jazz [C+]
• Tinsley Ellis: Naked Truth (Alligator) [02-09] - blues [**]
• Elori Saxl: Earth Focus (Western Vinyl) [11-15] - ambient
• Jacken Elswyth: At Fargrounds ( Wrong Speed) [05-17] - folk
• Elucid: Revelator (Fat Possum) [10-11] - hip-hop [A-]
• Elyanna: Woledto (Salxco UAM [Universal Arabic Music]) [04-10] - Arabic
• Emel: MRA (Yotanka) [04-19] - electropop
• James Emery Neo Trio: Inner Drive (self-released) - jazz
• Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) [07-12] - pop rap [**]
• Emissaries of Syn: Past Prescient Future () [ 03-01]
• Emmeluth's Amoeba: Nonsense (Moserobie) [02-09] - jazz [A-]
• Signe Emmeluth: Banshee (Motvind) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Empire of the Sun: Ask That God ()
• Empirical: Wonder Is the Beginning (Whirlwind) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Empress Of: For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant) [03-22] - alt-pop [**]
• English Teacher: This Could Be Texas (Island) [04-12] - art rock [***]
• Enjoyable Listeners: Trapped in the Cage of a Hateful Bird () [ 04-05] - indie pop
• Enoch: Waiting for Something to Happen () [03-08] - hip-hop
• Ensemble 0/Talea Ensemble/Ensemble Dedalus/James Baker: Sarah Hennies: Motor Tapes (New World) [05-02] - classical
• Enterprise Earth: Death: An Anthology (MNRK) [02-02] - deathcore
• Envy: Eunoia (Temporary Residence/Pelagic) [10-11] - screamo
• Christoph Erb/Magda Mayas/Gerry Hemingway: Hour Music (Veto) [05-03] - jazz
• Erick the Architect: I've Never Been Here Before (self-released) [02-23] - hip-hop
• Ernest: Nashville, Tennessee (Big Loud) [04-12] - country [**]
• Eros: Your Truth Is a Lie (Downwards) [11-01]
• Erotic Secrets of Pompeii: Mondo Maleficum () [01-25] - art rock
• Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Bernstein in Vienna (Origin) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• ES Trio: The Foreign in Us (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Wayne Escoffery: Alone (Smoke Sessions) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Alejandro Escovedo: Echo Dancing (Yep Roc) [03-29] - folk
• Danielle Esposito: Per Altri Motivi (Hypnote) [12-06] - jazz
• John Esposito: Blues for Outlaw Hearts (Sunjump) - jazz
• Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Naeemi Järvi: French Opera Overtures by Auber, Palnquette and Lecocq (Chandos) - classical
• Estonian Voices: Kallimale (Sheikid) [04-19] - jazz
• Rick Estrin and the Nightcats: The Hits Keep Coming () - blues
• Ethel & Layale Chaker: Vigil (In a Circle) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• John Etheridge: Blue Spirits Live (Dyad) [01-26] - jazz
• Oran Etkin: Open Arms (Ground Up Music) [01-12] - jazz
• Etran De L'Aïr: 100% Saharan Guitar (Sahel Sounds) [09-13] - Saharan rock [***]
• Julieta Eugenio: Stay (Cristalyn) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Eunuchs: Harbour Century (Nola Bel) [04-05] - avant-prog
• Jeff Evans Porkestra: Willow Pillow (self-releaed -EP) [04-19] - country [***]
• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) [08-12] - jazz [*]
• Peter Evans: Extra (We Jazz) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Peter Evans' Being and Becoming: Ars Memoria (More Is More) - jazz
• Everliven Sound & Slimline Mutha: Echo Chamber (self-released) [03-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Everything Everything: Mountainhead (BMG) [03-01] - art pop
• Sam Evian: Plunge (Flying Cloud/Thirty Tigers) [03-22] - indie pop
• EvilGiane & Slimesito: Evilslime (Surf Gang) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Ex-Easter Island Head: Norther (Rocket) [05-17] - ambient
• Experiential Orchestra/James Blachly/Curtis J Stewart: American Counterpoints: Julia Perry & Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (Bright Shiny Things) [03-01] - concerto
• Eye: Dark Light (New Heavy Sounds) [04-26] - alt-rock
• Ezra Collective: Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan) [09-27] - jazz funk [*]
• F.G.S.: Tinker Bell's Cough () [10-07]
• Christian Fabian Trio: Hip to the Skip (Spicerack) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• FACS: Maggot Brain 020324 (Trouble in Mind) [04-01] - post-punk [***]
• Faded: Found Sound ()
• Joe Fahey: Andrea's Exile (Rough Fish) [08-16] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust (Carpark) [08-23] - alt/indie [A-]
• Falling in Reverse: Popular Monster (Epitaph) [08-16] - rap metal
• Family Stereo: Sometimes the Morning Is Different ()
• Fantastic Negrito: Son of a Broken Man (Storefront) [10-18] - blues rock
• Fantasy of a Broken Heart: Feats of Engineering (Dots Per Inch) [09-27] - indie pop
• Antonio Faraò: Tributes (Criss Cross Jazz) [06-14] - jazz
• Alon Farber Hagiga With Dave Douglas: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem (Origin) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Fashion Club: A Love You Cannot Shake (Felte) [10-25] [**]
• Fastbacks: For WHAT Reason? (No Threes)
• Fastball: Sonic Ranch (Sunset Blvd) [06-14]
• Fat Dog: Woof. (Domino) [09-06] - new rave
• Fat White Family: Forgiveness Is Yours (Domino) [04-26] - post-punk
• Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams: Something About Shirley (POW -EP) [02-14] - hip-hop
• Father John Misty: Mahashmashana (Sub Pop/Bella Union) [11-22] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Faune: Des Fantômes (Standard In-Fi) [La Nòvia -23] - 2023-12-07
• Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe: 3rd Mutation: Moth (Bush Flash) [04-19] - jazz [A-]
• Lewis Fautzi: Irrational Fear of Failure (Mord -EP)
• Faux Real: Faux Ever (City Slang) [10-11] - synthpop
• Enzo Favata: Os Caminhos de Garibaldi (Caligola) - jazz
• Fcukers: Baggy$$ (Technicolour -EP) [09-06] - alt dance
• Feeling Figures: Everything Around You (K) [09-27] - indie rock
• Tanja Feichtmair/Mara Kolibri/Stefan Krist/Josef Novotny/Fredi Pröll/Julius Winter/Uli Winter: Adschi (Creative Sources) [02-27] - jazz
• Steven Feifke: The Role of the Rhythm Section Vol. II (La Reserve) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Ezra Feinberg: Soft Power (Tonal Union) [05-31] - ambient
• The Felice Brothers: Valley of Abandoned Songs ()
• Fennesz: Mosaic ()
• Doug Ferony: Alright Okay You Win (Ferony Enterprizes Music) [10-01] - vocal jazz [B]
• Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizx (International Anthem) [05-03] - vocal jazz [***]
• R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap (Ruby Yacht) [01-26] - hip-hop [***]
• R.A.P. Ferreira: Outstanding Understanding (Ruby Yacht) [12-20] - hip-hop [**]
• Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers (Rounder) [03-22] - bluegrass [***]
• Fever 333: Darker White (Century Media/333 Wreckords Crew) [10-04] - nu metal
• Fictional Souvenirs [Pat Thomas/John Butcher/Ståle Liavik Solberg]: Volatile Object (Trost) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Fie Eike: Water () [11-08]
• Field Music: Limits of Language (Memphis Industries) [10-11] - art pop
• Lawrence Fields: To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Fiery Furnaces: Stuck in My Head ()
• Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes (Fat Possum) [10-25] - art pop [*]
• Amina Figarova: Suite for Africa (Amfi) - jazz
• Fightmilk: No Souvenirs () [11-15]
• Fimiguerrero, Len & Lancey Foux: Conglomerate (Lizzy) [11-08] - UK hip-hop
• Fine: Rocky Top Ballads (Escho) [06-07]
• Kelly Finnigan: A Lover Was Born (Colemine) [10-18] - soul
• Finom: Not God (Joyful Noise) [05-24] - art rock
• Nick Finzer: Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Fír: De stilte van God () [05-03] - metal
• Fire!: Testament (Rune Grammofon) [02-24] - jazz [***]
• Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa (Origin) [09-20] - vocal jazz [***]
• Five Green Moons: Moon 1 () [11-29]
• Fk It: Alemeda (TDE) ()
• Flagboy Giz: The Culture (Injun Money)
• Flagboy Giz and the Wild Tchoupitoulas: Live From the French Quarter Fest 2023 (Injun Money) - hip-hop [**]
• The Flame: Towards the Flame Vol. 2 (577) [07-19] - jazz
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Ingebrigt Häker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Live at Artfacts '22 (Sonic Transmissions) [12-27] - jazz [*]
• Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera (Nuclear Blast) [08-23] - metal
• Renée Fleming/Kelli O'Hara/Joyce DiDonato/Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Metropolitan Opera Chorus/Yannick Nézet-Ségun: Kevin Puts: The Hours (Erato) [04-26] - opera
• Fletcher: In Search of the Antidote (EMI) [03-22] - pop
• Rod Fleeman Trio: Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge Volume 3 (Green Lady Radio) - jazz
• Antonio Flinta: Anger, Commitment and Love (self-released) - jazz
• FLO: Access All Areas (Island) [11-15] - dance-pop
• Flo Milli: Fine Ho, Stay (RCA) [03-15] - hip-hop [**]
• Floating Points: Cascade (Ninja Tune) [09-13] - IDM [A-]
• Liana Flores: Flower of the Soul (Liana Flores) [06-28] - singer-songwriter
• Wyatt Flores: Welcome to the Plains () [10-18] - country
• Floros Floridis/Matthias Bauer/Joe Hertenstein: Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit) [10-15] - jazz [A-]
• The Flowers of Indulgence: Dylan's Lost Songs, Vol. 1 (Bothy Studio) [04-19] - folk rock [**]
• Flukten [Hanna Paulserg]: Flukten (Odin) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Flung: All Heartbeat (Get Better) [04-05]
• FM: Old Habits Die Hard () [05-03]
• Ben Folds: Sleigher ()
• Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) [03-29] - blues [***]
• The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise) [06-28] - folk rock
• Joe Fonda Quartet: Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song) [11-15] - jazz [A-]
• Alessandro Fongaro: Pietre () [07-05] - jazz
• Font: Strange Burden (Acrophase) [07-12] - dance-punk
• Brigitte Fontaine: Pick Up (Verycords) [11-01]
• Fontaines D.C.: Romance (XL) [08-23] - indie rock [**]
• Edy Forey: Culture Today (So Soul) [04-04] - jazz
• Adam Forkelid: Turning Point (Prophone) [03-05] - jazz [***]
• Elin Forkelid: Songs to Keep You Company on a Dark Night (Sail Cabin) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Fórn: Repercussions of the Self () [10-18] - metal
• Forq: Big Party (GroundUP) [09-13] - jazz [*]
• Keeley Forsyth: The Hollow (FatCat) [05-10] - art pop
• Fort Romeau: Romantic Gestures, Vol. 1 (Romantic Gestures) [03-01]
• Dan Fortin: Cannon (Elastic) - J\jazz
• Fortunxte: I'm Still Healing (Fulfilled/Richwayz Life Entertainment) [04-23] - hip-hop
• Michael Foster/Ben Bennett/Jacob Wick: Carne Vale (Relative Pitch) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Foster the People: Paradise State of Mind (Atlantic) [08-16] - indie pop
• Four + Six: Four + Six (Jazz Hang) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Four Tet: Three (Text) [03-15] - electronica [***]
• Jonathan Fournel/Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Howard Griffiths: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 KV 456 & 21 KV 467 (Alpha) [02-22] - classical
• Fousheé: Pointy Heights (RCA/Trackmasters) [09-13] - indie pop
• Chad Fowler/Shanyse Strickland/Sana Nagano/Melanie Dyer/Ken Filiano/Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Fox Green: Light Darkness (self-released) [06-12] - alt/indie [A-]
• Foxing: Foxing (Grand Paradise) [09-13] - art rock [C+]
• Joel Frahm Trio: Lumination (Anzic) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Frail Body: Artificial Bouquet (Deathwish) [03-29] - screamo
• JW Francis: Sunshine (Born Losers) [10-11] - bedroom pop
• Fer Franco: Ritos de Paso (self-released)
• Frank & Tony: Ethos (Scissor & Thread) [03-22]
• Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes (Tin Angel/Unheard of Hope) [06-28] - art pop [**]
• Alexandre Frazão Quinteto: Quintesséncia (self-released) [10-05] - jazz
• Aaron Frazer: Into the Blue (Dead Oceans) [06-28] - pop soul
• Eric Frazier: That Place Featuring "Return of the Panther Woman" (EFP Productions) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Fred Again . .: Ten Days (Atlantic) [09-06] - prog house [**]
• Fredo Bang: Yes, I'm Sad (Def Jam) [01-19] - hip-hop
• Ace Frehley: 10,000 Volts (MNRK) [02-23] - hard rock
• Amaro Freitas: Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Paolo Fresu: Legacy (Tǔk Music) [05-24] - jazz
• Jürg Frey: Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre) [05-27] - jazz
• Erik Friedlander: Dirty Boxing (Skipstone) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Erik Friedlander: Floatinig City (Skipstone) [06-28] - jazz [B]
• Friends & Neighbors: Circles (Clean Feed) [01-24] - jazz [***]
• Sam Fribush Trio: People Please (Flybird Music) [03-15] - jazz
• David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness (Origin) [02-24] - jazz [B]
• David Friesen: A Light Shining Through (Origin) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• Friko: Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here (ATO) [02-16] - indie rock [*]
• Bill Frisell: Orchestras (Blue Note) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes: Breaking the Shell (Red Hook) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Fred Frith: Fifty (Week-End) [02-16] - jazz
• From Overseas, Zake: Live Improvisations (Zake Drones)
• Ben Frost: Scope Neglect (Mute) [03-01] - metal
• Marcelo Frota: Gira (Batov) - jazz
• Froukje: Noodzakelijk Verdriet (Top Notch/Frak 'n Roll) [01-12] - synthpop
• Fu Manchu: The Return of Tomorrow (At the Dojo) [06-14] - stoner rock
• Fucked Up: Who's Got the Time & a Half ()
• Fucked Up: Another Day (Fucked Up (FU)) [08-09] - post-hardcore
• Fucksnowrr: #NotADeluxe () [03-11] - hip-hop
• Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black (Libra) [01-24] - jazz [***]
• Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days of Summer (Libra) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Masayoshi Fujita: Migratory (Erased Tapes) [09-06] - ambient
• Full of Hell: Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities) [04-26] - grindcore
• Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan: Scraping the Divine (Closed Casket Activities) [11-15] - metal
• The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Sob Story (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Funeral: I Know Something You Don't ()
• Funkrust Brass Band: Make a Little Spark (self-released) [11-24] [A-]
• FUR [Hélène Duret/Benjamin Sauzereau/Maxime Rouayroux]: Bond (BMC) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Nelly Furtado: 7 ()
• The Fury: Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Jake Xerxes Fussell: When I'm Called (Fat Possum) [07-12] - Americana [**]
• Joel Futterman: Innervoice (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Joel Futterman: Forever (Mahakala Music) [06-28] - jazz [*]
• Future & Metro Boomin: We Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic Boominati Worldwide) [03-22] - hip-hop [**]
• Future & Metro Boomin: We Still Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic/Boominati Worldwide) [04-12] - hip-hop [**]
• Future: Mixtape Pluto (Freebandz/Epic) [09-20] - hip-hop [**]
• Future Islands: People Who Aren't There Anymore (4AD) [01-26] - synthpop [*]
• Future Islands: The Tower ()
• Future Palace: Distortion (Arising Empire) [09-06] - alt-metal
• Joel Futterman/William Parker: Why (Soul City Sounds) - jazz [***]
• Fuubutsushi: Meridians (Cached.Media) [07.08] - jazz
• Fwea-Go Jit: 2 Fweavorful (SoFloJook)
• Rui Gabriel: Compassion (Carpark) [06-21] - indie rock
• Gaburyu: Maid-San and Witch (self-released)
• Amy Gadiaga: All Black Everything (Jazz Re:Freshed) [04-05] - jazz
• Gaffa Tape Sandy: Hold My Hand, God Damn It (Counter Intuitive) [05-31] - garage rock
• Diamanda Galas: In Concert (Intravenal Sound Operations)
• Liam Gallagher/John Squire: Liam Gallagher/John Squire (Parlophone)
• Gallant: Zinc. ()
• Galliano: Halfway Somewhere (Brownswood) - jazz
• Galvezton: Some Kind of love (A Tribute to the Velvet Underground) (La Izquierda)
• Asher Gamedze & the Black Lungs: Constitution (International Anthem) [08-30] - jazz [*]
• Ganavya: Like the Sky I've Been Too Quiet (Native Rebel) [03-15] - vocal jazz [**]
• Ganavya: Daughter of a Temple (Leiter) [11-15] - vocal jazz [*]
• Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC) [04-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Miha Gantar: New York City (Clean Feed) [04-30] - jazz
• Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog (Clandestine) [03-15] - jazz
• Angélica Garcia: Gemelo (Partisan) [06-07] - art pop
• Daniel Garcia Trio: Wonderland (ACT Music) - jazz
• Nubya Garcia: Odyssey (Concord Jazz) [09-24] - jazz [B]
• Renaud Garcia-Fons: Blue Maqam (L'Autre Distribution) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Amanda Gardier: Auteur (Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson) (self-released) [01-26] - jazz [A-]
• Hilary Gardner: On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) [03-08] - jazz [*]
• Tim Garland: Moment of Departure (Ubuntu Music) [05-03] - jazz
• Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Orla Gartland: Everybody Needs a Hero (New Friends Music) [10-04] - indie pop
• Gatecreeper: Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - death metal
• Lexa Gates: Elite Vessel ()
• Sally Gates/Steve Hirsh/Daniel Carter: Phosphene (Mahakala Music) [09-20] - jazz
• The Gates of Slumber: The Gates of Slumber (Svart)
• Stephen Gauci/Sinya Lin/Adam Lane/Kevin Shea: Live at Scholes Street Studio (Gaucimusic) - jazz
• Bertrand Gauguet/Difier Lasserre: Mehr (Akousis/NUNC) [11-04] - jazz
• Dana Gavanski: Late Slap ()
• Katie Gavin: What a Relief (Saddest Factory) [10-25] - indie folk
• GB: Gusse Music (Posh Isolation) [05-30] - art pop
• Gel: Persona (Blue Grape Music -EP) [08-16] - hardcore punk
• Gen1es: Hourglass (RYCE -EP)
• Sam Gendel/Sam Wilkes: The Doober (Leaving) [05-01] - jazz
• Sam Gendel/Benny Bock/Hans Kjorstad: Dream Trio (Leaving) [11-01] - jazz
• Myriam Gendron: Mayday (Thrill Jockey) [05-10] - folk [**]
• Leo Genovese/John Lockwood/Nat Mugavero: The Art of Not Playing (577) [04-26] - jazz
• Leo Genovese/Demian Cabaud/Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero 2 (Sunnyside) [09-13] - jazz
• Leo Genovese: Forward (577) [10-04] - jazz
• Georgia Ruth: Cool Head (Bubblewrap) [06-21]
• Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterheit: Music for Unknown Rituals (Umor Rex) - electroacoustic [A-]
• Jayson Gerycz/Jen Powers/Matthew J. Rolin: Activator (12XU) [01-12] - experimental
• Sheida Gharachedaghi/Mohammad Reza Aslani: Chess of the Wind (Mississippi)
• Ghetts: On Purpose, With Purpose (Warner) [02-23] - UK hip-hop
• Maddalena Ghezzi/Ruth Goller: Dolomite (Deng Yue) [05-17] - jazz
• Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] () - metal
• Ghost Dubs: Damaged (Pressure) [07-05] - ambient dub
• Ghost Funk Orchestra: A Trip to the Moon ()
• Ghost Poet: Am I the Change I Wish to See? (Modern Revenge)
• Ghost Trees: Intercept Method (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
• Ghost Work: Light a Candle for the Lonely ()
• Ghostface Killah: Set the Tone (Guns & Roses) (Mass Appeal) [05-10] - hip-hop
• Giant Walker: Silhouettes () [09-20] - alt-metal
• Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown (Domino) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Ruth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown ()
• Freddie Gibbs: You Only Die 1nce (ESGN) [10-31] - hip-hop [**]
• Claudia Gibson: The Fields of Chazy (self-released) [03-01] - folk [**]
• Paula Rae Gibson: The Roles We Play to Disappear (33Xtreme) [10-16] - jazz
• Gigan: Anomalous Abstratcigate Infinitessimus (Willowtip) [10-25] - death metal
• GiGi FM: Movimiento (Sea~réne) - electronic
• GIFT: Illuminator (Captured Tracks) [08-23] - neo-psychedelia
• Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band: Life Songs (Alternate Side) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• Behn Gillece: Stick Together (Posi-Tone) [04-26] - jazz
• David Gilmour: Luck and Strange (Sony) [09-06] - prog rock [B]
• Raphael Gimenes: Dinamarca (One World Music)
• Ginetta's Vendetta: Fun Size (Kickin' Wiccan Music) [11-24] - jazz [*]
• Ginger Root: Shinbangumi (Ghostly International) [09-13] - pop
• LP Giobbi: Garcia (Remixed) (Round) [04-19] - house [**]
• Girl and Girl: Call a Doctor (Sub Pop) [05-24] - alt/indie
• Girl in Red: I'm Doing It Again Baby! (Columbia) [04-10] - alt-pop [**]
• Girl Scout: Headache (Human Garbage -EP) [11-08] - alt/indie [*]
• Girl Ultra: Blush (Big Dada -EP) [07-12] - Latin pop [*]
• Girls in Synthesis: Sublimination () [05-03] - post-punk
• Frode Gjerstad Trio: Unknown Purposes (Circulasione Totale) [09-04] - jazz [***]
• Frode Gjerstad/Margaux Oswald/Ivar Myrset Asheim: Another Step (Circulasione Totale) [09-04] - jazz [*]
• Glacial Tomb: Lightless Expanse (Prosthetic) [09-20] - death metal
• John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young -EP) [02-24]
• John Glacier: Duppy Gun (Young -EP) [06-20]
• Glaive: May It Never Falter (Slowsilver03) [10-11] - emo rap
• Robert Glasper: Let Go () - jazz
• Margaret Glaspy: The Sun Doesn't Think (ATO -EP) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Philip Glass: Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain) [01-26] - minimalism [***]
• Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much (Polydor) [07-19] - synthpop
• Glass Beach: Plastic Death (Run for Cover) [01-19] - prog rock [B-]
• Glassing: From the Other Side of the Mirror (Pelagic) [04-26] - metal
• Glitterer: Rationale (Anti-) [02-23] - power pop
• Roby Glod/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: No Toxic (Nemu) [01-02] - jazz [A-]
• Glokk40Spaz: Da Real Oso ()
• GloRilla: Ehhthang Ehhthang (CMG/Interscope) [04-05] - hip-hop [***]
• GloRilla: Glorious (CMG/Interscope) [10-11] - hip-hop [**]
• Glorygirl2950: Queen of the Land (self-released) [03-08] - hip-hop [*]
• Nicole Glover: Plays (Savant) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• Bob Gluck: And Every Fleck of Russet (Electrisongs) [01-05] - jazz
• Gnod: Spot Land (Rocket) [05-31] - post-rock
• The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Count Your Lucky Stars) [04-25] - slowcore
• Goat: Goat (Rocket) [10-11] - psychedelic rock
• Goat Girl: Below the Waste (Rough Trade) [06-07] - post-punk
• Jose Gobbo Trio: Current (self-released) [02-05] - jazz [**]
• Goblin Band: Come Slack Your Horse! (Broadside Hacks)
• God Bullies: As Above, So Below (Reptilian) [10-04]
• God Is an Astronaut: Embers (Napalm) [09-06] - post-rock
• Joe Goddard: Harmonics (Domino) [07-12] - electronic
• Godfather Don: Thesis () [08-30] - hip-hop
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (Constellation) [10-04] - post-rock [***]
• Ben Goldberg/Todd Sickafoose/Scott Amendola: Here to There (Secret Hatch) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Adam Goldfarb: Fire Lapping at the Creek (Infrequent Seams) [04-12] - jazz
• Larry Goldings/John Sneider: Chinwag (Sticky Mack) [01-07] - jazz
• Lori Goldston: Convolutions (Nyahh)
• The Vinny Golia Quintet 2024: Almasty (Nine Winds) [04-15] - jazz [**]
• Ruth Goller: Skyllumina (International Anthem) [03-01] - jazz [B]
• Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory (Berthold/Endectomorph Music) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Chilly Gonzales: Gonzo (09-13) [H|hip-hop]
• Dayramir González: V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) [04-12] - jazz [B]
• Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band: Live at the Texas Theatre (Astral Spirits) [11-29] - jazz [A-]
• Good Looks: Lived Here for a While (Keeled Scales) [06-07] - indie rock
• Good Morning: Good Morning Seven (Polyvinyl)
• Good Morning: The Accident ()
• Good Morning: Country ()
• The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive (Joyous) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Charles Goold: Triptych Lespri (La Reserve) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Gordan: Gordan (Glitterbeat) [05-10] - folk
• Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South (ArtistShare) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Kevin Gordon: The In Between () [09-13]
• Kim Gordon: The Collective (Matador) [03-08] - alt/indie [A-]
• Gorgon City: Reverie (Universal) [07-19]
• Harry Górski-Brown: Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats (Glarc) [02-09] - glitch
• GospelbeacH: Wiggle Your Fingers (Curation) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Gossip: Real Power (Columbia) [03-22] - alt/indie [**]
• Gouge Away: Deep Sage (Deathwish) [03-15] - grunge [**]
• Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy: Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) [01-12] - jazz [**]
• Vanisha Gould: She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Ciara Grace: Write It Down (self-released) [05-10] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head (Polyvinyl) [02-16] - punk/folk [***]
• Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals: Give an Inch (-EP)
• Graffick: Spectra ()
• Grafh & 38 Spesh: God's Timing () - hip-hop
• Enrico Granafel: It's Hard to Say Goodbye (CAP) [09-06] - jazz
• María Grand With Marta Sánchez: Anohin (Biophilia) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Grand Magus: Sunraven (Nuclear Blast) [10-18] - metal
• Grandaddy: Blu Wav (Dangerbird) [02-16] - indie pop [B]
• Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine (Republic) [03-08] - dance-pop [**]
• Grande Mahogany: As Grande As (Laundry Music) [02-09] - psychedelic rock
• John Grant: The Art of the Lie (Bella Union) [06-14] - art pop
• Graphic Nature: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? (Rude) [07-12] - nu-metalcore
• Frank Gratkowski/Ensemble Modern: Mature Hybrid Talking (Maria de Alvear World Edition) - jazz [**]
• Gravelshard: Gravelshard (Phonogram Unit) [06-01] - jazz
• Nick Gravenites and Pete Sears: Rogue Blues ()
• Conan Gray: Found Heaven (Republic) [04-05] - synthpop
• Devin Gray: Melt All of the Guns (Rataplan) [06-04] - jazz [**]
• Saya Gray: Qwerty II (Dirty Hit) [03-28]
• Gray Acres: Live on Star's End Radio (self-released)
• Gordon Grdina/Christian Lillinger: Duo Work (Attaboygirl) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: With Fathieh Honari (Attaboygirl) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• The Green Child: Look Familiar (Upset the Rhythm)
• Green Day: Saviors (Reprise) [01-19] - power pop
• Geordie Greep: The New Sound (Rough Trade) [10-04] - avant-prog [B]
• JJ Grey & Mofro: Olustee () - blues
• Griff: Vertigo (Warner Music UK) [07-12] - dance-pop
• The Gringo Pistoleros: The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien (self-released) [05-31] - country [**]
• Erik Griswold/Chloe Kim/Helen Svoboda: Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Danny Paul Grody Duo: Arc of Night (Three Lobed) [06-28]
• Gregory Groover Jr.: Loveabye (Criss Cross Jazz) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes (We Insist!) [05-21] - jazz [***]
• Muriel Grossmann: The Light of the Mind (RR Gems) [12-01] - jazz [***]
• Groundsound: Working Progress (Equiknoxx)
• Growing Stone: Death of a Momma's Boy (Near Mint) [06-28]
• Tania Grubbs: The Sound of Love (Travlin' Music) - vocal jazz
• Grupo Frontera: Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada () [05-10] - Latin
• Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn (Carrier) [06-21]
• Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [**]
• Gudrun Gut: Gut Soundtrack (Moabit Musik)
• Morgan Guerin: Tales of the Facade (Candid) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• Stephen Guerra: No Balanço Do Choro-Samba (self-released) - jazz
• Dan Guidance: Freedom of Movement () [10-12]
• Guided by Voices: Strut of Kings (GBV) [06-28] - indie rock
• Giovanni Guidi: A New Day (ECM) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• Joy Guidry: Amen (Whited Sepulchre) [05-10] - dark ambient
• Gulfer: Third Wind ()
• Gum.mp3: Black Life, Red Planet (Gum Studio) [03-07] - jungle
• Gumbo: Stir the Pot (A Tiny Universe) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Gun: Hombres (Cooking Vinyl) [04-12] - glam rock
• Gunna: One of Wun (YSL/300 Entertainment) [05-09] - hip-hop
• Sunna Gunnlaugs: Ástin, Bjartsýnin Og Andskotans Blaðrið Í Fólkinu (Sunny Sky) [11-01] - jazz
• Gurriers: Come and See (No Filter) [09-13] - post-punk
• Gustaf: Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain) [04-05] - art punk
• Mats Gustafsson & Liudas Mockūnas: Watching a Dog. Smiling (NoBusiness) [01-24] - jazz [*]
• Isabell Gustafsson-Ny: Rosenhagtorn (War Winters) [07-26] - modern classical
• Tord Gustavsen Trio: Seeing (ECM) [10-04] - jazz [B]
• Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: All This This Here (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Mickey Guyton: House on Fire (Capitol Nashville) [09-27] - country [*]
• Gwendoline: C'est à moi ça (Born Bad) [03-01]
• Caity Gyorgy: Hello! How Are You? (La Reserve) [08-09] - jazz [**]
• Gyrofield: A Faint Glow of Bravery (Metalheadz) [01-12] - drum and bass
• Gyrofield: These Heavens (XL -EP) [08-30] - drum and bass
• Ha Vay: Baby I'm the Wolf ()
• Iro Haarla Ouranos Quartet Featuring Aija Puurtinen: Under the Firmament (Texicalli) - jazz
• Andy Haas: For the Time, Being (Resonant Music) - jazz [*]
• The Haas Company [Featuring Andy Timmons]: Vol. 1: Galactic Tide (Psychiatric) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• The Haas Company [Featuring Frank Gambale]: Vol. 2: Celestial Latitude (Psychiatric) [09-01] - jazz [**]
• Aengus Hackett Trio: Aengus Hackett Trio (self-released) [04-24] - jazz
• Marika Hackman: Big Sigh (Chrysalis) [01-12] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Noah Haidu: Standards II (Sunnyside) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Russell Haight: Go Forth (OA2) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Hainbach: Breve (Seil) [09-17] - ambient
• Half Alive: Persona ()
• Half Waif: See You at the Maypole (Anti-) [10-04] - art pop
• Sahra Halgan: Hiddo Dhawr (La Région/Danaya Music) [01-29] - African [***]
• Jared Hall: Influences (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Nigel Hall & DJ Harrison: The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire (Regime Music Group) [05-10] - soul
• Hallé/Sir Mark Elder: Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat/Symphony No. 2 in E Flat (Hallé) [05-03] - classical
• Rich Halley 4: Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle) [10-25] - jazz [A-]
• Charlie [Halloran] and the Tropicales: Jump Up (Nu-Tone) [08-02] - jazz [**]
• Halo Maud: Celebrate (Heavenly) [03-22] - art pop
• Halogenix: Passions () [04-26] - drum and bass
• Halsey: The Great Impersonator (Columbia) [10-25] - pop [A-]
• Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices (Naive) [08-24] - jazz
• Hamferð: Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk (Metal Blade) [03-22] - doom metal
• Arnold Hammerschlag/Michael Bisio/Chris Corsano: Trio (self-released) [09-06] - jazz
• Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou: L'bnat (EBB Music)
• Hana Vu: Romanticism (Ghostly International) [05-03] - indie pop
• Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants (Blue Engine) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Peter Hand: Blue Topaz (Whaling City Sound) [01-19] - jazz
• Hand of Juno: Psychotic Banana () - metal
• The Handover: The Handover (Sublime Frequencies) [04-05]
• Hands of Goro: Hands of Goro (BSP Berrysausage Productions)
• Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Hannah Frances: Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination) [03-01] - folk rock [*]
• Barbara Hannigan/Bertrand Chamayou: Messaien (Alpha) [05-24] - classical
• Barbara Hannigan: Hannigan Sings Zorn, Volume One (Tzadik) [08-01] - jazz
• Eden Har-Gil: Hearts of Palm (XJazz) [03-29] - jazz
• Ed Harcourt: El Magnifico (Deathless) [03-29] - chamber pop
• The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet (Matador) [10-04] - indie rock [*]
• Alex Harding/Lucian Ban: Blutopia (Sunnyside) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• The Harlem Gospel Travelers: Rhapsody (Colemine) [08-23] - gospel
• Iris Harley: Last Breath (self-released) [03-01] - vocal jazz
• Sinéad Harnett: Boundaries (Matador) [10-04] - alt/indie
• Tom Harrell: Alternate Summer (HighNote) [06-09] - jazz [**]
• Dave Harrington: Skull Dream () [07-26] - fusion
• Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi: Speak, Moment (AKP) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• JP Harris: JP Harris Is a Trash Fire ()
• Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed Volume II: Life Signs (Motéma) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Zacc Harris: Chasing Shadows (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
• Joel Harrison & Alternative Guitar Summit: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I (AGS) [07-24] - jazz [*]
• HarrisP: Spirits of Mauronoros (Veego) - jazz
• Keyon Harrold: Foreverland (Concord) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Beth Hart: You Still Got Me ()
• John Hart: Love Is (SteepleChase) [11-08] - jazz
• Hakushi Hasegawa: Mahōgakkō (Brainfeeder) [07-24] - folktronica
• Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy) [04-15] - jazz [A-]
• Hataalii: Waiting for a Sign (Dangerbird) [09-13] - alt-country
• Lalah Hathaway: Vantablack (SRG) [06-14] - neo-soul
• Haunted Plasma: I () [05-31] - neo-psychedelia
• The Havels, Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi: Four Hands (Animal Music)
• Hamish Hawk: A Firmer Hand (So) [08-16] - indie rock
• Maya Hawke: Chaos Angel (Mom+Pop) [05-31] - indie pop
• Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho (Intakt) [04-19] - vocal jazz [*]
• Hawkwind: Stories From Time and Space (Cherry Red) [04-05] - space rock [B]
• Richard Hawley: In This City They Call You Love (BMG) [05-31] - singer-songwriter
• Koryn Hawthorne: On God (Provident) [02-09] - gospel
• Gemma Hayes: Blind Faith (Townsend) [ 09-27] - singer-songwriter
• Louis Hayes: Artform Revisited (Savant) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• David Hazeltine: Ballads and Blues Volume 1 (Cellar Music -EP) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• David Hazeltine: Ballads and Blues Volume 2 (Cellar Music -EP) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: Loophole (Modern Sky) [05-17] - folk-rock
• The Headhunters: The Stunt Man (Ropeadope) - jazz
• Paul Heaton: The Mighty Several (EMI) [10-11] - sophisti-pop [**]
• Heavee: Unleash (Hyperdub) [03-15] - footwork [B]
• The Heavy Heavy: One of a Kind (ATO) [09-06] - psychedelic pop
• Heems & Lapgan: Lafandar (Veena Sounds) [02-16] - hip-hop [A]
• Heems: Veena (Veena Sounds) [08-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular) - jazz [*]
• Tim Heidecker: Slipping Away (Bloodshot) [10-18] - alt-country [B]
• Aaron Yale Heisler: Zoot's Soprano EP [Alternate Takes and Remixes From the Bechet Century] (Bathurst Manor -EP) [03-27] - jazz [B]
• Alex Heitlinger Jazz Orchestra: Slush Pump Truck Stop (SteepleChase) [ 02-23] - jazz [B]
• Gilad Hekselman: Life, at the Village Vanguard (La Reserve) - jazz
• Helado Negro: Phasor (4AD) [02-09] - indietronica [**]
• Sylvanie Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent: Rare Birds ( Yolk) [09-13] - jazz
• Hellbutcher: Hellbutcher (Metal Blade) [05-31] - black metal
• Hello Mary: Emita Ox (Frenchkiss) [09-13] - indie rock
• Alden Hellmuth: Good Intentions (Fresh Sound New Talent) [09-08] - jazz [***]
• Hemlock: 444 () [10-11]
• Lauren Henderson: Sombras (Brontosaurus) [05-31] - vocal jazz
• Rich Henderson: Alive in Alabama () - country
• Catherine Christer Hennix: Further Selections From the Electric Harpsichord (Blank Forms) [10-25] - electronic
• Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time (ECM) [01-26] - jazz [*]
• Cory Henry: Church ()
• Jihee Heo: Flow (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Kenji Herbert: A Million Forests of the Fall (Unit) [11-22] - jazz
• Enrique Heredia Trio: Plays Herbie Nichols (Fresh Sound) [01-25] - jazz [***]
• Heriot: Devoured by the Mouth of Hell (Century Media) [09-27] - metalcore
• Hermanos Gutiérrez: Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound) [07-14] - Latin [A-]
• Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre: No Words Needed (Ovation) [05-24] - jazz
• Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening (ECM) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Jake Hertzog: Longing to Meet You (self-released) [06-01] - Jjazz [**]
• Monika Herzig's Sheroes: All in Good Time (Zoho) [07-22] - jazz [**]
• Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Elsa Hewitt: Chaos Emeralds (Tompkins Square) [04-12]
• Hex Girlfriend: No Golf Cart Parking (-EP) [11-24]
• Hey, Ily: Hey, I Loathe You! ()
• Haley Heynderickx: Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird) [11-01] - indie folk
• HHY and the Macumbas: Bom Sangue Mau (Horror Vector) [05-31] - electronic
• Hi! Capybaras: A/M/Y/G/D/A/L/A (self-released -EP) [01-02]
• Hiatus Kaiyote: Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder) [06-28] - neo soul
• Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora (Soft Launch) [09-06] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Lauran Hibberd: Girlfriend Material () [03-22]
• Hieroglyphic Being: Quadric Surfaces (Viernulvier) [02-16] - electronic [***]
• Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Daylight () [08-16]
• The High Llamas: Hey Panda (Drag City) [03-29] - glitch pop
• High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (MNRK) [04-19] - sludge metal [B]
• High Vis: Guided Tour (Dais) [10-18] - alt rock [*]
• Hildegard: Jour 1596 (Chivi Chivi) [10-18] - neo-soul
• Becky Hill: Believe Me Now? (Polydor) [05-31] - dance-pop
• Judith Hill: Letters From a Black Widow ()
• Marquis Hill Composers Collective: Beyond the Jukebox (Black Unlimited Music Group) [08-30] - jazz
• Paris Hilton: Infinite Icon ()
• Hinds: Viva Hinds (Lucky Number) [09-06] - indie pop [A-]
• Hippo Campus: Flood (Psychic Hotline) [09-20] - indie pop
• Art Hirahara: Good Company (Posi-Tone) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Steve Hirsh/Steve Swell/Jim Clouse/William Parker: Out on a Limb (Soul City Sounds) [09-06] - jazz [A-]
• His Lordship: His Lordship () [01-26] - garage house
• Hitam: Subterranean (Conundrum)
• Randy Hoexter: Tomorrowsville (Blue Canoe) - jazz
• Christopher Hoffman: Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Nils Hoffmann: Running in a Dream (Anjunabeats/Anjunadeep) [02-09]
• Tobias Hoffmann Trio: Start/Stop (Klaeng) [12-12] - jazz
• Jasper Høiby's 3 Elements: Like Water (Edition) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Robin Holcomb: One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies) [05-31] - jazz
• Sigurd Hole Ensemble: Extinction Sounds (Elvesang) - jazz
• Holiday Ghosts: Coat of Arms (FatCat)
• Holiday Sidedwinder: The Last Resort () [03-22] - indie pop
• Patrick Holland: Infra (Verdicchio Music Publishing) [01-10] - deep house
• John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Abby Holliday: Crack a Smile Come on Stay a While () [07-26]
• Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto) [06-14] - jazz [B]
• Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves (Domino) [03-22] - art pop [*]
• Holy Tongue & Shackleton: The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now (AD 93) [08-23] - dub
• Holy Wire: The Ending of an Age ()
• Home Counties: Exactly as It Seems (Submarine Cat) [05-03] - dance-punk [*]
• The Home Team: The Crucible of Life (Thriller) [07-12] - funk rock
• Homeboy Sandman: Rich II (self-released) [06-07] - hip-hop [**]
• Homeboy Sandman: Nor Can These Be Sold (At Least by Me) (self-released) [10-18] - hip-hop [**]
• Homecomings: See You, Frail Angel. Sea Adore You. (Irori)
• Homeshake: CD Wallet (Shhoamkee) [03-08] - slowcore
• Honeyglaze: Real Deal (Fat Possum) [09-20] - post-rock
• Trevor Horn: Echoes: Ancient and Modern ()
• Hyeseon Hong Jazz Orchestra: Things Will Pass (Pacific Coast Jazz) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Hooverphonic: Fake Is the New Dope (Sony) [03-22]
• Jon Hopkins: Ritual (Domino) [08-30] - ambient
• Jazzmeia Horn: Messages (Empress Legacy) [10-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Maria W Horn: Panoptikon (XKatedral)
• Horse Jumper of Love: Disaster Trick (Run for Cover) [08-16] - slowcore
• Horsemeat: Embrace the Abyss (self-released) [11-22]
• Hot Club of San Francisco: Original Gadjo (Hot Club) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• The Hot Damn!: Dancing on the Milky Way () [09-27]
• François Houle/Kate Gentile/Alexander Hawkins: Fatrasies (Victo) [05-10] - jazz
• Hour: Ease the Work (Dear Life) [04-12] - chamber folk
• House of All: Continuum (Tiny Global) [04-02] - post-punk
• Houses of Heaven: Within/Without (Felte) [04-26]
• Chris Housman: Blueneck ()
• Luc Houtkamp: Frush (FMR) - jazz
• Hovvdy: Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts) [04-26] - alt/indie [*]
• Brittany Howard: What Now (Island) [02-09] - psychedelic soul [**]
• Vincent Hsu & the Jazz Supreme Orchestra: Music for the River Jazz Suite: The Spirit of Love River and Mississippi River (Truth Revolution) [10-23] - jazz
• Nathan Hubbard/Kyle Motl: Obsidian (Confront) [11-04] - jazz
• Tyler Hubbard: Strong () - country
• Hubbub: abb abb abb (Relative Pitch) [08-02] - jazz [**]
• Fernando Huergo Big Band: Relentless (Whaling City Sound) [04-19] - jazz
• Fana Hues: Moth ()
• Hulder: Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin) [02-09] - black metal
• Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig [Helveticus]: Our Way (Blaser Music) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• Human Error: Human Error (Astral Spirits) [11-22] - jazz
• Humanist: On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World (Bella Union) [07-26] - alt/indie
• Humbird: Right On ()
• Humdrum: Every Heaven ( Slumberland)
• Taylor Hunnicutt: Alabama Sound () - country
• Ian Hunter: Defiance Part 2: Fiction (Sun) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Nailah Hunter: Lovegaze (Fat Possum) [01-12] - art pop
• Huntsmen: The Dry Land (Prosthetic) [06-07] - post-metal
• Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch) [02-24] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Christian Lee Hutson: Paradise Pop. 10 (Anti-) [09-27] - singer-songwriter
• Anja Huwe: Codes (Sacred Bones) [03-08] - gothic rock
• Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound) [09-15] - jazz [A-]
• Hyper Gal: After Image (Skin Graft) [09-13]
• Hyukoh and Sunset Rollercoaster: AAA ()
• I Am Three: In Other Words (Leo) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• I Dont Know How but They Found Me: Gloom Division (Concord) [02-23] - new wave
• Ibaaku: Joola Jazz (Blanc Manioc)
• Susie Ibarra/Jeffrey Zeigler/Graham Reynolds: Insectum (Golden Hornet) - jazz [**]
• Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope (Merge) [05-03] - African [**]
• Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox) [01-12] - jazz [*]
• Ice Spice: Y2K! (10K/Capitol/Dolo) [ 07-26] - hip-hop [***]
• Shawneci Icecold/Vernon Reid/Matthew Garrison & Grant Calvin Weston: Future Prime (Underground45) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Idaho: Lapse (Arts & Crafts) [05-31] - indie rock
• Joshua Idehen: Mum Does the Washing (Big Wednesday -EP) [11-08] - house
• Idles: Tangk (Partisan) [02-16] - art punk [**]
• Iglooghost: Tidal Memory Exo (LuckyMe) [05-10] - electronic
• Ihsahn: Ihsahn (Candlelilght) [02-16] - metal
• Jun Iida: Evergreen (OA2) [01-19] - jazz
• Il Sogno Del Marinaio: Terzo (Improved Sequence)
• Ill Considered: Precipice (New Soil) [03-22] - jazz [***]
• Ill Considered: Infrared (New Soil) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Ill Considered: Live at Eye Film Museum (New Soil) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Ill Considered & Rob Lewis: Emergence (New Soil) [10-31] - jazz [**]
• Ill Considered: UnEvensong (New Soil) [12-06] - jazz [***]
• Illuminati Hotties: Power (Hopeless) [ 08-23] - twee pop [**]
• Immortal Bird: Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin) - metal
• Imperial Valley: IV (Folded Time)
• Asha Imuno: Pins & Needles ()
• Indian Man: Gran's House (Real World X)
• Inert: 2Inert (self-released) [07-09] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Infant Island: Obsidian Wreath (Secret Voice) [01-12] - metal
• Infinite River: Tabula Rasa ()
• Infinity Song: Metamorphosis Complete (Roc Nation) [06-14] - soft rock
• Randy Ingram: Aries Dance (Sounderscore) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Mikko Innanen Autonomous: Hietsu (Fiasko) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• The Innocence Mission: Midwinter Swimmers (Bella Union/Thérèse)
• Inter Arma: New Heaven (Relapse) [04-26] - metal
• Ionnalee: Blund ()
• Ionnalee: Close Your Eyes ()
• Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) [01-23] - jazz [***]
• Jon Irabagon: Survivalism (Irabbagast) [01-23] - jazz [*]
• Jon Irabagon Trio + One: Dinner & Dancing (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [***]
• Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3 Part 2: Exuberant Scars (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [**]
• Iress: Sleep Now, in Reverse (Church Road) [07-26] - doomgaze
• Iris Trio [Florian Hoefner]: Project Earth: The Blue Chapter (Centrediscs) - jazz
• Iron & Wine: Light Verse (Sub Pop) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Brandon Isaac: Another Level of Existence: Mastery of Acceptance (self-released) [05-27] - hip-hop
• Jason Isbell: Live From the Ryman Vol. 2 (Southeastern) [10-04] - country-rock
• Eiko Ishibashi: Evil Does Not Exist (Drag City) [06-28] - soundtrack
• Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 1 (577) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Isoknock: 4EVR ()
• Itasca: Imitation of War (Paradise of Bachelors) [02-09] - singer-songwriter
• IU: The Winning (Edam -EP) [02-20] - K-pop
• Ive: Ive Switch (Starship Entertainment -EP) [04-29] - K-pop [A-]
• Bon Iver: Sable, (Jagjaguwar -EP) [10-18] - singer-songwriter
• Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) [01-19] - jazz [*]
• Iyamah: In Two Worlds (self-released) [04-05] - soul
• Vijay Iyer: Compassion (ECM) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• Ize Trio: The Global Suites (self-released) [08-02] - jazz [*]
• J.P.: Coming Out Party () [06-07]
• J.R.C.G.: Grim Iconic . . . (Sadistic Mantra) (Sub Pop) [08-02] - art pu nk
• J.U.S X Squadda B: 3rd Shift (Bruiser Brigade) [08-06] - hip-hop [***]
• Nicolás Jaar: Archivos de Radio Piedras [Piedras 1/2] (Other People) [ 04-27] - ambient
• Jack J: Blue Desert (Mood Hut) [11-01] - soft rock
• Javon Jackson/Nikki Giovanni: Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) [08-23] - jazz [A-]
• Keefe Jackson/Raoul van der Weide/Frank Rosaly: Live at de Tanker (Kettle Hole) [08-04] - jazz [***]
• Laird Jackson: Life (self-released) - vocal jazz [*]
• Francis Jacob: The Three Blind Mice (Sunnyside) [11-29] - jazz
• Eric Jacobson: Heading Home (Origin) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Jade Hairpins: Get Me the Good Stuff (Merge)
• Jahari Massamba Unit: YHWM Is Love (Law of Rhythm) [03-01] - hip-hop
• Arushi Jain: Delight (Leaving) [03-29] - electronic [B-]
• Jarien Jamanila: Jarien Plays Jamanila (Jamanila) [11-11] - jazz
• James: Yummy (Virgin/Nothing but Love Music) [04-12] - pop-rock
• Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Penalty of Leadership () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Boldy James/Conductor Williams: Across the Tracks (Near Mint) [06-28] - hip-hop [**]
• Boldy James & Harry Fraud: The Briktionary (SRFSCHL) [11-22] - hip-hop
• Colin James: Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain) [08-23] - blues [B]
• Joe James: Beast Living () [10-25]
• José James: 1978 (Rainbow Blonde) [04-05] - vocal jazz
• Janel & Anthony: New Moon in the Evil Age (Cuneiform) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Arne Jansen/Anders Jormin/Uwe Steinmetz: The Pilgrimage (Traumton) [11-15] - jazz
• Janine Jansen/Klaus Mäkelä/Oslo Philharmonic: Sibelius/Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (Decca) [06-07] - classical
• Sebastiaan Janssen/Hubert Kostkiewicz/Ken Vandermark/Marta Warelis: Koniec (Audiographic) [04-05] - jazz
• Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol (Anti-) [10-18] - indie rock
• Dora Jar: No Way to Relax When You Are on Fire (Island) [09-13] - indie pop
• Bryony Jarman-Pinto: Below Dawn (Tru Thoughts) [05-10] - neo-soul
• Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers (Rounder) [01-26] - Americana [**]
• Ben Jarrell: A Country Song () - country
• Paul Jarret: Acoustic Large Ensemble (Pegazz & l'Hélicon) [09-06] - jazz
• Jaubi: A Sound Heart () [09-06] - jazz
• Jawnino: 40 (True Panther) [05-03] - UK hip-hop
• Jaws the Shark: Wasteland (So) [07-19]
• Jax: Dear Joe, (Atlantic) [06-28] - pop [A-]
• Jazz at the Ballroom [Champian Fulton]: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared (Jazz at the Ballroom/Cellar Music) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• The Jazz Defenders: Memory in Motion (Haggis) [04-19] - jazz
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson: Freedom, Justice, and Hope (Blue Engine) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: The Music of Max Roach (Blue Engine) [08-30] - jazz [*]
• Jazz Ensemble of Memphis: Playing in the Yard (Memphis International) [04-05] - jazz [*]
• The Jazz Passengers: Big Large: In Memory of Curtis Fowlkes (FOOD) [05-10] - jazz [***]
• Philip Jeck: Rpm (Touch)
• Luizinho do Jêje/Marcelo Galter/Sylvio Fraga: Mocofaia ()
• Jelly Roll: Beautifully Broken (Stoney Creek/Republic) [10-11] - country
• Cassandra Jenkins: My LIght, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans) [07-12] - sophisti-pop [*]
• Chris Jennings & 5 Ways Home: Boy, She's the Dandy (Eden River) [08-30] - jazz
• Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Harbour (Justin Time) [08-13] - jazz [*]
• Mathias Højgaard Jensen: Is as Is (Fresh Sound New Talent) [05-31] - jazz [A-]
• Joel Jeschke: Time & Place (self-released) - jazz
• The Jesus and Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club) [03-08] - noise pop [**]
• The Jesus Lizard: Rack (Ipecac) [09-13] - noise rock
• Jimin: Muse (Big Hit/HYBE) [07-19] - K-pop
• Kenneth Jimenez: Sonnet to Silence (We Jazz -23) [2023-11-17] - jazz
• JIN: Happy (Big Hit/HYBE -EP) [11-15] - K-pop
• Cody Jinks: Change the Game () - country
• Cody Jinks: Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell (Late August) [12-06] - country [*]
• Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Jlin: Akoma (Planet Mu) [03-22] - electronic [***]
• Jlovely: Joyce Bailey () [06-30] - hip-hop
• Nathalie Joachim: Ki Moun Ou Ye (Nonesuch) [02-16] - art pop
• Joaju Cuarteto: Avy' a Jave (Polka Blue) [05-30] - jazz [**]
• Joan as Police Woman: Lemons, Limes and Orchids (PIAS) [09-20] - art pop
• Job for a Cowboy: Moon Healer (Metal Blade) [02-23] - metal
• Peter Alexander Jobson: Burn the Ration Books of Love (self-released) [11-15]
• Joel and the Neverending Sextet: Marbled (Motvind) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Colin Johnco: Crabe Géant (Johnkôôl)
• Johnny Blue Skies [Sturgill Simpson]: Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain) [07-12] - country [**]
• Daryl Johns: Daryl Johns ()
• Addison Johnson: Dangerous Men () - country
• Chuck Johnson: Sun Glories (Western Vinyl) [08-16] - ambient
• Jamey Johnson: Midngith Gasoline () - country
• Josh Johnson: Unusual Object (Northern Spy) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Lucien Johnson: Ancient Relics ( Deluge) - jazz
• Russ Johnson/Tim Daisy/Max Johnson: Live at the Hungry Brain (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns (self-released) [08-30] - jazz [B]
• Keri Johnsrud/Shawn Maxwell: C8H10N402 (self-released) - jazz
• Jonás/Diego Raposo: Buena Vida, Mala Fama ()
• Karen Jonas: The Rise and Fall of American Kitsch (self-released) [08-08] - country [*]
• Caleb Landry Jones: Hey Gary, Hey Dawn (Sacred Bones) [04-05]
• Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Fergus Jones: Ephemera (Numero Group) [10-18] - ambient dub
• Kelly Jones: Inevitable Incredible (Ignition) [05-03] - singer-songwriter
• Norah Jones: Visions (Blue Note) [03-08] - vocal jazz [*]
• Danny Jonokuchi Big Band: A Decade (Bandstand Presents) [08-23] - jazz [*]
• Hyelyn Joo: Cool ()
• I. Jordan: I Am Jordan (Ninja Tune) [05-10] - electronic [*]
• Sheila Jordan: En La Fundación Valparaiso (Clasijazz) [02-15] - vocal jazz [***]
• Jordana: Lively Premonition (Grand Jury) [10-18] - bedroom pop
• Joyer: Night Songs (Hit the North) [04-26] - slowcore
• The Joymakers: Down Where the Bluebonnets Grow (Turtle Bay) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Simon Joyner: Coyote Butterfly ()
• Alvina Jöz: Jöz (Cinemo -23) [2023-09-22] - jazz
• JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (AWAL) [08-01] - hip-hop [*]
• JT: City Cinderella ()
• Hannah Juanita: Tennessee Songbird () - country
• Judas Priest: Invincible Shield (Columbia) [03-08] - metal [*]
• Judeline: Bodihira ()
• Juicy J: Ravenite Social Club ()
• Julia-Sophie: Forgive Too Slow (Ba Da Bing!) [07-26] - art pop
• Julie: My Anti-Aircraft Friend (Atlantic) [09-13] - shoegaze [*]
• Larry June: Doing It for Me ()
• Juniore: Trois, Deux, Un () [09-13]
• Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall: Fanfares & Freedom (Discus) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Justice: Hyperdrama (Ed Banger/Because Music) [04-26] - electronic [B]
• Ka: The Thief Next to Jesus (Iron Works) [08-19] - hip-hop [**]
• Kaboom Karavan: Fiasko! (Miasmah)
• Elly Kace: If I Ask Enough Could You Love Me ()
• Kagami Smile.: Same Dream Pond () [03-06]
• Kahfa: Le Poison et La Reine (Argonauta)
• Kai Tak: Designed in Heaven Made in Hong Kong () [06-21]
• Eddie Kaine & Big Ghost Ltd;: Last Exit to Crooklyn () [04-02] - hiop-hop
• Goran Kajfeš Tropiques: Tell Us (We Jazz) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Jerry Kalaf: Safe Travels (self-released) [10-17] - jazz [B]
• Kalandra: A Frame of Mind (Norse Music) [09-13] - art rock
• Ariel Kalma/Jeremiah Chiu/Marta Sofia Honer: The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Sara & Ayako Kanda: Fujin/Raijin (Nomart Editions) [03-20] - jazz
• Ute Kanngießer/Eddie Prévost/Seymour Wright: Splendid Nettle (Matchless) - jazz
• Kanonenfieber: Die Urkatastrophe (Century Media) [09-20] - metal
• Kaonashi: The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery ()
• Benji Kaplan: Untold Stories (self-released) [05-01] - jazz [*]
• Pandelis Karayorgis/George Kokkinaris: Out From Athens (Driff) [05-20] - jazz [**]
• Jaz Karis: Safe Flight (MNRK) [09-20] - r&b
• Kirke Karja/Étienne Renard/Ludwig Wandinger: Caught in My Own Trap (BMC) [02-16] - jazz
• Karkara: All Is Dust ()
• Karl Bartos: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Tapete) [02-09] - soundtrack
• Mikailo Kasha: Bloom (self-released) [12-06] - jazz
• Kasokeki-toki: Kasokeki-toki (Relativa) - jazz
• Kasabian: Happenings (Sony UK) [07-05] - dance-punk
• Ras Kass/RJ Payne/Havoc: Guttr () [05-03] - hip-hop
• Kassian: Supercontinent (-EP) [05-24] - deep house
• Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine (Free Dirt) [05-17] - folk
• Philippe Katerine: Zouzou (Cinq 7/Wagram Music) [11-08]
• Kati Rán: Sála (Svart) [05-24] - metal
• Katseye: SIS (Soft Is Strong) (HYBE/Geffen -EP) [08-16] - dance-pop
• Zlatko Kaucic: Zlatko Kaucic@70: Inklings (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Alex Kautz: Where We Begin (Sunnyside) [07-05] - jazz [*]
• Kaytranada: Timeless (RCA) [06-07] - alt-r&b [***]
• Makoto Kawashima: Zoe (Black Editions) - jazz
• Kaze: Unwritten (Circum/Libra) [02-09] - jazz [***]
• Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Music Is Connection (Alternate Side) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Ryan Keberle : Bright Moments (Posi-Tone) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• Ryan Keberle/Reverso: Shooting Star/Étoile Filante () - jazz
• Charlotte Keeffe Right Here, Right Now Quartet: Alive! in the Studio (Discus Music -23) [2023-09-22] - jazz
• Keeley: Beautiful Mysterious () [10-18]
• Geoffrey Keezer: Live at Birdland (MarKeez) [08-16] - jazz
• Kehlani: Crash (Atlantic) [06-21] - r&b [**]
• Kehlani: While We Wait 2 (Atlantic) [08-28] - r&b [**]
• Jason Keiser: Kind of Kenny (OA2) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Kelela: Rave:n, the Remixes ()
• Roger Kellaway: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) [05-17] - jazz [*]
• Simone Keller: Hidden Heartache (Intakt) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Grace Kelly With Strings: At the Movies (PAZZ Productions) [03-01] - jazz
• Julie Kelly: Freedom Jazz Dance (Laurelwood) [02-08] - jazz
• Paul Kelly: Fever Longing Still (Cooking Vinyl) [11-01] - singer-songwriter
• Tori Kelly: Tori. (Epic) [04-05] - r&b
• Tyler-James Kelly: Dream River () - country
• Walter Kemp 3: Black Whole Live (self-released) [01-26] - jazz
• Paul Kendall: My Shining Hour (Zoho) - jazz
• Dom Kennedy: Class of 95 ()
• Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go (Napalm) [10-11] - hard rock
• Joose Keskitalo & the Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo: Tähdet Palaavat Paikoilleen () [10-04] -
• Alex Key: Outdated () - country
• Rae Khalil: Crybaby () [08-04]
• Khruangbin: A La Sala (Dead Oceans) [04-05] - neo-psychedelia [**]
• Kiasmos: II (Erased Tapes) [07-05] - microhouse
• Kid Bookie: Songs for the Living // Songs for the Dead () [09-13]
• Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds: That Delicious Vice (In the Red) [04-19] - garage rock
• Kid Cudi: Insano () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Kid Kapichi: There Goes the Neighbourhood (Spinefarm) [03-15] - dance-punk
• Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: New Monuments (We Jazz) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Kids in Glass Houses: Pink Flamingo (Family Recipe) [10-25] - pop punk
• Kiefer: Something for Real (Stones Throw) [05-10] - jazz
• Sean Kiely: Postcards of the Reckoning ()
• Rebecca Kilgore: A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg (Cherry Pie Music) [10-28] - vocal jazz [***]
• Kill the Thrill: Autophagie (Season of Mist) - metal
• Killah Priest: Abraxas Rebis Simha Pleroma () [09-18] - hip-hop
• Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints (Loma Vista) - hip-hop
• Laryssa Kim: Contezza (City Tracks) [02-16] - art pop
• Sunik Kim: Tears of Rage (Rope Editions)
• Will Kimbrough: For the Life of Me (Soundly Music) [05-03] - folk
• Izumi Kimura/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Słuchaj) [04-01] - jazz [***]
• Elizabeth King: Soul Provider (Bible & Tire) [04-12] - gospel
• Kerry King: From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix) [05-17] - metal
• Marcus King: Mood Swings (Republic) [04-05] - neo-soul
• Randall King: Into the Neon () - country
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 (P(doom)) [08-09] - boogie rock
• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Live in Chicago '24 ()
• King Hannah: Big Swimmer (City Slang) [05-31] - alt/indie
• King Stingray: For the Dreams (Civilians)
• Kings of Leon: Can We Please Have Fun (LoveTap/Capitol) [05-10] - garage rock
• King of Pigs: After Victory Comes Defeat () [04-17]
• Kinkajous: Nothing Will Disappear (Running Circle) [10-18] - jazz
• Cassie Kinoshi's Seed.: Gratitude (International Anthem) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse: Broken Aquarium/The Viscosity (Astral Spirits) [10-11] - jazz
• Sarah Kinsley: Escaper (Verve Forecast) [09-06] - indie pop
• Kip & JJ Loui: Breadface EP (Kaplooey) [06-19] - singer-songwriter
• Kira Kira: Kira Kira Live (Alister Spence Music) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry (Anti-) [01-26] - indie folk [**]
• Maddy Kirgo: Shadow on My Light ()
• Snorre Kirk: What a Day! (Stunt) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Lola Kirke: Country Curious (One Riot -EP) [04-20] - country [*]
• Neal Kirkwood Big Band: Night City (Brooklyn Jazz Underground) [02-23] - jazz
• Kittie: Fire () - metal
• Anni Kiviniemi Trio: Eir (We Jazz) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes (Polydor) [11-15]
• Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms: Gold in Your Pocket () - country
• Paul Kleber: Little Home (Xjazz) [05-31] - jazz
• Klein: Marked (Parkwood Entertainment) [ 07-24]
• Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Maria Warelis: Tendresse (Relative Pitch) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Guy Klucevsek/Volker Goetze: Little Big Top (Motéma) [11-08] - jazz
• KMRU: Natur (Touch)
• Kneecap: Fine Art (Heavenly) [06-14] - hip-hop [A-]
• Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (Pure Noise) [05-10] - metalcore [B]
• Mark Knopfler: One Deep River (British Grove/EMI) [04-12]
• Davey Knowles: Invisible Man ()
• Julien Knowles: As Many, as One (Biophilia) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Kirk Knuffke: Super Blonde (SteepleChase) [09-20] - jazz [A-]
• Lia Kohl: Normal Sounds (Moon Glyph) [08-30] - sound collage
• Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) [06-07] - jazz [A-]
• Kokoko!: Butu (Transgressive) - African
• Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens: Mozart: Overtures (BIS) - classical
• Kolumbo: Sandy Legs ()
• Ben Kono Group: Voyages (self-released) - jazz
• Kontact: Full Contact (Dyuing Victims Productions)
• Abena Koomson-Davis: Where Is Love (WJ3) [02-16] - jazz
• Cliff Korman Trio: Urban Tracks (SS) [12-06] - jazz [*]
• Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English: Selene (Temporary Residence) [05-31] - ambient
• Krallice: Ingorganic Rites (self-released) [06-28] - black metal
• Lenny Kravitz: Blue Electric Light (BMG) [05-24] - funk rock
• Kreidler: Twists: A Visitor Arrives (Bureau B)
• Allegra Krieger: Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine (Double Double Whammy) [09-13] - singer-songwriter
• Kriegshög: Love & Revenge (La Vida Es Un Mus)
• Anastasia Kristensen: Moments of Inertia (Turbo)
• KRM & KMRU: Disconnect (Phantom Limb) [06-14] - dark ambient
• Marie Krüttli Trio: Scoria (Intakt) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Kruz Leone: Big Slide Tackle: 2 Footed () [11-07] - UK hip-hop
• Joachim Kühn French Trio: The Way (ACT Music) [09-27] - jazz
• Rolf Kühn: Fearless (MPS) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Kula Shaker: Natural Magick ()
• Kurious [& Mono En Stereo]: Majician (Metalface) [10-18] - hip-hop
• Kurvi Tasch: On Firm Ground ()
• Seun Kuti: Heavier Yet Lays the Crownless Head (Record Kicks) - Afrobeat
• KVB: Tremors (Invada) [04-05] - darkwave
• Talib Kweli & J. Rawls: The Confidence of Knowing () [09-13] - hip-hop
• Kwengface: A Gangster's Holiday (self-released) [11-05] - hip-hop
• Jim Kweskin: Never Too Late: Duets With Friends (Storysound) [01-26] - folk [***]
• Kyle: Smyle Again (Independently Popular/APG) [03-08] - hip-hop
• Anysia Kym: Truest (10k -EP) [03-21] - hip-hop [*]
• Kynsy: Utopia (Nice Swan)
• L'Impératrice: Pulsar (Microqlima) [06-07]
• La Comitiva/Erlend Øye: La Comitiva ()
• La Cozna: Ni Nuit, Ni Jour (Raffut Collectif) [08-23] - jazz
• La Doña: Los Altos De La Soledad () - Latin
• La Femme: Rock Machine (Disque Pointu) [10-11] - synthpop
• La Luz: News of the Universe (Sub Pop) [05-24] - neo-psychedelia
• Lava La Rue: Starface (Dirty Hit) [07-19] - alt-pop
• Lady Blackbird: Slang Spirituals (Foundation Music Productions/BMG) [09-13] - soul [***]
• Lady Gaga: Harlequin (Interscope) [09-27] - jazz? [*]
• Pokey LaFarge: Rhumba Country ()
• Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Brent Laidler: Hidden Gems (self-released) - jazz
• Laila!: Gap Year (IIIXL) [09-06] - alt-r&b
• Lake J: Dizzy ()
• Lake Street Dive: Good Together (Fantasy) [06-21] - pop soul
• Lala &ce: Solstice (Columbia) [02-02]
• Kendrick Lamar: GNX (PGLang/Interscope) [11-22] - hip-hop [***]
• Miranda Lambert: Postcards From Texas (Republic Nashville) [09-13] - country [A-]
• Liz Lamere: One Never Knows (In the Red)
• Ray LaMontagne: Long Way Home (Liula) [ 08-16] - singer-songwriter
• Lamplight: Lamplight ()
• Dawn Landes: The Liberated Woman's Songbook (Fun Machine Music) [03-29] - folk [*]
• Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Sara Landry: Spiritual Driveby ()
• Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners: Where It Really Starts (Tiny Global Productions) [03-08] - alt-country [**]
• Ella Langley: Hungover (Sawgod/Columbia) [08-02] - country [**]
• Lankum: Live in Dublin ()
• Lapsed Pacifist: Hypatia (A Strangely Isolated Place) [04-12] - ambient
• LaRussell & Hit-Boy: Rent Due (Good Company -EP) [02-23] - hip-hop
• LaRussell & P-Lo: Majorly Independent (Good Compenny) [07-07] - hip-hop
• Emiliano Lasansky: The Optimist (Outside In Music) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Zara Larsson: Venus ()
• Harald Lassen: Opplevelser Fra N (Impro & Låt) (Jazzland) - jazz
• Timo Lassy & Jaukka Eskola: Nordic Stew (Dox) [02-23] - jazz
• The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (Island) [02-02] - baroque pop [*]
• Last Word Quintet: Falling to Earth (Origin) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Latin Mafia: Todos Los Días Todo El Día (Rimas) [10-24] - Latin
• Maude Latour: Sugar Water (Warner) [08-16] - electropop
• Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements: Rain on the Road (Thrill Jockey)
• Latto: Sugar Honey Iced Tea (Streamcut/RCA) [08-09] - hip-hop [***]
• Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Brink (Intakt) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• Jim Lauderdale: My Favorite Place (Sky Crunch) [06-21] - country
• Bill Laurance/The Untold Orchestra: Bloom (ACT Music) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Bill Laurance & Michael League: Keeping Company (ACT Music) [11-01] - jazz
• Laurel: Palpitations ()
• Matt Lavelle & the 12 Houses: The Crop Circles Suite Part One (Mahakala Music) [04-11] - jazz [***]
• Andy Laverne: Spot On (SteepleChase) [02-22] - jazz [**]
• Liz Lawrence: Peanuts (Chrysalis)
• A Lazarus Soul: No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens () [07-05]
• LDL [Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Thomas Lehn]: In the Endless Wind (Wide Ear) [04-27] - jazz
• Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio (SoundSpore) [03-16] - jazz [B]
• Joëlle Léandre/Pascal Contet: Miniatures (Trost) [02-23] - jazz
• Joëlle Léandre/Elisabeth Harnik/Zlatko Kaučič: Live in St. Johann (Funcadja Słuchaj) [05-14] - jazz
• Joëlle Léandre: Lifetime Rebel (RogueArt -4CD) [07-15] - jazz
• Jeff Lederer: Guilty!!! (Little (i) Music) [10-07] - jazz [**]
• Ledisi: Good Life (BMG) [02-03] - r&b
• Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet + Gospel Choir: Wonderful! (Cellar Music Group) [02-16] - jazz
• Mike LeDonne/Eric Alexander [Heavy Hitters]: That's What's Up! (Cellar Music) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• AJ Lee and Blues Summit: City of Glass ()
• Amos Lee: Transmissions ()
• Chow Lee: Sex Drive (TC Music) [09-06] - hip-hop
• Ellie Lee: Escape (Sori-E Naite Music) [05-24] - jazz [***]
• Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Peggy Lee/Julien Wilson/Theo Carbo/Dylan van der Schyff: Open Thread (Earshift Music) [09-10] - jazz [***]
• Sam Lee: Songdreaming (Cooking Vinyl) [03-15] - folk
• Oisin Leech: Cold Sea () [03-08] - indie folk
• Legendary Singing Stars: Good Old Way (Music Maker Foundation) - blues
• Chandler Leighton: Proof You Weren't the Only One (Boom) [04-26]
• Lemadi Trio: Canonical Discourse (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [**]
• Merce Lemon: Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (Darling) [09-27] - alt-country [*]
• The Lemon Twigs: A Dream Is All We Know (Captured Tracks) [05-03] - alt/indie [B-]
• Les Hommes: Si, Cosi (Sudden Hunger) - jazz
• Ravyn Lenae: Bird's Eye (Atlantic) [08-09] - r&b [**]
• José Lencastre/Zbigniew Kozera/Vasco Trilla: Chymeia (Phonogram Unit) [02-02] - jazz
• MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks (Anti-) [09-06] - country rock [***]
• Adrianne Lenker: I Won't Let Go of Your Hand (-EP) [03-11]
• Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Sean Ono Lennon: Asterisms (Tzadik) [02-01] - jazz
• Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GambsART) [11-08] - jazz [B]
• Carin León: Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 () [05-30] - sierreño
• David Leon: Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Nick León & Coral Morphologic: Projections of a Coral City () [04-05] - ambient
• Kiran Leonard: Real Home (Memorials of Distinction) [04-17] - pop
• Leonce: System of Objects (Morph Tracks) [04-05] - tech house
• Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Leprous: Melodies of Atonement (Inside Out) [08-30] - prog metal
• Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse (Real World) [02-16] - African [***]
• Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF (Frenchkiss) [05-10] - post-punk [**]
• Lescop: Rêve Parti (Labréa Music/Turenne Music) [02-02] - French synthpop
• Omer Leshem: Play Space (Ubuntu Music) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Mica Levi: Slob Air ()
• Andres Levin: Regreso a Gondwana (Tribe Caribe) - Latin jazz
• Levitation Room: Strange Weather ()
• Yosef Gutman Levitt and Peter Broderick: River of Eden (Soul Song) - jazz
• Yosef Gutman Levitt and Itay Sher: Unity (Soul Song) - jazz
• Yosef Gutman Levitt and Gilad Hekselman: Why Ten? (Soul Song) - jazz
• Allegra Levy: Out of the Question (SteepleChase) [05-20] - vocal jazz
• Cassandra Lewis: Lost in a Dream (Elektra) - country
• Donna Lewis & Holmes Ives: Rooms With a View () [04-26]
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration (Intakt) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Jeffrey Lewis: Ghosterbusters (self-released -EP) - anti-folk [**]
• Molly Lewis: On the Lips (Jagjaguwar) [02-16] [*]
• Lex Amor: Forward Ever. (Modern Oak) [10-04]
• Luna Li: When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life) [08-23] - soft rock
• Casimir Liberski/Tatsuya Yoshida: Troubled Water (Totalism) [03-21] - jazz
• The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (Casablanca/Republic) [04-05] - alt/indie [B]
• Alan Licht: Havens (VDSQ)
• David Liebman & the CNY Jazz Orchestra: If a White Horse From Jerusalem . . . (CNY Jazz Arts Foundation) [08-10] - jazz [**]
• Lil Tecca: Plan A (Galactic/Republic) [09-20] - pop rap
• Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake 2 (Atlantic) [11-01] - trap
• Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Études (Decca) [04-19] - classical
• Lime Garden: One More Thing (So Young) [02-16] - indie rock
• The Linda Lindas: No Obligation (Epitaph) [10-11] - alt/indie [**]
• Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley: The Butterfly Effect (ACT Music) [03-29] - jazz [B]
• Klas Lindquist: Handle With Care (Yellow Car) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Linkin Park: From Zero (Machine Shop/Warner) [11-15] - nu metal
• Lip Critic: Hex Dealer (Partisan) [05-17] - synth punk
• Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism (Warner) [05-03] - dance-pop [A-]
• Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (self-released) [02-02] - alt/indie [**]
• Lisha G & Trini Viv: Groovy Steppin Sh*t (Open Shift Distribution) [10-18] - trap
• Little Feat: Sam's Place (Hot Tomato) [05-17] - blues-rock
• Little Kid: A Million Easy Payments ()
• Little Man Tate: Welcome to the Rest of Your Life (Best of Three) [02-23]
• Little Simz: Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals -EP) [02-09] - UK hip-hop [**]
• Little Wings: High on the Glade ()
• Liv.e: Past Futur.e (self-released) [03-29] - darkwave
• Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson: Closing Time (OA2) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Lizzie No: Halfsies (Miss Freedomland/Thirty Tigers) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [**]
• LL Cool J: The Force (Def Jam) [09-06] - hip-hop [A-]
• Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) [03-15] - jazz [A-]
• Jon Lloyd/John Law: Naissance (33 Jazz) - jazz
• Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
• Tove Lo & S.G. Lewis: Heat EP ()
• Rosemary Loar: Vagabond Heart/Curação Vagabundo (Atlor Music) [07-18] - vocal jazz [***]
• Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: Tilietulum (Solo Version) (We Insist!) [12-21] - jazz
• Mark Lockheart: Smiling (Edition) [03-29] - jazz
• Locksmith: No Atheists in Foxholes (Landmark Entertainment) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Loe Shimmy: Zombieland 2 () [03-22] - hip-hop
• The Bruce Lofgren Group: Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird) [06-01] - jazz [B]
• Julia Logan: Faraway Nearby ()
• Logic: Ultra 85 (Three Oh One/BMG) [08-09] - hip-hop
• Logic1000: Mother (Because Music) [03-22] - deep house
• Loidis: One Day (Incienso) [08-02] - dub techno [***]
• Lollise: I Hit the Water (Switch Hit) [09-06] - afrobeats [**]
• LØLØ: Fallilng for Robots & Wishing I Was One (Hopeless) [06-07] - pop punk
• Loma: How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop) [06-28] - art pop
• Frank London/The Elders: Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron: The French Album (Orchid Classics) [06-28] - choral
• London Grammar: The Greatest Love (Ministry of Sound) [09-13] - alt-pop
• Jake Long: City Swamp (New Soil) [05-17] - jazz fusion
• Muni Long: Revenge ()
• Loose Articles: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (Alcopop!) [07-26] - indie rock
• Gili Lopes: Algures (self-released) [01-12] - jazz
• Luis Lopes: Dark Narcissus: Stereo Guitar Solo (Shhpuma) [09-19] - jazz [**]
• Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet: Saarbrücken (Clean Feed) [12-05] - jazz [A-]
• Carme López: Quintela (Warm Winters)
• Jennifer Lopez: This Is Me . . . Now () [02-16]
• David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 4 (BIG EGO) [12-06] - jazz [*]
• Lord Spikeheart: The Adept (Hækalu) [04-19] - metal
• Lord$: Speed It Up () [04-26]
• Alex LoRe: Motivity (Weirdear) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Los Angeles Philharmonic: John Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Nonesuch) [04-26] - opera
• Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel/Maria Dueñas/Los Angeles Master Chorale: Gabriela Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina () [06-07] - modern classical
• Los Bitchos: Talkie Talkie (City Slang) [08-30] - neo-psychedelia
• Los Campesinos!: All Hell (Heart Swells) [07-19] - indie rock [*]
• Los Rarxs: Fruta Prohibida ()
• Lotus Crash: Lotus Crash [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [11-15] - jazz
• Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland: United (Edition) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Loukeman: Sd-2 (SD Music Group) [01-11] - outsider house
• Love Fiend: Handle With Care (In the Red) [07-12]
• The Loveless: Meet the Loveless (Cadiz Music) [01-19] - garage rock
• The Lovely Eggs: Eggsistentialism (Egg) [05-17] - garage rock
• Loving: Any Light ()
• Low Cut Connie: Connie Live (Contender) [11-01] - rock [*]
• Low End Activist: Municipal Dreams (Sneaker Social Club) [10-18] - dubstep
• The Lowdown Drifters: In Time () - country
• Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1 (ESP-Disk -2CD) [09-03] - jazz [A-]
• Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 2 (ESP-Disk -2CD) [09-03] - jazz [A]
• Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets: Indoor Safari (Yep Roc) [09-13] - pub rock [*]
• Rosie Lowe: Lover, Other (Blue Flowers Music) [08-16] - alt-r&b
• Lowen: Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran (Church Road) [10-04] - doom metal
• LP: Dotr ()
• Dawid Lubowicz: Human Fate (Requiem) - jazz
• Joyner Lucas: Not Now I'm Busy ()
• Clara Luciani: Mon Sang (Romance Musique) [11-15] - French pop
• Luci: They Say They Love You () [04-19]
• Lucifer: Luciver V (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
• Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet: Drifters (We Jazz-23) [2023-12-08] - jazz
• Lucki: Gemini! (Empire) [06-14] - hip-hop
• Lucy Rose: This Ain't the Way You Go Out (Communion) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Old Man Luedecke: She Told Me Where to Go (Outside) [05-24] - country [B]
• Rob Luft: Dahab Days (Edition) - jazz
• Lúireach: Landless ( Glitterbeat) [06-07]
• Tamara Lukasheva & INSO Lviv Orchestra: Anima (Tangible Music) [01-28] - jazz
• Igor Lumpert/Inner Textures: I Am the Spirit of the Earth (Clean Feed) [11-18] - jazz [**]
• Luna Waves: Comedowns ()
• Lunar Vacation: Everything Matters, Everything's Fire ()
• Lunchbox: Pop and Circumstance ()
• Corb Lund: El Viejo (New West) [02-23] - country [A-]
• W.H. Lung: Every Inch of Earth Pulsates (Melodic) [10-18] - dream pop
• Anna Lunoe: Pearl ()
• Lupe Fiasco: Samurai (1st and 15th Too) [06-28] - hip-hop [**]
• John Lurie: Painting With John (Royal Potato Family) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Sophie Lüssie/Sandra Weiss/Fridolin Blumer/Andreas Wettstein: Atlantic Puffin (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
• LustSickPuppy: Carousel From Hell (self-released) [04-26] - electro-industrial
• Lutalo: The Academy (Winspear) [09-20] - indie rock
• Brady Lux: Ain't Gone So Far (6483357 Records DK) [01-27] - country [***]
• Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird) [08-09] - jazz [A-]
• LWS: Palloon (-EP) [10-03]
• K. Curtis Lyle/George Sams/Adi Du Dharma Joshua Weinstein/Damon Smith/Ra Kalaam Bob Moses/Henry Claude: 29 Birds You Never Heard (Balance Point Acoustics) [07-13] - jazz [A-]
• K. Curtis Lyle/Jaap Blonk/Alex Cunningham/Damon Smith/Kevin Cheli: A Radio of the Body (Balance Point Acoustics) [10-02] - spoken word jazz [***]
• David Lyn: The World I Hear (Essence of Life) (MWL Productions) - jazz
• Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7 (Holistic MusicWorks) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Lynks: Abomination (Heavenly) [04-12] - electropop
• Shelby Lynne: Consequences of the Crown (Monument) [08-16] - country [B]
• Hayoung Lyou: The Myth of Katabasis (Endectomorph Music) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Lyra: Lyra () [04-12]
• Lyrical Lemonade: All Is Yellow ()
• Lyrics Born: That 1 Tyme in the Studio: Acoustic Sessions (Mobile Home) [05-10] - hip-hop [**]
• Lyrics Born: Goodbye, Sticky Rice (Mobile Home) [10-25] - hip-hop [A-]
• Joel Lyssarides/Georgios Prokopiou: Arcs & Rivers (ACT Music) [09-27] - jazz
• M-Dot: Daze of Greed () [03-08] - hip-hop
• Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session (DMAC Music) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Doug MacDonald and the Coachella Valley Trio: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (DMAC Music) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Mach-Hommy: #Richaxxhaitian (Mach-Hommy) [05-17] - hip-hop [***]
• Machacha: Kunst.Art () [05-05] - hip-hop
• Machine Girl: MG Ultra (Future Classic) [10-18] - drum and bass
• Machinedrum: 3FOR82 (Ninja Tune) [05-24] - electronic
• Jordan Mackampa: Welcome Home, Kid! (AWAL) [02-16] - soul
• Bill Mackay: Locust Land ()
• Robin Mackay: By the North Sea () [09-13]
• Melanie MacLaren: Bloodlust ()
• Macseal: Permanent Repeat (Counter Intuitive) [07-12] - power pop
• Holly Macve: Wonderland ()
• João Madeira/Margarida Mestre: Voz Debaixo (4DaRecord) [02-17] - jazz [**]
• Robbie Madison: Live at Sambuca (Madison Productions) [03-22] - jazz
• Orlando Madrid: From This Moment Forward (OM) [01-12] - jazz
• Johnny Mafia: 2024: Année du Dragon (Howlin' Banana) [02-09] - pop punk
• Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop) [08-23] - synthpop [**]
• Magnum: Here Comes the Rain (Steamhammer/SPV) [01-24] - AOR
• Roberto Magris: Europlane for Jazz: Freedom Is Peace (JMood) [12-01] - jazz [***]
• The Taj Mahal Sextet: Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod) [03-08] - blues [***]
• Mahti: Musiikki 3 (Riot Season)
• Mai-Liis: Kaleidoscope (OA2) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Make Them Suffer: Make Them Suffer (Greyscale/SharpTone) [11-08] - metalcore
• Nduduzo Makhathini: Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) [06-07] - jazz [***]
• Tony Malaby/Josh D. Reed/Matt Smiley/Ron Coulter: Continental Divide (Keating Sound) - jazz
• Malconfort: Humanism () [07-05] - metal
• Malcria: Fantasias Histericas (Iron Lung) - Mexican
• Malice K: Avanti (Jagjaguwar) [08-23] - slacker rock
• Jesse Malin: Silver Patron Saints () [09-20]
• Mall Girl: Pure Love (Jansen) [01-26] - indie pop
• Rose Mallett: Dreams Realized (Carrie-On Productions) [09-01] - jazz [***]
• Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) [02-09] - minimalism [*]
• Post Malone: F-1 Trillion (Mercury/Republic) [08-16] - country [B]
• Malvina: Mercedes (Pop Noire) [05-17]
• Mamman Sani & Tropical Camel: Nijerusalem (Batov)
• Mammoth Penguins: Here (Mammoth Penguins)
• Man Man: Carrot on Strings (Sub Pop) [06-07] - indie rock
• Man Rei: Doer (Crash Symbols) [04-05]
• Man Rei: Thread (Somewhere Press) [10-25]
• Man/Woman/Chainsaw: Eazy Peazy (Fat Possum -EP) [11-08] - post-punk
• Manal: Arabian Heartbreak ()
• Manga Saint Hillaire & MoreNight: Everything Is Under Control (MNRK UK) [02-16]
• Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven (Epitaph) [03-01] - indie rock [**]
• David Maranha/Rodrigo Amado: Wrecks (Nariz Entupido) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Marbled Eye: Read the Air ()
• The March Afternoons: The March Afternoons Aren't Real () [06-18]
• The March Violets: Crocodile Promises (Metropolis) [07-19] - gothic rock
• Margaux: Inside the Marble ()
• Marianas Trench: Haven (604) [08-30] - prog pop
• The Marías: Submarine (Atlantic) [05-31] - indie pop
• Roc Marciano: Marciology (Marci Enterprises) [03-29] - hip-hop [*]
• Roc Marciano & the Alchemist: The Skeleton Key () - hip-hop
• Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio (ACT Music) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Sunna Margrét: Finger on Tongue (No Salad)
• Lasse Marhaug: Provoke (Smalltown Supersound) - jazz
• The Marías: Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
• Mario Mariotti Quartet: Live at Angelica (AMP Music) - jazz
• Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat (Chryalis/Partisan) [10-25] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Denman Maroney: Nits Musica (Cuneiform) [11-29] -
• Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass) [08-30] - jazz [A-]
• Brian Marsella/Jon Irabagon: Blue Hour (Irabbagast) [07-30] - jazz [*]
• Brian Marsella: Imaginarium (Medietas) - jazz
• Claire Martin: Almost in Your Arms (Stunt) [09-27] - jazz [*]
• Peter Martin: Generation S (Open Studio) - jazz
• Tony Martinez: Everywhere West () - country
• Kira Martini: Open Wide (Storyville) [05-31] - vocal jazz [*]
• Masaka Masaka: Barely Making Much (Hakuna Kulala) [ 03-22]
• Jérôme Masco: Seeking Directions (Jazz Family) [11-29] - jazz
• Masamoon: B.I.D.S. (Beautifully Ignorant Disrespectful Sh*t) () [05-07] - hip-hop
• J Mascis: What Do We Do Now (Sub Pop) [02-02] - indie rock
• Kenny Mason: 9 (RCA) [03-14] - hip-hop
• Abbey Masonbrink: Rising (self-released) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Massive Wagons: Earth to Grace () [11-08] - hard rock
• Michel Massot-Tuur Florizoone-Marine Horbaczewski: Lignes de fruite (Aventura Musica) [09-24] - jazz
• Masta Ace & Marco Polo: Richmond Hill (Fat Beats) [01-26] - hip-hop [**]
• Master Peace: How to Make a Master Peace (PMR) [ 03-01] - indie pop
• Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis (Capri) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Daudi Matsiko: The King of Misery (Really Good) [01-14] - indie folk
• The Mavericks: Moon & Stars (Mono Mundo) [05-17] - Americana [***]
• Mavi: Shadowbox (Mavi 4 Mayor Music) [08-09] - hip-hop [**]
• Maxïmo Park: Stream of Life (Lower Third/PIAS) [09-27] - indie rock
• Maxo Kream: Personification (Stomp Down) [11-15] - hip-hop
• Shawn Maxwell: J Town Suite (Cora Street) [05-01] - jazz [**]
• Paula Maya: Rio De Janeiro (Yellow House) [08-01] - Brazilian vocal jazz [B]
• Magda Mayas' Filamental: Ritual Mechanics (Relative Pitch) - jazz
• Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature (EMI) [12-06] - singer-songwriter
• Michael Mayo: Fly (Mack Avenue) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Maysa: Remix for Your Soul (Blue Velvet Soul) [03-29] - dance
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit: Spectral Fiction (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Rob Mazurek Quartet: Color Systems (RogueArt) [11-11] - jazz [***]
• Rob Mazurek: Milan (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Live at the Adler Planetarium ( International Anthem) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• MC Juice/All Natural/Georgia Anne Muldrow: Calisthenics () [03-29] - hip-hop
• MC Lyte: 1 of 1 (Sunni Gyrl/My Block/Vydia) [09-20] - hip-hop [**]
• MC Waraba: Club Dunia (Blanc Manioc)
• MC5: Heavy Lifting (EarMusic) [10-18] - hard rock [**]
• Lizzy McAlpine: Older (RCA) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Christian McBride/Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) [03-22] - jazz [*]
• Nicole McCabe: Live at Jamboree (Fresh Sound) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat (Anti-) [04-12] - folk [A-]
• James McClaskey & the Rhythm Band: Later on Blues (BigTone) [ 04-10] - jazz [**]
• Anna McClellan: Electric Bouquet ()
• Ron McClure: Just Sayin' (SteepleChase) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Del McCoury Band: Songs of Love and Life (McCoury Music) [06-28] - bluegrass
• Fergus McCreadie: Stream (Edition) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Scotty McCreery: Rise & Fall (Triple Tigers) [05-10] - country [*]
• Chad McCullough: In These Hills, Beyond (Calligram) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Thollem McDonas: Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Drew McDowall: A Thread, Silvered and Trembling ()
• Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Universal) [06-14] - vocal jazz [**]
• Mike McGinnis + 9: Outing: Road Trip II (Sunnyside) [02-16] - jazz [**]
• Roy McGrath/Hana Fujisaki/Kitt Lyles/Gustavo Cortiñas: Entre Amigos (self-released) [11-15] - jazz
• Declan McKenna: What Happened to the Beach? (Tomplicated) [02-09] - indie pop
• Loreena McKennitt: The Road Back Home (Quinlan Road) [03-08]
• Jon McKiel: Hex (You've Changed) [05-03] - singer-songwriter
• Eliza McLamb: Going Through It (Royal Mountain) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Terence McManus: Music for Chamber Trio (Rowhouse Music) [09-24] - jazz [***]
• James Vincent McMorrow: Wide Open, Horses (Nettwerk) [06-14] - singer-songwriter
• Grey McMurray: Crying at Breakfast (Out of Your Head -EP) [10-25] - jazz [B-]
• Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry (Infrasonic Press) [10-01] - jazz [***]
• Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark: Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love: I Love Noise (PNL) [12-06] - jazz [***]
• Charles McPherson: Reverence (Smoke Sessions) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• JD McPherson: Nite Owls (New West) [09-27] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Mean Jeans: Blasted ()
• Meatbodies: Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom ()
• Rəhman Məmmədli: Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2 (Bongo Joe) - world
• Mediocre Growth: Eater (Dangerbird)
• Mediopicky: Bexaco Y Rico (Salsa Fegol) [10-18]
• Medium Build: Country (Island) [04-05] - country
• Sarah Gayle Meech: Easin' On () - country
• Mefitis: The Skorian//The Greyleer () [11-29] - metal
• Mega Colossus: Showdown (Cruz Del Sur)
• Mega Ran X Jermiside: The Lure of Light (Hipnott) [03-22] - hip-hop
• Megafauna: And So I Watch You From Afar (Pelagic/Velocity) [08-09] - math rock
• Megan Thee Stallion: Megan (Hot Girl) [06-28] - hip-hop [***]
• Brad Mehldau: Après Fauré (Nonesuch) [05-10] - jazz [B]
• ERR: grade bad priority: Brad Mehldau: After Bach II
• Brad Mehldau: After Bach II (Nonesuch) [05-10] - jazz [B]
• Elan Mehler: Trouble in Mind (Sunnyside) [01-12] - jazz
• Francisco Mela/Zoh Amba: Causa y Efecto (Vol. 2) (577) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Francisco Mela Featuring Leo Genovese and William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 3 (577) [05-10] - jazz
• Melt-Banana: 3+5 (Azap) [08-23] - noise rock
• Melts: Field Theory (Fuzz Club) [04-12] - post-punk
• Melvins: Tarantula Heart (Ipecac) [04-19] - sludge metal
• Memorials: Memorial Waterslides (Fire) [10-04] - neo-psychedelia
• Carlos Mena: Con Personas (With the People) (Pinch) [08-29] - jazz
• Leslie Mendelson: After the Party (Royal Potato Family) [06-21] - alt/indie
• Shawn Mendes: Shawn (Island) [11-15] - folk pop
• Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson: Of It but Not Is It (Mahakala Music) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Ava Mendoza: The Circular Train (Palilalia) [11-15] - jazz [*]
• Chris Mentens: XMNTNS (self-released) - jazz
• Nate Mercereau: Excellent Traveler (Third Man) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Mercury Rev: Born Horses (Bella Union/Believe Music) [09-06] - chamber pop
• Merely & Malibu: Essential Mixtape (Year0001) [11-15] - new age
• Meridian Brothers: Mi Latinoamérica Sufre ( Ansonia) [07-12] - cumbia
• Mermaid Chunky: Slif Slaf Slof (DFA) [09-13] - avant-folk
• Jorga Mesfin: The Kindest One (Muzikawa)
• Messiah in Glytch: Geisha in the Machine (FPE -EP)
• The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Lyia Meta: Next (self-released) [07-26] - jazz
• Meth.: Shame (Prosthetic) [02-02] - sludge metal
• Pat Metheny: MoonDial (BMG) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Metz: Up on Gravity Hill (Sub Pop/Dine Alone) [04-12] - post-hardcore
• Amina Mezaache & Maracuja: Vortex (Veston Léger) [04-26] - jazz
• MGMT: Loss of Life (Mom+Pop) [02-24] - neo-psychedelia
• Michael: Nite Salad () [10-18]
• Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints (Loma Vista/VLNS) [08-02] - hip-hop
• Piotr Michalowski/Damon Smith: How to Ripen in Ice (Balance Point Acoustics) [05-17] - jazz
• Michelle: Songs About You Specifically (Transgressive) [09-27] - alt-pop
• Kelley Mickwee: Everything Beautiful () [09-27]
• Microplastique: Blare Blow Bloom! (Irritable Mystic) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Microwave: Let's Start Degeneracy (Pure Noise) [04-26] - indie rock
• Stephan Micus: To the Rising Moon (ECM) [11-15] - jazz
• Midas Fall: Cold Waves Divide Us () [03-08] - post-rock
• Midland: Fragments of Us (Graded) [10-40] - electronic
• Middle Kids: Faith Crisis Pt. 1 (Lucky Number) [02-16] - power pop
• Midnight: Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade) [03-08] - speed metal
• Midnight Sons: Money Has No Owners (Chong Wizard) [03-29] - hip-hop [**]
• Raul Midón: Lost & Found (ReKondite ReKords) [04-26] - soul [C+]
• Midwife: No Depression in Heaven (The Flenser) [09-06] - slowcore
• MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball (10k -EP) [03-06] - hip-hop [*]
• Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen: Starway to Bach (Our) - classical
• Milan W.: Leave Another Day (Stroom) [10-01] - neo-psychedelia
• Mildlife: Chorus () - jazz
• Sonny Miles: Gamma (Protect the Culture) [02-16] - soul
• Milkweed: Folklore 1979 (Broadside Hacks) [02-29]
• Jordina Millà & Barry Guy: Live in Munich (ECM) [07-05] - jazz
• Andy Milne and Unison: Time Will Tell (Sunnyside) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Gianni Mimmo/Hari Sjostrom: Wells (Amirani) - jazz
• The Mind: Dancing While Crying in the Middle of Nowhere ()
• Minimum Wage Immanence Unit: A Thousand Years to a Bristlecone Pine (Confront) [04-17] - jazz
• Elijah Minnelli: Perpetual Musket (FatCat) [06-21] - dub
• Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä/Jennifer Johnston/Women of the Minnesopta Chorale/Minnesota Boychoir: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (BIS) [06-07] - classical
• John Minnock: A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire (Dot Time) [04-18] - vocal jazz
• Kylie Minogue: Tension II (BMG) [10-18] - dance-pop
• Amalia Miranda: Mientgras Vivas Billas () [03-29]
• Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis: Warriors (Atlantic) [10-18]
• Misha: Radiant (self-released) [04-05] - soul
• Miss Li: Livet, Döden, Skiten Däremellan () [10-11]
• Miss Madeline: So Dramatic (Twin) [08-21] - electropop
• Mista Sinista: ReBorn () [01-12] - hip-hop
• Matt Mitchell: Illimitable (Obliquity) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles (Pi) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako Chicago Sound System (FPE) [08-23] - jazz [A-]
• Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) - jazz
• Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat (Otoroku) [05-10] - experimental
• Yuka Mito: How Deep Is the Ocean (Nana Notes) [10-11] - jazz [B]
• Mitochondrion: Vitriseptome (Profound Lore) [11-01] - metal
• Mizu: Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes) [03-22] - ambient
• Mk.gee: Two Star & the Dream Police (R&R Digital) [02-09] - alt r&b [**]
• Moby: Always Centered at Night (Mute) [06-14] - electronic [*]
• Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice (Matador) [05-03] - Saharan [***]
• Rod Modell: Music for Bus Stations (13)
• Modney: Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Moggs Motel: Moggs Motel (SPV) [09-06] - hard rock
• Moin: You Never End (AD 93) [10-25] - post-rock
• Molchat Doma: Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones) [09-06] - darkwave
• Molina: When You Wake Up ()
• Jesus Molina: Selah (Dynamo Production) [05-24] - jazz [B]
• Raúl Molina: Live at Ecuador Jazz Festival (self-released) - jazz
• Ben Monder: Planetarium (Sunnyside) [09-27] - jazz [B]
• Drori Mondlak/Karolina Strassmayer/David Friedman: Speak Your Truth (Lilypad) [05-30] - jazz
• MoneySet: Us Against the City () [10-01] - hip-hop
• Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released) [05-04] - jazz [A-]
• Mono: Oath (Temporary Residence) [06-14] - post-rock
• Monolake: Studio (Imbalance Computer Music) [09-06] - ambient techno [***]
• Jimmy Montague: Tomorrow's Coffee (self-released) [02-28] - alt/indie
• Montanera: A Flor de Piel (Western Vinyl)
• Montgomery & Turner: Sound Is (Our) Sustenance ( Astral Spirits) [04-26] - jazz
• Bruno Montrone: Unaware Beauty (A.MA) [03-29] - jazz
• Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty (Claddagh) [11-01] - folk
• Thurston Moore: Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series) [10-04] [**]
• Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Warp) [03-29] - modern classical [***]
• More Eaze, Pardo & Glass: Paris Paris, Texas Texas (OOH-Sounds) [ 03-29]
• More Eaze: Lacuna and Parlor (Mondoj) [09-20] - electronic
• More Eaze & Kaho Matsui: Computer & Recording Works for Girls (Full Spectrum) [10-25] - electronic
• Lorrie Morgan: Dead Girl Walking (Goldenlane)
• Morley: Follow the Sound (self-released) [09-27] - jazz
• Gurf Morlix: In Love at Zero Degrees (Rootball) [10-08] - Americana [**]
• Dora Morelenbaum: Pique (Mr Bongo) [10-18] - MPB
• Mork: Syv (Peaceville) [09-20] - black metal
• Megan Moroney: Am I Okay? (Columbia Nashville) [07-12] - country [A-]
• Maren Morris: Intermission () - country
• Willie Morris: Attentive Listening (Posi-Tone) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Morvigor: De Spiegel ( Vita Detestabilis) - metal
• Matteo Mosolo/Flavio Zanuttini: Half Black Half White Yellow: Suite for Charles Mingus (Caligola) - jazz
• Gilligan Moss: Speaking Across Time ()
• Fred Moten/Brandop Löpez/Gerald Cleaver: The Blacksmiths, the Flowers (Reading Group) [08-24] - jazz
• Mother of Graves: The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore) [10-18] - death metal
• Mothica: Kissing Death (Heavy Heart/Rise) [08-23] - alt-pop
• Motorists: Touched by Stuff (We Are One)
• Simon Moullier: Elements of Light (Candid) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Mount Eerie: Night Palace (PW Elverum & Sun) [11-01] - slacker rock [*]
• Mount Kimbie: The Sunset Violent (Warp) [04-05] - indie rock
• The Mountain Movers: Walking After Dark ()
• Move: Free Baile: Live in Shenzhen (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Alison Moyet: Key (Cooking Vinyl) [10-04] - electropop [*]
• Mr. Personality: Socially Attractive (self-released -EP) [05-31]
• Mr Pigeons: Ivory ()
• MRCY: Volume 1 (Dead Oceans) [05-10] - soul
• Ms. Boogie: The Breakdown (self-released) [01-12] - drill [*]
• Msaki x Tubatsi: Synthetic Hearts Part II (No Format!) [05-24] - African
• MTB [Brad Mehldau/Mark Turner/Peter Bernstein]: Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz) [11-29] - jazz [***]
• Muddy Gurdy: Seven (Buda Musique) [09-06] - blues
• Muddy Monk: Bingo Paradis (Half Awake) [09-27]
• Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja (Odin) [03-22] - jazz [**]
• Riley Mulherkar: Riley (Westerlies) [02-16] - jazz [***]
• Michael A. Muller: Mirror Music (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-01] - ambient
• Viktoria Mullova & Alasdair Beatson: Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 1 and 8 (Signum Classics) [05-03] - chamber music
• Mumbles: In the Pocket of Big Sad () [03-29] - indie rock
• Mumu Fresh: The Healing (self-released) [05-14] - soul
• Demetrio Muñiz: Tromboneando con Demetrio Muñiz (Egrem) - jazz [**]
• Tris Munsick & the Innocents: Big Medicine Moon () - country
• Mura Masa: Curve 1 (Pond) [08-23] - electropop
• Major Murphy: Fallout ()
• Martha Skye Murphy: Um (AD 93) [06-14] - ambient pop
• Paul Murphy: Presents: Copa Salvo (Jazz Room) - jazz
• Crystal Murray: Sad Lovers and Giants () [05-31]
• David Murray Quartet: Francesca (Intakt) [05-17] - jazz [A-]
• Yulia Musayelyan: Strange Times (Wherego Music) [11-15] - jazz
• Muscadline Bloodline: The Coastal Plain () - country
• Muscle Mass: Security of Foreign Worlds (Silber)
• Muscle Mass: Riders (Silber)
• Musclecars: Sugar Honey Iced Tea (BBE) [05-17] - soul
• Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well (MCA Nashville) [03-15] - country [A-]
• Mustafa: Dunya (Jagjaguwar) [09-27] - neo-soul [*]
• Mustang: Megaphenix (Vietnam) [10-11]
• Mustard: Faith of a Mustard Seed (10 Summers) [07-26] - hip-hop
• Mutant Academy: Keep Holly Alive () [10-08] - hip-hop
• Mute: After You've Gone (Endectomorph Music) [05-13] - jazz [***]
• Wolfgang Muthspiel: Etudes/Quietudes (Clap Your Hands) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Mxmtoon: Liminal Space (AWAL) [11-01] - bedroom pop
• My Dying Bride: A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast) [04-19] - metal
• My Epic: Loriella ()
• Helga Myhr & Tanja Orning: Klangkorpus (Motvind) [10-18] - jazz
• Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra: Hereafter (Sofa Music) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Jasmine Myra: Rising (Gondwana) [05-03] - jazz
• The Mysterines: Afraid of Tomorrows (Fiction) [06-21] - garage rock
• Mystery Friends: Utopia ()
• The Mystery Lights: Purgatory (Wick) [09-13] - garage rock
• Simon Nabatov: Raging Bulgakov (Fundacja Słuchaj) - jazz
• Simon Nabatov Quartet Feat. Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music (Clean Feed) [04-25] - jazz [***]
• Nacka Forum: Peaceful Piano (Moserobie) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• Nada Surf: Moon Mirror (New West) [09-13] - power pop
• Naemi: Dust Devil (3XL) [04-25]
• Youn Sun Nah: Elles (Warner Bros.) [01-26] - jazz
• NAHreally & the Expert: Blip () [03-29] - hip-hop
• Nails: Every Bridge Burning (Nuclear Blast) [ 08-30] - grindcore
• Naked Roommate: Pass the Loofah ()
• Namesbliss: Lively Experience () [05-31] - UK hip-hop
• David Nance: David Nance & Mowed Sound (Third Man) [02-09] - psychedelic rock
• Naom: Radici (Aut) - jazz
• Nap Eyes: The Neon Gate (Paradise of Bachelors) [10-18] - indie rock
• Nappy Nina & Swarvy: Nothing Is My Favorite Thing (10-23) [H|hip-hop]
• Narcy: To Be an (Arab) ()
• Steffi Narr/Oliver Steidle: Introduction (self-released) - jazz
• Nascent: Don't Grow Up Too Soon ()
• Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel: The Room (Real World) [01-26] - chamber jazz [**]
• Milton Nascimento/Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza (Concord) [08-09] - Brazilian jazz [**]
• Kate Nash: 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars) [06-21] - alt/indie [A]
• The National: Rome (4AD) [12-13] - alt/indie
• John Nau: Four Corners (Posi-Tone) [12-06] - jazz
• Navy Blue: Memoirs in Armour (Freedom Sounds) [08-02] - hip-hop [***]
• Nayeon: Na (JYP -EP) [06-14] - K-pop
• Jacqui Naylor: Treasures of the Heart (Ruby Star) [03-14] - jazz
• Jason Nazary & Tizia Zimmerman: Particularly Irrelevant (Wide Ear) [11-01] - jazz
• Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) [08-02] - vocal jazz [**]
• Camila Nebbia/Leo Genovese/Alfred Vogel: Eyes to the Sun (Boomslang) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Camila Nebbia & Angelica Sanchez: In Another Land, Another Dream (Relative Pitch) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• Camila Nebbia/Sofia Salvo/Lara Alarcón/Alfred Vogel: Pnkstrasse53 (Boomslang) [11-08] - jazz [**]
• Camila Nebbia/Dietrich Eichmann/John Hughes/Jeff Arnal: Chrononaux (Generate) [12-19] - jazz
• Neck Deep: Neck Deep (Hopeless) [01-19] - pop punk
• The Necks: Bleed (Northern Spy) [10-11] - jazz [*]
• Necrophobic: In the Twilight Grey (Century Media) - metal
• Necrot: Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes) [04-12] - death metal
• Richard Nelson/Makrokosmos Orchestra: Dissolve (Adhyâropa) [02-02] - jazz [**]
• Willie Nelson: The Border (Legacy) [05-31] - country [A-]
• Willie Nelson: Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy) [11-01] - country [**]
• Nemahsis: Verbathim () [ 09-13]
• Nemzzz: Do Not Disturb (self-released) [03-18] - UK drill
• Emily Nenni: Drive & Cry (New West) [05-03] - country [**]
• Neon Dilemma [Elias Stemeseder/Robert Landfermann/Leif Berger]: Neon Dilemma (Klaeng) [06-01] - jazz
• The Neptune Power Federation: Goodnight My Children (Cruz Del Sur)
• Nestor: Teenage Rebel (Napalm/Handels)
• New Jazz Underground [Ft. Axel Tosca + Gina D'Soto]: Harlem to Havana: Afro-Cuban Modernism Vol. 1 (self-released) [01-22] - jazz
• The New Mastersounds: Old School (One Note) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• New Model Army: Unbroken (Ear) [01-26] - post-punk
• New Orleans Klezmer All Stars: Tipish (self-released) [04-23] - jazz [***]
• The New Orleans Night Owls: St. Louis Rag and Other Ragtime Classics (Rivermont) - jazz
• New Regency Orchestra: New Regency Orchestra (Mr Bongo) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• The New Wonders: Steppin' Out (Turtle Bay) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• The New York Second: Room for Other People (self-released) - jazz
• NewDad: Madra (Fair Youth/Atlantic) [01-26] - shoegaze
• Newmoon: Temporary Light () [03-22] - dream pop
• Sam Newsome/Max Johnson: Tubes (Unbroken Sounds) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Ngwaka Son Systéme: Iboto Ngenge (Eck Echo) [02-24] - African [***]
• Nice Biscuit: SOS (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [10-04] - psychedelic rock
• Jodie Nicholson: Safe Hands () [05-10]
• Nicolay: Terra Firma ()
• Danielle Nicole: The Love You Bleed () - blues
• Nicki Nicole: Naiki (Dale Play) [11-21] - pop rap
• Nicolette & the Nobodies: The Long Way () [04-12] - alt-country
• Nídia & Valentina Magaletti: Estradas (Latency) [09-13] - batida
• Night Motor: Vessels () [04-29]
• Night Tapes: Assisted Memories (Nettwerk -EP) [06-07] - dream pop
• Rufous Nightjar: Songs for Three Voices ()
• Nightshift: Homosapien ()
• Nightwish: Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast) [09-20] - symphonic metal
• Nikara Presents . . . Black Wall Street: The Queen of Kings County (Switch Hit) [10-18] - jazz [**]
• Nile: The Underground Awaits Us All (Napalm) [08-23] - death metal
• Etienne Nilessen: En (Sofa) - jazz
• Paal Nilssen-Love/Ken Vandermark: Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic -7CD) [02-09] - jazz
• Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go? (Stunt) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Molly Nilsson: Un-American Activities (Night School/Dark Skies Association) [07-07] - synthpop [**]
• Nimsins: Bury My Heart in East Oakland () [09-09]
• Nines: Quit While You're Ahead (Zino) [09-27] - UK hip-hop [*]
• Carlos Niño & Friends: Placenta (International Anthem) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Tony Njoku: Last Bloom (Prah) [05-03]
• NLE Choppa: Slut Szn (Warner) [09-26] - hip-hop [*]
• NMIXX: Fe304: Break EP ()
• Noahfinnce: Growing Up on the Internet (Hopeless) [03-08] - pop punk
• Tom Noble: House of Spirits (Razor N Tape) [11-22]
• NOBRO: Set Your Pussy Free (Dine Alone -23) [A-]
• Che Noir: The Color Chocolate, Volume 1 (Poetic Movement -EP) [01-26] - hip-hop [**]
• Nonpareils: Rhetoric & Terror (Mute) [09-20] - post-industrial
• The Nordic Quintet: Originals (AMM) [01-26] - jazz
• Norfafrica: The Norf Tape ()
• Normani: Dopamine (RCA) [06-14] - pop rap [**]
• Runar Norsett Trio: Endless Journey (Losen) [08-16] - jazz
• Nourished by Time: Catching Chickens (XL -EP) [03-22] - alt r&b
• Nout: Live Album (Trost) [03-07] - jazz
• Jade Novah: Where Have I Been? (Let There Be Art) [03-01] - soul
• Cora Novoa: LFOs & Creatures (Turbo)
• Eva Novoa: Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Volume 1 (577) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Eva Novoa: Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio, Vol. 1 (577) [11-22] - jazz [A-]
• Noxis: Violence Inherent in the System (Rotted Life) [06-28] - metal
• Oz Noy: Fun One (Criss Cross Jazz) [11-29] - jazz
• Nsasi: Coinage (Hakuna Kulala)
• Nsqk: ATP (Honey) [08-14] - reggaeton
• Nubiyan Twist: Find Your Flame (Strut) [05-03] - jazz [*]
• Numa Gama: A Spectal Turn (Bié) - electronic
• Nuse Tyrant: Juxtaposed Echoes (M25) [07-10] - hip-hop [**]
• Zee Nxumalo: Inja Ye Game () [11-15]
• NxWorries: Why Lawd? (Stones Throw) [06-14] - hip-hop [***]
• O.: WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground) [06-21] - nu jazz [*]
• Aoife O'Donovan: All My Friends ()
• Adam O'Farrill: Hueso (Food) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• The Michael O'Neill Sextet: Synergy: With Tony Lindsay (Jazzmo) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Susan O'Neill: Now in a Minute () [09-20]
• Oaagaada: Music of Ogaadaa (We Jazz) - jazz
• Frédéric D. Oberland/Grégory Dargent/Tony Elileh/Wassim Halal: Sub Rosa (05-24)
• Objections: Optimistic Sizing (Wrong Speed) [04-26] - art punk
• Obliti Devoravit: Under My Michigan Sky (Colloquial Sound) - metal
• Mali Obomsawin/Magdalena Abrego [Deerlady]: Greatest Hits (Out Of Your Head) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [**]
• The Obsessed: Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music) [02-16] - doom metal
• Oceanator: Everything Is love and Death (Polyvinyl) [08-30] - power pop
• Oceans of Slumber: Where Gods Fear to speak (Season of Mist) [09-13] - prog metal
• Of Montreal: Lady on the Cusp ()
• Office Culture: Enough? (Ruination) [10-18] - art pop
• Office Dog: Spiel (Flying Nun/New West) [09-15] - indie rock
• The Offspring: Supercharged (Concord) [10-11] - skate punk
• Ogbert the Nerd: What You Want ()
• Dina Ögon: Orion (Playground Music Scandinavia) [02-02] - psychedelic pop
• Oh Shu: Town Dune () [09-14]
• Lothar Ohlmeier/Tobias Klein: Left Side Right (Trytone) [02-16] - jazz [**]
• Hildegunn Øiseth: Garden on the Roof (Clap Your Hands) [05-24] - jazz
• Okay Kaya: Oh My God - That's So Me (Jagjaguwar) [09-06] - indie pop
• Miles Okazaki: Miniature America (Cygnus) [07-19] - jazz [B]
• Nils Økland Band: Gjenskinn (Hubro) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• ØKSE: ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) [08-09] - rap jazz [A-]
• Ol' Burger Beats: 74: Out of Time (Coalmine) [02-16] - hip-hop [**]
• Joy Oladokun: Observations From a Crowded Room (Amigo) [10-18] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Vikingur Ólafsson: Continuum ( Deutsche Grammophon) - classical
• Alicia and Michael Olatuja: Olatuja (Whirlwind) [05-31] - jazz [*]
• Old 97's: American Primitive (ATO) [04-05] - alt/indie [*]
• Old Mountain: Another State of Rhythm (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [**]
• Ombiigizi: Shame (Arts & Crafts) [11-01] - post-punk
• Omni: Souvenir (Sub Pop) [02-16] - post-punk
• Ona K: Full, New, Luna (Catpig) [01-22] - r&b
• One Another Orchestra: One Another Orchestra (Nato) [03-24] - jazz
• One for All: Big George (Smoke Sessions) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• One Step Closer: All You Embrace (Run for Cover) [05-17] - emo-pop
• Oneida: Expensive Air (Joyful Noise) [07-19] - psychedelic rock
• Only Now: Eyes of Pain (Shaytoon)
• Only the Poets: One More Night (-EP) [05-31]
• Onra: Nosthaigia (All City) [05-20]
• Onsloow: Full Speed Anywhere Else (Tiny Engines) [10-25]
• Ndubisi Onyedieke: Orile to Berlin (Sonar Kollectiv) - jazz
• Oolong: Oolong (self-released) [04-20]
• The Ophelias: Ribbon (self-released -EP) [04-12] - chamber pop
• Opeth: The Last Will and Testament (Reigning Phoenix) [ 11-22] - prog metal
• Orange Goblin: Science, Not Fiction (Peaceville) [07-19] - stoner metal
• Oranssi Pazuzu: Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast) [10-11] - metal
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre Unique (Bongo Joe/Red Wig) [11-06] [**]
• Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Four Guitars Live (Palilalia) [03-22] - jazz [A-]
• Bill Orcutt: How to Rescue Things (Palilalia) [12-06] - jazz [*]
• Organic Pulse Ensemble: Ad Hoc (Ultraääni) [11-26] - jazz [**]
• Oriental Brothers International Band: Onye Rie Ibe Ya Erie (Palenque) [09-30] - African
• Origami Angel: Feeling Not Found (Counter Intuitive) [09-27] - emo-pop
• Orion Sun: Orion (Mom+Pop) [09-20] - alt-r&b
• Örnatorpet: Fordomdags () [11-29]
• Orquesta Akokán: Caracoles (Daptone) [07-12] - Latin jazz
• Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses (self-released) [03-28] - jazz
• Oruã: Passe (Transfusão Noise) [07-19] - psychedelic rock
• Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Egwu Mmanwu Igbo (Music of Igbo Masquerade) (Palenque) [10-04] - African
• Anders Osborne: Picasso's Villa ()
• Osees: Sorcs 80 (Castle Face) [08-09] - garage punk
• Kresten Osgood Quintet: Live at H15 Studio (ILK Music) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Simon Oslender/Steve Gadd/Will Lee: All That Matters (Leopard/Broken Silence) [10-25] - jazz
• Oso Oso: Life Till Bones (Yunahon Entertainment) [08-09] - emo-pop
• Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund: e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music) [05-31] - jazz
• Margaux Oswald Collateral Damage: In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels (Clean Feed) [07-02] - jazz [**]
• OT the Real: Cost of Living ()
• Royel Otis: Pratts & Pain (Ourness) [02-16] - indie pop
• Roberto Ottaviano: Lacy in the Sky With Diamonds (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [A-]
• Matthew Ottingnon: Volant (Earshift) [07-26] - jazz
• Oùat: Trial of Future Animals (self-released) - jazz
• Ours: New Age Heroine ()
• Hanaa Oussim: Pan European (02-02)
• Out Of/Into [Joel Ross/Gerald Clayton/Kendrick Scott/Matt Brewer/Immanuel Wilkins]: Motion I (Blue Note) [12-06] - jazz [**]
• Outfit [Daniel Romano]: Too Hot to Sleep (You've Changed) [03-01] - country
• Sam Outlaw: Terra Cotta (Black Hills) [03-07] - country [*]
• Outrage: Behind the Eyes () [05-30]
• Ovrkast: Kast Got Wings (IIIXL Studio)
• Owen: The Falls of Sioux ()
• Chuck Owen & Resurgence: Magic Light (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [*]
• Charles Owens Trio: The Music Tells Us (La Reserve) - jazz
• Christopher Owens: I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (True Panther) [10-18] - singer-songwriter
• Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate (Dirty Hit) [10-18] - prog house
• Ulysses Owens Jr and Generation Y: A New Beat (Cellar Music) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Oxygen Destroyer: Guardian of the Universe (Redefining Darkness) [08-09] - death metal
• Berke Can Özcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson: It Was Always Time (We Jazz) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Makoto Ozone: Gemini (Ubuntu Music) [01-19] - jazz
• P]harmony: 1st Album: Killin' It [Killin' It Ver.] () - K-pop
• P.O.D.: Veritas () - metal
• Pa Salieu: Afrikan Alien (Warner Music UK) [11-15] - UK hip-hop
• Dorothea Paas: Think of Mist (Telephone Explosion) [11-15] - singer-songwriter
• Chino Pacas: Que Sigan Llegando Las Pacas ()
• Sofi Paez: Silent Stories ()
• Michael Pagán: Paganova (Capri) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Kaash Paige: Catch Me While I Care ()
• Painkiller: Samara (Tzadik) [11-24] - jazz
• Palaye Royale: Death or Glory (Sumerian) [08-30] - glam rock
• Pale Jay: Low End Love Songs (Karma Chief) [09-06]
• Pale Waves: Smitten (Dirty Hit) [09-27] - dream pop
• Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL) [04-05] - sophisti-pop [***]
• Pallbearer: Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - doom metal
• Nerina Pallot: A Psalm for Emily Salvi () [11-01]
• Henrik Palm: Nerd Icon (Svart) [04-19] - alt/indie
• Erik Palmberg: Faces (Prophone) - jazz
• Jason Palmer: The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts -2CD) [12-06] - jazz [A-]
• Paris Paloma: Cacophony (Nettwerk) [08-30] - folk pop
• Paloma Faith: The Glorification of Sadness (Sony) [02-16] - dance-pop
• Sergio Pamies: Time to Say (New Trad) - jazz
• Mavis Pan: Rising (self-released) [10-04] - jazz [*]
• Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast Jazz) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Diana Panton: Soft Winds and Roses (Sono) [10-25] - jazz
• Paper Jays: Paper Jays ()
• Paranoid London: Arseholes, Liars and Electronic Pioneers (Paranoid London) [02-09]
• The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator (Bar/None) [02-02] - rock [A-]
• Parannoul: Sky Hundred (Longinus) [08-03] - shoegaze
• Emile Parisien Quartet: Let Them Cook (ACT) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Evan Parker: The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (False Walls -4CD) [11-29] - jazz
• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) [11-22] - jazz [A-]
• William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) [06-21] - jazz [A-]
• William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Aaron Parks: Little Big III (Blue Note) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Tess Parks: Pomegranate (Fuzz Club) [10-25] - neo-psychedelia
• Parlor Greens: In Green/We Dream ()
• Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-22] - folk [*]
• Shane Parish: Repertoire (Palilalia) [05-17] - jazz
• Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-22] - folk
• Rob Parton's Ensemble 9+: Relentless (Calligram) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Party Dozen: Crime in Australia (Temporary Residence)
• Partynextdoor: Partynextdoor 4 (P4) (OVO Sound/Santa Ana) [04-26] - alt-r&b
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone (We Jazz) [03-08] - jazz [**]
• Hermeto Pascoal: Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante) [05-28] - jazz
• Ben Paterson: Cookin' in the Couvre (Cellar Music) - jazz
• Tex Patrello: Minotaur (self-released) [05-02] - art pop
• Chris Patrick: The Calm (CXR) [04-03] - hip-hop
• Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Groove Junkies (Origin) [05-17] - jazz [**]
• Zacchae'us Paul: Jazz Money (Candid) [06-21] - jazz
• Jakub Paulski: Free' Odde (V) - jazz
• J. Pavone String Ensemble: Reverse Bloom (Astral Spirits) [05-03] - jazz
• PawPaw Rod: Doobie Mouth ()
• Jerron Paxton: Things Done Changed ()
• Rita Payés: De Camino al Camino (Sony España) [10-13] - jazz
• Alistair Payne: This Thread Walks (Dox) [05-24] - jazz
• Paysage d'Hiver: Die Berge (Kunsthall Produktionen) [11-08] - black metal
• Molly Payton: Yoyotta () [08-30]
• Espinoza Paz: Corazón () - Latin
• Hery Paz: River Creatures (Porta Jazz) [01-30] - jazz [***]
• Peace Talks: Progress (-23) [2023-12-01]
• Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (Big Machine) [06-07] - country [***]
• Pearl Jam: Dark Matter (Republic) [04-19] - alt/indie [**]
• Katy J Pearson: Someday, Now (Heavenly) [09-20] - art pop
• The Peawees: One Ride (Wild Honey) [09-06]
• Orville Peck: Stampede (Warner) [08-02] - country
• Hayden Pedigo: Live in Amarillo, Texas (Mexican Summer) [09-06] - American primitivism
• Pedro the Lion: Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)
• Peel Dream Magazine: Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf) [09-04] - art pop
• Peeling Flesh: The G Code (Unique Leader) [09-06] - metal
• Peggy Gou: I Hear You (XL) [06-07] - house
• Rich Pellegrin: Topography ( Slow and Steady) - jazz
• Jeremy Pelt: Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) [03-02] - jazz [*]
• Nathy Peluso: Grasa (5020/Sony) [05-24] - art pop
• Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice (Origin) [06-21] - jazz [*]
• Pentadox: As if It Were Tomorrow (Challenge) [10-11] - jazz
• Penza Penza: Alto E Primitivo (FNR)
• Ken Peplowski: Unheard Bird (Arbors) [04-05] - jazz [B-]
• Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• Perc: The Cut Off (Perc Trax)
• Perdurabo: Magnetar () [01-26] - electronic
• Ivo Perelman/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: Interaction (Ibeji Music) [01-28] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Chad Fowler/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music (RogueArt) [04-00] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Fay Victor/Jim Morris/Ramon Lopez: Messa Di Voce (Mahakala Music) [04-15] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Tom Rainey: Duologues 1: Turning Point (Ibeji Music) - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Gabby Fluke-Mogul: Duologues 2: Joy (Ibeji Music) [08-07] - jazz [**]
• Ivo Perelman/Ingrid Laubrock: Duologues 3: Crystal Clear (Ibeji Music) [10-01] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation (Soul City Sounds) [05-24] - jazz [A-]
• Ivo Perelman/Aruán Ortiz/Ramón López: Ephemeral Shapes (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-15] - jazz [***]
• Ivo Perelman/Iva Bittová/Michael Bisio: Vox Popoli Vox Dei (Mahakala Music) [08-15] - jazz [**]
• Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 3 (Burning Ambulance) [10-04] - jazz [B]
• Ivo Perelman's São Paulo Creative 4: Supernova (self-released) [11-12] - jazz [**]
• Sergio Pereira: Bossa+ (Tiger Turn) - jazz
• Perennial: Art History (Ernest Jennings)
• Alix Perez: Entanglements (1985 Music) [09-20]
• Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band: Lumen (Prophone) [10-25] - jazz [*]
• Pericopes + 1: Good Morning World! (Losen) - jazz
• J. Period: J. Period Presents . . . Story to Tell (Chapter Two) (Truelements)
• Pernice Brothers: Who Will You Believe (New West) [04-05] - chamber pop
• Peter Perrett: The Cleansing (Domino) [11-01] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Lee "Scratch" Perry & Youth: Spaceship to Mars () [08-30] - reggae
• Persher: Sleep Well (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - metal
• Eric Person: Rhythm Edge (Distinction) [10-01] - jazz [B]
• Houston Person/Peter Beets: Live in Holland: Houston Person Meets Peter Beets Trio (Maxanter) - jazz [A-]
• Personal Trainer: Still Willing (Bella Union) [08-02] - post-hardcore
• Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ -EP) [10-25] - hardcore punk [***]
• Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless (Parlophone) [04-26] - new wave [A-]
• Peter Cat Recording Co.: Beta बेटा () [08-09] - sophisti-pop
• Kim Petras: Slut Pop Miami () [02-16]
• Grace Petrie: Build Something Better () [03-08] - folk rock
• Peverelist: Pulse Phase (Livity Sound -EP) [11-01] - electronic [**]
• Peverelist: Pulse Echo (Livity Sound -EP) [11-01] - electronic [**]
• Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk (Just One Recording/Thirty Tigers) [06-28] - vocal jazz [***]
• Jonathan Peyton: Nothing Here's the Same () - country
• Phantogram: Memory of a Day (Neon Gold) [10-18] - alt-pop
• Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers: Izigqinamba (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-05] - gqom [A-]
• Philharmonia Orchestra/Michael Collins: Mozart: Symphonies 34-36 (BIS) - classical
• Phish: Evolve () - jam band
• Phosphorescent: Revelator (Verve) [04-05] - Americana
• Photay: Windswept () - electronic
• Nacho Picasso & Televangel: Jesse's Revenge () [07-12] - hip-hop
• Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron: Hindsight: Live at La Seine Musicale (CAM Jazz) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Kate Pierson: Radios & Rainbows (Lazy Meadow Music) [09-20] - art pop [**]
• Dave Pietro: The Talisman (SteepleChase) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Pijn: From Low Beams of Hope (Floodlit) [06-28] - post-metal
• Laurence Pike: The Undreamt of Centre (Leaf)
• Jean-Michel Pilc/François Moutin/Ari Hoenig: You Are the Song (Justin Time) [05-12] - jazz
• Pillow Queens: Name Your Sorrow (Royal Mountain) [04-19] - indie rock
• The Pineapple Thief: It Leads to This (K-Scope)
• Leslie Pintchik: Prayer for What Remains (Pintch Hard) - jazz
• Pissed Jeans: Half Divorced (Sub Pop) [03-01] - alt/indie [*]
• Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came (Pixies/BMG) [10-25] - alt/indie [B]
• Pizzatramp: The Last Supper () [09-18] - skate punk
• A Place for Owls: How We Dig in the Earth (Broom of Destruction) [11-01] - indie rock
• A Place to Bury Strangers: Synthesizer (Dedstrange) [10-04] - shoegaze
• Planet Asia/Local Astronauts: No Retirement (Local Astronauts/Goldchain Music) [04-12] - hip-hop
• Planet D Nonet: Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn) [07-19] - jazz [***]
• Plastic Bag: Dead Kings of Europe () [11-25]
• Plave: Asterum: 134-1 ()
• Playfield [Daniel Carter/Luisa Muhr/Ayumi Ishito/Eric Plaks/Aron Namenwirth/Yutaka Takahashi/Zachary Swanson/Jon Panikkar: Magic Heart (Vol. 2) (577) [01-19] - jazz
• Peso Pluma: Éxodo (Double P) [06-21] - corrido tumbado
• PNY Quintet: Over the Wall (RogueArt) [03-00] - jazz [**]
• Poeji: Nant (Squama) [08-09] - jazz
• Evita Polidoro: Nerovivo (Tǔk Music) - jazz
• Polo G: Hood Poet () - hip-hop
• Polo Perks/AyooLii/FearDorian: A Dog's Chance (3500) [06-21] - hip-hop
• Polyfillas: Rude Boys of England E.P. (self-released -EP) [10-14] - punk [*]
• Polygonia: Da Nao Tian Gong (Polygonia) [01-25] - techno
• Pom Pom Squad: Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (City Slang) [10-25] - alt-pop
• Pom Poko: Champion (Bella Union) [08-16] - indie rock
• Pomfret: You'll Be Back When Things Fall Apart ()
• Pond: Stung! (Spinning Top) [06-21] - neo-psychedelia
• Pony Boy All-Star Big Band: This Is Now: Live at Boxley's (Pony Boy) [08-09] - jazz [**]
• Poppy: Negative Spaces (Sumerian) [11-15] - metalcore
• Poppycock: Magic Mothers () [05-31]
• Porches: Shirt (Domino) [09-13] - slacker rock
• Porij: Teething (Play It Again Sam) [04-26] - electronic [**]
• Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me (Secretly Canadian) [10-18] - indie rock
• Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba: Now! (Instant Classics) [11-29] - jazz [*]
• Potatohead People: Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz) [05-10] - electronic
• Chris Potter/Brad Mehldau/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Eagle's Point (Edition) [03-08] - jazz [A-]
• Nolan Potter: The Perils of Being Trapped Inside a Head (self-released) [04-26]
• Potter Payper: Thanks for Hating (36TL) [02-23] - UK hip-hop
• Kane Pour: The Last Wave (Sound as Language) [03-15] - ambient
• Pouty: Forget About Me (Get Better) [02-09] - postpunk [**]
• Jonathan Powell: Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) [08-09] - jazz [***]
• Jen Powers/Matthew J Rolin Duo: Clearing (Astral Spirits) [06-21] - jazz
• Audrey Powne: From the Fire ()
• Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer) [ 05-03] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Julian Prégardien/Les Épopées/Stéphane Fuget: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Château de Versailes Spectacles) [06-14] - opera
• Pregoblin: Pregoblin II (Strap Originals) [02-23] - indie pop
• Noah Preminger/Rob Garcia [Dead Composers Club]: Hildegard Project: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Connection Works) [05-03] - jazz
• Yvonnick Prené/Geoff Keezer: Jobim's World (Sunnyside) [06-07] - jazz [*]
• Present: This Is NOT the End (Cuneiform) [03-29] - jazz
• Previous Industries: Service Merchandise (Merge) [06-28] - hip-hop [A-]
• Katherine Priddy: The Pendulum Swing (Cooking Vinyl) [02-16] - singer-songwriter
• Dafnis Prieto: 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Primal Scream: Come Ahead (BMG) [11-08] - funk rock
• John Primer & Bob Corritore: Crawlin' Kingsnake (VizzTone) [03-29] - blues [***]
• Princ€ss: Princ€ss (Wherethetimegoes) [03-11] - hypnagogic pop
• Jeanfrançois Prins: Blue Note Mode (GAM) [03-01] - jazz [**]
• Priori: This but More (NAFF) [05-30] - ambient techno
• Prisoner: Putrid | Obsolete (Persistent Vision) [03-15] - metal
• Prize Horse: Under Sound (New Morality Zine) [02-16] - metal
• Chuck Prophet: Wake the Dead (Yep Roc) [10-25] - singer-songwriter
• Katie Pruitt: Mantras (Rounder) [04-05] - country [**]
• H. Pruz: No Glory (Mtn Laurel) [03-29] - singer-songwriter
• PSA: PSA (PSA) [02-23] - jazz
• Public Acid: Deadly Struggle (Beach Impediment) [02-23] - hardcore punk
• Public Service Broadcasting: The Last Flight (So) [10-04] - post-rock
• Dan Pugach Big Band: Bianca (Outside In Music) [03-08] - jazz
• Puli: Swirling (Open Space) [10-11]
• Lucía Pulido Ensamble: Colombia y México, Dos Pueblos Una Raíz (Club del Disco) [06-28] - Latin jazz
• Punchlove: Channels (Kanine) [03-01] - shoegaze
• Tutu Puoane: Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory) [03-15] - vocal jazz [*]
• Bolis Pupul: Letter to Yu (Deewee) [03-08] - electronic [***]
• Pye Corner Audio: The Endless Echo (Ghost Box) [04-05] - ambient
• Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones) [02-09] - new wave [***]
• PyPy: Sacred Times (Goner) [10-18] - alt/indie [***]
• Pyrrhon: Exhaust (Willowtip) [09-06] - metal
• Pyur: Lucid Anarchy (Subtext)
• QOW Trio: The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
• Ben Quad: Ephemera ()
• Quadeca: Scrapyard (DeadAir) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Quadry: Ask a Magnolia (Tierdrop) [09-25] - hip-hop
• Quartet Diminished: Deerand (MoonJune) [09-19] - jazz
• Quatuor Bozzini: Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 (Collection QB) [01-23] - chamber music
• Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good (Stunt) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Alvin Queen: The Jazzcup Café Blues (Cellar Music) - jazz
• Queen Esther: Things Are Looking Up (EL) [04-09] - blues [A-]
• Jean-Guihen Queyras/Ensemble Resonanza/Riccardo Minasi: Antonin Kraft-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos (Harmonia Mundi) - classical
• Quiet Husband: Religious Equipment ()
• Reggie Quinerly: The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• The Quireboys: Wardour Street (Cadiz Music) [10-25]
• Quivers: Oyster Cuts (Merge) [08-09] - jangle pop
• R.N.A. Organism: R.N.A.O. Meets P.O.P.O. (Mesh-Key)
• Neta Raanan: Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) [08-23] - jazz [***]
• Bruno Råberg Tentet: Evolver (Orbis Music) [06-01] - jazz [**]
• Radio DDR: Sharp Pins ()
• Radio Massacre International: Galactic Furnace (Cuneiform) [10-25]
• Nemanja Radulovic: Beethoven Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" (Warners Classics) - classical
• Raf-Saperra: 5 Deadly Venomz (Mass Appeal -EP) [03-08]
• Ragz Originale: Bare Sugar: Sweet Nothings (Mini Kingz) [08-09] - alt r&b
• Rain on Fridays: Death to Affection (Rain on Fridays)
• Rain Recordings: Terns in Idle ()
• Rakish: Now, O Now ()
• Ralfy the Plug: Grandmaster Ralfy (self-released) [10-31] - hip-hop
• India Ramey: Baptized by the Blaze () - country
• Hania Rani: Nostalgia (Gondwana)
• Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats: South of Here ()
• Rahim C Redcar: Hopecore (Because Music)
• RaiNao: Capicú (Sonar) [02-24] - Latin
• Jordan Rakei: The Loop (Decca) [05-10] - alt r&b
• Arun Ramamurthy Trio: New Moon (Greenleaf Music) [09-20] - Indian jazz
• Ella Raphael: Mad Sometimes ()
• Rapsody: Please Don't Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation) [05-17] - hip-hop [**]
• Enrico Rava: Fearless Five (Parco Della Musica) - jazz
• Raveena: Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain ()
• The Raveonettes: Sing . . . (Cleopatra) [07-19]
• Rita Ray: Live in Concert (Funk Embassy) [09-06] - jazz
• Sugaray Rayford: Human Decency () - blues
• Razor Braids: Big Wave (self-released)
• Razorlight: Planet Nowhere (Cooking Vinyl) [10-25] - indie rock
• Real Bad Man & Lukah: Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Old Soul Music/Real Bad Man) [03-29] - hip-hop [**]
• Real Estate: Daniel (Domino) [02-24] - jangle pop
• Real Friends: Blue Hour () [10-11] - pop punk
• Tim Reaper & Kloke: In Full Effect (Hyperdub) [09-20] - jungle [**]
• Rodrigo Recabarren/Pablo Menares/Yago Yazquez: Familia (Greenleaf Music) [02-23] - jazz
• Reckless Kelly: The Last Frontier () - country
• Recognize Ali: As You Sow So Shall You Reap () [02-09] - hip-hop
• Red Clay Strays: Made by These Moments (RCA) [07-26] - country [B]
• Red Hot Org: Transa (Red Hot Org) [11-22]
• Red Sun: Best Buds :) (Thumbs Up -EP) [04-05] - emo-pop
• Red Sun/Bonus: Unnecessary Riffage ()
• Red Velvet: Cosmic (-EP)
• Redd Kross: Redd Kross (In the Red) [06-28] - power pop
• Redman: Muddy Waters Too ( Gilla House) [12-24] - hip-hop [**]
• Pat Reedy: Make It Back Home () - country
• Finn Rees: Dawn Is a Melody (Mr Bongo) [05-31] - jazz
• Regal86: Unearthed Vol. II *100 Trax* (Nola Bel) [01-01] - techn
• Niamh Regan: Come as You Are (Faction) [05-31] - singer-songwriter
• Reut Regev's R*Time: It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) [11-15] - jazz [***]
• Regional Justice Center: Freedom Sweet Freedom (Closed Casket Activities) - hardcore
• Rema: Heis (Mavin/Jonzing World/Interscope) [07-11] - amapiano [**]
• Remedy [Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein]: Live at Jazzkammer (self-released) [05-27] - jazz [**]
• Ren G: Miss 24/7 () [10-20]
• Rendez-Vous: Downcast (Artefact/Wedge) [05-24] - noise rock
• Matt Renzi: Presenza (Three P's) - jazz
• Resin Tomb: Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity) [01-19] - metal
• Cene Resnik/Samo Salamon/Samuel Ber: The Thinkers (Samo) [10-21] - jazz [***]
• Retsu: Retsu () [05-31]
• Reymour: NoLand () [09-18]
• Emilio Reyna: Los Niños Perdidos (Ropeadope Sur) [05-17] - jazz
• Reyna Tropical: Malegría (Psychic Hotline) [03-29] - Latin [***]
• Rodrigo Recabarren/Yago Yazquez/Pablo Menares: Familia (Greenleaf Music) [02-23] - jazz
• Red Hot Org & Meshell Ndegeocello: Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City (Red Hot Organization) [04-10]
• Reef the Lost Cauze: The Triumphant (Good MuSick) [02-02] - hip-hop
• Kenny Reichert: Switch (Calligram) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3 (Cuneiform) [04-26] - jazz [A-]
• Tomeka Reid/Isadora Edwards/Elisabeth Coudoux: Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (Relative Pitch) [02-23] - jazz [**]
• Dave Rempis/Pandelis Karayorgis/Jakob Heinemann/Bill Harris: Truss (Aerophonic/Drift) [04-23] - jazz [A-]
• Dave Rempis/Tashi Dorji Duo: Gnash (Aerophonic) [06-25] - jazz [***]
• Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Joshua Abrams/Tyler Damon: Propulsion (Aerophonic) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Markus Reuter: Sea of Hopeless Angels (Flatiron) - jazz
• Travis Reuter: Quintet Music (self-released) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Reverso: Shooting Star [Etoile Filante] (self-released) [01-19] - jazz
• Revival Season: Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly) [02-23] - hip-hop [***]
• Revivalists: Gratitude and Motivation ()
• Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross: Challengers [Original Soundtrack] (Milan) [04-26] - soundtrack
• Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross/Boys Noize: Challengers [Mixed] by Boys Noize (The Null Corporation)
• Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade) [01-26] - singer-songwriter [B]
• Chase Rice: Go Down Singin' (Broken Bow) [09-20] - country [***]
• Lisa Rich: As Long as You're Living (Tritone) [06-24] - jazz
• Zach Rich: Solidarity (OA2) [02-23] - jazz [*]
• Rich the Kid: Life's a Gamble ()
• Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn: Quiet in a World Full of Noise (Merge) [10-04] - art pop
• Kim Richey: Every New Beginning () [05-24]
• Tommy Richman: Coyote (ISO Supremacy/Pulse) [09-27] - synth funk
• Daisy Rickman: Howl (self-released) [ 03-20] - chamber folk
• Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) [08-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Rich Ruth: Water Still Flows (Third Man) [06-21] - jazz
• Steph Richards: Power Vibe (Northern Spy) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Max Richter: In a Landscape (Decca) [09-06] - post-minimalism
• Ride: Interplay (Wichita) [03-29] - shoegaze [*]
• Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions (self-released) [03-04] - jazz [***]
• Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) [08-30] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Riley!: Keep Your Cool (Counter Intuitive) [04-19] - emo-pop
• Rinôçérôse: Psychâanalysis () [10-11]
• Ripped to Shreds: Sanshi (Relapse) [09-27] - death metal
• Rising Appalachia: Folk & Anchor () [05-17] - folk
• RiTchie: Triple Digits [112] (self-released) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin: Brasil (Candid) - jazz
• Diego Rivera: With Just a Word (Posi-Tone) [02-02] - jazz [***]
• Diego Rivera: Ofendra (Posi-Tone) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• RM: Right Place, Wrong Person (HYBE/Big Hit) [05-24] - r&b
• Lance Roark: Tenkiller () - country
• Robber Robber: Wild Guess (self-released) [07-26] - post-punk
• Troy Roberts: Green Lights (Toy Robot Music) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt: Backstage Raver (World Music) [05-16] - dream pop
• Duke Robillard: Roll With Me () - blues
• Titi Robin Quartet: Le Sable et L'Écume (Suraj Productions) - jazz
• Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) [05-14] - jazz [A-]
• Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape) [10-08] - jazz [A-]
• Porter Robinson: Smile! :D (Mom+Pop/Sample Sized) [07-26] - indie rock [B]
• Joe Robson: Home (Wilson's Castle Productions) - jazz
• Terre Roche: Inner Adult (self-released) [05-17] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Moses Rockwell Featuring Plain Old Mike: Regular Henry Sessions (Hipnott) [03-01] - hip-hop [***]
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parinha/João Madeira: Into the Wood (Creative Sources) [01-09] - jazz [A-]
• Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen (Verve) [06-14] - jazz [***]
• Pete Rodriguez: I'm Pete Rodriguez, Volume 1 (Sunnyside) [10-25] - jazz
• Willy Rodriguez: Seeing Sounds (Coucs) [03-29] - jazz
• Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me (Capitol) [04-10] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Róis: Mo Léan (self-released) [10-04] - prog electronic
• Javier Rojo: Música Para Amansar Fieras (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
• Rome Streetz & Daringer: Hatton Garden Holdup () [10-04] - hip-hop
• Elias Rønnenfelt: Heavy Glory (Escho) [10-25] - singer-songwriter
• Room 31: Crazy Town (Positive Elevation/577) [03-24] - jazz
• Draco Rosa: Reflejos De Lo Eterno () - Latin
• Rosali: Bite Down (Merge) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Rosé: Rosie (The Black Label/Atlantic) [12-06] - alt-pop
• Adonis Rose Trio [+ One]: For All We Know (Storyville) [03-15] - jazz [**]
• Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Discordia (Earshift Music) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Maggie Rose: No One Gets Out Alive (Big Loud) [04-05] - singer-songwriter
• Rose Hotel: A Pawn Surrender (Strolling Bones) [06-07] - indie pop
• Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End (Sunnyside) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions) [12-06] - jazz [*]
• Joel Ross: Nublues (Blue Note) [02-09] - jazz [A-]
• Rivkah Ross: Dare to Hope (PCJE) - jazz
• Rosso Polare: Campo Amaro (Students of Decay) [07-12]
• Thom Rotella: Side Hustle (HighNote) - jazz
• Jim Rotondi: Finesse (Cellar Music) [02-09] - jazz [B]
• Rotting Christ: Pro Xristou (Season of Mist) [05-24] - black metal
• Claire Rousay: Sentiment (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - ambient pop [*]
• Ada Rovatti: The Hidden World of Piloo (Piloo) [01-19] - jazz
• Royal Republic: LoveCop (Odyssey) [06-07] - alt rock
• Sofie Royer: Young-Girl Forever (Stones Throw) [11-15] - art pop
• RRoxket: Red Ranger () [07-05] - hip-hop
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Hamilton De Holanda: Collab (Sony Music Brazil) [07-19] - jazz
• Rubblebucket: Year of the Banana ()
• Rick Rude: Laverne ()
• Adam Rudolph: Autumn Moon Meditation (Meta) [11-09] - jazz
• Toms Rudzinskis: Interception (Jersika) [10-27] - jazz [***]
• Rüfüs Du Sol: Inhale/Exhale ()
• Victor Ruiz: This Is Not an Album (Volta)
• Jeff Rupert: It Gets Better (Rupe Media) [09-06] - jazz [***]
• Alice Russell: I Am (Tru Thoughts) [04-05]
• Catherine Russell/Sean Mason: My Ideal (Dot Time) [08-26] - jazz [A-]
• Aaron Joseph Russo: Calcio ()
• Ruthven: Rough & Ready (Paul Institute/XL) [10-25] - alt-r&b
• RXKNephew: Till I'm Dead 2 () - hip-hop
• RXM Reality: No. 1 in the World () - electronic
• Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da (Domino) [01-12] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• S.H.: FXWL 24A () [10-11]
• Joana Sá: A Body as Listening (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz
• Saagara: 3 (Glitterbeat/Tak:til) [10-18]
• Saapato: On Fire Island (Sound as Language) [05-03] - ambient
• Jerome Sabbagh: Heart (Analog Tone Factory) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Laetitia Sadier: Rooting for Love (Drag City) [02-24] - ambient pop
• Sadistik/Maulskull: Oblivion Theater () [02-23] - hip-hop
• Sadness: I Want to Make Something as Beautiful as You (self-released) - metal
• Taliba Safiya: Black Magic (self-released) - blues [*]
• Jamie Saft Trio: Plays Monk (Oystertones) [11-22] - jazz [*]
• SahBabii: Saaheem (self-released) [11-08] - hip-hop [***]
• Saigon/Fredro: The Jordan Era (Payday) [05-03] - hip-hop
• Dali de Saint Paul/Maxwell Sterling: Penumbra (Accidental Meetings)
• Saint Etienne: The Night (Heavenly) [12-13] - art pop [*]
• Saint Levant: Deira ()
• Saint Saviour: Sunseeker (VLF) [03-22] - indie pop
• Anne Sajdera: It's Here (Bijuri) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (Milan)
• Dua Saleh: I Should Call Them ()
• Salute: True Magic (Ninja Tune) [07-12] - dance-pop
• Akira Sakata/Jim O'Rourke/Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: Live at SuperDeluxe Volume 1 (Trost) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Samo Salamon/Vasil Hadzimanov/Ra-Kalam Bob Moses: Dances of Freedom (Samo) [01-15] - jazz [A-]
• Salimata: Wooden Floors ()
• Salma e Mac: S&M (self-released) [09-06] - Brazil
• Samana: Samana (The Road) [05-24] - indie folk
• Samara Joy: Portrait (Verve) [10-11] - vocal jazz [*]
• Samlrc: A Lonely Sinner (Starrcade) [03-08] - post-rock
• Jeymes Samuel: The Book of Clarence [The Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Geneva Club/Roc Nation) [01-12] - soundtrack
• Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Angelica Sanchez/Barry Guy/Ramón López: Live at Jazzdor (Maya) [08-02] - jazz
• Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void (Intakt) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Joe Sanders: Parallels (Whirlwind) [10-11] - jazz [B]
• Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis Tre (We Jazz) [02-23] - jazz [B]
• Sanford: Extinguished Dreams ()
• Myles Sanko: Let It Unfold (213 Music) [10-04] - jazz
• Melvis Santa: Jazz Orishas (Distro) [05-31] - jazz
• Saramalacara: Heráldica ()
• Julie Sassoon/Lothar Ohlmeier/Mia Ohlmeier: Inside Colours Live (Jazzwerkstatt) - jazz
• Sassyhiya: Take You Somewhere (Skep Wax) [11-08] - indie pop
• Carla Santana/José Lencastre/Maria do Mar/Gonçalo Almeida: Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz) [01-08] - jazz [***]
• Michael Sarian: Live at Cliff Bell's (Shifting Paradigm) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Satan: Songs in Crimson (Metal Blade) [09-13] - metal
• Satan's Satyrs: After Dark (Tee Pee)
• Masahiko Satoh & Takeo Moriyama Feat. Leon Brichard & Idris Rahman: Live at Café Oto (BBE) [09-06] - jazz
• Marina Satti: P.O.P. (Minos -EP) [05-14] - Greek
• Satya: Songs of the Fathers: A Celebration of the Music of Abdullah Ibrahim (Resonant Artists) [03-22] - jazz
• Sauce Walka: Sauce Father 2 ()
• Thomas Sauerborn: [Zimbel] (Anunaki Tabla) [03-01] - jazz
• Thato Saul: All Doggs Go to Heaven ()
• Sault: Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals) [07-06] [*]
• Greg Saunier: We Sang, Therefore We Were () [04-26]
• A. Savage: The Loft Sessions (Rough Trade -EP) [04-03] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Savage & Smit: Of Course (self-released) - jazz
• Ann Savoy: Another Heart (Smithsonian Folkways) [04-19] - Cajun [*]
• Saxon: Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining) [01-19] - metal
• Say Anything: . . . Is Committed ()
• Scene Queen: Hot Singles in Your Area (Hopeless) [06-28] - nu metal
• Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks: Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz [***]
• Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Ingrid Schmoliner: I Am Animal (Idyllic Noise) - jazz
• Jörg A. Schneider/Luis Lopes: Schneider/Lopes (Schneidercollaboration) [09-15] - jazz [**]
• Nick Schofield: Ambient Ensemble (Backward Music) [02-02] - ambient
• ScHoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) [03-01] - hip-hop [*]
• Scotch Rolex/Shackleton/Omutaba: The Ill Hands of Doom (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
• Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT! Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters Celebrate Clark Terry (Capri) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Frank Paul Schubert/Michel Pilz/Stefan Scheib/Klaus Kugel: Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu) [05-01] - jazz [***]
• Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky (Cellar) [04-19] - jazz [***]
• Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (Arabesque) [05-01] - jazz [A-]
• Claudio Scolari Project: Intermission (Principal) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
• Claudio Scolari Project: Opera 8 (Principal) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Scooter: Open Your Mind and Your Trousers (Sheffield Tunes/Kontor/Virgin)
• Dred Scott/Moses Patrou/Tom Beckham/Matt Pavolka: Cali Mambo (Ropeadope) [09-20] - jazz [**]
• Bianca Scout: Pattern Damage (Sferic) [03-29]
• Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic) [10-18] - jazz [*]
• Seafood Sam: Standing on Giant Shoulders (Drink Sum Wtr) [04-19] - hip-hop
• Sealionwoman: Nothing Will Grow in the Soil (The State51 Conspiracy) [09-13]
• Kit Sebastian: New Internationale (Brainfeeder) [09-27] - neo-psychedelia
• Secret Sisters: Mind, Man, Medicine (New West) [03-29] - country [***]
• See You Space Cowboy: Coup De Grâce (Pure Noise) [04-19] - metalcore
• Seefeel: Everything Squared (Warp -EP) [08-30] - electronic
• Kenny Segal & K-The-I???: Genuine Dexterity () - hip-hop
• Ty Segall: Three Bells (Drag City) [01-26] - prog rock
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Brahms: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon) - classical
• H. Self: Skälva ()
• Hannah Selin: Dream Journal & the Apocalypse (Gold Bolus) [04-12] - classical
• Semiratruth: The Star of the Story () [05-19] - hip-hop
• Mei Semones: Kabutomushi (Bayonet) [04-05] - alt/indie
• Richard Sen: India Man (Do!! You!!!) [08-30]
• Altin Sencalar: Discover the Present (Posi-Tone) [03-29] - jazz [*]
• Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Overture (self-released) - jazz
• Sentient Beings: Truth Is Not the Enemy (Discus) [08-30] - jazz [***]
• Sentimental Family Band: Sweethearts Only () - country
• Senyawa: Vajranala (The State51 Conspiracy) [06-14]
• Charlie Sepulveda: This Is Latin Jazz ()
• Serengeti: KDIV (Othar) [05-03] - hip-hop [A-]
• Serengeti: Palookaville (CC King) [12-25] - hip-hop [A-]
• Ben Seretan: Allora (Tiny Engines) [07-26] - indie rock
• Sara Serpa: Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) [11-15] - vocal jazz [*]
• Serpentwithfeet: Grip (Secretly Canadian) [02-16] - alt-r&b
• Dirk Serries/Rodrigo Amado/Andrew Lisle: The Invisible (Klanggalerie) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Simona Severini/Daniele Richiedei/Giulio Corini: Fedra (Parco Della Musica) [03-15] - jazz
• Sex Swing: Golden Triangle (God Unknown) [10-04]
• Sexyy Red: In Sexyy We Trust (Rebel/Gamma) [05-24] - hip-hop [**]
• Sgt. Papers: Fuga! ()
• Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) [04-10] - jazz [**]
• Shabaka: Possession (Impulse! -EP) [12-06] - jazz [B]
• Shabazz Palaces: Exotic Birds of Play (Sub Pop) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Shaboozey: Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (Republic/Empire) [05-31] - country [*]
• Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance: Jinxed by Being (Drag City) [06-28] - tribal ambient
• Shaé Universe: Love's Letter (self-released) [02-14] - neo-soul
• Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath (EMI North) [02-23] - art pop [*]
• Red Shahan: Loose Funky Texas Junky () - country
• Shakes & Les: Funk Series (self-released -EP) [04-05]
• Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Music Latin) [03-22] - Latin [***]
• Elvie Shane: Damascus () [04-19] - country
• Shannon & the Clams: The Moon Is in the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound) [05-10] - power pop
• Elliott Sharp: Ere Guitar (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz
• Sharp Pins: Radio DDR () [05-19] - power pop
• Sharada Shashidhar: Soft Echoes ()
• Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch) [06-14] - post-minimalism [***]
• ShazaLaKazoo: Chorba (Asphalt Tango)
• She-Nut: Demarcation (Get Better -EP) [03-22]
• The Sheepdogs: Paradise Alone (Right On Canada -EP)
• Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Third Man) [03-01] - power pop [**]
• Shellac: To All Trains (Touch and Go) [05-17] - math rock [*]
• Joan Shelley: Mood Ring (No Quarter -EP) - folk
• Maya Shenfeld: Under the Sun (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - drone
• Brad Shepik: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm) [10-11] - jazz [A-]
• Collin Sherman: String Planes (Ex-tol) - jazz
• Brindley Sherratt/Julius Drake: Fear No More (Delphian) [04-26] - classical
• Shibusashirazu: Shibukoh (Chitei) [10-13] - jazz
• Shigeto: Cherry Blossom Baby () - electronic
• Matthew Shipp/Steve Swell: Space Cube Jazz (RogueArt) [01-15] - jazz [***]
• Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) [04-05] - jazz [A-]
• Matthew Shipp: The Data (RogueArt) [06-17] - jazz [***]
• Yuuko Shiokawa/András Schiff: Brahms, Schumann (ECM) [10-11] - classical
• Patrick Shiroishi: Glass House (Otherly Love) [09-20] - jazz [*]
• Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2) [04-26] - jazz [A-]
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations (Abeyance) [03-29] - country [**]
• Wilson Shook/Ted Byrnes: Joy (Other Ghosts) [05-05] - jazz
• The Shop Window: Daysdream () [05-03]
• Shovel Dance Collective: The Shovel Dance (American Dreams) [10-11] - prog folk
• Showrocka & Mickey Factz: Manifest Destiny (Pay the Rappers) [04-19] - hip-hop
• ShrapKnel: Nobody Planning to Leave (Backwoodz Studioz) [06-07] - hip-hop [B]
• Michael Shrieve: Drums of Compassion (7D Media) [05-24] - jazz [*]
• Jacob Shulman: High Firmament (Endectomorph) [03-01] - jazz [B]
• Jacob Shulman: Ferment Below (Endectomorph) [03-01] - jazz [B]
• Shxcxchcxsh: ......t (Northern Electronics) [11-22] - electronic
• SHY FX and Mr. Williamz: Rudeboy Design Soundtape (Digital Soundboy) [06-07] - mixtape
• Shygirl: Club Shy (Because Music -EP) [02-09] - dance-pop [*]
• Sia: Reasonable Woman (Atlantic) [05-03] - pop
• Siamese: Elements (Long Branch) [08-09] - alt-metal
• Ben Sidran: Rainmaker (Bonsai) [04-26] - jazz
• Zofie Siege: Gems in Dirt (Nuova Materia)
• Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi (Blue Note) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Yotam Silberstein: Standards (Jojo) [02-23] - jazz
• Silent EM: Real Life (DKA) [11-01] - electronic
• Silkroad Ensemble: American Railroad (Nonesuch) [11-15] - folk
• Flavio Silva: Eko (Break Free) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Silverada: Silverada (Prairie Rose) [06-28] - country
• Silverbacks: Easy Being a Winner (Central Tones) [10-18]
• Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits: On Different Paths (Truth Revolution) [01-26] - jazz
• Sturgill Simpson: 2024/09/25 St. Paul, MN () - country
• Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (Warp) [09-06] - jazz fusion [***]
• Sinkane: We Belong (City Slang) [04-05]
• Sinonó: La Espalda Y Su Punto Radiante (Subtext/Multiverse LTD) - jazz
• Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol 2: Book W (Form Is Possibility -2CD) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Sipaningkah: Langkah Suruik (Chinabot)
• Alex Sipiagin: Horizons (Blue Room Music) [05-24] - jazz
• SiR: Heavy (Top Dawg) [03-22] - r&b
• Ekuka Morris Sirikiti: Te-Kwaro Alango-Ekuka (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [08-09] - African
• Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-24] - Afrobeat [*]
• Ballaké Sissoko/Derek Gripper: Ballaké Cissoko & Derek Gripper (Matsuli Music) [05-10] - African [***]
• Mama Sissoko: Live (Meruba-ML) [02-16] - African
• Sitio Rosa: Sitio Rosa ()
• Rotem Sivan: Dream Louder (self-released) [01-12] - jazz
• Six Organs of Admittance: Time Is Glass (Drag City) [04-26] - alt/indie
• SJ: The Biggest What If? (Youngest in Chicago) [08-16] - UK drill
• Skaiwater: #gigi (GoodTalk/Capitol) [06-14] - pop rap [**]
• Skandal: Melodi () [ 10-23]
• Skee Mask: ISS010 (Ilian Tape) [03-28] - electronic [**]
• Skee Mask: Resort (Ilian Tape) [06-13] - electronic [***]
• Jae Skeese & Superior: Testament of the Times (RRC Music/BarsOverBs) [03-08] - hip-hop [A-]
• Skerik/Brian Haas/James Singleton/Simon Lott: Compersion Quartet (Royal Potato Family) [12-06] - jazz
• Skilla Baby: The Coldest (Geffen/Rebel Music) [04-26] - hip-hop
• Skillet: Revolution (self-released) [11-01] - hard rock
• Tom Skinner: Voices of Bishara Live at "mu" (International Anthem) [05-10] - jazz [**]
• Skinshape: Another Side of Skinshape ()
• Skofja Loka: Ljubim Ti Dusu (Geenger)
• Håkon Skogstad: 8 Concepts of Tango (Øra Fonogram) [03-15] - jazz [*]
• Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Bria Skonberg: What It Means (Cellar Live) [07-26] - jazz [**]
• Skrilla: Zombie Love Kensington Paradise (Priority) [11-01] - drill
• Skyzoo: Keep Me Company (Old Soul Music) [11-29] - hip-hop [***]
• M Slago/Homeboy Sandman: And We Are Here (Fly 7 Music) [08-09] - hip-hop [***]
• Slash: Orgy of the Damned (Gibson) [05-17] - blues
• Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista) [01-19] - alt/indie [B]
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of the Last Human Being (Avant Night) [02-23] - avant-metal
• Sleeps While Walking: Sleeps While Walking ()
• Sleepwalker: Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum (self-released) - metal
• The Sleeveens: The Sleeveens (Dirtnap)
• Slift: Ilion (Sub Pop) [01-19] - heavy psych
• Slimelord: Chytridiomycosis Relinquished (20 Buck Spin) [ 03-08] - metal
• Slomosa: Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy)
• Margaret Slovak & Chris Maresh: A Star's Light Does Fall (Slovak Music) [11-01] - jazz [*]
• Slow Hollows: Bullhead (Danger Collective) [03-08] - alt/indie
• Slowerpace: Space Cowboys () [02-02]
• Sly Jr.: Procreation () [07-12]
• Small Black Arrows: The British Museum () [05-31]
• The Smashing Pumpkins: Aghori Mhori Mei (Tirty Tigers/Martha's) [08-02] - alt-metal
• The Smile: Wall of Eyes (XL) [01-26] - art rock [B]
• The Smile: Cutouts (XL) [10-04] - art rock [*]
• Smino: Maybe in Nirvana (Zero Fatigue/Motown) [12-06] - hip-hop [**]
• Ches Smith: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) [02-02] - jazz [*]
• Connie Smith: Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches (Fat Possum) [04-11] - country [**]
• Hal Smith's San Francisco Jazz All-Stars: Live at the International Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival '24 Sedalia, MO [Vol. 1] (self-released) [12-13] - jazz [**]
• Jubu Smith: Jubu (Little Village) [06-30] - jazz
• Linda Catlin Smith: Flowers of Emptiness ()
• Ronny Smith: Struttin' (Pacific Coast Jazz) [04-19] - jazz [*]
• Shane Smith and the Saints: Norther (Geronimo West) [03-01] - country
• Sy Smith: Until We Meet Again (Foreign Exchange Music) [01-26] - r&b
• Tuk Smith & the Restless Hearts: Rogue to Redemption (Gypsy Rose) [08-30] - power pop
• TV Smith: Handwriting (JKP/Easy Action) [05-03] - punk [***]
• Ty Smith & the Minor Offenses: Ty Smith & the Minor Offenses () - country
• Wadada Leo Smith & Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies (Fundacja Słuchaj) [01-30] - jazz
• Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• Walter Smith III: Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) [09-27] - jazz [A-]
• Chris Smither: All About the Bones (Signature Sounds) [05-03] - folk [A-]
• SML: Small Medium Large (International Anthem) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• The Gary Smulyan and Frank Basile Quintet: Boss Baritones (SteepleChase) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Snakeskin: They Kept Our Photographs (Mais Um Discos) [10-11] - ambient pop
• Snarls: With, Love (Take This to Heart)
• Jim Snidero: For All We Know (Savant) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Red Future (Savage Mob) [09-13] - hip-hop [***]
• Rejjie Snow: Peace 2 Da World (Honeymoon/+1) [10-25]
• Snow Patrol: The Forest Is the Path (Polydor) [09-13] - post-britpop
• Snow Strippers: Night Killaz Vol. 2 (Surf Gang -EP) [05-08] - dubstep
• Snowgoose: Descendent () [10-18]
• The Snuts: Millennials (Happy Artist) [02-23] - indie pop
• Soccer Mommy: Evergreen (Loma Vista) [10-25] - alt/indie [*]
• Soft Kill: Escape Forever (Cercle Social) [04-12] - post-punk
• Soft Play: Heavy Jelly (BMG) [07-19] - garage punk
• The Softies: The Bed I Made (Father/Daughter) [08-23] - twee pop
• Vera Sola: Peacemaker (Spectraphonic/City Slang) [02-02] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Sol Sol: Almost All Things Considered (Sail Cabin) - jazz
• Ben Solomon: Echolocation (Giant Step Arts) [09-03] - jazz [***]
• Sólstafir: Hinj Helga Kvöl (Century Media) [11-08] - post-metal
• Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring]: Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions) [06-14] - jazz [*]
• Daniel Sommer/Arve Henriksen/Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences (April) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Peter Somuah: Highlife (ACT Music) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Daniel Son & Futurewave: Bushman Bodega (WavGodMusic) [07-12] - hip-hop [*]
• Laetitia Sonami/Éliane Radigue: A Song for Two Mothers/Occam IX (Black Truffle)
• Sonic Tender: Odd Objects (Robalo Music) [02-16] - jazz
• Astrid Sonne: Great Doubt (Escho) [01-26] - art pop [B]
• Sophie: Sophie (Transgressive) [09-25] - EDM [**]
• Tyshawn Sorey/Adam Rudolph: Archaisms II (Meta) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Susceptible Now (Pi) [10-11] - jazz [***]
• Omar Souleyman: Erbil (Mad Decent) [03-29] - dabke [***]
• Sound the Alarm: Sound the Alarm: A Large Ensemble Instigation for Palestine [Recorded Live in Concert] (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
• The Soundcarriers: Through Other Reflections (Phosphonic) [08-16] - neo-psychedelia
• Southtowne Lanes: Take Care ()
• Luciana Souza: Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside) [08-30] - jazz
• Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator: History of House () [ 08-02] - African
• Space: Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) [03-15] - jazz [***]
• Kavain Wayne Space & XT: Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves) [03-15] - jazz [B]
• Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Shadow Figures (Bead) [11-15] - jazz
• Alena Spanger: Fire Escape (Ruination) [03-22]
• Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Swing Forever (Ovation) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God (Sub Pop) [09-27] - alt-pop
• Spëcht: Triptyques (Zephyrus)
• Spectral Voice: Sparagamos (Dark Descent) [02-09] - metal
• Spectral Wound: Songs of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore) [08-23] - black metal
• Spectres: Presence () [03-15]
• Speed: Only One Mode (Flatspot/Last Ride) [07-12] - metalcore
• Brittney Spencer: My Stupid Life (Elektra) [01-19] - country [**]
• Jon Spencer: Sick of Being Sick (Bronze Rat)
• Vic Spencer & August Fanon: Psychological Cheat Sheet 5 () [10-29] - hip-hop
• Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Sunday (Loyal Label) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Simon Spiess Quiet Tree: Euphorbia (Intakt) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Matthias Spillman: Walcheturm (Unit) - jazz
• Spirit of the Beehive: You'll Have to Lose Something (Saddle Creek) [08-23] - neo-psychedelia
• Split System: Vol. II (Legless) [02-09] - garage rock [***]
• Splitter Orchester: Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia -3CD) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Miro Sprague/Marty Jaffe/Jason Ennis: Tone Forest (Outside In Music) [08-20] - jazz
• Kandace Springs: Run Your Race (SRP) [04-05] - vocal jazz
• Sprints: Letter to Self (City Slang) [01-05] - post-punk [A-]
• Squarepusher: Dostrotime (Warp) [03-01] - drill and bass [***]
• St. Lenox: Ten Modern American Work Songs (Don Giovanni/Anyway) [10-25] - folk [***]
• St. Vincent: All Born Screaming (Virgin) [04-26] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Larry Stabbins: Strangeness Oscillation (Noetic) - jazz
• Moe Staiano: Away Towards the Light (Edgetone) [06-07] - jazz
• Joe Stamm: Allegheny (-EP) - country
• Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: Wildernauts (Don Giovanni) [01-18] - folk [**]
• Anthony Stanco: Stanco's Time (OA2) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Stand Atlantic: Was Here (Hopeless) [08-23] - nu metal
• Vince Staples: Dark Times (Def Jam/Blacksmith) [05-23] - hip-hop [***]
• The Staples Jr. Singers: Searching (Luaka Bop) [06-14] - gospel
• Star Splitter [Gabriele Mitelli/Rob Mazurek]: Medea (We Insist!) [05-21] - jazz [B]
• Starflyer 59: Lust for Gold (Velvet Blue) [08-16] - dream pop
• Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 (Mavin Global Holdings) [05-31] - afrobeats [**]
• Starsailor: Where the Wild Things Grow ()
• State Champs: State Champs (Pure Noise) [11-08] - pop-punk
• State Faults: Children of the Moon (Deathwish) [07-26] - screamo
• The Staves: All Now (Nonesuch) [03-22] - alt/indie
• Gwen Stefani: Bouquet (Interscope) [11-15] - soft rock
• Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• Jason Stein: Anchors (Tao Forms) [09-13] - jazz [***]
• Stemeseder Lillinger: Antumbra (Plaist-Music) [03-01] - jazz
• Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet: Umbra II (Intakt) [06-21] - jazz [***]
• Dayna Stephens: Closer Than We Think (Cellar Music) [04-05] - jazz [***]
• Jae Stephens: Sellout ()
• Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs (Mack Avenue) [09-13] - jazz
• Stetsasonic: Here We Go Again (SpitSLAM) [04-05] - hip-hop
• Colin Stetson: The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada) [09-13] - post-minimalism [**]
• Becca Stevens: Maple to Paper (GroundUP Music) [08-30] - jazz
• Leslie Stevens: Leslie Stevens (Lyricland) [02-23] - country
• Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers (Pi) [05-03] - jazz [A-]
• STHLM Svaga: Plays Carter, Plays Mitchell, Plays Shepp (Thanatosis) [05-17] - jazz
• Stick in the Wheel: A Thousand Pokes () [10-11] - folk punk
• Thomas Stieger: Choices (Leopard/Jazzline) [09-13] - jazz
• Ela Stiles: Not a Stranger () [09-20]
• Still Corners: Dream Talk (Wrecking Light) [04-05] - dream pop
• Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U (Bison) [04-10] - art rock [B-]
• Storefront Church: Ink & Oil (Storefront Church) [06-28] - art pop
• Stormy: Iceberg ()
• The Story So Far: I Want to Disappear (Pure Noise) [06-21] - pop punk
• Geoff Stradling & the StradBand: Nimble Digits (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [***]
• George Strait: Cowboys and Dreamers () - country
• Chuck Strangers: A Forsaken Lover's Plea (Lex) [03-15] - hip-hop
• Straw Man Army: Earthworks (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos) [11-15] - art punk
• Stray Kids: Ate [Chk Chk Ver.] () - K-pop
• Meryl Streek: Songs for the Deceased (Venn) [10-25] - post-punk
• Stress Eater: Everybody Eats! (Silver Age) [11-29] - hip-hop [A-]
• Strfkr: Parallel Realms ()
• Billy Strings: Live: Vol. 1 () [07-12] - bluegrass
• Billy Strings: Highway Prayers (Reprise) [09-27] - bluegrass [*]
• Thomas Strønen: Relations (ECM) [11-28] - jazz [**]
• The Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer: Groove Street (Strikezone) [01-24] - jazz [**]
• Styrofoam Winos: Real Time (Sophomore Lounge) [09-27]
• Suburban Lawns: Baby (Rubellan)
• Milton Suggs: Pure Intention (Imani) [07-12] - jazz
• Mai Sugimoto: Sunlight Filtering Through the Leaves (Asian Improv) [02-02] - jazz
• Sulida: Utos (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Melinda Sullivan/Larry Goldings: Big Foot (Colorfield) [08-16] - jazz [*]
• Sum 41: Heaven :x: Hell (Rise) [03-29] - alt metal
• Sumac: The Healer (Thrill Jockey) [06-21] - avant-metal [*]
• John Summit: Comfort in Chaos (Experts Only/Darkroom) [07-12] - house
• Moses Sumney: Sophcore (Tuntum -EP) [08-02] - alt-r&b [*]
• Kevin Sun: The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph) [03-08] - jazz [***]
• Kevin Sun: Quartets (Endectomorph Music, 2CD) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen]: Lights on a Satellite (In+Out) [11-22] - jazz [A-]
• Sunburned Hand of the Man: Nimbus (Three Lobed)
• Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary (Live at London Bridge Studio) (self-released) [05-03] - post-hardcore
• Sunny Five [Tim Berne/David Torn/Ches Smith/Devin Hoff/Marc Ducret]: Candid (Intakt) [01-19] - jazz [***]
• Super American: Gangster of Love (Wax Bodega) [05-31] - pop punk
• Superposition: II (We Jazz) [07-19] - jazz [**]
• John Surman: Words Unspoken (ECM) [02-16] - jazz [A-]
• Susanna: Meditations on Love (SusannaSonata) [ 08-23] - art pop
• Suss: Birds & Beasts (Northern Spy) [07-28] - ambient
• Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7: Good People (JRL-SGS) [03-01] - vocal jazz
• Suuns: The Breaks (Joyful Noise) [09-06] - art-rock
• Svaneborg Kardyb: Superkilen (Gondwana) [10-18] - jazz
• Anders Svanoe: Astro Eclipse: State of the Baritone Vol. 6 (Irabbagast) [06-04] - jazz
• SVLBRD: Extents (Faint)
• Swamp Dogg: Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St (Oh Boy) [05-31] - bluegrass [***]
• Sweater on Polo: Go Wild Harlem Trax (L.I.E.S. -EP)
• Sweet: Full Circle () [ 09-20]
• Sweet Meg: Bluer Than Blue (Turtle Bay) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Sweet Meg: Live at Honky Tonk Tuesday July 2024 (self-released) [09-30] - jazz [B]
• Steve Swell's Imbued With Light: Hommage à Galina Ustvolskaya (Silkheart) [10-23] - jazz [***]
• Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department (Republic) [04-19] - pop [A-]
• Teddy Swims: I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1.5) ()
• Syclops: Black Eye (Bubble Tease Communications) [04-30] - electronic
• Mohammad Syfkhan: I Am Kurdish (Nyahh) [02-14] - Kurdish
• Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: Secret Message (Circle 9) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Taahliah: Gramarye (Untitied (Recs)) [10-18] - synthpop
• Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra/Rachel Podger: Haydn Symphonies 43 & 49 (Telemusik)
• Takács Quatet: Schubert: String Quartet in G Major D887/String Quartet in B Flat Major D112 (Hyperion) [06-07] - classical
• Aki Takase Japanic: Forte (Budapest Music Center) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann: Ellington (Enja/Yellowbird) [04-19] - jazz [**]
• Takkak Takkak: Takkak Takkak (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [06-07] - African [A-]
• Ohad Talmor/Chris Tordini/Eric McPherson: Back to the Land (Intakt -2CD) [09-25] - jazz [***]
• Lala Tamar & Ofer Ronen: Duo Andalus ()
• Christian Tamburr/Dominick Farinacci/Michael Ward-Bergeman: Triad (Ropeadope) [03-22] - jazz [A-]
• Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black: NatJim (Libra) [05-17] - jazz [***]
• Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft (Libra) [07-12] - jazz [***]
• Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii/Ramón López: Yama Kawa Umi (Not Two) [12-06] - jazz [***]
• Tanapee & Montana Jay: Southend () [01-24] - hip-hop
• Rose Tang & Patrick Golden: A White Horse Is Not a Horse (ESP-Disk) [12-20] - jazz [***]
• Tank and the Bangas: The Heart, the Mind, the Soul ()
• Tapir: The Pilgrim, Their God & the King of My Decrepit Mountain (Heavenly/PIAS) [01-26] - indie folk
• Pablo Tarantino: Charnia (PKmusik) - jazz
• Tarbaby: You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) [06-25] - jazz [***]
• Tasha: All This and So Much More (Bayonet) [09-20] - r&b
• Aaron Lee Tasjan: Stellar Evolution (Blue Élan) [04-12] - power pop
• Kaidi Tatham: Fusion Moves (Reel People Music) [03-29] - hip-hop
• Tatyana: It's Over (Sinderlyn) [03-22]
• Brit Taylor: Kentucky Blue Grassed (Cut a Shine) [02-02] - bluegrass
• Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made (Curtis Taylor Music) [04-12] - jazz [**]
• Joanne Shaw Taylor: Heavy Soul () [06-07]
• Tdf: Blueprint () [12-15] - hip-hop
• Tears for Fears: Songs for a Nervous Planet (Concord) [10-25] - pop rock
• Teens in Trouble: What's Mine (Asian Man) [03-29]
• Teiku: Teiku (577) [04-12] - jazz [***]
• Alfie Templeman: Radiosoul (Chess Club) [06-07] - indie pop
• Templime: Empt Mile (self-released)
• Tems: Born in the Wild (RCA) [06-07] - r&b [A-]
• The Tenementals: Glasgow: A History Vol I-IV ()
• Terminal Nation: Echoes of the Devil's Den (20 Buck Spin) [05-03] - metal
• Jacky Terrasson: Moving On (Earth Sounds) [04-19] - jazz
• Terror Cell: A Quiet ()
• Terrorvision: We Are Not Robots () [09-30] - alt rock
• Jesse Terry: Arcadia (Wander) - singer-songwriter [***]
• Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer]: Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik) [01-12] - jazz [***]
• Jonathan Tetelman/PFK-Prague Philharmonia: The Great Puccini (Deutsche Grammophon) - classical
• TGB: Room 4 (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Th Blisks: Elixa (Efficient Space) [06-21] - hypnagogic pop
• Tha Dogg Pound: W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) () - hip-hop
• Tha God Fahim: Dump Goat 2 (5360114 DK) [02-19] - hip-hop
• Thalin/Cravinhos/VCR Slim: Maria Esmeralda ()
• Thandii: Dream With You (self-released) [09-02]
• Thandii: Come as You (self-released) [09-02]
• Thäström: Somliga Av Oss ()
• That Mexican OT: Texas Technician (Manifest/GoodTalk/Good Money/Capitol) [03-01] - hip-hop [***]
• The The: Ensoulment (Cineola/EarMusic) [09-06] - alt-rock
• Thee Marloes: Perak (Big Crown) [08-09] - soul jazz
• Thee Sacred Souls: Got a Story to Tell ()
• Tidiane Thiam: Africa Yontii (Sahel Sounds)
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein: Gershwin Rhapsody (Decca) [02-23] - jazz
• Thirdface: Ministerial Cafeteria (Exploding in Sound) [11-01] - hardcore punk
• This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy) [06-14] - singer-songwriter [**]
• Thollem: Worlds in a Life, Two (ESP-Disk) [04-05] - jazz [**]
• Fred Thomas: Window in the Rhythm (Polyvinyl) [10-04] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band: Like a Tree It Grows (self-released) [10-25] - jazz
• Leon Thomas: Mutt (EZMNY/Motown) [09-27] - r&b [**]
• Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross Jazz) [03-01] - jazz [***]
• Micah Thomas: Mountains (Artwork) [09-13] - jazz
• Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Tony Orrell: BleySchool: Where? (577) [08-02] - jazz
• Pat Thomas: The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) [09-06] - jazz [**]
• Pat Thomas: This Is Trick Step (577) [09-19] - jazz [**]
• Russell Thompkins Jr.: Riding Solo (SoulMusic/Platinum Garage) [02-02] - r&b
• D. Clinton Thompson: Donnie's Mood (Borrowed) [03-15]
• Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (Storysound) [06-21] - folk [*]
• Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore (New West) [05-31] - folk [**]
• Shawna Thompson: Lean on Neon (Sun) - country
• Hayden Thorpe: Ness (Domino) [09-27] - art pop
• Thou: Umbilical (Sacred Bones) [05-31] - metal
• Three Blind Mice: A Thing in Your Life (self-released) [11-17] - jazz
• Thrown: Excessive Guilt (Arising Empire) [08-30] - nu-metalcore
• Dlala Thukzin: Finally Famous Too (Dlala) [09-27] - house [***]
• Thumbscrew: Wingbeats (Cuneiform) [09-27] - jazz [***]
• Camille Thurman With the Darrell Queen Quartet: Confluence Vol. 1: Alhambra (Epidote) [10-04] - jazz
• Thus Love: All Pleasure (Captured Tracks) [11-01]
• TiaCorine: Almost There (South Scope/Interscope -EP) [02-02] - hip-hop [**]
• Ana Tijoux: Vida () - Latin
• Bryson Tiller: Bryson Tiller (RCA) [04-05] - alt r&b
• Justin Timberlake: Everything I Thought I Was ()
• Timeless Biz: Feast After Famine 2 () - hip-hop
• Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger (Merge) [02-24] - post-punk [B]
• Tinashe: Quantum Baby (Nice Life) [08-16] - alt-r&b [**]
• Tindersticks: Soft Tissue (Lucky Dog/City Slang) [09-13] - slowcore
• Galen Tipton & Holly Waxwing: KeepsakeFM (Orange Milk)
• Hiruy Tirfe: 10,000 Hours (Tirfe) [01-26] - jazz
• Anna Tivel: Living Thing (Fluff and Gravy) [05-31] - folk [***]
• Benjamin Tod: Shooting Star () - country
• Don Toliver: Hardstone Psycho (Cactus Jack/Atlantic/Hardstone) [06-14] - hip-hop
• Viktoria Tolstoy: Stealing Moments (ACT) [03-01] - jazz [*]
• Tomin [Perea-Chamblee]: Flores Para Verene/Cantos Para Caramina (International Anthem) [08-02] - jazz [*]
• Tomin [Perea-Chamblee]: A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem) [11-01] - jazz [**]
• Tomo: Vielle-electronica (Knotwilg) [09-01]
• Tomorrow X Together: The Star Chapter: Sanctuary (Big Hit/HYBE -EP) [11-04] - K-pop
• Tiziano Tononi/Emanuele Parrini: Other Interactions on . . . July 5th (Felmay) [05-17] - jazz
• Tonus: Analog Deviation (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [*]
• Zach Top: Cold Beer & Country Music (Leo33) [05-07] - country [**]
• Topographies: Interior Spring ()
• Kavus Torabi: The Banishing (Believers Roast)
• Rafael Toral: Spectral Evolution (Moikai) [02-24] - jazz [*]
• Toro Y Moi: Hole Erth (Dead Oceans) [09-06] - alt-pop
• Torres: What an Enormous Room (Merge) [01-26] - art rock [**]
• Samuel Torres & the Latin Chamber Ensemble: A Dance for Birds (Blue Conga) [05-24] - jazz
• Emilíana Torrini: Miss Flower (Groenland) [06-21] - art pop
• Total Blue: Total Blue (Music From Memory) [07-19] - new age
• Total Tommy: Bruises ( PIAS) [11-29] - indie rock
• Touché Amoré: Spiral in a Straight Line (Rise) [10-11] - screamo
• Myke Towers: La Pantera Negra () - Latin
• Devin Townsend: PowerNerd (HevyDevy/InsideOut) [10-25] - alt-metal
• Trace Mountains: Into the Burning Blue ()
• Meghan Trainor: Timeless (Epic)
• Tramhaus: The First Exit (Subroutine) [09-20] - post-punk
• Trance Macabre: Trance Macabre (Redscroll) [07-05] - jazz
• Trance Map (Evan Parker and Matthew Wright): Horizons Held Close (Relative Pitch) [11-15] - jazz [**]
• Transatlantic Trance Map: Marconi's Drift (False Walls) [09-13] - J [**]
• Transition Unit: Fade Value (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [***]
• Transmission Towers: Transmission One (É Soul Cultura/Mr Bongo) [05-10] - house [**]
• Trauma Ray: Chameleon ()
• Traüme: Wrzask () [10-05]
• Travis: L.A. Times (BMG) [07-12] - post-britpop
• Trentemøller: Dreamweaver () [09-13] - dream pop
• Rebecca Trescher Tentet: Character Pieces (self-released) [05-03] - jazz
• Tri-County Liquidators: Shining Through (Hitt/Big Cartel -EP)
• Tribulation: Sub Rosa in Æternum (Century Media) [11-01] - gothic metal
• Trigger Object: Ghost Bros OST () [07-11]
• Triple Fire: Extra (Space Shower Music) [07-31]
• Triples: Assemble24 (Modhaus) [05-08] - K-pop
• Tristwch Y Fenywod: Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School) [08-30] - neofolk
• Tropical Fuck Storm: Tropical Fuck Storm's Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed) [09-27] [*]
• Walter Trout: Broken ()
• Trueno: El Último Baile () [02-23] - pop rap
• Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare -3CD) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Juanma Trujillo: Howl (Endectomorph Music) [07-12] - jazz [**]
• Truth & Devotion: Heaven at Last (Holy Grail) [01-15] - gospel
• Tryp Tych Trio: Warsaw Conjunction (On the Corner) [06-21] - jazz
• Dimitris Tsakas Trio: Conversation Helps (Hellenic Jazz) - jazz
• Misha Tsiganov: Painter of Dreams (Criss Cross Jazz) [07-12] - jazz
• Toshi Tsuchitori/Eric-Maria Couturier: Different Echoes in the Same Dust (Ryuko Gakusha) - jazz
• Niwel Tsumbu: Milimo (Diatribe) - jazz
• Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami: Wovenland 3 (Erstwhile) [08-27]
• Akiko Tsuruga: Beyond Nostalgia (SteepleChase) [01-19] - jazz [**]
• Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! (Sentimental) [03-22] - alt/indie [***]
• Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music) [02-01] - jazz [*]
• Sofi Tukker: Bread ()
• Tulpas: Atsibo (Astral Spirits) [09-13] - jazz [**]
• Alexi Tuomarila: Departing the Wasteland (Edition) [11-22] - jazz
• Turbo Lotus: Turbo Lotus (Park West) [09-24] - jazz
• Gavin Turek: Diva of the People (Madame Gold) [ 09-06] - dance-pop
• Josh Turner: This Country Music Thing () - country
• Andromeda Turre: From the Earth (Starbilt) [07-26] - jazz [*]
• Steve Turre: Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) [06-28] - jazz [***]
• Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: Into the Wild () - country
• Twenty One Pilots: Clancy (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [05-24] - alt-pop
• Twice: With You-th (JYP/Republic -EP) [03-24] - K-pop
• Twin Talk: Live (Shifting Paradigm) [09-27] - jazz [**]
• Twin Pillars: 48 Pillars of Power: Volume 1 (self-released) [05-25] - hip-hop
• Twine: New Old House ()
• Two Shell: Two Shell (Young) [10-25] - electronic [**]
• Tyla: Tyla (Epic) [03-22] - pop [**]
• Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia (Columbia) [10-28] - hip-hop [***]
• Tylor and the Train Robbers: Hum of the Road () - country
• Tzompantli: Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force (20 Buck Spin) [05-17] - death metal
• Oded Tzur: My Prophet (ECM) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Uboa: Impossible Light (The Flenser) [06-28] - post-metal
• Kali Uchis: Orquídeas (Geffen) [01-12] - Latin [A-]
• David Udell: It's Worth It (self-released) [06-18]
• UFO95: A Brutalist Dystopian Society (Mord)
• Federico Ughi: Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577) [03-08] - jazz
• Ugly: Twice Around the Sun (self-released -EP) [04-03] - art rock
• Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God (Debemur Morti) [06-14] - metal
• Ulla & Ultrafog: It Means a Lot (Motion Ward) [04-17] - ambient
• Lisa Ullén: Heirloom (Fönstret) [02-12] - jazz [**]
• Ulna: Gazebo ()
• Ultimate Thunder: A Spider Will Come to Eat Your Flesh (Easy Listening) [05-10] - experimental rock
• The Umbrellas: Fairweather Friend (Tough Love) [01-26] - jangle pop [*]
• Umuumu.: We Are Umuumu. (Dramatist) [05-04] - jazz
• Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats: Nell' Ora Blu (Rise Above) [05-10] - psychedelic rock
• Undeath: More Insane (Prosthetic) [10-04] - death metal
• Underworld: Strawberry Hotel (Virgin Music) [10-25] - techno
• Unholy Altar: Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite () [07-05] - metal
• Uniform: American Standard (Sacred Bones) [08-23] - sludge metal
• Unionen: Unionen (We Jazz) [12-06] - jazz [***]
• Unknown T: Blood Diamond (Stay Solid/Island) [01-12] - UK hip-hop
• The Untamed Youth: Git Up and Go (Hi-Tide) [06-27] - garage/surf
• Unto Others: Never, Neverland (Century Media) [09-20] - metal
• Upsammy: Strange Meridians (Topo2) [11-22] - IDM
• Keith Urban: High () [09-20] - country
• Urika's Bedroom: Big Smile, Black Mire (True Panther) [11-01]
• Uroboro: As in an Unpicking of Time's Garment (Discus Music) [11-13] - jazz
• USA Nails: Feel Worse (One Little Independent) [03-22] - noise rock
• Usher: Coming Home (Mega) [02-09] - r&b
• UTO: When All You Want to Do Is Be the Fire Part of Fire (InFiné) [04-12] - art pop
• The Vaccines: Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations (Super Easy) [01-12] - punk-rock revival
• Chucho Valdés/Royal Quartet: Cuba and Beyond (InterCat Music Group) [08-30] - jazz [**]
• Valebol: Valebol (Otherly Love) [04-05]
• Joey Valence & Brae: No Hands ( JVB) [06-07] - hip-hop
• Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music) [05-31] - jazz [***]
• Valknee: Ordinary (Tunecore) [04-10] - J-pop [**]
• Marcos Valle: Túnel Acústico () - Latin
• Ben Vallee: Introducing . . . () - country
• Valley: Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden (Universal Music Canada) [08-30] - alt-pop
• Colin Vallon: Samares (ECM) - jazz
• Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) [04-05] - alt/indie [**]
• John Van Deusen: Anthem Sprinter ()
• Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Peter Van Huffel/Meinrad Kneer/Yorgos Dimitriadis: Synomilies (Evil Rabbit) [10-01] - jazz [**]
• Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion: From Me to You (String Damper) [05-13] - vocal jazz
• Jozef Van Wissem: The Night Dwells in the Day (Incunabulum) [dark folk]
• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Centennial: The Music of Thad Jones: Live at the Village Vanguard (BCM+D) [08-30] - jazz
• Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil (Origin) [04-26] - jazz [**]
• Vanishing: Shelter of the Opaque (The State51 Conspiracy) [03-15]
• Julia Vari Feat Negroni's Trio: Somos (Alternative Representa) [02-16] - vocal jazz [A-]
• Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band: Cajun Bleu (self-released) [04-12] - jazz
• April Varner: April (Cellar Music) [06-29] - jazz
• Väsen & Hawktail: Väsen & Hawktail ()
• Vayda: Vaytrix () [10-15]
• Vazesh: Tapestry (Earshift Music) [11-08] - jazz
• Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours: Songs Del Yucayeke (Picaro) [06-21] - jazz
• Vedo: Next Chapter (New Wav/Empire) [05-17] - soul
• Alan Vega: Insurrection (In the Red) [05-31] - synth punk
• Donald Vega: As I Travel (Imagery/Tiger Turn) [10-27] - jazz
• Vegyn: The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (Plz Make It Ruins) [04-05] - trip hop
• Velvet: Romance () [ 02-23] - alt-metal
• Piet Verbist: Flamenco Jazz Summit: El Mar Empieza Aquí (Origin) [08-16] - jazz [***]
• Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere (OA2) [05-17] - vocal jazz [**]
• Benjamin Vergara & Amanda Irrarrazabal: Último Sosiego (577) [01-04] - jazz
• The Verge: The Verge (Is It Jazz?) - jazz
• Martina Verhoeven Quintet: Indicator Light (Live at Paradox 2023) (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15] - jazz [A-]
• The Veronicas: Gothic Summer (Big Noise Music Group -EP)
• Verraco: Breathe . . . Godspeed (Timedance -EP) [05-31] - electronic [***]
• Dave Vettraino: A Bird Shaped Shadow ()
• Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (Vibration Black Finger) - jazz
• Luis Vicente Trio: Come Down Here (Clean Feed) [06-28] - jazz [**]
• Vicious Blade: Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness) [09-27] - death metal
• Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms -2CD) [04-05] - jazz [A]
• Village of the Sun: Live in Tokyo (Gearbox) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Villagers: That Golden Time (Domino) [05-10] - chamber folk
• Liba Villavecchia Trio + Luis Vicente: Muracik (Clean Feed) [03-29] - jazz [**]
• Reuben Vincent: General Admission (Jamla/Roc Nation)
• Mike Viola: Rock of Boston ()
• Violence Gratuite: Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala) [06-14] - pop rap
• Shawna Virago: Blood in Her Dreams () [05-31]
• Adèle Viret Quartet: Close to the Waer (Lézard Inouie) [10-11] - jazz
• The Virginmarys: The House Beyond the Fires () [11-01]
• Vitrol: Suffer & Become (Century Media) [01-26] - metal
• Void Patrol: Live @ Victo (Les Disques Victo) [03-08] - jazz
• The Voidz: Like All Before You (Cult/Diggers Factory) [09-20] - synthpop
• Vola: Friend of a Phantom (Mascot) [11-01] - prog metal
• Volapuk: Where Is Tamashii? (Cuneiform) [11-29]
• Leif Vollebekk: Revelation (Secret City) [09-27] - singer-songwriter
• Von Hertzen Brothers: In Murmuration () [10-25]
• Hana Vu: Romanticism (Ghostly International) [05-03] - alt/indie
• Vuur & Zijde: Boezem () [07-12] - metal
• Bob Vylan: Humble as the Sun (Ghost Theatre) [04-05] - UK rap [A-]
• Tashi Wada: What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl) [06-07] - ambient
• Morgan Wade: Obsessed (Ladylike/RCA Nashville) [08-16] - country [A-]
• The Waeve: City Lights (Transgressive) [09-20] - art rock
• Nasheet Waits: New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet) (Giant Step Arts) [07-05] - jazz [***]
• Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 1 (Turtle Bay) [11-22] - jazz [***]
• Kelsey Waldon: There's Always a Song (Oh Boy) [05-10] - country [***]
• Pritesh Walia: Hope Town (Pritesh Walia Music) [11-01] - jazz
• Alan Walker: A Little Too Late (Aunt Mimi's) [06-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Alice Wallace: Here I Am () - country
• Ian Wallace & OP!: Words & Sounds Vol 1.5 (self-released) [01-16] - hip-hop
• The Wall 4tet [Carlos "Zingaro"/Florian Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira]: Na Parade (Catalytic) - jazz
• Wallice: The Jester (Dirty Hit) [11-15] - indie pop
• Wallows: Model (Atlantic) [05-24] - indie pop
• Jack Walrath: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) [03-12] - jazz [***]
• Jennifer Walshe/Tony Conrad: In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks) [05-24] - jazz
• Walt Disco: The Warping (Lucky Number)
• Ben Waltzer: The Point (Calligram) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Wand: Vertigo (Drag City) [07-26] - neo-psychedelia
• Joanna Wang: Hotel La Rut (Sony Music) [05-06] - prog pop
• The War on Drugs: Live Drugs Again ()
• Greg Ward/Ziv Ravitz/Matthew Stevens/Leo Genovese: Full Cream (Sugah Hoof) [11-01] - jazz
• ZZ Ward: Mother (Dirty Shine)
• Marta Warelis/Andy Moor: Escape (Relative Pitch) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Warmdeutig: It Was Long Ago, It Will Be a Long Time (self-released) [07-05] - jazz
• Warlord: Free Spirit Soar (High Roller)
• Warmdüscher: Too Cold to Hold (Strap Originals) [11-15] - art punk [*]
• The Warning: Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic) [06-28] - alt metal
• Kenny Warren: Sweet World (Out of Your Head) [05-24] - jazz [**]
• Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: Your Community Hub (Castles in Space)
• Washed Out: Notes From a Quiet Life ()
• Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement (Young) [05-03] - jazz [***]
• Mamiko Watanabe: Being Guided by the Light (Jojo) [02-23] - jazz
• Water Damage: In E (12XU) [04-12] - drone
• Suki Waterhouse: Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop) [09-13] - indie pop
• Marry Waterson/Adrian Crowley: Cuckoo Storm ()
• WateRR & Wavy Da Ghawd: Washed Ashore () [02-01] - hip-hop
• Lauren Watkins: The Heartbroken Record (Big Loud/Songs & Daughters/Mercury/Republic) - country
• Rod Wave: Last Lap (Alamo/Hit House Entertainment) [10-11] - hip-hop
• Wave Arising: (The) Rooted Sky (Ransom Note)
• Wavy Bagels With Driveby: A Carfull (Break All) [05-03] - hip-hop [**]
• Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Anti-) [03-22] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Way Dynamic: Duck ()
• Chasen Wayne: Strange Places () - country
• Weak Signal: Fine ()
• Weasel Walter Large Ensemble: Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization (Improved Sequence) [03-29] - jazz
• Jane Weaver: Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire) [04-05] - art pop
• Joe Webb: Hamstrings & Hurricanes (Edition)
• Anna Webber: Simpletrio2000 (Intakt) [10-18] - jazz [***]
• Florian Weber: Imaginary Cycle (ECM) [09-13] - jazz
• Philip Weberndoerfer: Tides (Shifting Paradigm) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Faye Webster: Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian) [03-01] - singer-songwriter [*]
• Georgia Webster: Signs (River House Artists)
• Paul Wee/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Michael Collins: Henselt & Bronsart: Piano Concertos (BIS) [05-31] - classical
• Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton: Every Now and Then: Live at OCL Studios (Cellar Music) [04-12] - jazz [***]
• Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song: Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson (Amber Inn) [06-01] - vocal jazz [*]
• The Weeknd: Dancing in the Flames (XO/Republic) [09-13] - synthpop
• Orlando Weeks: LOJA (Fiction) [06-07] - art pop
• Judith Wegmann/Jens Ruland/Robert Torche: Kon. Takte [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [09-21] - jazz
• Randy Weinstein: HarmoniMonk (Random Chance) [05-15] - jazz [**]
• Weird of Mouth [Mette Rasmussen/Craig Taborn/Ches Smith]: Weird of Mouth (Otherly Love) [10-04] - jazz [A-]
• Dan Weiss: Even Odds (Cygnus) [03-29] - jazz [A-]
• David Weiss Sextet: Auteur (Origin) [09-20] - jazz [***]
• Gillian Welch/David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony) [08-23] - folk [***]
• Paul Weller: 66 (Polydor) [05-24] - soft rock
• Jesse Welles: Hells Welles () - country
• Ben Wendel: Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: In Lieu of Flowers (Hopeless) [04-12] - folk-rock [B-]
• West of Texas: Hot Motel Nights () - country
• Hudson Westbrook: Hudson Westbroook () - country
• Mike Westbrook: Band of Bands (Westbrook Music) [06-28] - jazz
• Hein Westergaard/Katt Hernandez/Raymond Strid: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn (Gotta Let It Out) [02-25] - jazz [**]
• Stian Westerhus & Maja S. K. Ratkje: All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) [03-15] - jazz [B]
• Westside Gunn & DJ Drama: Still Praying (Griselda) [11-01] - hip-hop
• Western Jazz Collective: Dark Journey: The Music of Andrew Rathbun (Origin) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• Wet Dip: Smell of Money (Feel It -EP)
• Koe Wetzel: 9 Lives (Columbia) [07-19] - country
• Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack (Interscope) [03-15] - hip-hop [A-]
• Kirk Whallum: Epic Cool (Mack Avenue) [05-17] - pop jazz
• Wheel: Charismatic Leaders (Inside Out) [05-03] - prog metal
• Andy Wheelock/Whee 3 Trio: In the Wheelhouse (OA2) [10-25] - jazz [**]
• While She Sleeps: Self Hell (Spinefarm) [03-29] - metalcore
• Whisper States: Whisper States (Trap Set International) - jazz
• White+: II (Maybe Mars)
• Conchúr White: Swirling Violets (Bella Union) [01-19] - singer-songwriter [***]
• Jack White: No Name (Third Man) [07-19] - garage rock [**]
• Jim White/Marisa Anderson: Swallowtail (Thrill Jockey) [05-10] - jazz [*]
• White Denim: 12 (Bella Union) [12-06] - alt/indie
• Whitelands: Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day (Sonic Cathedral) [02-23] - dream pop
• Amanda Whiting: The Liminality of Her (First Word) [03-22] - jazz
• WHO Trio: Live at Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) [06-12] - jazz [***]
• WhoMadeWho: Kiss & Forget (The Moment) [09-13]
• Whores.: War. (Ghost Is Clear) [04-16] - metal
• Whose Hat Is This?: Pony Boy (Heartcore) [04-26] - jazz
• Why?: The Well I Fell Into (Waterlines) [08-02] - indie pop
• Why the Eye: Inspirex (Exag)
• Wiener Concert-Verein/Milan Turkovic: Mozart: Nachtmusik (Gramola) - classical
• Cecily Wilborn: Kuntry Gurl Playlist (self-released) - country [*]
• Wilderado: Talker (Bright Antenna) [09-20]
• Wildflower: Green World () [03-01]
• Friso van Wijck: Friso van Wijck's Candy Container (TryTone) [11-01] - jazz [***]
• Wilco: Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm -EP) [06-28] - alt/indie [*]
• Andrew Wilcox: Dear Mr. Hill (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [08-16] - jazz
• Wild Pink: Dulling the Horns (Fire Talk) [10-04] - indie rock
• Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/Dylan Day: Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day (Leaving) [07-12] - ambient jazz [*]
• Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note) [10-11] - jazz [**]
• Cole Williams: How We Care for Humanity (Four Corner) [10-25] - vocal jazz [**]
• Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: Willson Williams (One Little Independent) [04-26] [*]
• Lucinda Williams: Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road (Highway 20) [12-06] [*]
• Pharrell Williams: Virginia (Black Yacht Rock, Vol. 1: City of Limitless Access) (Black Yacht Rock)
• Vanessa Williams: Survivor (Mellian Music) [08-23] - dance-pop
• Yasmin Williams: Acadia (Nonesuch) [10-04] - American primitivism
• Jontavious Wallis: West Georgia Blues ()
• Kelly Willis/Melissa Carper/Brennen Leigh: Wonder Women of Country (Brooklyn Basement -EP) [03-15] - country [**]
• Willow: Empathogen (Three Six Zero/Gamma) [05-03] - alt-r&b [**]
• Charlotte Day Wilson: Cyan Blue (XL) [05-03] - r&b
• Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind (BBR) [08-23] - country [***]
• Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) [06-14] - jazz [A-]
• Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O: Tree Jazz: The Shape of Christmas to Come (Palmetto) [10-25] - jazz [***]
• Adam Wiltzie: Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal (Kranky) [04-05] - ambient
• Kathrine Windfeld Sextet: Aldebaran (Stunt) [03-29] - jazz [***]
• Winged Wheel: Big Hotel ()
• Mark Wingfield: The Gathering (Moonjune) - jazz
• Mark Winkler: The Rules Don't Apply (Café Pacific) [01-12] - vocal jazz [**]
• Alex Winston: Bingo! (Rat Rizzo) [07-23] - indie pop
• Norma Winstone/Kit Downes: Outpost of Dreams (ECM) [05-07] - vocal jazz [***]
• Norma Winstone: Wheeler With Words (AMM) [11-01] - vocal jazz
• Luke Winslow-King: Flash-a-Magic (Bloodshot) [09-06] - blues-rock [*]
• Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal (Partisan) [12-06] - singer-songwriter [B-]
• Winterfylleth: The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight) [09-13] - metal
• Wintersun: Time II (Nuclear Blast) [08-30] - metal
• Carl Winther/Richard Andersson/Jeff "Tain" Watts: WAW! (Hobby Horse) [06-07] - jazz [**]
• Wire Worms: The First to Come In () [11-01]
• Wishy: Triple Seven (Winspear) [08-16] - shoegaze
• Wisp: Pandora (Interscope -EP) [04-05]
• Wizkid: Morayo (Starboy Entertainment/RCA) [11-22] - afrobeats
• Wojtek the Bear: Shaking Hands With the NME () [04-12] - indie pop
• Remi Wolf: Big Ideas (Island) [07-12] - dance-pop [*]
• Warren Wolf: History of the Vibraphone (Cellar Music) [08-23] - jazz [**]
• Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton: Difficult Messages Volume Five: Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton Live in Los Angeles (self-released) [04-15] - jazz
• Wolfacejoeyy: Valentino (Alamo) [05-15] - hip-hop
• Ben Wolfe: The Understated (Resident Arts) [08-09] - jazz [*]
• Chelsea Wolfe: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista) [02-09] - darkwave [**]
• Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn: Duo (ACT Music) [01-26] - jazz
• Andrea Wolper: Wanderlust (Moonflower Music) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
• Marv Won: I'm Fine, Thanks for Asking (Mello Music Group) [04-05] - hip-hop
• WoochieWobbler: Is My Future Bright? (3455092 DK -EP) [01-15] - hip-hop [**]
• WoochieWobbler: Thrilla (self-released -EP) [10-04] - hip-hop [B]
• Amy Aileen Wood: The Heartening (Colorfield) [05-03] - jazz
• Jack Wood & Nichaud Fitzgibbon: Movie Magic: Great Songs From the Movies (Jazz Hang) [10-01] - vocal jazz [**]
• Jasmine Wood: Piano Reverb (AD 93) [03-08]
• Lucy Woodward: Lucy Woodward & the Rocketeers (GroundUP Music) [07-05] - vocal jazz
• Wool & the Pants: Not Fun in the Summertime () [09-25]
• Al Wootton: Lifted From the Earth (Berceuse Heroique)
• World of White Ice: Who Can Pave the Ocean for Me? (self-released) [10-08] - ambient
• Wormed: Omegon (Season of Mist) [07-05] - metal
• Woven Talon: Bao Somwa ()
• Lizz Wright: Shadow (Blues & Greens) [04-12] - vocal jazz [*]
• Wu-Lu: Learning to Swim on Empty (Warp) [05-17] - downtempo
• Wunderhorse: Midas (Communion) [08-30] - alt/indie
• Wussy: Cincinnati Ohio (Shake It) [11-15] - alt/indie [***]
• Wussy: The Great Divide (Shake It -EP) [11-15] - alt/indie [B]
• Wussy Duo: Cellar Door (Shake It -EP) [11-15] - alt/indie [*]
• Luzia von Wyl Ensemble: Frakmont (LU) [05-03] - jazz
• Luke Wyland: Kuma Cove (Balmat)
• X: Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum) [08-02] - postpunk [*]
• X4: Trophied Up () [08-21]
• Xavi: Next (Interscope) [10-11] - corrido tumbado
• Xaviersobased: Keep It Goin Xav (34Ent) [01-15] - hip-hop [*]
• Zeno & Oaklander: Via Negativa ()
• XG: Awe ()
• Min Xiao-Fen: Metta (Asian Improv) [03-23] - Korean
• Xikers: House of Tricky: Trial and Error [Tricky Ver.] () - K-pop
• Xiu Xiu: 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stileetto With Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl) [09-27] - neo-psychedelia
• Jamie XX: In Waves (Young) [09-20] - electropop [A-]
• Xylitol: Anemones (Planet Mu) [07-05] - jungle [***]
• YAI: Sky Time (AKP) [09-06] - jazz
• Koichi Yamaguchi Trio: Afureli (Uhauha Music) [08-25] - jazz
• Eri Yamamoto Quadraphonic: Fly With the Wings (Mahakala Music) [10-04] - jazz [***]
• Miki Yamanaka Trio: Chance (Cellar Live) - jazz
• Yang: Rejoice! (Cuneiform) [07-26] - jazz
• Savina Yannatou/Julius Gabriel/Agusti Fernandez/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: In the Light of the Current Myth (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
• Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor (Ninja Tune) [09-13] - art pop [***]
• Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (Island) [03-01] - art punk [A-]
• Fumio Yasuda: Sora (Pourquoi) [11-12] - jazz
• John Canning Yates: The Quiet Portraits (Violette) [04-19] - singer-songwriter
• Yatta: Palm Wine () [10-25]
• Yazmine MB: Healer (self-released)
• Yeat: 2093 (Field Trip/Capitol) [02-16] - hip-hop
• Yeat: Lyfestyle () - hip-hop
• Yellow Claw: House Music for Stripclubs () [11-29]
• Yellow Gas Flames: Satanic Hair Dye ()
• Yellow Swans: Out of Practice I & II (Yellow Swans Archive)
• Yes Indeed: King of Blue (Meaksuma)
• Li Yilei: Nonage (Métron)
• Yin Yin: Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
• Ynys: Dosbarth Nos (Libertino) [07-12]
• Dwight Yoakam: Brighter Days (VIA/Thirty Tigers) [11-15] - country [**]
• Yobs: Yobs () [05-03]
• Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation: Un Mundo En Soledad (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) [11-01] - jazz
• Jharis Yokley: Sometimes, Late at Night ()
• Yon Loader: Yon Loader ()
• Yoo Doo Right: From the Heights of Our Pastureland (Mothland)
• Thom Yorke: Confídenza (XL) [04-26] - soundtrack
• Otomo Yoshihide/Chris Pitsiokos: Uncanny Mirror (Eleatic) [05-17] - jazz
• Yoth Iria: Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle Productions) [11-08] - metal
• Youbet: Way to Be ()
• Younee: Improvisations Live in Germany (Fulminantmusic) [11-01] - jazz
• Lola Young: This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway (Island) [06-21] - alt-pop
• Michon Young: Love Is My Lane (self-released) [04-26] - soul
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Fu##in' Up (Reprise) [04-26] - rock [***]
• Young Jesus: The Fool (Saddle Creek) [05-24] - art rock
• Young Jonn: Jiggy Forever (Chocolate City Music)
• Young Miko: Att. (The Wave Music Group) [04-05] - pop rap
• Young Slo-Be: Slo-Be Bryant 4 () [10-25] - hip-hop
• Your Arms Are My Cocoon: Death of a Rabbit (self-released) [08-11] - screamo
• Your Old Droog: Movie (self-released) [06-20] - hip-hop
• yPLO: ob TRU (Feedback Moves) [01-24] - jazz
• Yseult: Mental (Y.Y.Y) [09-20] - electropop [**]
• Yung Lean & Bladee: Psykos (Year0001/World Affairs) [03-13] - post-punk
• Yungmorpheus & Alexander Spit: Waking Up & Choosing Violence () [06-28] - hip-hop
• Yves: I Did ()
• Rachel Z: Sensual (Dot Time) [03-29] - jazz
• ZA!/Tomás De Perrate: Jolifanto (Lovemonk) [03-22] - flamenco [**]
• Lechuga Zafiro: Desde los Oídos de un Sapo (Tra Tra Trax) [10-18] - Latin
• Rebeka Rusjan Zajc: Prelude (Clean Feed) [01-26] - jazz
• Zanias: Ecdysis () [02-16]
• Zanja All Stars: Cuban Jam Session Volume 1 (Zanja) - Latin jazz
• Alice Zawadzki/Fred Thomas/Misha Mullov-Abbado: Za Górami (ECM) [09-13] - jazz
• Zawose Queens: Maisha (Real World) [06-07] - African [***]
• Zayn: Room Under the Stairs ()
• Zeal & Ardor: Greif (self-released) [08-23] - alt-metal
• Zedd: Telos ()
• Denny Zeitlin: Panoply (Sunnyside) [06-14] - jazz [**]
• Miguel Zenón: Golden City (Miel Music) [08-30] - jazz [A-]
• Zetra: Zetra (Nuclear Blast) [09-13] - gothic metal
• Meryl Zimmerman: Easy to Love (Tuxedo Cat) [09-23] - jazz [B]
• Tucker Zimmerman: Dance of Love (4AD) [10-11] - singer-songwriter [A-]
• Carlos Zingaro/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris (4DaRecord) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
• Dann Zinn: Two Roads (Ridgeway) [10-04] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: Her Melodious Lay (Tzadik) [05-31] - jazz
• John Zorn & Jesse Harris: Love Songs Live (Tzadik) [05-31] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: Lamentations (Tzadik) [08-16] - jazz [**]
• John Zorn: New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik) [10-18] - jazz [A-]
• John Zorn: Ballades (Tzadik) - jazz [*]
• John Zorn: Ou Phrontis (Tzadik) [12-09] - jazz [**]
• Zsela: Big for You (Mexican Summer) [06-14] - art pop
• Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance (self-released) [05-11] - jazz [**]
• Zuli: Lambda (Subtext) [07-04] - glitch
• The Zutons: The Big Decider (Icepop) [04-26] - alt/indie
• Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet and Friends Meet Sun Ra (Red Hot +) [06-21] - jazz [**]
• Twisters: The Album (Atlantic) [07-19] - country