Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • 2hollis: Star (Interscope) [04-04] - experimental hip-hop [**]
  • 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: Interaction (Anzic) [03-15] - jazz [***]
  • 3rd Force: Lifeforce () [06-27] - smooth jazz
  • 10toeflex: En Habitant Avec Des Fantômes (-EP) [02-13]
  • 16: Guides for the Misguided () [02-07] - sludge metal
  • 38 Special: Milestone () [09-19]
  • 54 Ultra: First Works () [ 05-30]
  • 100%WET: 100%WET (Crunchy Frog) [05-16]
  • 509 BMG: Hollow Point Bad Boy () [05-09] - hip-hop
  • @xcrswx: Moodboard (Feedback Moves) [12-05] - jazz [***]
  • Σtella: Adagio (Sub Pop)
  • $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) [07-18] - hip-hop [***]
  • μ-Ziq: 1979 (Balmat) [10-31] - ambient
  • Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Abbatia: Phantasma! In the Ends of the Loom () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Abhorrent Expanse: Enter the Misanthropocene (Amalgam Music) [08-15] - avant-metal
  • Kevin Abstract: Blush (X8/Juno) [06-27] - hip-hop
  • An Abstract Illusion: The Sleeping City (Willowtip) [M|metal]
  • The Acacia Strain: You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) [10-24] - deathcore
  • Chantal Acda: The Whale (Starman) [09-19] - vocal jazz
  • The Aces: Gold Star Baby (self-released) [08-15] - dance-pop
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - metal
  • Acopia: Blush Response (Scenic Route) [09-12] - dream pop
  • Action Figures of Speech: Action Figures of Speech () [02-15] - hip-hop
  • Actress: Grey Interiors (Smalltown Supersound -EP) [02-07] - ambient
  • Colby Acuff: Enjoy the Ride () - country
  • Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Steve Adams/Lisa Mezzacappa/Jason Levis: Never but Dream the Days (Queen Bee) - jazz
  • Gavin Adcock: Own Worst Enemy () - country
  • Nat Adderley Jr.: Took So Long (NAJ) [10-14] - jazz
  • Addison Rae: Addison (As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) [06-06] - alt-pop [*]
  • Phil Adé: Philip () [10-01] - hip-hop
  • Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) [04-18] [**]
  • Adéla: The Provocateur (Capitol -EP) [08-22] - electropop
  • Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval: The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM Music) [06-10] - jazz
  • Florence Adooni: A.O.E.I.U. [An Ordinary Exercise in Unity] () [02-28] - highlife
  • Adore: Biter (Big Scary Monsters -EP) [09-26]
  • Adult Mom: Natural Causes (Epitaph) [05-09] [**]
  • Adwaith: Solas (Libertino) [02-07] - dream pop
  • Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) [05-30] - hip-hop [***]
  • Aesop Rock: I Heard It's a Mess There Too (Rhymesayers) [10-27] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Aephanemer: Utopie (Napalm) [10-31] - metal
  • Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [***]
  • AFI: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun (Run for Cover) [10-03] - gothic rock
  • Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) [07-18] - African [*]
  • The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective: Cortadito (JGB Music) [11-21] - jazz
  • Afternoon Bike Ride: Running With Scissors (Friends of Friends) [09-19]
  • Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Agnas Bros.: Sista Försöket (Moserobie) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Sophie Agnel: Learning (Otoroku) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Sophie Agnel/Joke Lanz: Ella (Klanggalerie) [02-05] - jazz
  • Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound (The Flenser) [10-03] - blackgaze
  • أحمد [Ahmed]: سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) [11-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) [02-28] - jazz [B]
  • Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (Fönstret) [09-12] - jazz [*]
  • Air Drawn Dagger: A Guide for Apparitions (Long Branch) [04-04]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT (ScienSonic) - jazz
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (Sciensonic -EP) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti-) [03-28]
  • Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Albita & Chucho Valdés: Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment) [05-23] - jazz
  • Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (ARC) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (Saponegro) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Alemeda: But What the Hell Do I Know (Top Dawg/Warner -EP) [11-07] - indie pop
  • Aleph Quintet: Hiwar (Igloo) [04-18] - jazz
  • Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) - jazz [**]
  • Eric Alexander: Like Sugar (Cellar Live) [09-12] - jazz [***]
  • Olly Alexander: Polari (Polydor) [02-07] - synthpop
  • Alfa Mist/44th Move/Richard Spaven: Anthem (Black Acre) [03-14] - jazz
  • Alfa Mist: Roulette (Sekito) [10-03] - jazz fusion
  • Matteo Alfonso/Giovanni Maier: Mingus Revisited (Caligola) [05-20] - jazz
  • Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek) [09-12] - math pop [**]
  • Alice Phoebe Lou: Oblivion (Nettwerk) [10-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Alien Boy: You Wanna Fade? () [05-09] - indie rock
  • Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) [03-28] - metal
  • All Seeing Dolls: Parallel (A) [02-21]
  • All Time Low: Everyone's Talking! (Basement Noise/Photo Finish) [10-17] - pop punk
  • Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville) [03-15] - jazz [B]
  • Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) [04-04] - metal
  • Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs (Lumo) [11-05] - jazz [***]
  • Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • Harry Allen/Rossano Sportiello/Bryan Carter: It Takes 3 (Night Is Alive) [02-07] - jazz
  • JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) [09-26] - jazz [**]
  • Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG) [10-24] - alt-pop [***]
  • Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) [05-23] - jazz [***]
  • Marshall Allen: The Omniverse Oriki (High Two) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Allie X: Happiness Is Going to Get You (self-released) [11-07] - indie pop
  • Allo Darlin': Bright Nights (Slumberland) [07-11] - indie pop [**]
  • David Allred: The Beautiful World (Erased Tapes) [01-24]
  • Jacob Alon: In Limerence (Island) [05-30] - singer-songwrtier
  • Alpaca Sports: Another Day (Elefant) [01-17]
  • Alpha Maid: Is This a Queue (AD 93) [10-29] - experimental rock
  • ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) [01-24] - drumstep [A-]
  • Joe Alterman Feat. Houston Person: Brisket for Breakfast (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • The Altons: Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone) [02-14]
  • Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) [08-08] - dance-pop [A-]
  • Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) [08-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Rodrigo Amado: The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) [10-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Gaby Amarantos: Rock Doido (Deck) [08-28] - technobrega
  • Irene Amata: Sembianze (Prodastar) [09-05] - jazz
  • Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation) [08-13] - jazz [*]
  • Zoh Amba: Sun (Smalltown Supersound) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (AD93) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (Drag City) [08-29] - post-rock [***]
  • Amble: Reverie (Warner) [05-23] - folk
  • Olga Amelchenko: Howling Silence (Edition) [07-11] - jazz
  • Amber Asylum: Ruby Red (Prophecy Productions) [03-07] - chamber music
  • Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Roxana Amed: Todos Los Fuegos (Sony) [05-23] - jazz
  • Sam Amidon: Salt River (River Lea) [01-24] - folk
  • Aminé: 13 Months of Sunshine (CLBN/10K Projects) [05-16] - hip-hop
  • Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (Glitterbeat) [05-23] - Arabic [**]
  • Amorphis: Borderland (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - prog metal
  • Amplifier: Gargantuan () [03-07] - space rock
  • David Amram: Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy) - jazz [A-]
  • The AMs: Here Comes That Broken Heart () - country
  • Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) [02-21] - ambient
  • Anaais: Devotion & the Black Divine (5dB) [09-26] - neo-soul
  • Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (Lex) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Anamanaguchi: Anyway (Polyvinyl) [08-08] - power pop
  • Ancient Death: Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore) [04-18] - metal
  • Ancient Infinity Orchestra: It's Always About Love (Gondwana) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • The Ancients [Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker]: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • . . . And Oceans: The Regeneration Itinerary (Season of Mist) [05-23] - metal
  • Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • André 3000: 7 Piano Sketches (Epic) [05-05]
  • Ester Andujar: Inner Songs (Pentasonic) - jazz
  • Bruno Angelini/Sakina Abdou/Angelika Niescier: Lotus Flowers (Abalone) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Angles 11: Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04] - noise pop [***]
  • Animal Mouth: New Derangements ()
  • Anitek & Tabinstereo: Indigo Immaculate () [01-22] - hip-hop
  • Annahstasia: Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-13] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) [03-21] - soul [A-]
  • Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) [03-21]
  • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Ant: Collection of Sounds Vol. 4 (Rhymesayers) [04-04] - hip-hop
  • Antibalas: Hourglass (Daptone) [10-24] - Afrobeat
  • The Antlers: Blight (Transgressive) [10-10] - ambient pop
  • Anxious: Bambi (Run for Cover) [02-21] - emo-pop
  • Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) [02-28] - new age [*]
  • Kioto Aoki/Haruhi Kobayashi/Mai Sugimoto: Miminari (Asian Improv) [11-09] - jazz
  • Apathy: Mom & Dad (Dirty Version/Coalmine) [06-13] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Apocalypse Orchestra: A Plague Upon Thee () [02-14] - metal
  • Benjamin Appl: Lines of Life (Alpha) [02-14] - classical
  • Benjamin Apl & James Baillieu: For Dieter: The Past and the Future (Alpha) [05-23] - lied
  • Årabrot: Rite of Dionysus () [08-29]
  • Aran Angmar: ORdo Diabolilcum () [03-21] - metal
  • Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (Trost -24) [2024-09-13] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Arbenz/Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Yakir Arbib & Conti Bilong: Afro Baroque (Elsden Music) - jazz
  • Niño Árbol: Psiconomimesis () [06-30]
  • Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) [05-09] - indie rock [*]
  • Arcadia Dance Orchestra: St. Louis Jazz (Rivermont) - jazz
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) [04-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) [02-28] - alt-metal
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) [01-10] - jazz
  • Arid Landscapes: Arid Landscapes (self-released) [09-19] - ambient
  • Arm's Length: There's a Whole World Out There (Pure Noise) [05-16] - emo-pop
  • Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy (Backwoodz Studioz/Rhymesayers) [11-07] - hip-hop [***]
  • Eslabón Armado: Vibras De Noche II () [03-14]
  • Sergio Armaroli Quintet: Introducing a Very Heavy Person First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-17] - jazz
  • The Armed: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House) [08-01] - noise rock
  • Fred Armisen: 100 Sound Effects (Drag City) [09-26]
  • Joe Armon-Jones: All the Quiet (Part I) (Aquarii) [03-28] - jazz
  • Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: A Dawning (OPIA) [07-11] - ambient pop
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) - jazz [*]
  • Ólöf Arnalds: Spira (Bella Union) [12-05]
  • Arrested Development: Adult Contemporary Hip Hop () [07-04] - hip-hop
  • Art d'Ecco: Serene Demon (Paper Bag) [02-14] - glam rock
  • Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) [02-25] - jazz [**]
  • Artificial Go: Musical Chairs () [05-16]
  • Ash: Ad Astra (Fierce Panda) [10-03] - power pop
  • Richard Ashcroft: Lovin' You (Virgin Music) [10-10] - pop rock
  • ERR: stream no grade: Ashé Mystics: Fizzy Bubble Hummm
  • Ashé Mystics: Fizzy Bubble Hummm (High Two) [08-29] - jazz
  • Yara Asmar: Everyone I Love Is Sleeping and I Love Them So So Much () [10-10]
  • Ashnikko: Smoochies (Parlophone) [10-17] - electropop [***]
  • Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) [09-26] - ethio-jazz [***]
  • Astropical: Astropical (Universal Music Latino) [03-07] - Latin pop
  • Ata Kak: Batakari (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [11-07] - African [***]
  • Atlantic Jazz Collective: Seascape (Alma) [05-02] - jazz
  • Atlas Maior: Palindromiar (Dead Red Queen) - jazz
  • Atmosphere: Jestures (Rhymesayers) [09-19] - hip-hop
  • Viviane Audet: Le Piano Et Le Torrent () [09-29] - classical/jazz
  • Allen Austin-Bishop: Glory () [ 10-03] - jazz
  • Automatic: Is It Now? (Stones Throw) [09-26] - dance-punk
  • The Autumn Defense: Here and Nowhere (Yep Roc) [10-10]
  • Ava Trio: Lunae (Tora) [11-28] - jazz
  • Avalanche Party: Der Traum Uber Alles (Kartel Music Group) [02-07]
  • Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) [01-17] - country [**]
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • Daniel Avery: Tremor () - electronic
  • Avery Anna: Let Go Letters () [05-16]
  • Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (Zamzama) [04-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Axios Men's Ensemble/Pro Coro Canada/Michael Zaugg: Benedict Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem (Cappella Romana) [02-21]
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) [03-28] - electronic [B]
  • Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project: Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music) [04-04] - jazz
  • Kinan Azmeh and CityBand: Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) [02-28] - jazz
  • Babe Rainbow: Slipper Imp and Shakaerator (P(doom)) [04-04] - psychedelic pop
  • Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) [03-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) [01-05] - Latin [***]
  • The Bad Seed/Murda Megz: From Us With Love () [02-06] - hip-hop
  • Bad Trips: Nothing but Trouble () [11-17] - experimental noise
  • Gaelle Bagot & Juan Manuel Nieto: Jardin D'ailleurs (Musique Live) - jazz
  • Hannah Bahng: The Misunderstood EP (Bahng -EP) [09-12] - indie pop
  • Blaine Bailey: Indian Country () - country
  • David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) [08-15] - jazz [**]
  • Bakar: Beastie (Forever and Ever -EP) [09-19]
  • Hayden Baker: Alive & Well () - country
  • Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) [04-18] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Rebekka Bakken: Nord (Supreme Music Group) [11-21] - folk
  • Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) [05-16] - jazz [***]
  • Nicolas Baldeyrou: Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet Vol. 1 (Alpha) [03-14] - classical
  • Balefire: Balefire (Iron Bonehead -EP) [01-31] - metal
  • Jon Balke: Skrifum (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Baltimore Jazz Collective: Baltimore Jazz Collective (Stricker Street) - jazz
  • Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) [03-14] - trip hop
  • Bambinodj: Silent Dispatch () [02-14]
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [***]
  • Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) [02-28] - alt-pop [**]
  • Bar Italia: Some Like It Hot (Matador) [10-17] - indie rock [A-]
  • Diego Barber: Scarlatti Sonatas (Sunnyside) [08-22] - jazz
  • Massimo Barbiero & Markus Stockhausen: Stoicheia (self-released) - jazz
  • Bardo: Transformation Time () [08-22]
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • The Barlow: High Spirits () [04-25]
  • MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) [03-25] - hip-hop [***]
  • Barrens: Corpse Lights (Pelagic) [09-12] - post-metal
  • Kenny Barron: Songbook (Artwork) [11-14] - jazz [***]
  • Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) [07-11] - downtempo [***]
  • Léna Bartels: The Brighest Silver Fish (Glamour Gowns) [09-12]
  • Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Basic: Dream City (No Quarter -EP) [03-07] - fusion [*]
  • Al Basile: Blues in Hand (Sweetspot) [10-09] - blues
  • Dave Bass Trio: Trio Nuevo Vol 1 (Dave Bass Music) - jazz
  • Bassvictim: Forever (self-released) [10-10] - electropop
  • Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) [02-21] - indietronica [B]
  • Jon Batiste: Big Money (Verve/Interscope) [08-22] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • The Bats: Corner Coming Up ()
  • Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano (Chandos) [04-04] - classical
  • BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews: Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works ( Resonus) [03-28] - classical
  • BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena/James Ehnes: Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Saint-Saéns: Violen Concerto No. 3; Sarasate: Concert Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen (Chandos) [03-07] - concerto
  • BbyMutha: Left4Dead: The Triplets () [04-25]
  • BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation (Bella Union) [06-27] - art pop
  • Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) [02-28] - indietronica [***]
  • Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (AWAL) [04-25] - power pop [**]
  • The Beaches: No Hard Feelings (AWAL) [08-29] - pop rock
  • Fini Bearman: Last Night of the World (Pastiche) [04-25] - jazz
  • Beat: Beat Live () [09-26]
  • Beauty Saloon: BS ()
  • Bec & Ongles [François de Larrard & Mathieu Bec]: Zanzibar (Mazeto Square) [11-20] - jazz
  • William Beckmann: Whiskey Lies & Allibis () - country
  • BED: Everything Hurts (Bretford) [05-23]
  • Beddy Rays: Do What Ya Wanna (self-released) [04-18]
  • Bedridden: Moths Strapped to Each Other's Backs () [04-11]
  • Bee Hive Ski Race: Unlimited Violence Apologia (self-released) [01-03] - post-rock
  • Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Beirut: A Study of Losses (Pompeii) [04-18] - chamber folk
  • Beiggja: Morning (Hubro) - jazz
  • Martin Bejerano: The Purple Project (Figgland) [11-21] - jazz [B-]
  • The Belair Lip Bombs: Again (Third Man) [10-31] - indie rock
  • Sonya Belaya: Dacha (Ropeadope) [10-10] - jazz [**]
  • Kasan Belgrave: Dual Citizen (self-released) - jazz
  • Believe: Spirits of the Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) [08-00] - jazz [**]
  • Andy Bell: Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Benny Benack III: This Is the Life (Bandstand Presents) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Shems Bendali Quintet: Casbah Qassioun (Jazz Family) [10-03] - jazz
  • Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metal
  • Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) [03-21] - electropop [**]
  • Antonia Bennett: Expressions (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Ben Bennett: Answers (Lobby Art) [10-03] - jazz
  • Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers: Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out) [09-12] - jazz [***]
  • Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) [04-04] [***]
  • Leif Berger: Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) [05-02] - jazz
  • Natelie Bergman: My Home Is Not in This World (Third Man) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Bergthron: Neu Asen Land () [01-06] - metal
  • Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Matt Berninger: Get Sunk (Concord) [05-30] - indie rock
  • Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (Barefoot) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Bren Berry: In Hope Our Stars Align () [01-31]
  • Matt Berry: Heard Noises (Acid Jazz) [01-24] - psychedelic rock
  • Camille Bertault: Voz E Vocês (Sunnyside) [10-24] - jazz
  • Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (Sony Music Argentina) [05-21] - rock en español [**]
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) [04-18] - jazz [***]
  • Lea Bertucci: The Oracle (Cibachrome Editions) [10-17] - sound poetry
  • The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are a Ghost Nation (Full Time Hobby) [10-10] - dream pop
  • Jehnny Beth: You Heartberaker, You (Fiction) [08-29] - industrial rock
  • The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-) [08-29] - jangle pop [***]
  • Bettysoo: If You Never Go Away (self-released) [07-18]
  • Between the Buried and Me: The Blue Nowhere (Sumerian/InsideOut) [09-12] - prog metal
  • Emmanuel Bex: Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee) [05-16] - jazz
  • Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-20] - neo-soul [*]
  • Beyond Extinction: Where They Gather () [09-26] - deathcore
  • Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco (Naya Beat) [10-31] - house
  • Rafiq Bhatia: Environments (Anti-) [09-12]
  • Justin Bieber: Swag (Def Jam/Numbers) [07-11] - alt-pop [B]
  • Justin Bieber: Swag II (Def Jam) [09-05] - pop-soul [B-]
  • Big Cheeko: Coulrophobia () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Big Freedia: Pressing Onward (Queen Diva Music) [08-08] - gospel
  • Big Life: The Cost of Progress (Setterwind) [08-01]
  • Big Special: National Average. (So/Silva Screen) [07-04] - post-punk
  • Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD) [09-05] - indie rock [A-]
  • Bigg Sluggathor: The Wizard Behind the Curtain () [03-31] - hip-hop
  • BigXthaPlug: I Hope You're Happy () - hip-hop
  • Biig Piig: 11:11 (RCA) [02-07] - dance-pop
  • Bilk: Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Scruff of the Neck) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Brian Bilston & the Catenary Wires: Sounds Made by Humans (Sleep Wax) [05-09]
  • Biohazard: Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK) [10-17] - metal
  • Gina Birch: Trouble (Third Man) [07-11] - post-punk [**]
  • Jade Bird: Who Wants to Talk About Love (Glassnote) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • The Bird Calls: Melody Trail (Ruination) [02-07] - indie folk
  • The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller (Birdland) [08-29] - jazz
  • Sir Richard Bishop: Hillbilly Ragas (Drag City)
  • Michael Bisio: NuMBq (Mahakala Music) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (self-released) [04-06] - jazz [**]
  • Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (Drag City) [09-26] - electronic [***]
  • Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Karl Bjorá Trio: The Essence (Sonic Transmissions) [11-21] - jazz
  • Björk: Cornucopia Live (One Little Independent) [10-24] - art pop
  • Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • Rebecca Black: Salvation (self-released) [02-27] - electropop
  • Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) [04-04] - art rock [B]
  • Black Eyes: Hostile Design (Dischord) [10-10] - art punk
  • The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers (Easy Eye/Warner) [08-08] - blues rock
  • Black Lips: Season of the Peach (Fire) [09-19]
  • Black Narcissus: There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten () [02-14] - post-rock
  • Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) [02-13] - hip-hop [**]
  • Black Sheriff: Iron Boy ()
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • Blackbraid: Blackbraid III (self-released) [08-07] - metal
  • Blackbriar: A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) [08-22] - symphonic metal
  • Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (self-released) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Blacktoothed: Headway (Arising Empire) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Rubén Blades Y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta: Fotografías (R B) [02-07] - jazz
  • Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (Blue Note) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Ran Blake & Jared Sims: Night Harbor (self-released) - jazz
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) [08-09] - jazz [***]
  • Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) [05-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Maiya Blaney: A Room With a Door That Closes (Lex) [06-13] - alt-pop
  • Blawan: SickElixir (XL) [10-10] - UK bass [*]
  • Theo Bleak: Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers (Polymoon -EP) [05-16]
  • Theo Bleckmann: Love and Anger (Sunnyside) [10-31] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metalcore
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • Blessthefall: Gallows (Rise) [09-05] - metalcore
  • Julian Bliss/Taavi Oramo/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Lindberg & Aho Clarinet Concertos (Signum) [09-05] - classical
  • Blk Odyssy: Mood Control (Earthchild/Empire) [11-07] - neo-soul
  • Lena Bloch/Kyoko Kitamura: Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-14] - jazz [**]
  • Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (M.C.) [07-25] - blues [***]
  • Jack Blocker: The Land on Most High () - country
  • Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (Future Archive) [02-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jasper Blom Quartet + Metropole Orkest: Metropolarity (Whirlwind) [05-09] - jazz
  • Blonde Redhead: The Shadow of the Guest (Section1) [06-27] - ambient pop
  • Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan) [05-02] - alt/indie [**]
  • Jaap Blonk: Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [04-04] - jazz
  • Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Michael Zerang: Improvisers (Kontrans) - jazz
  • Blood Orange: Essex Honey (RCA/Domino) [08-29] - alt-pop [*]
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (Outline) [06-26] - jazz [**]
  • Jane Ira Bloom/Brian Shankar Adler: Once Like a Spark (Adhyâropa) [11-21] - jazz
  • Bloomers: Cyclism (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Blu & August Fanon: Forty () [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Blue Foundation: Close to the Knife () [04-18] - dream pop
  • Blue Lake: Weft (Tonal Union) [01-17] - chamber folk
  • Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) [01-03] - jazz [**]
  • Blue Violet: Faux Animaux (Me & My) [ 01-24]
  • Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) [07-29] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt: Lucre (World Music -EP) [01-01] - indie rock
  • Blut Aus Nord: Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti) [11-28] - metal
  • David Bode: Good Hang (1718) [08-29] - jazz
  • Anneleen Boehme: Eunoia (W.E.R.F.) [04-18] - jazz
  • Boko Yout: Gusto (Hoopdiggas) [09-05]
  • Jason Boland & the Stragglers: The Last Kings of Babylon () - country
  • Boldy James/Chuck Strangers: Token of Appreciation () [02-27] - hip-hop
  • Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Late to My Own Funeral () [07-11] - hip-hop
  • Boldy James & Real Bad Man: Conversational Pieces () [05-02] - hip-hop
  • Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus: Is That Jazz? (Fonterossa) [04-08] - jazz [***]
  • Silvia Bolognesi: Jungle Duke (Caligola) - jazz [**]
  • Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) [04-11] - art pop [*]
  • Bong-Ra: Black Noise (Debemur Morti) [02-21] - metal
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Bonnie Trash: Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula) [02-28] - metal
  • Benjamin Booker: Lower (Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) [01-24] [**]
  • Booker T & the Bleeds: Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . Da Prez (Mahakala Music) [01-17] - jazz [B]
  • Benson Boone: American Heart (Night Street/Warner) [06-20] - new wave
  • Booze & Glory: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Concrete Jungle) [09-12] - punk
  • Sofia Borges/Ada Rave: The Unseen Pact (Relative Pitch) [10-24] - jazz
  • Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) [12-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Borja: Cuando Cioncidimos () [05-29]
  • Rosa Bordallo: Isidro (Bad Auntie) [01-31]
  • Born of Osiris: Through Shadows (Sumerian) [07-11] - metalcore
  • Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini: Twilight Schumann Songs (PentaTone) [02-28] - classical
  • Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Sacha Boutros: Sacha: Paris After Dark (Hear Me Roar) [10-17] - jazz
  • Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (Black Truffle) [09-12] - jazz [**]
  • Boyish: Gun (R&R) [09-12]
  • Cola Boyy: Quit to Play Chess (Record Makers) [05-23] - hip-hop
  • Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Nancy Braithwaite: Wonderings and Other Revelations (Etcetera) [10-15] - jazz
  • Domo Branch: Hand of Gifts (Albina Music Trust) [10-31] - J\jazz
  • Adrien Brandeis: Resurgence (Mantondea Productions) [05-02] - jazz
  • Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems for Travellers (Skip) - jazz
  • Billy Brandt: The Lucky Hustle & the Side Show Shuffle (Snow Goose)
  • Daniel Brandt: Without Us (Erased Tapes) [03-21]
  • Anthony Braxton: Trillium X (PMP) [05-09] - jazz
  • Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) [10-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Bright Eyes: Kids Table (Dead Oceans -EP) [10-03] [*]
  • Jakob Bro Large Ensemble: New Morning (Loveland Music) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Jakob Bro/Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Lee Konitz/Ben Street: Balladeering (2008, Loveland Music) [03-06] - jazz
  • Jakob Bro & Midori Takada: Until I Met You (Loveland Music) [09-12] - jazz [**]
  • Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marilyn Crispell/Andrew Cyrille: The Montclair Session (Loveland Music) [10-01] - jazz [*]
  • Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marcus Gilmore: Murasaki (Loveland Music) [10-03] - jazz [**]
  • Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Brògeal: Tuesday Paper Club (PIAS) [10-17] - celtic rock
  • Brom: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Kristen R Bromley Quartet: Wes 101 (self-released) - jazz
  • Broncho: Natural Pleasure (Broncho Worldwide) [04-25] - shoegaze
  • Broodman: Liminality (self-released) - jazz
  • Kenny Brooks: Inner Flame (self-released) [08-22] - pop jazz
  • Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) [02-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewice/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (SteepleChase) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (Escapism) [07-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Danny Brown: Stardust (Warp) [11-07] - hip-hop [***]
  • George Brown: Jazz in Paris (Astana Music) [04-18] - jazz
  • Kane Brown: The High Road (RCA Nashville) [01-24] - country
  • Martin Luke Brown: Man Oh Man! (AMK) [02-21]
  • Phil Brown: Rule of Three (A Caldera Productions) - jazz
  • Rob Brown/Brandon Lopez/Juan P Carletti: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brown Horse: All the Right Weaknesses (Loose) [ 04-04] - slacker rock
  • Brown Spirits: Cosmic Seeds (Soul Jazz) [01-10] - krautrock
  • David Broza & Omer Avital: Brozajazz: Paris Alhambra (Magenta) [11-06] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Bruiser Wolf: Potluck () [05-30] - hip-hop
  • Etienne Brunet: Ear Asphyxia (self-released) [10-11] - jazz
  • Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [B]
  • Gary Brunton: Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace) - jazz
  • Brutalismus 3000: Goodbye Salò the Remixes () [03-27]
  • Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) [04-28] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) [02-27] - jazz [**]
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Buffet Lunch: Perfect Hit (Upset the Rhythm) [04-04]
  • The Bug: Implosion (Pressure) [11-21] - ambient dub [*]
  • Sara Bug: Into the Blue () [02-14]
  • The Bug Club: Very Human Features (Sub Pop) [06-13] - indie rock
  • Basia Bulat: Basia's Place (Secret City) [02-21] - chamber pop
  • Bunbury: Cuentas Pendientes (Warner) [04-25]
  • BunnaB: Bunna Summer (Ice Cream Summer Deluxe) ()
  • Buntspecht: Konstrukt 5 () [03-14]
  • Burial: Comafields/Imaginary Festival (Hyperdub -EP) [08-01] - electronic
  • Buried Realm: The Dormant Darkness () [04-04] - metal
  • Burna Boy: No Sign of Weakness (Spaceshjip/Bad Habit/Atlantic) [07-10] - Afrobeats
  • The Burning Hell: Ghost Palace (You've Changed) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Burning Witches: Inquisition (Napalm) [08-22] - metal
  • Joshua Burnside: Teeth of Time (Nettwerk) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two (Avant Groid Musica) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Bury Tomorrow: Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Music for Nations) [05-16] - alt-metal
  • Buscabulla: Se Amaba Así (Domino) [06-13] - alt-pop
  • Bush: I Beat Loneliness () - rock
  • Butch Bastard: Death Valley () [ 03-28]
  • John Butcher/John Edwards: This Is Not Speculation (Fundacja Słuchaj) [06-01] - jazz
  • Butcher Brown: Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz) [03-28] - jazz
  • Brian Byrne: She Must Go (Timberlake) [08-29] - jazz
  • David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra: Who Is the Sky? (Matador) [09-05] - art pop
  • Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso: Papota (5020) [03-06] -
  • Daniel Caesar: Son of Spergy (Republic) [10-24] - neo-soul
  • David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring (self-released) - jazz
  • Sarah Cahill/Regina Myers: D. Riley Nicholson: Up () [04-25]
  • Colbie Caillat: This Time Around (Black Box) [09-26]
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) [01-08] - darkwave [B]
  • Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain) [08-08] - darkwave [*]
  • Calibre: Little Foot () [05-23] - dubstep
  • Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel) [10-03] - Dj mix [**]
  • Rachael Calladine: The Game (33 Jazz) - vocal jazz
  • The Callous Daoboys: I Don't Want to See You in Heaven (MNRK) [05-16] - mathcore
  • Calyces: Fleshy Waves of Probability (Dry Clean) [03-21] - metal
  • Calidore String Quartet: Beethoven: The Early Quartets (Signum) [01-24] - classical
  • Califone: The Villager's Companion (Jealous Butcher) [02-21] - psychedelic folk
  • Royce Campbell/Vosbein Magee Big Band: Vagabond (Max Frank Music) - jazz
  • Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Caitlin Cannon: Love Addict (self-released) [05-09] - country [*]
  • Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann: Johann Sebastian Bach: THe First Cantata Year Vol. 6 (Hänssler) [01-03] - classical
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • Renaud Capuçon: Sibelius/Barber: Violin Concertos (Erato) [02-14] - classical
  • Car Culture & Physical Therapy: Rest Here (NAFF) [10-09] - trip hop
  • Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) [05-02] - indie rock [**]
  • Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole (Def Jam) [02-14] - indie pop
  • Alessandro Carbonare/Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner: Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto/Helios/Symphony No. 5 (Chandos) [09-05] - classical
  • Caelan Cardello: Chapter One (Jazz Bird) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Leandro Cardenas: Against the Jazz Police (577) [10-31] - jazz
  • Cardo/Larry June: Until Night Comes () - hip-hop
  • Melissa Carper: A Very Carper Christmas () - country
  • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) [09-19] - hip-hop [**]
  • Cardiacs: LSD (The Alphabet Business Concern) [09-19] - art punk [C+]
  • Mariah Carey: Here for It All (Gamma/Mariah) [09-26] - r&b
  • Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano) [02-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Belinda Carlisle: Once Upon a Time in California (Demon/Puglady) [08-29]
  • Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) [04-04] [B-]
  • Brandi Carlile: Once Upon a Time in California (Demon/Puglady) [08-29]
  • Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself (Lost Highway/Interscope) [10-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (The End) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds) [06-27] - country [***]
  • Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Hwy 87) [08-08] - country [A-]
  • Matt Carmichael: Dancing With Embers (self-released) - jazz
  • Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (EMI/Universal) [06-20] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Caroline: Caroline 2 (Rough Trade) [05-30] - post-rock [B]
  • Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Valory Music) [05-07] - country [*]
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island) [08-29] - pop [A-]
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter/Julie Fowlis/Karine Polwart: Looking for the Thread (Lambient Light) [01-24]
  • Juan Carmona: Laberinto De Luz (Nomad Kultur) - jazz
  • Carrier: Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love) [10-24] - ambient dub [*]
  • Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Ken Carson: More Chaos (Opium/Interscope) [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/George Draguns/Ed Wilcox: Makeshift Sprituals Vol. 1 (577) [05-16] - jazz
  • Deborah Carter: The Abraxas Sessions [Volume 6] (Dot Time) [10-10] - vocal jazz
  • Martin Carthy: Transform Me Then Into a Fish (HemHem) [05-21]
  • George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: South From a Narrow Arc (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (Candid) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-) [09-26] - singer-songwriter
  • Erika de Casier: Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music) [05-08] - alt r&b [**]
  • Caskets: The Only Heaven You'll Know (SharpTone) [11-07] - alt metal
  • Casper Skulls: Kit-Cat (Next Door) [04-11] - indie rock
  • Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida (Teal Creek Music) - jazz
  • Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (Sunnyside) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • The Castellows: Homecoming (Warner Music Nashville) [05-30] - country [**]
  • Castle Rat: The Bestiary (King Volume) [09-19] - doom metal
  • Isaac Castor & Foul Mouth: The Rabbit Hole 3: Smoking Caterpillar () [02-23] - hip-hop
  • Tommy Castro & the Painkillers: Closer to the Bone (Alligator) [02-07] - blues
  • Tereza Catarov: Koren (PKmusik) [06-27] - jazz
  • Causa Sui: In Flux (El Paraiso) [05-16]
  • Caustic Wound: Grinding Mechanism of Torment (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Cazzu: Latinaja () [04-24] - bachata
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia) [01-24] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Celeste: Woman of Faces (Polydor) [11-14] - pop soul
  • Shanti Celeste: Romance (Peach Discs/Method 808) [05-16]
  • Cerrone: Disco Symphony () [02-21]
  • CGB Project: Dialogue (Verdict Music) [10-23] - jazz
  • Eddie Chacon: Lay Low (Stones Throw) [01-31] - alt-r&b
  • Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass () [04-18]
  • Leo Chadburn: Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator () [08-08]
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Chaeyoung: Lil Fantasy Vol. 1 (JYP/Republic) [09-12] - K-pop
  • Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (Tak:til) [06-27] - jazz/folk [*]
  • Chalk: Conditions III (Nice Swan -EP) [02-21] - dance-punk
  • Bertrand Chamayou: Ravel: Fragments (Erato) [03-07] - classical
  • Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • The Chameleons: Arctic Moon (Metropolis) [09-12] - jangle pop
  • Chance the Rapper: Star Line (self-released) [08-15] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Chaparelle: Western Pleasure () - country
  • Conor Chaplin/Anton Eger/Mathias Heise/Rasmus Sørensen: The Action 4s (April) [05-09] - jazz
  • Cole Chaney: In the Shadow of the Mountain () - country
  • Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik) [04-11] - jazz [*]
  • Charaxes: Proof of Life () [01-03]
  • Brian Charette: Borderless ( SteepleChase) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (SteepleChase) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) [06-30] - jazz [**]
  • Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Dawn (Stretch) [10-03] - vocal jazz
  • Tanika Charles: Reasons to Stay (Record Kicks) [05-16] - soul
  • Charmer: Downpour () [05-23] - emo
  • Jason Charos: Opening Statement (Hollistic MusicWorks) [08-22] - jazz
  • Chartreuse: Bless You & Be Well (Communion Group) [08-29]
  • Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo: In the Earth Again (Computer Students) [10-31] - metal
  • Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz) [02-22] - jazz [**]
  • Che: Rest in Bass (10K) [07-18] - hip-hop [**]
  • Che Noir: The Color Chocolate 2 (Poetic Movement) [06-20] - hip-hop
  • Che Noir & the Other Guys: No Validation () [08-29] - hip-hop
  • Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Cheekface: Middle Spoon (self-released) [02-25] - ska punk
  • Cheerbleederz: Prove Me Wrong (Alcopop! -EP) [09-05]
  • Charles Chen: Building Characters (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Gloria Cheng: Root Progressions () [01-24] - jazz/classical
  • Chepang: Jhyappa (Relapse) [05-23] - metal
  • Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Juan Chiavassa: Fourth Generation (Whirlwind) [10-10] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) [01-14] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler/RCA) [07-25] - country [A-]
  • The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) [02-28] - jangle pop [A-]
  • Chime Oblivion: Chime Oblivion (Deathgod) [04-18]
  • Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone -EP) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Simon Chivallon: Alone Again (A Personal Songbook) (Jazz&People) [09-19] - jazz
  • Seong-Jin Cho: Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works (Deutsche Grammophon) [01-17] - classical
  • Eugenia Choe: So We Speak (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Dmytro Choni: Pilgrimage (Naïve) [03-28] - classical
  • Choof: A Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence (Dead Set) [01-24]
  • Christian Mistress: Children of the Earth (Cruz Del Sur Music) [02-26] - metal
  • Chrome Hill: En Route (Clean Feed) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Devon Church: All That's Solild Melts Into Air () [ 11-07]
  • Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) [05-02] - country [*]
  • Ciel: Spice (Nomad) [04-11] - UK hip-hop
  • Amy Cimini: See You When I Get There (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz
  • Los Cinco Cardones: ElQ uinto Cardón (Some Other Planet) [10-03] - jazz
  • Circa Waves: Death & Love, Pt. 1 (Lower Third/PIAS) [01-31] - indie rock
  • Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) [03-14] - art pop [B]
  • Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors: Orangina (UnderPool) [09-17] - jazz [**]
  • Citric Dummies: Split With Turnstile (Feel It) [10-17] - punk
  • Civilistjävel!: Följd (Felt) [02-14] - ambient
  • Clark: Steep Stims (Throttle) [11-07] - IDM
  • Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (Blue Note) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (Origin) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • JD Cliffe: Misfit. (APLCO -EP) [04-16] - UK hip-hop
  • Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) [03-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (Roc Nation) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Cloakroom: Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • The Close Readers: Trees of Lower Hutt (Austin) [11-06] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Club 8: Seasonal Echoes (self-released) [10-10] - indie pop
  • Clutter: Loves You (PNKSLM -EP) [04-11]
  • Biffy Clyro: Futique (Warner UK) [09-19] - pop rock
  • CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) [08-29] - indie rock [A-]
  • Coach Party: Caramel (Chess Club) [09-26]
  • Brent Cobb: Ain't Rocked in a While () - country
  • Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band: Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Heads) [02-21] - jazz [B]
  • Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (Trygger Music) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • CocoRosie: Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise) [03-28]
  • Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe (Virgin) [03-14] - prog rock
  • Alice Cohen: Archaeology (Crinoline) [10-03] - hypnagogic pop
  • Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (Versa) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn) [01-29]] - jazz [B]
  • Cold Specks: Light for the Midnight (Mute) [04-11]
  • Holly Cole: Dark Moon (Rumpus Room/Universal) [01-31] - vocal jazz
  • Liz Cole: I Want to Be Happy (self-released) [01-28] - jazz [B]
  • Stella Cole: It's Magic (Decca) [08-22] - vocal jazz
  • Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Isaiah Collier/Tim Regis: Live in the Listening Room (Vinyl Factory -EP) [09-24] - jazz
  • Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla/Roc Nation) [04-11] - funk [***]
  • Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) [03-14] - indie pop [**]
  • Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (self-released) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . Add Voice (Silver Sphinx) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • Alana Amore Colvin: Huckleberries and Lullabies (self-released -EP) [11-07] - jazz
  • Alana Amore Colvin: Oh, Allegra (self-released -EP) [10-03] - jazz
  • Brooke Combe: Dancing at the Edge of the World (Modern Sky) [01-31] - pop soul
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Comet Gain: Letters to Ordinary Outsiders (Tapete) [06-06] - chamber pop
  • Confucius MC & Bastien Keb: Songs for Lost Travellers (Native Rebel) [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Conjurer: Unself (Nuclear Blast) [10-24] - metal
  • Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (Tapete) [08-22] - indie rock [*]
  • Dame Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty (Chandos) [09-12] - lied
  • The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) [04-18] - alt/indie [**]
  • Convergence: Reckless Meter (Capri) [12-05] - jazz [*]
  • Braxton Cook: Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk) [08-29] - jazz
  • Hollie Cook: Shy Girl (Mr Bongo) [10-10] - reggae [**]
  • Miles Cooke: Ceci N'est Pas Un Portrait () [01-10] - hip-hop
  • Alice Cooper: The Revenge of Alice Cooper (EarMusic) [07-25] - hard rock
  • Cootie Catcher: Shy at First (Cooked Raw) [03-05]
  • Marc Copland: Alter Ego: Lausanne 2012 (The Montreux Jazz Label) - jazz
  • Marc Copland: Dreaming (Innervoice Jazz) - jazz
  • The Cords: The Cords (Slumberland) [09-26] - jangle pop
  • Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Paul Cornish: You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Coroner: Dissonance Theory (Century Media) [10-17] - metal
  • Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) [02-28] - alt-pop [***]
  • Maria Corsaro: Love Makes the Changes (Lola) [11-21] - vocal jazz
  • Cortex & Hedvig Mollestad: Did We Really? (Sauajazz) [12-05] - jazz [**]
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Cortisa Star: E.M.O. (Evil Motion Overload) () [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: 2t2 (Conspiracy Internatioal) [06-13] - dark ambient
  • Alyn Cosker: Onta (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: 2t2 (Conspiracy International) [06-13] - post-industrial
  • Frankie Cosmos: Different Talking (Sub Pop) [06-27] - indie pop
  • Cosmic Ear: Traces (We Jazz) [05-23] - jazz [A-]
  • The Cosmic Tones Research Trio: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) [10-24] - jazz [*]
  • Country Honk: Bad Decision () - country
  • Courting: Lust for Life, or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third) [03-14] - dance-punk
  • Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
  • Vincent Courtois/Colin Vallon: A Simple Fall (BMC) [10-10] - jazz
  • François Couturier/Dominique Pifarély: Preludes and Songs (ECM) [01-24] - jazz
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier: To Be Other-Wise (Intakt) - jazz
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) [05-09] - ambient [B]
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Crayola Lectern: Disasternoon (Onomatopoeia) [08-15]
  • Crippling Alcoholism: Camgirl (Portrayal of Guilt) [09-12] - gothic rock
  • Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Lone Star Rider/Island) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Lone Star Rider/Island) [08-08] - country [***]
  • Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) [03-07] - country [A-]
  • Joy Crookes: Juniper (Insanity) [09-19] - neo-soul [***]
  • Jeremy Crosmer/Mahan Esfahani/Mitsuru Kubo/Jackson Symphony Orchestra/Matthew Aubin: Fernande Decruck: Concertante Works Volume 2 (Claves) [03-07] - concerto
  • Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (New West) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Adrian Crowley: Measure of Joy (Valley of Eyes) [02-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Cruce Signatus: II () [04-04] - metal
  • Crushed: No Scope (Ghostly) [09-26] - shoegaze
  • Cryogeyser: Cryogeyser () [02-14] - indie rock
  • Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence (Season of Mist) [06-20] - metal
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Cuco: Ridin' (Interscope) [05-09] - neo-soul
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released) [03-21] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Cult Therapy: Get Fucked, Sinner () [04-04]
  • Madison Cunningham: Ace (Verve Forecast) [10-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Cupcakke: The Bakery (self-released) - hip-hop
  • Luca Curcio: La BOMBA (Boomslang) [10-17] - jazz
  • The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) [06-13] - rock remix
  • Curren$y & Harry Fraud: Never Catch Us () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Cut Copy: Moments () [ 09-05] - synthpop
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) [01-31] - funk [**]
  • Cynefin: Shimli (Recordladau Smotyn Du) [01-31]
  • Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (MCEO/Columbia) [05-30] - art pop [**]
  • Noah Cyrus: I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me (Columbia) [07-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Czajka & Puchacz: Flapping (Lado ABC) [11-01] - jazz
  • Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Mahler Symphony No. 3 (PentaTone) [03-07] - classical
  • Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • D4vd: Withered (Darkroom/Interscope) [ 04-25] - indie pop
  • Brian D'Addario: Till the Morning (Headstack) [03-20] - folk rock
  • Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleur De Cayenne (Sunnyside) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) [02-14] - jazz
  • Da Inphamus Amadeuz/The Punchline Academy: The Punchline Playbook: Lesson 1 () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Linda Dachtyl: Full Steam Ahead (Chicken Coup) [07-18] - jazz
  • Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Daffo: Where the Earth Bends (Concord) [09-26]
  • Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Marleen Dahms' Alloy: Running and Belonging (Xjazz) [12-05] - jazz
  • Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG) [09-05] - art pop [***]
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Lao Dan: To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Lao Dan/Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness) [11-08] - jazz [U]
  • D.D. Danahy: Half Baked () [01-28]
  • Dancer: More or Less (Meritorio) [09-12]
  • James Danderfer: If Not Now (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Dania: Listless (Somewhere Press) [10-03] - downtempo
  • Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) [06-06] - country [**]
  • Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) - country [**]
  • Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Fumbling () [03-21]
  • Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love (Resonance) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • The Dare: Freakquencies: Volume 1 (-EP)
  • Dark Watcher: The Law of Bone and Sinew (self-released) [09-12] - black metal
  • The Darkness: Dreams on Toast (Cooking Vinyl) [03-28]
  • Darkside: Nothing (Matador) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Sylvain Darrifourcq/Manuel Hermia/Valentin Ceccaldi: Unicorn and Flexibility (Hector) [05-05] - jazz
  • Das B [Mazen Kerbaj/Mike Majkowski/Magda Mayas/Tony Buck: Love (Thanatosis Produktion/Corbett vs. Dempsey) - jazz
  • Daughter of Swords: Alex (Psychic Hotline) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp (Neighbourhood) [10-24] - UK hip-hop [A-]
  • Damiano David: Funny Little Fears (Arista/Sony Italy) [05-16] - pop
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Davido: 5ive (Davido/Sony) [04-18]
  • Lise Davidsen/Gerald Finley/Edward Gardner: Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Decca) [04-18] - opera
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • Josephine Davies & the Ensō Ensemble: The Celtic Wheel of the Year Suite (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Brittany Davis/Evan Flory-Barnes/D'Vonne Lewis: Black Thunder (Loosegroove) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson: Sprites (Out of Your Head) [08-29] - jazz
  • James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Nathan Davis/Sylvia Milo: Earthworks (Sono Luminus) [04-25]
  • Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) [07-25] - alt/indie [*]
  • Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) [02-14] - jazz
  • Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse) [05-02] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn After Dawn: Home Is Where You Are (577) [03-28] - jazz
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Weird World/Domino) [02-14] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Dawson Gool: Bark Mulch (-EP) [02-20]
  • A Day to Remember: Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled by Ramen) [M|metal]
  • Day3: Product of the Trenches () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Daya: Til Every Petal Drops () [10-10]
  • Emma Dayhuff: Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project (Division 81) [08-15] - jazz
  • Dayseeker: Creature in the Black Night (Spinefarm) [10-24] - alt-metal
  • Pierre De Bethmann Quartet: Agapé (Aléa) - jazz
  • Laura De Jongh: Fundus (Klankhaven -EP) [06-08] - jazz [*]
  • De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky (Mass Appeal) [11-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Catina DeLuna/Otmar Ruiz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside) [07-18] - jazz
  • Indigo De Souza: Precipice (Loma Vista) [07-25] - indie pop
  • Deacon Blue: The Great Western Road (Cooking Vinyl) [03-21] - pop rock
  • Dead Heat: Process of Elimination (Metal Blade) [10-10] - metal
  • Dead Pioneers: Po$t American (Hassle) [04-11] - punk
  • Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse) [06-27] - metalcore
  • Deaf Club: We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness (Southern Lord) [09-19]
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal [*]
  • Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (Capitol/Polydor) [09-26] - pop soul [*]
  • Dear Derrick Featuring Kool Keith: Galaxy Thot () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Dear Uncle Lennie: Sister Juniper (BMC) [09-26] - jazz
  • The Dears: Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! (Next Door) [11-07] - indie rock
  • Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) [06-20] - jazz
  • Michael Dease: Flow (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Death by Unga Bunga: Raw Muscular Power (Jansen) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Death Goals: Survival Is an Act of Defiance (-EP) [08-29] - mathcore
  • Death in Vegas: Death Mask (Drone) [06-06] - acid techno
  • Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) [03-07] - metal
  • Deathretro: The Art of Collision (Cosmic Glue) [02-28]
  • Debit: Desaceleradas (Modern Love) [11-07] - dark ambient
  • Jerry David DeCicca: Cardiac Country (Sophomore Lounge) [04-25]
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house [***]
  • Decrepisy: Deific Mourning (Carbonized) [03-28] - metal
  • Deena: This Is the Time (-EP) [09-19] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart (Sub Pop) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Deer Park: Terra Infirma (Deleted) [04-04] - neo-psychedelia
  • Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise) [04-25] - experimental rock
  • Defcee & Parallel Thought: Other Blues LP () [06-06] - hip-hop
  • Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) [08-22] - alt-metal [B-]
  • Barry Deister Quintet: An African Suite (Trans-Pacific Jazz) - jazz
  • Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round (Blue Note) [03-28] - vocal jazz [**]
  • The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) [02-14] - country soul [**]
  • Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) [10-10] - country [***]
  • Delivery: Force Majeure (Heavenly) [01-17] - post-punk
  • Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released) [09-09] - folk [**]
  • Mac DeMarco: Guitar (Mac's Record Label) [08-22] - singer-songwriter
  • Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Deradoorian: Ready for Heaven (Fire) [05-09] - art pop
  • Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) [03-07] - chamber jazz [**]
  • Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern (Season of Mist) [09-12] - metal
  • Randal Despommier: South (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Dena DeRose: Mellow Tones (HighNote) [05-30] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Erez Dessel: Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) [03-28] [**]
  • Destruction: Birth of Malice (Napalm) [03-07] - metal
  • Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jader Bignamini: Wynton Marsalis: Blues Symphony (PentaTone) [03-14] - modern classical
  • The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) [02-28] - alt-country [*]
  • Dezmin'd: Breathing's All That Matters () [05-23]
  • Alessandro Di Liberto: Punti Di Vista (GleAM) - jazz
  • Diabolizer: Murderous Revelations (Dark Crescent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [04-11] - metal
  • Claude Diallo: Alone . . . Finally!!! Live From Weserburg, Bremen (Dot Time) [10-03] - jazz
  • Harvey Diamond/John Lentz: How Strange the Road Should Be So Easy (Orchard of Pomegranates) [03-21] - jazz
  • Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding: Macon Georgia Giant (Wild Kingdom) [02-14]
  • Diaphane: München (Neither/Nor) - jazz
  • Madi Diaz: Fatal Optimist (Anti-) [10-10] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar) [05-31] - jazz [U]
  • Die Spitz: Something to Consume (Third Man) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth (self-released) - jazz
  • Dijon: Baby (R&R/Warner) [08-15] - alt-r&b [*]
  • John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [B]
  • Sam Dillon: My Ideal (Cellar Music) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • DirtyDiggs: Gold Chain Music () [02-26] - hip-hop
  • Disiniblud: Disiniblud () - electronic
  • Disrupted: Stinking Death () [01-24] - metal
  • Distrik22: Brooklyn Queens Expressway () [01-20] - hip-hop
  • Ditz: Never Exhale (self-released) [01-24] - post-punk
  • Diva Jazz Orchestra: A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released) [05-13] - jazz
  • Divide and Dissolve: Insatiable (Bella Union) [04-18] - drone metal
  • The Divine Comedy: Rainy Sunday Afternoon (Divine Comedy) [09-19] - baroque pop
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) [03-07] - indie rock [*]
  • McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (City Slang) [06-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-25] - Afrobeat [***]
  • DJ Elmoe: Battle Zone () - footwork
  • DJ Haram: Beside Myself ( Hyperdub) [07-18] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ K: Radio Libertadora! (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [08-08] - Brazil funk [**]
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo [**]
  • DJ Lag: Southside Mixtape () [11-14] - electronic
  • DJ Love/DJ Danz/DJ Ericnem: Budots World: 3-Hit Combo! (Eastern Margins) [12-03] - EDM [***]
  • DJ Premier & Roc Marciano: The Coldest Profession (To the Top) [08-08] - hip-hop
  • DJ Python: I Was Put on This Earth (XL -EP) [03-28] - ambient techno
  • DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-23] - electronic [***]
  • DJ Travella: Twende Dance Classics (Nyege Nyege Tapes -EP) [02-26] - afrobeat [***]
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) [04-04] - indie pop [*]
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Louise Dodds: All I Know (AMP Music) - jazz
  • Dodie: Not for Lack of Trying (Decca) [10-03] - folk pop
  • Jim Doherty: Jim Doherty's Spondance (Livia) - jazz
  • Peter Doherty: Felt Better Alive (Strap Originals) [05-16] - indie folk
  • Doideca: Sketches (Underpool) [07-31] - jazz
  • Doja Cat: Vie (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-26] - dance-pop [**]
  • Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place Music) - r&b [*]
  • Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) [02-17] - metal
  • Domestic Drafts: Only the Singer () [02-28]
  • Chano Dominguez/Ethan Margolis: The Blues Around Us (Unifying Sounds) [10-10] - jazz
  • Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country: Horizons () - country
  • Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (Fresh Sound New Talent) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune (Dot Dash) [11-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Rita Donte: Ritual (Ansonia) [03-28] - vocal jazz
  • Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) [03-07] - hip-hop [B]
  • The Doohickeys: All Hat No Cattle () - country
  • Doreen's Jazz New Orleans: Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released) - jazz
  • Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra: Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Pierre Dørge/Kirk Knuffke: Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase) [11-14] - jazz [***]
  • Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) [04-18] - death metal
  • Dorothy: The Way (Roc Nation) [03-14] - hard rock
  • Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-10] - hip-hop [**]
  • Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (Hands Made -EP) [07-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Double Virgo: Shakedown (Year0001) [07-03] - post-grunge [***]
  • Dave Douglas: Alloy (Greenleaf Music) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Larry Douglas: Music Speaks for Me [Deluxe] () [09-22] - jazz
  • Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI North) [02-28] - dream pop [*]
  • David Dower Trio: Sonder (self-released) [02-21] - jazz
  • Rianne Downey: The Consequence of Love (Run On) [10-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Tara Nome Doyle: Ekko (FatCat) [04-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Chandler Dozier: Bakersfield East ( -EP) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Dr. Purgatory: The Consumption: A Tragic Folkale in Six Parts (self-released) - jazz
  • Drain: . . . Is Your Friend (Epitaph) [11-07] - hardcore punk
  • Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas: A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books) [10-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Terry Draper: Infinity () [01-17]
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Dreamweavers: Woven in Time (Perdido) - jazz
  • Dressed Like Boys: Dressed Like Boys (Mayway) [08-29] - art pop
  • Eris Drew: DJ-Kicks () - electronic
  • Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-14] - jazz [***]
  • The Driver Era: Obsession (TOO) [04-11]
  • Drop Nineteens: 1991 (Wharf Cat) [02-07] - shoegaze
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • Duckwrth: All American F*ckboy (Them Hellas/The Blind Youth) - alt-r&b
  • Duendita: A Strong Desire to Survive (10k) [04-04] - alt-r&b
  • C Duncan: It's Only a Love Song (Bella Union) [01-24] - chamber pop
  • Sophie Dunér/Steve Beck: Stockhausen: Tierkreis / Schwartz: The Neon Pterodactyl (Urlicht) [05-23] - jazz
  • Dunes: Land of the Blind () [01-17] - stoner rock
  • Brian Dunne: Clams Casino (Missing Piece) [09-05] - heartland rock
  • Nick Dunston: Colla Voce: Praylewd (Out of Your Head) [01-31] - jazz [B]
  • Nick Dunston: Reverse Broadcast (Carrier) [06-06] - jazz [B]
  • Duo Ruut: Ilmateade (self-released) [06-12] - folk
  • Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) [09-12] - synthpop [*]
  • Kerala Dust: An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam USA) [08-22]
  • Dutch Interior: Moneyball (Fat Possum) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Mia Dyberg/Axel Filip: Hobby House (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [**]
  • Dying Wish: Flesh Stays Together (SharpTone) [09-26] - metalcore
  • Paul van Dyk: This World Is Ours () [04-11] - trance
  • Dykdypp: [Hugutullin] (Sonic Transmissions) [11-07] - jazz
  • Dynazty: Game of Faces (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Marina Džukljev/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: Industriesalon (Trouble in the East) [05-30] - jazz
  • Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) [01-10] - roots rock [B]
  • Earscratcher: Otoliths (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Earshot: Humaning () [10-10]
  • Anderson East: Worthy (Rounder) [05-30]
  • Dave East & Ransom: The Final Call () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Ryan Ebaugh/Matt Crane/Cameron Presley: Detergent (ScatterArchive) [11-24] - jazz [***]
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Echolalia: Echolalia (Full Time Hobby) [02-28] - psychedelic folk
  • Chris Eckman: The Land We Knew the Best (Glitterhouse) [01-24] - alt-country
  • Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Eclectic Maybe Band: Cosmic Light Clusters (Discus Music) [01-25] - jazz
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death -EP) [07-09] - alt/indie [*]
  • Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark]: Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) [01-17] - jazz
  • Editrix: The Big E (Joyful Noise) [07-25] - experimental rock [*]
  • Beau Edmondson: The the End () - country
  • Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) [08-22] - Americana [**]
  • Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen: Shikiori (Stunt) [06-27] - jazz
  • Eera: I'll Stop When I'm Done (Test Card) [09-26]
  • Effie: Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It's Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie (Sound Republica -EP) [08-01] - hyperpop [B]
  • Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation: This Time (Sunnyside) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Ehua: Panta Rei () [05-02]
  • Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Eidola: Mend ( Blue Swan/Rise) [01-17] - math rock
  • Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) [05-11] - jazz [***]
  • Mats Eilertsen: 1 (Hemli) [03-28] - jazz
  • Ludovico Einaudi: The Summer Portraits (Ponderosa Music) [01-31]
  • El Cousteau: Dirty Harry 2 (10k) [09-10] - hip-hop
  • El Infierno Musical: II (Klanggalerie) [08-07] - jazz [**]
  • El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown) [09-05] - hip-hop [B-]
  • Nadah El Shazly: Laini Tani (One Little Independent) [06-06] - art pop
  • Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse) [11-21] - jazz [**]
  • Petter Eldh: Projekt Drums Vol. 2 (Edition) [10-10] - jazz
  • Electric Gumbo: It's On! (Full Beam Music) - jazz
  • Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Elisabeth Elektra: Hypersigil (Occult Babes) [06-06]
  • Eli: Stage Girl (Zelig/RCA) [10-31] - bubblegum pop
  • Eduardo Elia: Desvíos ( 577) [06-20] - jazz
  • Myron Elkins: Nostalgia for Sale () - country
  • Kurt Elling/Christian Sands: Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) [08-22] - vocal jazz [B-]
  • Ellinoa: Mejiro (Les P'tits Cailloux Du Chemin) [09-19] - jazz
  • Jjjjjerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow (Shelter Press) [11-14] - jazz
  • John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Perimenopop (Decca) [09-12] - dance-pop
  • Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Ornithology/Maqām) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Amir ElSaffar: New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) [11-07] - jazz [***]
  • Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) [02-07] - country [***]
  • Esme Emerson: Applesauce (Communion -EP) [03-07] - indie pop
  • Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • The Empress: Square One (Cellar Music Group) [03-21] - jazz
  • Rafael Enciso: Crossfade (Contagious Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • End It: Wrong Side of Heaven (Flatspot) [08-29] - hardcore punk
  • Enemy: Fiend (Edition) [04-11] - jazz
  • Avi C. Engel: Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Somewherecold/Shaking Box) [01-03]
  • Dan English: Sky Record (Vinegar Hill Sound) [06-27] - neo-psychedelia
  • Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) [01-31] - ambient
  • Enji: Sonor (Squama) [05-02] - jazz
  • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (Verve/Opal) [06-06] - ambient [*]
  • Roger Eno: Without Wind, Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon) [10-31] - ambient
  • Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) [03-08] - jazz [B]
  • Ensemble Shippolly: Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts) [06-20] - jazz
  • Entre Amigos: Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark (Entre Amigos) [06-13] - jazz
  • Envy of None: Stygian Wavz (Kscope) [03-28]
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Shuteen Erdenebaatar/Nils Kugelmann: Under the Same Stars (Motéma Music) [09-12] - jazz
  • Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (Ndagga) [05-09] - world [**]
  • Tara Erraught/Ruth Rosique/Julien Dran/Chamber Choir Ireland/National Symphony of Ireland/Jean-Luc Tingaud: Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande - Suite; Prométhée (Excerpts); Shylock; Songs (Naxos) [01-10] - classical
  • Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Martin Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Tete Leguia: This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) - jazz
  • Martin Escalante: Playing Harsh Noise on the Saxophone Since 2012 (Wash and Wear) - jazz
  • EsDeKid: Rebel (Lizzy/XV) [06-20] - UK hip-hop
  • Mahan Esfahani: Bach: Das Wohltemperirte Clavier 1 (Hyperion) [08-29] - baroque
  • Esinam & Sibusile Xaba: Healing Voices (W.E.R.F.) [04-25] - jazz
  • Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) [08-29] - Peru [**]
  • EST Gee: I Ain't Feeling You (Interscope) [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Kaljuste & Concerto Copenhagen: Arvo Pärt: . . . Lente (Berlin Classics) [05-02] - classical
  • Silvana Estrada: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote) [10-17] - chamber folk [*]
  • Eternal Darkness: Eternal Darkness () [07-18] - metal
  • Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (self-relesed -EP) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone: Penumbra (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Peter Evans' Being & Becoming: Ars Ludicra (More Is More) [10-17] - jazz [***]
  • Peter Evans, Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - jazz [***]
  • Eventless Plot/Francesco Covarino: Methesis (Innovo) - jazz
  • Everyone Says Hi: Everyone Says Hi (Prediction/Chrysalis) [01-31] - neo-psychedelia
  • Everything Is Psychedelic: The Beautiful Malaise (Everything Is Perfect/Live at the Clinic) [04-30] - hip-hop
  • Everything Is Recorded: Temporary (XL) [02-28] - art pop
  • Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [08-15] - hip-hop [*]
  • Evoken: Mendacium (Profound Lore) [10-17] - metal
  • The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) [04-06] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 002 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) [01-17] - jangle pop [*]
  • The Expert: Vivid Visions (Rucksack) [09-26] - hip-hop [**]
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Last Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey -2CD) [08-15] - Jjazz [A-]
  • F5ve: Sequence 01 (LDH Group) [05-05] - bubblegum bass
  • Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling (No Format) [02-14]
  • FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) [02-07] - post-punk [A-]
  • Facta: Gulp (Wisdom Teeth) [06-20] - techno house
  • Kai Fagaschinski: Aerodynamics (Ni Vu Ni Connu) [10-25] - jazz
  • Carter Faith: Cherry Valley (MCA Nashville) [10-03] - country [**]
  • Faithless: Champion Sound (self-released) [09-05]
  • Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) [01-10] - metal
  • Tav Falco: Desire on Ice () [09-12]
  • Falling Leaves: The Silence That Binds Us (Meuse Music) [09-05] - doom metal
  • Fallujah: Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast) [06-13] - prog metal
  • FaltyDL: Neurotica (Planet Mu) [06-13] - hyperpop
  • Fanfare Ciocarlia/Adrian Raso: The Devil Rides Again () - Romanian
  • Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) [02-14] - IDM
  • Fantasy of a Broken Heart: Chaos Practicioner (Dots Per Inch -EP) [04-11] - neo-psychedelia
  • Jimmy Farace: Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm) [04-11] - jazz
  • Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Farma G: How to Kill a Butterfly () [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • FastLife, Madhattan & Spanish Ran: Bergin Hunt & Fish () [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) [04-24] - hip-hop [*]
  • Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Newton Faulkner: Octopus (Battenberg/Cooking Vinyl) [09-19]
  • Margherita Fava: Murrina (self-released) [10-03] - jazz
  • The Favors: The Dream (Darkroom) [09-19] - soft rock
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) [03-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Feed LA: More Feed () [08-29] - alt-jazz
  • Feeo: Goodness (AD 93) [10-10] - ambient [B]
  • Mark Fell & Pat Thomas: Reality Is Not a Theory (Black Truffle) [11-21] - jazz
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
  • Jerskin Fendrix: Once Upon a Time . . . in Shropshire (Untitled (Recs)) [10-10] - art pop
  • Feng: What the Feng () [02-14] - UK hip-hop
  • R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It (Ruby Yacht/Alpha Pup) [10-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) [03-28] [A-]
  • Deborah Fialkiewicz: Genetic Radio I.D. () [03-17]
  • Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Fieldwork: Thereupon (Pi) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Diego Figueiredo: I Love Samba (self-released) - jazz
  • Dominic Fike: Rocket (Columbia/Sandy Boys) [08-22] - bedroom pop
  • Dominique Fils-Aimé: Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival (Ensoul) [06-06] - jazz
  • Fines Double: Espejismo (self-released) [01-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Robert Finley: Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool You (Easy Eye) [10-10] - blues [A-]
  • Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Samantha Fish: Paper Doll (Rounder) [04-25]
  • Fish Narc: Frog Song () [02-14] - indie rock
  • Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) [01-24] - art pop [*]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua Afterglow (Young/Atlantic) [11-14] - glitch pop
  • Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Flipturn: Burnout Days (MNRK) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save (Sub Pop) [10-10] - dream pop
  • Floodlights: Underneath (PIAS) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream (Polydor/Republic) [10-31] - art rock [*]
  • Florence Road: Fall Back (-EP)
  • Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet: Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) [08-26] - jazz [*]
  • Florist: Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) [04-04]
  • Florry: Sounds Like . . . (Dear Life) [05-23] - alt-country
  • The Flower Kings: Love (InsideOut) [05-02] - symphonic prog
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • Flur: Plunge (Latency) [09-05] - jazz fusion
  • Wolfgang Flür: Times (Cherry Red) [03-28]
  • Fluxion: Haze () - elecronic
  • The Flying Horse Big Band: Unbridled: The Flying Horse Big Band Meets George Garzone (Flying Horse) [10-24] - jazz
  • Flyte: Between You and Me (Nettwerk) [08-29] - indie folk
  • Flyways: Mutualism (Daily Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • FM: Brotherhood () [09-05] - hard rock
  • Fola: Catharsis (Dargbana Republik) [09-05] - Afrobeats
  • Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk/Stop Talking) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar) [07-25] - indie folk [B]
  • Food House: Two House (self-released) [02-28] - hyperpop [B]
  • For Living Lovers: Natural Name (Sunnyside) [11-07] - jazz [*]
  • For Those I Love: Carving the Stone (September) [08-08] - spoken word [***]
  • Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) [10-24] - jazz [***]
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Former Champ: I Saw You in Paradise (Hand of God) [09-19]
  • Al Foster: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) [12-05] - jazz [***]
  • Robert Forster: Strawberries (Tapete) [05-23] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Amanda Forsythe/Christian Immler/Carlotta Colombo/Jesse Blumberg/Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble/Paul O'Dette/Stephen Stubbs/Robert Mealy: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona/Livietta E Tracollo (CPO) [ 01-03] - classical
  • Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Kevin Fort: Everything I Love (Jerujazz) - jazz
  • Forth Wanderers: The Longer This Goes On (Sub Pop) [07-18] - indie rock
  • Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Fox: Resonance ()
  • John Foxx: Wherever You Are () [03-28]
  • Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk) [10-10] - prog folk [B]
  • Noah Franche-Nolan: Rose-Anna (Cellar Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • Neal Francis: Return to Zero (ATO) [03-14]
  • François & the Atlas Mountains: Âge Fleuve (InFiné) [ 01-31]
  • Frankie and the Witch Fingers: Trash Classic (Greenway/The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [06-06] - art punk
  • Dom Franks' Strayhorn: Duality Pt: 02 (self-released) - jazz
  • Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) [01-10] - indie rock [*]
  • Frayle: Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm) [10-10] - metal
  • Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (self-released) [06-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin) [03-31] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Greg Freeman: Burnover (Canvasback/Transgressive) [08-22] - slacker rock
  • Mike Freeman Zonavibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) [07-24] - jazz [***]
  • Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop) [08-01] - dance-pop [***]
  • Avery Friedman: New Thing (Audio Antihero) [04-18]
  • Friendship: Caveman Wakes Up (Merge) [05-16] - alt-country
  • Friendship Commanders: Bear (Magnetic Eye) [10-10] - metal
  • Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) [10-31] - jazz [***]
  • Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Audio Antihero/Tapewormies) [02-14] - jangle pop
  • Frog Eyes: The Open Up (Paper Bag) [03-07] - art rock
  • From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics) [06-27] - Americana [***]
  • Edith Frost: In Space (Drag City) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Frost Children: Sister (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [09-12] - electropop
  • Jürg Frey: Longing Landscape (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Merge) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Pete Fucinaro: Little Window (Concrete) [08-22] - jazz
  • Fuerza Regida: 111xpantia (Rancho Humilde/Street Mob/Sony Music Latin) [05-02] - Latin
  • Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (SoFa) [04-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (Libra) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (Libra) [05-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick (Libra) [11-21] - jazz [***]
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Michika Fukumori: Eternity and a Day (Summit) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Rhys Fulber: Memory Impulse Autonomy (Artoffact) [09-05]
  • Robbie Fulks: Now Then (Compass) [09-05] - folk [B]
  • Ellen Fullman & the Living Earth Show: Elemental View (Room40) [10-10] - drone
  • Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (Turtle Bay) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union) [05-16] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) [03-07] - alt-country [*]
  • Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Fuubutsushi: Columbia Deluxe (American Dreams) [07-11]
  • FWWU+: Duos Trios (4DaRecord) [10-10] - jazz
  • Alex G: Headlights (RCA) [07-18] - RCA [B-]
  • G-Clef Da Mad Komposa & Jus-P: Xavier & Logan () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • G-Dragon: Übermensch (Empire/Galaxy) [02-25] - synthpop
  • Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) [04-11] - r&b [***]
  • Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Sami Galbi: Ylh Byebye () [05-02]
  • Eric Gales: A Tribute to LJK () - blues
  • Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ganavya: Nilam (Leiter) [05-23] - jazz
  • Gans: Good for the Soul (Strap Originals) [09-19]
  • Ganser: Animal Hospital (Felte) [08-29] - post-punk
  • Helen Ganya: Share Your Care (Bella Union) [02-07]
  • Raffi Garabedian/Ben Goldberg/Danny Lubin-Laden/Ben Davis/Gerald Cleaver: Insect Life (577) [11-07] - jazz
  • Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) [05-30] - alt rock [A-]
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Nina Garcia: Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ) [02-21]
  • Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra: Shadows of Tomorrow (Summit) [08-22] - jazz
  • Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Violeta Garcia: IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) [03-07] - jazz
  • Julius Gawlik: It's All in Your Head (Unit) [11-20] - jazz [***]
  • Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Gazpacho: Magic 8-Ball (Kscope) [10-31] - prog rock
  • Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan) [09-26] [B]
  • The Gentle Spring: Looking Back at the World (Too Good to Be True) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Georgie & Joe: What I Made With Joe () [05-23]
  • Geowulf: The Child (Nettwerk) [01-17]
  • Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (Open Mind Jazz) [08-15] - jazz [*]
  • GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) [03-07] - pop [*]
  • Macha Gharibian: Phenomenal Women (Rue Bleu Meredith) [01-24] - jazz
  • Jim Ghedi: Wasteland (Basin Rock) [02-21] - British folk rock
  • Ghost: Skeletá (Loma Vista) [04-25] - metal
  • Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (ESGN/ALC) [07-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) [04-18] - folk [***]
  • Rhiannon Giddens/Karen Slack/Paul Sanchez/Will Liverman/Reginald Mobley/Julian Velasco: Shawn E Okpebholo: Songs in Flight (Cedille) [02-14] - modern classical
  • Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (Morphius) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Ruby Gill: Some Kind of Control (self-released) [03-28]
  • Vince Gill: 50 Years From Home () - country
  • Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Thea Gilmore: These Quiet Friends (self-released) [02-28]
  • Girlpuppy: Sweetness (Captured Tracks) [03-28]
  • Javier Girotto/Fabrizio Bosso: Desde Cuando (Parco Della Musica) [07-25] - jazz
  • Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) [10-24] - jazz [*]
  • Giveon: Beloved (Epic) [07-11] - r&b
  • Frode Gjerstad/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen: Seven Tracks (Relative Pitch) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) [02-14] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Glaive: Y'all (Slowsilver03/Broke) [09-26] - EDM
  • Robert Glasper: Keys to the City: Volume 1 (Loma Vista) [10-10] - jazz
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO) [09-12]
  • Ani Glass: Phantasmagoria () [09-26]
  • Eliana Glass: E (Shelter Press) [04-25] - vocal jazz
  • Glazyhaze: Sonic (Believe Music) [03-21] - shoegaze
  • Glebe: Gaudí (Daggio) [01-17] - jazz
  • Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (Patois) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Glitterfox: Decoder (Jealous Butcher) [08/22]
  • Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (Mr Bongo) [05-16] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • God Alone: The Beep Test (Prosthetic) [10-10] - math rock
  • God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) [02-21] - metalcore
  • Charles Wesley Godwin: Lonely Mountain Town () - country
  • GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (XXIM) [06-20] - nu jazz [**]
  • Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (Entropic) [04-28] - jazz [C+]
  • The Golden Dregs: Godspeed (Joy of Life International) [ 04-25]
  • Alison Goldfrapp: Flux (A.G.) [08-15] - electropop [**]
  • Goldie Presents Rufige Kru: Alpha Omega (Metalheadz/London) [05-16] - drum & bass
  • Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Emma Goldman: All You Are Is We () [04-28] - screamo
  • Goldmund: Layers of Afternoon () - electronic
  • Golem Mecanique: Siamo Tutti in Pericolo (Ideologic Origin) [03-21]
  • Vinny Golia/Steuart Liebig/Nathan Hubbard: Road Journal Volume Three (Cstor & Pollux) [03-14] - jazz
  • Vinny Golia/Ken Filiano/Michael TA Thompson: Catastasis (Nine Winds) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • The Vinny Golia Quintet: Out for Blood (Nine Winds) [12-29] - jazz [*]
  • Mac Gollehon & the Hispanic Mechanics: Pistoleros (World Funk Orchestra) [09-12] - jazz
  • Phillip Golub: Loop 7 (Greyfade) [02-07] - jazz
  • Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks: Gombert (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First (Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope) [03-21] - alt-pop
  • Lucy Gooch: Desert Window (Fire) [06-06] - ambient pop
  • Good Flying Birds: Talulah's Tape (Rotten Apple) [10-17] - jangle pop
  • The Good Ones: Rwanda Sings With Strings (Glitterbeat) [08-29] - African
  • Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) [06-20] - alt-country [**]
  • Goon: Dream 3 ()
  • Goose: Everything Must Go (No Coincidence) [04-25] - indie rock
  • Gordi: Like Plasticine (Mushroom) [08-08]
  • Kyle Gordon: Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful (BMG) [04-04] - comedy
  • John Gorka: Unentitled (Red House) [10-03] - folk
  • The Gotobeds: Masterclass (12XU) [ 05-16]
  • Ayelet Rose Gottlieb & Dream Keepers: Dust (Corne de Brume) [04-25] - jazz
  • Vanisha Gould: She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live -24) [2024-11-08] - jazz [**]
  • Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (J.M.I.) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • GPS: Directions + Destinations (577) [06-06] - jazz
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Laura Jane Grace: Adventure Club ()
  • Grails: Miracle Music (Temporary Residence) [05-16]
  • Grand Official: Supreme () [02-02] - hip-hop
  • Grandmas House: Anything for You (Dutchess Box -EP) [04-11]
  • Grandson: Inertia (XX) [09-05] - alt-rock
  • Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (LP345) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Pasquale Grasso: Fervency (Sony Masterworks) [02-07] - jazz
  • Pasquale Grasso: Solo Be-Bop! (Sony Masterworks) [06-13] - jazz
  • Ronny Graupe's Szelest: Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC) [04-11] - jazz
  • Grave Digger: Bone Collector () [01-17] - metal
  • Conan Gray: Wishbone (Republic) [08-15] - indie pop
  • David Gray: Dear Life (Laugh a Minute) [01-17] - folk pop
  • Devin Gray/Anthony Pirog/Dave Ballou: Live at FEMA (Out of Your Head) [09-05] - jazz
  • Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) [01-17] - dance-pop [***]
  • Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) [02-21] - art pop [*]
  • Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam (Run for Cover) [03-28]
  • The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) [01-24] - metal
  • Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve) [08-22] - jazz [*]
  • Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist) [09-05] - prog metal
  • Green Gardens: Thistlesifting (Tiny Library) [09-05]
  • David Greenberger & the Hi-Ho Barbers: Ginger Ale (Pel Pel) [11-17] - spoken word [A-]
  • Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • Greet Death: Die in Love (Deathwish) [06-27] - shoegaze
  • Peter Gregson: Peter Gregson (Decca) [04-11]
  • Grentperez: Backflips in a Restaurant () [03-28] - indie pop
  • Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Patty Griffin: Crown of Roses (PGM/Thirty Tigers) [07-25] - Americana
  • Michael Grigoni & Pan-American: New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky) [04-04]
  • Grima: Nightside (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released) - jazz [A-]
  • Gregory Groover Jr.: Old Knew (Criss Cross Jazz) [11-07] - jazz [***]
  • Groovology: Almost Home (Sugartown) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • The Irv Grossman Sextet: Sound Advice (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) [03-05] - jazz [***]
  • Laura Groves: Yes (Bella Union) [08-01] - art pop
  • David Grubbs: Whistles From Above (Drag City) [02-28] - post-rock
  • GTO Trio [Gadi Levahi/Tal Mashiach/Ofri Nehemya]: Within (Anzic) [01-10] - jazz
  • Halli Guðmunds Club Cubano: Live at Mengi (self-released) [05-17] - jazz
  • Gulli Gudmundsson/Jeroen van Vliet/Koen Smits: Flóð Og Fjara (Challenge) [01-17] - jazz
  • Guedra Guedra: Mutant (Smugglers Way/Domino) [08-29]
  • Guerilla Toss: You're Weird Now (Sub Pop) [09-12] - neo-psychedelia
  • Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Guided by Voices: Universe Room (GBV) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Joy Guidry: Five Prayers (Jaid) [05-16] - vocal jazz
  • Mark Guiliana: Questions (Volume One) (Edition) - jazz
  • Guiltless: Teeth to Sky ( Neurot) [03-07] - metal
  • Jean-Luc Guionnet: L'Épaisseur De L'Air Live (Potlatch) [09-00] - jazz
  • Guitarricadelafuente: Spanish Leather (Sony España) [05-16] - Spanish
  • Goya Gumbani: Warlord of the Weejuns () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (No Quarter) [11-07] - psychedelic folk [**]
  • John Gunther: Painting the Dream (Origin) [11-21] - jazz [**]
  • Gustaffson: Black & White Movie (One Boat) [03-21]
  • Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Buddy Guy: Ain't Done With the Blues (Silvertone/RCA) [07-30] - blues [***]
  • Gwenno: Utopia (Heavenly) [07-11] - art pop [*]
  • HAAi: Humanise (Mute) [10-10]
  • Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (Resonant Music) [08-01] - jazz [***]
  • The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • The Haas Company Featguring Jerry Goodman: Thirteen (Psychiatric) [08-01] - jazz [B]
  • Hachiku: The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists) [02-28] - indie pop
  • Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (Tare) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Cerys Hafana: Angel (Tak:til) [09-26] - chamber folk
  • Donovan Haffner: Alleviate (self-released) - jazz
  • Haggus: Destination Extinction (Tankcrimes) [06-20] - mincecore
  • Gelli Haha: Switcheroo (Innovative Leisure) [06-27] - synthpop
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III (Sunnyside) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Hail the Sun: Cut. Turn. Fade. Back. (Rude) [10-24] - post-hardcore
  • Haim: I Quit (Columbia) [06-20] - alt-pop [***]
  • Luke Haines & Peter Buck: Going Down to the River . . . to Blow My Mind (Cherry Red) [07-25]
  • Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Franz Halász: Villa-Lobos: The Complete Solo Works (BIS) [04-18] - classical
  • Marcin Halat/Maciej Garbowski: The Dialogues (Fundacja Sluchaj -2CD) - jazz
  • Nicole Hale: Some Kind of Longing () [01-23]
  • Halestorm: Everest (Atlantic) [08-08] - alt metal
  • Half Japanese: Adventure (Fire) [07-11] - indie rock
  • Halflives: How Much a Heart Can Take Before It Breaks (-EP) [04-11]
  • Halima: Sweet Tooth (Drink Sum Wtr) [09-19]
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget (Hamdanistan) [09-19] - Arabic pop
  • Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Hamell on Trial: Dirty Xmas (Saustex) [11-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Scott Hamilton: Looking Back (Stunt) - jazz [**]
  • Caylee Hammack: Bed of Roses () [03-07]
  • Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Hand Habits: Blue Reminder (Fat Possum) [08-22] - indie folk
  • Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) [02-14] - post-hardcore
  • Handsome Gentlemen: Filmed by Quentin Tarantino () [02-01] - hip-hop
  • Waylon Hanel: When Waylon Came to Nashville () - country
  • Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Wesley Hanna: Magnolia () - country
  • Barbara Hannigan/Katia & Marielle Labèque/David Chalmin: Electric Fields (Alpha) [05-09] - classical
  • Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Simon Spang-Hanssen: Turtle Talk ( Spangster) [05-09] - jazz
  • Happy Family: 4037 (Cuneiform -EP) [03-28] - rock
  • Happy Family: Walking Through the Mire/The Dark Forest (Cuneiform) [10-13] - minimalism
  • The Happy Fits: Lovesick () [09-19] - power pop
  • Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) [01-24] - metal
  • Ed Harcourt: Orphic (Deathless) [11-14]
  • Curtis Harding: Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (Anti-) [09-05]
  • Omari Hardwick: BuffalOes & Butterflies () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Chris Harms: 1980 (Napalm) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Allan Harris: The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (Blue Llama) [07-11] - jazz
  • Lafayette Harris Jr.: All in Good Time (Savant) [11-07] - jazz [**]
  • Bryn Harrison: Towards a Slowing of the Past (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Stan Harrison: Some Pour Soul Has a Fire (self-released) - jazz
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Billy Hart: Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) [11-21] - jazz [***]
  • Lawrence Hart: Come in out of the Rain (Double Six) [04-04]
  • Nanami Haruta: The Vibe (Origin) - jazz
  • Samuel Hasselhorn/Ammiel Bushakevitz: Franz Schubert: Licht und Schatten (Harmonia Mundi) [02-28] - classical
  • Kat Hasty: Time of Your Life (Jackie Java/Thirty Tigers) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Hataalii: I'll Be Around (Panther Mountain) [04-04]
  • Hatchie: Liquorice (Secretly Canadian) [11-07] - dream pop
  • Tyler Hatley/Justin Clyde Williams: The Dick and Tammy Show () - country
  • Haunted Horses: Dweller (Three One G) [01-10] - noise rock
  • Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts (Year0001) [10-31] - darkwave
  • Have Mercy: The Loneliest Place I've Ever Been (Rude) [08-29] - emo
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Alexander Hawkins/Taylor Ho Bynum: A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt) [09-12] - jazz
  • Hawkwind: There Is No Space for Us (Cherry Red) [04-18] - space rock
  • Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () [01-17] - metal
  • Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain (Basin Rock) [01-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Phil Haynes & Free Country: Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) [10-17] - jazz [**]
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (1996-2025, Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Hayward & Dälek: Hayward x Dälek (Relapse) [12-05] - hip-hop
  • Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (Edition) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Hazlett: Last Night You Said You Missed Me () [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) [01-13] - jazz [**]
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock [***]
  • Heat On [Lily Finnegan]: Heat On (Cuneiform) [06-27] - jazz [A-]
  • Jason Heath and the Greedy Souls: Earth Wire Water Airborne (Still Small) [11-14] - roots rock
  • Heavy Lungs: Caviar (FatCat) [04-18]
  • Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late '80s (Eat Your Own Ears) [09-19] - ambient
  • Paul Hecht: Pyrography (Ears & Eyes) [04-04] - jazz
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • Joshua Hedley: All Hat (New West) [10-24] - country [**]
  • Emma Hedrick: Newcomer (Pathways to Jazz) [08-01] - vocal jazz
  • Heems: A Hundred Alibis (Veena -EP) [10-31] - hip-hop [B-]
  • Ralph Heidel: Anyways.Onto Better Things () [02-21] - jazz
  • Heirloom: Familiar Beginnings (Shifting Paradigm) [09-26] - Jjazz
  • Hekla: Turnar (Phantom Limb) [03-14] - dark ambient
  • Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (La Reserve/Diggers Factory) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Helloween: Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix) [08-29] - metal
  • The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Tyler Henderson: Love Endures (Cellar Music) [05-30] - jazz
  • Felix Henkelhausen Quintet: The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released) [05-16] - jazz
  • Sarah Hennies/Richard Valitutto: SOVT (Elsewhere) - jazz
  • Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Anders Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Weldon Henson: Stone Cold Country Gold () - country
  • Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill: Clay () - electronic
  • Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions) [10-01] - jazz [***]
  • Heretoir: Solastalgia (ADP) [09-19] - post-metal
  • Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise (Naive) [04-04] - jazz
  • Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (ECM) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Fred Hersch/Rondi Charleston: Suspended in Time: A Song Cycle (Resilience Music Alliance) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho) [03-21] - jazz [B-]
  • Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (Savant) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Hexrot: Formless Ruin of Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) [08-29] - metal
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Flora Hibberd: Swirl (22Twenty) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Tom Hickox: The Orchestra of Stories (self-released) [ 04-25] - chamber pop
  • Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (Soft Launch) [08-12] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • The Hidden Cameras: Bronto () [09-12] - deep house
  • Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) [01-17] - metal
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18] - electronic [***]
  • Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Twilight (Plastique) [02-14]
  • High.: Come Back Down () [01-24] - shoegaze
  • The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (Eastern Conference) [06-06] - hip-hop [***]
  • The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) [09-18] - jazz [**]
  • Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) [01-31] - Brazilian jazz [*]
  • Hilarious Disasters: Unnatural Root (Audio Cave) [11-21] - jazz
  • Arthur Hill: In the Middle of Somewhere (self-released -EP) [02-14]
  • Jennie Hill: Floating (Rat Beach) - jazz
  • Eric Hilton: Midnight Ragas (Montserrat House Music) [06-20]
  • Lisa Hilton: Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers) [11-28] - jazz
  • Micah P Hinson: The Tomorrow Man (Ponderosa Music) [10-31]
  • Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers: Gifts (Enja) [01-22] - jazz
  • Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone) [07-18] - jazz [*]
  • Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke: Split Scale (Thrill Jockey) [01-24]
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) [04-04] - jazz [B]
  • Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) [04-26] - jazz [***]
  • History Dog: Root Systems (Otherly Love) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • Alex Hitchcock: Letters From Afar (New Soil) - jazz
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic [*]
  • The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (PIAS) [08-29] - garage rock [***]
  • Ho99o9: Tomorrow We Escape (Last Gang/999 Deathkult/MNRK) [09-09] - hip-hop
  • Jim Hobbs/Timo Shanko: The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Audrey Hobert: Who's the Clown? (RCA) [08-15] - indie pop
  • Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) [10-03] - jazz [**]
  • Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) [05-20] - jazz [**]
  • Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • Robin Holcomb/Peggy Lee: Reno (Songlines) [09-12] - jazz
  • James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) [06-13] - electronic [A-]
  • Benny Holiday: Holiday Land () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) [03-21] - prog soul
  • Peter Holsapple: The Face of 68 (Label 51)
  • Home Counties: Humdrum (Submarine Cat) [10-24] - alt-dance
  • Home Front: Watch It Die (La Vida Es Un Mus) [11-14] - punk
  • Home Is Where: Hunting Season (Wax Bodega) [05-23] - alt-country
  • Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released -EP) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released -EP) [04-04] - hip-hop [*]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released -EP) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Soli Deo Gloria () - hip-hop
  • Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (ARC Music) [09-26] - China/India [*]
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) [02-21] - alt/indie [***]
  • Deborah Holland: I Made It This Far () [03-07]
  • Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) [03-21] - soul
  • Samuel Hollis & Tara Cunningham: Music for Moving Pictures II (-EP) [ 03-14]
  • Honesty: U R Here (Partisan) [02-07]
  • Honningbarna: Soft Spot (Nye Blanke) [02-28] - punk
  • Calum Hood: Order Chaos Order (EMI) [06-13] - new wave
  • Hooded Menace: Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist) [10-03] - metal
  • William Hooker: Jubilation (ORG Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Hooveriii: Manhunter (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [05-16]
  • Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-24] - African [***]
  • Horizon Trio: Horizon (self-released) - jazz
  • The Horrors: Night Life (Fiction/Universal) [03-21] - post-punk [**]
  • Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (Matador) [02-14] - twee pop [**]
  • Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Hot Mulligan: The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still (Wax Bodega) [08-22] - pop punk
  • Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man) [06-20] - shoegaze [B]
  • HotWax: Hot Shock (Marathon Artists) [03-07] - alt/indie
  • House of All: House of All Souls (Tiny Global) [02-14] - post-punk
  • Nathan Hubbard: Territory Games (Castor & Pollux Music) [11-21] - jazz [***]
  • Glenn Hughes: Chosen (Frontiers) [09-05] - hard rock
  • Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) [01-25] - jazz [***]
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Hundredth: Faded Splendor () [05-16] - dream pop
  • Hunny: Spirit! (Epitaph) [09-26]
  • Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World (Get Better) [08-22] - punk [B-]
  • Huremic: Seeking Darkness () [03-13] - post-rock
  • Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter) [09-12] - folk [***]
  • Gary Husband: Postcards From the Past (MoonJune) [11-16] - jazz
  • Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (Optical Substance) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) [05-02] - art-pop [***]
  • Hvalfugl: Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [*]
  • Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
  • HxH: Stark Phenomena (OFNOT) [04-04] - jazz
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • I Prevail: Violent Nature (Fearless) [09-19] - alt metal
  • I See Stars: The Wheel (Sumerian) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • I'm With Her: Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder) [05-09] - indie folk
  • Luis Ianes/Noël Akchoté: Seuil (self-released) [03-18] - jazz
  • Zé Ibarra: Afim (Mr. Bongo) [06-05] - Brazilian jazz
  • ICP Orchestra: Happy Birthday → Naar Zee Z.O.Z. (ICP) [07-02] - jazz [**]
  • Ider: Last to the World (Nettwerk) [02-21] - indie pop
  • Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) [04-11] - metal
  • Idlewild: Idlewild (V2) [10-03] - indie rock
  • Billy Idol: Dream Into It (Dark Horse) [04-25] - pop punk
  • Wata Igarashi: My Supernova (Dekmantel) [11-07] - minimal techno
  • Igorrr: Amen (Metal Blade) [09-19] - avant-garde metal
  • Johnny Iguana: At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • Ihlo: Legacy (Kscope) [08-29] - prog metal
  • Dieter Ilg Trio: Motherland (Jazzline) [02-28] - jazz
  • Ill Considered: Balm (New Soil) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • ILL Tone Beats: The Outcome () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Illit: Bomb (HYBE/Belift Lab -EP) [06-16] - K-pop
  • Illuminati Hotties: Nickle on the Fountain Floor (-EP)
  • Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Communal Heart (self-released) [04-18] - jazz
  • Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) [02-14] - prog electronic
  • Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) [03-21] - metal
  • In Mourning: The Immortal (Supreme Chaos) [08-29] - metal
  • In the Company of Serpents: A Crack in Everything () [07-11]
  • In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance (Jazzland) - jazz
  • In the Pines: Sunbeam Dream (self-released) [09-12]
  • In the Woods: Otra (Prophecy) [04-11] - metal
  • Index for Working Musik: Which Direction Goes the Beam (Tough Love) [04-04]
  • Industrial Puke: Alive to No Avail (Suicide) [03-28] - metal
  • Ineza: Ibuka (Ineza Music) [09-12] - jazz
  • Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) [04-04] - hip-hop [**]
  • Chris Ingham Quintet: Walter/Donald (Downhome) [05-13] - jazz [*]
  • Inhaler: Open Wide (Polydor) [02-07] - new wave
  • Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Instant Arts Quartet: Lingua Franca (High Two) [08-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Introspekt: Moving the Cengter (Tempa) [06-20] - dubstep
  • IQ: Dominion (Giant Electric Pea) [03-28] - neo-prog
  • Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Jon Irabagon/Peter Brendler: Two-Part Inventions (Irabbagast) [05-26] - jazz
  • Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (Intakt) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell: Making Good Time (-EP) [09-12]
  • Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) [03-07] - Americana [A-]
  • Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke: Pareidolia (Drag City) [08-29] - drone
  • Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) [01-03] - jazz [*]
  • Italian Surf Academy + Denver Butson: Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel) [05-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Ternion Q Expanded: Marbles (Bju'ecords) [10-17] - jazz [**]
  • Ivy: Traces of You (Bar/None) [09-05] - indie pop
  • Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Alfie Jackson Sextet: The Peacocks (JackoJazz) [01-02] - jazz
  • Ashley Jackson: Take Me to the Water (Decca) [03-21] - classical
  • Carrie Jackson: Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) [06-08] - jazz [**]
  • Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • Gabriel Jacoby: Gutta Child ()
  • Hannah Jadagu: Describe (Sub Pop) [10-24] - dream pop [*]
  • Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (RCA) [09-12] - dance pop [**]
  • Kim Jung Jae: Shamanism (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz
  • Max Jaffe: You Want That Too! (Colorfield) [11-21] - jazz
  • JakoJako: Tết 41 (Mute) [04-25]
  • Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [***]
  • Naissam Jalal: Souffles (Les Couleurs Du Son) [05-30] - jazz
  • Nicholas Jamerson: The Narrow Way (Cloverdale) [09-12] - country [**]
  • Bob James/Dave Koz: Just Us (Just Koz Entertainment) [03-07] - pop-jazz
  • José James: 1978: Revenge of the Dragon (Rainbow Blonde) [05-16] - vocal jazz
  • James K: Friend (AD93) [09-05] - ambient pop [**]
  • Jameszoo: Music for 17 Musicians (Brainfeeder) [05-30] - post-minimalism
  • Sophie Jamieson: I Still Want to Share (Bella Union) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Jane in Ether: Oneiric (Confront) [01-25] - jazz [*]
  • Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) [03-21] - indie pop [*]
  • Gaétan Jarry/Ensemble Marguerite Louise/David Tricou/Romain Champion/Nicolas Brooymans: Charpentier: Missa Assumpta Est Maria (Château de Versailles Spectacles) [02-28] - baroque
  • Yves Jarvis: All Cylinders (In Real Life) [02-28] - prog soul
  • Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) [01-17] - slacker rock [B]
  • Kazzrie Jaxen & Don Messina: The Dance (New Artists) [04-11] - jazz
  • Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) [01-31] - gothic country
  • Jazzwrld & Thukuthela: The Most Wanted (Waltz Music Group/Empire) [09-18] - amapiano [**]
  • Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) [03-07] - K-pop [B]
  • Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) [08-01] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Eunhye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Simon Jermyn/Otis Sandsjö/Petter Eldh/Lukas Akintaya: Obsany (Elastic) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Oscar Jerome: The Fork (New Soil) [04-04] - nu jazz
  • Jeshi: Airbag Woke Me Up (Because Music) [01-24] - UK hip-hop
  • Tobias Jesso Jr.: Shine (R&R) [11-21] - piano rock
  • Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant (InsideOut) [03-07] - folk rock
  • Jetstream Pony: Bowerbirds and Blue Things (Shelflife/Spinout Nuggets) [03-28] - indie pop
  • JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) [08-08] - hip-hop [***]
  • Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) [02-14] - ambient
  • Jiles & Grubby Pawz: Griot (Van Buren) [07-30] - hip-hop
  • Pablo Jimenez: Objeto (Tour de Bras) - jazz
  • Jin: Echo (HYBE/Big Hit -EP) [05-16] - K-pop
  • Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) [02-07] - djent
  • Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) [07-25] - country [*]
  • Jisoo: Amortage (Blissoo/Warner/Empire -EP) [02-14] - K-pop
  • Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) [03-28] - metalcore
  • JLZ + GG: Medio Grave (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [08-20]
  • Jess Jocoy: Cul-de-Sac Kid (self-released) - country [**]
  • Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Sven-Åke Johansson/Pierre Borel/Seymour Wright/Joel Grip: Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku) [07-25] - jazz
  • Pug Johnson: El Cabron () - country
  • Coco Jones: Why Not More? (Def Jam) [04-25] - r&b
  • Louis Jones III: Motions (self-released) - jazz
  • Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • JoJo: NGL () [01-24] - r&b
  • Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Desert (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Jonas: Music for People Who Believe in Love (Republic) [05-23]
  • Durand Jones & the Indicators: Flowers (Dead Oceans) [06-27] - soul
  • Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic) [01-20] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva) [01-03] - jazz [***]
  • Rico Jones: Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Joni: Things I Left Behind (Hand in Hive/Keeled Scales) [04-11]
  • Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (Empire) [09-26] - dance-pop [A-]
  • Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (Dot Time) [01-24] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) [02-07] - jazz poetry [A-]
  • Kathryn Joseph: We Were Made Prey. (Rock Action) [05-30] - art pop
  • Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (BarsOverBs) [02-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Joviale: Mount Crystal () [09-12]
  • Juana Molina: DOGA ()
  • Tony Molina: On This Day (Slumberland) [11-14] - folk pop
  • Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) [02-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (self-released) [12-03] - jazz [*]
  • Barb Jungr and Her Trio Featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen (Kristalyn) - vocal jazz
  • Junii: Jinx! () [05-15]
  • Junior Brother: The End (Strap Originals) [09-05]
  • Juno 3 [Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas]: Proxemics (Buster and Friends) [01-15] - jazz
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) [01-31] - African [*]
  • Laura Jurd: Rites & Revelations (New Soil) [10-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Just Mustard: We Were Just Here (Partisan) [10-24] - shoegaze
  • Kristoff K.Roll: Les Ombres De La Nuit (Mazeto Square) [05-16] - jazz
  • Eddie Kaine & Machacha: Crown Me Kaine () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Eddie Kaine & Rim: Welcome to Stuyville () [01-08] - hip-hop
  • Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Jerry Kalaf: Safe Travels (self-released) - jazz
  • Leven Kali: LK99: The Prelude (Def Jam/Universal -EP) [06-27]
  • Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Kamakaze & WIZE: It's About Time () [06-27]
  • Faten Kanaan: Diary of a Candle (Fire) [10-01]
  • Ayako Kanda - Tatsuya Yoshida ATP: Kalpty Vol. 1 (Tapestmemory) [06-13] - jazz
  • Miles Kane: Sunlight in the Shadows (Easy Eye/Concord) [10-17] - indie rock
  • Prima Kanta: In a Purple Time (Linoleum) [04-09] - jazz
  • Charlie Kaplan: A Hat Upon the Bed (Glamour Gowns) [10-10]
  • Karol G: Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) [06-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Jonathan Karrant With the Joe Alterman Trio: Live in Concert () [09-12] - vocal jazz
  • The Kasambwe Brothers: The Kasambwe Brothers (MASS MoCA) - African [A-]
  • Sylvain Kassap/Steve Swell/Benjamin Duboc/Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt) - jazz
  • Hesse Kassel: La Brea () [03-01] - art rock
  • Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Katseye: Beautiful Chaos (HYBE/Geffen -EP) [06-27] - K-pop
  • Kean Kavanagh: The County Star (Heaven-Sent) [06-06] - indie folk
  • Dalila Kayros: Khthonie (Subsound) [04-04]
  • Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (RCA) [08-15] - synth funk [***]
  • Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (Circum/Libra) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Sasha Keable: Act Right (The Flight Club) [08-08] - r&b
  • Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (self-released -EP) [09-05] - jazz [U]
  • Keelepeksjad: Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika) [03-23] - jazz
  • David Keenan: Modern Mythologies (Good Form) [11-21] - folk rock
  • Tom Keenlyside: Third Street Wobble (self-released) - jazz
  • KEG: Fun's Over (Alcopop!) [03-14] - art punk
  • Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) [04-11] - African [**]
  • Tyler Keith: I Confess (Black & Wyatt) [11-28] - garage rock [**]
  • KeiyaA: Hooke's Law (XL) [10-31] - soul [*]
  • Kele: The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (Kola) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) [02-11] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Rick Keller: Heroes (Vegas) [08-11] - jazz [U]
  • Machine Gun Kelly: Lost Americana (EST 19XX) [08-08]
  • Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Ruston Kelly: Pale, Through the Window (Rounder) [09-12]
  • Gary Kemp: This Destination (EastWest/Warner Music UK) [01-31] - rock
  • KenTheMan: Kinda Famous () [03-04]
  • Madeline Kenney: Kiss From the Balcony (Carpark) [07-18] - art pop
  • KennyHoopla: Conditiosn of an Orphan (Garbagehill -EP) [09-19]
  • Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (Ramble) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Kesha: . (Kesha) [07-04] - electropop
  • Robin Kester: Dark Sky Reserve (Memphis Industries) [09-12] - art pop
  • Kettama: Archangel (Steel City Dance Discs) [10-03] - techno
  • Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) [03-06] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Keyes: Two Trains (MoMojo) [10-24] - blues
  • Keys: Acid Communism (Libertine) [07-18] - alt/indie
  • Khadija Al Hanafi: !OK! (Fada) [01-20] - footwork
  • Khalid: After the Sun Goes Down (RCA) [10-10] - alt-pop
  • Wiz Khalifa: Kush + Orange Juice 2 (Taylor Gang) [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Kid Cudi: Free (Wicked Awesome/Republic) [08-22] - alt-r&b
  • Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower) [11-14] - vocal jazz
  • Carla Kihlstedt: 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe Music) [03-28] - jazz
  • David Kikoski: Weekend at Smalls ( Cellar Music) [09-26] - jazz
  • Killah Priest & Purpose: Abraxas 2 (Proverbs) [09-21] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kills Birds: Crave (Lucky Number -EP) [04-11] - grunge
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • Chloe Kim: Ratsnake (Kou) [10-31] - jazz
  • Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle) [05-20] - jazz [***]
  • Kinetic: Generations (Parma) [11-14] - world jazz
  • Diane King: Sky (self-released) [09-19] - country
  • The Marcus King Band: Darling Blue () - country
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island (P(doom)) [06-13] - symphonic rock
  • King Princess: Girl Violence (Section1) [09-12] - alt-pop
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African [B-]
  • Kingfishr: Halcyon (Atlantic) [08-22]
  • Kin'gongolo Kiniata: Kiniata () [04-04]
  • Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse: Opening Night (Kill Rock Stars) [04-18]
  • Domino Kirke: The Most Familiar Star () [04-18]
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Mark Kirschenmann: Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) [01-17] - jazz
  • Klein: Sleep With a Cane (Parkwuud) [10-01] - ambient
  • Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) [03-15] - jazz [***]
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) [05-01] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Kloke: Lucidity () [08-08] - jungle
  • Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver: Hinterland () [03-07] - prog folk
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) [03-28] - jazz [ *]
  • KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Kneebody: Reach (GroundUP Music) [04-18] - jazz [B]
  • Steve Knight: For Years Gone (self-released) - jazz
  • Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) [05-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (Royal Potato Family) [09-19] - jazz [***]
  • Hans Koch & Florian Stoffner: Net (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) [07-11] - afrobeat [B]
  • Kristina Koller: Walk On By (self-released) - vocal jazz
  • Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Kool Keith & Dane Uno: The Yoohoo Bros. () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Kool Keith: Karpenters () [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Thomas KAufmann/Camerata Bern: Exile (Alpha) [01-24] - classical
  • Kokayi: Live at Big Ears: The Standard Knoxville, TN (Why!Not) [08-28] - jazz [***]
  • Masayo Koketsu: Nyoinbo - Zenbu Nagareboshi no Sei (Somethin' Cool) [01-22] - jazz
  • Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore) [09-19] - jazz [B]
  • Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Vladimir Kostadinovic: Iris (Criss Cross Jazz) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune -EP) [08-01] - deep house [**]
  • Kovász: Fermentum ( BMC) [02-21] - jazz
  • Malakoff Kowalski: Songs With Words (Sony) [03-21] - jazz
  • Krakhouse: Bastards of Prog (Cuneiform) [07-25] - experimental rock
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (Down the Road) [03-28] - bluegrass [**]
  • Krept & Konan: Young Kingz II (Play Dirty) [02-07] - UK hip-hop
  • Krise: Apt Opt Kroma (Sonic Transmissions) [11-21] - jazz
  • Krokofant: 6 (Is It Jazz?) [01-10] - jazz-rock
  • Kronos Quartet: Mary Kouyoumdjian: Witness () [ 03-14] - modern classical
  • Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (Red Hot Org) [07-06] - chamber music [**]
  • The Kronstadt Collective: Feel Something (Falloff) [09-09] - jazz
  • Kroppskännedom: Kroppskännedom (Morc) [ 02-12] - avant-folk
  • KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) [03-21] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Alexey Kruglov: Transfiguration 100 Duos (Solyd) [02-12] - jazz
  • Joachim Kühn: Échappée (Intakt) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Christopher Kunz & Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht Disperation and Focus First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-10] - jazz
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Kuunatic: Wheels of Ömon (Glitterbeat) [04-11] - experimental rock
  • Takuya Kuroda: Everyday (PPK) - jazz
  • Mádé Kuti: Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (LegacyPlus) [07-25] - African
  • Mabel Kwan/Mauricio Pauly/Carrie Shaw Trio: Lunches for the Week (Out of Your Head) [06-27] - jazz
  • Ben Kweller: Cover the Mirrors (Noise Company) [05-30]
  • Kwes E: Fingers Crossed (Vowelism/Common Knowledge) [10-17] - UK hip-hop
  • Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (Jalopy) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • L'Antidote: L'Antidote (Ponderosa Music) - jazz
  • L.A. Witch: DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze) [04-04] - post-punk
  • Henny L.O. & Ewonee: The Coldest Season Ever () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • L.S. Dunes: Violet (Fantasy) [01-31] - emo
  • La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car (Epitaph) [09-05] - post-hardcore
  • La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII - Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) [03-06] - black noise
  • Lab Rat: Lab Rat (self-released) [01-01] - D-beat
  • Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (Jazzdor) [05-03] - jazz [**]
  • Yazmin Lacey: Teal Dreams (AMF) [10-24] - neo-soul
  • Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) [02-14] - metal
  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) [03-07] - electropop [***]
  • Lady Wray: Cover Girl (Big Crown) [09-26]
  • Mon Laferte: Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin) [10-24] - Latin [**]
  • Natalia Lafourcade: Cancionera (Sony [Mexico]) [04-24] - bolero
  • Lagon Nwar: Lagon Nwar (AirFono) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Lake: Bucolic Gene (Don Giovanni) [03-07]
  • Brandon Lake: King of Hearts () [06-13]
  • Seth Lakeman: The Granite Way () [02-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) [01-10] - punk [A-]
  • John Lamkin: Hot (self-released) - jazz
  • Rindert Lammers: Thank You Kirin Kiki (Western Vinyl) [04-18]
  • Lamp of Murmuur: The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (Wolves of Hades) [11-14] - metal
  • Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Landmvrks: The Darkest Place I've Ever Been (Arising Empire) [04-25] - metalcore
  • Nils Landgren: Christmas With My Friends IX (ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets (self-released) [05-02] - jazz
  • Rhys Langston: Pale Black Negative () [06-11] - hip-hop
  • Anna Lapwood: Firedove () [05-30] - modern classical
  • Larcenia Roe: Extraction (Unique Leader) [05-16] - deathcore
  • Larkin Poe: Bloom (Tricki-Woo) [01-24] - blues rock
  • Bells Larsen: Blurring Time (Royal Mountain) [04-25] - singer-songwriter
  • Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [*]
  • Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (Summer House/Epic) [09-26] - dance-pop [*]
  • The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre (Island) [10-17] - baroque pop [B]
  • Lastelle: Exist Vol. 2 (-EP) [09-12] - post-hardcore
  • Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet: Keepers of the Flame (Murrymarie Music) - jazz
  • Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Lathe of Heaven: Aurora (Sacred Bones) [08-29] - post-punk
  • The Lathums: Matter Does Not Define (Modern Sky) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [B-]
  • Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL) [08-22] - jazz pop [**]
  • Laurenne/Louhimo: Falling Through Stars (Frontiers) [04-18]
  • Lava Quartet: Ethereal Chant (Fundacja Słuchaj) [06-01] - jazz
  • Gilles Laval: 100 Guitars Sur Un Bateau Ivre [100 Guitars on a Drunken Boat] (Cuneiform) [11-21] - avant-rock
  • Lavender: We're Having a Barn Dance () [05-23]
  • Ant Law: Unified Theories (self-released) - jazz
  • Josh Lawrence: Still We Dream (Posi-Tone) [08-15] - jazz
  • Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer) [09-26] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Le Sserafim: Hot (Source Music/HYBE) [03-14] - K-pop
  • Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker: Long Bright Summer (RogueArt) [11-10] - jazz
  • Leap of Faith Orchestra: Sentence Types and Tokens (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Leap of Faith Orchestra: Problems of Time and Causality (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Bryce Leatherwood: Bryce Leatherwood () - country
  • Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) [08-29] - jazz
  • Ledisi: For Dinah (Candid) [10-03] - vocal jazz
  • Charmaine Lee: Tulpa (Kou) [10-31] - jazz
  • Jennifer Lee: Glimpse (SBE) [06-06] - jazz
  • Okkyung Lee: Just Like Any Other Day: Background Music for Your Mundane Activities (Shelter Press) [09-05] - jazz
  • Legacy of Lovers: Calm Cool Connections (-EP) [01-09]
  • Alice Leggett: Bird Song (Zennez) [05-09] - jazz
  • Kathryn Legendre: Here's Your Honky Tonk () - country
  • Legss: Unreal (The State51 Conspiracy) [09-12] - art rock
  • Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (XL) [07-18] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Brennen Leigh: Don't You Ever Give Up on Love (Signature Sounds) [10-03] - country [A-]
  • Leikeli47: Lei Keli Ft. 47/For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover) [06-13] - hip-hop [***]
  • Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island (Glassnote) [03-07] - indie rock
  • Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian) [09-12] - baroque pop [***]
  • Noam Lemish: There's Beauty Enough in Being Here () [10-24] - jazz
  • The Lemonheads: Love Chant (Fire) [10-24] - indie rock
  • Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) [04-24] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) [04-04] [***]
  • Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GamsbART -24) [2024-11-08] - jazz [B]
  • Nick León: A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax) [WE|Latin electronic]
  • LeoStayTrill: Home Alone (-EP) [05-23]
  • Dan Lepien: The Honky Tonk Traditional () - country
  • Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (Ultra Sound) [09-12] - jazz [**]
  • Letters From My Garden: Lágrimas De Primavera () [10-24]
  • Edvard Graham Lewis: Alreet? (Upp) [01-24]
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) [03-21] - anti-folk [A-]
  • Mark William Lewis: Mark William Lewis (A24) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • SG Lewis: Anemoia (Positiva) [09-05] - dance-pop
  • Lex Nyre: The Best Language () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • Ley Soul: Panda (self-released -EP) [08-01] - neo-soul
  • Jamie Lidell/Luke Schneider: A Companion for the Spaces Between Dreams (Northern Spy) [10-31] - ambient
  • Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta/Defkaz) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (Matador) [06-06] - garage punk [B]
  • Lik: Necro () [04-18] - death metal
  • Lil Baby: Wham (Quality Control/Motown) [01-03] - hip-hop
  • Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (Young Money/Republic) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Lil2posh: Fiesta Boy () [04-04]
  • Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi ( Pacific Coast Jazz) [09-12] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Lilo: Blood Ties (Dalliance) [03-28]
  • Yunchan Lim/Martin Alsop/Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 (Decca) [05-16] - classical
  • The Limiñanas: Faded (Berreto Music/Because Music) [02-21] - garage rock
  • Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (OA2) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Lindstrøm: Sirius Syntoms () - electronic
  • Liquid Mike: Hell Is an Airport () [09-12] - power pop
  • Lisa: Alter Ego (Lloud/RCA) [02-28] - pop
  • Brian Lisik: Goodnight, Detroit () [04-12]
  • Ira B. Liss: Unexpected Guests (Tall Man) - jazz
  • Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness) [05-16] - jazz [***]
  • Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War (Easy Eye Sound) [04-18]
  • Little Feat: Strike Up the Band () [05-09] - boogie rock
  • Little Simz: Lotus (Little Simz) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kedr Livansky: Myrtus Myth (2MR) [03-07] - art pop [B]
  • Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk) [03-21] - ambient pop
  • Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (Nice Life/Atlantic) [06-27] - mixtape [*]
  • Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released) [08-14] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) [10-10] - jazz [*]
  • Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Loaded Honey: Love Made Trees (AWAL) [06-06] - neo-soul
  • Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Joe Locke/Phil Markowitz: Smoke and Mirrors (Wire Walker) [10-31] - jazz
  • Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Box of Tricks (Whirlwind) [10-17] - jazz
  • Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • The Loft: Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same () [03-14] - jangle pop
  • Tony Logue: Dark Horse (Jenny Ridge Productions) [02-21] - country [***]
  • Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) [01-28] - African [***]
  • London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron: Malcolm Arnold (Orchid Classics) [02-28] - choral
  • Lonesome: In the Hope This Finds You (Easy Life) [09-19]
  • Andrea Longato: Thinking Heart (self-released) - jazz
  • Longnon Big Band: Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz) [06-06] - jazz
  • David Longstreth/Stargaze/Dirty Projectors: Song of the Earth (Transgressive) [04-04]
  • Loot: Loot (ICP) [03-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Brandon Lopez/DoYeon Kim: Syzygy Vol. 1 (577) [01-31] - jazz
  • Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) [05-25] - jazz [**]
  • Tomás Martin López: Right Here (self-released) [01-03] - jazz
  • Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba ( Blue Note) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (Blue Art) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury) [07-18] - indie rock
  • Lord Sko: Piff () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • Lorde: Virgin (Republic) [06-27] - alt-pop [B]
  • Lords of the Underground & Snowgoons: So Legendary (Goon MsSick) [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Lorelle Meets the Obsolete: Corporal (Sonic Cathedral) [10-10]
  • Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (Denouement) [03-26] - jazz [*]
  • Los Palms: Los Palms (Fuzz Club) [08-29]
  • Los Straitjackets: Somos Los Straitjackets () [09-19]
  • Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka (none) [03-22] - Latin electronic
  • Loscil: Lake Fire (Kranky) [05-02] - ambient
  • Russ Lossing Trio: Moon Inhabitants (Sunnyside) [02-21] - jazz [*]
  • Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert (Blaser Music) [10-01] - jazz [**]
  • Lots of Hands: Into a Pretty Room (Fire Talk) [01-17] - slacker rock
  • The Lottery Winners: Koko (Modern Sky) [03-21] - indie pop
  • Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Demi Lovato: It's Not That Deep (Island) [10-24] - dance-pop [*]
  • Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) [02-14] - alt-metal
  • Charlie Lovell-Jones/Sinfonia of London/John Wilson: Walton: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Suite from "Troilus and Cressida"; Portsmouth Point (Chandos) [03-07] - classical
  • Jesse Lovelock: & the Velvet Voices () - country
  • The Lovely Eggs: Bin Juice () [10-17]
  • Lovers: Lettres D'Amour (Thanatosis) [09-12] - jazz
  • Isabella Lovestory: Vanity (Giant Music) [06-27] - electropop
  • Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) [02-07] - blues [***]
  • Lowheaven: Ritual Decay (MNRK) [08-29]
  • Arjen Anthony Lucassen: Songs No One Will Hear () [09-12]
  • Hans Luchs: The Spell Is Broken (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Lucía: Lucía (La Reserve) [05-16] - vocal jazz
  • Lucie Sue: Battlestation () [08-29]
  • Lucius: Lucius (Fantasy/Concord/Wildewoman Music) [05-02] - indie rock
  • The Lucky Losers: Arrival (MoMojo) [11-07] - blues
  • Lullahush: Ithaca (Future Classic) [04-11]
  • The Lumineers: Automatic (Dualtone) [02-14] - indie folk
  • Igor Lumpert Quartet: Resistance of the Earth (Ears&Eyes) [10-24] - jazz
  • Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor: All Worlds (Sacred Bones) [03-07] - indietronica
  • Kilynn Lunsford: Promiscuous Genes (Feel It) [05-16]
  • Marcel Lüscher Quartett: Make Things Happen (Unit) [01-30] - jazz
  • Luvcat: Vicious Delicious (AWAL) [10-31] - alt-pop
  • Sandra-Mae Lux: Seasons in Jazz (ECN Music) [05-30] - jazz
  • K. Curtis Lyle/Alex Cunningham: Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • Jo David Meyer Lynse: For Renstemt Klaver (Hubro) - jazz
  • Kyle M.: The Real Me ()
  • M.anifest: New Road and Guava Trees () [03-13]
  • M.W.P.: Temple of Roses () [01-09] - hip-hop
  • M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) [05-16] - art punk [***]
  • Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) [01-01] - jazz [*]
  • Seth MacFarlane: Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Machine Girl: PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X (Future Classic) [10-24] - metal
  • Maddie & Tae: Love & Light () [05-02]
  • João Madeira/Miguel Mira: 21 07 12 - 02 05 24 (4DaRecord) [09-12] - jazz
  • Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca) [05-26] - jazz [***]
  • Peter Madsen Trio: Faces of Love (Playscape) - jazz
  • Matt Maeson: A Quiet and Harmless Living (09-12)
  • Valentina Magaletti & YPY: Kansai Bruises (AD 93) [08-22] - electroacoustic
  • Magana: Bad News (-EP) [01-25]
  • Joe Magnarelli: Concord (SteepleChase) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Magnolia Park: Vamp (Epitaph) [04-11] - alt metal
  • Sara Magnúsdóttir: A Place to Bloom (self-released) [08-22] - jazz
  • Ron Magril: Inspired (GleAM) - jazz
  • Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (JMood) [09-01] - jazz [***]
  • Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (Concord Jazz) [05-23] - blues [***]
  • Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya (Umsakazo) [07-25] - African [A-]
  • John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Evan Main/Walter Stinson/Steven Crammer: Prawntail (Endectomorph Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • Leon Majcen: Making a Livin' (Not a Killin') () - country
  • Emi Makabe: Echo ( Sunnyside) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Addicted to the Violence (Scarred for Life) [07-18] - alt metal
  • Malibu: Vanities (Year0001) [10-03] - ambient
  • Kali Malone & Drew McDowall: Magnetism (Ideologic Organ) [11-07] - electroacoustic
  • Post Malone: Tribute to Nirvana (Republic) [04-12]
  • Heather Maloney: Exploding Star (Signature Sounds) [01-31] - singer-songwriter
  • Matt Maltese: Hers (Tonight Matthew) [05-16] - art pop
  • Mamalarky: Hex Key (Epitaph) [0-4-11] - indie rock
  • Mammoth: The End (BMG) [10-24] - hard rock
  • The Man From Delmonte: Better Things (self-released) [11-14] - indie pop
  • Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) [05-05] - jazz
  • Mandrake Handshake: Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Månegarm: Edsvuren (Napalm) [08-29] - metal
  • Dan Mangan: Natural Light (Arts & Crafts) [05-16]
  • Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) [02-14] - power pop [*]
  • Clara Mann: Rift (The State51 Conspiracy) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Matilda Mann: Roxwell (Sevenfoursevensix) [02-28] - indie-pop
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • Saku Mantere: Divine Apology (Orchard of Pomegranates) [09-19] - jazz
  • Fabia Mantwill Orchesrtra: In.Sight (GroupUP Music) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • Maps: Welcome to the Tudor Gate (Mute) [10-31]
  • Georgia Maq: God's Favourite (1000 Rats -EP) [09-04]
  • Maranata: Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Etta Marcus: Devour (Polydor -EP) [10-31] - pop rock
  • Gillian Margot/Geoffrey Keezer: Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez) [05-23] - jazz
  • Mariah the Scientist: Hearts Sold Separately ()
  • Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) [01-31] - downtempo
  • Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington (Origin) [11-21] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Marinero: La La La () [02-14]
  • Mark: The Firstfruit (SM Entertainment) [04-07] - K-pop
  • Amber Mark: Pretty Idea (Jasmine Music/PMR/Interscope) [10-10] - neo-soul
  • Marmen Quartet: Ligeti & Bartók: String Quartets (BIS) [01-17] - chamber music
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-07] - afrofuturism [***]
  • Thomas Marriott: Screen Time (Imani/88 Keys) - jazz
  • Billy Marrows and Grande Familia: The Penelope Album Live (Discus Music) - jazz
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Billie Marten: Dog Eared (Fiction) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Malcolm Martineau: The Complete Songs of Ravel (Signum) [04-18] - classical
  • The Pedrito Martinez Group: Ilusión Óptica (GroundUP Music) [05-30] - jazz
  • Maruja: Tír na nÓg (Music for Nations -EP) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Maruja: Pain to Power (Music for Nations) [09-12] - post-rock [B]
  • Marcin Masecki Trio: Monk (BMC) - jazz
  • Masma Dream World: Please Come to Me (Valley of Search) [02-21] - dark ambient
  • Janette Mason: ReWired (JMMusic) [04-25] - jazz
  • Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father (self-released) - jazz
  • Nicolas Masson: Renaissance (ECM) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) [06-09] - jazz [***]
  • Matmos: Metallic Life Review () - electronic
  • Matron: Sunken State (-EP) [04-11]
  • Lawrence Matthews: Between Mortal Reach & Posthumous Grip (self-released) [09-16] - hip-hop
  • Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) [02-21] - metal
  • Mavi: The Pilot (Loma Vista) [11-25] - hip-hop
  • Ava Max: Don't Click Play (Atlantic) [dance-pop]
  • Maze Overlay & Slang Hugh: Word () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Wojtek Mazolewski: Solo (WMQ/NoPaper) [12-05] - jazz
  • Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Live Spirit 1 (WMQ) [ 08-22] - jazz
  • MC BF & DJ Yuzak: Bebeto E Romário (Mandelão, EP) [09-17] - Funk brasilero [**]
  • MC Homeless: Stay Slick () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Brian John McBrearty: Remembering Repeating (Love Beyond Measure) [01-17]
  • Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) [09-26] - jazz [B]
  • Mike McClelland Rm 210: You'll Hear It: The Music of Bob Fenton (Cornerstone) - jazz
  • Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl) [04-04] - ambient
  • Parker McCollum: Parker McCollum (MCA Nashville) [06-27] - country
  • Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak (Domino) [08-15] - singer-songwriter
  • Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (Soggy Anvil) [02-21] - country
  • Drayco McCoy: World Domination (self-released) [02-25] - hip-hop
  • Makaya McCraven: Techno Logic (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [**]
  • Makaya McCraven: The People's Mixtape (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [***]
  • Makaya McCraven: Hidden Out! (International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [*]
  • Fergus McCreadie: The Shieling (Edition) [10-24] - jazz
  • Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [***]
  • Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Madison McFerrin: Scorpio () [06-24] - neo-soul
  • James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter: . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence) [07-31] - jazz
  • Eliza McLamb: Good Story (Royal Mountain) [10-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State (self-released) - jazz
  • The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (Summit) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Carson McHone: Pentimento (Merge) [09-12] - Americana
  • Sarah McLachlan: Better Broken (Concord) [09-19] - singer-songwriter
  • Mclusky: The World Is Still Her and So Are We (Ipecac) [05-09] - noise rock
  • Dave McMurray: I Love Life Even When I'm Hurting (Blue Note) [11-14] - jazz [*]
  • James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West) [06-30] - country [A-]
  • Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (Challenge) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Joe McPhee: I'm Just Say'n (Smalltown Supersound) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) [08-11] - jazz [***]
  • Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • Jensen McRae: I Don't Know How but They Found Me! (Dead Oceans) [04-25] - singer-songwriter
  • Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) [02-21] - pop [***]
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) [02-21] - metal [*]
  • Makaya McCraven: PopUp Shop (2015, International Anthem -EP) [10-31] - jazz [**]
  • Makaya McCraven: Off the Record (International Anthem) [10-17] - jazz [**]
  • Mechatok: Wide Awake () [08-08] - bubblegum bass
  • Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) [03-23] - metal
  • Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Meet Me @ the Altar: Worried Sick (-EP)
  • Charif Megarbane: Hawalat (Habibi Funk) [04-11] - lounge
  • Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) [08-29] - jazz [B]
  • Madilyn Mei: A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 (Mercury) [09-12]
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Xol Meissner: Excess of Loss (self-released) [06-13] - art pop
  • Mekons: Horror (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [A]
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Melodies: Melodies (Ammonite Musique) [01-15] - jazz
  • Melvins: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • Melin Melyn: Mill on the Hill (Kartel) [03-07]
  • Coleman Mellett: Sing You a Brand New Song (Mirror Image Distribution) - vocal jazz
  • Members of the Piatti Quartet/Simon Callaghan/Ashok Klouda: Chamber Music of William Busch (Lyrita) [01-03] - classical
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • The Men: Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club) [02-28] - garage punk
  • Mên An Tol: This Land (self-released -EP) [09-26]
  • Men I Trust: Equus Asinus (self-released) [03-19] - bedroom pop
  • Men I Trust: Equus Caballus (self-released) [05-06] - bedroom pop
  • Menace Ruine: The Color of the Grace Is Green (Union Finale) [10-09] - drone metal
  • Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Otis Mensah & the Intern: Before the Noise My Cousin () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Nate Mercereau/Josh Johnson/Carlos Niño: Openness Trio (Blue Note) [07-11] - jazz
  • Stéphane Mercier: Live at the Jazz Station (Step By) - jazz
  • Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian) [02-14] - neo-soul
  • Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • MexikoDro: Still Goin the EP (Republic -EP) [11-07] - hip-hop
  • Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (Puro Unity -EP) [09-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Pitney Meyer: Cherokee Pioneer () - country
  • Camila Meza: Portal (GroundUP Music) [05-23] - Latin
  • John Michel/Anthony James: Egotrip (Loudmouth) [05-23] - hip-hop [**]
  • Tony Miceli: Nico's Dream (SteepleChase) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • Michigander: Michigander (Totally Normal) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) [02-28] - r&b [*]
  • Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness (self-released) - jazz
  • Midlake: A Bridge to Far (Bella Union) [11-07] - folk rock
  • Midnight: Steel, Rust and Disgust (Metal Blade) [05-23] - metal
  • MIEN: MIIEN (Fuzz Club) [04-18]
  • Miffle: Goodbye, World (self-released) [09-05] - ambient [*]
  • Miguel: Caos (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA) [10-23] - soul
  • MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) [01-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball II (10k) [05-07] - hip-hop
  • Mild Minds: Gemini (Foreign Family Collective) [02-21] - house
  • Militarie Gun: God Save the Gun (Loma Vista) [10-17] - post-hardcore
  • Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO) [10-10] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Drake Milligan: Tumbleweed () - country
  • Neal Miner: Invisibility (Cellar Music) [09-05] - jazz [***]
  • Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [*]
  • Kelsey Mines/Erin Rogers: Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [B]
  • Kelsey Mines/Vinny Golia: Collusion and Collaboration (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - jazz [B]
  • The Milk: Borderlands () [09-26]
  • Allison Miller With the One O'Clock Lab Band: Big & Lovely (Royal Potato Family) [01-14] - jazz
  • Colin Miller: Losin' (Mtn Laurel) [04-25] - alt-country
  • Rainy Miller: Joseph, What Have You Done (Supernature) [05-02] - post-industrial
  • MindsOne: Stages (Fort Lowell) [02-07] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Minman: X-IV (Motvind -4CD) [11-17] - jazz
  • Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic (self-released) - jazz
  • Sydney Minsky-Sargeant: Lunga ( Domino) [09-12]
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) [01-17] - electropop [**]
  • Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Mirador: Mirador (Miradorian) [09-19] - southern rock
  • Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (Parco Della Musica) [02-00] - jazz [*]
  • Miso Extra: Earcandy (Transgressive) [05-16] - electropop
  • Miss Tess: Cher Rêve () - country
  • Matt Mitchell: Sacrosancticity (Obliquity) [05-23] - jazz
  • Dennis Mitcheltree/Johannes Wallman: Holding Space (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) [02-05] - jazz [*]
  • Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (RogueArt) [10-13] - jazz [**]
  • Mizmor & Hell: Alluvion (Gilead Media) [04-04] - metal
  • MØ: Plæygirl (Sony) [05-16] - electropop
  • Mobb Deep: Infinite (Mass Appeal) [10-10] - hip-hop [B]
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) [02-28] - Saharan rock [***]
  • Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [05-02] - dance-punk [**]
  • Modern Nature: The Heat Wraps (Bella Union) [08-29]
  • Modeselektor: DJ-Kicks () - electronic
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) [01-24] - shoegaze [*]
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (The Flenser) [01-24] - avant-folk
  • The Moles: Composition Book (Splendid Research) [02-07]
  • Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer Live in Bergen (Edition) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) [04-04] - dream pop [**]
  • Monaleo: Who Did the Body (Stomp Down/Columbia) [10-17] - hip-hop [**]
  • Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Monde UFO: Flamingo Tower (Fire) [03-07] - neo-psychedelia
  • Mondo Lava: Utero Dei (Hausu Mountain) [08-12] - hypnagogic pop
  • Polly Money: T-shirt Nothing Else (Cool Online -EP) [03-21] - indie pop
  • MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (Floki Studios) [05-16] - funk [*]
  • Monotype: I Let the Wind Push Down on Me () [05-23]
  • Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (Mountainrose Sparrow) [08-08] - country [*]
  • Raúl Monsalve Y Los Forajidos: SOL (Olindo) [03-21] - jazz
  • Monsta X: The X (Starship -EP) [09-01] - K-pop
  • Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music) [10-17] - jazz [*]
  • Monteverdi Choir & Jonathan Sells: Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets (Soli Deo Gloria) [04-18] - choral
  • Meredith Moon: From Here to the Sea (Compass) [09-15]
  • The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required (Transgressive) [04-25] - dance-punk
  • Moonrisers: Harsh & Exciting (Easy Eye Sound) [05-30] - indie folk
  • Marlaena Moore: Because You Love Everything () [01-17] - dream pop
  • Peter Moore/Tredegar Band/Ian Porthouse: Shift (Chandos) [03-21] - classical
  • Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) [04-01] - jazz [*]
  • Jason Moran/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Ole Morten Vagan: Go to Your North (Yes) [07-14] - jazz
  • Kelly Moran: Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) [10-01] - ambient [***]
  • The Moran Tripp Band: Jumpers Hole () - country
  • Morbikon: Lost Within the Astral Crypts (Tankcrimes) [11-21] - metal
  • Morcheeba: Escape the Chaos (100%) [05-23]
  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) [03-21] - ambient
  • Jessica Lee Morgan: You Know What You Should Do? () [03-21]
  • Thomas Morgan: Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) [11-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Whitey Morgan and the 78's: Live From Bandit Town USA () - country
  • Chloe Moriondo: Oyster (Fueled by Ramen) [ 03-28] - synthpop
  • Morley: Follow the Sound (self-released -24) [2024-09-27] - jazz
  • Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (ESP-Disk) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch) [09-25] - jazz [***]
  • Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (Columbia) [05-09] - country [***]
  • Van Morrison: Remembering Now (Exile) [06-13] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Mors Principium Est: Darkness Invisible (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - metal
  • Mark Morton: Without the Pain () [04-11] - southern rock
  • Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) [04-01] - Americana [**]
  • Gurf Morlix: Bristlecone (Rootball) [10-07] - Americana [A-]
  • Willie Morris: Unbound Inner (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Sam Moss: Swimming (self-released) [02-07] - Americana
  • Fred Moten & Brandon López: Revision (TAO Forms) - jazz [***]
  • Motherhood: Thunder Perfect Mind () [01-24]
  • Motherless: Do You Feel Safe? (Prosthetic) [09-12] - metal
  • Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Motion City Soundtrack: The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (Epitaph) [09-19] - power pop
  • Motorpsycho: Motorpsycho (Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab) [02-21] - prog rock
  • Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) [03-07] - post-grunge [***]
  • The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Thirty Tigers) [11-07] - indie folk [A-]
  • Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) [05-16] [**]
  • Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) [03-27] - jazz [*]
  • Leszek Możdżer/Grégory Privat/Iiro Rantala/Michael Wollny: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVI: Piano Night II (ACT Music) [06-27] - jazz
  • MSPAINT: No Separation (Convulse -EP) [05-23] - electropunk
  • Eska Mtungwazi: The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman (Earthling) [05-23]
  • Mu Quintet: Enos (Jazz Aggression) [02-09] - jazz
  • Tobin Mueller: Mueller's Wheel: The History of Jazz (ArtsForge) [09-16] - jazz
  • Mukta: A Night at Pannonica (Cepazz) [09-15] - jazz
  • Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) [07-21] - blues [A]
  • Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now (Grappa) - jazz
  • Moon Mullins: Hotel Paradiso () [05-02]
  • Misha Mullov-Abbado: Effra (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Múm: History of Silence (Morr Music) [09-19] - indietronica
  • Mumford & Sons: Rushmere (Island) [03-28] - folk pop
  • Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • The Murder Capital: Blindness (Human Season) [02-21] - post-punk
  • Murderers' Row & Snowgoons: Murderers' Row () [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (Whaling City Sound) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Cornelia Murr: Run to the Center (22Twenty) [02-28] - sophisti-pop
  • Anne Murray: Here You Are (Universal Canada) [09-05]
  • David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Kristina Murray: Little Blue () - country
  • Michael Murray's Colourfield: Rounded Nature (ZenneZ) - jazz
  • Museum of Light: Diviner (Spartan) [03-14] - stoner metal
  • Music Soup Organ Trio: Upbeat Mood () - jazz
  • Charlie Musselwhite: Look Out Highway () [05-16] - blues
  • Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) [01-03] - groove metal
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) [09-26] - jazz [**]
  • My Morning Jacket: Is (ATO) [03-21] - alt/indie
  • Myd: Mydnight (Ed Banger) [08-29] - house
  • Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) [06-20] - jazz [**]
  • Ty Myers: The Select (Columbia) [01-24] - country
  • Whiskey Myers: Whomp Whack Thunder (Wiggy Thump) [09-26]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (self-released) [04-04] - African [***]
  • Marissa Nadler: New Radiations (Sacred Bones) [08-15] - singer-songwriter
  • Max Nagl Quintett: Phasolny (Rude Noises) [06-19] - jazz [**]
  • Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [11-06] - Afrobeat [**]
  • The Names: Encore! () [02-07] - post-punk
  • Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) [02-21] - r&b [***]
  • Randy Napoleon: Waking Dream: The Music of Gregg Hill (OA2) [08-15] - jazz
  • Randy Napoleon: Waking Dream (OA2) - jazz
  • Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (Legendary) [02-14] - hip-hop [***]
  • Qasim Naqvi: Endling (Erased Tapes) [05-30] - jazz [*]
  • Fabiano do Nascimento: Solstice Concert (Leaving) [02-07] - jazz
  • The Nash Ensemble: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Sonatas Pour Divers Instruments; String Quartet (Hyperion) [01-10] - classical
  • Rico Nasty: Lethal (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [05-16] - hip-hop
  • Ittetsu Nasuda: Tailwind (self-released) - jazz
  • Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop) [09-19] - synthpop
  • Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (Drag City) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Natural Information Society: Perseverance Flow (Eremite) [10-24] - jazz [***]
  • Navy Blue: The Sword & the Soaring (Freedom Sounds) [11-11] - hip-hop [***]
  • Naxatras: V (self-released) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Patrick Naylor: Organza (Beeboss) - jazz
  • Nazar: Demilitarize (Hyperdub) [04-25] - kuduro [*]
  • Lael Neale: Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop) [05-02] - indie pop
  • Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Camila Nebbia/Michael Formanek/Vinnie Sperrazza: Live at Blow Out (Soundholes) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) [11-21] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia/Gonçalo Almeida/Sylvain Darrifourcq: Hypomaniac (Defkaz) [10-15] - jazz [**]
  • Camila Nebbia/James Banner/Max Andrzejewski: Presencia (Ears & Eyes) [11-07] - jazz
  • The Necks: Disquiet (Northern Spy -3CD) [10-10] - jazz
  • Necrotic Gore Beast: Brute (Comatose -EP) [09-12] - metal
  • Negros Tou Moria: Mavri Ellada () [04-04]
  • Tami Neilson: Neon Cowgirl () - country
  • Lukas Nelson: American Romance () - country
  • Steve Nelson/Joris Teepe/Eric Ineke: A Common Language (Daybreak) [04-01] - jazz
  • Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) [04-25] - country [A-]
  • Willie Nelson: Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy) [11-07] - country [A-]
  • Stefania Neonato/Christine Busch: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten fÜr Klavier und Violene op. 12 Nr. 3, Op. 30 Nr. 3, Op. 96 (SWR) [01-10] - classical
  • Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) [04-11] - metal
  • Nerves: Iarmhaireacht (No Label -EP) [08-15] - post-punk
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (Apt. B Productions) [02-28] - hip-hop [**]
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Andy Nevala: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) [08-08] - jazz [***]
  • Jef Neve & Teus Nobel: Esho Funi (Blue Keys Productions) [02-14] - jazz
  • Nevertel: Start Again (Epitaph) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Lou Nevins: The Fumes (Cavetone) [07-04] - rock
  • The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising (Transgressive) [08-01] - art punk
  • New Origin: The Poet's Walk (Fundacja Słuchaj) [04-05] - jazz
  • NewDad: Safe (Atlantic -EP) [05-02] - dream pop
  • NewDad: Altar (Fair Youth) [09-19] - dream pop
  • Nexion: Sundrung (Avantgarde Music) [09-19] - metal
  • Alan Niblock/John Butcher/Mark Sanders: Tectonic Plates (577) [07-11] - jazz
  • Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse -EP) [06-20] - country [**]
  • Maggie Nicols & Geoff Eales: Beautiful Love (33 Jazz) - jazz
  • Michelle Nicolle: The Silent Wish (self-released) [03-07] - jazz
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Night Tapes: Portals//Polarities (Nettwerk) [09-26] - dream pop
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
  • Niia: V (Candid) [10-10] - vocal jazz
  • Nikhita: Solace (-EP) [04-04]
  • Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Great Intentions (Action Jazz) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Nine Inch Nails: Tron: Ares [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Interscope/Null Corporation/Walt Disney) [09-19] - post-industrial
  • Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (NLV) [08-08] - electronic [**]
  • Ninkharsag: The Black Swords of Winter (Vendetta -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) [03-14] - metal
  • NMIXX: Blue Valentine (JYP Entertainment) [10-03] - K-pop [**]
  • No Joy: Bugland (Sonic Cathedral/Hand Drawn Dracula) [08-08] - shoegaze
  • No Tears Project [Christopher Parker & Kelley Hurt]: Humanitics (Mahakala Music) [02-25] - jazz
  • Martin Nodeland: Tributaries (Smeik) [10-17] - jazz
  • Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (Invada) [05-16] - post-punk [**]
  • Nordkraft Big Band/Remy Le Boeuf/Danielle Wertz: Silent Course (Gateway Music) [04-25] - jazz
  • Nori: Walking Foot (Go Stop Music) [08-15] - jazz
  • Eric Normand: Dur Temps Pour Les Rouges (Peanote) - jazz
  • Not for Radio: Melt (Atlantic/Nice Life) [10-10] - dream pop
  • Not Enough Space: Weaponize Your Rage (Thriller) [09-12] - metalcore
  • Not Normal: Modærn Qualitet (SauaJazz) [10-17] - jazz
  • Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (XL) [08-22] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (Marshall) [08-29] - industrial rock [**]
  • Novarupta: Astral Sands () [02-14] - metal
  • Novelists: Coda (Ackor Music) [05-16]
  • Novembers Doom: Major Arcana (Prophecy Productions) [09-19] - metal
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Eva Novoa: The Freedom Suite, Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio, Vol. 2 (577) [10-03] - jazz
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. 2 (577) - jazz
  • Now: Now Does the Trick (Perennial Death) [05-16]
  • Nuclear Dudes: Truth Paste (self-released) [09-05] - grindcore
  • Nuse Tyrant & Trust One: If All Else Fails, Trust Nuse () - hip-hop
  • Ian Nyquist: Gilded (Flood) [09-05]
  • NyreDolk: Barndommens Hjem () [02-07] - metal
  • NZO: Come Alive () [06-13] - IDM
  • Ø: Sysivalo (Sähkö) [09-19] - electronic [B]
  • O & the Mo: Make Way for the Sun () [ 01-31] - dream pop
  • O.N.E.: Well, Actually . . . (April) [10-03] - jazz
  • Tim O'Connell: Gems (Tall Man -EP) [09-12] - jazz
  • Geoffrey O'Connor: I Love What We Do (Dinosaur City) [02-14] - sophisti-pop
  • Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (Out of Your Head) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) [08-28] - jazz [**]
  • John O'Gallagher/Ben Monder/Andrew Cyrille/Billy Hart: Ancestral (Whirlwind) [10-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Oakland Reductionist Orchestra: West and East Baying (Queen Bee) [10-17] - jazz
  • Case Oats: Last Missouri Exit (Merge) [08-22] - alt-country
  • Obongjayar: Paradise Now (September) [05-30] - alt r&b
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • Obverse: Obverse (-EP) [01-24] - prog rock
  • OC From NC: Project 25 () [01-01] - hip-hop
  • Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk) [04-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Oduchu: Nostalgia (Stallion Era) [05-17] - Tuvan
  • Of Monsters and Men: All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade (Virgin) [10-17] - indie pop
  • Offset: Kiari (Motown) [08-22] - hip-hop
  • Daniel Ögren: Pine () [02-12]
  • Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia) [08-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Ohyung: You Are Always on My Mind (NNA Tapes) [03-28]
  • OK Cool: Chit Chat (Take a Hike) [08-01]
  • OK Go: And the Adjacent Possible (Paracadute) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (Noel Okimoto Music) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) [02-07] - alt-pop [**]
  • Okonski: Entrance Music (Colemine) [02-28]
  • Oldstar: Of the Highway () [03-07] - alt-country
  • Iúri Oliveira: Manifesto (Respirar De Ouvido) [01-10] - jazz
  • Leila Olivesi: African Rhapsody (Attention Fragile) [10-17] - jazz
  • Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Tom Ollendorff: Where in the World (Fresh Sound New Talent) [11-21] - jazz [**]
  • Tomoko Omura: Run, Run, Run (Outside In Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • Ola Onabulé & Nicholas Meier: Proof of Life (Rugged Ram) - jazz
  • Petra Onderuf Quartet: An Odd Time of Day (Kaipati) [01-17] - jazz
  • One of Nine: Dawn of the Iron Shadow (Profound Lore) [10-31] - metal
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer (Warp) [11-17] - electronic [**]
  • The Onions: Return to Paradise (Hitt) [04-04] - pop [C+]
  • Onslaught: Origins of Aggression (Reigning Phoenix) [05-23] - metal
  • Onyx: Lower East Side () [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Open Head: What Is Success (Wharf Cat) [01-24]
  • The Ophelias: Spring Grove (Get Better) [04-04] - chamber pop
  • Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra: A Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito (Truth Revolution) [08-29] - jazz
  • Ora the Molecule: Dance Therapy (Mute) [03-21] - synthpop
  • The Orb: Buddhist Hipsters (Cooking Vinyl) [10-10] - electronic
  • Orbit Culture: Death Above Life (Century Media) [10-03] - metal
  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive4 (Hausu Mountain) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) [09-05] - experimental rock [***]
  • Organology [Gilad Atzmon/Ross Stanley/Joel Barford]: Organology (Aesthetiko) [11-28] - jazz
  • Orlando Consort: A Lover's Death (Hyperion) [01-31] - medieval
  • Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • Oruã: Slacker () [10-25] - experimental rock
  • OsamaSon: Jump Out (Motion Music/Atlantic) [01-24] - hip-hop
  • OsamaSon: Psykotic () - hip-hop
  • Ossuary: Abhorrent Worship (Me Saco Un Ojo) [05-23] - metal
  • Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) [10-17] - jazz [**]
  • Otherworld Ensemble: Soul Bird (Edgetone) [09-30] - jazz [**]
  • Royel Otis: Hickey (Ourness) [08-22] - indie pop
  • Alice Sara Ott: John Field: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon) [02-07] - classical
  • Out Of/Into [Joel Ross/Gerald Clayton/Kendrick Scott/Matt Brewer/Immanuel Wilkins]: Motion II (Blue Note) [12-05] - jazz [**]
  • Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) [09-12] - hip-hop [***]
  • Overpass: Dependent (Communion Music Group -EP) [02-28]
  • Oversize: Vital Signs (SharpTone) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • Ovrkast.: While the Iron Is Hot () [05-30] - hip-hop
  • Jake Owen: Dreams to Dream (Good Company) [11-07] - country [**]
  • Martin Owen/BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba: Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos) [01-03] - classical
  • Keith Oxman: Home (Capri) [12-05] - jazz [**]
  • The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) [09-19] - punk [**]
  • Christian Pabst: Rhythm Riot (JazzSick) - jazz
  • Pachyman: Another Place () [05-23]
  • Blair Packham: The Impossible Dream () [03-04]
  • Marina Pacowski: New Jazz Standards Volume 7: The Music of Carl Saunders (Summit) - vocal jazz
  • Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill) [05-24] - jazz [***]
  • Nino Paid: Love Me as I Am (Signal/Columbia) [02-04] - hip-hop
  • Pain of Truth & Sunami: Coast to Coast Split (Daze/Triple B -EP) [03-03] - metalcore
  • PainKiller: The Great God Pan (Tzadik) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Brad Paisley: Snow Globe Town () - country
  • PAL: Under Your Radar (self-released -EP) [03-07] - skronk [***]
  • Pale Blue Eyes: New Place (Broadcast) [03-07]
  • Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) [01-03] - deathcore
  • Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat) [04-18] - jazz
  • Michael Cera Palin: We Could Be Brave (Big Scary Monsters) [03-07] - emo-pop
  • Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: That Wasn't a Dream (Impulse!) - jazz
  • Paloma [Dineli Chesky]: Memory () [06-23] - jazz
  • Csaba Palotaï: Soulbread (BMC) [10-24] - jazz
  • Pan Amsterdam: Confines () [05-23] - hip-hop
  • Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story (self-released) - jazz
  • Panchiko: Ginkgo (Nettwerk) [ 04-04] - dream pop
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) [02-28] - tropical rock [*]
  • Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself) [07-18] - garage punk [A-]
  • Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music) [11-07] - jazz [***]
  • Diana Panton: Soft Winds and Roses (self-released) - vocal jazz
  • Will Paquin: Hahaha (self-released) [09-12] - indie rock
  • Paradise Lost: Ascension (Nuclear Blast) [09-19] - gothic metal
  • Parcels: Loved (Because) [09-12] - indie pop
  • Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) [01-17] - gospel
  • Jon Pardi: Honkytonk Hollywood (Capitol Nashville) [04-11] - country
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Gun (Paris Texas -EP) [02-28] - synth punk
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Sword (Paris Texas -EP) [02-25] - synth punk
  • El Léon Pardo: Viaje Sideral (Aya) [03-21]
  • Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Evan Parker/Jean-Marc Foussat: Insolence (Nashazphone) [05-22] - jazz
  • Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner: Drag Drop Spin & Crawl () - jazz
  • Zeena Parkins: Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik) [08-15] - jazz
  • Zeena Parkins: Lament for the Maker (Relative Pitch) [12-05] - jazz [*]
  • Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) [11-07] - jazz [**]
  • Parlando/Ian Niederhoffer/Aubree Oliverson: Censored Anthems (Delos) [02-28] - classical
  • Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Arranger-Composer (TCB) - jazz
  • Partynextdoor & Drake: $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (OVO Sound/Republic) [02-14] - alt-r&b
  • Partyof2: Amerika's Next Top Party! (Def Jam) [10-17] - hip-hop
  • Pastel: Sounds in Motion (Spirit of Spike Island) [01-17] - britpop
  • David Pastor: The Abraxas Sessions [Volume 4] (Dot Time) [03-07] - jazz
  • Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (Calligram) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Pateka: Pateka (self-released) [09-19]
  • Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) [01-03] - metal
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (Edition) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Nico Paulo: Interval_o (Forward Music Group -EP) [03-21]
  • Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland: Himmel Over Hav (Grappa) [06-26] - jazz [*]
  • Alex Paxton: Delicious (New Amsterdam) [05-16] - jazz
  • RJ Payne: Leatherface 4 () [04-11]
  • Nicholas Payton: Triune (Smoke Sessions) [08-29] - jazz [*]
  • Hery Paz: Fisuras (Porta-Jazz/Carimbo) [11-26] - jazz [**]
  • Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) [04-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Peaceful Faces: Without a Single Fight (Glamour Gowns) [06-06]
  • Pelican: Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover) [05-16] - post-metal
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Jeremy Pelt: Christmas Interlude (HighNote -EP) - jazz
  • Richard Peña: The Latin Side of Jazz Guitar (Page 38) - jazz
  • Pendulum: Inertia (Mushroom/Virgin Music) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) [03-21] - neo-soul [A-]
  • Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-31] - metal
  • Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) [03-04] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj) [07-30] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) [11-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ray Anderson: 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj) [10-01] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/John Butcher: Duologues 4 ( Ibeji) [12-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Gigi Perez: At the Beach, in Every Life (Outtahere/Island) [04-25] - singer-songwriter
  • Sabeth Perez: Searching for Beauty (Rogue Tone) [06-01] - jazz
  • Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) [03-28] [B]
  • Tommaso Perazzo/Marcello Cardillo/Buster Williams: Portrait of a Moment (Red) [05-30] - jazz
  • Kim Perlak/Francisco Mela: Spaces (Sacred Black) [04-25] - jazz
  • Perrie: Perrie (Sony Music UK) [09-26] - dance-pop
  • Jauron Perry: Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival (self-released) - jazz
  • Rich Perry: Dream (SteepleChase) [10-31] - jazz [***]
  • Perturbations: Intractable Problems (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Perturbator: Age of Aquarius (Nuclear Blast) [10-10] - darkwave
  • Peterparker69: Yo, () [07-09] - hyperpop
  • Clément Petit/Sophie Bernado/Jocelyn Mienniel: Brunö Lapin (BMC) [09-05] - jazz
  • Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (Innervision) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Peyton: Au (Stones Throw) [09-12]
  • Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (Family Owned) [02-13] - blues [**]
  • Phantom Honeymoon: Interstellar Underpass (MechaBenzaiten) [04-04] - jazz
  • Phi-Psonics: Expanding to One (Gondwana) [05-23] - jazz
  • Philharmonie Festiva & Gerd Schaller: Bruckner 3 (Version 1877) ( Profil) [01-17] - symphony
  • Louis Philippe & the Night Mail: The Road to the Sea (Tapete) [05-02]
  • Phill Most Chill/Djar One: Deal With It () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Phill Most Chill: I'm (Volume One & Volume Two) () [04-29] - hip-hop
  • Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (Lizard Breath) [05-15] - jazz [***]
  • Grant-Lee Phillips: In the Hour of Dust (Yep Roc) [09-05] - folk pop
  • Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (Dark Descent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [02-07] - metal
  • Zoe Pia & Mats Gustafsson: Rite (Parco Della Musica) [03-00] - jazz
  • Pidgins: Refrains of the Day, Volume 2 (Lexical) [04-04] - electronic
  • Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (self-released) [01-12] - country [A-]
  • The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: As I Was Saying (Walking Path) - jazz
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious (Rocket) [04-04]
  • Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [**]
  • Lido Pimienta: La Belleza (Anti-) [05-16] - art pop
  • Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) [01-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Katy Pinke & Will Graefe: Patterns (Glamour Gowns) [08-29]
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner -EP) [05-09] - dance pop [***]
  • Pinkshift: Earthkeeper (Hopeless) [08-29] - alt metal
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Piri & Tommy: Magic! (Believe UK -EP) [11-07] - dance-pop
  • Pissgrave: Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Pit Pony: Dead Stars (Clue) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) [04-22] - jazz [**]
  • Jefferson Pitcher: The Bellows () [04-11]
  • PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Paige Plaisance: Louisiana Lonely () - country
  • Alain Planès: Satie (Harmonia Mundi) [03-07] - impressionism
  • Robert Plant: Saving Grace (Nonesuch) [09-26] [*]
  • Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Henry Plotnick: Tributaries (Tidebloom) - jazz
  • Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) [04-04] - tech house [**]
  • Everson Poe: Enough Is a Myth (Fladh Productions) [09-21]
  • Mehmet Polat Quartet: Roots in Motion (Aftab) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Joe Policastro Trio: Mending Wall (JeruJazz) [09-19] - jazz
  • Emma Pollock: Begging the Night to Take Hold (Chemikal Underground) [09-26]
  • Polo & Pan: 22:22 (Hamburger) [03-28] - French pop
  • Polygonia: Dream Horizons (Dekmantel) [0-13] - minimal techno
  • Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (Rounder) [05-16] - country [***]
  • Poor Creature: All Smiles Tonight (River Lea) [07-11] - Irish folk
  • Pop Evil: What Remains (MNRK Heavy) [03-21] - metal
  • Pop Will Eat Itself: Delete Everything (Rumjoint) [10-10]
  • Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Poptones: Pure () [09-26]
  • Population II: Maintenant Jamais () [03-28] - psychedelic rock
  • Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-21] - indie rock [*]
  • Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone) [02-28] - jazz
  • Postcards: Ripe () [03-28] - indie rock
  • Pôt-pot: Warsaw 480km (Felte) [09-19]
  • Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) [02-14] - metal
  • Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brigid Mae Power: Songs for You (self-released) [01-09] - folk
  • Luz Prado/Wade Matthews/Abdul Moimême: Trust From Intimacy (ScatterArchive) [10-09] - jazz
  • PRAED Orchestra: The Dictionary of Lost Meanings (Discrepant) - jazz
  • Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal (7K!) [06-13] - electroacoustic
  • Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) [09-26] - electronic [*]
  • Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Noah Preminger: Ballads (Chill Tone) [02-25] - jazz [***]

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