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Metacritic/EOY Aggregate: 2025 New Music

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Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan) {141}: BPM:1*, Cl:1*, CS:*, D:5, DIY:*, DW:**, Em:13*, EW:6, EWi:7, Ex:2, FO:*, G:9*, GQ:++, GTV:*, HP:2, I:5, KC:12, LAT:11, LBF:*, Mj:32*, MO:*, Ne:3*, NME:*, NT:*, P:3*, Pf:7*, PW:8, Ri:1, RS:5, RSh:5, RT:4, SC:*, Sk:2, Sl:4*, Spk:*, STi:3, TO:3, U:29*, UR:*, XCI:**, XJD:2; am:+*, am_k:+, atl:4, bb6:+, cos:+, dc:12, g_e:1, n_ap:1, ny_z:1, vew:7, xjdc:*, xpb:+ -- A:88/26, TH:B

Rosalía: Lux (Columbia) {128}: 45:2, AD:*, Al:5, BPM:2, Cl:2*, CS:*, D:7*, DIY:*, DS:9, DW:*, Em:1*, EW:1, EWi:10, Ex:9*, G:1*, GQ:++, GTV:29, HP:3, I:1*, IT:*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:17, Pf:16*, PM:*, PO:*, PW:44, Ri:2, RS:3*, RSUK:*, Sk:4, Sl:10*, STi:2, TO:13; am:+*, atl:3, bb6:+, cos:+, dc:4, g_e:10, n_ap:4, ny_c:4, so_k:4, v_ja:5, v_sh:5, v_tg:3, vew:2 -- A:93/23, TH:*

CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) {97}: 45:4, AD:*, Cl:9*, D:2*, DIY:*, DW:**, EWI:4, FO:*, G:2*, GTV:2*, HP:1, I:14*, IT:*, LAT:17, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:3*, MO:*, NME:*, P:4, RC:*, RS:77*, RSUK:++*, RT:13, Sk:1*, Sl:30, STi:7, TO:2, U:52*, XCI:**, XJD:3; bb6:+, vew:4, xjdc:*, xpb:1 -- A:90/20, TH:A-

FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) {96}: 45:8*, AV:+, BPM:4*, BV:+, Cl:7, CS:*+, D:18*, DIY:*, DS:2, Em:19, EW:3, Ev:*, Ex:28, Fa:+, FO:*, GQ:++, GTV:*, HP:31, I:15*, IT:*, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:*, Ne:30*, NME:*+, NT:*, O:*, Ov:*, P:39*, Pf:42*, PM:*+, PO:*, Ri:3, RS:11*, RSUK:*, RSUK:++, S:+, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sl:1*, SLi:*, T:*, TO:4, Tr:+; am:+*, n_ap:7, so_k:3, v_sh:8, vew:6, vu:+ -- A:86/33, TH:*

Wednesday: Bleeds (Dead Oceans) {96}: 45:25, Cl:50*, BPM:10*, BS:7, DIY:*, DW:**, Em:30, EWi:3, Ex:6*, FO:*, G:25, HP:16, LBF:*, Mj:*, NME:*, NR:*, NT:*, P:18*, Pf:6*, PM:*, PO:*, RC:*, Ri:5, RS:8*, RSh:1, RT:96, SC:*, Sk:13*, Sl:17*, Spk:*, SpL:**, StL:*, U:4*, UR:*, XCI:**, XJD:1; cos:+, n_ap:12, so_d:2, so_k:2, vew:1, xdr:4, xjdc:* -- A:85/24, TH:A-

Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG) {88}: 45:1, Al:11, BPM:34*, Cl:26*, D:20, DIY:*, DS:12, DW:**, Em:29, Ev:*, EWi:6, Ex:36*, G:7*, GTV:13, HP:6*, I:3*, LAT:21, LBF:*, MO:*, NME:*, PO:21*, RS:33*, RSUK:++, Sk:7, STi:5, T:*, TL:2, TO:11, UR:*, XCI:**, XJD:7; atl:6, cos:+, g_e:8, v_h:3, v_tg:7, vew:5, xjdc:*, xpb:+ -- A:80/21, RX:A, TH:A-

Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) {87}: AV:+, BPM:3*, BV:+, Cl:35*, CM:+, CS:+, DJM:+.DW:**+, EWi:39, Ex:42*, Fa:+, G:10*, GB:14, HG:+, HV:+, LBF:*, Mj:72, MO:*, NT:*, Ov:*, P:14, Pf:21*, PM:+, PO:*, PW:4, RC:*, Ri:16, RS:17*, RSh:4, RT:51, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:5*, Sl:35*, Spk:*, StL:*, Tr:+, W:2; am:+*, am_h:+, bl:+, dc:6, so_k:8, vew:+, vu:+, xjdc:*, xpb:6 -- A:87/21, RX:A-, TH:A-

Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) {73}: AV:+, BB:+, BPM:31, Cl:39*, CS:+, DW:*, Em:5, EW:2, EWi:33, Ex:27, G:8, HP:42, HV:+, I:4, LAT:6, Ne:36*, NME:*+, P:37, Pf:5*, PO:8*, PM:*, RS:1*, S:+, Sl:29, TO:5, XJD:15; am:+*, cos:+, ny_c:9, ny_z:4, v_tg:1, vew:3, vu:3 -- A:90/7, TH:***

PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner -EP) {67}: 45:7, BB:+, Cl:41*, CS:+, D:19, DIY:*, DW:*+, Em:2, EWi:11, Ex:3, Fa:+, G:6*, I:11, HP:37, HV:+, NME:*+, Pf:18*, PW:22, Ri:13, RS:23, RSUK:++, SC:*, Sg:+, Sl:18, STi:14, XJD:10; am:+*, cos:+, ny_z:10, v_tg:10, vew:+, vu:9, xjdc:* -- A:76/12, RX:A-, TH:***

Pulp: More (Rough Trade) {67}: AD:*, Al:6, BV:+, BV_i:+, Cl:14*, D:23, DIY:*, EWi:+, Ex:*, FO:*, G:16*, GTV:48, HP:15, I:*, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:1*, MO:*, NME:*, P:*, RC:*, Ri:15, RS:41*, RSh:10, RSUK:*, RT:3, Sk:*, Sp:*, STi:1, StL:*, T:*, Tr:+, U:1*, XCI:*; am:+*, so_d:11, xdr:7 -- A:80/32, TH:*

Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino) {67}: 45;20, AD:*, Al:12, Cl:16*, D:9*, EWi:21, Ex:14, FO:*, G:27*, HP:12, I:*, IT:*, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:10*, MO:*, NME:*, P:*, Pf:36, PO:*, RC:*, RS:63*, RT:72, Sk:6*, Sl:*, STi:15, T:*, TL:6, U:50*, XCI:**, XJD:25; am:+*, bl:+, so_d:4, so_k:11, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:81/28, RX:A-, TH:**

Dijon: Baby (R&R/Warner) {65}: BS:4, Cl:20*, D:26*, EWi:+, Ex:13, GB:30, LAT:5, NME:*, NT:*, P:5*, Pf:2*, PO:24*, PW:16, Ri:6, RS:4*, Sk:12, Sl:8, XJD:5; am:+*, atl:5, cos:+, n_ap:3, ny_z:6, v_ja:3, vew:+, vu:1 -- A:87/9, TH:*

Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) {65}: 45:11, AV:+, BB:+, Cl:37, D:44, DJM:+, DW:*, Em:16, EWi:+, Ex:17, Fa:+, G:30, GB:1, GQ:++, NME:+, P:6*, Pf:4*, PW:17, RS:47, RT:2, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:3*, Sl:16, ST:+, STi:16, TO:1, W:7; atl:2, ny_c:14, vew:+ -- A:75/6, TH:**

Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD) {63}: BPM:20, Cl:23*, D:65*, DIY:*, DW:**, EWi:8, Ex:*, FO:*, G:18*, GTV:8*, HP:7, I:12*, Mj:4*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*, RC:*, RS:*, RT:39, Sk:10*, Sl:48, Spk:*, STi:9, U:17*, XCI:**; vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:82/26, RX:A, TH:A-

Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (Roc Nation) {62}: Al:14, BS:3, Cl:10*, CS:*, Em:26, Ex:11, G:19*, HG:+, HP:49, Ne:1*, PO:*, PW:21, Ri:4, RR:*, RS:6*, RSh:7, RT:21, Sl:14, XJD:17; am:+*, am_k:+, atl:9, cos:+, g_e:5, ny_c:15, v_sh:2, vew:+ -- A:80/12, RX:B+, TH:A-

Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic) {61}: 45:13, BS:1, Cl:4, D:1*, DiS:*, DIY:*, DS:1, DW:*, GTV:11, K:*, Em:4, EWi:46, Ex:7, LBF:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:20*, RS:9*, RT:10, Sk:11, Sl:46, Spk:*, SpL:*; am:+*, cos:+, n_ap:6, vew:+ -- A:92/12, TH:**

Turnstile: Never Enough (Roadrunner) {60}: AD:*, BB:+, BPM:21*, BS:18, BV:+, Cl:6*, D:3*, DiS:*, DIY:*, DW:*+, Em:37, Ex:4*, G:15*, GTV:10, HP:8, I:20, K:*, LBF:*, MH:*, NME:*+, NT:*, PM:*, RS:31, RT:5, Sk:*, STi:19, U:78, Up_sh:+, UR:*; am:+*, am_k:+, cos:+ -- A:82/27, TH:*

Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) {59}: 45:16, Al:20, BB:+, BPM:*, BV:+, Cl:32*, CS:*+, D:66*, DIY:*, DW:*+, Ev:*, EW:5, Fa:+, G:5*, HP:24, HV:+, I:*, LAT:14, MO:*, NME:*+, O:*, P:+, Pf:*, PO:*, RS:2*, RSUK:*, Sg:+, Spk:*, STi:20, T:*, TO:22; am:+*, cos:+, n_ap:11, v_sh:4 -- A:78/27, TH:***

Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler/RCA) {57}: BS:10, EWi:1, GTV:33, I:9, Ne:19*, P:*, PO:1*, RS:7*, Sl:6*, TL:1, U:*, XCI:**, XJD:9; am:*, scm:+, vew:+, vu:5, xjdc:*, xpb:+ -- A:83/8, RX:A, TH:A-

Little Simz: Lotus (Little Simz) {57}: 45:18, AD:*, Al:9*, BV_i:+, Cl:34*, D:41*, DIY:*, DS:14, Em:34, EWi:37, GO:22, HG:+, I:7*, LBF:*, MO:*, Mj:13*, Ne:13*, NME:*+, Ov:*, PO:*, RC:*, RS:45*, RSUK:*, RT:42, Sk:*, Sl:+, STi:23, T:*, U:11*, XCI:**; am:+*, am_h:+, g_e:6, xde:5, xjdc:* -- A:86/21, TH:*

Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (Matador) {55}: BPM:49, BV:+, BV_i:+, DIY:*, DS:19, DW:**+, EWi:+, Ex:*, Fa:+, G:31*, GB:33, GTV:*, KC:26, Mj:26*, Ne:47*, NME:*, Ov:*, P:9*, PM:*+, PO:*, RS:39, RT:73, SC:*, Sg:+, Sp:*, ST:+, Tr:+, U:25*, Up_sh:+, UR:*; am:+*, so_d:1, so_k:1, vew:+ -- A:80/23, RX:***, TH:**

Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) {54}: JC:17; am:*, am_j:+, jfk:4, jgy:4, jlb:7, jma:+, jnc:3, jse:8 -- A:80/1, TH:**

Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) {53}: 45:22, AD:*, Cl:*, D:28*, DiS:*, DIY:*, DS:5, EWi:+, Ex:30, G:*, GTV:25*, HP:35, K:*, L:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NME:*+, Ov:*, PO:*, RS:*+, RT:15, Sk:*, Sp:*, T:*, U:*, XJD:23; am:+*, am_k:+, bb6:+, so_d:7, so_k:19, vew:+, vu:+, xjdc:* -- A:80/27, RX:A, TH:A-

Addison Rae: Addison (As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) {51}: 45:9, BB:+, Cl:40*, D:6, DS:23, DW:*, EWi:+, Ex:50*, G:4, HV:+, I:6*, NME:*+, P:45*, Pf:12*, PW:12, RS:12, RSUK:9, Sl:5, TO:6; cos:+, n_ap:14, ny_c:7, v_tg:2, vew:+ -- A:73/14, TH:*

Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) {51}: AD:*, AV:*+, BPM:29*, BV:+, Cl:*, CS:+, D:22, DIY:*, Ex:*+, G:35, GQ:++, I:*, IT:*, LAT:15, Mj:34*, MO:*, Ne:48*, NME:*, NT:*, O:*, Ov:*, Pf:*, PM:*+, RC:*, RS:59*, RSUK:*, RT:12, SC:*, Sk:*, T:*, U:9*, Up_sh:+; n_ap:13, ny_c:6, ny_z:5 -- A:82/31, TH:**

Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (XL) {50}: AV:*, BPM:9*, Cl:31, DJM:+, DW:*, Em:18, EWi:+, Ex:32, G:50*, GB:3, LBF:*, Mj:*, Ne:2, NME:*, NT:*, P:1*, Pf:9*, PO:*, PW:9, Ri:17, RS:42, RSh:11, Sk:*, Sl:*; am:+*, vew:+ -- A:86/12, TH:B

Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) {45}: AD:*, AV:*+, BB:+, BPM:30*, BV:+, Cl:12*, CS:+, D:75, DIY:*, EW:4, Ex:23*, FO:*, G:32*, I:8, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, P:32*, Pf:48*, RC:*, RS:+, SC:*, Sk:*, Sl:39*, U:21*, XSN:*; am:+*, bb6:+, so_d:23 -- A:84/24, TH:B

Sudan Archives: The BPM (Stones Throw) {45}: BPM:18*, Cl:43*, DS:22, DW:**, EW:9, EWi:28, Ex:*, G:39, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, P:21*, Pf:13*, PO:*, PW:29, Sk:*, Sl:7*, StL:*, TO:9, XJD:24; am:+*, dc:16, so_k:18, vew:+, xjdc:*, xpb:8 -- A:82/13, TH:A-

Lorde: Virgin (Republic) {44}: 45:23, Al:39, AV:*, Cl:*, D:54*, DIY:*, DW:*, Em:10, Ex:24*, G:*, GQ:++, GTV:*, HP:17, HV:+, IT:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*, RS:30*, Sk:9*, Sl:22, STi:12, TO:18; am:+*, cos:+, xjdc:* -- A:80/26, RX:A-, TH:B

Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Duophonic/Warp) {44}: AD:*, Al:10, BV:+, BV_i:+, CM:+, DW:*+, Ev:*, EWi:37, Ex:49, FO:*, G:*, GTV:19*, KC:14, LBF:*, Mj:6*, MO:*, RS:+, RT:65, Tr:+, U:2*, UR:*, W:7; am:+*, bl:+, so_d:21, so_k:16, vu:+ -- A:81/14, TH:*

Haim: I Quit (Columbia) {43}: 45:39, AD:*, Cl:42*, CS:*, D:42*, DIY:*, EWi:19, I:*, IT:*, FO:*, LAT:18, Mj:56*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*, PO:*, RS:35*, RSUK:*, Sk:*, TL:10, UR:*, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- A:78/30, RX:A, TH:A-

Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) {42}: AD:*, Al:50, BB:+, BS:13, BV:+, DW:*, EWi:50, Ex:*, Mj:33*+, NT:*, P:*, PM:*+, RT:8, SC:*, Sl:25*, Spk:*, TL:5, TN:*, U:20*; am:*, scm:+* -- A:81/14, RX:A-, TH:A-

Danny Brown: Stardust (Warp) {41}: CM:+, D:53*, DIY:*, DW:**, EWi:12, Ex:*, G:41*, Mj:*, MO:*, Ne:37*, NME:*, NT:*, PO:9*, PW:19, Sk:*, Sl:*, SpL:**, XCI:**, XJD:19; dc:17, xjdc:* -- A:76/20, RX:A, TH:***

Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island) {41}: 45:*, Cl:22*, CS:*, D:49, DW:**, Ev:*, EWi:+, G:44*, HP:18, LAT:16, LBF:*, NME:*, P:*, PO:7*, RS:13*, XCI:**, XJD:16; am:*, cos:+, v_sh:6, xjdc:* -- A:70/24, RX:A-, TH:A-

Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch) {41}: AAJ:*, AD:*, CM:3, EWi:17, G:*, JC:1, JW:8, PM:*, PO:15*, W:40; am:*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, jcb:5, jfk:1, jlbi:4, jma:+, jnc:1, xde:8 -- A:80/5, TH:A-

Blood Orange: Essex Honey (RCA/Domino) {40}: AD:*, BPM:28, Cl:3*, D:39*, DIY:*, Em:11, EWi:+, Ex:25, G:3*, GQ:++, HP:38, MO:*, NME:*, P:46, Pf:24*, PO:*, RS:*, Sk:15, Sl:45, TO:21, U:49; am:+*, v_ja:9, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:83/13, TH:*

Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (RCA) {40}: 45:3, D:14*, DIY:*, DW:*, EWi:+, G:11*, GTV:*, I:17*, LBF:*, MO:*, NME:*, P:*, RS:22*, RSh:19, RSUK:++, Sk:*, Sl:41, STi:24, TO:17, XJD:18; am:+*, cos:+, ny_z:8 -- A:82/16, TH:**

Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista) {40}: Al:34, Cl:*, DW:**, EWi:14, Mj:50*, PM:*, RC:*, Sp:*, TL:5, U:43*, XC:I:**; am:+*, scm:++*, so_d:17, so_k:24, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:80/12, RX:A, TH:A-

Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys (Shrimptech/YEAR0001) {40}: AD:*, BV_i:+, Cl:36*, CS:+, D:25*, DIY:*, Ex:+, HP:23, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, Ne:7*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*+, RT:1, S:+, SC:*, Sk:*, STi:18, StL:*; am:*, bb6:+, so_d:5 -- A:82/19, TH:***

Wolf Alice: The Clearing (Columbia/RCA) {40}: 45:10*, AD:*, Al:3, Cl:*, D:4, DIY:*, EWi:+, FO:*, G:26, HP:14, L:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, NME:*, NT:*, RC:*, RS:65*, RSUK:*, RT:62, SC:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, STi:13, UR:*, XSN:*; am:+* -- A:83/29, TH:*

Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) {39}: AMG:*, BPM:47*, BV:+, Cl:54*, CS:+, Db:9, DiS:*, DIY:*, DS:17, Ex:8, K:*, LBF:*, MH:*, MSuk:*, Ne:25*, NME:*, P:+, PM:*, Ri:9, RS:*+, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sl:44, Spk:*, Tr:+; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:83/19, TH:*

Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) {39}: 45:36, AV:+, BPM:35*, Cl:*, D:40*, DIY:*, DW:**+, FO:*, G:+, GQ:++, HP:46, IT:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NME:*+, P:*+, RS:43*+, RT:37, SC:*, Sk:*, Sl:50*, SLi:*, T:*, Tr:+, U:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:83/26, TH:*

Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka (none) {39}: DJM:+, EWi:13, G:+, P:2, Pf:1*, PO:4*, PW:15, Sg:+, Sl:12, W:3, XJD:20; vce:1, vew:8, xjdc:*, xpb:2 -- A:93/1, TH:**

Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) {38}: AD:*, BB:+, Cl:19*, D:21*, DIY:*, DW:*, FO:*, G:*, HP:21, IT:*, LAT:13, Mj:*+, NME:*+, NT:*, O:*, P:+, PM:*+, RSUK:*, SC:*, Sk:14*, STi:4, T:*, U:*; am:*, bb6:+ -- A:80/26, TH:*

Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) {38}: BB:+, BPM:16, BV:+, BV_i:+, DIY:*, Ex:+, FO:*, G:*, GB:7, KC:11, LBF:*, Mj:40*, MO:*, Ne:10*, P:34, Pf:43*, Ri:25, Sk:17*, SLi:*, U:69, Up_sh:+, UR:*, W:42, XCI:*; am:+* -- A:76/19, TH:*

Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (Matador) {38}: 45:6*, BPM:41, Cl:*, D:31, EWi:+, Ex:22*, FO:*, GTV:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, Pf:17*, RS:55, Sk:*, Sp:*, U:54, XCI:*, XJD:13; am:*, ny_c:8, ny_z:2, xjdc:* -- A:83/15, RX:***, TH:A-

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain) {37}: 45:*, Al:22*, AV:*, BPM:22*, Cl:48*, D:48*, DIY:*, Em:23*, FO:*, G:38, HP:45, I:*, IT:*, LBF:*, NME:*, NT:*, PM:*, Ri:10, RT:41, SC:*, Sk:*, Sl:31*, Spk:*, TO:23, U:*, UR:*; am:*, dc:14 -- A:83/28, TH:*

Caroline: Caroline 2 (Rough Trade) {36}: BPM:12, BV+, Cl:18*, DIY:*, Ex:*, FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, NME:*+, P:+, Pf:28*, Ri:18, RSUK:++, RT:9, Sg:+, Sl:11*, U:14, Up_sh:+, W:11; am:+*, dc:3 -- A:85/12, TH:B

The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) {36}: DW:**+, EWi:9, GTV:38, Mj:*, PO:2*, RC:*, RT:83, ST:++, U:38*, XCI:**; xde:2, xdr:1, xjdc:* -- A:83/3, RX:A, TH:A-

Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) {36}: DW:*+, EWi:5, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, P:*, PO:*, RC:*, RS:64, RSUK:8, Sl:33, TL:3, U:*, Up_sh:+, XJD:4 -- A:79/8, RX:A, TH:A-

Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream (Polydor/Republic) {35}: 45:19*, AD:*, Al:27, CS:*, D:62, DIY:*, Ev:*, FO:*, G:*, HP:5*, I:*, IT:*, LBF:*, LW:*, MO:*, NME:*, RS:25*, SC:*, STi:10, T:*, XSN:*; am:+*, g_e:7 -- A:83/25, TH:*

Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) {35}: BS:12, BV:+, CS:+, D:*, DIY:*, FO:*, G:*, HV:+, I:*, Mj:41*, MO:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*+, PO:*, RS:*+, SC:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, ST:++, TO:19, Tr:+, U:71*, Up_sh:+, UR:*; so_d:15, so_k:20 -- A:80/23, TH:*

Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) {34}: BV:+, Cl:*, D:30*, DIY:*, Ev:*, Ex:*+, FO:*, G:*, HP:36*, LBF:*, Mj:61*, MO:*, Ne:15*, NME:*, NT:*, O:*, P:*, RSUK:++*, RT:6, Sk:*, SLi:*, U:74, UR:*; am:* -- A:83/28, TH:B

Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (Capitol/Polydor) {34}: 45:21, AD:*, Cl:47*, D:15*, DIY:*, Em:25, EW:8, Ex:12, G:37*, GQ:++, I:*, LBF:*, NME:*, RS:19*, RSUK:++*, RT:59, Sk:*, STi:25; am:+*, cos:+ -- A:83/13, TH:*

Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) {34}: Al:16, BPM:*, Cl:33*, ClR:*, CS:*, D:47*, DIY:*, DiS:*, DS:25, Ex:31, G:14, GTV:42, HP:22, K:*, LBF:*, LW:*, MH:*, NME:*, RS:76, Sk:20, Spk:*, UR:*, XSN:*; am:+*, am_k:+bb6:+, vu:2 -- A:87/10, TH:B-

Suede: Antidepressants (BMG) {34}: Al:19, BPM:*, Cl:*, ClR:*, DIY:*, Ev:*, G:13*, GTV:7, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:2*, MO:*, NT:*, PM:*, RC:*, SC:*, U:3*, UR:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:87/18, TH:*

Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) {33}: AV:+, BPM:11, BV:+, Cl:46*, CS:+, D:*, DS:6, DW:*, Ex:40*, G:*, Ne:12, NT:*, P:22*, RS:+, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sl:19, Tr:+; atl:10 -- A:83/10, RX:***, TH:**

Alex G: Headlights (RCA) {32}: BPM:7, Cl:*, D:46, EW:7, Ex:19, G:17*, GQ:++, NME:*, NT:*, Pf:23*, Ri:7, RS:52*, Sk:19*, Sl:36*, U:55; dc:10, ny_z:9 -- A:81/11, TH:B-

Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) {32}: D:64*, DIY:*, DW:**, Ex:*, G:*, I:*, IT:*, LBF:*, MO:*, PM:+, PO:*, RC:*, RS:*+, Sl:24*, Sp:*, XCI:**; am:*, so_d:10, vu:+, xjdc:* -- A:77/22, RX:A-, TH:***

Samia: Bloodless (Grand Jury) {32}: BPM:*, BV:+, Cl:*, CS:+, D:89*, DW:**+, DIY:*, Ex:*, NME:*+, NT:*, P:*+, RS:+, RT:7, SC:*, Sl:20*, Spk:*, UR:*, XJD:6 -- A:83/15, TH:***

Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida/Warner) {32}: Cl:27*, Em:21*, Ex:29*, G:*, GB:25, Ne:50*, NT:*, P:*, Pf:15*, PO:*, PW:1, RS:14*, Sl:*, StL:*; am:*, am_h:+, vu:4 -- A:82/13, TH:*

Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) {31}: 45:17, BS:11, Cl:21*, DW:*, G:33*, NME:*, Pf:10*, PO:*, PW:2, RS:37*, XJD:22; v_tg:4, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:74/7, RX:*, TH:A-

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) {31}: BPM:5*, GTV:21, LBF:*, Mj:*, NT:*, P:7*, Pf:31*, PM:*, RC:*, U:6*; atl:8, n_ap:2, xdr:9 -- A:87/9, RX:***, TH:***

Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (XL) {31}: Cl:5*, D:37, DJM:+, EWi:+, G:12*, GB:17, GQ:++, I:18, NME:*, P:25*, RS:38*, RSUK:+, RT:86; g_e:2, ny_c:2, vew:+ -- A:85/8, TH:*

Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) {30}: AAJ:*, JC:3, JW:7, Mj:*, TN:*, W:27; am:+*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, jcb:1, jha:3, jlbi:1, jma:+, jnc:6, jse:4, vew:+ -- A:80/3, TH:**

Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) {29}: 45:26, BB:+, DIY:*, Em:*, EWi:+, FO:*, HP:34, L:*, LAT:19, Mj:*, NME:*+, NT:*, P:*, RS:95*; am:*, cos:+, so_d:22, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:75/22, RX:A-, TH:A-

Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia) {29}: CM:+, G:*, JC:4, JW:5, PO:*; am:*, am_j:+, jbbr:1, jcb:4, jgy:3, jlb:1, jnc:+, jpb:8 -- TH:A-

Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Polydor) {28}: 45:27, AD:*, Cl:*, D:34*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:9*, HP:9, MO:*, PM:*+, RC:*, RSUK:++*, Sk:*, STi:17; bb6:+ -- A:81/20, TH:***

Smerz: Big City Life (Escho) {28}: Cl:+, DW:*, Fa:+, G:45, GB:2, GQ:++, GTV:*, LBF:*, Pf:11*, RT:27, UR:*, W:12; ny_z:3, vew:+ -- A:83/6, RX:A-, TH:**

Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) {27}: CS:+, DW:**+, EWi:44, JC:+, RC:*, SC:*, TN:*, Tr:+, U:*, UR:*; am:*, jha:1, vew:10, vu:+, xjdc:* -- A:81/5, RX:A, TH:***

The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-) {27}: 45:12, Cl:*, D:85, DW:*, EWi:26, FO:*, GTV:3*, Mj:*, P:*, PM:*, RT:98, Sl:28, UR:*, XCI:**, XJD:21; am:*, vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:80/12, TH:***

Robert Forster: Strawberries (Tapete) {27}: AD:*, BV_i:+, CM:+, EWi:+, HV:+, Mj:7*, PO:*, RT:99, U:18*; am:*, xde:9, xdr:5, xjdc:* -- A:85/4, RX:A-, TH:A-

Snocaps: Snocaps (Anti-) {27}: DW:**, Ex:*, G:34*, Mj:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PO:*, Ri:12, RS:36*, U:*, UR:*, XCI:**, XJD:12; so_k:15, vew:9, xjdc:* -- A:82/12, TH:A-

The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (PIAS) {26}: AD:*, ClR:*, DIY:*, DW:**, EWi:+, GTV:*, K:*, Mj:*, MO:*, Ne:34, NT:*, P:*, PO:*, RC:*, RT:63, XCI:**; am:*, so_d:8, xjdc:*, xpb:4 -- A:79/14, TH:***

YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (AD 93) {26}: BPM:17, Cl:*, CS:+, DW:*+, Fa:+, FO:*, G:40*, NME:+, NT:*, P:*+, Pf:29*, RT:26, Sg:+, Sl:15, Spk:*; ny_c:10 -- A:83/6, TH:A-

Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) {25}: 45:41, BPM:14*, Cl:*, Fa:+, GTV:5, O:*, P:*+, Pf:33*, PO:*, RC:*, RT:69, SC:*, Sk:*, SLi:*, U:*; am:+* -- A:81/14, TH:*

Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) {25}: AAJ:*, JC:2, PO:*; am:*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, jbbr:3, jcb:8, jfk:5, jha:2, jlb:8, jmb:1, jnc:+ -- TH:A-

Erika de Casier: Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music) {25}: AV:+, BB:+, BPM:*, Cl:8*, D:96, DW:*+, EWi:36, Fa:+, G:42, GB:6, Pf:26, PW:6, Sg:+, Sl:27; bb6:+ -- A:80/4, TH:**

Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) {25}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:12, JW:1, PO:*, TN:*; am:*, jbbr:2, jfk:2, jgy:5, jlbi:3, jnc:+, jpa:7 -- A:80/1, TH:A-

Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Weird World/Domino) {25}: BPM:*, Cl:*, Fa:+, FO:*, GTV:24*, Mj:14*, MO:*, O:*, PM:*+, RC:*, SC:*, Tr:+, U:5*, W:13; am:*, xdr:10 -- A:81/16, TH:B

De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky (Mass Appeal) {25}: Al:1*, Cl:*, HG:+, Mj:*, MO:*, Ne:39*, NME:*, PO:25*, Ri:8, RS:*, U:*; am:+*, am_h:+ -- A:81/12, TH:**

Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) {25}: 45:30*, Cl:*, D:33*, DIY:*, DS:4, FO:*, Mj:70*, MO:*, NME:*+, Ov:*, PM:*+, RT:47, SC:*, UR:* -- A:89/14, TH:***

Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (NLV) {25}: DJM:+, DW:**, Em:46, EWi:+, Ex:20, G:*, LBF:*, Ne:18*, P:36*, PW:27, Ri:22, StL:*, XJD:8; atl:1 -- A:88/6, TH:**

Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer (Warp) {25}: BPM:45, DW:*, EWi:+, Ex:*, G:*, GB:19, Ne:31, NT:*, P:*, Pf:30*, PW:35, SC:*, Sl:*, UR:*; am:+*, am_e:+, dc:18, n_ap:15, vu:8, xjdc:* -- A:82/12, TH:**

Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) {24}: Al:*, BPM:19*, Cl:*, CS:+, DIY:*, DS:10, Ev:*, FO:*, I:*, L:*, LBF:*, Ne:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:44, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sl:*, UR:*; vu:+ -- A:77/27, TH:B

Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp (Neighbourhood) {24}: Al:32, Cl:45*, DJM:+, Em:12, G:*, HP:47, I:13, NME:*, RSUK:++, STi:8, XCI:**; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:79/6, TH:A-

S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) {24}: BS:6, Mj:*, P:*, Pf:*, PM:*, RC:*, Sp:*, StL:*, TL:14, U:12*, Up_sh:+; vgb:7, xjdc:* -- A:83/9, RX:A-, TH:**

Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) {24}: EWi:18, Mj:*, Pf:*, PM:*, PO:*, Sl:49*, ST:++, U:31*, UR:*; am:*, vew:+ -- A:81/9, RX:A, TH:A-

Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) {24}: AV:+, CM:10, DW:**, FO:*, G:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, P:*, Pf:*, SpL:*, U:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:79/12, RX:A-, TH:***

The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre (Island) {24}: 45:*, AD:*, Cl:*, D:12*, DIY:*, FO:*, HP:11, L:*, LBF:*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, RC:*, RSUK:*, RT:31, SC:*, StL:*, UR:*; am:+*, am_k:+ -- A:85/22, TH:B

Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) {24}: BPM:*, Cl:*, ClR:*, DIY:*, FO:*, G:*, IT:*, K:*, Mj:24*, O:*, Ov:*, Prg:*, RC:*, SC:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, T:*, TN:*, U:*, UR:*; am:*, bb6:+ -- A:81/24, TH:*

Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World (Anti-) {24}: Al:8, EWi:+, FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:15*, PO:*, RC:*, RS:67*, TL:17, U:58*; am:*, bb6:+, xjdc:* -- A:82/8, TH:A-

Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) {23}: AV:*+, Cl:*, D:86*, DIY:*, Ev:*, HV:+, I:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, O:*, P:*, RC:*, RS:+, S:+; am:*, so_d:19, so_k:13, xjdc:* -- A:79/19, TH:**

Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) {23}: 45:44, AV:+, Cl:28, DJM:+, DW:*+, Fa:+, G:20, P:12, Pf:22*, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sl:47, W:1; dc:7, vu:+ -- A:85/3, TH:B

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) {23}: AD:*, BPM:*, FO:*, I:*, LBF:*, Mj:35*, MO:*, NT:*, O:*, PM:*+, RC:*, SC:*, TO:10, U:42*; am:* -- A:80/18, TH:***

Fieldwork: Thereupon (Pi) {23}: AAJ:*, CM:6, EWi:45, JC:7, PO:*, SpL:**; bc_j:+, jcb:2, jgy:+, jma:+, jmbo:7, jnc:2 -- TH:A-

McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (City Slang) {22}: DIY:*, Em:6, GTV:47, HG:+, I:2, Ne:9*, P:10*, Spk:*, Tr:+ -- A:85/5, TH:**

Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse) {22}: BPM:13*, HG:+, P:*, Pf:*, PW:3, Ri:14, RS:84, Spk:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_h:+, vew:+ -- A:84/5, TH:A-

Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (Empire) {22}: BPM:36, Cl:13, DW:*, Em:7, G:49, LBF:*, P:8, Pf:25*, PW:10; am:* -- A:83/4, TH:A-

Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) {22}: AAJ:*, CM:8, EWi:24, JC:6, PO:12*, ST:++, TN:*; am:*, jgy:7, jnc:+ -- A:80/1, TH:A

James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West) {22}: CM:+, EWi:25, Mj:*, PM:*, SC:*, TL:13, U:*, XCI:**; scm:++*, xjdc:* -- A:82/5, RX:A-, TH:A-

MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) {22}: CS:+, Em:9, Ex:+, G:*, GB:34, HG:+, P:31*, Pf:45*, RS:54, RT:68, TO:12; vu:+ -- A:76/5, RX:B+, TH:**

Saint Etienne: International (Heavenly) {22}: AD:*, Al:7*, EWi:34, Mj:30*, MO:*, RC:*, RS:*, RT:11, Sp:*, U:28*, XSN:*; am:+* -- A:80/12, TH:***

Sprints: All That Is Over (City Slang/Sub Pop) {22}: D:38*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:39*, HP:29, I:*, IT:*, K:*, L:*, Mj:*, RT:48, SC:*, Sk:*; am:*, so_d:3, so_k:6 -- A:83/17, TH:***

The Tubs: Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind) {22}: CM:+, DW:*+, G:46, Mj:8*, O:*, P:38*, PO:*, RSUK:++, Sti:21, U:40*; am:*, g_e:3, xdr:3 -- A:81/8, TH:*

Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) {21}: G:*+, Mj:5*, MO:*, O:*, PM:*+, STi:6, U:44; am:+* -- A:89/6, TH:A-

Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy (Backwoodz Studioz/Rhymesayers) {21}: BPM:8*, Cl:49, DW:**, GB:9, LBF:*, Pf:*, PO:*, PW:23, XCI:**; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:75/4, TH:***

Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) {21}: BV:+, CS:+, D:*, DW:*+, Fa:+, LBF:*, NME:+, NT:*, PM:*, RS:85*, RSh:12, RT:81, Sg:+, Up_sh:+, UR:*, XJD:11 -- A:77/11, TH:**

Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) {21}: CM:+, JC:5, PO:16*; am:*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, jfk:6, jgy:2, jlb:2, jse:2, ny_s:2 -- TH:**

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Warp) {21}: AD:*, Cl:*, GTV:*, I:*, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:19*, MO:*, RC:*, RS:56, Sp:*, StL:*, U:67*, XSN:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:79/19, TH:**

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) {21}: Al:47, I:*, IT:*, RS:15*, RSh:3, STi:11, XCI:*; ny_c:11 -- A:59/23, RX:B+, TH:A-

Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal (Partisan -24) {21}: BV:+, Fa:+, Mj:*, P:16, Pf:3, RS:32, RT:4, Sl:2, Up_sh:+, XCI:*; xjdc:* -- A:[87/6], TH:[B-]

Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) {20}: AAJ:*, G:*+, JC:+, JW:5, Mj:*, Spk:*, U:*; am:+*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, dc:1, jha:5 -- A:86/5, TH:B

David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra: Who Is the Sky? (Matador) {20}: AD:*, ClR:*, D:50*, FO:*, HP:20, Mj:27*, MO:*, NT:*, PM:*, RT:76, SC:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, U:61*; am:* -- A:78/20, TH:**

John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) {20}: 45:14, BV:+, Cl:17*, D:*, DIY:*, DJM:+, G:21*, GB:15, MO:*, Pf:*, RT:44, Sg:+, TO:15 -- A:82/8, TH:*

Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer) {20}: Cl:*, Em:*, EWi:48, Ex:*, FO:*, G:23, Mj:28*, MO:*, P:*, Pf:*, PM:*, RC:*, RS:*, SC:*, U:46*; am:* -- A:84/15, TH:**

Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) {20}: AAJ:*, JC:11, JW:3, TN:*; am:*, am_j:+, jgy:8, jlb:3, jsa:1 -- A:80/1, TH:A-

Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) {20}: ClR:*, CM:+, GTV:34*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:*, PM:*+, RC:*, RS:90*, U:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_k:+, so_k:25 -- A:79/12, TH:***

Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (dBpm) {20}: Cl:*, EWi:+, LBF:*, Mj:17*, P:*, Pf:*, RC:*, RS:28*, U:8*; am:*, so_d:20, so_k:22 -- A:79/11, TH:**

The Weather Station: Humanhood (Fat Possum) {20}: AD:*, Cl:*, FO:*, HV:+, Mj:54*, NT:*, P:*, Pf:*, RC:*, RS:*+, RT:89, Sk:*, Sp:*, TN:*, U:32*; am:* -- A:82/17, TH:*

Yeule: Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (Ninja Tune) {20}: AV:+, BPM:44*, Cl:*, DIY:*, DW:*, Fa:+, LBF:*, Ov:*, P:*+, PM:*+, RT:57, SC:*, Sg:+, UR:*; am:* -- A:79/13, TH:**

Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) {19}: HG:+, Ne:41*, Pf:*, PM:*, PO:*, PW:42, Ri:21, SC:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_h:+ -- , so_d:6, so_k:5, xjdc:*

Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) {19}: AV:+, BV:+, DiS:*, Ex:+, GTV:44, HG:+, K:*, Ne:11, P:*+, PO:*, Sg:+, Tr:+, W:24; vu:+ -- A:87/4, TH:***

Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) {19}: DW:*+, EWi:22, PO:*, XCI:**; xde:1, xjdc:* -- RX:A, TH:A-

Robert Plant: Saving Grace (Nonesuch) {19}: AD:*, Cl:*, ClR:*, FO:*, HP:*, Mj:16*, MO:*, PM:*, RC:*, SC:*, U:10*, XSN:*; am:* -- A:84/13, TH:*

Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (DeadAir) {19}: BB:+, D:94, DW:*, EWi:+, Ne:6*, P:29*, Pf:*, PW:26Sg:+, Sl:9, Up_sh:+; vu:+ -- A:83/4, TH:*

Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl (ATO) {19}: Al:36, DW:*, Mj:*, TL:8, XCI:**; vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:73/3, RX:A, TH:A-

Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) {19}: BB:+, DW:**+, Em:20, Pf:*, Ri:19, RS:99, Sl:3; vu:+ -- A:68/5, RX:A-, TH:B-

Squid: Cowards (Warp) {19}: Cl:*, DIY:*, Ex:*, FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, RC:*, SC:*, Sk:*, SLi:*, Tr:+, U:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:83/20, TH:*

Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan) {18}: 45:24, BB:+, Cl:*, CS:+, D:24*, FO:*, NME:*+, Ov:*, RC:*, RS:94, UR:*; am:*, xjdc:* -- A:79/18, RX:*, TH:**

Djo: The Crux (AWAL) {18}: Cl:*, D:10*, DIY:*, EW:10, GTV:*, LBF:*, NT:*, P:*, RS:+, S:+; am:+* -- A:74/14, TH:*

Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man) {18}: Cl:*, G:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, P:*, RS:*, RT:18, SC:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, Up_sh:+; am:+*, am_k:+, vu:+ -- A:79/18, TH:B

Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) {18}: 45:35, BB:+, Cl:*, D:57*, DIY:*, FO:*, G:+, GTV:*, LBF:*, MO:*, NT:*, RC:*, RSUK:++, Sk:*, Spk:*, UR:* -- A:82/16, TH:B

KeiyaA: Hooke's Law (XL) {18}: Cl:24, DJM:+, DW:**, Em:17, G:28, P:43*, Pf:40*, PM:*, PW:24; am:+*, bl:+, vu:6 -- A:81/4, TH:*

Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian) {18}: BPM:15*, GTV:41, MO:*, PM:*, RC:*, U:*, XJD:14; vew:+, xjdc:* -- A:79/7, RX:***, TH:***

Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya (Umsakazo) {18}: EWi:2, PO:*, XCI:**; xde:6, xjdc:* -- RX:A, TH:A-

Mekons: Horror (Fire) {18}: CM:+, EWi:17, HV:+, Mj:*, TL:19; am:*, so_k:14 -- A:77/3, RX:A-, TH:A

Joanne Robertson: Blurrr (AD 93) {18}: BPM:50, Cl:25*, GB:5, P:19*, Pf:8*, Sk:*, U:59, W:37 -- A:85/4, TH:*

Sumac and Moor Mother: The Film (Thrill Jockey) {18}: BPM:43*, Ex:37*, Mj:*, Ne:17, PO:*, Sk:*, Spk:*, TN:*, TR:+, ; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:81/8, TH:A-

They Are Gutting a Body of Water: Lotto (Julia's War/ATO) {18}: BPM:*, Cl:*, DW:*, Ex:43, NT:*, P:*, Ri:23, RS:80*, RSh:18, RT:95, Sp:*, StL:*; n_ap:8, ny_c:5 -- A:79/10, TH:*

أحمد [Ahmed]: سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) {18}: CM:9, EWi:+, G:*, JC:+, Mj:*, PO:3*, W:35; jnc:+ -- A:80/2, TH:A-

Jacob Alon: In Limerence (Island) {17}: Cl:*, DIY:*, G:29, GQ:++, Mj:29*, RSUK:++, Sk:8*, U:53*; bb6:+, g_e:9 -- A:79/6

Benjamin Booker: Lower (Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) {17}: Cl:*, ClR:*, FO:*, Mj:*, NR:*, NT:*, Ov:*, P:49, Pf:*, PM:*+, PO:*, RC:*, TN:*, UR:* -- A:81/12, TH:**

Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) {17}: Cl:*, D:16*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NR:*, RC:*, RSUK:++, Sk:*, Spk:*, U:* -- A:84/12, TH:*

Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) {17}: Cl:55, DJM:+, DS:7, Ex:+, G:+, Pf:27*, PW:28, Sk:18, Spk:*; bl:+ -- A:93/2, TH:***

FKA Twigs: Eusexua Afterglow (Young/Atlantic) {17}: Cl:7*, DJM:+, Em:19, HP:*, NME:*, NT:*, RSUK:*, SC:*, Sk:*, Sl:13*; am:* -- A:77/13

Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) {17}: DIY:*, Ex:5, KC:10, P:24*, RS:*, RT:17, Sg:+, Spk:*, SLi:*, ST:+ -- A:79/7, TH:*

James K: Friend (AD93) {17}: 45:38, DJM:+, GB:4, Pf:47*, PW:5, TO:8 -- A:80/1, TH:**

Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) {17}: EWi:20, FO:*, Mj:*, MO:*, Sp:*; am:*, xpb:3 -- A:77/7, RX:A-, TH:A-

James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) {17}: AAJ:*, CM:+, EWi:+, JC:9, Mj:75, PO:*, TN:*; jgy:1, jnc:+ -- TH:A-

Ela Minus: Día (Domino) {17}: BB:+, Cl:*, DJM:+, Em:3, Mj:*, NT:*, P:48, RC:*, RS:+, Sg;+; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:79/10, TH:**

Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID (From the Private Collection) {17}: Al:46, Cl:*, CS:+, EWi:+, Ex:44, HG:+, P:+, RS:*+, RSh:17; so_d:12, so_k:10 -- A:85/2, TH:A-

Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (Transgressive) {17}: AD:*, D:72*, EWi:41, G:*, GQ:++, MO:*, O:*, Ov:*, Sk:*; v_ja:2 -- A:79/12, TH:A-

Annahstasia: Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) {16}: 45:29, BPM:33, BV:+, EWi:+, Mj:63*, Ne:20, NME:*, Pf:44*, RT:28, U:73; bb6:+, vu:+ -- A:81/3, TH:*

Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (EMI/Universal) {16}: AD:*, Al:35*, Cl:60*, D:79*, DIY:*, G:*, LBF:*, NME:*, PM:*, RT:32, Sk:*, T:* -- A:81/14, TH:**

Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) {16}: BB:+, BPM:*, D:*, DIY:*, DW:*, Mj:*+, P:*, PM:*, RS:+, Sp:*, StL:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:77/20, TH:**

Chance the Rapper: Star Line (self-released) {16}: Cl:*, DW:**, Em:39, RS:96*, XCI:*; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:70/6, RX:B+, TH:A-

Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) {16}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:10, Mj:*, TN:*, PM:*, S:+; am:*, jbbr:10, jnc:+ -- A:78/4, TH:A-

Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) {16}: Cl:51*, D:*, DIY:*, Ex:*, G:47, HG:+, NT:*, PO:*, RT:54; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:78/8, TH:A-

Joy Crookes: Juniper (Insanity) {16}: Cl:*, D:*, DIY:*, G:*, HP:*, LBF:*, RSUK:++*; v_ja:1 -- A:85/7, TH:A-

Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) {16}: Al:38, DIY:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, NME:*, PM:*, S:+, U:*, UR:*, XSN:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:75/16, TH:A-

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {16}: DW:*+, EWi:+, G:*, Pf:*, PO:17*, TN:*, U:* -- A:72/5, RX:A-, TH:***

The Kasambwe Brothers: The Kasambwe Brothers (MASS MoCA) {16}: DW:**, EWi:30, PO:*, SpL:**; xjdc:* -- RX:A, TH:A-

Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) {16}: Cl:*, DW:**, EWi:42, Pf:*, Spk:* -- XCI:**; vew:+, xjdc:*

Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) {16}: JC:20, JW:16, Mj:*, U:64*; am:*, am_j:+, jbbr:5, jfk:9, jgy:+, jpb:5 -- A:83/3, TH:*

Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) {16}: Al:29, Cl:*, ClR:*, D:*, FO:*, GTV:*, IT:*, Mj:31*, MO:*, NME:*, O:*, RC:*, T:*, UR:* -- A:78/18, TH:*

The Necks: Disquiet (Northern Spy) {16}: JC:+, JW:16, Mj:*, PM:*, PO:*, U:*, W:4; am:*, am_j:+, dc:19, jsb:5 -- A:80/4

Scowl: Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans) {16}: Cl:*, D:35*, DiS:*, DIY:*, DS:20, DW:*, K:*, LBF:*, Sg:+, Tr:+; am:* -- A:75/12, TH:***

Sharp Pins: Balloon Balloon Balloon (K/Perennial) {16}: BV:53, DW:*, Mj:73*, P:40*, Pf:*, PO:*, RSh:13, StL:*, Tr:+; am:+*, so_k:21 -- A:80/7, TH:*

SML: How You Been (International Anthem) {16}: JC:+, Mj:*, P:30, Pf:*, RC:*, U:*; am:*, am_j:+jbbr:6, jcb:6, jnc:+, vew:+ -- A:80/6, TH:A-

Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) {16}: AAJ:*, JC:13, PO:*; am:*, am_j:+, jcb:3, jnc:4, ny_s:5 -- TH:A-

Kae Tempest: Self Titled (Island) {16}: Cl:*, DIY:*, G:*, I:*, L:*, MO:*, NME:*, RT:87, U:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:83/8, TH:A-

Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound (The Flenser) {15}: AMG:*, BPM:6, Db:32, Ex:21*, G:*, K:*, MH:*, Ne:29, P:41*, Spk:*, UR:* -- A:87/8

Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Hwy 87) {15}: ClR:*, EWi:+, Gl:*, Mj:*, XCI:**; scm:+* -- RX:***, TH:A-

Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) {15}: CM:1, EWi:32, JC:16, PO:*, TN:*; jsb:+ -- TH:A-

Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) {15}: DW:**+, EWi:31, ST:++ -- XG:A, TH:A-

Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam) {15}: DW:**, HG:+, PO:*; am:*, am_h:+, xjdc:* -- A:80/1, RX:A-, TH:A-

Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) {15}: BV:+, BV_i:+, G:*+, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, P:*, SLi:*, Sp:*, Tr:+, Up_sh:+, UR:* -- A:81/16, TH:**

Madi Diaz: Fatal Optimist (Anti-) {15}: BS:9, FO:*, LAT:3, NT:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/6, TH:A-

Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts (Year0001) {15}: BPM:37, Cl:*, DS:18, G:36*, Mj:*, NT:*, P:26, RT:61, Sl:*, Spk:*; am:+*, atl:7 -- A:90/7

James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) {15}: Cl:*, LBF:*, Mj:57*, Pf:*, PM:*, U:23*; g_e:4, xjdc:* -- A:80/6, TH:A-

The Horrors: Night Life (Fiction/Universal) {15}: BV_i:+, Cl:*, ClR:*, D:*, DIY:*, FO:*, L:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NME:*, RT:52, SLi:* -- A:77/17, TH:**

Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) {15}: AAJ:*, JC:8, SC:*, Spk:*; jbbr:8, jlbi:5, jnc:+, jpa:1 -- A:80/3, TH:**

JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) {15}: BS:5, CS:*, Em:45, LBF:*, Ne:44*, NT:*, PO:*, SC:* -- A:75/10, TH:***

Karol G: Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) {15}: EWi:+, Pf:*, PO:6*, RS:34*; v_ja:8, v_tg:5 -- A:77/3, TH:A-

Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (Down the Road) {15}: AD:*, Mj:*+, MO:*, O:*, PM:*+, TL:18, U:*, UR:*; am:*, scm:+ -- A:81/10, TH:**

James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) {15}: CM:+, EWi:+, JC:+, Mj:*, PO:*, S:+, ST:++, TN:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/3, TH:A-

Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (Matador) {15}: DW:*, FO:*, G:*, GTV:*, NR:*, NT:*, RS:21*, RSh:2, Sp:*, Tr:+, U:*; am:* -- A:80/12, TH:B

Militarie Gun: God Save the Gun (Loma Vista) {15}: BPM:*, Cl:*, D:60, DIY:*, DW:**, K:*, LBF:*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, RT:70, StL:*, UR:* -- A:82/12

Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) {15}: ClR:*, Mj:*, MO:*, PM:*+, RS:*, ST:+, TN:*, U:*; am:* -- A:82/8, RX:**, TH:***

Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) {15}: BB:+, Fa:+, G:*, HV:+, NME:*, Pf:35, RS:10*, Sg:+; am_h:+, ny_c:17 -- A:67/9, TH:**

Jay Som: Belong (Lucky Number) {15}: 45:5*, BPM:*, Cl:*, D:92*, DIY:*, Em:50, Ex:*, PM:*, SC:*, Sk:* -- A:79/13

Swans: Birthing (Young God/Mute) {15}: BPM:25*, ClR:*, LW:*, GTV:*, MO:*, PM:*+, RT:53, Sl:40*, StL:*, Spk:*, U:*; am:* -- A:84/13, TH:B

Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (Brownswood/Parlophone) {15}: Al:21*, Cl:*, LBF:*, Mj:18*, MO:*, SC:*, Tr:+, U:24*; am:+*, am:j+ -- A:81/10, TH:B

William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) {15}: G:+, LBF:*, Mj:66*, P:*, Pf:*, PM:*, RC:*, S:+, Sl:+, U:13*; am:* -- A:81/10, TH:*

Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (Reconstruction) {15}: DW:**, SpL:**, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:A-

Lola Young: I'm Only F**king Myself (Island/Day One) {15}: D:51*, DIY:*, Ev:*, I:0*, RS:49*, SC:*, STi:22; am:* -- A:74/15, TH:**

Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (The Other Shoe/Reprise) {15}: AD:*, Mj:59*, T:*, U:72, XCI:** -- A:68/10, RX:A-, TH:A-

Rodrigo Amado: The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) {14}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*, SpL:**; jpa:4, jsb:1 -- TH:A-

Bar Italia: Some Like It Hot (Matador) {14}: 45:34, Cl:*, D:61, DW:*, Mj:*, RS:92*; am:*, xdr:2 -- A:72/12, TH:A-

Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) {14}: BPM:*, Cl:*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:*, LBF:*, LW:*, Sk:*, Sl:42, U:*; dc:2 -- A:89/8, TH:**

Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds) {14}: CM:+, DW:**, EWi:48, TL:11; xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:***

Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-) {14}: Al:13, DW:*, Ex:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, Pf:*, PM:*, RC:*, SC:*, Sl:38, U:*; am:* -- A:81/11

Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) {14}: BV:+, BV_i:+, Cl:*, Ex:+, MO:*, Pf:*, RT:50, Sk:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/5, TH:A-

DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) {14}: BV:+, BV_i:+, DW:*, G:*+, GQ:++, Pf:*, PM:*+, RT:60, Sg:+ -- A:74/5, TH:**

Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI North) {14}: Al:43, BV_i:+, Cl:*, GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:*+, MO:*, RC:*, SC:*, T:*, U:*, XSN:* -- A:82/16, TH:*

Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) {14}: AD:*, FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:21*, Ov:*, PM:*, RC:*, Sk:*, U:19*; am:* -- A:85/12, TH:*

FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) {14}: BPM:*, BV_i:+, Cl:*, MO:*; am:*, xjdc:* -- A:79/5, RX:A-, TH:A-

Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union) {14}: DIY:*, FO:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RT:43, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- A:79/6, RX:A-, TH:**

Kathryn Joseph: We Were Made Prey. (Rock Action) {14}: DS:8, GTV:1*, LBF:*, MO:*, RC:*, Sk:*, U:* -- A:84/6

Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak (Domino) {14}: FO:*, G:*, LBF:*, Mj:20*, Pf:*, RC:*, U:7*, UR:*; xdr:6 -- A:81/12

Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) {14}: BB:+, Cl:*, D:*, LBF:*, NME:*, RS:59, T:*; am:*, cos:+, v_sh:10, v_tg:8 -- A:70/12, TH:***

Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (Invada) {14}: Cl:*, FO:*, GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:45*, MO:*, U:*, XCI:*; am:* -- A:76/11, RX:**, TH:**

Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself) {14}: 45:42, Cl:*, D:88*, GTV:50*, RC:*, Sk:*, XCI:*; vce:10 -- A:80/6, TH:A-

Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) {14}: AD:*, BV_i:+, DIY:*, Mj:47*, MO:*, O:*, Sk:*, T:*, XCI:* -- A:83/8, TH:A-

Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (Enemy) {14}: DW:**, EWi:+, HG:+, PO:*; xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:A-

Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (Columbia) {14}: Cl:44, CS:*, Ex:15, G:*, LBF:*, MO:*, Ne:40*, NME:*, StL:*; am_h:+, v_sh:7 -- A:75/12, TH:*

Kali Uchis: Sincerely, (Capitol) {14}: BB:+, BPM:23, Cl:*, NME:*, P:*, PO:*, RS:*, SC:*, Sl:32*, StL:*; am:* -- A:81/10, TH:**

Steven Wilson: The Overview (Fiction) {14}: AD:*, Cl:*, ClR:*, IT:*, LW:*, Mj:42*, Prg:*, RC:*, Sp:*, U:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:82/12, TH:*

Aesop Rock: I Heard It's a Mess There Too (Rhymesayers) {13}: DW:**, PO:*, PW:42, XCI:**; so_k:5, xjdc:* -- TH:A-

Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) {13}: AD:*, JC:+, PM:*, PO:*, RC:*, U:68*; am:*, jlbi:2 -- A:85/6, TH:***

Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) {13}: DJM:+, Mj:*, Pf:14*, Tr:+; am:*, am_e:+, dc:5 -- A:82/3, TH:***

Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) {13}: AD:*, Cl:*, DIY:*, Em:*, MO:*, RT:36, Sk:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/7, TH:***

Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) {13}: Cl:*, FO:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NME:*+, RC:*, Spk:*, U:* -- A:78/14, TH:***

Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) {13}: AD:*, ClR:*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, RT:46, U:*, UR:*; vu:+ -- A:81/9, TH:***

Matt Berninger: Get Sunk (Concord) {13}: D:*, DIY:*, FO:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, PM:*, RC:*, RT:25, Spk:*, U:35*; am:* -- A:76/16

Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) {13}: Al:25*, HG:+, PO:*, RR:*, ST:+ -- A:90/1, RX:***, TH:A-

Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself (Lost Highway/Interscope) {13}: Al:17, AV:*, I:16, Mj:*, P:*, RS:75, RSUK:*, TL:7; am:* -- A:82/7

Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia) {13}: BB:+, Cl:*, G:*, GQ:++, I:*, NME:*, RS:51*, RSUK:++ -- A:69/11, TH:**

The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) {13}: LW:*, Mj:*, RC:*, Sp:*, ST:++, TN:*, U:*; am:* -- A:86/7, TH:A-

Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) {13}: BV:+, BV_i:+, CS:+, KC:15, Mj:58*, MO:*, NT:*, RS:79; am:*, n_ap:10 -- A:76/5, TH:*

Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) {13}: Cl:*, ClR:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, MO:*, O:*, RC:*, T:*, U:47*; am:* -- A:82/9, TH:**

Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG) {13}: Cl:*, DJM:+, EWi:43, FO:*, Mj:*, Pf:34*, PO:*, Sk:*, U:* -- A:82/7, TH:***

Darkside: Nothing (Matador) {13}: DS:11, DW:*, KC:23, MO:*, NT:*, PW:13, RC:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Tr:+; vu:+ -- A:74/9

Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) {13}: DIY:*, GTV:14*, Mj:*, NME:*, NT:*, RC:*, RS:*+, SLi:*, U:* -- A:69/25, TH:*

Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (ESGN/ALC) {13}: Al:23, BPM:*, Cl:38*, DJM:+, DW:*, Ex:33, PW:31, RR:*, RS:93, RT:35; am_h:+ -- A:78/7, TH:*

Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) {13}: AMG:*, Db:13, DiS:*, DW:**, K:*, MH:*, Ne:5* -- A:83/6

Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL) {13}: 45:*, Al:42, Cl:*, Ev:*, FO:*, I:*, LBF:*, PM:*, NME:*, Sk:*, U:* -- A:82/13, TH:**

Van Morrison: Remembering Now (Exile) {13}: AD:*, HP:26*, IT:*, Mj:25*, RC:*, T:*, U:34*; am:* -- A:77/10, TH:**

Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (Marshall) {13}: 45:33, ClR:*, D:68*, DiS:*, DS:13, G:*, MH:*, K:*, RT:88, XSN:* -- A:76/11, TH:**

Pup: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (Rise) {13}: CS:+, D:71*, Ex:16*, K:*, L:*, Ri:24, RS:+, S:+; am:* -- A:76/9, TH:*

Maria Somerville: Luster (4AD) {13}: Cl:30*, Fa:+, G:*, GB:8, Pf:*, S:+, Sg:+, Sk:*; am:* -- A:75/8, TH:*

Sorry: Cosplay (Domino) {13}: Cl:*, D:43*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:22, LBF:*, NME:*, RC:*, StL:*, U:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:85/11

Alan Sparkawk/Trampled by Turtles: Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop) {13}: DS:24, GTV:*, LBF:*, Mj:12*, P:*, S:+, SC:*, Spk:*, Tr:+, U:16* -- A:78/11

Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea (Rise/Pale Chord) {13}: AD:*, Blb:*, CS:+, D:45*, DiS:*, Ex:35, G:*, K:*, MH:*, NME:*+, Sp:* -- A:89/11

Bartees Strange: Horror (4AD) {13}: Cl:*, D:*, Ex:+, Mj:*, NT:*, PM:*+, RS:+, S:+, Sk:*, ST:+, UR:*; so_d:25 -- A:80/13, TH:*

Tortoise: Touch (International Anthem) {13}: Mj:60*, PM:*, RC:*, U:22*, W:10; am:+* -- A:78/10, TH:**

Hailey Whitters: Corn Queen (Big Loud/Pigasus) {13}: DW:**, EWi:35, PM:*, XCI:**; scm:+*, xjdc:* -- TH:A-

Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum) {13}: BPM:24*, Ex:*, FO:*, MO:*, NT:*, P:11*, RC:*, Sl:23, U:*, UR:* -- A:80/13

Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) {13}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:18, PO:*, SpL:**; jnc:11 -- TH:A

$ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) {12}: Pf:*, PO:*, Sl:*, SpL:**; am:*, am_h:+, xjdc:*, xpb:+ -- A:80/2, TH:***

Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) {12}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*, TN:*; am:+*, am_j:+jse:10, ny_s:10 -- TH:***

BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation (Bella Union) {12}: AD:*, FO:*, G:*, GTV:26*, Mj:43*, MO:*, U:56*, XSN:*; am:* -- A:84/9

Justin Bieber: Swag (Def Jam/Numbers) {12}: DW:*, LAT:10, PM:*, RS:20*, SC:*; cos:+, ny_c:3 -- A:61/15, TH:B

Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) {12}: BPM:26*, C:*, FO:*, GTV:*, MO:*, P:*, PM:*+, SC:*, Tr:+; am:* -- A:84/11, TH:B

Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Lone Star Rider/Island) {12}: RS:40, TL:12; scm:++* -- RX:B+, TH:***

Bryan Ferry: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) {12}: AD:*, ClR:*, G:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:80/8, TH:A-

Ghost: Skeletá (Loma Vista) {12}: Blb:*, ClR:*, D:63*, K:*, MH:*, NME:*, P:*, Spk:*; am:+*, am_k:+ -- A:71/13

Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) {12}: 45:15, BB:+, D:11*, G:*, MO:*, NME:* -- A:76/7, TH:***

Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) {12}: DW:**, PO:*, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- RX:**, TH:A-

Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) {12}: JC:+, Mj:*, PO:*, SpL:**, ST:++, U:* -- A:80/2, TH:A-

Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) {12}: JC:+, Mj:*, RC:*, TN:*, W:22; am:+*, bc_j:+ -- A:82/4, TH:A-

Maruja: Pain to Power (Music for Nations) {12}: BPM:32, Cl:*, FO:*, GTV:30*, K:*, LBF:*, Ne:38*, NME:*, NT:*, P:* -- A:86/10, TH:B

Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) {12}: BB:*, Mj:*, Sp:*; scm:+, xjdc:* -- A:83/3, RX:***, TH:A-

Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) {12}: DW:**, JC:+, Mj:*, PO:*; am:*, am_j:+, jse:7, ny_s:6 -- A:80/2, TH:***

Ty Segall: Possession (Drag City) {12}: BV_i:+, LW:*, Mj:53*, NT:*, PM:*+, SC:*, U:*; am:+*, am_k:+ -- A:82/9

Shame: Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) {12}: Cl:*, D:32*, DIY:*, GTV:*, MO:*, NME:*, NT:*, P:*, PO:*, RT:77, SC:* -- A:80/14, TH:B

Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (RCA) {12}: -- AD:*, Cl:*, D:*, Em:*, K:*, MH:*, NME:*+, RSUK:++; am:*, am_k:+

Sparks: MAD! (Transgressive) {12}: Cl:*, GTV:37*, LBF:*, LW:*, Mj:*+, MO:*, RC:*, RT:45, S:+, T:* -- A:78/14, TH:B-

Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Land of Hopes & Dreams (Columbia) {12}: IT:*, XCI:** -- A:80/1, RX:A, TH:A-

Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming (4AD) {12}: DW:*+, LBF:*, MO:*, U:*; am:*, so_k:23, xjdc:* -- A:76/11, RX:B+, TH:*

Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewice/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) {11}: CM:+, JC:+, JC_r:+, PO:10* -- TH:A-

The Callous Daoboys: I Don't Want to See You in Heaven (MNRK) {11}: D:*, DiS:*, DS:3, G:*, K:*, MH:*, SC:*, Spk:* -- A:85/8

Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) {11}: AD:*, BB:+, Cl:*, D:*, I:*, Mj:*, MO:*, O:*, RC:*, RSUK:*, T:* -- A:79/15, TH:B-

Cosmic Ear: Traces (We Jazz) {11}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:20*, TN:*, W:36 -- TH:A-

DJ Haram: Beside Myself (Hyperdub) {11}: Cl:53*, DJM:+, PO:*, W:5 -- A:79/2, TH:**

Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune (Dot Dash) {11}: D:*, DIY:*, GTV:20*, Mj:*, MO:*, NR:*, UR:* -- A:79/9, TH:**

Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar) {11}: Cl:*, D:*, FO:*, Mj:*, NME:*, Sp:*, StL:*, U:*, XSN:*; am:* -- A:82/13, TH:B

Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk) {11}: FO:*, G:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, Ne:42*, NR:*, P:28*, Pf:*, U:* -- A:83/9, TH:B

Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) {11}: Mj:49*, MO:*, O:*, PM:*, U:* -- A:82/5, RX:***, TH:**

The Lemonheads: Love Chant (Fire) {11}: Al:33*, ClR:*, Mj:48*, NT:*, RT:14, Sp:*, StL:*, U:* -- A:74/16

Jensen McRae: I Don't Know How but They Found Me! (Dead Oceans) {11}: D:81*, DIY:*, LAT:1, RS:62, RT:20 -- A:78/4

Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO) {11}: EWi:+, U:*; am:*, xjdc:* -- A:80/2, RX:A, TH:**

My Morning Jacket: Is (ATO) {11}: ClR:*, GTV:4*, Mj:*, RC:*, U:77*; am:* -- A:78/11

Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (Drag City) {11}: JC:+, Mj:37*, PO:*, SC:*, TN:*; am:*, am_j:+, vu:7 -- A:79/5, TH:**

Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (Rounder) {11}: BS:2; scm:+*, vew:+ -- TH:***

Reneé Rapp: Bite Me (Interscope) {11}: 45:*, D:52*, HP:33, I:*, RS:53*, SC:*; am:* -- A:74/14, TH:**

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow) {11}: FO:*, Mj:39*, PM:*, PO:*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:83/6, RX:B+, TH:*

Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released) {11}: DW:*, EWi:+ -- RX:A, TH:A-

Todd Snider: High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless) {11}: DW:*, PO:*; xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:A-

Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) {11}: FO:*, Mj:*, MO:*, O:*, RC:*, U:62*; am:* -- A:80/7, TH:***

Soulwax: All Systems Are Lying (Deewee/Because Music) {11}: AD:*, DIY:*, KC:9, Mj:*, RC:*, RT:40, Sk:*, U:*, UR:* -- A:76/9

Spellling: Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones) {11}: LBF:*, Ne:8*, NME:*, SC:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Sp:*; am:* -- A:73/12

Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge) {11}: DW:**, Mj:*, PM:*, PO:*, XCI:**; am:*, xjdc:* -- A:71/8, TH:**

Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Music) {11}: Cl:*, D:8*, DIY:*, NME:*, RC:* -- A:85/6, TH:***

These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (Domino) {11}: Fa:+, FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, Sk:*, U:36*; bb6:+ -- A:82/7, TH:*

Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (Carpark) {11}: CM:+, Mj:*, RC:*, U:33*, XCI:*; am:* -- A:80/5, TH:A-

Wretch 32: Home? (AWAL) {11}: Cl:*, MO:*, NME:*+, Ov:*, RSUK:++*, T:* -- A:85/6, TH:**

Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (Impulse!) {11}: JC:+, KC:25, PO:*, RC:*; am:*, am_j:+, jse:9, jha:10, jmb:10, ny_s:7 -- A:75/3, TH:*

ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) {10}: DiS:*, EWi:40, K:*, XCI:*; vce:4 -- A:76/5, TH:A-

Jehnny Beth: You Heartberaker, You (Fiction) {10}: D:*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:32, K:*, L:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RT:23, XSN:* -- A:76/15

Blawan: SickElixir (XL) {10}: Cl:11, DJM:+, G:*, Pf:37*, StL:*, W:25; am_e:+ -- A:80/4, TH:*

Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (Thanatosis) {10}: CM:2, EWi:+, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe (Virgin) {10}: AD:*, ClR:*, D:*, DiS:*, MH:*, K:*, Sp:*, Spk:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:82/10

Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (New West) {10}: AAJ:*, Mj:*, PM:*, TL:15, U:*; xjdc:* -- A:76/5, TH:***

Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (MCEO/Columbia) {10}: BB:+, Ne:27, NME:*, P:+, RS:*, Sl:21*, Spk:* -- A:67/10, TH:**

Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse) {10}: Db:1, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, PM:*, UR:* -- A:84/6

The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) {10}: CM:+, DW:**+, JC:+; xjdc:* -- TH:A-

Gwenno: Utopia (Heavenly) {10}: AD:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, NT:*, RC:*, Sk:*, U:65* -- A:78/11, TH:*

Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) {10}: Mj:*, Ne:33*, Ri:20, RS:+, S:+, SC:* -- A:83/3, TH:**

Junior Brother: The End (Strap Originals) {10}: HP:4*, Mj:*, TO:7, U:* -- A:80/4

Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (Summer House/Epic) {10}: Cl:*, D:73*, DIY:*, GTV:*, RS:44*; am:*, cos:+ -- A:84/6, TH:*

Mclusky: The World Is Still Her and So Are We (Ipecac) {10}: Blb:*, ClR:*, GTV:*, K:*, LBF:*, LW:*, MO:*; am:+*, so_d:9 -- A:81/10

Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) {10}: JC:19, TN:*; jlbi:6, jma:+, jnc:5 -- TH:***

Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) {10}: EWi:23, PO:*, XCI:**; xde:7 -- TH:A

NewDad: Altar (Fair Youth) {10}: AD:*, D:56*, FO:*, HP:40, IT:*, L:*, NME:*, NT:*, Sk:* -- A:81/11

The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising (Transgressive) {10}: Cl:*, D:100, DIY:*, FO:*, G:*, GTV:*, MO:*, NME:*, RT:49, StL:* -- A:80/9

Paradise Lost: Ascension (Nuclear Blast) {10}: Blb:*, ClR:*, Db:3, DiS:*, K:*, Spk:*; am_k:+ -- A:79/7

Hayden Pedigo: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away (Mexican Summer) {10}: Cl:*, NT:*, P:23*, Pf:38*, SC:*, U:*; am:+* -- A:80/9

Say She She: Cut & Rewind (Drink Sum Wtr) {10}: Al:24, FO:*, KC:17, Mj:*, RC:*, RT:19; am:+* -- A:80/4

Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu) {10}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jnc:+, jse:5 -- TH:A-

Silt Rembrance Ensemble [Luke Stewart]: The Order (Cuneiform) {10}: CM:5, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Snõõper: Worldwide (Third Man) {10}: DIY:*, DW:*, FO:*, GTV:*, HP:*, Ne:28*, NT:*, RT:66; am:* -- A:81/10

Sunflower Bean: Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number) {10}: D:84*, DIY:*, Mj:*, NT:*, P:*+, UR:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:81/10

U.S. Girls: Scratch It (4AD) {10}: BPM:*, BV_i:+, Cl:*, Mj:*, NT:*, Pf:*, PM:*, RC:*, U:*, UR:* -- A:73/12

Ash: Ad Astra (Fierce Panda) {9}: Cl:*, ClR:*, GTV:15*, HP:39, K:*, LW:*, RC:* -- A:80/8

The Belair Lip Bombs: Again (Third Man) {9}: Cl:*, D:78*, Mj:*, NME:*, NR:*, NT:*, StL:*, U:* -- A:74/16

Matt Berry: Heard Noises (Acid Jazz) {9}: Cl:*, GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:*, Prg:*, RC:*, RT:90, XSN:*; am:* -- A:82/9

Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (Drink Sum Wtr) {9}: AD:*, BPM:*, Cl:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, P:*, SLi:*; am:* -- A:85/9, TH:*

Gina Birch: Trouble (Third Man) {9}: GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:*, PO:*, RT:91, U:*, XCI:* -- A:76/7, TH:**

Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) {9}: JC:+, Mj:*, Tr:+; am:*, jgy:+, jlb:10 -- A:78/3, TH:***

Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone) {9}: 45:32, Cl:*, D:77*, DIY:*, MO:*, NME:*, O:*, U:* -- A:84/8

Cardiacs: LSD (The Alphabet Business Concern) {9}: ClR:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, Spk:*, U:51*; bb6:+, dc:8 -- A:89/6, TH:C+

Celeste: Woman of Faces (Polydor) {9}: 45:40, Cl:*, DIY:*, FO:*, G:*, HP:*, I:*, RC:*, Sk:* -- A:79/10

Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem) {9}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jcb:9, jnc:+, ny_s:8 -- TH:***

Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) {9}: AAJ:*, Cl:*, G:*, JC:+, Mj:*, U:* -- A:80/4, TH:***

The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) {9}: BV_i:+, DW:**+, PM:*, Up_sh:+, SCI:* -- A:70/3, TH:**

Courting: Lust for Life, or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third) {9}: ClR:*, D:76*, MO:*, NME:*, O:*, PM:*+; am:* -- A:78/10

Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) {9}: G:*, JC:+, Mj:*, Pf:*, SC:*, Sk:*, U:* -- A:82/7, TH:**

Florist: Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) {9}: BPM:48, BV:+, CS:+, FO:*, NT:*, LBF:*, Pf:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/8

Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) {9}: JC:+; jnc:+, jse:1, ny_s:1 -- TH:*

Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (No Quarter) {9}: Cl:*, HP:*, Mj:*, U:70*; am:+* -- A:86/5, TH:**

Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) {9}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jjbc:1 -- TH:A-

HotWax: Hot Shock (Marathon Artists) {9}: D:99*, DIY:*, FO:*, LW:*, NME:*, RT:16, UR:* -- A:79/9

Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone (Drag City) {9}: Fa:+, G:+, S:+, SC:*, U:37*, W:6 -- A:80/3

La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car (Epitaph) {9}: BPM:*, D:69*, DIY:*, K:*, LBF:*, NT:*, RC:*, StL:* -- A:82/11

Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island (Glassnote) {9}: D:*, FO:*, Mj:*, NT:*, PM:*, RC:*, SLi:*; am:+* -- A:77/13

Makaya McCraven: Off the Record (International Anthem) {9}: Cl:*, JC:+, LBF:*, PO:*, U:*; am:*, am_j:+ -- A:80/5, TH:**

Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) {9}: AMG:*, Db:2, DiS:*, Sg:+, Spk:*, Tr:+ -- A:80/4

M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) {9}: BV_i:+, D:*, DIY:*, NT:*, P:*, PO:* -- A:79/5, TH:***

Gurf Morlix: Bristlecone (Rootball) {9}: PO:* -- RX:A-, TH:A-

The Murder Capital: Blindness (Human Season) {9}: BPM:40*, Cl:*, DIY:*, FO:*, HP:28, LBF:*, Mj:*, SC:* -- A:76/13

Natural Information Society: Perseverance Flow (Eremite) {9}: JC:+, Pf:*, PO:14*, W:23 -- A:80/1, TH:***

John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (Edition) {9}: JC:+, TN:*; am:*, am_j:+, jha:6, jpb:9 -- A:90/1, TH:***

Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (Blue Note) {9}: G:*, JC:+, JW:19; am:*, am_j:*, jnc:+ -- TH:**

Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs (Rock Action) {9}: Cl:*, GTV:12, Mj:65*, MO:*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:82/6

Sault: 10 (Forever Living Originals) {9}: Al:2, BB:+, Mj:*, PO:*, U:* -- A:77/3, TH:*

Titanic: Hagen (Unehard of Hope) {9}: EWi:46, G:24*, P:33*, Pf:19, SpL:** -- A:78/5

Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch) {9}: Mj:*, PM:*, TL:16, U:*, XCI:*; am:* -- A:75/6, TH:**

Suzanne Vega: Flying With Angels (Cooking Vinyl) {9}: AD:*, Al:49, ClR:*, LW:*, Mj:69*, MO:*, RS:+, SC:* -- A:75/10

The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO/Republic) {9}: BB:+, Cl:*, Em:27, HV:+, I:*, Ne:46*, NME:*, T:* -- A:69/16

Paul Weller: Find El Dorado (Parlophone) {9}: Cl:*, GTV:*, Mj:11*, RC:*, RSUK:*, U:27; am:* -- A:74/10

Jessica Winter: My First Album (Lucky Number) {9}: Cl:*, D:95*, GTV:*, LW:*, NME:*, U:* -- A:77/9, TH:**

Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti-) {8}: Cl:*, D:70*, DIY:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, NME:*, U:* -- A:79/9

Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jbbr:9 -- A:80/1, TH:***

Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (Drag City) {8}: CM:+, Mj:*, U:*, W:14 -- A:80/2, TH:***

The Armed: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House) {8}: Cl:58, Ex:39, K:*, LBF:*, MH:*, NT:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:77/10

Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:*, TN:*; am:*, am_j:+ -- A:80/1, TH:**

Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) {8}: DW:**, G:*, RS:60*; am_h:+ -- A:67/12, TH:**

Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) {8}: JC, JW:4 -- TH:***

Biffy Clyro: Futique (Warner UK) {8}: Ad:*, ClR:*, DIY:*, K:*, Mj:*, NME:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:80/7

George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jmb:2 -- TH:A-

Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) {8}: -- RX:A-, TH:A-

Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) {8}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, bc_j:+, jha:4 -- TH:**

Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence (Season of Mist) {8}: AMG:*, Blb:*, Db:7, DiS:*, MH:*, UR:* -- A:80/6

Cymande: Renascence (BMG) {8}: AD:*, Cl:*, FO:*, Mj:64*, T:* -- A:84/6, TH:**

Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) {8}: Mj:*, MO:*, RT:100, Sk:*, SLi:* -- A:82/5, TH:***

Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart (Sub Pop) {8}: D:98, HV:+, Mj:*, NT:*, UR:*, XCI:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:77/8

Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) {8}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*, TN:* -- TH:A-

Die Spitz: Something to Consume (Third Man) {8}: Cl:*, DIY:*, GTV:*, K:*, L:*, MH:*, NT:*, Sp:* -- A:82/10

Ditz: Never Exhale (self-released) {8}: ClR:*, DIY:*, GTV:*, Sg:+, Sk:*, Spk:*, Tr:+, UR:* -- A:75/12

The Divine Comedy: Rainy Sunday Afternoon (Divine Comedy) {8}: Cl:*, FO:*, GTV:*, IT:*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, -- A:80/10

Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) {8}: Al:48, TL:20; am:+*, xjdc:* -- A:75/4, TH:**

Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (self-relesed -EP) {8}: XCI:** -- RX:A-, TH:**

Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) {8}: CM:+, DW:*+, Mj:*, O:*, PO:*; am:* -- A:82/5, TH:*

Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) {8}: DB:*, JC:+; jmb:3, jpb:4, ny_s:9 -- TH:*

Florry: Sounds Like . . . (Dear Life) {8}: BV:+, P:15*, Pf:*, Sl:37, Up_sh:+, UR:* -- A:83/3

Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop) {8}: DIY:*, Ex:*, GTV:*, LBF:*, NT:* -- A:77/7, TH:***

Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) {8}: BPM:*, NT:*, P:13*, Sl:43, Up_sh:+, UR:* -- A:88/3

Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO) {8}: xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:***

Hand Habits: Blue Reminder (Fat Possum) {8}: FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:*, NT:*, P:*, PM:*, U:*; am:* -- A:81/10

Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+; am:*, am_j:*, jlb:9, ny_s:6 -- TH:**

Hatchie: Liquorice (Secretly Canadian) {8}: Cl:*, D:*, G:*, GTV:*, LBF:*, Sk:*, UR:*; am:* -- A:80/9

Idlewild: Idlewild (V2) {8}: Cl:*, DS:15, GTV:*, LBF:*, RC:*, Sk:*, XSN:* -- A:79/9

Inhaler: Open Wide (Polydor) {8}: AD:*, Cl:*, D:17*, I:*, NME:*, NT:* -- A:77/8

Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (RCA) {8}: Ex:47*, MO:*, NME:*, RS:83 -- A:77/5, TH:***

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island (P(doom)) {8}: ClR:*, DIY:*, Ex:*, KC:30, Mj:51*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:72/12

Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+, JW:13, Mj:71*; jgy:9, jpb:6 -- A:80/1, TH:B

Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) {8}: BPM:*, JC:+, PO:*; jmbo:1 -- A:77/2, TH:**

David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) {8}: JC:+, PO:*; jfk:7, jgy:+ -- TH:A-

Navy Blue: The Sword & the Soaring (Freedom Sounds) {8}: Ne:32*, Pf:*, StL:*; dc:20 -- A:81/3, TH:***

Nazar: Demilitarize (Hyperdub) {8}: Cl:15, DJM:+, Pf:*, Sk:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:81/2, TH:*

Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Great Intentions (Action Jazz) {8}: CM:4, JC:+ -- TH:***

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) {8}: JC:14, PO:*; jha:7 -- TH:A-

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious (Rocket) {8}: AD:*, K:*, LBF:*, LW:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:*; so_d:13 -- A:77/14

PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (Backwoodz Studioz) {8}: BV:+, HG:+ -- RX:***, TH:***

Saint Pierre: Luck and Gravity (Mutchcrud Music) {8}: xjdc:* -- RX:A-, TH:***

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (Nonesuch) {8}: G:*, JC:+, JW:2; jcb:+, jnc:+ -- A:70/4, TH:B

Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) {8}: Ev:*, G:*+; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:77/4, TH:***

Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse of Everything (On-U Sound) {8}: Mj:9*, MO:*, RT:67; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:74.5

Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (Intakt) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:*, W:41; jbbr:7 -- TH:***

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Perimenopop (Decca) {8}: Al:4, I:*, LBF:*, MO:*; am:* -- A:81/10

Sports Team: Boys These Days (Distiller/Bright Antenna) {8}: D:83*, DIY:*, I:*, MO:*, NME:*, PM:+, XSN:* -- A:73/9

Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (Cloverdale) {8}: scm:++* -- TH:A-

Will Stratton: Points of Origin (Bella Union) {8}: GTV:27*, MO:*, PM:*+, Sp:*, U:*; am:* -- A:82/7

Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (Aunt Daddy) {8}: scm:2*, xjdc:* -- TH:A-

Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions (Fire) {8}: G:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, RC:*, RT:34, SC:*, U:*; so_d:16 -- A:77/9

Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles (Concord) {8}: Al:30, Cl:*, G:*, Mj:*, P:*, PM:*+, U:*; am:* -- A:82/8

Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (Ladylike/Sony) {8}: AS:*, PO:*, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- A:70/2, TH:***

Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay) {8}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jjbc:2 -- TH:A-

Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (Out of Your Head) {8}: CM:+, JC:15; bc_j:+, jmbo:9 -- TH:***

Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (36 Chambers/DNA Music) {8}: HG:+, PO:*, RR:*; xjdc:* -- A:75/1, TH:A-

AFI: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun (Run for Cover) {7}: Cl:*, DiS:*, K:*, L:*, Sp:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:80/8

Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) {7}: am:*, vgb:1 -- A:70/2, TH:***

Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) {7}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:A-

Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) {7}: AD:*, Blb:*, Cl:*, DiS:*, G:+, K:*, MH:* -- A:73/9

The Beaches: No Hard Feelings (AWAL) {7}: Cl:*, D:*, EWi:+, Ex:*, LBF:*, RS:71; cos:+ -- A:83/4

Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (M.C.) {7}: -- RX:A-, TH:***

Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) {7}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+ -- TH:A-

Castle Rat: The Bestiary (King Volume) {7}: ClR:*, Db:19, MH:*; am:+*, am_k:+ -- A:75/6

Eddie Chacon: Lay Low (Stones Throw) {7}: GTV:*, LAT:24, Mj:22*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:79/6

Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (Tak:til) {7}: AD:*, JC:+, Mj:*, PM:*; am:+* -- A:80/4, TH:*

Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) {7}: JC:+, PO:*; jsb:+ -- TH:A-

Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo: In the Earth Again (Computer Students) {7}: BPM:42*, Ex:*, Ne:45*, SC:*, U:* -- A:79/7

Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) {7}: BB:+, HV:+, RS:26*; am:+* -- A:76/4, TH:*

Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) {7}: AAJ:*, DB:*, JC:+; jha:8 -- TH:***

Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise) {7}: BPM:*, BV_i:+, FO:*, Ne:35*, RC:*; am:* -- A:77/8

DJ K: Radio Libertadora! (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {7}: DJM:+, G:*, SpL:**; vce:9 -- A:73/2, TH:**

Dutch Interior: Moneyball (Fat Possum) {7}: BV:+, BV_i:+, Cl:*, FO:*, P:*+, RS:+ -- A:77/5

Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) {7}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation: This Time (Sunnyside) {7}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Liminal (Verve) {7}: FO:*, Mj:52*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:79/6, TH:**

Silvana Estrada: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote) {7}: KC:16, Mj:*, Pf:*, RS:16 -- A:80/2, TH:*

Carter Faith: Cherry Valley (MCA Nashville) {7}: RS:18; scm:+*, xjdc:* -- TH:**

Robert Finley: Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool You (Easy Eye) {7}: Mj:*, PO:*, XCI:* -- A:80/1, TH:A-

For Those I Love: Carving the Stone (September) {7}: Cl:*, G:*, HP:10*, NME:* -- A:82/5

Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (ECM) {7}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jfk:3, jgy:+ -- TH:**

From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics) {7}: -- RX:A-, TH:***

Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (Libra) {7}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Alison Goldfrapp: Flux (A.G.) {7}: Al:15, LBF:*, RC:*; am:* -- A:65/11, TH:**

Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam (Run for Cover) {7}: BV:+, Ex:48, GTV:43, LBF:*, RS:*+, Spk:* -- A:80/3

Guerilla Toss: You're Weird Now (Sub Pop) {7}: FO:*, Ne:4*, U:* -- A:78/4

Gelli Haha: Switcheroo (Innovative Leisure) {7}: GTV:35*, KC:7, P:50* -- A:79/4

Halestorm: Everest (Atlantic) {7}: Blb:*, ClR:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*; am:*;am_k:+ -- A:82/5

Heat On: Heat On (Cuneiform) {7}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Our of Your Head) {7}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:*; jlb:6 -- TH:***

Ho99o9: Tomorrow We Escape (Last Gang/999 Deathkult/MNRK) {7}: D:*, DiS:*, DIY:*, K:*, LBF:*, Ne:49* -- A:80/8

Audrey Hobert: Who's the Clown? (RCA) {7}: Cl:57*, D:13, PM:*, RS:*; cos:+ -- A:79/5

Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) {7}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*, W:48; jmbo:8 -- TH:**

Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) {7}: BB:+, Cl:56*, D:93, NME:*+, RS:29 -- A:78/5

Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) {7}: Cl:*, CM:+, DW:*, HG:+; vu:+ -- A:67/4, TH:**

Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) {7}: EWi:+, PM:*+; xjdc:*, xpb:5 -- A:80/1, TH:*

Laura Jurd: Rites & Revelations (New Soil) {7}: JC:+, JW:13 -- TH:A-

Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) {7}: FO:*, Mj:*, RS:+; scm:+ -- A:77/3, TH:***

Mon Laferte: Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin) {7}: Ne:14*; am:+* -- A:82/3, TH:**

Brennen Leigh: Don't You Ever Give Up on Love (Signature Sounds) {7}: scm:++* -- TH:A-

Leikeli47: Lei Keli Ft. 47/For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover) {7}: -- 45:28, Cl:29; am:*, am_h:+

Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) {7}: PO:*, XCI:**; xjdc:* -- TH:***

Nick León: A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax) {7}: DJM:+, HV:+, Pf:20*, PW:20 -- A:83/1, TH:*

Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman () {7}: ClR:*, Mj:*, TN:*U:* -- A:75/4, TH:***

L.S. Dunes: Violet (Fantasy) {7}: BV:+, Cl:*, D:*, DIY:*, K:*, S:+, Spk:* -- A:77/7

Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (Concord Jazz) {7}: Mj:*, PO:*; am:*, am_b:+ -- A:73/4, TH:***

Billie Marten: Dog Eared (Fiction) {7}: DIY:*, I:19*, Mj:*, Sk:*, U:* -- A:84/5

Midlake: A Bridge to Far (Bella Union) {7}: AD:*, Mj:23*, MO:*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:76/7

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) {7}: JC:+, PM:+, W:45; am:* -- A:80/1, TH:***

The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Thirty Tigers) {7}: G:*, U:*; am:* -- A:79/4, TH:A-

Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) {7}: Cl:*, DIY:*, G:+, NME:*, O:*, Ov:*, Sk:* -- A:77/8

Willie Nelson: Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy) {7}: Mj:*; scm:+* -- A:80/3, TH:A-

Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) {7}: JC:+, Mj:*, U:*; xjdc:* -- A:79/3, TH:***

Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt) {7}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:*; jnc:+ -- TH:***

Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (self-released) {7}: scm:++* -- TH:A-

Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) {7}: BPM:38, Cl:*, HG:+, RS:+, SLi:*, Tr:+ -- A:74/4, TH:*

Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (Backwoodz Studioz) {7}: HG:+, PO:*, PW:11 -- TH:***

Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) {7}: JC:+; jmb:4 -- TH:A-

Ribbon Skirt: Bite Down (Mint) {7}: Ex:1*, Sg:+ -- A:84/2

Rio Da Yung OG: F.L.I.N.T. (Feeling Like I'm Not Through) (MINE Enertainment/Empire) {7}: Pf:*, PW:7 -- A:80/1, TH:***

Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) {7}: JC:+, JW:11; jlbi:8 -- TH:***

Rwake: The Retun of Magik (Relapse) {7}: Blb:*, Db:5, DiS:*, Tr:+ -- A:85/2

Anna B Savage: You & I Are Earth (City Slang) {7}: LBF:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, SC:*, U:*, UR:* -- A:78/11

Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu) {7}: AD:*, DJM:+, Sk:*, W:29; am:+*, am_e:+ -- A:87/3, TH:*

Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love) {7}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:+; jnc:+ -- TH:***

Tame Impala: Deadbeat (Columbia) {7}: D:55*, G:*, HP:13*, I:* -- A:60/23

Pat Thomas: Hikmah (TAO Forms) {7}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*; jnc:8 -- TH:***

Tropical Fuck Storm: Fairyland Codex (Fire) {7}: BV_i:+, DW:*, LW:*, Mj:*, Ne:23*, RT:24 -- A:76/9

Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost (Oh Boy) {7}: RS:70; scm:++* -- TH:***

Morgan Wallen: I'm the Problem (Big Loud/Republic/Mercury) {7}: BB:+, LAT:4; n_ap:9, ny_c:13 -- A:53/6

The War and Treaty: Plus One (Mercury/UMG Nashville) {7}: PO:*, TL:9; am:*, scm:+* -- A:90/1, TH:B-

The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper (Sun) {7}: BV_i:+, Mj:*+, PM:+, RC:*, U:45* -- A:87/3

Jesse Welles: Middle (self-released) {7}: PM:*+, PO:*; scm:+* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal (Verve/Opal) {7}: ClR:*, KC:29, Sp:*, U:63* -- A:75/7, TH:**

2hollis: Star (Interscope) {6}: D:87, NME:*, O:*, Sg:+, -- A:74/4, TH:**

3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: Interaction (Anzic) {6}: AAJ:*, DB:*, JC:* -- TH:***

Allo Darlin': Bright Nights (Slumberland) {6}: DW:*, PO:*, XCI:** -- TH:**

Apathy: Mom & Dad (Dirty Version/Coalmine) {6}: HG:+, RR:* -- A:80/1, TH:A-

MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) {6}: -- RX:B+, TH:***

Jon Batiste: Big Money (Verve/Interscope) {6}: Al:45, DB:* -- TH:A-

Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) {6}: AAJ:*, DB:*, JC:+ -- TH:***

Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers: Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out) {6}: JC:+, JW:13 -- TH:***

Biig Piig: 11:11 (RCA) {6}: AD:*, D:*, DIY:*, Ov:*, RC:*, SC:* -- A:73/13

Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (Drag City) {6}: Mj:*, U:30; am:* -- A:77/3, TH:***

Blackbraid: Blackbraid III (self-released) {6}: AMG:*, Blb:*, Db:20, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:85/5

Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (Blue Note) {6}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jse:6 -- A:80/1, TH:**

Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) {6}: ST:+ -- RX:***, TH:**

Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) {6}: HG:+, PO:*, RR:* -- A:80/1, TH:***

Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) {6}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:***

Brògeal: Tuesday Paper Club (PIAS) {6}: Cl:*, D:67*, DIY:*, FO:*, GTV:* -- A:84/6

Rob Brown: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) {6}: AAJ:*, CM:+, JC:+, TN:* -- TH:**

The Chameleons: Arctic Moon (Metropolis) {6}: ClR:*, LW:*, Mj:*, Sp:*, U:*, XSN:* -- A:80/7

Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) {6}: JC:+; jnc:7, jpb:1 -- TH:*

Circa Waves: Death & Love, Pt. 1 (Lower Third/PIAS) {6}: Cl:*, PM:*+, Sp:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:69/7

Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla/Roc Nation) {6}: SC:*, S:+, Sp:* -- A:75/3, TH:***

Conjurer: Unself (Nuclear Blast) {6}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, Spk:*; dc:15 -- A:84/5

Alice Cooper: The Revenge of Alice Cooper (EarMusic) {6}: AD:*, Blb:*, ClR:*, RC:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:76/11

Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (Candid) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+, JC_r:+; jpb:2 -- TH:*

Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) {6}: G:*, Sk:*, StL:*, U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:79/6, TH:B

Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Lone Star Rider/Island) {6}: BB:+, RS:+; scm:+* -- A:72/3, TH:**

Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+; am;*, am_j:+, jnc:+ -- TH:*

Brian D'Addario: Till the Morning (Headstack) {6}: Cl:*, D:*, Mj:62*, RC:*, RT:56 -- A:76/9

Death in Vegas: Death Mask (Drone) {6}: MO:*, PM:*, RT:74, U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:75/6

Mac DeMarco: Guitar (Mac's Record Label) {6}: Cl:*, DIY:*, Ex:*, HP:44, Mj:*, U:* -- A:70/19

Indigo De Souza: Precipice (Loma Vista) {6}: 45:37, AD:*, Cl:52*, LBF:*, P:* -- A:70/13

The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) {6}: PM:*+, UR:*; scm:+* -- A:80/2, TH:*

Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (Hands Made -EP) {6}: PO:23*; xjdc:* -- TH:***

Chandler Dozier: Bakersfield East (self-released -EP) {6}: scm:++* -- TH:***

Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) {6}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, MSuk:*, Prg:*, Spk:* -- A:76/8

Earscratcher: Otoliths (Aerophonic) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:A-

Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+; bc_j:+ -- TH:***

Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) {6}: JC:+; jjbc:5 -- TH:***

Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) {6}: CM:+, JC:+; jpa:10 -- TH:***

Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jgy:+ -- TH:***

Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (SoFa) {6}: JC:+; xjdc:* -- TH:A-

Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:*, -- TH:***

Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) {6}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) {6}: CM:+, JC:+; ny_s:3 -- TH:**

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) {6}: AD:*, U:39; am:* -- A:90/2, TH:***

Conan Gray: Wishbone (Republic) {6}: Cl:*, D:74*; am:+*, cos:+ -- A:78/5

Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) {6}: AAJ:*, PO:* -- TH:A-

Hamell on Trial: Dirty Xmas (Saustex) {6}: -- RX:A-, TH:**

Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late '80s (Eat Your Own Ears) {6}: BS:17, LBF:*, Mj:*, U:*; am:* -- A:76/6

Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) {6}: Mj:*, PM:*+, Sl:*, U:* -- A:78/5, TH:*

Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) {6}: Mj:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/2, TH:***

Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter) {6}: Mj:*, U:*, W:49 -- A:80/2, TH:***

Eunye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) {6}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) {6}: JC:+; jjbc:4 -- TH:***

Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) {6}: AD:*, Cl:*, LBF:*, Mj:*; am:*, am_j:+ -- A:75/9, TH:B

Natalia Lafourcade: Cancionera (Sony [Mexico]) {6}: BB:+, Ne:24*, P:+; am:+* -- A:85/2

Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) {6}: scm:++* -- TH:***

Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba (Blue Note) {6}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+ -- jnc:+

Demi Lovato: It's Not That Deep (Island) {6}: Ev:*, I:*, LBF:*, RS:98* -- A:75/8, TH:*

Men I Trust: Equus Caballus (none) {6}: CS:+, Ex:18*, NT:*, Sg:+ -- A:90/2

Mobb Deep: Infinite (Mass Appeal) {6}: AD:*, Al:41, BPM:*, HG:+, PW:46, RS:78 -- A:73/2, TH:B

Monaleo: Who Did the Body (Stomp Down/Columbia) {6}: RS:69*, SpL:** -- A:74/2, TH:**

The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required () {6}: D:*, GTV:28*, LW:*, MO:*, RC:* -- A:73/7

More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) {6}: CM:+, Mj:*, PM:*, U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:79/5

Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (ESP-Disk) {6}: JC:+; jlbi:7 -- TH:A-

Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (Columbia) {6}: BB:+; am:*, xpb:10 -- A:76/4, TH:***

Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {6}: -- RX:A-, TH:**

Lael Neale: Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop) {6}: AD:*, GTV:*, Mj:67*, PM:*; am;* -- A:77/7

Night Tapes: Portals//Polarities (Nettwerk) {6}: DIY:*, Em:24, GB:28, GTV:40*, SC:* -- A:76/4

Paal Nilssen-Love Circus + The Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) {6}: CM:+, JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

No Joy: Bugland (Sonic Cathedral/Hand Drawn Dracula) {6}: GB:23, NT:*, Pf:*, SC:*; am:+* -- A:79/6

Not for Radio: Melt (Atlantic/Nice Life) {6}: Cl:*, RS:48*; cos:+, v_ja:4 -- A:80/2

Obongjayar: Paradise Now (September) {6}: DIY:*, KC:19, RS:+, RSUK:*, RT:64 -- A:78/4

Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (Out of Your Head) {6}: CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:A-

Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) {6}: JC:+; jlb:4 -- TH:***

Ivo Perelman/John Butcher: Duologues 4 (Ibeji) {6}: JC:+; jpa:9 -- TH:A-

Emma Pollock: Begging the Night to Take Hold (Chemikal Underground) {6}: Mj:36*, RC:*, U:76*; am:* -- A:88/4

Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian -EP) {6}: D:*, FO:*, LBF:*, ST:+, UR:* -- A:82/5, TH:*

Noah Preminger: Ballades (Chill Tone) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

Princess Nokia: Girls (Artist House) {6}: Cl:*, PO:*; xjdc:* -- A:80/1, TH:***

Quadeca: Vanisher, Horizon Scraper (X8) {6}: BPM:46, Em:28, Ne:21*, RT:29, Sp:* -- A:72/4

Marcelo dos Reis/Flora: Our Time (JACC) {6}: JC:+; jpa:2 -- TH:***

Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) {6}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:A-

John Scofield/Dave Holland: Memories of Home (ECM) {6}: JC:+; jpb:10 -- TH:A-

Mei Semones: Animaru (Bayonet) {6}: BV_i:+, Cl:*, RS:+, Spk:*; am:+* -- A:84/3

Noura Mint Seymali: Yenbett (Glitterbeat) {6}: PO:*, SpL:** -- TH:***

Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) {6}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Lorna Shore: I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media) {6}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:86/5

Slash Need: Sit & Grin (self-released) {6}: Ex:10 -- TH:***

Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (Jalopy) {6}: PO:* -- RX:A, TH:B-

Yuhan Su: Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music) {6}: JC:+, PO:*; jsa:8 -- TH:***

Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi) {6}: JC:+; jlb:5 -- TH:***

Diala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (Dlala) {6}: EWi:+; xjdc:*, xpb:9 -- TH:***

MF Tomlinson: Die to Wake Up From a Dream (Prah) {6}: GTV:31*, Mj:74*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:84/5

Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (Leo33) {6}: LAT:23; scm:+*, xjdc:* -- A:71/3, TH:**

Rafael Toral: Traveling Light (Drag City) {6}: JC:+, Mj:*, Pf:*, U:*, W:17 -- A:80/3

Tunng: Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby) {6}: AD:*, BV_i:+, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:79/7

Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (Bossier City) {6}: am:*, scm:1* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Upchuck: I'm Nice Now (Domino) {6}: K:*, LW:*, Ov:*; am:+*, am_k:+ -- A:82/5

Wardruna: Birna (Music for Nations/Sony) {6}: AMG:*, DiS:*, MH:*, Mj:*, Prg:*, S:+ -- A:80/7

Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather II (Ghostly International) {6}: BB:+, PM:*+, Tr:+; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:73/7

Wheelhouse: House and Home (Aerophonic) {6}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:A-

Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) {6}: JC:+; jlbi:10, jmbo:5 -- TH:**

Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT Music) {6}: DB:*, G:*, JC:+ -- TH:***

Brandon Woody: For the Love of It All (Blue Note) {6}: JC:+; am:+*, am_j:+ -- A:90/1, TH:**

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarin Yoksa = If There Is No Tomorrow (Big Crown) {6}: FO:*, G:*, PM:*+ -- A:87/3, TH:**

Zanussi 3: A Keen Beast (Sauajazz) {6}: CM:7, JC:+ -- TH:***

Zzzahara: Spiral Your Way Out (Lex) {6}: D:*, Em:*, PM:*+; vgb:4 -- A:78/4

Adwaith: Solas (Libertino) {5}: GTV:6*, U:* -- A:90/2

Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek) {5}: DW:*, Pf:*, SC:* -- A:85/2, TH:**

Joe Alterman Feat. Houston Person: Brisket for Breakfast (self-released) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (Glitterbeat) {5}: AD:*, FO:*, MO:* -- A:80/3, TH:**

Ancient Death: Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore) {5}: BV:+, Db:4 --

The Antlers: Blight (Transgressive) {5}: MO:*, NT:*, RC:*, Spk:*, U:* -- A:78/8

Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) {5}: Blb:*, S:+, T:* -- A:58/13, RX:*, TH:*

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: A Dawning (OPIA) {5}: AD:*, Cl:*, IT:*, RT:82, SC:* -- A:83/5

Ashnikko: Smoochies (Parlophone) {5}: DIY:*, DW:**, NME:*; xjdc:* -- A:80/2

Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) {5}: Em:*, PM:*+ -- A:78/2, TH:**

Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (Zamzama) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) {5}: JC:+; bc_j:+ -- TH:***

Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (AWAL) {5}: Em:48, RS:+; so_d:24 -- A:70/2, TH:**

Beirut: A Study of Losses (Pompeii) {5}: Mj:*, HP:*, RT:94, U:*; am:* -- A:73/10

Andy Bell: Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral) {5}: Mj:*, Sp:*, U:66*; am:* -- A:76/7

Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) {5}: CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:***

Big Special: National Average. (So/Silva Screen) {5}: DIY:*, LBF:*, LW:*, MO:*, RT:85 -- A:88/4

Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) {5}: M -- Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, MSuk:*

Bloomers: Cyclism (Relative Pitch) {5}: JC:+; jha:9 -- TH:***

Blue Lake: Weft (Tonal Union) {5}: BS:14, Mj:*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:79/6

Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Bright Eyes: Kids Table (Dead Oceans -EP) {5}: xjdc:* -- RX:B+, TH:*

Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (Escapism) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) {5}: AAJ:*, DB:* -- TH:***

The Bug: Implosion (Pressure) {5}: BPM:*, SC:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:76/5, TH:*

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer) {5}: G:+, Pf:*, U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:81/3

Mariah Carey: Here for It All (Gamma/Mariah) {5}: Al:18, DW:*, I:*, LAT:25 -- A:65/4

Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos () {5}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+, jbbr:4 -- A:90/1, TH:B

The Close Readers: Trees of Lower Hutt (Austin) {5}: -- RX:**, TH:***

Hollie Cook: Shy Girl (Mr Bongo) {5}: LW:*, Mj:*, PO:* -- A:75/4, TH:**

Paul Cornish: You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) {5}: JC:+; jcb:10, jnc:10 -- TH:**

Coroner: Dissonance Theory (Century Media) {5}: Blb:*, Db:23, MH:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:83/3

Cosey Fanni Tutti: 2t2 (Conspiracy Internatioal) {5}: GTV:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:*, W:31 -- A:76/5

The Cosmic Tones Research Trio: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) {5}: JC:+, O:*, PW:18, -- TH:*

Madison Cunningham: Ace (Verve Forecast) {5}: FO:*, GTV:*, P:*, Sk:*; am:* -- A:80/5

Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) {5}: CM:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) {5}: scm:++* -- TH:**

Brittany Davis/Evan Flory-Barnes/D'Vonne Lewis: Black Thunder (Loosegroove) {5}: am:*, am_b:+ -- TH:***

The Dears: Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! (Next Door) {5}: GTV:*, Mj:*, Sk:*, Sp:*, XSN:* -- A:80/7

Peter Doherty: Felt Better Alive (Strap Originals) {5}: I:*, HP:48, Mj:*, MO:*, T:* -- A:73/8

Double Virgo: Shakedown (Year0001) {5}: XCI:** -- TH:***

Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas: A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (Verve/Opal) {5}: ClR:*, Mj:*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:78/7, TH:*

Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (Ndagga) {5}: DW:*, PO:*, W:43 -- TH:**

Jerskin Fendrix: Once Upon a Time . . . in Shropshire (Untitled (Recs)) {5}: G:48, GQ:++, P:*, U:* -- A:89/2

Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics) {5}: am:*, am+ -- TH:***

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions) {5}: CM:+, JC:+; bc_j:+ -- TH:**

Flyte: Between You and Me (Nettwerk) {5}: D:*, FO:*, I:*, Mj:*, NT:* -- A:84/6

Al Foster: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) {5}: JC:+; jma:+ -- TH:***

Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Greg Freeman: Burnover (Canvasback/Transgressive) {5}: LBF:*, Mj:*, P:47*; ny_z:7 -- A:79/4

Friendship: Caveman Wakes Up (Merge) {5}: BV:+, Sg:+, Sp:*, Up_sh:+; am:* -- A:76/4

Edith Frost: In Space (Drag City) {5}: Mj:*, SC:*, U:*; am:+* -- A:80/5

Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (Libra) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) {5}: PM:*, PO:* -- A:75/2, TH:***

Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem) {5}: JC:+, Mj:*, U:*, W:44 -- A:79/3, TH:*

Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal) {5}: Al:28, Em:*, HG:+, RS:* -- A:74/6, TH:*

Goldie Presents Rufige Kru: Alpha Omega (Metalheadz/London) {5}: DJM:+, MO:*, RC:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/3

Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First (Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope) {5}: Cl:*, PM:*, RS:89; am:*, cos:+ -- A:61/12

Good Flying Birds: Talulah\'s Tape (Rotten Apple) {5}: P:*, RSh:20; am:+* -- A:78/4

Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) {5}: HG:+, LBF:* -- A:70/2, TH:***

Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) {5}: JC:+; jma:+ -- TH:***

Buddy Guy: Ain't Done With the Blues (Silvertone/RCA) {5}: am:*, am_b:+ -- TH:***

Luke Haines & Peter Buck: Going Down to the River . . . to Blow My Mind (Cherry Red) {5}: GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:* -- A:77/7

Billy Hart: Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) {5}: JC:+; jnc:+ -- TH:***

Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) {5}: AMG:*, Db:30, DiS:*, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:82/5

Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) {5}: JC:+, TN:*; jsb:+ -- TH:**

Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) {5}: AD:*, MO:*, PM:* -- A:77/6, TH:**

Tom Hickox: The Orchestra of Stories (self-released) {5}: GTV:16*, RC:*, U:* -- A:83/3

Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) {5}: JC:+; jsa:2 -- TH:**

Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) {5}: LBF:*, Mj:*, P:*+, U:* -- A:80/6

Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released -EP) {5}: ST:++ -- TH:***

Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Igorrr: Amen (Metal Blade) {5}: AMG:*, Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, SC:* -- A:83/5

Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) {5}: PO:* -- TH:A-

Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast) {5}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:***

Italian Surf Academy + Denver Butson: Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Nicholas Jamerson: The Narrow Way (Clover) {5}: scm:++* -- TH:**

Jazzwrld & Thukuthela: The Most Wanted (Waltz Music Group/Empire) {5}: EWi:29, SpL:** -- TH:**

Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant (InsideOut) {5}: AD:*, ClR:*, Prg:*, RC:*, Sp:* -- A:75/7

Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) {5}: Blb:*, ClR:*, K:*, MH:*, MI:* -- A:76/8

Jess Jocoy: Cul-de-Sac Kid (self-released) {5}: scm:++* -- TH:**

Rico Jones: Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts) {5}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Durand Jones & the Indicators: Flowers (Dead Oceans) {5}: AD:*, Mj:*, Sk:*, U:*; am:* -- A:79/6

Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (Dot Time) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Kesha: . (Kesha) {5}: G:*, PM:*, RS:*; am:*, cos:+ -- A:64/15

Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) {5}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*MSuk:*, Sp:* -- A:75/8

KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish) {5}: JC:+; jsb:6 -- TH:***

Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (Royal Potato Family) {5}: CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:***

Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Ben Kweller: Cover the Mirrors (Noise Company) {5}: AV:+; am:+*, n_ap:5 -- A:80/2

Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (Jalopy) {5}: JC:+; jjbc:6 -- TH:***

Yazmin Lacey: Teal Dreams (AMF) {5}: AD:*, Cl:*, Mj:*; am:*, bb6:+ -- A:80/4

Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) {5}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:***

Lady Wray: Cover Girl (Big Crown) {5}: Mj:*; am:*, v_sh:1 -- A:80/2

Seth Lakeman: The Granite Way () {5}: GTV:*, Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:80/5

Larkin Poe: Bloom (Tricki-Woo) {5}: ClR:*, RC:*, Sp:*, TN:*, XSN:* -- A:73/7

Mark William Lewis: Mark William Lewis (A24) {5}: Em:8, G:*, U:* -- A:78/3

Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta) {5}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk) {5}: Fa:+, P:+, Pf:*, Sk:*, Sp:* -- A:83/3

Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) {5}: JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

Luvcat: Vicious Delicious (AWAL) {5}: AD:*, Cl:*, D:*, DIY:*, FO:* -- A:80/6

Masma Dream World: Please Come to Me (Valley of Search) {5}: Mj:*, W:20; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/2

Parker McCollum: Parker McCollum (MCA Nashville) {5}: LAT:8; am:*, scm:+ -- A:80/1

Madison McFerrin: Scorpio () {5}: Al:26*, KC:8 -- A:75/2

Carson McHone: Pentimento (Merge) {5}: Mj:*, Sp:*, U:57*; am:* -- A:83/4

Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) {5}: JC:+; jsa:5 -- TH:**

Modern Nature: The Heat Wraps (Bella Union) {5}: FO:*, U:15*, UR:* -- A:74/5

Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) {5}: CM:+, JC:+ -- TH:***

Kelly Moran: Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) {5}: PO:*; dc:9 -- TH:***

Thomas Morgan: Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Motorpsycho: Motorpsycho (Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab) {5}: ClR:*, Mj:*, Spk:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:83/4

The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) {5}: ClR:*, CM:+, RC:*, U:* -- A:80/4, TH:*

Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk) {5}: TN:* -- TH:A-

John O'Gallagher/Ben Monder/Andrew Cyrille/Billy Hart: Ancestral (Whirlwind) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive 4 (Hausu Mountain) {5}: PM:*+, PO:* -- A:80/2, TH:**

OsamaSon: Jump Out (Motion Music/Atlantic) {5}: Pf:*, RS:66; am:*, am_h:+, vu:+ -- A:81/2

The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) {5}: -- RX:***, TH:**

Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music) {5}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Parcels: Loved (Because) {5}: D:*, FO:*, LBF:*, RT:55; am:* -- A:80/4

Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) {5}: AAJ:*, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Poor Creature: All Smiles Tonight (River Lea) {5}: FO:*, G:*, IT:*, Mj:*, U:* -- A:84/5

Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (Matic) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (Dionysus) {5}: -- RX:***, TH:**

Gwenifer Raymond: Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark () {5}: Mj:*, Sp:*, U:*; bb6:+, so_k:9 -- A:80/3

Recognize Ali & Tragedy Khadafi: The Past the Present and the Future (Greenfield Music) {5}: HG:+ -- TH:A-

Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Chris Corsano: Dial Up (Aerophonic) {5}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Dave Rempis/Russ Johnson/Jakob Heinemann/Jeremy Cunningham: Embers and Ash (Aerophonic) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumiere (Zoning) {5}: AAJ:* -- TH:A-

Rizzle Kicks: Competition Is for Losers (BMG) {5}: AD:*, D:*, MO:*, NME:*, T:* -- A:77/6

Rose City Band: Sol Y Sombra (Thrill Jockey) {5}: Mj:*, Sg:+, TN:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Dino Saluzzi: El Viejo Caminante (ECM) {5}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+ -- TH:**

Sanguisugabogg: Hideous Aftermath (Century Media) {5}: Blb:*, Db:35, MH:*, TO:16 -- A:69/5

Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen (Domino) {5}: D:*, DIY:*, PM:*+, U:* -- A:73/13

Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken: Double Reality Beyond Space and Time (Grong) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Loren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra: So Many Memories (Turtle Bay) {5}: JC:+; jjbc:9 -- TH:***

Rin Seo: City Suite (Cellar Music) {5}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:***

Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (K/Perennial/03-21) {5}: A:85/3, TH:*

Kalie Shorr: My Type (Pound It Out Loud -EP) {5}: XCI:** -- TH:***

Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) {5}: DIY:*, ST:+ -- A:76/4, TH:***

Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) {5}: NME:* -- A:80/1, TH:A-

Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth (Boogooyamma/Frontiers) {5}: 45:31, G:*, K:*, MH:*, Mj:* -- A:77/6

Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant) {5}: JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+; jnc:+ -- TH:***

Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious Music) {5}: JC:+, TN:*; am:*, am_j:+ -- A:80/1, TH:*

Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone) {5}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MI:*, MSuk:* -- A:83/5

Sun & Rain: Waterfall (Out of Your Head) {5}: JC:+; jmbo:2 -- TH:**

The Swell Season: Forward (Plateau) {5}: HP:32*, IT:*, Mj:*; am:* -- A:75/7

Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) {5}: JC:+; jlbi:9 -- TH:***

Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love) {5}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Tobacco City: Horses (Scissor Tail Editions) {5}: Mj:*, P:42, Sp:*, Spk:*, U:* -- A:83/5

TOPS: Bury the Key (Ghostly) {5}: GB:12, GTV:*, StL:*; am:* -- A:76/5

Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) {5}: CM:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Mark Turner: Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) {5}: JC:+; jgy:6 -- TH:***

Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl) {5}: DW:**+ -- TH:**

Summer Walker: Finally Over It (LVRN/Interscope) {5}: LAT:20, NME:*; am:*, v_ja:6 -- A:72/5

Colter Wall: Memories and Empties (La Honda) {5}: scm:3* -- TH:**

Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (Pi) {5}: JC:+, TN:* -- TH:***

Whitechapel: Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade) {5}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, MSuk:* -- A:79/6

Wisp: If Not Winter (Music Soup/Interscope) {5}: Cl:*, D:91, K:*, NME:*; am:* -- A:73/8

Witch: Sogolo (Desert Daze Sound) {5}: G:*, Mj:*, MO:*, U:*; am:* -- A:79/6

WNC WhopBezzy/70th Street Carlos: Out the Blue (WNC) {5}: Pf:32*, PW:37 -- A:84/1, TH:**

Tommy Womack: Live a Little (Schoolkids) {5}: PO:22* -- TH:***

Wrens: Half of What You See (Out of Your Head) {5}: PO:* -- TH:A-

Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:***

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor (Jazz Is Dead) {5}: Mj:*, PM:*, PO:*, Sp:* -- A:77/5, TH:*

The Young Mothers: Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) {5}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Yukimi & Little Dragon: For You (Ninja Tune) {5}: Em:*, GTV:*, KC:20, O:* -- A:78/4

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) {4}: JC:+; jsa:6 -- TH:**

The Aces: Gold Star Baby (self-released) {4}: BPM:*, D:*, Em:*; cos:+ -- A:82/3

Nils Agnas': Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) {4}: -- TH:A-

Sophie Agnel: Learning (Otoroku) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch) {4}: JC:+; jsb:2 -- TH:*

Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (ARC) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (Saponegro) {4}: DB:* -- TH:***

Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Eric Alexander: Like Sugar (Cellar Live) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Olly Alexander: Polari (Polydor) {4}: D:*, DIY:*, MO:*, T:* -- A:70/7

Alfa Mist: Roulette (Sekito) {4}: RC:*; am:*, am_h:+, am_j:+ -- A:80/1

Alice Phoebe Lou: Oblivion (Nettwerk) {4}: FO:*, RT:58, SC:*, StL:* -- A:79/4

Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs (Lumo) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Marshall Allen: The Omniverse Oriki (High Two) {4}: -- TH:A-

Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) {4}: -- TH:A-

Zoh Amba: Sun (Smalltown Supersound) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Sam Amidon: Salt River (River Lea) {4}: Mj:*, Sk:*, U:*; am:* -- A:75/8

David Amram: Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy) {4}: -- TH:A-

Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released) {4}: -- TH:A-

Anxious: Bambi (Run for Cover) {4}: BV:+, D:*, Sg:+, Spk:* -- A:76/3

Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Joe Armon-Jones: All the Quiet (Part I) (Aquarii) {4}: Mj:*; am:+*, am_j:+ -- A:85/2

Ata Kak: Batakari (Awesome Tapes From Africa) {4}: DW:* -- TH:***

Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) {4}: BV_i:+, LW:*, Mj:*, Tr:+ -- A:71/6

Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Kenny Barron: Songbook (Artwork) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Spin (Ronin Rhythm -24) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) {4}: JC:+; jse:3 -- TH:*

Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) {4}: PM:+, SC:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:82/5, TH:B

Rafiq Bhatia: Environments (Anti-) {4}: am:+*, am_e:+, , jnc:12 -- A:90/1

Big L: Harlem's Finest: Return of the King (Mass Appeal) {4}: HG:+ -- TH:***

Michael Bisio: NuMBq (Mahakala Music) {4}: AAJ:* -- TH:***

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers (Easy Eye/Warner) {4}: ClR:*, Mj:*, RC:*, Sk:* -- A:68/16

Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Born of Osiris: Through Shadows (Sumerian) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, MSuk:* -- A:80/4

Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis) {4}: JC:+; bc_j:+ -- TH:**

BROM: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) {4}: JC:+, -- TH:***

Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano) {4}: -- TH:A-

Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (Sunnyside) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

The Castellows: Homecoming (Warner Music Nashville -EP) {4}: scm:+* -- TH:**

Che: Rest in Bass (10K) {4}: Pf:39* -- A:77/2, TH:**

Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Clark: Steep Stims (Throttle) {4}: Mj:*, U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/2

Cold Specks: Light for the Midnight (Mute) {4}: PM:*+; am:+* -- A:85/2

Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (Silver Sphinx) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Comet Gain: Letters to Ordinary Outsiders (Tapete) {4}: LW:*, U:*; am:+* -- A:87/3

The Cords: The Cords (Slumberland) {4}: Cl:*, U:*; am:+* -- A:83/3

Cosey Fanni Tutti: 2t2 (Conspiracy International) {4}: GTV:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:76/5

Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) {4}: -- TH:A-

Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:76/6

Crayola Lectern: Disasternoon (Onomatopoeia) {4}: GTV:*, LW:*, Mj:*, MO:* -- A:83/4

Daffo: Where the Earth Bends (Concord) {4}: DIY:*, Em:49, FO:*, Sp:* -- A:82/4

Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz) {4}: -- TH:A-

Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) {4}: scm:+* -- TH:**

Lao Dan/Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness) {4}: -- TH:A-

James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram) {4}: bc_j:+ -- TH:***

Dayseeker: Creature in the Black Night (Spinefarm) {4}: Blb:*, K:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:83/2

Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern (Season of Mist) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:85/5

Randal Despommier: South (Sunnyside) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jpb:3 --

Divide and Dissolve: Insatiable (Bella Union) {4}: CS:+, DiS:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:70/3

DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

DJ Love/DJ Danz/DJ Ericnem: Budots World: 3-Hit Combo! (Eastern Margins) {4}: EWi:+ -- TH:***

DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Doja Cat: Vie (Kemosabe/RCA) {4}: Cl:*, G:*; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:70/7, TH:**

Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place Music) {4}: PO:* -- RX:**, TH:*

Pierre Dørge/Kirk Knuffke: Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) {4}: HG:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Dave Douglas: Alloy (Greenleaf Music) {4}: JC:+; jfk:8 -- A:70/1, TH:**

Rianne Downey: The Consequence of Love (Run On) {4}: Mj:*, RSUK:++, Sk:* -- A:70/4

Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

C Duncan: It's Only a Love Song (Bella Union) {4}: Mj:*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:79/6

Ryan Ebaugh/Matt Crane/Cameron Presley: Detergent (Scatter Archive) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Chris Eckman: The Land We Knew the Best (Glitterhouse) {4}: Mj:*, Spk:*, U:26* -- A:79/4

Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) {4}: AAJ:*, TN:* -- TH:**

Amir ElSaffar: New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Nadah El Shazly: Laini Tani (One Little Independent) {4}: Cl:*, DJM:+, U:*, W:46 -- A:70/4

Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) {4}: AMG:*, Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:78/6

Peter Evans/Being & Becoming: Ars Ludicra (More Is More) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Everything Is Recorded: Temporary (XL) {4}: Cl:*, FO:*; am:+* -- A:76/5

Evoken: Mendacium (Profound Lore) {4}: Db:6, Spk:* -- A:71/2

Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Last Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey) {4}: -- TH:A-

Fallujah: Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:*, MSuk:* -- A:83/5

Feeo: Goodness (AD 93) {4}: DJM:+, Pf:*, W:15 -- A:83/1, TH:B

Fines Double: Espejismo (self-released) {4}: HG:+ -- TH:***

Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (self-released) {4}: -- TH:A-

Mike Freeman Zona Vibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick (Libra) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Michika Fukumori: Eternity (Summit) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) {4}: -- TH:A-

GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) {4}: DW:**+ -- TH:*

Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (Morphius) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Giveon: Beloved (Epic) {4}: RS:57*; am:*, v_sh:9 -- A:80/2

Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (Patois) {4}: JC:+PO:* -- TH:**

GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (XXIM) {4}: Mj:*, PM:* -- A:75/4, TH:**

David Gray: Dear Life (Laugh a Minute) {4}: Cl:*, IT:*, Mj:*, T:* -- A:71/7

The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) {4}: Blb:*, BV:+, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:78/4

David Greenberger & the Hi-Ho Barbers: Ginger Ale (Pel Pel) {4}: -- TH:A-

Greet Death: Die in Love (Deathwish) {4}: BPM:39, BV:+, Ex:45, PM:* -- A:78/2

David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released) {4}: -- TH:A-

Gregory Groover Jr.: Old Knew (Criss Cross) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) {4}: TN:* -- TH:***

Joshua Hedley: All Hat (New West) {4}: scm:+* -- TH:**

Helloween: Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix) {4}: BlB:*, ClR:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:81/5

Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) {4}: AAJ:*, DB:* -- TH:**

Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Andmers Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) {4}: JC:+; am:*, am_j:+ -- TH:*

Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (Savant) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (Soft Launch) {4}: -- TH:A-

The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) {4}: JC:+; jjbc:10 -- TH:**

Home Is Where: Hunting Season (Wax Bodega) {4}: BV:+, NT:*, Ri:11 -- A:74/5

Honningbarna: Soft Spot (Nye Blanke) {4}: DW:*, Ne:26*, Tr:+ -- A:80/1

William Hooker: Jubilation (ORG Music) {4}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

I'm With Her: Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder) {4}: PM:*+, SP:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Instant Arts Quartet: Lingua Franca (High Two) {4}: -- TH:A-

Hannah Jadagu: Describe (Sub Pop) {4}: D:80*, DIY:* -- A:71/9, TH:*

Sophie Jamieson: I Still Want to Share (Bella Union) {4}: DIY:*, GTV:*, Mj:*, RC:* -- A:76/8

Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive) {4}: am:*, am_j:+ -- TH:**

Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) {4}: AD:*, Mj:*, O:*, U:* -- A:78/6

Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Desert (Edgetone) {4}: -- TH:A-

Coco Jones: Why Not More? (Def Jam) {4}: BS:19, NME:*, RS:* -- A:80/2

Just Mustard: We Were Just Here (Partisan) {4}: D:*, DIY:*, NME:*, Sk:* -- A:78/5

Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) {4}: JC:+, TN:* -- TH:**

Faten Kanaan: Diary of a Candle (Fire) {4}: Mj:*; am:+*, am_e:+ -- A:85/2

Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (Circum/Libra) {4}: -- TH:A-

Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) {4}: PO:*; vu:+ -- TH:**

Gary Kemp: This Destination (EastWest/Warner Music UK) {4}: AD:*, Mj:*, Sp:*, T:* -- A:80/5

Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

King Princess: Girl Violence (Section1) {4}: D:36*, DIY:*, LBF:* -- A:76/8

Kokayi: Live at Big Ears: The Standard Knoxville, TN (Why!Not) {4}: jnc:+ -- TH:***

Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) {4}: -- Blb:*, K:*, MH:*, Sp:*

Lagon Nwar: Lagon Nwar (AirFono) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Lamp of Murmuur: The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (Wolves of Hades) {4}: Blb:*, Db:10 -- A:72/3

Landmvrks: The Darkest Place I've Ever Been (Arising Empire) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:* -- A:81/5

L.A. Witch: DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze) {4}: GTV:*, LBF:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:74/6

Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (Ultra Sound) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (Young Money/Republic) {4}: EWi:+, HV:+; xjdc:* -- TH:*

Little Feat: Strike Up the Band () {4}: GTV:*, Mj:*, RC:*, Sp:* -- A:76/7

Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

The Loft: Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same () {4}: AD:*, LW:*, Mj:*; am:* -- A:80/6

Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Loot: Loot (ICP) {4}: -- TH:A-

Rocio Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (04-11) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) {4}: G:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) {4}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:*, MH:* -- A:83/4

Lucius: Lucius (Fantasy/Concord/Wildewoman Music) {4}: Mj:*, NT:*, Sp:*; am:* -- A:78/7kl

Seth MacFarlane: Lush Life (Verve) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Matt Maltese: Hers (Tonight Matthew) {4}: Cl:*, DIY:*, LBF:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) {4}: JC:+, JW:8 --

Mandrake Handshake: Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top) {4}: Cl:*, LBF:*, RC:*, XSN:* -- A:75/6

Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) {4}: DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, Sp:* -- A:76/5

Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) {4}: Cl:*, DJM:+, LBF:*, NME:* -- A:74/7

Amber Mark: Pretty Idea (Jasmine Music/PMR/Interscope) {4}: Cl:*, NME:*, RS:87; xjdc:* -- A:80/2

Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) {4}: CM:+, JM:+ -- TH:**

Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) {4}: JC:+; jgy:+ -- TH:**

Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+; am:*, am_j:+ -- TH:B

Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (Soggy Anvil) {4}: scm:++* -- TH:*

Makaya McCraven: The People's Mixtape (International Anthem -EP) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) {4}: JC:+, JW:11 -- TH:*

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (Summit) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Men I Trust: Equus Asinus (none) {4}: Ex:+*, GB:21, NT:* -- A:90/2

Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (Puro Unity -EP) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball II (10k) {4}: HG:+, Pf:*, RS:*, Sl:* -- A:80/3

Colin Miller: Losin' (Mtn Laurel) {4}: P:*+, PM:*+ -- A:88/2

Nils Petter Molvær: Khmer Live in Bergen (Edition) {4}: -- TH:A-

Jason Moran/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Ole Morten Vagan: Go to Your North (Yes) {4}: CM:+, JC:+, PO:*; jfk:10 --

Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) {4}: -- XG:**, TH:**

Fred Moten & Brandon López: Revision (TAO Forms) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Marissa Nadler: New Radiations (Sacred Bones) {4}: NT:*, PM:*, SC:*; am:* -- A:74/8

Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (Legendary) {4}: HG:+ -- TH:***

Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (self-relesed) {4}: XCI:* -- TH:***

Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Ohyung: You Are Always on My Mind (NNA Tapes) {4}: P:27*, PM:*+ -- A:81/3

The Ophelias: Spring Grove (Get Better) {4}: PM:*+, Sk:*, Spk:* -- A:90/3

Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) {4}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Pachyman: Another Place () {4}: KC:24, PM:*+, Tr:+ -- A:90/1

PAL: Under Your Radar (self-released -EP) {4}: CM:+ -- TH:***

Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) {4}: JC:+; jnc:9 -- TH:**

Pelican: Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover) {4}: K:*, MH:*, PM:+, Spk:* -- A:83/3

Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Gigi Perez: At the Beach, in Every Life (Outtahere/Island) {4}: LAT:9; cos:+ -- A:70/1

Louis Philippe & the Night Mail: The Road to the Sea (Tapete) {4}: Mj:*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:85/4

Pictoria Vark: Nothing Sticks (03-21) {4}: RS:*+, RSh:15 -- A:75/2

Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (Sub Pop) {4}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:***

Prima Queen: The Prize (Submarine Cat) {4}: D:*, FO:*, LBF:*, MO:* -- A:77/6

Private Property: Private Property (Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) {4}: CM:+ -- TH:***

Purity Ring: Puritn Ring (The Fellowship) {4}: Cl:*, DIY:*, Em:43; am:* -- A:79/5

Quade: The Foel Tower (AD 93) {4}: G:*, GTV:*, Spk:*, U:* -- A:80/4

Adrian Quesada: Boleros Psicodélicos II (ATO) {4}: KC:27, Mj:*; am:+* -- A:85/2

Emma Rawicz: Inkyra (ACT Music) {4}: JC:+, JW:8 -- TH:B

Rialto: Neon & Ghost Signs (Fierce Panda) {4}: Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:80/4

Herb Robertson/Christopher Dell/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: Blue Transient (Nemu) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Rick Roe: Wake Up Call: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) {4}: -- TH:A-

Sacred Paws: Jump Into Life (Merge) {4}: 45:43, Cl:*Sk:*; am:* -- A:80/3

Sverre Sæbo Quintet: If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) {4}: CM:+, PO:* -- TH:**

Sailorr: From Florida's Finest (BuVision) {4}: BB:+, Cl:*, NME:*; ny_c:12 -- A:80/2

Akira Sakata/Giotis Damianidis/Giovanni Di Domenico/Aleksandr Škorić/Paal Nilssen-Love/Petros Damianidis/Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Hyperentasis: Live in Thessaloniki (Defkaz) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Samo Salamon/Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo) {4}: -- TH:A-

Abel Selaocoe: Hymns of Bantu (Warner Classics) {4}: AD:*, G:*, Mj:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Sessa: Perquena Vertigem de Amor (Mexican Summer) {4}: Mj:*, PM:*, U:79* -- A:80/4

Shifa: Ecliptic (Discus Music) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Shura: I Got Too Sad for My Friends (PIAS) {4}: Cl:*, D:*, Ev:*, Sk:* -- A:73/7

Sirom: In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper (Tak:til) {4}: AD:*, BPM:*, G:*, U:* -- A:86/4

Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions (International Anthem) {4}: am:*, am_r -- A:75/2, TH:**

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Sleep Theory: Afterglow (Epitaph) {4}: Blb:*, K:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:85/2

Slick Rick: Victory (Mass Appeal) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Nell Smith: Anxious (Bella Union) {4}: Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Snuggle: Goodbyehouse (Escho) {4}: D:90*, GB:13 -- A:77/2

Sombr: I Barely Know Her (SMB/Warner) {4}: NME:*, RS:100*; cos:+ -- A:80/2

Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Spill Tab: Angie (Because Music) {4}: D:*, DIY:*, Em:15 -- A:72/4

Spinifex: Maxximus (Trytone) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Split System: Live in Stockholm 2023 (Legless) {4}: -- TH:A-

Split System: No Cops in Heaven/Pull the Trigger (Legless -EP) {4}: DW:** -- TH:**

Ringo Starr: Look Up (Roccabella/Lost Highway) {4}: Cl:*, RC:*, Sp:*; am:* -- A:71/14

Surgeon: Shell~Wave (Tresor) {4}: PW:34, Spk:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:88/2

Emma Swift: The Resurrection Game (Tiny Ghost) {4}: GTV:*, Mj:*, Sp:*, U:* -- A:83/4

Sword II: Electric Hour (Section1) {4}: GB:16, NME:*; am:* -- A:78/3

Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (Libra) {4}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Ziv Taubenfeld/Helena Espvall/João Sousa: You, Full of Sources and Night (NoBusiness) {4}: -- TH:A-

Chad Taylor Quintet: Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) {4}: JC:+; jnc:9+ -- TH:**

Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss (Norma Evangelium Draboli) {4}: AMG:*, Db:14, Spk:* -- A:81/2

Testament: Para Bellum (Napalm/Nuclear Blast) {4}: Blb:*, Db:28, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:76/5

The Third Mind: Right Now! (Yep Roc) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (Casa De Copas) {4}: -- RX:*, TH:***

Steve Tibbetts: Close (ECM) {4}: JC:+; am:+*, am_j:+ -- A:90/1

Yann Tiersen: Rathlin From a Distance (Mute) {4}: Mj:*, RC:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/5

Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) {4}: DB:*, JC:+ -- TH:**

Twenty One Pilots: Breach (Fueled by Ramen) {4}: AD:*, Cl:*, L:*; am_k:+ -- A:75/5

Kalia Vandever: Another View (Northern View) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (Copenhagen Crates) {4}: HG:+ -- TH:***

Luis Vicente/John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: No Kings (JACC) {4}: CM:+ -- TH:***

Vlure: Escalate (Music for Nations) {4}: D:58*, DIY:*, NME:* -- A:93/3

Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (New West) {4}: LBF:*, Mj:*, RC:* -- A:75/6, TH:*

Reggie Watkins: Rivers (BYNK) {4}: AAJ:* -- TH:***

Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (April '24-September '24) (self-relesed) {4}: -- TH:A-

Welly: Big in the Suburbs (Vertex Music) {4}: D:27*, DIY:*, GTV:* -- A:90/3

Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) {4}: AAJ:* -- TH:***

Whitney: Small Talk (AWAL) {4}: LBF:*, PM:*, U:*; am:* -- A:72/8

Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph Music) {4}: PO:* -- TH:***

Eli Winter: A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed) {4}: BPM:*, PM:*, SC:*, Tr:+ -- A:80/3

Patrick Wolf: Crying the Neck (Apport) {4}: Mj:*, MO:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:77/6

Carolyn Wonderland: Truth Is (Alligator) {4}: am:*, am_b:+ -- A:80/1, TH:**

Stephane Wrembel: Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Wren: Black Rain Falls (Church Road) {4}: DiS:*, K:*, MH:*, Tr:+ -- A:80/3

@xcrswx: Moodboard (Feedback Moves) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Yellowcard: Better Days (Better Noise Music) {4}: ClR:*, DiS:*, Spk:*; am:* -- A:85/5

James Yorkston: Songs for Nina and Johanna (Domino) {4}: Al:44, PM:*, RC:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Carlos "Zingaro"/Flo Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Na Parede (4DaRecord) {4}: -- TH:A-

Carlos Zingaro/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Bruno Parrinha/João Madeira: Enleio (4DaRecord) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Carlos Zingaro/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (4DaRecord) {4}: -- TH:A-

Adult Mom: Natural Causes (Epitaph) {3}: XCI:* -- TH:**

Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) {3}: -- TH:***

Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) {3}: PO:*; xjdc:* -- TH:*

Agnas Bros.: Sista Försöket (Moserobie) {3}: -- TH:***

Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Alien Boy: You Wanna Fade? () {3}: DW:*, Sg:+, Up_sh:+ -- A:75/1

JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

The Altons: Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone) {3}: Mj:*, RT:92, U:* -- A:75/4

Gaby Amarantos: Rock Doido (Deck) {3}: Ne:22*, PM:* -- A:85/2

Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (AD93) {3}: Mj:* -- A:75/2, TH:**

Fly Anakin: The (Forever) Dream (Lex) {3}: HG:+, XCI:* -- TH:*

Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) {3}: -- RX:***

Bruno Angelini/Sakina Abdou/Angelika Niescier: Lotus Flowers (Abalone) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Michael Arbenz/Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (self-released) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Arcadia Dance Orchestra: St. Louis Jazz (Rivermont) {3}: JC:+; jjbc:3 --

Arm's Length: There's a Whole World Out There (Pure Noise) {3}: D:*, DiS:*, SC:* -- A:82/4

Art d'Ecco: Serene Demon (Paper Bag) {3}: Ex:+, Sp:*; am:* -- A:79/3

The Autumn Defense: Here and Nowhere (Yep Roc) {3}: Mj:*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/3

Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) {3}: Blb:*, MH:*, MI:* -- A:78/6

Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:* -- A:71/6

Believe: Spirits of the Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch) {3}: -- TH:***

Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Natelie Bergman: My Home Is Not in This World (Third Man) {3}: NT:*, U:*; am:* -- A:83/4

Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Beyond Extinction: Where They Gather () {3}: DiS:*, K:*, MH:* -- A:80/3

Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (self-released) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) {3}: -- TH:***

Lena Bloch/Kyoko Kitamura: Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (Future Archive) {3}: ST:+ -- TH:**

Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) {3}: Blb:*, MH:*, K:* -- A:75/6

Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (Outline) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus: Is That Jazz? Celebrating Gil Scott Heron Live () {3}: 2J

Benson Boone: American Heart (Night Street/Warner) {3}: AD:*, PM:*, XCI:* -- A:53/9

Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (Black Truffle) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Broncho: Natural Pleasure (Broncho Worldwide) {3}: GTV:*, Sp:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marcus Gilmore: Murasaki (Loveland Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Brown Horse: All the Right Weaknesses (Loose) {3}: Mj:*, PM:*, U:* -- A:83/3

The Bug Club: Very Human Features (Sub Pop) {3}: BV_i:+, RT:75; am:* -- A:73/3

Joshua Burnside: Teeth of Time (Nettwerk) {3}: Mj:*, SC:*; bb6:+ -- A:81/2

Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel) {3}: Pf:* -- A:81/1, TH:**

Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole (Def Jam) {3}: D:*, DIY:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Caelan Cardello: Chapter One (Jazz Bird) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (The End) {3}: JC:+; jjbc:7 -- TH:*

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers: Closer to the Bone (Alligator) {3}: TN:*; am:*am_b:+ -- A:80/1

Shanti Celeste: Romance (Peach Discs/Method 808) {3}: G:*, GQ:++ -- A:75/2

Cole Chaney: In the Shadow of the Mountain () {3}: scm:++* --

Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (SteepleChase) {3}: -- TH:***

Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Juan Chiavassa: Fourth Generation (Whirlwind) {3}: -- TH:***

Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) {3}: -- TH:***

Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone -EP) {3}: D:*, DIY:*, NME:* -- A:78/4

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem) {3}: -- TH:***

Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors: Orangina (UnderPool) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (Trygger Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Brooke Combe: Dancing at the Edge of the World (Modern Sky) {3}: GTV:*, Mj:*, Sk:* -- A:75/4

Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (Tapete) {3}: xjdc:* -- RX:*, TH:*

Cortex & Hedvig Mollestad: Did We Really? (Sauajazz) {3}: CM:+ -- TH:**

Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) {3}: Blb:*, MH:*, SpL:* -- A:75/4

D4vd: Withered (Darkroom/Interscope) {3}: D:*, RS:+; am:* -- A:73/4

Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love (Resonance) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Davido: 5ive (Davido/Sony) {3}: BB:+, HV:+, RS:73 -- A:68/3

Dead Pioneers: Po$t American (Hassle) {3}: ClR:*, GTV:*, LW:* -- A:90/3

Jerry David DeCicca: Cardiac Country (Sophomore Lounge) {3}: S:+, SC:*, Up_sh:+ -- A:83/1

Decrepisy: Deific Mourning (Carbonized) {3}: Db:16, DiS:* -- A:80/1

Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) {3}: scm:+ -- TH:**

Delivery: Force Majeure (Heavenly) {3}: LW:*, Mj:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Deradoorian: Ready for Heaven (Fire) {3}: FO:*, U:*; am:* -- A:77/5

John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) {3}: AAJ:*, JC:+, TN:* -- TH:B

Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country: Horizons () {3}: scm:++* --

Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (Fresh Sound New Talent) {3}: -- TH:***

Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra: Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) {3}: -- TH:***

Duo Ruut: Ilmateade (self-released) {3}: G:*; am:+* -- A:80/2

Edition Redux: Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) {3}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jpa:6 --

Effie: Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It's Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie (Sound Republica -EP) {3}: ny_c:1 -- A:76/1, TH:B

El Infierno Musical: II (Klanggalerie) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Myron Elkins: Nostalgia for Sale () {3}: scm:++* --

John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) {3}: -- TH:***

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) {3}: JC:+; jsa:3 -- TH:B

Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) {3}: PM:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Peter Evans/Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch) {3}: -- TH:***

Ex_Libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex_libris -EP) {3}: Pf:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Ex_Libris: Ex_Libris 002 (Ex_libris -EP) {3}: Pf:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

F5ve: Sequence 01 (LDH Group) {3}: Cl:*, NME:+, Spk:* -- A:83/2

Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) {3}: -- TH:***

Samantha Fish: Paper Doll (Rounder) {3}: Mj:*; am:*, am_b:+ -- AM:79/4

Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) {3}: CM:+ -- TH:**

Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio () {3}: JC:+; am:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

The Flower Kings: Love (InsideOut) {3}: ClR:*, Prg:*, Sp:* -- A:83/3

Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk/Stop Talking) {3}: D:*, DIY:*, PM:* -- A:77/5

Food House/Gupi/Fraxiom: Two House (self-released) {3}: DW:**+ -- TH:B

Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) {3}: -- TH:***

Frankie and the Witch Fingers: Trash Classic (Greenway/The Reverberation Appreciation Society) {3}: LW:*; am:*, so_k:17 -- A:80/3

Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (Turtle Bay) {3}: -- TH:***

Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) {3}: -- TH:***

Frode Gjerstad/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen: Seven Tracks (Relative Pitch) {3}: -- TH:***

Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Vinny Golia/Ken Filiano/Michael TA Thompson: Catastasis (Nine Winds) {3}: JC:+; jpa:3 -- TH:**

Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Goose: Everything Must Go (No Coincidence) {3}: PM:*+, U:* -- A:75/4

Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (J.M.I.) {3}: -- TH:***

Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:78/4

Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Patty Griffin: Crown of Roses (PGM/Thirty Tigers) {3}: Mj;*, U:*; am:* -- A:80/4

Michael Grigoni & Pan-American: New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky) {3}: Mj:*, Sp:*; am:* -- A:80/3

Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Guedra Guedra: Mutant (Smugglers Way/Domino) {3}: MO:*, PM:*, U:* -- A:87/3

Guitarricadelafuente: Spanish Leather (Sony España) {3}: RS:46, RSh:*; cos:+ --

HAAi: Humanise (Mute) {3}: Cl:*, DJM:+, RT:38, -- A:75/2

Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (Resonant Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (Tare) {3}: CM:+ -- TH:**

Haggus: Destination Extinction (Tankcrimes) {3}: Blb:*, Db:18 -- A:80/1

Noah Haidu: Standards III (Sunnyside) {3}: -- TH:***

The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) {3}: Blb:*, MH:*, MI:* -- A:77/6

Scott Hamilton: Looking Back (Stunt) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) {3}: DiS:*, MI:*, MSuk:* -- A:78/5

Lafayette Harris Jr.: All in Good Time (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Hawkwind: There Is No Space for Us (Cherry Red) {3}: Prg:*, RC:*; am:* -- A:75/4

Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain (Basin Rock) {3}: AD:*, Mj:*, U:* -- A:75/7

Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise (Naive) {3}: AAJ:*, JC:+; jsa_7 --

Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole) {3}: -- TH:***

HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) {3}: AMG:*, K:*, Prg:* -- A:75/5

Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) {3}: -- TH:***

History Dog: Root Systems (Otherly Love) {3}: -- TH:***

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Hooded Menace: Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist) {3}: Blb:*, Db:27, Spk:* -- A:744

Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Hot Mulligan: The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still (Wax Bodega) {3}: DiS:*, K:*, Sk:* -- A:83/3

House of All: House of All Souls (Tiny Global) {3}: Mj:*, RC:*, U:* -- A:80/3

Nathan Hubbard: Territory Games (Castor & Pollux Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) {3}: -- TH:***

Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) {3}: Blb:*, MH:*, Prg:* -- A:77/3

ICP Orchestra: Happy Birthday → Naar Zee Z.O.Z. (ICP) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Johnny Iguana: At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ihlo: Legacy (Kscope) {3}: Blb:8, DiS:*, Prg:* -- A:79/4

Illit: Bomb (HYBE/Belift Lab -EP) {3}: NME:*; am:*, am_h:+ -- A:80/1

Introspekt: Moving the Cengter (Tempa) {3}: DJM:+; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/1

Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (Intakt) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

I See Stars: The Wheel (Sumerian) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:* -- A:80/3

Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke: Pareidolia (Drag City) {3}: U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/2

Carrie Jackson: Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Gabriel Jacoby: Gutta Child () {3}: BS:8 --

Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) {3}: -- TH:***

Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) {3}: ClR:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:78/4

Simon Jermyn/Otis Sandsjö/Petter Eldh/Lukas Akintaya: Obsany (Elastic) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Tobias Jesso Jr.: Shine (R&R) {3}: LAT:7 -- A:59/4

Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) {3}: scm:+* -- TH:*

Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva) {3}: -- TH:***

Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (BarsOverBs) {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

Kean Kavanagh: The County Star (Heaven-Sent) {3}: HP:19* -- A:75/2

Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) {3}: -- TH:***

David Keenan: Modern Mythologies (Good Form) {3}: HP:43*, Mj:* -- A:80/3

Kettama: Archangel (Steel City Dance Discs) {3}: Cl:*, Em:40, HP:50 -- A:70/2

The Marcus King Band: Darling Blue () {3}: scm:++* --

Kingfishr: Halcyon (Atlantic) {3}: Cl:*, HP:25* -- A:80/2

Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

Vladimir Kostadinovic: Iris (Criss Cross Jazz) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune -EP) {3}: Em:* -- A:82/2, TH:**

Krept & Konan: Young Kingz II (Play Dirty) {3}: O:*, Ov:*, Sk:* -- A:80/3

Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (Red Hot Org) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Kronos Quartet: Mary Kouyoumdjian: Witness () {3}: PM:*+; am:* -- A:90/2

Mádé Kuti: Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (LegacyPlus) {3}: Mj:*, PM:*, U:* -- A:75/4

The Lathums: Matter Does Not Define (Modern Sky) {3}: Cl:*, PM:*+ -- A:68/4

Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker: Long Bright Summer (RogueArt) {3}: JC:+; jsb:3 --

José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord) {3}: -- TH:***

Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut) {3}: -- TH:***

Lilo: Blood Ties (Dalliance) {3}: Cl:*, GTV:*, U:* -- A:80/3

Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (OA2) {3}: -- TH:***

Liquid Mike: Hell Is an Airport () {3}: DW:*, LBF:*; xjdc:* -- A:74/3

Loaded Honey: Love Made Trees (AWAL) {3}: LBF:*, Mj:38* -- A:77/3

David Longstreth/Stargaze/Dirty Projectors: Song of the Earth (Transgressive) {3}: FO:*, LBF:*, Mj:* -- A:70/9

Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (Blue Art) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete: Corporal (Sonic Cathedral) {3}: Mj:*, U:*; am:* -- A:83/3

Loscil: Lake Fire (Kranky) {3}: U:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:74/4

Jesse Lovelock: & the Velvet Voices () {3}: scm:++* --

Lucy Gooch: Desert Window (Fire) {3}: GTV:45, U:60* -- A:72/5

K. Curtis Lyle/Alex Cunningham: Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca) {3}: -- TH:***

Joe Magnarelli: Concord (SteepleChase) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (JMood) {3}: -- TH:***

Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Addicted to the Violence (Scarred for Life) {3}: K:*, MH:*, Sp:* -- A:80/3

The Man From Delmonte: Better Things (self-released) {3}: GTV:23*, LW:* -- A:95/2

Clara Mann: Rift (The State51 Conspiracy) {3}: PM:*+, SC:* -- A:83/3

Matilda Mann: Roxwell (Sevenfoursevensix) {3}: D:97*, DIY:* -- A:75/4

Fabia Mantwill Orchesrtra: In.Sight (GroupUP Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington (Origin) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Maruja: Tír Na Nóg (Music for Nations -EP) {3}: NT:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

MC BF & DJ Yuzak: Bebeto E Romário (Mandelão -EP) {3}: EWi:+ -- TH:**

Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (Calligram) {3}: -- TH:***

Sarah McLachlan: Better Broken (Concord) {3}: Al:40, UR:*; am:* -- A:73/3

Joe McPhee: I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian) {3}: Cl:*, Em:*; am:* -- A:83/3

John Michel/Anthony James: Egotrip (Loudmouth) {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

MIEN: MIIEN (Fuzz Club) {3}: FO:*, Mj:*, MO:* -- A:80/3

Miffle: Goodbye, World (self-released) {3}: Ne:16* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Neal Miner: Invisibility (Cellar Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (RogueArt) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (The Flenser) {3}: P:35, Pf:*, Tr:+ -- A:80/2

The Moles: Composition Book (Splendid Research) {3}: NT:*, U:*; am:* -- A:87/4

Tony Molina: On This Day (Slumberland) {3}: RC:*; am:+* -- A:85/2

Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (Mountainrose Sparrow) {3}: EWi:+, PM:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Raúl Monsalve Y Los Forajidos: SOL (Olindo) {3}: JC:+, PM:+; bc_j:+ --

Chloe Moriondo: Oyster (Fueled by Ramen) {3}: Cl:*, D:*, DIY:* -- A:80/3

Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch) {3}: -- TH:***

Sam Moss: Swimming (self-released) {3}: PM:*, S:+, Sp:* -- A:76/3

Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) {3}: PM:*+; am:* -- A:80/2

Mumford & Sons: Rushmere (Island) {3}: Cl:*, Sp:*, T:* -- A:67/7

Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Whiskey Myers: Whomp Whack Thunder (Wiggy Thump) {3}: ClR:*; scm:+* -- A:80/1

Max Nagl Quintett: Phasolny (Rude Noises) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Rico Nasty: Lethal (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) {3}: Cl:*, Em:42, RS:+ -- A:69/8

Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop) {3}: Mj:*, RT:33; am:* -- A:75/4

Camila Nebbia/Gonçalo Almeida/Sylvain Darrifourcq: Hypomaniac (Defkaz) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Camila Nebbia/James Banner/Max Andrzejewski: Presencia (Ears & Eyes) {3}: JC:+; jpa:5 --

Camila Nebbia/Michael Formanek/Vinnie Sperrazza: Live at Blow Out (Soundholes) {3}: -- TH:***

Tami Neilson: Neon Cowgirl () {3}: scm:++* --

Lukas Nelson: American Romance () {3}: scm:++* --

Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs () {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) {3}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:*

Andy Nevala: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) {3}: -- TH:***

Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse -EP) {3}: xjdc:* -- TH:**

The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) {3}: Blb:*, ClR:*, DiS:* -- A:77/5

Nine Inch Nails: Tron: Ares [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Interscope/Null Corporation/Walt Disney) {3}: CS:*; am:*, am_e:+ -- A:76/5

Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) {3}: PW:25, RS:+ -- A:75/1, TH:*

Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) {3}: Blb:*, Db:26, DiS:* -- A:80/3

NMIXX: Blue Valentine (JYP Entertainment) {3}: SpL:* -- TH:**

Case Oats: Last Missouri Exit (Merge) {3}: P:*, RT:97, U:* -- A:73/4

Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Ora the Molecule: Dance Therapy (Mute) {3}: PM:*+; am:* -- A:72/3

Orbit Culture: Death Above Life (Century Media) {3}: Blb:*, K:*, MH:* -- A:75/4

Royel Otis: Hickey (Ourness) {3}: D:29*, NME:* -- A:72/7

Alice Sara Ott: John Field: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon) {3}: G:*; am:+* -- A:90/2

Out Of/Into [Joel Ross/Gerald Clayton/Kendrick Scott/Matt Brewer/Immanuel Wilkins]: Motion II (Blue Note) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Jake Owen: Dreams to Dream (Good Company) {3}: scm:+ -- TH:**

Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill) {3}: -- TH:***

PainKiller: The Great God Pan (Tzadik) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Gun (Paris Texas -EP) {3}: DIY:*, Ne:*, ST:+ -- A:80/2

Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Sword (Paris Texas -EP) {3}: DIY:*, Ne:*, ST:+ -- A:80/2

Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (Calligram) {3}: -- TH:***

Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) {3}: ClR:*, MH:*, MI:* -- A:74/5

Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Rich Perry: Dream (SteepleChase) {3}: -- TH:***

Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (Lizard Breath) {3}: -- TH:***

Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Lido Pimienta: La Belleza (Anti-) {3}: G:*, Pf:*; vu:+ -- A:90/2

Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) {3}: -- TH:***

Mehmet Polat Quartet: Roots in Motion (Aftab) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Luz Prado/Wade Matthews/Abdul Moimême: Trust From Intimacy (ScatterArchive) {3}: -- JC:+; jsb:4

Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal (7K!) {3}: DJM:+, Mj:*, Pf:* -- A:73/4

Noah Preminger: Dark Days (Criss Cross Jazz) {3}: -- TH:***

The Prize: In the Red (Anti Fade) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Prolapse: I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face (Tapete) {3}: ClR:*, GTV:*; vce:7 -- A:80/3

Psychonaut: World Maker (Pelagic) {3}: AMG:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:83/3

Pupil Slicer: Fleshwork (Prosthetic) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:* -- A:82/3

Purelink: Faith (Peak Oil) {3}: DW:*+; xjdc:* --

Jo Quail: Notan (Adderstone) {3}: DiS:*, MH:*, Prg:* -- A:80/3

Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs (Metador) {3}: NME:*, NT:*, Sp:* -- A:87/3

Quickly, Quickly: I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International) {3}: PM:*, Sg:+; am:* -- A:78/3

Lucy Railton: Blue Veil (Ideologic Organ) {3}: U:*, W:32; am:* -- A:79/3

Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 () {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (F&F) {3}: -- TH:***

Red River Dialect: Basic Country Mustard (Hinterground) {3}: -- TH:***

Cleo Reed: Cuntry (self-released) {3}: Pf:46, Sl:26 -- A:79/1, TH:*

Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (Smoke Sessions) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Anaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Retromorphosis: Psalmus Mortis (Season of Mist) {3}: AMG:*, Blb:*, MH:* -- A:83/3

Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (New West) {3}: Mj:*; bb6:+ -- A:73/3, TH:*

Jason Rigby: Mayhem (Endectomorph Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Rivers of Nihil: Rivers of Nihil (Metal Blade) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MI:* -- A:74/5

Lance Roark: Bad Reputation () {3}: scm:++* --

Rocket: R Is for Rocket (Transgressive) {3}: Cl:*, NME:*, NT:* -- A:79/5

Rodeo Boys: Junior (Don Giovanni) {3}: PM:*+, S:+ -- A:80/1

Joris Roelofs/Guus Janssen/Han Bennink: Rite of Spring (ICP) {3}: -- TH:***

Vanessa Rossetto: Pictures of the Warm South () {3}: W:8 --

Juana Rozas: Tanya (self-released) {3}: EWi:48 -- TH:**

Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Yainer Horta/Joey Calveiro: A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (Calveiro Entertainment) {3}: -- TH:***

Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) {3}: PO:* -- A:60/1, TH:**

Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

John Santos Sextet & Friends: Horizontes (Machete) {3}: JC:+; jmb:5 --

Boz Scaggs: Detour (Concord) {3}: jgy:10 -- TH:**

Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (Grong) {3}: -- TH:***

Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift: Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik) {3}: -- TH:***

Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (Origin) {3}: -- TH:***

Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Dave Sewelson/Steve Hirsh/Steve Swell/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Muscle Memory (Mahakala Music) {3}: -- TH:***

Sextile: Yes, Please. (Sacred Bones) {3}: BV_i:+, RT:80, Sp:* -- A:73/3

Joan Shelley: Real Warmth (No Quarter) {3}: Mj:*, U:41* -- A:85/2

Mark Sherman: Bop Contest (Miles High) {3}: PO:* -- TH:**

Ship Sket: InitiatriX (Planet Mu) {3}: am:*, am_e:+, bl:+ -- A:79/2

Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (American Dream) {3}: JC:+, PO:* -- TH:*

Nick Shoulders: Refugia Blues (Gar Hole) {3}: scm:+ -- TH:**

ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (Fused Arrow) {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

Sigh: I Saw the World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (Peaceville) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, RC:* -- A:87/3

Silkback: Attrition (Planet Mu) {3}: AD:*, Sk:*; am:* -- A:87/3

Silk Daisys: Silk Daisys (self-released) {3}: GTV:18* -- A:90/1

Skaiwater: #mia (GoodTalk/Capitol -EP) {3}: DW:*+ -- TH:*

Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville (Faction) {3}: Cl:*, HP:41, IT:* -- A:80/2

Sloan: Based on the Best Seller (Yep Roc) {3}: Mj:*, U:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Leaf Label) {3}: BV_i:+, U:*; am:* -- A:73/4

Soulfly: Chama (Nuclear Blast) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:* -- A:76/5

Southern Avenue: Family (Alligator) {3}: Mj:*; am:*, am_b:+ -- A:85/2

Vinnie Sperrazza/Jacob Sacks/Masa Kamaguchi: Play Elmo Hope (Fresh Sound) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Luke Spiller: Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wind () {3}: ClR:*, Mj:*, S:+ -- A:80/2

SpiritWorld: Helldorado (Century Media) {3}: Blb:*, DiS:*, K:* -- A:75/4

Split Chain: Motionblur (Epitaph) {3}: DiS:*, K:*, RT:71 -- A:80/2

Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Joe Stamm Band: Little Crosses () {3}: scm:++* --

Ben Stapp: Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Live at the Hungry Brain (Trost) {3}: -- TH:***

Sophia Stel: How to Win at Solitaire (Pack/Create) {3}: GB:10 --

Teddy Swims: I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) (Warner) {3}: BB:+, NME:*, O:* -- A:68/5

Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann/Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Tanto (Innocent) {3}: -- TH:***

Hope Tala: Hope Handwritten (Jasmine Music) {3}: Cl:*, D:*, NME:* -- A:78/5

Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (Taylormade/Def Jam) {3}: Cl:*, RS:24* -- A:73/4, TH:B

Ternion Q Expanded: Marbles (Bju'ecords) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Terror Corpse: Ash Eclipses Flesh (Dark Descent) {3}: AMG:*, Blb:*, Db:24 -- A:83/2

Tetrarch: The Ugly Side of Me (Napalm) {3}: Sp:*; am:*, am_k:+ -- A:78/4

The Third Mind: Live Mind (Yep Roc) {3}: TN:* -- TH:**

Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (Nyahh) {3}: -- TH:***

Thornhill: Bodies (UNFD) {3}: DiS:*, KH:*, MH:* -- A:80/3

Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) {3}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie (Young Art) {3}: O:*, PM:*+ -- A:74/3

Tower: Let There Be Dark (Cruz Del Sur) {3}: Db:8 -- A:70/2

UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (1332) {3}: HG:+ -- TH:**

Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) {3}: Mj:* -- A:75/2, TH:**

University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas) {3}: AAJ:* -- TH:**

Unreqvited: A Pathway to the Moon (Propecy Productions) {3}: MH:*, MSuk:*, Spk:* -- A:79/4

Kassi Valazza: From Newman Street (Loose, Fluff & Gravy) {3}: Mj:*, U:48* -- A:80/2

Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) {3}: JC:+; jmb:+ -- TH:*

The Vintage Caravan: Portals (Napalm) {3}: Blb:*, ClR:*, DiS:* -- A:80/3

David Virelles: Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove) III [Theatrical Cut] (El Tivoli Productions) {3}: -- TH:***

Vukovi: My God Has Got a Gun (SharpTone) {3}: DiS:*, K:*, MH:* -- A:80/3

Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow (Studio Ooze) {3}: Cl:*, Mj:*, U:* -- A:77/4

Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (ADW) {3}: -- TH:***

Joshua Ray Walker: Tropicana (Thirty Tigers) {3}: PM:*; scm:+* -- A:80/1

Jennifer Walton: Daughters (Local Action) {3}: G:43*, Pf:* -- A:80/2, TH:B

Water Damage: Instruments (12XU) {3}: Mj:*, RSh:14 -- A:80/1

Patrick Watson: Uh Oh (Secret City) {3}: Mj:*, RC:*; am:* -- A:78/4

WDR Big Band: Bluegrass (MCG Jazz) {3}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:*

Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (October '24-December '24) (self-relesed) {3}: -- TH:***

Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Whirr: Raw Blue (Free Whirl -24) {3}: BPM:*, Em:35, Spk:* -- A:86/2

Kim Wilde: Closer (Wildeflower/Cherry Red) {3}: GTV:*, MO:*, RC:* -- A:78/4

The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts () {3}: ClR:*, K:*, RC:* -- A:83/3

Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (Ear Up) {3}: DB:*, JC:+ -- TH:*

Chris Williams: Odu: Vibrations II (AKP) {3}: Pf:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Kathryn Williams: Mystery Park (One Little Independent) {3}: GTV:*, Mj:*, MO:* -- A:80/4

Marlon Williams: Te Whare Tiwekaweka () {3}: Cl:*, Mj;*; am:* -- A:76/5

Winter: Adult Romantix (Winspear) {3}: am:+*, vgb:6 -- A:90/1

Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice (Earthly Habit) {3}: CM:+, Sp:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Witch Fever: Fevereaten (Music for Nations/Sony) {3}: D:82, DIY:*, Sk:* -- A:74/9

Wolfacejoeyy: Cupid () {3}: DW:*+, G:+ -- A:60/1

The Wombats: Oh! The Ocean (AWAL) {3}: Cl:*, D:*, GTV:* -- A:69/7

Dustin Wong: Gloria (self-released) {3}: PM:*, Sk:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Jake Worthington: When I Write the Song () {3}: scm:++* --

Sven Wunder: Daybreak (Piano Piano) {3}: Mj:44*, U:* -- A:68/4

Wyatt E.: Zamā Ultu Qeber Ziqquratu, Pt. 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) {3}: AMG:*, MH:*, Spk:* -- A:80/5

Lingyuan Yang: Cursed Month (Chaospace) {3}: JC:+; jmbo:3 --

John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points in Time (See Tao) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Yes Deer: Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Superpang) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Yodok III: Nidarosdomen (Consouling Sounds) {3}: JC:+; jmbo:4 --

Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT (Leiter) {3}: O:*, RC:*, TN:* -- A:80/2

Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 23: Hyldon (Jazz Is Dead) {3}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:**

Abhorrent Expanse: Enter the Misanthropocene (Amalgam Music) {2}: W:16 -- A:20/1

Kevin Abstract: Blush (X8/Juno) {2}: Cl:*, Em:31 -- A:70/2

Acopia: Blush Response (Scenic Route) {2}: GB:35, PW:47 -- A:70/1

Colby Acuff: Enjoy the Ride () {2}: scm:+* --

Florence Adooni: A.O.E.I.U. [An Ordinary Exercise in Unity] () {2}: PM:+; bb6:+ --

Alemeda: But What the Hell Do I Know (Top Dawg/Warner -EP) {2}: LAT:12 --

Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:80/3

Allie X: Happiness Is Going to Get You (self-released) {2}: 45:*, RT:78 -- A:70/2

Alpha Maid: Is This a Queue (AD 93) {2}: G:*, W:30 -- A:80/1

Amble: Reverie (Warner) {2}: HP:27* -- A:80/1

Olga Amelchenko: Howling Silence (Edition) {2}: JC:+; jsa:4 --

Amorphis: Borderland (Reigning Phoenix) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:78/3

The AMs: Here Comes That Broken Heart () {2}: scm:+* --

Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) {2}: LBF:*, PM:* -- A:85/2

Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) {2}: -- TH:**

. . . And Oceans: The Regeneration Itinerary (Season of Mist) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:82/3

Benjamin Appl: Lines of Life (Alpha) {2}: G::*; am:* -- A:85/2

Eslabón Armado: Vibras De Noche II () {2}: BB:+; am:* -- A:80/1

Artificial Go: Musical Chairs () {2}: DW:*, Sg:+ --

Automatic: Is It Now? (Stones Throw) {2}: am:+* -- A:80/1

Daniel Avery: Tremor () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Babe Rainbow: Slipper Imp and Shakaerator (P(doom)) {2}: SLi:*, Sp:* -- A:88/2

Blaine Bailey: Indian Country () {2}: scm:+* --

David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) {2}: -- TH:**

Hayden Baker: Alive & Well () {2}: scm:+* --

Nicolas Baldeyrou: Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet Vol. 1 (Alpha) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Jon Balke: Skrifum (ECM) {2}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) {2}: LBF:*, RC:* -- A:69/7

Basic: Dream City (No Quarter -EP) {2}: TN:* -- TH:*

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano (Chandos) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1

Beat: Beat Live () {2}: ClR:*, Mj:* -- A:80/2

William Beckmann: Whiskey Lies & Allibis () {2}: scm:+* --

Bedridden: Moths Strapped to Each Other's Backs () {2}: DW:*, Sg:+ --

Sonya Belaya: Dacha (Ropeadope) {2}: -- TH:**

Antonia Bennett: Expressions (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (Sony Music Argentina) {2}: -- TH:**

The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are a Ghost Nation (Full Time Hobby) {2}: MO:*, U:* -- A:85/2

Between the Buried and Me: The Blue Nowhere (Sumerian/InsideOut) {2}: Blb:*, Prg:* -- A:73/4

Bilk: Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Scruff of the Neck) {2}: ClR:*, D:* -- A:77/3

Brian Bilston & the Catenary Wires: Sounds Made by Humans (Sleep Wax) {2}: LW:*; am:* -- A:90/2

Biohazard: Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK) {2}: ClR:*, Db:36 -- A:71/4

Jade Bird: Who Wants to Talk About Love (Glassnote) {2}: LBF:*, PM:* -- A:77/3

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller (Birdland) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) {2}: -- TH:**

Blackbriar: A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) {2}: DiS:*, MH:* -- A:77/3

Blessthefall: Gallows (Rise) {2}: Blb:*, D:* -- A:73/3

Blk Odyssy: Mood Control (Earthchild/Empire) {2}: -- A:80/1

Jack Blocker: The Land on Most High () {2}: scm:+* --

Blonde Redhead: The Shadow of the Guest (Section1) {2}: FO:*, PM:* -- A:71/5

Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt: Lucre (World Music -EP) {2}: GB:11 -- A:75/1

Blut Aus Nord: Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti) {2}: Blb:*, Db:25 -- A:80/1

Jason Boland & the Stragglers: The Last Kings of Babylon () {2}: scm:+* --

Silvia Bolognesi: Jungle Duke (Caligola) {2}: -- TH:**

Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini: Twilight Schumann Songs (PentaTone) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Cola Boyy: Quit to Play Chess (Record Makers) {2}: am:+* -- A:81/2

Jakob Bro & Midori Takada: Until I Met You (Loveland Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (SteepleChase) {2}: -- TH:**

Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marilyn Crispell/Andrew Cyrille: The Montclair Session (Loveland Music) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Brown Spirits: Cosmic Seeds (Soul Jazz) {2}: RC:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Bruiser Wolf: Potluck () {2}: HG:+, PW:36 --

Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) {2}: -- TH:**

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) {2}: -- TH:**

Bury Tomorrow: Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Music for Nations) {2}: K:*, MH:* -- A:77/3

Buscabulla: Se Amaba Así (Domino) {2}: Em:*, Mj:* -- A:70/7

Bush: I Beat Loneliness () {2}: am:*, am_k:+ --

Butcher Brown: Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz) {2}: JC:+; am:* -- A:80/1

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso: Papota (5020) {2}: SpL:*; v_tg:9 --

Caitlin Cannon: Love Addict (self-released) {2}: scm:+* --

Cardo/Larry June: Until Night Comes () {2}: am:*, am_h:+ --

Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Big Machine) {2}: xjdc:* -- TH:*

Carrier: Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love) {2}: Pf:* -- A:84/1, TH:*

Ken Carson: More Chaos (Opium/Interscope) {2}: am:*, am_h:+ -- A:60/5

George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: South From a Narrow Arc (self-released) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) {2}: am:*, xjdc:* -- A:76/2, TH:B

Chalk: Conditions III (Nice Swan -EP) {2}: D:*, DIY:* -- A:80/2

Bertrand Chamayou: Ravel: Fragments (Erato) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Chaparelle: Western Pleasure () {2}: scm:+* --

Tanika Charles: Reasons to Stay (Record Kicks) {2}: Al:37* -- A:80/1

Chartreuse: Bless You & Be Well (Communion Group) {2}: Cl:*, FO:* -- A:80/2

Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz) {2}: -- TH:**

Cheekface: Middle Spoon (self-released) {2}: NT:*, ST:+ -- A:76/2

Chrome Hill: En Route (Clean Feed) {2}: -- TH:**

Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Cloakroom: Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities) {2}: NT:*, Tr:+ -- A:73/4

Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) {2}: -- TH:**

Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Frankie Cosmos: Different Talking (Sub Pop) {2}: Mj:*; am:* -- A:72/5

Country Honk: Bad Decision () {2}: scm:+* --

Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

Cuco: Ridin' (Interscope) {2}: KC:22, RS:82 -- A:70/1

Cut Copy: Moments () {2}: KC:18 -- A:65/4

Noah Cyrus: I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me (Columbia) {2}: RS:*, Spk:* -- A:90/2

Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:72/4

Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Dania: Listless (Somewhere Press) {2}: G:*, GB:36 -- A:70/2

Lao Dan: To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch) {2}: -- TH:**

The Dare: Freakquencies: Volume 1 (-EP) {2}: DW:** --

The Darkness: Dreams on Toast (Cooking Vinyl) {2}: ClR:*, K:* -- A:68/5

Daughter of Swords: Alex (Psychic Hotline) {2}: vgb:3 -- A:73/2

Damiano David: Funny Little Fears (Arista/Sony Italy) {2}: IT:*, NME:* -- A:70/4

Lise Davidsen/Gerald Finley/Edward Gardner: Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Decca) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Josephine Davies & the Ensō Ensemble: The Celtic Wheel of the Year Suite (Ubuntu Music) {2}: JW:18 --

Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Dead Heat: Process of Elimination (Metal Blade) {2}: Blb:*, Db:37 -- A:80/1

Michael Dease: Flow (Posi-Tone) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Death by Unga Bunga: Raw Muscular Power (Jansen) {2}: PM:*+ -- A:80/1

Death Goals: Survival Is an Act of Defiance (-EP) {2}: DiS:*, MH:* -- A:85/2

Debit: Desaceleradas (Modern Love) {2}: DJM:+, G:* -- A:78/2

Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round (Blue Note) {2}: -- TH:**

Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite) {2}: -- TH:**

Dena DeRose: Mellow Tones (HighNote) {2}: -- TH:**

Disiniblud: Disiniblud () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

DJ Python: I Was Put on This Earth (XL -EP) {2}: Fa:+, Pf:* -- A:80/1

Dodie: Not for Lack of Trying (Decca) {2}: FO:*; am:* -- A:73/3

Chano Dominguez/Ethan Margolis: The Blues Around Us (Unifying Sounds) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Doreen's Jazz New Orleans: Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released) {2}: JC:+; jjbc:8 --

Eris Drew: DJ-Kicks () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ -- electronic'); # +

Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Drop Nineteens: 1991 (Wharf Cat) {2}: BPM:*; am:* -- A:78/4

Brian Dunne: Clams Casino (Missing Piece) {2}: P:*, RS:81 -- A:79/2

Marina Džukljev/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: Industriesalon (Trouble in the East) {2}: JC:+; jpa:8 --

Mia Dyberg/Axel Filip: Hobby House (Relative Pitch) {2}: -- TH:**

Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) {2}: Mj:*, TN:* -- A:75/2, TH:B

Anderson East: Worthy (Rounder) {2}: Mj:*, PM:* -- A:80/2

Echolalia: Echolalia (Full Time Hobby) {2}: Mj:*, U:* -- A:80/2

Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death -EP) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Editrix: The Big E (Joyful Noise) {2}: CM:+ -- TH:*

Beau Edmondson: The the End () {2}: scm:+* --

El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown) {2}: FO:*, KC:28 -- A:67/3, TH:B-

Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Esme Emerson: Applesauce (Communion -EP) {2}: D:*, NME:* -- A:83/3

The Empress: Square One (Cellar Music Group) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Roger Eno: Without Wind, Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon) {2}: Mj:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

Envy of None: Stygian Wavz (Kscope) {2}: Prg:*, Sp:* -- A:75/3

EsDeKid: Rebel (Lizzy/XV) {2}: DJM:+, DW:* -- A:66/4

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tonu Kaljuste/Concerto Copenhagen: Arvo Pärt: . . . Lente (Berlin Classics) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1

Eternal Darkness: Eternal Darkness () {2}: Db:15 --

Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) {2}: -- TH:**

Everyone Says Hi: Everyone Says Hi (Prediction/Chrysalis) {2}: LBF:*, RC:* -- A:74/5

Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) {2}: HG:+ -- TH:*

Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling (No Format) {2}: Mj:*, O:* -- A:80/2

Faithless: Champion Sound (self-released) {2}: Cl:*, MO:* -- A:73/3

Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) {2}: AMG:*, MI:* -- A:80/2

Tav Falco: Desire on Ice () {2}: Mj:55* -- A:100/1

Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) {2}: HG:+ -- TH:*

Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) {2}: -- TH:**

Flipturn: Burnout Days (MNRK) {2}: Cl:*, SLi:* -- A:73/3

Fluxion: Haze () {2}: -- am:*, am_e:+

Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) {2}: DiS:*, K:* -- A:80/2

Forth Wanderers: The Longer This Goes On (Sub Pop) {2}: FO:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Avery Friedman: New Thing (Audio Antihero) {2}: GTV:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

Fuerza Regida: 111Xpantia () {2}: BB:+, RS:50 --

Ellen Fullman & the Living Earth Show: Elemental View (Room40) {2}: W:19 -- A:74/1

Eric Gales: A Tribute to LJK () {2}: am:*, am_k:+ --

Gans: Good for the Soul (Strap Originals) {2}: ClR:*, GTV:* -- A:85/2

Violeta Garcia: IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) {2}: JC:+; jmbo:6 --

G-Dragon: Übermensch (Empire/Galaxy) {2}: NME:*+ -- A:80/1

The Gentle Spring: Looking Back at the World (Too Good to Be True) {2}: GTV:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Jim Ghedi: Wasteland (Basin Rock) {2}: Mj:*, U:* -- A:85/2

Vince Gill: 50 Years From Home () {2}: scm:+* --

Girlpuppy: Sweetness (Captured Tracks) {2}: D:*, RS:68 -- A:68/4

Eliana Glass: E (Shelter Press) {2}: PM:*, PW:40 -- A:74/3

Glebe: Gaudí (Daggio) {2}: AAJ:*; am:* -- A:70/2

Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (Mr Bongo) {2}: am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/1, TH:B

José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (Calligram) {2}: -- TH:**

Charles Wesley Godwin: Lonely Mountain Town () {2}: scm:+* --

Goldmund: Layers of Afternoon () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Phillip Golub: Loop 7 (Greyfade) {2}: JC:+, PM:* -- A:80/1

Goon: Dream 3 () {2}: vgb:2 --

Grandson: Inertia (XX) {2}: K:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

Grave Digger: Bone Collector () {2}: Blb:*, ClR:* -- A:71/4

Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist) {2}: MH:*, Pr:* -- A:77/3

Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) {2}: DiS:*, K:* -- A:85/2

Grima: Nightside (Napalm) {2}: AMG:*, DiS:* -- A:80/2

Laura Groves: Yes (Bella Union) {2}: GB:20 -- A:65/2

David Grubbs: Whistles From Above (Drag City) {2}: U:*; am:* -- A:78/3

John Gunther: Painting the Dream (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Franz Halász: Villa-Lobos: The Complete Solo Works (BIS) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Nicole Hale: Some Kind of Longing () {2}: Mj:*, Sp:* -- A:80/2

Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget (Hamdanistan) {2}: Mj:*, U:* -- A:73/3

Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) {2}: DiS:*, MH:* -- A:85/2

Wesley Hanna: Magnolia () {2}: scm:+* --

Barbara Hannigan/Katia & Marielle Labèque/David Chalmin: Electric Fields (Alpha) {2}: am:+* -- A:100/1

Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Curtis Harding: Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (Anti-) {2}: Mj:*; am:* -- A:73/4

Lawrence Hart: Come in out of the Rain (Double Six) {2}: am:*, am_e:+ -- A:80/1

Kat Hasty: Time of Your Life (Jackie Java/Thirty Tigers) {2}: scm:+* --

Tyler Hatley/Justin Clyde Williams: The Dick and Tammy Show () {2}: scm:+* --

Haunted Horses: Dweller (Three One G) {2}: Blb:*, PM:* -- A:80/2

Charles Hayward & Dälek: Hayward x Dälek (Relapse) {2}: Mj:*, W:47 -- A:80/1

Weldon Henson: Stone Cold Country Gold () {2}: scm:+* --

Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill: Clay () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Fred Hersch/Rondi Charleston: Suspended in Time: A Song Cycle (Resilience Music Alliance) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:B-

Flora Hibberd: Swirl (22Twenty) {2}: PM:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

The Hidden Cameras: Bronto () {2}: Pf:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) {2}: Blb:*, Spk:* -- A:74/3

Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:67/3

Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) {2}: am:*, am_j:+ -- A:78/2, TH:B

Alex Hitchcock: Letters From Afar (New Soil) {2}: JW:19 --

Jim Hobbs/Timo Shanko: The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch) {2}: -- TH:**

Peter Holsapple: The Face of 68 (Label 51) {2}: xjdc:* -- RX:*

Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released -EP) {2}: RR:* -- TH:*

Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria (Dirty Looks) {2}: -- TH:**

Home Counties: Humdrum (Submarine Cat) {2}: DIY:*, LBF:* -- A:73/4

Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition) {2}: G:* -- TH:*

Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (Optical Substance) {2}: CM:+ -- TH:*

Hvalfugl: Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released) {2}: JC:+; jma:+ --

Billy Idol: Dream Into It (Dark Horse) {2}: am:*, am_k:+ -- A:62/6

Ill Considered: Balm (New Soil) {2}: -- TH:**

Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) {2}: TN:* -- TH:*

Ivy: Traces of You (Bar/None) {2}: Al:31* -- A:78/2

Ashley Jackson: Take Me to the Water (Decca) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

JakoJako: Tết 41 (Mute) {2}: PM:*+ -- A:70/3

Jetstream Pony: Bowerbirds and Blue Things (Shelflife/Spinout Nuggets) {2}: am:*, so_k:12 -- A:80/1

Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (Challenge) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Sven-Åke Johansson/Pierre Borel/Seymour Wright/Joel Grip: Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku) {2}: JC:+; jsb:7 --

Pug Johnson: El Cabron () {2}: scm:+* --

Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (ARC) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

Miles Kane: Sunlight in the Shadows (Easy Eye/Concord) {2}: Cl:*; am:* -- A:73/3

Sasha Keable: Act Right (The Flight Club) {2}: Em:*, NME:* -- A:95/2

KEG: Fun's Over (Alcopop!) {2}: DIY:*, FO:* -- A:80/2

Tyler Keith: I Confess (Black & Wyatt) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (Ramble) {2}: -- TH:**

Wiz Khalifa: Kush + Orange Juice 2 (Taylor Gang) {2}: am:*, am_h:+ -- A:80/1

Killah Priest & Purpose: Abraxas 2 () {2}: HG:+ -- TH:*

Kin'gongolo Kiniata: Kiniata () {2}: G:+, PM:+ --

Knats: Knats (Gearbox) {2}: Mj:* -- A:75/2, TH:*

Kneebody: Reach (GroundUP Music) {2}: JC:+; am:* -- TH:B

Joachim Kühn: Échappée (Intakt) {2}: -- TH:**

Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) {2}: -- TH:**

Kwes E: Fingers Crossed (Vowelism/Common Knowledge) {2}: GQ:++ -- A:67/1

Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (Jazzdor) {2}: -- TH:**

Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) {2}: -- TH:**

Anna Lapwood: Firedove () {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic -2CD) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ -- TH:B-

Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) {2}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Kathryn Legendre: Here's Your Honky Tonk () {2}: scm:+* --

Dan Lepien: The Honky Tonk Traditional () {2}: scm:+* --

Le Sserafim: Hot (Source Music/HYBE) {2}: NME:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Edvard Graham Lewis: Alreet? (Upp) {2}: ClR:*, Mj:* -- A:76/4

The Limiñanas: Faded (Berreto Music/Because Music) {2}: MO:*, U:* -- A:80/2

Lindstrøm: Sirius Syntoms () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (Nice Life/Atlantic) {2}: RS:97 -- A:50/3, TH:*

Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Joe Locke/Phil Markowitz: Smoke and Mirrors (Wire Walker) {2}: JC:+; jsa:10 --

Tony Logue: Dark Horse (Jenny Ridge Productions) {2}: scm:+* --

Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) {2}: -- TH:**

The Lovely Eggs: Bin Juice () {2}: RT:79, XSN:* -- A:90/1

Isabella Lovestory: Vanity (Giant Music) {2}: BPM:*, NME:* -- A:80/2

Arjen Anthony Lucassen: Songs No One Will Hear () {2}: Prg:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

The Lumineers: Automatic (Dualtone) {2}: Mj:*, T:* -- A:68/7

Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

Maddie & Tae: Love & Light () {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Leon Majcen: Making a Livin' (Not a Killin') () {2}: scm:+* --

Malibu: Vanities (Year0001) {2}: DJM:+, GB:29 -- A:73/1

Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (Pacific Coast Jazz) {2}: -- TH:**

Kali Malone + Drew McDowall: Magnetism (Ideologic Organ) {2}: AD:*, W:38 -- A:75/2

Mamalarky: Hex Key (Epitaph) {2}: LBF:*; am:* -- A:75/5

Etta Marcus: Devour (Polydor -EP) {2}: D:*, FO:* -- A:80/2

Mariah the Scientist: Hearts Sold Separately () {2}: BS:15 --

Mark: The Firstfruit (SM Entertainment) {2}: Cl:*, NME:* -- A:80/2

Nicolas Masson: Renaissance (ECM) {2}: -- TH:**

Matmos: Metallic Life Review () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) {2}: AMG:*, DiS:* -- A:90/2

Wojtek Mazolewski: Solo (WMQ/NoPaper) {2}: JC:+; jma:+ --

Makaya McCraven: Techno Logic (International Anthem -EP) {2}: -- TH:**

Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (self-released) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Mechatok: Wide Awake () {2}: GQ:++ --

Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2) {2}: -- TH:**

Charif Megarbane: Hawalat (Habibi Funk) {2}: Mj:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Xol Meissner: Excess of Loss (self-released) {2}: PM:*, Sp:* -- A:80/2

Melin Melyn: Mill on the Hill (Kartel) {2}: DIY:*, Mj:* -- A:75/4

Melvins: Thunderball (Ipecac) {2}: Blb:*, K:* -- A:70/7

Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) {2}: Blb:*Sp:* -- A:74/4

Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions) {2}: -- TH:**

The Men: Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club) {2}: ClR:*, U:* -- A:78/3

MexikoDro: Still Goin the EP (Republic -EP) {2}: PW:14 -- A:75/1

Pitney Meyer: Cherokee Pioneer () {2}: scm:+* --

Camila Meza: Portal (GroundUP Music) {2}: am:*, am_j:+ --

Tony Miceli: Nico's Dream (SteepleChase) {2}: -- TH:**

Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) {2}: am:* -- A:75/2, TH:*

Drake Milligan: Tumbleweed () {2}: scm:+* --

Milo J: La Vida Era Más Corta (Sony Music Latin) {2}: PM:*, RS:72 -- A:80/1

Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord) {2}: -- TH:**

Miso Extra: Earcandy (Transgressive) {2}: D:59*, Sk:* -- A:73/3

Miss Tess: Cher Rêve () {2}: scm:+* --

Modeselektor: DJ-Kicks () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Monde UFO: Flamingo Tower (Fire) {2}: Tr:+; am:* -- A:70/2

MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (Floki Studios) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Monsta X: The X (Starship -EP) {2}: Cl:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Moonrisers: Harsh & Exciting (Easy Eye Sound) {2}: PM:+; am:* -- A:80/2

Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty (Claddagh -24) {2}: PO:13 -- TH:[***]

The Moran Tripp Band: Jumpers Hole () {2}: scm:+* --

Motherhood: Thunder Perfect Mind () {2}: Ex:*, GTV:* -- A:85/2

Motion City Soundtrack: The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (Epitaph) {2}: AD:*, K:* -- A:80/2

Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Múm: History of Silence (Morr Music) {2}: MO:*, PM:* -- A:85/2

Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (Whaling City Sound) {2}: -- TH:**

Kristina Murray: Little Blue () {2}: scm:+* --

Charlie Musselwhite: Look Out Highway () {2}: am:*, am_b:+ -- A:80/1

Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) {2}: AMG:*, MH:* -- A:80/2

Ty Myers: The Select (Columbia) {2}: am:*, scm:+ -- A:80/1

The Nash Ensemble: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Sonatas Pour Divers Instruments; String Quartet (Hyperion) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) {2}: -- TH:**

Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) {2}: LW:*; dc:11 -- A:100/1

Niia: V (Candid) {2}: am:*, am_j:_ --

Martin Nodeland: Tributaries (Smeik) {2}: JC:+; jsa:9 --

Nordkraft Big Band/Remy Le Boeuf/Danielle Wertz: Silent Course (Gateway Music) {2}: JC:+; jpb:7 --

Novembers Doom: Major Arcana (Prophecy Productions) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:73/3

Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577) {2}: -- TH:**

Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) {2}: -- TH:**

Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (TIBProd.) {2}: -- TH:**

Tom Ollenberg: Where in the World (Fresh Sound New Talent) {2}: -- TH:**

One of Nine: Dawn of the Iron Shadow (Profound Lore) {2}: Db:12 -- A:70/1

The Orb: Buddhist Hipsters (Cooking Vinyl) {2}: Mj:*, RC:* -- A:77/3

Oruã: Slacker () {2}: Sp:*; am:* -- A:80/2

OsamaSon: Psykotic () {2}: am:*, am_h:+ --

Otherworld Ensemble: Soul Bird (Edgetone) {2}: -- TH:**

Martin Owen/BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba: Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Keith Oxman: Home (Capri) {2}: -- TH:**

Brad Paisley: Snow Globe Town () {2}: scm:+* --

Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:72/5

Michael Cera Palin: We Could Be Brave (Big Scary Monsters) {2}: D:*, LBF:* -- A:80/2

Pan Amsterdam: Confines () {2}: Cl:*, MO:* -- A:80/3

Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Pateka: Pateka (self-released) {2}: Em:44* -- A:90/1

Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:85/2

Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland: Himmel Over Hav (Grappa) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Nicholas Payton: Triune (Smoke Sessions) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Hery Paz: Fisuras (Porta-Jazz/Carimbo) {2}: -- TH:**

Peaceful Faces: Without a Single Fight (Glamour Gowns) {2}: PM:*, Sp:* -- A:80/2

Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Perrie: Perrie (Sony Music UK) {2}: Cl:*, I:* -- A:80/2

Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (Family Owned) {2}: -- TH:**

Philharmonie Festiva & Gerd Schaller: Bruckner 3 (Version 1877) (Profil) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Phi-Psonics: Expanding to One (Gondwana) {2}: JC:+, Mj:* -- A:80/1

Pidgins: Refrains of the Day, Volume 2 (Lexical) {2}: PM:*, U:* -- A:80/2

Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions) {2}: -- TH:**

Postcards: Ripe () {2}: DS:16 --

Pôt-pot: Warsaw 480km (Felte) {2}: HP:*; bb6:+ -- A:70/2

Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) {2}: U:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2) {2}: -- TH:**

Nigel Price Organ Trio: It's On! (self-released) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Pulse Emitter: Tide Pools () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

The Quantum Blues Quartet: Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) {2}: -- TH:**

Quatuor Diotima: Boulez: Livre Pour Quatuor (PentaTone) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Ester Quevedo: Garabato (UnderPool) {2}: JC:+; jma:+ --

Rachael & Vilray: West of Broadway (Concord Jazz) {2}: am:*, am_j:_ --

Kojey Radical: Don't Look Down (Warner/Asylum/Bellyempty) {2}: I:*, Sk:* -- A:90/2

Radioactivity: Time Won't Bring Me Down () {2}: am:*, am_k:+ --

Raisa K: Affectionately (15 Love) {2}: G:*, GB:27 -- A:79/2

Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) {2}: -- TH:**

Raven: Gnosis (Incienso) {2}: am:*, am_e:+ -- A:90/1

Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies (Tonal) {2}: GTV:46, O:* -- A:80/1

Red Rum Club: Buck (Modern Sky UK) {2}: GTV:49* -- A:100/1

Red Telephone: Delay the New Day () {2}: Cl:*, GTV:* -- A:80/2

Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness (Chrysalis) {2}: Mj:*, MO:* -- A:71/7

Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Kaiho - Live in Helsinki (Unmusic) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thirst (Unmusic) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Dave Rempis/Nico Chkifi: Aula (Aerophonic) {2}: -- TH:**

Revocation: New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade) {2}: Blb:*, K:* -- A:78/3

Crystabel Efemena Riley: Live at Ormside (Infant Tree -EP) {2}: W:34 -- TH:*

Josh Ritter: I Believe in You, My Honeydew (Pytheas/Thirty Tigers) {2}: Mj:*, U:* -- A:80/1

Rival Consoles: Landscape From Memory (Erased Tapes) {2}: MO:*, Sk:* -- A:72/5

Diego Rivera: West Circle (Posi-Tone) {2}: -- TH:**

Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) {2}: -- TH:**

Juan Romeros Manuella Orkester: Lua Armonia (Supertraditional) {2}: -- TH:**

Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams: Trainspotting () {2}: BB:+, HG:+ -- A:68/1

Esther Rose: Want (New West) {2}: Mj:*; am:* -- A:76/4

Ted Rosenthal Trio: Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 (TMR) {2}: -- TH:**

Leith Ross: I Can See the Future (Republic) {2}: Cl:*, FO:* -- A:77/3

Claire Rousay: A Little Death () {2}: am:*, am_e:+ --

Bobby Rozario: Healer (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Dabin Ryu: Trio! (Endectomorph Music) {2}: JC:+; jnc:+ --

Safe Mind: Cutting the Stone (Nude Club) {2}: NT:*, PW:49 -- A:81/1

Saint Abdullah/Jason Nazary: Wiretaps for Oral (Disciples) {2}: vce:3 --

The Saints: Long March Throgh the Jaz Age () {2}: am:*, am_k:+ --

Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura (Tapestry) {2}: TH:**

Sandwell District: End Beginnings (Point of Departure) {2}: Mj:*; bl:+ -- A:71/3

Gina Saputo: Daydream (GSJQ Productions) {2}: -- TH:**

Michael Sarian: Esquina (Greenleaf Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Sarter Kit: What I Am and What I Am Not (Squama) {2}: -- TH:**

Stefan Schultze/Peter Ehwald/Tom Rainey: Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt) {2}: -- TH:**

Mark Scott III: Soft Light (Miller Three Publishing) {2}: -- TH:**

Peggy Seeger: Teleology (Red Grape) {2}: MO:*, U:* -- A:85/2

Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell: End of Something (Obliquity) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Christopher Seymore: King of Nothing () {2}: scm:+* --

Joseph Shabason/Nicholas Krgovich/Tenniscoats: Wao (Western Vinyl) {2}: BPM:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Shamir: Ten (Kill Rock Stars) {2}: am:*, so_d:14 -- A:70/2

Shearling: Motherfucker, I Am Both: Amen and Hallelujah () {2}: BPM:*, Db:29 -- A:81/1

Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Shinglers: Hit the Head () {2}: scm:+* --

Shiran & Bakal: Electro Baghdad () {2}: xjdc:*, xpb:7 --

Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa (Chill Tone) {2}: -- TH:**

Shrunken Elvis: Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Sifters: Sifters (Obliquity) {2}: JC:+; jmbo:10 --

Signs of the Swarm: To Rid Myself of Truth (Century Media) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:65/5

Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) {2}: Ex:*, Sp:* -- A:74/5

Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) {2}: JC:+; jmb:6 -- TH:B

Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Sister Sadie: All Will Be Well () {2}: scm:+* --

Skepta & Fred Again . .: Skepta . . Fred (Epic/Warner UK) {2}: TO:20 -- A:59/1

Skrillex: Hit Me Where It Hurts X (Atlantic/Owsla -EP) {2}: DW:*; xjdc:* -- TH:B

Skullcrusher: And Your Song Is Like a Circle (Dirty Hit) {2}: DIY:*, Sk:* -- A:76/6

Skydaddy: Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles (-EP) {2}: Ov:*, SLi:* -- A:88/2

Slaughter to Prevail: Grizzly (Sumerian) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:80/2

Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy (Mom+Pop) {2}: DIY:*; am:* -- A:66/9

Slime City: National Record of Achievement (self-released) {2}: GTV:17 -- A:75/1

Slow Crush: Thirst (Pure Noise) {2}: D:*, K:* -- A:80/2

Slowly Slowly: Forgiving Spree (Nettwerk) {2}: DiS:*, K:* -- A:80/2

Slow Motion Cowboys: Wolf of St. Elmo () {2}: -- U:75*

Smif-N-Wessun: Infinity () {2}: HG:+, RR:* --

Emma Smith: Bitter Orange (La Reserve) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Snowpoet: Heartstrings (Edition) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Sodom: The Arsonist (Steamhammer) {2}: Blb:*, Db:40 -- A:70/3

Somebody's Child: When Youth Fades Away (Frenchkiss) {2}: Cl:*, U:*, -- A:73/3

Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) {2}: -- TH:**

Omar Sosa: Sendas (Otá) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

John Southworth: The Red Castle (Tin Angel) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: Faure: La Bonne Chanson & Other Songs (Hyperion) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:80/2

Alister Spence Trio: Gather (Alister Spence Music) {2}: AAJ:*, JC:+ --

Split Dogs: Here to Destroy (Venn) {2}: Cl:*, K:* -- A:75/4

Kandace Springs: Lady in Satin (SRP) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt) {2}: -- TH:**

Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz) {2}: -- TH:**

Grant Stewart: Next Spring (Cellar Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (International Anthem) {2}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Paul St. Hilaire: w/The Producers (Kynant) {2}: DJM:+, PM:* -- A:81/2

Stormo: Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) {2}: DiS:*, MH:* -- A:73/3

St. Paul & the Broken Bones: St. Paul & the Broken Bones (Thirty Tigers) {2}: Mj:*, U:* -- A:80/3

Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (Sunnyside) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (二) (Endectomorph Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Superheaven: Superheaven (Blue Grape Music) {2}: D:*, K:* -- A:74/4

Masaaki Suzuki: Plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 6 (BIS) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Takács Quartet/Marc-Andre Hamelin: Dvorák & Price: Piano Quintets (Hyperion) {2}: G:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Technopolice: Chien De La Casse (Howlin' Banana) {2}: FO:*, LW:* -- A:80/2

Teen Mortgage: Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner) {2}: D:*, K:* -- A:77/3

Tennis: Face Down in the Garden (Mutually Detrimental) {2}: NT:*; am:* -- A:71/6

Things of This Nature: Things of This Nature (Mahakala Music) {2}: CM:+ -- TH:*

Thin Lear: A Shadow Waltzed Itself (-EP) {2}: PM:*, Sp:* -- A:80/2

Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Thor & Friends: Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise) {2}: Mj:*, PM:* -- A:80/2

Those Damn Crows: God Shaped Hole (Earache) {2}: ClR:*, DiS:* -- A:80/2

Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (AFM) {2}: Blb:*, ClR:* -- A:73/4

David Torn: Peace Upon You (self-released) {2}: JC:+, TN:* --

AJ Tracey: Don't Die Before You're Dead (Revenge) {2}: Cl:*, MO:* -- A:80/2

Penelope Trappes: A Requiem (One Little Independent) {2}: Mj:*, RC:* -- A:75/4

Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How (Napalm) {2}: Blb:*, DiS:* -- A:74/6

Tribunal: In Penitence and Ruin (20 Buck Spin) {2}: Db:11 -- A:70/1

Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) {2}: -- TH:**

Tristen: Unpopular Music () {2}: am:+* -- A:80/1

Maxine Troglauer: Hymn (Fun in the Church) {2}: -- TH:**

Tropos: Switches (Endectomorph Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Walter Trout: Sign of the Times () {2}: am:*, am_k:+ --

Robin Trower: Come and Fine Me (Provogue) {2}: ClR:*, RC:* -- A:77/3

Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger (Linn) {2}: O:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Fletcher Tucker: Kin (Gnome Life) {2}: PM:*, U:* -- A:80/2

Twen: Fate Euophoric () {2}: vgb:5 --

Twice: This Is For (JYP) {2}: BPM:*; am:* -- A:73/3

Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (Pi) {2}: -- TH:**

Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {2}: PO:* -- TH:*

Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside) {2}: -- TH:**

Vacuous: In His Blood (Relapse) {2}: Blb:*, MH:* -- A:85/2

Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Chris Varga: Breathe (Calligram) {2}: AAJ:* -- TH:*

The Veils: Asphodels (V2) {2}: U:*, XSN:* -- A:77/3

The Velveteers: A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound) {2}: D:*, K:* -- A:77/3

Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (Raw Tonk) {2}: -- TH:**

Mason Via: Mason Via () {2}: scm:+* --

Luís Vicente: Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) {2}: CM:+ -- TH:*

Sammy Virji: Same Day Cleaning (Capitol) {2}: Ex:38, SC:* -- A:82/1

Volahn: Popol Vuh () {2}: Db:17 --

Steve Von Till: Alone in a World of Wounds (Neurot) {2}: MH:*, Mj:* -- A:80/2

Vox Clamantis: Arvo Pärt: And I Heard a Voice (ECM New Series) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Vulture Feather: It Will Be Like Now (Felte) {2}: U:*; am:* -- A:85/2

Rufus Wainwright With the Pacific Jazz Orchestra: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Michael Waldrop: Native Son (Origin) {2}: -- TH:**

Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (Jules) {2}: -- TH:**

Warbringer: Wrath and Ruin (Napalm) {2}: DiS:*, MH:* -- A:74/5

Josh Ward: Same Ol' Cowboy, Different Rodeo () {2}: scm:+* --

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble: () {2}:

Watchhouse: Rituals () {2}: BS:16 --

Chasen Wayne: Corpus () {2}: scm:+* --

Weaving: Webs (Glamour Gowns) {2}: NT:*, Sp:* -- A:80/2

We Came as Romans: All Is Beautiful . . . Because We're Doomed (Sharp Tone) {2}: Blb:*, K:* -- A:80/2

Weed420: Amor De Encava (Deprerreo) {2}: TO:14 --

Jesse Welles: Pilgrim (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Jesse Welles: With the Devil (self-released) {2}: -- TH:**

Justin Wells: Cynthiana () {2}: scm:+* --

The Westerlies: Paradise (Westerlies) {2}: JC:+; jnc:+ --

Western Education: Millennial Youth () {2}: am:* -- am_k:+

Westside Gunn: 12 () {2}: -- HG:+, ST:+

Dee White: Heart Talkin' () {2}: scm:+* --

White Lies: Night Lies (PIAS) {2}: RC:*, Sk:* -- A:72/5

Whitney K: Bubble () {2}: GTV:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

Chip Wickham: The Eternal Now (Gondwana) {2}: am:*, am_j:+ -- A:80/1

The Wilder Blue: Still in the Runnin' () {2}: scm:+* --

Wilder Maker: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm (Western Vinyl) {2}: am:+* -- A:90/1

Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (International Anthem) {2}: -- TH:**

Simón Willson: Feel Love (Endectomorph Music) {2}: -- TH:**

Sarah Wilson: Incandescence (Brass Tonic) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Winona Fighter: My Apologies to the Chief (Rise) {2}: D:*, K:* -- A:77/4

Denison Witmer: Anything at All (Asthmatic Kitty) {2}: Mj:*, NT:* -- A:82/2

Wode: Uncrossing the Keys (20 Buck Spin) {2}: Db:31, DiS:* -- A:65/2

Julia Wolf: Pressure (Girls in Purgatory) {2}: Em:22, XSN:* -- A:79/2

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die: Epitaph (08-22) {2}: A:70/4

Big City Brian Wright: Sky Trucker () {2}: scm:+* --

Wussy Duo: On the Factory Floor (Shake It) {2}: DW:** --

Yawning Portal: Anywhere (Year0001) {2}: GB:18 --

You, Infinite: You, Infinite (Pelagic) {2}: DiS:*, Sp:* -- A:85/2

Young Knives: Landfill (Gadzook) {2}: RC:*, U:* -- A:75/4

Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise) {2}: U:* -- A:63/3, TH:*

Yung Lean: Jonatan (World Affairs) {2}: Em:41, Sg:+ -- A:53/5

Y: Y (Hideous Mink -EP) {2}: D:* -- A:80/1, TH:*

Gabriel Zucker: Confession (Boomslang) {2}: -- TH:**

Zukenee: Slaytanic (Slaylife) {2}: DW:**, PW:48 -- A:74/1

100%WET: 100%WET (Crunchy Frog) {1}: GTV:* -- A:68/3

10toeflex: En Habitant Avec Des Fantômes (-EP) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

16: Guides for the Misguided () {1}: -- Db:22

38 Special: Milestone () {1}: ClR:* -- A:80/1

509 BMG: Hollow Point Bad Boy () {1}: PW:39 --

54 Ultra: First Works () {1}: BB:+ --

Abbatia: Phantasma! In the Ends of the Loom () {1}: SLi:* -- A:83/1

Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) {1}: Blb:* -- A:70/2

An Abstract Illusion: The Sleeping City (Willowtip) {1}: A:80/1

The Acacia Strain: You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) {1}: Blb:* -- A:85/1

Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () {1}: MH:* -- A:80/1

Action Figures of Speech: Action Figures of Speech () {1}: HG:+ --

Actress: Grey Interiors (Smalltown Supersound -EP) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird) {1}: -- TH:*

Nat Adderley Jr.: Took So Long (NAJ) {1}: JC:+ --

Adéla: The Provocateur (Capitol -EP) {1}: Em:* -- A:80/1

Adore: Biter (Big Scary Monsters -EP) {1}: GTV:* -- A:90/1

Aephanemer: Utopie (Napalm) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Afternoon Bike Ride: Running With Scissors (Friends of Friends) {1}: Ex:* -- A:80/1

Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (Fönstret) {1}: -- TH:*

Air Drawn Dagger: A Guide for Apparitions (Long Branch) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (Sciensonic -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi) {1}: -- TH:*

Alfa Mist/44th Move/Richard Spaven: Anthem (Black Acre) {1}: O:* -- A:80/1

Matteo Alfonso/Giovanni Maier: Mingus Revisited (Caligola) {1}: JC:+ --

Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) {1}: Blb:* -- A:70/3

David Allred: The Beautiful World (Erased Tapes) {1}: U:* -- A:75/2

All Seeing Dolls: Parallel (A) {1}: Mj:* -- A:68/4

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Angles 11: Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) {1}: JC:+ --

Anitek & Tabinstereo: Indigo Immaculate () {1}: HG:+ --

Ant: Collection of Sounds Vol. 4 (Rhymesayers) {1}: RR:* -- A:80/1

Kioto Aoki/Haruhi Kobayashi/Mai Sugimoto: Miminari (Asian Improv) {1}: JC:+ --

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Yakir Arbib & Conti Bilong: Afro Baroque (Elsden Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

Niño Árbol: Psiconomimesis () {1}: DJM:+ --

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Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) {1}: -- TH:*

Fred Armisen: 100 Sound Effects (Drag City) {1}: am:* -- A:70/2

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Kinan Azmeh: Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) {1}: AAJ:* --

The Bad Seed/Murda Megz: From Us With Love () {1}: HG:+ --

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The Bats: Corner Coming Up () {1}: xdr:8 --

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Fini Bearman: Last Night of the World (Pastiche) {1}: JC:+ --

Beauty Saloon: BS () {1}: Up_sh:+ --

Bec & Ongles [François de Larrard & Mathieu Bec]: Zanzibar (Mazeto Square) {1}: JC:+ --

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Shems Bendali Quintet: Casbah Qassioun (Jazz Family) {1}: JC:+ --

Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) {1}: MH:* -- A:80/1

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Leif Berger: Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) {1}: JC:+ --

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Lea Bertucci: The Oracle (Cibachrome Editions) {1}: W:39 --

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Emmanuel Bex: Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee) {1}: JC:+ --

Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco (Naya Beat) {1}: PO:* --

Big Cheeko: Coulrophobia () {1}: HG:+ --

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Boko Yout: Gusto (Hoopdiggas) {1}: LW:* -- A:100/1

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Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Late to My Own Funeral () {1}: HG:+ --

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Borja: Cuando Cioncidimos () {1}: S:+ --

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Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems for Travellers (Skip) {1}: AAJ:* --

Daniel Brandt: Without Us (Erased Tapes) {1}: Mj:* -- A:80/1

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Kristen R Bromley Quartet: Wes 101 (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Broodman: Liminality (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

George Brown: Jazz in Paris (Astana Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Kane Brown: The High Road (RCA Nashville) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

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Brutalismus 3000: Goodbye Salò the Remixes () {1}: RT:22 --

Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Buntspecht: Konstrukt 5 () {1}: RT:30 --

Burial: Comafields/Imaginary Festival (Hyperdub -EP) {1}: GB:37 --

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David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Sarah Cahill/Regina Myers: D. Riley Nicholson: Up () {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

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Juan Carmona: Laberinto De Luz (Nomad Kultur) {1}: AAJ:* --

Mary Chapin Carpenter/Julie Fowlis/Karine Polwart: Looking for the Thread (Lambient Light) {1}: am:* -- A:78/3

Melissa Carper: A Very Carper Christmas () {1}: scm:+ --

Martin Carthy: Transform Me Then Into a Fish (HemHem) {1}: U:80 --

Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (Candid) {1}: -- TH:*

Caskets: The Only Heaven You'll Know (SharpTone) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

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Isaac Castor & Foul Mouth: The Rabbit Hole 3: Smoking Caterpillar () {1}: HG:+ --

Tereza Catarov: Koren (PKmusik) {1}: JC:+ --

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Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) {1}: AMG:* -- A:90/1

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Conor Chaplin/Anton Eger/Mathias Heise/Rasmus Sørensen: The Action 4s (April) {1}: JC:+ --

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Dmytro Choni: Pilgrimage (Naïve) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

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Civilistjävel!: Följd (Felt) {1}: FO:* -- A:79/2

JD Cliffe: Misfit. (APLCO -EP) {1}: NME:* -- A:80/1

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Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Heads) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold (ECM -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Stella Cole: It's Magic (Decca) {1}: JC:+ --

Alana Amore Colvin: Huckleberries and Lullabies (self-released -EP) {1}: JC:+ --

Alana Amore Colvin: Oh, Allegra (self-released -EP) {1}: JC:+ --

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Braxton Cook: Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk) {1}: JC:+ --

Miles Cooke: Ceci N'est Pas Un Portrait () {1}: HG:+ --

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Claire Cope: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) {1}: AAJ:* --

Marc Copland: Alter Ego: Lausanne 2012 (The Montreux Jazz Label) {1}: AAJ:* --

Marc Copland: Dreaming (Innervoice Jazz) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Cult Therapy: Get Fucked, Sinner () {1}: PM:+ --

Cupcakke: The Bakery (self-released) {1}: PO:* --

Luca Curcio: La BOMBA (Boomslang) {1}: JC:+ --

The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) {1}: Mj:* -- A:73/4

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Cynefin: Shimli (Recordladau Smotyn Du) {1}: -- A:80/1

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Marleen Dahms' Alloy: Running and Belonging (Xjazz) {1}: JC:+ --

Da Inphamus Amadeuz/The Punchline Academy: The Punchline Playbook: Lesson 1 () {1}: HG:+ --

D.D. Danahy: Half Baked () {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

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Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Fumbling () {1}: Em:* -- A:95/1

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Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) {1}: -- TH:*

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Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) {1}: AAJ:* --

Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:74/5

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Daya: Til Every Petal Drops () {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

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Dear Derrick Featuring Kool Keith: Galaxy Thot () {1}: HG:+ --

Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) {1}: JC:+ --

Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) {1}: Blb:* -- A:90/1

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Pierre De Bethmann Quartet: Agapé (Aléa) {1}: AAJ:* --

Deena: This Is the Time (self-released -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Deer Park: Terra Infirma (Deleted) {1}: GB:26 --

Defcee & Parallel Thought: Other Blues LP () {1}: HG:+ --

Barry Deister Quintet: An African Suite (Trans-Pacific Jazz) {1}: AAJ:* --

Laura De Jongh: Fundus (Klankhaven -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Maya Delilah: The Long Way Around (Blue Note) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Erez Dessel: Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) {1}: -- TH:*

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DirtyDiggs: Gold Chain Music () {1}: HG:+ --

Disrupted: Stinking Death () {1}: MH:* -- A:80/1

Distrik22: Brooklyn Queens Expressway () {1}: HG:+ --

DJ Elmoe: Battle Zone () {1}: DW:* --

DJ Lag: Southside Mixtape () {1}: DJM:+ --

DJ Premier & Roc Marciano: The Coldest Profession (To the Top) {1}: Al:* -- A:70/4

Louise Dodds: All I Know (AMP Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) {1}: Blb:* -- A:80/1

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Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) {1}: HG:+ -- TH:B

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Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

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Dreamweavers: Woven in Time (Perdido) {1}: AAJ:* --

Dressed Like Boys: Dressed Like Boys (Mayway) {1}: Em:* -- A:80/1

The Driver Era: Obsession (TOO) {1}: D:* -- A:75/2

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Dunes: Land of the Blind () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Paul Dunmall: Red Hot Ice (Discus Music -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

Paul Dunmall Quartet: Here Today Gone Tomorrow (RogueArt -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[A-]

Nick Dunston: Colla Voce: Praylewd (Out of Your Head) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Nick Dunston: Reverse Broadcast (Carrier) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

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Dying Wish: Flesh Stays Together (SharpTone) {1}: DiS:* -- A:75/2

Paul van Dyk: This World Is Ours () {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

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Earshot: Humaning () {1}: Spk:* -- A:84/1

Dave East & Ransom: The Final Call () {1}: HG:+ --

Eclectic Maybe Band: Cosmic Light Clusters (Discus Music) {1}: TN:* --

Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen: Shikiori (Stunt) {1}: JC:+ --

Eera: I'll Stop When I'm Done (Test Card) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

Ehua: Panta Rei () {1}: bl:+ --

Eidola: Mend (Blue Swan/Rise) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Mats Eilertsen: 1 (Hemli) {1}: CM:+ --

Ludovico Einaudi: The Summer Portraits (Ponderosa Music) {1}: AD:* -- A:80/1

El Cousteau: Dirty Harry 2 (10k) {1}: PW:45 --

Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) {1}: -- TH:*

Elisabeth Elektra: Hypersigil (Occult Babes) {1}: MO:* -- A:100/1

Eli: Stage Girl (Zelig/RCA) {1}: cos:+ --

Ellinoa: Mejiro (Les P'tits Cailloux Du Chemin) {1}: JC:+ --

Jjjjjerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow (Shelter Press) {1}: PO:* --

End It: Wrong Side of Heaven (Flatspot) {1}: Cl:* -- A:90/1

Enemy: Fiend (Edition) {1}: JC:+ --

Avi C. Engel: Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Somewherecold/Shaking Box) {1}: LW:* -- A:90/1

Dan English: Sky Record (Vinegar Hill Sound) {1}: Sl:34 --

Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) {1}: Mj:* -- A:75/2

Enji: Sonor (Squama) {1}: JC:+ --

Ensemble Shippolly: Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts) {1}: JC:+ --

Shuteen Erdenebaatar/Nils Kugelmann: Under the Same Stars (Motéma Music) {1}: JC:+ --

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) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin) {1}: -- TH:*

Martin Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Tete Leguia: This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) {1}: JC:+ --

Mahan Esfahani: Bach: Das Wohltemperirte Clavier 1 (Hyperion) {1}: G:* -- A:100/1

Everything Is Psychedelic: The Beautiful Malaise (Everything Is Perfect/Live at the Clinic) {1}: W:26 --

The Expert: Vivid Visions (Rucksack) {1}: HG:+ --

Facta: Gulp (Wisdom Teeth) {1}: DJM:+ -- A:78/1

Kai Fagaschinski: Aerodynamics (Ni Vu Ni Connu) {1}: JC:+ --

Falling Leaves: The Silence That Binds Us (Meuse Music) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

Fanfare Ciocarlia/Adrian Raso: The Devil Rides Again () {1}: XCI:* --

Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) {1}: AD:* -- A:80/1

Fantasy of a Broken Heart: Chaos Practicioner (Dots Per Inch -EP) {1}: NT:* -- A:84/1

Jimmy Farace: Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm) {1}: JC:+ --

Farma G: How to Kill a Butterfly () {1}: HG:+ --

FastLife, Madhattan & Spanish Ran: Bergin Hunt & Fish () {1}: HG:+ --

Ela Faubert: Preguntas a Las 11:11 () {1}: S:+ --

Newton Faulkner: Octopus (Battenberg/Cooking Vinyl) {1}: Cl:* -- A:80/1

The Favors: The Dream (Darkroom) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Feng: What the Feng () {1}: Fa:+ --

R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It (Ruby Yacht/Alpha Pup) {1}: PO:* --

Deborah Fialkiewicz: Genetic Radio I.D. () {1}: Sp:* -- A:90/1

Diego Figueiredo: I Love Samba (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Dominic Fike: Rocket (Columbia/Sandy Boys) {1}: Cl:* -- A:78/2

Fish Narc: Frog Song () {1}: Sg:+ --

Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch) {1}: -- TH:*

Flock of Dimes: The Life You Save (Sub Pop) {1}: U:* -- A:77/2

Floodlights: Underneath (PIAS) {1}: Spk:* -- A:84/1

Florence Road: Fall Back (-EP) {1}: XCI:* --

Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet: Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) {1}: JC:+ --

Floros Floridis/Matthias Bauer/Joe Hertenstein: Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[A-]

Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) {1}: AMG:* -- A:90/1

Wolfgang Flür: Times (Cherry Red) {1}: Mj:* -- A:70/2

Flyways: Mutualism (Daily Music) {1}: JC:+ --

FM: Brotherhood () {1}: ClR:* -- A:90/1

Fola: Catharsis (Dargbana Republik) {1}: RS:88 --

Joe Fonda: & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj -24) {1}: JC:+ --

Thomas Fonnesbæk: In Rome (Storyville -24) {1}: JC:+ --

For Living Lovers: Natural Name (Sunnyside) {1}: JC:+ --

Former Champ: I Saw You in Paradise (Hand of God) {1}: Sk:* -- A:80/1

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) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Bill Fox: Resonance () {1}: Up_sh:+ --

John Foxx: Wherever You Are () {1}: Sp:* -- A:90/1

Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski: Suite (self-released) {1}: JC:+ --

Neal Francis: Return to Zero (ATO) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

François & the Atlas Mountains: Âge Fleuve (InFiné) {1}: MO:* -- A:70/3

Dom Franks' Strayhorn: Duality Pt: 02 (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Frayle: Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm) {1}: Blb:* -- A:80/1

Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Audio Antihero/Tapewormies) {1}: Sp:* -- A:76/2

Frog Eyes: The Open Up (Paper Bag) {1}: SC:* -- A:80/1

Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Merge) {1}: SC:* -- A:68/4

Rhys Fulber: Memory Impulse Autonomy (Artoffact) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Robbie Fulks: Now Then (Compass) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1, TH:B

The Fury: Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

Fuubutsushi: Columbia Deluxe (American Dreams) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Sami Galbi: Ylh Byebye () {1}: PM:+ --

Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) {1}: -- TH:*

Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) {1}: DB:* --

Ganavya: Nilam (Leiter) {1}: U:* -- A:90/1

Helen Ganya: Share Your Care (Bella Union) {1}: GTV:* -- A:68/4

Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20) {1}: -- TH:*

Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra: Shadows of Tomorrow (Summit) {1}: AAJ:* --

Nina Garcia: Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ) {1}: W:50 --

Gazpacho: Magic 8-Ball (Kscope) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

G-Clef Da Mad Komposa & Jus-P: Xavier & Logan () {1}: HG:+ --

Georgie & Joe: What I Made With Joe () {1}: GB:24 --

Geowulf: The Child (Nettwerk) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (Open Mind Jazz) {1}: -- TH:*

Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) {1}: Blb:*, DiS:*, MH:* -- A:80/3

Rhiannon Giddens/Karen Slack/Paul Sanchez/Will Liverman/Reginald Mobley/Julian Velasco: Shawn E Okpebholo: Songs in Flight (Cedille) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Ruby Gill: Some Kind of Control (self-released) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

Thea Gilmore: These Quiet Friends (self-released) {1}: Mj:* -- A:80/1

Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) {1}: -- TH:*

Glaive: Y'all (Slowsilver03/Broke) {1}: NT:* -- A:87/1

Ani Glass: Phantasmagoria () {1}: GTV:* -- A:80/1

Glazyhaze: Sonic (Believe Music) {1}: Sg:+ -- A:70/2

God Alone: The Beep Test (Prosthetic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:90/1

God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Ben Goldberg/Todd Sickafoose/Scott Amendola: Here to There (Secret Hatch -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

The Golden Dregs: Godspeed (Joy of Life International) {1}: PM:* -- A:75/2

Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) {1}: -- TH:*

Emma Goldman: All You Are Is We () {1}: Ex:26 --

Golem Mecanique: Siamo Tutti in Pericolo (Ideologic Origin) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

The Vinny Golia Quintet: Out for Blood (Nine Winds) {1}: -- TH:*

Mac Gollehon & the Hispanic Mechanics: Pistoleros (World Funk Orchestra) {1}: JC:+ --

The Good Ones: Rwanda Sings With Strings (Glitterbeat) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Gordi: Like Plasticine (Mushroom) {1}: Sk:* -- A:80/1

Kyle Gordon: Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful (BMG) {1}: Ne:* -- A:80/1

The Gotobeds: Masterclass (12XU) {1}: P:* -- A:89/1

GPS: Directions + Destinations (577) {1}: JC:+ --

Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) {1}: MH:* -- A:80/1

Laura Jane Grace: Adventure Club () {1}: XCI:** --

Grandmas House: Anything for You (Dutchess Box -EP) {1}: DIY:* -- A:80/1

Grand Official: Supreme () {1}: HG:+ --

Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (LP345) {1}: -- TH:*

Pasquale Grasso: Solo Be-Bop! (Sony Masterworks) {1}: JC:+ --

Ronny Graupe's Szelest: Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC) {1}: JC:+ --

Green Gardens: Thistlesifting (Tiny Library) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve) {1}: -- TH:*

Peter Gregson: Peter Gregson (Decca) {1}: -- A:80/1

Grentperez: Backflips in a Restaurant () {1}: NME:* -- A:80/1

Gulli Gudmundsson/Jeroen van Vliet/Koen Smits: Flóð Og Fjara (Challenge) {1}: JC:+ --

Guided by Voices: Universe Room (GBV) {1}: am:* -- A:65/6

Joy Guidry: Five Prayers (Jaid) {1}: JC:+ --

Guiltless: Teeth to Sky (Neurot) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Jean-Luc Guionnet: L'Épaisseur De L'Air Live (Potlatch) {1}: JC:+ --

Goya Gumbani: Warlord of the Weejuns () {1}: HG:+ --

Gustaffson: Black & White Movie (One Boat) {1}: LW:* -- A:90/1

Caity Gyorgy: Hello! How Are You? (La Reserve -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric) {1}: -- TH:*

Hachiku: The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists) {1}: Cl:* -- A:80/2

Cerys Hafana: Angel (Tak:til) {1}: W:21 --

Hail the Sun: Cut. Turn. Fade. Back. (Rude) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Half Japanese: Adventure (Fire) {1}: ClR:* -- A:73/3

Halflives: How Much a Heart Can Take Before It Breaks (-EP) {1}: DiS:* -- AK80/1

Halima: Sweet Tooth (Drink Sum Wtr) {1}: am:8 -- A:80/1

Caylee Hammack: Bed of Roses () {1}: RS:+ --

Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) {1}: K:* -- A:70/2

Handsome Gentlemen: Filmed by Quentin Tarantino () {1}: HG:+ --

Waylon Hanel: When Waylon Came to Nashville () {1}: scm:+ --

Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) {1}: -- TH:*

The Happy Fits: Lovesick () {1}: Em:* -- A:90/1

Omari Hardwick: BuffalOes & Butterflies () {1}: HG:+ --

Chris Harms: 1980 (Napalm) {1}: Mj:* -- A:80/1

Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) {1}: -- TH:*

Nanami Haruta: The Vibe (Origin) {1}: JC:+ --

Samuel Hasselhorn/Ammiel Bushakevitz: Franz Schubert: Licht und Schatten (Harmonia Mundi) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Hataalii: I'll Be Around (Panther Mountain) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

Have Mercy: The Loneliest Place I've Ever Been (Rude) {1}: Em:* -- A:85/1

Alexander Hawkins/Taylor Ho Bynum: A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt) {1}: JC:+ --

Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (Edition) {1}: -- TH:*

Hazlett: Last Night You Said You Missed Me () {1}: Cl:* -- A:78/2

Paul Hecht: Pyrography (Ears & Eyes) {1}: JC:+ --

Heems: A Hundred Alibis (Veena -EP) {1}: xjdc:* -- TH:B-

Ralph Heidel: Anyways.Onto Better Things () {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

Hekla: Turnar (Phantom Limb) {1}: LBF:* -- A:83/2

Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (La Reserve/Diggers Factory) {1}: -- TH:*

Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) {1}: Blb:* -- A:70/4

Tyler Henderson: Love Endures (Cellar Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Sarah Hennies/Richard Valitutto: SOVT (Elsewhere) {1}: AAJ:* --

Heretoir: Solastalgia (ADP) {1}: MH:* -- A:73/3

Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) {1}: AAJ:* -- TH:B

Hexrot: Formless Ruin of Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Twilight (Plastique) {1}: AD:*, Mj:*, RC:* -- A:75/4

High.: Come Back Down () {1}: CS:+ -- A:70/1

The High & Mighty: Sound of Market () {1}: HG:+ --

Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Hilarious Disasters: Unnatural Root (Audio Cave) {1}: JC:+ --

Arthur Hill: In the Middle of Somewhere (self-released -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers: Gifts (Enja) {1}: JC:+ --

Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke: Split Scale (Thrill Jockey) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) {1}: -- TH:*

Robin Holcomb/Peggy Lee: Reno (Songlines) {1}: JC:+ --

Benny Holiday: Holiday Land () {1}: HG:+ --

Deborah Holland: I Made It This Far () {1}: -- A:80/1

Samuel Hollis & Tara Cunningham: Music for Moving Pictures II (-EP) {1}: SLi:* -- A:87/1

Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto -24) {1}: -- TH:[B]

Homeboy Sandman & Guidance: Tears of Joy (self-released -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Homeboy Sandman: Soli Deo Gloria () {1}: xjdc:* --

Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Home Front: Watch It Die (La Vida Es Un Mus) {1}: PO:* --

Honesty: U R Here (Partisan) {1}: NME:* -- A:65/4

Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (ARC Music) {1}: -- TH:*

Calum Hood: Order Chaos Order (EMI) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Hooveriii: Manhunter (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) {1}: LW:* -- A:90/1

Horizon Trio: Horizon (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Hunny: Spirit! (Epitaph) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Hunx and His Punks: Walk Out on This World (Get Better) {1}: PO:* --

Huremic: Seeking Darkness () {1}: Sg:+ -- A:73/1

HxH: Stark Phenomena (OFNOT) {1}: JC:+ --

Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Zé Ibarra: Afim (Mr. Bongo) {1}: JC:+ --

Ider: Last to the World (Nettwerk) {1}: O:* -- A:70/2

Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) {1}: Ne:* -- A:80/1

Wata Igarashi: My Supernova (Dekmantel) {1}: DJM:+ -- A:76/1

ILL Tone Beats: The Outcome () {1}: HG:+ --

Illuminati Hotties: Nickle on the Fountain Floor (-EP) {1}: xjdc:* --

Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

Index for Working Musik: Which Direction Goes the Beam (Tough Love) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

Industrial Puke: Alive to No Avail (Suicide) {1}: DW:* --

Chris Ingham Quintet: Walter/Donald (Downhome) {1}: -- TH:*

In Mourning: The Immortal (Supreme Chaos) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

In the Company of Serpents: A Crack in Everything () {1}: Db:34 --

In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance (Jazzland) {1}: AAJ:* --

In the Pines: Sunbeam Dream (self-released) {1}: Sp:* -- A:75/2

I Prevail: Violent Nature (Fearless) {1}: K:* -- A:75/2

IQ: Dominion (Giant Electric Pea) {1}: Prg:* -- A:65/2

Jon Irabagon/Peter Brendler: Two-Part Inventions (Irabbagast) {1}: JC:+ --

Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell: Making Good Time (-EP) {1}: NT:* -- A:90/1

Kim Jung Jae: Shamanism (Relative Pitch) {1}: JC:+ --

José James: 1978: Revenge of the Dragon (Rainbow Blonde) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Jameszoo: Music for 17 Musicians (Brainfeeder) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Jane in Ether: Oneiric (Confront) {1}: -- TH:*

Gaétan Jarry/Ensemble Marguerite Louise/David Tricou/Romain Champion/Nicolas Brooymans: Charpentier: Missa Assumpta Est Maria (Château de Versailles Spectacles) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Yves Jarvis: All Cylinders (In Real Life) {1}: FO:* -- A:79/2

Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) {1}: -- TH:*

Oscar Jerome: The Fork (New Soil) {1}: GTV:* -- A:90/1

Jiles & Grubby Pawz: Griot (Van Buren) {1}: BPM:27 --

Jin: Echo (HYBE/Big Hit -EP) {1}: Cl:* -- A:70/3

Jisoo: Amortage (Blissoo/Warner/Empire -EP) {1}: NME:* -- A:80/1

Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

JLZ + GG: Medio Grave (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {1}: PO:* --

JoJo: NGL () {1}: BB:+ --

Joe Jonas: Music for People Who Believe in Love (Republic) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Louis Jones III: Motions (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Joni: Things I Left Behind (Hand in Hive/Keeled Scales) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

Joviale: Mount Crystal () {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Samara Joy: Portrait (Verve -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[*]

Juana Molina: DOGA () {1}: vew:+ --

Barb Jungr and Her Trio Featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen (Kristalyn) {1}: AAJ:* --

Junii: Jinx! () {1}: Em:* -- A:85/1

Eddie Kaine & Machacha: Crown Me Kaine () {1}: HG:+ --

Leven Kali: LK99: The Prelude (Def Jam/Universal -EP) {1}: -- A:80/1

Kamakaze & WIZE: It's About Time () {1}: DJM:+ --

Ayako Kanda - Tatsuya Yoshida ATP: Kalpty Vol. 1 (Tapestmemory) {1}: JC:+ --

Prima Kanta: In a Purple Time (Linoleum) {1}: JC:+ --

Charlie Kaplan: A Hat Upon the Bed (Glamour Gowns) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Sylvain Kassap/Steve Swell/Benjamin Duboc/Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt) {1}: JC:+ --

Hesse Kassel: La Brea () {1}: CS:+ --

Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic) {1}: -- TH:*

Katseye: Beautiful Chaos (HYBE/Geffen -EP) {1}: DW:* --

Dalila Kayros: Khthonie (Subsound) {1}: GTV:* -- A:80/1

Keelepeksjad: Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika) {1}: JC:+ --

Kele: The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (Kola) {1}: AD:* -- A:68/4

Machine Gun Kelly: Lost Americana (EST 19XX) {1}: DW:* --

Ruston Kelly: Pale, Through the Window (Rounder) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Madeline Kenney: Kiss From the Balcony (Carpark) {1}: Spk:* -- A:80/2

KennyHoopla: Conditiosn of an Orphan (Garbagehill -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

KenTheMan: Kinda Famous () {1}: -- CS:+

Robin Kester: Dark Sky Reserve (Memphis Industries) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Keys: Acid Communism (Libertine) {1}: GTV:36 --

Khadija Al Hanafi: !OK! (Fada) {1}: GB:31 -- A:75/1

Khalid: After the Sun Goes Down (RCA) {1}: IT:* -- A:75/2

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower) {1}: JC:+ --

Carla Kihlstedt: 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe Music) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

David Kikoski: Weekend at Smalls (Cellar Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Kills Birds: Crave (Lucky Number -EP) {1}: DIY:* -- A:75/2

Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) {1}: PO:* -- TH:B-

Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse: Opening Night (Kill Rock Stars) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Domino Kirke: The Most Familiar Star () {1}: S:+ --

Mark Kirschenmann: Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) {1}: JC:+ --

Klein: Sleep With a Cane (Parkwuud) {1}: -- BPM:*

Kloke: Lucidity () {1}: DJM:+ --

Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver: Hinterland () {1}: O:* -- A:100/1

Steve Knight: For Years Gone (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Masayo Koketsu: Nyoinbo - Zenbu Nagareboshi no Sei (Somethin' Cool) {1}: JC:+ --

Kristina Koller: Walk On By (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) {1}: -- TH:*

Kool Keith & Dane Uno: The Yoohoo Bros. () {1}: HG:+ --

Kool Keith: Karpenters () {1}: HG:+ --

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Thomas Kaufmann/Camerata Bern: Exile (Alpha) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore) {1}: jnc:+ -- TH:B

Malakoff Kowalski: Songs With Words (Sony) {1}: JC:+ --

Krokofant: 6 (Is It Jazz?) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Kroppskännedom: Kroppskännedom (Morc) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

Kuunatic: Wheels of Ömon (Glitterbeat) {1}: FO:* -- A:90/1

Kwn: With All Due Respect (RCA -EP) {1}: RS:61 --

Lab Rat: Lab Rat (self-released) {1}: BPM:* -- A:80/1

Brandon Lake: King of Hearts () {1}: BB:+ -- A:60/1

Lake: Bucolic Gene (Don Giovanni) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

John Lamkin: Hot (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Rindert Lammers: Thank You Kirin Kiki (Western Vinyl) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Rhys Langston: Pale Black Negative () {1}: PW:30 --

L'Antidote: L'Antidote (Ponderosa Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Larcenia Roe: Extraction (Unique Leader) {1}: Blb:* -- A:80/1

Bells Larsen: Blurring Time (Royal Mountain) {1}: cos:+ --

Lastelle: Exist Vol. 2 (-EP) {1}: DiS:* -- A:90/1

Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet: Keepers of the Flame (Murrymarie Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz) {1}: -- TH:*

Lathe of Heaven: Aurora (Sacred Bones) {1}: Spk:* -- A:74/3

La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII: Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) {1}: M -- AMG:*

Laurenne/Louhimo: Falling Through Stars (Frontiers) {1}: Sp:* -- A:88/2

Lava Quartet: Ethereal Chant (Fundacja Słuchaj) {1}: JC:+ --

Lavender: We're Having a Barn Dance () {1}: bb6:+ --

Ant Law: Unified Theories (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Josh Lawrence: Still We Dream (Posi-Tone) {1}: AAJ:* --

Bryce Leatherwood: Bryce Leatherwood () {1}: scm:+ --

Ledisi: For Dinah (Candid) {1}: JC:+ --

Charmaine Lee: Tulpa (Kou) {1}: JC:+ --

Legacy of Lovers: Calm Cool Connections (-EP) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Legss: Unreal (The State51 Conspiracy) {1}: Cl:* -- A:75/2

Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) {1}: CM:+ --

Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society) {1}: -- TH:*

Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GamsbART -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[B]

LeoStayTrill: Home Alone (-EP) {1}: NME:* -- A:80/1

Letters From My Garden: Lágrimas De Primavera () {1}:

SG Lewis: Anemoia (Positiva) {1}: D:* -- A:74/3

Lex Nyre: The Best Language () {1}: HG:+ --

Ley Soul: Panda (self-released -EP) {1}: Em:* -- A:80/1

Lik: Necro () {1}: DiS:* -- A:75/2

Lil2posh: Fiesta Boy () {1}: Fa:+ --

Lil Baby: Wham (Quality Control/Motown) {1}: Cl:* -- A:53/4

Yunchan Lim/Martin Alsop/Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 (Decca) {1}: G:* -- A:100/1

Ira B. Liss: Unexpected Guests (Tall Man) {1}: AAJ:* --

Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War (Easy Eye Sound) {1}: am:* -- A:75/2

Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Box of Tricks (Whirlwind) {1}: JC:+ --

Henny L.O. & Ewonee: The Coldest Season Ever () {1}: HG:+ --

London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron: Malcolm Arnold (Orchid Classics) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Lonesome: In the Hope This Finds You (Easy Life) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Longnon Big Band: Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz) {1}: JC:+ --

Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury) {1}: Sp:* -- A:75/7

Lord Sko: Piff () {1}: HG:+ --

Lords of the Underground & Snowgoons: So Legendary (Goon MsSick) {1}: RR:* -- A:75/1

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Russ Lossing Trio: Moon Inhabitants (Sunnyside) {1}: -- TH:*

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Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor: All Worlds (Sacred Bones) {1}: am:* -- A:69/3

Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[A-]

Jo David Meyer Lynse: For Renstemt Klaver (Hubro) {1}: AAJ:* --

Machine Girl: PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X (Future Classic) {1}: DW:* --

Peter Madsen Trio: Faces of Love (Playscape) {1}: AAJ:* --

Matt Maeson: A Quiet and Harmless Living (09-12) {1}: A:90/1

Valentina Magaletti & YPY: Kansai Bruises (AD 93) {1}: W:33 --

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Ron Magril: Inspired (GleAM) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Georgia Maq: God's Favourite (1000 Rats -EP) {1}: NT:* -- A:76/2

Marinero: La La La () {1}: am:* -- A:78/2

Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) {1}: -- TH:*

Marmen Quartet: Ligeti & Bartók: String Quartets (BIS) {1}: am:* -- A:100/1

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Billy Marrows and Grande Familia: The Penelope Album Live (Discus Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Maze Overlay & Slang Hugh: Word () {1}: HG:+ --

Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Live Spirit 1 (WMQ) {1}: JC:+ --

Brian John McBrearty: Remembering Repeating (Love Beyond Measure) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

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Makaya McCraven: Hidden Out! (International Anthem -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

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MC Homeless: Stay Slick () {1}: HG:+ --

James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter: . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence) {1}: JC:+ --

Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State (self-released) {1}: JC:+ --

Dave McMurray: I Love Life Even When I'm Hurting (Blue Note) {1}: -- TH:*

Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) {1}: Spk:* -- A:90/1

Meet Me @ the Altar: Worried Sick (-EP) {1}: DW:* --

Madilyn Mei: A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 (Mercury) {1}: Spk:* -- A:90/1

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Mên An Tol: This Land (self-released -EP) {1}: -- A:80/1

Otis Mensah & the Intern: Before the Noise My Cousin () {1}: HG:+ --

Nate Mercereau/Josh Johnson/Carlos Niño: Openness Trio (Blue Note) {1}: JC:+ --

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MindsOne: Stages (Fort Lowell) {1}: HG:+ --

Kelsey Mines/Erin Rogers: Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) {1}: -- TH:*

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Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (Parco Della Musica) {1}: -- TH:*

Matt Mitchell: Sacrosancticity (Obliquity) {1}: JC:+ --

Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) {1}: -- TH:*

Mizmor & Hell: Alluvion (Gilead Media) {1}: Tr:+ -- A:65/2

Kyle M.: The Real Me () {1}: Up_sh:+ --

Mondo Lava: Utero Dei (Hausu Mountain) {1}: PM:* -- A:77/3

Polly Money: T-shirt Nothing Else (Cool Online -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Monotype: I Let the Wind Push Down on Me () {1}: Sg:+ -- A:62/1

Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music) {1}: -- TH:*

Marlaena Moore: Because You Love Everything () {1}: Ex:* -- A:80/1

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Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) {1}: -- TH:*

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Mors Principium Est: Darkness Invisible (Reigning Phoenix) {1}: DiS:* -- A:75/2

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MSPAINT: No Separation (Convulse -EP) {1}: DW:* --

Eska Mtungwazi: The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman (Earthling) {1}: Cl:* -- A:80/1

Mukta: A Night at Pannonica (Cepazz) {1}: JC:+ --

Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now (Grappa) {1}: AAJ:* --

Moon Mullins: Hotel Paradiso () {1}: P:+ --

Misha Mullov-Abbado: Effra (Ubuntu Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Qasim Naqvi: Endling (Erased Tapes) {1}: -- TH:*

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Patrick Naylor: Organza (Beeboss) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Lou Nevins: The Fumes (Cavetone) {1}: PO:* --

NewDad: Safe (Atlantic -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

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Ian Nyquist: Gilded (Flood) {1}: Cl:* -- A:90/1

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NZO: Come Alive () {1}: DJM:+ --

Oakland Reductionist Orchestra: West and East Baying (Queen Bee) {1}: JC:+ --

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Leila Olivesi: African Rhapsody (Attention Fragile) {1}: JC:+ --

Petra Onderuf Quartet: An Odd Time of Day (Kaipati) {1}: JC:+ --

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Blair Packham: The Impossible Dream () {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

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Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat) {1}: JC:+ --

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: That Wasn't a Dream (Impulse!) {1}: JC:+ --

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Zeena Parkins: Lament for the Maker (Relative Pitch) {1}: -- TH:*

Zeena Parkins: Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik) {1}: JC:+ --

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RJ Payne: Leatherface 4 () {1}: RR:* -- A:80/1

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Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew (Sense) {1}: AAJ:* --

Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho) {1}: -- TH:*

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Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (Innervision) {1}: -- TH:*

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Phill Most Chill: I'm (Volume One & Volume Two) () {1}: HG:+ --

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Pinkshift: Earthkeeper (Hopeless) {1}: K:* -- A:75/2

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Everson Poe: Enough Is a Myth (Fladh Productions) {1}: LW:* -- A:90/1

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Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

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Pretty Rude: Ripe () {1}: SC:* -- A:81/

Primal Fear: Domination (Reigning Phoenix) {1}: Blb:* -- A:68/2

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Joey Purp & Thelonious Martin: Champagne Seats () {1}: RR:* -- A:80/

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Quinie: Forefowk, Mind Me () {1}: G:* -- A:80/1

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Peter Rehberg: Liminal States (Editions Mego) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

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Jessie Reyez: Paid in Memories () {1}: BB:+ --

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Robin Richards: Taproots (Prah) {1}: MO:* -- A:80/1

Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (Meson) {1}: -- TH:*

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Rio Da Yung OG: Rio Free (Something Happen) () {1}: Fa:+ --

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Dan Rosenboom: Coordinates (Orenda) {1}: JC:+ --

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Kurt Rosenwinkel + Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos: Our Secret World: Live at Cara (Bandit Digital Media Services) {1}: JC:+ --

Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[*]

Thom Rotella: Right Time Left (HighNote) {1}: JC:+ --

Kyle Roussel: Church of New Orleans (self-released) {1}: JC:+ --

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Jerome Sabbagh: Stand Up! (Analog Tone Factory) {1}: jnc:+ --

Talibah Safiya: A Lil More Black Magic (High Water) {1}: PO:* --

Matthieu Saglio/Camille Saglio: Al Alba (ACT Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

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Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language (Pacific Coast Jazz) {1}: -- TH:*

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Elana Sasson: In Between () {1}: PM:+ --

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Isabel Schickenetanz: Seelentrost () {1}: am:* -- A:100/1

Rebecca Schiffman: Before the Future () {1}: RS:* -- A:79/2

Eric Schmitt: Wait for the Night (self-released) {1}: -- RX:*

Matt Schofield: Many Moons Vol. 1 (Number 7) {1}: AAJ:* --

Schola Antiqua of Chicago & Michael Alan Anderson: Liber ymnorum (Naxos) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

School Fair: Bird the Kid (self-released) {1}: SLi:* -- A:83/1

Louis Sclavis: India (Yolk) {1}: JC:+ --

Scour: Gold (Nuclear Blast) {1}: MI:* -- A:90/1

Scree: August (Ruination) {1}: PM:* -- A:77/2

Seasonal Falls: Improvised Sinking (-EP) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Kenny Segal & Human Error Club: Human Error Club at Kenny's House () {1}: PW:38 --

Yukari Sekiya: Duets Till Now, From Here (Umishima) {1}: JC:+ --

Robert Sellier/Vanessa Waldhart/Yulia Sokolik/Romelia Lichtenstein/Michael Zehe/Oper Halle Chorus/Händelfestspielorchester Halle/Michael Hofstetter: Handel: Brockes Passion (Naxos) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Altin Sencalar: Unleashed (Posi-Tone) {1}: -- TH:*

Trevor Sensor: A Few Tears of Eros (High Black Desert) {1}: Em:* -- A:80/1

Set It Off: Set It Off (self-released) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Sevdaliza: Heroina (Twisted Elegance) {1}: v_ja:10 --

Sevendials: A Crash Course in Catastrophe (Creation Youth/Cadiz Music) {1}: LW:* -- A:90/1

Sex Scenes: Everything Makes Me Sick () {1}: so_d:18 --

Ron Sexsmith: Hangover Terrace (Cooking Vinyl) {1}: RC:* -- A:73/3

Shadow of Delirium: Imperium Delirium (self-released) {1}: Blb:* -- A:90/1

Shakti: Mind Explosion: 50th Anniversary Tour Live (Abstract Logix) {1}: JC:+ --

Shallowater: God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars (self-released) {1}: BPM:* -- A:83/1

Anoushka Shankar: Chapter III: We Return to Light (Leiter) {1}: am:* -- A:76/2

Shapes Like People: Ticking Haze (Jangleshop) {1}: LW:* -- A:100/1

Ed Sheeran: Play (Gingerbread Man/Atlantic UK) {1}: IT:* -- A:57/6

Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) {1}: AMG:* -- A:90/1

Collin Sherman: Life Eats Life (Ex-tol) {1}: AAJ:* --

Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (Music Maker -EP) {1}: PO:* --

Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek: Greyhound Days (Mondoj) {1}: JC:+ --

Alexei Shishkin: Good Times () {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Silas Short: Lushland (Stones Throw) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Deborah Shulman: We Had a Moment (Summit) {1}: -- TH:*

The Sick Man of Europe: The Sick Man of Europe (The Leaf Label) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Ben Sidran: Are We There Yet (Bonsai/Nardis) {1}: JC:+ --

Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) {1}: -- TH:*

Silverstein: Pink Moon (UNFD) {1}: Sp:* -- A:90/1

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Live Like the Sky () {1}: Ex:34 --

Laura Ann Singh: Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) {1}: PO:* --

Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music) {1}: -- TH:*

Stefan Sirbu: Reverie (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Sir Woman: If It All Works Out () {1}: PM:+ --

Sister Ray: Believer (Royal Mountain) {1}: Sp:* -- A:73/2

Edward Skeletrix: Museum Music (none) {1}: G:+ -- A:37/1

KP Skywalka: I Tried to Tell You (Beat the Odds) {1}: Pf:41 --

Chloe Slater: Love Me Please (AWAL -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Sleeper's Bell: Clover () {1}: -- Sg:+

Slik Jack/Vincent Pryce: Everyone's Gotta Pryce () {1}: HG:+ --

The Slow Readers Club: Out of a Dream (self-released) {1}: XSN:* -- A:80/1

Junior Smith and His Remote Rangers: Junior Smith's Remote Round Up (self-released) {1}: -- TH:*

Ches Smith: The Self (Tzadik) {1}: -- TH:*

Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music) {1}: -- TH:*

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Gush (Nettwerk) {1}: Mj:* -- A:70/6

Tom Smith: A Year in the Life (Tom Smith) {1}: JC:+ --

Smooth Elevator: Moving Target (Losen) {1}: AAJ:* --

Ronald Snijders: Penta (Night Dreamer) {1}: AAJ:* --

Soccer Committee: Eye (Morc) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

The Soda Crackers: The Soda Crackers () {1}: scm:+ --

Solar Eyes: Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (Fierce Panda) {1}: LW:* -- A:70/2

Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music) {1}: -- TH:*

Ben Solomon: Duet Etudes (Vireo Music Publishing) {1}: JC:+ --

Something Blue: In the Beginning (Posi-Tone) {1}: -- TH:*

Sometime in February: Where Mountains Hide () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

SOM: Let Some Light In (Pelagic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Son Lux: Risk of Make Believe (City Slang -EP) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) {1}: -- TH:*

Soot Sprite: Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon (Specialist Subject) {1}: Cl:* -- A:80/1

Sissy Spacek: Entrance (Shelter Press) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Spacey Jane: If That Makes Sense (AWAL/Concord) {1}: BPM:* -- A:70/2

Sparks: MADDER! (Transgressive -EP) {1}: ClR:* -- A:90/1

Species: Changelings () {1}: Db:21 --

Simon Spillett: Up in Town (Mister PC) {1}: JC:+ --

Spiritual Cramp: Rude (Blue Grape Music) {1}: K:* -- A:78/2

Konrad Sprenger: Set (Black Truffle) {1}: Mj:* -- A:80/1

Spunicunifait: Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments (Alpha) {1}: G:* -- A:80/1

Standing on the Corner: S/T II () {1}: vu:10 --

Starset: Silos (Fearless) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Candi Staton: Back to My Roots (Beracah) {1}: Mj:* -- A:75/2

Stealing Sheep: GLO (Girl Life Online) (G-IRL) {1}: DS:21 -- A:70/1

Steel Saddle: Steel Saddle () {1}: scm:* --

Tamara Stefanovich: Organised Delirium (PentaTone) {1}: G:* -- A:100/1

Steffi & Virginia: Patterns of Vibration (Dekmantel) {1}: DJM:+ --

Paul Stephan, Awaiting Kvng & BexBlu: Still Reminiscing () {1}: DJM:+ --

Dayna Stephens: Monk'D (Contagious Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns (Mind Beach) {1}: AAJ:* --

Laura Stevenson: Late Great (Really) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (Edition) {1}: -- TH:*

JC Stewart: Space Hurts (Stanley Park) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Still in Love: Recovery Language (Church Road) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Stinky: Solace () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

St. Lucia: Fata Morgana: Dawn (Nettwerk) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Nick Storring: Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

The Story So Far: I Want to Disappear in the USA () {1}: Sp:* -- A:90/1

Strawberry Fuzz: Miller's Garage (CandyShop) {1}: NT:* -- A:83/1

Street Eaters: Opaque () {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Stress Positions: Human Zoo (Three One G) {1}: Blb:* -- A:80/1

Caroline Strickland: Martha's Calling (-EP) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Thomas Strønen/Time Is a Blind Guide: Off Stillness (ECM) {1}: -- TH:*

Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B-

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives: Space Junk (Snakefarm) {1}: scm:+ --

Subsonic Eye: Singapore Dreaming () {1}: vgb:10 --

The Summer Set: Meet Me at the Record Store (LAB) {1}: Em:* -- A:90/1

Sumni: Heart Maid (Abyss) {1}: SpL:* --

Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands 一 (Endectomorph Music -EP) {1}: -- TH:*

Kevin Sun: Quartets (Endectomorph Music -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[***]

Surprise Chef: Superb (Big Crown) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

Swim School: Swim School (LAB) {1}: XSN:* -- A:100/1

Talk Show: Miss America (We Jazz) {1}: JC:+ --

Tamino: Every Dawn's a Mountain (Communion Group) {1}: Cl:* -- A:80/1

Simin Tander: The Wind (Jazzland) {1}: AAJ:* --

Tara Nome Doyle: Ekko (FatCat) {1}: XSN:* -- A:80/1

Sophie Tassignon: A Slender Thread (Nemu) {1}: -- TH:*

Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (Vegas) {1}: -- TH:*

Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Claude Tchamitchian Quartet: Vortice (Emouvance) {1}: JC:+ --

Tchotchke: Playin' Dumb (self-released) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers: Glory (Mom + Pop Music) {1}: xjdc:* --

Telepathy: Transmissions (Pelagic) {1}: MH:* -- A:80/1

Telethon: Suburban Electric () {1}: S:+ --

Ten56.: IO (Out of Line) {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Tennessee Jet: Ranchero () {1}: scm:+ --

Terraplana: Natural () {1}: Sg:+ --

Terra Twin: Static Separation (Dance to the Radio -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Ignasi Terraza: With Respect to Oscar and Niels (Swit) {1}: AAJ:* --

Tetsuo: Gossamer () {1}: HG:+ --

Thaba: December/Sedimonthole () {1}: PM:+ --

Thala: Avalanche (Fire) {1}: GTV:* -- A:70/2

TheBabeGabe: Honeypop (No Label) {1}: Em:* -- A:85/1

Thecityisours: Will You Still Love Me? () {1}: DiS:* -- A:60/3

Rachel Therrien: Mi Hogar II (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Third Coast Percussion: Glass: Aguas da Amazonia () {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Three Days Grace: Alienation (RCA) {1}: Sp:* -- A:73/3

Thrice: Horizons/West (Epitaph) {1}: MH:*, Spk:* -- A:73/3

Thron: Vurias (Listenable) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

Thurnin: Harmr (Prophecy Productions) {1}: Spk:* -- A:70/2

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: I'm Done With Self Care, It's Time for Others' Harm (Prosthetic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:70.2

Tiberius: Singing for Company (self-released) {1}: DiS:* -- A:90/1

Tiktaalika: Gods of Pangaea (InsideOut) {1}: DiS:* -- A:65/2

Anna Tivel: Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy) {1}: U:* -- A:80/1

TL;DR & Peter Knight: Too Long; Didn't Read (Earshift Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Malcolm Todd: Malcolm Todd (Columbia) {1}: RS:+ -- A:70/2

Tokyo Tea Room: No Rush (Nice Guys) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Tómarúm: Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic) {1}: AMG:* -- A:84/2

Tomorrow X Together: The Star Chapter: Together (Bit Hit/HYBE) {1}: NME:* -- A:80/1

Torso: Annihilation Day () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Total Wife: Come Back Down () {1}: DW:* --

Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne) {1}: -- TH:*

TripleS: Assemble25 (Modhaus) {1}: Spk:* -- A:80/1

Olivia Trummer: Like Water (Warner Music Italy) {1}: JC:+ --

Trupa Trupa: Mourners () {1}: so_k:7 --

Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (Margetoile) {1}: -- TH:*

Tune-Yards: Tell the Future With Your Body (4AD -EP) {1}: DW:* --

Turin Brakes: Spacehopper (Cooking Vinyl) {1}: XSN:* -- A:75/2

U.e.: Hometown Girl (28912) {1}: U:* -- A:79/2

Frances-Marie Uitti/Milana Zarić/Elisabeth Harnik: Unified Field (Strange Strings) {1}: JC:+ --

Ukandanz: Evil Plan (Compagne 4000 -EP) {1}: FO:* -- A:80/1

uMaNg & B.B.Z. Darney: Monu-mental () {1}: HG:+ --

Uncle Murda: Murda He Wrote () {1}: RR:* -- A:75/1

Uncle Strut: Home at Last () {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Underoath: The Place After This One (MNRK Heavy) {1}: am:* -- A:70/3

Unflirt: Fleeting (Fader -EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

University: Yes (-EP) {1}: GTV:* -- A:90/1

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar) {1}: DIY:* -- A:71/4

Unspecified Enemies: Romance in the Age of Adaptive Feedback () {1}: PW:41 --

The Untamed Youth: Git Up and Go (Hi-Tide) {1}: PO:* --

Urn: Demon Steel (Osmose Productions) {1}: AMG:* -- A:80/1

Hüma Utku: Dracones () {1}: PM:+ --

Joey Valence & Brae: Hyperyouth () {1}: HG:+ --

Valiant: Prove Them Wrong () {1}: BB:+ --

Jack Van Clef: JVC (self-released) {1}: cos:+ --

Ken Vandermark: October Flowers for Joe McPhee (Corbett vs. Dempsey) {1}: -- TH:**

Ken Vandermark: October Flowers for Joe McPhee (Corbett vs. Dempsey) {1}: PO:* --

Ken Vandermark: Snapshots: Complete (Kilogram -23) {1}: JC:+ --

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Centennial: The Music of Thad Jones: Live at the Village Vanguard (2024, BCM+D -24) {1}: JC_r:+ --

Mark Van Hoen: The Eternal Present () {1}: bl:+ --

Gino Vannelli: The Life I Got (To My Most Beloved) () {1}: Sp:* -- A:90/1

Gizmo Varillas: Into the Night () {1}: GTV:* -- A:80/1

Neton Vega: Mi Vida Mi Muerte () {1}: S:+ --

Venna: Malik (Cashmere Thoughts) {1}: DJM:+ --

Venturing: Ghostholding (DeadAir) {1}: G:+ -- A:75/2

Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (Origin) {1}: -- TH:*

The Vernon Spring: Under a Familiar Sun (OPIA) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (Enid) {1}: PO:* --

Vicious Rumors: The Devil's Asylum (Steamhammer) {1}: Blb:* -- A:80/1

Vildhjarta: + Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar + (Century Media) {1}: -- A:80/2

Vintersong: Vattenkrafternas Spel (Hammerheart) {1}: MH:* -- A:75/3

Voidfallen: The Rituals of Resilience () {1}: MH:* -- A:75/2

Joni Void: Every Life Is a Light (Constellation) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Vundabar: Surgery and Pleasure (Loma Vista) {1}: am:* -- A:74/2

Wagon Christ: Planet Roll (De:tuned) {1}: bl:+ --

The Waitiki 7: Exotica Reborn: In Studio and Live at House Without a Key (Waitiki International) {1}: JC:+ --

Wale: Everything Is a Lot (Wale Music/Def Jam) {1}: Em:38 --

Brad Walker: A Sliver of Catharsis (self-released) {1}: JC:+ --

Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan/Sony Music) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Safe Place (ACT Music) {1}: AAJ:* --

WateRR & Machacha: Almighty II () {1}: HG:+ --

Weatherday: Hornet Disaster () {1}: Sg:+ -- A:70/1

Orion Weiss: Arc III (First Hand) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Jerry Weldon: The Summit (Cellar Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Jesse Welles: Devil's Den (self-released) {1}: -- TH:*

Ben Wendel: Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

Joe Westerlund: Curiosities From the Shift (Psychic Hotline) {1}: PO:* --

Judy Wexler: No Wonder (Jewel City Jazz) {1}: AAJ:* --

Whitehall: National Finals Rodeo (ENCI) {1}: Sp:* -- A:80/1

Joshua White: Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano (Orenda) {1}: JC:+ --

White Reaper: Only Slightly Empty (Blue Grape Music) {1}: am:* -- A:70/2

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal: Mossy Oak Shadow (Run for Cover) {1}: Spk:* -- A:80/1

Tobias Wiklund: Inner Flight Music (Stunt) {1}: JC:+ --

Wilco: Live (Orange) (Legacy) {1}: TN:* --

Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[**]

Ben Williams: Between Church & State (Safe Space) {1}: JC:+ --

Evan Williams: The View From Halfway Down () {1}: GTV:* -- A:80/1

Wynn Williams: Country Therapy () {1}: scm:+ --

Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (Sunnyside) {1}: -- TH:*

Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus: The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music) {1}: JC:+ --

Witchcraft: Idag (Heavy Psych Sounds) {1}: Blb:* -- A:70/2

Witch Post: Beast (-EP) {1}: D:* -- A:80/1

Jim Witzel: Very Early: Remembering Bill Evans (Joplin & Sweeney) {1}: JC:+ --

Landon Wordswell & Es-K: Remember to Breathe () {1}: HG:+ --

Jay Worthy: Once Upon a Time () {1}: PW:32 --

Jay Worthy: Once Upon a Time 2 () {1}: PW:32 --

Wrath of Logarius: Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) {1}: K:* -- A:80/1

Wrekmeister Harmonies: Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey) {1}: am:* -- A:71/3

Clay Wulbrecth: The Clockmaster (Instru Dash Mental) {1}: -- TH:*

Jacob Wutzke: You Better Bet (Cellar Music Group) {1}: AAJ:* --

Σtella: Adagio (Sub Pop) {1}: GTV:* -- A:73/3

أحمد [Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (Fönstret -24) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:[A-]

Xzibit: Kingmaker () {1}: HG:+ --

Katsura Yamauchi/Kohsetsu Imanishi: Fumine (Ftarri) {1}: JC:+ --

Haewon Yang: Plays the Piano Works of Harry Bulow () {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Savina Yannatou/Primavera en Salonico and Larnia Bedioui: Watersong (ECM) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1

Yard: Yard (self-released -EP) {1}: GTV:* -- A:90/1

Yawning Balch: Volume Three () {1}: DiS:* -- A:80/1

Trisha Yearwood: The Mirror () {1}: scm:+ --

Yetsuby: 4Eva (Pink Oyster) {1}: DJM:+ -- A:73/1

YFN Lucci: Already Legend. (Think It's a Game) {1}: ny_c:16 -- A:60/1

Otomo Yoshihide: Plays Christian Marclay (Little Stone) {1}: JC:+ --

YoungBoy Never Broke Again: MASA (Never Broke Again/Motown) {1}: PW:50 -- A:57/2

Adrian Younge: Something About April III () {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Young Miko: Do Not Disturb (The Wave) {1}: cos:+ --

Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: Talkin' to the Trees () {1}: xjdc:* --

Young Widows: Power Sucker (Temporary Residence) {1}: Tr:+ -- A:56/1

Your Furture Ghost: Impatient for the Dream () {1}: Em:* -- A:85/1

Your Heterosexual Violence: Some People Have Too Much to Say (Trapped Animal) {1}: LW:* -- A:100/1

The Youth Play: Someday, Forever (-EP) {1}: BPM:* -- A:81/1

Youth Sector: Pop Couture (Dance to the Radio) {1}: ClR:* -- A:80/1

YT: Oi! (G2G) {1}: NME:* -- A:75/2

Zahili Gonzalez Zamora: Overcoming (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Zatokrev: Bring Mirrors to the Surface (Pelagic) {1}: DiS:* -- A:75/2

Thalia Zedek: The Boat Outside Your Window (Thrill Jockey) {1}: PM:* -- A:80/1

ZelooperZ & Real Bad Man: Dear Psilocybin () {1}: HG:+ --

Zerobaseone: Blue Paradise (Wakeone -EP) {1}: am:* -- A:80/1

Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story (self-released) {1}: AAJ:* --

Bailey Zimmerman: Different Night Same Rodeo () {1}: xjdc:* --

Zinoleesky: Gen Z () {1}: RS:+ --

Marina Zispin: Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Scenic Route) {1}: GTV:* -- A:80/1

James Zito: Zito's Jump (self-released) {1}: -- TH:*

Zora: Belladonna (Get Better) {1}: P:* -- A:85/1

John Zorn/Dave Lombardo: Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (Tzadik) {1}: JC:+ --

Shiri Zorn & George Muscatello Featuring Mauricio Zottarelli: Looking for the Light (self-released) {1}: JC:+ --

John Zorn & JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (Tzadik) {1}: am:* -- A:90/1