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| A Sunny Day in Glasgow | Sea When Absent | (Lefse) | dream-pop | 5/10 |
| Fatima Al Qadiri | Asiatisch | (Hyperdub) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots | (Parlophone) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Alcest | Shelter | (Prophecy Productions) | blackgaze | 5/10 |
| Algorithm | Octopus4 | (label) | dance | 6/10 |
| Alvvays | Alvvays | (self) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Oren Ambarchi | Quixotism | (Mego) | avant | 5/10 |
| Amen Dunes | Love | (Sacred Bones) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Tori Amos | Unrepentant Geraldines | (Mercury) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Antlers | Familiars | (Anti) | pop-jazz | 5/10 |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | (Warp) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Arca | Xen | (Mute) | dance | 7/10 |
| Badbadnotgood | III | (Innovative Leisure) | jazz-hop | 6/10 |
| Jonathan Badger | Verse | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Azealia Banks | Broke with Expensive Taste | (Prospect Park) | rap | 6/10 |
| Peter Batchelor | Kaleidoscope | (Pogus) | noise | 7/10 |
| Beck | Morning Phase | (Capitol) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Behemoth | The Satanist | (Nuclear Blast) | death-metal | 6/10 |
| Bing & Ruth | Tomorrow Was The Golden Age | (RVNG) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Bitchin Bajas | Bitchin Bajas | (Drag City) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Black Dirt Oak | Wawayanda Patent | (MIE) | roots-rock | 7/10 |
| Black to Comm | Black To Comm | (Type) | noise | 6/10 |
| Blackie | Imagine Yourself In A Free And Natural World | (self) | hip-hop | 7.5/10 |
| Dean Blunt | Black Metal | (Rough Trade) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Broken Bells | After the Disco | (Columbia) | pop | 4/10 |
| Bent Knee | Shiny Eyed Babies | (Bent Knee) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Black Rain | Dark Pool | (Blackest Ever Black) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Blut Aus Nord | Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry (2014), a | (Debemur Morti) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Bohren & der Club of Gore | Piano Nights | (PIAS) | noir-jazz | 5/10 |
| Bongripper | Miserable | (Great Barrier) | doom | 6/10 |
| Botanist | VI - Flora | (Flenser) | doom | 6/10 |
| Carla Bozulich | Boy | (Constellation) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | (Bureau B) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Caribou | Our Love | (City Slang) | dance | 5/10 |
| Julian Casablancas | Tyranny | (Cult) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Laura Luna Castillo | Isolarios | (Baba Vanga) | ambient | 6/10 |
| The Cellar and the Point | Ambit | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Neneh Cherry | Blank Project | (Smalltown Supersound) | pop | 5/10 |
| Chief Keef | Back From the Dead 2 | (self) | Trap | 7/10 |
| Circle | Leviatan | (Full Contact) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Clipping | CLPPNG | (SubPop) | rap | 6/10 |
| Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else | (Carpark) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Colour Haze | To The Highest Gods We Know | (Elektrohasch) | stoner | 5/10 |
| Frankie Cosmos | Zentropy | (Double Double Whammy) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Alvin Curran | Shofar Rags | (Tzadik) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Current 93 | I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell | (Spheres) | alt-pop | 5/10 |
| D'Angelo | Black Messiah | (RCA) | soul | 6/10 |
| Datashock | Keine Oase in Sicht | (Dekorder) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Richard Dawson | Nothing Important | (Weird World) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Death Grips | Niggas on the Moon | (Harvest) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Deep Listening Band | Dunrobin Sonic Gems | (Deep Listening) | drones | 6/10 |
| Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | (Interscope) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Vladislav Delay | Visa | (Ripatti) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Demdike Stare | Test Pressings | (Modern Love) | ambient dub | 6/10 |
| Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura | Interpenetrating Dimensional Express | (Golden Lab) | acid-rock | 7/10 |
| DJ Rozwell | None of This Is Real | (self) | hip-hop | 7.5/10 |
| Djam Karet | Regenerator 3017 | (HC) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Paul Dolden | Who Has the Biggest Sound? | (Starkland) | collage | 6/10 |
| Nicole Dollanganger | Observatory Mansions | (self) | songwriter | 6.5/10 |
| Dope Body | Lifer | (Drag City) | noise-rock | 5/10 |
| Toby Driver | Ichneumonidae | (Ice Level) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Earth | Primitive And Deadly | (Southern Lord) | doom | 6/10 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten | Lament | (Mute) | pop | 5/10 |
| Endon | MAMA | (Daymare) | noise | 7/10 |
| Brian Eno | Someday World | (Warp) | pop | 4/10 |
| Brian Eno | High Life | (Warp) | techno | 5/10 |
| Christian Fennesz | Becs | (Mego) | ambient | 6/10 |
| FKA Twigs | LP1 | (Young Turks) | pop | 5/10 |
| Fluisteraars | Dromers | (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) | black metal | 6.5/10 |
| Flying Lotus | You're Dead | (Warp) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Foxygen | And Star Power (2014) | (Jagjaguwar) | pop | 4/10 |
| Ben Frost | Aurora | (Mute) | industrial | 5/10 |
| Fucked Up | Glass Boys | (Matador) | post-hardcore | 5/10 |
| Future Islands | Singles | (4AD) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Goat | Commune | (Rocket) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Godflesh | A World Lit Only By Fire | (Avalanche) | metal | 5/10 |
| Good Willsmith | Aquarium Guru Shares The SecretTactic | (Baked Tapes) | collage | 5/10 |
| Good Willsmith | The Honeymoon Workbook | (Umor Rex) | collage | 6/10 |
| Grouper | Ruins | (Kranky) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Guardian Alien | Spiritual Emergency | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Guided by Voices | Cool Planet | (Guided by Voices) | alt-pop | 4/10 |
| Guided by Voices | Motivational Jumpsuit | (Guided by Voices) | alt-pop | 3/10 |
| Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Happy Family | Minimal Gods | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Aldous Harding | Aldous Harding | (Flying Nun) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Have A Nice Life | The Unnatural World | (Enemies List) | goth-rock | 5/10 |
| Robin Hayward | Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse | (Pogus) | drones | 7/10 |
| High Mountain Tempel | Gnosis | (Lotushouse) | psych | 5/10 |
| Horse Lords | Hidden Cities | (NNA Tapes) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Horseback | Piedmont Apocrypha | (Three Lobed) | ambient | 7/10 |
| How to Dress Well | What Is This Heart? | (Weird World) | pop | 5/10 |
| Jenny Hval & Susanna | Meshes of Voice | (Susanna Sonata) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Ice Age | Plowing Into the Field of Love | (Matador) | roots-rock | 4/10 |
| Idylls | Prayer For Terrene | (Tapes Of A Neon God) | metalcore | 7/10 |
| Iglooghost | Treetunnels | (Error Broadcast) | post-hop | 5/10 |
| Jute Gyte | Vast Chains | (Jeshimoth) | black-metal | 5/10 |
| Jute Gyte | Ressentiment | (Jeshimoth) | black-metal | 7/10 |
| Kairon; IRSE! | Ujubasajuba | (Svart) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Kayo Dot | Coffins on Io | (Flenser) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard | I'm In Your Mind Fuzz | (Flightless) | garage | 6/10 |
| Mark Lanegan | Phantom Radio | (Heavenly) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Jenny Lewis | The Voyager | (Warner) | country-rock | 4/10 |
| Klara Lewis | Ett | (Editions Mergo) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Liars | Mess | (Mute) | industrial | 4/10 |
| Annea Lockwood | Ground Of Being | (Recital) | noise | 5/10 |
| Los Random | Pidanoma | (Las Tias) | prog-metal | 7/10 |
| Madlib & Gibbs | Pinata | (Madlib Invazion) | hip hop | 5/10 |
| Peder Mannerfelt | Lines Describing Circles | (Digitalis) | dance | 7/10 |
| Mare Cognitum | Phobos Monolith | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Mats/Morgan Band | Schack Tati | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Mitski | Bury Me at Makeout Creek | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Kevin Morby | Still Life | (Woodsist) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Bob Mould | Beauty & Ruin | (Merge) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Murmur | Murmur | (Season of Mist) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Marissa Nadler | July | (Sacred Bones) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Khun Narin | Electric Phin Band | (Innovative Leisure) | psych | 7/10 |
| The New Pornographers | Brill Bruisers | (Matador) | pop | 5/10 |
| Nmesh | Dream Sequinsr | (Amdiscs) | vaporwave | 6/10 |
| Tara Jane O'Neil | Where Shine New Lights | (Kranky) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire For No Witness | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Ono | Diegesis | (Moniker) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Ora Iso | Bathcat | (Ba Da Bing) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Bill Orcutt | Solo Acoustic Volume Ten | (Vin du Select Qualitite) | guitar | 7/10 |
| Origami Arktika | Absolut Gehor | (Silber) | free folk | 5/10 |
| Real Estate | Atlas | (Domino) | folk-rock | 5/10 |
| Graham Repulski | Success Racist | (Shorter) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Roll The Dice | Until Silence | (Leaf) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Run the Jewels | Run The Jewels 2 | (Mass Appeal) | hip hop | 6/10 |
| Dylan Ryan | Circa | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Sd Laika | That's Harakiri | (Tri Angle) | alt-dance | 6/10 |
| Secluded Bronte | Secluded in Jersey City | (Pogus) | noise | 7/10 |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | (Subpop) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Sam Shalabi | Music for Arabs | (Constellation) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Shellac | Dude Incredible | (Touch And Go) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Shit & Shine | Powder Horn | (Diagonal) | dance | 5/10 |
| Slicnaton | Autoscopy | (Silber) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Sonar | Static Motion | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Spectral Lore | III | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 7/10 |
| Spoon | They Want My Soul | (Loma Vista) | pop | 5/10 |
| St Vincent | St Vincent | (Loma Vista) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Andy Stott | Faith in Strangers | (Modern Love) | dance | 6/10 |
| Sun Kil Moon | Benji | (Caldo Verde) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Swans | To Be Kind | (Young God) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso | (Partisan) | synth-pop | 7.5/10 |
| Taurus | No/Thing | (Taurus) | metal | 6/10 |
| Tegh | Night Scenes | (Inner Ocean) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Todd Terje | It's Album Time | (Olsen) | house | 5/10 |
| Thaiboy Digital | Tiger | (mixtape) | emo-rap | 7/10 |
| Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | (Constellation) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Thorn1 | The Light of Random Star | (Silber) | alter | 5/10 |
| Thou | Heathen | (Gilead Media) | doom | 7/10 |
| tUnE-yArDs | Nikki Nack | (4AD) | pop | 6/10 |
| Yann Tiersen | Infinity | (Mute) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Typhonian Highlife | HR Giger's Studiolo | (self) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Sharon Van Etten | Are We There | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Christina Vantzou | No 2 | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| VHS Head | Persistence Of Vision | (Skam) | collage | 4/10 |
| Anna Von Hausswolff | Kallan - Prototype | (Touch) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Scott Walker & Sunn O | Soused | (4AD) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| The War On Drugs | Lost in the Dream | (Secretly Canadian) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Weyes Blood | The Innocents | (Mexican Summer) | freak folk | 5/10 |
| White Lung | Deep Fantasy | (Domino) | hardcore | 6/10 |
| White Suns | Totem | (Flenser) | noise-rock | 7.5/10 |
| Lucinda Williams | Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone | (Highway 20) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Won James Won | Red Wedming | (RAIG) | collage | 6/10 |
| Woven Hand | Refractory Obdurate | (Deathwish) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | Angel Guts - Red Classroom | (Juno) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Your Old Droog | (Chopped Herring) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Zammuto | Anchor | (Temporary Residence) | songwriter | 6/10 |
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