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| 1975 | I Like it When you Sleep | (Dirty Hit) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| 75 Dollar Bill | Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock | (Thin Wrist) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Alcest | Kodama | (Prophecy Productions) | blackgaze | 6/10 |
| Algorithm | Brute Force | (Fixt) | techno-metal | 6/10 |
| Aluk Todolo | Voix | (Norma Evangelium Diaboli) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Alunageorge | I Remember | (Island) | pop | 4/10 |
| Amateur Hour | Amateur Hour | (Forlag For Fri Musik) | psych-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Animal Collective | Painting With | (Domino) | pop | 4/10 |
| Anohni | Hopelessness | (Secretly Canadian) | pop | 5/10 |
| Ichiko Aoba | Mahoroboshiya | (Speedstar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Autechre | Elseq 1-5 | (Warp) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Babyfather | BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow | (no label) | rap | 4/10 |
| Julianna Barwick | Will | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Belbury Poly | New Ways Out | (Ghost Box) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Bent Knee | Say So | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Beyonce | Lemonade | (Parkwood Entertainment) | soul | 4/10 |
| Big Thief | Masterpiece | (Saddle Creek) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Billy Bao | The Lagos Sessions | (Night School) | collage | 5/10 |
| Bitch 'n' Monk | We Are Peering Over | (Lotus Arts Box) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Bladee | Eversince | (Year0001) | emo-rap | 6/10 |
| James Blake | The Colour in Anything | (Universal) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Blood Incantation | Starspawn | (Dark Descent) | death-metal | 6/10 |
| Blush Response | Rebirthed in the Sprawl | (Total Black) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Bon Iver | 22 A Million | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Ascanio Borga | Raw Science | (Sonic Boundaries) | ambient | 6/10 |
| David Bowie | Blackstar | (RCA) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Brood Ma | Daze | (Tri Angle) | dance | 6/10 |
| Danny Brown | Atrocity Exhibition | (Warp) | rap | 6/10 |
| Camera | Phantom Of Liberty | (Bureau B) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Car Seat Headrest | Teens of Denial | (Matador) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Nick Cave | Skeleton Tree | (Bad Seed) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Chance the Rapper | Coloring Book | (no label) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Circle | Terminal | (Southern Lord) | alt-rock | 4/10 |
| Clams Casino | 32 Levels | (Columbia) | chillwave | 4/10 |
| Clipping | Splendor & Misery | (SubPop) | rap | 6/10 |
| Cobalt | Slow Forever | (Profound Lore) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Leonard Cohen | You Want It Darker | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Comet Is Coming | Channel the Spirits | (Leaf) | jazztronica | 7/10 |
| Frankie Cosmos | Next Thing | (Bayonet) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Elysia Crampton | Demon City | (Break World) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Lucy Dacus | No Burden | (Egghunt) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Pan Daijing | Lack | (Pan) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Dear Hunter | Act V - Hymns With The Devil in Confessional | (Equal Vision) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Death Grips | Bottomless Pit | (Third World) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| Demdike Stare | Wonderland | (Modern Love) | dance | 5/10 |
| Dillinger Escape Plan | Dissociation | (Cooking Vinyl) | hardcore | 4/10 |
| Djwwww | Arigato (2016) | (no label) | collage | 6/10 |
| Drones | Feelin Kinda Free | (Tropical Fuck Storm) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Drose | Boy Man Machine | (Orange Milk) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Dwarfs of East Agouza | Bes | (Nawa) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Eaves | Verloren | (Purple Tape Pedigree) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Elucid | Save Yourself | (Backwoodz Studioz ) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Eluvium | False Readings On | (Temporary Residence) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Empirical | Connection | (Cuneiform) | jazz | 5/10 |
| Brian Eno | The Ship | (Warp) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Equiknoxx | Bird Sound Power | (DDS) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Ergo | As Subtle as Tomorrow | (Cuneiform) | prog | 7/10 |
| Florist | The Birds Outside Sang | (Double Double Whammy) | folk | 6/10 |
| Flume | Skin | (Future Classic) | dance-pop | 6/10 |
| Katie Gately | Color | (Tri-angle) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Kevin Gates | Islah | (Atlantic) | rap | 5/10 |
| Gnod | Mirror | (Rocket) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Goat | Requiem | (Rocket) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Good Willsmith | Things Our Bodies Used to Have | (Umor Rex) | collage | 5/10 |
| Guided by Voices | Please Be Honest | (Guided by Voices) | alt-pop | 3/10 |
| Sean Hayes | Low Light | (self) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Tim Hecker | Love Streams | (4AD) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Heliocentrics | From the Deep | (Now-Again) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Himukalt | Conditions Of Acrimony | (Helen Scarsdale) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Himukalt | See One Dark Eye | (Angst) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Hiss Golden Messenger | Heart Like a Levee | (Merge) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Horse Lords | Interventions | (Northern Spy) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Horseback | Dead Ringers | (Relapse) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| How to Dress Well | Care | (Weird World) | pop-soul | 4/10 |
| Hval | Blood Bitch | (Sacred Bones) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Ikarus | Chronosome | (Ronin Rhythm) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Impossible Nothing | Phonemenomicon | (no label) | collage | 8/10 |
| Infinity Frequencies | Closer Than Ever | (self) | vaporwave | 4/10 |
| Nicolas Jaar | Sirens | (Other People) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Nicolas Jaar | Nymphs | (Other People) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Jelinek & Fujita: | Schaum | (Faitiche) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Jesu & Sun Kil Moon | Jesu/ Sun Kil Moon | (Caldo Verde) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Jpegmafia | Black Ben Carson | (Trashfuck) | rap | 7/10 |
| Julie Ruin | Hit Reset | (Hardly Art) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Jute Gyte | Perdurance | (Jeshimoth) | black-metal | 6/10 |
| Ka | Honor Killed The Samurai | (Iron Works) | rap | 6/10 |
| Kayo Dot | Plastic House on Base of Sky | (Flenser) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Khun Narin | II | (Innovative Leisure) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| King Goblin | Cryptozoology | (Bonten) | garage | 6/10 |
| King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard | Nonagon Infinity | (Flightless) | garage | 5/10 |
| Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate | (Polydor) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Guy Klucevsek | Teetering On The Verge Of Normalcy | (Starkland) | avantgarde | 5/10 |
| Krallice | Hyperion | (Hathenter) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Krallice | Prelapsarian | (Hathenter) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Ulrich Krieger | /RAW:ReSpace/ | (XI) | noise | 7/10 |
| Kucoshka | RAD Tantrum | (no label) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Kurushimi | Kurushimi | (Art As Catharsis) | noise-jazz | 7/10 |
| Lambchop | Flotus | (Merge) | glitch-pop | 6/10 |
| Miranda Lambert | The Weight of These Wings | (RCA) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Cate LeBon | Crab Day | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Kiran Leonard | Grapefruit | (Moshi Moshi) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Let's Eat Grandma | I Gemini | (Transgressive) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Lil Peep | Hellboy | (self) | emo rap | 7/10 |
| Liturgy | The Ark Work | (Thrill Jockey) | metal | 4/10 |
| Lonker See | Split Image | (Music Is The Weapon) | post-rock | 7.5/10 |
| Lycus | Chasms | (Relapse) | doom-metal | 7/10 |
| M83 | Junk | (Mute) | synth-pop | 4/10 |
| Mach-Hommy | H.B.O. | (Griselda) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Peder Mannerfelt | Controlling Body | (Peder Mannferfelt) | dance | 6/10 |
| Mare Cognitum | Luminiferous Aether | (I Voidhanger) | black metal | 7/10 |
| Matmos | Ultimate Care II | (Thrill Jockey) | electronic | 7/10 |
| The Men | Devil Music | (We Are The Men) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Mesarthim | Absence | (self) | metal | 6/10 |
| Meshuggah | The Violent Sleep of Reason | (Avalon) | metal | 5/10 |
| Mitski | Puberty 2 | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Roy Montgomery | RMHQ | (Grapefruit) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Kevin Morby | Singing Saw | (Dead Oceans) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Moor Mother | Fetish Bones | (Don Giovanni) | abstract | 7/10 |
| Bob Mould | Patch the Sky | (Merge) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Jon Mueller | Tongues | (Rhythmplex) | post-jazz | 7/10 |
| Laura Mvula | The Dreaming Room | (RCA) | pop | 5/10 |
| Nails | You Will Never Be One of Us | (Nuclear Blast) | grindcore | 6/10 |
| Necks | Unfold | (Ideologic Organ) | ambient jazz | 7/10 |
| Kate NV | Binasu | (Orange Milk) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Pauline Oliveros | Nessuno | (Dischi Di Angelica) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Angel Olsen | My Woman | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu | Varahtelija | (Svart) | space-rock | 7/10 |
| Anderson Paak | Malibu | (Steel Wool) | rap | 6/10 |
| Jeff Parker | The New Breed | (International Anthem) | posts-rock | 5/10 |
| Parquet Courts | Human Performance | (Rough Trade) | folk-rock | 7/10 |
| Richard Pinhas | Process And Reality | (Cuneiform) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Iggy Pop | Post Pop Depression | (Loma Vista) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Roly Porter | Third Law | (Tri Angle) | glitch | 7.5/10 |
| Puce Mary | The Spiral | (Posh Isolation) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Qu'qu'matz | Tepeu | (self) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | (XL) | pop | 6/10 |
| Julia Reidy | All Is Ablaze | (self) | instrumental | 7/10 |
| Robert Rich | What We Left Behind | (self) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Robert Rich | Vestiges | (self) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Dawn Richard | Redemption | (Local Action) | dance | 5/10 |
| Monika Roscher | Of Monsters and Birds | (Zenna) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Jeff Rosenstock | Worry | (SideOneDummy) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Xenia Rubinos | Black Terry Cat | (NuBlack) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker | Cannots | (Dead Oceans) | free-jazz | 7/10 |
| Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels 3 | (Run The Jewels) | rap | 7/10 |
| Elliott Sharp | Boreal | (Starkland) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Shit & Shine | Teardrops | (Riot Season) | dance | 6/10 |
| Show me the Body | Body War | (Loma Vista) | rap-punk | 6/10 |
| Sinners Are Winners | For Beginners | (Dark Fantasy) | crunkcore | 6/10 |
| Sirom | I | (Glitterbeat) | free-folk | 6/10 |
| Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | EARS | (Western Vinyl) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Stereo Total | Les Hormones | (Staatsakt) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Andy Stott | Too Many Voices | (Modern Love) | grime | 6/10 |
| Sumac | What One Becomes | (Thrill Jockey) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Sunwatchers | Sunwatchers | (self) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Supersilent | 13 | (Smalltown Supersound) | noise | 6/10 |
| Swans | The Glowing Man | (Young God) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Thumbscrew | Convallaria | (Cuneiform) | avant-jazz | 6/10 |
| Tortoise | The Catastrophist | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Troller | Graphic | (Crucial Blast) | dark wave | 7/10 |
| Yves Tumor | Serpent Music | (PAN) | post-pop | 7/10 |
| Typhonian Highlife | The World Of Shells | (self) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Uboa | Hook Echo | (Uboa) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Ulcerate | Shrines of Paralysis | (Relapse) | death-metal | 6/10 |
| Underworld | Barbara Barbara | (Astralwerks) | dance | 5/10 |
| Vektor | Terminal Redux | (Earache) | metal | 7/10 |
| Velvet Teen | All Is Illusory | (Topshelf) | pop | 5/10 |
| Ryley Walker | Golden Sings That Have Been Sung | (Dead Oceans) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Kanye West | The Life Of Pablo | (Def Jam) | rap | 5/10 |
| Weyes Blood | Front Row Seat to Earth | (Mexican Summer) | pop | 6/10 |
| Paul White | Hella Personal Film Festival | (Mello Music) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| White Lung | Paradise | (Domino) | punk-pop | 5/10 |
| Wilco | Schmilco | (dBpm) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Lucinda Williams | The Ghosts of Highway 20 | (Highway 20) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Wolvennest | WLVNNST | (Van) | gothic | 5/10 |
| Won James Won | Corpus Unhearmeticum | (RAIG) | collage | 6/10 |
| Woven Hand | Star Treatment | (Glitterhouse) | roots-rock | 4/10 |
| Young Thug | No My Name is Jeffery | (self) | trap | 7/10 |
| Your Old Droog | Packs | (self) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Zeal and Ardor | Devil Is Fine | (Reflections) | metal | 6/10 |
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