1Royal Trux– Platinum Tips and Ice Cream– Drag City
2Moon Men–Amazing Science Fiction Stories–Hand made Products
3Roscoe Mitchell–Bells for the South Side–ECM
4Damaged Bug–Bunker Funk–Castle Face
5Kendrick Lamar–Damn–Top Dawg Entertainment
6Toro y Moi–Boo Boo–Carpark Records
7Roger Waters–Is this the life we really want?–Columbia
8FredFrith Hans Koch–You Are Here–Intakt
9Satoko Fujii–Aspiration–Libra records
10MastaDoom–DblMask–Masta DblG
11Kikagaku Moyo– Stone Garden–Guruguru Brain
12The Peacers–Introducing the Crimson Men–Drag City
13Thee Oh Sees–Orc–Castle Face
14Rhiannon Giddens–Freedom Highway–Nonesuch
15Matt Mitchell–Fiction–Pi records
16Intergalactic Lovers–Exhale–Unday Records/Verycords
17Dirty Songs–Play Dirty Songs–Audika
18New Cicada Trio–Live in Beacon–Terra Nova Music
19Oiseaux-Tempête-AL-‘AN!-Sub Rosa
20Joe McPhee, Damon Smith, Alvin Fielder–Six Situations– Not Two Records
22King Ayisoba–1000 can die–Glitterbeat
24Louis Sclavis–Frontieres–JMS
25The Entrance Band–Book of Changes–Thrill Jockey
26Pere Ubu–20 years in a Montana missile silo–Cherry Red
27Bruce Russell–Metallic Ok–Glass Redux
28Godspeed You! Black Emperor–Luciferian Towers–Constellation
29G. Yamazawa–Shouts to Durham–Yamazawa/Othaz
30Thundercat–Drunk–Brainfeeder