- Moskus: Mestertyven (Hubro)
- Jemeel Moondoc: The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch Records)
- Wussy: Attica! (Damnably)
- Max Johnson Trio: The Invisible Trio (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Miranda Lambert: Platinum (RCA Nashville)
- Withered Hand: New Gods (Foruna Pop!)
- Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (TUM Records)
- Old 97's: Most Messed Up (ATO)
- Peter Van Huffel, Michael Bates & Jeff Davis: BOOM CRANE (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Bob Mould: Beauty and Ruin (Merge Records)
- Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)
- Azealia Banks: Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park)
- D'Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (RCA)
- Hammel on Trial: The Happiest Man in the World (New West Records)
- Dagens Ungdom: Dagens Ungdom (Metronomicon Audio)
- Big K.R.I.T.: Cadillactica (Cinematic Music Group/Def Jam)
- Leo Welch: Sabougla Voices (Big Legal Mess)
- Steve Lehman Octet: Mise en Abime (Pi Recordings)
- Sleaford Mods: Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound)
- James Brandon Lewis: Divine Travels (OKeh Records)
- Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott: What Have We Become (Virgin EMI)
- Microwaves: Regurgitant Phenomena (New Atlantis Records)
- Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit: Erta Ale (PNL Records/Catalytic Sound)
- DJ Quik: The Minight Life (Mad Science Recordings)
- Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy (Pi Recordings)
- Coathangers: Suck My Shirt ( Suicide Squeeze Records)
- Cory Branan: The No-Hit Wonder (Bloodshot Records)
- Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer: Wiring (Intakt Records)
- Kris Davis Trio: Waiting For You to Grow (Clean Feed)
- Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?)
- The Nightingales: For Fuck's Sake (self-released)
- Lily Allen: Sheezus (Regal/Parlophone)
- Microscopic Septet: Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)
- Jenny Lewis: The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
- Chris Butler: Easy Life (Future Fossil Music)
- Ex Hex: Rips (Merge)
- Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems (Columbia)
- Tarbaby with Oliver Lake & Marc Ducret: Fanon (Rogue Art)
- Marc Ribot Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi Recordings)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Morris, Jamie Saft & Balasz Pandi: Red Hill (RareNoiseRecords)
- Laura Cantrell: No Way There From Here (Thrift Shop)
- Rodrigo Amado: Wire Quartet (Clean Feed)
- Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal/Sony RED)
- Mark Turner Quartet: Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
- Robert Plant: lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)
- Toni Braxton & Babyface: Love, Marriage & Divorce (Motown)
- Angeleena Presley: American Middle Class (Slate Creek Records)
- Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein: Viper's Drag (Universal Music)
- Eric Revis Quartet: In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
- Neneh Cherry: Blank Project (Smalltown Supersounds)
- Ross Martin, Max Johnson & Jeff Davis: Big Eyed Rabbit (NotTwo Records)
- Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask: Bite My Blues (Clean Feed)
- Big Ups: Eighteen Hours of Static (Tough Love / Dead Labour)
- Made to Break: Cherchez La Femme (Trost)
- Danny Fox Trio: Wide Eyed (Hot Cup Records)
- Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone Records)
- Akrobatik: Built to Last (self-released)
- Brian Settles Trio: Folk (Engine Studios)
- Fred Hersch Trio: Floating (Palmetto Records)
- Matt Bauder and Day in Pictures: Nightshades (Clean Feed)
- Spoon: They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
- Angles 9: Injuries (Clean Feed)
- Lydia Loveless: Somewhere Else (Bloodshot Records)
- Max Johnson: The Prisoner (No Business Records)
- Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: Here Be Monsters (In De Goot Recordings)
- Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra: Live in Ljubjana (Clean Feed)
- Against Me: Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble Music)
- Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Thomas Fujiwara: Thumbscrew (Cuneiform Records)
- Tony Malaby's Tamarindo: Sonos Agua Clean Feed)
- Afghan Whigs: Do the Beast (Sub Pop Records)
- Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Liverevil (Hot Cup Records)
- Rich Halley 4: The Wisdom of Rocks (Pine Eagle Records)
- Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band: Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone Records)
Songs/singles:
(Singles only, with the odd stand-out track. Good albums -- see above -- naturally have several good songs, but there'sno need to clutter this list with selections from those)
- Sia: "Chandlier" (RCA)
- Sloan: "Carried Away" (Yep Roc)
- Kiesza: "Hideaway" (Lokal Legend)
- Usher: "Good Kisser" (RCA Records)
- bentshapes: "86'd in '03" (self released)
- Ryan Adams: "Kim" (Pax Americana/Sony/Columbia)
- Shamir: "On the Regular" (XL)
- Kate Tempest: "Circles" (Big Dada)
- Kira Isabelle: "Quarterback" (Legend North)
- Håvard Stubø Quartet: "Att Inte Villja Sova" (Bolage)
Reissues / vault:
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: The Giant is Awakened (Flying Dutchman/International Phonograph Inc.)
- Ted Daniel's Energy Module: Innerconnections (NoBusiness Records)
- Hailu Meriga & the Wailas: Teche Belew (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
- Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain 30th Anniversary (2CD, Domino)
- Sun Ra: In the Orbit of Ra (2CD, Strut)
- A Certain Ration: Sextet (Factory Benelux)
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