- Irène Schweizer & Han Bennink: Welcome Back (Intakt)
- The Chills: Silver Bullets (Fire Recods)
- Kirk Knuffke: Arms and Hands (Royal Potato Family)
- Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter (Clean Feed)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls (ACT)
- Max Johnson Trio: Something Familiar (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Hardly Art/Mom + Pop)
- Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment: Surf (self-released)
- The Close Readers: The Lines Are Open ([2014], Austin Records)
- Detail: First Detail (recorded 1982, Rune Grammofon)
- Desaparecidos: Payola (Epitaph)
- Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: Manhattan (Rough Trade)
- The Mountain Goats: Beat the Champ (Merge Records)
- Darius Jones Quartet featuring Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) (AUM Fidelity)
- Sleaford Mods: Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
- Henry Threadgill Zooid: In For a Penny, In For a Pound (Pi Recordings)
- Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things: A New Kind of Dance (482 Music)
- James Brandon Lewis: Days of Freeman (Okeh)
- Robert Forster: Songs To Play (Tapete Records)
- Gebhard Ullman Basement Research: Hat and Shoes (Between the Lines)
- James McMurty: Complicated Games (Blue Rose Records)
- Almeida / van Duynhoven / Klein: Vibrate in Sympathy (Clean Feed)
- Rodrigo Amado: This Is Our Language (NotTwo Records)
- Shopping: Why Choose (Fat Cat)
- Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
- Eric Church: Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville)
- Tal National: Zoy Zoy (Fat Cat)
- Jazmine Sullivan: Relity Show (RCA)
- Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: Firehouse (Clean Feed)
- The Paranoid Style: Rock 'n Roll Just Can't Recall EP (Battle Worldwide)
- Protomartys: The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
- Susana Santos Silva: Impermanence (Carimba Porta-Jazz)
- Laurie Anderson: Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch)
- Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (Universal)
- Vince Staples: Summertime '06 (Def Jam)
- Team Hegdal: Vol. 3 (Particular Recordings)
- Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook-Up: After All Is Said (482 Music)
- Made to Break: Before the Code (Trost)
- Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille: Song For a New Decade (TUM Records)
- Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power (Glitterbeat)
- Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra: Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (Cuniform Records)
- Lionel Loueke: GAÏA (Blue Note)
- Ben Goldberg: Orphic Machine (Royal Potato Family)
- Mbogwana Star: From Kinshasa (World Circut)
- Snik: Metasediment Rock (Clean Feed)
- Waxahatchee: Ivy Trip (Merge)
- Will Mason Ensemble: Beams of the Huge Night (Amsterdam)
- Mario Pavone: Blue Dialect (Clean Feed)
- Rich Halley 4: Creating Structure (Pine Eagle Records)
- Jason Derulo: Everything Is 4 (Atlantic)
- Rae Sremmond: SremmLife (Universal Music)
- Wooley/Rempis/Niggenkemper/Corsano: From Wolves to Whales (Aerophonic Records)
- Wormburner: Pleasant Living in Planned Communities ([2014] Dive Records)
- ObLik: order disorder ([2014] Ormo Records)
- Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Accoustic Instruments Pt. 2 EP (Warp)
- Mette Henriette: Mette Henriette (ECM)
- Makaya McCraven: In the Moment (International Anthem)
- Hypercolor: Hypercolor (Tzadik)
- Wire: Wire (Pink Flag)
(As a general rule, these are singles only, albeit with the odd stand-out track. Good albums -- see the list above -- naturally have several good songs, so I rarely see the need to clutter this list with selections from those)
- Lil Mama: "Sausage" (n/a)
- Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell Williams: "WTF (Where They From)" (Goldmind)
- Royal Headache: "Another World" (What's Your Rupture?)
- The Switch: "We're Fooling No One" (Bangles & Brass Records)
- Miguel: "Coffee" (RCA)
- Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages (M.O.D. Technologies)
- John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Self Determination Music (Flying Dutchman/BNG)
- Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction (Columbia/ORG)
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