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These are 2018 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabeticallyby artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, arein brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines inblue indicate that I have a physical copy(albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in greenare records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other suchsource. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note(usually taken from AMG).
Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5).The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests,reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, whatI know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is somethingI have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has beennoted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have somespecific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen toASAP.
Option selectors:
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- Default (priority 1+ and rated).
Genre switches (no data for Indie Rock, Pop, Singer-Songwriter):
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New Releases
- 03 Greedo: The Wolf of Grape Street (Alamo) [03-09] - trap rap
- 03 Greedo: God Level (Alamo) [06-27] - trap rap
- 3MA: Anarouz (Six Degrees) [05-18] - world
- 5 Seconds of Summer: Youngblood (Capitol) [06-15] - pop
- 6ix9ine: Dummy Boy (Scumgang) [11-27] - hip-hop
- 7FO: Ryhu No Nukegara (Em) [09-20] - electronic
- 8ulentina: Eucalyptus ( Club Chai) [03-01] - electronic
- 9th Wonder: Presents: Jamla Is the Squad II (Jamla) [11-09] - hip-hop
- 21 Savage: I Am > I Was (Slaughter Gang/Epic) [12-21] - hip-hop
- 77:78: Jellies (Heavenly) [07-06] - neo-psychedelia
- 88rising: Head in the Clouds (self-released) [07-20] - pop rap
- 808INK: When I'm About You'll Know (Island) [03-02] - hip-hop
- 2814: Pillar/New Sun (Arcola -EP) [02-02] - dub techno
- ********: The Drink (Weird World) [01-26] - post-punk
- Dominique A: La Fragilite (Wagram Music/Cinq 7) [10-05]
- A Trio & AMM: AAMM (Al Maslakh) [05-00] - jazz
- AB2088: Replicate (Liquidators) [03-27] - electronic
- Chris Abelen: Songs on the Eve of Dismissal (CAMP) [01-19] - jazz
- Deena Abdelwahed: Khnnar (InFine) [11-16] - electronic
- Abhorrence: Megalohydrothalassophobic (Svart) [09-14] - metal
- Above & Beyond: Common Ground (self-released) [01-26] - electronic
- Phil Abraham: For 4 Brothers + 1 (Hypnote) - jazz
- Alexander Abreu & Havana D'Primera: Cantor Del Pueblo (Patata Productions) [04-10] - Latin
- Abstracter: Cinereous Incarnate (Sentient Run Laboratories) [06-08] - sludge metal
- The Academic: Tales From the Backseat (Room 6) [01-12] - alt/indie
- The Aces: When My Heart Felt Volcanic (Red Bull) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Geoff Achison: Sovereign Town (Jupiter/Landslide) [09-07] - blues
- Acid Dad: Acid Dad (Greenway) [03-09]
- Poppy Ackroyd: Resolve (One Little Indian) [02-02] - modern classical
- Jacob Acosta: Desert Sounds ( self-released) [05-26] - folk
- Active Bird Community: Amends (Barsuk) [09-14] - rock
- Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra: Lageos (Ninja Tune) [05-25] - electronic
- Belle Adair: Tuscumbia (Single Lock) [01-19] - rock
- Tony Adamo: WasOut Jazz Zone Mad (Ropeadope) - jazz
- Brian Shankar Adler: Fourth Dimension (Chant) [12-06] - jazz
- Antonio Adolfo: Encontros: Orquestra Atlantica (AAM Music) [07-11] - jazz
- P Adrix: Album Desconhecido (Principe) [02-23] - world
- Adult: This Behavior (Dais) [09-07] - electronic
- Advance Base: Animal Companionship (Run for Cover) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Advisory Circle: Ways of Seeing (Ghost Box) [05-25] - dance/electronic
- Ahmed Ag Kaedy: Orion Congregation (Schneeball) - jazz
- AG: The Taste of AMBrosia (Fat Beats) [06-22] - hip-hop
- Against the Current: Past Lives (Fueled by Ramen) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Agar Agar: The Dog & the Future (Cracki) [09-28] - pop
- Daniel Aged: Daniel Aged (Quality Time) [07-27]
- Nima Aghiani: REMS (PTP) [06-29] - electronic
- Gregory Agid Quartet: Jamz (Bubble Bath) - jazz
- Agnarkea: Black Helicopters (self-released) [11-02] - hip-hop
- Agrimonia: Awaken (Southern Lord) [01-26] - sludge metal
- Christina Aguilera: Liberation (RCA) [06-15] - pop
- AHI: In Our Time (22nd Sentry) [07-13] - folk
- Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse Remixed (Naim) [08-17] - acid jazz
- Ails: The Unraveling (The Flenser) [04-20] - metal
- The Aints: The Church of Simultaneous Existence (ABC) [09-21] - alt/idie
- Air Waves: Warrior (Western Vinyl) [04-06] - indie pop
- AJA: AJA (Opal Tapes) [05-02] -
- AKA: Touch My Blood (Beam Group) [06-15] - African rap
- Akhenaten: Golden Serpent God (Satanath) [05-31] - metal
- Gaye Su Akyol: Isrikrarli Hayal Hakikattir (Glitterbeat) [10-26] - Turkish
- Alaclair Ensemble: Le Sens Des Paroles (7ieme) [09-28]
- Alameda 4: Czarna Woda (Instant Classic) [05-30] - electronic
- Alastor: Slave to the Grave (Riding Easy) [10-31] - rock
- Alba Griot Ensemble: The Darkness Between the Lines (Riverboat) [09-28] - African
- Alborosie: Unbreakable: Alborosie Meets the Wailers United (VP) [06-25]
- The Alchemist: Lunch Meat (ALC -EP) [04-13] - hip-hop
- The Alchemist: Bread (ALC -EP) [11-30] - hip-hop
- Jason Aldean: Rearview Town (Broken Bow) [04-13] - country
- Howard Alden/Marty Krystall/Buell Neidlinger: The Happenings: Music of Herbie Nichols (K2B2 -17) [12-28-2017] - jazz
- Giulio Aldinucci: Disappearing in a Mirror (Karlrecords) [09-21] - electronic
- Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith: Many a Thousand (Ear Trumpet)
- Alice in Chains: Rainier Fog (BMG) [08-24] - alt metal
- Alien Boy: Sleeping Lessons (Tiny Engines) [08-31] - rock
- Alkaline Trio: Is This Thing Cursed? (Epitaph) [08-31] - pop-punk
- All Saints: Testament (AS) [07-13]
- All Them Witches: ATW (New West) [09-28] - psychedelic rock
- ALLBLACK: Outcalls (Play Runners Association x Perfect Your Craft/Empire) [04-20] - hip-hop
- ALLBLACK & Kenny Beats: 2 Minute Drills (Play Runners Association/DOTS/Empire) [11-16] - hip-hop
- Jimmie Allen: Mercury Lane (Stoney Creek) [10-12] - country
- Tony Allen & Jeff Mills: Tomorrow Comes the Harvest (Blue Note) [09-28] - jazz
- Alpines: Full Bloom (Untrue) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Kenny Allstar: Block Diaries (Locked In/Star Work/Columbia) [10-05] - hip-hop
- Karrin Allyson: Some of That Sunshine (Kasrecords) - vocal
- Alter of Perversion: Intra Naos (Norma Evangelium Diaboli/The Ajna Offensive) [04-23] - metal
- Altars of Grief: Iris (self-released) [03-21] - death metal
- The Amazing: In Transit (Partisan) [04-06] - alt/indie
- The Amazons: Future Dust (Fiction) [05-24] - alt/indie
- Oren Ambarchi/Kassel Jaeger/James Rushford: Face Time (Black Truffle) [06-01] - electronic
- Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh: Foxglove & Fuschia (self-released) [11-24] - folk
- Amber Arcades: European Heartbreak (Heavenly) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Franco Ambrosetti: Cheers (Enja) - jazz
- Marsha Ambrosius: Nyla (Entertainment One) [09-28] - r&b
- Ame: Dream House (Innervisions) [06-01] - electronic
- American Pleasure Club: A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This (Run for Cover) [02-16] - lo-fi
- Amgala Temple: Invisible Airships (Pekula) [11-02] - rock
- Amigo: And Friends (Schoolkids) [01-26] - folk
- AMM: An Unintended Legacy (Matchless -3CD) [05-00] - jazz
- Ammar 808: Maghreb United (Glitterbeat) [06-15]
- Amor: Sinking Into a Miracle (Night School) [12-07] - pop/rock
- Gabriel Naim Amor: Moments Before (self-released) [04-24] - jazz
- Amorphis: Queen of Time (Nuclear Blast) [05-18] - progressive metal
- Shawn Amos: Breaks It Down (Put Together) [02-16] - blues
- Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Sondorgo: Szikra (Vetnasj) [04-27] - klezmer
- Amyl and the Sniffers: Big Attraction & Giddy Up (Damaged Goods) [03-15] - alt/indie
- Anbessa Orchestra: Negestat (self-released) [03-30] - world
- Ancestors: Suspended in Reflections (Pelagic) [08-24] - metal
- Ancient Methods: The Jericho Records (self-released) [09-21] - electronic
- The Ancients: Frozen Aisle (Tenth Court) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Anda: Do Worry Be Happy (Amoeba Culture -EP) [04-03] - K-pop
- Marisa Anderson: Cloud Corner (Thrill Jockey) [06-15] - folk
- Leny Andrade: Bossa Nossa: Leny Andrade Canta Fred Falcao (Biscoito Fino) [04-19] - jazz
- Andre 3000: Look Ma No Hands (-EP) [05-13] - hip hop
- Rebecca Angel: What We Had (Timeless Grooves) [08-03] - jazz
- Angele: Brol (Angele VL) [10-05]
- Kliment Angelovski Trio: Inquisition (PMG) [09-03] - jazz
- Ray Angry: One (JMI) [09-18] - jazz
- Anicon: Entropy Mantra (Vendetta) [06-19] - metal
- Animal Collective: Tangerine Reef (Domino) [08-17] - neo-psychedelia
- Animal Flag: Void Ripper (Triple Crown) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Clau Aniz: Filha De Mil Mulheres (Minty Fresh) [05-18] - rock
- Anna & Elizabeth: The Invisible Comes to Us (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-30]
- Anne-Marie: Speak Your Mind (Warner UK) [04-27] - dance pop
- Answer Code Request: Gens (Ostgut Ton) [02-23] - leftfield
- Anthroprophh: Omegaville (Rocket) [03-30] - rock
- Alex Anwandter: Latinoamericana (Nacional) [10-12] - pop
- Any Other: Two Geography (42) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Ichiko Aoba: QP (JVC) [10-24] - folk
- Aorlhac: L'Esprit Des Vents (Les Acteurs De L'Ombre) [03-02] - metal
- Apathy: The Widow's Son (Dirty Version) [03-02] - hip-hop
- Apolo: Live in Stockholm (Joyful Noise) [04-18] - alt/indie
- Apostille: Choose Life (Upset the Rhythm) [06-08] - synth pop
- Apple Jam: Off the White Album (Roseta Productions) [11-22] - rock
- Appleblim: Life in a Laser (Sneaker Social Club) [03-00] - electronic
- The Aquadolls: The Dream and the Deception (Burger/Aqua Babe) [10-28] - alt/indie
- Aqueduct Ensemble: Improvisations on an Apricot (Last Resort) [05-04] - jazz
- Arabrot: Who Do You Love (Pelagic) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Irene Aranda/JohannesNastesjo/Nuria Andorra: Inner Core (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Arc Iris: Icon of Ego (Ba Da Bing!) [10-12]
- Archie and the Bunkers: Songs From the Lodge (Dirty Water) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Architects: Holy Hell (Epitaph) [11-09] - metalcore
- Sean Ardoin: Kreole Rock & Soul (Zydekool) [09-14] - blues
- Arena: Double Vision ()
- Arkells: Rally Cry (Last Gang) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Joan Armatrading: Not Too Far Away (BMG) [05-18] - singer-songwriter
- The Armed: Only Love (Throat Ruiner) [04-27] - noise rock
- Joe Armon-Jones: Starting Today (Brownswood) [05-04] - jazz
- Olafur Arnalds: Re:member (Mercury) [08-24] - odern classical
- Arp: Zebra (MexicanSummer/Kemado) [06-22] - ambient
- Art D'Ecco: Trespasser (Paper Bag) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Art in America: Cloudborn (self-released) [09-09] - rock
- Bob Arthurs: Jazz It Up! Ukrainian Songs for Three Dads (Blue Griffin) [05-04] - jazz
- Tom Arthurs Trio: One Year (Ozella Music) [02-09] - jazz
- Artificial Pleasure: The Bitter End (East City Rockers) [05-11]
- Artist Deleted: Track Deleted (Me Me Me) [02-02] - electronic
- The Artist Is Unknown: Later Tonight (Dream Catalogue) [03-10] - electronic
- As It Is: The Great Depression (Fearless) [08-10] - alt/indie
- ASAP Rocky: Testing (RCA) [05-25] - hip hop
- Cory Asbury: Reckless Love (Bethel Music) [01-26]
- ASC: Artefacts of Rotation (Auxiliary) [06-22] - electronic
- ASEUL: Asobi (Astro Kidz) [07-28] - electropop
- Huda Asfour: Kouni (self-released) [05-18] -
- Ash: Islands (Infectious) [05-18]
- Ash Code: Perspektive (Metropolis) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Ashe: The Rabbit Hole (Mom + Pop Music) [06-22] - alt/indie
- Richard Ashcroft: Natural Rebel (BMG) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Greg Ashley: Fiction Is Non Fiction (Dusty Medical) [05-18] - rock
- Anelis Assumpcao: Taurina (Pomm_elo/Scubidu Music) [02-16] - Brazil
- Pete Astor: One for the Ghost (Tapete) [02-16] - pop/rock
- At the Gates: To Drink From the Night Itself (Century Media) [05-18] - death metal
- Felicia Atkinson/Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Limpid as the Solitudes (Shelter Press) [11-09] - electronic
- The Atlas Moth: Coma Noir (Prosthetic) [02-09] - metal
- Shinichi Atobe: Heat (DDS) [09-14] - electronic
- Gal Atzur: Trio (OutNow) - jazz
- Audio Push: Cloud 909 (Good Vibe Tribe) [02-09]
- Audiobooks: Now! (in a Minute) (Heavenly) [11-02] - alt pop
- David August: D'Angelo (PIAS) [10-05] - electronic
- Aurora: Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) (Glassnote) [09-28] - pop
- Mariel Austin Rock-Jazz Orchestra: Runner in the Rain (self-released) [08-15] - jazz
- Allen Austin-Bishop: No One Is Alone (self-released) [09-08] - jazz
- Auntie Flo: Radio Highlife (Brownswood) [10-12] - electronic
- Author & Punisher: Beastland (Relapse) [10-05] - metal
- Ava Luna: Moon 2 (Western Vinyl) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Avantdale Bowling Club: Avantdale Bowling Club (Years Gone By) [08-17] - hip-hop
- Avantgardet: Alla Kanner Apan (Avantgardet) [11-07] - rock
- Mart Avi: OtherWorld (self-releasead) [11-02]
- Awakebutstillinbed: What People Call Low Self-Esteem Is Really Just Seeing Yourself the Way that Other People See You (Tiny Engines) [01-03] - rock
- Awar: Spoils of War (Lions Pride) [10-26] - hip-hop
- Awolnation: Here Come the Runts (Red Bull) [02-02] - alt/indie
- Axolotes Mexicanos: Salu2 (Elefant) [05-11] - pop
- Azusa: Heavy Yoke (Solid State) [11-16] - metal
- Ab Baars: And She Speaks (A Collection of Ballads) (Wig) [03-00] - jazz
- Ab Baars/Meinrad Kneer/Bill Elgart: Live at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2012 (Evil Rabbit) [03-00] - jazz
- Ab Baars/Kaja Draksler/Joe Williamson: Fish Scale Sunrise: No Queen Rises (Relative Pitch) [09-28] - jazz
- Duo Baars-Henneman: Canzoni Di Primavera (Wig) [03-00] - jazz
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: The Serpent's Mouth (Big Crown) [09-14] - r&b
- Grazyna Bacewicz: Chamber Works (Chandros) - classical
- Daniel Bachman: The Morning Star (Three Lobed) [07-27] - American primitivism
- Eric Bachman: No Recover (Merge) [09-07]
- Backspace: Human Nature Architecture (Maybe Mars) [06-28] - indie rock
- Bad Moves: Tell No One (Don Giovanni) [09-21] - alt/indie
- The Bad Plus: Never Stop II (Legbreaker) [01-19] - jazz
- Bad Rabbits: Mimi (BAD) [08-10] - r&b
- Bad Sounds: Get Better (Insanity) [08-17]
- Noah Baerman Resonance Ensemble: The Rock & the Redemption (RMI) [07-20] - jazz
- Joan Baez: Whistle Down the Wind (Bobolink/Razor & Tie) [03-02] - folk
- Sami Baha: Free for All (Planet Mu) [06-01]
- Tom Bailey: Science Fiction (Mikrokosmos) [07-13]
- Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore: Ghost Forests (Three Lobed) [11-09] - singer-songwriter
- Aidan Baker: Deer Park (Muzan Editions) [11-15]
- Duck Baker: Plays Monk (Triple Point) [03-23] - jazz
- Gacha Bakradze: Word Color (Lapsus) [04-13] - electronic
- Kevin Bales & Keri Johnsrud: Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers (GabNat) [03-14] - jazz
- Ball Park Music: Good Mood (Stop Start) [02-16] - alt/indie
- Charlie Ballantine: Life Is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan (Green Mind) - jazz
- Severine Ballon: Inconnaissable (All the Dust) - jazz
- Balun: Prisma Tropical (Good Child) [07-20]
- Christian Balvig 6-tet: Music for Humans (AMP) [04-06] - jazz
- Bambara: Shadow on Everything (Wharf Cat) [04-06] - post-punk
- Band-Maid: World Domination (JPU) [03-02] - metal
- Banjolectric: So Below (self-released) [11-16] - folk
- Jacob Banks: Village (UMGRI/Interscope) [11-02] - r&b
- Kota Banks: Prize (NLV) [06-29] - pop
- Maria Baptist: Resonance (self-released) - jazz
- Denys Baptiste: The Late Trane (Edition) [06-08] - jazz
- Alina Baraz: The Color of You (Mom + Pop Music) [04-06] - r&b
- Caterina Barbieri: Born Again in the Voltage (Important) [08-10]
- Sam Bardfeld: The Great Enthusiasm (BJU) - jazz
- Bardo Pond: Volume 8 (Fire) [02-02] - rock
- Barely Civil: We Can Live Here Forever (Take This to Heart) [03-02] - alt/indie
- Barker: Debiasing (Ostgut Ton -EP) [06-01] - techno
- Barrio Sur: Heart Break (self-released) [01-15] - hynpagogic pop
- Typh Barrow: Raw (Doo Wap) [01-18] - pop
- Bart & the Bedazzled: Blue Motel (Lovemonk) [04-27]
- Todd Barton: Multum in Parvo (Blue Tapes) [10-05] - electronic
- Corina Bartra: Takunde (Blue Spiral) [01-05] - jazz
- Bas: Milky Way (Dreamville/Interscope) [08-24] - pop rap
- Basement: Beside Myself (Fueled by Ramen) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Basement Revolver: Heavy Eyes (Sonic Unyon) [08-26] - shoegaze
- Basia: Butterflies (Shanachie) [05-18] - vocal
- William Basinski + Lawrence English: Selva Oscura (Temporary Residence) [10-12] - electronic
- Bat Fangs: Bat Fangs (Don Giovanni) [02-02] - hard rock
- Batagraf: Delights of Decay (Jazzland) [02-02] - jazz
- Bonnie Baxter: Ask Me How Satan Started (Hausu Mountain) [11-16] - electronic
- Rayland Baxter: Wide Awake (ATO) [07-13] - alt singer-songwriter
- James Bay: Electric Light (Republic) [05-18] - pop rock
- David Bazan: Care (Polyvinyl) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Bazzi: Cosmic (Iamcosmic/Atlantic) [04-12]
- BbyMutha: Muthaz Day 3 (825402 DK) [11-17] - hip-hop
- BC Camplight: Deportation Blues (Bella Union) [08-24] - psychedelic pop
- BCUC: Emakhosini (Buda Musique) [03-16]
- Beach Skulls: Las Dunas (PNKSLM) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Beach Slang: Everything Matters but No One Is Listening (Quiet Slang) (Polyvinyl) [02-16] - alt/indie
- Beans: Triptych (Gamma) - hip-hop
- Bearings: Blue in the Dark (Pure Noise) [10-12] - rock
- Beartooth: Disease (Red Bull) [09-28] - rock
- Beast: Ens (Thrill Jockey) [11-09] - electronic
- Beastmaker: EP 10 - EP80 (self-released) [12-17] - doom metal
- The Beat Escape: Life Is Short the Answer's Long (Bella Union) [04-27]
- Tucker Beathard: Nobody's Everything (Mother Tucker/Warner Music Nashville) [11-30] - country
- Beats & Pieces Big Band: Ten (Efpi) [07-20] - jazz
- Ryan Beatty: Boy in Jeans (Boy in Jeans) [07-20] - pop
- Louis Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere/Eric Normand/Louis-Vencent Hamel: Brulez Les Meubles (Tour de Bras) - jazz
- Beautify Junkyards: The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards (Ghost Box) [03-09] - psychedelic rock
- Lindsay Beaver: Tough as Love (Alligator) [10-12] - blues
- Bebeta: Megalon (Monaberry -EP) [06-15] - electronic
- Chris Beck: The Journey (AWMC) [05-18] - jazz
- Bedbug: I'll Count to Heaven in Years Without Seasons (Joy Void) [01-19] - alt/indie
- Burak Bedikyan: New Beginning (SteepleChase) [10-01] - jazz
- Begravningsentreprenorema: Jamna Plagor (Ektro) [12-14] - alt/indie
- Michael Beharie/Teddy Rankin-Parker: A Heart From Your Shadow (Mondoj) [07-06] - electronic
- Behemoth: I Loved You at Your Darkest (Metal Blade) [10-05] - death metal
- Chris Beier: Scarborough Variations Piano Works XI (ACT) [05-25] - jazz
- Lurrie Bell & the Bell Dynasty: Tribute to Carey Bell (Delmark) [05-03] - blues
- Renick Bell: Turning Points (Seagrave) [08-03] - electronic
- Vince Bell: Ojo (Mulatta) [04-03] - jazz
- Belle Game: Fear Nothing (Arts & Crafts) [07-12] - alt/indie
- Stefan Bellnas: Podunk (Country & Eastern) [11-03] - jazz
- Belly: Dove (Belly Touring) [05-04] - alt rock
- Roni Ben-Hur/Harvie S: Introspection (Jazzheads) - jazz
- Bend Sinister: Foolish Games (Cordova Bay) - pop/rock
- Benin City: Last Night (Moshi Moshi) [04-06]
- Laura Benitez & the Heartache: With All Its Thorns (Copperhead) - Americana
- Richard X Bennett: Wood/Water (Ropeadope) - jazz
- Richard X Bennett: Away From the Many (Ropeadope) - jazz
- Bennett Wilson Poole: Bennett Wilson Poole (Aurora) [04-06] - rock
- Han Bennink/Steve Noble/Alexander Hawkins: 11.8.17 (Otoroku) - jazz
- Benny the Butcher: Tana Talk 3 (Griselda) [11-23] - hip-hop
- Dierks Bentley: The Mountain (Capitol) [06-08] - country
- R Beny: Saudade (Dauw) [02-02]
- Adam Berenson/Scott Barnum/Eric Hofbauer: Introverted Cultures (Dream Play) [11-24] - jazz
- David Berkeley: The Faded Red and Blue (Straw Man) [11-02] - folk
- Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell: Angel Dusk (Screwgun) [03-31] - jazz
- Bernice: Puff: In the Air Without a Shape (Arts & Crafts) [05-25] - art pop
- Andrew Bernstein: An Exploded View of Time (Hausu Mountain) [09-28] - jazz
- Sarah Bernstein Unearthish: Crazy Lights Shining (Phase Frame) [05-25] - jazz
- Emily Berregaard: A Poem (Strange Rules) [04-13] - electronic
- Matt Berry: Television Themes (Acid Jazz) [10-05] - folk
- Ben Bertrand: NGC 1999 (OFF) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Lea Bertucci: Metal Aether (NNA Tapes) [02-09] - jazz
- Beta Librae: Sanguine Bond (Incienso) [05-14] - electronic
- Mica Bethea Big Band: Suite Theory (self-released) [03-01] - jazz
- Between the Buried and Me: Automata I (Sumerian) [03-09] - progressive metal
- Between the Buried and Me: Automata II (Sumerian) [07-13] - progressive metal
- Sam Bevan: Emergence (self-released) [08-03] - jazz
- The Bevis Frond: We're Your Friends Man (Fire) [12-07] - rock
- Frank Bey: Back in Business (Nola Blue) [09-21] - blues
- Eric Bibb: Global Griot (Dixie Frog) [10-26] - blues
- Ryan Biesack/James Miley/Mike Nord: Trio Untold (PJCE) [09-14] - jazz
- Big Bliss: At Middle Distance (Exit Stencil) [10-19] - rock
- Big Four + Joey Baron: Live in Mannheim 2009 (Noel Akchote Downloads) [05-04] - jazz
- Big Joanie: Sistahs (self-released) [11-30]
- Big Little Lions: Alive and Well (Far Flung/Blaster)
- Big Miz: Build/Destroy (Dixon Avenue Basement Jams) [01-29] - house
- Big Red MAchine: Big Red Machine (People) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Big Ups: Two Parts Together (Exploding in Sound) [05-18] - noise rock
- A Big Yes and a Small No: Mise En Abyme (The Royal Potato Family) [04-20] - indie pop
- Bilderbuch: Mea Culpa (Maschin) [12-04] - alt/indie
- Binary Star: Lighty/Ears Apart (self-released) [08-24] - hip-hop
- Biosphere: The Hilvarenbeek Recordings (Biophon) [03-16] - ambient
- David Birchall/Andrew Cheetham/Colin Webster/Otto Willberg: Plastic Kneecap (Raw Tonk) [03-02] - jazz
- Bird Streets: Bird Streets (Omnivore) [08-10] - rock
- Birds in Row: We Already Lost the World (Deathwish) [07-13]
- Birds of Chicago: Love in Wartime (Signature Sounds) - Americana
- Birth of Joy: Hyper Focus (Glitterhouse) [02-16] - rock
- Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio: Something Smells Funny (Alligator) [07-13] - blues
- Jeb Bishop: Three Valentines & Goodbye (1980) [08-21] - jazz
- Bishop Briggs: Church of Stars (Teleport/Island) [04-20] - pop soul
- Bixiga 70: Quebra Cabeca (Glitterbeat) [07-20] - Brazilian
- Kasper Bjorke Quartet: The Fifty Eleven Project (Kompakt) [10-19] - electronic
- Ivar Bjornson & Einar Selvik: Hugsja (By Norse) [04-20] - Nordic folk
- Ketil Bjornstad & Anneli Drecker: A Suite of Poems (Lars Saabye Christensen) (ECM) [05-18] - jazz
- Black Belt Eagle Scout: Mother of My Children (Saddle Creek) [08-25] - alt/indie
- The Black Delta Movement: Preservation (Non Delux) [08-03]
- Black Dresses: Wasteisolation (self-released) [04-13]
- Black Eyed Peas: Masters of the Sun Vol 1 (Interscope) [10-26] - hip-hop
- Black Label Society: Grimmest Hits (Entertainmenet One) [01-19] - metal
- Black Milk: Fever (Mass Appeal/Computer Ugly) [02-23] - hip hop
- Black Moth Super Rainbow: Panic Blooms (Rad Cult) [05-04] - neo-psychedelia
- Black Peaks: All That Divides (Rise) [10-05] - rock
- The Black Queen: Infinite Games (self-released) [09-28] - electronic
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Wrong Creatures (Vagrant) [01-12]
- Black Salvation: Uncertainty Is Bliss (Relapse) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Black Spirituals: Black Access/Black Axes (Sige) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Black Stone Cherry: Family Tree (Mascot) [04-20] - rock
- Black Thought: Streams of Thought Vol 1 (Human Re Sources) [06-01] - hip hop
- Black Thought: Streams of Thought Vol 2: Traxploitation (Human Re Sources) [11-26] - hip hop
- Black Tongue: Nadir (self-released) [10-31] - metal
- Black Uhuru: As the World Turns (self-released) [09-07] - reggae
- Black Wizard: Livin' Oblivion (Listenable) [02-23]
- Blackberry Smoke: Find a Light (3 Legged) [04-06]
- Michelle Blackwell: Body of Work (Blackwell Entertainment) [06-15] - r&b
- Jean-Michel Blais: Dans Ma Main (Arts & Crafts) [05-11]
- Ran Blake/Christine Correa: Streaming (Red Piano) [05-15] - jazz
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- Sarah Blasko: Depth of Field (Universal Australia) [02-23] - art pop
- Blast: Drifting (Pince-Oreilles) [10-12] - jazz
- Blawan: Wet Will Always Dry (Ternesc) - electronic
- The Blaze: Dancehall (Columbia) [09-07] - electronic
- Bleeding Through: Love Will Kill All (SharpTone) [05-25] - metal
- Peter Blegvad/Chris Cutler/John Greaves/Karen Mantler/Bob Drake: Go Figure (RER) [01-05]
- Blessthefall: Hard Feelings (Rise) [03-23] - rock
- The Blinders: Columbia (Modern Sky Entertainment) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Blinky Bill: Everyone's Just Winging It and Other Fly Tales (The Garden) [10-19] - hip-hop
- Erica Blinn: Better Than Gold (Curry House) [02-16] - rock
- Bliss Signal: Bliss Signal (True Panther Sounds) [09-28] - electronic
- BlocBoy JB: Simi (Bloc Nation) [05-04] - hip-hop
- Rory Block: A Woman's Soul: A Tribute to Bessie Smith (Stoney Plain) - blues
- Blocks & Escher: Something Blue (Metalheadz) [03-30] - electronic
- Blood of the Sun: Blood's Thicker Than Love (Listenable/Border) [10-19] - metal
- Bloods: Feelings (Share It Music) [02-14]
- Pip Blom: Paycheck (Persona Non Grata -EP) [11-09] - indie rock
- Jaap Blonk & Terrie Ex: Thirsty Ears (Terp) - jazz
- The Blood Tub Orchestra: The Seven Curses of the Music Hall (Phono Erotic) [04-13] - punk
- Blossoms: Cool Like You (Virgin EMI) [04-27] - indie pop
- Blowzabella: Two Score (self-released)
- Barbara Blue: Fish in Dirty H2O (Big Blue) [09-14] - blues
- Blue Lab Beats: Xover (Blue Adventure/All Points) [03-30] - jazz
- Blue Yonder: Rough and Ready Heart (NewSong) [06-08] - country
- Blueface: Famous Cryp (5th Amendment) [06-20] - hip-hop
- Daniel Blumberg: Minus (Mute) [05-04] - alt rock
- Dean Blunt: Soul on Fire (self-released) [10-05] - rock
- BoA: WOMAN (SM Entertainment) [10-24] - K-pop
- Bodega: Endless Scroll (What's Your Rupture?) [07-06] - art punk
- Bodega Bamz: Papi (100 Keep It/Duck Down) [04-13]
- Bodies on Everest: A National Day of Mourning (Cruel Nature) [04-29]
- The Body: I Have Fought Against It but I Can't Any Longer (Thrill Jockey) [05-11] - metal
- Body Void: I Live Inside a Burning House (Crown and Throne) [05-11] - sludge metal
- Body/Head: The Switch (Matador) [07-13] - noise rock
- Mike Bogle Trio: Dr B! (MBP/Groove) [09-28] - jazz
- Bokante and Metropole Orkest: What Heat (Real World) [09-28] - world
- Jason Boland & the Stragglers: Hard Times Are Relative (Proud Souls) [05-18] - country
- Stefano Bollani: Que Bom (Alobar Srlu) - jazz
- Stefano Bollani: Mediterranean Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic (ACT) - jazz
- Bombay Rickey: Electric Bhairavi (Cowboys & Indian) [05-18]
- Joe Bonamassa: Redemption (J&R) [09-21] - blues
- Cyril Bondi/Pierre-Yves Martel/Christoph Schiller: TSE (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Bone Sickness: Theater of Morbidity (self-released) [07-01] - death metal
- Bongripper: Terminal (Great Barrier) [07-06] - metal
- Bonjay: Lush Life (Mysteries of Trade) [05-25] - r&b
- Bonnacons of Doom: Bonnacons of Doom (Rocket) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Bella Boo: Fire (Studio Barnhus) [04-27]
- RP Boo: I'll Tell You What (Planet Mu) [07-06] - footwork
- A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: International Artist (Atlantic) [06-20] - trap rap
- Ruby Boots: Don't Talk About It (Bloodshot)
- Martyn Bootyspoon: Silk Eternity (Fractal Fantasy) [02-14] - electronic
- Gui Boratto: Pentagram (Kompakt) [06-15] - techno
- Born Ruffians: Uncle Duke & the Chief (Yep Roc) [02-16] - indie pop
- Borns: Blue Madonna (Interscope) [01-12] - alt/indie
- Borzoi: A Prayer for War (12XU) [09-21] - rock
- Borusiade: A Body (Comeme) [03-09] - electronic
- Boss Keloid: Melted on the Inch ()
- Bosse-de-Nage: Further Still (The Flenser) [09-14] - metal
- Boston Manor: Welcome to the Neighbourhood (Pure Noise) [09-07] - rock
- Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons: Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 4 & 11: The Year 1905 (Deutsche Grammophon) [07-06] - classical
- Bound: No Beyond (Diehard Skeleton) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Matthew Bourne/Nightports: Nightports With Matthew Bourne (The Leaf Label) [03-02] - electronic
- Wade Bowen: Solid Ground (Bowen Sounds) [02-09] - country
- Nathan Bowles: Plainly Mistaken (Paradise of Bachelors) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Boy George and Culture Club: Life (BMG) [10-26] - pop
- Boy Pablo: Soy Pablo (U OK?) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Boys: Rest in Peace (PNKSLM) [05-11] - indie rock
- The Boxer Rebellion: Ghost Alive (Absentee) [03-09] - indie rock
- Carla Bozulich: Quieter (Constellation) [05-11] - singer-songwriter
- Charles Bradley: Black Velvet (Dunham) [11-09] - soul
- Bendik Braenne: Benedictionary (Bendix) [09-07]
- Jay Bragg: Honky Tonk Dream (self-released) [06-22] - country
- Brainoil: Singularity to Extinction (Tankcrimes) [10-19] - metal
- Brand New Friend: Seatbelts for Aeroplanes (Xtra Mile) [04-27] - alt/indie
- Daniel Brandt: Channels (Erased Tapes) [10-12] - electronic
- Anthony Braxton: Solo (Victoriaville) (Victo) - jazz
- Sam Braysher: Golden Earrings (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
- Brazilian Girls: Let's Make Love (Six Degrees) [04-13] - alt dance
- Break: Another Way (Symmetry) [11-16] - electronic
- Breaking Benjamin: Ember (Hollywood) [04-13] - rock
- Jonathan Bree: Sleepwalking (Lil' Chief) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Rocket (Verve Forecast) [10-12] - rock
- Esme Bridie: Today It Rains (Klee) [03-23]
- Bishop Briggs: Church of Scars (Teleport/Island) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Ian Brighton/Henry Kaiser: Together Apart (Fractal) - jazz
- David Brinston: Kitty Whipped (Ecko) [05-11] - blues
- Don Broco: Technology (Nuclear Blast) [02-02] - metal
- Ensign Broderick: BloodCrush (Six Shooter) [11-09] - alt/indie
- BROM: Cardboard Sea (Tiger Moon) - jazz
- Vilhelm Bromanders Initiativ: Allt At Alla (Signal and Sound) - jazz
- Brian Bromberg: Thicker Than Water (Mack Avenue) [07-13] - jazz
- Bromide: I Woke Up (Scratchy) [05-25]
- Till Bronner/Dieger Ig: Nightfall (Masterworks) [01-26] - jazz
- Action Bronson: White Bronco (Empire) [11-01] - hip-hop
- Brooklyn Youth Chorus: Silent Voices (New Amsterdam) [10-26] - classical
- The Brother Brothers: Some People I Know (Compass) [10-19] - folk
- Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh: Crowmoon (self-released) [03-30] - Jazz
- Amanda Brown: Dirty Water (self-released)
- Apollo Brown & Joell Ortiz: Mona Lisa (Mello Music Group) [10-26] - hip-hop
- Apollo Brown & Locksmith: No Question (Mellow Music Group -EP) [06-15] - hip-hop
- Kane Brown: Experiment (RCA Nashville) [11-09] - country
- Kev Brown: Homework (self-released) [08-03] - hip-hop
- Kev Brown: Fill in the Blank (Redefinition/Fat Beats) [11-09] - hip-hop
- Mansur Brown: Shiroi (Black Focus) [09-28] - electronic
- Brownout: Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats) [05-25]
- Brubeck Brothers Quintet: TimeLine (Blue Forest) - jazz
- Peter Bruun's All Too Human: Vernacular Avant-Garde (Ayler) - jazz
- Rosa Brunello Y Los Fermentos: Volverse Live in Trieste (CAM Jazz) - jazz
- Andrew Bryant: Ain't It Like the Cosmos (Last Chance) [03-09] - rock
- Bryde: Like an Island (Seahorse) [04-13]
- BTS: Love Yourself: Answer (Big Hit) [08-24] - K-pop
- OB Buchana: Parking Lot Love Affair (Ecko) [02-16] - blues
- Arthur Buck: Arthur Buck (New West) [06-15] - rock
- Mariel Buckley: Driving in the Dark (self-released) [05-04] - folk
- Buddy: Harlan & Alondra (07-20) [07-20] - hip hop
- Buffalo Tom: Quiet and Peace (Schoolkids) [03-02] - pop/rock
- Tom Buller: When a Country Boy Gets the Blues (self-released) [10-16] - country
- Bullet for My Valentine: Gravity (Spinefarm) [06-29] - alt metal
- Bun B: Return of the Trill (2 Trill/Double Dose) [08-31] - hip-hop
- Anna Burch: Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl) [02-02] - singer-songwriter
- Molly Burch: First Flower (Captured Tracks) [10-05] - indie pop
- Tim Burgess: As I Was Now (O Genesis) [05-11] - alt/indie
- Chris Burn/Simon H Fell: Continuous Fragment (Bruce's Fingers -EP) [02-24] - jazz
- Cedric Burnside: Benton County Relic (Single Lock) [09-14] - blues
- Kevin Burt: Heartland and Soul (Little Village Foundation) [10-18] - blues
- Bury Tomorrow: Black Flame (Music for Nations) [07-13] - metal
- John Butcher: Into Darkness (Iluso) - jazz
- Butcher Brown: AfroKuti: A Tribute to Fela (self-released) - jazz
- Chris Butler & Ralph Carney: Songs for Unsung Holidays (Smog Veil) [09-07]
- Jon Butler Trio: Home (Jarrah) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Russell EL Butler: The Home I'd Build for Myself and All My Friends (Left Hand Path) [11-15] - techno
- Buttechno: Cherskogo Drive (Cititrax/Minimal Wave) [11-02] - electronic
- The Buttshakers: Sweet Rewards (Underdog) [02-09] - r&b
- Buxton: Stay Out Late (New West) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Nadine Byrne: Dreaming Remembering (Ideal) [06-01] - electronic
- Cabbage: Nihilistic Glamour Shots (BMG) [03-30] - garage punk
- Eduardo "Visitante" Cabra/Vicente Garcia/Trending Tropics: Trending Tropics (Sony) [10-19] - Latin
- Calexico: The Thread That Keeps Us (Anti-) [01-26] - Americana
- Calm: By Your Side (Hell Yeah) [07-27]
- Calpurnia: Scout (Royal Mountain) [06-15] - indie rock
- Anna Calvi: Hunter (Domino) [08-31] - art rock
- Demian Cabaud: Astah (Carimbo Porta-Jazz) [01-08] - jazz
- Joao Camoes/Jean-Luc Cappozzo/Jean-Marc Foussat: Autres Paysages (Clean Feed -17) [11-10-2017] - jazz
- Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons: The Age of Absurdity ()
- Campdogzz: In Rounds (15 Passenger) [08-03] - alt/indie
- Rodrigo Campos: 9 Sambas (YB Music) [08-03] - samba
- Cancer Bats: The Spark That Moves (Batskull/New Damage) [04-20] - hardcore punk
- Candy: Good to Feel (Triple-B) [09-28] - metal
- Cane Hill: Too Far Gone (Rise) [01-19] - metal
- Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman: Reckonings (Brawl) [07-13]
- Can't Swim: This Too Won't Pass (Pure Noise) [11-16] - rock
- Cantique Lepreux: Paysages Polaires (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) [11-30] - metal
- Henry Canyons: Cool Side of the Pillow (Backwoodz Studioz) [04-13] - hip-hop
- Capital Cities: Solarize (Lazy Hooks/Capitol) [08-10] - alt/indie
- Capitol K: Goatherder (Faith & Industry) [07-13] - electronic
- Alessia Cara: The Pains of Growing (Def Jam) [11-30] - pop
- Steve Cardenas: Charlie and Paul (Newvelle) [02-00] - jazz
- The Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 4 (History Always Favours the Winners) [04-05]
- The Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 5 (History Always Favours the Winners) [09-20] - electronic
- Kyle Carey: The Art of Forgetting (Riverboat) [01-26] - folk
- Jeff Carey: Zero Player Game (Ehse) [11-02] - electronic
- S Carey: Hundred Acres (Jagjaguwar) [02-23] - indie pop
- Carino: Movidas (Elefant) [11-09]
- Darci Carlson: Darci Carlson (self-released) [04-20] - country
- Dylan Carlson: Conquistador (Sargent House) [04-27] - drone
- Carolina Story: Lay Your Head Down (Black River Americana) [07-13] - country
- Caroline Says: No Fool Like an Old Fool (Western Vinyl) [03-16] - indie folk
- John Carpenter: Halloween [Original Soundtrack] (Sacred Bones) [10-19] - soundtrack
- Sabrina Carpenter: Singular: Act I (Hollywood) [11-09] - pop
- Carpenter Brut: Leather Teeth (No Quarter/Caroline) [02-23] - electronic
- Derek Carr: Contact (Subwax Excursions) [12-21] - electronic
- Chris Carter: Chris Carter's Chemistry Lessons Vol 1 (Mute) [03-30]
- Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Telepathic Alliances (577 -17) [2017-12-01] - jazz
- Jazz Cartier: Fleurever (Universal Canada) [07-27] - trap rap
- Casey: Where I Go When I Am Sleeping (Rise) [03-16] - rock
- Tommy Cash: ¥¤$ [YES] (Platoon) [11-30] - hip-hop
- Castle: Deal Thy Fate (Ripple) [10-19] - rock
- Jennifer Castle: Angels of Death (Paradise of Bachelors) [05-18]
- Rachel Caswell: We're All in the Dance (Turtle Ridge) [09-07]
- Doja Cat: Amala (RCA)
- Cat Power: Wanderer (Domino) [10-05] - singer-songwriter
- Cataclysmic Commentary: Audience Participation (Eschatology) [03-22] - jazz
- Caleb Caudle: Crushed Coins (Cornelius Chapel) [02-23] - country
- Cautious Clay: Blood Type (self-released) [02-21] - r&b
- Cave: Allways (Drag City) [10-19]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen (Bad Seed -EP) [09-28]
- Cecilia: Adoration (Halcyon Veil) [05-04] - electronic
- Centavrvs: Somos Uno (Casete Upload) [03-16] - Latin
- Cero: Poly Life Multi Soul (Kakubarhythm) [05-16]
- Amy Cervini: No One Ever Tells You (Anzic) [06-15] - vocal
- Chai: Pink (Otemoyan) [10-25] - alt/indie
- Kasey Chambers: Campfire (Essence Music Group) - Americana
- Sean Chambers: Welcome to My Blues (American Showpiece) [10-19] - blues
- Jenn Champion: Single Rider (Sub Pop) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Chancha Via Circuito: Bienaventuranza (Wonderwheel) [06-08]
- Olivia Chaney: Shelter (Nonesuch) [06-15]
- Channel Tres: Channel Tres (Godmode) [07-27] - electronic
- Chaos Echoes: Mouvement (Nuclear War Now!) [01-24] - metal
- Chaos Echoes & Mats Gustafsson: Sustain (Utech) - jazz
- Chapel of Disease: . . . And as We Have Seen the Storm We Have Embraced the Eye (Van) [11-23] - metal
- Stefan Chaplikov: Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas Opp 25 33 & 46 (Naxos) [08-10] - classical
- Beth Nielsen Chapman: Hearts of Glass (Proper) [02-09]
- Bryan Chapman: 7 Shadows and Iron Lungs (Monotony) [09-24] - electronic
- Charalambides: Tom and Christina Carter (Drawing Room) [10-12] - rock
- Charge It to the Game: House With a Pool (Ghost Ramp) [04-27] - hip-hop
- Pearl Charles: Sleepless Dreamer (Kanine) [02-02] - alt/indie
- Chastity: Death Lust (Captured Tracks) [07-13] - alt rock
- Ben Chatwin: Staccato Signals (Village Green) [07-06] - electronic
- Jean Chaumont: The Beauty of Differences (Misfitme Music) [06-15] - Jazz
- Chelsea Grin: Eternal Nightmare (Rise) [07-13] - metal
- Chemtrails: Calf of the Sacred Cow (PNKSLM) [02-09] - alt/indie
- Eric Chenaux: Slowly Paradise (Constellation) [03-09] - folk
- Cher: Dancing Queen (Warner Bros) [09-28] - pop
- Cherish the Ladies: Heart of the Home (Big Mammy) [09-12]
- Kenny Chesney: Songs for the Saints (Blue Chair/Parlophone/Warner Bros) [07-27] - country
- Chesterfield: Consuelo (Mikroton) - jazz
- Chevel: Always Yours (Different Circles) [03-30] - electronic
- CHEW: Feeding Frenzy (Iron Lung) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Chhoti Maa: Agua Corre (894959) [06-07] - hip-hop
- Chhoti Maa: Caldo De Hueso (self-released) [11-07] - hip-hop
- Chicago Farmer: Quarter Past Tonight (self-released) [08-02] - alt/indie
- Adrien Chicot: City Walk (Gaya Music Production) - jazz
- Chief Keef: The GloFiles Pt 1 (self-releaaed) [05-11] - mixtape
- Chief Keef: The GloFiles Pt 2 (self-released) [05-11] - mixtape
- Chief Keef: The Cozart (FilmOn Music) [09-28] - hip-hop
- Wild Billy Childish & CTMF: Brand New Cage (Damaged Goods) [10-06] - punk
- Children of Zeus: Travel Light (First Word) [07-13] - r&b
- Lando Chill: Maya Maia Mayu (Mello Music Group -EP) [02-02] - r&b
- Lando Chill & the Lasso: Landolasso (Mello Music Group -EP) [07-23] - hip-hop
- Chlorine: Loser Herds (Panurus Productions) [11-19]
- Eugenia Choe: Verdant Dream (SteepleChase) [11-01] - jazz
- Jungsu Choi: Tschuss Jazz Era (Challenge) [01-12] - jazz
- Choral Hearse: Mire Exhumed (self-released) [04-16] - metal
- Dave Chose: Dave Chose (Bonsound) [04-27]
- Chrome Sparks: Chrome Sparks (Counter) [04-13] - electronic
- Chthe'ilist: Passage Into the Xexanotth (Profound Lore) [06-15] - metal
- Chungha: Blooming Blue (Stone Music Entertainment) [07-18] - K-pop
- Church Fire: Summer Camp Doom Diary (self-released) [12-29] - electronic
- The Church Sisters: A Night at the Opry (Valory Music) [05-25] - country
- Churchburn: None Shall Live . . . The Hymns of Misery (Armageddon Label) [07-13] - metal
- Marko Churnchetz: Ruthenia: Retrospective of Russian Composers of the 20th Century (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
- Chvrches: Hansa Session (Liberator Music -EP) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Ciel: Hundred Flowers (Coastal Haze) [11-23] - electronic
- Albert Cirera/Abdul Moimeme/Alvaro Rosso: Dissection Room (Creative Sources) - jazz
- Cities Aviv: Raised for a Better View (Tonal Works) [02-16] - experimental hip hop
- Citric Dummies: The Kids Are Alt-Right (Erste Theke Tontrager) [05-01] - punk
- George Clanton: Slide (100% Electronica) [08-17] - alt/indie
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (Universal) [06-15] - British blues
- Cathy Claret: Primavera (Respect)
- The Stanley Clarke Band: The Message (Mack Avenue) [06-29] - jazz
- Clarks: Madly in Love at the End of the World (self-released) [06-08] - rock
- Clay Hips: Happily Ever After (Annika) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Clean Bandit: What Is Love? (Atlantic) [11-30] - electronic
- Clearance: At Your Leisure (Topshelf) [07-27] - indie rock
- Cloud Rat: Clipped Beaks//Silk Panic (Colline Noire) [07-13] - metal
- Clouds: Heavy the Eclipse (Electric Deluxe) [11-23] - electronic
- Cloves: One Big Nothing (Universal Music Australia) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Clown Core: Toilet (8===D) [03-03]
- CLT: Every Second Is a Blues (CLT) - jazz
- Clubz: Destellos (self-released) [09-28] - pop
- Clutch: Book of Bad Decisions (Weathermaker) [09-07] - stoner rock
- Biffy Clyro: MTV Unplugged: Live at Roundhouse London (Warner Bros) [05-25] - alt/indie
- CNCO: CNCO (Sony Music Latin) [04-06] - pop
- Oliver Coates: Shelley's on Zenn-La (RVNG Intl) [09-07] - electronic
- Jose Pedro Coelho: Passarola Voadora (Carimbo Portajazz) [02-22] - jazz
- Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (Roadrunner) [10-05] - alt rock
- Emmet Cohen: Master Legacy Series Volume 2 (Cellar Live) - jazz
- Gabriella Cohen: Pink Is the Colour of Unconditional Love (Captured Tracks) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Col3trane: Boot (Tap/Geffen) [08-17] - mixtape
- Cold Voodoo: AB+ (Wide Ear) - jazz
- Beccy Cole: Lioness (ABC) [08-24] - country
- Louis Cole: Time (Brainfeeder) [08-10] - synth funk
- Brandon Coleman: Resistance (Brainfeeder) [09-14] - electronic
- Kevin Coleman: First Songs (self-released) [02-24] - contemporary folk
- Nick Colionne: Just Being Me (Trippin & Rhythm) [04-27] - jazz
- Collard: Unholy (Virgin/EMI) [05-10] - r&b
- Collate: Liminal Concerns (self-released) [08-08] - post-punk
- Colle Der Fomento: Adversus (CDF/TAK Prod/Tuff Kong) [11-16] - hip-hop
- Ned Collette: Old Chestnut (It) [08-24] - dark folk
- Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol 1 (Hajanga) [12-07] - jazz
- Sara Colman: What We're Made Of (Stoney Lane) [09-28] - vocal jazz
- Colour Me Wednesday: Counting Pennies in the Afterlife (Dovetown/KROD) [05-17] - pop
- Colouring: Bn (UMGRi/Interscope) [06-22] - alt/indie
- Comanche Moon: Country Music Deathstar (Edgewater Music Group) [08-03] - country
- The Common Cold: Shut Up! Yo Liberals! (Action) [05-04]
- Common Objects [John Butcher/Angharad Davies/Rhodri Davies/Lina Lapelyte/Lee Patterson/Pat Thomas]: Skullmarks (Ftarri) - jazz
- Concretism: For Concrete and Country (Castles in Space) [04-20] - electronic
- Henry Conerway III: With Pride for Dignity (self-released) [09-04] - jazz
- Congs for Brums: A Complete and Tonal Disaster (Preposterous Bee) - jazz
- Conjurer: Mire (Holy Roar) [03-09] - metal
- Connections: Foreign Affairs (Trouble in Mind) [05-11] - alt/indie
- Container: LP (Spectrum Spools) [06-29] - electronic
- Nicola Conte: Let Your Light Shine On (Universal) [05-18] - jazz
- Converge: Beautiful Ruin (Epitaph) [06-29] - metalcore
- Conway: Everybody is FOOD (Griselda) [08-20] - hip-hop
- Conway the Machine: The Blakk Tape (916% Entertainment -EP) [03-27] - hip-hop
- Conway the Machine: Everybody Is FOOD (Griselda) [08-20] - hip-hop
- Hollie Cook: Vessel of Love (Merge) [01-26] - reggae
- Rita Coolidge: Safe in the Arms of Time (Blue Elan) [05-04]
- Gaz Coombes: World's Strongest Man (Caroline) [05-04] - indie rock
- Cooper: Tiempo Temperatura Agitacion (Elefant) [05-18] - pop
- Erland Cooper: Solan Goose (Phases) [03-23]
- Liz Cooper & the Stampede: Window Flowers (Sleepyhead) [08-10]
- Max Cooper: One Hundred Billion Sparks (MESH) [09-20] - electronic
- Ross Cooper: I Rode the Wild Horses (self-released) - Americana
- Shemekia Copeland: America's Child (Alligator) [08-03] - blues
- The Coral: Move Through the Dawn (Ignition) [08-10] - indie rock
- The Cordovas: That Santa Fe Channel (ATO) [08-10]
- Cornelius: Mellow Waves (Rostrum) [01-26] - ambient
- Corrosion of Conformity: No Cross No Crown (Nuclear Blast) [01-12] - metal
- Cosmic Church: Tayttymys (Kuunpalvelus) [05-23] - metal
- Mich Cota: Kija/Care (Tin Angel) [11-02] - electronic
- Alison Cotton: All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre (1046908 DK) [11-18] - alt/indie
- Courteeners: St Jude: Re-Wired (Polydor) [04-07]
- Cowboy Junkies: All That Reckoning (Latent) [07-13] - slowcore
- Cozz: Effected (Dreamville/Interscope) [02-13] - hip hop
- Jason Crabb: Unexpected (New Day Entertainment) [04-20] - country
- Chris Crack: Let's Just Be Friends (New Deal Collectives) [05-31] - hip-hop
- Chris Crack: Being Woke Ain't Fun (New Deal Collectives) [07-31] - hip-hop
- Chris Crack: Just Gimme a Minute (New Deal Collectives) [11-11] - hip-hop
- Chris Crack: Thanks Uncle Thrill (New Deal Collectives) [12-17] - hip-hop
- Crack Cloud: Crack Cloud (Deranged) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Crack the Sky: Living in Reverse (Loud & Proud) [08-24] - rock
- The Cradle: Bag of Holding (NNA Tapes) [07-27]
- Ian William Craig: Thresholder (FatCat) [11-02] - ambient
- Isla Craig: The Becoming (Pleasence) [06-22] - pop
- Craft: White Noise and Black Metal (Season of Mist) [06-22] - metal
- Kyle Craft: Full Circle Nightmare (Sub Pop) [02-02] - glam rock
- Crayola Lectern: Happy Endings (Onomatopoeia) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Creep Show: Mr Dynamite (Bella Union) [03-16] - synth funk
- Cremation Lily: In England Now Underwater (Alter) [08-10] - electronic
- Crepes: In Cahoots (Universal Music Australia) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Noah Creshevsky: Reanimator (Orange Milk) [02-02]
- Crippled Black Phoenix: Great Escape (Season of Mist)
- Alison Crockett: Obrigada (Sol Image) [11-03] - jazz
- Charley Crockett: Lonesome as a Shadow (Son of Davy) [04-20] - folk
- Charley Crockett: Lil GL's Blue Bonanza (Son of Davy) [12-07] - blues
- David Crosby: Here if You Listen (BMG) [10-26] - rock
- Cruel Diagonals: Disambiguation (Drawing Room) [07-13] - electronic
- The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra: Ain't It Grand? (Blue Rhythm) [05-09] - jazz
- Ronnie Cuber: Live at Montmartre (Storyville) - jazz
- Cucina Povera: Hilja (Night School) [01-26] - electronic
- Marc Cuevas: Carta Blanca (Underpool Music) - jazz
- Tim Culpepper: DUI (Drinkin' Under the Influence) (self-released) [05-19] - country
- Cult Leader: A Patient Man (Deathwish) [11-09] - metal
- Cult of the Damned: Part Deux: Brick Pelican Posse Crew Gang Syndicate (Blah) [04-13] - hip-hop
- Cult Party: And Then There Was This Sound (Icecapades) - psychedelic rock
- Culture Abuse: Bay Dream (Epitaph) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Ryan Culwell: The Last American (Missing Peace) [08-24] - singer-songwriter
- Cumbia Chicarra: Hijo de Tigre (Autre Distribution) [05-25] - jazz
- Adrian Cunningham and Ken Peplowski: Duologue (Arbors Jazz) [07-06] - jazz
- Currensy/Freddie Gibbs/The Alchemist: Fetti (ESGN/Jet Life/ALC/Empire) [10-31] - hip-hop
- Current 93: The Light Is Leaving Us All (House of Mythology) [10-13] - alt/indie
- Current Joys: A Different Age (Danger Collective) [03-02] - indie rock
- Cursive: Vitriola (15 Passenger) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Brothers (self-released) [07-25] - jazz
- Cut Chemist: Die Cut (A Stable Sound) [03-02] - electronic
- Cut Worms: Hollow Ground (Jagjaguwar) [05-04] - indie pop
- Jeremiah Cymerman: Decay of the Angel (5049) [08-17] - jazz
- D Double E: Jackuum (Bluku Music) [08-31] - hip-hop
- Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Plays Dom Salvador (Sunnyside) [04-13] - jazz
- Dabrye: Three/Three (Ghostly International) [02-16] - underground rap
- Signe Dahlgreen: Kunki Snuk (Astral Spirits) - jazz
- Laureen Daigle: Look Up Child (Centricity Music) [09-07] - gospel
- Will Dailey: Golden Walker (Wheelkick) [06-01] - rock
- Dalham: Janus (Public House) [02-00] - ambient
- DALI (Deadly Avenger & Luke Insect): When Haro Met Sally (Burning Witches) [07-27] - electronic
- The Dali Thundering Concept: Savages (self-released) [04-13] - progressive metall
- Lucrecia Dalt: Anticlines (RVNG Intl) [05-04]
- Roger Daltrey: As Long as I Have You (Polydor) [06-01] - rock
- The Damned: Evil Spirits (Spinefarm) [04-13] - punk
- Damu the Fudgemunk & Flex Mathews: Dreams & Vibrations (Redefinition) [05-11] - hip-hop
- Dan + Shay: Dan + Shay (Warner Nashville) [06-22] - country
- Ben Danaher: Still Feel Lucky (Soundly Music) [09-07] - folk
- Dancehall: The Band (Vibe/Anti-Vibe) [06-15] - post-punk
- Jesse Daniel: Jesse Daniel (Die True) [05-26] - country
- Franco D'Andrea Octet: Intervals 1 (Parco Della Musica) - jazz
- The Dangerous Summer: The Dangerous Summer (Hopeless) [01-26] - rock
- Eddie Daniels: Heart of Brazil (Resonance) [06-01] - jazz
- Lars Danielsson: Summerwind (ACT) - jazz
- Eric Darius: Breakin' Thru (SagiDarius) [08-24] - jazz
- The Dark Light: Keep Off the Grass (Unknown Pleasures) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Dark Sarah: The Golden Moth (Inner Wound) [09-21] - metal
- Dark Times: Tell Me What I Need (Sheep Chase) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Dark Web: Clone Age (Erste Theke Tontraeger) [02-14]
- Darlingside: Extralife (More Doug/Thirty Tigers) [02-23] - indie folk
- Dashboard Confessional: Crooked Shadows (Fueled by Ramen) [02-09]
- Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want (Ipecac) [10-26] - noise rock
- Daughtry: Cage to Rattle (RCA) [07-27] - pop idol
- Sarah Davachi: Let Night Come on Bells End the Day (Recital) [04-13]
- Sarah Davachi: Gave in Rest (Ba Da Bing!) [09-14] - drone
- Craig David: The Time Is Now (Insanity) [01-26] - electropop
- Delaney Davidson: Shining Day (Southbound Music) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Roger Davidson Quartet Featuring Hendrik Meurkens: Music From the Heart (Soundbrush) [09-04] - jazz
- Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II (self-released) [09-26] - jazz
- Daniel Davies: Events Score (Lakeshore) [08-31] - electronic
- Ray Davies: Our Country: Americana Act 2 (Legacy) [06-29] - pop/rock
- Benjamin Lazar Davis: Nothing Matters (BLD) [05-04] - alt/indie
- Elise Davis: Cactus (Tone Tree Music) [09-07] - folk
- James Davis Quintet: Disappearing Roads (Whistler) [06-15] - jazz
- Jonathan Davis: Black Labyrinth (Sumerian) [05-25] - rock
- Jordan Davis: Home State (EMI Nashville) [03-23] - contry
- Mikaela Davis: Delivery (Rounder) [07-13] - indie pop
- Ward Davis: Asunder (self-released -EP) [11-23] - country
- Dawes: Passwords (Hub) [06-22] - pop/rock
- Dawnbreaker: Deus Vult (1022919 DK) [05-25] - metal
- Devin Dawson: Dark Horse (Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville) [01-19] - country
- The Daysleepers: Creation (My Daydream) [09-07] - rock
- Jesse Dayton: The Outsider (Blue Elan) [06-08] - country
- DBridge: A Love I Can't Explain (Exit) [10-20] - downtempo
- De Leon: De Leon (Mana) [03-09] - electronic
- Dead Can Dance: Dionysus (PIAS) [11-01]
- Dead Horses: My Mother the Moon (self-released) [04-06] - country
- Dead Vortex: Event Horizon/Redshift (A Besta) [05-27] - jazz
- Deadbeat: Wax Poetic for This Our Great Resolve (BLKRTZ) [04-27]
- Deaf Havana: Rituals (SO/Silva Screen) [08-03] - rock
- Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti-) [07-13] - blackgaze
- Matthew Dear: Bunny (Ghostly international) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Dear Nora: Skulls Example (Orindal) [05-25] - indie pop
- Death Cab for Cutie: Thank You for Today (Atlantic) [08-17] - indie pop
- Death Drag: Shifted (Iluso) - jazz
- Death Grips: Year of the Snitch (Third Worlds) [06-22] - rap
- Death Valley Girls: Darkness Rains (Suicide Squeeze) [10-05] - alt/indie
- The Declining Winter: Belmont Slope (Home Assembly Music) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Debit: Animus (NAAFI) [02-23] - electronic
- The Decemberists: I'll Be Your Girl (Capitol) [03-16] - indie pop
- Jerry David Decicca: Time the Teacher (Impossible Ark) [02-09] - country
- Dedekind Cut: Tahoe (Kranky) [02-23] - ambient
- Manny Dee: The Residue (Tresor) [06-29] - electronic
- Deep'a & Biri: Dominance (Black Crow) [03-23]
- Dehousy: Stage 2 ([Re]Sources) [07-20] - electronic
- Tomasa Del Real: Bellaca Del Ano (Nacional) [05-18]
- Del the Funky Homosapien & Amp Live: Gate 13 (Gate 13) [04-20] - hip hop
- Gonzalo Del Val With David Liebman & Ronan Guilfoyle: Standards in Dublin (Quadrant) [05-25] - jazz
- Helena Deland: From the Series of Songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" Vol I (Luminelle) [03-02] - rock
- Delgres: Mo Jodi (Jazz Village) [08-31] - jazz
- Jax Deluca: Organs in the Wind (self-released) [10-30] - alt/indie
- Mac DeMarco: Salad Days Demos (Captured Tracks) [08-24] - indie rock
- Demdike Stare: Passion (Modern Love) [10-26] - electronic
- Demob Happy: Holy Doom (Silva Screen) [03-23] - noise rock
- Den-Mate: Loceke (Babe City) [09-28] - rock
- Der Lange Schatten: Concurrences (Trouble in the East) - jazz
- Der Nino Aus Wien: Der Nino Aus Wien (Problembar) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Detroit Swindle: High Life (Heist) [05-28] - electronic
- Raheem DeVaughn: Decade of a Love King (BMG) [H|r&b]
- Aisha Devi: DNA Feelings (Houndstooth) [05-11] - post-industrial
- The Devil Makes Three: Chains Are Broken (New West) [08-24] - rock
- DeVotchKa: The Night Falls Forever (Concord) [08-24] - pop/rock
- Devouring Star: The Arteries of Heresy (Dark Descent) [10-26] - metal
- DeWolf: Thrust (Mascot) [05-04]
- Dwiki Dharmawan: Rumah Batu (Moonjune) [06-00] - jazz
- Al Di Meola: Elegant Gypsy & More Live (Ear Music) [07-20] - jazz
- Dialeto: Live With David Cross (Moonjune) - jazz
- Hannah Diamond: Soon I Won't See You at All (PC Music -EP -17) [2017-12-13] - electronic
- Stella Diana: 57 (Vipchoyo Sound Factory) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Alela Diane: Cusp (Allpoints) [02-09] - pop/rock
- Greg Diaz & the Art of Imagination Jazz Orchestra: Begin the Agora (AOI Group) [08-27] - jazz
- Robert Dick/Tiffany Chang: Raise the River (RogueArt) - jazz
- Broeder Dieleman: Komma (Snowstar) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Die Nerven: Fake (Glitterhouse) [04-20] - alt/indie
- The Digital Blonde: Neon (JOOF) [09-03] - electronic
- Cara Dillon: Wanderer (Charcoal -17) [2017-10-13] - folk
- Dilly Dally: Heaven (Partisan) [09-14] - alt rock
- Will DiMaggio: At Ease (Future Times)
- Dimmu Borgir: Eonian (Nuclear Blast) [05-06] - metal
- Joe Diorio: Straight Ahead to the Light (Art of Life) - jazz
- Dir En Grey: The Insulated World (Columbia) [10-12]
- Direct Hit: Crown of Nothing (Fat Wreck Chords) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Dirtmusic: Bu Bir Ruya (Glitterbeat) [01-26] -
- The Dirty Nil: Master Volume (Dine Alone) [09-14] - alt rock
- Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose (Domino) [07-13] - art pop
- Andrew Distel: It Only Takes Time (Jerujazz) - jazz
- Distorted Harmony: A Way Out (self-released) [07-18] - metal
- Disturbed: Evolution (Reprise) [10-18] - rock
- Divine Weeks: We're All We Have (self-released) [11-09] - rock
- DJ Call Me: Marry Me (Highlife ) [04-20] - kwaito
- DJ Healer: Nothing 2 Loose (All Possible Worlds) [04-01] - deep house
- DJ Healer: Planet Lonely (All Possible Worlds) [05-19] - deep house
- DJ Jazzy Jeff: M3 (Playlist Music) [05-08] - hip-hop
- DJ Juan Data: Ritmos Crotos Volume 1 (Stronghold Sound) [10-03]
- DJ Khalab: Black Noise 2084 (On the Corner) [07-20] - jazz
- DJ Krush: Cosmic Yard (ES) [03-21] - hip-hop
- DJ Nigga Fox: Cranio (Warp -EP) [03-09] -
- DJ Raph: Sacred Groves (self-released) [05-04] - electronic
- DJ Richard: Dies Irae Xerox (Dial) [06-15] - electronic
- DJ Smokey & Ruben Slikk: Goony Toonz (self-released) [06-08] - hip-hop
- DJ Taye: Still Trippin' (Hyperdub) [03-02] - footwork
- Django Django: Marble Skies (Ribbon) [01-26] - indie pop
- Djrum: Portrait With Firewood (R&S) [08-17] - electronic
- DMA's: For Now (BMG) [04-27] - britpop
- The Dodos: Certainty Waves (Polyvinyl) [10-12] - indie rock
- Dodsrit: Spirit Crusher (Prosthetic) [09-28] - black metal
- Doe: Grow Into It (Topshelf) [09-28] - rock
- Dolphin: 442 (self-released) [03-23] - electronic
- Stefflon Don: Secure (Polydor) [08-17] - mixtape
- Don Kapot: Don Kapot (Mr. Nakayasi) [05-27] - jazz
- Dine Doneff: Rousilvo (ECM) - jazz
- Liran Donin's 1000 Boats: 8 Songs (Cavalo) [09-21] - jazz
- Donna the Buffalo: Dance in the Street (self-released) [11-09] - folk
- Bonny Doon: Longwave (Woodsist) [03-23] - pop/rock
- Dopethrone: Transcanadian Anger (Totem Cat) [05-25] - metal
- Christy Doran: Undercurrent: Live at Theater Gutersloh (Intuition) [01-12] - jazz
- Christy Doran: 144 Strings for a Broken Chord (Between the Lines) - jazz
- Dorian Concept: The Nature of Imitation (Brainfeeder) [08-03] - wonky
- Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon: Leave No Trace: Live in St Louis (Family Vineyard) - jazz
- Axel Dorner/Mia Dyberg/Pierre Borel/Ernesto Rodrigues/Tristan Honsinger/Guilherme Rodrigues: Laura (Creative Sources) [01-22] - jazz
- Giuseppe Doronzo: Goya (Tora) [08-24] - jazz
- Dorothy: 28 Days in the Valley (Roc Nation) [03-16] - rock
- Dot Dash: Proto Retro (The Beautiful Music) [07-27] - jazz
- Matt Douglas: Affirmation (with Discomfort) (self-released) [04-06] - jazz
- Al Doum & the Faryds: Spirit Rejoin (Bongo Joe)
- Douvelle19: D19 (D19 -EP) [09-19] - electronic
- Donato Dozzy: Mindless Fullness (Eerie -EP) [04-23] - techno
- Donato Dozzy: Filo Loves the Acid (Tresor) [07-13] - electronic
- Dr Dog: Critical Equation (We Buy Gold) [04-27] - alt/indie
- Dr Octagon: Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation (Bulk) [04-06] - hip-hop
- Drake: Scorpion (Cash Money/Republic) [06-29] - hip hop
- Bob Drake: L'Isola Dei Lupi (self-released) [10-04]
- Hamid Drake/Ralph M Jones/Adam Rudolph: Karuna (Meta) - jazz
- Drakeo the Ruler: Cold Devil (Stinc Team -17) [12-26-2017] - hip-hop
- Drangsal: Zores (Caroline) [04-27] - alt/indie
- Dream System 8: We Sleep Again (Minty Fresh) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Dream Troll: The Witch's Curse (self-released) [02-02]
- Dreams: No One Defeats Us (EMI Australia) [06-01] - alt/indie
- The Dreebs: Forest of a Crew (Ramp Local) [06-01]
- Eris Drew & Octo Octa: Devotion (Naive -EP) [10-26] - electronic
- Drinks: Hippo Lite (Drag City) [04-20] - experimental rock
- Drowse: Cold Air (The Flenser) [03-09] - shoegaze
- Drudkh: They Often See Dreams About the Spring (Seasons of Mist) [03-08] - atmospheric black metal
- Drug Church: Cheer (Pure Noise) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Druid: The Seven Scrolls (self-released) [09-09]
- Andrew Drury's Content Provider: Try (Different Track) - jazz
- Dubstar: One (Northern Whites) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Dunbarrow: Dunbarrow II (Riding Easy)
- Dungen & Woods: Myths 003 (Mexican Summer) [03-16] - psychedelic rock
- Paul Dunmall/Percy Pursglove/Tony Orrell: Nothing in Stone (01-00) [J|jazz]
- Paul Dunmall/Philip Gibbs/Neil Metcalfe/Ashley John Long: Seascapes (FMR) [05-00] - jazz
- Paul Dunmall/Jon Irabagon/Mark Sanders/Jim Bashford: The Rain Sessions (FMR) [09-00] - jazz
- Paul Dunmall/John O'Gallagher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Freedom Music (FMR) [05-00] - jazz
- Matthew Doc Dunn: LIghtbourn (Cosmic Range) [08-13]
- Duppy Gun: Miro Tape (Broken Versions) [04-27] - electronic
- Kelman Duran: 13th Month (Apocalipsis) [11-27] - electronic
- The Du-Rites: Gamma Ray Jones (Redefinition/Fat Beats) [11-23] - r&b
- Baxter Dury/Etienne De Crecy/Delilah Holliday: BED (Heavenly) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Jeremy Dutcher: Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa () [04-06]
- The Dwarfs of East Agouza: Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers (Annihaya) - jazz
- Thomas Dybdahl: All These Things (V2) [alt/indie]
- Bokani Dyer Trio: Neo-Native (self-released) - jazz
- Erik Dylan: Baseball on the Moon (self-released) - country
- Mia Dyson: If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back ()
- DZ Deathrays: Bloody Lovely (Alcopop!) [02-02] - indie rock
- E-40 & B-Legit: Connected & Respected (Sick Wid It) [04-06] - hip hop
- E-40: The Gift of Gab (Heavy on the Grid) [06-28] - hip hop
- Eagle Twin: The Thundering Herd (Southern Lord) [03-30] - metal
- The Earls of Leicester: Live at the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame (New Rounder) [09-28] - bluegrass
- Eartheater: Irisiri (PAN) [06-08] - post-industrial
- Earthgang: Royalty (Spillage Village -EP) [02-23] - hip hop
- Earthless: Black Heaven (Nuclear Blast) [03-16] - rock
- Anderson East: Encore (Low Country Sound/Elektra) [01-12] - soul
- Dave East: Paranoia 2 [P2] (Def Jam) [01-16] - hip hop
- Dave East: Karma 2 (The DisPensary) [07-27] - hip-hop
- Dave East and Styles P: Beloved (Def Jam) [10-05] - hip-hop
- East Man: Red White and Zero (Planet Mu) [02-16] - electronic
- Ronnie Eaton: The Hand That Mocked Them and the Heart That Fed (self-released) - Americana
- Eave: Eave (Astral Spirits) [02-18] - jazz
- Silke Eberhard and Sandy Evans: What She Sees (Rufus) [03-28] - jazz
- Ebony Bones: Nephilim (1984) [07-20] - alt/indie
- Echo Beds: Buried Language (The Flenser) [08-17] - electronic
- Echo Ladies: Pink Noise (Sonic Cathedral) [06-08] - pop
- Echodrone: Past Present and Future (Isomer) [01-23] - alt/indie
- Echoes of Ellington Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Planets (Right Track) - jazz
- Echoes of Swing: Travelin' (ACT) - jazz
- Editors: Violence (PIAS) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Delroy Edwards: Rio Grande (LA Club Resource) [03-30] - hypnagogic pop
- Richard Edwards: Verdugo (Mariel) [06-01]
- Eels: The Deconstruction (E-Works) [04-06] - singer-songwriter
- Ana Egge: White Tiger (StorySound) [06-08] - folk
- The Egyptian Lover: 1985 (Egyptian Empire) [11-30] - electronic
- Markus Eichenberger & Daniel Studer: Suspended (Hatology) - jazz
- Mathias Eick: Ravensburg (ECM) [03-02] - jazz
- Mats Eilertsen: Sun Sparkle (Hubro) - jazz
- Wendy Eisenberg: The Machinic Unconscious (Tzadik) [10-19] - jazz
- Wendy Eisenberg: Its Shape Is Your Touch (Vin du Select Qualitite) [10-22] - jazz
- El Coyote: El Coyote (self-released) [04-03] - country
- El Dusty: Cumbia City (Aftercluv Dancelab) [05-11] - electronic
- Jorge Elbrecht: Here Lies (self-released) [02-27] - pop
- Elder Brother: Stay Inside (Pure Noise) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Electric Citizen: Helltown (Riding Easy)
- Electric Indigo: 511593 (Imbalance Computer Music) [03-13] - ambient
- Electronica Pineapple Boys: Hello! EPB (self-released) [04-20] - new age
- Elephant Micah: Genericana (Western Vinyl) [08-05] - experimental folk
- Elephant9: Greatest Show on Earth (Rune Grammofon) [02-16] - jazz
- Eleventeen Eston: At the Water (Growing Bin) [05-22] - electronic
- Elisapie: The Ballad of the Runaway Girl (Bronsound) [09-14] - folk
- Ehran Elisha/Albert Beger/Dave Philips: Heads (CIMP) - jazz
- Elk City: Everbody's Insecure (Bar None) [03-16] - alt/indie
- Roddy Ellias/Marc Copland/Adrian Vedady: ECV: Sticks and Stones (Kwimu Music) - jazz
- Pee Wee Ellis: In My Ellingtonian Mood (Minor Music) [03-23] - jazz
- Elohim: Elohim (BMG) [04-27]
- Emanative: Earth (Jazzman) - jazz
- Prins Emanuel: Diagonal Musik (Music for Dreams) [11-02] - electronic
- Embassador Dulgoon: Hydrorion Remnants (Nonlocal Research) [07-01]
- The Embassy: White Lake (International) [11-21] - alt/indie
- Emery: Eve (BC Music) [11-09] - rock
- Emma Louise: Lilac Everything (Liberation) [09-14] - pop
- Empath: Liberating Guilt and Fear (Get Better) [03-28] - noise pop
- Empress Of: Us (Terrible) [10-19] - alt/indie
- En Attendant Ana: Lost and Found (Trouble in Mind) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Ron English: Dance/Cry/Dance (Detroit Music Factory) [07-20] - jazz
- EOD: Named (bbbbbb) [07-13] - techno
- Fima Ephron: Songs From the Tree (Ropeadope) [10-26] - jazz
- Epic45: Through Broken Summer (Wayside and Woodland) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Erasure: World Be Live (Mute) [07-06] - alt dance
- Ibon Errazkin: Foto Aerea (Elefant) [03-09] - pop
- Oytun Ersan: Fusiolicious (self-released) [06-01] - jazz
- Peter Erskine & the Dr Um Band: On Call (Fuzzy Music) [04-06] - jazz
- Escape-ism: The Lost Record (Merge) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Eli Escobar: Shout (Classic) [10-31] - deep house
- Wayne Escoffery: Vortex (Sunnyside) [01-26] - jazz
- Alejandro Escovedo: The Crossing (Yep Roc) [09-14] - folk
- Gabriel Espinosa: Nostalgias De Mi Vida (Zoho) [10-05] - jazz
- The Essex Green: Hardly Electronic (Merge) [06-29] - indie pop
- Estelle: Lovers Rock (VP) [09-07] - reggae
- Etch: Ups & Downs (Sneaker Social Club) [10-19] - electronic
- Eternal Summers: Every Day It Feels Like I'm Dying (Nevado) [05-04]
- Ethers: Ethers (Trouble in Mind) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Andre Ethier: Under Grape Leaves (Telephone Explosion) [01-19]
- Etran De L'Air: No 1 (Sahel Sounds) [10-01] - African
- E-Turn: Young World (Fake Four) [09-28] - hip-hop
- Eureka California: Roadrunners (HHBTM) [05-04]
- EUT: Fool for the Vibes (V2 Benelux) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Peter Evans/Weasel Walter: Poisonous (UgExplode) [06-01] - jazz
- Peter Evans/Barry Guy: Syllogistic Moments (Maya) - jazz
- Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell (XL) [02-16] - alt r&b
- Sam Evian: You Forever (Saddle Creek) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Evicshen: Klee Doll (Hot Releases) [07-01] - electronic
- Evidence: Weather or Not (Rhymesayers) [01-26] - hip hop
- Evil Blizzard: The Worst Show on Earth (Crackedankles) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Evil Genius: Experiments on Human Subjects (Orenda) - jazz
- Evoken: Hypnagogia (Profound Lore) [11-09] - metal
- Ewol/Grey Code/Skylark: I I I (MethLab -EP) [09-06] - electronic
- Ex Comets: Life Is an Illusion (self-released -EP) [02-22]
- Exael: Collex (West Mineral) [10-26] - ambient
- Exes: Before You Go (self-released) [10-05] - alt/indie
- EXO: Don't Mess Up My Tempo (SM) [11-02] - K-pop
- EXP Quintet: Shreds (Palomar) [01-00] - jazz
- Exploded View: Obey (Sacred Bones) [09-28] - alt/indie
- The Exploding Eyes Orchestra: II (Svart) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Ex:Re: Ex:Re (Glassnote) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Extremity: Coffin Birth (20 Buck Spin) [07-20] - metal
- Eyedress: Sensitive G (Lex) [11-16] - electronic
- Eyes of Love: End of the Game (Wharf Cat) [08-17]
- George Ezra: Staying at Tamara's (Columbia) [03-23] - pop/rock
- Ezra Collective: Juan Pablo: The Philosopher (Enter the Jungle) [10-06] - jazz
- Fabled: Short Stories () [09-28] - jazz
- FACS: Negative Houses (Trouble in Mind) [03-30] - noise rock
- Factory Floor: A Soundtrack for a Film (H/O/D) [10-12] - electronic
- Dizzy Fae: Free Form Mixtape (self-released) [02-02] - r&b
- Failure: In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing From Your Mind (Failure) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Faith/Void: Embrace Nothingness (self-released) [09-07] - rock
- Nathan Fake: Sunder (Ninja Tune -EP) [02-23] - IDM
- Fake Humans: Exegesis (Shhpuma) [05-11] - jazz
- Kyle Falconer: No Thank You (Riverman) [07-27] - rock
- The Fall: Lovable (Cherry Red) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Fall Out Boy: Mania (Island) [01-19] - rock
- Brian Fallon: Sleepwalkers (Island) [02-09] - heartland rock
- FAME: Maluma (Sony Music Latin) [05-18] - latin
- Bebe Fang: Bebe Fang (Vrystaete) - ambient
- Fantastic Negrito: Please Don't Be Dead (Cooking Vinyl) [06-15] - blues
- Farai: Rebirth (Big Dada) [11-30] - electronic
- Farao: Pure-O (Western Vinyl) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Marco Faraone: Lunar Eclipse (Drumcode) [11-05] - electronic
- Mylene Farmer: Desobeissance (Stuffed Monkey) [09-28] - French
- Fat Tony and J KELR: Full Circle (self-released -EP) [06-15] - hip hop
- Father Murphy: Rising: A Requiem for Father Murphy (Avant!) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Fatherson: Sum of All Your Parts (Easy Life) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Fatima: And Yet It's All Love (Eglo) [09-28] - r&b
- Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries: Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (Emotional Response) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Adam Faucett: It Took the Shape of a Bird (Last Chance) [08-24] - rock
- Maria Faust: Machina (Stunt) [02-16] - jazz
- Faustcoven: In the Shadow of Doom (Nuclear War Now) [07-31] - metal
- John Faxe: I Am Awake (Losen) - jazz
- Lorraine Feather: Math Camp (Relarion) - jazz
- Thomas Fehlmann: Los Lagos (Kompakt) [09-07] - electronic
- Ezra Feinberg: Pentimento and Others (Related States) [02-02] - new age
- Simone Felice: The Projector (New York Pro) [04-13]
- Natali Felicia: Wrong Era (AntiFragile) [03-30]
- Felicita: Hej! (PC Music) [08-03] - electronic
- Fenne Lily: On Hold (self-released) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Andre Fernandes' Centauri: Draco (Nischo) [03-18] - jazz
- Agusti Fernandez/Pablo Ledesma: En Vivo En El Festival De Jazz De Buenos Aires (Discos ICM) [02-15] - jazz
- The Fernweh: The Fernweh (Skeleton Key) [11-30] - folk
- Feu! Chatterton: L'Oiseleur (Universal Music Division Barclay) [03-09]
- The Fever 333: Made an America (Roadrunner/333 Wreckords Crew) [03-23] - rock
- Martha Ffion: Sunday Best (Turnstile) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Fiddlehead: Springtime and Blind (Runs for Cover) [04-13] - indie rock
- The Field: Infinite Moment (Kompakt) [09-21] - minimal techno
- Field Music: Open Here (Memphis Industries) [02-02] - progressive pop
- Field Report: Summertime Songs (Verve) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Fia Fiell: All in the Same Room (Nice Music) [05-07] - electronic
- The Fierce & the Dead: The Euphoric ()
- Lars Fiil: Frit Fald II (Fiil Free) - jazz
- Joao Pais Filipe: Joao Pais Filipe (Lovers & Lollypops) [09-21] - jazz
- Film School: Bright to Death (Hauskat) [09-14] - alt/indie
- The Filthy Tongues: Back to Hell (Neon Tetra) [04-21]
- Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita: Soar (Bendigedig) -
- R Finn: Collecting Trip (Heritage) - Americana
- Nick Finzer: No Arrival (Posi-Tone) [04-13] - jazz
- Fire-Toolz: Skinless X-1 (Hausu Mountain) [08-24] - electronic
- Jorg Fischer & Ingo Deul: Vinkenslag (Sporeprint) [02-00] - jazz
- Nora Fischer & Marnix Dorrestein: Hush (Universal Music) [04-13] - classical
- Fischerspooner: Sir (Ultra) [02-16] - electroclash
- Amanda Fish: Free (VizzTone) [09-14] - blues
- Fish-Scale Sunrise: No Queen Rises (Relative pitch) - jazz
- Fit of Body: Black Box No Cops (2MR) [06-22] - pop punk
- William Fitzsimmons: Mission Bell (Nettwerk) [09-21] - singer-songwriter
- Five Finger Death Punch: And Justice for None (Prospect Park) [05-18] - metal
- Flasher: Constant Image (Domino) [06-08] - post-punk
- Dom Flemons: Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways) [03-23] - folk
- JK Flesh: New Horizon (Electric Deluxe) [09-28] - electronic
- Kirk Fletcher: Hold On (self-released) [10-19] - blues
- Flow: Trine (Tardis -EP) [02-12] - tech house
- Flowers Must Die: Dar Blommor Dor (Rev/vega) [05-25] - rock
- Roman Flugel: Themes (ESP Institute) [10-26] - electronic
- Miya Folick: Premonitions (Terrible/Interscope) [10-26] - indie pop
- Folk Soul Revival: Folk Soul Revival (self-released) [08-17] - country
- Follow the Cipher: Follow the Cipher (Nuclear Blast) [05-11] - metal
- Foodman: Aru Otoko No Densetsu (Sun Ark) [09-21]
- For King & Country: Burn the Ships (Word Entertainment) [10-05] - CCM
- David Ford: Animal Spirits (AntiFragile Music) [05-11] - rock
- Forma: Semblance (Kranky) [07-20] - progressive electronic
- Forma: F ()
- Forth Wanderers: Forth Wanderers (Sub Pop) [04-27] - indie rock
- Frank Foster: 'Til I'm Gone (Lone Chief) [09-21] - country
- Josephine Foster: Faithful Fairy Harmony (Fire) [11-16] - folk
- Michael Foster/Ben Bennett/Jacob Wiik: Glove Issues (Palliative) - jazz
- Jeffrey Foucault: Blood Brothers (Tone Tree Music) [06-22] - folk
- Julie Fowlis/Eamon Doorley/Zoe Conway/John McInntyre: Allt (Machair) [09-12] - folk
- Ken Fowser: Don't Look Down (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Christopher Fox: Topophony (HatArt) - jazz
- Ruby Rose Fox: Salt (self-realeased) [06-20] - pop
- Foxing: Nearer My God (Triple Crown) [08-10] - indie rock
- Foxwarren: Foxwarren (Anti-) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Frame Trio: Luminaria (FMR) - jazz
- Dany Franchi: Problem Child (Station House) [05-18] - blues
- Phil France: Circle (Gondwana) [08-31] - dance/electronic
- Maurice Frank: Mad Romance and Love (Jumo Music) [07-06] - jazz
- Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending (Domino) [02-09] - dance punk
- The Fratellis: In Your Own Sweet Time (Cooking Vinyl) [03-09] - indie rock
- Sawyer Fredericks: Hide Your Ghost ()
- Fredfades & Eikrem: Gronlandsutraen (Forlaget Fanfare)
- Free Cake for Every Creature: The Bluest Star (Double Double Whammy) [08-03] - twee pop
- Mike Freeman ZonaVibe: Venetian Blinds (VOF) [08-06] - jazz
- Ace Frehley: Spaceman (Entertainment One) [10-19] - rock
- Amaro Freitas: Rasif (Far Out) [10-19] - jazz
- Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet: Carpe Diem (Tuk Music) - jazz
- Jurg Frey and Magnus Granberg/Ensemble Grizzana: Early to Late (Another Timbre) - jazz
- Eleanor Friedberger: Rebound (Frenchkiss) [05-04] - indie pop
- Don Friedman Trio: Love Music (Progressive) [08-24] - jazz
- Friends and Neighbors: What's Next (Clean Feed) - jazz
- Frigs: Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts) [02-23] - post-punk
- Robert Fripp: Between the Silence (Panegyric)
- FRND: Before U I Didn't Exist (BMG) [11-16] - electronic
- Romulo Froes: O Disco Das Horas (YB Music) [06-08] - Brazil
- Frog Eyes: Violet Psalms (Paper Bag) [05-18]
- Frokedel: How We Made It (Propeller) [08-31] - alt/indie
- The Front Bottoms: Ann (Fueled by Ramen -EP) [05-18] - pop punk
- Frontierer: Unloved (self-released) [07-27] - metal
- Frontperson: Frontrunner (Oscar Street) [09-21] - rock
- Frost: Matters (Lost Room) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Ben Frost: All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated () [03-23]
- Fucked and Bound: Suffrage ()
- Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams (Merge) [10-05] - art punk
- Sinsuke Fujieda: Hyper Harmony (SoFa) - jazz
- Yuko Fujiyama: Night Wave (Innova) [03-23] - jazz
- Shinya Fukumori Trio: For 2 Akis (ECM) [02-16] - jazz
- Champian Fulton: The Stylings of Champian (Champian) [10-26] - jazz
- The Fun Years: A Heart to Heart About Our Values (Spring Break) [03-03] - new age
- Funeral Mist: Hekatomb (Horma Evangelium Diaboli) [06-15] - metal
- The Furrow Collective: Fathoms (Hudson) [11-09] - folk
- Furze: The Presence . . . (Polytriad Fingerprints) [09-17] - black metal
- Andy Fusco: Turmoil (SteepleChase) [08-01] - jazz
- Fusk: The Jig Is Up (WhyPlayJazz) [04-27] - jazz
- Future & Juice Wrld: Wrld on Drugs (Epic/Freebandz) [10-19] - hip-hop
- Future War Bride: Majahua (self-released) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Fuudge: Les Matricides (Lazy at Work) [11-09] - rock
- Julius Gabriel/Joao Pais Filipe: Paisiel (Lovers & Lollypops) [02-26] - jazz
- Thomas Gabriel: Long Way Home (Oxvision Media) [08-16] - country
- Jeffrey Gaines: Alright (Omnivore) [01-26] - rock
- Galahad: Seas of Change ()
- Peter Gall: Paradox Dreambox (Traumton) [09-21] - jazz
- Ron Gallo: Stardust Birthday Party (New West) [10-05]
- Elliot Galvin: The Influencing Machine (Edition) [01-26] - jazz
- Sebastian Gandera: Le Raccourci (Efficient Space) [09-28] - jazz
- Gang Gang Dance: Kazuashita (4AD) [06-22] - neo-psychedelia
- Gang of Youths: MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) (Mosy) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Anja Garbarek: The Road Is Just a Surface (Drabant Music) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Kany Garcia: Soy Yo (Sony Latin) [05-18] - Latin pop
- The Garden: Mirror Might Steal Your Charm (Epitaph) [03-30] - alt/indie
- Amanda Gardier: Empathy (Green Mind) [08-24] - jazz
- Melody Gardot: Live in Europe (Verve -2CD) [02-09] - jazz
- Garland: Preludes #1 (Lullabies for Insomniacs) [06-08] - electronica
- David Garland: Verdancy (self-released)
- Tim Garland: Weather Walker (Edition) - jazz
- Gas: Rausch (Kompakt) [05-18]
- Yonatan Gat: Universalists (Joyful Noise) [05-04]
- Kevin Gates: Luca Brasi 3 (Bread Winners' Association) [09-27] - hip-hop
- Amerigo Gazaway: No Free Beats: An Original Soundtrack (self-released) [10-26] - hip-hop
- Gazelle Twin: Pastoral (Anti-Ghost/Moon Ray) [09-21] - post-industrial
- Gazpacho: Soyuz (Kscope) [05-18] - rock
- GDFX: Young Ox Restraint (Mondoj) [05-27] - jazz
- Seppe Gebruers/Hugo Antunes/Paul Lovens: The Room: Time & Space (El Negocito) - jazz
- Sam Gendel/Sam Wilkes: Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar (Leaving) [06-15] - jazz
- Gengahr: Where Wildness Grows (self-released) [03-09] - indie rock
- Tommy Genesis: Tommy Genesis (Downtown) [11-09] - hip-hop
- M Geddes Gengras: Light Pipe (Room40) [10-12] - electronic
- Gee Tee: Gee Tee (Sorry State) [06-08] - punk
- Geniuser: I Am (OhAh) [06-22]
- The Gentleman Losers: Permanently Midnight (Grainy) - electronic
- Camilla George: The People Could Fly (Ubuntu) [09-28] - jazz
- Inara George: Dearest Everybody (Release Me) [01-19] - pop
- Geotic: Traversa (Ghostly International) [10-19] - electronic
- Gepe: Folclor Imaginario (Quesmasucabeza) [09-14] - pop
- Anthony Geraci: Why Did You Have to Go (Shining Stone) [09-21] - blues
- Julian Gerstin Sextet: The Old City (Zabap Music) [10-05] - jazz
- Get Cape Wear Cape Fly: Young Adult (Xtra Mile) [01-19] - alt/indie
- Get the Blessing: Bristopia (Kartel) [09-21] - jazz
- The Get Up Kids: Kicker (Polyvinyl) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Jim Ghedi: A Hymn for Ancient Land (Basin Rock) [11-17] - folk
- Ghetts: Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament (GIIG) [09-14] - hip-hop
- Ghorba: Zero Threat to the Rave (Jacktone) [11-09] - electronic
- Ghost: Prequelle (Loma Vista) [06-01] - hard rock
- Ghost Cop: One Weird Trick (self-released) [11-09] - synth punk
- Ghost Music: I Was Hoping You'd Pass by Here (Arlen) [01-19] - folk
- Ghostemane: N/O/I/S/E (Blackmage) [10-10] - alt/indie
- Ghostface Killah: The Lost Tapes (X-Ray) [10-05] - hip-hop
- Tania Giannouli/Rob Thorne/Steve Garden: Rewa (Rattle) - jazz
- Geoff Gibbons: Shadow of a Stone: Songs of Remembrance (Bluecafe Music) [11-06] - folk
- Laura Gibson: Goners (Barsuk) [10-26] - indie folk
- Marshall Gilkes/WDR Big Band: Always Forward (Alternate Side) - jazz
- Eliza Gilkyson: Secularia (Red House) [07-13] - Americana
- Celine Gillain: Bad Woman (Drama) [12-12] - pop
- Gustavo Gimeno: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring/Funeral Song/Game of Cards/Concerto in D "Basel"/Agon (PentaTone Classics) [10-19] - classical
- Ginger Wildheart: Ghost in the Tanglewood ()
- Payroll Giovanni & Cardo [Got Wings]: Big Bossin Vol 2 (Def Jam) [01-26] - hip hop
- Ruth Gipps: Symphonies Nos 2 and 4/Song for Orcheatra/Knight in Armour (Chandos) [09-07] - classical
- Giraffes? Giraffes!: Memory Lane (Topshelf) [04-27]
- Pedro Giraudo: Vigor Tanguero (Zoho) [04-06] - jazz
- Pedro Giraudo & The WDR Big Band: An Argentinian in New York (Zoho) [04-06] - jazz
- Giriboy: Graduation (Loen Entertainment-17) [2017-12-19] - K-hop
- Girl in Red: Chapter 1 (Marie Ulven -EP) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Robert Glasper x Kaytranada: The ArtScience Remixes (Blue Note) [04-21] - jazz-funk
- Glass Traps: Glass Traps (self-released) [09-23] - alt/indie
- Glasser: Sextape (self-released -EP) [04-06]
- Glintshake: [Nonb3A] (self-released) [11-27]
- Glitch Mob: See Without Eyes (Glass Air) [05-04] - glitch hop
- Gloria: Oidophon Echorama (Howlin Banana) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Glorietta: Glorietta (Nine Mile) [07-27] - folk rock
- Glorior Belli: The Apostates (Season of Mist) [04-06] - metal
- Jess Glynne: Always in Between (Atlantic) [10-12] - pop
- Gnigler: Straight On Downstairs 2nd Door Left (Col Legno) - jazz
- Gnod: Chapel Perilous (Rocket) [05-04]
- Goat Girl: Goat Girl (Rough Trade) [04-06] - post-punk
- Goatman: Rhythms (Rocket) [10-12] - rock
- God Is an Astronaut: Epitaph ()
- Godsmack: When Legends Rise (Spinefarm) [04-27] - rock
- Go-Kart Mozart: Mozert's Mini-Mart (West Midlands) [02-23] - pop/rock
- Adekunle Gold: About 30 (Afro Urban/Empire) [05-25] - African
- Jared Gold: Reemergence (Srikezone) [05-04] - jazz
- Barry Goldberg: In the Groove (Sunset Blvd) [06-15] - blues
- Ben Goldberg/Michael Coleman: Practitioner (BAG Productions) [04-06] - jazz
- Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart: Toy Tunes (Pirouet) [05-04] - jazz
- Goldmund: Occasus (Western Vinyl) [04-13] - classical
- Thibault Gomez: La Grande Reveuse (Parallel) - jazz
- Chilly Gonzales: Solo Piano III (Gentle Threat/Fontana/North) [09-07] - modern classical
- Dayramir Gonzalez: The Grand Concourse (Hippos in Tanks) [03-02] - jazz
- Good Charlotte: Generation Rx (BMG) [09-14] - rock
- The Good the Bad the Queen: Merrie Land (Studio 13) [11-16] - art rock
- The God the Bad & the Zugly: Misanthropical House (Fysisk Format) [01-26] - rock
- Brad Goode Quintet: That's Right (OA2) [10-19] - jazz
- Goodnight Texas: Conductor (2 Cent Bank Check) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Goon: Dusk of Punk/Happy Omen (Partisan) [07-13]
- Kevin Gordon: Tilt and Shine (Crowville) [07-27]
- Goreshit: Loather (self-released) [11-24] - electonic
- Ipek Gorgun: Ecce Homo (Touch) [09-07] - classical
- Peggy Gou: Once (Ninja Tune -EP) [03-02] - deep house
- Gouge Away: Burnt Sugar (Deathwish) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Dino Govoni: Chance Meeting (Whaling City Sound) - jazz
- Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers: Bought to Rot (Bloodshot) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Grace Basement: Mississippi Nights (Avonmore) [01-19] - rock
- Isaac Gracie: Isaac Gracie (Virgin) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Graduating Life: Grad Life (self-released) [09-03] - alt/indie
- Max Graef: Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma (Tantelet) [10-26] - electronic
- Seth Graham: Gasp (Orange Milk) [03-23] - experimental
- Grand Canyon: Le Grand Canon (Bodan Kuma) [11-02]
- Jerry Granelli: Dance Hall () - jazz
- John Grant: Love Is Magic (Bella Union/Partisan) [10-12] - synthpop
- Grapetooth: Grapetooth (Polyvinyl) [11-09] - hypnagogic pop
- Frank Gratkowski: Live in Lisbon (Leo) - jazz
- Graveyard: Peace (Nuclear Blast) [05-25] - metal
- Macy Gray: Ruby (Artistry) [09-21] - vocal
- Graz Composers Orchestra Meets Claudia Doffinger: Monochrome (QFTF) [07-27] - jazz
- Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni: Twinkle Twinkle (Lamastrock) [03-16] - pop
- Gordon Grdina: China Cloud (Madic) - jazz
- Great Dane: Gamma Ray (ADBC) [07-20] - electronic
- Great Lake Swimmers: TheWaves the Wake (Nettwerk) [08-17] - alt/indie
- Great News: Wonderfault (Eget Selskap) [02-16] - alt/indie
- Kelly Green Trio: Volume One () - jazz
- Russ Green: City Soul (Cleopatra) [06-08] - blues
- William Clark Green: Hebert Island (Bill Greease) [08-10] - country
- Green Dragon: Green Dragon (self-released)
- Greenleaf: Hear the Rivers (Napalm) [11-09] - rock
- Jonny Greenwood: You Were Never Really Here [Original Motion Picture Soundtdrack] (Lakeshore) [03-09]
- Jonny Greenwood: Phantom Thread () [01-12] - modern classical
- Tom Grennan: Lighting Matches (Insanity) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Tee Grizzley: Activated (300) [05-11] - trap rap
- Muriel Grossmann: Golden Rule (Dreamlandrecords) - jazz
- Group Listening: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol 1 (PRAH) [05-04] - alt/indie
- The Growlers: Casual Acquaintances (Beach Goth) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Gundelach: Baltus (Terrible) [03-16] - alt/indie
- Mark Grusane: The Real Sound of Mark Grusane (BBE) [01-26] - disco
- Guerilla Toss: Twisted Crystal (DFA) [09-14] - neo-psychedelia
- David Guetta: 7 (Parlophone France) [09-14] - electronic
- Guided by Voices: Space Gun (GBV) [03-23] - indie rock
- Jean-Luc Guionnet & Daichi Yoshikawa: Intervivos (Empty Editions) [02-09]
- Jostein Gulbrandsen: Looking Ahead (Curling Legs) [06-15] - jazz
- Gulp: All Good Wishes (ELK) [08-03] - alt/indie
- Gum: The Underdog (Spinning Top) [04-06]
- Altin Gun: On (Les Disques Bongo Joe) [03-30] - alt/indie
- Westside Gunn: Supreme Blientele (Griselda) [06-22] - hip hop
- Westside Gunn: Hitler Wears Hermes 6 (Griselda) [11-03] - hip-hop
- Gunna: Drip Season 3 (Gunna) [02-02] - hip-hop
- Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio/Verneri Pohjola: Ancestry () [09-06] - jazz
- Gunship: Dark All Day (Horse in the Hedge) [10-05] - Electronic
- Gurls: Run Boy Run (Grappa) [02-16] - jazz
- Gabe Gurnsey: Physical (Phantasy Sound/PIAS) [08-03] - electronic
- Gurrumul: Djarimirri (Skinny Fish Music) [04-13] - Aboriginal
- Mats Gustafsson: The Hands (Rune Grammofon) - jazz
- Mats Gustafsson & Didi Kern: Marvel Motor (Rock Is Hell) [01-22] - jazz
- Mats Gustafsson/Jason Adasiewicz: Timeless (Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Anne Guthrie: Brass Orchids (Students of Decay) [03-23] - ambient
- Guttersnipe: My Mother the Vent (Upset the Rhythm) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Buddy Guy: The Blues Is Alive and Well (RCA) [06-15] - blues
- Gyre of Incandescents: Gyre of Incandescents (Wolfspell) [03-20] - metal
- Haiko Salut: There Is No Elsewhere (PRAH) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Luke Haines: I Sometimes Dream of Glue (Cherry Red) [05-11] - indie rock
- Keiji Haino & Sumac: American Dollar Bill: Keep Facing Sideways You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - noise rock
- Hairband: Hairband (Monorail Music -EP) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Haiyti: Montenegro Zero (Vertigo/UMG) [01-12] - hip-hop
- Tim Haldeman: Open Water as a Child (Woolgathering) [10-16] - jazz
- Halestorm: Vicious (Atlantic) [07-27] - hard rock
- Half Man Half Biscuit: No One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin' Hedge Cut (Probe Plus) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Half Waif: Lavender (Cascine) [04-27] - synthpop
- Ben Hall's Racehorse Names: The New Favourite Thing Called Breathing (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood (Latency -EP) [07-13] - ambient
- Halo Maud: Ju Suis Une Ile (Heavenly) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Halo Circus: Robots & Wranglers (self-released) - pop
- Frode Haltli: Avant Folk (Hubro) [04-04] - jazz
- Mary Halvorson/Bill Frisell: The Maid With the Flaxen Hair (Tzadik) [07-27] - jazz
- Mary Halvorson/Joe Morris: Traversing Orbits (RogueArt) [10-00] - jazz
- Tigran Hamasyan: For Gyumri (Nonesuch) [02-16] - jazz
- Marc-Andre Hamelin: Schubert: Piano Sonata and Impromptus (Hyperion) - classical
- Albert Hammond Jr: Francis Trouble (Red Bull) [03-09] - indie rock
- Ross Hammond: Acoustic Sanctuary Project: A March for Science (self-released -EP) [01-30] - jazz
- Ross Hammond: Reprieve (self-released) [05-03] - jazz
- Ross Hammond/Jay Nair: Songs of Universal Peace (self-released) [04-13] - jazz
- Ross Hammond: Riding Dragons in Winter (Prescott) - jazz
- Hampshire & Foat: Nightshade (Athens of the North) [06-22] - jazz
- Connie Han: Crime Zone (Mack Avenue) [10-19] - jazz
- Glen Hansard: Between Two Shores (Anti-) [01-19] - singer-songwriter
- Hanson: String Theory (Three Car Garage) [11-09] - pop
- Francoise Hardy: Personne D'Autre (Parlophone France) [04-06] - French
- Jack Harlon & the Dead Crows: Hymns (Suspect/Pirates Press) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Harm's Way: Posthuman (Metal Blade) [02-09] - metal
- Haron: Wandelaar (Queste) [07-06]
- Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite: No Mercy in This Land (Anti-) [03-30] - soul
- Twig Harper & Bill Nace: Live at Dreamland (Open Mouth) - jazz
- Allan Harris: The Genius of Eddie Jefferson (Resilience Music) [04-27] - jazz
- Francis Harris: Trivial Occupations (Scissor & Thread) [10-19] - ambient
- Jaimee Harris: Red Rescue (Ruby White) [09-21] - folk
- JP Harris: Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing (Free Dirt) [10-05] - country
- Sam Harris: Harmony (self-released) [11-14] - jazz
- Beth Hart: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Provogue) [11-30] - blues
- Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa: Black Coffee (J&R Adventures) [01-26] - blues rock
- Hart Scone & Albin: Leading the British Invasion (Zoho Roots) [01-05]
- Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton: Been on Your Side (Free Dirt) [08-31] - bluegrass
- Odetta Hartman: Old Rockhounds Never Die (Northern Spy) [08-10]
- Harunemuri: Harutosyura (Perfect Music) [04-11] - pop
- Jimmy Haslip: ARC Trio (Blue Canoe) - jazz
- Chihei Hatakeyama: Void XV (White Paddy Mountain) [02-13] - new age
- Chihei Hatakeyama: Butterfly's Summer and Vanished (White Paddy Mountain) [06-06] - new age
- Hatchie: Sugar & Spice (Heavenly -EP) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Hate Eternal: Upon Desolate Sands (Season of Mist) [10-26] - metal
- Hater: Siesta (Fire) [09-28] - indie pop
- Juliana Hatfield: Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John (American Laundromat) [04-13]
- Haunt: Burst Into Flame (Shadow Kingdom) [08-10] - metal
- Steve Hauschildt: Dissolvi (Ghostly International) [08-03] - ambient techno
- Anna von Hausswolff: Dead Magic (City Slang) [03-02] - darkwave
- Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones: Vicious Circles (Planet Mu -EP) [08-03] - UK bass
- Marquis Hawkes: The Marquis of Hawkes (Houndstooth) [08-24] - house
- Hawks and Doves: From a White Hotel (Jullian) [07-27] - rock
- Hawktail: Unless (Padiddle) [05-11] - bluegrass
- Hawkwind: Road to Utopia (Cherry Red) [09-14] - rock
- Hawthonn: Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing) (Ba Da Bing!) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Yoshinori Hayashi: Ambivalence (Smalltown Supersound) [10-26] - electronic
- Darren Hayman: Thankful Villages Vol III (Belka) [11-09] - pop
- Shay Hazan Quintet: Domestic Peace (OutNow) - jazz
- Head Technician: Profane Architecture (Ecstatic) [05-04] - electronic
- Hearts & Minds: Electroradiance (Astral Spriits) [10-05] - jazz
- Hearts Hearts: Goods/Gods (Tomlab) [04-20] - experimental pop
- Reverend Horton Heat: Whole New Life (Victory) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Heathen Apostles: Bloodgrass Vol I & II (Ratchet Blade) [C|country]
- James Heather: Stories From Far Away on Piano (Ahead of Our Time) [08-18] - alt/indie
- Heavie: WFM (Teklife) [09-07] - electronic
- Thomas Heberer/Yoni Kretzmer/Christian Weber: Big (OutNow) - jazz
- Gilad Hekselman: Ask for Chaos (Hexophonic Music/Motema) - jazz
- David Helbock's Random Control: Tour D'Horizon (ACT) - jazz
- Pablo Held Trio: Investigations (Edition) - jazz
- Hellions: Rue (UNFD) [10-19] - rock
- The Hellroys: Hellroys Is Real (No Soul) [01-02] - country
- Amy Helm: This Too Shall Light (Yep Roc) [09-21]
- Chris Hennessee: Ramble (Big Gassed) [06-22] - country
- Arve Henriksen: Composograph: A Synthesis of Wood Metal and Electronics (Arve Music) [03-22] - jazz
- Arve Henriksen: The Height of the Reeds (Rune Grammofon) [08-31] - jazz
- Hep Lad: >>[:]<< (Philip K Discs) [11-30] - electronic
- HER: I Used to Know Her: The Prelude (RCA -EP) [08-03] - r&b
- HER: I Used to Know Her: Part 2 (RCA -EP) [11-02] - r&b
- Here Lies Man: You Will Know Nothing (Riding Easy) [06-15] - rock
- Benjamin Herman: Project S (Roach/Dox) [10-05] - jazz
- Benjamin Herman: Bughouse (Roach) - jazz
- Hermit and the Recluse: Orpheus vs the Sirens (Obol for Charon) [08-18] - abstract hip hop
- Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider: Dreamers (RCA) [09-21] - jazz
- Maggie Herron: A Ton of Trouble (Herron Song) - jazz
- Her's: Invitation to Her's (Heist or Hit) [08-24] - indie pop
- Kristin Hersh: Possible Dust Clouds (Fire) [10-05] - rock
- John Hiatt: The Eclipse Sessions (New West) [10-12] - singer-songwriter
- Hidden Hospitals: Liars (Mstateement) [05-18] - rock
- HIDE: Castration Anxiety (Dais) [03-23] - industrial
- High on Fire: Electric Messiah (Entertainment One) [10-05] - stoner metal
- High Reeper: High Reeper (Heavy Psych) - stoner rock
- Utada Hikaru: Hatsukoi (Sony) [06-27] - Japan
- Theo Hill: Interstellar Adventures (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Lisa Hilton: Oasis (Ruby Slippers) - jazz
- Pamela Hines Trio: The Music of Richard Whiting (Katya) - jazz
- Micah P Hinson: When I Shoot at You With Arrows I Will Shoot to Destroy You (Full Time Hobby) [10-26] - alt/indie
- The HIRS Collective: Friends Lovers Favorites (Get Better/SRA) [04-20]
- Hjelle: Fan Ta NPM (Jared Sin) [02-13] - rock
- Thea Hjelmeland: Kulla (Theah Music) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Hjerteslag: Nattseileren (Eget Selskap) [11-09] - rock
- HMLTD: Hate music Last Time Delete () [07-06] - synthpop
- HMS Norris: Inspirational Talks (Bubblewrap) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Hodera: Besides (Take This to Heart -EP) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Hodge: Beneath Two Moons (Berceuse Heroique) [02-02] - electronic
- HOGG: Self-Extinguishing Emission (Scrapes) [05-11] - electronic
- Malcolm Holcombe: Come Hell or High Water (Gypsy Eyes Music) [09-14] - country
- Sigurd Hole: Elvesang (self-released) - jazz
- Hollow Hand: Star Chamber (Talkshow) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Per Ake Holmlander: Carliot: It's Never Too Late Orchestra (Not Two -3CD) [08-00] - jazz
- San Holo: Album1 (Bitbird) [09-21] - electronic
- Peter Holsapple: Game Day (Omnivore) [07-27] - pop/rock
- Hilde Marie Holsen: Lazoli (Hubro) - jazz
- Corcoran Holt: The Mecca (Holthouse Music) [02-14] - jazz
- Holy: All These Words Are Yours (PNKSLM) [01-26] - noise pop
- Holy Fawn: Death Spells (Whelmed) [09-14] - rock
- Holy Golden: Sleepwalkers in the Milky Way (Wallflower) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Holy Motors: Slow Sundown (Wharf Cat) [02-09] - alt/indie
- The Holy Mountain: Toad of Light (Shhpuma) - jazz
- Holy Wave: Adult Fear (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [03-30] - rock
- Adam Holzman: Truth Decay (Big Fun Productions) - jazz
- Honne: Love Me/Love Me Not (Atlantic) [08-24] - pop soul
- Adam Hood: Somewhere in Between (Southern Songs) [10-12] - country
- Hooded Menace: Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (Seasons of Mist) [01-26] - doom metal
- Hopesfall: Arbiter (Graphic Nature/Equal Vision) [07-13] - post-hardcore
- Horrendous: Idol (Season of Mist) [09-28] - metal
- Horse Feathers: Appreciation (Kill Rock Stars) [05-04] - alt/indie
- Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions (self-released?) [10-09] - jazz
- Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain (self-released?) [10-12] - jazz
- Hovvdy: Cranberry (Double Double Whammy) [02-09] - alt/indie
- How to Dress Well: The Anteroom (Domino) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Ben Howard: Noonday Dream (Island) [06-01] - indie folk
- John Howie Jr: Not Tonight (Suah Sounds) [09-21] - country
- Howlin Rain: The Alligator Bride (Silver Current) [06-08] - rock
- Hubbabubbaklubb: Drommen Drommerne Drommer (Snorkel) [10-12] - electronic
- Human People: Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears (Exploding in Sound) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Hunee: Hunchin' All Night (Rush Hour) [04-09] - deep house
- Anton Hunter: Article XI (Efpi) - jazz
- The James Hunter Six: Whatever It Takes (Daptone) [02-02] - r&b
- Huntsmen: American Scrap (Prosthetic) [02-23] - metal
- McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter (Strikezone) [05-04] - jazz
- Hurry: Every Little Thought (Lame-O) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Robert Hurst: Black Currant Jam (Dot Time) [02-18] - jazz
- Jenny Hval: The Long Sleep (Sacred Bones -EP) [05-25]
- HVL: Ostati (Organic Analogue) [08-15] - electronic
- Koenji Hyakkei: Dhorimvishka (self-released) [07-11] - Japan
- Hypoluxo: Running on a Fence (Broken Circles) [09-21] - rock
- I Don't Know How but They Found Me: 1981 Extended Play (Fearless -EP) [11-09] - new wave
- I See Hawks in LA: Live and Never Learn (Western Seeds) [06-06] - country
- I_like_dog_face: Sleepless Illusions (Hot Releases) [06-01] - electronic
- IAMX: Alive in New Light (Orphic) [02-02] - electronic
- Susie Ibarra: Perception (Decibel Collective) [02-00] - jazz
- Zaki Ibrahim: The Secret Life of Planets (self-released) [01-31] - r&b
- Ice Cube: Everythang's Corrupt (Lench Mob/Interscope) [12-07] - hip-hop
- Ice Nine Kills: The Silver Scream (Fearless) [10-05] - metal
- Iceage: Beyondless (Matador) [05-04] - post-punk
- Iglooghost: Clear Tamei () [08-06] - wonky
- Ihsahn: Amr (Spinefarm) [05-04] - metal
- ILL: We Are ILL (Box) [05-11] - alt/indie
- Illa J: John Yancey (Jakarta) [11-30] - r&b
- Illingsworth: You're No Fun (Mello Music Group) [09-28] - hip-hop
- Illuminati Hotties: Kiss Yr Frenemies (Tiny Engines) [05-11]
- Illusionaut: Snow Queen (Spinning Inside) [03-31] - rock
- Ilsa: Corpse Fortress (Relapse) [03-02] - doom metal
- I'm With Her: See You Around (Rounder) [02-16] - Americana
- Imagine Dragons: Origins (Kid Ina Korner/Interscope) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Immortal: Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast) [07-06] - black metal
- Imperial Triumphant: Vile Luxury (Gilead Media) [07-13] - avant-garde metal
- Improvising Trio [Nora McCarthy/Dom Minasi/Ras Moshe]: Manna for Thought (self-released) - jazz
- In Her Eye: Change (self-released) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Ineffable Demise: Beyond the Marrow Gates (Realityfade) [ 07-20] - metal
- Inferi: The Revenant (The Artisan Era) [04-20] - metal
- Inja: Blank Pages (Hospital) [06-29] - electronic
- The Innocence Mission: Sun on the Square (Badman) [06-29]
- Insect Ark: Marrow Hymns (Profound Lore) [02-23] - metal
- Insecure Men: Insecure Men (Fat Possum) [02-23] - indie rock
- Insolito UniVerso: La Candela Del Rio (Olindo) [11-16]
- International Music: Die Besten Jahre (Staatsakt) [04-27] - rock
- The International Nothing: In Doubt We Trust (Ftarri) - jazz
- Kaoru Inoue: Em Paz (Groovement Organic Series) [04-06] - electronic
- Interpol: Marauder (Matador) [08-24] - post-punk revival
- The Interrupters: Fight the Good Fight (Hellcat) [06-29] - alt/indie
- Ionnalee [Jonna Lee]: Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten (To Whom It May Concern)
- Fred Irby III: A Tribute to Geri Allen (self-released) - jazz
- Iron & Wine: Weed Gardens (Sub Pop) [08-31] - alt singer-songwriter
- Gregory Alan Isakov: Evening Machines (Dualtone) [10-05] - folk
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Live From the Ryman (Southeastern) [10-19] - country-rock
- Eiko Ishibashi: The Dream My Bones Dream (Drag City) [11-16] - rock
- Ian Isiah: Shugga Sextatpe (Vol 1) (UNO NYC) [11-23] - electronic
- Isolation Berlin: Vergifte Dich (Staatsakt) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Pascuala Ilabaca Y Su Fauna: El Mito De La Pergola (Petit Indie) [06-15]
- Ital Tek: Bodied (Planet Mu) [09-07] - IDM
- Erica Itani: Paranoir Antares (Auskrai) [05-01] - ambient
- Itoldyouiwouldeatyou: Oh Dearism (Alcopop/Failure by Design) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Alice Ivy: I'm Dreaming (Universal Music Australia) [02-09] - electronic
- Ivy Lab: Death Don't Always Taste Good (20/20 LDN) [06-25] - leftfield
- Dax J: Offending Public Morality (Monnom Black) [04-06] - techno
- Juicy J: Shutdafukup (self-released) [01-15] - trap rap
- J@K@L [Keefe Jackson/Julian Kirshner/Fred Lonberg-Holm]: After a Few Days (Jaki) - jazz
- Alexandra Jackson: Legacy & Alchemy (LandA) [05-25] - jazz
- Jericho Jackson: Khrysis & Elzhi Are Jericho Jackson (Jamla) [02-23] - hip hop
- Lucia Jackson: Youand the Night and the Music (Roni Music) [09-14] - jazz
- Tomo Jacobson: Solo No 12 (Gotta Let It Out) [01-08] - jazz
- Peter Jacquemyn: Fundament (El Negocito) - jazz
- Jacquees: 4275 (Republic) [06-15] - r&b
- Jillian Jacqueline: Side B (Big Loud) [09-07] - country
- Chelsea Jade: Personal Best (Create Music Group) [07-20] - pop
- Jeremiah Jae: DAFFI (Black Jungle Squad) [08-10] - hip-hop
- Jai-Jagdeesh: Down Come the Walls (self-released) [05-18]
- Jain: Souldier (Columbia) [08-26] - indie pop
- Jaja: Upon the river of Heaven (Cyan) [05-00] - electronic
- James: Living in Extraordinary Times (BMG) [08-03] - alt rock
- Bob James: Espresso (Evosound) [08-31] - jazz
- Jim James: Uniform Clarity (ATO) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Jim James: Uniform Distortion (ATO) [06-29] - alt/indie
- Bas Jan: Yes I Jan (Lost Map) [02-09] - alt/indie
- Danny Janklow: Elevation (Outside In Music) - jazz
- Bert Jansch: A Man I'd Rather Be (Part 1) (Earth) [01-26]
- Bert Jansch: A Man I'd Rather Be (Part 2) (Earth) [02-23]
- Bert Jansch: Just a Simple Soul (BMG) - folk
- Kurt Jarnberg: Down Memory Lane Vols 3 and 4 (self-released) - jazz
- Hanna Jarver: So Long (Cosmos) [04-13] - pop
- Jaye Jayle: No Trail and Other Unholy Paths (Sargent House) [06-29] - rock
- Jazzanova: The Pool (Sonar Kollektiv) [06-29] - electronic
- Jedi Mind Tricks: The Bridge & the Abyss (Enemy Soil) [06-22] - hip-hop
- Jellies: 77:78 (Heavenly) [07-06] - alt/indie
- The Jellyman's Daughter: Dead Reckoning (Boat Duck) [05-14] - rock
- Billy Jenkins: Ghost Music (VOTP) [04-13] - jazz
- Brandon Jenkins: Tail Lights in a Boomtown (IndieExtreme/Red Dirt Legend) [02-09] - alt/indie
- Shooter Jennings: Shooter (Elektra) [08-10] - country
- Clarice Jensen: For This From That Will Be Filled (Miasmah) - jazz
- Jensen Incercepter: Mother (Lone Romantic) [10-26] - electronic
- Jeremih & Ty Dolla Sign: Mih-Ty (Def Jam) [10-26] - r&b
- Jerusalem in My Heart: Daqa'iq Tudaiq (Constellation) [10-05]
- Jesus Piece: Only Self (Southern Lord) [08-24] - metal
- Jet Black: L'Ere Du Vide (Skeletal Lightning) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Jiboia: 0000 (Discrepant) [11-30] - rock
- Jin Jim: Weisse Schatten (ACT) [06-29] - jazz
- Jing: Adularescence (6dimensions) [02-16] - ambient
- JIRM: Surge Ex Monumentis (Small Stone) [03-16] - hard rock
- Joan as Police Woman: Damned Devotion (PIAS) [02-09] - neo-soul
- Joan of Arc: 1984 (Joyful Noise) [06-01] - experimental
- Johan: Pull Up (Excelsior) [04-13] - rock
- John Johanna: I'll Be Ready When the Great Day Comes (Faith & Industry) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Johann Johannsson: Mandy [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Lakeshore) [09-14] - soundtrack
- Travis Johnson and Friends: Dubious Reservoir (self-released) [06-05] - electronic
- Joi: SIR Rebekkah Holylove (Jolicious/Leau Tech) [06-22] - r&b
- Joji: Ballads 1 (88rising Music/12Tone Music) [10-26] - r&b
- Paul Jolly & Mike Adcock: Risky Furniture (33xtreme) - jazz
- Durand Jones & the Indications: Durand Jones & the Indications (Dead Oceans) [07-01] - r&b
- G Jones: The Ineffable Truth (Illusory) [10-26] - electronic
- Glenn Jones: The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar (Thrill Jockey) [08-24] - folk
- Jeter Jones: Dhis Him (Music Access) [06-15] - blues
- Jim Jones: Wasted Talent (Vamplife/Empire) [04-13] - hip hop
- Joe Armon Jones: Starting Today (Brownswood) - jazz
- Karen Jonas: Butter (Yellow Brick) - Americana
- MB Jones: ROK Spy (Drama) [09-28] - electronic
- Sir Charles Jones: The Masterpiece (Southern King Entertainment) [04-01] - blues
- Stimulator Jones: Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasures (Stones Throw) [04-27] - r&b
- Jonghyun: Poet/Artist (SM Entertainment) [01-23] - K-pop
- Jooklo Duo & Mette Rasmussen: Graz Live! (Insula Jazz) - jazz
- Anna Maria Jopek/Branford Marsalis: Ulotne (self-released) [10-05] - vocal jazz
- Kidd Jordan/Alvin Fielder/Joel Futterman/Steve Swell: Masters of Improvisation (Valid) - jazz
- Sheila Jordan Quartet: Lucky to Be Me (Abeat) [06-00] - vocal
- Matt Jorgensen: Transatlantic (Origin) - jazz
- Anders Jormin: Ama (Footprint) - jazz
- Anders Jormin/Karin Nelson/Jonas Simonson: Tantrum (Footprint) - jazz
- Kathryn Joseph: From When I Wake the Want Is (Rock Action) [08-10] - new folk
- JosyAra: Mansa Furia (Tratore) [08-24] -
- JOY: No Light Below (Blood and Ink) [10-23] - metal
- Allysha Joy: Acadie: Raw (Gondwana) [09-21] - r&b
- Vance Joy: Nation of Two (Atlantic) [02-23] - alt/indie
- The Joy Formidable: AAARTH (Seradom) [09-28] - alt rock
- Joyce Manor: Million Dollars to Kill Me (Epitaph) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Joyfultalk: Plurality Trip (Constellation) [08-24]
- Judas Priest: Firepower (Columbia) [03-09] - heavy metal
- Jukebox the Ghost: Off to the Races (self-released) [03-30]
- Juiceboxxx: Never Surrender Forever (Dangerbird -EP) [09-14]
- Steven Julien: Bloodline (Apron) [04-27]
- Larry June: You're Dooing Good (Warner Bros) [03-02] - hip hop
- Jungle: For Ever (XL) [09-14] - dance/electronic
- Junglepussy: JP3 (self-released) [05-11] - hip hop
- Damien Jurado: The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian) [05-04] - singer-songwriter
- Just Friends: Nothing but Love (Counter Intuitive) [06-13] - alt/indie
- Justice: Woman Worldwide (Caroline) [08-24] - pop/rock
- Uli K: Uliverse (Yegorka) [06-05] - rock
- John Kaada: Closing Statements (Mirakel) [05-25]
- Kaelan Mikla: Nott Eftir Nott (Artofact) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Gabriel Kahane: Book of Travelers (Nonesuch) [08-24] - singer-songwrier
- Henry Kaiser/Ed Pettersen: We Call All Times Soon (Split Rock) - jazz
- Jaakko Eino Kalevi: Out of Touch (Weird World) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Tonu Kaljuste: Arvo Part: The Symphonies (ECM) - classical
- Pat Kalla & Le Super Mojo: Jonglear (Favorite) [11-23]
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: There Are Actions Which We Have Neglected and Which Never Cease to Call Us (Bureau B) - jazz
- Ted Russell Kamp: Walkin' Shoes (PoMo) [09-25] - rock
- Kieran Kane/Rayna Gellert: The Ledges (Dead Reckoning) [02-16] - folk
- Miles Kane: Coup De Grace (Virgin EMI) [08-10] - indie rock
- Benji Kaplan/Rita Figueiredo: Benji & Rita (Big Apple Batacuda) [11-06] - jazz
- Karg: Dornenvogel (AOP) [11-16] - death metal
- Kassin: Relax (Luaka Bop) [05-11] - alt/indie
- Silvia Kastel: Air Lows (Blackest Ever Black) [01-26] - ambient dub
- Kaia Kater: Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways) [10-26] - folk
- Achim Kaufmann: Mnemon (Nuscope) - jazz
- Okay Kaya: Both (Heavy Body) [06-01] - art pop
- Geoffrey Keezer Trio: On My Way to You (MarKeez) - jazz
- Kelela: Take Me a_Part: The Remixes (Warp) [10-05] - r&b
- Andrea Keller: Five Below Live () [07-09] - jazz
- Dave Keller: Every Soul's a Star (Catfood) [10-19] - blues
- Grace Kelly: Go Time: Brooklyn 2 (PAZZ Productions) [10-12] - jazz
- Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift: Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift (853653 DK) [05-02] - alt/indie
- Paul Kelly: Nature (Cooking Vinyl) [10-12] - singer-songwriter
- Ruston Kelly: Dying Star (New Rounder) [09-07] - singer-songwriter
- Tori Kelly: Hiding Place (Schoolboy/Capitol) [09-14] - gospel
- Ken Mode: Loved (New Damage/Season of Mist) [08-31] - noise rock
- Myles Kennedy: Year of the Tiger (Napalm) [03-09] - rock
- Nigel Kennedy: Kennedy Meets Gershwin (Warner Classics) [05-11] - classical
- Madeline Kenney: Perfect Shapes (Carpark) [10-05] - dream pop
- Lydia Kepinski: Premier Juin (Chivi Chivi) [04-03]
- Mazen Kerbaj: Walls Will Fall: The 49 Trumpets of Jericho (Bohemian Drips) - jazz
- Kero Kero Bonito: Time 'n' Place (Polyvinyl) [10-01] - alt/indie
- Eli Keszler: Stadium (Shelter Press) [10-12]
- Key! & Kenny Beats: 777 (Hello!/DOTS) [05-04] - hip hop
- William Ryan Key: Thirteen (self-released -EP) [05-25]
- Wiz Khalifa: Rolling Papers 2 (Atlantic) [07-13] - pop rap
- Ben Khan: BenKhan (Dirty Hit) [08-10] - alt r&b
- Khemmis: Desolation (20 Buck Spin/Nuclear Blast) [06-22] - metal
- Khotin: Beautiful You (self-releaswed) [07-06]
- Kid Koala: Floor Kids [Original Video Game Soundtrack] (Arts & Crafts) [04-27] - electronic
- Kid Rock: Sweet Southern Sugar (Broken Bow) [11-03] - rock
- Cash Kidd: Bebe Kidd 2 (4746 Global) [08-31] - hip-hop
- The Kiddiwinks: Wicked Leisure (self-released) [09-08]
- Angelique Kidjo: Remain in Light (Kravenworks) [06-08] - international
- Kiefer: Happysad (Stones Throw) [06-08]
- Kiki Pau: Hiisi (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) [10-19] - rock
- Kilchhofer: The Book Room (Marionette) [02-28] - ambient
- Kimbra: Primal Heart (Warner Bros) [04-20] - art pop
- Nina Kinert: Romantic (V2) [05-11] - alt/indie
- Elle King: Shake the Spirit (RCA) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Marcus King Band: Carolina Confessions (Fantasy) [10-05] - rock
- Randall King: Randall King (self-released) [04-27] - country
- King Brothers: Wasteland (Hound Gawd!) [09-28] - garage rock
- King Buffalo: Longing to Be the Mountain (self-released) [09-14] - rock
- King Champion Sounds: For a Lark (Excelsior) [11-09] - alt/indie
- King Crimson: Live in Vienna December 1st 2016 (Panegyric) - prog rock
- King Crimson: Meltdown: Live in Mexico City (DGM) - prog rock
- King Dude: Music to Make War To (Van) [08-24] - rock
- King Fred: Soul 2 Soul (Riverside) [11-24] - blues
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Gumboot Soup (ATO -17) [12-31-2017] - alt/indie
- King Krule: The Ooz (True Panther Sounds) [10-13] - trip hop
- King Princess: Make My Bed (Zelig) [06-15] - alt r&b
- King Tuff: The Other (Sub Pop) [04-13] - power pop
- King Vision Ultra: Pain of Mind (Ascetic House) [05-15] - mixtape
- Allan Kingdom: Peanut Butter Prince (First Gen) [06-15] - hip-hop
- Kino: Radio Voltaire ()
- Neal Kirkwood: Blue Inventions (Present Eye) [07-01] - jazz
- Kississippi: Sunset Blush (Alcopop) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Kyoko Kitamura's Tidepool Fauna: Protean Labyrinth (self-released) [08-10] - jazz
- Kleenex Girl Wonder: Vana Mundi (Reesonable) [04-20] - pop
- Kleenex Girl Wonder: White Lacuna (self-released) [10-22] - indie rock
- Klein: CC (self-released -EP) [05-26] - sound collage
- Litku Klemetti: Taika Tapahtuu (Luova) [04-20] - rock
- Flynn Kliemann: Nie (TwoFinger) [09-28] - pop
- The Kooks: Let's Go Sunshine (Lonely Cat/AWAL) [08-31]
- Krystal Klear: The Division (Running Bark -EP) [03-19] - nu disco
- Knelt Rote: Alterity (Headspin) [02-28] - black metal
- Knife Knights: 1 Time Mirage (Sub Pop) [09-14] - hip-hop
- Kirk Knight: IIWII (Pro Era) [11-16] - hip-hop
- Mark Knopfler: Down the Road Wherever (British Groove/Virgin EMI) [11-16]
- Kirk Knuffke/Ben Goldberg: Uncompahgre (Relative Pitch) [05-18] - jaz
- Kode9 & Burial: Fabriclive 100 (Fabric) [09-28] - electronic
- Tony Kofi: Point Blank (The Last Music Company) - jazz
- Kojaque: Deli Daydreams (Soft Boy) [02-23] - hip-hop
- Gleb Kolyadin: Gleb Kolyadin (KScope) - jazz
- Hiro Kone: Pure Expenditure (Dais) [08-24] - electronic
- Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer: Decade (Impulse) [07-06] - jazz
- Kool G Rap & 38 Spesh: Son of G Rap (TCF Music Group) [07-06] - hip-hop
- Kooley High: Never Come Down (Mecca) [03-30] - hip-hop
- Konstrukt: Oryanthal (Holidays) - jazz
- Konstrukt & Keiji Haino: A Philosophy Warping Little by Little That Way Lies a Quadmire (Karlrecords) [08-31] - jazz
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Polina Leschenko: Deux (Alpha) [02-23]
- Koplant No: Elker (Mize Music) [05-11] - jazz
- Mark Kozelek: Mark Kozelek (Caldo Verde) [05-11] - alt singer/songwriter
- Magdalena Kozena/Robin Ticciati: Ravel/Duparc: Aimer Et Mourir/Danses Et Melodies (Linn) [09-28] - classical
- Krakow Loves Adana: Songs After the Blue (Better Call Rob) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Kraus: Path (Terrible) [03-09]
- Kevin Krauter: Toss Up (Bayonet) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Lenny Kravitz: Raise Vibration (BMG) [09-07]
- Maxo Kream: Punken (TSO) [01-12] - trap rap
- Yoni Kretzmer's New Dilemma: Months Weeks and Days (OutNow) - jazz
- Nicholas Krgovich: Ouch (Tin Angel) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Kriegsmaschine: Apocalypticists (No Solace) [10-22] - rock
- Krust: The Portal/Concealing Treachery (31 -EP) [01-26] - drum and bass
- Kryptonyte: Kryptonyte (Dolfin) [09-21] - hip-hop
- Krystal Klear: The Division (Running Back -EP) [03-19] - nu disco
- Marty Krystall/Mike Alvidrez/Fritz Wise: Marty's Mode (K2B2) [05-09] - jazz
- Martin Kuchen & Anders Lindsjo: The Stork & the Chimp (Konvoj) [05-25] - jazz
- Aki Kumar: Hidi Man Blues (Little Village Foundation) [08-01] - blues
- Kuniko: Steve Reich: Drumming () - classical
- Ola Kvernberg: Steamdome (Grappa) - jazz
- La Dispute: Somewhere at the Bottom of the River (No Sleep) [11-09] - alt/indie
- La Luz: Floating Features (Hardly Art) [05-11] - psychedelic rock
- Albrecht La'Brooy: Tidal River (Apollo) [02-02] - electronic
- Yazmin Lacey: When the Sun Dips 90 Degrees (First Word) [06-22] - r&b
- Lack the Low: One Eye Closed (Art as Catharsis) [04-19] - art pop
- Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Studio Konzert (Neuklang) [03-23] - jazz
- Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders: Terrible (Blue Poles) [baroque pop]
- Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper: A Star Is Born [Soundtrack] (Interscope) [10-05] - soundtrack
- Jimmy LaFave: Peace Town (Music Road) [07-13] - country
- Reese Laflare: Reese Laflare (Empire) [08-17]
- Natalia Lafourcade: Musas Vol 2 (Sony Mexico) [02-09] - Latin folk
- Laibach: The Sound of Music (Mute) [11-23] - alt/indie
- Owen Lake & the Tragic Loves: The Best of Your Lies (Carrier) [11-30] - country
- Lake Street Dive: Free Yourself Up (Nonesuch) [05-04]
- Lala Lala: The Lamb (Hardly Art) [09-28] - indie rock
- Mickey Lamantia: Every Bad Habit (self-released) [01-12] - country
- Graham Lambkin: No Better No Worse (Vol 1) (self-released) [01-25] - electronic
- Graham Lambkin: No Better No Worse (Vol 2) (self-released) [06-21] - electronic
- Ray LaMontagne: Part of the Light (RCA) [05-18] - singer-songwriter
- Domenico Lancellotti: The Good Is a Big God (Luaka Bop) [05-04] -
- Lanco: Hallelujah Nights (Arista Nashville) [01-19] - country
- Dawn Landes: Meet Me at the River (Yep Roc) [08-10] - country
- Nils Landgren: Unbreakable (ACT) - jazz
- Lane 8: Little by Little (This Never Happened) [01-19] - electronic
- Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood: With Animals (Heavenly/PIAS) [08-24] - singer-songwriter
- Laraaji/Arji OceAnanda/Dallas Acid: Arrive Without Leaving (Flying Moonlight) [10-12] - new age
- Last Emperor: Jungle Jim Season 1 (From the Muscle Music Group) [04-27] - hip-hop
- The Last Poets: Understand What Black Is (Studio Rockers) [05-18]
- Greg Laswell: Next Time (Leg Graswell) [09-21] - folk
- Mary Lattimore: Hundreds of Days (Ghostly International) [05-18] - ambient
- Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Utter (Relative Pitch) [09-07] - jazz
- Jim Lauderdale: Time Flies (Yep Roc) [08-03] - country
- Jim Lauderdale/Roland White: Jim Lauderdale & Roland White (Yep Roc) [07-20] - country
- Laura & Greg: Juice Break (Paper Garden) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Laura Jean: Devotion (Chapter Music) [06-08] - pop
- Laurel: Dogviolet (Counter) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Meyhem Lauren: Glass (916% Entertainment) [03-30] - hip-hop
- Lautreamont: Silence of the Deceased (Hymns of Apocalypse) [05-07]
- Anja Lauvdal: Mirakler (Hubro) - jazz
- Melissa Laveaux: Radyo Siwel (No Format) [02-02] - indie pop
- Ant Law: Life I Know (Edition) - jazz
- Josh Lawrence: Contrast (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Lay Llamas: Thuban (Rocket) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Gabor Lazar: Unfold (The Death of Rave) [05-04] - electronic
- Desiderio Lazaro: Moving (Sintoma) [01-05] - jazz
- Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares: BooCheeMish (Prophecy Productions) [05-25] - world
- LEA: Zwischen Meinen Zeilen (Four Music) [09-14]
- Joelle Leandre/Elisabeth Harnik: Tender Music (Trost) - jazz
- Joelle Leandre/Marc Ducret: Chez Helene (Ayler) [09-17] - jazz
- Lebrock: Real Thing (self-released) [02-14] - alt/indie
- Lecrae & Zaytoven: Let the Trap Say Amen (Reach) [06-22] - hip hop
- Amos Lee: My New Moon (Dualtone) [08-31] - pop/rock
- Buzzy Lee: Facepaint (Future Classic) [04-27] - synthpop
- Cindy Lee: Model Express (W25TH/Superior Viaduct) [11-09] - rock
- Okkyung Lee: Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel Flower Bird) (Tzadik) - jazz
- Vivian Lee: Let's Talk About Love (Tara) [08-30] - jazz
- Leesun: 20 Year's Old Temperature (Sugar -17) [12-14-2017] - r&b
- Left Arm Tan: El Camino (self-released) [09-27] - country
- Legend of the Seagullmen: Legend of the Seagullmen (Dine Alone) [02-09] - metal
- Elise LeGrow: Playing Chess (S-Curve) [02-16] - pop
- Ursula K Leguin & Todd Barton: Music and Poetry of the Kesh (RVNG) [03-23]
- Leif: Bluebird/Number 13 (TIO Series -EP) [02-09] - deep house
- Heather Leigh: Throne (Editions Mego) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Sonia Leigh: Mad Hatter (Willing to Fly Music) - pop/rock
- Urs Leimgruber: Broken Silence (Creative Works) - jazz
- The Lemon Twigs: Go to School (4AD) [08-24] - pop-rock
- Hubert Lenoir: Darlene (Simone) [02-02]
- Kiran Leonard: Western Culture (Moshi Moshi) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Jay Leonhart: Don't You Wish (Chancellor Music) [09-06] - jazz
- Michael Leonhart: The Painted Lady Suite (Sunnyside) - jazz
- Les Big Byrd: Iran Iraq IKEA (PNKSLM) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Les Louanges: La Nuit Est Une Panthere (Bonsound) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Les Lullies: Les Lullies (Slovenly) [10-05] - rock
- Edith Lettner's Freemotion: Taking Off (Artdialogue) - jazz
- Vivian Leva: Time Is Everything (Free Dirt) [03-02] - bluegrass
- Leverage Models: Whites (Anachronisme) [10-26] - pop
- Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner: Care (Editions Mego) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Sam Lewis: Loversity (Tone Tree Music) [05-04] - folk
- Lewsberg: Lewsberg (self-released) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Liars: Titles With the Word Fountain [TFCF] (Mute) [11-02] - rock
- Lice: It All Worked Out Vol 1 & 2 (Bailey -EP) [05-25]
- Chris Liebing: Burn Slow (Mute) [09-07] - techno
- Dave Liebman: Fire (Jazzline) [04-20] - jazz
- Carol Liebowitz/Bill Payne: Spiderwebmandala (Line Art) [08-03] - jazz
- Helge Lien/Knut Hem: Hummingbird (Ozella) [02-02] - jazz
- LIINES: Stop-Start (Reckless Yes)
- Like Pacific: In Spite of Me (Pure Noise) [07-27] - rock
- Lil Peep: Come Over When You're Sober Pt 2 (Columbia) [11-09] - hip-hop
- Lil Skies: Life of a Dark Rose (All We Got/Atlantic) [01-12] - trap rap
- Lil Xan: Total Xanarchy (Columbia) [04-06] - trap rap
- Lil Yachty: Lil Boat 2 (Quality Control/Motown/Capitol) [03-09] - trap rap
- Christian Lillingers Grund: Cor (Plaist Music) [01-19] - jazz
- A Lily: Ten Drones on Cassette (Phantom Limb) [02-02] - electronic
- Fenne Lily: On Hold (self-released) [04-06] - indie pop
- Limbs: Father's Son (UNFD) [04-27] - metal
- Liminal: Liminal (Krunk) [05-08] - electronic
- The Liminanas: Shadow People (Because Music) [01-19] - psychedelic rock
- Lingua Franca: Model Minority (HHBTM) [02-18]
- Lingua Ignota: All Bitches Die (Profound Lore) [06-07] - rock
- Lio: Lio Canta Caymmi (Crammed Discs) [03-30] - Brazilian
- Lisbon String Trio & Carlos Zingaro: Theia (Creative Sources) [06-00] - jazz
- Andrew Lisle & Alex Ward: Doors (Copepod) - jazz
- Ira B Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Tasty Tunes (Tall Man) [01-23] - jazz
- Lissie: Castles (Lionboy) [03-23] - singer-songwriter
- Little Mix: LM5 (Syco Music) [11-16] - pop
- Dongfeng Liu: China Caribe (Zoho) [06-08] - jazz
- Liza Anne: Fine but Dying (Arts & Crafts) [03-09] - alt/indie
- LLNN: Deads (Pelagic) [04-27] - alt/indie
- Lo Moon: Lo Moon (Columbia) [02-23] - ambient pop
- Norberto Lobo: Estrela (Three:Four) - jazz
- Joe Locke: Subtle Disguise (Origin) - jazz
- Locksmith: Ali (Landmark) [12-07] - hip-hop
- Loco & Jam: Cluster Flux (Tronic -EP) [08-24] -
- Augusta McKay Lodge: Beyond Bach & Vivaldi: Rare Unaccompanied Works for the Baroque Violin (Naxos) [04-13] - classical
- Logic: Bobby Tarantino II (Def Jam) [03-09] - hip hop
- Logic: YSIV (Def Jam) [09-28] - hip-hop
- Loidis: A Parade in the Place I Sit the Floating World (& All Its Pleasures) (Anno) [04-07] - electronic
- Lokomotiv: Gnosis (Aduf) [03-21] - jazz
- Lolina: The Smoke (self-released) [03-14] - art pop
- Loma: Loma (Sub Pop) [02-16] - psychedelic folk
- Fred Lonberg-Holm & Amphibians of the Everglades Featuring Gustavo Matamoros: Bow Hard at the Frog (Corbett vs Dempsey) [04-00] - jazz
- Fred Lonberg-Holm/Simon Camatta: Crazy Notions (Umland) - jazz
- Lone: Ambivert Tools Vol 3 (R&S) [02-23] - electronic
- Jonathon Long: Jonathon Long (Wild Heart) [09-07] - blues
- Will Long: Long Trax 2 (Smalltown Supersound) [03-16] - deep house
- The Longcut: Arrows (Deltasonic) [04-06]
- The Longshot: Love Is for Losers (self-released) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Lonker See: One Eye Sees Red (Instant Classic) [04-05] - pop
- Loona: [++] (?Vlending) [08-20] - K-pop
- Loose Nukes: 2018 Demo (self-released)
- David Lopato: Gendhing for a Spirit Rising (Global Coolant) - jazz
- Brandon Lopez/Matthew Nelson/Andria Nicodemou/Gerald Cleaver: The Industry of Entropy (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Ramon Lopez/Percy Pursglove/Rafal Mazur: Threefold (Not Two) [07-00] - jazz
- Harold Lopez-Nussa: Un Dia Cualquiera (Mack Avenue) [06-15] - jazz
- Lord Huron: Vide Noir (Republic) [04-20] - indie rock
- Lorelle Meets the Obsolete: De Facto (Sonic Cathedral) [01-11] - alt/indie
- Judith Lorick: The Second Time Around (JLJ International) [09-28] - jazz
- Frantz Loriot/Christian Wolfarth: The Call (Shhpuma) - jazz
- Los Hermanos Cubero: Quique Dibuja La Tristeza (El Segell del Primavera) [04-27] - folk
- Los Rolling Ruanas: Sangre Caliente (M3 Music) [05-04] -
- Los Texmaniacs: Cruzando Borders (Smithsonian Folkways) [05-11] - Tejano
- Salvo Losappio: Long Story Short (Gut String) [05-15] - jazz
- Lionel Loueke: Close Your Eyes (Newvelle) - jazz
- Lionel Loueke: The Journey (Aparte) [09-28] - jazz
- Sarah Louise: Deeper Woods (Thrill Jockey) [05-11] - indie folk
- Fullee Love: Soup J5 Presents Fullee Love: Free White & 21 (Najla Music) [07-27] - r&b
- Laura Love: She Loved Red (self-released) [02-10] - folk
- The Love Birds: In Lovers Corner (Trouble in Mind) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Lovebites: Battle Against Damnation ()
- The Lovely Eggs: This Is Eggland (self-released) [02-23] - noise pop
- The Low Anthem: The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depths of the Sea (Joyful Noise) [02-23] - indie folk
- Low Jack: Riddims Du Lieu-dit (Les Disques De La Bretagne) [03-20] - electronic
- Lowtide: Southern Mind (Rice Is Nice) [02-16] - alt/indie
- LP: Heart to Mouth (Effective) [12-07] - alt/indie
- LSDXOXO: Body Mods (self-released) [01-11] - electronic
- Samara Lubelski/Bill Nace: Samara Lubelski & Bill Nace (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Lucero: Among the Ghosts (Thirty Tigers) [08-03]
- Alvin Lucier: Criss-Cross/Hanover (Black Truffle) [01-26] - drone
- Lucifer: Lucifer II (Century Media) [07-06] - metal
- Lucinate: Big Noise (King Deluxe) [04-27] - chillwave
- Lucius: Nudes (Mom + Pop Music) [03-02] - alt/indie
- Luft/Mats Gustafsson/Erwan Keravec: Inhale (Omlott) - jazz
- Luluc: Sculptor (Sub Pop) [07-13] - indie folk
- Lumina: Lumina (Tuk Music) - jazz
- Lump: Lump (Dead Oceans) [06-01] - indie folk
- Lunmatic Soul: Under the Fragmented Sky ()
- Lusts: Call of the Void (Blinky Watts) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Galcher Lustwerk: 200% Galcher (Lustwerk Music) [06-22] - electronic
- Matthew Lux's Communication Arts Quartet: Contra/Fact (Astral Spirits) [07-00] - jazz
- Luxury Elite: Prism (self-released) [07-04]
- Lychgate: The Contagion in Nine Steps (Blood Music) [03-30] - metal
- Lycia: In Flickers (Projekt) [10-26]
- Lylo: Post Era (El Rancho) [01-26] - jazz
- Lera Lynn: Plays Well With Others (Single Lock) [06-22]
- Papa M: A Broke Moon Rises (Drag City) [08-17] - folk
- Yo-Yo Ma: Six Evolutions: Bach Cello Suites (Sony Classical) [08-17] - classical
- Madder Mortem: Marrow (Karisma) [09-21] - metal
- Phil Madeira: Providence (Mercyland) [04-06] - jazz
- Madeleine & Salomon: A Woman's Journey (Tzigart/Promiseland) [01-12] - jazz
- Harold Mabern: The Iron Man: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) [11-23] - jazz
- Kitty MacFarlane: Namer of Clouds (Navigator) -
- Machine Girl: The Ugly Art (Kitty on Fire) [10-12]
- Machine Head: Catharsis ()
- Jackson Macintosh: My Dark Side (Sinderlyn) [03-02] - alt/indie
- Cam Maclean: Wait for Love (Atelier Ciseaux) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Phil Madeira: Providence ()
- Peter Madsen's Seven Sins Ensemble: Never Bet the Devil Your Head (Playscape) [05-01] - jazz
- Peter Madsen/Alfred Vogel: I Ching (Playscape) - jazz
- Mae: Proletar Adel (Tee Productions) [05-25] - hip-hop
- The Magic City Trio: Amerikana Arkana (Kailua) [04-20] - country
- Maggot Heart: Dusk to Dusk (Teratology) [07-13] - rock
- The Maghreban: 01deas (R&S) [03-23] - electronic
- The Magic Gang: The Magic Gang (Warner UK/Yala!) [03-16] - indie rock
- The Magic Numbers: Outsiders (Black Candy) [05-11] - rock
- Magic One: The Magic Show (self-released) [09-01] - r&b
- Magmamaker: Mindtripper (self-released)
- Janiva Magness: Love Is an Army (Blue Elan) [02-23] - blues
- The Magpie Salute: High Water I (Eagle) [08-10] - rock
- Rudi Mahall/Alexander von Schlippenbach: So Far (Relative Pitch) [03-23] - jazz
- Ella Mai: Ella Mai (Interscope) [10-12]
- MaidaVale: Madness Is Too Pure (The Sign) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Maisie: Maledette Rockstar (self-released) [01-19] - rock
- Majesty of Silence: Zu Dunkel Fur Das Licht (Rockshots) [05-25]
- Makeness: Loud Patterns (Secretly Canadian) [04-06] - alt dance
- Mako Sica/Hamid Drake: Ronda (Astral Spirits) [07-27] - jazz
- Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Dictator (Scarred for Life) [07-20] - alt metal
- MALK: Death From a Love (House Assembly Music -17) [12-08-2017] - electronic
- Bugzy Malone: B Inspired (BSomebody) [08-17] - grime
- Kali Malone: Cast of Mind (Hallow Ground) [05-18] - electronic
- Matt Maltese: Bad Contestant (Atlantic UK) [05-25] - singer-songwriter
- Maluma: FAME (Sony Music Latin) [05-18] - Latin pop
- Mammal: Come See My Dream (Animal Disguise) [10-05] - electronic
- The Mammals: Sunshiner (Humble Abode Music) [04-20] - folk
- Mammoth Grinder: Cosmic Crypt (Relapse) [01-26] - metal
- Mamuthones: Fear on the Corner (Rocket) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Dan Mangan: More or Less (Arts & Crafts) [11-02] - alt/indie
- The Manhattan Transfer: The Junction (BMG) [03-30] - vocal
- Manic Street Preachers: Resistance Is Futile (Columbia) [04-13] - alt rock
- Emanuele Maniscalco/Francesco Bigoni/Mark Solborg: Foil (ILK Music) - jazz
- Peder Mannerfelt: Daily Routine (self-released) [11-15] - experimental
- Roger Joseph Manning Jr: Glamping (self-released -EP) - rock
- Mansion: First Death of the Lutheran (I Hate) [11-30] - rock
- Many Rooms: There Is a Presence Here (Other People) [03-13] - ambient pop
- Maps & Atlases: Lightlessness Is Nothing New (Barsuk) [06-01]
- Roc Marciano: Behold a Dark Horse (Marci) [10-04] - hip-hop
- Roc Marciano & DJ Muggs: KAOS (Soul Assassins) [10-19] - hip-hop
- Gia Margaret: There's Always Glimmer (Orindal) [07-27] - rock
- Marie/Lepanto: Tenkiller (Big Legal Mess) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Diane Marino: Soul Serenade: The Gloria Lynne Project (M&M) [03-16] - jazz
- Mariza: Mariza (Parlophone Portugal) [05-25] - Portuguese
- Janne Mark: Pilgrim (ACT) [02-23] - jazz
- Ulaan Markhor: Helm (Soft Abuse) [06-22] - alt/indie
- Marmozets: Knowing What You Know Now (Roadrunner) [01-26] - alt rock
- Johnny Marr: Call the Comet (New Voodoo) [06-15] - indie rock
- The Ellis Marsalis Quintet: Plays the Music of Ellis Marsalis (ELM) [05-02] - jazz
- Brian Marsella Trio: Outspoken: The Music of the Legendary Hasaan (Tzadik) - jazz
- Samuel Martinelli: Crossing Paths (self-released) [08-03] - jazz
- Martyn: Voids (Ostgut Ton) - dubstep
- J Mascis: Elastic Days (Sub Pop) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Masego: Lady Lady (EQT) [09-07] - r&b
- Sasha Mashin: Outsidethebox (Rainy Days) - jazz
- Gigi Masin: Kite (self-released) [02-15] - electronic
- Mass Gothic: I've Tortured You Enough (Sub Pop) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Massage: Oh Boy (Tearjerk) [07-27] - jangle pop
- Massive Wagons: Full nelson (Earache) [08-10] - rock
- Mark Masters Ensemble: Our Metier (Capri) [09-21] - jazz
- Mastersystem: Dance Music (Physical Education) [04-06] - indie rock
- Matchess: Sacracorpa (Trouble in Mind) [07-27] - jazz
- Material Girls: Leather (Irrelevant) [07-03]
- Per Mathisen & Jan Gunnar Hoff With Horacio Hernandez: Barxeta II (Losen) [06-22] - jazz
- Toshio Matsuura Group: Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From the Floor (Brownswood) [03-07] - jazz
- Trixie Mattel: One Stone (self-released -EP) [03-15] - folk
- Dave Matthews Band: Come Tomorrow (RCA) [06-08] - alt pop/rock
- Mattiel: Mattiel (Burger) [09-20] - rock
- The Mattson 2: A Love Supreme (Spiritual Pajamas) [08-17] - jazz
- Halo Maud: Je Suis Une Ile (Heavenly/PIAS) [05-25] - psychedelic pop
- John Maus: Addendum (Ribbon) [05-18] - synthpop
- The Mavericks: Hey! Merry Christmas (Mono Mundo) [11-02] - holiday
- Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow: Music in My Mind (Origin) [05-18] - jazz
- Abbe May: Fruit (Luxury Cat) [02-02] - pop
- Rob Mazurek: Marfa Loops Shouts and Hollers (Harmonipan) - jazz
- Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi: Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall (Slip) [10-24] - electronic
- The Del McCoury Band: Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass (McCoury Music) [05-25] - bluegrass
- John McCowen: 4 Chairs in Three Dimensions (Astral Spirits) - jazz
- Makaya McCraven: Where We Come From (Chicago X London Mixtape) (International Anthem) [07-27] - jazz
- Drew McDowall: The Third Helix (Dais) [09-21] - electronic
- HC McEntire: Lionheart (Merge) [01-26] - country
- Sean McGowan: Son of the Smith (Xtra Mile) [05-11] - singer-songwriter
- Carson McHone: Carousel (Loose Music) [10-26] - country
- Loreena McKennitt: Lost Souls (Quinlan Road) [05-11] - indie folk
- Gayelynn McKinney: McKinFolk: The New Beginning (Detroit Music Factory) - jazz
- John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension/Jimmy Herring & the Invisible Whip: Live in San Francisco (Abstract Logix) [09-14] - jazz
- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness: Upside Down Flowers (Fantasy) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Jim McNeely/The Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Barefoot Dances and Other Visions (Planet Arts) [01-31] - jazz
- Joe McPhee/Nicolas Caloia/Jesse Stewart: Permutations (Art Stew) [07-01] - jazz
- Joe McPhee/Daunik Lazro/Joshua Abrams/Guillaume Seguron/Chad Taylor: A Pride of Lions (The Bridge Sessions) - jazz
- Joe McPhee: One Day . . . a Lightning Storm (Sound American -EP) [10-01] - jazz
- JD McPherson: Socks (New West) [11-02] - holiday
- Sarah McQuaid: If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Redeye) [02-02]
- Karen Meat: You're an Ugly Person (Emotional Response) [04-20] - pop
- Meat Beat Manifesto: Impossible Star (MBM) [01-19] - electronic
- John Medeski: Mad Skillet (Indirecto) - jazz
- Medeski Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound: Omnisphere (Indirecto) [09-14] - jazz
- Medhane: Ba Suba Ak Jamm (Grand Closing) [07-24] - world
- Buck Meek: Buck Meek (Keeled Scales) [05-18] - folk
- Mefjus: Manifest (Vision) [04-26] - electronic
- Megan Thee Stallion: Tina Snow (SoSouth) [06-11] - hip-hop
- Megative: Megative (Last Gang) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Michaela Meise: Ich Bin Griechin (Martin Hossbach) [06-29] - pop
- Meitei: Kwaidan (self-released) [01-30] - hip-hop
- Melbourne Cans: Heat of the Night (Lost and Lonesome) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Lubomyr Melnyk: Fallen Trees (Erased Tapes) [12-07] - classical
- John Mellencamp: Other People's Stuff (Republic) [11-16] - rock
- Melo-Zed: Eleven (EOne Music Canada) [05-25] - electronic
- Melting Hand: Faces of Earth (Hominid Sounds) [09-27] - alt/indie
- Melvins: Pinkus Abortion Technician (Ipecac) [04-20] - alt rock
- The Men: Drift (Sacred Bones) [03-02] - indie rock
- Menace Beach: Black Rainbow Sound (Memphis Industries) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Menagerie: The Arrow of Time (Freestyle) - jazz
- Efrim Manuel Menuck: Pissing Stars (Constellation) [02-02] - post-rock
- Don Menza Quartet: Sonny Daze (Alessa) [03-13] - jazz
- Mephiti: Mephiti (El Negocito) [03-22] - jazz
- Merzbow/Balazs Pandi/Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore: Cuts Up Cuts Out (RareNoise) [04-21] - jazz
- Mesarthim: The Density Parameter (Avantgarde Music) [05-02] - black metal
- Messa: Feast for Water (Aural) [04-06] - doom metal
- The Messthetics: The Messthetics (Dischord) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Mestizo and the Heavy Twelves: Big Bad Death (Fake Four) [08-24] - hip-hop
- Metro Boomin: Not All Heroes Wear Capes (Republic) [11-02] - hip-hop
- Hendrik Meurkens/Bill Cunliffe: Cabin in the Sky (Height Advantage) [06-01] - jazz
- Mewithoutyou: [untitled] EP (Run for Cover) [08-17] - alt/indie
- Adi Meyerson: Where We Stand (A:M) [06-05] - jazz
- Meyhem & DJ Muggs: Frozen Angels (Soul Assassins) [06-08] - hip-hop
- Szilard Mezei Trio: Cink (FMR) [01-00] - jazz
- Szilard Mezei Vocal Ensemble: Hotel America (Not Two) - jazz
- Szilard Mezei Septet: Hajnali APN (FMR) [05-00] - jazz
- Szilard Mezei Septet: Veres Pancal (FMR) - jazz
- MGMT: Little Dark Age (Columbia) [02-09] - synthpop
- MGUN: Axiom (Don't Be Afraid) [06-01] - electronic
- The Carl Michel Group: Music in Motian (The Compositions of Paul Motian) (Play On) [04-20] - jazz
- Michigan Rattlers: Evergreen (self-released) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Michot's Melody Makers: Blood Moon (Sinking City) [09-28]
- Mid-Air Thief: Crumbling (Botanical House) [12-04] - singer-songwriter
- Midas Fall: Evaporate ()
- Middle Kids: Lost Friends (Domino) [05-04] - indie rock
- The Midnight: Kids (self-released) [09-14] - electronic
- The Midnight Hour/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Adrian Younge: The Midnight Hour (Linear Labs) [06-08]
- Mien: Mien (Rocket) [04-06] - psychedelic rock
- Miggy Augmented Orchestra: Colorful (ArtistShare) - jazz
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: While We're at It (Big Red) [06-15]
- Mike and the Moonpies: Steak Night at the Prairie Rose (self-released) [02-02] - country
- Joakim Milder/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Par-Ola Landin/Christopher Cantillo: Tradet (El Dingo) - jazz
- Mildlife: Phase (Research) [11-02] - jazz
- Milestones: Red Lights (Fearless) [02-23] - rock
- The Milk Carton Kids: All the Things I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do (Anti-) [06-29]
- John R Miller and the Engine Lights: The Trouble You Follow (Emperor) [08-31] - country
- Marcus Miller: Laid Black (Blue Note) [06-01] - jazz
- Vladimir Miller/Pierpaolo Martino/Adrian Northover: The Dinner Party (FMR) [01-00] - jazz
- Blake Mills: Look (Verve) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Andy Milne & Dapp Theory: The Seasons of Being (Sunnyside) [09-28] - jazz
- Milo: Budding Ornithologists Are Weary of Tired Analogies (Ruby Yacht/The Order Label) [09-21] - hip-hop
- Pavel Milyakov: Eastern Strike (Rassvet) [03-19] - electronic
- Mimicking Birds: Layers of Us (Glacial Pace) [01-26] - indie folk
- Ministry: AmeriKKKant (Nuclear Blast) [03-09] - industrial metal
- Mind Over Mirrors: Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors) [04-05] - experimental
- Mind Spiders: Furies (Dirtnap) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Mink Slide: Egyptian Musk (King Flex Entertainment) [07-19] - r&b
- Kylie Minogue: Golden (BMG/Darenote) [04-06] - dance pop
- Minority Threat: Minority Threat (self-released -EP) [09-28] - punk
- Mint Field: Pasar de la Luces (Innovative Leisure) [02-23] - shoegaze
- Bob Mintzer Big Band/New York Voices: Meeting of Minds (MCG Jazz) [-6-22] - jazz
- Minyeshu: Daa Dee (ARC Music) [07-19]
- Holly Miranda: Mutual Horse (Dangerbird) [02-23] - indie pop
- Tom Misch: Geography (Beyond the Groove) [04-06] - neo-soul
- Miserable: Loverboy/Dog Days (Sargent House) [10-26] - dream pop
- Miss Information: Sequence (Pioneer Works Press) [09-07] - electronic
- Miss World: Keeping Up With Miss World (PNKSLM) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Mist: Diamond in the Dirt (Sickmade) [02-09]
- Roscoe Mitchell/Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra: Ride the Wind (Nessa) [02-00] - jazz
- MMO-Ensemble: Any Day Now (Ora Fonogram) - jazz
- MNEK: Language (Virgin EMI) [09-07] - pop
- MO: Forever Neverland (Chess Club/RCA Victor) [10-19] - electropop
- Moab: Through (Falling Dome) [10-19] - psych metal
- Moaning: Moaning (Sub Pop) [03-02] - alt/indie
- Moby: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Mute) [03-02] - downtempo
- Connan Mockasin: Jassbusters (Mexican Summer) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Liudas Mockunas/Jacek Mazurkiewicz/Hakon Berre: Live in Warsaw (Astral Spirits) [07-00] - jazz
- Mod Con: Modern Convenience (Poison City) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Modern Studies: Welcome Strangers (Fire) [05-18] - indie folk
- The Modulators: Drivetime (Chant) [07-16] - jazz
- Noshir Mody: A Burgeoning Consciousness (self-released) [05-11] - jazz
- MoE and Marhaug: Capsaicin (Utech) - jazz
- MoeTar: Final Four (Raze the Maze -EP) [05-02] - rock
- Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert: Here Lies the Body (Rock Action) [05-11]
- Abul Mogard: Above All Dreams (Ecstatic) [06-29] - electronic
- Mogwai: Kin (Temporary Residence) [08-31]
- Louis Moholo-Moholo's Five Blokes: Uplift the People (Ogun) [06-08] - jazz
- Mojo Juju: Native Tongue (ABC) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Mol: Jord (Holy Roar) [04-13] - blackgaze
- Mole: Mole (Vector Sounds) - jazz
- Tony Molina: Kill the Lights (Slumberland) [07-27] - indie rock
- Hedvig MNollestad Trio: Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon) - jazz
- Mom Jeans: Puppy Love (Counter Intuitive) [07-03] - rock
- Moneybagg Yo: 2 Heartless (N-Less Entertainment/Interscope) [02-14] - hip-hop
- Christophe Monniot: Jericho Sinfonia (Ayler) - jazz
- Monsieur Doumani: Angathin (self-released)
- Monster Magnet: Mindfucker (Napalm) [03-23] - metal
- Moon Wiring Club: Psychedelic Spirit Show (Gecophonic Audio Systems) [11-30] - electronic
- Jemeel Moondoc Quartet: The Astral Revelations (RogueArt) - jazz
- Moondoggies: A Love Sleeps Deep (Sub Pop) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Davy Mooney/Ko Omura: Benign Strangers (Sunnyside) [07-27] - jazz
- Dallas Moore: Mr Honky Tonk (SOL) [ 03-02] - country
- Thurston Moore/Adam Golebiewski: Disarm (Endless Happiness) - jazz
- Jason Moran: Bangs (Yes) - jazz
- Jason Moran and the Bandwagon: Looks of a Lot (Yes) [02-23] - jazz
- Moonface: This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet (Jagjaguwar) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Drew Moreland: Drew Moreland (self-released) [08-01] - country
- Mark Morgan: Department of Heraldry (Open Mouth) - electronic
- MorMor: Heaven's Only Wishful (Don't Guess) [06-22] - indie pop
- Morphology: Traveller (Firescope) [06-04] - electronic
- Joe Morris/Chris Dadge/Jonathon Wilcke: Rural Optimism (Bug Incision) - jazz
- Joe Morris/Rob Oxoby: Dancing With Penguins (Bug Incision) - jazz
- T Hardy Morris: Dude the Obscure (Normaltown) [06-22]
- Toussaint Morrison: Best When Sung From the Gutter (Urban Home Companion) [05-25] - hip-hop
- Laura Morrow: Laura Morrow (self-released -EP) - country
- Sam Morrow: Concrete and Mud (Forty Below) [03-30]
- Mortuous: Through Wilderness (Tankcrimes) [06-22] - metal
- Bob Moses: Battle Lines (Domino) [09-14] - electronic
- Leila Moss: My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth (Bella Union) [11-09] - alt/indie
- The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling: The High Cost of Low Living (Alligator) [03-09] - blues
- Sam Moss: Neon (Lost Honey) [03-02] - folk
- Motel Mirrors: In the Meantime (Last Chance) [03-30]
- Motels: The Last Few Beautiful Days (ReMarKable) [03-11] - rock
- Mother Feather: Constellation Baby (Metal Blade) [11-02] - rock
- Mothers: Render Another Ugly Method (Epitaph) [09-07] - pop/rock
- Motorcade: Motorcade (Idol) [01-19] - post-punk
- Mount Eerie: After (Live) (PW Elverum & Sun) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives (Remixes Part 2) (Warp) [09-08] - electronica
- Mountain Man: Magic Ship (Nonesuch) [09-21] - folk
- Mourn: Sorpresa Familia (Captured Tracks) [06-15] - indie rock
- Mournful Congregation: The Incubus of Karma (Osmose/20 Buck Spin) [03-23] - doom metal
- Mourning [A] BLKstar: The Garner Poems (Electric Cowbell) [10-26] - r&b
- Mouse on Mars: Dimensional People (Thrill Jockey) [04-13] - experimental
- The Mouse Outfit: Jagged Tooth Crook (TMO) [05-04] - hip-hop
- The Mover: Undetected Act From the Gloom Chamber (Boidae) [03-27] - techno
- Kikagaku Moyo: Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain) [10-05] - rock
- Mozzy: Gangland Landlord (Mozzy/Empire) [10-04] - hip-hop
- Mr Eazi: Life Is Eazi Vol 2: Lagos to London (Universal Music) [11-09] - African
- Mr G: A Part of Me Volume 2 (Phoenix G) - electronic
- Mr Twin Sister: Salt (Plancha) [10-25] - alt/indie
- Ms Jody: I'm Doin' My Thang (Ecko) [07-06] - blues
- Mudhoney: Digital Garbage (Sub Pop) [09-19] - alt/indie
- Jake Muir: Lady's Mantle (Sferic) [07-27] - electronic
- Georgia Anne Muldrow: Overload (Brainfeeder) [10-26] - neo-soul
- Wolf Muller & Niklas Wandt: Instrumentalmusik Von Der Mitte Der World (Growing Bin) [02-00] - electronic
- Anna Mullova/Paavo Jarvi: Arvo Part (Onyx Classics) - classical
- Mumford & Sons: Delta (Glassnote) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Munya: North Hatley (Winston Wolf) [05-04] - French pop
- Murder by Death: The Other Shore (Bloodshot) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Murkage Dave: Murkage Dave Changed My Life (self-released) [10-19] - r&b
- Mark Murphy: Pocketful of Rainbows () - jazz
- Dana Murray: Negro Manifesto (Ropeadope) [04-20] - jazz
- Kristina Murray: Southern Ambrosia (Loud Magnolia) [09-21] - country
- Musarc/Neil Luck: Bloody Sirens (Entr'acte) [06-26] - electronic
- Muse: Simulation Theory (Warner Bros) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Michael Musillami Trio + 2: Life Anthem (Playscape) - jazz
- Rachel Musson/Olie Brice: Tapering Arms Point Into the Wind (Weekertoft) [05-04] - jazz
- Mutant Beat Dance: Mutant Beat Dance (Rush Hour Music) [03-05] - electronic
- Muthoni Drummer Queen: She (Yotanka) [03-02] - hip-hop
- Mutual Benefit: Thunder Follows the Light (Transgressive) [09-21] - alt/indie
- MXM: More Than Ever (Warner Music Korea) [08-14] - K-pop
- MxPx: MxPx (Global Enterprises) [09-05] - punk
- My Brightest Diamond: A Million and One (Rhyme & Reason) [11-23] - alt/indie
- Kim Myhr: You/Me (Hubro -EP) - jazz
- Kim Myhr/Quatuor Bozzini/Caroline Bergvall/Ingar Zach: Pressing Clousd Passing Crowds (Hubro) - jazz
- Mythic Sunship: Upheaval (El Paraiso) [01-12] - rock
- Estee Nack x Sadhubold: Sirfinongold.wav (self-released) [04-20] - hip-hop
- Nadalands: The New Day: EP (Sub-Trawler -EP) [08-24] - alt/indie
- Marissa Nadler: For My Crimes (Sacred Bones) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Satoshi Nakamoto: dOPENet [NYPD Records Volume 2] (NYPD) [06-09] - electronica
- Nakhane: You Will Not Die (BMG) [03-16] - art pop
- David Nance Group: Peaced andSlightly Pulverized (Trouble in Mind) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Nao: Saturn (Little Rokyo/Sony UK) [10-26] - alt r&b
- Nap Eyes: I'm Bad Now (Paradise of Bachelors) [03-09] - indie rock
- Hamish Napier: The Railway (Strathspey) [08-01]
- Anthony Naples: Take Me With You (ANS) [11-07] - electronic
- Akua Naru: The Blackest Joy (The Urban Era) [04-27] - hip-hop
- Israel Nash: Lifted (Loose) [07-27] - Americana
- Ted Nash Quintet: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Plastic Sax) [05-18] - jazz
- Nasty C: Strings & Bling (Universal Music) [07-06] - hip-hop
- Matt Nathanson: Sings His Sad Heart (Acrobat) [10-05] - alt/indie
- The National: Boxer: Live in Brussels (4AD) [07-13] - alt/indie
- The Native Cats: John Sharp Toro (RIP Society) [02-16]
- Michael Nau: Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread (Relearn to Boogie) [08-03] - alt/indie
- Bret Naucke: The Mansion (Spectrum Spools) [03-09]
- Mark Nauseef: All in All in All (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Brenda Navarrete: Mi Mundo (ALMA) [09-29] - jazz
- Nearly Dead: Something Stronger (Geriatric) [10-13] - punk
- The Necromancers: Of Blood and Wine (Ripple) [10-05] - rock
- Necros Christos: Domedon Doxomedon (Sepulchral Voice) [05-18]
- Needlepoint: The Diary of Robert Reverie (BJK) [05-25] - rock
- Nef the Pharaoh: The Big Chang Theory (KILFMB/Sick Wid It/Empire) [08-10] - hip-hop
- Negative Scanner: Nose Picker (Trouble in Mind) [07-20] - alt/indie
- Bishop Nehru: Elevators Act I & II () [03-16] - hip-hop
- Neighbor Lady: Maybe Later (Friendship Fever) [05-11] - alt/indie
- The Neighbourhood: The Neighbourhood (Columbia) [03-09] - electropop
- Arianna Neikrug: Changes (Concord) [08-24] - jazz
- Nekromant: The Nekromant Lives (Ripple)
- Haru Nemuri: Harutosyura (Perfect) [04-11] - noise pop
- Nervus: Everything Dies (Big Scary Monsters) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Nes: Ahlam (ACT) - jazz
- Ness Nite: Dream Girl (POW) [03-02] - pop
- Andrew Neu: The Big Band Side of Andrew Neu Catwalk (CGN) [01-16] - jazz
- Neurotic Fiction: Pulp Music (Specialist Subject) [11-16] - alt/indie
- New England Jazz Ensemble: Peter and the Wolf (NEJE) [04-22] - jazz
- New Faces: Straight Forward (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- New Respects: Before the Sun Goes Down (Capitol) [08-17] - alt/indie
- New Thing Unit: For Cecil Taylor (Creative Sources) [05-00] - jazz
- The New York All-Star Big Band: The Unheard Artie Shaw (Hep) [11-17] - jazz
- New York All-Stars Featuring Eric Alexander and Harold Mabern: Burnin' in London (Ubuntu Music) - Jjazz
- Frank Newsome: Gone Away With a Friend (Free Dirt) [06-29] - gospel
- Ne-Yo: Good Man (Motown) [06-08] - r&b
- Niagara: Apologia (Principe) [09-14] - house
- Nice Try: Nice Try (self-released) [03-08] - rock
- Emilie Nicolas: Tranquile Emile (Warner Music Norway) [06-01] - pop
- Nidia: Nidia E Ma Nidia E Fudida (Principe -17) [06-30-2017] -
- Kody Nielson: Birthday Suite (Flying Nun) [05-09] - alt/indie
- Judy Niemack: New York Stories (Sunnyside) [08-17] - jazz
- Pascal Niggenkemper: Sound Within Sound/Wuppertal Diary (Fitschgetau -2CD) - jazz
- The Night Flight Orchestra: Sometimes the World Ain't Enough (Nuclear Blast) [06-29] - rock
- Night Flowers: Wild Notion (Dirty Bingo) [04-13]
- Night Shop: In the Break (Woodsist/Mare) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Willie Nile: Children of Paradise (River House) [07-27] - rock & roll
- Molly Milsson: Twenty Twenty (self-released) [11-02] - synth pop
- Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch (The Null Corporation) [06-22] - experimental rock
- Nines: Crop Circle (XL) [04-20] - hip-hop
- Nino De Elche: Antologia Del Cante Flamenco Heterodoxo (Sony Music) [02-23] - flamenco
- Nkisi: The Dark Orchestra (Arcola) [03-20] - techno
- No Thank You: All It Takes to Ruin It All (Lame-O) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Nocturnal Four: Life on Earth (In+Out) - jazz
- Nolatet: No Revenge Necessary (The Royal Potato Family) [04-27] - jazz
- Andrew Nolte: Tied to a String (self-released) [07-20] - rock
- Nonetheless: Nonetheless (Neubau) [11-15] - electronic
- Nonpareils: Scented Pictures (Mute) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Sean Noonan: The Aqua Diva (self-released) [06-01] - jazz
- Noonday Underground: On a Quiet Night (Hands Full) [07-20] - alt/indie
- Nordra: Pylon II (Sige) [09-21] - electronic
- Normandie: White Flag (Easy Life) [10-26] - alt/indie
- North Sea Dialect: Local Guide (Numbers) [11-09] - electronic
- The North Texas State University Lab Band: The Road to Stan (90th Floor Records) - jazz
- The Northern Belle: Blinding Blue Neon (Vestkyst) [10-12] - country
- Nostrum Grocers: Nostrum Grocers (Ruby Yacht) [08-03] - abstract hip hop
- Notches: Almost Ruined Everything (Salinas) [08-10] - rock
- Nothing: Dance on the Blacktop (Relapse) [08-24] - shoegaze
- Nothing Nowhere: Ruiner (DCD2/Fueled by Ramen) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Alva Noto: Unieqav (Noton) [03-16] - glitch
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Glass (Noton) [02-16] - ambient
- Novelist: Novelist Guy (Mmmyeh) [04-13] - grime
- Now Now: Saved (Trans-) [05-18] - indie pop
- Thandi Ntuli: Exiled (Inpartmaint) [02-01] - jazz
- Nu Guinea: Nuova Napoli (NG) [04-27] - r&b
- Ted Nugent: The Music Made Me Do It (Round Hill Music) [11-09] - rock
- Taiki Nulight: Murky Manor (Night Bass) [11-09] - electronic
- Numb.er: Goodbye (Felte) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Nun: The Dome (Aarght!) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Nutria: Call to the Air (Breakfast for Dinner) [03-01] - jazz
- Kate NV: [XXX] For (RVNG Intl) [06-22] - electronic
- NVDES: Vibe City Utah (Maison Nvdite) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Tobe Nwigwe: The Originals (self-released) [05-27] - hip-hop
- Cassper Nyovest: Sweet and Short (Universal Music) [11-30] - hip-hop
- O Emperor: Jason (Big Skin) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Oak Ridge Boys: 17th Avenue Revival (Lightning Rod) [03-16] - country
- The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra: The Saga of Padani (Modern Harmonic) [08-31] - jazz
- Jackie Oates: The Joy of Living (ECC) -
- John Oates: Arkansas (Thirty Tigers) [01-26] - country
- Obnox: Templo Del Sonido (Astral Spirits) [08-17] - rock
- Alanis Obomsawin: Bush Lady (Constellation) [06-15]
- Obscura: Diluvium (Relapse) [07-13] - metal
- OC: A New Dawn (DITC Studios/Slice-of-Spice) [03-02] - hip-hop
- OC & PF Cutin: Opium (Hendrix St) [10-26] - hip-hop
- OC From NC: It's Not You It's Me (643712 DK) [11-09] - hip-hop
- The Ocean: Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (Metal Blade) [11-02] - metal
- The Ocean Party: The Oddfellows' Hall (Spunk) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core: Wild Red Yellow (RogueArt) - jazz
- Bill O'Connell: Jazz Latin (Savant) [04-24] - jazz
- Octavian: Spaceman (Black Butter) [09-10] - hip-hop
- Kori Octoberr: 40oz (Rosegold) [10-01] - electronic
- Odd Atlas: Odd Atlas (Ropeadope) [05-25] - jazz
- Odd Beholder: All Reality Is Virtual (Sinnbus) [10-19] - electronic
- Tom Odell: Jubilee Road (Columbia) [10-26] - singer-songwriter
- Of Mice & Men: Defy (Rise) [01-19] - metal
- Of Montreal: White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood (Polyvinyl) [03-09] - synthpop
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Fandango at the Wall (Resilience Music) [09-28] - jazz
- Hen Ogledd: Mogic (Domino) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Ogun Meji Duo: For Those Who Have Gone but Still Remain (CFG Multimedia) - jazz
- Oh Pep!: I Wasn't Only Thinking About You . . . (ATO) [10-26] - alt/indie
- [Thee] Oh Sees: Smote Reverser (Castle Face) [08-17] - psychedelic rock
- Okay Kaya: Both (Heavy Body) [06-01] - singer-songwriter
- Okkervil River: In the Rainbow Rain (ATO) [04-27] - indie rock
- Oklou: The Rite of May (Nuxxe) [03-16] - pop
- Okzharp & Manthe Ribane: Closer Apart (Hyperdub) [07-06]
- Vikingur Olafsson: Johann Sebastian Bach (Deutsche Grammophon) [09-07] - classical
- Tunde Olaniran: Stranger (Magic Wheel) [10-05] - pop
- Old Wounds: Glow (Good Fight Music) [11-09] - metal
- Olden Yolk: Olden Yolk (Trouble in Mind) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Will Oldham: Songs of Love and Horror (Drag City) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Alex Oliverio: Sunshine Ensemble (self-released) [03-02] - jazz
- Omit: Enclosures 2011-2016 (Pica Disk) [02-15] - noise
- Omnium Gatherum: The Burning Cold (Century Media) [08-31] - metal
- Cullen Omori: The Diet (Sub Pop) [08-17] - indie pop
- One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2018: The Rhythm of the Road (North Texas Jazz) [09-26] - jazz
- Ondt Blod: Natur (Fysisk Format) [03-09] - rock
- Harold O'Neal: Piano Cinema (Omomuki Foundation) - jazz
- Oneida: Romance (Joyful Noise) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Lisa O'Neil: Heard a Long Gone Song (River Lea) - world
- Onra: Nobody Has to Know (All City Dublin) [02-16] - electronic
- The Ophelias: Almost (Joyful Noise) [07-18] - indie pop
- The Opposition: Somewhere in Between (Aztec Musique) [06-15] - rock
- Optiganally Yours: OY in Hi-Fi (Joyful Noise) [07-30] - alt/indie
- Rita Ora: Phoenix (Atlantic) [11-23] - pop
- ORB: The Space Between (Flightless) [09-07] - alt/indie
- The Orb: No Sounds Are Out of Bounds (Cooking Vinyl) [06-22] - electronic
- Orbital: Monsters Exist (ACP) [09-14] - electronic
- Orchid Mantis: Yellow House (Z Tapes) [11-11] - pop
- The Orielles: Silver Dollar Moment (Heavenly) [02-16] - dream pop
- Jim O'Rourke: Sleep Like It's Winter (Newhere) [06-06]
- Jim O'Rourke: Steamroom 40 (Steamroom) [05-07] - experimental
- Orphaned Land: Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (Century Media) [01-26] - folk metal
- Lindi Ortega: Liberty (Shadowbox) [03-30] - americana
- Gilbert O'Sullivan: Gilbert O'Sullivan (BMG) [08-10] - singer-songwriter
- Other Animal: Other Animal (Traumton) [02-02] - jazz
- The Other Years: The Other Years (No Quarter) [10-05] - singer-songwriter
- Gesu No Kiwami Otome: Suki Nara Towanai (Warner Music Japan) [08-29] - J-pop
- Ought: Room Inside the World (Merge) [02-16] - post-punk
- Our Girl: Stranger Today (Cannibal Hymns) [08-17] - indie rock
- Our Hollow Our Home: In Moment//In Memory (//Hollow Music) [10-19] - metal
- Outer Heaven: Realms of Eternal Decay (Relapse) [10-12] - metal
- Overmono: Whities 019 (Whities) [12-07] - electronic
- Ovlov: Tru (Exploding in Sound) [07-20] - indie rock
- Ulysses Owens Jr: Songs of Freedom (Somethin' Cool) - jazz
- Ozuna: Aura (Sony Music Latin) [08-24] - Latin
- Ozzy: Ett Oga Rott (Play 66) [05-18] - hip-hop
- P2K DaDiddy: Welcome 2 Da Boom Boom Room (self-released) - blues
- PAC Div: First Baptist (RBC) [04-13] - hip-hop
- Pacific Heights: A Lost Light (WM New Zealand) [08-31] - electronic
- Klaus Paier/Asja Valcic Quartet: Cinema Scenes (ACT) [01-26] - jazz
- Doug Paisley: Starter Home (No Quarter) [11-02] - singer-songwriter
- Palatine: Grand Paon De Nuit (Audiogram) [03-23] - folk
- Palaye Royale: Boom Boom Room (Side B) (Sumerian) [09-28] - rock
- Palberta: Roach Going Down (Wharf Cat) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Pale Divine: Pale Divine (Shadow Kingdom) [11-23] - metal
- Pale Grey: Waves (JauneOrange) [02-02]
- Pale Waves: All the Things I Never Said (Dirty Hits) [02-20] - pop rock
- Palm Reader: Braille (Silent Cult) [04-06] - metal
- Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: Japamyu (Unborde/Warner Music Japan) [09-28] - electronic
- Bamba Pana: Poaa (Nyege Nyege) [08-24] - African
- Panchasila: Panchasila (Slucata Tapes) [08-24]
- Panda Bear: A Day With the Homies (Domino) [01-12] - neo-psychedelia
- Panic! at the Disco: Pray for the Wicked (Fueled by Ramen) [06-22] - pop/rock
- Panopticon: The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Part I and II (Nordvis) [04-06] - atmospheric black metal
- Konstantinos Papachristou: The Darkness of a Fairytale (BLB) - jazz
- Jerry Paper: Like a Baby (Stones Throw) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Paper Dollhouse: The Sky Looks Different Here (MoonDome) [02-09] - electronic
- The Paper Kites: On the Corner Where You Live (Nettwerk) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Papercuts: Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Parades Against Parades: Driving Me Stoned (Cardinal Fuzz) [07-31]
- Parcels: Parcels (Kitsune) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Pariah: Here From Where We Are (Houndstooth) [07-13] - ambient
- John Parish: Bird Dog Dante (Thrill Jockey) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Emile Parisien Quintet: Sfumato Live in Marciac (ACT) [06-29] - jazz
- Han-earl Park/Catherine Sikora/Nick Didkovsky: Eris 136199 (Buster and Friends) - jazz
- Clay Parker and Jodi James: The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound (self-released) [07-20] - folk
- Graham Parker: Cloud Symbols (100%) [09-28] - rock
- Joyann Parker: Hard to Love (BNC) [04-13] - blues
- Maceo Parker: It's All About Love (Delta Music) [03-10] - jazz
- Spencer Parker: Dance Music (Work Them) [10-12] - electronic
- Tess Parks/Anton Newcombe: Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe (a) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Parkway Drive: Reverence (Epitaph) [05-04] - rock
- Dolly Parton: Dumplin' [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Dolly/RCA Nashville) [11-30] - country
- Brockett Parsons: The Brockettship (Ropeadope) [10-12] - hip-hop
- Abe Partridge: Cotton Fields and Blood for Days (Skate Mountain) [01-26] - folk
- Party Bois: Party Bois (Curve of the Earth) [08-10] - electronic
- Essaie Pas: New Path (DFA) [03-16] - electronic
- Niklas Paschburg: Oceanic (7K!) [02-09] - classical
- Hermeto Pascoal & Big Band: Natureza Universal (Scubidu) [10-20] - Latin jazz
- PassCode: Locus (USM Japan) [02-00] - rock
- Passenger: Runaway (Nettwerk) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Patois Counselors: Proper Release (Ever/Never) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Ben Patton: Meaning What (self-released) [09-20] - pop
- Courtney Patton: What It's Like to Fly Alone (self-released) [02-16] - country
- Ashley Paul: Lost in Shadows (Slip) [04-05]
- John Paul: No Filter (Harbinger Sound) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Vinnie Paz: The Pain Collector (Enemy Soil) [09-28] - hip-hop
- Von Pea & the Other Guys: I'm Good Luv Enjoy (Hipnott) [09-14] - hip-hop
- Peace: Kindness Is the New Rock and Roll (Ignition) [05-04] - indie rock
- Peach Kelli Pop: Gentle Leader (Mint) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Peaking Lights: Sea of Sand (Dekmantel) [10-15] - electronic
- Pearl Vision: Storm (EPM Music -EP) [11-16]
- Josh T Pearson: The Straight Hits! (Mute) [04-13] - indie rock
- Peel Dream Magazine: Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland) [10-05]
- Manu Pekar: Pagan Panic (dbMP(x) -17) [11-24-2017] - jazz
- Peluche: Unforgettable (One Little Indian) [09-26] - alt/indie
- Pendant: Make Me Know You Sweet (West Mineral) [01-19] - ambient
- Larry Peninsula: Country Music Only (Ramasound) [02-23] - country
- Fernando Perdomo: Zebra Crossing (Forward Motion) [11-09] - singer-songwriter
- Sergio Pereira: Nu Brasil (Zoho) [09-07] - jazz
- Perel: Hermetica (DFA) [04-20]
- Perfect Beings: Vier (InsideOut) [01-19] - rock
- A Perfect Circle: Eat the Elephant (BMG) [04-20] - alt rock
- Perfume: Future Pop (Universal J/Perfume) [08-15] - J-pop
- Permission: Sam Leak and Paula Rae Gibson (33Xtreme) - jazz
- Sandro Perri: In Another Life (Constellation) [09-14] - art-pop
- Steve Perry: Traces (Fantasy) [10-05] - rock
- Perverts Again: Friday Night Light (Total Punk) [02-28] - alt/indie
- Petal: Magic Gone (Run for Cover) [06-15] - singer-songwriter
- Peter Bjorn and John: Darker Days (Warner Music Sweden) [10-19] - pop
- Gretchen Peters: Dancing With the Beast (Scarlet Letter) [05-18] - Americana
- Mark Peters: Innerland (Sonic Cathedral) [04-20]
- Jesse Peterson Quartet: Man of the Earth (Industrial Road) [07-13] - jazz
- Ralph Peterson's Aggregate Prime: Inward Venture: Alive Vol 5 at the Side Door (Onyx Productions) - jazz
- Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next Big Band: I Remember Bu (Onyx Productions) [10-04] - jazz
- Petite Noir: La Maison Noir: The Gift and the Curse (Roya -EP)
- Petite Noir: La Maison Noir/The Black House (Roya) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Kim Petras: Turn Off the Light [Vol 1] (BunHead -EP) [10-01] - pop
- Grace Petrie: Queer as Folk (self-released)
- Milan Petrovic Quartet: Emotions (Metropolis Music) - jazz
- John Petrucelli: Presence (self-released) - jazz
- Phantastic Ferniture: Phantastic Ferniture (Polyvinyl) [07-27] - indie pop
- Phew: Voice Hardcore (Mesh-Key) [01-19] - jazz
- Grant-Lee Phillips: Widdershins (Yep Roc) [02-23] - singer-songwriter
- Sam Phillips: World on Sticks (Littlebox) [09-28] - folk
- Phish: Kasvot Vaxt: I Rokk (JEMP) [11-09] - rock
- Phosphorescent: C'est La Vie (Dead Oceans) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Phronesis: We Are All (Edition) [09-14] - jazz
- Pianos Become the Teeth: Wait for Love (Epitaph) [02-16] - emo
- Misha Piatigorsky Trio: Strained Glass and Technicolor Grooves (Natural Drummer) [05-06] - jazz
- Alberto Pibiri: Jazz Legacy (APM) [09-07] - jazz
- Enrico Pieranunzi: Monsieur Claude: A Travel With Claude Debussy (Bonsai) - jazz
- Matt Piet Trio: Live in Chicago (self-released) [04-25] - jazz
- Matt Piet: City in a Garden (self-released) [06-15] - jazz
- Dave Pietro: New Road: Iowa Memoirs (ArtistShare) - jazz
- Pig Destroyer: Head Cage (Relapse) [09-07] - metalcore
- Marco Pignataro: Almas Antiguas (Zoho) [09-07] - jazz
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: King of Cowards (Rocket) [09-28] - heavy psych
- Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning (The Leaf Label) [03-30] - jazz
- Pilar Zeta: Moments of Reality (Ultramajic) [10-05] - electronic
- Pill: Soft Hell (Mexican Summer) [10-26] - rock
- Ted Piltzecker: Brindica (Zoho) [11-09] - jazz
- Pinch Points: Mechanical Injury (Roolette/Six Tonnes De Chair) [07-15] - punk
- Pinegrove: Skylight (self-released) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Pinkcourtesyphone: Romantic Threat (Line -EP) [06-18]
- Pinkshinyultrablast: Miserable Miracles (Club AC30) [05-04] - dream pop
- Pink Siifu: Ensley (Pink Siifu) [08-14] - hip-hop
- Benoit Pioulard: May (self-released) [05-11] - ambient
- Ant'lrd and Benoit Pioulard: Deck Amber (Sounds Et Al) [06-01] - electronic
- Ben Pirani: How Do I Talk to My Brother? (Colemine) [09-21] - r&b
- PJs: Hermes (Aurel Canyon) [11-02] - electronic
- A Place to Bury Strangers: Pinned (Dead Oceans) [04-13] - post-punk
- Plan B: Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose (Atlantic) [05-04]
- Plan B [Joe McPhee/James Keepnews/David Berger]: From Outer Space (Roaratorio) - jazz
- Planet Asia: Mansa Musa (X-Ray) [05-25] - hip-hop
- Planet B: Planet B (Ipecac) [11-23]
- Planet Battagon: Battagon Symphony EP (On the Corner -EP) [11-23] - electronic
- Planningtorock: Powerhouse (DFA) [11-09] - electronic
- The Plot in You: Dispose (Fearless) [02-16] - rock
- The Pocket Philharmonic Orchestra/Peter Stangel: Beethoven Revisited Symphonies 1-9 () - classical
- Verneri Pohjola/Mika Kallio: Animal Image (Edition) [02-23] - jazz
- Polica/Stargaze: Music for the Long Emergency (Totally Gross National Product/Transgressive) [02-16] - chamber pop
- Polo & Pan: Caravelle (Caroline) [05-19] - electronic
- Polyphia: New Levels New Devils (Equal Vision) [10-12] - rock
- Karine Polwart: Laws of Motion (Hudson)
- Pom Pom: 35 (Pom Pom) - electronic
- Pool Kids: Music to Practice Safe Sex To (Skeletal Lightning) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Poppy: Am I a Girl? (I'm Poppy/Mad Decent) [10-31] - pop
- Porches: The House (Domino) [01-19] - synthpop
- Portal: Ion (Profound Lore) [01-26] - death metal
- Lewis Porter/Terri Lyne Carrington/John Patitucci/Tia Fuller: Beauty & Mystery (Altrisuoni) - jazz
- Ryan Porter: The Optimist (World Galaxy/Alpha Pup) [02-23] - jazz
- Portico Quartet: Untitled (Aitaoa #2) (Gondwana -EP) [04-27] - jazz
- Portrayal of Guilt: Let Pain Be Your Guide (Gilead Media) [11-16] - metal
- Post Animal: When I Think of You in a Castle () [04-20] - psychedelic rock
- Joy Postell: Diaspora (self-released -EP) [11-14] - r&b
- Poster Children: Grand Bargain! (Lotuspool) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Potatohead People: Nick & Astro's Guide to the Galaxy (Bastard Jazz) [05-11] - electronic
- Brigid Mae Power: The Two Worlds (Tompkins Square) [02-09] - singer-songwriter
- Trevor Powers: Mulberry Violence (Baby Halo) [08-17] - glitch pop
- Wayne Powers: If Love Were All (Kabockie) [08-03] - jazz
- Powerwolf: The Sacrament of Sin (Napalm) [07-20] - metal
- Pram: Across the Meridian (Domino) [07-20] - alt/indie
- Natalie Prass: The Future and the Past (ATO) [06-01] - pop soul
- The Keeshea Pratt Band: Believe (self-released) [05-29] - blues
- Noam Preminger/Frank Carlberg: Whispers and Cries (Red Piano) [01-23] - jazz
- Preoccupations: New Material (Jagjaguwar) [03-23] - post-punk
- Prequel Tapes: Everything Is Quite Now (Gaffa Tape) [09-97] - electronic
- The Presets: Hi Viz (EMI) [06-01] - elecgtronic
- Sean K Preston & the Loaded Pistols: Forgive (Rusty Knuckles) [11-16] - alt/indie
- PRhyme: PRhyme 2 (self-released) [03-16] - hip-hop
- Chris Price: Dalmatian (Omnivore) [03-02] - rock
- Sean Price & Illa Ghee: Metal Detectors (Ruck Down -EP) [03-16] - hip-hop
- The Prids: Do I Look Like I'm in Love (This-A-Way) [01-09]
- Primal Rite: Dirge of Escapism (Revelation) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Prime Boys: Koba World (Entertainment One) [07-27]
- Prime Minister of Doom: Mudshadow Propaganda (Planet Uterus) [04-01] - deep house
- Primitive Knot: Thee Opener of the Way (Aurora) [10-12] - electronic
- Primitive Man & Unearthly Trance: Split (Relapse) [08-17] - metal
- Primitive World: White on White (Ecstatic) [02-16] - electronic
- Primo!: Amici (Upset the Rhythm) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Primordial: Exile Amongst the Ruins ()
- Prison Religion: O Fucc Im on the Wrong Planet (Halcyon Veil) [09-28]
- Mark Pritchard: The Four Worlds (Warp) [03-23] - ambient
- The Proclaimers: Angry Cyclist (Persevere) [08-10] - rock
- The Prodigy: No Tourists (BMG) [11-02] - electronic
- Profligate: Somewhere Else (Wharf Cat) [11-07] - alt/indie
- Prophet: Wanna Be Your Man (Stones Throw) [05-11] - r&b
- Protomartyr: Consolation (Domino -EP) [06-15] - post-punk
- Proud Parents: Proud Parents (Dirtnap) [06-22] - alt/indie
- The Proven Ones: Wild Again (Roseleaf) [05-21] - blues
- Public Access TV: Street Safari (Cinematic) [02-23] - indie rock
- Public Apology: Public Apology ()
- Public Memory: Demolition (Felte) [11-09] - electronic
- Public Practice: Distance Is a Mirror (Wharf Cat -EP)
- Public Service Broadcasting: White Star Liner (PIAS -EP) [12-07] - pop
- Puce Mary: The Drought (Pan) [10-19] - pop/rock
- PUI4: A Pearl in Dirty Hands (Aut) [04-16] - jazz
- Punch Brothers: All Ashore (Nonesuch) [07-20] - progressive bluegrass
- Bernard Purdie & Friends: Present: Cool Down (Sugar Road) [05-19] - r&b
- Diana Purim & Eyedentity: Many Bodies One Mind (Eyedentitymusic) [05-18]
- Pursuit Grooves: Felt Armour (What Rules) [03-06]
- Pynkie: Neoteny (Pynkie) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Quando Rondo: Life After Fame (QRN/Never Broke Again/Atlantic) [09-24] - hip-hop
- Quartetto Minimo: Atlantico (-EP) [09-04] - jazz
- Queen Naija: Queen Naija (Queen Naija Bulls) [07-27] - r&b
- Quiet Slang: Everything Matters But No One Is Listening (Polyvinyl) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Santiago Quintans/Ramon Lopez: Espadas Como Labios (Creative Sources) - jazz
- Abe Rabade Trio: Doravante (Karonte) [09-14] - jazz
- Bruno Raberg Trio: Tailwind (Red Piano) - jazz
- Rabid Dogs: Rabid Dogs (self-released) [01-19] - punk
- Racetraitor: 2042 (Good Fight) [10-12]
- Radio Galaxy: Nobody Digs Your Music but Yourself (Rappers I Know/Radio Galaxy) [03-30] - r&b
- Jack Radsliff: Migration Patterns (self-released -17) [11-18-2017] - jazz
- The Rails: Other People (Psychonaut) [09-01] - folk-rock
- Lucy Railton: Paradise 94 (Modern Love) [03-23]
- Raime: Am I Using Content or Is Content Using Me? (Different Circles -EP) [06-29]
- Rainbow Kitten Surprise: How To: Friend Love Freefall (Elektra) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Lena Raine: Celeste [Original Soundtrack] (Radical Dreamland) [01-25]
- Ramzi: Phobiza Vol 3: Amor Fati (Fati) [09-19] - electronic
- Rangers: Late Electrics (Doom Trip) [06-21] - rock
- Vinnie Raniolo: Air Guitar: Songs of Flight (Raniolo Music) [01-16] - jazz
- Carmela Rappazzo: Howlin' at the Moon (self-released) [09-07] - jazz
- Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program: Stargate Music (Leaving) [04-20] - electronic
- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats: Tearing at the Seams (Stax) [03-09] - soul
- Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble: Atwood Suites (Origin) - jazz
- Rattle: Sequence (Upset the Rhythm) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Charlie Rauh: Viriditas (Destiny) - jazz
- Michael Rault: It's a New Day Tonight (Wick) [05-18] - power pop
- Johnny Rawls: I'm Still Around (Third Street Cigar) [09-10] - blues
- Amy Ray: Holler (Compass) [09-28] - folk
- Donnie Ray: My Southern Soul (CDS) [10-05] - r&b
- Ray BLK: Empress (Island) [10-26] - r&b
- Lesya Rayman: Going Up (self-released) [04-20] - alt/indie
- Gwenifer Raymond: You Never Were Much of a Dancer (Tompkins Square) [06-25] - American primitivism
- Veda Rays: For the Rest to Rest (Alleged) [07-13] - rock
- Eddi Reader: Cavalier (Reveal) [09-28] - folk
- Real Friends: Composure (Fearless) [07-13] - rock
- Reason: There You Have It (Top Dawg) [09-27] - hip-hop
- Marina Rebeka: Verdi: Luisa Miller (BR-Klassik) [04-06] - classical
- The Record Company: All of This Life (Concord) [06-22] - rock
- Red River Dialect: Broken Stay Open Sky (Paradise of Bachelors) [02-02] - folk
- Red Sun Rising: Thread (Razor & Tie) [03-30] - rock
- Red Velvet: The Perfect Red Velvet (SM Entertainment) [01-29] - K-pop
- Trippie Redd: Life's a Trip (self-released) [08-10] - cloud rap
- The Redneck Manifesto: The How (251) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Reef: Revelation ()
- Kate Reid: The Heart Already Knows (self-released) [03-26] - jazz
- Tomeka Reid/Kyoko Kitamura/Taylor Ho Bynum/Joe Morris: Geometry of Caves (Relative Pitch) [05-18] - jazz
- Xavier Reija: The Sound of the Earth (Moonjune) - jazz
- Ike Reilly: Crooked Love (Rock Ridge Music) [05-18] - singer-songwriter
- Remember Sports: Slow Buzz (Father/Daughter) [05-18] - rock
- Adam Remnant: Sourwood (AnyWay) [08-17] - folk
- Poline Renou/Matthieu Donarier/Sylvain Lemetre: Adieu Mes Tres Belle (Yolk) [11-16] - jazz
- Remember Sports: Slow Buzz (Father/Daughter) [05-18]
- The Republic of Wolves: Shrine (self-released) [03-27] - rock
- Resina: Traces (Fat Cat) [07-06] - classical
- Restorations: LP5000 (Tiny Engines) [09-28] - rock
- Retirement Party: Somewhat Literate (Counter Intuitive) [05-25] - alt/indie
- The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Poor Until Payday (Family Owned) [10-05] - blues
- Reverorum Ib Malacht: Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble (AnnapumA) [05-11] - metal
- Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto: Everyone Needs a Plan (Erstwhile) [08-20]
- Revocation: The Outer Ones (Metal Blade) [09-28] - death metal
- Bob Reynolds: Quartet (self-released) [05-15] - jazz
- Bob Reynolds: Guitar Band (self-released) - jazz
- Rex Orange County: Apricot Princess (self-released) [04-26] - pop
- Rezz: Certain Kind of Magic (Mau5trap) [08-03] - electronica
- Rezzett: Rezzett (Trilogy Tapes) [02-23] - electronic
- The Rheingans Sisters: Bright Field (RootBeat) -
- Rhye: Blood (Loma Vista) [02-02] - sophisti-pop
- Gruff Rhys: Babelsberg (Rough Trade) [06-08] - indie pop
- Ben Rice: Wish the World Away (self-released) [06-30] - blues
- Rich the Kid: The World Is Yours (Rich Forever Music/Interscope) [03-30] - hip hop
- Kim Richey: Edgeland (Yep Roc) [03-30]
- Mike Richmond: Tones for Joan's Bones (SteepleChase) [09-01] - jazz
- Ricky Eat Acid: Am I Happy Singing (self-released -EP) [04-20] - glitch
- Ride: Tomorrow's Shore (Wichita) [02-16] - shoegaze
- Stephen Riley: Hold 'Em Joe (SteepleChase) [09-01] - jazz
- Sheena Ringo: Reimport Vol 2: Civil Aviation Bureau (EMI) [12-06] - J-pop
- Rise Against: The Ghost Note Symphonies... (Capitol/Virgin EMI) [07-27] - alt/indie
- The Rising: Moving On (Renegade Maverick) [08-03] - country
- Maria Rita: Amor E Musica (Universal Music) [01-26] - Brazil
- Ritual Necromancy: Disinterred Horror (Dark Descent) [05-25] - metal
- Emily Ritz: Pattern Recess (self-released) [04-27] - pop
- Jack River: Sugar Mountain (Hopeless Utopian) [06-22]
- River Cult: Halcyon Daze (Cats on Amps) [02-09] - metal
- Riverloam Trio [Mikolaj Trzaska/Olie Brice/Mark Sanders]: Live at the Alchemia (Kilogram) - jazz
- Rivers of Nihil: Where Owls Know My Name (Metal Blade) [03-16] - progressive metal
- Rizzla: Adepta (Fade to Mind) [07-06] - electronic
- RKSS: DJ Tools (UIQ) [08-31] - electronic
- Ari Roar: Calm Down (Bella Union) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Alasdair Roberts/Amble Skuse/David McGuinness: What News (Drag City) [03-23]
- Troy Roberts: Nu-Jive Perspective (Inner Circle) [07-06] - jazz
- Jason Robinson: Resonant Geographies (pfMENTUM) [03-01] - jazz
- Tess Roby: Beacon (Italians Do It Better) [04-20] - ambient pop
- Ava Rocha: Tranca (Circus) [06-06] -
- The Rock*A*Teens: Sixth House (Merge) [06-29] - alt/indie
- Norbert Rodenkirchen/Robbie Lee/James Ilgenfritz: Opalescence (Telegraph Harp) - jazz
- Niles Rodgers & Chic: It's About Time (Virgin EMI) [09-28] - r&b
- Ernesto Rodrigues/Eduardo Chagas: Holes and Cracks (Creative Sources) - jazz
- Alfredo Rodriguez: The Little Dream (Mack Avenue) [02-23] - jazz
- Paul Rogers/Olaf Rupp/Frank Paul Schubert: Three Stories About Rain Sunlilght and the Hidden Soil (Relative Pitch) [09-28] - jazz
- Rebekah Rolland: Seed & Silo (self-released) [07-20] - folk
- Michael Romeo: War of the Worlds Pt 1 (Mascot) [07-27] - progressive metal
- Pharis & Jason Romero: Sweet Old Religion (Lula) [05-18C|bluegrass]
- Roosevelt: Young Romance (City Slang/Music as Usual) [09-28]
- Draco Rosa: Monte Sagrado (Sony Music Latin) [10-26] - rock en espanol
- Rosali: Trouble Anyway (Scissor Tail/Spinster Sounds) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Maggie Rose: Change the Whole Thing (Starstruck) [09-21] - rock
- Rose Mercie: Rose Mercie (SDZ) [03-02]
- Renee Rosnes & David Hajdu: Ice on the Hudson (SMK Jazz) - jazz
- Craig Ross & Tim Rutili: 10 Seconds to Collapse (Jealous Butcher) [06-22] - alt/indie
- Jamison Ross: All for One (Concord) [01-26] - jazz
- Vanessa Rossetto: Fashion Tape (No Rent) [02-06]
- Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami: Melodic Circles: Urban Classical Music From Iran (ARC Music) - Iranian
- Rough Spells: Modern Kicks for the Solitary Witch (self-released -EP)
- Josh Rouse: Love in the Modern Age (Yep Roc) [04-13] - sophisti-pop
- Curtis Roush: Cosmic Campfire Music (Modern Outsider) [02-09] - alt/indie
- Routine Death: Parallel Universes (Fuzz Club) [05-25] - alt/indie
- ROVA Saxophone Quartet: In Transverse Time (Les Disques Victo) [04-06] - jazz
- The Roves: The Roves (One Man Movement) [05-12] - rock
- Peter Rowan: Carter Stanley's Eyes (Rebel) [04-20] - bluegrass
- Shamie Royston: Beautiful Liar (Sunnyside) - vocal
- rRoxymore: Thoughts of an Introvert Pt 2 (Don't Be Afraid) [05-04] - electronic
- Vitor Rua & the Metaphysical Angels: When Better Isn't Quite Good Enough (ReR Megacorp) [05-00] - jazz
- Amber Rubarth/Joe Purdy: American Folk [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (American Folks) [01-26] - folk
- Risa Rubin: I'm Reliving the End Over and Over and Over Again and Its Only the Beginning (self-released) [08-31] - art pop
- Ruby Haunt: Blue Hour (self-released) [09-21]
- Ruby Karinto: Ruby Karinto (HoZac) [03-30] - electronic
- Rucci: El Perro (Mackk) [05-04] - hip-hop
- Ruler: Winning Star Champion (Barsuk) [05-25] - rock
- Rules: Pronouns (self-released) [01-31] - punk
- Emma Ruth Rundle: On Dark Horses (Sargent House) [09-14] - dream pop
- Ruokangas/Hako0-Rita: Mono and Dialogues (Eclipse) - jazz
- E Ruscha V: Who Are You (Beats in Space) [03-02] - electronic
- Rush Plus: The Sweat (E-Missions -EP) [06-22] - techno
- Ryan Playground: 16/17 (Secret Songs/Last Gang) [09-28]
- Bill Ryder-Jones: Yawn (Domino) [11-02] - singer-songwriter
- Sad Baxter: So Happy (Cold Lunch) [07-20]
- Saint Jhn: Collection One (self-released) [03-30] - trap rap
- Saint Sister: Shape of Silence (IE:Music) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Saintseneca: Pillar of Na (Anti-) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Async Remodels (Milan) - jazz
- Salad Boys: This Is Glue (Trouble in Mind) [01-19] - indie rock
- LA Salami: The City of Bootmakers (Sunday Best) [04-13]
- Walter Salas-Humara: Walterio (Rhyme & Reason) [08-10] - rock
- Maryan Saleh/Maurice Louca/Tamer Abu Ghazaleh: Lekhfa (Mostakell) [09-22] - alt/indie
- Felipe Salles and Interconnections Ensemble: The Lullalby Project and Other Works for Large Ensemble (Tapestry) [09-21] - jazz
- Saloli: The Deep End (Kranky) [10-26] - electronic
- Nathan Salsburg: Third (No Quartet) [07-20] - folk
- Sammal: Suuliekki (Svart)
- The Samps: Breakfast (Gloriette) [11-23] - electronic
- Carolyn Sampson/Joseph Middleton: A Soprano's Schubertiade (Bis) [05-11]
- Carter Sampson: Lucky (Horton) [05-25] - country
- Samurai Japon: Samurai Japon (self-released) [06-01] - new age
- San Cha: Capricho Del Diablo (Outside Insight) [07-13] - Latin
- Antonio Sanchez: Channels of Energy (CAM Jazz) - jazz
- Sandcatchers: What We Found Along the Way (Chant) [10-17] - jazz
- Arturo Sandoval: Ultimate Duets (Universal) [05-18] - jazz
- Sandy's: Chime (Sandyams) [04-20] - rock
- Sango: In the Comfort Of (Last Gang) [03-16] - electronic
- Sanguine Hum: Now We Have Power (Bad Elephant) [10-12] - rock
- Sans: Kulku (Cloud Valley) -
- Santa Librada: Santa Librada (self-released) [03-08]
- Daniel Santiago/Pedro Martins: Simbiose (Adventure Music) - jazz
- Santigold: I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions (Downtown) [07-27] - dancehall
- Sarayah: Feel the Vibe (Basin Street) [10-27] - pop
- Michael Sarian & the Chabones: Leon (Zoho) [09-08] - jazz
- Satan: Cruel Magic (Metal Blade) [09-07] - metal
- Joe Satriani: What Happens Next ()
- Sauna Youth: Deaths (Upset the Rhythm) [09-07] - garage punk
- Sauti Sol: Afrikan Sauce (self-released) [11-21] - African
- Cash Savage & the Last Drinks: Good Citizens (Mistletone) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Saxon: Thunderbolt ()
- The Saxophones: Songs of the Saxophones (Full Time Hobby) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Say Lou Lou: Immortelle (Cosmos) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Say Sue Me: Where We Were Together (Damnably/ELectric Muse) [04-13] - indie rock
- Edward Sayer: Underdog Overlord (self-released) [11-24] - rock
- Martha Scanlan: The River and the Light (Rock Ridge Music) [10-19] - singer-songwriter
- Scarlxrd: Dxxm (Island) [05-04] - hip-hop
- Scarves: Dinner Dates for the End of Days (Good Eye) [09-28] - rock
- Andreas Schaerer: A Novel of Anomaly (ACT) [02-23] - jazz
- Gunter Schickert: Labyrinth (self-released) [06-01] - prog rock
- Guenter Schlienz: Tristan Magnetique (Otomatik Muziek) - electronic
- Benjamin Schmid/Andreas Martin Hofmeir: Stradihumpa (ACT) [03-23] - jazz
- Silvan Schmid Quintet: At Gamut (Hatology) [04-13] - jazz
- School Damage: A to X (Chapter music) [08-31]
- Steffen Schorn & Zurich Jazz Orchestra: Three Pictures (Mons) - jazz
- Ed Schrader's Music Beat: Riddles (Carpark) [03-02] - post-punk
- Jacques Schwarz-Bart/Stephane Galland/Malcolm Braff/Laurent David: Shijn (Alter-Nativ) [10-26] - jazz
- Sci-Fi Romance: Dreamers & Runaways (Broken Image Entertainment) [10-19] - folk
- The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Sister Suite (Spartacus) - jazz
- Screaming Females: All at Once (Don Giovanni) [02-23] - indie rock
- The Sea and Cake: Any Day (Thrill Jockey) [05-11] - indie pop
- The Sea the Sea: From the Light (Tone Tree) [06-01] - indie folk
- The Sea Within: The Sea Within (Inside Out) [07-27]
- Gene Segal: Transformation (SteepleChase) [08-01] - jazz
- Colin Self: Siblings (RVNG Intl) [11-02] - electronic
- Self Defense Family: Have You Considered Punk Music (Run for Cover) [06-29] - post-punk
- Senses Fail: If There Is Light It Will Find You (Pure Noise) [02-16] - pop punk
- Septeto Santiaguero & Jose Alberto El Canario: A Mi Que: Tributo A Los Classicos Cubanos (self-released) [05-25] - Latin
- Sepulcher: Panoptic Horror (Edged Circle Productions) [09-14] - metal
- Serum Dreg: Lustful Vengeance (Vrasubatlat) [04-20] - death metal
- Bobby Sessions: RVLTN Chapter 1: The Divided States of Amerikkka (Def Jam) [07-20] - hip-hop
- Sevdaliza: The Calling (Twisted Elegance) [03-30] - electronic
- Michael Sever: Bad Bonez (Momotaro) [03-07] - singer-songwriter
- Sex Riders: Sex Riders (Magankiadas) [07-29] - speed metal
- Seinabo Sey: I'm a Dream (Universal Music AB) [09-07] - alt/indie
- SFJAZZ Collective: Live: SFJAZZ Center 2017 (SFJAZZ) [04-13] - jazz
- The Sha La Das: Love in the Wind (Daptone) [09-21] - r&b
- Joseph Shabason: Anne (Western Vinyl) [11-16] - jazz
- The Shacks: Haze (Big Crown) [03-30] - alt/indie
- Anthony Shadduck: Quartet & Double Quartet (Joyful Noise/Big Ego) [10-26] - jazz
- Shades: In Praise of Darkness (Deadbeats) [07-13] - electronic
- Shadow Child: Dance Trax Vol 9 (Dancetrax) [03-02] - electronic
- Shadowparty: Shadowparty (Mute) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Red Shahan: Culberson County (7013) [03-30] - country
- Shakarachi & Straneus: Steal Chickens From the Men and the Future From God (Studio Barnhus) [03-23] - electronic
- Shakey Graves: Can't Wake Up (Dualtone) [05-04] - Americana
- RF Shannon: Trickster Blues (Cosmic Dreamer Music) [05-04] - alt/indie
- Shannon & the Clams: Onion (Easy Eye/Nonesuch) [02-16] - garage rock
- Amy Shark: Love Monster (Wonderkick Entertainment) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Crystal Shawanda: Voodoo Woman (True North) - blues
- Whitney Shay: A Woman Rules the World (Little Village Foundation) [08-01] - blues
- She Drew the Gun: Revolution of Mind (Skeleton Key) [10-05] - alt/indie
- She Makes War: Brace for Impact (My Big Sister) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Jake Shears: Jake Shears (Freida Jean) [08-10] - dance pop
- The Sheepdogs: Changing Colours (Waner) [02-02] - rock
- Cosmo Sheldrake: The Much Much How How and I (Transgressive) [04-06] - alt/indie
- Shelter: Profondeur 4000 (Growing Bin) [07-06] - ambient
- Jamie Shew: Eyes Wide Open () - jazz
- Shields: Life in Exile (Long Branch) [04-20] - metal
- Mike Shiflet: Tetracosa Volume Eight (self-released) [08-03] - electronic
- The Shifters: Have a Cunning Plan (Trouble in Mind) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Shijin: Shijin (Music Box) [10-26] - jazz
- Shinedown: Attention! Attention! (Atlantic) [05-04] - hard rock
- SHINee: The Story of Light (SM Entertainment) [09-10] - K-pop
- Mike Shinoda: Post Traumatic (Warner Bros) [06-15] - alt rap
- The Shins: The Worm's Heart (Aural Apothecary/Columbia) [01-19] - alt/indie
- Shirt: Pure Beauty (Third Man) [02-09] - hip hop
- Jonny Shitbag & the Smokes: You Could Not Have Given the Slightest of Fucks (Hidden Bay) [01-29] - pop
- Jonny Shitbag & the Smokes: I Don't Listen to a Word My Friends Say (Captain Crook) [04-13] - rock
- ShitKid: This Is It (PNKSLM) [alt/indie] - 01-19
- Shlomo: Mercurial Skin (Taapion) [11-16] - techno
- Paula Shocron: Los Vinculos (Nendodangororecords) - jazz
- Shorelights: Ancient Lights (Subwax Bcn) [03-00] - electronic
- Shotgun Rider: Palo Duro (Torrez Music Group) [03-30] - country
- Nick Shoulders: Lonely Like Me (self-released) [08-27] - country
- Showbiz: A-Room Therapy (DITC) [02-16] - hip-hop
- The Richard Shulman Group: Turned Into Lemonade (RichHeart Music) [05-07] - jazz
- Shxcxchcxsh: Oufoufof (Rosten) [11-12] - electronic
- Shy Boys: Bell House (Polyvinyl) [08-03] - alt/indie
- Shy Glizzy: Fully Loaded (300 Entertainment) [10-12] - hip-hop
- Shy Layers: Midnight Marker (Beats in Space) [05-25] - synthpop
- Shygirl: Cruel Practice (Nuxxe) [05-25] - grime
- Sick of It All: Wake the Sleeping Dragon! (Century Media) [11-02] - metal
- Sick Thoughts: Sick Thoughts (Goner) [10-12] - alt/indie
- The Sidekicks: Happiness Hours (Epitaph) [05-18] - indie rock
- Sigh: Heir to Despair (Spinefarm) [11-16] - metal
- Sigrid: Raw (Universal Island -EP) [07-11] - pop
- Ayanda Sikade: Movements (self-released) - jazz
- Catherine Sikora & Brian Chase: Untitled: After (Chaikin) [07-13] - jazz
- Catherine Sikora/Christopher Culpo: The Spectral Life of Things () - jazz
- Silent Planet: When the End Began (Solid State) [11-02] - metal
- Silva: Brasileiro (SLAP) [05-25]
- Hannah Silva: Talk in a Bit (Human Kind) [05-09]
- Judy Silvano & the Zephyr Band: Lessons Learned (Unit) [07-00] - vocal
- Lucie Silvas: EGO (Furthest Point/Thirty Tigers) [08-24] - pop
- Simian Mobile Disco: Murmurations (Wichita) [05-11] - tech house
- Simple Affections: Simple Affections (Recital) [11-28] - experimental
- Simple Minds: Walk Between Worlds (BMG) [02-02] - rock
- Rhyan Sinclair: Barstormer (Little Haunted Girl Music) [06-22] - country
- SineRider: Four Years Away (Sound in Silence) [10-26] - electronica
- Liam Singer: Finish Him (Birdwatcher) [07-18]
- Single Mothers: Through a Wall (Dine Alone) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Singu: Siki (Growing Bin) [08-24] - electgronic
- Riccardo Sinigallia: Ciao Cuore (Sugar Music) [09-14] - pop
- Sink Ya Teeth: Sink Ya Teeth (Hey Buffalo) [06-22] - electronic
- Josh Sinton: Krasa (Irabbagast) - jazz
- SiR: November (Top Dawg) [01-19] - neo-soul
- Sir Robin & the Longbowmen: Prozacco (Sir Robin) [09-08] - rock
- Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds: Gold (Thirty Tigers) [10-12]
- SIT: Invisibility (Sushitech) [02-00] - tech house
- Sitka Sun: Sitka Sun (The Long Road Society) [01-16] - jazz
- Skadedyr: Musikk! (Hubro) [04-27] - jazz
- Skating Polly: The Make It All Show (El Camino) [05-04] - indie rock
- Skeletonwitch: Devouring Radiant Light (Prosthetic) [07-20] - thrash metal
- Richard Skelton: Front Variations I & II (Aeolian) [11-20] - electronic
- Skerebotte Fatta: Riders From the Ra (Creative Sources) - jazz
- Ski Mask the Slump God: Beware the Book of Eli (Republic) [05-11] - trap rap
- Ski Mask the Slump God: Stokeley (Republic) [11-30] - hip-hop
- The Alan Skidmore Quartet: Naima: Live in Berlin (2007-11, ITM) [04-06] - jazz
- Hakon Skogstad: Two Hands to Tango (Avantango) [05-14] - jazz
- SKRS: Paradise Magic Traxx (Ancient Monarchy) [02-02] - electronic
- Skyzoo: In Celebration of Us (First Generation Rich/Empire) [02-02] - hip hop
- Slam: Athenaeum 101 (Soma Quality) [11-30] - electronic
- Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators: Living the Dream (Snakepit/Roadrunner) [09-21] - rock
- Slaves: Acts of Fear and Love (Virgin EMI) [08-17] - garage punk
- Wanja Slavin Lotus Eaters: Salvation (WhyPlayJazz) - jazz
- Sleepwalker: [-X-X] (Sentient Ruin) [05-25] - metal
- Slikback: Lasakaneku (Hakuna Kulala) [06-29] - electronic
- Slocan Ramblers: Queen City Jubilee (Slomusic) [06-15] - country
- Slothrust: The Pact (Dangerbird) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Sloucher: Be True (Swoon) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Slow Crush: Aurora (Holy Roar) [09-28] - rock
- Slowgold: Morkare (Playground Music Scandinavia) [02-23] - pop
- Slowly Rolling Camera: Juniper (Edition) - jazz
- Slug: HiggledyPiggledy (Memphis Industries) [04-13] - indie pop
- Slugdge: Esoteric Malacology (Willowtip) [03-02] - death metal
- Smerz: Have Fun (XL) [03-06] - UK bass
- Small Island Big Song: Small Island Big Song (self-released) [09-06] -
- Small Professor: Church Jawns (self-released -EP) [10-01]
- Derek Smalls: Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) (BMG) [04-13] - comedy
- Smashing Pumpkins: Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol 1/LP: No Past No Future No Sun (Napalm) [11-16] - alt/indie
- Moira Smiley: Unzip the Horizon (self-released) [04-07] - folk
- Smino: Noir (Downtown JV) [11-08] - hip-hop
- Hughes Smith Quintet: Motion (self-released)
- Putter Smith Quintet: Night Song (GAM Music) - jazz
- Chris Smither: Call Me Lucky (Signature Sounds) [03-02] - blues
- Smoke Boys: Don't Panic II (self-released) [10-19] - hip-hop
- Smoke DZA: Not for Sale (Babygrande) [04-20] - trap rap
- Smokescreens: Used to Yesterday (Slumberland) [07-13] - rock
- Smoking Popes: Into the Agony (Asian Man) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Smove: Funk n' Beats Vol 6 (Bombstrikes) [12-14] - r&b
- SMX/Koehler: Blue 02 (Whities) [05-10] - electronic
- Sneakbo: Brixton (Jetskiwave) [03-02] - hip-hop
- Torben Snekkestad/Agusti Fernandez/Barry Guy: Louisiana Vibrations (Fundacja Shuchaj) - jazz
- Dee Snider: For the Love of Metal (Napalm) [07-27] - heavy metal
- Rue Snider: City Living (self-released) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Rejjie Snow: Dear Annie (300) [02-16] - hip hop
- Snow Patrol: Wildness (Polydor) [05-25] - alt rock
- Snowpoet: Thought You Knew (Edition) [02-09] - jazz
- Soap & Skin: From Gas to Solid/You Are My Friend (PIAS) [10-26] - alt./indie
- Jill Sobule: Nostalgia Kills (Pinko) [09-14] - folk
- Sofi Tukker: Treehouse (Ultra) [04-13]
- Soft as Snow: Deep Wave (Houndstooth) [04-06]
- Soft Kill: Savior (Profound Lore) [05-11] - rock
- Soft Machine: Hidden Details (Moonjune) [09-08] - jazz
- The Soft Moon: Criminal (Sacred Bones) [02-02] - darkwave
- Soft Science: Maps (Test Pattern) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Sol Invictus: Necropolis (Prophecy) [03-23]
- Solareye: All These People Are Me (A Modern Way) [05-04]
- Jay Som: Pirouette (Polyvinyl -EP) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Jay Som: Turn the Other Cheek (Polyvinyl -EP) [12-14] - alt/indie
- Somali Yacht Club: The Sea (Robust Fellow) [01-22] - rock
- Jonathan Something: Outlandish Poetica (Solitaire) [11-07] - rock
- Stella Sommer: 13 Kinds of Happiness (Affairs of the Heart) [08-10]
- Sungjae Son: Near East Quartet (ECM) [08-31] - jazz
- Son Lux: Brighter Wounds (City Slang) [02-09] - art pop
- Sonadores De Sinaloa: Lo Improvisado (Mayra Music) [03-02] - Latin
- The Sonder Bombs: Modern Female Rockstar (Take This to Heart) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Songs: Ohia: Love & Work: The Lioness Sessions (Secretly Canadian) [11-23] - alt/indie
- Sonido Gallo Negro: Mambo Cosmico (Glitterbeat) [04-06] - Latin
- Astrid Sonne: Human Lines (Escho) [02-16] - classical
- Sonoio: Fine (Dais) [07-27] - electronic
- Sons of Bill: Oh God Ma'am (Loose Music) [06-29] - rock
- Omar Sosa: Es:sensual (Ota) - jazz
- Shanna Sordahl: Radiate Don't Fear the Quietus (Full Spectrum) - jazz
- Soreption: Monument of the End (Sumerian) [08-03] - metal
- The Sorority: Pledge (The Sorority Sound) [04-13] - hip hop
- Soul Assassins [DJ Muggs]: Dia Del Asesinato (Soul Assassins) [08-10] - hip-hop
- Soulfly: Ritual (Nuclear Blast) [10-19] - metal
- Soulwax: Essential (Deewee/PIAS) [06-22] - electro house
- Sound & Fury: Thundering of Dawn (Karkia Mistika) - jazz
- Sound Voyage: En Route to Thailand (Free Soul) [04-06] - electronic
- Pedro Sousa/Miguel Mira/Alfonso Simoes: Rajada (Multikulti) - jazz
- Tess Souter: Picture in Black and White (NOA) [10-05] - jazz
- Scott Southworth: Hey Hillbilly Singer (Scott Likes Pie Music) [05-14] - country
- Soweto Gospel Choir: Freedom (Shanachie) [09-14] - African
- Space Afrika: Somewhere Decent to Live (Sferic) [03-08] - electronic
- Space Elevator: II (Steamhammer) [05-25] - rock
- Space Invadas: Wild World (Invada) [04-13] - electronic
- Spain: Mandala Brush (Dangerbird) [09-28]
- Spanglish Fly: Ay Que Boogaloo! (Chaco World Music) - Latin jazz
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Anniversary (ArtistShare) [04-16] - jazz
- Spanish Love Songs: Schmaltz (A-F) [03-23] - emo
- Spare Snare: Sounds (Chute) [07-20]
- Special Interest: Spiraling (996364 DK) [03-01] - punk
- Specter: Built to Last (Sound Signature) [08-17] - electronic
- Spectral Wound: Infernal Decadence (Vendetta) [06-02] - black metal
- Jon Spencer: Spencer Sings the Hits (In the Red) [11-07] - alt/indie
- Spesh: Famous World (Killroom) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Spice: Captured (Spice Official) [11-02] - reggae
- Spider Bags: Someday Everything Will Be Fine (Merge) [08-03] - garage rock
- Spiders: Killer Machine (Crusher) [04-06] - rock
- Spielbergs: Distant Star (By the Time It Gets Dark) [04-27] - indie rock
- Spirit Fingers: Spirit Fingers (Shanachie) - jazz
- Spirit of Chicago Orchestra/Formation Jazz de la Musique de l'Air: Tribute to James Reese Europe (Fremeaux & Associes) [07-20] - jazz
- The Spirit of the Beehive: Hypnic Jerks (Tiny Engines) [09-14] - rock
- Spiritual Cramp: Television (Deranged) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Spock's Beard: Noise Floor (InsideOut) [05-25] - prog rock
- The Spook School: Could It Be Different? (Slumberland) [01-26] - indie pop
- Spring Heel Jack/Wadada Leo Smith/Pat Thomas/Steve Noble: Hackney Road (Treader) - jazz
- Kandace Springs: Indigo (Blue Note) [09-07] - jazz
- Squirrel Nut Zippers: Beasts of Burgundy (Southern Broadcasting) - jazz
- SRSQ: Unreality (Dais) [10-26] - electronic
- Ssion: O (Dero Arcade) [05-11] - pop
- St Lenox: Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love (Anyway) [09-28]
- Anna St Louis: If Only There Was a River (Woodsist/Mare) [10-12] - alt/indie
- St Paul and the Broken Bones: Young Sick Camellia (Records) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Adam Stafford: Fire Behind the Curtain (Song by Toad) [05-04]
- Terell Stafford: Family Feeling (BCM&D) - jazz
- Stahhr: Respect Due Vol 1 (self-released) [02-28] - hip-hop
- Stand Atlantic: Skinny Dipping (Hopeless) [10-26] - rock
- Lisa Stansfield: Deeper (EarMusic) [04-06] - pop
- Starchild & the New Romantic: Language (self-released) [02-23] - alt/funk
- Starcrawler: Starcrawler (Rough Trade) [01-19] - alt rock
- Booker Stardrum: Temporary Etc (NNA Tapes) [10-26] - rock
- State Champion: Send Flowers (Sophomore Lounge) [11-09] - alt/indie
- State Champs: Living Proof (Pure Noise) [06-15] - rock
- Statik Selektah & Termanology: Still 1982 (Showoff/ST) [11-23] - hip-hop
- Carolyn Staten: Ladies' Night (Firefyre) [08-31] - blues
- Candi Staton: Unstoppable (Beracah) [08-24]
- Alison Statton & Spike: Bimini Twist (Tiny Global Productions) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Steep Canyon Rangers: Out in the Open (Ramseur) [01-26]
- Steeple Remove: Vonal-Axis (Fuzz Club) [11-30] - alt/indie
- Jason Stein: Electroradiance (Astral Spirits) - jazz
- James Steinle: South Texas Homecoming (self-released) [08-17] - country
- Aaron Stephens: Focus (Aaron Stephens Music) [08-22] - r&b
- Mickey Stephens & Poor Blue: Wasteground (self-released) - celtic rock
- Leni Stern: 3 (self-released) - jazz
- Colin Stetson: Heriditary [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Milan) [06-08] - soundtrack
- Michael Jefry Stevens: The Core-tet Project (Naxos) - jazz
- Michael Jefry Stevens: Live at Streamside (ARC) - jazz
- Tim Stevens Double Trio: With Whom You Can Be Who You Are (Rufus) [08-07] - jazz
- Luke Stewart: Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier (Monofonus Press/Astral Spirits) [06-08] - jazz
- Sting & Shaggy: 44/876 (A&M) [04-20] - reggae
- Stew & the Negro Problem: Notes of a Native Song (Tight Natural Productions) [10-12] - rock
- Stick in the Wheel: Follow Them True (self-released) [01-26] - folk
- Still Corners: Slow Air (Wrecking Light) [08-17] - pop
- Stine Janvin Motland: Fake Synthetic Music (Pan) [10-12] - electronic
- Sting & Shaggy: 44/876 (A&M) [04-20] - reggae
- Markus Stockhausen: Eternal Voyage/Live (Okey) - jazz
- Stone Broken: Ain't Always Easy (Spinefarm) [03-02] - rock
- The Story So Far: Proper Dose (Pure Noise) [09-21] - rock
- Story Untold: Waves (Hopeless) [02-02] - rock
- Stove: 's Favorite Friend (Exploding in Sound) [10-31] - rock
- Todd Strait: There'll Be Some Changes Made (self-released) - jazz
- Chuck Strangers: Consumers Park (Nature Sounds/Pro Era) [03-16] - hip-hop
- The Stray Birds: Let It Pass (Yep Roc) [09-07] - folk
- Street Sects: The Kicking Mule (The Flenser) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Barbra Streisand: Walls (Columbia) [11-02] - pop
- Alexandra Streliski: Inscape (Secret City) [10-05] - classical
- EJ Strickland Quintet: Warriors for Peace (Jammin' Colors) [11-20] - jazz
- Thomas Stronen/Time Is a Blind Guide: Lucus (ECM) [01-19] - jazz
- Samuele Strufaldi/Tommaso Rosati: 1.15K (Auand) [12-13] - jazz
- The Stryker Brothers: Burn Band (Scriptorium Rex) [09-07] - country
- Dick Stusso: In Heaven (Sub Pop) [03-02] - alt/indie
- The Struts: Young & Dangerous (Interscope) [10-26] - rock
- Styles P: G-Host (Phantom Entertainment) [05-04] - hip-hop
- Styles P: Dime Bag (Phantom Entertainment) [11-02] - hip-hop
- Tove Styrke: Sway (Sony) [05-04] - electropop
- Suchmos: The Ashtray (Sony) [06-20] - J-pop
- Sudan Archives: Sink (Stones Throw) [05-25] - r&b
- Suede: The Blue Hour (Warner UK) [09-21] - alt rock
- The Suffers: Everything Here (Shanachie) [07-13] - r&b
- Sugar Candy Mountain: Do Right (PIAPTK) [05-04]
- Sugar Plant: Headlights (Mango Knife Music) [05-16] - rock
- Sugarland: Bigger (Big Machine) [06-08] - country pop
- Suicideboy: I Want to Die in New Orleans (G*59/Caroline) [09-07] - hip-hop
- Suicideyear: Color the Weather (LuckyMe) [07-06] - electronic
- Ady Suleiman: Memories (Pemba) [03-09] - r&b
- Tash Sultana: Flow State (Mom + Pop) [08-31] - r&b
- Rain Sultanov & Isfar Sarbaski: Cycle (Ozella Music) - jazz
- Sumac: Love in Shadow (Thrill Jockey) [09-21] - sludge metal
- Sumac & Keiji Haino: American Dollar Bill: Keep Facing Sideways You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - rock
- Sarah-Jane Summers: Solo (Dell Daisy) [03-08] - folk
- Summoning: With Doom We Come (Napalm) [01-05] - metal
- Moses Sumney: Black in Deep Red 2014 (Jagjaguwar) [08-10] - alt/indie
- Sun June: Years (Keeled Scales) [06-15] - pop
- Geir Sundstol: Brodles (Hubro) [10-05] - rock
- Sunflowers: Castle Spell (Stolen Body/Only Lovers) [02-09] - garage rock
- Sunmantra: Esoteric (Roam) [04-27] - electronic
- Sunmi: Warning (MakeUs -EP) [09-04] - K-pop
- Sunny War: With the Sun (Hen House Studios) [02-02] - pop
- Sunwatchers: II (Trouble in Mind) [02-02] - alt/indie
- Sunwatchers and Eugene Chadbourne: 3 Characters (Amish) [09-28] - rock
- Supersilent: 14 (Smalltown Supersound) [11-23] - electronic
- Surfbort: Friendship Music (Fat Possum) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Surgeon: Luminosity Device (Dynamic Tension) [05-25] - electronic
- Susanna: Go Dig My Grave (Susanna Sonata) [02-09] - alt/indie
- Suss: Ghost Box [Expanded] (Northern Spy) [02-02] - alt/indie
- Suuns: Felt (Secretly Canadian) [03-02] - experimental rock
- Svalbard: It's Hard to Have Hope (Translation Loss) [05-25] - metal
- Svartidauði: Revelations of the Red Sword (Van) [12-03]
- Skuli Sverrisson: Strata (Newvelle) - jazz
- Swearin': Fall Into the Sun (Merge) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Swarvy: Anti-Anxiety (Paxico) [07-06] - hip-hop
- Patrick Sweany: Ancient Noise (Nine Mile) [05-11] - blues
- Sam Sweeney: The Unfinished Violin (Island)
- Matthew Sweet: Tomorrow's Daughter (Megaforce) [05-18]
- Swick: Court Composer (NLV) [10-19] - electronic
- Richard Swift: The Hex (Secretly Canadian) [09-21] - indie rock
- Cole Swindell: All of It (Warner Nashville) [08-17] - country
- Swing Out Sister: Almost Persuaded (Sony) [11-10] - jazz
- Swizz Beatz: Poison (Epiz/Swizz Beatz) [11-02] - hip-hop
- The Sword: Used Future (Razor & Tie) [03-23] - hard rock
- SW:SVN: SW:SVN (Apollo -EP) [05-25] - elecgtronic
- Syclops: Pink Eye (BubbleTease Communications) [04-30] - jazz
- Synth Sisters: Euphoria (EM) [04-25]
- Syrinx Effect: A Sky You Could Strike a Match On (self-released) - jazz
- System: Plus (Morr Music) [11-09] - electronic
- Table Scraps: Autonomy (Zen Ten) [02-23] - indie rock
- Table Sugar: Collected Acknowledgements (911450/Stucco) [06-29]
- Midori Takada & Lafawndah: Le Renard Bleu (!K7 -EP) [08-24] - post-minimalism
- H Takahashi: Low Power (White Paddy Mountain) [08-08] - new age
- Takeoff: The Last Rocket (Capitol/Motown/Quality Control) [11-02] - hip-hop
- Tom Tallitsch: Wheelhouse (Posi-Tone) [06-08] - jazz
- Tamino: Amir (Arts & Crafts) [10-19]
- Tancred: Nightstand (Polyvinyl) [06-01] - indie rock
- Tangents: New Bodies (Temporary Residence) [06-15] - electronic
- Tanukichan: Sundays (Coqueiro Verde) [07-13] - alt/indie
- Tasha: Alone at Last (Father/Daughter) [10-26] - rock
- Aaron Lee Tasjan: Karma for Cheap (New West) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Tatakai Trio [Kuchen/Lindsjo/Strid]: Happi (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Tax the Heat: Change Your Position ()
- Eric Taxxon: Punk (self-released) [03-18] - pop
- Alexis Taylor: Beautiful Thing (Domino) [04-20]
- Tech N9ne: Planet (Strange) [03-02] - hip hop
- Teen Creeps: Birthmarks (PIAS) [04-06]
- Teen Judge: Teen Judge (Berthed Futurist) [09-01] - rock
- Teenage Wrist: Chrome Neon Jesus (Epitaph) [03-09] - shoegaze
- Teleman: Family of Aliens (Moshi Moshi) [09-07] - alt/indie
- The Temperance Movement: A Deeper Cut (Earache) [02-16] - rock
- Tenacious D: Post-Apocalypto (Columbia) [11-02] - comedyrock
- Tenderlonious: The Shakedown (22a Music) [06-15] - jazz
- Jimi Tenor: Order of Nothingness (Philophon) - jazz
- Tentenko: Tentenko (Toothpaste) [09-21] - synth-pop
- Dan Tepfer: Natural Machines (self-released) - jazz
- Terry: I'm Terry (Upset the Rhythm) [08-31] - indie pop
- David Terry: Sorrow (Open Tapes) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Tesseract: Sonder (Kscope) [04-20] - progressive metal
- Christian Tetzlaff: Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Sony Classical/Legacy) [05-24] - classical
- Henri Texier: Sand Woman (Label Bleu) [02-00] - jazz
- Textasy: Dallas Gun Club (Craigie Knowes -EP) [01-15] - electronic
- Thabang Tabane: Matjale (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) [09-14] - African
- Them Are Us Too: Amends (Dais) [06-22] - pop
- Therapy?: Cleave (Marshall) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Therion: Beloved Antichrist (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
- They: Fireside (Mind of a Genius/Warner Bros) [11-09] - hip-hop
- They Might Be Giants: I Like Fun (Idlewild) [01-19] - indie pop
- Thick Syrup: Living in Leeds (Gringo) [02-23] - rock
- Thievery Corporation: Treasures From the Temple (ESL) [04-20] - electronic
- Thin Lips: Chosen Family (Lame-O) [07-27] - indie punk
- The Third Sound: All Tomorrow's Shadows (Fuzz Club) [05-11] - alt/indie
- This Wild Life: Petaluma (Epitaph) [06-22] - alt/indie
- Thollem/Clouser/Chase: Dub Narcotic Session Vol II (Personal Archives) [05-25] - jazz
- James 'Creole' Thomas: Omas Sextet (Inpartmaint) [05-04] - jazz
- Pat Thomas: Stella by Starligh: Live in Cerkno (Klopotec) [05-00] - jazz
- Linda Thompson: Linda Thompson Presents My Mother Doesn't Know I'm on the Stage (Omnivore) [09-28]
- Richard Thompson: 13 Rivers (New West) [09-14] - singer-songwriter
- Ural Thomas & the Pain: The Right Time (Tender Loving Empire) [09-28] - r&b
- Ken Thomson: Sextet (New Focus/Panoramic) - jazz
- Thou: Magus (Sacred Bones) [08-31] - sludge metal
- Thou: Inconsolable (Robotic Empire) [06-01] - rock
- Thousand Foot Whale Claw: Black Hole Party (Holodeck) [06-29] - electronic
- Thrice: Palms (Epitaph) [09-14] - rock
- Throwing Snow: Loma (Houndstooth) [11-30] - electronic
- Thundercat/OG Ron C/DJ Candlestick: Drank (Brainfeeder) [02-15] - r&b
- Thunderpussy: Thunderpussy (Stardog Republic) [05-25]
- Camille Thurman: Waiting for the Sunrise (Chesky) [08-24] - jazz
- Thus Owls: The Mountain That We Live Upon (For the Living and the Dead) [09-28] - alt/indie
- TI: Dime Trap (Grand Hustle/Epic) [10-05] - hip-hop
- Tiger Hatchery: Mind's Eye (self-released) - jazz
- Tigercats: Pig City (El Segell del Primavera) [05-11]
- John Tilbury/Michael Duch/Eddie Prevost: Landmark (+3dB) [06-22] - jazz
- Justin Timberlake: Man of the Woods (RCA) [02-02] - r&b
- Timecop1983: Night Drive (self-released) [05-04] - electronic
- Timespine: Urban Season (Shhpuma) [11-16] - jazz
- Tinashe: Joyride (RCA) [04-13] - alt r&b
- The Ting Tings: The Black Light (Finca) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Tiny Moving Parts: Swell (Triple Crown/Big Scary Monsters) [01-26] - emo
- Keith Tippett: Live in Triest (Klopotec) [01-00] - jazz
- Titus Andronicus: A Productive Cough (Merge) [03-02] - indie rock
- Tncb [XXXX]: Sekundenschlaf (Blackest Ever Black) [01-12] - electronic
- To Kill a King: The Spiritual Dark Age (These Are My Bones) [01-12] - alt/indie
- Tocotronic: Die Unendlichkeit (Vertigo) [01-26] - rock
- Tokyo Police Club: TPC (self-released) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Tomb Mold: Manor of Infinite Forms (20 Buck Spin) [06-08] - death metal
- Tomberlin: At Weddings (Saddle Creek) [08-10] - singer-songwriter
- Tommy '86: Freedom to Obey (M-Tronic) [05-25] - electronic
- Tommy and the Commies: Here Come . . . (Slovenly) [09-28] - metal
- Tonbruket: Live Salvation (ACT) [04-27] - jazz
- Tonight Alive: Underworld (UNFD/Hopeless) [01-12] - rock
- Too Slim and the Taildraggers: High Desert Heat (Underworld/VizzTone) [04-27] - blues
- Topdown Dialectic: Topdown Dialectic (Peak Oil) [06-08] - electronic
- Torae & Praise: All Praises Due (Internal Affairs) [10-11] - hip-hop
- Bjorn Torske: Byen (Smalltown Supersound) [07-13] - left-field house
- Lauren Tosswill: My Home in the Year (Enmossed) [01-31] - classical
- Totally Mild: Her (Chapter Music) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Toto Bona Lokua: Bondeko (No Format) [01-19]
- Samba Toure: Wande (Glitterbeat) [05-25] - African
- Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet: Brother Raymond (Lyte) [05-11] - jazz
- Tower of Power: Soul Side of Town (Artistry Music) [06-01] - r&b
- Towkio: WWW (Republic) [02-23] - pop rap
- Tracyanne & Danny: Tracyanne & Danny (Merge) [05-25] - indie pop
- Traden: Traden (Subliminal Sounds) [08-24] - rock
- Tragedy: Fury (Tragedy) [09-11] - metal
- Meghan Trainor: Treat Myself (Epic) [08-31] - pop
- Trampled by Turtles: Life Is Good on the Open Road (Banjodad) [05-04] - alt/indie
- Penelope Trappes: Penelope Two (Houndstooth) [10-00] - singer-songwriter
- Trash Boat: Crown Shyness (Hopeless) [07-20] - rock
- The Chandler Travis Three-O: Backward Crooked From the Sunset (Iddy Biddy) [05-25] - alt/indie
- Tree Ear: Witches Butter (Clean Feed) - jazz
- Trembling Bells: Dungeness (Tin Angel) [03-30]
- Tremonti: A Dying Machine (Napalm) [06-08] - rock
- Tres Oui: Poised to Flourish (Shrimper) [02-09] - jangle pop
- Tribulation: Down Below (Century Media) [01-26] - gothic metal
- Trio Corrente & Orquestra Jazz Sinfonica de Sao Paulo: Ao Vivo (Tratore) [09-07] - jazz
- Trio Generations: Unfolding (Particular) - jazz
- Manuel Troller: Vanishing Points (Three:four) [10-12] - folk
- Trophy Eyes: The American Dream (Hopeless) [08-03] - pop punk
- Trouble & Mike Will Made It: Edgewood (Eardruma/Interscope) [03-23] - trap rap
- Gianluigi Trovesi: Mediterraneamente (Dodiciilune) [03-12] - jazz
- Trust Fund: Bringing the Backline (self-released) [07-02] - alt/indie
- Mikolaj Trzaska & Seymour Wright: 12.9.16 (Otoroku) [01-00] - jazz
- TSVI: Inner Worlds (Nervous Horizon) [11-09] - electronic
- TT: LoveLaws (LoveLeaks) [05-18] - indie pop
- Tubis Trio: Flashback (AudioCave) - jazz
- Tucka: Working With the Feeling (Hit Nation) [11-10] - r&b
- Alexander Tucker: Don't Look Away (self-released) [08-24]
- Dave Tull: Texting and Driving (Toy Car) [03-16] - jazz
- Tunng: Songs You Make at Night (Full Time Hobby) [08-24] - indie pop
- KT Tunstall: Wax (Virgin) [10-05] - singer-songwriter
- Turbowolf: The Free Life (Silva Screen) [03-09] - psychedelic rock
- Frank Turner: Be More Kind (Xtra Mile) [05-04] - singer-songwriter
- Tuung: Songs You Make at Night (Full Time Hobby) [08-24] - folk
- TVAM: Psychic Data (Psychic Data) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Twenty One Pilots: Trench (Fueled by Ramen) [10-05] - indie pop
- Twice: Summer Nights (JYP -EP) [07-09] - K-pop
- Twice: What Is Love? (JYP -EP) [04-09] - K-pop
- Twin Shadow: Caer (Reprise) [04-27] - synthpop
- Twins: That Which Is Not Said (2MR) [05-04] - electronic
- Ty: A Work of Heart (Jazz Re:freshed) [03-02] - hip-hop
- Tyler the Creator: Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr Seuss' the Grinch (Columbia) [11-16] - hip-hop
- Typhoon: Offerings (Roll Call) [01-12] - indie rock
- Uada: Cult of a Dying Sun (Eisenwald) [05-25] - melodic black metal
- Ugly Valley Boys: Iron Mine (self-released) [01-18] - country
- U-God: Venom (Babygrande) [03-30] - hip-hop
- Matt Ulery: Sifting Stars (Woolgathering) - jazz
- Lisa Ullen: Piano Works (Disorder) - jazz
- Ulthar: Cosmovore (20 Buck Spin) [11-09] - metal
- Ultimate Painting: Up! (Bella Union) [04-06] - indie rock
- Ultra Beauty: Ultra Beauty (Sister Polygon -EP) [08-24]
- Ultrastation: 686868 EP (Mary Go Wild Black -EP) [12-21] - electronic
- Uncivilized: Uncivilized Plays Peaks (Unciv Music) [07-01] - jazz
- Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats: Wasteland (Rise Above) [10-12] - metal
- Underoath: Erase Me (Fearless) [04-06] - post-hardcore
- Carrie Underwood: Cry Pretty (Capitol Nashville) [09-14] - country pop
- Uniform: The Long Walk (Sacred Bones) [08-17] - industrial rock
- Uniform & the Body: Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones) [06-08] - drone metal
- Uniiqu3: Phase 3 (NLV) [08-24] - electronic
- U-Nix: Nuke Portland (Feel It) [10-19] - rock
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar) [04-06] - neo-psychedelia
- Unleashed: The Hunt for White Christ (Napalm) [10-26] - metal
- Uon: Uon (West Mineral -EP) [05-10] - ambient dub
- Upgrayedd Smurphy: #Peninsula (R-CH-V) [06-21] - electronic
- Upsammy: Another Place (self-released -EP) [02-22] - ambient techno
- Uranium Club: Live for the Very First Time (in Italy) (Castle Face) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Keith Urban: Graffiti U (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville) [04-27] - country pop
- Urban Pioneers: Hilbilly Swing Music (UpRooted) [01-01] - country
- Uriah Heep: Living the Dream (Avalon) [08-29] - rock
- Kensuke Ushio: Devilman Crybaby [Original Soundtrack] (Aniplex) [01-10] - soundtrack
- Peeter Uuskyla/Tellef Ogrim/Anders Borg: Oslo Haerverk (Simlas) - jazz
- Matthew V: The Fifth (604) - pop
- Vacations: Changes (Human Sounds) [03-25] - alt/indie
- The Vaccines: Combat Sports (Columbia) [03-30] - indie rock
- Vakula: Metaphors (Leleka) [03-00] - ambient
- Calvin Valentine: Keep Summer Safe (Mello Music Group) [10-19] - hip-hop
- Jose Valente: Serpente Infinita (Respirar de Ouvido) [11-09] - jazz
- Manuel Valera: The Planets (Mavo) - jazz
- Valley Maker: Rhododendron (Frenchkiss) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Value Void: Sentimental (Tough Love) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Greta Van Fleet: Anthem of the Peaceful Army (Republic) [10-19] - rock
- Vandermark & Snow: Duol (Audiographic) [04-19] - jazz
- Ken Vandermark [Marker]: Roadwork 1/Roadwork 2/Homework 1 (Audiographic -3CD) [07-16] - jazz
- Ken Vandermark: Homework 1 (For Muhal Richard Abrams, Curtis Mayfield & Dinah Washington (Audiographic) [07-16] - jazz
- Ken Vandermark: Roadwork 1: New Orleans (For Ed Blackwell, Irma Thomas & Allen Toussaint) (Audiographic) [07-16] - jazz
- Ken Vandermark: Roadwork 2: Atlanta (For James Brown, Marion Brown and Mary Lou Williams) (Audiographic) [07-16] - jazz
- Ken Vandermark/Michael Gorczyriski/Mikolaj Trzaska: Details in the Air: Open Containers (Kilogram) [11-26] - jazz
- Vanishing Kids: Heavy Dreamer (Svart) [11-30] - rock
- Vanishing Twin: Magic and Machines (Blank Editions) [04-27] - alt/indie
- VanJess: Silk Canvas (self-releaswed) [07-27] - r&b
- Christina Vantzou: No 4 (Kranky) [04-06] - electronic
- Andreas Varady: The Quest (Resonance) - jazz
- Varathron: Patriarchs of Evil (Agonia) [04-27] - metal
- Varg: Crush (Posh Isolation) [06-22] - minimal techno
- Varsity: Parallel Person (Babe City) [04-27]
- Louie Vega: NYC Disco (Nervous) [06-29] - electronic
- Nacho Vegas: Violetica (Marxophone) [06-15] - alt/indie
- Vein: Errorzone (Closed Casket Activities) [06-22] - metalcore
- Laura Veirs: The Lookout (Raven Marching Band) [04-13] - indie folk
- Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois (Timesig/Planet Mu) [05-04] - electronic
- Vergara/Jackson/Baker/Sudderberg: The Hallowed Plant (Relative Pitch) - jazz
- Robin Verheyen: When the Birds Leave (Universal) - jazz
- Vermilia: Katkyt (self-released) [06-28] - atmospheric black metal
- Very Be Careful: Daisy's Beauty Salon (Downtown Pijao) [07-20]
- Antarctigo Vespucci: Love in the Time of E-Mail (Polyvinyl) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Vessel: Queen of Golden Dogs (TriAngle) [11-09] - deconstructed club
- David Vest: David Vest (Cordova Bay) [04-06] - blues
- Vexes: Ancient Geometry (self-released) [02-23] - rock
- Viagra Boys: Street Worms (YEAR0001) [09-26] - post-punk
- Luis Vicente/Yedo Gibson/Vasco Trilla: L3 (Multikulti Project) [06-15] - jazz
- Kurt Vile: Bottle It In (Matador) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Vile Creature: Cast of Static & Smoke (Halo of Flies/Dry Cough) [03-07]
- Villagers: The Art of Pretending to Swim (Domino) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Claudia Villela: Encantada Live (self-released) - jazz
- Elio Villafranca: Cinque (ArtistShare) [05-11] - jazz
- Ben Vince: Assimilation (Where to Now?) [05-25] - jazz
- Vinyl Hampdin: Red (Armored) [10-05] - jazz
- Mike Viola: The American Egypt (Good Morning Monkey) [07-16] - alt/indie
- Visigoth: Conqueror's Oath (Metal Blade) [02-09] - metal
- Dhruv Visvanath: The Lost Cause (self-released) [04-19]
- Vital Idles: Left Hand (Upset the Rhythm) [07-01]
- Roseanna Vitro: Tell Me the Truth (Skyline) [08-13] - jazz
- Vixx: Eau De Vixx (Jellyfish) [04-17]
- The Voidz: Virtue (RCA) [03-30] - hypnagogic pop
- Voivod: The Wake (Century Media) [09-21] - progressive metal
- Hank Von Hell: Egomania (Headbangr) [11-02] - rock
- Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen Duo: Interweaving (Not Two) - jazz
- Dita Von Teese: Dita Von Teese (Record Makers) [02-16] - pop
- Luzia Von Wyl Ensemble: Throwing Coins (Hatology) [08-24] - jazz
- Patricia Vonne: Top of the Mountain (String Commander) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Biliana Voutchkova/Michael Thieke: Blurred Music (Elsewhere) - jazz
- Vril: Anima Mundi (Delsin) [10-15] - electronic
- The Vryll Society: Course of the Satellite (Deltasonic) [08-10] - alt/indie
- Hana Vu: How Many Times Have You Driven By (Luminette) [06-26] - indie pop
- Larry Vuckovich: Serenade in Blue (Quicksilver) - jazz
- Vulfpeck: Hill Climber (Vulf) [12-07] - pop
- Vundabar: Smell Smoke (Gawk) [10-20] - rock
- Vuur: In This Moment We Are Free: Cities (Inside Out Music) [10-20] - metal
- Waajeed: From the Dirt (Dirt Tech Rock) [11-09] - electronic
- Bob Wagner: Toot Suite (Jump City Music) - jazz
- Kan Wakan: Phantasmagoria Vol 1 (MurMur Music) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Wake: Misery Rites (Translation Loss) [02-23] - metal
- Joe Louis Walker/Bruce Katz/Giles Robson: Journey to the Heart of the Blues (Alligator) [10-26] - blues
- Ryley Walker: Deafman Glance (Dead Oceans) [05-18] - psychedelic folk
- Ryley Walker: The Lillywhite Sessions (Dead Oceans) [11-16] - singer-songwriter
- Summer Walker: Last Day of Summer (LVRN) [10-12] - r&b
- Walking Distance: To Whom It May Concern (self-released) [03-20] - alt-indie
- Walking Papers: WP2 (Loud & Proud) [01-19] - rock
- Johannes Wallmann: Love Wins (Fresh Sound New Talent) - jazz
- Joanna Wallfisch: Blood & Bone (self-released) - jazz
- Weasel Walter: Skhiizm (ugEXPLODE) [04-02] - jazz
- Walton: Black Lotus (Tectonic) [07-06]
- The War and Treaty: Healing Tide (Strong World Entertainment) [08-10] - folk
- War on Women: Capture the Flag (Bridge 9) [04-13] - punk
- Josh Ward: More Than I Deserve (self-released) [05-04] - country
- Madison Ward & the Mama Bear: The Radio Winners (Glassnote) [07-27] - alt/indie
- Wardruna: Skald (By Norse Music) [11-23]
- Warm Drag: Warm Drag (In the Red) [08-31] - alt/indie
- Warmduscher: Whale City (The Leaf Label) [06-01] - indie punk
- Warmth: Parallel (Archives) [04-26] - electronic
- Jennifer Warnes: Another Time Another Place (BMG) [04-27] - singer-songwriter
- Emily Warren: Quiet Your Mind (self-released) [10-05] - singer-songwriter
- Reggie Washington: Rainbow Shadow Vol 2 (Jammin' Colors) [05-18] - jazz
- Reggie Washington: Vintage New Acoustic (Jammin' Colors) [11-07] - jazz
- Walter Wolfman Washington: My Future Is My Past (Anti-) [04-20] - blues
- Waterparks: Entertainment (Equal Vision) [01-26] - pop rock
- Patty Waters: 6.12.17 (OTOroku) [04-09] - jazz
- Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy With the Gift Band: Anchor (Topic) -
- Charles Watson: Now That I'm a River (Moshi Moshi) [05-18] - chamber pop
- Neville Watson: The Midnight Orchard (Don't Be Afraid) [11-30] - electronic
- The Wave Pictures: Brushes With Happiness (Moshi Moshi) [06-22] - folk
- The Wave Pictures: Look Inside Your Heart (Moshi Moshi) [11-09] - pop
- Waveless: As One More Folded Paper Crane (Moniker) [05-18] - alt/indie
- Waxahatchee: Great Thunder (Merge -EP) [09-07] - alt/indie
- Wayfarer: World's Blood (Profound Lore) [05-25] - metal
- We Are Scientists: Megaplex (100%) [04-27] - indie rock
- We Banjo 3: Haven (self-released) [07-27] - folk
- We Were Promised Jetpacks: The More I Sleep the Less I Dream (Big Scary Monsters) [09-14] - alt/indie
- Weakened Friends: Common Blah (Don Giovanni) [10-19] - alt/indie
- Web Web: Dance of the Demons (Compost) - jazz
- Wednesday Campanella: Galapagos (Warner Music Japan) [06-27] - J-pop
- Weedpecker: III (Stickman) [01-05] - rock
- Cory Weeds Little Big Band: Explosion (Cellar Live) - jazz
- James Weidman: Spiritual Impressions (Inner Circle) - jazz
- Alisa Weilerstein and the Trondheim Soloists: Transfigured Night (Pentatone) [08-24] - classical
- Kevin Welch: Dust Devil (Dead Reckoning) [10-15] - folk
- Paul Weller: True Meanings (Parlophone/Warner Bros) [09-14] - folk rock
- Wen: EPHEM:ERA (Big Dada) [07-06] - grime
- Erika Wennerstrom: Sweet Unknown (Partisan) [03-23] - alt/indie
- Darling West: While I Was Asleep (Jansen) [02-16] - country
- Norman Westberg: After Vacation (Room40) [07-13] - electronic
- Kate Westbrook: Granite (Westbrook) - vocal
- Mike Westbrook: In Memory of Lou Gare (2010-14, Westbrook) [06-29] - jazz
- Western Centuries: Songs From the Deluge (Free Dirt) [04-06] - country
- Western Star: Any Way How (Saustex) [11-16] - rock
- Cliff Westfall: Baby You Win (self-released) [07-13] - country
- Pelle Westlin/Anton Jonsson: Westlin/Jonsson (Grodor & Faglar) - jazz
- Veryan Weston: The Make Project (Barnyard) [01-26] - jazz
- Wet: Still Run (Columbia) [07-13] - indie electronica
- Wet Tuna: Livin' the Die (Feeding Tube) [03-23]
- Jim White: Waffles Triangles & Jesus (Loose Music) [11-10] - folk
- Paul White: Rejuvenate (R&S) [04-27]
- Roland White & Friends: Tribute to the Kentucky Colonels (Crossroads) [10-26] - country
- Tony Joe White: Bad Mouthin' (Yep Roc) [09-28] - blues
- Xylouris White: Mother (Bella Union) [01-19] - avant-folk
- White Denim: Performance (City Slang) [08-24] - neo-psychedelia
- Whoa Dakota: Patterns (LunaSea Media) [08-17] - pop
- Whyte Horses: Empty Worlds (CRC) [03-09] - indie pop
- Wicca Phase Springs Eternal: Corinthiax (Dark Medicine -EP) [03-16]
- Wiegedood: De Boden Hebben Het Goed III (Century Media) [04-20] - metal
- Gin Wigmore: Ivory (Island) [04-06] - alt pop
- Wild Animals: The Hoax (BCore Disc) [04-27] - alt/indie
- Wild Beasts: Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Domino) [02-16] - alt/indie
- The Wild Feathers: Greetings From the Neon Frontier (Reprise) [06-29] - country
- Wild Nothing: Indigo (Captured Tracks) [08-31] - dream pop
- Wild Pink: Yolk in the Fur (Tiny Engines) [07-20] - indie pop
- WildSonicBlooms: Where We Overlap (Rattle) [10-19] - jazz
- Dan Wilensky: Good Music (Polyglot Music) - jazz
- Wiley: Godfather II () [04-27] - grime
- Ken Wiley: Cuerno Exotica (Krugpark Music) [08-24] - jazz
- Sam Wilkes: Wilkes (Leaving) [10-05] - jazz
- Alan Wilkinson/John Edwards/Steve Noble: 3 of a Kind (Bo'Weavil) - jazz
- Van William: Countries (Fantasy) [01-19] - americana
- Marlon Williams: Make Way for Love (Dead Oceans) [02-16] - chamber folk
- Mars Williams/Tollef Ostvang: Painted Pillars (Stone Floor) [06-15] - jazz
- Vinyl Williams: Opal (Requiem Pour Un Twister) [07-20] - alt/indie
- Jess Williamson: Cosmic Wink (Mexican Summer) [05-11] - indie folk
- Jenny Wilson: Exorcism (Gold Metal) [03-23] - glitch pop
- Jonathan Wilson: Rare Birds (Bella Union) [03-02] - psychedelic rock
- Steven Wilson: Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (Eagle) [11-02] - rock
- Wilted Woman: Trapezoid Tappers (Plastic Bags) [01-08] - electronic
- Wimps: Garbage People (Kill Rock Stars) [08-29] - punk
- Windhand: Eternal Return (Relapse) [10-05] -
- The Wind-Up Birds: Desire Paths (796201) [02-17] - alt/indie
- Norma Winstone: Descansado: Songs for Films (ECM) [02-16] - vocal
- Virginia Wing: Ecstatic Arrow (Fire) [06-08] - art pop
- Winged Serpents: Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor () [J|jazz]
- Garrett Wingfield's Octopod: Monoliths and Sepulchres (self-released) - jazz
- Mark Wingfield: Tales From the Dreaming City (Moonjune) [06-00] - jazz
- Wingtip Sloat: Purge and Swell/The Lost Decade (VHF) [09-28] - alt/indie
- Mark Winkler: Eastern Standard Time (Cafe Pacific) - vocal
- Kendl Winter: Stumbler's Business (Team Love) [07-20] - singer-songwriter
- The Winter Sounds: Maximum Reality (Logica Sonica Music) - pop
- Winterfylleth: The Hallowing of Heirdom (Candlelight) [04-06]
- Larry Wish: How More Can You Need? (Field Hymns) [04-01]
- Witch Mountain: Witch Mountain (Svart) [05-25]
- Witch Prophet: The Golden Octave (88 Days of Fortune) [05-18]
- With Confidence: Love and Loathing (Hopeless) [08-10] - rock
- Jeff Witscher: Approximately 1000 Beers (Salon) [06-30]
- Witxes: Orients (Consouling Sounds) [06-01] - electronic
- The Wizards: Rise of the Serpent (High Roller)
- Andrew WK: You're Not Alone (Sony) [03-02] - math rock
- Frank Woeste: Reverso: Suite Ravel (Phonoart) - jazz
- Ksawery Wojcinski & Wojciech Jachna: Conversation With Space (Fundacja Sluchaj) [03-28] - jazz
- SM Wolf: Bad Ocean (People in a Position to Know) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Donovan Wolfington: Waves (Community) [03-02] - rock
- Michael Wollny Trio: Oslo (ACT) [03-23] - jazz
- Michael Wollny Trio: Live: Wartburg (ACT) [03-23] - jazz
- The Wombats: Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (Kobalt) [02-09] - indie pop
- Wombripper: From the Depths of Flesh (Redefining Darkness) [06-22] - metal
- The Wonder Years: Sister Cities (Hopeless) [04-06] - alt rock
- Alison Wonderland: Awake (Universal Australia) [04-06] - trap
- Hank Wood and the Hammerheads: Hank Wood and the Hammerheads (03-09) [Toxic State] - punk
- The Wood Brothers: One Drop of Truth (Thirty Tigers) [02-02] - country
- Wooden Shjips: V (Thrill Jockey) [05-25] - psychedelic rock
- Donovan Woods: Both Ways (Meant Well) [04-20]
- Hilary Woods: Colt (Sacred Bones) [06-08] - alt/indie
- Woolen Men: Post (self-released) [09-01] - punk
- Woolymammoth: Filling Spots (Alpha Pup) [03-23]
- Woven Entity: Two (Enid) - jazz
- Wrekmeister Haronies: The Alone Rush (Thrill Jockey) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Jack Wright/Dylan van der Schyff: Two in the Bush (Whirrboom!) [04-15] - jazz
- Lewis Wright: Duets (Signum) [04-06] - jazz
- Wrong: Feel Great () [04-13]
- Wstr: Identity Crisis (Hopeless) [08-31] - rock
- Kris Wu: Antares (Interscope) [11-02] - hip-hop
- Wulfband: Revolter (Progress Productions -17) [11-24-2017] - synthpunk
- Wytch Hazel: II: Sojourn (Bad Omen) [07-13] - rock
- Wyvern Lingo: Wyvern Lingo (Rubyworks) [02-23] - rock
- Allie X: Super Sunset (Twin Music) [10-29] - pop
- X-Altera: X-Altera (Ghostly International) [06-15] - electronic
- Xenony: Polish Space Program (Instant Classic) [04-08] - hip-hop
- XOR Gate: Conic Sections (Tresor) - electronica
- XXXtentacion: ? (Best Vibes Forever) [03-16] - alt r&b
- Miki Yamanaka: Miki (Cellar Live) [08-10] - jazz
- Yamantaka//Sonic Titan: Dirt (Paper Bag) [03-23] - progressive rock
- Yarn/Wire: Images of Duration (In Homage to Ellsworth Kelly) (Northern Spy) [08-24] - alt/indie
- YBN Nahmir/YBN Almighty Jay/YBN Cordae: YBN: The Mixtape (self-released) [09-07] - hip-hop
- The Yellowjackets: Raising Our Voice (Mack Avenue) [09-14] - jazz
- YFN Lucci: Ray Ray From Summerhill (Think It's a Game/Warner Bros) [03-09] - hip hop
- YG: Stay Dangerous (Def Jam) [08-03] - hip hop
- Yipes!: Yipes!!! (self-released) - power pop
- Yob: Our Raw Heart (Relapse) [06-08] - doom metal
- Yokada: Stillness & Sirens (Disorder/Plugged) [08-12] - jazz
- Olden Yolk: Olden Yolk (Trouble in Mind) [02-23] - neo-psychedelia
- Megumi Yonezawa/Masa Kamaguchi/Ken Kobayashi: Boundary (ESP-Disk) [03-23] - jazz
- Thom Yorke: Suspiria [Music for the luca Guadagino Film] (XL) [10-26] - electronic
- Otomo Yoshihide/Paal Nilssen-Love: 19th of May 2016 (PNL) [05-15] - jazz
- The Yossarians: Ambition Will Eat Itself (self-released) [08-09]
- You Are Wolf: Keld (Firecrest)
- Wes Youssi and the County Champs: Down Low (self-released) [01-29] - country
- You Me at Six: VI (Underdog) [10-05] - alt/indie
- Young Echo: Young Echo (self-released) [02-02]
- Young Galaxy: Down Time (self-released) [04-06] - synthpop
- Young Gun Silver Fox: AM Waves (Go! Entertainment) [04-20]
- Young Guv: 2 Sad 2 Funk (Night School) [03-09] - alt/indie
- Young Jesus: The Whole Thing Is Just There (Saddle Creek) [10-12] - alt/indie
- The Young Mothers: Morose (Self Sabotage) [06-22] - jazz
- Young Nudy: Slimeball 3 (self-released) [08-07] - hip-hop
- Young Romance: Don't Look (Banquet) [11-02] - alt/indie
- Young Scum: Young Scum (self-released) [07-06] - indie pop
- Young Thug: Slime Language (Young Stoner Life/300 Entertainment) [08-17] - trap rap
- Young Thug: On the Rvn (300 Entertainment/Atl) [09-24] - hip-hop
- Conner Youngblood: Cheyenne (Counter) [08-17] - alt/indie
- Adrian Younge: Adrian Younge Presents... (Linear Labs) [07-27] - r&b
- Younger: Night Milk (self-released) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Richard Youngs: Belief (O Genesis) [03-02] - alt/indie
- Youssoupha: Polaroid Experience (Bomaye Musik) [09-28] - African rap
- Youth Man: Five Songs (Alcopop! -EP) [06-29] - alt/indie
- Yovel: [Hide'tu] (self-released) [04-01] - black metal
- Yowler: Black Dog in My Path (Double Whammy) [10-12] - alt/indie
- Yung Hurn: 1220 (Live From Earth) [05-04] - hip-hop
- Yungblud: 21st Century Liability (Locomotion/Geffen) [07-06] - alt/indie
- Yuno: Noodle (Sub Pop) [06-15] - indie pop
- Lechuga Zafiro: Testigo (NAAFI) [08-16] - electronic
- Malena Zavala: Aliso (Yucatan) [04-13] - alt/indie
- Brandy Zdan: Secretear (Tallest Man)
- Thalia Zedek Band: Fighting Season (self-released) [09-21] - alt/indie
- Renata Zeiguer: Old Ghost (Northern Spy) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Wei Zhongle: The Operators (Self Sabotage) [02-16] - alt/indie
- Zhu: Ringos Desert (Mind of a Genius) [04-26] - electronic
- Pablo Ziegler Trio: Jazz Tango (Zoho) - jazz
- ZillaKami & SosMula: City Morgue Vol 1: Hell or High Water (Republic) [10-12] - hip-hop
- Ratko Zjaca: Life on Earth (In+Out) - jazz
- ZKKP: 12354 (Cerveny Kun) - jazz
- Zmatsutsi: Hooked Up (Macadam Mambo) [07-15] - electronic
- Zoe: Aztlan (Universal) [04-18] - Latin
- Zola Jesus: Okovi: Additions (Sacred Bones) [04-06] - glitch pop
- Zomes: The First Stone (Near Unison) [05-18] - electronic
- Zoom: Helium Octipede (Lotuspool) [10-05] - rock
- John Zorn: In a Convex Mirror (Tzadik) - jazz
- John Zorn: Masada Book 3: The Book Beriah (Tzadik) [07-00] - jazz
- John Zorn: The Urmuz Epigrams (Tzadik) - jazz
- Zs: Noth (Social Noise) [02-01] - noise
- Zuli: Terminal (UIQ) [11-02] - electronic
- 1800 Seconds: Curated by Pusha T (Mass Appeal) [12-07] - hip-hop
- Chicago Plays the Stones (Raisin Music) [09-14]
- Congo Revolution: African Latin Jazz and Funk Sounds From the Two Congos (1957-73) (Soul Jazz) [04-21] - African
- Patina Echoes (Timedance) [05-25]
- Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin (MCA Nashville) [04-06]
Reissues, Etc.
- The Action: Shadows and Reflections: Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (Grapefruit -4CD) [10-26] - rock
- Michael Adkins Quartet: Flaneur (Hatology) [01-00] - jazz
- Rikk Agnew: All by Myself (1982, Frontier -17) [2017-00-00] - punk
- Jan Akkerman: The Complete Jan Akkerman (Red Bullet -26CD) [07-20] - jazz
- Erik Andresen Quartet: GIP (Afro7) [11-13] - jazz
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: Live in Berlin (1979, ITM Archives -2CD) [04-23] - jazz
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles (ECM) [11-30] - jazz
- Mulatu Astatke and His Ethiopian Quintet: Afro-Latin Soul (1966, Strut) - jazz
- Mulatu Astatke and His Ethiopian Quintet: Afro-Latin Soul Vol 2 (1966, Strut) - jazz
- Autechre: NTS Sessions 1-4 (Warp) [04-26] - electronic
- Albert Ayler/Peter Brotzmann: Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe/Fragments of Music Life and Death of Albert Ayler (Jazzwerkstatt -2CD) - jazz
- Badfinger: Wish You Were Here [Expanded Edition] (Real Gone) [11-30] - rock
- The Band: Music From Big Pink [50th Anniversary] (Capitol) [08-31] - rock
- The Bangles/The Three O'Clock/The Dream Syndicate/Rain Parade: 3 x 4 (Yep Roc) [11-23] - psychedelic rock
- Barry & the Remains: Live 1969 (Sundazed) [01-12] - rock
- Basa Basa: Homowo (1978-79, Vintage Voudou) [02-13] - African
- Count Basie/Lester Young: Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie and Lester Young Studio Sessions (Mosaic -8CD -16) - jazz
- The Beatles: The Beatles [Super Deluxe Edition] (UMC -6CD) [11-09] - classic rock
- Derek Bailey/Evan Parker: The London Concert (1975, Otoroku) [05-00] - jazz
- Derek Bailey/Jamie Muir: Dart Drug (1981, Honest Jon's) [06-00] - jazz
- Chet Baker: Live in London Volume II (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
- Robbie Basho: Live in Forli Italy 1982 (Obsolete/ESP-Disk) [04-00] - jazz
- Gordon Beck: Jubilation! Trios Quartets and Septets in Session 1964-1984 (Turtle) - jazz
- Richie Beirach: Inborn (1989, Jazzline -2CD) [04-13] - jazz
- Belle & Sebastian: How to Solve Our Human Problems (Parts 1-3) (Matador) [02-16] - indie pop
- The Beta Band: The Three EPs [20th Century Remaster] (Because Music)
- Deben Bhattacharya: Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road (Sublime Frequencies -4CD) [11-02] - Indian
- Jess Sa Bi & Peter One: Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (Awesome Tapes From Africa) [08-17] - Africa
- Big Brother & the Holding Company: Sex Dope & Cheap Thrills (Legacy) [11-30] - rock
- Biosphere: The Hilvarenbeek Recordings (Biophon)
- Paul Bley Trio: Bremen '66 (1966, Hi Hat) [05-00] - jazz
- Prof Harold Boggs: Lord Give Me Strength: Early Recordings 1952 to 1964 (Gospel Friend) [07-20] - gospel
- Bonga: Angola 72 (Lusafrica) - African
- Bow Wow Wow: Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984 (Cherry Red -3CD) [05-25]
- David Bowie: Welcome to the Blackout (Live London '78 (Parlophone) [04-28] - art rock
- David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72 (Parlophone -16) [--2016]
- David Bowie: Loving the Alien (Rhino) [10-12]
- Boyracer: Fling Yr Bonnet Over the Windmill (Emotional Response) - indie rock
- Alan Braufman: Valley of Search (1975, Valley of Search) [06-29] - jazz
- Billy Bremner: Singled Out (RPM) [10-26] - rock
- Peter Brotzmann Octet: Machine Gun (1968, Cien Fuegos) [04-27] - jazz
- Peter Brotzmann Octet: Machine Gun: Alternate Takes (1968, Cien Fuegos) [04-27] - jazz
- Lindsey Buckingham: Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham (Rhino [1-CD or Deluxe 3-CD]) [10-05]
- Buffalo Springfield: What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) [06-29] - country-rock
- Gary Burton: Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective (Mack Avenue) [11-02] - jazz
- Kate Bush: Remastered Part I (Rhino -7CD) [11-16] - rock
- Kate Bush: Remastered Part II (Rhino -11CD) [11-30] - rock
- Camarao: The Imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie: 1964-1974 (Analog Africa) [02-20] - African
- Glen Campbell: Sings for the King (1965-67, UMe) [11-16]
- Carbonas: Your Moral Superiors: Singles and Rarities (Goner) [10-26] - alt/indie
- Jean Carn: Don't Let It Go to Your Head: The Anthology (Soulmusic -2CD) [06-22] - soul
- John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet: Flight for Four (Flying Dutchman -14) [-2014] - jazz
- Cause Co-Motion: It's Time (2008, Slumberland) - alt/idie
- Cedric: Press Pause (Part One) (Headphone Commute)
- Chandra: Transportation EPs (Telephone Explosion) [01-04-2019]
- Don Cherry Trio: Studio 105 Paris 1967 (Hi Hat) - jazz
- Don Cherry: At Bracknell Jazz Festival (1986, Klimt) [03-26] - jazz
- Chic: The Chic Organization 1977-1979 (Atlantic -5CD) [11-23] - r&b
- The Choir: Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore) [02-16] - rock
- Dennis Coffey: One Night at Morey's (Omnivore) [06-08] - funk
- Ornette Coleman: The Atlantic Years (Atlantic/Rhino) [05-25] - jazz
- Ornette Coleman Trio: Live Manchester Free Trade Hall 1966 (Timeless -2CD) - jazz
- Ornette Coleman: The Road to Free Jazz: The Early Years 1958-61 (Acrobat) [05-04] - jazz
- Phil Collins: Plays Well With Others (Rhino) [09-28] - rock
- Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Brothers Studio Recordings (Real Gone) [09-07] - jazz
- Alice Coltrane: Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat) [05-04] - jazz
- Chris Cornell: Chris Cornell (A&M -4CD) [11-16]
- Lol Coxhill/Raymond MacDonald: Morphometry (Glo-Spot) - jazz
- The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We [25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition] (Island -4CD) [10-19]
- Curlew: Live at the Knitting Factory 1991/Lie at DC Space (Cuneiform) [11-16] - jazz
- Holger Czukay: Cinema (Gronland) [03-23]
- Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar: Raga Yaman (Rudra Veena//Seattle//15 March 1986) (Ideologic Organ) [06-01] - Indian
- Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar: Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani (Rudra Veena//Seattle//9 March 1986) (Ideologic Organ) [06-01] - Indian
- Barbara Dane: Hot Jazz Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways -2CD) [02-16] - vocal
- Dave Davies: Decade (Red River Entertainment) [10-12]
- Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-1969 (Light in the Attic -16) [06-28-2016] - soul
- Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (State of Art) - jazz
- Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud [Deluxe] (Verve -2CD) [06-22] - jazz
- Christoph De Babalon: If You're Into It I'm Out of It (1998, Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET]) [09-15] - electronic
- Michel De Villers: Low Reed: Complete Small Group Sessions 1946-1956 (Fresh Sound) [02-12] - jazz
- Dead Moon: Dead Moon: The Book (Mississippi) [09-03] - punk
- Eumir Deodato/Os Catedraticos: Ataque (1965, Far Out) [12-07] - jazz
- Jackie DeShannon: Stone Cold Soul: The Complete Capitol Recordings (Capitol) [03-02]
- Detail [John Stevens/Johnny Mbizio Dyani/Frode Gjerstad]: Detail 83 (FMR) [05-00] - jazz
- Walt Dickerson & Richard Davis: Divine Gemini (1978, SteepleChase -17) [11-15-2017] - jazz
- Shams Dinn: Shams Dinn (Smiling C) [01-15] - Moroccan
- Mickey Doherty: Garvan Hill (Cnuasach Bhealoideas Eireann)
- Lee Dorsey: Night People: The Best of Lee Dorsey (Sunset Blvd -3CD) [11-16] - r&b
- Jean Dubuffet: Musical Experiences (1973, Cacophonic) - jazz
- The Durutti Column: Without Mercy (Factory Benelux)
- Johnny Mbizo Dyani: African Bass Solo Concert: Willisau Jazz Festival 1978 (Sing a Song Fighter) [05-14] - jazz
- Bob Dylan: Live 1982-1986: Rare Performance... (Columbia/Legacy) [07-27] - folk-rock
- Bob Dylan: More Blood More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol 14 (Columbia/Legacy) [11-02] - singer-songwriter
- Bokeh Edwards: Crack Mix 205 (Crack Magazine) [05-04] - electronic
- Brian Eno: Music for Installations (UMC) [05-04] - ambient
- Duke Ellinigton and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows Vol 25 (Storyville) - jazz
- The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble: Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972-1977 (Tompkins Square) [03-23]
- EST: Retrospective: The Very Best of EST (ACT) - jazz
- Dave Evans: The World in Between (Earth)
- The Fabulous Poodles: Mirror Stars: The Complete Pye Recordings 1976-1980 (Cherry Red -3CD) [06-29]
- Fairport Convention: A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention and the Songs of Bob Dylan (UMC) [08-10] - folk
- The Fall: Levitate [Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red) [06-08]
- Falls: Unfinished and Unreleased Tracks 2015-2017 (self-released) [03-10]
- Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk (BGO -2CD) [07-27] - jazz
- Fastball: All the Pain Money Can Buy (1998, Omnivore) [11-09]
- Felt: The Pictorial Jackson Review (Cherry Red) [09-28]
- Ella Fitzgerald: Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set (Verve) [04-20] - vocal
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1988, Verve) - vocal
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Cheek to Cheek (Verve) - jazz
- Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano: The Hated Music () - jazz
- The Flaming Lips: Greatest Hits Vol 1 (Rhino/Warner Bros) [06-01] - alt/indie
- Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac [Deluxe Expanded Edition] (Rhino)
- Fleetwood Mac: 50 Years: Don't Stop (1967-2013, Rhino -1/3CD) [11-16] - rock
- Aretha Franklin: Atlantic Records 1960s Collection (Rhino/Atlantic) [12-07] - soul
- Lefty Frizzell: An Article From Life: The Complete Recordings (Bear Family -20CD) [11-09] - country
- Slim Gaillard: Groove Juice: The Norman Granz Recordings + More (Verve -2CD) [08-31] - jazz
- Garbage: Version 2.0 [20th Anniversary Edition] (PIAS -2CD) [06-29] - rock
- Bobbie Gentry: The Girl From Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters (Capitol -8CD) [10-12] - country
- Michael Gibbs With the Gary Burton Quartet: Festival 69 (Turtle) - jazz
- Mike Gibbs Band: Symphony Hall Birmingham 1991 (Dusk Fire) [05-18] - jazz
- Don Gibson: Best of the Hickory Records Years (1970-1978) (Omnivore) [04-06] - country
- The Glands: Double Coda (New West) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Goldfrapp: Silver Eye [Deluxe Edition] (Mute) [07-06] - electropop
- Vinny Golia: Live at the Century City Playhouse - Los Angeles 1979 (Dark Tree) - jazz
- Dexter Gordon: In the Cave (Nederlands Jazz Archief) [06-20] - jazz
- Dexter Gordon: Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (Run Out Groove) [11-23] - jazz
- Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (Grateful Dead/Rhino)
- Grateful Dead: The Best of the Grateful Dead Live (Rhino)
- Grateful Dead: Pacific Northwest '73-'74 (The Complete Recordings) (Rhino) - rock
- Milford Graves: Babi (Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-16] - jazz
- Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's (Resonance) [05-25] - jazz
- Grant Green: Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes (1969-1970) (Resonance) [05-25] - jazz
- Vince Guaraldi: The Complete Warner Bros: Seven... (Omnivore) [07-06] - jazz
- Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction [Super Deluxed Edition] (Geffen) [06-29] - rock
- Kitsos Harisiadis: Lament in a Deep Style 1929-1931 (Third Man) [06-08] -
- Eddie Harris: Listen Here: The Very Best of Eddie Harris (Varese Sarabande) [05-04] - jazz
- Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour: The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan (Ostinato) [05-25] -
- Teppo Hauta-aho/Mikael Helasvuo/Antero Honkanen/Jarmo Sermila/Edward Vesala: Ode to Marilyn (1973, Svart) [06-00] - jazz
- Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold as Love [Mono + Stereo SACD Hybrid] (Analogue Productions) - rock
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (Experience Hendrix/Legacy -3CD) [11-09] - rock
- Chris Hillman: The Asylum Years (Omnivore)
- The House of Love: The House of Love (Cherry Red)
- Hunee: Hunchin' All Night (Rush Hour) [04-09] - electronic
- Mariel Ito: 2000-2005 (R&S) [10-26] - electronic
- Bunk Johnson: Rare & Unissued Masters Volume One (1943-1945) (American Music) [04-21] - jazz
- George Jones & the Jones Boys: Live in Texas 1965 (Ace) - country
- Hank Jones: In Copenhagen: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter 1983 (Storyville) [04-06] - jazz
- Kamal Keila: Habibi Funk 008: Muslims and Christians (Habibi Funk) [07-06] - African
- Steve Khan: Public Access/Headline/Crossings (BGO) - jazz
- The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society [Super Deluxe Edition] (Sanctuary) [10-26] - rock
- Roland Kirk: Triple Threat (1956, Bethlehem) - jazz
- Roland Kirk: Domino (1962, DOL) - jazz
- Ali Hassan Kuban: From Nubia to Cairo (1981, Piranha) [11-16] - Arabic
- Fela Kuti: Box Set #4 (Knitting Factory -17) [12-15-2017] - afrobeat
- Steve Lacy/Yuji Takahasi/Takehisa Kosugi: 1975, Distant Voices (Aguirre) [05-16] - jazz
- Harold Land: A New Shade of Blue (We Want Sounds) - jazz
- Laraaji: Vision Songs Vol 1 (Numero) [01-19] - ambient pop
- John Lennon: Imagine: The Ultimate Collection (Capitol) [10-12] - rock
- Cheikh Lo: I (World Circuit) - African
- Orlando Cachaito Lopez: Cachaito (World Circuit) - Latin
- Love: Forever Changes [50th Anniversary Edition] (Rhino/Warners/Elektra)
- The Marked Men: On the Other Side (Dirtnap) [11-23] - alt/indie
- Bob Marley: Kaya 40 (Island) - reggae
- Denman Maroney/Leroy Jenkins/Rich O'Donnell: Unknown Unknowns (self-released) - jazz
- Hugh Masekela: Masekela '66-'76 (Wrasse -3CD) [03-30] - jazz
- Nick Mason: Unattended Luggage (Rhino/Parlophone -3CD) [08-31]
- Les Maxel's: Le Retour De Toto (1976, Atagana) [06-22] -
- Cecil McBee: Mutima (1973, Everland Jazz) [03-15] - jazz
- Charlie McCoy: Real McCoy/Charlie McCoy/Good Time Charlie/Fastest Harp in the South (BGO -2CD) [01-01] - country
- Jackie McLean Quartet: Montreal '88 (Hi Hat) [07-13] - jazz
- Joe McPhee: Nation Time (Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-18] - jazz
- Myra Melford: Life Carries Me This Way (2013, Firehouse 12) [11-02] - jazz
- Misha Mengelberg/Peter Brotzmann/Evan Parker/Peter Bennink/Paul Rutherford/Derek Bailey/Han Bennink: Groupcomposing (1978, Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-16] - jazz
- Metallica: And Justice for All [Remastered] (Rhino/Blackened -3CD) [11-02] - rock
- Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (BBE) [11-02] - jazz
- Charles Mingus: Live in Montreux 1975 (Eagle Rock Entertainment) - jazz
- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet: Sound (Delmark) - jazz
- Roscoe Mitchell/Matthew Shipp: Accelerated Projection: Live at Sant'Anna Arresi (2005, RogueArt) [01-00] - jazz
- The Monochrome Set: Eligible Bachelors [Deluxe Edition] (Cherry Red -3CD) [03-16] - alt/indie
- Wes Montgomery: In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording (Resonance) [01-26] - jazz
- Wes Montgomery: One Night in Italy (Resonance) - jazz
- Yuri Morozov: Strange Angels: Experimental & Electronic Music (Buried Treasure -17) [--2017] - electronic
- Mott the Hoople: Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971 (Island) [11-09] - rock
- Mu-Ziq: Challenge Me Foolish (Planet Mu) [04-13] - IDM
- Zbigniew Namyslowski the Q: Open (1987, Warner Music Poland) [04-27] - jazz
- Graham Nash: Over the Years . . . (Atlantic) [06-29]
- Willie Nelson: Things to Remember: The Pamper Demos (Real Gone MUsic) [07-13] - country
- New Black Eagle Jazz Band: Goin' to New Orleans (Black Eagle) - jazz
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Complete Recordings 1922-1925 (Rivermont) [11-16] - jazz
- Nocturnal Projections: Complete Studio Recordings (Dais) [04-27] - rock
- Buck Owens: Country Singer's Prayer (Omnivore) [08-17] - country
- Buck Owens & His Buckaroos: The Complete Capitol Singles: 1967-1970 (Omnivore) [05-11] - country
- Pablo's Eye: Bardo for Pablo (Stroom) [06-25] - drum and bass
- Evan Parker/Derek Bailey/Han Bennink: The Topography of the Lungs (1970, Otoroku) - jazz
- Evan Parker: Evan Parker With Birds: For Steve Lacy (2004, Treader) - jazz
- Jaco Pastorius: Invitation (1983, Music on Vinyl) [02-22] - jazz
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Union Cafe (Erased Tapes -17)
- Permanent Green Light: Hallucinations (Omnivore) [10-19] - rock
- The Persian Leaps: Pop That Goes Crunch (Land Ski) [10-12] - rock
- Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour: Further Listening 1990-1991 (Parlophone) [08-31] - alt dance
- Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual: Further Listening (Parlophone) [08-31] - alt dance
- Pet Shop Boys: Very: Further Listening (Parlophone) [08-31] - alt dance
- Tom Petty: An American Treasure (Reprise) [09-28] - heartland rock
- Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [Mono] (Columbia) - rock
- Terry Pollard: A Detroit Jazz Legend (Fresh Sound) [02-12] - jazz
- The Posies: Frosting on the Beater (Omnivore)
- Power Trip: Opening Fire: 2008-2014 (Dark Operative) [04-27] - metal
- Elvis Presley: '68 Comeback Special: 50th Anniversary Edition (RCA/Legacy -5CD) [11-30] - rock
- Louis Prima & Keely Smith With Sam Butera and the Witnesses: The Wildest Show at Tahoe (1957, Vinyl Lovers) - jazz
- Prince: Anthology: 1995-2010 (NPG/Legacy) [08-17] - r&b
- Procol Harum: Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 (Esoteric) [03-23] - rock
- Procol Harum: Exotic Birds and Fruit (1974, Cherry Red -3CD)
- Public Image Ltd: The Public Image Is Rotten: Songs From the Heart (Virgin -7CD) [07-20] - post-punk
- Don Pullen: New Beginnings (Spectra Music Group) - jazz
- Sun Ra: Exotica (Modern Harmonic) [02-23] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Janus (1963-70, ORG Music) [01-29] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Of Mythic Worlds (1978-79, Enterplanetary Koncepts) [03-20] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Standards (ORG Music) [04-21] - jazz
- Sun Ra & His Arkestra: At Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (1961-62, Grey Scale) [03-02] - jazz
- Sun Ra & His Arkestra: On Jupiter (1979, Art Yard) - jazz
- Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Sun Embassy (1968-69, Roaratorio) [02-00] - jazz
- Sun Ra and His Galactic Infinity Arkestra: Perform Nuclear War + Ra to the Rescue ( 1983, The Loathed Sound Department) - jazz
- Eliane Radigue: Oeuvres Electroniques (INA-GRM) [11-05] - electronic
- Jerry Reed: Jerry Red xplores Guitar Country/Cookin'/Georgia Sunshine/Me & Jerry (BGO -2CD) [08-31] - country
- REM: REM at the BBC (Craft -2/8CD) [10-19] - alt/indie
- John Renbourn: Live in Kyoto 1979 (Drag City) [06-22] - British folk
- Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: The Complete Lansdowne Recordings 1965-1969 (Jazzman) [11-23] - jazz
- The Residents: The Third Reich 'n Roll: pREServed Edition (Cryptic Corp)
- Thee Revelators: In Which the Revelators Perform Live Renditions of Selections From the Billy Childish Songbook (Crypt) [01-25] - garage punk
- Happy Rhodes: Ectotrophia (Numero) [07-06] - alt pop
- Charlie Rich: Too Many Teardrops: The Complete Groove & RCA Recordings (Ace) [01-19] - country
- Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks: 15 Years Edition (Deutsche Grammophon) [05-11]
- Roce: Par Les Damnees De La Terre: Des Voix De Luttes 1969-1989 (Hors Cadres) [11-02] -
- Rose Garden: Trip Through the Rose Garden (Omnivore) [06-15] - pop/rock
- Roxy Music: Roxy Music [Deluxe/Super-Deluxe Editions] (Virgin -2/3CD) [02-02] - glam rock
- Luther Russell: Selective Memories: An Anthology (Hanky Panky) [02-23] - alt/indie
- Paul Rutherford/Ken Vandermark/Torsten Muller/Dylan van der Schyff: Are We in Diego? (2004, Whirrboom) [06-10] - jazz
- Pharoah Sanders: Juan Les Pin Jazz Festival '68 (Hi Hat) [05-00] - jazz
- Maria Schneider/SWR Big Band: Big Bands Live (2000, Jazzhaus -2CD) [03-09] - jazz
- The Scientists: The Scientists EP (Numero Group)
- The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr: Jazz Jazz Jazz (Habibi Funk) [11-09] -
- Bob Seger & the Last Heard: Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967 (Abkco) [09-07]
- Jack Sels: Minor Works (SDBAN) [08-31] - jazz
- Woody Shaw: Live in Bremen 1983 (Elemental Music) [10-26] - jazz
- Achie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio: Conversations ( 1999, Black Sweat) [07-07] - jazz
- Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems (Hatology) - jazz
- Shoes: Black Vinyl Shoes: Anthology 1973-1978 (Cherry Red -3CD) [08-31] - power pop
- Ben Sidran: Ben There Done That (Go Jazz) [11-28] - jazz
- Judee Sill: Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live (Run Out Groove) [04-06]
- Joe Simon: Step by Step: The Complete Pop Hits (Real Gone Music) - soul
- Nina Simone: The Colpix Singles (Stateside -2CD) - jazz
- Nina Simone: Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles (Bethlehem) [02-09] - jazz
- Frank Sinatra: Sings for Only the Lonely [60th Anniversary Edition] (Capitol -2CD) [10-19] - vocal jazz
- Keely Smith: Sings the John Lennon-Paul McCartney Songbook (Real Gone Music) [06-01] - vocal
- The Spinanes: Manos (Merge) [12-07]
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: The Roxy July 7, 1978 (self-released) - rock
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: No Nukes 1979 (self-released) - rock
- Stereolab: Switched On Volumes 1-3 (Duophonic -4CD) [09-28] - electronic
- Stevens & Foster: What Would I Have (If I Didn't Have You) (Everland) [04-15]
- Stone Temple Pilots: Stone Temple Pilots (03-16) [03-16] - alt/indie
- Zamaan Ya Sukkar: Exotic Love Songs and Instrumentals From the Egyptian '60s (Radio Martiko) [09-07] - Arabic
- Super Furry Animals: At the BBC (Strangetown) [11-23] - alt/indie
- Cecil Taylor: Complete Live at the Cafe Montmartre (1962, Essential Jazz Classics -2CD) [07-20] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor: The Complete Nat Hentoff Sessions (Black Satin) [06-10] - jazz
- Television Personalities: Beautiful Despair (Fire) [01-26]
- Nino Tempo: Purveyor of Balladry: The Best of Nino Tempo on Atlantic (Omnivore) [04-13]
- Terry Vs Tori: Terry Vs Tori EP (Box Bedroom Rebels) - pop
- Thing: Thing (1972, Cultures of Soul) [10-26] - jazz
- Third Ear Band: Elements 1970-1971 (Esoteric)
- This Heat: Repeat/Metal (Light in the Attic) [08-03]
- Fred Thomas: Aftering (Polyvinyl) [09-14] - alt/indie
- The Times: This Is London (Tapete) [02-02] - new wave
- David Toop + Paul Burwell: Suttle Sculpture (1977, Logos/Sub Rosa) [01-00] - jazz
- Ali Farka Toure: The Source (1983, World Circuit) [03-30] - African
- Pete Townshend: Who Came First [45th Anniversary Expanded Edition] (Uniersal -2CD) [04-30] - rock
- Stan Tracey: Alone & Together With Mike Osborne: Live at Wigmore Hall 1974 (1974, Cadillac -2CD) [06-09] - jazz
- Vainqueur: Reductions 1995-1997 (Scion)
- Fred Ventura: Future Unknown: The Lost House Trax 1988-1992 (Mannequin) [03-09] - electronic
- The Verboden Boys (Belfast Chapter): Band From Reality: The Complete Demos (Doggy Bag)
- Tom Verlaine: Cover (Wounded Bird) - new wave
- Vulgar Boatmen: You and Your Sister (Time Change)
- Hedy West: From Grandmaw and Me (Fledg'ling)
- The Mike Westbrook Concert Band: The Last Night at the Old Place (Cadillac) [05-25] - jazz
- Randy Weston: Sound (2001, African Rhythms) [02-14] - jazz
- The Who: Live at the Fillmore East 1968 (MCA) [04-20] - rock
- Sonny Boy Williamson: The Complete Trumpet Ace and Checker Singles 1951-62 (Acrobat) - blues
- Teddy Wilson: Classic Brunswick & Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934-42 (Mosaic) - jazz
- Wire: Pink Flag [Deluxe Edition] (Pink Flag -2CD) [05-25] - rock
- Wishbone Ash: The Vintage Years 1970-1991 (Madfish Music)
- The Wolfhounds: Hands in the Till: The Complete John Peel Sessions (A Turntable Friend) [08-10] - alt/indie
- Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes (Atlantic) [06-22] - prog rock
- La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela: The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights (Just Dreams) - classical
- Frank Zappa: The Roxy Performances (Zappa) [02-02] - rock
- Zuider Zee: Zeenith (Light in the Attic) [06-08] - rock
- 15 Years of the Bunker (The Bunker New York) [02-16] - techno
- 23 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's Vol 16 (Blues Images) [10-00] - blues
- Air Texture Volume VI (Air Texture) [10-05] - electronic
- American Folk [Original Soundtrack] () - folk
- Antilles Mechant Bateau (Born Bad) [09-21] -
- Art of the Uncarved Block Winter Compilation (Art of the Uncarved Block) [03-03]
- Bach 333: The New Complete Edition (Deutsche Grammophon -222CD) [10-26] - classical
- Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground (Numero Group) [09-14] - rock
- The Beginning of the End: The Existential Psychodrama in Country Music 1956 to 1972 (Omni) [05-18] - country
- Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973 (Ace) [11-02]
- Canadian Composers Series Part II (Another Timbre) - jazz
- C89 (Cherry Red) [07-27] - pop/rock
- Johnny Cash: Forever Words (Columbia) [04-06]
- Chicago Plays the Stones (Raisin Music) [09-14] - blues
- Come Join My Orchestra: British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-1973 (Grapefruit -3CD) [12-07]
- Confessin' the Blues (BMG) [11-09] - blues
- The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (Craft -5CD) [11-16] - jazz
- The Contempo Story 1973-1977: The Original Home of Soul (Cherry Red -3CD) [08-24] - r&b
- Destination (Fellside)
- Disco Not Disco (Strut -08) - electronic
- Discophilia Belgica: Next-door-disco & Local Spacemusic From Belgium 1975-1987 (Sdban) [11-16]
- Discovery Festival 2017: Channel (Weekertoft) - jazz
- Disques Debs International Vol 1: An Island Story: Biguine Afro Latin & Musique Antillaise 1960-1972 (Strut) [06-29] -
- Don't Mess With Cupid 'Cause Cupid Ain't Stupid (Trip) [07-20] - electronic
- Dr Demento Covered in Punk (Demented Punk) [01-12]
- Ernesto Chahoud Presents Taitu: Soul-Fueled Stompers From 1960s-1970s Ethiopia (BBE) [02-1l6] - African
- Fame Northern Soul (Kent) [11-30] - r&b
- Feelin' Right Saturday Night: The Ric & Ron Anthology (Craft) [12-07] - r&b
- Field Recordings From the Sahel (Sahel Sounds) [02-21] - African
- For Disco Only: Indie... (Craft) [08-24] - disco
- Norman Granz: The Founder (Verve -4CD) [12-07] - jazz
- The Greatest Showman [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Atlantic -17) [12-08-2017] - pop
- Harmony in My Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81 (Cherry Red -3CD) [11-02] - rock
- Heads Records: South African Disco-Dub Edits (Soundway -EP) [05-11] - African
- Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974): The Resurrection (Omni) [03-16] - country
- Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974): The Rapture (Omni) [11-02] - country
- Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974): Volume 777 (Omni) [08-17] - country
- Illuminations II (The New Year 2018 Charity Compilation) (Dronarium) [01-05] - electronic
- In Death's Dream Kingdom (Houndstooth) [01-26] - ambient
- Interferencias Vol 1: Spanish Synthwave 1980-1989 (Munster -17) [12-29-2017] - electronic
- Innerpeace: Rare Spiritual Funk and Jazz Gems (Wewantsounds) - jazz
- Insecure: Music From the HBO Original Series Season 3 (RCA) [09-21]
- Kulor 001 (Kulor) [10-11] - electronic
- La Contra Ola (Bongo Joe) [02-02] - post-punk
- Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music (Dust-to-Digital) [06-15] - African
- Motherless Brooklyn [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (WaterTower Music) [10-25] - jazz
- Music City Blues & Rhythm (Ace) [07-27] - blues
- Natural High: The Bongo Man Collection (Studio One) [06-08] - reggae
- Ocora: Le Monde Des Musiques Traditionnelles (Ocora) - world
- The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Jazz (World Music Network) [04-21] - African jazz
- The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (Mosaic -6CD) - jazz
- Self-Salvation (Genome 6.66 Mbp) [02-23]
- Sick Music 2018 (Hospital) [01-26] - electronic
- Small Island Big Sound (self-released) [06-23] - world
- Star: Season 3 [Official Soundtrack] (self-released) [11-23]
- Stax '68: A Memphis Story (Craft -5CD) [10-19] - soul
- Strange Angels: In Flight With Elmore James (Sylvan Songs) [01-26] - blues
- Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (Numero Group -3CD) [05-25] - jazz
- Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label (Numero) [08-17] - rock & roll
- Texas Cotton [Original Soundtrack] (Texas Cotton) [11-16] - country
- The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose: American Primitive Guitar and Banjo (1963-1974) (Craft) [03-23] - folk
- Twentieth Annual Southern Music Issue: Featuring North Carolina (Oxford American) - soul/gospel/country/blues/bluegrass
- JD Twitch Presents Kreaturen Der Nacht (Strut) [11-09] - alt/indie
- Typical Girls Volume Four (Emotional Rescue) [03-02] - rock
- Un Mundo Raro: Las Canciones De Jose Alfredo Jiminez (Warner Music Mexico) [02-09] - Latin
- Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music (Anthology) [11-09]
- Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 (Music From Memory) [03-31] - art pop
- Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris (Dust-to-Digital) [06-01] - blues
- Waystation Compilation: Sequence I (Nostro Hood System) [02-02] - reggaeton
- Winds of Time: New Wave of British Heavy Metal 1979-1985 (HNE -3CD) [07-06] - metal
- XLR8R+003 ()
- Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees) [02-23] -
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