Diverse and eclectic sounds on the more adventurous side
12:06 pm - 3:00 pm MT
with Falling Short
Playlist
Turn up your afternoon with the best and boldest sounds from the AfterFM vault.
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm MT
The end of 2020 is here (thank goodness!), and our DJs are taking a look back at their favorite releases from this year. Take a look at what album releases your favorite KGNU DJs loved in 2020!
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Pop Smoke | Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon | Victor Victor/Republic |
| 2 | Sault | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 3 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG |
| 4 | Sturgill Simpson | Cuttin’ Grass | High Top Mountain |
| 5 | Khruangbin | Morchechai | Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories |
| 6 | Mac Miller | Circles | Remember Music/Warner |
| 7 | Lil Baby | My Turn | Quality Control/Motown Records |
| 8 | Lila Ike | The ExPerience | In.Digg.Nation Collective |
| 9 | Nicolas Jaar | Cenizas | Other People |
| 10 | Sevana | Be Somebody | In.Digg.Nation Collective |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Radam Schwartz | Message from Groove | Arabesque |
| 2 | Billy Childs | Acceptance | Mack Avenue |
| 3 | Bobby Wiens | Talking Drums | a |
| 4 | Lauren Henderson | For Your Consideration | Brontosaurus |
| 5 | Diana Krall | This Dream of You | Capitol |
| 6 | Charlie Parker | The Savoy Collection | Craft |
| 7 | Immanuel Wilkins | Omega | Blue Note |
| 8 | Christian McBride | Christian McBride Big Band | Mack Avenue |
| 9 | Ella Fitzgerald | The Lost Berlin Tapes | Verve |
| 10 | Carol Welsman | Dance With Me | Justin Time |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Nicholas Jaar | Cenizas | Other People |
| 2 | Sufjan Stevens | The Ascension | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 3 | Paint | Spiritual Vegas | Mexican Summer |
| 4 | Cabaret Voltaire | Shadow of Fear | Mute |
| 5 | Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Songs | Smalltown Supersound |
| 6 | Public Enemy | What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? | Def Jam |
| 7 | Jim White | Misfits Jubilee | Fluff & Gravy |
| 8 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan |
| 9 | Throwing Muses | Sun Racket | Fire |
| 10 | Cayucas | Blue Summer | Park The Van |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours | Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours | Camo |
| 2 | Michael Doucet avec Lâcher Prise | Lâcher Prise | Compass |
| 3 | The Revelers | At the End of the River – Au bout de la riviére | Revelers |
| 4 | Gregg Martinez | MacDaddy Mojeaux | NOLA Blue |
| 5 | Michot’s Melody Makers | Cosmic Cajuns From Saturn | Electric Nouveau Records |
| 6 | Johnny Iguana | Johnny Iguana's Chicago Spectacular | Delmark |
| 7 | The Daiquiri Queens | The Daiquiri Queens | Self |
| 8 | Sweet Cecilia | A Tribute to Al Berard | Self |
| 9 | Johnny Nicholas | Mistaken Identity | Valcour |
| 10 | Goldman Thibodeaux & The Lawtell Playboys | La Danse à St. Ann’s | Electric Nouveau Records |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | entropic advance | nonviolent protests | symbolic insight |
| 2 | Loscil | Adrift | Self-Produced |
| 3 | Al Petteway | Slide | Fairewood Studios |
| 4 | Negativland | True False | Seeland |
| 5 | Nine Inch Nails | Ghosts V: Together | The Null Corporation |
| 6 | biostatic | silver lining | symbolic insight |
| 7 | Kelly Lee Owens | Inner Song | Smalltown Supersound |
| 8 | The Echelon Effect | Drift Static | Self-Produced |
| 9 | 0N4B | bar(a)ca | ANBA |
| 10 | Brother Saturn | Mountain Songs | Self-Produced |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | R.A.P. Ferreira | Purple Moonlight | Ruby Yacht |
| 2 | Makaya McCraven | We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven | XL |
| 3 | Tim Heidecker | Fear of Death | Spacebomb |
| 4 | Serengeti | Ajai | Cohn |
| 5 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG |
| 6 | Dawes | Good Luck with Whatever | HUB |
| 7 | Armand Hammer | Shrines | Backwoodz Studio |
| 8 | Divine Interface | Seeking Arrangement | 2MR |
| 9 | Sen Morimoto | Sen Morimoto | Sooper |
| 10 | The Strokes | The New Abnormal | RCA |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Daniel Romano’s Outfit | Okay Wow | You’ve Changed |
| 2 | Ron Miles | Rainbow Sign | Blue Note |
| 3 | Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards | Bitter Better | Compass |
| 4 | Daniel Romano | Visions Of The Higher Dream | You’ve Changed |
| 5 | The Beths | Jump Rope Gazers | Carpark |
| 6 | Hjaltalin | Hjaltalin | Record Records |
| 7 | This Is The Kit | Off Off On | Rough Trade |
| 8 | Twisted Pine | Right Now | Signature Sounds |
| 9 | Seamus Fogarty | A Bag of Eyes | Domino |
| 10 | Wes Corbett | Cascade | Padiddle |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Jim White | Misfit’s Jubilee | Fluff & Gravy |
| 2 | SAULT | Untitled (Rise) | Forever Living Originals |
| 3 | Fantastic Negrito | Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? | Cooking Vinyl |
| 4 | Fleet Foxes | Shore | Anti- |
| 5 | Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Columbia |
| 6 | Richard Thompson | Bloody Noses EP | Beeswing |
| 7 | Savoy Brown | Ain’t Done Yet | Quarto Valley |
| 8 | Lucinda Williams | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway 20 |
| 9 | Chuck Prophet | The Land That Time Forgot | Yep Roc |
| 10 | Dave Alvin | From An Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Yep Roc |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Gregory Porter | All Rise | Universal/Decca |
| 2 | M. Ward | Migration Stories | ANTI |
| 3 | Cloudchord | Reverence | Cloudchord |
| 4 | Aesop Rock | Spirit World Field Guide | Rhymesayers |
| 5 | Bill Frisell | Valentine | Blue Note |
| 6 | Disq | Collector | Saddle Creek |
| 7 | Louis Prince | Thirteen | Last Gang |
| 8 | Bibio | Sleep On The Wing | Warp |
| 9 | Sweet Crude | Officiel//Artificiel | Verve |
| 10 | Son Little | aloha | Anti- |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Jon Mckiel | Bobby Joe Hope | You've Changed |
| 2 | Natalie Slade | Control | Eglo |
| 3 | Soft Power | Brink of Extinction | RR Gems |
| 4 | SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 5 | Dogwood Tales | Closest Thing To Heaven | WarHen |
| 6 | Holy Hive | Float Back To You | Big Crown |
| 7 | Skinshape | Arrogance Is The Death of Men | Lewis |
| 8 | Peel Dream Magazine | Agitprop Alterna | Slumberland |
| 9 | Vinyl Williams | Azure | Requiem Pour Un Twister |
| 10 | Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Kekeketla! | Kekeketla! | Ahead Of Our Time |
| 2 | Gillian Welch | Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 3 | Acony |
| 3 | Antibalas | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
| 4 | Jónsi | Shiver | KRUNK |
| 5 | Free Radicals | White Power Outage Vol. 1 | RWE |
| 6 | SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 7 | Zara McFarlane | Songs of an Unknown Tongue | Brownswood |
| 8 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch |
| 9 | Khruangbin and Leon Bridges | Texas Sun EP | Dead Oceans |
| 10 | Sylvan Esso | Free Love | Loma Vista |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Vundabar | Either Light | Gawk |
| 2 | Tim Heidecker | Fear of Death | Spacebomb |
| 3 | Wayfarer | A Romance With Violence | Profound Lore |
| 4 | Thundercat | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
| 5 | Angel Olsen | A Whole New Mess | Jagjaguwar |
| 6 | Gulch | Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress | Closed Casket Activities |
| 7 | Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | Alfredo | ESGN/ALC/EMPIRE |
| 8 | Soft Kill | Dean Kids RIP City | Soft Kill |
| 9 | Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud | Merge |
| 10 | Moses Sumney | Græ | Jagjaguwar |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG |
| 2 | Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia | Warner |
| 3 | Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 4 | Haim | Women In Music Pt. III | Columbia |
| 5 | Steve Earle | Ghosts of West Virginia | New West |
| 6 | Jonathan Wilson | Dixie Blur | BMG |
| 7 | Luke Haines & Peter Buck | Beat Poetry for Survivalists | Omnivore |
| 8 | Shirley Collins | Heart’s Ease | Domino |
| 9 | Jarv Is | Beyond The Pale | Rough Trade |
| 10 | Hen Ogledd | Free Humans | Domino |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Multicast | Travelogue | Carpe Sonum |
| 2 | Dyad | Dormant | Self-Released |
| 3 | Nordvest | Grøndal | Suction |
| 4 | James Shinra | Darkroom | Craigie Knowes |
| 5 | Midwife | Forever | Flenser |
| 6 | The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller | Dimensional Shifting | Solar One |
| 7 | Various | Theremin - 100 Years | Electronic Sound Magazine |
| 8 | Various | Transcendental Movements Volume 1 | IDO |
| 9 | Monolake | Archaeopteryx | Inbalance Computer Music |
| 10 | Locust | The Plaintive | Suction |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| 2 | Victoria Monét | Jaguar | Tribe |
| 3 | Westerman | Your Hero Is Not Dead | Partisan |
| 4 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG |
| 5 | Haim | Women In Music Part III | Columbia |
| 6 | Spillage Village | Spilligion | Dreamville |
| 7 | Charli XCX | How I’m Feeling Now | Atlantic |
| 8 | Real Estate | The Main Thing | Domino |
| 9 | Princess Nokia | Everything Is Beautiful | Platoon |
| 10 | Khruangbin | Mordechai | Dead Oceans |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Ondubground | Brothers | Odgprod |
| 2 | Zenobia | Halak Halak | Crammed Discs |
| 3 | Vajantri | Perk Pietrek & Nucleya | BrednButter |
| 4 | T.N.T. | Nayana Lz | Different Records |
| 5 | Diljit Dosanjh | G.O.A.T. | Famous Studios |
| 6 | Naseeb | Welcome to the Revolution | GMC |
| 7 | Various | Sufiyum Sujatayum | Friday Music |
| 8 | Shrapknel | Flechette | Backwoodz Studioz |
| 9 | Quakers | Supa K: Heavy Tremors | Stones Throw |
| 10 | Various | The Uncanny Times | Hive Mind |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Cindy Lee | What’s Tonight To Eternity | W. 25th |
| 2 | Sven Wunder | Wabi Sabi | Piano Piano |
| 3 | Various | Louis Wayne Moody High: 1967 | Numero Group |
| 4 | Donny Benét | Mr. Experience | Dot Dash |
| 5 | Various | Portals (A Kosmische Journey Through Outer Worlds And Inner Space) | Behind the Sky |
| 6 | Solo Ansamblis | OLOS | Artoffact |
| 7 | Loving | If I Am Only My Thoughts | Last Gang |
| 8 | Pia Fraus | Empty Parks | SekSound |
| 9 | Permission | Organised People Suffer | La Vida Es Un Mus |
| 10 | Borusiade | Fortunate Isolation | Dark Entries |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Alton Miller | Souls Like Mine | Music Institute Detroit |
| 2 | Natalie Slade | Control | Eglo |
| 3 | LCSM "Likwid Continual Space Motion" | Earthboung | Super-Sonic Jazz |
| 4 | Luke Vibert | Modern Rave | Hypercolour |
| 5 | Psedo Slang | Wanderverse | Baby Steps Hip Hop |
| 6 | Calibre | Shelflife Six | Signature Records |
| 7 | Moodymann | Taken Away | KDJ |
| 8 | Mark Pritchard | EP1 | Warp |
| 9 | Various | Star Creature Vibes | Star Creature Universal |
| 10 | Khruangbin | Morchechai | Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | LO.CEASAR | LO.CEASAR 2 | RRR |
| 2 | Dinner Party | Dinner Party | Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire |
| 3 | iLL SUGi and Dregs One | Universal Language (Demo Version) | Audio Vandals |
| 4 | Butcher Brown | #KingButch | Concord Jazz |
| 5 | John Robinson | The LVL Up | Beatvision |
| 6 | Council of Word | Indignorance | Council of Word |
| 7 | B.i Lectric | Strange Moon | Last Stab |
| 8 | DJ A-L & Bilgunn | CooL Out Culturei | Retro Respect |
| 9 | Spac3 Ghost | Afterworld | Spac3 Ghost |
| 10 | Jansport J | All Weather | All Attraction, No Chasin |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Christian McBride | For Jimmy, Wes, and Oliver | Mack Avenue |
| 2 | Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca | N’Dona Ponte | Ricardo Lemvo |
| 3 | Gregory Porter | All Rise | Universal Music |
| 4 | Deerhoof | Future Teenage Cave Artists | Joyful Noise |
| 5 | Minyo Crusaders & Frente Cumbiero | Minyo Cumbiero | Maise Um Discos |
| 6 | Various | Reggae Gold | VP |
| 7 | Dr Sakis | 40° à l'ombre | Debs |
| 8 | The Legendary Ingramettes | Take A Look In The Book | Virginia Folklife |
| 9 | Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 10 | Mac Miller | Circles | Remember Music |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Moodymann | Taken Away | KDJ |
| 2 | Clarence Carter | Mr Old School | Cee Gee |
| 3 | SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 4 | Sheba Potts-Wright | So Damn Good | Ecko |
| 5 | Alice Ivy | Don’t Sleep | Last Gang |
| 6 | KNXWLEDGE | 1988 | Stones Throw |
| 7 | Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder | Dinner Party | Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire |
| 8 | Tomar and the FCs | Rise Above | Splice |
| 9 | Uncle Wayne | The Birth of Hithm & Bluez, Vol 2 | The Hithm & Bluez Music Group |
| 10 | Fantastic Negrito | Have You Lost Your Mind | Cooking Vinyl |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Wolfgang Muthspiel | Angular Blues | ECM |
| 2 | Waxahatchee | St Cloud | Merge |
| 3 | Maria Schneider | Data Lords | Artist Direct |
| 4 | Siti Muharam | Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar) | On The Corner |
| 5 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan |
| 6 | Kiko Dinucci | Rastilho | Mais Um Discos |
| 7 | Etienne de la Sayette | Kobugi | Muju |
| 8 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch |
| 9 | Les Amazones D’Afrique | Amazones Power | Real World |
| 10 | Carla Bley | Life Goes On | ECM |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Thomas Adès (Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra) | Adès Conducts Adès | Deutsche Grammophon |
| 2 | John Adams (Yuja Wang, LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel) | Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? | Deutsche Grammophon |
| 3 | Ashley Fure (International Contemporary Ensemble) | Something to Hunt | Sound American |
| 4 | Anna Thorvaldsdóttir (Iceland Symphony Orchestra) | Rhíz?ma | Innova |
| 5 | Jóhann Jóhannsson (Yair Elazar Glotman) | Last And First Men | Deutsche Grammophon |
| 6 | Bára Gísladóttir | Bára Gísladóttir | Dacapo |
| 7 | Anna Clyne (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, Irene Buckley) | Anna Clyne: Mythologies | Avie Records |
| 8 | Mark Abel (various) | The Cave of Wondrous Voice | Delos Music |
| 9 | Aaron Jay Kernis (Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero) | Aaron Jay Kernis: Color Wheel | Naxos |
| 10 | John Clay Allen | Asnières | Axiom Music LLC |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Del Shamen | Del Shamen | Self-Produced |
| 2 | Teddy Thompson | Heartbreaker Please | Verve Forecast |
| 3 | The Two Tracks | Cheers to Solitude | Self-Produced |
| 4 | Jeff Tweedy | Love Is King | dBpm |
| 5 | Pokey LaFarge | Rock Bottom Rhapsody | Third Man |
| 6 | Mipso | Mipso | Mipsomusic |
| 7 | Shemekia Copeland | Uncivil War | Alligator |
| 8 | Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Columbia |
| 9 | Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings | Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In | Daptone |
| 10 | J.S. Ondara | Folk N Roll Volume 1: Tales of Isolation | Verve Forecast |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | The Texicana Mamas | The Texicana Mamas | Self-Produced |
| 2 | Danny O’Keefe | Looking Glass & The Dreamers | Road Canon |
| 3 | Cary Morin | Dockside Saints | Maple Street |
| 4 | Jesse Daniel | Rollin’ On | Die True |
| 5 | Christian McBride | Christian McBride Big Band, For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver | Mack Avenue |
| 6 | Dave Alvin | From An Old Guitar | Yep Rock |
| 7 | Flying A’s | No Holds Barred | Self-Produced |
| 8 | Dan Penn | Living On Mercy | The Last Music Company |
| 9 | Joachim Cooder | Over The Road I’m Bound | Nonesuch |
| 10 | Tessy Lou Williams | Tessy Lou Williams | Self-Produced |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Midnight Riders Meets The Naram Rhythm Section | Midnight Riders Meets The Naram Rhythm Section | Red Robin Records |
| 2 | Monkey Marc | Vital Sound | Digikillaz / DubShot |
| 3 | Various | Puffers Choice Vol. 3 | Scotch Bonnet Records |
| 4 | McPullish | Lone Wolf McDub | Charlie's |
| 5 | O.B.F. | SIGNZ | Dubquake Records |
| 6 | Jah9 | Note to Self | VP |
| 7 | Mungo's Hi Fi x Marina P | Soul Radio | Scotch Bonnet Records |
| 8 | Soom T | The Arch | X-Ray |
| 9 | MouseFX | MouseFX In Jamaica EP | SEEAHOLE |
| 10 | Radikal Guru | Beyond The Borders | Moonshine |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Matthew Tavares | Mississauga | Self-Produced |
| 2 | Sharada Shashidar | Rahu | Leaving |
| 3 | Eric Osbourne | Eric Osbourne | Self-Produced |
| 4 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch |
| 5 | CLD.R?N | /?n?k?.?t??f?l?.?i?.??/ | Future Archive |
| 6 | adrianne lenker | songs & instrumentals | 4AD |
| 7 | Nana Adjoa | Big Dreaming Ants | Bloomer |
| 8 | Loving | If I Am Only My Thoughts | Self-Produced |
| 9 | Gabriels | Love and Hate In A Different Time | Self-Produced |
| 10 | Ultraísta | Sister | Partisan |
| # | Artist | Album | |
| 1 | Gil Scott-Heron | We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven | XL |
| 2 | Chicano Batman | Invisible People | ATO |
| 3 | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz Is Dead 001 | Jazz Is Dead |
| 4 | Beverly Glenn-Copeland | Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland | Transgressive |
| 5 | Calibro 35 | Momentum | Record Kicks |
| 6 | Rufus Reid and Sullivan Frotner | Always in the Moment | Newvelle |
| 7 | Etienne de la Sayette | Kobugi | Muju |
| 8 | Lexsoul Dancemachine | Lexplosion II | Funk Embassy |
| 9 | Isaiah Lujan | Do What You Want EP | Blank Tapel |
| 10 | Onipa | We Be No Machine | Strut |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Preservation Hall Jazz Band | A Tuba to Cuba | Preservation Hall |
| 2 | Janiva Magness | Sings John Fogerty | Blue Elan |
| 3 | Kandace Springs | The Women Who Raised Me | Blue Note |
| 4 | Various | Birdsongs of Central America, Mexico & the Carribean | Shika Shika |
| 5 | Don Bryant | You Make Me Feel | Fat Possum |
| 6 | Don Vappie | The Blue Book of Storyville | Lejazzetal |
| 7 | Lakecia Benjamin | Pursuance: The Coltranes | Ropeadope |
| 8 | James Wayne | The Very Best of James Watne | Jasmine |
| 9 | Bahama Soul Club | Bohemia After Dawn | Buyu |
| 10 | Maceo Parker | Soul Food - Cooking with Maceo | Funk Garage |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | dumama + kechou | buffering juju | Mushroom Hour Half Hour |
| 2 | Fort Knox Five | DC’s Finest Vols. 1-4 | Fort Knox Recordings |
| 3 | Heliocentrics | Infinity of Now | Madlib Invazion |
| 4 | Isayahh Wuddha | Urban Brew | Maquis |
| 5 | Jon McKiel | Bobby Joe Hope | You’ve Changed |
| 6 | Numa Gama | Me Redesenho | VOODOOHOP |
| 7 | Pretty Boy Freud | Collateral Damage | Common and Normal |
| 8 | Roos Jonker & Dean Tippet | Roos Jonker & Dean Tippet | Sonar Kollektiv |
| 9 | SAULT | UNTITLED (Black Is) / (Rise) | Forever Living Originals |
| 10 | Various | The Uncanny Times | Hive Mind |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Ammar 808 | Global Control / Invisible Invasion | Glitterbeat |
| 2 | Bahama Soul Club | Bohemia After Dawn | Buyu |
| 3 | JISR | Too Far Away | Free Soul Inc |
| 4 | Kakai Kilonzo & Les Kilimambogo Brothers | Buffalo Mountain | No Wahala Sounds |
| 5 | Keleketla! | Keleketla! | Ahead Of Our Time |
| 6 | Kutiman | Wachaga | Siyal Music |
| 7 | Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos | Bichos | Olindo |
| 8 | Skinshape | Umoja | Lewis |
| 9 | Various | Future Shock Vols 1-4 | Names You Can Trust |
| 10 | Various | Global Riddims Vols 1-3 | NYP |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Onipa | We Be No Machine | Strut |
| 2 | Sunglitters | Ssoofftt Ttoouucchh | Future Archive |
| 3 | SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 4 | Bronwynne Brent | Undercover | Self-Produced |
| 5 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan |
| 6 | The Allergies | Say The Word | Jalapeno |
| 7 | Squarepusher | Be Up A Hello | Warp |
| 8 | Pokey La Farge | Rock Bottom Rhapsody | New West |
| 9 | Free Radicals | White Power Outage Vol. 1 | RWE |
| 10 | Jade Hairpins | Harmony Avenue | Rough Trade |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite | 100 Years of Blues | Alligator |
| 2 | Joachim Cooder | Over That Road I’m Bound | Nonesuch |
| 3 | Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Columbia |
| 4 | Kathleen Edwards | Total Freedom | Dualtone |
| 5 | Bill Frisell | Valentine | Blue Note |
| 6 | Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon | Noon | ATO |
| 7 | Lori McKenna | The Balladeer | C&N |
| 8 | Danny O’Keefe | Looking Glass & The Dreamers | Bicameral Songs |
| 9 | Two Tracks | Cheers to Solitude | Self-Released |
| 10 | Colter Wall | Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs | La Honda |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Zsela | Ache of Victory | Self-Released |
| 2 | I Like Trains | KOMPROMAT | Atlantic Curve |
| 3 | Gill Landry | Skeleton at the Banquet | Rough Trade |
| 4 | The Howling Hex | Knuckleball Express | Fat Possum |
| 5 | Lido Pimienta | Miss Columbia | Anti- |
| 6 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero's Death | Partisan |
| 7 | Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 8 | CHEO | Sorpresa | Self-Released |
| 9 | Innocence Mission | See You Tomorrow | Bella Union |
| 10 | Buscabulla | Regresa | Ribbon Music |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Various | A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean | Shika Shika |
| 2 | Ghetto Kumbé | Ghetto Kumbé | ZZK |
| 3 | Numa Gama | Me Redesenho | voodoohop |
| 4 | S H I R A N - ????? | S H I R A N - ????? | Batov |
| 5 | ???? (B?nláng dàish?, Betelnut Kangaroo) | ???? (T? de yùyán, His Parable) | Legislature |
| 6 | Romano - ?????? | Romano - ?????? | Batov |
| 7 | Céu | APKÁ! | Céu Music |
| 8 | Gitkin | De La Canción | Wonderwheel |
| 9 | Liraz | Zan | Glitterbeat |
| 10 | Marshall Chapman | Songs I Can’t Live Without | Tall Girl Records |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Jeff Parker | Suite for Max Brown | International Anthem |
| 2 | Tenderlonious | Tender in Lahore | 22a |
| 3 | Kaki King | Modern Yesterdays | Cantaloupe |
| 4 | Filippo Vignato | Heidelberg - Live at Enjoy Jazz | AUAND |
| 5 | Makaya McCraven | Universal Beings E & F Sides | International Anthem |
| 6 | Various | A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean | Shika Shikar |
| 7 | Deutsch & Thorn | Tangled Sea | Self |
| 8 | Carlos Niño, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson | Chicago Waves | International Anthem |
| 9 | Svetlost | Odron Ritual Orchestra | PMGJazz |
| 10 | Anteloper | Tour Beats, Vol. 1 | International Anthem |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Chemtrails | The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable | PNKSLM |
| 2 | Shopping | All Or Nothing | FatCat |
| 3 | Damian Jurado | What's New, Tomboy? | Mama Bird Recording Co. |
| 4 | Keleketla | Keleketla! | Ahead of Our Time |
| 5 | Tony Allen & Hugh Masakela | Rejoice | World Circuit |
| 6 | Wire | Mind Hive | Pink Flag |
| 7 | Calibro 35 | Momentum | Record Kicks |
| 8 | Gum Country | Somewhere | Waterslide |
| 9 | Victor Rice | Drink | Easy Star |
| 10 | The Psychedelic Furs | Made of Rain | Cooking Vinyl |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Various | The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 | John Hartford Enterprises |
| 2 | Laurie Lewis | ...And Laurie Lewis | Spruce and Maple Music |
| 3 | Sarah Jarosz | World On The Ground | Rounder |
| 4 | Tara Dente | Truth In The Wind | Travianna |
| 5 | Chris Stapleton | Starting Over | Mercury Nashville |
| 6 | Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musslewhite | 100 Years of Blues | Alligator |
| 7 | Mandolin Orange | Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater | Mandolin Orange |
| 8 | Gillian Welch | Boots No. 1: The Lost Songs | Acony |
| 9 | Various | On The Road: A Tribute to John Hartford | LoHiRecords |
| 10 | Hawktail | Formations | Hawktail |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Bantou Mentale | Congo Animal EP | Planet Woo |
| 2 | Various | A Guide to Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and The Caribbean | Shika Shika |
| 3 | Klezmer-ish | Dusty Road | World Music Network |
| 4 | Antibalas | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
| 5 | Buscabulla | Regresa | Ribbon |
| 6 | The John Santos Sextet | Art of the Descarga | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 7 | Grain Thief | Gasoline | Grain Thief |
| 8 | Gillian Welch | Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 2 | Acony |
| 9 | Margot Krimmel | Ever The New Time Comes | Self |
| 10 | Karavan Sarai | Torn In Love | Silk Road Electronics |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Sven Wunder | Wabi Sabi | Piano Piano |
| 2 | Various | Stone Crush (Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987) | Light In The Attic |
| 3 | Pellegrino | Morphé | Early Sounds |
| 4 | Linkwood & Foat | Linkwood & Foat | Athens of the North |
| 5 | Surprise Chef | Daylight Savings | College of Knowledge |
| 6 | Twylyte '81 | The First Coming | Favorite Recordings |
| 7 | Janko Nilovic & The Soul Surfers | Maze Of Sounds | Broc Recordz |
| 8 | Ishkero | Brume | Chuwanaga |
| 9 | Cousin~ | A Message From Q | Moodshoe |
| 10 | Various | Retour Au Club Meduse | Spacetalk |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Chicano Batman | Invisible People | ATO |
| 2 | Dinner Party | Dinner Party | Sounds of Crenshaw |
| 3 | El Michels Affair | Adult Themes | Big Crown |
| 4 | Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist | Alfredo | ESGN/ALC |
| 5 | Khruangbin | Mordechai | Dead Oceans |
| 6 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch |
| 7 | Mac Miller | Circles | Warner |
| 8 | OBNOX | Savage Raygun | ever/never |
| 9 | Run The Jewels | RTJ4 | BMG |
| 10 | Mulatu Astatke and Black Jesus Experience | To Know Without Knowing | Agogo |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Sprain | As Lost Through Collision | The Flenser |
| 2 | Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 3 | Neptunian Maximalism | Eons | I, Voidhanger Records |
| 4 | Chester Watson | A Japanese Horror Film | POW |
| 5 | Mamaleek | Come & See | The Flenser |
| 6 | Monument | Molchat Doma | Sacred Bones |
| 7 | Midwife | Forever | The Flenser |
| 8 | EABS | Discipline of Sun Ra | Astigmatic |
| 9 | Paysage D'Hiver | Im Wald | Kunsthall Produktionen |
| 10 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | One for the Foxes | Take a Look Around | One for the Foxes |
| 2 | Billow Wood | Walls of Caves | Billow Wood |
| 3 | Margot Krimmel | Ever the New Time Comes | White Birds |
| 4 | Runa | The Tide of Winter | Runa |
| 5 | Sharon Shannon | The Reckoning | Kata Songs |
| 6 | Daibhid Stuibhard | An Sionnach Dubh (Black Fox) | Wildtune |
| 7 | Wolf Loescher | Sheeps Clothing | Off Hand |
| 8 | Ryan Dakota Farris | Healing | Self |
| 9 | Skerryvore | Live Across Scotland | Tyree Records |
| 10 | Daimh | Stopped In Our Tracks EP | Goat Island |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brotherhood | LIVE | International Anthem |
| 2 | Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways | Columbia |
| 3 | Keith Jarrett | Budaphest Concert | ECM |
| 4 | Radical Kitten | Silence is Violence | Hidden Bay |
| 5 | Prince | Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe) | Paisley Park |
| 6 | Tall Black Guy | Restless As We Are | Tall Black Guy |
| 7 | X | Alphabetland | Fat Possum |
| 8 | Cocanha | Pupot | Pagans |
| 9 | Khusugtun | Jangar | Rotes Nomades |
| 10 | HAIM | Women in Music Pt III | Columbia |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Orkesta Mendoza | Curandero | Glitterbeat |
| 2 | X | Alphabetland | Fat Possum |
| 3 | Kathleen Edwards | Total Freedom | Dualtone |
| 4 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) | Daptone |
| 5 | Chromeo | Quarantine Casanova | Chromeo |
| 6 | Sports Team | Deep Down Happy | Bright Antenna |
| 7 | SAULT | Untitled (Black Is) | Forever Living Originals |
| 8 | Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 9 | Chicano Batman | Invisible People | ATO |
| 10 | Lucinda Williams | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway 20 |
| # | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Eric Osbourne | Eric Osbourne | Self/Kindercore |
| 2 | Imaginary Persons | Spacescapes | Self |
| 3 | Loving | If I Am Only My Thoughts | Last Gang |
| 4 | DYAD | Dormant | Self |
| 5 | Gillian Welch | Boots No. 2 The Lost Songs | Acony |
| 6 | Recondite | Dwell | Ghostly International |
| 7 | Elkhorn | Storm Sessions | Beyond Beyond is Beyond |
| 8 | Floating Action | Outsider Art | PIAPTK |
| 9 | Pinegrove | Marigold | Rough Trade |
| 10 | Los Destllos | Sicodelicos | Vampi Soul |
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