1. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
2. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)
3. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)
4. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
5. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
6. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
7. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)
8. Tune-Yards – sketchy (4AD)
9. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
10. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)
11. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)
12. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
13. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)
14. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
15. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)
16. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)
17. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
18. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
19. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD)
20. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)
21. Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness (Mom+Pop)
22. Noga Erez – KIDS (City Slang)
23. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
24. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
25. Mad Foxes – Ashamed (El Muchacho)
26. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
27. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
28. serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Secretly Canadian)
29. Curtis Harding – Hopeful (ANTI-)
30. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)
31. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)
32. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
33. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
34. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine)
35. Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa)
36. Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
37. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)
38. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)
39. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
40. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
41. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)
42. girl in red – if I could make it go quiet (AWAL)
43. Kylie V – Big Blue (self-released)
44. Lord Huron – Long Lost (Whispering Pines Studios/Republic)
45. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
46. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Flamingo/Atlantic)
47. Pond – 9 (Spinning Top)
48. Wild Powwers – What You Wanted (Nadine)
49. Gibraltar – Modern Mischief (self-released)
50. Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club (Interscope)
51. (Various) - Bills & Aches & Blues (4AD)
52. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)
53. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (RCA)
54. Tkay Maidza – Syrup (4AD)
55. Patrick Paige II – If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (Fat Possum)
56. Kasai Allstars – Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound (Crammed Discs)
57. Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses (Sub Pop)
58. Juan Wauters – Real Life Situations (Captured Tracks)
59. La Femme - Paradigmes (DISQUE POINT/ IDOL)
60. Beabadoobee – Last Day on Earth (Dirty Hit)
61. Jorja Smith – Be Right Back EP (FAMM)
62. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)
63. nasimiYu – P O T I O N S (Figureight)
64. Working Men’s Club – X (Heavenly)
65. Crumb – Ice Melt (Crumb)
66. Benny Sings – Music (Stones Throw)
67. Jaz Elise – The Golden Hour EP (In.Digg.Nation Collective)
68. Karate, Guns & Tanning – Concrete Beach (self-released)
69. MALIA – Unpolished (self-released)
70. No-No Boy – 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways)
71. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)
72. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)
73. The Lounge Society – Silk for the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)
74. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar)
75. Civic – Future Forecast (Flightless)
76. Zo! & Tall Black Guy – Abstractions (Foreign Exchange Music)
77. Cha Wa – My People (Single Lock)
78. Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy)
79. Tomo Nakayama – On the Way (self-released)
80. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny ha ha (Secretly Canadian)
81. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)
82. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
83. Red Ribbon – Planet X (Danger Collective)
84. oddCouple – Reflections (self-released)
85. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
86. pronoun – OMG I MADE IT EP (Wax Bodega)
87. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released)
88. Rodrigo y Gabriela – The Jazz EP (ATO)
89. TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars)
90. Glüme - The Internet (Italians Do It Better)
1. Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (Fantasy)
2. Tony Joe White – Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
3. Riley Downing – Start It Over (New West)
4. Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder (Aimless/Thirty Tigers)
5. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They're Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
6. Esther Rose – How Many Times (Father/Daughter)
7. Lucero –When You Found Me (Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers)
8. Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – These 13 (Thirty Tigers)
9. Willie Nelson – That's Life (Legacy)
10. Langhorne Slim – Strawberry Mansion (Dualtone)
1. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)
2. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
3. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)
4. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
5. Kasai Allstars – Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound (Crammed Discs)
6. Jaz Elise – The Golden Hour EP (In.Digg.Nation Collective)
7. Altin Gün - Yol (ATO)
8. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)
9. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
10. Burna Boy – Kilometre (Atlantic)
1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
2. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
3. Tkay Maidza – Syrup (4AD)
4. Patrick Paige II – If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (Fat Possum)
5. Mumu Fresh – Work (self-released)
6. Aesop Rock – Long Legged Larry (Rhymesayers)
7. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
8. Brockhampton – Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (Question Everything/RCA)
9. Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (House Anxiety/Ourness)
10. J.Period - Story to Tell (Truelements/RBC)
1. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
2. The Chemical Brothers – The Darkness That You Fear (EMI/Virgin)
3. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)
4. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
5. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
6. Darkside – Spiral (Matador)
7. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
8. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)
9. Working Men’s Club – X (Heavenly)
10. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
1. Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge)
2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
3. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
4. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)
5. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music (300 Entertainment)
6. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
7. Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes (Young Art)
8. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
9. Curtis Harding – Hopeful (ANTI-)
10. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams (Transgressive)
1. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse)
2. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)
3. Blue Lab Beats, Kaidi & NK-OK – The Sounds of Afrotronica (Blue Adventure/All Points)
4. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)
5. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-)
6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
7. Garage A Trois – Calm Down Cologne (The Royal Potato Family)
8. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem)
9. Gary Bartz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – JID006 (Jazz Is Dead)
10. Dr. Lonnie Smith – Breathe (Blue Note)
1. Chong The Nomad & Laureli – No Pulp (Kitsune)
2. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
3. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
4. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
5. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
6. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Jimmy's Groove (Colemine)
7. Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa)
8. Wild Powwers – What You Wanted (Nadine)
9. Gibraltar – Modern Mischief (self-released)
10. Tomo Nakayama – On the Way (self-released)
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
Lord Huron – Long Lost (Whispering Pines Studios/Republic)
Erika de Casier – Sensational (4AD)
Robert Finley – Sharecropper's Son (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
Jorja Smith – Be Right Back EP (FAMM)
Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods (Rough Trade)
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time With Reigning Sound (Merge)
Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO III (Foreseen/Epistrophik Peach Sound)
The Black Keys – Delta Kream (Nonesuch)
L’Impératrice - Tako Tsubo (microqlima)
Fred again.. - Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (Atlantic)
Claire George – The Land Beyond the Light (Cascine)
KUČKA - Wrestling (LuckyMe)
Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy)
Paul Jacobs – Pink Dogs on the Green Grass (Blow The Fuse)
Lula Wiles – Shame and Sedition (Smithsonian Folkways)
Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)
Ducks Ltd. - Get Bleak EP (Carpark)
Lydia Ainsworth – Sparkles & Debris (Zombie Cat)
Holiday Ghosts – North Street Air (FatCat)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – The Jazz EP (ATO)
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam)
Lambchop – Showtunes (Merge)
FACS – Present Tense (Trouble In Mind)
Morcheeba – Blackest Blue (Kartel Music Group, 5/14/21)
299 – The 299 Game (PNKSLM)
fuvk - twentytwenty (Z Tapes)
Lucy – The Music Industry is Poisonous (Dots Per Inch)
Soul Clap - WTF (World Transformation Force) (Fool's Gold)
Orions Belte - Villa Amorini (Jansen)
Mannequin Pussy – Perfect EP (Epitaph)
Nap Eyes – When I Come Around EP (Jagjaguwar)
Coral Grief – Coral Grief EP (self-released)
