These are our favorite albums of 2025 :) Thank you all for another fantastic year with our website. Despite what some may say, this year has been actually one of our most active and popular. We also changed a domain provider to more reliable, European company. I’m happy to share with you the best 300 albums of the year.
20 LITTLE SIMZ - LOTUS
This album grew on me. At first, I was mostly upset about the feud between SAULT and Simbi, because I loved them working together and I was very disheartened by some of the lyrics on the new album. On the other hand, she is still possibly the best lyricist in the game and it’s not like she’s drastically changed her sound - her trap experiments aren’t as prominent on the new record.
19 YOUNG FATHERS - 28 YEARS LATER
I regret that I didn’t see 28 Years Later in the theater, I feel that it was a great experience. Still, the soundtrack for this film is amazing and it only increased my interested in Young Fathers’ music - their next studio record should land even higher.
18 NIIA - V
I don’t need to add much to what I’ve already said about Niia - I’m satisfied that the artist that I first heard back in 2007 and I know personally more than a decade is still releasing music that I’d mention among the year’s best.
17 ROCHELLE JORDAN - THROUGH THE WALL
Fantastic electronic, dance record from Rochelle Jordan. My favorite club release of the year. I miss Kelela, I hope we’ll hear from her soon, but Rochelle, kinda following in that direction, is also a superb vocalist of her own.
16 GANAVYA - NILAM
While Ganavya doesn’t reach TOP 10 this time around, she was still my favorite concert of the year.
15 LINA - O FADO / TERRA MAE
Some will be surprised, but considering that Lina was already quite high in our EP chart the last year, it’s clear that Portuguese artist is in the great form. O Fado is more of a traditional fado record, while Terra Mae focuses on her songwriting and also features songs in English.
14 MAX RICHTER - HAMNET / SLEEP CIRCLE
Hamnet is one of my most anticipated films right now, and beautiful score by Max Richter - for me, always The Leftovers guy first - is the key reason why. My favourite score album this year.
13 HOPE TALA - HOPE HANDWRITTEN
We’ve waited quite a few years for Hope’s debut record and it didn’t disappoint at all, with reflective lyrics mixed up with catchy hooks. I was super excited to see her performing at Coachella, as well!
12 HEKLA - TURNAR
Hekla is the year-end chart regular since 2018. This year, the theremin player, will be also featured high in our EP chart. It was a great year for this instrument, I also saw Ela Orleans live (and I hope to see Hekla in Poland too!), and of course, it was prominently featured in that weird Severance episode.
11 EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY - WEIRDO
I’m really gutted that I won’t be attending this Friday’s Emma-Jean concert in Warsaw. I feel like it’s mostly because it’s just too close to holidays. But the record is fantastic, I will always remember the evening of electric Bandcamp listening party.
10 JAMES K - FRIEND
Everybody knows I love shoegaze and there’s a plenty of more traditionally-sounding shoegaze records in the chart. But I’m also very interested in the experimental side of it. Maria Somerville’s record is quite high and I decided to include in TOP 10 a new critically acclaimed record by the producer who goes by the name of james K. This is also a show that I unfortunately had to miss, but in both cases I believe the artists have long career ahead of them, and they will probably return to Warsaw, hopefully for solo shows.
9 NATION OF LANGUAGE - DANCE CALLED MEMORY
I’m a huge fan of this trio, anthemic, melodic, borrowing a lot of influences from both 80s titans and underlooked bands (judging by their cover selection). Their new album is their best yet. I’m really hoping we will see them in Poland next year (preferably in Warsaw, but I also can’t understand why they haven’t played at Off Festival yet. However, I don’t know why, there’s something about Off Festival that really moves away from the artists that I’m listening to).
8 PULP - MORE
Surprise! A new Pulp album, sounding really good. As it was to be expected, considering Jarvis Cocker’s solo music (and his other project, JARV IS, I hope it will return) remains constantly fresh and inspiring. One of the few records topping the year-end charts of the big blogs that actually deserve it. The other is at #6...
7 OLIVIA DEAN - THE ART OF LOVING
When I discovered Olivia Dean on Later with Jools Holland, I didn’t anticipate her unexpected global success with The Art Of Loving. While the artist did experiment with more alternative, guitar-based sound, she focused on soulful, jazzy pop, which led to Saturday Night Live stage. I’m happy for her success but I’m afraid she’s maybe becoming TOO popular. I wanna meet her in person and congratulate her not only on her music, but also her phenomenal NTS Radio show (and she also hasn’t done one of these in some time). But well, we’ll see.
6 ROSALIA - LUX
My first contact with BERGHAIN was a music video. So I was even more shocked than those who ONLY heard the song itself. I don’t think anyone has expected this classical-electronic-pop mixture. I didn’t, I actually didn’t like Motomami album, present in our chart, but very low. I was wondering if Rosalia will become yet another electro-pop star. She didn’t. I love the flamenco sound of Los Angeles, El Mal Querer was the record that introduced her to me, but it’s Lux that now has her best result in the history of this chart.
5 PENELOPE TRAPPES - A REQUIEM
Penelope Trappes never fails me. And every record of her just keeps on getting better. This is the second of these twenty that I first heard during the Bandcamp event. It’s still a great memory.
4 SAUL WILLIAMS - MEETS CARLOS NINO & FRIENDS AT TREEPEOPLE
I don’t have to tell you that 2025 was a difficult year, politically speaking. Just follow my Bluesky account, I’m talking about the Trump administation latest „achievements” on there, almost daily. My favourite kinda-political record this year was a new album by Saul Williams, revelatory poet joined in a live event by Carlos Nino, Kamasi Washington and the poet aja monet, among others.
3 SHARON VAN ETTEN & THE ATTACHMENT THEORY - THE ATTACHMENT THEORY
This time, Sharon Van Etten is backed by a band, called The Attachment Theory. The songwriting is still sharp, and the record is one of the best in her discography. For a while, I thought it would be our Album Of The Year, and while it was eventually beaten by soul records (showing my taste preference here), she will probably achieve this result in the future.
2 SAY SHE SHE - CUT & REWIND
It was a sudden thought - „why can’t I put them in Top 3?”. Every album of theirs was in Top 20. This one is a particular revelation, joyous, uplifting, yet at the same time, thought-provoking and lyrically intriguing. I also recently found out that Say She She, whom I consider a trio, are actually backed live by the legendary band Orgone. So hopefully, they will find their way to Poland soon enough.
1 JOY CROOKES - JUNIPER
Skin was #3. So Juniper being even higher was quite expected, actually. Especially with the series of excellent singles. I remember my first listen, but the second is even more cherished memory. It was in the park, the last day of warm weather, I took a book with me and put Juniper on. It was just beautiful. Just like with some of the other artists that I mentioned, her Warsaw venue show can’t come fast enough, but I’m really afraid she’d land at some festival (like Olivia).
>ALL OF OUR ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
Joy Crookes - Juniper (soul, Insanity)
Say She She - Cut & Rewind (soul/disco, drink sum wtr)
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - The Attachment Theory (alternative, Jagjaguwar)
Saul Williams - Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople (poetry / jazz, International Anthem)
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem (experimental, One Little Independent)
Rosalía - LUX (experimental pop, Columbia)
Olivia Dean - The Art Of Loving (jazz/soul, Capitol/Polydor)
Pulp - More (rock, Rough Trade)
Nation Of Language - Dance Called Memory (indie, Sub Pop)
james K - Friend (dream pop/experimental, AD 93)
Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo (jazz/soul, Brownswood/Warner)
Hekla - Turnar (experimental, Phantom Limb)
Hope Tala - Hope Handwritten (R&B, Jasmine Music)
Max Richter - Hamnet (score, Decca) / Sleep Circle (neoclassical/ambient, Deutsche Grammophon)
Lina - O Fado (fado, MC Galileo, with Marco Mezquida) / Terra Mae (singer-songwriter, Atlantic Curve, with Jules Maxwell)
Ganavya - Nilam (jazz/experimental, LEITER)
Rochelle Jordan - Through The Wall (electronic, Empire)
Niia - V (soul/jazz, Candid)
Young Fathers - 28 Years Later (score, Milan)
Little Simz - Lotus (hip-hop, AWAL)
SAULT - 10 (soul, Forever Living Originals)
Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another (score, Nonesuch) DODAC
Abul Mogard - Quiet Places (ambient, Soft Echoes)
Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends (electronic, PIAS)
Samantha Schmutz & Adrian Younge - Samantha & Adrian (MPB, Linear Labs)
Cuca Roseta - Até A Fé Se Esqueceu (fado, MP,B/ Som Livre)
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes & Sad Women (alternative, Dead Oceans)
Moon In June - 色彩を持たないで (dream pop/shoegaze, self-released)
Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures (folk, hermine)
Titanic - Hagen (indie, Unhead Of Hope)
Madison McFerrin - Scorpio (soul/jazz, self-released)
Kara-Lis Coverdale - From Where You Came (experimental/electronic, Smalltown Supersound) / A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever (neoclassical, Smalltown Supersound) / Changes In Air (ambient, Smalltown Supersound)
Briana Marela - My Inner Rest (experimental, AKP)
Yndling - I’m In The Palm Of Your Hand / Time Time Time (dream pop, Spirit Goth)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer / Marty Supreme (experimental, Warp / score, A24)
C Duncan - It’s Only A Love Song (singer-songwriter, Bella Union)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Gush (experimental, Nettwerk)
Jenevieve - Crysalis (R&B, Interscope)
Erika De Casier - Lifetime (R&B/trip-hop, 4AD)
dottie - Intention (shoegaze, self-released)
Marshall Allen - New Dawn (jazz/experimental, Week End) / Live In Philadelphia (with Ghost Horizons, jazz/experimental,Otherly Love)
M83 - Resurrection / A Necessary Escape (score, self-released)
Maria Somerville - Luster (alternative/shoegaze, 4AD)
Qur’an Shaheed - Pulse (experimental, Leaving)
Sea Lemon - Diving For A Prize (dream pop, Luminelle)
Sugar For The Pill - LUV (shoegaze, Shelflife)
TOPS - Bury The Key (indie pop, Ghostly)
Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise In The Hold (jazz, Night Time Stories)
Mobb Deep - Infinite (hip-hop, Mass Appeal)
Sessa - Pequena Vertigem De Amor (MPB, Mexican Summer)`
Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World (soul/folk, ANTI)
Robert Glasper - Keys To The City Volume One (jazz, Loma Vista / Concord) / Code Derivation (jazz, Loma Vista/Concord)
Ledisi - The Crown (soul, BMG) / For Dinah (jazz, Candid)
Jerskin Fendrix - Bugonia (score, Milan)
Kali Uchis - Sincerely (R&B/soul, Capitol)
Yazmin Lacey - Teal Dreams (soul, AMF)
Sudan Archives - The BPM (electronic, Stones Throw)
Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone / Pareidolia (with Jim O’Rourke) (experimental, Drag City)
The Horrors - Night Life (rock, Fiction)
Joviale - Mount Crystal (R&B/experimental, Ghostly)
Blood Orange - Essex Honey (singer-songwriter/R&B, RCA/Domino)
Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla (shoegaze, Bella Union)
William Basinski & Richard Chartier - Aurora Terminalis (ambient, LINE)
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (jazz, ECM)
Alabaster DePlume - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (jazz/alternative, International Anthem)
Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger To Ourselves (experimental, RVNG) / Rabbit Trap (score, Invada)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography - Reworks (ambient, Black Knoll - self-released)
Rosa Anschutz - Sabbatical (singer-songwriter, Heartworm Press)
Michael Giacchino - The Fantastic Four The First Steps (score, Marvel)
Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying (singer-songwriter, Mexican Summer)
Farao - Magical Thinking (singer-songwriter, Marvada)
Flying Lotus - Ash (score, Brainfeeder)
Maria Usbeck - Naturaleza (indie pop, Cascine)
Marissa Nadler - New Radiations (folk, Bella Union)
VA - For LA Vol 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 (ambient, self-released by Helios)
Beachside Talks - Hokorobi (dream pop/shoegaze, Water and Plate Reverb)
Daydream Twins - Solstice For Embodiment (dream pop/shoegaze, Oji)
Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz (indie, Sub Pop)
Nuorished By Time - The Passionate Ones (alternative, XL)
Kaela - Supraliminal (experimental, Other Suns)
Not For Radio - Melt (dream pop, Atlantic)
Ivo Shandor & The Gozer Worshipers - Ivo Shandor & The Gozer Worshipers (experimental, Antena Krzyku)
Kae Tempest - Self Titled (hip-hop, Island)
Hatis Noit - Aura Reworks (experimental, Erased Tapes)
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu (jazz, Strut / K7)
Tom Skinner - Kaleidoscopic Visions (jazz, Brownswood)
Florence Adooni - A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity) (jazz / afrobeat, Philophon)
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky (hip-hop/experimental, Sub Pop)
Sally Shapiro - Ready To Live A Lie (synth pop, Italians Do It Better)
Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season (jazz, Impulse!)
Durand Jones & The Indications - Flowers (soul, Dead Oceans)
Ela Minus - Dia (electronic, Domino)
Kassé-Mady Diabaté & Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté - Toumaro (folk, One World)
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (hip-hop/experimental, Phantom Limb)
Anaiis - Devotion & The Black Divine (R&B/soul, Dream Sequence)
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Unclouded (indie, Domino)
Charles Lloyd - Figure In Blue (jazz, Blue Note)
Magic Wands - Cascades (indie, Metropolis)
Cazzu - Latinaje (salsa/Latin, DALE PLAY / RIMAS)
Amira Kheir - Black Diamonds (singer-songwriter, Contro Cultura)
Jeff Russo - Alien: Earth (score, FX)
Reuben Vincent & 9th Wonder - Welcome Home (hip-hop, Jamla)
Cécile McLorin Salvant - Oh Snap (jazz, Nonesuch)
Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (soul, ANTI)
VA - Staying (ambient, Leaving)
David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (singer-songwriter, Matador)
Hector Plimmer - Infinity Mirrors (jazz, Power In Comfort)
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist (experimental/electronic, 4AD)
Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time (ambient, RVNG)
Hannah Jadagu - Describe (indie/dream pop, Sub Pop)
Ikonika - Sad (electronic, Hyperdub)
Demae - Deep Dive (R&B / soul, FAMM)
The Mary Onettes - Sworn (dream pop, Welfare Sounds
Alfa Mist - Roulette (jazz, Sekito)
NewDad - Altar (rock/shoegaze, self-released)
Ata Kak - Batakari (electronic, Awesome Tapes From Africa)
Malibù - Vanities (ambient, YEAR0001)
Austra - Chin Up Buttercup (electronic, Domino)
Biig Piig - 11:11 (indie pop, Sony)
Oklou - Choke Enough (electronic, Because Music)
Loula Yorke - Time is a Succession of Such Shapes (experimental, self-released)
Men I Trust - Equus Asinus / Equus Caballus (indie pop, self-released)
Buddy Guy - Ain’t Done With The Blues (blues, RCA)
Blankenberge - Decisions (shoegaze, Automatic Music)
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (rock, Polydor)
Brian Jackson - Of Corners & Bridges (jazz, Selo Sesc)
Zaz - Sains et saufs (pop-jazz, VF Muziques)
Hatchie - Liquorice (dream pop, Secretly Canadian)
The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers (rock, Warner)
Electric Youth - North Of Norman (soundtrack / synth pop, Milan)
Nyah Grace - Divinely Devoted (R&B, Panawan)
Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last (jazz funk/afrobeat, Brownswood)
Robin Kester - Dark Sky Reserve (indie pop, Memphis Industries)
Lapsley - I’m A Hurricane I’m A Woman In Love (indie, Her Own Recordings)
Yasmine Hamdan - I Remember I Forget (singer-songwriter, Kwaidan)
Banks - Off With Her Head (R&B, self-released)
Tei Shi - Make Believe I Make Believe (pop, self-released)
Anushka - Ancestry (R&B, BBE)
Yerin Baek - Flash And Core (R&B, People Like People)
Hilary Woods - Night CRIÚ (singer-songwriter, Sacred Bones)
Mercury's Antennae - Among The Black Trees (dream pop, self-released)
These New Puritans - Crooked Wing (indie, Domino)
Golem Mecanique - Siamo tutti in pericolo (experimental, Ideologic Organ)
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill - Clay (jazz, Strut)
Harbors (Helios/Mint Julep) - When We Are Free (ambient, Nettwerk)
Nicholas Payton & Esperanza Spalding - TRIUNE (jazz, Smoke Sessions)
JazzZ & Eye Traveler - Lapis Lazuli (R&B / soul / jazz, Old Soul)
VA - Good Music to Lift Los Angeles (indie, self-released)
Salif Keita - So Kono (folk, No Format!)
Georgie Sweet - I Swear To You (R&B, First Word)
De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky (hip-hop, Mass Appeal)
Public Enemy - Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 (hip-hop, Enemy)
Dana Williams - Real Friends (R&B, Sacred Road)
BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation (singer-songwriter, Bella Union)
James Brandon Lewis - Apple Cores / Abstraction Is Deliverance (jazz, Anti/Intakta)
Che Noir - No Validation (hip-hop, HIPNOTT)
James Holden & Wacław Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care Of You (ambient, Border Community)
The Stargazer Lillies - Love Pedals (shoegaze, self-released)
Nadeem Din-Gabisi - Offshore (hip-hop, Moshi Moshi)
Winter - Adult Romantix (indie/shoegaze, Winspear)
Geowulf - The Child (dream pop, Nettwerk)
Julia Mestre - MARAVILHOSAMENTE BEM (indie pop, MESTRE)
Wu-Tang Clan - Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (hip-hop, All Maf)
Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (electronic, self-released)
Galactic & Irma Thomas - Audience With The Queen (soul, Tchoup-Zilla)
Chip Wickham - The Eternal Now (jazz, Gondwana)
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales (electronic, Warp)
FKA Twigs - Eusexua / Afterglow (electronic, Young)
Azymuth - Marca Passo (jazz, Far Out)
Valerie June - Owls, Omens and Oracles (folk/blues/soul, June Tunes)
Kamasi Washington - Lazarus (jazz, Milan)
Michi - Dirty Talk (R&B, Stones Throw)
Matt Berninger - Get Sunk (singer-songwriter, Concord)
The Last Dinner Party - From the Pyre (rock, Universal)
Tame Impala - Deadbeat (pop, Columbia)
Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking (rock, Sony)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC 02 Bogota (alternative, Jagjaguwar)
English Teacher - This Could Be A Remix Album (alternative, Island)
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (jazz, Origami Harvest)
Nao - Jupiter (R&B, Sony)
Civilistjävel! & Mayssa Jallad - Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels (Versions) (experimental, Six Of Swords, Ruptured)
Almost An Island - Almost An Island (ambient, Past Inside The present)
Circuit Des Yeux - Halo On The Inside (alternative, Matador)
Raisa K - Affectionately (alternative, 15 Love)
Josef Leimberg - Mystical Journey (jazz, Ironworkx Creative)
Swiimers - Swiimers High (dream pop, Orm Ent)
Theon Cross - Affirmations (Live) (jazz, New Soil)
Joe Armon-Jones - All The Quiet (jazz, Aquarii)
Nas & DJ Premier - Light Years (hip-hop, Mass Appeal)
Ami Taf Ra - The Prophet and The Madman (jazz, Brainfeeder)
The Aces - Gold Star Baby (indie pop, self-released)
Yukimi - For You (R&B, Ninja Tune)
Devin Shaffer - Patience (singer-songwriter, American Dream)
Alexandra Savior - Beneath The Lilypad (singer-songwriter, RCA)
Tim Hecker - Shards (ambient, Kranky)
Julia Bondar - Fatalism (electronic, Endorphin.es Productions)
Vanbur - Of Becoming (ambient/experimental, Manners McDade)
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Public Works and Utilities (experimental, Castles In Space)
Nala Sinephro - Smashing Machine (score, Warp)
WILDES - All We Do Is Feel (indie, self-released)
Alexandre Desplat - Frankenstein (score, Netflix) / Phoenician Scheme (score, ABKCO)
Hitomitoi - Telepa Telepa (neo-citypop, Billboard)
zakè - Silentium (ambient, self-released)
СОЮЗ - KROK (jazz, Mr Bongo)
Oksana Linde - Traversias (ambient, Buh)
Galya Bisengalieva - Polygon Reflections (ambient, One Little Independent)
Theodore Shapiro - Severance Season 2 (score, Lakeshore)
Beverly Kills - Wishing Well (dream pop, Welfare Sounds)
The Raveonettes - PE’AHI II (dream pop, Best Dies)
Faten Kanaan - The Diary Of A Candle (ambient/pastoral, Fire)
Richard Reed Parry - The Actor (score, Milan)
David Buckley - The Sandman Season 2 (score, Watertower)
Maribou State - Hallucinating Love (electronic, Ninja Tune)
George Riley - More Is More (electronic, Confessions)
Gwenno - Utopia (indie, Heavenly/PIAS)
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Live At Le Guess Who? (ambient, Black Knoll)
No Joy - Bugland (shoegaze, 4AD)
Neptuna - Lútea (rock, LATIGO)
Djavan - Improviso (MPB/jazz, Luanda)
Field Lines Cartographer - Resplendent In The Light Of The Universe (ambient, Something Else) / Apeiron Anxiety (ambient, Castles In Space)
Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - Majestic Fantasies (R&B/boogie, Peace World)
Dom Salvador - JID024 (jazz, Jazz Is Dead)
SOHN - Albadas (Dawn Songs) (ambient, APM)
Anthony Joseph - Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back (jazz, Heavenly Sweetness)
Amber Mark - Pretty Idea (R&B, PMR)
Suede - Antidepressants (rock,BMG)
Rakim - The Re-Up (hip-hop, Holy Toledo)
Mon Laferte - Femme Fatale (Latin, Sony Music)
keiyaA - hooke's law (R&B, XL)
Fatima Al-Qadiri - L'étranger (score, Milan)
Ill Considered - Balm (jazz, New Soil)
The Kyoto Connection - Four Seasons In Kyoto (ambient, Isle Of Jura)
Rival Consoles - Landscape From Memory (electronic, Erased Tapes)
Theo Croker - Dream Manifest (jazz, Dom Recs) / Play (with Sullivan Fortner, jazz, ACT Music)
Gulp - Beneath Strawberry Moons (dream pop/indie pop, Elk)
Son Lux - Thunderbolts* (score, Marvel)
Mirei - Tokyo Stories (R&B/pop, Cool Japan)
Eric Benet - The Co-Star (R&B/soul, JBR Creative)
Fotoform - Grief Is A Garden (Forever In Bloom) (indie, Dismal Nich)
Los Membrillios - Destimia (shoegaze, Parakeet)
Sweet Nobody - Driving Off To Cliff (indie, self-released)
Ethel Cain - Perverts (alternative, Daughters Of Cain - self-released)
NYX - NYX (experimental, self-released)
Niseïs - Skugga (folk/classical, self-released)
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corporal (indie, Sonic Cathedral)
Mary Halverson - About Ghosts (jazz, Nonesuch)
WITCH - SOGOLO (rock / afrobeat, Desert Daze)
Perfume Genius - Glory (indie, Matador)
Tennis - Face Down In The Garden (indie, self-released)
TEED - Always With Me (electronic, Nice Day)
UMI - People Stories (R&B, Epic)
Eddie Chacon - Lay Low (soul, Stone Throw)
Cornelia Murr - Run To The Center (singer-songwriter, 22TWENTY)
Adrian Younge - Something About April III (jazz, Linear Labs)
Gary Bartz NTU Troop - The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (jazz, OYO)
Bonobo - Lazarus (electronic, Milan)
Cut Copy - Moments (indie pop, Cutters)
Paul Banks - Sister Midnight (score, Partisan)
Annie and The Caldwells - Can’t Lose My Soul (soul/gospel, Luaka Bop)
Coral Grief - Air Between Us (dream pop, Suicide Squeeze)
Bing Satellites - Hypnosis Tapes Volume One and Two (ambient, Drone City)
Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear (rock, Domino)
Les Halles - Original Spirit (ambient, Stroom)
Tribeqa - Sumu (jazz/R&B/ African music, Underdog Records)
Kassa Overall - CREAM (jazz, Warp)
Fortitude Valley - Part Of The Problem, Baby (rock, Specialist Subject)
Bon Iver - Sable, Fable (indie, Jagjaguwar)
Night Tapes - portals//polarities (indie, Nettwerk)
Lonnie Holley - Tonky (singer-songwriter, Jagjaguwar)
Cole Pulice - Land’s End Eternal (ambient jazz, Leaving)
Idris Ackamoor, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Glover - Artistic Being (jazz, Strut)
Loaded Honey - Love Made Trees (soul, Vetra)
Nadah El Shazly - Laini Tani (singer-songwriter/indie, One Little Independent)
Wolf Alice - The Clearing (alternative, Columbia)
Carlos Dafé - Carlos Dafé JID025 (jazz, Jazz Is Dead)
The Wombats - Oh! The Ocean (rock, AWAL)
St. Lucia - Fata Morgana: Dawn / Fata Morgana: Dusk (indie pop, Nettwerk)
Hitsujibungaku - Don’t Laugh It Off (rock/shoegaze, F.C.L.S.)
Walt McClemens - On A Painted Ocean (ambient, Western Vinyl)
Floating Points - Lazarus (electronic, Milan)
Kelly Moran - Don’t Trust Mirrors (neoclassical, Warp)
Ella Mae Sueref - Ella Mae Sueref (soul, Village Live)
Rebecca Roger Cruz - Río Abajo (Latin, Airfono)
Bhairavi Raman, Nanthesh Sivarajah - Syncretic (classical, Efficient Space)
Chaos In The CBD - A Deeper Life (electronic, In Dust We Trust)
44th Move - Anthem (jazz, Black Acre)
Whatever The Weather - Whatever The Weather II (ambient, Ghostly)
Cymande - Renascence (funk, BMG)
Brian Eno - Aurum (ambient, self-released)
Hibou - It Seems To Me (dream pop, Spirit Goth)
White Lies - Night Light (rock, PIAS)
Ruby Rushton - Legacy! (jazz, 22a)
Sister Ray Davies - Holy Island (shoegaze, Sonic Cathedral)
Cabiria - Radio Coral (synth pop, Schubert Music)
Warmth - Latitudes (ambient, Archives)
Cristina Branco - Mulheres de Abril (fado, Locomotiva Azul Lola)
Aho Ssan & Resina - Ego Death (experimental, Subtext / Multiverse)
Lady Wray - Cover Girl (soul, Big Crown)
The Knocks & Dragonette - Revelation (indie pop, Neon Gold)
Laura Cannell - Brightly Shone The Moon (folk/ambient, Brawl)
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