THE list

 1  Laurel Halo – Quarantine

 2  Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos – Icon Give Thank

 3  Actress – RIP

 4  Jakob Ullmann – Fremde Zeit Addendum

 5  Jason Lescalleet – Songs About Nothing

 6  CC Hennix & The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage – Live at the Grimm Museum 1

 7  Bob Dylan – Tempest

 8  Julia Holter – Ekstasis

 9  Carter Tutti Void – Transverse

10  Ricardo Villalobos – Dependent and Happy

11  Scott Walker – Bish Bosch

12  Josephine Foster – Blood Rushing

13  Fushitsusha – Mabushii Itazura Na Inori

14  Haino/O’Rourke/Ambarchi – Imikuzushi

15  Death Grips – The Money Store

16  Emptyset – Medium

17  Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black is Beautiful

18  Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

19  V/A – Wandelweiser und so Weiter

20  Morton Feldman – Crippled Symmetry: At June in Buffalo

21  Richard Skelton – Verse of Birds

22  The Bohman Brothers – Back on the Streets

23  Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city

24  Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda – Crosshatches

25  Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways

26  Aaron Dilloway – Modern Jester

27  Killer Mike – RAP Music

28  Shackleton – The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour

29  Rhodri Davies – Wound Response

30  Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes

31  Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers

32  Thomas Koner – Novaya Zemlya

33  Annea Lockwood – In our Name

34  Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

35  Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996

36  Heatsick – Deviation

37  Duane Pitre – Feel Free

38  Raime – Quarter Turns over a Living Line

39  Swans – The Seer

40  Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck – Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh

41  Cooly G – Playin’ Me

42  Traxman – Da Mind of Traxman

43  DJ Rashad – Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi

44  Charles Gayle Trio – Streets

45  Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

46  Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games

47  Peter Cusack – Sounds from Dangerous Places

48  Pelt – Effigy

49  DVA – Pretty Ugly

50  Brotzmann/Satoh/Moriyama – Yatagarasu