Tier I [Excellent]
1) Jenny Hval - Classic Objects [art pop, ambient pop]
2) Black Country, New Road - Ants From up There [post-rock, art rock]
3) King Hannah - I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me [Americana, slowcore, indie rock]
4) Silvana Estrada - Marchita [Latin folk, singer/songwriter]
5) Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter [singer/songwriter, post-rock, Americana]
6) Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep [contemporary R&B, neo-soul]
7) Billy Woods - Aethiopes [abstract hip hop]
8) Zola Jesus - Arkhon [art pop, darkwave]
9) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands [ambient, nature recordings]
10) Björk - Fossora [art pop, post-industrial, electronic]
Tier II [Great]
11) J.I.D. - The Forever Story [conscious hip hop]
12) Beyonce - RENAISSANCE [house, dance pop, contemporary R&B]
13) Hinako Omori - ...a journey [ambient, ambient pop]
14) Plains - I Walked With You a Ways [Americana, country pop]
15) Patricia Wolf - I'll Look For You in Others [ambient, field recordings]
16) Chat Pile - God's Country [sludge metal, post-hardcore]
17) Natalia LaFourcade - De todas las flores [Mexican folk music, singer/songwriter, bossa nova]
18) Hatis Noit - Aura [a cappela, throat singing, art pop]
19) Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen [alternative R&B, neo-soul, art pop]
20) Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit [progressive electronic, ambient trance]
21) Immolation - Acts of God [death metal]
22) Utada Hikaru - BADモード [J-pop, house, art pop]
23) Kali Malone - Living Torch [drone]
24) Binker & Moses - Feeding the Machine [spiritual jazz, post-bop]
25) Nicolas Craven & Boldy James - Fair Exchange no Robbery [jazz rap, drumless, gangsta rap]
Tier III [Good]
26) SAULT - 11 [neo-soul, psychedelic soul, funk]
27) SRSQ - Ever Crashing [art pop, gothic pop, shoegaze]
28) Rayvn Lenae - Hypnos [contemporary R&B, neo-soul]
29) Hatchie - Giving the World Away [indie pop, shoegaze, dream pop]
30) Bonobo - Fragments [deep house, downtempo]
31) yeule - Glitch Princess [hyperpop, glitch pop]
32) Carla dal Forno - Come Around [ambient pop, ethereal wave]
33) Beth Orton - Weather Alive [art pop, ambient pop]
34) The Bogie Band (feat. Joe Russo) - The Prophets in the City [bebop, jazz]
35) Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow [baroque pop, art pop]
36) Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes [conscious hip hop, boom bap]
37) Little Simz - NO THANK YOU [conscious hip hop, UK hip hop]
38) Marina Herlop - Pripyat [avant-folk, post-industrial, experimental]
39) Petrol Girls - Baby [noise rock, riot grrrl, post-hardcore]
40) Wake - Thought Form Descent [black metal]
41) Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing [progressive electronic, drone]
42) Julia Romana - Blood be Fluid [art pop, alternative R&B]
43) Alvvays - Blue Rev [shoegaze, indie pop, dream pop]
44) Sly5thAve & Roberto Verastegui - Agua de Jamaica [latin jazz, nu jazz, lounge]
45) Daphni - Cherry [tech house, electronic]
46) Lucercia Dalt - ¡Ay! [art pop, Latin jazz, electroacoustic]
47) The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention [indie rock, art rock, jazz-rock]
48) Andrina Bollinger - Secret Seed [art pop, singer/songwriter]
49) Open Mike Eagle - A Tape Called Component System With the Auto Reverse [abstract hip hop]
50) Szun Waves - Earth Patterns [nu jazz, ambient jazz]