1. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
2. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
3. Chuck Prophet – Wake The Dead
4. Paul Weller – 66
5. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore
6. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Texicali 
7. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
8. Gillian Welch – Woodland
9. James Mastro – Dawn of a New Error
10. Dent May – What’s For Breakfast
11. Jack White – No Name
12. Paul Heaton – The Mighty Several
13. Diana DeMuth – The Covers Album
14. Charlie Parr – Little Sun
15. Willie Nelson – Last Leaf On The Tree
16. Gospelbeach – Wiggle Your Fingers
17. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
18. Khruangbin – A LA SALA
19. MJ Lenderman, ‘Manning Fireworks’
20. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music

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Worth Your Consideration

• Cure- Songs of a Lost World
• St. Vincent, “All Born Screaming”
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
• Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
• Laura Marling, ‘Patterns in Repeat’
• Kacey Musgraves, “Deeper Well”
• The Lemon Twigs- A Dream Is All We Know
• X- Smoke & Fiction
• Fantastic Cat- Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat
• Boss Capone Meets George Dekker – Blackfire

Blues

The Gerry Hundt Trio – Get Hip!
Johnny Burgin – Ramblin’ From Coast To Coast 
Tab Benoit – I Hear Thunder
Toronzo Cannon – Shut Up & Play!
Taj Mahal – Swingin’ Live At The Church In Tulsa

World

Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
Las Bitchos – Talkie Talkie
Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
Kit Sebastian – New Internationale
Hermanos Gutierrez – Sonido Cosmico

Folk

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends
The Secret Sisters – Mind, Man, Medicine
Jon Muq – Flying Away
Joy Oladokun – Observations From A Crowded Room
Yasmin Williams – Acadia