- Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
- SZA - CTRL
- Big Thief - Capacity
- Sampha - Process
- Lorde - Melodrama
- Perfume Genius - No Shape
- Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
- Kesha - Rainbow
- Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
- Aldous Harding - Party
- Jay-Z - 4:44
- Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over
- Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
- Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
- Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf
- Jlin - Black Origami
- Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
- ÌFÉ - IIII+IIII
- Ifriqiyya Electrique - Rûwâhîne
- The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
- Jay Som - Everybody Works
- Lil Uzi Vert - Luv Is Rage 2
- Sylvan Esso - What Now
- The National - Sleep Well Beast
- La Santa Cecilia - Amar y Vivir
- Lee Ann Womack - The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
- Fever Ray - Plunge
- TORRES - Three Futures
- Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
- Ron Miles - I Am a Man
- Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
- Alvvays - Antisocialites
- Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Risto Joost - Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies
- Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
- Thundercat - Drunk
- Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
- Migos - Culture
- Tyler Childers - Purgatory
- Midland - On the Rocks
- Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
- Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan
- Danay Suarez - Palabras Manuales
- Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
- Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya
- Mr. Mitch - Devout
- Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die
- Miguel Zenón - Tipico
- Marc-André Hamelin - Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
- Paramore - After Laughter
