1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
3. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
4. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)
5. Nation of Language – A Way Forward (self-released)
6. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
7. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
8. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-)
9. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
10. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)
11. Wet Leg – Chaise Longue (Domino)
12. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
13. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)
14. Torres – Thirstier (Merge)
15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 (KGLW)
16. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse!)
17. Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)
18. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used To (Jagjaguwar)
19. The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)
20. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)
21. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
22. Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort to Me (ATO)
23. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)
24. Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Matador)
25. Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature (Universal)
26. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Dirty Hit)
27. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD)
28. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Atlantic)
29. Ya Tseen – Indian Yard (Sub Pop)
30. Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop)
31. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)
32. Amen Dunes – Feel Nothing (Sub Pop)
33. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)
34. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
35. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)
36. Pom Pom Squad – Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang)
37. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
38. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)
39. Janelle Monae – Stronger (Atlantic)
40. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better)
41. Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Orindal)
42. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
43. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
44. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
45. Squid – Bright Green Field (Warp)
46. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
47. St. Vincent – Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)
48. La Luz – In the Country (Hardly Art)
49. The Vega Bodegas – All My Fish Are Dead (self-released)
50. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
51. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
52. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)
53. The Lounge Society – Silk For the Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)
54. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)
55. L’Rain - Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
56. Bachelor – Doomin' Sun (Polyvinyl)
57. Mara TK – Bad Meditation (Extra Soul Perception)
58. Kamasi Washington – Sun Kissed Child (Hollywood)
59. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)
60. Helado Negro – Far In (4AD)
61. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)
62. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)
63. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)
64. Mustafa – When Smoke Rises (Regent Park)
65. CHAI – WINK (Sub Pop)
66. Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
67. Ambar Lucid – Get Lost in the Music EP (300 Entertainment)
68. Cola Boyy – Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers)
69. Erika de Casier – Sensational (4AD)
70. Amber Mark – Competition (PMR/EMI)
71. Jose Gonzalez – Local Valley (Mute)
72. Shad – TAO (Secret City)
73. Meatbodies – 333 (In the Red)
74. Onyx Collective – Hummingbird (Juliet)
75. Geese – Disco (Partisan)
76. Hard Feelings – Hard Feelings (Domino)
77. Pond – 9 (Spinning Top)
78. Alewya – Jagna (Because London)
79. PawPaw Rod – Glass House (Godmode)
80. Strand of Oaks – In Heaven (Galacticana/Thirty Tigers)
81. Woods – More Strange (Woodsist)
82. The Linda Lindas – Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) (Epitaph)
83. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
84. (Various) - Modern Love (BBE)
85. Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (The Leaf Label)
86. Matthew Dear – Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International)
87. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam)
88. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
89. El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown)
90. Morcheeba – Blackest Blue (self-released)
1. Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
2. Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange (Rounder/Concord)
3. Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
4. Country Westerns – Country Westerns EP (Fat Possum)
5. Orville Peck – Born This Way (The Country Road Version) (Columbia)
6. Pickerel & The Peyote 3 – I Have Visions (self-released)
7. The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers)
8. Carrie Clark & The Lonesome Lovers – Split at the Seams (self-released)
9. Allison Russell – Outside Child (Fantasy)
10. Tony Joe White – Smoke From the Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
1. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
2. Angelique Kidjo – Dignity (Verve)
3. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Matador)
4. BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (We Are Busy Bodies)
5. Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga (Everloving)
6. C. Tangana – El Madrileño (Sony)
7. Jaubi – Nafs at Peace (Astigmatic)
8. Bomba Estéreo - Aire EP (Sony Latin)
9. Burna Boy – Kilometre (Atlantic)
10. Sunny Jain – Phoenix Rise (Sinj)
1. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
2. Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)
3. Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)
4. Tony Allen – There Is No End (Blue Note)
5. Children of Zeus - Balance (First Word)
6. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 (4AD)
7. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)
8. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
9. Mykki Blanco – Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
10. Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers)
1. Moodymann – Keep On Coming (Rockstar)
2. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)
3. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
4. Cold Cave – Fate in Seven Lessons (Heartworm Press)
5. Flying Lotus – Yasuke (Warp)
6. Sally Shapiro – Fading Away (Italians Do It Better)
7. (Various) - Red Hot + Free (Red Hot)
8. Teenage Sequence – All This Art (Get Better)
9. Ora The Molecule – Human Safari (Mute)
10. Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) (PMR/Interscope)
1. Sault – Nine (Forever Living Originals)
2. Durand Jones & The Indications – Private Space (Dead Oceans)
3. Jungle – Loving in Stereo (AWAL)
4. Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
5. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
6. Curtis Harding – I Won’t Let You Down (ANTI-)
7. H.E.R. - Back of My Mind (RCA)
8. Children of Zeus – Balance (First Word)
9. Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD)
10. Janelle Monae – Stronger (Atlantic)
1. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future (Impulse)
2. Kamasi Washington – Sun Kissed Child (Hollywood)
3. Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise EP (Blue Note)
4. Onyx Collective – Hummingbird (Juliet)
5. João Donato, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID007 (Jazz Is Dead)
6. Anthony Joseph – The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)
7. Kaidi Tatham – An Insight to All Minds (First Word)
8. Alfa Mist – Bring Backs (ANTI-)
9. Rodrigo y Gabriela – Jazz (Rubyworks/ATO)
10. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Now (International Anthem)
1. The True Loves – Sunday Afternoon (Color Red)
2. Chong the Nomad – Get Back (BuildStrong Music Group)
3. Left at London – t.i.a.p.f.y.h. (Left at London is Gay)
4. Jarv Dee & Bad Colours – Bad Skin (self-released)
5. Shabazz Palaces – 20 Gear Science (Sub Pop)
6. Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)
7. Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo (Youth Riot)
8. Jenn Champion & Oyster Kids – Love Nobody EP (Hardly Art)
9. THEM – Bad 4 U (Ambient Village)
10. Spiral XP – Drop Me In EP (Peaceful Tapes)
Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP (Warp)
Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Blacksmith/Motown)
Tkay Maidza – Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 EP (4AD)
The Goon Sax – Mirror II (Matador)
Laura Mvula – Pink Noise (Atlantic)
Wavves – Hideaway (Fat Possum)
Half Waif – Mythopoetics (ANTI-)
Koreless – Agor (Young)
Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (Polyvinyl)
Peyton – PSA (Stones Throw)
U-Roy – Solid Gold U-Roy (Trojan Jamaica/BMG)
The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers)
A Place to Bury Strangers – Hologram EP (Dedstrange)
Cochemea – Vol. II Baca Sewa (Daptone)
The Lasso, Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch – Tri-Magi (Mello Music Group)
John Vanderslice – I can’t believe civilization is still going here in 2021! Congratulations to all of us, Love DCB EP (Tiny Telephone)
