Tier I (Amazing)
1) Squid - Bright Green Field [art punk, post-punk]
2) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might be Introvert [UK hip-hop]
3) Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet [tech house, spoken word, art pop]
4) Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince [Hindustani classical, chamber folk]
5) Low - HEY WHAT [post-industrial, dream pop]
6) Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [spiritual jazz, minimalism]
7) Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY [avant-folk, neoclassical darkwave]
8) Genesis Owusu - Smiling With no Teeth [experimental R&B, neo-soul]
9) Jane Weaver - Flock [psychedelic pop, art pop]
10) Black Country, New Road - For the First Time [Klezmer, post-rock, post-punk]
Tier II (Excellent)
11) Celeste - Not Your Muse [neo-soul]
12) Boldy James, The Alchemist - Bo Jackson [gangsta rap]
13) BRUIT ā¤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again [post-rock]
14) Half Waif - Mythopoetics [art pop]
15) Musk Ox - Inheritance [dark folk, chamber folk]
16) Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 [ambient jazz, avant-garde jazz]
17) Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning [blackened death metal]
18) Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works [Tuareg blues, African blues]
19) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! [post-rock]
20) Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee [indie pop, chamber pop]
21) Black Dresses - Forever in Your Heart [electro-industrial, industrial rock]
22) Greentea Peng - MAN MADE [neo-soul, psychedelic soul]
23) Tar Hag - Bestial [doom metal]
24) Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow [jazz fusion, nu-jazz]
25) L'Rain - Fatigue [neo-psychedelia, sound collage]
Tier III (Great)
26) Danielle Durack - No Place [indie pop, singer/songwriter]
27) CHAI - WINK [J-pop, electropop]
28) McKinley Dixon - For my Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her [jazz rap]
29) Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos [singer/songwriter, indie folk]
30) Gemma Cullingford - Let me Speak [synthpop, post-punk]
31) Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift [ambient]
32) Ka - A Martyr's Reward [abstract hip hop, conscious hip hop]
33) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever [contemporary R&B, ambient pop]
34) Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst [black metal]
35) Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature [singer/songwriter]
36) Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home [contemporary folk]
37) Snowpoet - Wait For Me [art pop, ambient pop]
38) Brandee Younger - Somewhere Different [jazz-fusion]
39) Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future [nu-jazz, spiritual jazz]
40) Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram [abstract hip hop]
41) CHANCE ćć©ć½ć¦ć« - Afterparty [plunderphonics, future funk]
42) L'ImpƩratrice - Tako Tsubo [French pop, nu-disco]
43) Perila - How Much Time it is Between You and Me? [ambient, field recordings]
44) London Grammar - Californian Soil [art pop]
45) Demiser - Through the Gate Eternal [black metal, thrash metal]
46) Slayyyter - Troubled Paradise [electropop, hyperpop]
47) Sun June - Somewhere [indie pop, dream pop]
48) Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST [hip hop]
49) Robohands - Shapes [jazz-fusion, nu-jazz]
50) Fatima Al Qadiri - Medieval Femme [ambient, new age]