1.
Ty Segall – Manipulator
2.
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
3.
D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
4.
Parquet Courts -- Sunbathing Animal
5.
TV on the Radio – Seeds
6.
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7.
Bass Drum of Death – Rip this
8.
Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
9.
Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea
10. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
11. Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit
11. Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit
12.
Meatbodies – Meatbodies
13.
Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt
14.
Protomartyr – Under of Color of Official Right
15.
Sturgill Simpson -- Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
16.
Blank Realm – Grassed Inn
Honorable
Mention (in no particular order):
Dean
Wareham – Dean Wareham
Sweet
Apple – The Golden Age of Glitter
Sharon
Van Etten – Are We There
J
Mascis – Tied to a Star
Passenger
Peru – Passenger Peru
Iceage
– Plowing into the Field of Love
White
Fence – For the Recently Found Innocent
Leonard
Cohen – Popular Problems
Drive-by
Truckers – English Oceans
Scott
Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused
Reigning
Sound -- Shattered
Billy
Joe Shaver – Long in the Tooth
Guided
by Voices – Cool Planet
King
Tuff – Black Moon Spell
Robert
Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant
The
Bad Plus – Inevitable Western
Lucinda
Williams – Down Where the Sprit Meets the Bone
Gruff
Rhys – American Interior
Thee
Oh Sees -- Drop
Hookworms
-- The Hum
Black
Lips – Underneath the Rainbow
J
Masics – Tied to a Star
Bob
Mould – Beauty & Ruin
Ex
Hex -- Rips
Kelly
Willis & Keith Robison – Our Year
Lydia
Loveless -- Somewhere Else
Tony
Molina -- Dissed and Dismissed
Shellac
– Dude Incredible
