1. Parquet Courts, Wide Awake!<\/i> (Rough Trade Records)
\n2. Beach House, 7<\/i> (Sub Pop)
\n3. Snail Mail, Lush<\/i> (Matador Records)
\n4. Soccer Mommy, Clean<\/i> (Fat Possum Records)
\n5. Joyce Manor, Million Dollars to Kill Me<\/i> (Epitaph Records)
\n6. The Armed, Only Love<\/i> (Throatruiner Records)
\n7. Infant Island, Infant Island<\/i> (Middle-Man Records)
\n8. The Beths, Future Me Hates Me<\/i> (Carpark Records)
\n9. Gulfer, Dog Bless<\/i> (Topshelf Records)
\n10. Deafheaven, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love<\/i> (Anti- Records)<\/p>\nKevin J. Elliott<\/h4>\n
1. Iceage, Beyondless<\/i> (Matador Records)
\n2. Kamasi Washington, Heaven and Earth<\/i> (Young Turks)
\n3. The Breeders,\u00a0 All Nerve<\/i> (4AD)
\n4. The Lemon Twigs, Go to School<\/i> (4AD)
\n5. The 1975, A Brief Online Inquiry Into Online Relationships<\/i> (Polydor Records)
\n6. U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited<\/i> (4AD)
\n7. The Voidz, Virtue<\/i> (Cult\/RCA Records)
\n8. King Krule, The Ooz<\/i> (True Panther\/XL Recordings)
\n9. Sheck Wes, Mudboy<\/i> (Cactus Jack Records)
\n10. Guided By Voices, Space Gun<\/i> (Guided By Voices Inc.)<\/p>\nMatt Slaybaugh<\/h4>\n
1. Jeff Rosenstock, Post-<\/i> (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
\n2. David Byrne, American Utopia<\/i> (Nonesuch Records)
\n3. Twin Shadow, Caer<\/i> (Reprise Records)
\n4. Ben Lamar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun<\/i> (International Anthem)
\n5. Brandon Coleman, Resistance<\/i> (Brainfeeder Records)
\n6. Adrianne Lenker, Abysskiss<\/i> (Saddle Creek Records)
\n7. Earl Sweatshirt, Some Rap Songs<\/i> (Columbia Records)
\n8. Sebastian Gandera, Le Raccourci<\/i> (Efficient Space)
\n9. Mitski, Be the Cowboy<\/i> (Dead Oceans)
\n10. Low, Double Negative<\/i> (Sub Pop)<\/p>\nRichard Sanford<\/h4>\n
1. Tyshawn Sorey, Pillars<\/i> (Firehouse 12 Records)
\n2. Amanda Shires, To the Sunset<\/i> (Silver Knife Records)
\n3. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings<\/i> (International Anthem)
\n4. Lori McKenna, The Tree<\/i> (CN Records)
\n5. Ashley McBryde, Girl Going Nowhere<\/i> (Atlantic Records)
\n6. Marc Ribot, Songs of Resistance<\/i> (Anti- Records)
\n7. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl<\/i> (Firehouse 12 Records)
\n8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman<\/i> (Southeastern Records)
\n9. Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba<\/i> (ECM Records)
\n10. Florence and the Machine, High as Hope<\/i> (Virgin Records)<\/p>\nNate Knaebel<\/h4>\n
1. Lavender Flu, Mow the Glass<\/i> (In the Red Records)
\n2. David Nance Group, Peaced and Slightly Pulverized<\/i> (Trouble In Mind Records)
\n3. Bad Sports, Constant Stimulation<\/i> (Dirtnap Records)
\n4. Mary Lattimore, Hundreds of Days<\/i> (Ghostly International)
\n5. Anna Hillburg, Really Real<\/i> (California Clap)
\n6. En Attendant Ana, Lost and Found<\/i> (Trouble in Mind Records)
\n7. Superchunk, What a Time to Be Alive<\/i> (Merge Records)
\n8. State Champion, Send Flowers<\/i> (Feeding Tube Records)
\n9. Hank Wood and the Hammerheads,\u00a0Hank Wood and the Hammerheads<\/i> (Toxic State Records)
\n10. Parquet Courts, Wide Awake!<\/i> (Rough Trade Records)<\/p>\nStephen Slaybaugh<\/h4>\n
1. The Goon Sax, We\u2019re Not Talking<\/i> (Wichita Recordings)
\n2. The Rock*a*Teens, Sixth House<\/i> (Merge Records)
\n3. Hot Snakes, Jericho Sirens<\/i> (Sub Pop)
\n4. Young Fathers, Cocoa Sugar<\/i> (Ninja Tune)
\n5. Johnny Marr, Call the Comet<\/i> (New Voodoo\/Warner Bros. Records)
\n6. Shame, Songs of Praise<\/i> (Dead Oceans)
\n7. Breeders, All Nerve<\/i> (4AD)
\n8. Dream Wife, Dream Wife<\/i> (Lucky Number Music)
\n9. David Byrne, American Utopia<\/i> (Nonesuch Records)
\n10. Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer<\/i> (Bad Boy Records)<\/p>\n
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