Pearl Jam- Dark Matter (Monkeywrench Records and Republic Records)
Jack White- No Name (Third Man Records)
St. Vincent- All Born Screaming (Total Pleasure Records)
Fontaines D.C.- Romance (XL Recordings)
Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood (Anti Records)
Illiterate Light- Arches (Red Book Records & Thirty Tigers)
Kim Deal- Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
Gary Clark Jr.- JPEG RAW (Warner Records)
Been Stellar- Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
The Smile- Wall of Eyes (XL Recordings)
Clairo- Charm (Clairo Records)
Dehd- Poetry (Fat Possum Records)
Cindy Lee- Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
Royal Otis- Pratts & Pain (Ourness)
Beabadoobee- This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
Soccer Mommy- Evergreen (Loma Vista Recordings)
The Cure- Songs of A Lost World (Fiction, Lost Music, Universal, Polydor, Capitol Records)
Laura Marling- Patterns In Repeat (Chrysalis Records and Partisan Records)
MJ Lenderman- Manning Fireworks (Anti and Epitaph Records)
Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us (Columbia Records)
The Black Crowes- Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow Records)
Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
Sleater-Kinney- Little Rope (Loma Vista Recordings)
Gillian Welch David Rawlings – Woodland (Acony Records)
Idles – Tangk (Partisan Records)
Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (4AD)
Billy Strings- Highway Prayers (Reprise)
Jessica Pratt- Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes (Polydor)
Cassandra Jenkins- My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
LA LOM- The Los Angele League Of Musicians (Verve Records)
Kacey Musgraves- Deeper Well (MCA Nashville & Interscope)
Leon Bridges- Leon (Columbia Records)
Ride- Interplay (Wichita Recordings)
The Jesus and Mary Chain- Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
Faye Webster- Undressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (Domino Recording Company)
MK.gee- Two Star & the Dream Police (R&R)
The Lemon Twigs- A Dream is All We Know (Captured Tracks)
Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador Records)
Font- Strange Burden (Acrophase Records)
Being Dead- Eels (Bayonet)
Crumb- Amama (Crumb)
Father John Misty- Mahashmashana (Sub Pop and Bella Union)
Brittany Howard- What Now (Island)
Sarah Jarosz- Polaroid Lovers (Rounder Records)
Charley Crockett- $10 Cowboy (Son of Davy & Thirty Tigers)
The Last Dinner Party – Prelude To Ecstasy (Island Records)
Sierra Ferrell- Trail of Flowers (Rounder Records & Concord)
More Great Albums Released This Year
311- Full Bloom (BMG)
Better Than Ezra- Super Magick (Round Hill Records)
Blackberry Smoke- Be Right Here (3 Legged & Thirty Tigers)
Johnny Blue Skies- Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain)
Kate Bollinger- Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind (Ghostly International)
Buffalo Tom- Jump Rope (Scrawny Records)
Cage The Elephant- Neon Pill (RCA)
Camera Obscura- Look To the East, Look to the West (Merge Records)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)
Steve Cropper & the Midnight Hour- Friendlytown (Mascot Records)
Crowded House- Gravity Stairs (Lester Records and BMG Rights Management)
Cults- To The Ghosts (Imperial)
Dawes- Oh Brother (Dead Ringers)
DIIV- Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy Records)
Dr. Dog- Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
Ducks Ltd.- Harm’s Way (Carpark)
Ekko Astral- pink balloons (Topshelf)
Elbow- Audio Vertigo (Polydor)
Alejandro Escovedo- Echo Dancing (Yep Roc Records)
Floating Points- Cascade (Ninja Tune)
Friko: Where we’ve been, Where we go from here (ATO Records)
Future Islands- People Who Aren't There Anymore (4AD)
Liam Gallagher and John Squire- Liam Gallagher and John Squire (Warner Music UK)
David Gilmour- Luck and Strange (Sony)
Grandaddy- Blu Wav (Dangerbird Records)
Green Day- Saviors (Reprise)Hinds- Viva Hinds (Lucky Number)
Julia Holter- Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
Hozier – Unheard EP (Rubyworks Records and Columbia Records)
Iron & Wine- Light Verse (Sub Pop)
Norah Jones- Visions (Blue Note Records)Khruangbin – A La Sala (Dead Oceans)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard- Flight b741 (p(doom))
Mark Knopfler – One Deep River (British Grove and EMI)
Julian Lage- Speak To Me (Blue Note Records)
Lake Street Dive- Good Together (Fantasy and Concord Music Group)
Amos Lee- Transmissions (Hoagiemouth)
MGMT- Loss of Life (Mom + Pop and BMG Rights Management)Middle Kids- Faith Crisis Pt 1 (EMI)
Nada Surf- Moon Mirror (New West Records)
Old 97's- American Primitive (ATO Records)
Phish- Evolve (JEMP Records)
Tyler Ramsey- New Lost Ages (Soundly Music)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats- South of Here (Stax)
Real Estate- Daniel (Domino)
Maggie Rogers- Don't Forget Me (Debay Sounds and Capitol Records)
Strand of Oaks – Miracle Focus (Western Vinyl)
Richard Stuverud- Sunset Ghosts (Little Big Viking Records)
The Black Keys- Ohio Players (Nonesuch Records)
The Dandy Warhols- Rockmaker (Sunset Blvd. & Beat The World)
The Offspring- Supercharged (Concord)
The Smile- Cutouts (XL Recordings)
The Zutons- The Big Decider (Icepop)
Tiny Habits- All For Something (Mom+Pop Music)
Suki Waterhouse – Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
Wunderhorse- Midas (Communion Records)
Yard Act- Where's My Utopia? (Island)
Pete Yorn- The Hard Way (Shelly Music)
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