- Barren Harvest – Subtle Cruelties (Handmade Birds)
- Carla Bozulich – Boy (Constellation)
- Hildur Gudnadottir – Saman (Touch)
- Andrew Hewitt – The Double soundtrack (Milan)
- Eleni Karaindrou – Medea (ECM)
- Mica Levi – Under The Skin soundtrack (Milan)
- Dion McGregor – Dreaming Like Mad (Torpor Vigil)
- Monolith & Cobalt – Polarlicht (Time Released Sound)
- Marissa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
- Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers – Excitotoxicity & Parade combo (Red Wharf)
- Ou – Pisces Crisis (Spoot)
- Jo Quail – Caldera (S/R)
- Swans – To Be Kind (Young God)
- Scott Walker and Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)
- Kristeen Young – The Knife Shift (Test Tube Baby)
Best Small Things (7″s, 3″s) in alphabetical order
- Barren Harvest – Beautiful Flowers 3×7″ (Black Horizons)
- Guy Gelem – Reappearance 3″ (Time Released Sound)
- irr. app. (ext.) – Neognathae Portentosus 3″ (Petit Mal Music)
- Jim Kaiser – Swept Through and Nullified 3″ (Petit Mal Music)
- Medicine Moon – S/T 7″ (Pesanta Urfolk)
- Pang – Young Professionals (Melters)
- Stone Breath – Fire Beyong the Seventh Gate 5″ & 3″ (Hand/Eye)
- Tele Novella – Trouble In Paradise 7″ (American Laundromat)
- Gideon Wolf – Diagram 3″ (Time Released Sound)
Best 15 Live Shows in chronological order
- Zoe Boekbinder, Red Steppes – Subterranean Arthouse, 18 January
- Alessandro Cortini, [rudiobello] – Tom’s Place, 30 January
- Marisa Anderson, Marielle V Jakobsons, Danny Grody – Hemlock Tavern, 16 April
- EFFT – Vortex Room, 20 April
- Ou – Duende, 7 June
- Kristeen Young – The Bottom Of The Hill, 19 July
- Dax Pierson, Disemballerina, Thaoboth – Life Changing Ministries, 19 August
- Tele Novella – Elbo Room, 2 September
- DakhaBrakha – YBCA, 7 September
- Sangre de Muerdago, Ekstasis, Blackbird Raum, Noctooa – The Sanctuary, 9 September
- Swans, Carla Bozulich – The Independent, 9 September
- Kristine Barrett – Kahn Studio, 12 December
- Ramon + Jessica – Viracocha, 13 December
- Hildur Gudnadottir -The Independent, 16 December
- Faun Fables / BirchBook / Lasher Keen – Emerald Tablet, 19 December
