Top Album: Time Hasn’t Changed You by Altameda (Image: artist website)
Altameda: Time Hasn’t Changed You (Pheromone)
Whitehorse: The Northern Soul Volume 2 (Six Shooter)
Dan Mangan: More or Less (Arts & Crafts)
- Various Artists: The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (Craft/Concord)
- Jeff Tweedy: WARM (dBpm)
- Maggie Rogers: Heard It In A Past Life (Capitol)
- Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen: If You Can’t Stand The Heat (Fiddleman Music)
- Better Oblivion Community Center: Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans)
Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
Royal Canoe: Waver (Paper Bag)
- Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
- Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc (Naive)
Daniel Romano: Finally Free (You’ve Changed)
Elizabeth Shepherd: MONTRÉAL (Pinwheel)
- The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra: Naming & Blaming (Hope Street)
- Emily King: Scenery (ATO)
Matt Mays: Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time (Beachfire)
Hillsburn: The Wilder Beyond (LHM)
Abigail Lapell: Getaway (Coax)
The Mbira Renaissance Band: Famba (Independent)
Sarah MacDougall: All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything (Label in Between)
- William Tyler: Goes West (Merge)
- Sarah Louise: Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Independent)
- Robert Ellis: The Texas Pianoman (New West)
Baby Jey: Someday Cowboy (Maintenance)
Kate Blechinger: Under A Dancing Sky (Bent River)
- Steve Gunn: The Unseen In Between (Matador)
- Angel Bat Dawid: The Oracle (International Anthem)
- Idan Raichel: And If You Will Come To Me (Cumbancha)
- Julia Holter: Aviary (Domino)