Top album: Going to Market by JV’s Boogaloo Squad
- = Albertan
- = Canadian
- JV’s Boogaloo Squad: Going to Market (Flatcar)
- Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village/[PIAS])
- Our Native Daughters: Songs Of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Nick Waterhouse: Nick Waterhouse (Innovative Leisure)
- Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
- Patty Griffin: Patty Griffin (PGM)
- Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone)
- Hannah Georgas: Imprints (EP) (Independent)
- Altameda: Time Hasn’t Changed You (Pheromone)
- Ben Rogers: Wildfire (Still)
- King Of Foxes: Salt & Honey (Independent)
- Matt Andersen: Halfway Home By Morning (True North)
- Rob Heath: Ticket To Everywhere (Independent)
- Diamondtown: Life Goes On (Independent)
- Durand Jones & The Indications: American Love Call (Dead Oceans)
- Paul Pigat: The Game (Little Pig)
- Whitehorse: The Northern South, Vol. 2 (Six Shooter)
- Gurf Morlix: Impossible Blue (Independent)
- Molly Tuttle: When You’re Ready (Compass Records)
- Big Wild: Superdream (Counter)
- Solange: When I Get Home (Columbia)
- Mandolin Orange: Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc)
- Over the Rhine: Love & Revelation (Great Speckled Dog)
- Sugaray Rayford: Somebody Save Me (Forty Below)
- Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon: Solstice (New West)
- Ten Fé: Future Perfect, Present Tense (Some Kinda Love/[PIAS])
- The Cactus Blossoms: Easy Way (Walkie Talkie)
- J Dilla: The Shining Instrumentals (BBE)
- Adia Victoria: Silences (Canvasback/Atlantic)
- Noah Derksen: America, Dreaming: Part I (EP) (Independent)