= Albertan
= Canadian
Mariel Buckley – Driving In The Dark (Independent)
- Lake Street Dive – Free Yourself Up (Nonesuch)
- Shakey Graves – Can’t Wake Up (Dualtone)
- Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom & Pop)
Jennifer Castle – Angels of Death (Paradise Of Bachelors)
- Dr. Dog – Critical Equation (We Buy Gold)
- John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness (Sony)
Ndidi O – These Days (Independent)
- David Byrne – American Utopia (Todomundo / Nonesuch)
Molly Johnson – Meaning To Tell Ya (Universal)
- Bombino – Deran (Partisan)
- Leon Bridges – Good Thing (Columbia)
Michael Rault – It’s A New Day Tonight (Sleepless)
The Hearts – Sunshine (Independent)
Loreena McKennitt – Lost Souls (Quinlan Road)
Molly Johnson – Meaning To Tell Ya (Universal)
Pharis & Jason Romero – Sweet Old Religion (Lula)
- Joachim Cooder – Fuchsia Machu Picchu (Temple Of Leaves)
- Aki Kumar – Aki Goes To Bollywood (Independent)
Shaela Miller – Bad Ideas (Independent)
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Domino)
- Nickodemus – A Long Engagement (Wonderwheel)
- Trampled by Turtles – Life is Good on the Open Road (Banjodad)
- Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian)
- Ry Cooder – The Prodigal Son (Perro Verde)
- Lord Huron – Vide Noir (Universal)
- Orquesta Akokan – Orquesta Akokan (Daptone)
- Jack De Keyzer – Check Mate (Blue Star)
- Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics – State Of All Things (Independent)
- Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Tearing At The Seams (Bottleneck / Stax)