| 1 | Shearwater | "Quiet Americans" | single | If Low can get with drum machines, Shearwater can go beepy. |
| 2 | Horizon | "The Birth of The Day" | Look 4 | Ominous substep rumble by Horizon. |
| 3 | Ellie Goulding | "Lost And Found" | single | Gently bouncy uplift-pop by Ellie Goulding. |
| 4 | The Japanese House | "Pools To Bathe In" | Pools To Bathe In +3 | Indie-er indietronic translucence by The Japanese House. |
| 5 | a-ha | "Dark Is The Night For All - 2015 Remastered" | Memorial Beach (Deluxe Edition) | Remastered editions of 3 early a-ha albums, including the great Memorial Beach. |
| 6 | Killing Joke | "Autonomous Zone" | Pylon | Killing Joke have done their venomous industrial-punk thing long enough that the industrial part now sounds nostalgic. |
| 7 | Shining | "The Last Stand" | International Blackjazz Society | Jazz-metal convolutions by Shining. |
| 8 | VHÖL | "The Desolate Damned" | Deeper Than Sky | Post-Cascadian avant-thrash metal by VHÖL. |
| 9 | Corrections House | "Crossing My One Good Finger" | Know How to Carry a Whip | Relentless aggrotech by Corrections House. |
| 10 | Halo | "Fly Over" | Hikari Hanatsu Tenohira Hikari Sasu Basyo 4 | Crunching melodic anime-death metal by Halo. |
| 11 | Pegboard Nerds | "Emoji" | Pink Cloud - EP 5 | Restless jumpcut geekstep by Pegboard Nerds. |
| 12 | Keith Urban | "Break On Me" | single | Keith Urban reminds us that country can do melancholy. |
| 13 | Rod Stewart | "Love Is" | Another Country | Celtic-infused way-post-disco stomp-and-fiddle from Rod Stewart. |
| 14 | St. Lucia | "Dancing On Glass" | single | Chirpy neo-synth-pop from St. Lucia. |
| 15 | Racing Glaciers | "Seems Like a Good Time" | single | Thickly atmospheric indie guitar rock by Racing Glaciers. |
| 16 | Amberian Dawn | "Ladyhawk" | Innuendo | Hypermelodic gothic symphonic metal by Amberian Dawn. |
| 17 | Matenrou Opera | "BURNING SOUL" | BURNING SOUL +2 | Visual sprint-kei by Matenrou Opera. |
| 18 | Avatarium | "Girl with the Raven Mask" | The Girl with the Raven Mask | Alternately angelic and sludged epic hard-doom-rock by Avatarium. |
| 19 | ARtroniks | "Illusion" | DUPLOC005 2 | Near-subsonic d&b wobble by ARtroniks. |
| 20 | Philip Jeck | "Fleeing" | Cardinal | Spectral-wash ambient noiseshaping by Philip Jeck. |
| 21 | Månegarm | "Odin owns ye all" | single | A one-song folk-death-metal primer by Månegarm. |
| 22 | Leah Daniels | "Boots 'n Jeans" | What It Feels Like | Into the Taylor Swift pop-country vaccuum with Leah Daniels. |
| 23 | Marianas Trench | "Astoria" | Astoria | If One Direction had been listening to Sparks albums while watching Beatles movies with the sound off, they might have come out sounding more like Marianas Trench. Can you have an experimental pop boyband? |
| 24 | coldrain | "Wrong" | VENA | Shouty-fluttery Japanese post-hardcore rage by coldrain. |
| 25 | Savages | "The Answer" | single | Obsessive noise-rock blur by Savages. |
| 26 | Upon Shadows | "Lethargic loss of ambition." | Between The Southern Cross & The Northern Star. | Croaky symphonic black cryptic-spasmodic metal from Upon Shadows. |