| 1 | Contrarian | "Polemic" | Polemic | Contrarian are not going to win over many death-doom skeptics with this raspy croaking. I'm not sure "win over many death-doom skeptics" is actually a thing, anyway, but this is a really interesting death-doom record. |
| 2 | Stephan Mathieu | "April im Oktober" | Pop Ambient 2016 | Kompakt Records has a "Pop Ambient" compilation with Stephan Mathieu and 11 other artists (none of them "pop"). |
| 3 | Bersarin Quartett | "Verflossen ist das Gold der Tage" | III | Bersarin Quartett is not a quartet, but this is another really good atmospheric-ambient non-pop album. |
| 4 | Foxes | "If You Leave Me Now" | single | Extravagant faux-string flourishes from Foxes. |
| 5 | 黃鴻升 | "拿破崙" | Alien | Big, blustery Taiwanese arena-pop from 黃鴻升. |
| 6 | Horrendous | "The Nihilist" | Anareta | Thundering death-crush by Horrendous. |
| 7 | Malú | "Quiero" | Caos | Swoopy, Spanish pop-rock by Malú. |
| 8 | Bedroom Audio | "ทั้งชีวิต (เพลงประกอบละคร หัวใจปฐพี)" | เพลงประกอบละคร หัวใจปฐพี 2 | Tense, j-rock-like Thai indie-rock by Bedroom Audio. |
| 9 | Silbermond | "Leichtes Gepäck" | Leichtes Gepäck | Muted German indie-pop by the great Silbermond. |
| 10 | Muncie Girls | "Gas Mark 4" | single | Squalling punk melancholy by Muncie Girls. |
| 11 | Titan Slayer | "Jager" | Titanium: Chapter 02 4 | Future-trance epicore from TitanSlayer. |
| 12 | Rie a.k.a. Suzaku | "Passion" | Noah's Ark | and my pick for the week, the new album by j-rock guitar-goddess Rie a.k.a. Suzaku. |