| 1 | HKE | "Scorpion Queen" | Omnia | Chattering post-vaporwave abstractro. |
| 2 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | "Light Tunnels (feat. Mike Slap)" | This Unruly Mess I've Made | This album is out now. |
| 3 | Tritonal | "This Is Love" | single | Triumphantly elephantine trance stomp. |
| 4 | The Qemists | "Anger" | single | Drum-and-bass + electronicore guest vocal turns out to kind of equal Rock. |
| 5 | King Melodies | "The Joker" | single | Frilly Swedish lo-fi big-hook orch-pop. |
| 6 | Pinkshinyultrablast | "Initial" | Grandfeathered | Russian nu gaze band goes electro-blur. |
| 7 | School Of Seven Bells | "A Thousand Times More" | SVIIB | I neither expect nor need a sadder or more redemptive album this year, so please nobody else die. |
| 8 | Tsjuder | "The Daemon Gate" | Kill for Satan | Serious Black Metal knows that what Satan really hates is proper production and mastering. |
| 9 | Ektomorf | "Brotherhood of Man" | single | Viciously desiccated death-metal rattle. |
| 10 | Pvris | "You and I" | single | Airy, springy indietronic synthpop. |
| 11 | Up for Nothing | "Dignity" | Swindled | Fast melodic neo-90s pop-punk. |
| 12 | Louna | "Сердца из стали" | 18+ 3 | Russian alt-hard-rock somewhere between Paramore and Madder Mortem. |
| 13 | Bendik | "Kriger" | Fortid | Perhaps Bendik is the Norwegian Max Martin, and soon our chain stores will pulse austerely to obliquely luminous and circuitously menacing electro-ice-pop. |
| 14 | Río Roma | "Amigos No" | Eres la Persona Correcta en el Momento Equivocado | Sweeping Latin-duo romantic-melancholy. |
| 15 | Dulce María | "Dejarte De Amar" | single | RBD alumna is one of my favorite Latin arena-pop doyennes. |
| 16 | Holy Esque | "Prism" | At Hope's Ravine | Bleating, sawing Scottish desperation. |
| 17 | Magnum | "Sacred Blood, Divine Lies" | Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies | 19th album by the apparently indestructible and relentlessly definitive masters of British-style hard rock. |
| 18 | Martina McBride | "Reckless" | single | The void Taylor left in pop-country has been turned into a magical space for more or less any kind of redemptive pop willing to trade Max Martin sheen for a faint twang. |
| 19 | Chuck Wicks | "She's Gone" | Turning Point | Basically, you can take an old John Cougar album, add more reverb and a little banjo and enough belief, and get a pretty credible and rousing country record. |
| 20 | Omnium Gatherum | "The Pit" | Grey Heavens | Blistering, raspy, anthemic Finnish progressive melodic death metal. |
| 21 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | "Existence in the Unfurling" | single | Fluttering, composerly electronica. |
| 22 | Epic North | "Exosuit" | Mammoth | Stentorian epicore bombast. |
| 23 | Project Pitchfork | "What Have We Done - Exclusive Song" | Second Anthology | Hoarse, methodical compilation-bonus new song by German electro-goths. |
| 24 | Niña | "Willie Nelson" | Versus | Compilation of charming twee Mexican electro-indie-pop from Niña's 3 stray EPs. |
| 25 | I Love Your Lifestyle | "Nice Jacket. Not." | We Go Way Back | Cathartic, straining Swedish math-emo. |
| 26 | Tut Tut Child | "Fell Down (feat. Holly Drummond)" | Come to the End; Then Stop | Like the Monstercat imagining of a Michael Jackson album produced by Nero, but where the confrontational brilliance is the application of pop ambition to catstep urgency, not the other way around. |
| 27 | Silvana Imam | "Varma Gator" | single | Atmospheric, snare-lashed, violin-laced alternative hip hop from a Syrian/Lithuanian female Swedish rapper. |
| 28 | The Sun Days | "Don't Need to Be Them" | single | Jangly Gothenburg indie-pop with a naming deathwish. |
| 29 | Meridian Dan | "Couple Killers" | single | Buzzy, thickly-accented twitch-beat grime. |
| 30 | HEARTWATCH | "Faultlines" | Heartwatch 6 | Chiming, faintly Lone Justice-ish San Francisco indie dance-rock. (And, FKA "The Tropics", an object-lesson to other bands unwilling to change their unsearchable names.) |
| 31 | NateWantsToBattle | "Love Yourself" | single | Pop-punk Bieber covers are a growth industry. |
| 32 | Santigold | "Can't Get Enough Of Myself (feat. BC Unidos)" | 99 Cents | How to cloudbust out of a trap. |
| 33 | Eagulls | "My Life in Rewind" | single | Bleary, distended anti-Cure. |
| 34 | Paws | "No Grace" | single | Scottish indie guitar-rock power-trio. |
| 35 | Car Seat Headrest | "Vincent" | single | Scottish indie guitar-rock power-trio, except there are four of them and they're American. |
| 36 | Charli XCX | "Vroom Vroom" | Vroom Vroom EP 4 | Pop-as-punk goes post-PC-Music electroid. |
| 37 | Yuck | "Hold Me Closer" | Stranger Things | Trash-compacted elegies exhumed and partly uncrumpled. |
| 38 | Circus Maximus | "Pages" | single | Pop-djent prog-metal. |
| 39 | BABYMETAL | "KARATE" | single | If you were waiting for BABYMETAL to get 15% less cutesy, it's your time now. |
| 40 | Savoir Adore | "Giants" | single | Archetypal indietronic-arena-pop, like fun. without the celebrity flash-glare. |
| 41 | Little Green Cars | "Easier Day" | single | Irish folk-pop channeling In Tua Nua expansiveness. |
| 42 | Hailee Steinfeld | "Love Myself" | HAIZ 5 | Pitch Perfect-instigated, jubillantly confident ambi-pop. |
| 43 | Besatt | "Sorcery" | Nine Sins | Seething Polish pagan black blast-metal. |
| 44 | Ula Ruth | "Misery" | single | Brooklyn indie guitar-rock. |
| 45 | Coffins | "Tyrant" | Split E.P. 2 | Split and crushing Coffins/Ilsa noise-metal song-pairing. Split singles actually make a new kind of sense in the streaming age. |
| 46 | Red 7 | "Murder Sound" | Silence Hotel 4 | Gary Numan as pop metalcore. |
| 47 | Voivod | "Post Society" | Post Society - EP | The sonic evocation of ruined and possibly zombie-encamped Frank Gehry buildings. |
| 48 | Johndoe | "Sov i ro" | single | Bounding Trondheim indie-rock. |
| 49 | Miss Caffeina | "Detroit" | Detroit | Sunny, surging, faintly post-punk Spanish synth-rock. |
| 50 | INHEAVEN | "Baby's Alright" | single | Cheap Trick via The Three Johns. |
| 51 | Joey Hyde | "Losing It" | Joey Hyde - EP 5 | In another universe, Elliott Smith is a high-school band-geek who escapes to Nashville instead of Portland. I'm not saying it's a better universe, but it's definitely lighter. |
| 52 | Elizabeth Lyons | "Southern Gentleman" | I've Never 6 | And smilier. |
| 53 | Natalie Stovall and The Drive | "We Are" | Heartbreak - EP 6 | And violinear. |
| 54 | Divine Realm | "Tritos" | Tectum Argenti | Magisterial Canadian instrumental prog-djent. |
| 55 | Rotersand | "Torn Realities" | Torn Realities | German electro-industrial circuit-stomp. |
| 56 | Can't Swim | "Your Clothes" | Death Deserves a Name 5 | Shouty NJ pop emocore. |
| 57 | The Rocket Summer | "Same Air" | Zoetic | Frenetic, technically overwhelming, style-devouring DFW one-man-band power-pop-rock. |
| 58 | The Downtown Fiction | "Let's Fade Away" | Alligator Tears | Like the Goo Goo Dolls starting over. |
| 59 | Femme | "Light Me Up" | single | Kaleidoscopic dance-shimmer. |
| 60 | 4TEN | "Tornado" | Jack of All Trades 5 | Fourth (Korean) Harmony. |
| 61 | DaVinChe | "The Dominion" | The VinchOnacci Instrumental Project | Trap grime trap epicore. |
| 62 | Lonely The Brave | "What If You Fall In" | single | NWOBIndieGuitarRock. |
| 63 | Gates | "Captive" | single | Dense, heroic NJ post-rock. |
| 64 | The Unguided | "Enraged" | Lust And Loathing | Roaring Swedish melodic electronic death metal. |
| 65 | Massendefekt | "Mauern" | Echos | German punk-pop-hard-rock arena shoutalong. |
| 66 | Madeline Juno | "Into the Night" | Salvation | German Nordic art-synth-pop. |
| 67 | Estiva | "Spark" | single | Swooping pop trance. |
| 68 | Daniel Kandi | "Number One" | single | More Vangelis/Tangerine-Dream/Jean-Michel-Jarre esque retro-melodic trance. |
| 69 | Daniel Haaksman | "Akabongi" | African Fabrics | Literal, liberal, literally-electrifying pan-African appropriation into German technostructure. |
| 70 | A Cámara Lenta | "De Ocho y Cuarto Hasta las Diez" | single | Barcelona ragged-glory punk-pop-rock. |
| 71 | Naela | "Al Despertar" | single | It's worth knowing more than one Colombian Latin-pop singer. |
| 72 | Husman | "Atmosphere - Extended Mix" | Atmosphere 4 | Formula trance-pop, but it's a formula I personally like, particularly the moments when the beat drops out and everything goes time-smeared and heart-opening. |
| 73 | Titan Slayer | "Jupiter" | single | Concise, punchy, Siberian-laptop epicore. |
| 74 | Algodón Egipcio | "El Calor Específico" | La Confianza Ciega | And my album of the week in an already-amazing week: Virtuoso, omnichromatic experimental post-world Venezuelan electronic everything-pop towards which I can easily and happily drift into imagining all world trophies helplessly tractor-beaming. |