| 1 | Molly Sandén | "Youniverse" | single | Youphoric Yourovision. |
| 2 | IG88 | "Hiding in My Hands" | Hiding in My Hands | Pop songs deconstructed into drifty, fractured, recursive nostalgia. |
| 3 | NateWantsToBattle | "Same Old Forest" | Songs of Time | Minecraft-core pop-punk auteur's long-promised Legend of Zelda concept-album. |
| 4 | Tonight Alive | "To Be Free" | Limitless | Sydney pop-punk goes fearlessly epic and methodically quiet at once, like a cross between ABBA and Muse, or the grand pop album to go with the Jezabels' Synthia. |
| 5 | Frightened Rabbit | "Get Out" | single | Lurching, lovecrushed surrender. |
| 6 | Little Green Cars | "Clair de Lune" | single | Low-ish indie-folk-pop, but LGC sound like a different band to me when Faye isn't singing the lead. |
| 7 | Fatima Al Qadiri | "Blood Moon" | Brute | Ominous experimental synthetic dystopiatronica. |
| 8 | Anna Meredith | "Nautilus" | Varmints | Experimental modern composition in nominal, colorful pop-song shapes. |
| 9 | Muncie Girls | "Learn In School" | From Caplan To Belsize | Magnificent, tiny, roaring, plaintive punk-as-understatement catharsis like the hybrid legacy of Sleeper and Bikini Kill. |
| 10 | Kneebody | "Loops" | Kneedelus | Apparently all you have to do to make jazz tolerable to me is stick it in a computer and chop it up a little. |
| 11 | La Gale | "Salem City Rockers" | Salem City Rockers | Glitchy, dark-glitter Swiss-French post-world atmospheric hip hop. |
| 12 | Amore Ad Lunam | "I'm Inside You" | single | Goth-caped love metal from somewhere deep in the vein that runs from later Sisters of Mercy to earlier HIM. |
| 13 | The Great Line | "How Can a Man Die Better" | Illuminature | Howling atmospheric post-hardcore, like sleeping on a flying carpet made of slate and terror. |
| 14 | Lions and Tigers | "Katherine" | Everything Is Illuminated 5 | Punchy Austin pop-emo. |
| 15 | Eissturm | "Falling Snow" | The Oak | Whisper-shrieky, frost-shrouded atmospheric black metal. |
| 16 | Now or Never | "The Voice Inside" | II | Cheerfully semi-anachronistic power-glam Euro-metal. |
| 17 | Kristin Kontrol | "X-Communicate" | single | Dum Dum Girls' beepy neo-New-Wave solo-project expedition into Berlin/New Order anthropology. |
| 18 | Mitski | "Your Best American Girl" | single | A lullaby for the end of the world. |
| 19 | Mary Lattimore | "Otis Walks Into the Woods" | At the Dam | Aeolian harp-and-echo sketches. |
| 20 | Beseech | "Beating Pulse" | My Darkness, Darkness | Gruff, dark-romantic Swedish gothic metal. |
| 21 | Jennifer O'Connor | "Mountains" | Surface Noise | Close, hushed, elegant indie bedroom-folk. |
| 22 | Lera Lynn | "Shape Shifter" | single | Sparse anti-country twang. |
| 23 | Sorcier des Glaces | "Passage Au-Dela Des Glaciers Noirs" | North | Freeze-dessicated Québécois raw black metal. |
| 24 | Panopticon | "Håkan's Song" | Panopticon & Waldgeflüster (Split) | Object-lesson in how to do a genuinely collaborative split single: each band provides one massive-torment new pagan-metal epic and one spare neo-folk cover of one of the other band's songs. |
| 25 | Oyinda | "Never Enough" | single | Fractured, chattery post-world experimental soul. |
| 26 | Natalie McCool | "Fortress" | single | Grand pop cloaked in minimalist singer-songwriter indietronica. |
| 27 | MICappella | "One of These Days" | single | Frenetic Singaporean a cappella K-Pop group. |
| 28 | Wolvserpent | "Aporia:Kala:Ananta" | single | Take a pop song and slow it down to 40:30 and you get instant funeral doom metal. Except this was never a pop song. |
| 29 | Inverloch | "From the Eventide Pool" | Distance | Collapsed | Epic-elegiac black doom metal. |
| 30 | COIN | "Stilled" | Stilled | Ambient displacement. |
| 31 | Paperwhite | "On My Own" | single | Shimmery dream-funk-pop. |
| 32 | Hammock | "Dissonance" | single | Blurry, unhurried cloud-gaze. |
| 33 | Howl | "Sports Challenge" | single | Parts vaporwave, epicore and "Axel F". |
| 34 | Min Stora Sorg | "Min stora sorg" | single | Haunting, halting, sparkling, soaring, meticulous Swedish indie-drama-pop. |
| 35 | Love of Lesbian | "Planeador" | El Poeta Halley | Expansively various Spanish indie-everything punk/pop/slow-core/cantautor/rock. |
| 36 | All Tvvins | "Resurrect Me" | Unbelievable 3 | Quick, jabbing, drum-spattered indie dance-rock. |
| 37 | Reckless Love | "We Are The Weekend" | InVader | Sunny, flamboyantly goofy Finnish retro-glam-metal. |
| 38 | Hacktivist | "Taken (feat. Rou Reynolds)" | single | Grinding progressive grime-core. |
| 39 | Anup Sastry | "Enigma" | Bloom | Pounding hyper-technical hyper-unsubtle instrumental djent. |
| 40 | Lumisokea | "Generation Z" | Transmissions from Revarsavr | Belgian/Italian noise-as-jazz duo. |
| 41 | Gondwana | "A Gospel of Dirt" | Aum | Rumbling, meditative dronescapes from the Italian half of Lumisokea. |
| 42 | Mortiis | "The Great Leap" | The Great Deceiver | Goth-destructo-industrial blast-bluster. |
| 43 | The Qemists | "Jungle" | Warrior Sound | Ambitious post-drum-and-bass rockstep. |
| 44 | Momoiro Clover Z | "We Are Born" | Amaranthus | Hopping brightly from techno-power-metal to alternate-universe industrial-instructional-musical soundtracks... |
| 45 | Momoiro Clover Z | "Tougenkyou" | Hakkin No Yoake | ...unless you want them to stay on J-Pop hyper-topic, in which case there's a whole other album released the same day. |
| 46 | SHISHAMO | "Gomenne, Koigokoro" | SHISHAMO 3 | Even lo-fi Japanese indie-pop sounds like the basis of an indecipherable cartoon superhero franchise. |
| 47 | Avec Sans | "Heartbreak Hi" | Heartbreak Hi (Remixes) 3 | Ebulient London arpeggiator metropop. |
| 48 | Lethal Bizzle | "Box" | single | This might be an argument against fighting. Or it might have been before Lethal Bizzle, JME and Face started having too much fun mangling the words. |
| 49 | Tinchy Stryder | "Allow Me" | single | I guess this is sort of UK trap. |
| 50 | Jon Henrik Fjällgren | "Vi är starka - Mijjieh lea gaarkijes" | single | Eurovision yoik! This should really win. |
| 51 | Prince Rama | "Fantasy" | Xtreme Now | Ceaseless-energy mosaic-pop made of broken bits of St. Vincent, Devo, Kate Bush and Propaganda. |
| 52 | Ruben Samama | "Will (Cells)" | Insomnia | Jazz bassist makes creaky post-world-fusion noise-ambience. |
| 53 | Matthew Bourne | "Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (For Coral Evans)" | moogmemory | Glacial-pace yoga for abandoned robots with immortality to kill. |
| 54 | GENER8ION | "H808" | single | Buzzy, martial, distended-funk electro-abstraction. |
| 55 | Donots | "I Will Deny" | ¡CARAJO! | Vast, surging German anthem-punk. |
| 56 | KMPFSPRT | "Ich hör' die Single nicht" | single | Fast melodic German shout-along power-trio punk. |
| 57 | Sue the Night | "The World Below" | single | Gossamer jangle-indie dream-pop. |
| 58 | Alpine Universe | "Leap of Faith" | single | Earnest, dramatic electro-industrial epicore-core. |
| 59 | Kitten | "Church" | Heaven or Somewhere in Between 5 | Like the wall of sound is actually the sky. |
| 60 | AURORA | "Warrior" | single | This could easily be the Eurovision entry for New York. |
| 61 | Bars and Melody | "Hello" | single | Ghastly/wonderful British teen boy-band "rap" Adele cover. |
| 62 | Mechanist | "The Hum" | The Hum +1 | The sound of background noise self-organizing for a revolt. |
| 63 | Bedårande Barn | "Nu Och För Alltid" | Nu Och För Alltid +1 | Unhurried Stockholm pop-hard-rock. |
| 64 | Colin Stetson | "SORROW a reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony: I - Extract" | single | And my non-album of the week is these two breathtaking preview fragments... |
| 65 | Colin Stetson | "SORROW a reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony: III (Extract II)" | single | ...from Colin Stetson's upcoming complete re-orchestration of Gorecki's masterpiece. |