| Artist | Title | Album | Label | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Ward | For Beginners | Hold Time | country | Merge |
| Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson & Ricky Skaggs | Down in the Valley to Pray | The Three Pickers | country | Rounder |
| The American Analog Set | The Postman | Know By Heart | rock | Tiger Style |
| A.C. Newman | There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve | Get Guilty | rock | Matador |
| Mark T. Small | Early in the Morning | Screamin' & Cryin' the Blues | blues | Whaling City Sound |
| Leon Redbone | Lovesick Blues | Red to Blue | blues | Rounder |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | 1919 | 1996 | experimental | BMG |
| Balmorhea | Elegy | All is Wild, All is Silent | rock | Western Vinyl |
| Balmorhea | Dream of Thaw | Balmorhea | experimental | S/R |
| The Mountain Goats | DinuLipatti's Bones | The Sunset Tree | rock | 4ad |
| Rokia Traore | The Man I Love | Tchmantche | world | Nonesuch |
| Jens Lekman | The Opposite of Hallelujah | Night Falls Over Kortedala | rock | Secretly Canadian |
| Sufjan Stevens | Sister | Seven Swans | rock | Sounds Familyre |
| Sigur Ros | Hljomalind | Hvarf-Heim | rock | XI Recordings |


