I realize that many of the choices below are actually releases from 2017, but they are fresh enough and so hard to have gotten one’s hands on that I’m-a have to count them. Happy hunting, and enjoy the above playlist of highlight tracks (excluding the Dawkins album, as no video was available.

1. Nona Hendryx and Gary Lucas: The World of Captain Beefheart
2. Princess Nokia: 1992
3. Joe McPhee: Imaginary Numbers
4. CupcaKe: Ephora
5. Ernest Dawkins: Transient Takes
6. Rahim Alhaj: Letters from Iraq
7. Moor Mother: Fetish the Bones
8. Joey Badass: All-Amerikkkan Badass
9. Kris Davis and Craig Taborn: Octopus
10. Ty Segall: Freedom’s Goblin