- Tie:
- Vulture Prince—Arooj Aftab
- An Overview On Phenomenal Nature—Cassandra Jenkins
- I Don’t Live Here Anymore—The War On Drugs
- Ten Songs Of Worship and Praise For Our Tumultuous Times—St. Lenox
- Lonesome Kind—DL Rossi
- Outside Child—Allison Russell
- Raise The Roof—Robert Plant/Alison Krauss
- Urban Driftwood—Yasmin Williams
- Cool Dry Place—Katy Kirby
- Ignorance—The Weather Station
- Home Video—Lucy Dacus
- Fatigue—L’Rain
- Wary + Strange—Amethyst Kiah
- You, Yeah, You—Tre Burt
- Inheritance—Musk Ox
- Byways of the Moon—Dave Easley
- Forfolks—Jeff Parker
- Yellow—Emma-Jean Thackray
- Shade—Grouper
- At Pioneer Works—Les Filles de Illighadad
- Squint—Julian Lage
- Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal—Various Artists
- I Know I’m Funny haha—Faye Webster
- From Dreams To Dust—The Felice Brothers
- The Horses and The Hounds—James McMurtry
- Fun House—Hand Habits
Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He has also served as an arts reporter, a producer of A Musical Life and a founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in Pop Matters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.