- Tunng: …presents Dead Club (palyful play of the existenzial)
- Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (his best one since …)
- Fiona Apple: Fetch The Bolt Cutters (one word: terrific!)
- Bill Callahan: Gold Record (unfolding its gold slowly)
- The Flaming Lips: American Head (past wounds, shining)
- Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound – („into the impossible“)
- Einstürzende Neubauten: Alles in allem (future classic)
- Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy (blue, blue, electric blue)
- Die Wilde Jagd: Haut (masterpiece in song & sound)
- Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours (a stunning grower)
- Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela: Rejoice (no ounce of fat)
- J. Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen: Neuzeit
- Afel Bocoum: Lindé (old Africa, and beyond)
- Alabaster DePlume: To Cy and Lee, Instrumentals Vol. 1
- Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes: Heritage of the Invisible II
- Strings & Timpani: Voice & Strings & Timpani (overflowing)
- Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on her Eyelashes
- Wire: Mind Hive (a biting beast, melancolia included)
- Hen Ogledd: Free Humans (supersurrealrealities)
- The Necks: Three (they just can‘t do the average )
- Rustin Man: Clockdust (on certain nights my number 1)
- M. Ward: Think of Spring (the art of understated guitar)
- Thomas Köner: Motus (music of an unknown future)
- Paradise Cinema: Paradise Cinema