I wanted to make it an even thirty but figure I still have eight weeks and I’m comfortable with these finalists. In chronological order.
Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show
Dawn Richard – Blackheart
Speedy Ortiz – Foil Deer
Sleater Kinney – No Cities to Love
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Young Thug – Barter 6
The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
Heems – Eat Pray Thug
Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think
The Mavericks – Mono
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Ba Power
Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Jason Derulo – Everything is 4
A$AP Rocky – At Long Last ASAP
Dead Sara – Pleased to Meet You Over
Alan Jackson – Angels and Alcohol
Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect
Miguel – Wildheart
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Ashley Monroe – The Blade
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
Angel Haze – Back to the Woods
Destroyer – Poison Season
Future – DS2
Robert Forster – Songs to Play
Janet Jackson – Unbreakable
Humanizing The Vacuum 