NPR Music has become an invaluable resource over the past couple of years, streaming a ton of great albums before their release on its website and employing some very good music writers, queen O.G. Ann Powers among them. And now it’s unveiled its year-end list of 50 albums, and this thing is just nuts. The unranked list somehow finds room for Ab-Soul, Pallbearer, Fun., Pink, Dwight Yoakam, Dan Deacon, a healthy smattering of classical and jazz, and a ton of stuff I’ve never heard of. Check out NPR’s picks below.

Ab-Soul – Control System

Alabama Shakes – Boys And Girls

Alisa Weilerstein & Daniel Barenboim – Elgar & Carter Cello Concertos

Alt-J – An Awesome Wave

Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

Astro – Astro

Simon Rattle & The Berlin Philharmonic – Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe

Bomba Estereo - Elegancia Tropical

Brooklyn Rider – Seven Steps

Cafe Tacvba – El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco

Carla Morrison – Dejenme Llorar

Cat Power – Sun

Cody ChesnuTT – Landing On A Hundred

Dan Deacon – America

Death Grips – NO LOVE DEEP WEB

Debo Band – Debo Band

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

Dwight Yoakam – 3 Pears

Exitmusic – Passage

Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…

Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes

Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

Fun. – Some Nights

Homeboy Sandman – First Of A Living Breed

Iris DeMent – Sing The Delta

Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang – En Yay Sah

Japandroids – Celebration Rock

Karriem Riggins – Alone Together

Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City

Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music

Leila Josefowicz – Salonen: Violin Concerto

Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

Matt Ulery – By A Little Light

Meek Mill – Dreamchasers 2

Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream

Neneh Cherry & The Thing – The Cherry Thing

Now, Now – Threads

Pallbearer – Sorrow And Extinction

Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard

Pink – The Truth About Love

Regina Spektor – What We Saw From The Cheap Seats

San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas – Adams: Harmonielehre/Short Ride In A Fast Machine

Sharon Van Etten – Tramp

Swans – The Seer

Ty Segall – Twins

The Very Best – MTMTMK

Vijay Iyer Trio – Accelerando

Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers

The 2 Bears – Be Strong

For blurbs and music streams, head over to NPR.