1. 8...Brigitte Fontaine...Est...Folle...Superior Viaduct
2. 8...Various...Imaginations: Psychedelic Sounds From the Young Blood, Beacon and Mother Labels, 1969-1974...Guerssen
3. 8...Tune-Yards...Nikki Nack...4AD
4. 8...Trans Am...Volume X...Thrill Jockey
5. 7...Hank Williams...The Garden Spot Programs, 1950...Omnivore
6. 7...Swans...To Be Kind...Young God
7. 7...Fennesz...Becs...Editions Mego
8. 7...Mesa Ritual...Mesa Ritual...Sige
9. 6...Sylvan Esso...Sylvan Esso ...Partisan
10. 6...William Tyler...Lost Colony...Merge
11. 6...Curtis Harding...Soul Power...Burger
1. 12...Thee Oh Sees...Drop...Castle Face
2. 10...Sylvan Esso...Sylvan Esso ...Partisan
3. 8...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except Goodbye...self-released
4. 8...Wood Ear...Electric Alone...Churchkey
5. 8...Fennesz...Becs...Editions Mego
6. 8...Magic Touch...Palermo House Gang...100% Silk
7. 8...Prince Fatty vs. Mungo's Hi-Fi...Prince Fatty vs. Mungo's Hi-Fi...Mr. Bongo
8. 8...Mystic Braves...Desert Island...Lollipop
9. 7...Flesh Wounds...Bitter Boy 7"...Merge
10. 7...Lust for Youth...International...Sacred Bones
11. 7...The Nels Cline Singers...Macroscope...Mack Avenue
1. 11...The Ghost of a Sabertooth Tiger...Midnight Sun...Chimera Music
2. 11...Various Artists...Suicide Squeeze Presents: Forever Singles...Suicide Squeeze
3. 9...Lud...Defenestration Boulevard...s/r
4. 9...Chicago Underground Duo...Locus...Northern-Spy
5. 9...Wye Oak...Shriek...Merge
6. 9...Woods...With Light and Love...Woodsist
7. 9...September Girls...Cursing the Sea...Fortuna POP!
8. 9...Cloud Nothings...Here and Nowhere Else...Carpark
9. 8...Verma...Sunrunner...Trouble in Mind
10. 8...The Nels Cline Singers...Macroscope...Mack Avenue
11. 8...Denney and the Jets...Mexican Coke...Limited Fanfare
1. 15...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks
2. 12...Protomartyr...Under Color of Official Right...Hardly Art
3. 11...Alvarius B/Sir Richard Bishop...If You Don't Like It...Don't!...Three Lobed Recordings
4. 11...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut
5. 10...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except Goodbye...self-released
6. 10...Steve Gunn and Mike Gangloff...Melodies for a Savage Fix...Imprec
7. 10...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun
8. 10...Mac Demarco...Salad Days...Captured Tracks
9. 9...The Brothers and Sisters...Dylan's Gospel...Light in the Attic
10. 9...Ruby the Rabbitfoot...New as Dew...Normaltown
11. 9...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony
12. 9...Liars...Mess...Mute
13. 8...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R
14. 8...Lud...Defenestration Boulevard...s/r
15. 8...Art Jackson...Tulip Tree Poplar Flower...s/r
16. 8...Freddie Gibbs and Madlib...Pinata...Madlib Invazion
17. 8...Cahalen Morrison and Eli West...I'll Swing My Hammer with Both My Hands...s/r
18. 8...Wye Oak...Shriek...Merge
19. 8...Woods...With Light and Love...Woodsist
20. 8...Tokyo Police Club...Forcefield...Mom+Pop
21. 7...Jenks Miller/J Toth...Roads to Ruin...Three Lobed
1. 14...Lemon Nash...Papa Lemon: The 1959-61 Oster & Allen Recordings...Arhoolie
2. 13...Real Estate...Atlas...Domino
3. 11...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records
4. 11...Various Artists...I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983...Tompkins Square
5. 11...Cherry Glazerr...Haxel Princess...Burger
6. 11...The Belle Brigade...Just Because...ATO
7. 11...The Coathangers...Suck My Shirt...Suicide Squeeze
8. 10...Dex Romweber Duo...Images 13...Bloodshot
9. 10...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R
10. 10...HowellDevine...Jumps, Boogies, and Wobbles...Arhoolie
11. 10...The War On Drugs...Lost in the Dream...Secretly Canadian
12. 10...The Notwist...Close to the Glass...Sub Pop
13. 10...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat
14. 9...Twelve Thousand Armies...Tiger Beat...Phuzz
15. 9...Jesus Sons...Jesus Sons...Mock Records
16. 8...Ezekiel Graves...Chtonic Journey...self-released
17. 8...Bud Powell...Birdland 2953...ESP Disk
18. 8...Brian Horton...Brand New Day...self-released
19. 8...Lambchop...Nixon...Merge
20. 8...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut
21. 8...The Men...Tomorrow's Hits...Sacred Bones
1. 16...Dex Romweber Duo...Images 13...Bloodshot
2. 12...Ezekiel Graves...Chtonic Journey...self-released
3. 12...Various Artists...Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles...Numero Group
4. 11...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut
5. 11...Woodsman...Woodsman...Fire Talk
6. 11...Real Estate...Atlas...Domino
7. 10...Humble Tripe...The Giving...Harper Wells Music
8. 10...Vertical Scratchers...Daughter of Everything...Merge
9. 10...Peter Walker..."Second Poem to Karmela" or Gypsies Are Important...Light in the Attic / Vanguard
10. 9...Logical Sound Discovery...Thrill Seeker...s/r
11. 9...Carla Bozulich...Boy...Constellation
12. 9...The Coathangers...Suck My Shirt...Suicide Squeeze
13. 9...The War On Drugs...Lost in the Dream...Secretly Canadian
14. 9...Drive By Truckers...English Oceans...ATO
15. 9...The Notwist...Close to the Glass...Sub Pop
16. 9...Various Artists...I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983...Tompkins Square
17. 9...Lemon Nash...Papa Lemon: The 1959-61 Oster & Allen Recordings...Arhoolie
18. 8...Pedrito Martinez Group...Pedrito Martinez Group...Motema
19. 8...Bottomless Pit...Shade Perennial...Comedy Minus One
20. 8...Cave...Threace...Drag City
1. 13...Cate Le Bon...Mug Museum...Wichita
2. 12...Angel Olsen...Burn Your Fire For No Witness...Jagjaguwar
3. 11...Humble Tripe...The Giving...Harper Wells Music
4. 11...Logical Sound Discovery...Thrill Seeker...s/r
5. 11...D. Charles Speer and the Helix...Doubled Exposure...Thrill Jockey
6. 10...Vertical Scratchers...Daughter of Everything...Merge
7. 11...Greg Cohen...Golden State...Relative Pitch Records
8. 11...Sun Araw...Belomancie...Drag City
9. 11...Imarhan Timbuktu...Akal Warled...Clermont Music
10. 11...Aziza Brahim...Soutak...Glitterbeat
11. 11...Bleeding Rainbow...Interrupt...Kanine
12. 9...Lilac Shadows...No Dark/No Light...s/r
13. 9...Shoes This High...Shoes This High 7"...Siltbreeze
14. 9...Mark McGuire...Along the Way...Dead Oceans
15. 9...Tog...Feiring...Red Eye Transit
16. 9...Temples...Sun Structures...Fat Possum
17. 8...Lambchop...Nixon...Merge
18. 8...New Bums...Voices in a Rented Room...Drag City
19. 8...Dr. Feelgood...All Through the City (with Wilko 1974-77)...EMI
20. 8...Trick Mammoth...Floristry...Fishrider / Occultation
21. 8...Step Brothers...Lord Steppington...Rhymesayers
22. 8...Tinariwen...Emmaar...Anti-
1. 15...Tinariwen...Emmaar...Anti-
2. 15...Dum Dum Girls...Too True...Sub Pop
3. 13...Angel Olsen...Burn Your Fire For No Witness...Jagjaguwar
4. 12...Libyans...Expired Language...Sorry State
5. 12...Holly Herndon...Chorus...RVNG Intl.
6. 12...Cate Le Bon...Mug Museum...Wichita
7. 11...Secret Boyfriend...This Is Always Where You've Lived...Blackest Ever Black
8. 11...New Bums...Voices in a Rented Room...Drag City
9. 11...Temples...Sun Structures...Fat Possum
10. 10...Humble Tripe...The Giving...Harper Wells Music
11. 10...Sax Ruins...Blimmguass...Skin Graft
12. 10...Step Brothers...Lord Steppington...Rhymesayers
13. 10...Indian...From All Purity...Relapse
14. 10...Habibi...Habibi...Burger
15. 10...Lambchop...Nixon...Merge
16. 9...Brain F≠...Empty Set...Grave Mistake
17. 9...Curtis Eller's American Circus...How to Make It in Hollywood...self-released
18. 9...La Misma...La Misma...Toxic State
19. 9...Bobby Charles...Bobby Charles...Light in the Attic
20. 9...Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen...Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Truckers Favorites...Raven
21. 9...Warpaint...Warpaint...Rough Trade
22. 8...Counter Intuits...Counter Intuits...Pyramid Scheme
23. 8...Weekend...The '81 Demos...Blackest Ever Black