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

22. 7...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State

23. 7...Pedrito Martinez Group...Pedrito Martinez Group...Motema

24. 7...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark

25. 7...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl

26. 7...Jimi Goodwin...Odludek...Heavenly

27. 7...Leon Russell...Life Journey...Universal

28. 6...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records

29. 6...Totally Slow...Totally Slow...Self-Aware / Headfirst!

30. 6...Jonas Reinhardt...Ganymede...Constellation Tatsu

31. 6...Dead Rider...Chills on Glass...Drag City

32. 6...Various...Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997...Strut

33. 6...David Novick...Your Sister's Hand...GOD?

34. 6...Ava Luna...Electric Balloon...Western Vinyl

35. 6...Cloud Nothings...Here and Nowhere Else...Carpark

36. 6...Nightmares on Wax...Feelin' Good...Warp

37. 6...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat

38. 6...Bombay Dub Orchestra...Tales from the Grand Bazaar...Six Degrees

39. 6...The Notwist...Close to the Glass...Sub Pop

40. 5...Magpie Feast...Out of the Womb...self-released

41. 5...Bob Frank...Bob Frank...Light in the Attic/Vanguard

42. 5...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si perderà...s/r

43. 5...Good Throb...Culture Vulture 7"...Muscle Horse

44. 5...The Seldom Scene...Long Time...Seldom Scene...Smithsonian Folkways

45. 5...Yellow Ostrich...Cosmos...Barsuk

46. 5...Burnt Ones...Gift...Castle Face

47. 5...The Belle Brigade...Just Because...ATO

48. 5...Various Artists...Suicide Squeeze Presents: Forever Singles...Suicide Squeeze

49. 5...Connect_icut...Small Town by the Sea...Aagoo

50. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State

51. 4...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE Records

52. 4...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk

53. 4...Lace Curtain...3rd EP...Mexican Summer

54. 4...Solids...Blame Confusion...Fat Possum

55. 4...Axemen...Derry Legend...Luxury Products

56. 4...The War On Drugs...Lost in the Dream...Secretly Canadian

57. 4...Obnox...Louder Space...12XU

58. 4...Inutili...Music to Watch the Clouds on a Sunny Day...Aagoo

59. 4...Golden Retriever...Seer...Thrill Jockey

60. 4...Woo...When the Past Arrives...Drag City

61. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

62. 4...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Arhoolie

63. 4...Roberto Fonseca...Yo...Montuno/Concord

64. 4...Drive By Truckers...English Oceans...ATO

65. 3...Jack Carter and the Armory...Anthropomorphic Disfiguration...s/r

66. 3...Bardo Pond...Refulgo...Three Lobed

67. 3...The Fat Babies...18th and Racine...Delmark

68. 3...Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey...And Other Desert Towns...Relative Pitch

69. 3...Aloa...Aloa...Medical

70. 3...Thee Tsunamis...Delirium and Dark Waters 7"...Magnetic South Recordings

71. 3...Wyrd Visions...Half-Eaten Guitar...PW Elverum and Sun

72. 3...Cherry Glazerr...Haxel Princess...Burger

73. 3...The Body...I Shall Die Here...RVNG Intl.

74. 3...Papir...III...El Paraiso

75. 3...Trust...Joyland...Arts & Crafts

76. 3...Michael Yonkers...Michael Lee Yonkers...Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk

77. 3...Koen Holtkamp...Motion...Thrill Jockey

78. 3...Psychic Wheels...Peripheral Drift...Superdreamer

79. 3...S. Carey...Range of Light...Jagjaguwar

80. 3...Perfect Pussy...Say Yes to Love...Captured Tracks

81. 3...Various Artists...Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles...Numero Group

82. 3...Charlie Dennard...From Brazil to New Orleans...s/r

83. 2...Dex Romweber Duo...Images 13...Bloodshot

84. 2...Peter Walker..."Second Poem to Karmela" or Gypsies Are Important...Light in the Attic / Vanguard

85. 2...Vinny Golia and Urs Leimgruber...Empiricism in the West...Relative Pitch

86. 2...Tycho...Awake...Ghostly International

87. 2...Jack Wright and Ben Wright...As If Anything Could Be the Same...Relative Pitch

88. 2...Carla Bozulich...Boy...Constellation

RPM

1. 10...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun

2. 6...Various...Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997...Strut

3. 6...Nightmares on Wax...Feelin' Good...Warp

4. 5...Connect_icut...Small Town by the Sea...Aagoo

5. 2...Hecker...Articulação...Editions Mego

6. 2...Burial...Rival Dealer...Hyperdub

7. 2...Donato Dozzy & Nuel...The Aquaplano Sessions...Spectrum Spools

8. 2...Kassel Jaeger...Toxic Cosmopolitanism...Editions Mego

9. 1...Drekka...Ekki Gera Fikniefnum...Dais

10. 1...Marcus Schmickler and Julian Rohrhuber...Politiken der Frequenz...Editions Mego

WORLD

1. 11...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut

2. 8...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R

3. 7...Pedrito Martinez Group...Pedrito Martinez Group...Motema

4. 6...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat

5. 6...Bombay Dub Orchestra...Tales from the Grand Bazaar...Six Degrees

6. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

7. 4...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Arhoolie

8. 4...Roberto Fonseca...Yo...Montuno/Concord

9. 2...Debruit & Alsarah...Aljawal...Soundway

10. 1...Imarhan Timbuktu...Akal Warled...Clermont Music

JAZZ

1. 15...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks

2. 7...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark

3. 7...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl

4. 5...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si perderà...s/r

5. 4...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE Records

6. 4...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk

7. 3...The Fat Babies...18th and Racine...Delmark

8. 3...Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey...And Other Desert Towns...Relative Pitch

9. 2...Jack Wright and Ben Wright...As If Anything Could Be the Same...Relative Pitch

10. 2...Vinny Golia and Urs Leimgruber...Empiricism in the West...Relative Pitch

LOUD

1. 7...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State

2. 6...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records

3. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State

4. 3...The Body...I Shall Die Here...RVNG Intl.

5. 1...Die Schacht...Halber Selbstbetrug 7"...Siltbreeze

6. 1...Demon Eye...Leave the Light...Soulseller

7. 1...Johnny Noise...The Day Is Coming...Siltbreeze

8. 1...Indian...From All Purity...Relapse