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

12. 8...Mac Demarco...Salad Days...Captured Tracks

13. 7...The Magnolia Sisters...Love's Lies...Arhoolie

14. 7...The Brothers and Sisters...Dylan's Gospel...Light in the Attic

15. 7...Dwight Tilley Band...Burnin' Sand 7"...Hozac

16. 6...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si perderà...s/r

17. 6...Steve Gunn and Mike Gangloff...Melodies for a Savage Fix...Imprec

18. 6...The Spits...Kill the Kool...In the Red

19. 6...PYPY...Pagan Day...Slovenly Recordings

20. 6...Golden Retriever...Seer...Thrill Jockey

21. 6...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun

22. 5...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except Goodbye...self-released

23. 5...Dex Romweber Duo...Images 13...Bloodshot

24. 5...Freddie Gibbs and Madlib...Pinata...Madlib Invazion

25. 5...Danny Brown...Hot Soup...Street Corner Music

26. 5...Lemon Nash...Papa Lemon: The 1959-61 Oster & Allen Recordings...Arhoolie

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

28. 5...The Ukiah Drag...Dirt Trip 7"...Wharf Cat

29. 5...Protomartyr...Under Color of Official Right...Hardly Art

30. 5...Art Jackson...Tulip Tree Poplar Flower...s/r

31. 5...Obnox...Louder Space...12XU

32. 5...Jonas Reinhardt...Ganymede...Constellation Tatsu

33. 5...The Hold Steady...Teeth Dreams...Razor and Tie

34. 5...Perfect Pussy...Say Yes to Love...Captured Tracks

35. 5...Wyrd Visions...Half-Eaten Guitar...PW Elverum and Sun

36. 5...The Afghan Whigs...Do to the Beast...Sub Pop

37. 4...Demon Eye...Leave the Light...Soulseller

38. 4...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records

39. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State

40. 4...Various Artists...I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983...Tompkins Square

41. 4...Cahalen Morrison and Eli West...I'll Swing My Hammer with Both My Hands...s/r

42. 4...Tycho...Awake...Ghostly International

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

44. 4...Thee Tsunamis...Delirium and Dark Waters 7"...Magnetic South Recordings

45. 4...Guinea Worms/The In Out...Split 7"...Botulism Music

46. 4...Straight Arrows...Never Enough b/w Can't Stand It...HoZac

47. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

48. 4...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks

49. 4...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony

50. 3...Jenks Miller/J Toth...Roads to Ruin...Three Lobed

51. 3...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R

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

53. 3...Alvarius B/Sir Richard Bishop...If You Don't Like It...Don't!...Three Lobed

54. 3...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark

55. 3...The War On Drugs...Lost in the Dream...Secretly Canadian

56. 3...Koen Holtkamp...Motion...Thrill Jockey

57. 3...Verma...Ragnarok b/w Chrome...Hozak

58. 3...HowellDevine...Jumps, Boogies, and Wobbles...Arhoolie

59. 3...Ataloft...Ataloft...ZoBird

60. 3...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...self-released

61. 3...The Belle Brigade...Just Because...ATO

62. 3...King of Prussia...Zonian Girls...And The Echoes That Surround Us All...Minty Fresh

63. 3...Ruby the Rabbitfoot...New as Dew...Normaltown

64. 3...Leon Russell...Life Journey...Universal

65. 2...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State

66. 2...Jack Carter and the Armory...Anthropomorphic Disfiguration...s/r

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

68. 2...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE Records

69. 2...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl

70. 2...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk

71. 2...Aloa...Aloa...Medical

72. 2...Yellow Ostrich...Cosmos...Barsuk

73. 2...Nomeansno...Dance of the Headless Bourgeosie...Southern/Wrong

74. 2...Axemen...Derry Legend...Luxury Products

75. 2...Tokyo Police Club...Forcefield...Mom+Pop

76. 2...The Body...I Shall Die Here...RVNG Intl.

77. 2...Papir...III...El Paraiso

78. 2...Trust...Joyland...Arts & Crafts

79. 2...Michael Yonkers...Michael Lee Yonkers...Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk

80. 2...Inutili...Music to Watch the Clouds on a Sunny Day...Aagoo

81. 2...Jimi Goodwin...Odludek...Heavenly

82. 2...Bardo Pond...Refulgo...Three Lobed

83. 2...Incan Abraham...Tolerance...White Iris

84. 2...Woo...When the Past Arrives...Drag City

85. 2...Pinkcourtesyphone...A Ravishment of Mirror...Dragons Eye Recordings

86. 2...Nightmares on Wax...Feelin' Good...Warp

87. 2...Debruit & Alsarah...Aljawal...Soundway

88. 2...Hafez Nazeri...Rumi Symphony Project - Cycle I: Untold...Sony Classical

RPM

1. 6...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun

2. 2...Pinkcourtesyphone...A Ravishment of Mirror...Dragons Eye Recordings

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

4. 1...Atom TM and Marc Behrens...Bauteile...Editions Mego

5. 1...Neneh Cherry...Blank Project...Smalltown Supersound

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

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

8. 1...Connect_icut...Small Town by the Sea...Aagoo

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

10. 1...Donato Dozzy & Nuel...The Aquaplano Sessions...Spectrum Spools

WORLD

1. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

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

3. 2...Debruit & Alsarah...Aljawal...Soundway

4. 2...Hafez Nazeri...Rumi Symphony Project - Cycle I: Untold...Sony Classical

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

6. 1...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Arhoolie

7. 1...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat

8. 1...Bombay Dub Orchestra...Tales from the Grand Bazaar...Six Degrees

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

10. 1...Tinariwen...Emmaar...Anti-

JAZZ

1. 9...Chicago Underground Duo...Locus...Northern-Spy

2. 6...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si perderà...s/r

3. 4...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks

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

5. 3...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark

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

7. 2...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE Records

8. 2...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl

9. 2...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk

10. 1...Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey...And Other Desert Towns...Relative Pitch

LOUD

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

2. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State

3. 2...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State

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

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

6. 1…New Light Choir…Volume II…ACO Recordings

7. 1...Libyans...Expired Language...Sorry State

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

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

10. 1...La Misma...La Misma...Toxic State

AMERICANA

1. 7...The Magnolia Sisters...Love's Lies...Arhoolie

2. 7…The Brothers and Sisters…Dylan’s Gospel…Light in the Attic

3. 5...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except Goodbye...self-released

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

5. 5...Lemon Nash...Papa Lemon: The 1959-61 Oster & Allen Recordings...Arhoolie

6. 4...Cahalen Morrison and Eli West...I'll Swing My Hammer with Both My Hands...self-released

7. 4...Various Artists...I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983...Tompkins Square

8. 4...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony

9. 3...HowellDevine...Jumps, Boogies, and Wobbles...Arhoolie

10. 3...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...self-released