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

12. 7...Klara Lewis...Ett...Editions Mego

13. 7...Nikki Lane...All or Nothin'...New West

14. 7...Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminal's Starvation League...Undefeated...Bloodshot

15. 7...Crazy Aces...Greatest Hits Volume 2...s/r

16. 6...Chatham County Line...Tightrope...Yep Roc

17. 6...Ski Patrol...Versions of a Life (Recordings 1979-81)...Dark Entries

18. 6...Dylan Shearer...garagearray...Castle Face/Empty Cellar

19. 6...Death...III...Drag City

20. 6...Lazarus...Lazarus...Shadoks

21. 6...Denney and the Jets...Mexican Coke...Limited Fanfare

22. 5...Howard Ivans...Red Face Boy b/w Pillows...Spacebomb

23. 5...Jenks Miller/J Toth...Roads to Ruin...Three Lobed

24. 5...Linda Perhacs...The Soul of All Natural Things...Asthmatic Kitty

25. 5...The Magnolia Sisters...Love's Lies...Arhoolie

26. 5...Chicago Underground Duo...Locus...Northern-Spy

27. 5...Saaad...Deep/Float...Hands in the Dark

28. 5...Mario Pavone...Street Songs...Playscape

29. 5...Kojiro Umezaki...(Cycles)...In a Circle

30. 5...PALO!...Live...Rolling Pin Music

31. 5...The Ghost of a Sabertooth Tiger...Midnight Sun...Chimera Music

32. 5...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony

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

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

35. 4...Octo Octa...Cause I Love You...100% Silk

36. 4...Bardo Pond...Refulgo...Three Lobed

37. 4...Umberto...Temple Room...Not Not Fun

38. 4...Wye Oak...Shriek...Merge

39. 4...Chuck Mead...Free State Serenade...Plowboy

40. 4...Dwight Tilley Band...Burnin' Sand 7"...Hozac

41. 4...Hobocop...Half Man, Half Cop...Slovenly

42. 4...The Whigs...Modern Creation...New West

43. 4...Secret Colours...Positive Distractions...s/r

44. 4...Stalins of Sound...Tank Tracks...Slovenly

45. 3...Demon Eye...Leave the Light...Soulseller

46. 3...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State

47. 3...Lud...Defenestration Boulevard...s/r

48. 3...Ataloft...Ataloft...ZoBird

49. 3...Ben Vida, Meredyth Sparks, Anthony Elms...Extraction...Future Audio Graphics

50. 3...Bolder...Hostile Environment...Editions Mego

51. 3...Zion I...Libations...Live Up / Ineffable

52. 3...Mount Carmel...Get Pure...Alive

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

54. 3...Verma...Sunrunner...Trouble in Mind

55. 3...Art Jackson...Tulip Tree Poplar Flower...s/r

56. 3...Woods...With Light and Love...Woodsist

57. 3...Brett Naucke...Seed...Spectrum Spools

58. 3...Leon Russell...Life Journey...Universal

59. 2...The Brothers and Sisters...Dylan's Gospel...Light in the Attic

60. 2...Bob Frank...Bob Frank...Light in the Attic/Vangaurd

61. 2...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...Hugh Bob and the Hustle...self-released

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

63. 2...The Seldom Scene...Long Time...Seldom Scene...Smithsonian Folkways

64. 2...Stefan Wesolowski...Liebestod...Important

65. 2...Danny Brown...Hot Soup...Street Corner Music

66. 2...Freddie Gibbs and Madlib...Pinata...Madlib Invazion

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

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

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

70. 2...John Escreet...Sound, Space and Structures...Sunnyside

71. 2...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks

72. 2...September Girls...Cursing the Sea...Fortuna POP!

73. 2...Dorval & Devereaux...Dorval & Devereaux...Moon Glyph

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

75. 2...Pink Mountaintops...Get Back...Jagjaguwar

76. 2...Klaus Johan Grobe...Im Sinne Der Zeit...Trouble in Mind

77. 2...Obnox...Louder Space...12XU

78. 2...Steve Gunn and Mike Gangloff...Melodies for a Savage Fix...Imprec

79. 2...Ruby the Rabbitfoot...New as Dew...Normaltown

80. 2...Protomartyr...Under Color of Official Right...Hardly Art

81. 2...King of Prussia...Zonian Girls...And The Echoes That Surround Us All...Minty Fresh

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

83. 2...Mesa Ritual...Mesa Ritual...Sige

84. 2...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

85. 2...Liars...Mess...Mute

86. 1...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State

87. 1...Magpie Feast...Out of the Womb...self-released

88. 1...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si perderà...s/r

RPM

1. 8...Fennesz...Becs...Editions Mego

2. 8...Magic Touch...Palermo House Gang...100% Silk

3. 7...Klara Lewis...Ett...Editions Mego

4. 5...Saaad...Deep/Float...Hands in the Dark

5. 4...Octo Octa...Cause I Love You...100% Silk

6. 4...Umberto...Temple Room...Not Not Fun

7. 3...Ben Vida, Meredyth Sparks, Anthony Elms...Extraction...Future Audio Graphics

8. 3...Bolder...Hostile Environment...Editions Mego

9. 3...Brett Naucke...Seed...Spectrum Spools

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

JAZZ

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

2. 5...Mario Pavone...Street Songs...Playscape

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

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

5. 2...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl

6. 2...John Escreet...Sound, Space and Structures...Sunnyside

7. 2...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks

8. 1...The Fat Babies...18th and Racine...Delmark

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

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

WORLD

1. 8...Prince Fatty vs. Mungo's Hi-Fi...Prince Fatty vs. Mungo's Hi-Fi...Mr. Bongo

2. 5...Kojiro Umezaki...(Cycles)...In a Circle

3. 5...PALO!...Live...Rolling Pin Music

4. 2...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch

5. 1...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R

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

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

9. 1...Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland...The Other Side...Nublu

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

AMERICANA

1. 8...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except Goodbye...self-released

2. 7...Nikki Lane...All or Nothin'...New West

3. 6...Chatham County Line...Tightrope...Yep Roc

4. 5...Linda Perhacs...The Soul of All Natural Things...Asthmatic Kitty

5. 5...The Magnolia Sisters...Love's Lies...Arhoolie

6. 5...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony

7. 4...Chuck Mead...Free State Serenade...Plowboy

8. 3...Ataloft...Ataloft...ZoBird

9. 3...Leon Russell...Life Journey...Universal

10. 2...The Brothers and Sisters...Dylan's Gospel...Light in the Attic