1. 8...Daniel Bachman...Orange County Serenade...Bathetic

2. 8...David Kilgour and the Heavy 8s...End Times Undone...Merge

3. 7...Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens...Cold World...Daptone

4. 7...Bobby Patterson...I Got More Soul!...Omnivore

5. 7...Hildur Gudnadottir...Saman...Touch

6. 6...Spider Bags...Frozen Letter...Merge

7. 6...Museum Mouth...Alex I Am Nothing...self-released

8. 6...Shabazz Palaces...Lese Majesty...Sub Pop

9. 6...Severed Heads...Dead Eyes Opened...Dark Entries

10. 6...Chris Smither...Still on the Levee...Signature Sounds

11. 6...The Raveonettes...Pe'ahi...Beat Dies

12. 6...Twin Peaks...Wild Onion...Grand Jury

13. 5...Dom Flemons...The American Songster from Prospect Hill...Music Maker Relief Foundation

14. 5...Bo White...Millennial Tombs...self-released

15. 5...Black Rain...Dark Pool...Blackest Ever Black

16. 5...Various Artists...Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974...Light in the Attic

17. 5...Apache Dropout...Heavy Window...Magnetic South

18. 5...Temples...Earrings II...100% Silk

19. 5...Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask...Bite My Blues...Clean Feed

20. 5...Harry Dean Stanton...Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction...Omnivore

21. 5...Lewis...L'Amour...Light in the Attic

22. 5...Eluvium...Nightmare Ending...Temporary Residence

23. 5...Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm...The Death of a Rave (A Partial Flashback)...History Always Favors the Winners

24. 5...Boris...Noise...Sargent House

25. 4...Faster Detail...Chance Cube...Hot Releases

26. 4...VVAQRT...Detainee...Hot Releases

27. 4...Reigning Sound...Shattered...Merge

28. 4...Mestre Cupijo e Sue Ritmo...Siria...Analog Africa

29. 4...Mike Cooper...Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co....Paradise of Bachelors

30. 4...Ambarchi/O'Malley/Dunn...Shade Themes from Kairos...Drag City

31. 4...Jack Clement...For Once and for All...IRS

32. 4...Willis Earl Beal...Experiments in Time...CD Baby

33. 4...Dead Space...Faker...12XU

34. 4...Karl Hector and the Malcouns...Unstraight Ahead...Now-Again

35. 4...Various...Hyperdub 10.1...Hyperdub

36. 4...Plaid...Reachy Prints...Warp

37. 4...Various...1970s Algerian Folk and Pop...Sublime Frequencies

38. 3...OBN III's...Live in San Francisco...Castle Face

39. 3...Lee Fields...Emma Jean...Truth & Soul

40. 3...Mary Gauthier...Trouble & Love...In the Black

41. 3...Paul Shapiro...Shofarot Verses...Tzadik

42. 3...Max Johnson...The Prisoner...No Business

43. 3...Game Theory...Blaze of Glory...Omnivore

44. 3...Albert Ayler Trio...Spiritual Unity...ESP Disk

45. 3...Billy Joe Shaver...Long in the Tooth...Lightning Rod

46. 3...Hoax Hunters...Comfort and Safety...Negative Fun

47. 3...Slowclub...Complete Surrender...Wichita Recordings

48. 3...Castanets...Decimation Blues...Asthmatic Kitty

49. 3...Rene Marie...I Wanna Be Evil (with Love to Eartha Kitt)...Motema

50. 3...Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper...FRKWYS Vol. 11: Cantos de Lisboa...RVNG Intl.

51. 3...The Orthotonics...Luminous Beds...Artifacts/yclept

52. 3...Sleepy John...Sleepy John...Guerssen

53. 3...Groenland...The Chase...Bon Sound

54. 3...Edvard Graham Lewis...All Under...Editions Mego

55. 3...Kali Mutsa...Souvenance...Shock Music

56. 3...Jonah Tolchin...Clover Lane...Yep Roc

57. 2...King Mez...Long Live the King...self-released

58. 2...Smoky Babe...Way Back in the Country Blues: The Lost Dr. Oster Recordings...Arhoolie

59. 2...Kasai Allstars...Beware the Fetish...Crammed Discs

60. 2...Peter Rowan...Dharma Blues...Omnivore

61. 2...Devin Gary & Ross...Honeycomb of Chakras...Feeding Tube

62. 2...Various...Book of Horizons...New World

63. 2...David Greilsammer...Scarlatti and Cage Sonatas...Sony Classics

64. 2...Jason Ajemian...Folklords...Delmark

65. 2...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

66. 2...Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra...Matter Anti-Matter...Rogue Art

67. 2...Bob Mould...Beauty and Ruin...Merge

68. 2...Tiny Ruins...Brightly Painted One...Flying Nun/Arch Hill

69. 2...Dredd Foole & Ben Chasny...Drunk with Insignificance...Feeding Tube

70. 2…Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra…Other Strange Worlds…Roaratorio

71. 2...Mark Alban Lotz...Solo Flutes...Lop Lop

72. 2...Jason Roebke Octet...High/Red/Center...Delmark

73. 2...Arto Lindsay...Encyclopedia of Arto...Northern Spy

74. 2...The Felice Brothers...Favorite Waitress...Dualtone

75. 2...White Fence...For the Recently Found Innocent...Drag City

76. 2...Brian Eno & Karl Hyde...High Life...Warp

77. 2...Current 93...I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel)...The Spheres

78. 2...Asgeir...In the Silence...One Little Indian

79. 2...Man Forever with So Percussion...Ryonen...Thrill Jockey

80. 2...Chad VanGaalen...Shrink Dust...Sub Pop

81. 2...Wildest Dreams...Wildest Dreams...SmalltownSupersound

82. 2...Dalhous...Will to Be Well...Blackest Ever Black

83. 2...Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan...The Master...Six Degrees

84. 1...Flesh Wounds...Flesh Wounds...Snot

85. 1...Doom Asylum...Stress Techno...Hot Releases

86. 1...Beauty World...Beauty World...Potluck

87. 1...Weller...I...self-released

88. 1...William Hooker Duo with Edwin Ricart...Speculations...self-released

WORLD

1. 4...Mestre Cupijo e Seu Ritmo...Siria...Analog Africa

2. 4...Various...1970s Algerian Folk and Pop...Sublime Frequencies

3. 3...Kali Mutsa...Souvenance...Shock Music

4. 2...Kasai Allstars...Beware the Fetish...Crammed Discs

5. 2...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

6. 2...Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan...The Master...Six Degrees

7. 1...Dona Onete...Feitico Caboclo...Mais Um Discos

8. 1...Los Hacheros...Pilon...Chulo

9. 1...Meridian Brothers...Salvadora Robot...Soundway

10. 1...Muyei Power...Sierra Leone in 1970s USA...Soundway

JAZZ

1. 5…Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask…Bite My Blues…Clean Feed

2. 3…Paul Shapiro…Shofarot Verses…Tzadik

3. 3…Max Johnson…The Prisoner…No Business

4. 3…Albert Ayler Trio…Spiritual Unity…ESP Disk

5. 3…Rene Marie…I Wanna Be Evil (with Love to Eartha Kitt)…Motema

6. 2…Jason Ajemian…Folklords…Delmark

7. 2…Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra…Matter Anti-Matter…Rogue Art

8. 2…Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra…Other Strange Worlds…Roaratorio

9. 2…Mark Alban Lotz…Solo Flutes…Lop Lop

10. 2…Jason Roebke Octet…High/Red/Center…Delmark

AMERICANA

1. 8...Daniel Bachman...Orange County Serenade...Bathetic

2. 6...Chris Smither...Still on the Levee...Signature Sounds

3. 5...Dom Flemons...Prospect Hill...Music Maker Relief Foundation

4. 5...Harry Dean Stanton...Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction...Omnivore

5. 4...Mike Cooper...Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co....Paradise of Bachelors

6. 4...Jack Clement...For Once and For All...IRS

7. 3...Mary Gauthier...Trouble & Love...In the Black

8. 3...Billy Joe Shaver...Long in the Tooth...Lightning Rod

9. 3...Jonah Tolchin...Clover Lane...Yep Roc

10. 2...Peter Rowan...Dharma Blues...Omnivore