1. 11...Silent Lunch...Late to Bloom...s/r

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

3. 9...Various Artists...Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974...Light in the Attic

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

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

6. 8...Bobby Patterson...I Got More Soul!...Omnivore

7. 8...Fela Kuti...Finding Fela Soundtrack...Knitting Factory

8. 7...Chris Smither...Still on the Levee...Signature Sounds

9. 7...Muffs...Whoop Dee Doo...Burger

10. 7...Twin Peaks...Wild Onion...Fat Possum

11. 7...White Fence...For the Recently Found Innocent...Drag City

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

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

14. 6...Music Blues...Things Haven't Gone Well...Thrill Jockey

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

16. 5...Magpie Feast...Hidden Mothers EP...s/r

17. 5...Karen & the Sorrows...The Names of Things...s/r

18. 5...Jack Clement...For Once and for All...IRS

19. 5...Ambarchi/O'Malley/Dunn...Shade Themes from Kairos...Drag City

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

21. 5...Chuck Prophet...Night Surfer...YepRoc

22. 5...Karl Hector and the Malcouns...Unstraight Ahead...Now-Again

23. 5...White Hills...Glitter Glamour Atrocity...Thrill Jockey

24. 5...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

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

26. 5...Leticia Rodriguez Garza...Saguita al Bate EP...self-released

27. 4...Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer...The Flower of Muscle Shoals...Free Dirt

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

29. 4...Mary Gauthier...Trouble & Love...In the Black

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

31. 4...Black Rain...Dark Pool...Blackest Ever Black

32. 4...Hildur Gudnadottir...Saman...Touch

33. 4...Peliroja...Injusticia...Chulo

34. 4...Severed Heads...Dead Eyes Opened...Dark Entries

35. 4...Edvard Graham Lewis...All Under...Editions Mego

36. 4...Lewis...L'Amour...Light in the Attic

37. 4...OBN IIIS...Third Time to Harm...Tic Tac Totally

38. 4...Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask...Bite My Blues...Clean Feed

39. 4...Sleepy John...Sleepy John...Guerssen

40. 4...Wildest Dreams...Wildest Dreams...SmalltownSupersound

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

42. 4...Zig Zags...Zig Zag...In the Red

43. 4...Chad VanGaalen...Shrink Dust...Sub Pop

44. 4...Mark Kozelek...Live at Biko...Caldo Verde

45. 3...Flesh Wounds...Flesh Wounds...Snot

46. 3...VVAQRT...Detainee...Hot Releases

47. 3...Shabazz Palaces...Lese Majesty...Sub Pop

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

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

50. 3...Mestre Cupijo e Sue Ritmo...Siria...Analog Africa

51. 3...Jason Ajemian...Folklords...Delmark

52. 3...Eleventeen Eston...Delta Horizon...Not Not Fun

53. 3...Eluvium...Nightmare Ending...Temporary Residence

54. 3...Frau...Punk is My Boyfriend 7" + Demo...Static Shock/Tuff Enuff

55. 3...Groenland...The Chase...Bon Sound

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

57. 3...Kasai Allstars...Beware the Fetish...Crammed Discs

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

59. 3...Various...1970s Algerian Folk and Pop...Sublime Frequencies

60. 3...Los Hacheros...Pilon...Chulo

61. 3...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

62. 3...Soar Trio...Emergency Management Heist...Edgetone

63. 3...Spies...The Battle of Bosworth Terrace...Siltbreeze

64. 3...Sugar Stems...Only Come out at Night...Dirtnap

65. 3...Various...Hyperdub 10.1...Hyperdub

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

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

68. 2...Ama Divers...An Echo in the Sound...s/r

69. 2...Reigning Sound...Shattered...Merge

70. 2...Meridian Brothers...Salvadora Robot...Soundway

71. 2…Totem…Voices of Grain…New Atlantis

72. 2...Dama/Libra...Claw...Northern-Spy

73. 2...Hoax Hunters...Comfort and Safety...Negative Fun

74. 2...Peter Rowan...Dharma Blues...Omnivore

75. 2...Kartet...Grand Laps...Songlines

76. 2...A Sunny Day in Glasgow...Sea When Absent...Lefse

77. 2...Creative Music Studio...Archive Selections Vol. 1...innova

78. 2...Brock Van Wey...Home...Echospace

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

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

81. 2...Ibibio Sound Machine...Ibibio Sound Machine...Soundway

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

83. 2...Bumper Jacksons...Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In...s/r

84. 2...Christopher Denny...If the Roses Don't Kill Us...Partisan

85. 2...Castanets...Decimation Blues...Asthmatic Kitty

86. 2...Mordecai...Neil's Generator...Richie

87. 2...Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo...Force Majeure...Delmark

88. 2...Slowclub...Complete Surrender...Wichita Recordings

AMERICANA

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

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

3. 5...Karen & The Sorrows...The Names of Things...self-released

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

5. 4...Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer...The Flower of Muscle Shoals...Free Dirt

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

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

8. 4...Mary Gauthier...Trouble & Love...In the Black

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

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

WORLD

1. 8...Fela Kuti...Finding Fela Soundtrack...Knitting Factory

2. 5...Leticia Rodriguez Garza...Saguita al Bate EP...S/R

3. 4...Peliroja...Injusticia...Chulo

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

5. 3...Kasai Allstars...Beware the Fetish...Crammed Discs

6. 3...Various...1970s Algerian Folk and Pop...Sublime Frequencies

7. 3...Los Hacheros...Pilon...Chulo

8. 3...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

9. 2...Meridian Brothers...Salvadora Robot...Soundway

10. 2...Ibibio Sound Machine...Ibibio Sound Machine...Soundway

JAZZ

1. 8…Rene Marie…I Wanna Be Evil (with Love to Eartha Kitt)…Motema

2. 4…Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask…Bite My Blues…Clean Feed

3. 3…Jason Ajemian…Folklords…Delmark

4. 3…Soar Trio…Emergency Management Heist…Edgetone

5. 2…Totem…Voices of Grain…New Atlantis

6. 2…Kartet…Grand Laps…Songlines

7. 2…Creative Music Studio…Archive Selections Vol. 1…innova

8. 2…Mark Alban Lotz…Solo Flutes…Lop Lop

9. 2…Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra…Other Strange Worlds…Roaratorio

10. 2…Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo…Force Majeure…Delmark

RPM

1. 5...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

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

3. 4...Black Rain...Dark Pool...Blackest Ever Black

4. 4...Severed Heads...Dead Eyes Opened...Dark Entries

5. 4...Edvard Graham Lewis...All Under...Editions Mego

6. 3...VVAQRT...Detainee...Hot Releases

7. 3...Eleventeen Eston...Delta Horizon...Not Not Fun

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

9. 3...Various...Hyperdub 10.1...Hyperdub