1. 16...Last Year's Men...Underwhelmed...s/r

2. 14...Hiss Golden Messenger...Lateness of Dancers...Merge

3. 11...Antibalas...Tattletale Pts. 1 & 2...Daptone

4. 10...Ashrae Fax...Never Really Been Into It...Mexican Summer

5. 10...No Love...Tape #2...self-released

6. 10...Half Japanese...Overjoyed...Joyful Noise

7. 10...Rowland S. Howard...Pop Crimes...Fat Possum

8. 10...Wooden Wand...Farmer's Comer...Fire

9. 10...J Mascis...Tied to a Star...Sub Pop

10. 9...Lone Justice...This is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983...Omnivore

11. 9...Ty Segall...Manipulator...Drag City

12. 8...Drag Sounds...II...s/r

13. 8...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

14. 8...Elephant Stone...The Three Poisons...Hidden Pony

15. 7...Tashi Dorji...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

16. 7...The Tills...Howlin'...s/r

17. 7...Souls of Mischief...There is Only Now...Linear Labs

18. 7...Tennis...Ritual in Repeat...Communion

19. 7...Allah-Las...Worship the Sun...Innovative Leisure

20. 6...Irata/Solar Halos...Split 10"...CrimsonEye

21. 6...Jon Shain...Reupholstered...Flyin'

22. 6...Rosebuds...Sand + Silence...Western Vinyl

23. 6...Chrome...Feel it Like a Scientist...King of Spades

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

25. 6...Coachwhips...Get Yer Body Next to Mine...Castle Face

26. 6...Jennifer Castle...Pink City...No Quarter

27. 6...Slowclub...Complete Surrender...Wichita Recordings

28. 6...Bishop Allen ...Lights Out...Dead Oceans

29. 5...Various...Algo Savaje Vol. 1...Munster

30. 5...Abigails...Tundra...Burger

31. 5...Ben Vaughn...Texas Road Trip...Munster

32. 5...The Young...Chrome Cactus...Matador

33. 5...Joe Purdy...Eagle Rock Fire...Mud Town Crier

34. 4...Charles Bradley & LaRose Jackson...Luv Jones 7"...Daptone

35. 4...Various Artists...Hypderdub 10.2...Hyperdub

36. 4...Hafez Modirzadeh...In Convergence Liberation...Pi

37. 4...Various...Hyperdub 10.1...Hyperdub

38. 4...Kikagaku Moyo...Mammatus Clouds...Captcha Records

39. 4...Chuck Prophet...Night Surfer...YepRoc

40. 4...PC Worship...Social Rust...Northern-Spy/Dull Tools

41. 4...Naomi Punk...Television Man...Captured Tracks

42. 4...Shovels & Rope...Swimmin' Time...Dualtone

43. 3...Museum Mouth...Alex I Am Nothing...self-released

44. 3...Flesh Wounds...Flesh Wounds...Snot

45. 3...Spider Bags...Frozen Letter...Merge

46. 3...Silent Lunch...Late to Bloom...s/r

47. 3...Yob...Clearing the Path to Ascend...Neurot

48. 3...Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer...Wiring...Intakt

49. 3...Pallbearer...Foundations of Burden...Profound Lore

50. 3...Karen & the Sorrows...The Names of Things...s/r

51. 3...Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi...Tikkun...Cuneiform

52. 3...Black Pus/Oozing Wound...Split...Thrill Jockey

53. 3...Leticia Rodriguez Garza...Saguita al Bate EP...self-released

54. 3...Microscopic Septet...Manhattan Moonrise...Cuneiform

55. 3...Witch Mountain...Mobile of Angels...Profound Lore

56. 3...Botanist...VI: Flora...The Flenser

57. 3...Apache Dropout...Heavy Window...Magnetic South

58. 3...The Raveonettes...Pe'ahi...Beat Dies

59. 3...Wildest Dreams...Wildest Dreams...SmalltownSupersound

60. 3...The Whammies...Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 3 Live...Driff

61. 3...Jacaszek & Kwartludium...Catalogue des Arbres...Touch

62. 3...Mike Cooper...Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co....Paradise of Bachelors

63. 2...Magpie Feast...Hidden Mothers EP...s/r

64. 2...Bobby Patterson...I Got More Soul!...Omnivore

65. 2...Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu...Gurrumul...Skinny Fish Music

66. 2...Randomer...Residents...L.I.E.S.

67. 2...Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet...Afterimage...Driff

68. 2...White Hills...Glitter Glamour Atrocity...Thrill Jockey

69. 2...Music Blues...Things Haven't Gone Well...Thrill Jockey

70. 2...Fela Kuti...Finding Fela Soundtrack...Knitting Factory

71. 2...Rene Marie...I Wanna Be Evil (with Love to Eartha Kitt)...Motema

72. 2...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

73. 2...Mincemeat or Tenspeed...Waiting for Surfin' Bird...Decoherence

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

75. 2...Lewis...L'Amour...Light in the Attic

76. 2...Lili Haydn...LiliLand...MRI/Red

77. 2...John Davis...Mixes for WXDU...self-released

78. 2...Eluvium...Nightmare Ending...Temporary Residence

79. 2...Sugar Stems...Only Come out at Night...Dirtnap

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

81. 2...Matthew Shipp...I've Been to Many Places...Thirsty Ear

82. 2...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

83. 2...Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas...Secret Evil...Instant Records

84. 2...Mirel Wagner...When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day...Sub Pop

85. 2...Frantix...My Dad's a Fuckin' Alcoholic...Alternative Tentacles

86. 2...The Gotobeds...Poor People Are Revolting...12XU

87. 2...Totem...Voices of Grain...New Atlantis

88. 2...Old Hours...Even in the Sun...s/r

LOUD

1. 3...Yob...Clearing the Path to Ascend...Neurot

2. 3...Pallbearer...Foundations of Burden...Profound Lore

3. 3...Black Pus/Oozing Wound...Split...Thrill Jockey

4. 3...Witch Mountain...Mobile of Angels...Profound Lore

5. 3...Botanist...VI: Flora...The Flenser

6. 2...White Hills...Glitter Glamour Atrocity...Thrill Jockey

7. 2...Music Blues...Things Haven't Gone Well...Thrill Jockey

8. 1…Ghetto Ghouls...Plastic Violence b/w Things...12XU

9. 1…Man Forever with So Percussion...Ryonen...Thrill Jockey

10. 1…Mastodon…Once More ‘Round the Sun…Warner Bros

JAZZ

1. 4…Hafez Modirzadeh…In Convergence Liberation…Pi

2. 3…Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer…Wiring…Intakt

3. 3…Microscopic Septet…Manhattan Moonrise…Cuneiform

4. 3…The Whammies…Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 3 Live…Driff

5. 2…Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet…Afterimage…Driff

6. 2…Rene Marie…I Wanna Be Evil (with Love to Eartha Kitt)…Motema

7. 2…Matthew Shipp…I've Been to Many Places…Thirsty Ear

8. 2…Totem…Voices of Grain…New Atlantis

9. 1…Jorrit Dijkstra…Music for Reeds and Electronics: Oakland…Driff

10. 1…Roscoe Mitchell and Scott Robinson…Tone Ventures…ScienSonic Laboratories

RPM

1. 4...Various Artists...Hypderdub 10.2...Hyperdub

2. 4...Various...Hyperdub 10.1...Hyperdub

3. 2...Randomer...Residents...L.I.E.S.

4. 2...Mincemeat or Tenspeed...Waiting for Surfin' Bird...Decoherence

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

6. 2...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

7. 1...Black Rain...Dark Pool...Blackest Ever Black

8. 1...Severed Heads...Since the Accident...Medical

9. 1...Plaid...Reachy Prints...Warp

10. 1...Edvard Graham Lewis...All Under...Editions Mego

WORLD

1. 3...Leticia Rodriguez Garza...Saguita al Bate EP...self-released

2. 2...Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu...Gurrumul...Skinny Fish Music

3. 2...Fela Kuti...Finding Fela Soundtrack...Knitting Factory

4. 2...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

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

6. 1...Peliroja...Injusticia...Chulo

7. 1...Various...1970s Algerian Folk and Pop...Sublime Frequencies

8. 1...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nedir Ne Degildir?...Pharaway Sounds

9. 1...Kali Mutsa...Souvenance...Shock Music

10. 1...Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan...The Master...Six Degrees

AMERICANA

1. 9...Lone Justice...This is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983...Omnivore

2. 8...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

3. 7...Tashi Dorji ...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

4. 6...Jon Shain...Reupholstered...Flyin'

5. 5...Ben Vaughn...Texas Road Trip...Munster

6. 5...Joe Purdy...Eagle Rock Fire...Mud Town Crier

7. 4...Shovels & Rope...Swimmin' Time...Munster

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

9. 3...Mike Cooper...Places I Know/The Machine Gun Co....Paradise of Bachelors

10. 2...Sean Rowe...Madman...ANTI