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

2. 10...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nedir Ne Degildir?...Pharaway

3. 10...Fhloston Paradigm...The Phoenix...Hyperdub

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

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

6. 9...Hiss Golden Messenger...Lateness of Dancers...Merge

7. 9...Locust...After the Rain...Editions Mego

8. 9...Tennis...Ritual in Repeat...Communion

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

10. 8...Jennifer Castle...Pink City...No Quarter

11. 8...Rowland S. Howard...Pop Crimes...Fat Possum

12. 8...Allah-Las...Worship the Sun...Innovative Leisure

13. 7...Ashrae Fax...Never Really Been Into It...Mexican Summer

14. 7...Last Year's Men...Underwhelmed...s/r

15. 7...Silent Lunch...Late to Bloom...s/r

16. 7...YOU....Sunchaser...Dais

17. 7...Iron Claw...Iron Claw...Rockadrome

18. 7...Chrome...Feel it Like a Scientist...King of Spades

19. 7...Kikagaku Moyo...Mammatus Clouds...Captcha Records

20. 7...Avi Buffalo...At Best Cuckold...Sub Pop

21. 6...Drag Sounds...II...s/r

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

23. 6...6 String Drag...The JAG Sessions - Rare & Unreleased 1996-1998...Little Criminal

24. 6...David Childers...Serpents of Reformation...Ramseur

25. 6...Steve Marquette Quintet...I Knew it Then...Two City Records

26. 6...Various...Algo Savaje Vol. 1...Munster

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

28. 6...So Cow...The Long Con...Goner

29. 6...Jorrit Dijkstra...Music for Reeds and Electronics: Oakland...Driff

30. 6...Abigails...Tundra...Burger

31. 6...Ark Life...The Dream of You and Me...Greater Than Collective/Misra

32. 6...Elephant Stone...The Three Poisons...Hidden Pony

33. 5...Midnight Plus One...Like Camera/White Flowers...Negative Fun

34. 5...The Tills...Howlin'...s/r

35. 5...Rosebuds...Sand + Silence...Western Vinyl

36. 5...Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi...Tikkun...Cuneiform

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

38. 5...The Cajun Country Revival...Greetings from Louisiana...Valcour

39. 5...The Raveonettes...Pe'ahi...Beat Dies

40. 5...Pallbearer...Foundations of Burden...Profound Lore

41. 5...Bishop Allen ...Lights Out...Dead Oceans

42. 5...Lili Haydn...LiliLand...MRI/Red

43. 5...Ty Segall...Manipulator...Drag City

44. 5...Old Hours...Even in the Sun...s/r

45. 4...No Love...Tape #2...self-released

46. 4...Homeboy Sandman...Hallways...Stones Throw

47. 4...Peliroja...Injusticia...Chulo

48. 4...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

49. 4...Flat Fix...An Unkempt House...Not Not Fun

50. 4...Jacaszek & Kwartludium...Catalogue des Arbres...Touch

51. 4...Lou Harrison...La Koro Sutro...BMOP/Sound

52. 4...Lone Justice...This is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983...Omnivore

53. 3...Magpie Feast...Hidden Mothers EP...s/r

54. 3...Souls of Mischief...There is Only Now...Linear Labs

55. 3...Devin Gary & Ross...Honeycomb of Chakras...Feeding Tube

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

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

58. 3...Severed Heads...Since the Accident...Medical

59. 3...Ben Vaughn...Texas Road Trip...Munster

60. 3...Steve Linnegar's Snakeshed...Classic Epics...Guerssen

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

62. 3...Chuck Prophet...Night Surfer...YepRoc

63. 3...Temples...Earrings II...100% Silk

64. 3...Half Japanese...Overjoyed...Joyful Noise

65. 3...Naomi Punk...Television Man...Captured Tracks

66. 3...Twin Peaks...Wild Onion...Fat Possum

67. 3...Kartet...Grand Laps...Songlines

68. 3...Joe Purdy...Eagle Rock Fire...Mud Town Crier

69. 2...Tashi Dorji...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

70. 2...Ghostt Bllonde...Dissonance...Negative Fun

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

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

73. 2...Owen Maercks...Teenage Sex Therapist...Feeding Tube

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

75. 2...Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet...Afterimage...Driff

76. 2...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

77. 2...Severed Heads...Dead Eyes Opened...Dark Entries

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

79. 2...Bahamas...Bahamas is Alfie...Brushfire

80. 2...Microscopic Septet...Manhattan Moonrise...Cuneiform

81. 2...Slowclub...Complete Surrender...Wichita Recordings

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

83. 2...William Hooker Duo with Edwin Ricart...Speculations...self-released

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

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

86. 2...Poul Ruders...Volume 9...Bridge

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

88. 2...Shovels & Rope...Swimmin' Time...Dualtone

88.7 2...Paul Shapiro...Shofarot Verses...Tzadik

AMERICANA

1. 6...6 String Drag...The JAG Sessions - Rare & Unreleased 1996-1998...Little Criminal

2. 6...David Childers...Serpents of Reformation...Ramseur

3. 5...The Cajun Country Revival...Greetings from Louisiana...Valcour

4. 5...Old Hours...Even in the Sun...self-released

5. 4...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

6. 4...Lone Justice...This is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983...Omnivore

7. 3...Ben Vaughn...Texas Road Trip...Munster

8. 3...Joe Purdy...Eagle Rock Fire...Mud Town Crier

9. 2...Tashi Dorji...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

10. 2...Shovels & Rope...Swimmin' Time...Dualtone

LOUD

1. 7...Iron Claw...Iron Claw...Rockadrome

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

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

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

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

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

7. 1...Tombs...Savage Gold...Relapse

8. 1...Black Pus/Oozing Wound...Split...Thrill Jockey

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

10. 1...Music Blues...Things Haven't Gone Well...Thrill Jockey

WORLD

1. 10...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nedir Ne Degildir?...Pharaway

2. 4...Peliroja...Injusticia...Chulo

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

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

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

6. 1...Mestre Cupijo e Sue Ritmo...Siria...Analog Africa

7. 1...San Lazaro...Serendipity...HopeStreet

8. 1...Tinariwen...The Radio Tisdas Sessions...Modern Classics

9. 1...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Innovative Leisure

10. 1...Caoimhin o Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman...Laghdu...Irishmusic.net

JAZZ

1. 6…Steve Marquette Quintet…I Knew it Then…Two City Records

2. 6…Jorrit Dijkstra…Music for Reeds and Electronics: Oakland…Driff

3. 3…Kartet…Grand Laps…Songlines

4. 2…Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet…Afterimage…Driff

5. 2…Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask…Bite My Blues…Clean Feed

6. 2…Microscopic Septet…Manhattan Moonrise…Cuneiform

7. 2…William Hooker Duo with Edwin Ricart…Speculations…self-released

8. 1…Hafez Modirzadeh…In Convergence Liberation…Pi

9. 1…Roscoe Mitchell and Scott Robinson…Tone Ventures…ScienSonic Laboratories

10. 1…Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer…Wiring…Intakt

RPM

1. 10...Fhloston Paradigm...The Phoenix...Hyperdub

2. 9...Locust...After the Rain...Editions Mego

3. 4...Flat Fix...An Unkempt House...Not Not Fun

4. 3...Severed Heads...Since the Accident...Medical

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

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

7. 2...FKA twigs...LP1...Young Turks

8. 2...Severed Heads...Dead Eyes Opened...Dark Entries

9. 1...Randomer...Residents...L.I.E.S.

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