1. 9...Flying Lotus...You're Dead!...Warp

2. 8...The Relatives...Don't Let Me Fall...Daptone

3. 8...Ex Hex...Rips...Merge   

4. 8...Foxygen......And Star Power...Jagjaguwar   

5. 8...Caribou...Our Love...Merge   

6. 7...Anthroprophh...Outside the Circle...Rocket Recordings   

7. 7...The Budos Band...Burnt Offering...Daptone   

8. 7...Como Mamas...Out of the Wilderness 7”...Daptone   

9. 7...Laetitia Sadier...Something Shines...Drag City   

10. 7...Robyn Hitchcock...The Man Upstairs...Yep Roc   

11. 7...HTRK...Psychic 9-5 Club...Ghostly International   

12. 6...Charlie Haden & Jim Hall...Charlie Haden & Jim Hall...Impulse/Blue Note   

13. 6...Aphex Twin...Syro...Warp   

14. 6...Ausmuteants...Order of Operation...Goner   

15. 6...Dawnbringer...Night of the Hammer...Profound Lore   

16. 6...Maggie Bjorklund...Shaken...Bloodshot   

17. 6...Purling Hiss...Weirdon...Drag City   

18. 5...Ryley Walker...All Kinds of You...Tompkins Square   

19. 5...Angles 9...Injuries...Clean Feed   

20. 5...Pilgrim...II: Void Worship...Metal Blade   

21. 5...Mamoru Fujieda...Patterns of Plants...Pinna   

22. 5...Tinariwen...The Radio Tisdas Sessions...Modern Classics

23. 5...Merchandise...After the End...4AD   

24. 5...Lower Plenty...Life/Thrills...Mexican Summer   

25. 5...Zola Jesus...Taiga...Mute   

26. 5...Sante Les Amis...Sudamericana...Nacional   

27. 5...Antibalas...Tattletale Pts. 1 & 2...Daptone   

28. 4...Alpha Cop...Cue the Cold Air...self-released   

29. 4...Malcolm Holcombe...Pitiful Blues...self-released   

30. 4...Steve Gunn...Way Out Weather...Paradise of Bachelors   

31. 4...Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas...Abundance...Culburnie   

32. 4...Jesse Winchester...A Reasonable Amount of Trouble...Appleseed   

33. 4...Amps for Christ...Canyons Cars and Crows...Shrimper   

34. 4... Darius Jones…The Oversoul Manual…AUM Fidelity

35. 4...Roche...Stillhope...100% Silk   

36. 4...Mike and Cara Gangloff...Black Ribbon of Death, Silver Thread of Life...MIE Music   

37. 4...Bonnie Prince Billy...Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues ...Drag City/Palace   

38. 4...Allo Darlin'...We Come from the Same Place...Slumberland   

39. 4...Power Trip...Manifest Decimation...Southern Lord   

40. 4...clipping....CLPPNG...Sub Pop   

41. 4...Cory Branan...The No-Hit Wonder...Bloodshot

42. 4...Cymbals Eat Guitars...LOSE...Tough Love   

43. 4...Donnie & Joe Emerson...Still Dreamin' Wlid: The Lost Recordings 1979-81...Light in the Attic   

44. 4...Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa...Savage Imagination...Thrill Jockey   

45. 4...Justin Townes Earle...Single Mothers...Vagrant   

46. 4...Menace Ruine...Venus Armata...Profound Lore   

47. 4...Ritual Howls...Turkish Leather...Felte   

48. 4...The Brooklyn Rider...The Brooklyn Rider Almanac...Mercury Classics   

49. 4...The Vaselines...V is for Vaselines...Rosary Music   

50. 4...Various...Axels & Sockets: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project...Glitterhouse   

51. 3...Whatever Brains.../////// + 4...Sorry State   

52. 3...Irata/Solar Halos...Split 10"...CrimsonEye   

53. 3...Steve Arrington...Way Out (80-84)...Tummy Touch   

54. 3...Bob Carpenter...Silent Passage...No Quarter   

55. 3...Peter Evans & Sam Pluta...Event Horizon...Carrier   

56. 3...Ak'chamel...Lowlands of Hteklum...Moon Glyph   

57. 3...Sam Amidon...Lily-O...Nonesuch   

58. 3...Charles Bradley & LaRose Jackson...Luv Jones 7"...Daptone   

59. 3...Cut Hands...Festival of the Dead...Blackest Ever Black   

60. 3...Electric Wizard...Time to Die...Spinefarm   

61. 3...Hamish Kilgour...All of It and Nothing...Ba Da Bing   

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

63. 3...Joan Shelley...Electric Ursa...No Quarter   

64. 3...Null and Void...Happiness and Contempt/Montage Morte...Medical   

65. 3...Occultation...Silence in the Ancestral House...Profound Lore   

66. 3...Satan's Satyrs...Die Screaming...Trash King   

67. 3...Tennis...Ritual in Repeat...Communion   

68. 3...Various...Across the Mountains: A Macedonian Ambient Music Compilation...Silber   

69. 2...Midnight Plus One...Like Camera/White Flowers...Negative Fun   

70. 2...Blursome...Heavy Resting...Locus Recordings

71. 2...Terekke...Terekke...L.I.E.S.   

72. 2...Dilated Peoples...Directors of Photography...Rhymesayers   

73. 2...All Day Breakfast Stringband...Shanghai...self-released   

74. 2...Athanor...Inside Out: The Demos 1973-1977...Guerssen   

75. 2...Awa Sangho...Ala Ta...Motema   

76. 2...Botanist...VI: Flora...The Flenser   

77. 2...Cem Karaca...Nem Kaldi?...Pharaway Sounds   

78. 2...Christopher Owens...A New Testament...Turnstile   

79. 2...Fred Frith and John Butcher...The Natural Order...Northern Spy   

80. 2...Goat...Commune...Sub Pop   

81. 2...Jacaszek & Kwartludium...Catalogue des Arbres...Touch   

82. 2...James Blackshaw...Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat...Tompkins Square   

83. 2...Iron Claw...Iron Claw...Rockadrome   

84. 2...Jennifer Castle...Pink City...No Quarter   

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

86. 2...Oliver Lake Organ Quartet...What I Heard...Passin' Through   

87. 2...Phobonoid...Orbita...Dusktone   

88. 2...Hafez Modirzadeh...In Convergence Liberation...Pi   

88.7 2...The Residents...Residue of the Residents...Superior Viaduct

AMERICANA

1. 6...Maggie Bjorklund...Shaken...Bloodshot

2. 4...Malcolm Holcombe...Pitiful Blues...self-released

3. 4...Jesse Winchester...A Reasonable Amount of Trouble...Appleseed

4. 4...Mike and Cara Gangloff...Black Ribbon of Death, Silver Thread of Life...MIE Music

5. 4...Justin Townes Earle...Single Mothers...Vagrant

6. 4...Cory Branan...The No-Hit Wonder...Bloodshot

7. 3...Sam Amidon...Lily-O...Nonesuch

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

9. 2...All Day Breakfast Stringband...Shanghai...self-released

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

LOUD

1. 6...Dawnbringer...Night of the Hammer...Profound Lore   

2. 5...Pilgrim...II: Void Worship...Metal Blade   

3. 4...Power Trip...Manifest Decimation...Southern Lord   

4. 3...Electric Wizard...Time to Die...Spinefarm   

5. 3...Occultation...Silence in the Ancestral House...Profound Lore   

6. 3...Satan's Satyrs...Die Screaming...Trash King   

7. 2...Botanist...VI: Flora...The Flenser   

8. 2...Iron Claw...Iron Claw…Rockadrome   

9. 2...Phobonoid...Orbita...Dusktone   

10. 2...Unholy Two...Talk About Some Hardcore...12XU   

WORLD

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

2. 4...Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas...Abundance...Culburnie

3. 2...Awa Sangho...Ala Ta...Motema

4. 2...Cem Karaca...Nem Kaldi?...Pharaway Sounds

5. 2...Black Slate    Citizen...Unit 8

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

7. 1...Aby Ngana Diop...Liital...Awesome Tapes from Africa

8. 1...Hailu Mergia & The Walias...Tche Belew...Awesome Tapes from Africa

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

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

JAZZ

1. 6…Charlie Haden & Jim Hall…Charlie Haden & Jim Hall…Impulse/Blue Note

2. 5…Angles 9…Injuries…Clean Feed

3. 4…Darius Jones…The Oversoul Manual…AUM Fidelity

4. 3…Peter Evans & Sam Pluta…Event Horizon…Carrier

5. 2…Fred Frith and John Butcher…The Natural Order…Northern Spy

6. 2…Oliver Lake Organ Quartet…What I Heard…Passin' Through

7. 2…Hafez Modirzadeh…In Convergence Liberation…Pi

8. 2…Michael Musillami Trio…Pride…Playscape

9. 2…Westerlies…Wish the Children Would Come On Home…Songlines

10. 1…Anthony Davis…Notes from the Underground…BMOP/sound

RPM 

1. 9...Flying Lotus...You're Dead!...Warp

2. 8...Caribou...Our Love...Merge

3. 7...HTRK...Psychic 9-5 Club...Ghostly International

4. 6...Aphex Twin...Syro...Warp

5. 4...Roche...Stillhope...100% Silk

6. 3...Cut Hands...Festival of the Dead...Blackest Ever Black

7. 3...Various...Across the Mountains: A Macedonian Ambient Music Compilation...Silber

8. 2...Blursome...Heavy Resting...Locus Recordings

9. 2...Terekke...Terekke...L.I.E.S.

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