1.12...Obnox...Know America...Ever/Never

2.12...Mavis Staples...Your Good Fortune...Anti-

3.10...Courtney Barnett...Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit...Mom + Pop

4.9...The Mountain Goats...Beat the Champ...Merge

5.9...Hot Sugar...God's Hand...Break World

6.9...Various Artists...Sweet Times Vol. 3...Who Can You Trust

7.9...Waxahatchee...Ivy Tripp...Merge

8.8...Lowland Hum...Lowland Hum...self-released

9.8...Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille...Song for a New Decade...Tum

10.8...Houndstooth...No News from Home...No Quarter

11.8...Pink Section...Pink Section...Superior Viaduct

12.8...Fort Romeau...Insides...Ghostly International

13.8...Various...Nippon Girls 2...Big Beat

14.8...Go Betty Go...Reboot EP...self-released

15.8...Damon & Naomi...Fortune...20 | 20 | 20

16.7...Sagan Youth...Cela...Break World

17.7...Celestogramme...Wish Vehicles...In Situ

18.7...Dom Flemons...What Got Over EP...Music Maker Relief Foundation

19.7...Helena Hauff...Lex Tertia...Werk Discs/Ninja Tune

20.7...Erik Friedlander...Illuminations...Skipstone

21.7...X...X..."No Label"

22.7...Various...Disco: A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82...Soul Jazz

23.7...Colleen...Captain of None...Thrill Jockey

24.6...Hiss Golden Messenger...Southern Grammar...Merge

25.6...Various...CHICAS vol. 2: Spanish Female Singers, 1963-1978...Vampisoul

26.6...Greg Grease...Born to Lurk Forced to Work...Sound Verite Records/River Life

27.6...Cosmic Michael...Cosmic Michael...Out-Sider

28.6...Wymyns Prysyn...Head in a Vise...Drugged Conscience

29.6...Harris Eisenstadt...Golden State II...Songlines

30.6...Vetiver...Complete Strangers...Easy Sound

31.6...Various Artists...Through the Streets of the City: New Orleans Brass Bands...Smithsonian Folkways

32.6...Great Lake Swimmers...A Forest of Arms...Nettwerk

33.6...Via Tania...Via Tania & the Tomorrow Music Orchestra...Narooma

34.5...Birds of Avalon...Disappearance...

35.5...Jozef Van Wissem...Partir to Live: Original Soundtrack Recordings...Sacred Bones

36.5...Get Open...The Week-End...self-released

37.5...Jovonn...Goldtones EP...Clone Classic Cuts

38.5...Father Murphy...Croce...The Flenser

39.5...The McCrary Sisters...Let's Go...MCC

40.5...People of the North...Era of Manifestations...Thrill Jockey

41.5...Milford Graves & Bill Laswell...Space/Time - Redemption...Tum

42.5...Barcelona...Extremo Nihilismo en Barcelona...La Vida Es Un Mus

43.5...Blind Shake...Fly Right...Slovenly

44.5...James Blackshaw...Summoning Suns...Important

45.5...Buxton...Half a Native...New West

46.5...Dick Diver...Melbourne, Florida...Trouble in Mind

47.5...White Manna...Pan...Captcha

48.5...Monocles/Higher Elevation...The Spider, the Fly and the Boogie Man...Out-Sider

49.4...Liturgy...The Ark Work...Thrill Jockey

50.4...Malcolm Holcombe...The RCA Sessions...self-released

51.4...DJ Overdose...Master Control...Viewlexx

52.4...Broken Prayer...Misanthropocentric aka Droid's Blood...Sorry State

53.4...Wand...Golem...In the Red

54.4...Crotocosm...Fanatic EP...Second Circle

55.4...Natalie Prass...Natalie Prass...Spacebomb

56.4...Ryan Huber...Akharon...Inam

57.4...Chris Weisman...The Holy Life That's Coming...NNA Tapes

58.4...Cabbages, Captain, & King...Cabbages, Captain, & King...Edgetone

59.4...Of Montreal...Aureate Gloom...Polyvinyl

60.4...Colleen Green...I Want to Grow Up...Hardly Art

61.3...Growing Old Growing Up...Acting as Others...s/r

62.3...Heems...Eat, Pray, Thug...Greedhead

63.3...Wizard Rifle...Here in the Deadlights...Seventh Rule

64.3...Los Hermanos Cubero...A Burrasca Perdida...s/r

65.3...Anna & Elizabeth...Anna & Elizabeth...Free Dirt

66.3...Bruce Lacey...The Spacey Bruce Lacey - Film Music and Improvisations Vol 2...Trunk

67.3...TX Connect...Trixxter EP...Dixon Avenue Basement Jams

68.3...Uniform...Demo...self-released

69.3...Phosphorescent...Live at the Music Hall...Dead Oceans

70.3...Myra Melford...Snowy Egret...Enja/Yellowbird

71.3...Captain Beefheart...Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972...Rhino

72.3...The White Birch...The Weight of Spring...Glitterhouse

73.3...The Notations...Still Here: 1967-1973...Numero Group

74.3...Ryley Walker...Primrose Green...Dead Oceans

75.3...Niyaz...Fourth Light...Six Degrees

76.3...Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth...Epicenter...Clean Feed

77.3...Sacral Rage...Illusions in Infinite Void...Cruz del Sur

78.3...Kellari Trio...Kellari Trio...Edgetone

79.3...Lightning Bolt...Fantasy Empire...Thrill Jockey

80.3...NGLY...NGLY...L.I.E.S.

81.3...Pokey LaFarge...Something in the Water...Rounder

82.3...Dom La Nena...Soyo...Six Degrees

83.3...Myra Melford...Snowy Egret...Enja/Yellowbird

84.2...Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan...Half-Finished Bobcat...Potluck

85.2...Monologue Bombs...Eighties Night b/w The Nightingale Routine...s/r

86.2...Bombadil...Hold On...Ramseur

87.2...Whatever Brains...One-Sided Triangle...s/r

88.2...Benji Hughes...Songs in the Key of Animals...self-released

RPM

1.9...Hot Sugar...God's Hand...Break World

2.8...Fort Romeau...Insides...Ghostly International

3.7...Sagan Youth...Cela...Break World

4.7...Helena Hauff...Lex Tertia...Werk Discs/Ninja Tune

5.7...X...X..."No Label"

6.7...Colleen...Captain of None...Thrill Jockey

7.5...Jovonn...Goldtones EP...Clone Classic Cuts

8.4...DJ Overdose...Master Control...Viewlexx

9.4...Crotocosm...Fanatic EP...Second Circle

10.4...Ryan Huber...Akharon...Inam

AMERICANA

1. 8...Lowland Hum...Lowland Hum...self-released

2. 7...Dom Flemons...What Got Over EP...Music Maker Relief Foundation

3. 4...Malcolm Holcombe...The RCA Sessions...self-released

4. 3...Anna & Elizabeth...Anna & Elizabeth...Free Dirt

5. 3...Ryley Walker...Primrose Green...Dead Oceans

6. 3...Pokey LaFarge...Something in the Water...Rounder

7. 2...Lead Belly...Selections from Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Collection...Smithsonian Folkways

8. 2...Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman & The Green Valley Boys...1950s-60s Broadcasts...Patuxent

9. 2...Tom Brosseau...Perfect Abandon...Crossbill

10. 1...Precious Bryant/Algia Mae Hinton...Gran'mas I'v Never Had...Moi j'Connais

WORLD

1. 6...Various...CHICAS vol. 2: Spanish Female Singers, 1963-1978...Vampisoul

2. 3...Los Hermanos Cubero...A Burrasca Perdida...s/r

3. 3...Niyaz...Fourth Light...Six Degrees

4. 3...Dom La Nena...Soyo...Six Degrees

5. 1...Various Artists...Ten Cities...Soundway

6. 1...Various Artists...Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar...Glitterbeat

7. 1...Quitapenas...Quitapenas...Mas Tropical

8. 1...Ata Kak...Obaa Sima...Awesome Tapes from Africa

9. 1...Hama...Torodi...Sahel Sounds

10. 1...Mazhar ve Fuat...Turkuz Turkuz Cagiririz...Shadoks

JAZZ

1. 8…Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille…Song for a New Decade…Tum

2. 7…Erik Friedlander…Illuminations…Skipstone

3. 6…Harris Eisenstadt…Golden State II…Songlines

4. 6…Various Artists…Through the Streets of the City: New Orleans Brass Bands…Smithsonian Folkways

5. 5…Milford Graves & Bill Laswell…Space/Time - Redemption…Tum

6. 4…Cabbages, Captain, & King…Cabbages, Captain, & King…Edgetone

7. 3…Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth…Epicenter…Clean Feed

8. 3…Kellari Trio…Kellari Trio…Edgetone

9. 3…Myra Melford…Snowy Egret…Enja/Yellowbird

10. 2…James Falzone's Renga Ensemble…The Room Is…Allos Documents

LOUD

1.4...Liturgy...The Ark Work...Thrill Jockey...Rock

2.3...Wizard Rifle...Here in the Deadlights...Seventh Rule...Rock

3.3...Sacral Rage...Illusions in Infinite Void...Cruz del Sur...Rock

4.3...Lightning Bolt...Fantasy Empire...Thrill Jockey...Rock

5.2...Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan...Half-Finished Bobcat...Potluck...Rock

6.1...Destruction Unit...Live in San Francisco...Castle Face...Rock

7.1...Today is the Day...Animal Mother...Southern Lord...Rock

8.1...Taurus...No/Thing...self-released...Rock

9.1...Leviathan...Scar Sighted...Profound Lore...Rock

10.1...Sannhet...Revisionist...The Flenser...Rock