1.13...Daniel Bachman...River...Three Lobed

2.8...Circuit des Yeux...In Plain Speech...Thrill Jockey

3.8...Gemini Lion...Adoration...House of Silk

4.8...Thee Tsunamis...Saturday Night Sweetheart...Magnetic South

5.7...The Weather Station...Loyalty...Paradise of Bachelors

6.7...Metz...Metz II...Sub Pop

7.6...Sagan Youth...Cela...Break World

8.6...Heads on Sticks...Decision|Surrender|Landscape...self-released

9.6...Bitchin Bajas...Transporteur...Hands in the Dark

10.6...Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay...Antigravity...Blackest Ever Black

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

12.5...Part 1...Funeral Parade EP...Sacred Bones

13.5...Taraf de Haidouks...Of Lovers, Gamblers, and Parachute Skirts...Crammed Discs

14.5...Saun & Starr...Look Closer...Daptone

15.5...Holydrug Couple...Moonlust...Sacred Bones

16.5...Peach Kelli Pop...Peach Kelli Pop III...Burger

17.5...Mikal Cronin...MCIII...Merge

18.4...The Honeycutters...Me Oh My...Organic

19.4...Bell Witch...Four Phantoms...Profound Lore

20.4...Warm Soda...Symbolic Dream...Castle Face

21.4...Broken English Club...Scars...Cititrax

22.4...Todd Grebe & Cold Country...Citizen...self-released

23.4...Castrator...No Victim...HPGD Productions

24.4...Rose Windows...Rose Windows...Sub Pop

25.4...Calexico...Edge of the Sun...Anti-

26.4...POW!...Fight Fire...Castle Face

27.4...The Foghorn Stringband...Devil in the Seat...self-released

28.4...Torres...Sprinter...Partisan

29.4...Kath Bloom...Pass Through Here...Chapter Music

30.4...Schnellertollermeier...X...Cuneiform

31.4...Seven Davis Jr....Wild Hearts...Ninja Tune

32.4...Giant Sand...Heartbreak Pass...New West

33.3...Flesh Wounds...In the Mouth...Snot Releases

34.3...Doom Asylum...Drain...BroVirus Studios

35.3...Elephant Micah...Where in Our Woods...Western Vinyl

36.3...Mandolin Orange...Such Jubilee...Yep Roc

37.3...Hama...Torodi...Sahel Sounds

38.3...Loke Rahbek and Puce Mary...The Female Form...Posh Isolation

39.3...Fred Thomas...All Are Saved...Polyvinyl

40.3...King Khan and BBQ Show...Bad News Boys...In the Red

41.3...Mazhar ve Fuat...Turkuz Turkuz Cagiririz...Shadoks

42.3...Entro Senestre...ES...WT

43.3...Speedy Ortiz...Foil Deer...Carpark

44.3...Male Gaze...Gale Maze...Castle Face

45.3...The Ukiah Drag...In the Reapers Quarters...Wharf Cat

46.3...Ava Luna...Infinite House...Western Vinyl

47.3...Seremonia...Kristalliarkki...Svart

48.3...Michael Chapman...Window...Light in the Attic

49.3...Los Crema Paraiso...De Pelicula!...Cutupra

50.3...Legowelt...Anaconda Flow...Technicolour

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

52.3...Bichkraft...Mascot...Wharf Cat

53.3...Colleen...Captain of None...Thrill Jockey

54.3...Quitty & The Don'ts...Running Out of Time...Hidden Volume

55.3...M. Ostermeier...Still...Tench

56.3...Wire...Wire...Pink Flag

57.3...Ludovico Einaudi...Taranta Project...Ponderosa Music & Art

58.2...Polyorchard...Color Theory in Black and White...self-released

59.2...Secret Boyfriend...They're Playing Themselves...Grovl Tapes

60.2...Canine Heart Sounds...Live on the Moon...s/r

61.2...Mac McCaughan...Non-Believers...Merge

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

63.2...Lightning Bolt...Fantasy Empire...Thrill Jockey

64.2...Pell...Floating While Dreaming...s/r

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

66.2...Anne McCue...Blue Sky Thinkin'...Flying Machine

67.2...electric eels...Die Electric Eels...Superior Viaduct

68.2...Kathryn Calder...Kathryn Calder...File Under: Music

69.2...Gruesome...Savage Land...Relapse

70.2...Obnox...Know America...Ever/Never

71.2...Silo Homes...Silo Homes...s/r

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

73.2...William Elliott Whitmore...Radium Death...Anti-

74.2...James Blackshaw...Summoning Suns...Important

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

76.2...The Insomniacs...Today's the Way...Hidden Volume

77.2...Charlie Parr...Stumpjumper...Red House

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

79.2...Pharmakon...Bestial Burden...Sacred Bones

80.2...Fort Romeau...Insides...Ghostly International

81.2...Godspeed You! Black Emperor...Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress...Constellation

82.2...Various Artists...Beale Street Saturday Night...Omnivore

83.1...Tashi Dorji...Appa...Bathetic

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

85.1...Rob Nance...Signal Fires...self-released

86.1...Bandway...Buddies...The Man Who Drives the Van

87.1...Mipso...Faces...s/r

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

RPM

1.8...Gemini Lion...Adoration...House of Silk

2.6...Sagan Youth...Cela...Break World

3.4...Broken English Club...Scars...Cititrax

4.4...Seven Davis Jr....Wild Hearts...Ninja Tune

5.3...Doom Asylum...Drain...BroVirus Studios

6.3...Loke Rahbek and Puce Mary...The Female Form...Posh Isolation

7.3...Entro Senestre...ES...WT

8.3...Legowelt...Anaconda Flow...Technicolour

9.3...Colleen...Captain of None...Thrill Jockey

10.2...Secret Boyfriend...They're Playing Themselves...Grovl Tapes

WORLD

1. 5...Taraf de Haidouks...Of Lovers, Gamblers, and Parachute Skirts...Crammed Discs

2. 3...Hama...Torodi...Sahel Sounds

3. 3...Mazhar ve Fuat...Turkuz Turkuz Cagiririz...Shadoks

4. 3...Los Crema Paraiso...De Pelicula!...Cutupra

5. 3...Ludovico Einaudi...Taranta Project...Ponderosa Music & Art

6. 1...Niyaz...Fourth Light...Six Degrees

7. 1...Julian Labro and the Spektral Quartet...From This Point Forward...Azica

8. 1...Arrington de Dionyso with Lima Jari Sakti Rasyit...Unheard Indonesia: Pencak Silat Situbondo...Psychic Sounds

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

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

AMERICANA

1. 13...Daniel Bachman...River...Three Lobed

2. 4...The Honeycutters...Me Oh My...self-released

3. 4...Todd Grebe & Cold Country...Citizen...self-released

4. 4...The Foghorn Stringband...Devil in the Seat...self-released 

5. 4...Kath Bloom...Pass Through Here...Chapter Music

6. 3...Mandolin Orange...Such Jubilee...Yep Roc

7. 3...Michael Chapman...Window...Light in the Attic

8. 2...Anne McCue...Blue Sky Thinkin'...Flying Machine

9. 2...William Elliott Whitmore...Radium Death...Anti-

10. 2...Charlie Parr...Stumpjumper...Red House

LOUD

1.7…Metz…Metz II…Sub Pop

2.4…Bell Witch…Four Phantoms…Profound Lore

3.4…Castrator…No Victim…HPGD Productions

4.4…Schnellertollermeier…X…Cuneiform

5.2…Lightning Bolt…Fantasy Empire…Thrill Jockey

6.2…Gruesome…Savage Land…Relapse

7.2…Pharmakon…Bestial Burden…Sacred Bones

8.1…Lydia Lunch Retrovirus…Urge to Kill…Widowspeak/Brava

9.1…Liturgy…The Ark Work…Thrill Jockey

10.1…Wizard Rifle…Here in the Deadlights…Seventh Rule

JAZZ

1.6…Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay…Antigravity…Blackest Ever Black

2.2…Polyorchard…Color Theory in Black and White…self-released

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

4.1…Chris Kelsey & Dom Minasi…Duets: NYC/Woodstock…Tzazz Krytyk

5.1…Large Unit…Erta Ale…PNL

6.1…Sun Ra…Sign of the Myth…Roaratorio

7.1…Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille…Song for a New Decade…Tum

8.1…Erik Friedlander…Illuminations…Skipstone

9.1…Kris Davis Infrasound…Save Your Breath…Clean Feed

10.1…Harris Eisenstadt…Golden State II…Songlines