1. 10...Daniel Bachman...River...Three Lobed

2. 9...Connie Smith...The Lost Tapes...Country Rewind

3. 9...Various Artists...Saved and Sanctified: Songs of the Jade Label...Numero Group

4. 9...Moon Duo...Shadow of the Sun...Sacred Bones

5. 8...Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends...Nobody's Darlin'...s/r

6. 8...Magpie Feast...The Atlas of Lost Hearts...s/r

7. 8...Patrick Watson...Love Songs for Robots...Secret City/Domino

8. 8...The Helio Sequence...The Helio Sequence...Sub Pop

9. 7...Jon Stickley Trio...Jon Stickley Trio...s/r

10. 7...Bitchin Bajas...Transporteur...Hands in the Dark

11. 7...The Weather Station...Loyalty...Paradise of Bachelors

12. 7...Weed...Running Back...Lefse

13. 7...Antoni Maiovvi...Avrokosm...Not Not Fun

14. 7...Heartless Bastards...Restless Ones...Partisan

15. 6...Mbongwana Star...From Kinshasa...World Circuit

16. 6...Juan Wauters...Who Me?...Captured Tracks

17. 6...Philip Corner...Satie Slowly...Unseen Worlds

18. 6...Leo Bud Welch...I Don't Prefer No Blues...Big Legal Mess

19. 6...Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld...Never Were the Way She Was...Constellation

20. 6...Kath Bloom...Pass Through Here...Chapter Music

21. 6...Rhett Miller...The Traveler...ATO

22. 5...Flesh Wounds...In the Mouth...Snot Releases

23. 5...Secret Boyfriend...They're Playing Themselves...Grovl Tapes

24. 5...Swearing at Motorists...Swearing at Motorists...A Recordings Ltd.

25. 5...Palmeira...Palmeira...Pharaway Sounds

26. 5...Seremonia...Kristalliarkki...Svart

27. 5...Cosby...Mirror Box...100% Silk

28. 5...Thee Tsunamis...Saturday Night Sweetheart...Magnetic South

29. 5...Warm Soda...Symbolic Dream...Castle Face

30. 5...Giant Sand...Heartbreak Pass...New West

31. 5...Surfer Blood...1000 Palms...Joyful Noise

32. 5...The Improbables...Bad Vibrations...Hidden Volume

33. 5...Mikal Cronin...MCIII...Merge

34. 4...Heads on Sticks...Decision|Surrender|Landscape...self-released

35. 4...Villages...Procession Acts...Bathetic

36. 4...Mandolin Orange...Such Jubilee...Yep Roc

37. 4...75 Dollar Bill...Wooden Bag...Other Music Recording Co.

38. 4...Genocide Shrines...Manipura Imperial Deathevokovil (Scriptures of Reversed Puraana Dharmurder)...Vault of Dried Bones

39. 4...Saun & Starr...Look Closer...Daptone

40. 4...Chui Wan...Chui Wan...Maybe Mars

41. 4...Male Gaze...Gale Maze...Castle Face

42. 4...Circuit des Yeux...In Plain Speech...Thrill Jockey

43. 4...Sinoia Caves...Beyond the Black Rainbow...Jagjaguwar/Death Waltz

44. 4...Metz...Metz II...Sub Pop

45. 4...Holydrug Couple...Moonlust...Sacred Bones

46. 4...Whitey Morgan and the 78's...Sonic Ranch...s/r

47. 4...Joanna Gruesome...Peanut Butter...Slumberland

48. 4...Torres...Sprinter...Partisan

49. 4...Tyondai Braxton...HIVE1...Nonesuch

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

51. 3...Fake Swedish...Truce...s/r

52. 3...Canine Heart Sounds...Live on the Moon...s/r

53. 3...Mac McCaughan...Non-Believers...Merge

54. 3...James McMurtry...Complicated Game...Complicated Game

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

56. 3...The Foghorn Stringband...Devil in the Seat...self-released

57. 3...Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble...The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael...Relative Pitch

58. 3...Mausoleum Gate...Mausoleum Gate...Cruz del Sur

59. 3...Part 1...Funeral Parade EP...Sacred Bones

60. 3...Stone Jack Jones...Love & Torture...Western Vinyl

61. 3...Zombi...The Zombi Anthology...Relapse

62. 3...Gemini Lion...Adoration...House of Silk

63. 3...Rose Windows...Rose Windows...Sub Pop2...Todd Grebe & Cold Country...Citizen...self-released

64. 3...Fred Thomas...All Are Saved...Polyvinyl

65. 2...Alright...Mixed Signals 7"...Negative Fun/Self Aware

66. 2...Bandway...Buddies...The Man Who Drives the Van

67. 2...Miguel Alvarino...Participation...Hot Releases

68. 2...John Moreland...High on Tulsa Heat...Old Omens

69. 2...Charlie Parr...Stumpjumper...Red House

70. 2...Susan Allen...Postcard from Heaven...New World

71. 2...Large Unit...Erta Ale...PNL

72. 2...Person of Interest...Person of Interest...L.I.E.S.

73. 2...electric eels...Die Electric Eels...Superior Viaduct

74. 2...Los Crema Paraiso...De Pelicula!...Cutupra

75. 2...Speedy Ortiz...Foil Deer...Carpark

76. 2...One More Grain...Grain Fever...s/r

77. 2...Ava Luna...Infinite House...Western Vinyl

78. 2...Doom Snake Cult...Love Sorrow Doom...Nuclear War Now

79. 2...Sun Ra...Sign of the Myth...Roaratorio

80. 2...Brian Jonestown Massacre...Musique de film imagine...A Recordings

81. 2...Castrator...No Victim...HPGD Productions

82. 2...Guapo...Obscure Knowledge...Cuneiform

83. 2...M. Ostermeier...Still...Tench

84. 2...Chris Brokaw...The Periscope Twins...12XU

85. 2...Kaze...Uminari...Libra

86. 2...Loke Rahbek and Puce Mary...The Female Form...Posh Isolation

87. 2...Calexico...Edge of the Sun...Anti-

88. 2...Wire...Wire...Pink Flag

AMERICANA

1. 10...Daniel Bachman...River...Three Lobed

2. 9...Connie Smith...The Lost Tapes...Country Rewind

3. 8...Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends...Nobody's Darlin'...self-released

4. 7...Jon Stickley Trio..Jon Stickley Trio...self-released

5. 6...Leo Bud Welch...I Don't Prefer No Blues...Big Legal Mess

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

7. 4...Mandolin Orange...Such Jubilee...Yep Roc

8. 4...Whitey Morgan and the 78's...Sonic Ranch...self-released

9. 3...James McMurtry...Complicated Game...Complicated Game

10. 3...The Foghorn Stringband...Devil in the Seat...self-released

RPM

1. 7...Antoni Maiovvi...Avrokosm...Not Not Fun

2. 5...Secret Boyfriend...They're Playing Themselves...Grovl Tapes

3. 5...Cosby...Mirror Box...100% Silk

4. 4...Sinoia Caves...Beyond the Black Rainbow...Jagjaguwar/Death Waltz

5. 4...Tyondai Braxton...HIVE1...Nonesuch

6. 3...Gemini Lion...Adoration...House of Silk

7. 2...Miguel Alvarino...Participation...Hot Releases

8. 2...Person of Interest...Person of Interest...L.I.E.S.

9. 2...Loke Rahbek and Puce Mary...The Female Form...Posh Isolation

10. 1...Doom Asylum...Drain...BroVirus Studios

JAZZ

1. 6…Philip Corner…Satie Slowly…Unseen Worlds

2. 3…Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble…The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael…Relative Pitch

3. 2…Large Unit…Erta Ale…PNL

4. 2…Sun Ra…Sign of the Myth…Roaratorio

5. 2…Kaze…Uminari…Libra

6. 1…Polyorchard…Color Theory in Black and White…self-released

7. 1…Chris Kelsey & Dom Minasi…Duets: NYC/Woodstock…Tzazz Krytyk

8. 1…Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay…Antigravity…Blackest Ever Black

9. 1…Mikko Innanen with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille…Song for a New Decade…Tum

10. 1…Harris Eisenstadt…Golden State II…Songlines

LOUD

1. 4…Genocide Shrines…Manipura Imperial Deathevokovil (Scriptures of Reversed Puraana Dharmurder)…Vault of Dried Bones

2. 4…Metz…Metz II…Sub Pop

3. 3…Mausoleum Gate…Mausoleum Gate….Cruz del Sur

4. 2…Doom Snake Cult….Love Sorrow Doom…Nuclear War Now

5. 2 Castrator…No Victim…HPGD Productions

6. 1…Wisent…Gros Morne…self-released

7. 1…Gay Kiss…Preservation Measures…Sorry State

8. 1…Mamaleek…Via Dolorosa…The Flenser

9. 1…Bell Witch…Four Phantoms…Profound Lore

10. 1…Schnellertollermeier…X…Cuneiform

WORLD

1. 6...Mbongwana Star...From Kinshasa...World Circuit

2. 5...Palmeira...Palmeira...Pharaway Sounds

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

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

5. 1...Hama...Torodi...Sahel Sounds

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

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

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

9. 1...Buena Vista Social Club...Lost and Found...World Circuit

10. 1...Ludovico Einaudi...Taranta Project...Ponderosa Music & Art