1.7...Chuck Johnson...Blood Moon Boulder...Scissor Tail Editions

2.7...Mike Cooper...Fratello Mare...Room40

3.7...Eleventh Dream Day...Works for Tomorrow...Thrill Jockey

4.6...Leon Bridges...Coming Home...Columbia

5.6...Grave Babies...Holographic Violence...Hardly Art

6.6...Mynabirds...Lovers Know...Saddle Creek

7.5...Naked Gods...Naked Gods...s/r

8.5...Terrace Heater...Harris Teeter...self-released

9.5...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

10.5...Birds of Prey...Birds of Prey...Katexis

11.5...Wee Willie Walker...If Nothing Ever Changes...Little Village Foundation

12.5...Destruction Unit...Negative Feedback Resistor...Sacred Bones

13.5...Meg Baird...Don't Weigh Down the Light...Drag City

14.5...Galcher Lustwerk...Parlay...Lustwerk Music

15.5...Worriers...Imaginary Life...Don Giovanni

16.5...Alex Chilton...Ocean Club '77...Norton

17.5...Lone...Lemurian...Magic Wire/R&S

18.5...Second Layer...World of Rubber...Dark Entries

19.5...Peacers...Peacers...Drag City

20.5...Bumper Jacksons...Too Big World...s/r

21.5...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

22.5...Valkyrie...Shadows...Relapse

23.5...Royal Headache...High...What's Your Rupture?

24.5...Dave Douglas...High Risk...Greenleaf

25.5...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries

26.4...Life of Saturdays...So How We Seem...s/r

27.4...Little Freddie King...Messin' Around Tha Living Room...MadeWright

28.4...Johanna Warren...numun...Team Love

29.4...Various Artists...Playing 'Til Your Soul Comes Out!: Music of Macedonia...Smithsonian Folkways

30.4...Waxwing...a bowl of sixty taxidermists...Songlines

31.4...Nosaj Thing...Fated...Innovative Leisure

32.4...Ecstatic Vision...Sonic Praise...Relapse

33.4...Gwenno...Y Dydd Olaf...Heavenly Recordings

34.4...Little Richard...Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years...Specialty

35.4...Thundercat...The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam...Brainfeeder

36.3...Bomba Estereo...Amanecer...Sony Music Latin

37.3...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

38.3...Magnolia Collective...Coldest Winter EP...s/r

39.3...Nest Egg...Respectable...Bathetic

40.3...Tellico...Relics and Roses...s/r

41.3...OB Ignitt and Omar S...The '90s Evolution of What Is Was...Obonit

42.3...Reverie...Bliss...Escho

43.3...So Percussion and Steven Mackey...It Is Time...Canteloupe

44.3...EZTV...Calling Out...Captured Tracks

45.3...Institute...Catharsis...Sacred Bones

46.3...Royal Jesters...English Oldies...Numero Group

47.3...Uh Bones...Honey Coma...Randy

48.3...Alessandro Cortini...Risveglio...Hospital Productions

49.3...Midnight...Into the Night...Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk

50.3...High on Fire...Luminiferous...E One

51.3...Daniel Romano...If I've Only One Time Askin'...New West

52.3...Nun...Nun...HoZac

53.3...The Bachs...Out of the Bachs...Out-Sider

54.3...Silent Servant/Broken English Club...Violence and Divinity...Cititrax

55.3...Spray Paint...Punters On a Barge...Homeless

56.3...Charlie Rich...So Lonesome I Could Cry...Hi/Fat Possum

57.3...Moon...Render of the Veils...Moribund

58.3...Ducktails...St. Catherine...Domino

59.3...Capeech Capuccino...Galactic Star Hip-Hop...Elite Elephants

60.3...Iris DeMent...The Trackless Woods...FlariElla

61.3...Mac Demarco...Another One...Captured Tracks

62.2...Michael Rank and Stag...Horsehair...s/r

63.2...Dayme Arocena...Nueva Era...Brown Sword

64.2...Gashrat...Downs...Hot Releases

65.2...Rezzett...Goodness...The Trilogy Tapes

66.2...Ghostface Killah...Adrian Younge presents: Twelve Reasons to Die II...Linear Labs

67.2...John Zorn's Olympiad...Dither Plays Zorn...Tzadik

68.2...Fannie Lou Hamer...Songs My Mother Taught Me...Smithsonian Folkways

69.2...Policy...The Republic...100% Silk

70.2...Yellowtooth...Crushed by the Wheels of Progress...Orchestrated Misery

71.2...Joe Crow...Compulsion...Dark Entries

72.2...Ken Aldcroft & Scott Thompson...Red & Blue...Trio

73.2...Westkust...Last Forever...Run for Cover

74.2...Michael Angelo...Michael Angel...Anthology

75.2...Jackson C. Frank...The Complete Recordings...Ba Da Bing!

76.2...Chihei Hatakeyama...Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains...Room 40

77.2...Oppenheimer Analysis...New Mexico...Minimal Wave

78.2...ScotDrakula...ScotDrakula...self-released

79.2...Titus Andronicus...The Most Lamentable Tragedy...Merge

80.2...Ceccato, Babin, Golinski...Tor...Edgetone

81.2...Sutekh Hexen...Become...Cold Spring

82.2...The Outlaw Collective...Off the Grid...self-released

83.2...The Lowest Pair...I Reckon I'm Fixin' on Kickin' Round to Pick a Little...Team Love

84.2...Barna Howard...Quite a Feelin'...Mama Bird

85.1...MAKE...The Golden Veil...s/r

86.1...Greg Hawks...What Goes Around...s/r

87.1...Diat...Positive Energy...Iron Lung

88.1...Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined...Eat the Air...Skirl

RPM

1.5...Birds of Prey...Birds of Prey...Katexis

2.5...Galcher Lustwerk...Parlay...Lustwerk Music

3.5...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

4.5...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries

5.4...Nosaj Thing...Fated...Innovative Leisure

6.3...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

7.3...OB Ignitt and Omar S...The '90s Evolution of What Is Was...Obonit

8.3...Alessandro Cortini...Risveglio...Hospital Productions

9.3...Silent Servant/Broken English Club...Violence and Divinity...Cititrax

10.2...Rezzett...Goodness...The Trilogy Tapes

WORLD

1.5...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

2.4...Various Artists...Playing 'Til Your Soul Comes Out!: Music of Macedonia...Smithsonian Folkways

3.3...Bomba Estereo...Amanecer...Sony Music Latin

4.2...Dayme Arocena...Nueva Era...Brown Sword

5.1...Quarter Street...Quarter Street...HopeStreet

6.1...Alceu Valencia...Molhado de Suor...Sol Re Sol

7.1...Chico Trujillo...Reina de Todas las Fiestas...Barbes

8.1...Senyawa...Menjadi...Morphine

9.1...Amara Toure...1973-1980...Analog Africa

10.1...Various Artists...Next Stop Soweto: Zulu Rock, Afro-Disco and Mbanqanga 1975-1985...Strut

AMERICANA

1.7...Chuck Johnson...Blood Moon Boulder...Scissor Tail Editions 

2.5...Meg Baird...Don't Weigh Down the Light...Drag City

3.5...Bumper Jackson...Too Big World...self-released 

4.4...Little Freddie King...Messin' Around Tha Living Room...MadeWright

5.4...Johanna Warren...numun...Team Love 

6.3...Magnolia Collective...Coldest Winter EP...self-released

7.3...Tellico...Relics and Roses...self-released 

8.3...Daniel Romano...If I've Only One Time Askin'...New West

9.3...Charlie Rich...So Lonesome I Could Cry...Hi/Fat Possum

10.3...Iris DeMent...The Trackless Woods...FlariElla

LOUD

1.5…Destruction Unit…Negative Feedback Resistor…Sacred Bones

2.5…Valkyrie…Shadows…Relapse

3.4…Ecstatic Vision…Sonic Praise…Relapse

4.3…Reverie…Bliss…Escho

5.3…High on Fire…Luminiferous…E One

6.2…Yellowtooth…Crushed by the Wheels of Progress…Orchestrated Misery

7.2…Sutekh Hexen…Become…Cold Spring

8.1…MAKE…The Golden Veil…s/r

9.1…Throaat…Black Speed…Invictus

10.1…CIANIDE…Death, Doom, and Destruction…Hell's Headbangers

JAZZ

1.5...Amir ElSaffar…Crisis…Pi

2.5…Dave Douglas…High Risk…Greenleaf

3.4…Waxwing…a bowl of sixty taxidermists…Songlines

4.2…John Zorn's Olympiad…Dither Plays Zorn…Tzadik

5.2…Ken Aldcroft & Scott Thompson…Red & Blue…Trio

6.2…Ceccato, Babin, Golinski…Tor…Edgetone

7.1…Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined…Eat the Air…Skirl

8.1…Brett Carson…Quattuor Elephantis…Edgetone

9.1…Ken Aldcroft's Threads (Quintet)…10/09/11…Trio

10.1…Wayne Horvitz…Some Places are Forever…Songlines