1.12...Cluster...1971-1981...Bureau B

2.10...Cloud Becomes Your Hand...Rest in Fleas...Northern Spy

3.10...Well Pleased and Satisfied...Give Thanks and Praise + Love Train...Burning Sounds/Secret

4.8...Museum Mouth...Popcorn Fish Guinea Pig...Equal Vision

5.8...Magic Sam Blues Band...Black Magic...Delmark

6.7...The Brian Jonestown Massacre...Mini Album Thingy Wingy...A Records

7.7...The Coathangers...Nosebleed Weekend...Suicide Squeeze

8.6...Etta Baker...Railroad Bill...Music Maker Relief Foundation

9.6...Anoushka Shankar...Land of Gold...Deutsche Grammophon

10.6...Bixio/Frizzi/Tempera...Magnetic Systems...Finders Keepers

11.6...Diminished Men...Vision in Crime...Abduction

12.6...Lightdreams...Islands in Space...Got Kinda Lost

13.6...Lakou Mizik...Wa Di Yo...Cumbancha

14.6...Bob Mould...Patch the Sky...Merge

15.5...Konvoi...Konvoi...Snot Releases

16.5...Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish...Expecting...MIE Music

17.5...Arrogance...Knights of Dreams...Numero Group

18.5...The Jagger Botchway Group...Odze Odze...Cultures of Soul

19.5...Bill Converse...Meditations/Industry...Dark Entries

20.5...Anderson .Paak...Malibu...Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE

21.5...Kaleidoscope Death...K.D.S.R.,L.D....Uuhngreh Schpuggenuh

22.5...Marisa Anderson...Into the Light...self-released

23.5...Holy Wave...Freaks of Nurture...Reverberation Appreciation Society

24.5...J Dilla...The Diary...PayJay/Mass Appeal

25.5...Sam Moss...Fable...Lost Honey

26.5...Tim Hecker...Love Streams...4AD

27.4...Some Army...One Stone and Too Many Birds...Potluck

28.4...Eric Bachmann...Eric Bachmann...Merge

29.4...Colin Stetson...Sorrow...self-released

30.4...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE

31.4...Christopher Bissonnette...Pitch, Paper & Foil...Kranky

32.4...Sammy Walker...Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin'...Ramseur

33.4...Traditional Fools...Fools Gold...In the Red

34.4...Foul Tip...Forever Driftin'...Captcha

35.4...Daniel Patrick Quinn...I, Moss...self-released

36.4...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey

37.4...Synthetic ID...Impulses...Castle Face

38.4...Black Mountain...IV...Jagjaguwar

39.4...Various...Los Alamos Grind...Numero

40.4...Frankie Cosmos...Next Thing...Bayonet

41.3...The Honeycutters...On the Ropes...Organic

42.3...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy

43.3...Sophia Loizou...Singulacra...Kathexis

44.3...Rhys Chatham...A Pythagorean Dream...Foom.

45.3...Dreamboat...Dreamboat...MIE Music

46.3...Dan Weiss...Sixteen: Drummers Suite...Pi

47.3...Prix...Historix...HoZac

48.3...El Michels Affair...4th Chamber...Big Crown

49.3...Parquet Courts...Human Performance...Rough Trade

50.3...John Carpenter...Lost Themes II...Sacred Bones

51.3...Derek Hall & Mike Cooper...Out of the Shades...Paradise of Bachelors

52.3...Get Open...IAM Open...Overtime

53.3...Keefe Jackson & Jason Adasiewicz...Rows and Rows...Delmark

54.3...Explosions in the Sky...The Wilderness...Temporary Residence Ltd.

55.3...Geist & the Sacred Ensemble...Within...Moon Glyph

56.2...al Riggs...Blue Mornings...self-released

57.2...Knurr and Spell...Ought...Potluck

58.2...Blackwood...As the World Rots Away...Subsound

59.2...Xosar...Show Yourself...Gyrocyre

60.2...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood

61.2...Brooklyn Blowhards...Brooklyn Blowhards...Little (i) Music

62.2...Moondog...Round the World of Sound...New World

63.2...Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie "Prince" Billy...Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties...Drag City

64.2...Driftmachine...Colliding Contours...Umor Rex

65.2...Tacocat...Lost Time...Hardly Art

66.2...Dalhous...The Composite Moods Collection Vol. 1: House Number 44...Blackest Ever Black

67.2...Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake...Live at Okuden...ESP-Disk

68.2...Chateau...Amissus...self-released

69.2...Adult Books...Running from the Blows...Lolipop

70.2...Mike & The Melvins...Three Men and a Baby...Sub Pop

71.2...Church of Misery...And then there were none......Rise Above

72.2...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone

73.2...Moppa Elliott...Still Up in the Air...Hot Cup

74.2...Ray Pierle...Time and Money...Out-Sider

75.2...Vanessa Amara...You're Welcome Here...Posh Isolation

76.2...Bleached...Welcome the Worms...Dead Oceans

77.2...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home

78.2...Beacon...Escapements...Ghostly International

79.1...Boulevards...Groove!...Captured Tracks

80.1...Dogs Eyes...Measure the Earth...self-released

81.1...Eel...Eel...Beach Impediment

82.1...Bombino...Azel...Partisan

83.1...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel

84.1...The Monochrome Set...Volume, Contrast, Brilliance... Unreleased & Rare Vol.2...Tapete

85.1...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds

86.1...Sheer Mag...III...Static Shock

87.1...Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil...Wow to the Deadness...Sounds Familyre

88.1...Peter Lenz...Lithium...Sqirl

88.71...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group

Americana

1. 8...Magic Sam Blues Band...Black Magic...Delmark

2. 6...Etta Baker...Railroad Bill...Music Maker Relief Foundation

3. 5...Sam Moss...Fable...Lost Honey

4. 5...Marisa Anderson...Into the Light...self-released

5. 4...Sammy Walker...Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin'...Ramseur

6. 4...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey

7. 3...The Honeycutters...On the Ropes...Organic

8. 2...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood

9. 2...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone

10. 1...Various Artists...Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records...County

Loud

1.2...Blackwood...As the World Rots Away...Subsound

2.2...Chateau...Amissus...self-released

3.2...Church of Misery...And then there were none... Rise Above

4.1...Dogs Eyes...Measure the Earth...self-released

5.1...Eel...Eel...Beach Impediment

6.1...Panopticon...Autumn Eternal...Bindrune Recordings

7.1...Bong of Cthulhu...Bong of Cthulhu...self-released

8.1...The Body...No One Deserves Happiness...Thrill Jockey

9.1...Graves at Sea...The Curse That Is...Relapse

10.1...Tombstoned...II...Svart

RPM

1.5...Bill Converse...Meditations/Industry...Dark Entries

2.5...Tim Hecker...Love Streams...4AD

3.4...Christopher Bissonnette...Pitch, Paper & Foil...Kranky

4.3...Sophia Loizou...Singulacra...Kathexis

5.2...Xosar...Show Yourself...Gyrocyre

6.2...Driftmachine...Colliding Contours...Umor Rex

7.2...Dalhous...The Composite Moods Collection Vol. 1: House Number 44...Blackest Ever Black

8.2...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home

9.1...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel

10.1...Andreas Gehm...I Love Acid 008...I Love Acid

Jazz

1.5...Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish...Expecting...MIE Music

2.3...Dan Weiss...Sixteen: Drummers Suite...Pi

3.3...Keefe Jackson & Jason Adasiewicz...Rows and Rows...Delmark

4.2...Brooklyn Blowhards...Brooklyn Blowhards...Little (i) Music

5.2...Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake...Live at Okuden...ESP-Disk

6.2...Moppa Elliott...Still Up in the Air...Hot Cup

7.1...Peter Lenz...Lithium...Sqirl

8.1...Yoshi Wada...Off the Wall...self-released

World

1.10...Well Pleased and Satisfied...Give Thanks and Praise + Love Train...Burning Sounds/Secret

2.6...Anoushka Shankar...Land of Gold...Deutsche Grammophon

3.6...Lakou Mizik...Wa Di Yo...Cumbancha

4.5...The Jagger Botchway Group...Odze Odze...Cultures of Soul

5.4...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE

6.3...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy

7.1...Bombino...Azel...Partisan

8.1...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds

9.1...Various...Yan Mari Yo: Folkloric Griots of Guinea...Psychic Sounds

10.1...A. Kostis...The Jail's a Fine School...Olvido/Mississippi

Hip Hop

1.5...J Dilla...The Diary...PayJay/Mass Appeal

2.5...Anderson .Paak...Malibu...Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE

3.3...El Michels Affair...4th Chamber...Big Crown

4.3...Get Open...IAM Open...Overtime

5.1...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group

6.1...10isee Williams...Gorilla Warfare...self-released

7.1...Royce da 5'9"...Layers...Bad Half Entertainment/INgrooves

8.1...CookBook and Evidence...A Whole New Cook...Just-Us Movement

9.1...Jackson Turner...The Foundation...self-released

10.1...BledJon...The Popular Loner...self-released