1. 15...Magik Markers...Surrender to the Fantasy...Drag City
2. 12...Melt-Banana...Fetch...A-Zap
3. 12...Destroyer...Five Spanish Songs...Merge
4. 12...La Luz...It's Alive...Hardly Art
5. 11...Ultra Bidé...DNA vs. DNA-c...Alternative Tentacles
6. 11...Neo Boys...Sooner or Later...K
7. 11...Mar Seck...Vagabonde - From Super Cap-Vert to Number One: Unreleased Recordings 1969-1980...Teranga Beat
8. 10...Daniel Bachman...Jesus I'm A Sinner...Tompkins Square
9. 10...Mike Donovan...WOT...Drag City
10. 10...Doris Duke...I'm A Loser...Alive Naturalsound
11. 9...Black Skies...Circadian Meditations...self-released
12. 9...The Numbers Band...Jimmy Bell's Still in Town...Exit Stencil Recordings
13. 9...Cem Karaca...Apa lar, Karda lar, Mo ollar, Ferdy Klein Orkestrası...Guerssen
14. 9...Various Artists...Longing for the Past: The 78 RPM Era in Southeast Asia...Dust-to-Digital
15. 9...Wooden Shjips...Back to Land...Thrill Jockey
16. 9...Dave Von Ronk...Down in Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection...Smithsonian Folkways
17. 9...Z.Z. Hill...The Brand New Z.Z. Hill...Alive Naturalsound
18. 8...WowolfoL...9 Songs...self-released
19. 8...Mountain Thrower...Mountain Thrower...self-released
20. 8...Natural Snow Buildings...Daughter of Darkness...Ba Da Bing!
21. 8...Ron Morelli...Spit...Hospital Productions
22. 8...Josephine Foster...I'm A Dreamer...Fire
23. 8...The Fuzz...The Fuzz...Munster
24. 8...The Gories...The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88...Third Man
25. 8...Cass McCombs...Big Wheel and Others...Domino
26. 8...Ducktails...Wish Hotel...Domino
27. 7...Toddlers...Toddlers...self-released
28. 7...Courtney Barnett...The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas...Marathon Artists / House Anxiety
29. 7...The Zoltars...Walking Through the Dark...CQ
30. 7...Han Bennink and Uri Caine...Sonic Boom...816 Music
31. 7...Mind Spiders...Inhumanistic...Dirtnap
32. 7...Dustin Wong...Mediation of Ecstatic Energy...Thrill Jockey
33. 7...Dot Wiggin Band...Ready! Get! Go!...Alternative Tentacles
34. 7...Howe Gelb...The Coincidentalist...New West
35. 6...Tonk...Let's Keep It Dark...Future Standards
36. 6...Andy Statman...Superstring Theory...Shefa
37. 6...Rhys Chatham...Hamonie du Soir...Northern-Spy
38. 6...Pampers...Pampers...In the Red
39. 6...Million Brazilians...Wet Dry Jungala...Moon Glyph
40. 6...Abelardo Carbono...El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono: Psychedelia, Afroroots & Champeta in 1980s Barranquilla...Vampi Soul
41. 6...Russian Circles...Memorial...Sargent House
42. 6...William Onyeabor...World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor...Luaka Bop
43. 6...Dresses...Sun Shy EP...Sideonedummy
44. 6...Ryan Hemsworth...Guilt Trips...Last Gang
45. 5...yMusic...7"...Record Collection
46. 5...Kris Davis...Massive Threads...Thirsty Ear
47. 5...The New Sound of Numbers...Invisible Magnetic...Cloud Recordings
48. 5...The Necks...Open...Northern-Spy
49. 5...Migrations in Rust...Two Shadows...NNA Tapes
50. 4...Ganey Arsement...Le Forgeron...Salty Bayou
51. 4...Heads on Sticks...Phantasm in Tutu...self-released
52. 4...39 Clocks...Pain It Dark...Luxury Products
53. 4...R. Millis...Relief...Helen Scarsdale
54. 4...Oozing Wound...Retrash...Thrill Jockey
55. 4...Nobunny...Secret Songs: Reflections From the Ear Mirror...Goner
56. 4...Micah Blue Smaldone...The Ring of the Rise...Immune Recordings
57. 4...Ghost Dance...Ghost Dance...Frenchkiss
58. 4...Seasick Steve...Hubcap Music...Polydor
59. 3...The Pod...Faded Memory From A Dying Sun...Black Iron
60. 3...Dan Melchior...C.C.D.E. Music...Little Big Chief
61. 3...Letha Rodman Melchior...Handbook for Mortals...Siltbreeze
62. 3...Bo White...Adornment...self-released
63. 3...FPR...All at Once...Relative Pitch
64. 3...Erik Friedlander...Claws and Wings...SkipStone
65. 3...Ronnie Walker...Nothing's Gonna Change 7"...Impact
66. 3...Midlake...Antiphon...ATO
67. 3...Brutal Truth / Bastard Noise...Axiom of Post Inhumanity...Relapse
68. 3...Bonnie Prince Billy...Bonnie Prince Billy...self-released
69. 3...Blanche Blanche Blanche...Breaking Mirrors...Wharf Cat
70. 3...The Body...Christs, Redeemers...Thrill Jockey
71. 3...The Delta Saints...Death Letter Jubilee...self-released
72. 3...Hubble...Hubble Eagle...NNA Tapes
73. 3...Eugene S. Robinson and Phillippe Petit...Last of the Dead Hot Lovers...Southern
74. 3...Chris Forsyth...Solar Motel...Paradise of Bachelors
75. 3...Various Artists...Songs for Slim: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap...New West
76. 3...Phil Niblock...Touch Five...Touch
77. 3...Running...Vaguely Ethnic...Castleface
78. 3...Forest Swords...Engravings...Tri Angle
79. 3...Omar Souleyman...Wenu Wenu...Ribbon Music
80. 2...The Love Triangle...Clever Clever...Sorry State / Static Shock
81. 2...Quttinirpaaq...Let's Hang Out...Rural Isolation Project
82. 2...Circuit des Yeux...Overdue...Ba Da Bing
83. 2...Amir ElSaffar...Alchemy...Pi
84. 2...Matthew Shipp...Piano Sutras...Thirsty Ear
85. 2...Evan Parker / Craig Taborn / Sam Pluta / Peter Evans...Rocket Science...More is More
86. 2...Destry Hampton & the Wolves From Hell...Angel of Madness 7"...Superior Viaduct
87. 2...Toxic Holocaust...Chemistry of Consciousness...Relapse
88. 2...Bil Vermette...Katha Visions...Permanent
88.7. 2...David Murray Infinity Quartet...Be My Monster Love...Motema

Jazz

1. 7...Han Bennink and Uri Caine...Sonic Boom...816 Music
2. 5...Kris Davis...Massive Threads...Thirsty Ear
3. 3...FPR...All at Once...Relative Pitch
4. 3...Erik Friedlander...Claws and Wings...SkipStone
5. 2...Amir ElSaffar...Alchemy...Pi
6. 2...David Murray Infinity Quartet...Be My Monster Love...Motema
7. 2...Matana Roberts...Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile...Constellation
8. 2...Matthew Shipp...Piano Sutras...Thirsty Ear
9. 2...Evan Parker / Craig Taborn / Sam Pluta / Peter Evans...Rocket Science...More is More
10. 1...Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio...Le Stagioni del Commissario Ricciari...Tzadik

Loud

1. 11...Ultra Bidé...DNA vs. DNA-c...Alternative Tentacles
2. 9...Black Skies...Circadian Meditations...self-released
3. 6...Pampers...Pampers...In the Red
4. 4...Oozing Wound...Retrash...Thrill Jockey
5. 3...Brutal Truth / Bastard Noise...Axiom of Post Inhumanity...Relapse
6. 3...The Body...Christs, Redeemers...Thrill Jockey
7. 2...Toxic Holocaust...Chemistry of Consciousness...Relapse
8. 2...Quttinirpaaq...Let's Hang Out...Rural Isolation Project
9. 2...Destry Hampton & the Wolves From Hell...Angel of Madness 7"...Superior Viaduct
10. 1...Running...Vaguely Ethnic...Castleface

RPM

1. 8...Ron Morelli...Spit...Hospital Productions
2. 5...Migrations in Rust...Two Shadows...NNA Tapes
3. 3...Forest Swords...Engravings...Tri Angle
4. 2...Bil Vermette...Katha Visions...Permanent
5. 2...Buffetlibre...Songs for Elaine...Tommy Boy
6. 2...Body 11...Youth...Medical
7. 1...Miracle...Mercury...Planet Mu
8. 1...Helm...Silencer EP...PAN / Alter
9. 1...Rodion G.A....The Lost Tapes...Strut
10. 1...Solar Year...Waverly...Ceremony

World

1. 11...Mar Seck...Vagabonde - From Super Cap-Vert to Number One: Unreleased Recordings 1969-1980...Teranga Beat
2. 9...Cem Karaca...Apa lar, Karda lar, Mo ollar, Ferdy Klein Orkestrası...Guerssen
3. 9...Various Artists...Longing for the Past: The 78 RPM Era in Southeast Asia...Dust-to-Digital
4. 6...Abelardo Carbono...El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono: Psychedelia, Afroroots & Champeta in 1980s Barranquilla...Vampi Soul
5. 6...William Onyeabor...World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor...Luaka Bop
6. 3...Omar Souleyman...Wenu Wenu...Ribbon Music
7. 1...Fikret Kizilok...Anadolu'yum...Pharaway Sounds
8. 1...Hatun Kotama...¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo...Smithsonian Folkways
9. 1...Mamadaou Kelly...Adibar...Clermont Music
10. 1...Rokia Traore...Beautiful Africa...Nonesuch