TOP 30

  1. THE JOEL PLASKETT EMERGENCY*   Scrappy Happiness (MapleMusic)
  2. QUANTIC & ALICE RUSSELL WITH THE COMBO BARBARO   Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
  3. A TRIBE CALLED RED*   A Tribe Called Red (Self-Released)
  4. BOCCE*   Future 1.0 (Dadmobile)
  5. VARIOUS*   The Lemon Tape (Hobo Cult)
  6. MAPS & ATLASES   Beware And Be Grateful (Barsuk)
  7. DR. JOHN   Locked Down (Nonesuch)
  8. LAL*   Lal (Urbnet)
  9. ALABAMA SHAKES   Boys & Girls (ATO)
  10. YUKON BLONDE*   Tiger Talk (Dine Alone)
  11. SARAH JANE SCOUTEN*   Magpie Waltz (Self-Released)
  12. THE SKYDIGGERS*   Northern Shore (Latent)
  13. RADIO RADIO*   Havre De Grace (Bonsound)
  14. VARIOUS   Tension: Spanish Experimental Underground 1980-1985 (Munster)
  15. THE SLAKADELIQS*   The Other Side Of Tomorrow (Self-Released)
  16. THE WOODEN SKY*   Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun (Black Box)
  17. THE JUNCTION*   Grievances (Self-Released)
  18. SOULSTACK*   Big Red (Self-Released)
  19. THE DEADLY HEARTS*   The Deadly Hearts (Transistor 66)
  20. THE SHINS   Port Of Morrow (Columbia)
  21. PS I LOVE YOU*   Death Dreams (Paper Bag)
  22. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS*   New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk)
  23. EIGHT AND A HALF*   Eight And A Half (Arts & Crafts)
  24. LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS   Faithful Man (Truth and Soul)
  25. SPIRITUALIZED   Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
  26. PATRICK WATSON*   Adventures In Your Own Backyard (Domino)
  27. THEESATISFACTION   awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
  28. ANE BRUN   It All Starts With One (Balloon Ranger)
  29. BAHAMAS*   Barchords (Brushfire)
  30. GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW   Seeds (E1 Music (eOne))

Electronic

  1. A TRIBE CALLED RED*   A Tribe Called Red (Self-Released)
  2. CFCF*   Exercises (Paper Bag)
  3. VARIOUS*   Northern Faction 5 (Balanced)
  4. PHÈDRE*   Phèdre (Daps)
  5. DATSIK*   Vitamin D (Last Gang)
  6. THAVIUS BECK   Symphony of Spheres (Plug Research)
  7. SUZANNE CIANI   Lixiviation (B-Music/Finders Keepers)
  8. BASSNECTAR   Vava Voom (Amorphous Music)
  9. GRIMES*   Visions (Arbutus)
  10. BETA FRONTIERS*   ... (Daps)

Hip Hop

  1. A TRIBE CALLED RED*   A Tribe Called Red (Self-Released)
  2. LAL*   Lal (Urbnet)
  3. RADIO RADIO*   Havre De Grace (Bonsound)
  4. THEESATISFACTION   awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
  5. GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW   Seeds (E1 Music (eOne))
  6. ANIMAL NATION*   Basement Tapes Vol.1 (Urbnet)
  7. VARIOUS*   Urbnet Certified Vol. 2 (Urbnet)
  8. ROYCEBIRTH*   The ReBirth (Self-Released)
  9. HAWTHORNE HEADHUNTERS   Myriad of Now (Plug Research)
  10. MITCHMATIC*   It's Probably Raining (Old Ugly)

International

  1. AMADOU AND MARIAM   Folila (Because Music)
  2. VARIOUS*   Northern Faction 5 (Balanced)
  3. THE FUNKEES   Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-1977 (Soundway)
  4. K.S. CHITHRA   K.S. Chithra (B-Music/Finders Keepers)
  5. THE TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE   The Tel Aviv Session (Cumbancha)
  6. GARRISON HAWK WITH SLY & ROBBIE   Survive (M.O.D. Technologies)
  7. NNEKA   Soul Is Heavy (Decon)
  8. JOSEPHINE FOSTER & THE VICTOR HERRERO BAND   Perlas (Fire)
  9. THE RESOLUTIONARIES MARIMBA BAND   The Resolutionaries Marimba Band (Self-Released)
  10. LA CHIVA GANTIVA   Paleo (Crammed Discs)

Jazz & Experimental

  1. VARIOUS   Tension: Spanish Experimental Underground 1980-1985 (Munster)
  2. SACHAL STUDIOS ORCHESTRA   Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova (Self-Released)
  3. AVI GRANITE'S VERSE*   Snow Umbrellas (Pet Mantis)
  4. STEVE LEHMAN TRIO   Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  5. DEVIN GREY   Dirigo Rataplan (Skirl)
  6. DARIUS JONES QUARTET   Book of Mae'bul (AUM Fidelity)
  7. BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO   Ode (Nonesuch)
  8. FRANCOIS HOULE AND BENOIT DELBECQ*   Because She Hoped (Songlines)
  9. ERGO   If Not Inertia (Cuneiform)
  10. NICOLE RAMPERSAUD, EVAN SHAW, JEAN MARTIN, TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK*   Halcyon Science (Barnyard)

Loud

  1. SCREAMING FEMALES   Ugly (Don Giovanni)
  2. MARES OF THRACE*   The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon)
  3. FEEDTIME   The Aberrant Years (Sub Pop)
  4. MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND*   Giant Steps II (Bird Law)
  5. COUSINS*   The Palm At The End Of The Mind (Saved By Vinyl)
  6. SOULFLY   Enslaved (Roadrunner)
  7. VULGAR, YOU*   Fais-moi cuire fais-moi jouir (Self-Released)
  8. TRIBUNE*   Elder Lore/The Dark Arts (Corpse Corrosion Music)
  9. GORGON HORDE*   Year of the Görgön (Self-Released)
  10. GROSS MISCONDUCT*   The Disconnect (Self-Released)

Folk/Roots/Blues

  1. SARAH JANE SCOUTEN*   Magpie Waltz (Self-Released)
  2. THE SKYDIGGERS*   Northern Shore (Latent)
  3. THE WOODEN SKY*   Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun (Black Box)
  4. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS*   New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk)
  5. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF   Look Out Mama (Born To Win)
  6. HININDAR*   Absalom (Self-Released)
  7. COWBOY JUNKIES*   The Nomad Series Volume 4: The Wilderness (Latent)
  8. M. WARD   A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
  9. LAMBCHOP   Mr. M (Merge)
  10. EAMON MCGRATH*   Young Canadians (White Whale)