TOP 30

  1. WHALE TOOTH*   Search Party (Self-Released)
  2. TWIN SHADOW   Confess (4AD)
  3. SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE*   Flamingo (Arbutus)
  4. COOKIE DUSTER*   When Flying Was Easy (Draper St.)
  5. CADENCE WEAPON*   Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class)
  6. METRIC*   Synthetica (Metric Music International)
  7. PASSION PIT   Gossamer (Columbia)
  8. ROYAL WOOD*   We Were Born To Glory (MapleMusic)
  9. THE BE GOOD TANYAS*   A Collection (Nettwerk)
  10. MECHA FIXES CLOCKS*   Teoria dell?elasticità di Girolamo Papariello (Ambiances Magnetiques)
  11. DUSTED*   Total Dust (Polyvinyl)
  12. SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT*   Spanish Moss and Total Loss (Normals Welcome)
  13. SIN FANG   Half Dreams (Morr Music)
  14. HOT CHIP   In Our Heads (Domino)
  15. SLIM TWIG*   Sof' Sike (Paper Bag)
  16. TOPS*   Tender Opposites (Arbutus)
  17. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY   Now Here's My Plan (Drag City)
  18. LORN   Ask The Dust (Ninja Tune)
  19. YOUNG GUV & THE SCUZZ*   A Love Too Strong (Southpaw)
  20. ANTIBALAS   Antibalas (Daptone)
  21. BADBADNOTGOOD*   BBNG2 (Self-Released)
  22. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH   There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
  23. DECOMPOSURE*   Eating Chicken (Blank Squirrel)
  24. SHOVELS & ROPE   O' Be Joyful (Dine Alone)
  25. GORDON GRDINA'S HARAM*   Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines)
  26. JEREMY FISHER*   Mint Juleps (Hidden Pony)
  27. NU SENSAE*   Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
  28. DEEP TIME   Deep Time (Hardly Art)
  29. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI   Mature Themes (4AD)
  30. DIAMOND TERRIFIER   Kill The Self That Wants To Kill Yourself (Northern Spy)

Electronic

  1. SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT*   Spanish Moss and Total Loss (Normals Welcome)
  2. HOT CHIP   In Our Heads (Domino)
  3. LORN   Ask The Dust (Ninja Tune)
  4. DECOMPOSURE*   Eating Chicken (Blank Squirrel)
  5. PURITY RING*   Shrines (Last Gang)
  6. GOLDEN RETRIEVER   Occupied With The Unspoken (Thrill Jockey)
  7. ANTHONY VALADEZ   Just Visiting (Plug Research)
  8. SONNYMOON   Sonnymoon (Plug Research)
  9. HUMANS*   Traps (Hybridity)
  10. GRASSCUT   Unearth (Ninja Tune)

Hip Hop

  1. CADENCE WEAPON*   Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class)
  2. CITYREAL AND WES MACKEY*   Good Morning Blues (Self-Released)
  3. AESOP ROCK   Skelethon (Rhymesayers)
  4. MIKEDECLINE*   MOOD SOOP (Phonographique)
  5. VARIOUS*   Urbnet Certified Vol. 3 (Urbnet)
  6. DSTR*   Reconstructed Memories (Neferiu)
  7. OPEN MIKE EAGLE   4NML HSPTL (Fake Four Inc.)
  8. SERENGETI   C.A.R. (Anticon)
  9. PLEX*   Demons (Urbnet)
  10. ES*   Feud For Thought (Self-Released)

International

  1. ANTIBALAS   Antibalas (Daptone)
  2. GORDON GRDINA'S HARAM*   Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines)
  3. ONDATROPICA   Ondatropica (Soundway)
  4. DEBO BAND   Debo Band (Next Ambiance)
  5. CALIBRO 35   Any Resemblance to Real Persons Or Actual Facts Is Purely Coincidental (Nublu)
  6. BIBI TANGA AND THE SELENITES   40º of Sunshine (Nat Geo)
  7. THE ARCHIVES   The Archives (ESL/Eighteenth Street Lounge)
  8. VARIOUS   Bardic Divas: Women's Voice In Central Asia (Smithsonian Folkways)
  9. SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!   New York Underground Tapes (Barbes)
  10. THE BOMBAY ROYALE   You Me Bullets Love (Hope Street)

Jazz & Experimental

  1. MECHA FIXES CLOCKS*   Teoria dell?elasticità di Girolamo Papariello (Ambiances Magnetiques)
  2. BADBADNOTGOOD*   BBNG2 (Self-Released)
  3. GORDON GRDINA'S HARAM*   Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines)
  4. DIAMOND TERRIFIER   Kill The Self That Wants To Kill Yourself (Northern Spy)
  5. HAFEZ MODIRZADEH   Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)
  6. SAINT DIRT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL*   Abandoned Ballroom (Barnyard)
  7. VARIOUS*   MusicWorks #113 (MusicWorks Magazine)
  8. JOANE HÉTU*   Filature (Ambiances Magnetiques)
  9. FRANCOIS HOULE 5+1*   Genera (Songlines)
  10. WADADA LEO SMITH   Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)

Loud

  1. NU SENSAE*   Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
  2. METZ   METZ (We Are Busy Bodies)
  3. BARONESS   Yellow & Green (Relapse)
  4. CELLOS*   Bomb Shelter (Dead Beat)
  5. FIST CITY*   It's 1983 Grow Up (Blacktent)
  6. COLD WARPS*   Slimer b/w Dream Creepin' (Fundog)
  7. WHITE LUNG*   Sorry (Deranged)
  8. TY SEGALL BAND   Slaughterhouse (In The Red)
  9. TITANS EVE*   Life Apocalypse (Self-Released)
  10. K-HOLES   Dismania (Hardly Art)

Folk/Roots/Blues

  1. THE BE GOOD TANYAS*   A Collection (Nettwerk)
  2. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY   Now Here's My Plan (Drag City)
  3. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH   There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
  4. SHOVELS & ROPE   O' Be Joyful (Dine Alone)
  5. JEREMY FISHER*   Mint Juleps (Hidden Pony)
  6. STAN ROGERS*   Between The Breaks...Live! (Borealis)
  7. NEIL YOUNG*   Americana (Warner (WEA))
  8. WOODY GUTHRIE   Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
  9. BIRDS OF CHICAGO   Birds of Chicago (Self-Released)
  10. CANAILLES*   Manger Du Bois (Grosse Boite)