TOP 30

  1. ERIC CHENAUX*   Guitar and Voice (Constellation)
  2. GRIMES*   Visions (Arbutus)
  3. ZEUS*   Busting Visions (Arts & Crafts)
  4. JOHN K. SAMSON*   Provincial (Anti-)
  5. MIKE O'NEILL*   Wild Lines (Zunior)
  6. GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW   Seeds (E1 Music (eOne))
  7. BABY EAGLE & THE PROUD MOTHERS*   Bone Soldiers (You've Changed)
  8. PARADISE ANIMALS   Paradise Animals (Self-Released)
  9. PERFUME GENIUS   Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
  10. TRUST*   TRST (Arts & Crafts)
  11. DIRTY THREE   Toward the Low Sun (Drag City)
  12. LAMBCHOP   Mr. M (Merge)
  13. LIJADU SISTERS   Mother Africa (Knitting Factory)
  14. COUSINS*   The Palm At The End Of The Mind (Saved By Vinyl)
  15. MEMORYHOUSE*   The Slideshow Effect (Sub Pop)
  16. PHÈDRE*   Phèdre (Daps)
  17. EACH OTHER*   Taking Trips (Self-Released)
  18. JOHN SOUTHWORTH AND ANDREW DOWNING*   Easterween (Sud De Valeur)
  19. ELFIN SADDLE*   Devastates (Constellation)
  20. SISSY   March Of The Humans (Four O'Clock Sun)
  21. PLANTS AND ANIMALS*   The End of That (Secret City)
  22. LAL*   Lal (Urbnet)
  23. LEE RANALDO   Between The Times & The Tides (Matador)
  24. THE CHIEFTAINS   Voice Of Ages (Hear)
  25. EWAN DOBSON*   Ewan Dobson III (Candyrat)
  26. ALANNA GURR*   Oh, Horsefeathers (Self-Released)
  27. BOXER THE HORSE   French Residency (Self-Released)
  28. GOTYE   Making Mirrors (Universal)
  29. BRY WEBB*   Provider (Idee Fixe)
  30. B.A. JOHNSTON*   Hi Dudes (Mammoth Cave)

Electronic

  1. GRIMES*   Visions (Arbutus)
  2. TRUST*   TRST (Arts & Crafts)
  3. PHÈDRE*   Phèdre (Daps)
  4. SISSY   March Of The Humans (Four O'Clock Sun)
  5. OREN AMBARCHI   Audience of One (Touch)
  6. POLICA   Give Me The Ghost (Totally Gross National Product)
  7. SUZANNE CIANI   Lixiviation (B-Music/Finders Keepers)
  8. VCMG   Ssss (Mute)
  9. MARCUS FISCHER   Collected Dust (Touch)
  10. BOSS KITE   Comicon (Donky Pitch)

Hip Hop

  1. GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW   Seeds (E1 Music (eOne))
  2. LAL*   Lal (Urbnet)
  3. MITCHMATIC*   It's Probably Raining (Old Ugly)
  4. VARIOUS*   Urbnet Certified Vol 1 (Urbnet)
  5. SPEECH DEBELLE   Freedom Of Speech (Big Dada)
  6. NEW SLANG*   Screw Slang Volume 2 (Gebbs Steelo Boutique)
  7. D-SISIVE*   Run With The Creeps (Urbnet)
  8. BROTHER ALI   The Bite Marked Heart (Rhymesayers)
  9. PHILLY MOVES*   How to Drink Yourself Famous (Self-Released)
  10. MIKEDECLINE*   Calmmunication (Phonographique)

International

  1. LIJADU SISTERS   Mother Africa (Knitting Factory)
  2. RODRIGO Y GABRIELLA AND C.U.B.A.   Area 52 (ATO)
  3. BALKAN BEAT BOX   Give (Nat Geo)
  4. SIDI TOURE   Shael Folk (Thrill Jockey)
  5. K.S. CHITHRA   K.S. Chithra (B-Music/Finders Keepers)
  6. MATI ZUNDEL   Amazonico Gravitante (Waxploitation)
  7. THE RESOLUTIONARIES MARIMBA BAND   The Resolutionaries Marimba Band (Self-Released)
  8. VARIOUS   Putumayo Presents: Brazilian Beat (Putumayo)
  9. THE TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE   The Tel Aviv Session (Cumbancha)
  10. VARIOUS   The Descendants (Sony)

Jazz & Experimental

  1. NICOLE RAMPERSAUD, EVAN SHAW, JEAN MARTIN, TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK*   Halcyon Science (Barnyard)
  2. ERGO   If Not Inertia (Cuneiform)
  3. CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO   Age Of Energy (Northern Spy)
  4. JANE BUNNETT*   Mundo: The World Of Jane Bunnett (EMI)
  5. VARIOUS*   MusicWorks #112 (MusicWorks Magazine)
  6. MASAKI BATOH   Collected Works 95-96 (Drag City)
  7. ACTA NON VERBA*   Viva La Vulva (Little Whore)
  8. TIA BRAZDA*   Cabin Fever...And Other Recordings (rebeluck)
  9. FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA   Acte V (Cuneiform)
  10. THOM GOSSAGE AND OTHER VOICES*   In Other Words (Songlines)

Loud

  1. COUSINS*   The Palm At The End Of The Mind (Saved By Vinyl)
  2. CEREMONY   Zoo (Matador)
  3. THE KETAMINES*   Spaced Out (Mammoth Cave)
  4. THOUSAND YOUNG*   Thousand Young (Blacktop)
  5. EVERY TIME I DIE   Ex Lives (Epitaph)
  6. THE FAMINES*   The Complete Collected Singles (Mammoth Cave)
  7. CLOUD NOTHINGS   Attack On Memory (CarPark)
  8. ARKHAM AWAITS*   Justice (Self-Released)
  9. THE VIBRATING BEDS*   Sing The Blues (Transistor 66)
  10. POP. 1280   The Horror (Sacred Bones)

Folk/Roots/Blues

  1. JOHN K. SAMSON*   Provincial (Anti-)
  2. DIRTY THREE   Toward the Low Sun (Drag City)
  3. LAMBCHOP   Mr. M (Merge)
  4. THE CHIEFTAINS   Voice Of Ages (Hear)
  5. EWAN DOBSON*   Ewan Dobson III (Candyrat)
  6. ALANNA GURR*   Oh, Horsefeathers (Self-Released)
  7. BOXER THE HORSE   French Residency (Self-Released)
  8. BRY WEBB*   Provider (Idee Fixe)
  9. THE WOODEN SKY*   Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun (Black Box)
  10. SHARON VAN ETTEN   Tramp (Jagjaguwar)