Top 30

  1. OHBIJOU*   Metal Meets (Last Gang)
  2. BRY WEBB*   Provider (Idée Fixe)
  3. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY   Wolfroy Goes To Town (Drag City)
  4. DIRTY PROJECTORS AND BJORK   Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)
  5. RICH AUCOIN*   We're All Dying To Live (Sonic)
  6. SANDRO PERRI*   Impossible Spaces (Constellation)
  7. MALAJUBE*   La Caverne (Dare To Care)
  8. THE DECEMBERISTS   Long Live The King (Capitol)
  9. FEIST*   Metals (Arts & Crafts)
  10. MUSKOX*   Invocation / Transformation (Self-Released)
  11. JOM COMYN*   Sunstroke (Old Ugly)
  12. FIND THE OTHERS*   Find the Others (Self-Released)
  13. VARIOUS*   Folk Songs Of Canada Now (LF!)
  14. VARIOUS*   CFRU Presents Royal Blood (Self-Released)
  15. BELLA CLAVA*   Holy Crow (Self-Released)
  16. CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD*   Two Horses (Self-Released)
  17. MEGAFAUN   Megafaun (Hometapes)
  18. COBRA & VULTURE*   Seer (Self-Released)
  19. AMIR ELSAFFAR   Imana (Pi)
  20. THE DARCYS*   The Darcys (Arts & Crafts)
  21. TOM WAITS   Bad As Me (Anti-)
  22. JAMES BLAKE   Enough Thunder (A&M)
  23. FLORENCE + THE MACHINE   Ceremonials (Island)
  24. KATHRYN CALDER*   Bright and Vivid (File Under: Music)
  25. M83   Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
  26. TIM HECKER*   Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
  27. DNTEL   Life is Full of Possibilities (Sub Pop)
  28. ZOE BOEKBINDER   Darling Specimens (extropian)
  29. EVANGELISTA*   In Animal Tongue (Constellation)
  30. SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND   Três Cabaças Loucuras (Cuneiform)

Electronic

  1. JAMES BLAKE   Enough Thunder (A&M)
  2. DNTEL   Life is Full of Possibilities (Sub Pop)
  3. BORN GOLD*   Bodysongs (Hovercraft)
  4. LIVE ACTION FEZZ*   Makes Music (Cat People)
  5. CSS   La Liberacion (V2)
  6. CLASS ACTRESS   Rapprocher (CarPark)
  7. INTERSTLLR*   INTERSTLLR EP (Self-Released)
  8. JAVELIN   Canyon Candy (Luka Bop)
  9. XENO AND OAKLANDER   Sets & Lights (Weird)
  10. PHANTOGRAM   Nightlife (Barsuk)

Hip Hop

  1. VARIOUS*   Underground Hip Hop Vol. 07 (Urbnet)
  2. EVIDENCE   Cats and Dogs (Rhymesayers)
  3. BROWN BAG ALLSTARS   Brown Bag Season: Vol. 1 (Nostomania)
  4. GRIEVES   Together/Apart (Rhymesayers)
  5. DESSA   Castor the Twin (Doomtree)
  6. INTERSTLLR*   INTERSTLLR EP (Self-Released)
  7. BACKBURNER*   Heatwave (Hand Solo)
  8. TEENBURGER*   Burgertime (Droppin' Science)
  9. PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS   Dope Grindwork (dtr45)
  10. THE EXTREMITIES*   The Mint Condition (Droppin' Science)

International

  1. SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND   Três Cabaças Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  2. LIJADU SISTERS   Danger (KF)
  3. TINARIWEN   Tassili (Anti-)
  4. GOOGOOSH   Googoosh (B-Music/Finders Keepers)
  5. DIOP IDRISSA   L? Epoque De L? Evolution (Teranga Beat)
  6. JONI HAASTRUP   Wake Up Your Mind (Soundway)
  7. FRENTE CUMBIERO   FRENTE CUMBIERO MEETS MAD PROFESSOR (Vampisoul)
  8. GUELEWAR   Halleni N'Dakarou (Teranga Beat)
  9. CHEIKH LO   Jamm (Nonesuch)
  10. VARIOUS   Putumayo Presents: Latin Beat (Putumayo)

Jazz

  1. MUSKOX*   Invocation / Transformation (Self-Released)
  2. TIM HECKER*   Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
  3. SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND   Três Cabaças Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  4. DARIUS JONES TRIO   Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)
  5. THE CLAUDIA QUINTET   What Is The Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  6. AMIR ELSAFFAR   Imana (Pi)
  7. LASWELL/BJORKENHEIM/AGREN   Blixt (Cuneiform)
  8. MICHEL DONATO, FRANÇOIS BOURASSA, FRANK LOZANO, PIERRE TANGU*   Autour de Bill Evans (Effendi)
  9. DAVID S. WARE   Organica (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 2) (AUM Fidelity)
  10. HUMCRUSH WITH SIDSEL ENDRESEN   Ha! (Rune Grammofon)

Loud

  1. NU SENSAE*   TV, Death and The Devil (Nominal)
  2. HUNTERS   Hands On Fire (Aagoo)
  3. IWRESTLEDABEARONCE   Ruining It For Everybody (Century Media)
  4. FUCKED UP*   David Comes to Life (Matador)
  5. DUCHESS SAYS*   In A Fung Day T! (Alien8)
  6. YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN*   YT//ST (Psychic Handshake)
  7. MASTODON   The Hunter (Reprise)
  8. D.O.A.*   Hardcore 81 (reissue) (Sudden Death)
  9. SKINNY PUPPY*   Handover (SPV)
  10. THE MEN   Leave Home (Sacred Bones)

Folk/Roots/Blues

  1. BRY WEBB*   Provider (Idée Fixe)
  2. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY   Wolfroy Goes To Town (Drag City)
  3. THE DECEMBERISTS   Long Live The King (Capitol)
  4. VARIOUS*   Folk Songs Of Canada Now (LF!)
  5. CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD*   Two Horses (Self-Released)
  6. TOM WAITS   Bad As Me (Anti-)
  7. HANDSOME DAN AND HIS GALLIMAUFRY*   The Best There Was (Self-Released)
  8. PETUNIA & THE VIPERS*   Petunia & The Vipers (Self-Released)
  9. THE GERTRUDES*   Till the Morning Shows Her Face To Me (Apple Crisp)
  10. THE PINING*   The Pining (Blocks Recording Club)