TOP 30
1 – John K. Samson — Provincial — (Anti) — CC
2 – Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur — (MapleMusic) — CC
3 – Myths — Myths — (self-released) — CC
4 – The Black Keys — El Camino — (Nonesuch Records )
5 – Buraka Som Sistema — Komba — (Enchufada)
6 – Ray Harris — Poorly Kept Secrets — (self-released) — CC
7 – Dntel — Life is Full of Possibilities — (Sub Pop)
8 – Mitch Gauzas — Good Man Bad Man — (self-released) — CC
9 – Lazu Lie — Abusually Intuit — (Fauxtown Records) — CC
10 – Various Artists — 15 Years of Tummy Touch Records in Dub — (Tummy Touch Records)
11 – Great Aunt Ida — Nuclearize Me — (Dead House Plant) — CC
12 – Metal Kites — School of Unlearning — (self-released) — CC
13 – Long Weekends — Don’t Reach Out — (Noyes) — CC
14 – Porcelain Raft — Strage Weekend — (Dead Oceans)
15 – Guided by Voices — Let’s Go Eat The Factory — (Guided By Voices Inc.)
16 – Jack Pine and The Fire — Jack Pine and The Fire — (self-released) — CC
17 – Al Tuck — Under Your Shadow — (self-released) — CC
18 – Boyhood — Boyhood EP — (self-released) — CC
19 – Moon King — Moon King — (DAPS Records ) — CC
20 – Sunparlour Players — Us Little Devils — (Outside Music) — CC
21 – Minamo — Documental — (self-released)
22 – Indoor Voices — Nerves — (self-released) — CC
23 – Cass McCombs — Humor Risk — (Domino)
24 – Sao Paulo Underground — Tres Cabecas Loucuras — (Cuneiform)
25 – The Magnificent 7s — All Kinds of Mean — (Transistor 66) — CC
26 – Scars & Scarves — Chimes at Midnight — (self-released) — CC
27 – Grown-Ups — Stopped Caring — (self-released) — CC
28 – Adam Palmer and the Specialist — A Long Time for Anyone — (Eleazar Records) — CC
29 – Clara Engel — Secret Beasts — (self-released) — CC
30 – Petunia and the Vipers — Petunia and the Vipers — (Trapline Productions) — CC
FRANCOPHONE
1 – YAO — GÉNÉRIS — (XX TEMPLE MUSIC GROUP ) — CC
2 – LES COWBOYS FRINGANTS — QUE DU VENT — (LA TRIBU ) — CC
3 – ST-SAOUL — ÉPONYME — (RICO ESSENTIAL RECORDS) — CC
4 – MAXIME LANDRY — L’AVENIR ENTRE NOUS — (PRODUCTIONS J) — CC
5 – SHAMPOUING — L’AMOUR TRASH — (OUTSIDE MUSIC) — CC
6 – MONONC’ SERGE — ÇA C’EST DE LA FEMME — (DEP MUSIC) — CC
7 – KORIASS — PETITES VICTOIRES — (7IEME CIEL RECORDS ) — CC
8 – LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE — APPELATION D’ORIGINE CONTRÔLÉE — (BOREALIS RECORDS) — CC
9 – CATHERINE MAJOR — LE DÉSERT DES SOLITUDES — (SPECTRA MUSIQUE PRODUCTIONS) — CC
10 – DANY BEDAR — L’AVOCAT DU YAB — (DB DISQUE) — CC
JAZZ
1 – The Keith Price Trio/Quintet — Gaia/Goya — (self-released) — CC
2 – Oliver Jones — Live in Baden Switzerland — (Justin Time) — CC
3 – Eucalyptus — eucalyptus — (Blocks Recording club)
4 – The Claudia Quintet +1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann — What is the Beautiful? — (Cuneiform)
5 – Dead Cat Bounce — Chance Episode — (Cuneiform Records)
6 – Mark Kieswetter and Ross MacIntyre — Green Edge Sky, Green Edge Sun — (self-released) — CC
7 – The Vipers — The Vipers — (self-released) — CC
8 – Amir ElSaffar — Two Rivers Ensemble — (Pi Recording)
9 – Guido Basso — Changing Partners — (Rhythm Tracks) — CC
10 – Taurey Butler — Taurey Butler — (Justin Time) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Sao Paulo Underground — Tres Cabecas Loucuras — (Cuneiform)
2 – Dub Trinity — Alexandria (And Other Cautionary Tales) — (self-released) — CC
3 – Various Artists — The Original Sound of Cumbia — (Soundway)
4 – The Lijadu Sisters — Danger — (Knitting Factory)
5 – Natalia and Montuno — Moving North — (self-released) — CC
6 – El Rego — El Rego — (Daptone)
7 – Corina Bartra — Cielo Sandunguero — (Blue Spiral)
8 – Joni Haastrup — Wake Up Your Mind — (Soundway)
9 – Nappy Riddem — One World Sovereignty — (Fort Knox Records)
10 – Staff Benda Bilili — TRÈS très fort — (Crammed)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Buraka Som Sistema — Komba — (Enchufada)
2 – Dntel — Life is Full of Possibilities — (Sub Pop)
3 – Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen — One Nation — (Balanced) — CC
4 – Joker — The Vision — (4AD)
5 – Tycho — Dive — (Ghostly International)
6 – Korallreven — An Album by Korallreven — (Acephale)
7 – Justice — Justice — (Ed Banger)
8 – Steve Hauschildt — Tragedy & Geometry — (Kranky)
9 – 33:3 — Live From the Grove — (Parallel Thought)
10 – Mass Choir — Mass Choir — (Self ) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – K-os — Live — (Crown Loyalist Recordings) — CC
2 – Various Artists — Underground Hip Hop Vol. 7 — (Urbnet) — CC
3 – Eligh and Amplive — Therapy at 3 — (Live Up Records)
4 – JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound — Want More — (Bloodshot)
5 – D-Sisive — Run With The Creeps — (Urbnet) — CC
6 – Philly Moves — Peace and carrots — (Sound Syndicate) — CC
7 – Zoo Legacy — Zoo Legacy — (self-released) — CC
8 – Shep and Stilz — Digital Sol — (Neferiu) — CC
9 – Phonte — Charity Starts at Home — (The Foreign Exchange Music)
10 – Evidence — Cats & Dogs — (Rhymesayers)
LOUD
1 – Wake — Leeches — (Hearing Aids Records ) — CC
2 – Mastodon — The Hunter — (Reprise)
3 – Phantom Limb — Mors Ontologica — (self-released) — CC
4 – Three — The Ghost You Gave To Me — (Metal Blade)
5 – Carnifex — Until I Feel Nothing — (Victory)
6 – Retox — Ugly Animals — (Ipecac)
7 – Threat Signal — Threat Signal — (Sonic Unyon Metal)
8 – The Brains — Drunk Not Dead — (Stomp) — CC
9 – Dead Soul Alliance — Dead Soul Alliance — (self-released) — CC
10 – Heavy Chains — A Very Real Hell — (Broadway to Boundary) — CC