TOP 30
1 – Plants and Animals — The End of That — (Secret City Records) — CC
2 – Various Artists — You Can Dig My Grave In The Mammoth Cave: A Sampler — (Mammoth Cave) — CC
3 – The Wooden Sky — Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun — (Black Box Recordings) — CC
4 – Jon McKiel — Tonka War Cloud — (Youth Club) — CC
5 – Memoryhouse — The Slideshow Effect — (Sub Pop) — CC
6 – Trust — Trust — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
7 – Ookpikk/Adam Saikaley — Light Limited/Tropigogic Split — (Place Machine) — CC
8 – Mitch Gauzas — Good Man Bad Man — (self-released) — CC
9 – Philly Moves — Peace and carrots — (Sound Syndicate) — CC
10 – Tindersticks — The Something Rain — (Constellation)
11 – Suzanne Ciani — Lixiviation — (B-Music)
12 – Boyhood — Boyhood EP — (self-released) — CC
13 – John Carroll & The Epic Proportions — Everybody Smokes in Hell — (self-released) — CC
14 – Starving Weirdos — Land Lines — (Amish)
15 – Jandek — Seattle Friday — (Corwood Industries)
16 – Grimes — Visions — (Arbutus) — CC
17 – Loom — Epyllion — (self-released) — CC
18 – Great Aunt Ida — Nuclearize Me — (Dead House Plant) — CC
19 – The Schomberg Fair — Mercy — (self-released) — CC
20 – Frankie Rose — Interstellar — (Slumberland)
21 – Beaten by Them — People Start Listening — (Logicpole)
22 – Hospitality — Hospitality — (Merge)
23 – John K. Samson — Provincial — (Anti) — CC
24 – Shearwater — Animal Joy — (Sub Pop)
25 – Perfume Genius — Put Your Back N 2 It — (Matador)
26 – K.S. Chithra — K.S. Chithra — (B-Music)
27 – Pop. 1280 — The Horror — (Sacred Bones)
28 – Virgin Forest — Easy Way Out — (Partisan Records)
29 – Pontiak — Echo Ono — (Thrill Jockey)
30 – Black Bananas — Rad Times Xpress IV — (Drag City)
JAZZ
1 – The Keith Price Trio/Quintet — Gaia/Goya — (self-released) — CC
2 – Guido Basso — Changing Partners — (Rhythm Tracks) — CC
3 – Belle Plaine — Notes From A Waitress — (13th Ave Records) — CC
4 – Craig Pedersen Quartet — Days Like Today — (self-released) — CC
5 – Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions — Night Rider — (Nublu)
6 – The Roofhoppers — The Roofhoppers — (Fedora Upside Down) — CC
7 – Jacob Deaton — Tribulation — (self-released)
8 – Sikala/Lemanczyk/Hornby — Able to Fly — (Chronograph)
9 – The Claudia Quintet +1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann — What is the Beautiful? — (Cuneiform)
10 – Lisa Casalino — Introducing Lisa Casalino — (self-released)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – K.S. Chithra — S/T — (B-Music)
2 – Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. — Area 52 — (ATO)
3 – Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra — Universal Language — (No Budget Productions)
4 – Various Artists — Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics — (Nublu)
5 – TriBeCaStan — New Deli — (Evergreene Music)
6 – Delhi 2 Dublin — Delhi 2 Dubland EP — (Popguru) — CC
7 – Novalima — Karimba — (ESL Music)
8 – Various Artists — Brazilian Beat — (Putumayo)
9 – The Lijadu Sisters — Danger — (Knitting Factory)
10 – Natalia and Montuno — Moving North — (self-released) — CC
ELECTRONIC
1 – Trust — Trust — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
2 – Ookpikk/Adam Saikaley — Light Limited/Tropigogic Split — (Place Machine) — CC
3 – Suzanne Ciani — Lixiviation — (B-Music)
4 – Tycho — Dive — (Ghostly International)
5 – Dntel — Life is Full of Possibilities — (Sub Pop)
6 – Plug — Back on Time — (Ninja Tune)
7 – Buraka Som Sistema — Komba — (Enchufada)
8 – iVardensphere — Apok — (Metropolis Records) — CC
9 – Joker — The Vision — (4AD)
10 – Rah Rah — Rahmixes — (Hidden Pony) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – Philly Moves — Peace and carrots — (Sound Syndicate) — CC
2 – The Get By — Let Go — (self-released) — CC
3 – Childish Gambino — Camp — (Glassnote)
4 – The Roots — Undun — (Def Jam)
5 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 1 — (Urbnet) — CC
6 – Wiley — Evolve or be Extinct — (Big Dadai)
7 – Doomtree — No Kings — (Doomtree Records)
8 – Sola Rosa — Get It Together — (Melting Pot Music)
9 – Eligh and Amplive — Therapy at 3 — (Live Up Records)
10 – K-os — Live — (Crown Loyalist Recordings) — CC
LOUD
1 – Throne of Vengeance — Flesh Engine — (self-released) — CC
2 – Vaura — Selenelion — (Wierd)
3 – Maximum RNR — The Black and White Years — (self-released) — CC
4 – Retox — Ugly Animals — (Ipecac)
5 – Gross Misconduct — The Disconnect — (self-released) — CC
6 – Dead Soul Alliance — Dead Soul Alliance — (self-released) — CC
7 – Carnifex — Until I Feel Nothing — (Victory)
8 – Threat Signal — Threat Signal — (Sonic Unyon Metal)
9 – The Press Gang — Onward & Upward — (self-released) — CC
10 – The Brains — Drunk Not Dead — (Stomp) — CC