TOP 30
1 – Fist City — It’s 1983, Grow Up — (Black Tent Press) — CC
2 – Hot Panda — Go Outside — (Mint) — CC
3 – Japandroids — Celebration Rock — (Polyvinyl) — CC
4 – Eleni Mandell — I Can See The Future — (Yep Roc) — CC
5 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
6 – Various Artists — Strange Passion — (B-Music)
7 – The Twerps — Twerps — (Underwater Peoples)
8 – Say Domino/Whoop-Szo/Lonnie in the Garden — Tour Split 7″ — (Out of Sound) — CC
9 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
10 – The Folk — Say It Again — (self-released) — CC
11 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
12 – Sheer Agony — Sheer Agony 7″ — (Fixture Records) — CC
13 – Wet Hair — Spill Into Atmosphere — (De Stijl)
14 – Kestrels — A Ghost History — (Sonic Unyon) — CC
15 – Samara Lubelski — Wavelength — (De Stijl)
16 – Foxygen — Take the Kids off Broadway — (Jagjaguwar)
17 – North Lakes — Grand Prix — (self-released) — CC
18 – Dusted — Total Dust — (Polyvinyl) — CC
19 – Apollo Ghosts — Landmark — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC
20 – John Maus — A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material — (Ribbon Music)
21 – Led Er Est — The Diver — (Sacred Bones)
22 – Hermetic — Civilized City — (self-released) — CC
23 – Parlovr — Kook Soul — (Dine Alone Records) — CC
24 – Ulaan Markhor — Ulaan Markhor — (Soft Abuse)
25 – Broken Water — Tempest — (Hardly Art)
26 – Cookie Duster — When Flying Was Easy — (Draper St. Records) — CC
27 – Diiv — Oshin — (Captured Tracks)
28 – No Sinner — Boo Hoo Hoo EP — (First Love Records) — CC
29 – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends — The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends — (Warner)
30 – The Racoon Wedding — Onondaga — (Ford Plant) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Elizabeth Shepherd — Rewind — (Pinwheel Music) — CC
2 – Tyson Naylor Trio — Kosmonauten — (Songlines) — CC
3 – Harris Eisenstadt — Canada Day III — (Songlines)
4 – Cory Weeds — Up a Step — (Cellar Live) — CC
5 – Phill Albert — In the Big World — (self-released) — CC
6 – Ravi Coltrane — Spirit Fiction — (Blue Note)
7 – Don Cherry — Organic Music Society — (Caprice Records)
8 – Pat Metheny — Unity Band — (Nonesuch)
9 – Jon McCaslin — Sunalta — (Cellar Live) — CC
10 – Anita Eccleston — Jazz EP — (self-released) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
2 – Various Artists — Sembeh Ma Fa Fe: Revisits — (Stronghold Sound)
3 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
4 – Jennifer Scott & Brasileira — Sonho Meu — (Cellar Live)
5 – The Battle of Santiago — Full Colour — (self-released) — CC
6 – Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route — Borderlands — (Smithsonian Folkways)
7 – Curumin — Arrocha — (Six Degrees)
8 – Lenn Hammond — Raw Soul — (UDMG)
9 – Debo Band — Debo Band — (Sub Pop)
10 – Niyaz — Sumud — (Six Degrees)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
2 – Lorn — Ask the Dust — (Ninja Tune)
3 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
4 – Slugabed — Time Team — (Ninja Tune)
5 – MaQLu — Futureghosts — (self-released) — CC
6 – Stephen Hummel — Melo — (self-released) — CC
7 – Girls Would Kill — Bloodshed — (Independent) — CC
8 – Various Artists — Exit Bratislava — (Electrofone)
9 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
10 – Gloom Prophet — Let the Prophet Speak — (The Bureau)
HIP HOP
1 – Cityreal & Wes Mackey — Good Morning Blues — (Soul of the City Music) — CC
2 – Muneshine — There Is Only Today — (Droppin’ Science) — CC
3 – Phatt Al — The Chillionaire — (New Empire) — CC
4 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
5 – I Self Devine — The Sound of Low Class Amerika — (Rhymesayers)
6 – Righteous & Mista Mean — I Want It, I Get It — (Delit de Fuite) — CC
7 – Aesop Rock — Skelethon — (Rhymesayers)
8 – Gee Wunder — Beats, Bars & Hooks — (Motive Music) — CC
9 – El-P — Cancer4Cure — (Fat Possum)
10 – Saukrates — Season One — (E1) — CC
LOUD
1 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
2 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
3 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
4 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
5 – Pith — Fore — (Diminished Fifth) — CC
6 – Grim Skunk — Set Fire! — (Indica Records) — CC
7 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
8 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
9 – Cancer Bats — Dead Set On Living — (Distort) — CC
10 – Millencolin — The Melancholy Connection — (Epitaph)