TOP 30
1 – Bry Webb — Provider — (Idee Fixe) — CC
2 – Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur — (MapleMusic) — CC
3 – Young Magic — Melt — (Carpark)
4 – Fortner Anderson — Solitary Pleasures — (& Records ) — CC
5 – The Black Keys — El Camino — (Nonesuch Records )
6 – Boyhood — Boyhood EP — (self-released) — CC
7 – John Carroll & The Epic Proportions — Everybody Smokes in Hell — (self-released) — CC
8 – Sonic Avenues — Television Youth — (Dirtnap) — CC
9 – A Place To Bury Strangers — Onwards To The Wall — (Dead Oceans)
10 – Great Aunt Ida — Nuclearize Me — (Dead House Plant) — CC
11 – Bonnie Prince Billy — Wolfroy Goes to Town — (Drag City)
12 – Strange Boys — Live Music — (Rough Trade)
13 – Royal Baths — Better Luck Next Life — (Kanine)
14 – Amity Beach — Amity Beach — (self-released) — CC
15 – Hypnotics — Static Fuzz Radio — (New Values Records) — CC
16 – Kate Bush — 50 Words for Snow — (Noble & Brite)
17 – Loom — Epyllion — (self-released) — CC
18 – Rae Spoon — I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets — (Saved by Radio) — CC
19 – Marine Dreams — Marine Dreams — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC
20 – Rhoneil — Seeds — (self-released) — CC
21 – Al Tuck — Under Your Shadow — (self-released) — CC
22 – Pterodactyl — Spills Out — (Brah)
23 – Long Weekends — Don’t Reach Out — (Noyes) — CC
24 – John K. Samson — Provincial — (Anti) — CC
25 – Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen — One Nation — (Balanced) — CC
26 – Various Artists — Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics — (Nublu)
27 – The Barmitzvah Brothers — Growing Branches — (Label Fantastic!) — CC
28 – Sharon Van Etten — Tramp — (Jagjaguwar)
29 – Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble — Way Cool — (Musikmacher Productions)
30 – Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory — (Carpark)
JAZZ
1 – Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions — Night Rider — (Nublu)
2 – Oliver Jones — Live in Baden Switzerland — (Justin Time) — CC
3 – The Roofhoppers — The Roofhoppers — (Fedora Upside Down) — CC
4 – The Claudia Quintet +1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann — What is the Beautiful? — (Cuneiform)
5 – Guido Basso — Changing Partners — (Rhythm Tracks) — CC
6 – Eucalyptus — eucalyptus — (Blocks Recording club)
7 – The Keith Price Trio/Quintet — Gaia/Goya — (self-released) — CC
8 – Jacaszek — Glimmer — (Ghostly)
9 – Belle Plaine — Notes From A Waitress — (13th Ave Records) — CC
10 – Deb Rasmussen & Keith Smith — Heart Wide Open — (self-released) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Various Artists — Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics — (Nublu)
2 – Pamir — Con Alma de Proton — (Protel Records)
3 – Corina Bartra — Cielo Sandunguero — (Blue Spiral)
4 – Sultans of String — Move — (self-released) — CC
5 – Delhi 2 Dublin — Delhi 2 Dubland EP — (Popguru) — CC
6 – Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra — Universal Language — (No Budget Productions)
7 – Sao Paulo Underground — Tres Cabecas Loucuras — (Cuneiform)
8 – Novalima — Karimba — (ESL Music)
9 – The Lijadu Sisters — Danger — (Knitting Factory)
10 – Various Artists — The Original Sound of Cumbia — (Soundway)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen — One Nation — (Balanced) — CC
2 – iVardensphere — Apok — (Metropolis Records) — CC
3 – Dntel — Life is Full of Possibilities — (Sub Pop)
4 – Joker — The Vision — (4AD)
5 – Tycho — Dive — (Ghostly International)
6 – Rah Rah — Rahmixes — (Hidden Pony) — CC
7 – Buraka Som Sistema — Komba — (Enchufada)
8 – Myths — Myths — (self-released) — CC
9 – Mass Choir — Mass Choir — (self-released) — CC
10 – Steve Hauschildt — Tragedy & Geometry — (Kranky)
HIP HOP
1 – The Roots — Undun — (Def Jam)
2 – Sola Rosa — Get It Together — (Melting Pot Music)
3 – Philly Moves — Peace and carrots — (Sound Syndicate) — CC
4 – Wiley — Evolve or be Extinct — (Big Dadai)
5 – The Get By — Let Go — (self-released) — CC
6 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 1 — (Urbnet) — CC
7 – D-Sisive — Run With The Creeps — (Urbnet) — CC
8 – K-os — Live — (Crown Loyalist Recordings) — CC
9 – Zoo Legacy — Zoo Legacy — (self-released) — CC
10 – Eligh and Amplive — Therapy at 3 — (Live Up Records)
LOUD
1 – Retox — Ugly Animals — (Ipecac)
2 – Maximum RNR — The Black and White Years — (self-released) — CC
3 – Dead Soul Alliance — Dead Soul Alliance — (self-released) — CC
4 – Alain Galarneau — Well…It’s about time — (self-released) — CC
5 – Gross Misconduct — The Disconnect — (self-released) — CC
6 – Carnifex — Until I Feel Nothing — (Victory)
7 – Vulture Kult — Vulture Kult — (self-released) — CC
8 – The Press Gang — Onward & Upward — (self-released) — CC
9 – Threat Signal — Threat Signal — (Sonic Unyon Metal)
10 – The Brains — Drunk Not Dead — (Stomp) — CC