TOP 30
1 – Fevers — Passion is Dead — (self-released) — CC
2 – Sonic Avenues — Television Youth — (Dirtnap) — CC
3 – Emma-Lee — Backseat Heroine — (Special Agent Records) — CC
4 – Boyhood — Boyhood EP — (self-released) — CC
5 – Dr. Dog — Be The Void — (Anti)
6 – Ketamines — Spaced Out — (Southpaw) — CC
7 – Sound of Lions — 11:44 — (self-released) — CC
8 – Lee Ranaldo — Between The Times & The Tides — (Matador)
9 – The Wooden Sky — Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun — (Black Box Recordings) — CC
10 – Islands — A Sleep & A Forgetting — (Anti) — CC
11 – Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas — (Sony) — CC
12 – Cousins — The Palm at the End of the Mind — (Saved by Vinyl) — CC
13 – Starving Weirdos — Land Lines — (Amish)
14 – Fennesz + Sakamoto — Flumina — (Touch)
15 – Grimes — Visions — (Arbutus) — CC
16 – Bushman’s Revenge — A Little Bit of Big Bonanza — (Rune Grammofon)
17 – Mind Spiders — Meltdown — (Dirtnap)
18 – The Schomberg Fair — Mercy — (self-released) — CC
19 – Black Bananas — Rad Times Xpress IV — (Drag City)
20 – Oren Ambarchi — Audience of One — (Touch)
21 – The Barmitzvah Brothers — Growing Branches — (Label Fantastic!) — CC
22 – Windy and Carl — We Will Always Be — (Kranky)
23 – Daniel Rossen — Silent Hour / Golden Mile — (Warp)
24 – Octoberman — Waiting in the Well — (Saved by Vinyl) — CC
25 – Disappears — Pre Language — (Kranky)
26 – Trampled by Turtles — Stars and Satellites — (Six Shooter)
27 – Zammuto — Sampler — (Temporary Residence)
28 – Metal Kites — School of Unlearning — (self-released) — CC
29 – Adam Mowery — St. Joseph’s Mechanical Penthouse — (self-released) — CC
30 – Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes — Bones for Tinder — (Five Head Entertainment)
FRANCOPHONE
1 – ARIANE MOFFATT — MA — (MOFAT PRODUCTIONS) — CC
2 – ECHO KALYPSO — LES FAUVES — (LES DISQUES INCONNU) — CC
3 – FANNY BLOOM — APPRENTIE GUERRIERE — (GROSSE BOÎTE) — CC
4 – NEURONE — PICASSO — (N/A) — CC
5 – SAGOT — PIANO MAL — (MUSIACTION) — CC
6 – DAVID GIGUERE — HISSER HAUT — (AUDIOGRAM) — CC
7 – LA MOUTARDE ME MONTE AU NEZ — EPONYME — (N/A)
8 – NICOLAS LANDRÉ — LE FOREMAN — (LEKITPRODUCTIONS) — CC
9 – PIED DE POULE — PIED DE POULE — (AUDIOGRAM) — CC
10 – Patricia Kass — mademoiselle n’a pas chanté que le blues — (artic records)
JAZZ
1 – Alex Diaz & his Merengue Jazz — Beyond 145th Street — (self-released)
2 – Craig Pedersen Quartet — Days Like Today — (self-released) — CC
3 – Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions — Night Rider — (Nublu)
4 – Jason Raso — The Red Arrow — (Summit Records) — CC
5 – The Roofhoppers — The Roofhoppers — (Fedora Upside Down) — CC
6 – The Zeke Martin Project — 4 — (EZ Groove Records)
7 – Melissa Lauren — The Other Side — (self-released) — CC
8 – Frank Walton Sextet — The Back Step — (self-released)
9 – Andy Duran’s Latin Jazz Big Band — Timeless — (self-released)
10 – Mike Field — Ashes — (self-released) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. — Area 52 — (ATO)
2 – Novalima — Karimba — (ESL Music)
3 – The Lijadu Sisters — Mother Africa — (Knitting Factory)
4 – K.S. Chithra — S/T — (B-Music)
5 – Watussi — 1000% Guapo (1000% Handsome) — (MGM)
6 – Various Artists — Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics — (Nublu)
7 – Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra — Universal Language — (No Budget Productions)
8 – TriBeCaStan — New Deli — (Evergreene Music)
9 – Delhi 2 Dublin — Delhi 2 Dubland EP — (Popguru) — CC
10 – Caetano Veloso and David Byrne — Live at Carnegie Hall — (Nonesuch)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Lotropic — Fractions EP — (self-released) — CC
2 – Ookpikk/Adam Saikaley — Light Limited/Tropigogic Split — (Place Machine) — CC
3 – Suzanne Ciani — Lixiviation — (B-Music)
4 – DJ Food — The Search Engine — (Ninja Tune)
5 – Proffessor Undressor — A Tin Box — (self-released) — CC
6 – Phedre — Phedre — (Daps) — CC
7 – VCMG — Ssss — (Mute)
8 – Threat Machine — Threat Machine — (self-released) — CC
9 – Trust — Trust — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
10 – Plug — Back on Time — (Ninja Tune)
HIP HOP
1 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 1 — (Urbnet) — CC
2 – Lee Fields & The Expressions — Faithful Man — (Truth & Soul)
3 – Spoek Mathambo — Father Creeper — (Sub Pop)
4 – Doomtree — No Kings — (Doomtree Records)
5 – Nneka — Soul is Heavy — (Decon)
6 – Ain’t No Love — Ain’t No Love EP — (self-released) — CC
7 – The Get By — Let Go — (self-released) — CC
8 – The Roots — Undun — (Def Jam)
9 – Wiley — Evolve or be Extinct — (Big Dadai)
10 – Philly Moves — Peace and carrots — (Sound Syndicate) — CC
LOUD
1 – Nephelium — Coils of Entropy — (self-released) — CC
2 – Vaura — Selenelion — (Wierd)
3 – Profits of Crime — Profits of Crime 7-inch — (self-released) — CC
4 – Tribune — Elder Lore/The Dark Arts — (Corpse Corrosion Music) — CC
5 – Sabertooth — Making Light of a Shitty Situation — (No Contracts Just Trust) — CC
6 – Maximum RNR — The Black and White Years — (self-released) — CC
7 – Retox — Ugly Animals — (Ipecac)
8 – Dead Soul Alliance — Dead Soul Alliance — (self-released) — CC
9 – Gross Misconduct — The Disconnect — (self-released) — CC
10 – The Lucky Ones — Heartbreak, Hangovers & Punk Rock — (Stumble Records) — CC