TOP 30
1 – The Just Barelys — Mad Bits — (Just Friends) — CC
2 – Grimes — Visions — (Arbutus) — CC
3 – Bahamas — Barchords — (Brushfire Records) — CC
4 – Emma-Lee — Backseat Heroine — (Special Agent Records) — CC
5 – Mackenzie Rhythm Section — The Big Break — (self-released)
6 – Fevers — Passion is Dead — (self-released) — CC
7 – Al Tuck — Under Your Shadow — (self-released) — CC
8 – Metal Kites — School of Unlearning — (self-released) — CC
9 – Woodpigeon — For Paolo — (Boompa) — CC
10 – Fortner Anderson — Solitary Pleasures — (& Records ) — CC
11 – Islands — A Sleep & A Forgetting — (Anti) — CC
12 – Daniel Rossen — Silent Hour / Golden Mile — (Warp)
13 – Boyhood — Boyhood EP — (self-released) — CC
14 – Eric Chenaux — Guitar & Voice — (Constellation) — CC
15 – Starving Weirdos — Land Lines — (Amish)
16 – B.A. Johnston — Hi Dudes! — (Mammoth Cave) — CC
17 – Hunx — Hairdresser Blues — (Hardly Art)
18 – Black to Comm — Earth — (De Stijl)
19 – Mike O’Neil — Wild Lines — (self-released) — CC
20 – Silent Land Time Machine — I Am No Longer Alone With Myself And Can Only Artificially Recall The Scary And Beautiful Feeling Of Solitude EP — (Indian Queen)
21 – The Falcons — EP Collection — (self-released) — CC
22 – Bry Webb — Provider — (Idee Fixe) — CC
23 – John Wesley Coleman III — Last Donkey Show — (Goner)
24 – The Barmitzvah Brothers — Growing Branches — (Label Fantastic!) — CC
25 – Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory — (Carpark)
26 – Beaten by Them — People Start Listening — (Logicpole)
27 – Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas — (Sony) — CC
28 – Great Aunt Ida — Nuclearize Me — (Dead House Plant) — CC
29 – Ceremony — Zoo — (Matador)
30 – The Agnostic-Phibes Rhythm & Blood Conspiracy — Campfire Tales — (Shoutin’ Abner Pim Recordings) — CC
FRANCOPHONE
1 – ARIANE MOFFATT — MA — (MOFAT PRODUCTIONS) — CC
2 – DAVID GIGUERE — HISSER HAUT — (AUDIOGRAM) — CC
3 – MARIE PIERRE ARTHUR — AUX ALENTOURS — (SIMONE RECORDS) — CC
4 – NICOLAS LANDRÉ — LE FOREMAN — (LEKITPRODUCTIONS) — CC
5 – NEURONE — PICASSO — (N/A) — CC
6 – SAGOT — PIANO MAL — (MUSIACTION) — CC
7 – ECHO KALYPSO — LES FAUVES — (LES DISQUES INCONNU) — CC
8 – DAVID JALBERT — LE JOURNAL — (DISQUES JUPITER) — CC
9 – TOMISLAV — AVANT LE DÉPART — (P.T.P RECORDS)
10 – GREGOIRE — ALBUM EPONYME — (MY MAJOR COMPANY)
JAZZ
1 – The October Trio — New Dream — (Songlines) — CC
2 – Alex Diaz & his Merengue Jazz — Beyond 145th Street — (self-released)
3 – Andy Duran’s Latin Jazz Big Band — Timeless — (self-released)
4 – Amy Cervini — Digging Me Digging You — (Anzic Records)
5 – Mike Field — Ashes — (self-released) — CC
6 – AIMToronto Orchestra — Year of the Boar — (Barnyard) — CC
7 – Jason Raso — The Red Arrow — (Summit Records) — CC
8 – Benoit Delbecq and Francois Houle — Because She Hoped — (Songlines) — CC
9 – Albatrosh — Yonkers — (Rune Grammofon)
10 – The Zeke Martin Project — 4 — (EZ Groove Records)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. — Area 52 — (ATO)
2 – Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band — Perlas — (Fire)
3 – Natalia and Montuno — Moving North — (self-released) — CC
4 – Caetano Veloso and David Byrne — Live at Carnegie Hall — (Nonesuch)
5 – The Lijadu Sisters — Mother Africa — (Knitting Factory)
6 – Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra — Universal Language — (No Budget Productions)
7 – K.S. Chithra — S/T — (B-Music)
8 – Watussi — 1000% Guapo (1000% Handsome) — (MGM)
9 – Delhi 2 Dublin — Delhi 2 Dubland EP — (Popguru) — CC
10 – Novalima — Karimba — (ESL Music)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Lotropic — Fractions EP — (self-released) — CC
2 – Bonobo — Black Sands Remixed — (Ninja Tune)
3 – Phedre — Phedre — (Daps) — CC
4 – Ookpikk/Adam Saikaley — Light Limited/Tropigogic Split — (Place Machine) — CC
5 – Suzanne Ciani — Lixiviation — (B-Music)
6 – VCMG — Ssss — (Mute)
7 – Proffessor Undressor — A Tin Box — (self-released) — CC
8 – DJ Food — The Search Engine — (Ninja Tune)
9 – Trust — Trust — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
10 – Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters — Underrated Silence — (Bureau B.)
HIP HOP
1 – Georgia Anne Muldrow — Seeds — (SomeOthaShip)
2 – Nneka — Soul is Heavy — (Decon)
3 – Speech Debelle — Freedom of Speech — (Big Dada)
4 – Sola Rosa — Get It Together — (Melting Pot Music)
5 – Lee Fields & The Expressions — Faithful Man — (Truth & Soul)
6 – Spoek Mathambo — Father Creeper — (Sub Pop)
7 – The Get By — Let Go — (self-released) — CC
8 – The Roots — Undun — (Def Jam)
9 – Wiley — Evolve or be Extinct — (Big Dadai)
10 – Def3 & Mosaic — Amnesia — (self-released) — CC
LOUD
1 – Gross Misconduct — The Disconnect — (self-released) — CC
2 – Nephelium — Coils of Entropy — (self-released) — CC
3 – Maximum RNR — The Black and White Years — (self-released) — CC
4 – Vaura — Selenelion — (Wierd)
5 – Profits of Crime — Profits of Crime 7-inch — (self-released) — CC
6 – Tribune — Elder Lore/The Dark Arts — (Corpse Corrosion Music) — CC
7 – Scarcity of Tanks — Fear Is Not Conscience — (Total Life Society Records)
8 – Sabertooth — Making Light of a Shitty Situation — (No Contracts Just Trust) — CC
9 – Carnifex — Until I Feel Nothing — (Victory)
10 – Retox — Ugly Animals — (Ipecac)