TOP 30
1 – Yukon Blonde — Tiger Talk — (Dine Alone Records) — CC
2 – Great Lake Swimmers — New Wild Everywhere — (Weewerk) — CC
3 – Zeus — Busting Visions — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
4 – The Elwins — And I Thank You — (self-released) — CC
5 – Cold Warps — S/T EP + Endless Bummer EP — (Noyes) — CC
6 – Aaron Dilloway — Modern Jester — (Hanson)
7 – Lefty McRighty — Nashville Roadkille — (self-released) — CC
8 – Pumice — Puny — (Soft Abuse)
9 – Cousins — The Palm at the End of the Mind — (Saved by Vinyl) — CC
10 – Ketamines — Spaced Out — (Southpaw) — CC
11 – Ghost House — The Present Tense — (self-released) — CC
12 – Kalle Mattson — Lives in Between EP — (Parliament of Trees) — CC
13 – The Deadly Hearts — The Deadly Hearts — (Transistor 66) — CC
14 – Woods/Amps for Christ — Woods/Amps for Christ — (Shrimper)
15 – Mind Spiders — Meltdown — (Dirtnap)
16 – Dragging the Mule — That Hideous Strength — (Trees & Wires) — CC
17 – Wax Idols — No Future — (HoZac Records)
18 – Lee Fields & The Expressions — Faithful Man — (Truth & Soul)
19 – Hunx — Hairdresser Blues — (Hardly Art)
20 – Justin Townes Earle — Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now — (Bloodshot)
21 – Cuff The Duke — In Our Time — (Paper Bag) — CC
22 – Camouflage Nights — Camouflage Nights — (Sonic Unyon) — CC
23 – The Darcys — Aja — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
24 – Said the Whale — Little Mountain — (Hidden Pony) — CC
25 – Grouper — A I A — (Kranky)
26 – Feedtime — The Aberrant Years Sampler — (Sub Pop)
27 – Canary Mine — Between a Rock and a Heartbreak — (self-released) — CC
28 – AIDS Wolf — Ma vie banale avant-garde — (Lovepump United) — CC
29 – Moonface with Siinai — Heartbreaking Bravery — (Jagjaguwar) — CC
30 – Au — Both Lights — (Hometapes)
JAZZ
1 – Steve Lehman Trio — Dialect Fluorescent — (Pi Recording)
2 – The October Trio — New Dream — (Songlines) — CC
3 – Darius Jones Quartet — Book of Mae’bul — (Aum Fidelity)
4 – Esperanza Spalding — Radio Music Society — (Heads Up)
5 – Eri Yamamoto Trio — The Next Page — (Aum Fidelity)
6 – Ken Aldcroft and William Parker — One Sunday — (Trio Records) — CC
7 – Kenny Werner — Me, Myself & I — (Justin Time) — CC
8 – Brad Mehldau Trio — Ode — (Nonesuch)
9 – Forgas Band Phenomena — Acte V — (Cuneiform)
10 – The Cookers — Volume One — (self-released) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – The Toure-Raichel Collective — The Tel Aviv Session — (Cumbancha)
2 – The Lijadu Sisters — Mother Africa — (Knitting Factory)
3 – Ceu — Caravana Sereia Bloom — (Six Degrees)
4 – La Chiva Gantiva — Pelao — (Crammed Discs)
5 – Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band — Perlas — (Fire)
6 – Watussi — 1000% Guapo (1000% Handsome) — (MGM)
7 – Caetano Veloso and David Byrne — Live at Carnegie Hall — (Nonesuch)
8 – Baloji — Kinshasa succursale — (crammed discs)
9 – The Black Seeds — Dust and Dirt — (Easy Star Records)
10 – Galactic — Carnivale Electricos — (Anti)
ELECTRONIC
1 – DJ Food — The Search Engine — (Ninja Tune)
2 – Beta Frontiers — Beta Frontiers EP — (Daps) — CC
3 – Matt Dorgan Project — New York City Soundtrack — (self-released) — CC
4 – Proffessor Undressor — A Tin Box — (self-released) — CC
5 – Trust — Trust — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
6 – Lotropic — Fractions EP — (self-released) — CC
7 – Bocce — Future 1.0 — (Dadmobile Records) — CC
8 – Battles — Dross Glop — (Warp)
9 – Clark — Iradelphic — (Warp)
10 – VCMG — Ssss — (Mute)
HIP HOP
1 – Philly Moves — How To Drink Yourself Famous — (self-released) — CC
2 – Death Grips — The Money Store — (Epic)
3 – Various Artists — Camobear Green 10 years of Camobear Records — (Camobear) — CC
4 – THEESatisfaction — awE naturalE — (Sub Pop)
5 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Vol. 2 — (Urbnet) — CC
6 – Speech Debelle — Freedom of Speech — (Big Dada)
7 – Moka Only & Evil Ebenezer — Zzbra (Ost) — (Camobear) — CC
8 – Georgia Anne Muldrow — Seeds — (SomeOthaShip)
9 – Mitchmatic — It’s Probably Raining — (Old Ugly) — CC
10 – Dynamic — When I Cut A Record — (self-released) — CC
LOUD
1 – Derelict — Perpetuation — (Ricburn Media) — CC
2 – Nephelium — Coils of Entropy — (self-released) — CC
3 – Mares of Thrace — The Pilgrimage — (Sonic Unyon Metal) — CC
4 – Talk-Sick — Genetics — (self-released) — CC
5 – Barren Earth — The Devil’s Resolve — (Peaceville)
6 – Exalt — Breach Falsae Minds — (Feast or Famine Recordings) — CC
7 – The Noumenon — The Noumenon — (self-released) — CC
8 – Hammer Horde — Vinlander — (Storm Surge)
9 – Tribune — Elder Lore/The Dark Arts — (Corpse Corrosion Music) — CC
10 – Sabertooth — Making Light of a Shitty Situation — (No Contracts Just Trust) — CC