TOP 30
1 – Wintersleep — Hello Hum — (EMI Music Canada) — CC
2 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
3 – Guided by Voices — Class Clown Spots a UFO — (Guided By Voices Inc.)
4 – Dreamphone — Feeling Magenta — (Rifle Eyes) — CC
5 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
6 – Jherek Bischoff — Composed — (Brassland)
7 – Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse — (In the Red Records)
8 – Hellaluya/Cartoons — Hellaluya/Cartoons Split — (Buzz/Daps) — CC
9 – Tara Holloway — Sins to Confess — (Light Organ Records) — CC
10 – Magic Trick — Ruler of the Night — (Hardly Art)
11 – The Sugarman 3 — What the World Needs Now — (Daptone)
12 – Cheap Time — Wallpaper Music — (In The Red)
13 – Apollo Ghosts — Landmark — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC
14 – PS I Love YOu — Death Dreams — (Paper Bag) — CC
15 – Japandroids — Celebration Rock — (Polyvinyl) — CC
16 – Blinker the Star — We Draw Lines — (Nile River Records) — CC
17 – Cold Specks — I Predict a Graceful Expulsion — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
18 – The Walkmen — Heaven — (Fat Possum)
19 – Celery Troff — Hind Legs Highness — (self-released) — CC
20 – These United States — These United States — (United Interests)
21 – Crystal Swells — Harshside/Sludge Freaks — (self-released) — CC
22 – Triumphal Arches — Romance Languages — (Dominion Recording Company) — CC
23 – The Boats — Ballads of the Research Department — (12k)
24 – K-Holes — Dismania — (Hardly Art)
25 – Cold Warps — S/T EP + Endless Bummer EP — (Noyes) — CC
26 – Blasted Canyons — 2nd Place — (Castle Face)
27 – Skinny Bros — Fat Tunes — (Silence D’or) — CC
28 – Broken Water — Tempest — (Hardly Art)
29 – Grass Widow — Internal Logic — (HLR Records)
30 – Brazilian Money — Doug Nasty — (Gipper Tore) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Mike Allen Quartet — A Hip Cosmos — (Almus Jazz) — CC
2 – Daniela Nardi — Espresso Manifesto: The Songs of Paolo Conte — (Minerva Road Entertainment)
3 – Joel Miller — Swim — (Origin Records) — CC
4 – Snarky Puppy — Ground Up — (groundup music)
5 – Frank Wright Quartet — Blues for Albert Ayler — (ESP-Disk)
6 – Trombone Shorty — For True — (verve forecast )
7 – Gretchen Parlato — The Lost and Found — (obliqsound)
8 – Larry Tarof — C is for Cosmopolitan — (Dr. L’s Music) — CC
9 – Carol Welsman — Journey — (Justin Time)
10 – Frank Lowe Quintet — The Loweski — (ESP-Disk)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Roberto Lopez — AZUL — (Cururamusique) — CC
2 – The Funkees — Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-1977 — (Soundway)
3 – The Bombay Royale — You Me Bullets Love — (Hopestreet)
4 – Rob — Make it Fast, Make it Slow — (Soundway)
5 – Brownout — Oozy — (Nat Geo Music)
6 – Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou — The Bariba Sound: 1970-1976 — (Analog Africa)
7 – Campo — Campo — (Universal)
8 – Ebo Taylor — Appia Kwa Bridge — (Strut)
9 – Batida — Batida — (Soundway)
10 – Chicha Libre — Canibalismo — (Barbes Records)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Girls Would Kill — Bloodshed — (self-released) — CC
2 – Various Artists — Nightwaves Compilation 3 — (self-released) — CC
3 – Simian Mobile Disco — Unpatterns — (Wichita)
4 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
5 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
6 – Dntel — Aimlessness — (Pampa Records)
7 – Gloom Prophet — Let the Prophet Speak — (The Bureau)
8 – Jef Stott — Arcana — (Six Degrees Records)
9 – Arcadia Sound — Arcadia Sound — (self-released) — CC
10 – Asonat — Love In Times Of Repetition — (n5MD)
HIP HOP
1 – Perfeck Strangers — Series Premiere — (Urbnet) — CC
2 – Righteous — Man Of My Word — (self-released) — CC
3 – Prehistoric — Forgive the Hero — (self-released) — CC
4 – Copperwire — Earthbound — (Porto Franco)
5 – Saukrates — Season One — (E1) — CC
6 – Wordburglar — 3rdburglar — (Backburner Records) — CC
7 – Fresh Kills and Fraction — Extra Science — (Kilzone) — CC
8 – Death Grips — The Money Store — (Epic)
9 – Full Course — Entree — (self-released) — CC
10 – The Gunsmith and MoHit — Conquest EP — (self-released) — CC
LOUD
1 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
2 – 16 — Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds — (Relapse Records)
3 – Torche — Harmonicraft — (Volcom)
4 – Mares of Thrace — The Pilgrimage — (Sonic Unyon Metal) — CC
5 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
6 – Woods of Ypres — Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light — (Earache) — CC
7 – Pith — Fore — (Diminished Fifth) — CC
8 – Hugonaut — Hello Destroyed — (self-released) — CC
9 – Pennywise — All Or Nothing — (Epitaph)
10 – High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis — (E1)
TOP 30
1 – Wintersleep — Hello Hum — (EMI Music Canada) — CC
2 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
3 – Guided by Voices — Class Clown Spots a UFO — (Guided By Voices Inc.)
4 – Dreamphone — Feeling Magenta — (Rifle Eyes) — CC
5 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
6 – Jherek Bischoff — Composed — (Brassland)
7 – Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse — (In the Red Records)
8 – Hellaluya/Cartoons — Hellaluya/Cartoons Split — (Buzz/Daps) — CC
9 – Tara Holloway — Sins to Confess — (Light Organ Records) — CC
10 – Magic Trick — Ruler of the Night — (Hardly Art)
11 – The Sugarman 3 — What the World Needs Now — (Daptone)
12 – Cheap Time — Wallpaper Music — (In The Red)
13 – Apollo Ghosts — Landmark — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC
14 – PS I Love YOu — Death Dreams — (Paper Bag) — CC
15 – Japandroids — Celebration Rock — (Polyvinyl) — CC
16 – Blinker the Star — We Draw Lines — (Nile River Records) — CC
17 – Cold Specks — I Predict a Graceful Expulsion — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
18 – The Walkmen — Heaven — (Fat Possum)
19 – Celery Troff — Hind Legs Highness — (self-released) — CC
20 – These United States — These United States — (United Interests)
21 – Crystal Swells — Harshside/Sludge Freaks — (self-released) — CC
22 – Triumphal Arches — Romance Languages — (Dominion Recording Company) — CC
23 – The Boats — Ballads of the Research Department — (12k)
24 – K-Holes — Dismania — (Hardly Art)
25 – Cold Warps — S/T EP + Endless Bummer EP — (Noyes) — CC
26 – Blasted Canyons — 2nd Place — (Castle Face)
27 – Skinny Bros — Fat Tunes — (Silence D’or) — CC
28 – Broken Water — Tempest — (Hardly Art)
29 – Grass Widow — Internal Logic — (HLR Records)
30 – Brazilian Money — Doug Nasty — (Gipper Tore) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Mike Allen Quartet — A Hip Cosmos — (Almus Jazz) — CC
2 – Daniela Nardi — Espresso Manifesto: The Songs of Paolo Conte — (Minerva Road Entertainment)
3 – Joel Miller — Swim — (Origin Records) — CC
4 – Snarky Puppy — Ground Up — (groundup music)
5 – Frank Wright Quartet — Blues for Albert Ayler — (ESP-Disk)
6 – Trombone Shorty — For True — (verve forecast )
7 – Gretchen Parlato — The Lost and Found — (obliqsound)
8 – Larry Tarof — C is for Cosmopolitan — (Dr. L’s Music) — CC
9 – Carol Welsman — Journey — (Justin Time)
10 – Frank Lowe Quintet — The Loweski — (ESP-Disk)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Roberto Lopez — AZUL — (Cururamusique) — CC
2 – The Funkees — Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-1977 — (Soundway)
3 – The Bombay Royale — You Me Bullets Love — (Hopestreet)
4 – Rob — Make it Fast, Make it Slow — (Soundway)
5 – Brownout — Oozy — (Nat Geo Music)
6 – Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou — The Bariba Sound: 1970-1976 — (Analog Africa)
7 – Campo — Campo — (Universal)
8 – Ebo Taylor — Appia Kwa Bridge — (Strut)
9 – Batida — Batida — (Soundway)
10 – Chicha Libre — Canibalismo — (Barbes Records)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Girls Would Kill — Bloodshed — (self-released) — CC
2 – Various Artists — Nightwaves Compilation 3 — (self-released) — CC
3 – Simian Mobile Disco — Unpatterns — (Wichita)
4 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
5 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
6 – Dntel — Aimlessness — (Pampa Records)
7 – Gloom Prophet — Let the Prophet Speak — (The Bureau)
8 – Jef Stott — Arcana — (Six Degrees Records)
9 – Arcadia Sound — Arcadia Sound — (self-released) — CC
10 – Asonat — Love In Times Of Repetition — (n5MD)
HIP HOP
1 – Perfeck Strangers — Series Premiere — (Urbnet) — CC
2 – Righteous — Man Of My Word — (self-released) — CC
3 – Prehistoric — Forgive the Hero — (self-released) — CC
4 – Copperwire — Earthbound — (Porto Franco)
5 – Saukrates — Season One — (E1) — CC
6 – Wordburglar — 3rdburglar — (Backburner Records) — CC
7 – Fresh Kills and Fraction — Extra Science — (Kilzone) — CC
8 – Death Grips — The Money Store — (Epic)
9 – Full Course — Entree — (self-released) — CC
10 – The Gunsmith and MoHit — Conquest EP — (self-released) — CC
LOUD
1 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
2 – 16 — Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds — (Relapse Records)
3 – Torche — Harmonicraft — (Volcom)
4 – Mares of Thrace — The Pilgrimage — (Sonic Unyon Metal) — CC
5 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
6 – Woods of Ypres — Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light — (Earache) — CC
7 – Pith — Fore — (Diminished Fifth) — CC
8 – Hugonaut — Hello Destroyed — (self-released) — CC
9 – Pennywise — All Or Nothing — (Epitaph)
10 – High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis — (E1)