TOP 30
1 – Crystal Swells — Harshside/Sludge Freaks — (self-released) — CC
2 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
3 – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends — The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends — (Warner)
4 – Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse — (In the Red Records)
5 – Father John Misty — Fear Fun — (Sub Pop)
6 – Aaron Freeman — Marvelous Clouds — (Partisan Records)
7 – North Lakes — Grand Prix — (self-released) — CC
8 – Blinker the Star — We Draw Lines — (Nile River Records) — CC
9 – Cobra & Vulture — Vocare EP — (self-released) — CC
10 – Peaking Lights — Lucifer — (Mexican Summer)
11 – Cold Warps — S/T EP + Endless Bummer EP — (Noyes) — CC
12 – Parlovr — Kook Soul — (Dine Alone Records) — CC
13 – David Kilgour — Here Come the Cars — (Flying Nun)
14 – Echo Lake — Wild Peace — (Slumberland)
15 – The Sugarman 3 — What the World Needs Now — (Daptone)
16 – Music Maul — Boxy — (Good Fucking Music) — CC
17 – Blasted Canyons — 2nd Place — (Castle Face)
18 – Japandroids — Celebration Rock — (Polyvinyl) — CC
19 – King Tuff — King Tuff — (Sub Pop)
20 – Guided by Voices — Class Clown Spots a UFO — (Guided By Voices Inc.)
21 – Skinny Bros — Fat Tunes — (Silence D’or) — CC
22 – The Racoon Wedding — Onondaga — (Ford Plant) — CC
23 – Celery Troff — Hind Legs Highness — (self-released) — CC
24 – Safety Show — O’Burro! — (self-released) — CC
25 – Apollo Ghosts — Landmark — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC
26 – Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan — (Domino)
27 – Cold Specks — I Predict a Graceful Expulsion — (Arts & Crafts) — CC
28 – Dusted — Total Dust — (Polyvinyl) — CC
29 – Teapot Hill — Night Night Rock — (self-released) — CC
30 – Simone Felice — Simone Felice — (Dine Alone Records)
FRANCOPHONE
1 – LOCO LOCASS — LE QUÉBEC EST MORT, VIVE LE QUÉBEC! — (AUDIOGRAM) — CC
2 – ELI ET PAPILLON — EPONYME — (MAISONNETTE) — CC
3 – SOKÉ — CELLULES — (SILENCE D’OR) — CC
4 – ANDRE DEDE VANDER — FRENCH TOAST ET PEINES PERDUES — (L-A BE LET ARTISTS BE) — CC
5 – FREDERICK BARON — HUMEURS VARIABLES — (PRODUCTIONS MUSIQUE EM) — CC
6 – LES VESTONS — N/A — (DISQUES JUPITER) — CC
7 – RADIO RADIO — HAVRE DE GRACE — (BONSOUND RECORDS) — CC
8 – TRICIA FOSTER — NÉGLIGÉE — (APCM DISTRIBUTION) — CC
9 – LEOPOLD Z — ENNUYEZ MOI — (DISTRIBUTION SELECT) — CC
10 – MONOGRENADE — TANTALE — (ATMOSPHERIQUES) — CC
JAZZ
1 – The Soul Rebels — Unlock Your Mind — (Rounder Records)
2 – Trombone Shorty — For True — (Verve Forecast )
3 – Wadada Leo Smith — Ten Freedom Summers — (Cuneiform)
4 – Avi Granite’s Verse — Snow Umbrellas — (Pet Mantis)
5 – Frank Lowe Quintet — The Loweski — (ESP-Disk)
6 – Carol Welsman — Journey — (Justin Time)
7 – Daniela Nardi — Espresso Manifesto: The Songs of Paolo Conte — (Minerva Road Entertainment)
8 – Positive Catastrophe — Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo… — (Cuneiform)
9 – Mike Allen Quartet — A Hip Cosmos — (Almus Jazz) — CC
10 – Joel Miller — Swim — (Origin Records) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Campo — Campo — (Universal)
2 – Roberto Lopez — AZUL — (Cururamusique) — CC
3 – Ebo Taylor — Appia Kwa Bridge — (Strut)
4 – Chicha Libre — Canibalismo — (Barbes Records)
5 – The Bombay Royale — You Me Bullets Love — (Hopestreet)
6 – The Funkees — Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-1977 — (Soundway)
7 – Various Artists — Future Sounds of Buenos Aires — (ZZK)
8 – Batida — Batida — (Soundway)
9 – Slavic Soul Party! — New York Underground Tapes — (Barbes Records)
10 – Rob — Make it Fast, Make it Slow — (Soundway)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
2 – Asonat — Love In Times Of Repetition — (n5MD)
3 – Girls Would Kill — Bloodshed — (Independent) — CC
4 – Foxes — Warrior — (Sign of the Times/Sony)
5 – Various Artists — Exit Bratislava — (Electrofone)
6 – Various Artists — Nightwaves Compilation 3 — (self-released) — CC
7 – Jef Stott — Arcana — (Six Degrees Records)
8 – Simian Mobile Disco — Unpatterns — (Wichita)
9 – Zammuto — Zammuto — (Temporary Residence)
10 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
HIP HOP
1 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
2 – Wordburglar — 3rdburglar — (Backburner Records) — CC
3 – Saukrates — Season One — (E1) — CC
4 – El-P — Cancer4Cure — (Fat Possum)
5 – Perfeck Strangers — Series Premiere — (Urbnet) — CC
6 – Death Grips — The Money Store — (Epic)
7 – Prehistoric — Forgive the Hero — (self-released) — CC
8 – Cityreal & Wes Mackey — Good Morning Blues — (Soul of the City Music) — CC
9 – Fresh Kills and Fraction — Extra Science — (Kilzone) — CC
10 – Lushlife — Plateau Vision — (Western Vinyl)
LOUD
1 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
2 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
3 – Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
4 – Pith — Fore — (Diminished Fifth) — CC
5 – Torche — Harmonicraft — (Volcom)
6 – 16 — Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds — (Relapse Records)
7 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
8 – Woods of Ypres — Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light — (Earache) — CC
9 – Pennywise — All Or Nothing — (Epitaph)
10 – Mares of Thrace — The Pilgrimage — Sonic Unyon