TOP 30
1 – Various Artists — Pixxx 3 — (Unit Structure Sound Recordings) — CC
2 – Various Artists — Strange Passion — (B-Music)
3 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
4 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
5 – Fist City — It’s 1983, Grow Up — (Black Tent Press) — CC
6 – Rayon Beach — This Looks Serious — (HoZac Records)
7 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
8 – Lost Sounds — Lost Lost — (Goner)
9 – Wintersleep — Hello Hum — (EMI Music Canada) — CC
10 – Nice Face — Horizon Fires — (HoZac Records)
11 – The Racoon Wedding — Onondaga — (Ford Plant) — CC
12 – Kelly Hogan — I Like To Keep Myself In Pain — (Anti-)
13 – Japandroids — Celebration Rock — (Polyvinyl) — CC
14 – Tara Holloway — Sins to Confess — (Light Organ Records) — CC
15 – Broken Water — Tempest — (Hardly Art)
16 – Father You See Queen — 47 — (Flingco Sound)
17 – Led Er Est — The Diver — (Sacred Bones)
18 – Zulus — Zulus — (Aagoo)
19 – The Intelligence — Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me — (In The Red)
20 – Bill Baird — Career — (self-released)
21 – Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan — (Domino)
22 – John Maus — A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material — (Ribbon Music)
23 – Mode Moderne — Strange Bruises — (Light Organ Records) — CC
24 – Rosenkopf — Rosenkopf — (Wierd)
25 – J. Eygenraam — Cheap Time — (self-released) — CC
26 – Shonen Knife — Pop Tune — (Good Charamel Records)
27 – Cheap Time — Wallpaper Music — (In The Red)
28 – Diiv — Oshin — (Captured Tracks)
29 – No Sinner — Boo Hoo Hoo EP — (First Love Records) — CC
30 – Liars — WIXIW — (Mute)
JAZZ
1 – Jon McCaslin — Sunalta — (Cellar Live) — CC
2 – Anita Eccleston — Jazz EP — (self-released) — CC
3 – Mike Allen Quartet — A Hip Cosmos — (Almus Jazz) — CC
4 – Robyn Hayle — So Much For Good Behaviour — (Self-released) — CC
5 – Juliann Kuchocki — Broken Compass — (Pro Arts) — CC
6 – The soul rebels — unlock your mind — (rounder records)
7 – Cory Weeds — Up a Step — (Cellar Live) — CC
8 – Wadada Leo Smith — Ten Freedom Summers — (Cuneiform)
9 – Frank Lowe Quintet — The Loweski — (ESP-Disk)
10 – Cory Wong — Quartet/Quintet — (self-released)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
2 – Roberto Lopez — AZUL — (Cururamusique) — CC
3 – The Funkees — Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-1977 — (Soundway)
4 – Debo Band — Debo Band — (Sub Pop)
5 – Chicha Libre — Canibalismo — (Barbes Records)
6 – Arnaldo Antunes, Edgard Scandurra, Toumani Diabate — A Curva da Cintura — (Mais Um Discos)
7 – The Bombay Royale — You Me Bullets Love — (Hopestreet)
8 – Ebo Taylor — Appia Kwa Bridge — (Strut)
9 – Niyaz — Sumud — (Six Degrees)
10 – Lars Hollmer — With Floury Hand (sketches) — (Cuneiform)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
2 – Shawn Lee — Synthesizers in Space — (ESL Music)
3 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
4 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
5 – Lorn — Ask the Dust — (Ninja Tune)
6 – Various Artists — Nightwaves Compilation 3 — (self-released) — CC
7 – Stephen Hummel — Melo — (self-released) — CC
8 – MaQLu — Futureghosts — (self-released) — CC
9 – Various Artists — Exit Bratislava — (Electrofone)
10 – Girls Would Kill — Bloodshed — (Independent) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
2 – Righteous & Mista Mean — I Want It, I Get It — (Delit de Fuite) — CC
3 – Aesop Rock — Skelethon — (Rhymesayers)
4 – El-P — Cancer4Cure — (Fat Possum)
5 – Saukrates — Season One — (E1) — CC
6 – I Self Devine — The Sound of Low Class Amerika — (Rhymesayers)
7 – Gee Wunder — Beats, Bars & Hooks — (Motive Music) — CC
8 – Prehistoric — Forgive the Hero — (self-released) — CC
9 – Cityreal & Wes Mackey — Good Morning Blues — (Soul of the City Music) — CC
10 – Fresh Kils and Fraction — Extra Science — (Kilzone) — CC
LOUD
1 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
2 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
3 – Torche — Harmonicraft — (Volcom)
4 – Grim Skunk — Set Fire! — (Indica Records) — CC
5 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
6 – Cancer Bats — Dead Set On Living — (Distort) — CC
7 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
8 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
9 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
10 – Pith — Fore — (Diminished Fifth) — CC