TOP 30
1 – Wet Hair — Spill Into Atmosphere — (De Stijl)
2 – Milks & Rectangles — Milks & Rectangles — (self-released) — CC
3 – Marissa Nadler — The Sister — (Box of Cedar)
4 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Mature Themes — (4AD)
5 – Hermetic — Civilized City — (self-released) — CC
6 – Mike Legere and Bury the Hatchet — Stay Stranger — (self-released) — CC
7 – Opposite Sex — Opposite Sex — (Fishrider Records)
8 – Hacienda — Shakedown — (Dine Alone Records)
9 – The Folk — Say It Again — (self-released) — CC
10 – Sheer Agony — Sheer Agony 7″ — (Fixture Records) — CC
11 – Gary Sloan and the Clone — Harmonitalk — (B-Music)
12 – Foxygen — Take the Kids off Broadway — (Jagjaguwar)
13 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
14 – Fist City — It’s 1983, Grow Up — (Black Tent Press) — CC
15 – Ty Segall Band — Slaughterhouse — (In the Red Records)
16 – Say Domino/Whoop-Szo/Lonnie in the Garden — Tour Split 7″ — (Out of Sound) — CC
17 – Delicate Steve — Positive Force — (Luaka Bop)
18 – Jaill — Traps — (Sub Pop)
19 – Nice Face — Horizon Fires — (HoZac Records)
20 – The Young — Dub Egg — (Matador)
21 – Kestrels — A Ghost History — (Sonic Unyon) — CC
22 – Lost Sounds — Lost Lost — (Goner)
23 – Beachwood Sparks — The Tarnished Gold — (Sub Pop)
24 – JEFF The Brotherhood — Hypnotic Nights — (Warner)
25 – The Twerps — Twerps — (Underwater Peoples)
26 – Dusted — Total Dust — (Polyvinyl) — CC
27 – The Intelligence — Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me — (In The Red)
28 – Jets Overhead — Boredom and Joy — (Microgroove) — CC
29 – DZ Deathrays — Bloodstreams — (Dine Alone Records)
30 – Patti Smith — Banga — (Columbia)
JAZZ
1 – Jon McCaslin — Sunalta — (Cellar Live) — CC
2 – Peter Appleyard — Sophisticated Ladies — (Linus) — CC
3 – Shuffle Demons — Clusterfunk — (Linus) — CC
4 – The Odd Trio — The Birth of the Minotaur — (Odd Trio Records)
5 – Elizabeth Shepherd — Rewind — (Pinwheel Music) — CC
6 – Harris Eisenstadt — Canada Day III — (Songlines)
7 – Stacey Kent — Dreamer in Concert — (Blue Note)
8 – Don Cherry — Organic Music Society — (Caprice Records)
9 – Ranee Lee — Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday — (Justin Time)
10 – Tyson Naylor Trio — Kosmonauten — (Songlines) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Sarazino — Everyday Salama — (Cumbancha)
2 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
3 – Calibro 35 — Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Faces is Purely Coincidental — (Nublu)
4 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
5 – Lars Hollmer — With Floury Hand (sketches) — (Cuneiform)
6 – Niyaz — Sumud — (Six Degrees)
7 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
8 – The Battle of Santiago — Full Colour — (self-released) — CC
9 – Debo Band — Debo Band — (Sub Pop)
10 – Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route — Borderlands — (Smithsonian Folkways)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
2 – Foxes — Warrior — (Sign of the Times/Sony)
3 – Lorn — Ask the Dust — (Ninja Tune)
4 – Stephen Hummel — Melo — (self-released) — CC
5 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
6 – E1000 — Strange Fruits — (Chez Kito Kat Records) — CC
7 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
8 – Slugabed — Time Team — (Ninja Tune)
9 – MaQLu — Futureghosts — (self-released) — CC
10 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – I Self Devine — The Sound of Low Class Amerika — (Rhymesayers)
2 – Plex — Demons — (Urbnet) — CC
3 – Union — Analogtronics — (Fat Beats)
4 – Mally & the Sundance Kid — The Last Great… — (Fresh Heir)
5 – G Jones — Get Movin’ — (self-released) — CC
6 – Cityreal & Wes Mackey — Good Morning Blues — (Soul of the City Music) — CC
7 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 3 — (Urbnet) — CC
8 – Aesop Rock — Skelethon — (Rhymesayers)
9 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
10 – Jus Frais — Lullabies & Other Bedtime Stories — (Jus Music Productions) — CC
LOUD
1 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
2 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
3 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
4 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
5 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
6 – Cancer Bats — Dead Set On Living — (Distort) — CC
7 – Millencolin — The Melancholy Connection — (Epitaph)
8 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
9 – Pennywise — All Or Nothing — (Epitaph)
10 – Torche — Harmonicraft — (Volcom)