TOP 30
1 – Elk — Daydreams — (Indoor Shoes) — CC
2 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
3 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
4 – Shonen Knife — Pop Tune — (Good Charamel Records)
5 – Niki and the Dove — Instinct — (Sub Pop)
6 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
7 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
8 – Tall Trees — Tall Trees — (self-released) — CC
9 – The Young — Dub Egg — (Matador)
10 – Mode Moderne — Strange Bruises — (Light Organ Records) — CC
11 – Various Artists — Strange Passion — (B-Music)
12 – White Arrows — Dry Land Is Not A Myth — (Votiv)
13 – The Folk — Say It Again — (self-released) — CC
14 – Milks & Rectangles — Milks & Rectangles — (self-released) — CC
15 – We Need Surgery — We Need Surgery — (Light Organ Records) — CC
16 – Our Friend and the Spiders — Walk Me Out — (self-released) — CC
17 – Wet Hair — Spill Into Atmosphere — (De Stijl)
18 – Young Guv & the Scuzz — A Love Too Strong — (Southpaw) — CC
19 – Marissa Nadler — The Sister — (Box of Cedar)
20 – Zulus — Zulus — (Aagoo)
21 – Dead Can Dance — Anastasis — (Pias)
22 – Fergus & Geronimo — Funky Was The State Of Affairs — (Hardly Art)
23 – Nude Beach — II — (Other Music)
24 – A Place to Bury Strangers — Worship — (Dead Oceans)
25 – Mariachi Ghost — Machete EP — (Self-released) — CC
26 – Kelly Hogan — I Like To Keep Myself In Pain — (Anti-)
27 – Opposite Sex — Opposite Sex — (Fishrider Records)
28 – Patti Smith — Banga — (Columbia)
29 – Eternal Summers — Correct Behavior — (Kanine)
30 – Various Artists — Just Tell Me That YOu Want Me: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac — (Hear Music)
JAZZ
1 – Peter Appleyard — Sophisticated Ladies — (Linus) — CC
2 – Francois Houle 5 + 1 — Genera — (Songlines) — CC
3 – Ranee Lee — Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday — (Justin Time)
4 – Shuffle Demons — Clusterfunk — (Linus) — CC
5 – Tyson Naylor Trio — Kosmonauten — (Songlines) — CC
6 – Stacey Kent — Dreamer in Concert — (Blue Note)
7 – The Odd Trio — The Birth of the Minotaur — (Odd Trio Records)
8 – Cory Weeds — Up a Step — (Cellar Live) — CC
9 – Jon McCaslin — Sunalta — (Cellar Live) — CC
10 – Paul Beaudry & Pathways — Americas — (Soundkeeper Recordings)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
2 – Chicha Libre — Canibalismo — (Barbes Records)
3 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
4 – Various Artists — Sembeh Ma Fa Fe: Revisits — (Stronghold Sound)
5 – Jennifer Scott & Brasileira — Sonho Meu — (Cellar Live)
6 – Archives — Archives — (ESL Music)
7 – Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route — Borderlands — (Smithsonian Folkways)
8 – The Battle of Santiago — Full Colour — (self-released) — CC
9 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
10 – Sarazino — Everyday Salama — (Cumbancha)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
2 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
3 – Dub Pistols — Worshipping the Dollar — (Sunday Best)
4 – Hot Chip — In Our Heads — (Domino)
5 – Elisa Luu — Un Giorno Sospeso — (Hidden Shoal)
6 – Lorn — Ask the Dust — (Ninja Tune)
7 – Various Artists — Exit Bratislava — (Electrofone)
8 – Humans — Traps — (Hybridity) — CC
9 – Slugabed — Time Team — (Ninja Tune)
10 – E1000 — Strange Fruits — (Chez Kito Kat Records) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – G Jones — Get Movin’ — (self-released) — CC
2 – I Self Devine — The Sound of Low Class Amerika — (Rhymesayers)
3 – Plex — Demons — (Urbnet) — CC
4 – Mally & the Sundance Kid — The Last Great… — (Fresh Heir)
5 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 3 — (Urbnet) — CC
6 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
7 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
8 – Righteous & Mista Mean — I Want It, I Get It — (Delit de Fuite) — CC
9 – Muneshine — There Is Only Today — (Droppin’ Science) — CC
10 – Union — Analogtronics — (Fat Beats)
LOUD
1 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
2 – Frustrations — Negative Reflections — (X!)
3 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
4 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
5 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
6 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
7 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
8 – Millencolin — The Melancholy Connection — (Epitaph)
9 – Cancer Bats — Dead Set On Living — (Distort) — CC
10 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC