TOP 30
1 – Slug Guts — Playin’ in Time With the Deadbeat — (Sacred Bones)
2 – Young Guv & the Scuzz — A Love Too Strong — (Southpaw) — CC
3 – Farewell Davidson — Hometown Lights — (self-released) — CC
4 – Wymond Miles — Under the Pale Moon — (Sacred Bones)
5 – Tall Trees — Tall Trees — (self-released) — CC
6 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Mature Themes — (4AD)
7 – Milks & Rectangles — Milks & Rectangles — (self-released) — CC
8 – White Wires — III — (Dirtnap) — CC
9 – Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II EP — (In The Red)
10 – Velvet Elvis — In Deep Time — (cae-sur-a)
11 – The Liminanas — Crystal Anis — (HoZac Records)
12 – Nude Beach — II — (Other Music)
13 – Mode Moderne — Strange Bruises — (Light Organ Records) — CC
14 – Puffy Areolas — 1982: Dishonorable Discharge — (HoZac Records)
15 – The Twerps — Twerps — (Underwater Peoples)
16 – The Micronite Filters — The Wrong Side of the Tracks — (Get Bent) — CC
17 – Heavenly Beat — Talent — (Captured Tracks)
18 – Teen — In Limbo — (Carpark)
19 – Jets Overhead — Boredom and Joy — (Microgroove) — CC
20 – Husky — Forever So — (Sub Pop)
21 – The Waxbills — When Love Comes — (self-released) — CC
22 – Dead Can Dance — Anastasis — (Pias)
23 – Maria Monti — Il Bestiario — (Unseen Worlds)
24 – Matthew Barber — Songs for the Haunted Hillbilly — (A Priori) — CC
25 – Hot Panda — Go Outside — (Mint) — CC
26 – Mission of Burma — Unsound — (Fire)
27 – Jon Samuel — First Transmission — (Hidden Pony) — CC
28 – Cankun — Idle — (Constellation Tatsu)
29 – Bonde do Role — Tropicalbacanal — (Mad Decent)
30 – Frustrations — Negative Reflections — (X!)
JAZZ
1 – Cory Weeds — Up a Step — (Cellar Live) — CC
2 – Shuffle Demons — Clusterfunk — (Linus) — CC
3 – Tyson Naylor Trio — Kosmonauten — (Songlines) — CC
4 – Chris Tarry — Rest of the Story — (self-released) — CC
5 – David Caceres — David Caceres — (Sunnyside Records)
6 – Peter Appleyard — Sophisticated Ladies — (Linus) — CC
7 – Ranee Lee — Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday — (Justin Time)
8 – Saint Dirt Elementary School — Abandoned Ballroom — (Barnyard) — CC
9 – Elizabeth Shepherd — Rewind — (Pinwheel Music) — CC
10 – Henry Threadgill Zooid — Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp — (Pi Recordings)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
2 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
3 – Archives — Archives — (ESL Music)
4 – Jennifer Scott & Brasileira — Sonho Meu — (Cellar Live)
5 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
6 – The Battle of Santiago — Full Colour — (self-released) — CC
7 – Calibro 35 — Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Faces is Purely Coincidental — (Nublu)
8 – Various Artists — Sembeh Ma Fa Fe: Revisits — (Stronghold Sound)
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 – E1000 — Strange Fruits — (Chez Kito Kat Records) — CC
3 – Matthew Dear — Beams — (Ghostly)
4 – Alexandre Navarro — Sketches — (Constellation Tatsu)
5 – Elisa Luu — Un Giorno Sospeso — (Hidden Shoal)
6 – Stephen Hummel — Melo — (self-released) — CC
7 – Supreme Cuts — Whispers in the Dark — (Dovecote)
8 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
9 – Slugabed — Time Team — (Ninja Tune)
10 – MaQLu — Futureghosts — (self-released) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – Cityreal & Wes Mackey — Good Morning Blues — (Soul of the City Music) — CC
2 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
3 – I Self Devine — The Sound of Low Class Amerika — (Rhymesayers)
4 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
5 – Touch & the Dirty Sample — The Fly — (Neferiu) — CC
6 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 3 — (Urbnet) — CC
7 – Various Artists — Spaceshipone Chapter 1: In Search of Blackboltt — (1812 Recordings) — CC
8 – Jus Frais — Lullabies & Other Bedtime Stories — (Jus Music Productions) — CC
9 – Muneshine — There Is Only Today — (Droppin’ Science) — CC
10 – Plex — Demons — (Urbnet) — CC
LOUD
1 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
2 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
3 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
4 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
5 – Haiduk — Spellbook — (self-released) — CC
6 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
7 – Philm — Harmonic — (Ipecac Records)
8 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
9 – Prong — Carved Into Stone — (Long Branch Records)
10 – Millencolin — The Melancholy Connection — (Epitaph)