TOP 30
1 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
2 – Fist City — It’s 1983, Grow Up — (Black Tent Press) — CC
3 – Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II EP — (In The Red)
4 – Evening Hymns — Spectral Dusk — (Shuffling Feet Records) — CC
5 – Nude Beach — II — (Other Music)
6 – Milks & Rectangles — Milks & Rectangles — (self-released) — CC
7 – Jon Samuel — First Transmission — (Hidden Pony) — CC
8 – Slug Guts — Playin’ in Time With the Deadbeat — (Sacred Bones)
9 – Wet Hair — Spill Into Atmosphere — (De Stijl)
10 – Frustrations — Negative Reflections — (X!)
11 – Puffy Areolas — 1982: Dishonorable Discharge — (HoZac Records)
12 – Young Guv & the Scuzz — A Love Too Strong — (Southpaw) — CC
13 – Two Man Gentlemen Band — Two At A Time — (Bean-Tone)
14 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
15 – Deerhoof — Breakup Song — (Polyvinyl)
16 – Patti Smith — Banga — (Columbia)
17 – Fergus & Geronimo — Funky Was The State Of Affairs — (Hardly Art)
18 – Damian Valles — Nonparallel In Four Movements — (Experimedia) — CC
19 – Poor Moon — Poor Moon — (Sub Pop)
20 – Teen — In Limbo — (Carpark)
21 – Freeman Dre and the Kitchen Party — Old Town — (Fedora Upside Down) — CC
22 – Mission of Burma — Unsound — (Fire)
23 – The Waxbills — When Love Comes — (self-released) — CC
24 – Audacity — Mellow Cruisers — (Burger/Recess)
25 – Elk — Daydreams — (Indoor Shoes) — CC
26 – Saint Dirt Elementary School — Abandoned Ballroom — (Barnyard) — CC
27 – Mike Tod — The Northern Country — (self-released) — CC
28 – Eternal Summers — Correct Behavior — (Kanine)
29 – Cookie Duster — When Flying Was Easy — (Draper St. Records) — CC
30 – Haiduk — Spellbook — (self-released) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Saint Dirt Elementary School — Abandoned Ballroom — (Barnyard) — CC
2 – Paul Beaudry & Pathways — Americas — (Soundkeeper Recordings)
3 – Francois Houle 5 + 1 — Genera — (Songlines) — CC
4 – Ravi Coltrane — Spirit Fiction — (Blue Note)
5 – Peter Appleyard — Sophisticated Ladies — (Linus) — CC
6 – Chris Tarry — Rest of the Story — (self-released) — CC
7 – Pat Metheny — Unity Band — (Nonesuch)
8 – Vitaly Golovnev Quartet — What Matters — (Tippin’ Records)
9 – Evan Parker & Georg Graewe — Dortmund Variations — (Nuscope Recordings)
10 – Elizabeth Shepherd — Rewind — (Pinwheel Music) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Various Artists — Nickodemus Presents: The Wonderwheel Spins in 2012 — (Wonderwheel)
2 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
3 – Archives — Archives — (ESL Music)
4 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
5 – The Battle of Santiago — Full Colour — (self-released) — CC
6 – Sarazino — Everyday Salama — (Cumbancha)
7 – Jennifer Scott & Brasileira — Sonho Meu — (Cellar Live)
8 – Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route — Borderlands — (Smithsonian Folkways)
9 – Various Artists — Sembeh Ma Fa Fe: Revisits — (Stronghold Sound)
10 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Purity Ring — Shrines — (Last Gang Records) — CC
2 – Dub Pistols — Worshipping the Dollar — (Sunday Best)
3 – Elisa Luu — Un Giorno Sospeso — (Hidden Shoal)
4 – Matthew Dear — Beams — (Ghostly)
5 – Digitalism — DJ-Kicks — (!K7)
6 – E1000 — Strange Fruits — (Chez Kito Kat Records) — CC
7 – Alexandre Navarro — Sketches — (Constellation Tatsu)
8 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
9 – Learning — Kant — (self-released) — CC
10 – Stephen Hummel — Melo — (self-released) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
2 – Union — Analogtronics — (Fat Beats)
3 – Various Artists — Spaceshipone Chapter 1: In Search of Blackboltt — (1812 Recordings) — CC
4 – Blackboltt — Leader of the Opposition — (1812 Recordings) — CC
5 – Touch & the Dirty Sample — The Fly — (Neferiu) — CC
6 – JJ Doom — Key to the Kuffs — (Lex Records)
7 – MantraKid — Dragon Lullabies — (Neferiu) — CC
8 – Evil Ebenezer — Penguin EP — (Camobear) — CC
9 – Plex — Demons — (Urbnet) — CC
10 – Various Artists — Urbnet Certified Volume 3 — (Urbnet) — CC
LOUD
1 – Haiduk — Spellbook — (self-released) — CC
2 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
3 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
4 – Cellos — Bomb Shelter — (Dead Beat Records) — CC
5 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
6 – Asightforsewneyes — Alone Together — (Distort) — CC
7 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
8 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
9 – White Lung — Sorry — (Deranged) — CC
10 – Millencolin — The Melancholy Connection — (Epitaph)