TOP 30
1 – Various Artists — Rat King! — (Killer Haze) — CC
2 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
3 – Various Artists — Pixxx 3 — (Unit Structure Sound Recordings) — CC
4 – Thee Oh Sees — Putrifiers II EP — (In The Red)
5 – Mika Vainio — FE304 – Magnetite — (Touch)
6 – Tall Trees — Tall Trees — (self-released) — CC
7 – Nude Beach — II — (Other Music)
8 – Animal Collective — Centipede Hz — (Domino)
9 – Puffy Areolas — 1982: Dishonorable Discharge — (HoZac Records)
10 – Marcus Mehr — On — (Hidden Shoal)
11 – The Music Tapes — Mary’s Voice — (Merge)
12 – Deerhoof — Breakup Song — (Polyvinyl)
13 – Michael Rault — Whirlpool — (Pirates Blend)
14 – Heavenly Beat — Talent — (Captured Tracks)
15 – Evening Hymns — Spectral Dusk — (Shuffling Feet Records) — CC
16 – Audacity — Mellow Cruisers — (Burger/Recess)
17 – Velvet Elvis — In Deep Time — (cae-sur-a)
18 – Elk — Daydreams — (Indoor Shoes) — CC
19 – Jens Lekman — I Know What Love Isn’t — (Secretly Canadian)
20 – Rocky Mountain Rebel Music — Vic Sound System — (self-released) — CC
21 – Bob Mould — Silver Age — (Merge)
22 – The Utilities — Flint — (Esper Records) — CC
23 – Dinosaur Jr. — I Bet On Sky — (Jagjaguwar)
24 – Beachwood Sparks — The Tarnished Gold — (Sub Pop)
25 – The Dudes — Barbers, Thieves & Bartenders — (self-released) — CC
26 – The Waxbills — When Love Comes — (self-released) — CC
27 – Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan — (Domino)
28 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
29 – Crocodiles — Endless Flowers — (Frenchkiss)
30 – Peer Support — Peer Support EP — (self-released) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Paul Beaudry & Pathways — Americas — (Soundkeeper Recordings)
2 – Chris Tarry — Rest of the Story — (self-released) — CC
3 – Vitaly Golovnev Quartet — What Matters — (Tippin’ Records)
4 – Saint Dirt Elementary School — Abandoned Ballroom — (Barnyard) — CC
5 – Henry Threadgill Zooid — Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp — (Pi Recordings)
6 – Evan Parker & Georg Graewe — Dortmund Variations — (Nuscope Recordings)
7 – Shuffle Demons — Clusterfunk — (Linus) — CC
8 – Elizabeth Shepherd — Rewind — (Pinwheel Music) — CC
9 – Don Cherry — Organic Music Society — (Caprice Records)
10 – Ravi Coltrane — Spirit Fiction — (Blue Note)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Calibro 35 — Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Faces is Purely Coincidental — (Nublu)
2 – Sarazino — Everyday Salama — (Cumbancha)
3 – Septeto Santiaguero — Vamos pa’la fiesta — (Picap)
4 – Ondatropica — Ondatropica — (Soundway)
5 – Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang — En Yay Sah — (Luaka Bop)
6 – Various Artists — Nickodemus Presents: The Wonderwheel Spins in 2012 — (Wonderwheel)
7 – Konkoma — Konkoma — (Soundway)
8 – Los Fulanos — Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo — (Lovemonk)
9 – Various Artists — Sembeh Ma Fa Fe: Revisits — (Stronghold Sound)
10 – Archives — Archives — (ESL Music)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Shout Out Out Out Out — Spanish Moss & Total Loss — (Normals Welcome) — CC
2 – E1000 — Strange Fruits — (Chez Kito Kat Records) — CC
3 – Rakam — Stranger Things Before — (self-released) — CC
4 – Dub Pistols — Worshipping the Dollar — (Sunday Best)
5 – Alexandre Navarro — Sketches — (Constellation Tatsu)
6 – Matthew Dear — Beams — (Ghostly)
7 – Psychic Pollution — Deconstructed Architecture — (Eat Glass) — CC
8 – Elisa Luu — Un Giorno Sospeso — (Hidden Shoal)
9 – Digitalism — DJ-Kicks — (!K7)
10 – Learning — Kant — (self-released) — CC
HIP HOP
1 – Atherton — No Threat — (Vinyl Tap) — CC
2 – Cadence Weapon — Hope in Dirt City — (Upper Class) — CC
3 – Union — Analogtronics — (Fat Beats)
4 – Muneshine — There Is Only Today — (Droppin’ Science) — CC
5 – Matisyahu — Spark Seeker — (Thirty Tigers)
6 – JJ Doom — Key to the Kuffs — (Lex Records)
7 – Blackboltt — Leader of the Opposition — (1812 Recordings) — CC
8 – Plex — Demons — (Urbnet) — CC
9 – Evil Ebenezer — Penguin EP — (Camobear) — CC
10 – Aesop Rock — Skelethon — (Rhymesayers)
LOUD
1 – Haiduk — Spellbook — (self-released) — CC
2 – Propagandhi — Failed States — (Epitaph) — CC
3 – 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal — (Century Media) — CC
4 – Cellos — Bomb Shelter — (Dead Beat Records) — CC
5 – Nu Sensae — Sundowning — (Suicide Squeeze) — CC
6 – Childsplay — Righteous Rampage — (self-released) — CC
7 – The Great Sabatini — Matterhorn — (No List) — CC
8 – Wizards of Kaos — Wizards of Kaos — (Diminished Fifth Records) — CC
9 – Adrenechrome — Hideous Appetites — (self-released)
10 – Philm — Harmonic — (Ipecac Records)