TOP 30
1 – Austra — Sparkle — (Domino) — CC
2 – Slim Moore and the Mark-Kays — Introducing Slim Moore & The Mark-Kays — (Marlow Records) — CC
3 – The Riffing Cowboys — Hank ‘n’ Roll: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Tribute to Hank Williams — (self-released)
4 – Ohbijou — Metal Meets — (Last Gang Records) — CC
5 – Basketball — Maw — (Broadway to Boundary) — CC
6 – Siskiyou — Keep Away the Dead — (Constellation) — CC
7 – Andrea Simms-Karp — Hibernation nation — (self-released) — CC
8 – Ian Keteku — Lessons from planet earth : re-evolution — (Nocturne) — CC
9 – Rat Tales — Rat Tales — (self-released) — CC
10 – Heavy Chains — A Very Real Hell — (Broadway to Boundary) — CC
11 – Sandro Perri — Impossible Spaces — (Constellation) — CC
12 – Wild Flag — Wild Flag — (Merge)
13 – Rich Aucoin — We’re All Dying To Live — (Sonic Records) — CC
14 – The Barr Brothers — The Barr Brothers — (Secret City Records) — CC
15 – Whitehorse — Whitehorse — (Six Shooter) — CC
16 – Blitzen Trapper — American Goldwing — (Sub Pop)
17 – Adam & The Amethysts — Flickering Flashlight — (Kelp) — CC
18 – Big Troubles — Romantic Comedy — (Slumberland)
19 – St. Vincent — Strange Mercy — (4AD)
20 – The Pack a.d. — Unpersons — (Mint Records) — CC
21 – Rebekah Higgs — Odd Fellowship — (Hidden Pony ) — CC
22 – David Lynch — Crazy Clown Time — (Pias America / Sunday’s Best)
23 – Beirut — The Riptide — (Pompeii)
24 – Cubic Zirconia — Follow Your Heart — (Fool’s Gold Records)
25 – The Cambodian Space Project — 2011: A Space Odessey — (Metal Postcard)
26 – Born Gold — Bodysongs — (self-released) — CC
27 – Yamantaka//Sonic Titan — Yamantaka//Sonic Titan — (Psychic Handshake) — CC
28 – Muskox — Invocation/Transformations — (self-released) — CC
29 – Various Artists — Life is Dance — (B-Music)
30 – Tim Hecker — Dropped Pianos — (Kranky) — CC
FRANCOPHONE
1 – KORIASS — PETITES VICTOIRES — (7IEME CIEL RECORDS ) — CC
2 – DAVID GOUDREAULT — APPROFONDIR — (INDEPENDANT)
3 – CATHERINE MAJOR — LE DÉSERT DES SOLITUDES — (SPECTRA MUSIQUE PRODUCTIONS) — CC
4 – INGRID ST-PIERRE — MA PETITE MAM’ZELLE DE CHEMIN — (LES DISQUES LA TRIBU) — CC
5 – FARFADET ET RYMZ — JUNGLE MUSIC — (SILENCE D’OR ) — CC
6 – PATRICE MICHAUD — LE TRIANGLE DES BERMUDES — (PIXELIA ) — CC
7 – MC JUNE — LE REFLET — (INDEPENDANT) — CC
8 – RAFFY — LE FAUX EST LA — (DISTRIBUTION SELECT ) — CC
9 – SALOME LECLERC — SOUS LES ARBRES — (AUDIOGRAM) — CC
10 – YAO — GÉNÉRIS — (XX TEMPLE MUSIC GROUP ) — CC
JAZZ
1 – Cory Weeds with the Tilden Webb Trio — Just Like That — (Cellar Live) — CC
2 – Jim Heineman’s Dream Band — Rh Positive: Live @ Lorraine’s — (Tima Town Productions) — CC
3 – Tyshawn Sorey — Oblique-I — (Pi Recording)
4 – Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli — Modern Music — (Nonesuch)
5 – Akira Sakata & Jim O’Rourke with Chikamorachi — …And that’s the story of jazz — (Family Vineyard)
6 – Gypsophilia — Constellation — (Forward Music ) — CC
7 – Kevin Dean Quartet — A Message From the Dean — (Cellar Live) — CC
8 – Mike Essoudry’s Mash Potato Mashers — Hooray! — (self-released) — CC
9 – Jen Shyu and Mark Dresser — Synastry — (Pi Recording)
10 – The Clay Jenkins Quartet — Good Signs — (Jazz Compass)
INTERNATIONAL
1 – The Cambodian Space Project — 2011: A Space Odessey — (Metal Postcard)
2 – Bio Ritmo — La Verdad — (Fatbeats)
3 – Jorge Martinez — Cadencias — (Cuntrera Productions) — CC
4 – Cache — Looking From The Top — (self-released) — CC
5 – Various Artists — Bollywood Bloodbath — (B-Music)
6 – Digital Dub — #1 — (Roir USA)
7 – Eccodek — Remixtasy — (self-released) — CC
8 – Googoosh — s/t — (Finders Keepers)
9 – Mighty Popo — Gakondo — (Borealis) — CC
10 – Natacha Atlas — Mounqaliba-Rising: The Remixes — (Six Degrees)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Austra — Sparkle — (Domino) — CC
2 – HTRK — Work (work, work) — (Ghostly International)
3 – Boom Bip — Zig Zaj — (Lex Records)
4 – Apparat — The Devil’s Walk — (Mute)
5 – Afrobeta — Under the streets — (Do It)
6 – The Field — Looping State of Mind — (Kompakt)
7 – Toddla T — Watch Me Dance — (Ninja Tune)
8 – Bassnectar — Divergent Spectrum — (Amorphous Music)
9 – Psychic Pollution — PPamb00 & PPamb01 — (self-released) — CC
10 – Xeno & Oaklander — Sets & Lights — (Wierd)
HIP HOP
1 – Slim Moore and the Mark-Kays — Introducing Slim Moore & The Mark-Kays — (Marlow Records) — CC
2 – Astronautalis — This is our science — (Fake Four Inc.)
3 – Kids & Explosions — Shit Computer — (self-released) — CC
4 – DJ Shadow — The Less You Know, The Better — (Island)
5 – Ghettosocks & Timbuktu & Jorun — Teenburger — (Droppin Science) — CC
6 – Roots Manuva — 4everevolution — (Big Dada)
7 – M.E.D. Classic — M.E.D. Classic — (Stones Throw)
8 – Paranoid Castle — Champagne Nightmares — (Rapitalism Records)
9 – KRS-One / Bumpy Knuckles — Royalty Check — (6.8.2 Records)
10 – Flight Distance — Bad Information — (self-released) — CC
LOUD
1 – Scythia — … Of Exile — (self-released) — CC
2 – Dance Laury Dance — Living for the roll — (Abusive Muzik) — CC
3 – Dead Ellington — Refuse Rethink Rebuild — (self-released)
4 – Breathe Knives/Kataplexis — Split — (No List Records) — CC
5 – Dub Trio — IV — (Roir USA)
6 – Mastodon — The Hunter — (Reprise)
7 – All Else Fails — The Oracle — (Suicide Bride Records) — CC
8 – People Explode — People Explode — (Potamus Records) — CC
9 – Hard Charger — This Machine is Driving — (No List Records) — CC
10 – 400 Blows — Sickness & Health — (Org Music )