TOP 30 1 – Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital — (Sub Pop) — CC 2 – Library Voices — Summer of Lust — (Nevado Records) — CC 3 – Moonface — Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped — (Jagjaguwar) — CC 4 – Iceage — New Brigade — (What’s Your Rupture?) 5 – Bon Iver — Bon Iver — (Jagjaguwar) 6 – Extra Happy Ghost!!! — Modern Horses — (Saved by Radio) — CC 7 – The Weather Station — All of it was Mine — (You’ve Changed Records) — CC 8 – The Deep Dark Woods — The Place I Left Behind — (Six Shooter) — CC 9 – Zdenek Liska — Mala Morska Vila — (B-Music) 10 – Shooting Guns — Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 — (The Teargas Recording Tree ) — CC 11 – Various Artists — National Parks Project — (Last Gang Records) — CC 12 – Graham Wright — Shirts Vs. Skins — (File Under Music) — CC 13 – Andy Boay — Born to Fully — (Bruised Tongue) — CC 14 – The Men — Leave Home — (Sacred Bones) 15 – Stephin Merritt — Obscurities — (Merge) 16 – Those Gulls — Those Gulls — (self-released) — CC* 17 – Fruit Bats — Tripper — (Sub Pop) 18 – Tonstartssbandht — Hymn — (Does Are) — CC
19 – Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Unknown Mortal Orchestra — (Fat Possum) 20 – Eleanor Friedberger — Last Summer — (Merge) 21 – Xeno & Oaklander — Sentinelle — (Wierd) 22 – The F-Holes — Angel in the Corner — (self-released) — CC 23 – Male Bonding — Endless Now — (Sub Pop) 24 – Little Foot Long Foot — Oh, Hell — (self-released) — CC 25 – Sons & Daughters — Mirror Mirror — (Domino) 26 – Dex Romweber Duo — Is That You In The Blue? — (Bloodshot) 27 – Brown Bag Allstars — Brown Bag Season — (Nostomania Records) — CC 28 – Let’s Wrestle — Nursing Home — (Merge) 29 – Portugal. The Man — In The Mountain In The Cloud — (Atlantic) 30 – Ilaiyaraaja — Solla Solla — (B-Music) FRANCOPHONE 1 – EUGÈNE ET LE CHEVAL — PLANTES CARNIVORES ET AUTRES MÉCANISMES DE DÉFENSE — (INDÉPENDANT) — CC 2 – BRAVOFUNKEN — COEUR RUBIK — (INDEPENDANT) — CC 3 – EREWHON — LES CORAUX — (POULET NEIGE) — CC 4 – CHARLIE FOXTROT — MISE EN ABIME — (SLAM DISQUES) — CC 5 – MAYBE WATSON — MAYBE WATSON — (ABUZIVE MUZIK) — CC 6 – MANON — UNTEL A DIT CA — (LES DISQUES EN CHANTIER) 7 – MARIEME — MARIEME — (ABUZIVE MUZIK) — CC 8 – ÉTÉ 67 — PASSER LA FRONTIÈRE — (30 FÉVRIER) 9 – LES DÉCALÉS DU BOCAGE — A L’OUEST — (INDEPENDANT) 10 – VANESSA PHILIPPE — LA FILLE SANS QUALITES — (WARM-UP) JAZZ 1 – Amanda Tosoff — Looking north — (Maplemusic Records) — CC 2 – Brad Turner Quartet — It’s That Time — (Cellar Live) — CC 3 – The Craig Pedersen Quartet — Early Winter — (self-released) — CC* 4 – Robin Jessome Quintet — For Whatever Reason — (self-released) — CC 5 – Steve Coleman and Five Elements — The Mancy of Sound — (Pi Recordings) 6 – Harris Eisenstadt — Canada Day II — (Songlines) — CC 7 – Search Engine — I’m Feeling Lucky — (self-released) — CC* 8 – Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran — Cuban Rhapsody — (Alma) — CC 9 – Les Doigts de l’Homme — 1910 — (Alma) 10 – Benoit Delbecq — Circles and Calligrams: Solo Piano — (Songlines) INTERNATIONAL 1 – Ilaiyaraaja — Solla Solla — (B-Music) 2 – Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 — From Africa with Fury: Rise — (Knitting Factory) 3 – Elspeth Savani — Flights of Mind/Pensamientos en Vuelo — (self-released) 4 – Trio Bembe — Oh My Soul — (self-released) — CC 5 – Locarno — Una Mas Y Ya Nos Vamos — (Jericho Beach) — CC 6 – Aline Morales — Flores, Tambores e Amores — (self-released) — CC 7 – Ocote Soul Sounds — Taurus — (ESL Music) 8 – Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou — The 1st Album (1973) — (Analog Africa) 9 – Hangai — He Who Travels Far — (World Connection) 10 – Cheikh Lo — Jamm — (World Circuit) ELECTRONIC 1 – Opopo — Light Work — (Urbnet) — CC 2 – Zomby — Dedication — (4AD) 3 – Pictureplane — Thee Physical — (Lovepump United) 4 – Africa Hitech — 93 Million Miles — (Warp) 5 – SBTRKT — SBTRKT — (Young Turks) 6 – Biosphere — N-Plants — (Touch) 7 – When Saints Go Machine — Konkylie — (!K7) 8 – Junior Boys — It’s All True — (Domino) — CC 9 – Chad Valley — Equitorial Ultravox — (Cascine) 10 – Data Romance — Data Romance — (Street Quality Entertainment ) — CC HIP HOP 1 – Brown Bag Allstars — Brown Bag Season — (Nostomania Recordsu) — CC 2 – Shabazz Palaces — Black Up — (Sub Pop) 3 – Playdough — Hotdoggin — (self-released) 4 – Fresh Kils & Uncle Fester — The Mint Condition — (Kilzone) — CC 5 – Wiley — 100% Publishing — (Big Dada) 6 – Rebel Yell — Social Studies — (self-released) — CC 7 – Sole & The Skyrider Band — Hello Cruel World — (Fake Four) 8 – Grieves — Together Apart — (Rhymesayers) 9 – Hail Mary Mallon — Are You Gonna Eat That? — (Rhymesayers) 10 – Wyzaker — The Red Midnight — (Neferiu) — CC LOUD 1 – Shooting Guns — Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 — (The Teargas Recording Tree ) — CC 2 – Doomeastvan — Songs in the Key of Death — (self-released) — CC 3 – Dischord — Casualties of War — (Diminshed Fifth) — CC 4 – All Shall Perish — This is Where it Ends — (Nuclear Blast) 5 – Big D and the Kids Table — For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious — (Side One Dummy) 6 – No Problem — No Problem — (Deranged) — CC 7 – Cerebral Ballzy — Cerebral Ballzy — (Adult Swim) 8 – Barn Burner — Bangers II: Scum of the Earth — (Metal Blade) — CC 9 – Sadistic Humor — R.I.P… Thrashing Into Oblivion — (Ulusulu Records) — CC 10 – Fuel Injected .45 — Past Demo-ns — (Alternative Tentacles)