1.16...Anderson .Paak...Malibu...Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE

2.15...Parquet Courts...Human Performance...Rough Trade

3.13...Frankie Cosmos...Next Thing...Bayonet

4.12...Boulevards...Groove!...Captured Tracks

5.12...Magic Sam Blues Band...Black Magic...Delmark

6.12...Bleached...Welcome the Worms...Dead Oceans

7.11...Some Army...One Stone and Too Many Birds...Potluck

8.11...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE

9.10...Eric Bachmann...Eric Bachmann...Merge

10.10...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group

11.10...Christopher Bissonnette...Pitch, Paper & Foil...Kranky

12.10...Suuns...Hold/Still...Secretly Canadian

13.10...Various...Los Alamos Grind...Numero

14.10...Sunwatchers...Sunwatchers...Castle Face

15.10...Ray Pierle...Time and Money...Out-Sider

16.10...'Thesda...Spaced Out...Left Ear

17.9...The Astounds...The Astounds...self-released

18.9...The People's Workshop...Houston Talent Expo...BBE

19.8...Caleb Caudle...Carolina Ghost...This is American Music

20.8...Mike & The Melvins...Three Men and a Baby...Sub Pop

21.8...Robbie Fulks...Upland Stories...Bloodshot

22.7...al Riggs...Blue Mornings...self-released

23.7...Dogs Eyes...Measure the Earth...self-released

24.7...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone

25.7...Keefe Jackson & Jason Adasiewicz...Rows and Rows...Delmark

26.7...Sophia Loizou...Singulacra...Kathexis

27.7...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood

28.7...Hayes Carll...Lovers and Leavers...Hwy 87

29.6...The Honeycutters...On the Ropes...Organic

30.6...John Carpenter...Lost Themes II...Sacred Bones

31.6...Xosar...Show Yourself...Gyrocyre

32.6...Tacocat...Lost Time...Hardly Art

33.6...Birds of Chicago...Real Midnight...Five Head Entertainment

34.5...Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish...Expecting...MIE Music

35.5...Bill Converse...Meditations/Industry...Dark Entries

36.5...Killer Kane Band...Mr. Cool EP...HoZac

37.5...Causa Sui...Return to Sky...El Paraiso

38.5...Explosions in the Sky...The Wilderness...Temporary Residence Ltd.

39.4...Chateau...Amissus...self-released

40.4...Peter Lenz...Lithium...Skirl

41.4...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel

42.4...Yoshi Wada...Off the Wall...self-released

43.4...Essaie Pas...Demain est une autre nuit...DFA

44.4...Yuck...Stranger Things...Mame

45.4...BledJon...The Popular Loner...self-released

46.4...Brutus...Wandering Blind...Svart

47.4...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey

48.3...Body Games...Damager...self-released

49.3...Jungle: Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake...Live at Okuden...ESP-Disk

50.3...Bombino...Azel...Partisan

51.3...Tendagruta...Ensalmo Do Sargaco...Dissociated

52.3...Heavy Times...Black Sunglasses 7"...HoZac

53.3...Various...Czech Up! Vol. 1: Chain of Fools...Vampisoul

54.3...Get Open...IAM Open...Overtime

55.3...Baris Manco and Kurtalan Ekspres...Sozum Meclisten Disari...Pharaway Sounds

56.3...Graves at Sea...The Curse That Is...Relapse

57.3...Holy Wave...Freaks of Nurture...Reverberation Appreciation Society

58.3...Troller...Graphic...HoloDeck

59.3...Heron Oblivion...Heron Oblivion...Sub Pop

60.3...Jackson Turner...The Foundation...self-released

61.3...Oransii Pazuzu...Varahtelija...20 Buck Spin

62.3...Ausmuteants/Housewives...Split 7"...Total Punk

63.3...Beacon...Escapements...Ghostly International

64.2...Rokia Traore...Ne So...Nonesuch/Rock A Sound

65.2...Brian Kage...A White Bear's Heaven...is a Black Bear's Hell!...FXHE

66.2...Panopticon...Autumn Eternal...Bindrune Recordings

67.2...Bong of Cthulhu...Bong of Cthulhu...self-released

68.2...The Monochrome Set...Volume, Contrast, Brilliance... Unreleased & Rare Vol.2...Tapete

69.2...CookBook and Evidence...A Whole New Cook...Just-Us Movement

70.2...Psychic Blood...Alien 12"...Wharf Cat

71.2...Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie "Prince" Billy...Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties...Drag City

72.2...Lifetones...For A Reason...Tone Of Life/Light in the Attic

73.2...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds

74.2...Sheer Mag...III...Static Shock

75.2...Raw McCartney...Midwest Eject...Goodbye Boozy

76.2...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home

77.2...Various...Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar...Sublime Frequencies

78.2...Various...Psychedelic States: Florida in the 60s vol. 4...Gear Fab

79.2...Adult Books...Running from the Blows...Lolipop

80.2...Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil...Wow to the Deadness...Sounds Familyre

81.2...10isee Williams...Gorilla Warfare...self-released

82.2...Vanessa Amara...You're Welcome Here...Posh Isolation

83.2...Amelia White...Home Sweet Hotel...White-Wolf

84.1...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy

85.1...Fatima Al Qadiri...Brute...Hyperdub

86.1...Amanar De Kidal...Tumastin...Sahel Sounds

87.1...Kyle Hall...For Love...Wild Oats

88.1...From the Depths...From the Depths...Hells Headbangers

RPM

1.10...Christopher Bissonnette...Pitch, Paper & Foil...Kranky

2.7...Sophia Loizou...Singulacra...Kathexis

3.6...Xosar...Show Yourself...Gyrocyre

4.5...Bill Converse...Meditations/Industry...Dark Entries

5.4...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel

6.2...Brian Kage...A White Bear's Heaven...is a Black Bear's Hell!...FXHE

7.2...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home

8.1...Fatima Al Qadiri...Brute...Hyperdub

9.1...Kyle Hall...For Love...Wild Oats

10.1...Nuno Canavarro...Plux Quba...Drag City

HIP HOP

1.16...Anderson .Paak...Malibu...Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE

2.10...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group

3.4...BledJon...The Popular Loner...self-released

4.3...Get Open...IAM Open...Overtime

5.3...Jackson Turner...The Foundation...self-released

6.2...CookBook and Evidence...A Whole New Cook...Just-Us Movement

7.2...10isee Williams...Gorilla Warfare...self-released

8.1...Saul Williams...Martyr Loser King...FADER label

9.1...Koncept & J57...The Fuel...KON57

10.1...J Dilla...Dillatronic...Green Streets Entertainment

LOUD

1.7...Dogs Eyes...Measure the Earth...self-released

2.4...Chateau...Amissus...self-released

3.4...Brutus...Wandering Blind...Svart

4.3...Tendagruta...Ensalmo Do Sargaco...Dissociated

5.3...Graves at Sea The Curse That Is...Relapse

6.3...Oransii Pazuzu...Varahtelija...20 Buck Spin

7.2...Panopticon...Autumn Eternal...Bindrune Recordings

8.2...Bong of Cthulhu...Bong of Cthulhu...self-released

9.1...From the Depths...From the Depths...Hells Headbangers

10.1...The Body...No One Deserves Happiness...Thrill Jockey

WORLD

1.11...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE

2.3...Bombino...Azel...Partisan

3.3...Baris Manco and Kurtalan Ekspres...Sozum Meclisten Disari...Pharaway Sounds

4.2...Rokia Traore...Ne So...Nonesuch/Rock A Sound

5.2...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds

6.2...Various...Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar...Sublime Frequencies

7.1...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy

8.1...Amanar De Kidal...Tumastin...Sahel Sounds

9.1...Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights...Quelbe!: Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands...Smithsonian Folkways

10.1...Various...Yan Mari Yo: Folkloric Griots of Guinea...Psychic Sounds

AMERICANA

1. 12...Magic Sam Blues Band...Black Magic...Delmark

2. 8...Caleb Caudle...Carolina Ghost...This is American Music

3. 8...Robbie Fulks...Upland Stories...Bloodshot

4. 7...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone

5. 7...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood

6. 7...Hayes Carll...Lovers and Leavers...Hwy 87

7. 6...The Honeycutters...On the Ropes...Organic

8. 6...Birds of Chicago...Real Midnight...Five Head Entertainment

9. 4...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey

10. 2...Amelia White...Home Sweet Hotel...White-Wolf