1.17...Goat...Requiem...Sub Pop

2.11...Purling Hiss...High Bias...Drag City

3.11...Duchess Says...Sciences Nouvelles...Slovenly

4.10...Wild Fur...Feel Free...Potluck

5.10...Shango Dance Band...Shango Dance Band...Comb & Razor

6.10...LVL UP...Return to Love...Sub Pop

7.9...Magpie Feast...To Keep It All Spinning...self-released

8.9...Beauty World...Joypop Turbo...Potluck

9.9...MV & EE...Root/Void...Woodsist

10.9...Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds...Skeleton Tree...Bad Seed Ltd.

11.8...Bobby Kapp & Matthew Shipp...Cactus...Northern Spy

12.8...Trentemoller...Fixion...In My Room

13.8...Sneaks...Gymnastics...Merge

14.8...Wovenhand...Star Treatment...Sargent House

15.8...Morgan Delt...Phase Zero...Sub Pop

16.8...Chain Wallet...Chain Wallet...Jansen Plateproduksjon

17.7...Dow Jones and the Industrials...Can't Stand the Midwest 1979-1981...Family Vineyard

18.7...Stuart Chalmers...In The Heart of Solitude...Constellation Tatsu

19.7...Oozing Wound...Whatever Forever...Thrill Jockey

20.7...Chivalrous Amoekons...Fanatic Voyage...Drag City

21.7...Preoccupations...Preoccupations...Jagjaguwar

22.6...Totally Slow...Bleed Out...Negative Fun/Self Aware

23.6...Helen Money...Become Zero...Thrill Jockey

24.6...Trio Mocoto...Trio Mocoto...Vinilisssimo

25.6...Various Artists...Imaginational Anthem Vol 8: The Private Press...Tompkins Square

26.6...Thee Oh Sees...A Weird Exists...Castle Face

27.6...Thalia Zedek Band...Eve...Thrill Jockey

28.6...The Lowest Pair...Fern Girl & Ice Man...Team Love

29.5...Human Pippi Armstrong...Everything is Flexible...Djangokill

30.5...Mandolin Orange...Blindfaller...Yep Roc

31.5...Knives of Spain...Telluric...Hairy Spider Legs

32.5...Luisa Maita...Fio da Memoria...Cumbancha

33.5...Darcy James Argue's Secret Society...Real Enemies...New Amsterdam

34.5...S U R V I V E...RR7349...Relapse

35.5...Angel Olsen...My Woman...Jagjaguwar

36.5...Oneida & Rhys Chatham...What's Your Sign?...Northern Spy

37.5...Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu...Vangaza!...SWP

38.5...Death by Unga Bunga...Fight EP...Jansen Plateproduksjon

39.4...Nathan Bowles...Whole & Cloven...Paradise of Bachelors

40.4...Flock of Dimes...If You See Me, Say Yes...Partisan

41.4...The Bronzed Chorus...Summering...Double+Good

42.4...A.S.H.E.S. the Chosen...The First Call...SmG

43.4...Perujazz...Perujazz...Vampisoul

44.4...Various Artists...Criminale Vol. 3, Colpo Gobbo...Penny

45.4...Various Artists...Sky Girl...Efficient Space

46.4...Nick Klein...The Lonesome Dealer...alter

47.4...Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms...Innocent Road...self-released

48.4...Tim Presley..."The Wink"...Drag City

49.4...Nick Zoulek...Rushing Past Willow...Innova

50.4...Dale Watson and His Lonestars...Live at the Big T Roadhouse: Chicken S*&^ Bingo Sunday...Red House

51.4...M//R...Untitled...L.I.E.S.

52.4...Apollo Brown & Skyzoo...The Easy Truth...Mello Music Group

53.4...Akasha System...Vague Response...100% Silk

54.4...clipping....Splendor & Misery...Sub Pop

55.4...John Blues Boyd...Introducing John Blues Boyd: The Real Deal ...Little Village Foundation

56.3...No One Mind...No One Mind...Third Uncle

57.3...Suzanne Ciani...Buchla Concers 1975...Finders Keepers

58.3...Mexican Institute of Sound & Toy Selectah...Compass...Six Degrees

59.3...Croatian Amor...Love Means Taking Action...Posh Isolation

60.3...Murray, Allen & Carrington...Perfection...Motema

61.3...Pill...Convenience...Mexican Summer

62.3...Mass Gothic...Sup Goth...Sub Pop

63.3...Ryan Huber...Kholstomer ...Inam

64.3...THOR & Friends...Thor & Friends...LM Duplication

65.3...MJ Guider...Precious Systems...Kranky

66.3...Dead C...Trouble...Ba Da Bing!

67.3...Camera...Phantom of Liberty...Bureau B

68.3...Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjorn Apeland...Bumblin' Creed...Northern Spy

69.3...Zwischenfall...Sandy Eyes...Dark Entries

70.3...Blood Orange...Freetown Sound...Domino

71.3...The Felice Brothers...Life in the Dark...Yep Roc

72.3...Moderat...III...Mute

73.2...Vaxxers...The Cold Steam Engine...self-released

74.2...De La Soul...And the Anonymous Nobody...AOI

75.2...Low Jack...Lighthouse Stories...Modern Love

76.2...Cloud One...Funky Disco Tracks of Cloud One...queen constance

77.2...Nots...Cosmetic...Goner

78.2...Death Valley Girls...Glow in the Dark...Burger

79.2...The Scientists...A Place Called Bad...Numero Group

80.2...Hammers of Misfortune...Dead Revolution...Metal Blade

81.2...The Larry Joseph Project...Young Giants of Platinum Funk vol. 1...City of Dreams/PPU

82.2...Balance...3...Subsound

83.2...Wrekmeister Harmonies...Light Falls...Thrill Jockey

84.2...Meet Your Death...Meet Your Death...12XU

85.2...Steve Lehman...Selebeyone...Pi

86.2...Cardinal Wyrm...Cast Away...Svart

87.2...The Westerlies...The Westerlies...Songlines

88.2...Various Artists...Running from the Law...Mississippi

RPM

1.5...Human Pippi Armstrong...Everything is Flexible...Djangokill

2.5...S U R V I V E...RR7349...Relapse

3.4...Nick Klein...The Lonesome Dealer...alter

4.4...M//R...Untitled...L.I.E.S.

5.4...Akasha System...Vague Response...100% Silk

6.3...Suzanne Ciani...Buchla Concers 1975...Finders Keepers

7.3...Croatian Amor...Love Means Taking Action...Posh Isolation

8.3...Ryan Huber...Kholstomer ...Inam

9.3...Moderat...III...Mute

10.2...Low Jack...Lighthouse Stories...Modern Love

LOUD

1.7 Oozing Wound Whatever Forever  Thrill Jockey

2.3 Ryan Huber Kholstomer Inam

3.2 Hammers of Misfortune Dead Revolution  Metal Blade

4.2 Cardinal Wyrm Cast Away Svart

5.1 CCR Headcleaner Tear Down the Wall  In the Red

6.1 Predatory Light Predatory Light  Invictus Productions

7.1 Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdition Blood Harvest

8.1 True Widow Avvololgere Relapse

9.1 Brain Tentacles Brain Tentacles  Relapse

10.1 Street Sects End Position The Flenser

WORLD

1.10...Shango Dance Band...Shango Dance Band...Comb & Razor

2.6...Trio Mocoto...Trio Mocoto...Vinilisssimo

3.5...Luisa Maita...Fio da Memoria...Cumbancha

4.5...Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu...Vangaza!...SWP

5.4...Perujazz...Perujazz...Vampisoul

6.3...Mexican Institute of Sound & Toy Selectah...Compass...Six Degrees

7.1...Los Fabulosos Cadillacs...La Salvacion De Solo y Juan...Sony Music Latin

8.1...Heikki Koskinen...Northern Winds and Voices: Finnish Music Imagined in New Ways...Edgetone

9.1...Leni Stern...Dakar Suite...self-released

10.1...Sonzeira...Tam Tam Tam Reimagined...Brownswood

JAZZ

1.8...Bobby Kapp & Matthew Shipp...Cactus...Northern Spy

2.5...Darcy James Argue's Secret Society...Real Enemies...New Amsterdam

3.4...Nick Zoulek...Rushing Past Willow...Innova

4.3...Murray, Allen & Carrington...Perfection...Motema

5.2...Steve Lehman...Selebeyone...Pi

6.2...The Westerlies...The Westerlies...Songlines

HIP HOP

1.4...A.S.H.E.S. the Chosen...The First Call...SmG

2.4...Apollo Brown & Skyzoo...The Easy Truth...Mello Music Group

3.4...clipping....Splendor & Misery...Sub Pop

4.2...De La Soul...And the Anonymous Nobody...AOI

5.1...Oddisee...The Odd Tape...Mello Music Group

AMERICANA

1. 6...Various Artists...Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8: The Private Press...Tompkins Square

2. 6...The Lowest Pair...Fern Girl & Ice Man...Team Love

3. 5...Mandolin Orange...Blindfaller...Yep Roc

4. 4...Nathan Bowles...Whole & Cloven...Paradise of Bachelors

5. 4...Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms...Innocent Road...self-released

6. 4...Dale Watson and His Lonestars...Live at the Big T Roadhouse: Chicken S*&^ Bingo Sunday...Red House

7. 4...John Blues Boyd...Introducing John Blues Boyd: The Real Deal...Little Village Foundation

8. 3...The Felice Brothers...Life in the Dark...Yep Roc

9. 2...Various Artists...Running from the Law...Mississippi

10. 2...The Handsome Family...Unseen...Loose Music