1.8...Thundercat...The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam...Brainfeeder

2.7...Naked Gods...Naked Gods...s/r

3.7...Lamar Thomas...Feel So Good Inside...Favorite Recordings

4.7...Bernard Fevre...Cosmos 2043...Alter K

5.7...Leon Bridges...Coming Home...Columbia

6.7...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries

7.7...Little Richard...Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years...Specialty

8.7...Gossamer...Automaton...Innovative Leisure

9.6...Terrace Heater...Harris Teeter...self-released

10.6...Life of Saturdays...So How We Seem...s/r

11.6...Destruction Unit...Negative Feedback Resistor...Sacred Bones

12.6...Markis Precise...The Feeling of Flying...Ineffable Music

13.6...Marquis Hawkes...Feed the Beast...Dixon Avenue Basement Jams

14.6...Zachary Cale...Duskland...No Quarter

15.6...Gwenno...Y Dydd Olaf...Heavenly Recordings

16.6...Bert Jansch...Live at the 12 Bar...Earth

17.6...Meg Baird...Don't Weigh Down the Light...Drag City

18.5...Magnolia Collective...Coldest Winter EP...s/r

19.5...Arthur Russell...Corn...Audika

20.5...The Bachs...Out of the Bachs...Out-Sider

21.5...Gangrene...You Disgust Me...Mass Appeal

22.5...Wee Willie Walker...If Nothing Ever Changes...Little Village Foundation

23.5...Chihei Hatakeyama...Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains...Room 40

24.5...Mynabirds...Lovers Know...Saddle Creek

25.5...Royal Headache...High...What's Your Rupture?

26.5...Ducktails...St. Catherine...Domino

27.4...Chuck Johnson...Blood Moon Boulder...Scissor Tail Editions

28.4...Oppenheimer Analysis...New Mexico...Minimal Wave

29.4...Second Layer...World of Rubber...Dark Entries

30.4...Waxwing...a bowl of sixty taxidermists...Songlines

31.4...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

32.4...Galcher Lustwerk...Parlay...Lustwerk Music

33.4...Adversarial...Death, Endless Nothing, and the Black Knife of Nihilism...Dark Descent

34.4...Paul Lansky...Contemplating Weather...Bridge

35.4...Nosaj Thing...Fated...Innovative Leisure

36.4...Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe...I Declare Nothing...A Recordings

37.4...Alex Chilton...Ocean Club '77...Norton

38.4...Peacers...Peacers...Drag City

39.4...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

40.4...Charlie Rich...So Lonesome I Could Cry...Hi/Fat Possum

41.3...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

42.3...Michael Rank and Stag...Horsehair...s/r

43.3...Alpha Cop...The Taupe EP...self-released

44.3...Nest Egg...Respectable...Bathetic

45.3...Daniel Romano...If I've Only One Time Askin'...New West

46.3...Dave Douglas...High Risk...Greenleaf

47.3...OB Ignitt and Omar S...The '90s Evolution of What Is Was...Obonit

48.3...High on Fire...Luminiferous...E One

49.3...EZTV...Calling Out...Captured Tracks

50.3...Damaged Bug...Cold Hot Plumbs...Castle Face

51.3...Joe Crow...Compulsion...Dark Entries

52.3...Hound...Out of Time...SRA

53.3...Various Artists...Electroconvulsive Therapy Volume 3: Obscure Singles Crica 83-86...Medical/Crispy Nuggest

54.3...Mike Cooper...Fratello Mare...Room40

55.3...Diat...Positive Energy...Iron Lung

56.3...Spray Paint...Punters On a Barge...Homeless

57.3...Valkyrie...Shadows...Relapse

58.3...Eleventh Dream Day...Works for Tomorrow...Thrill Jockey

59.3...Policy...The Republic...100% Silk

60.3...The Lowest Pair...I Reckon I'm Fixin' on Kickin' Round to Pick a Little...Team Love

61.2...MAKE...The Golden Veil...s/r

62.2...Greg Hawks...What Goes Around...s/r

63.2...John Zorn's Olympiad...Dither Plays Zorn...Tzadik

64.2...Various Artists...Playing 'Til Your Soul Comes Out!: Music of Macedonia...Smithsonian Folkways

65.2...Gesloten Cirkel...Gesloten Cirkel...Murder Capital

66.2...Repairs...Decay/Cycle...HoZac

67.2...Gashrat...Downs...Hot Releases

68.2...Ecstatic Vision...Sonic Praise...Relapse

69.2...Ghostface Killah...Adrian Younge presents: Twelve Reasons to Die II...Linear Labs

70.2...Jackson C. Frank...The Complete Recordings...Ba Da Bing!

71.2...Bumper Jacksons...Too Big World...s/r

72.2...Lone...Lemurian...Magic Wire/R&S

73.2...Uneven Eleven...Live at Cafe Oto...Sub Rosa

74.2...T. Hardy Morris...Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drowin on a Mountaintop...Dangerbird

75.2...Worriers...Imaginary Life...Don Giovanni

76.2...Midnight...Into the Night...Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk

77.2...Westkust...Last Forever...Run for Cover

78.2...ScotDrakula...ScotDrakula...self-released

79.2...KEN Mode...Success...Season of Mist

80.2...Rezzett...Goodness...The Trilogy Tapes

81.2...Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble...The Otherworld Cycle...Edgetone

82.2...Barna Howard...Quite a Feelin'...Mama Bird

83.2...Nap Eyes...Whine of the Mystic...Paradise of Bachelors

84.2...Throaat...Black Speed...Invictus

85.2...Various Artists...Who's a Punk? The Very Best of British Punksploitation...Sham

86.2...Amanaz...Africa...Now Again

87.2...Alessandro Cortini...Risveglio...Hospital Productions

88.2...Moon...Render of the Veils...Moribund

RPM

1.7...Bernard Fevre...Cosmos 2043...Alter K

2.7...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries

3.7...Gossamer...Automaton...Innovative Leisure

4.6...Marquis Hawkes...Feed the Beast...Dixon Avenue Basement Jams

5.4...Galcher Lustwerk...Parlay...Lustwerk Music

6.4...Nosaj Thing...Fated...Innovative Leisure

7.4...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

8.3...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

9.3...OB Ignitt and Omar S...The '90s Evolution of What Is Was...Obonit

10.3...Policy...The Republic...100% Silk

WORLD

1. 4...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

2. 2...Various Artists...Playing 'Til Your Soul Comes Out!: Music of Macedonia...Smithsonian Folkways

3. 1...Various...Music of Tanzania...Sublime Frequencies

4. 1...Amara Toure...1973-1980...Analog Africa

5. 1...Alceu Valencia...Molhado de Suor...Sol Re Sol

6. 1...Bomba Estereo...Amanecer...Sony Music Latin

7. 1...Chico Trujillo...Reina de Todas las Feistas...Barbes

8. 1...Quarter Street...Quarter Street...HopeStreet

9. 1...Dayme Arocena...Nueva Era...Brown Sword

10. 1...Senyawa...Menjadi...Morphine

JAZZ

1.4...Waxwing...a bowl of sixty taxidermists...Songlines

2.4...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

3.3...Dave Douglas...High Risk...Greenleaf

4.2...John Zorn's Olympiad...Dither Plays Zorn...Tzadik

5.2...Uneven Eleven...Live at Cafe Oto...Sub Rosa

6.2...Wayne Horvitz...Some Places are Forever...Songlines

7.1...Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined...Eat the Air...Skirl

8.1...Ken Aldcroft & Scott Thompson...Red & Blue...Trio

9.1...Vijay Iyer Trio...Break Stuff...ECM

10.1...Darius Jones Quartet...Le bebe de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)...AUM Fidelity

AMERICANA

1. 6...Zachary Cale...Duskland...No Quarter

2. 6...Bert Jansch...Live at the 12 Bar...Earth

3. 6...Meg Baird...Don't Weigh Down the Light...Drag City

4. 5...Magnolia Collective...Coldest Winter EP...self-released

5. 4...Chuck Johnson...Blood Moon Boulder...Scissor Tail Editions

6. 4...Charlie Rich...So Lonesome I Could Cry...Hi/Fat Possum

7. 3...Michael Rank and Stag...Horsehair...self-released

8. 3...Daniel Romano...If I've Only One Time Askin'...New West

9. 3...The Lowest Pair...I Reckon I'm Fixin' on Kickin' Round to Pick a Little...Team Love

10. 2...Greg Hawks...What Goes Around...self-released

LOUD

1.6...Destruction Unit...Negative Feedback Resistor...Sacred Bones

2.4...Adversarial...Death, Endless Nothing, and the Black Knife of Nihilism...Dark Descent

3.3...High on Fire...Luminiferous...E One

4.3...Hound...Out of Time...SRA

5.3...Valkyrie...Shadows...Relapse

6.2...MAKE...The Golden Veil ...s/r

7.2...Ecstatic Vision...Sonic Praise...Relapse

8.2...KEN Mode...Success...Season of Mist

9.2...Throaat...Black Speed...Invictus

10.2...Reverie...Bliss...Escho