1. 12...Museum Mouth/Naked Naps...Split...Too Far Gone

2. 12...Destroyer...Poison Season...Merge

3. 10...The Old Ceremony...Sprinter...Yep Rock

4. 9...Just Jess...The Break-Up EP...s/r

5. 9...Cold Beat...Into the Air...Crime on the Moon

6. 9...La Luz...Weirdo Shrine...Hardly Art

7. 9...Zachary Cale...Duskland...No Quarter

8. 9...Deaf Wish...Pain...Sub Pop

9. 8...Blank Realm...Illegals in Heaven...Fire

10. 8...Deradoorian...The Expanding Flower Planet...Anticon

11. 7...Suppressive Fire...Hellwraith...s/r

12. 7...Chihei Hatakeyama...Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains...Room 40

13. 6...Mike Sena...Bali High OST...Anthology

14. 6...Michael Stasis...RIP III...Arbutus

15. 5...Markis Precise...The Feeling of Flying...Ineffable Music

16. 5...Arthur Russell...Corn...Audika

17. 5...Qwanqwa...Volume Two...FPE

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

19. 5...Leon Bridges...Coming Home...Columbia

20. 5...Eleventh Dream Day...Works for Tomorrow...Thrill Jockey

21. 5...Deathhammer...Evil Power...Hell's Headbangers

22. 5...Gossamer...Automaton...Innovative Leisure

23. 5...Bert Jansch...Live at the 12 Bar...Earth

24. 4...Dogbane...When Karma Comes Calling...Heaven and Hell

25. 4...Naked Gods...Naked Gods...s/r

26. 4...MAKE...The Golden Veil...s/r

27. 4...Lamar Thomas...Feel So Good Inside...Favorite Recordings

28. 4...Quarter Street...Quarter Street...HopeStreet

29. 4...Alessandro Cortini...Risveglio...Hospital Productions

30. 4...Little Freddie King...Messin' Around Tha Living Room...MadeWright

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

32. 4...Various Artists...Electroconvulsive Therapy Volume 3: Obscure Singles Crica 83-86...Medical/Crispy Nugget

33. 4...Bernard Fevre...Cosmos 2043...Alter K

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

35. 4...Mynabirds...Lovers Know...Saddle Creek

36. 4...Alex Chilton...Ocean Club '77...Norton

37. 4...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries

38. 4...Dave Douglas...High Risk...Greenleaf

39. 4...Mac Demarco...Another One...Captured Tracks

40. 3...Michael Rank and Stag...Horsehair...s/r

41. 3...Songs from the Road Band...Traveling Show...LDT

42. 3...Life of Saturdays...So How We Seem...s/r

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

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

45. 3...Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer...?...ScienSonic

46. 3...Rezzett...Goodness...The Trilogy Tapes

47. 3...Valkyrie...Shadows...Relapse

48. 3...The Memories...Home Style...Randy

49. 3...Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano...Tradicion, Arte y Pasion...Smithsonian Folkways

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

51. 3...Grave Babies...Holographic Violence...Hardly Art

52. 3...Watkins Family Hour...Watkins Family Hour...Thirty Tigers/Family Hour

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

54. 3...Gesloten Cirkel...Gesloten Cirkel...Murder Capital

55. 3...Alceu Valencia...Molhado de Suor...Sol Re Sol

56. 3...Johanna Warren...numun...Team Love

57. 3...Royal Headache...High...What's Your Rupture?

58. 3...Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra...Galactic Parables, Volume 1...Cuneiform

59. 3...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

60. 3...Jackson C. Frank...The Complete Recordings...Ba Da Bing!

61. 3...Anthony Coleman...You...New World

62. 2...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

63. 2...Terrace Heater...Harris Teeter...self-released

64. 2...Greg Hawks...What Goes Around...s/r

65. 2...Amara Toure...1973-1980...Analog Africa

66. 2...Chuck Johnson...Blood Moon Boulder...Scissor Tail Editions

67. 2...Rose McDowall...Cut with the Cake Knife...Sacred Bones/Night School

68. 2...Gangrene...You Disgust Me...Mass Appeal

69. 2...Birds of Prey...Birds of Prey...Katexis

70. 2...Galcher Lustwerk...Parlay...Lustwerk Music

71. 2...Sutekh Hexen...Become...Cold Spring

72. 2...Institute...Catharsis...Sacred Bones

73. 2...Worriers...Imaginary Life...Don Giovanni

74. 2...Westkust...Last Forever...Run for Cover

75. 2...Oppenheimer Analysis...New Mexico...Minimal Wave

76. 2...The Bachs...Out of the Bachs...Out-Sider

77. 2...Policy...The Republic...100% Silk

78. 2...Peacers...Peacers...Drag City

79. 2...Ecstatic Vision...Sonic Praise...Relapse

80. 2...Titus Andronicus...The Most Lamentable Tragedy...Merge

81. 2...Silent Servant/Broken English Club...Violence and Divinity...Cititrax

82. 2...Kid Millions...The Sanguine Cadaver...NNA Tapes

83. 2...Nap Eyes...Whine of the Mystic...Paradise of Bachelors

84. 2...Gwenno...Y Dydd Olaf...Heavenly Recordings

85. 2...Throaat...Black Speed...Invictus

86. 2...Wee Willie Walker...If Nothing Ever Changes...Little Village Foundation

87. 2...Lone...Lemurian...Magic Wire/R&S

88. 2...EZTV...Calling Out...Captured Tracks

RPM

1. 5...Gossamer...Automaton...Innovative Leisure

2. 4...Alessandro Cortini...Risveglio...Hospital Productions

3. 4...Bernard Fevre...Cosmos 2043...Alter K

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

5. 3...Rezzett...Goodness...The Trilogy Tapes

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

7. 3...Gesloten Cirkel...Gesloten Cirkel...Murder Capital

8. 3...Carlos Peron...Dirty Songs...Dark Entries

9. 2...Earthly...Days...Noumenal Loom

10. 2...Birds of Prey...Birds of Prey...Katexis

JAZZ

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

2. 4...Dave Douglas...High Risk...Greenleaf

3. 3...Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer...?...ScienSonic

4. 3...Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra...Galactic Parables, Volume 1...Cuneiform

5. 1...Ken Aldcroft's Threads (Quintet)...10/09/11...Trio

6. 1...Waxwing...a bowl of sixty taxidermists...Songlines

7. 1...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

8. 1...John Zorn's Olympiad...Dither Plays Zorn...Tzadik

9. 1...Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined...Eat the Air...Skirl

10. 1...Uneven Eleven...Live at Cafe Oto...Sub Rosa

WORLD

1. 5...Qwanqwa...Volume Two...FPE

2. 4...Quarter Street...Quarter Street...HopeStreet

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

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

5. 3...Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano...Tradicion, Arte y Pasion...Smithsonian Folkways

6. 3...Alceu Valencia...Molhado de Suor...Sol Re Sol

7. 2...Amara Toure...1973-1980...Analog Africa

8. 1...Amir ElSaffar...Crisis...Pi

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

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

AMERICANA

1. 9...Zachary Cale...Duskland...No Quarter

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

3. 5...Bert Jansch...Live at the 12 Bar...Earth

4. 4...Little Freddie King...Messin' Around Tha Living Room...MadeWright

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

6. 3...Songs from the Road Band...Travelling Show...LDT

7. 3...Watkins Family Hour...Watkins Family Hour...Thirty Tigers/Family Hour

8. 3...Johanna Warren...numun...Team Love

9. 3...Jackson C. Frank...The Complete Recordings...Ba Da Bing!

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