1. 14...Kurt Vile...b'lieve i'm going down...Matador

2. 12...Des Ark...Everything Dies...Graveface

3. 12...Protomartyr...The Agent Intellect...Hardly Art

4. 9...Dave Heumann...Here in the Deep...Thrill Jockey

5. 9...Edge of Daybreak...Eyes of Love...Numero Group

6. 9...Julia Holter...Have You In My Wilderness...Domino

7. 9...Shannon and the Clams...Gone by the Dawn...Hardly Art

8. 9...Zombi...Shape Shift...Relapse

9. 8...Elyse Weinberg...Greasepaint Smile...Numero Group

10. 8...Natural Snow Buildings...Terror's Horns...Ba Da Bing!

11. 8...Various Artists...The P&P Records Soul/Disco Anthology...Harmless

12. 8...Wand...1000 Days...Drag City

13. 8...Yo La Tengo...Stuff Like That There...Matador

14. 8...Yppah...Tiny Pause...Counter

15. 7...Boulevards...Boulevards EP...Don't Funk with Me

16. 7...OC from NC...Higher Learning...self-released

17. 7...Dave Rawlings Machine...Nashville Obsolete...Acony

18. 7...Donnie Fritts...Oh My Goodness...Single Lock/Thirty Tigers

19. 7...James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg...Ambsace...Paradise of Bachelors

20. 7...Nano Stern...Mil 500 Vueltas...Nano Stern

21. 7...Promised Land Sound...For Use and Delight...Paradise of Bachelors

22. 6...Veiled...Omniscient Veil...Iron Bonehead

23. 6...CALAPSE...You Know How I Feel...self-released

24. 6...Pink Flag...The Gift of Knives...Negative Fun

25. 6...Charlie Clark and The Majestic 12...Devil's Pulpit...Manimal

26. 6...Housewives...Work...Hands in the Dark/Negative Days/Blank Editions

27. 6...Michael Bisio...Accortet...Relative Pitch

28. 6...V. Nova...HiPS 3: The New Commission...self-released

29. 6...Various...Daptone Gold II...Daptone

30. 6...Various Artists...Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits...Vampisoul

31. 5...Apparatus...Apparatus...Lavadome

32. 5...The Allies...The Allies...self-released

33. 5...Beirut...No No No...4AD

34. 5...Dorthia Cottrell...Dorthia Cottrell...Forcefield

35. 5...Filiamotsa...Like It Is...Aagoo

36. 5...High Tiny Hairs...High Tiny Hairs EP...Sir Gregory

37. 5...Laurice...Best of Laurice Vol 1...Mighty Mouth Music

38. 5...Locksmith...Sure As Can Be...Landmark Entertainment

39. 5...Magic Castles...Starflower...A Recordings

40. 5...Open Field...O.F....self-released

41. 5...Painted Palms...Horizons...Polyvinyl

42. 5...PC Worship...Basement Hysteria...Northern Spy

43. 5...Pig Rider...The Robinson Scratch Theory...Guerssen

44. 5...Sabattis...Warning in the Sky...Out-Sider

45. 5...Silas Blak...#BlakFriday: The Mixtape...Cabin Games

46. 5...Steve Moore...Cub OST...Relapse

47. 4...Atila...V...Signal Rex

48. 4...The Wyrms...The Wyrms at Wizard Island...Negative Fun

49. 4...Frankie and The Witch Fingers...Frankie and The Witch Fingers...Permanent

50. 4...Laughing Eye Weeping Eye...Once Was You...Moon Glyph

51. 4...Low...Ones and Sixes...Sub Pop

52. 4...Magnif...The Last...Ghost City

53. 4...Michael Chapman...Fish...Tompkins Square

54. 4...Princess Century...Progress...Paper Bag

55. 4...Rich Halley 4...Eleven...Pine Eagle

56. 4...Tatsuya Nakatani and Michel Doneda...Charades...Nakatani Kobo

57. 4...The Intelligence...Vintage Future...In the Red

58. 4...Woolen Men...Temporary Monument...Woodsist

59. 3...Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue...Sounds and Cries of the World...Pi

60. 3...Invocation Spells...Descendent the Black Throne...Hells Headbangers

61. 3...Necrocosm...Damnation Doctrine...self-released

62. 3...Daniel Bachman...Miscellaneous Ephemera and Other Bullshit...Feeding Tube

63. 3...Phil Cook...Southland Mission...Thirty Tigers

64. 3...Barry Altschul's 3dom Factor...Tales of the Unforseen...Tum

65. 3...Born Ruffians...Ruff...YepRoc

66. 3...Chris Pitsiokos/Philip White...Paroxysm...Carrier

67. 3...Dan Melchior's Broke Revue...Lords of the Manor...In the Red

68. 3...Fresh & Onlys...Early Years Anthology...Castle Face

69. 3...Futurebirds...Hotel Parties...Easy Sound

70. 3...Goldberg...Misty Flats...Light in the Attic

71. 3...Guilty Simpson...Detroit's Son...Stones Throw

72. 3...HeCTA...The Diet...Merge

73. 3...James Mason...The Dance of Life b/w Jump Up...Rush Hour

74. 3...John Hebert...Rambling Confessions...Sunnyside

75. 3...Kai Alce...Sunday Transit...People of Earth

76. 3...Ought...Sun Coming Down...Constellation

77. 3...Scott Robinson Spacetette...Mission in Space...Sciensonic

78. 3...Telekinesis...Ad Infinitum...Merge

79. 3...The Immortals Project...Pass It Off...Shining Shadow

80. 3...Widowspeak...All Yours...Captured Tracks

81. 3...Yonatan Gat...Director...Joyful Noise

82. 3...Ysengrin/Black Grail...Nigrum Nigrius Nigro...Nuclear War Now!

83. 3...Zulus...II...Aagoo

84. 3...Iris DeMent...The Trackless Woods...FlariElla

85. 2...Alpha Cop...Acid Cop...self-released

86. 2...Layaway...After the Flowers...s/r

87. 2...Raymond Fairchild...King of the Smoky Mountain Banjo Players...Rural Rhythm

88. 2...Sarah Louise...Field Guide...Swallow Tail

89. 2...Sponge Bath...Mainsprings of My Desire...New Body Tapes

RPM

1. 8...Yppah...Tiny Pause...Counter

2. 6...CALAPSE...You Know How I Feel...self-released

3. 4...Atila...V...Signal Rex

4. 3...Kai Alce...Sunday Transit...People of Earth

5. 2...Sponge Bath...Mainsprings of My Desire...New Body Tapes

6. 2...45 ACP...Change of Tone...L.I.E.S.

7. 2...Skylar Spence...Prom King...Carpark

8. 1...Florian Kupfer...Explora...Technicolour

9. 1...Gemini Sounds...R U Afraid...Chiwax Classic Edition

10. 1...Paki * Visnadi...Imaginary Choreography...Antinote

Loud Rock

1. 6...Veiled...Omniscient Veil...Iron Bonehead

2. 5...Apparatus...Apparatus...Lavadome

3. 4...Atila...V...Signal Rex

4. 3...Invocation Spells...Descendent the Black Throne...Hells Headbangers

5. 3...Necrocosm...Damnation Doctrine...self-released

6. 3...Ysengrin/Black Grail...Nigrum Nigrius Nigro...Nuclear War Now!

7. 2...Hellish...Theurgists Spell...Blood Harvest

8. 2...Windhand...Grief's Infernal Flower...Relapse

9. 1...Deceased...Cadaver Traditions...Hell's Headbangers

10. 1...Ryan Huber...Aleksandr...Inam

Jazz

1. 6…Michael Bisio…Accortet…Relative Pitch

2. 4…Tatsuya Nakatani and Michel Doneda…Charades…Nakatani Kobo

3. 4…Rich Halley 4…Eleven…Pine Eagle

4. 3…Barry Altschul's 3dom Factor…Tales of the Unforseen…Tum

5. 3…Chris Pitsiokos/Philip White…Paroxysm…Carrier

6. 3…Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue…Sounds and Cries of the World…Pi

7. 3…John Hebert…Rambling Confessions…Sunnyside

8. 3…Scott Robinson Spacetette…Mission in Space…Sciensonic

9. 2…Jon Irbagon…Inaction is an Action…Irabbagast

10. 1…Arnold Hammerschlag…No Face, No Name…Skirl

Americana

1. 8...Elyse Weinberg...Greasepaint Smile...Numero Group

2. 7...Donnie Fritts...Oh My Goodness...Single Lock/Thirty Tigers

3. 7...James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg...Ambsace...Paradise of Bachelors

4. 7...Dave Rawlings Machine...Nashville Obsolete...Acony

5. 5...Dorthia Cottrell...Dorthia Cottrell...Forcefield

6. 4...Michael Chapman...Fish...Tompkins Square

7. 3...Daniel Bachman...Miscellaneous Ephemera and Other Bullshit...Feeding Tube

8. 3...Phil Cook...Southland Mission...Thirty Tigers

9. 3...Iris DeMent...The Trackless Woods...FlariElla

10. 2...Sarah Louise...Field Guide...Scissor Tail Editions

World

1. 7...Nano Stern...Mil 500 Vueltas...Nano Stern

2. 2...Achilles Liarmakopoulos...Trombone Atrevido...Opening Day

3. 2...Kalascima...Psychedelic Trance Tarantella...Ponderosa Music & Art

4. 1...Chou Wen-Chung...Eternal Pine...New World

5. 1...Beybonlar...Gelin Aysem b/w Nenni...Pharaway Sounds

6. 1...Daby Toure...Amonafi...Cumbancha

7. 1...Dariush Dolat-Shahi...Electronic music, tar and sehtar...Dead Cert/Finders Keepers

8. 1...Soul Sugar...All I Know...Gee

9. 1...Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal...Musique de Nuit...Six Degrees

10. 1...Edip Akbayram & Dostlar...Singles Overview 1974-1977...Pharaway Sounds

Hip Hop

1. 7...OC from NC...Higher Learning...self-released

2. 6...V. Nova...HiPS 3: The New Commission...self-released

3, 5...The Allies...The Allies...self-released

4. 5...Locksmith...Sure As Can Be...Landmark Entertainment

5. 5...Silas Blak...#BlakFriday: The Mixtape...Cabin Games

6. 4...Magnif...The Last...Ghost City

7. 3...Guilty Simpson...Detroit's Son...Stones Throw

8. 3...The Immortals Project...Pass It Off...Shining Shadow

9. 2...Sherif Mattar...BeerWineLiquor/Grammy...Maniiifest/InTheMusic

10. 1...QNC...At the Same Time b/w Demo...Ill Adrenaline