TOP 100
1. 64...Gospel Machine...Your Holy Ghost...self-released
2. 64...Kurt Vile...b'lieve i'm going down...Matador
3. 62...Viet Cong...Viet Cong...Jagjaguwar
4. 60...Panda Bear...Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper...Domino
5. 56...Des Ark...Everything Dies...Graveface
6. 54...Shannon and the Clams...Gone by the Dawn...Hardly Art
7. 53...Various...Daptone Gold II...Daptone
8. 53...Deerhoof...La Isla Bonita...Polyvinyl
9. 52...Yo La Tengo...Stuff Like That There...Matador
10. 51...Sagan Youth...Cela...Break World
11. 51...Hiss Golden Messenger...Southern Grammar...Merge
12. 50...Celestogramme...Wish Vehicles...In Situ
13. 49...Twerps...Range Anxiety...Merge
14. 48...Low...Ones and Sixes...Sub Pop
15. 48...Destroyer...Poison Season...Merge
16. 47...Ryley Walker...Primrose Green...Dead Oceans
17. 47...The Souljazz Orchestra...Resistance...Strut
18. 46...Phil Cook...Southland Mission...Thirty Tigers
19. 45...Daniel Bachman...River...Three Lobed
20. 45...See Gulls...You Can't See Me...Potluck
21. 45...Father John Misty...I Love You, Honeybear...Sub Pop
22. 44...Colleen Green...I Want to Grow Up...Hardly Art
23. 43...Mavis Staples...Your Good Fortune...Anti-
24. 43...Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators...Happiness in Every Style...Timmion
25. 43...U.S. Girls...Half Free...4AD
26. 42...Boulevards...Boulevards EP...Don't Funk with Me
27. 42...The Mountain Goats...Beat the Champ...Merge
28. 42...Of Montreal...Aureate Gloom...Polyvinyl
29. 41...Whatever Brains...One-Sided Triangle...self-released
30. 41...The Wyrms...The Wyrms at Wizard Island...Negative Fun
31. 41...The Old Ceremony...Sprinter...Yep Roc
32. 41...Joey Bada$$...B4.Da.$$...Cinematic Music Group/Relentless
33. 41...Will Butler...Policy...Merge
34. 39...Birds of Avalon...Disappearance...Third Uncle
35. 39...Liz Vice...There's a Light...Ramseur
36. 39...Pops Staples...Don't Lose This...dBpm/ANTI-
37. 39...Waxahatchee...Ivy Tripp...Merge
38. 38...The Foreign Exchange...Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey...FE/Hard Boiled
39. 38...Body Games...Local Love Vol 1...self-released
40. 38...PRhyme...PRhyme...PRhyme
41. 38...Bob Moses...Days Gone By...Domino
42. 38...THEEsatisfaction...EarthEE...Sub Pop
43. 37...Mipso...Old Time Reverie...Robust
44. 37...Big K.R.I.T....Cadillactica...Def Jam
45. 37...Widowspeak...All Yours...Captured Tracks
46. 36...The Wigg Report...Everyday Revolution…Potluck
47. 36...Grupo Fantasma...Problemas...Blue Corn Music
48. 36...Holydrug Couple...Moonlust...Sacred Bones
49. 36...Magic Castles...Starflower...A Recordings
50. 36...Thee Oh Sees...Mutilator Defeated at Last...Castle Face
51. 35...Jenny Hval...Apocalypse, girl...Sacred Bones
52. 35...Obnox...Know America...Ever/Never
53. 35...Meg Baird...Don't Weigh Down the Light...Drag City
54. 35...Tom Carter...Long Time Underground...Three Lobed/Divide by Zero
55. 35...Julia Holter...Have You In My Wilderness...Domino
56. 35...Esmerine...Lost Voices…Constellation
57. 34...Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan...Half-Finished Bobcat...Potluck
58. 34...CALAPSE...You Know How I Feel...self-released
59. 34...Various Artists...Through the Streets of the City: New Orleans Brass Bands...Smithsonian Folkways
60. 34...Joan Soriano...Me Decidi...iASO
61. 34...Moon Duo...Shadow of the Sun...Sacred Bones
62. 34...Fuzz...II...In the Red
63. 34...Mikal Cronin...MCIII...Merge
64. 34...Gems...Kill the One You Love...Carpark
65. 34...Telekinesis...Ad Infinitum...Merge
66. 34...Stars...No One is Lost...ATO
67. 34...Protomartyr...The Agent Intellect...Hardly Art
68. 33...Sponge Bath...Sponge Bath...GROVL Tapes
69. 33...Sarah Shook and the Disarmers...Sidelong...self-released
70. 33...Sarah Louise...Field Guide...Swallow Tail
71. 33...Blackalicious...Imani Vol. 1...OGM
72. 33...La Luz...Weirdo Shrine...Hardly Art
73. 33...Courtney Barnett...Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit...Mom + Pop
74. 33...Yppah...Tiny Pause...Counter
75. 32...Flesh Wounds...In the Mouth...Snot Releases
76. 32...Nathan Golub/Wood Ear...Nothing in Return...GFR Tapes
77. 32...Nest Egg...Respectable...Bathetic
78. 32...Jake Xerxes Fussell...Jake Xerxes Fussell...Paradise of Bachelors
79. 32...Bombadil...Hold On...Ramseur
80. 32...Mamadou Kelly...Djamila...Clermont Music
81. 32...Joanna Newsom...Divers...Drag City
82. 32...Zachary Cale...Duskland...No Quarter
83. 32...Zombi...Shape Shift...Relapse
84. 32...Froth...Bleak...Burger
85. 32...Mates of State...You're Going to Make It...Barsuk
86. 32...The Mantles...All Odds End...Slumberland
87. 32...Prefuse 73...Rivington Nao Rio...Temporary Residence Ltd
88. 31...OC from NC...Higher Learning...self-released
89. 31...Laso Halo...Lasohaloland...self-released
90. 31...Anna & Elizabeth...Anna & Elizabeth...Free Dirt
91. 31...Sponge Bath...Mainsprings of My Desire...New Body Tapes
92. 31...Paradise 100...Northern Seoul...100% Silk
93. 31...Weyes Blood...The Innocents...Mexican Summer
94. 31...Seven Davis Jr. ...Universes...Ninja Tune
95. 31...Majical Cloudz...Are You Alone?...Matador
96. 31...Deerhunter...Fading Frontier...4AD
97. 31...Roman Fluegel...Happiness is Happening...Dial
98. 30...Daniel Bachman...Miscellaneous Ephemera and Other Bullshit...Feeding Tube
99. 30...Mount Eerie...Sauna...PW Elverum and Sun
100. 30...Steve Gunn and Black Twig Pickers...Seasonal Hire...Thrill Jockey
REISSUES
1. 67...Various...Loose the Funk: Rare Soul from Sound Stage 7 Records...Airline
2. 58...Various...The P&P Records Soul/Disco Anthology...Harmless
3. 55...Various...I'm Just Like You: Sly Stone's Flower 1969-1970...Light in the Attic
4. 50...Various...Disco: A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-
82...Soul Jazz
5. 50...Otis Brown...I've Got Another b/w Southside Chicago...Numero Group
6. 49...Various...Cumbias Chichadelicas: Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha...Pharaway Sounds
7. 49...Witch...Kuomboka...Invisible City Editions
8. 45...Various...Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll...Dust to Digital
9. 45...The Notations...Still Here: 1967-1973...Numero Group
10. 43...Various...Nippon Girls 2...Big Beat
11. 41...Universal Togetherness Band...Universal Togetherness Band...Numero Group
12. 39...Various...R&B Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits...Vampisoul
13. 37...Edge of Daybreak...Eyes of Love...Numero Group
14. 33...Patrick Cowley...Muscle Up...Dark Entries/Honey Soundsystem
15. 33...Lamar Thomas...Feel So Good Inside...Favorite Recordings
16. 32...Orlando Julius...Disco Hi-Life...Hot Casa
17. 32...Connie Smith...The Lost Tapes...Country Rewind
18. 31...Children of the Mushroom...Children of the Mushroom...Out-sider
19. 31...Little Richard...Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years...Specialty
20. 30...Francis Bebey...Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984...Born Bad
21. 30...Captain Beefheart...Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972...Rhino
22. 29...Blue Russell...I Wanna Fly Away...Dark Entries
23. 28...Carl Hall...You Don't Know Nothing About Love: The Loma/Atlantic Recordings 1967-
1972...Omnivore
24. 28...Various...Garden City Blues: Detroit's Jumping Scene 1948-1960...JSP Records
25. 28...San Ul Lim...The Second...Granadilla Music