1. Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Farewell Doomed Planet [self-released]
2. Kim Gordon - No Home Record [Matador]
3. Kazu - Adult Baby [Adult Baby]
4. FKA Twigs - Magdalene [Young Turks]
5. Brittany Howard - Jaime [ATO]
6. Midriff - Beach Pharmacy [Strange Daisy]
7. Battles - Juice B Crypts [Warp]
8. Negativland - True False [Seeland]
9. Mal Blum - Pity Boy [Don Giovanni]
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen [Ghosteen LTD]
11. Omni - Networker [Sub Pop]
12. Sequoyah Murray - Before You Begin [Thrill Jockey]
13. Sudan Archives - Athena [Stones Throw]
14. Attic Ted - Kafka Dreaming [Pecan Crazy]
15. Chromatics - Closer to Grey [Italians Do It Better]
16. Bipolaroid - Paint It, Blacker [Get Hip]
17. The Shivas - Dark Thoughts [Tender Loving Empire]
18. Tacocat - This Mess Is A Place [Sub Pop]
19. Meerna - Heart Hunger [Native Cat]
20. Patrick Cowley - Mechanical Fantasy Box [Dark Entries]
21. Sote - Parallel Persia [Diagonal]
22. Mikey Young - You Feelin' Me [Castle Face]
23. various artists - Tens Across the Board [Dark Entries]
24. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN]
25. Teebs - Anicca [Brainfeeder]
26. Operator Music Band - Duo Duo [Broken Circles]
27. Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking [PIAS]
28.The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights [Concord]
29. Guided By Voices - Sweating the Plague [GBV Inc.]
30. Ernest Hood - Neighborhood [RVNG Int'l/Freedom To Spend]
ELECTRONIC
1. Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Farewell Doomed Planet [self-released]
2. Negativland - True False [Seeland]
3. Patrick Cowley - Mechanical Fantasy Box [Dark Entries]
4. various artists - Tens Across the Board [Dark Entries]
5. Teebs - Anicca [Brainfeeder]
6. Floating Points - Crush [Ninja Tune]
7. Moor Mother - Analogue Fluids of Sonic Black Holes [Don Giovanni]
8. Waqwaq Kingdom - Essaka Hoisa [Phantom Limb]
9. Lapalux - Amnioverse [Brainfeeder]
10. Velodrome - Ha Besioapome 141 [Dark Entries]
HIP HOP
1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN]
2. Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood [Sub Pop]
3. Gang Starr - One of the Best Yet [TTT/Gang Starr Enterprises]
4. DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age [Mass Appeal]
5. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
6. Common - Let Love [Loma Vista]
7. Toungue Helmet - Psychotropic Ape [Urbnet]
8. Thundamentals - Thundamentals [High Depth]
9. Boca 45 - Forty Five [Mass Appeal]
10. Brother Ali - Secrets & Escapes [Rhymesayers]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL
1. Sote - Parallel Persia [Diagonal]
2. Blato Zlato - In the Wake [self-released]
3. El Wali - Tiris [Sahel Sounds]
4. Jazz Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb - Harmony of Dissonance: Traces of Croation Traditional Singing [Navona]
5. The Good Ones - Rwanda, You Should Be Loved [Anti]
6. Collie Buddz - Hybrid [Harper Digital]
7. Juana Molina - Forfun [Crammed Discs]
8. SPAZA - SPAZA [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]
9. Terceiro Olho de Marte - Herbarium Parabolicae ou Lingua Secreta das Sementes [Mercuirio Musica]
10. The Garifuna Collective - Aban [Stonetree]
JAZZ
1. The Comet is Coming - The Afterlife [Impluse]
2. Resavoir - Resavoir [International Anthem]
3. Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed - Son of the Drum Song [self-released]
4. Bob Ravenscroft & Inner Journeys - Wild [OA2]
5. Doug MacDonald Trio - View of the City [BluJazz]
6. Davell Crawford - Dear FAts, I Love You [Basin Street]
7. Tomeka Reid Quartet Old New [Cuneiform]
8. John Coltrane- Blue World [Impulse]
9. Land of Kush - Sand Enigma [Constellation]
10. Binary Canary - Iterative Systems [Carrier]