1. Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light [Sacred Bones]
2. Angel Olsen -All Mirrors [Jagjaguwar]
3. Max and the Martians - Please Hold On/Love On Vacation [Mashed Potato]
4. Blato Zlato - In the Wake [self-released]
5. Levitation Room - Headspace [Greenway]
6. Midriff - Beach Pharmacy [Strange Daisy]
7. Wallows - Nothing Happens [Atlantic]
8. Bipolaroid - Paint it, Blacker [Get Hip]
9. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
10. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
11. Chromatics - Closer to Grey [Italians Do It Better]
12. DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age [Mass Appeal]
13. Tacocat - This Mess is a Place [Sub Pop]
14. Battles - Juice B Crypts [Warp]
15. Bodywash - Comforter [Luminelle]
16. Mal Blum - Pity Boy [Don Giovanni]
17. The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights [Concord]
18. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN]
19. various artists - World Spirituality Classic 2: The Time for Peace is Noe - The Gospel is About Us [Luaka Bop]
20. Belle and Sebastian - Days of Bagnold Summer [Matador]
21. Mikal Cronin - Seeker [Merge]
22. Swans - Leaving Meaning [Young God]
23. Bon Iver - i, i [Jagjaguwar]
24. Shark Attack!! - Big Chief/Bamboula [Superjock]
25. Lust For Youth - Sweating the Plague [Sacred Bones]
26. Generationals - Reader as Detective [Polyvinyl]
27. Guided By Voices - Sweating the Plaugue [GBV Inc.]
28. Negativland - True False [Seeland]
29. Sudan Archives - Athena [Stones Throw]
30. John Coltrane - Blue World [Impulse]
ELECTRONIC
1. Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Center [Boogie Angst]
2. DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age [Mass Appeal]
3. Negativland - True False [Seeland]
4. Teebs - Anicca [Brainfeeder]
5. Corbo - Quatro Treses [Chewing Foil]
6. Anna Meredith - FIBS [Moshi Moshi]
7. Floating Points - Crush [Ninja Tune]
8. Akasha System - Echo Earth [100% Silk]
9. HAAi - Systems Up, Windows Down [Mute]
10. various artists - Tens Across the Board [Dark Entries]
HIP-HOP
1. Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings [Loma Vista]
2. DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age [Mass Appeal]
3. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana [Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN]
4. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin? [Warp]
5. Gang Starr - One of the Best Yet [TTT/Gang Starr Enterprises]
6. clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood [Sub Pop]
7. Boca 45 - Forty Five [Mass Appeal]
8. Tarik Robinson - Union Latinoamericana (Beat Tape) [Makebeleive]
9. G&D - Black Love & War [SomeOthaShip Connect]
10. Kano - Hoodies All Summer [Parlophone]
WORLD/INTERNATIONAL
1. Blato Zlato - In the Wake [self-released]
2. Juana Molina - ForFun [Crammed Discs]
3. Locobeach - Psychedelic Disco Cumbia [Dorsal Fin/Peace Rhythm]
4. Terceiro Olho de Marte - Herbarium Parabolicae ou Lingua Secreta das Sementes [Mercuirio]
5. Mamman Sani - La Musique ELectronique du Niger [Sahel Sounds]
6. Claude Fontaine - Claude Fontaine [Innovative Leisure]
7. Tarik Robinson - Union Latinoamericana (Beat Tape) [Makebeleive]
8. various artists - Kinshasa 1978 [Crammed Discs]
9. SPAZA - SPAZA [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]
10. Los Wembler's de Iquitos - Vision del Ayahuasca [Barbes]
JAZZ
1. John Coltrane - Blue World [Impulse]
2. Stan Getz Quartet - Getz at the Gate [Verve]
3. Daniel Crawford - Dear Fats, I Love You [Basin Street]
4. Nick Mazzarella Trio - Counterbalance [Astral Spirits/Spacetone]
5. Errol Garner - One World Concert [Mack Avenue/Octave]
6. Pat Battstone/Giorgia Santoro - Dream Notes [Leo]
7. Extended - Harbinger [OA2]
8. Arianna Neikrug - Changes [Concord]
9. Paul Jones Quartet - The Process [Amp]
10. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis [Constellation]