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| A Place to Bury Strangers | Exploding Head | (Mute) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| A Sunny Day In Glasgow | Ashes Grammar | (Mis Ojos Discos) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Lord Of The Underground | (Alien 8) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Aethenor | Faking Gold & Murder | (VHF) | metal | 5/10 |
| Ilyas Ahmed | Goner | (Root Strata) | free-folk | 4/10 |
| Air | Love 2 | (Astralwerks) | pop | 5/10 |
| Almost Charlie | The Plural of Yes | (Words On Music) | pop | 5/10 |
| Aluk Todolo | Finsternis | (Utech) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Amen Dunes | Dia | (Locust) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Anahita | Matricaria | (Important) | avant-folk | 7/10 |
| And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: | The Century Of Self | (Richter Scale) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | (Domino) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Antipop Consortium | Fluorescent Black | (Big Dada) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Antlers | Hospice | (Frenchkiss) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Antony and the Johnsons | The Crying Light | (Secretly Canadian) | pop | 6/10 |
| Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | (Domino) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Art Brut | Art Brut vs. Satan | (Downtown) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Astral Social Club | Octuplex | (VHF) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Atlas Sound | Logos | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Dan Auerbach | Keep It Hid | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Azita | How Will You | (Drag City) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Bachelorette | My Electric Family | (Drag City) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Devendra Banhart | What Will We Be? | (Warner) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Baroness | Blue Record | (Relapse) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Basement Jaxx | Scars | (Ultra) | dance | 5/10 |
| Bat For Lashes | Two Suns | (Parlophone) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall | Overloaded Ark | (Drag City) | acid-rock | 6/10 |
| Bear In Heaven | Beast Rest Forth Mouth | (Hometapes) | alt-pop | 6/10 |
| Beat Circus | Boy From Black Mountain | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Behemoth | Evangelion | (Nuclear Blast) | death-metal | 6/10 |
| Belbury Poly | From an Ancient Star | (Ghost Box) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Between the Buried and Me | The Great Misdirect | (Victory) | prog-metal | 7/10 |
| Bibio | Ambivalence Avenue | (Warp) | dance | 6/10 |
| Big Pink | A Brief History Of Love | (4AD) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Billy Bao | May 08 | (Parts Unknown) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Black To Comm | Alphabet | (Type) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Black Vomit | Jungle Death | (Rusty Axe) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| BLK JKS | After Robots | (Secretly Canadian) | world-music | 6/10 |
| Blues Control | Local Flavor | (Siltbreeze) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Bong | Bong | (Heidenwut Productions) | doom | 6/10 |
| Bong | Bethmoora | (Infinite Exchange) | doom | 5/10 |
| Bonnie Prince Billy | Beware | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Andrew Bird | Noble Beast | (Fat Possum) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Sir Richard Bishop | The Freak of Araby | (Drag City) | guitar | 5/10 |
| James Blackshaw | The Glass Bead Game | (Young God) | prog-folk | 5/10 |
| Blank Dogs | Under And Under | (In The Red) | electroclash | 5/10 |
| Brave Little Abacus | Masked Dancers | (self) | emo | 7.5/10 |
| Tyondai Braxton | Central Market | (Warp) | neoclassical | 6/10 |
| Brother Ali | Us | (Rhymesayers Entertainment) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| VV Brown | Travelling Like The Light | (Island) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Bunkur | Nullify | (Displeased) | doom | 6/10 |
| Caethua | The Long Afternoon Of Earth | (Preservation) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Califone | All My Friends Are Funeral Singers | (Dead Oceans) | folk | 4/10 |
| Bill Callahan | Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Camera Obscura | My Maudlin Career | (4AD) | folk-pop | 5/10 |
| Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | (Anti) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Cave | Psychic Psummer | (Important) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Celeste | Misanthrope(s) | (Denovali) | metal | 6/10 |
| Cheer-Accident | Fear Draws Misfortune | (Cuneiform) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Vic Chesnutt | At The Cut | (Constellation) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Church | Untitled #23 | (Second Motion) | pop | 5/10 |
| Church Of Misery | Houses Of The Unholy | (Rise Above) | stoner | 6/10 |
| Circulatory System | Signal Morning | (Cloud) | avant-pop | 6/10 |
| Cloaks | Versus Grain | (Baked Goods) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Clubroot | Clubroot | (Lo Dubs) | dubstep | 7/10 |
| Cobalt | Gin | (Profound Lore) | black metal | 6/10 |
| William Fowler Collins | Perdition Hill Radio | (Type) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Concern | Truth and Distance | (Digitalis) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Converge | Axe To Fall | (Epitaph) | metalcore | 6/10 |
| Chris Corsano | The Four Aims | (VHF) | avant-rock | 6/10 |
| Crystal Antlers | Tentacles | (Touch And Go) | garage-rock | 6/10 |
| Current 93 | Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain | (Dutro) | spoken-word | 5/10 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains | (Sister's Den) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Dalek | Gutter Tactics | (Ipecac) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Dan Deacon | Bromst | (Carpark) | new wave | 7/10 |
| Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words | Lost In Reflections | (Killer Pimp) | post-ambient | 7/10 |
| Dead Weather | Horehound | (Reprise) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Dear Hunter | Act III - Life And Death | (Triple Crown) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Decemberists | The Hazards of Love | (Capitol) | pop | 5/10 |
| Demdike Stare | Symbiosis | (Modern Love) | avant-dub | 8/10 |
| Depeche Mode | Sounds Of The Universe | (EMI) | synth-pop | 4/10 |
| Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | (Domino) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Doves | Kingdom of Rust | (Astralwerks) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Dream Theater | Black Clouds & Silver Linings | (Roadrunner) | prog-metal | 5/10 |
| Ducktails | Ducktails | (Not Not Fun) | chillwave | 7/10 |
| Bob Dylan | Together Through Life | (Columbia) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Editors | In This Light and on This Evening | (Kitchenware) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Elegi | Varde | (Miasmah) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Emeralds | Emeralds | (Wagon Gneiss Things) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Emeralds | What Happened | (No Fun) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Engineers | Three Fact Fader | (Echo) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Evangelista | Prince of Truth | (Constellation) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Excepter | Black Beach | (Paw Tracks) | psych-tronica | 6/10 |
| Expo '70 | Psychosis | (Peasant Magik) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Expo '70 | Sonic Messenger | (Beta Lactum Ring) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Fever Ray | Fever Ray | (Rabid) | synth-pop | 7/10 |
| Field | Yesterday And Today | (Anti) | techno | 6/10 |
| Fiery Furnaces | I'm Going Away | (Thrill Jockey) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Florence and the Machine | Lungs | (Island) | garage-rock | 6/10 |
| Forgas Band Phenomena | L'Axe du Fou | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Ben Frost | By The Throat | (Bedroom Community) | glitch ambient | 6/10 |
| Fuck Buttons | Tarot Sport | (ATP) | dance | 7/10 |
| Fuqugi | Gransofa + Nightingale | (Plop) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Funeral Mist | Maranatha | (Ajna) | metal | 6/10 |
| Gallows | Grey Britain | (Warner) | punk-rock | 6/10 |
| Girls | Album | (True Panther) | pop | 6/10 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues | Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts | (At War WIth False Noise) | prog-rock | 8/10 |
| Gog | Mist From The Random More | (Utech Records) | doomgaze | 7/10 |
| Government | Unreviewed by the Press | (Pop Katari) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| David Gray | Draw The Line | (Downtown) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Green | The Planets | (label) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | (Reprise) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | (Warp) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Jon Hassell | ub>Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street | (ECM) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Richard Hawley | Truelove's Gutter | (Mute) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Health | Get Color | (Lovepump United) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Heavy Winged | Spreading Center | (Release The Bats) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Tim Hecker | An Imaginary Country | (Kranky) | electronic | 5/10 |
| Joe Henry | Blood From Stars | (Anti) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Erdem Helvacioglu | Wounded Breath | (Aucourant) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Home Blitz | Out Of Phase | (Richie) | garage-pop | 6/10 |
| Horrors | Primary Colours | (XL) | dark-punk | 6/10 |
| Inade | The Incarnation of the Solar Architects | (Loki) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Irr. App. (Ext.) | Kreiselwelle | (Helen Scarsdale Agency) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Isis | Wavering Radiant | (Ipecac) | metal | 5/10 |
| Japandroids | Post-Nothing | (Polyvinyl) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Jasper TX | Lungs | (Under the Spire) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Jasper TX | Singing Stones | (Fang Bomb) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Jesu | Infinity | (Avalanche) | stoner | 6/10 |
| JJ | JJ Nø 2 | (Sincerely Yours) | pop | 7/10 |
| Simon Joyner | Out Into the Snow | (Team Love) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Jute Gyte | Old Ways | (Jeshimoth) | black-metal | 5/10 |
| Leyland Kirby | Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was | (History Always Favours The Winners) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Gregg Kowalsky | Tape Chants | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Krazy Baldhead | B-Suite | (Ed Banger) | dance | 6/10 |
| L'Acephale | Stahlhartes Gehause | (Aurora Borealis) | black-metal | 7/10 |
| Land of Kush | Against the Day | (Constellation) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Cate LeBon | Me Oh My | (Irony Bored) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Legion Of Two | Riffs | (Planet Mu) | industrial | 7/10 |
| Local Natives | Gorilla Manor | (Infectious) | pop | 6/10 |
| Lokai | Transition | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| LSD-march | Under Milk Wood | (Important) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Necro Deathmort | album This Beat Is Necrotronic | (Distraction) | metal | 7/10 |
| Necks | Silverwater | (ReR) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Neon Indian | Psychic Chasms | (Lefse) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Amy Neuburg | The Secret Language of Subways | (MinMax) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Thao Nguyen | We Brave Bee Stings And All | (Kill Rock Stars) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Night Control | Death Control | (Kill Shaman) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Nihill | Grond | (Hydra Head) | metal | 6/10 |
| Nudge | As Good As Gone | (Kranky) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| 1990s | Kicks | (Rough Trade) | Brit-pop | 4/10 |
| Observatory | Dark Folke | (Observatory) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| On Fillmore | Extended Vacation | (Dead Oceans) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Oneida | Rated O | (Jagjaguwar) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu | Muukalainen Puhuu | (Violent Journey) | space-rock | 6/10 |
| Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | (Slumberland) | alt-pop | 6/10 |
| Passion Pit | Manners | (Frenchkiss) | pop | 6/10 |
| Peaches | I Feel Cream | (Beggars XL) | rap | 5/10 |
| Peste Noire | Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor | (De Profundis) | metal | 6/10 |
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | (Glass Note) | pop | 6/10 |
| Piano Magic | Ovations | (Darla) | pop | 4/10 |
| Pissed Jeans | King Of Jeans | (Sub Pop) | garage | 5/10 |
| Planning for Burial | Leaving | (Enemies List) | shoegaze | 6/10 |
| Porcupine Tree | The Incident | (Roadrunner) | prog-rock | 4/10 |
| Portal | Swarth | (Profound Lore) | death | 6/10 |
| Prodigy | Invaders Must Die | (Cooking Vinyl) | dance | 4/10 |
| Raekwon | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II | (Ice H2O) | hip hop | 6/10 |
| Rameses III | I Could Not Love You More | (Type) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Random Touch | A Way From the Heard | (Token Boy) | prog-jazz | 7/10 |
| Real Estate | Real Estate | (Woodsist) | folk-rock | 6/10 |
| Reigning Sound | Love And Curses | (In The Red) | garage-rock | 5/10 |
| Eric Glick Rieman | Trilogy From The Outside | (Water Goes Into Air) | avantgarde | 8/10 |
| Russian Circles | Geneva | (Suicide Squeeze) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Savage Young Taterbug | River Mortis | (American Dream Machine) | acid-folk | 7/10 |
| Shit and Shine | 229-2299 Girls Against Shit | (Riot Season) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Shogun Kunitoki | Vinonaamakasio | (Fonal) | avant-rock | 6/10 |
| Six Organs of Admittance | Luminous Night | (Drag City) | free-folk | 4/10 |
| Richard Skelton | Landings | (Sustain-Release) | chamber | 6/10 |
| Skullflower | Malediction | (Second Layer) | noise | 6/10 |
| Soap And Skin | Lovetune For Vacuum | (PIAS) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Working On A Dream | (Columbia) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| St Vincent | Actor | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| DM Stith | Heavy Ghost | (Asthmatic Kitty) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Sunn O))) | Monoliths & Dimensions | (Southern Lord) | doom | 6/10 |
| Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer | (Jagjaguwar) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Super Furry Animals | Dark Days/Light Years | (Rough Trade) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Silvester Anfang | Sylvester Anfang II | (Aurora Borealis) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| SND | Atavism | (Raster-Norton) | glitch | 6/10 |
| David Sylvian | Manafon | (Samadhi Sound) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Taken By Trees | East Of Eden | (Rough Trade) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv | Immolate Yourself | (Bpitch Control) | IDM | 5/10 |
| Terminal Sound System | Constructing Towers | (Extreme) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Thee Oh Sees | Help | (In The Red) | garage-rock | 6/10 |
| Thermals | Now We Can See | (Kill Rock Stars) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Tortoise | Beacons Of Ancestorship | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Twin Stumps | Twin Stumps | (Dais) | garage-rock | 7/10 |
| U2 | No Line On The Horizon | (Interscope) | pop | 3/10 |
| Brock Van Wey | White Clouds Drift On and On | (Echospace) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Vektor | Black Future | (Heavy Artillery) | metal | 7/10 |
| Velvet Cacoon | Atropine | (Full Moon) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Very Best | Warm Heart Of Africa | (Moshi Moshi) | world-beat | 6/10 |
| Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong | (In The Red) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Volcano Choir | Unmap | (Jagjaguwar) | acid folk | 6/10 |
| Wavves | Wavvves | (Fat Possum) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| White Denim | Fits | (Downtown) | garage | 6/10 |
| White Rainbow | New Clouds | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Wilco | Wilco (The Album) | (Nonesuch) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Wild Beasts | Two Dancers | (Domino) | pop | 5/10 |
| Patrick Wolf | Bachelor | (Bloody Chamber) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Wolves In The Throne Room | Black Cascade | (Southern Lord) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Woods | Songs Of Shame | (Woodsist) | lo-fi folk | 6/10 |
| Worriedaboutsatan | Arrivals | (Gizeh) | dance | 7/10 |
| Xx | Xx | (Young Turks) | dance-pop | 6/10 |
| Yacht | See Mystery Light | (DFA) | dance | 6/10 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz | (Interscope) | garage | 6/10 |
| Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs | (Matador) | noise-rock | 5/10 |
| Yoga | Megafauna | (Holy Mountain) | post-metal | 7/10 |
| Richard Youngs | Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits | (Sonic Oyster Records) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Richard Youngs | Under Stellar Stream | (Jagjaguwar) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Zola Jesus | The Spoils (Sacred Bones, 2009) | (Sacred Bones) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Zola Jesus | New Amsterdam | (Sacred Bones) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Zu | Carboniferous | (Ipecac) | post-rock | 6/10 |
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