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| A Forest of Stars | Opportunistic Thieves of Spring | (Transcendental Creations) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Actress | Splazsh | (Honest Jon's) | dance | 7/10 |
| Alcest | Ecailles De Lune | (Prophecy) | metal-gaze | 6/10 |
| Algernon | Ghost Surveillance | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Aloha | Home Acres | (Polyvynil) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Ametsub | The Nothings Of The North | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Anathema | We're Here Because We're Here | (Kscope) | pop | 4/10 |
| Ant-Bee | Electronic Church Muzik | (Ant Bee) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Antendex | Photons | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Antony & The Johnsons | Swanlights | (Secretly Canadian) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Arcade Fire | Suburbs | (Merge) | pop | 6/10 |
| aTelecine | A Cassette Tape Culture | (Pendu Sound) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Careful | Oh Light | (Sounds Super) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Caribou | Swim | (Merge) | dance | 5/10 |
| Carlton Melton | Pass it on | (Agitated) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Carta | An Index of Birds | (Silber) | slocore | 6/10 |
| Celeste | Morte(s) Nee(s) | (Denovali) | metal | 6/10 |
| Celestiial | Where Life Springs Eternal | (Bindrune) | doom-metal | 6/10 |
| Claudia Quintet | Royal Toast | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Cleric | Regressions | (Web of Mimicry) | metal | 7/10 |
| Nels Cline & Rova | Celestial Septet | (New World) | jazz | 6/10 |
| Nels Cline | Dirty Baby | (Cryptogramophone) | jazz | 6/10 |
| Nels Cline | Initiate | (Cryptogramophone) | jazz | 6/10 |
| Clubroot | II - MMX | (LoDubs) | dance | 6/10 |
| Cocorosie | Grey Ocean | (SubPop) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Combat Astronomy | Earth Divided By Zero | (Zond) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Common Eider King Eider | Worn | (Root Strata) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Crystal Castles | Crystal Castles II | (Fiction) | dance | 6/10 |
| Current 93 | Baalstorm Sing Omega | (Coptic Cat) | alt-pop | 4/10 |
| Dalek | Untitled | (Latitudes) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Darkstar | North | (Hyperdub) | synthpop | 6/10 |
| Date Palms | Of Psalms | (Thrill Jockey) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest Delphic | (4AD) | power-pop | 7/10 |
| Delays | Star Tiger Star Ariel | (Lookout Mountain) | dance-pop | 5/10 |
| Disappears | Lux | (Kranky) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Dum Dum Girls | I Will Be | (Sub Pop) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Emeralds | Does It Look Like I'm Here? | (Editions Mego) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Engineers | In Praise Of More | (Echo) | shoegaze | 4/10 |
| Everything Everything | Man Alive | (Geffen) | dancepop | 4/10 |
| Excepter | Presidence | (Paw Tracks) | psych-tronica | 6/10 |
| Excepter | Zion | (Skrot Up) | psych-tronica | 6/10 |
| Excepter | Maze of Death | (Dog Daze Tapes) | psych-tronica | 6/10 |
| Faun Fables | Light of a Vaster Dark | (Drag City) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Mark Fell | Multistability | (Raster-Norton) | glitch | 6/10 |
| David First | Privacy Issues | (XI) | droning | 7/10 |
| Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | (Warp) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Forest Swords | Dagger Paths | (No Pain In Pop) | dubstep | 6/10 |
| Four Tet | There Is Love In You | (Domino) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Fun Years | God Was Like No | (Barge) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Girl Talk | All Day | (Illegal Art) | mash-up | 5/10 |
| Glasser | Ring | (True Panther) | singer-songwriter | 6/10 |
| Glitterbug | Cancerboy | (c.sides) | techno | 6/10 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues | L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante | (Burning World) | gothic | 7/10 |
| Gog | Heavy Fierce Brightness | (Sounds Of Battle And Souvenir Collecting) | droning | 7/10 |
| Gogol Bordello | Trans-Continental Hustle | (American) | punk | 6/10 |
| Gold Panda | Lucky Shiner | (Ghostly International) | dance | 6/10 |
| Gonjasufi | A Sufi and a Killer | (Warp) | acid-rock | 6/10 |
| Gorillaz | Plastic Beach | (EMI) | pop | 4/10 |
| Grinderman | Grinderman 2 | (Anti) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Gultskra Artikler | Galaktika | (Other Electricities) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Hail Architeuthis | Herald The Harbinger Of Impending Acoustics | (Auris Apothecary) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Sean Hayes | Run Wolves Run | (self) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Daniel Higgs | Say God | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| High On Fire | Snakes for the Divine | (E1) | stoner | 5/10 |
| How to Dress Well | Love remains | (Lefse) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| If Bwana | Assemble Age | (Mutable) | avant | 6/10 |
| Indignant Senility. | Plays Wagner | (Type) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Irata | Irata | (Silber) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Jaill | That's How We Burn | (Sub Pop) | pop | 5/10 |
| Jatoma | Jatoma | (Kompakt) | techno | 7/10 |
| Sarah June | In Black Robes | (Silber) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Kabutogani | Bektop | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch | 6/10 |
| Kayo Dot | Coyote | (Hydra Head) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Khalija | Khalija | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Klaxons | Surfing the Void | (Polydor) | dance-rock | 5/10 |
| Kylesa | Spiral Shadow | (Season Of Mist) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Land of Kush | Monogamy | (Constellation) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| LCD Soundsystem | This is Happening> | (DFA) | dance | 5/10 |
| Liars | Sisterworld | (Mute) | pop | 5/10 |
| Los Siquicos Litoralenos | Abduccion Nacional Y Popular | (self) | free-folk | 6/10 |
| Loscil | Endless Falls | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Lower Dens | Twin-Hand Movement | (Gnomonsong) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| M.I.A. | Maya | (XL) | dance | 6/10 |
| Magic Latern | Platoon | (Not Not Fun) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Mako Sica | Dual Horizon | (La Societe Expeditionnaire) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Maquiladora | Wirikuta | (Lotus House) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Laura Marling | I Speak Because I Can | (Virgin) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Mass Shivers | Contoured Heat | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Living With Yourself | (Editions Mego) | instrumental | 4/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Things Fall Apart | (Wagon) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Guitar Meditations Vol. II | (Wagon) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Menomena | Mines | (Barsuk) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Paul Metzger | The Uses of Infinity | (Locust) | solo acoustic | 6/10 |
| MGMT | Congratulations | (Columbia) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Mi Ami | Steal Your Face | (Thrill Jockey) | Genre | 7/10 |
| Midori | Shinsekai | (Sony) | punk-jazz | 7/10 |
| Janelle Monae | The ArchAndroid | (Bad Boy) | soul | 8/10 |
| Motion Sickness Of Time Travel | Seeping Through The Veil Of The Unconscious | (Digitalis) | droning | 7/10 |
| Motorpsycho | Heavy Metal Fruit | (Rune Grammofon) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Murmuure | Murmuure | (Cold Void Emanations) | black metal | 7/10 |
| National | High Violet | (4AD) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Natural Snow Buildings | The Centauri Agent | (Vulpiano) | droning | 7/10 |
| Joanna Newsom | Have One On Me | (Drag City) | singer-songwriter | 8/10 |
| Nice Face | Immer Etwas | (Sacred Bones) | garage | 7/10 |
| No Age | Everything in Between | (SubPop) | power-pop | 6/10 |
| Margaret Noble | Frakture | (Kunaki) | avant | 6/10 |
| Ocean | Heliocentric | (Metal Blade) | metal | 5/10 |
| Ocean | Anthropocentric | (Metal Blade) | metal | 5/10 |
| Octopus Project | Hexadecagon | (Peek-A-Boo) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| oOoOO | oOoOO | (Triangle) | witch house | 7/10 |
| Robert Owens | Art | (Compost) | deep house | 6/10 |
| Owen Pallett | Heartland | (Domino) | pop | 7/10 |
| Pantha DuPrince | Black Noise | (Rough Trade) | techno | 6/10 |
| Ariel Pink | Before Today | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Pop 1280 | The Grid | (Sacred Bones) | garage | 7/10 |
| Robert Poss | Settings | (Trace Elements) | avant | 6/10 |
| Pryapisme | Rococo Holocaust | (Apathia) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Purling Hiss | Public Service Announcement | (Woodsist) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Radio Massacre International | Time & Motion | (Cuneiform) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Rangda | False Flag | (Drag City) | improv-rock | 5/10 |
| Red Krayola | Five American Portraits | (Drag City) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Graham Repulski | Man Pop | (shorter) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Marc Ribot | Silent Movies | (Pi) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Alasdair Roberts | Too Long In This Condition | (Drag City) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Roll The Dice | Roll The Dice | (Digitalis) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Rolo Tomassi | Cosmology | (Hassle) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Roska | Roska | (Rinse) | dance | 6/10 |
| Royal Baths | Litanies | (Woodsist) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Laetitia Sadier | The Trip | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Salem | King Night | (IAmSound) | dance-pop | 7/10 |
| Serena Maneesh | #2: Abyss In B Minor | (4AD) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| Elliott Sharp | Binibon | (Henceforth) | avant | 4/10 |
| Shearwater | The Golden Archipelago | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Shlomo | Shlomoshun Deluxe | (Friends Of Friends) | wonky | 7/10 |
| Sic Alps | Napa Aslyum | (Drag City) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Sightings | City Of Straw | (Load) | noise-rock | 5/10 |
| Silvester Anfang | Commune Cassetten | (Blackest Rainbow) | psych-rock | 4/10 |
| Skullflower | Strange Keys To Untune God's Firmament | (Neurot) | noise | 7/10 |
| Slaves | Ocean On Ocean | (Debacle) | slo-core | 7/10 |
| Sleigh Bells | Treats | (NEET) | dance-punk | 7/10 |
| Soft Moon | The Soft Moon | (Captured Track) | goth-rock | 7/10 |
| Solar Bears | She Was Coloured In | (Planet Mu) | dance | 6/10 |
| Solo Andata | Ritual | (Desire Path) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | (Asthmatic Kitty) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Marnie Stern | Marnie Stern | (Kill Rock Stars) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Sun Araw | On Patrol | (Not Not Fun Records) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Sun City Girls | Funeral Mariachi | (Abduction) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Sun Kil Moon | Admiral Fell Promises | (Caldo Verde) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Swans | My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky | (Young God) | alt-rock | 4/10 |
| Tamaryn | The Waves | (Mexican Summer) | dream-pop | 6/10 |
| Teeth of the Sea | Your Mercury | (Rocket) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | Kollaps Tradixionales | (Constellation) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| These New Puritans | Hidden | (Domino) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Thorn1 | So Far As Fast | (Silber) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Three Mile Pilot | The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten | (Temporary Residence Limited) | pop | 4/10 |
| Yann Tiersen | Dust Lane | (Mute) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Titus Andronicus | The Monitor | (XL) | punk | 7/10 |
| Corin Tucker Band | 1,000 Years | (Kill Rock Stars) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Uboa | Sometimes Light (2010) | (Uboa) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Univers Zero | Clivages | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Vampire Weekend | Contra | (XL) | pop | 6/10 |
| Villagers | Becoming a Jackal | (Domino) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Anna Von Hausswolff | Singing From the Grave | (Kning Disk) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Dimitri Voudouris | Pogus 21056 | (Pogus) | avant | 7/10 |
| Rufus Wainwright | All Days Are Nights - Songs For Lulu | (Decca) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Walkmen | Lisbon | (Fat Possum) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Weasel Walter | Invasion | (UgExplode) | free-jazz | 6/10 |
| Wavves | King of the Beach | (Fat Possum) | psych-pop | 5/10 |
| Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | (Roc-A-Fella) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Wild Nothing | Gemini | (Captured Tracks) | pop | 6/10 |
| Will Over Matter | Might Of The Planet Eater | (Bestial Burst) | electronics | 6/10 |
| Chelsea Wolfe | The Grime and the Glow | (Pendu Sound) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | Dear God | (Kill Rock Stars) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Neil Young | Le Noise | (Reprise) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Zs | New Slaves | (Social Registry) | avant | 6/10 |
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