Rank
|
Artist – Title - Label
|
Points
|
Number of Votes
|
Average Pts/Vote
|
1
|
Colin Stetson –
New History of Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (CONSTELLATION)
|
263
|
17
|
15.47
|
2
|
Grouper -
A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Loss (Self-Released/Yellow Electric)
|
228
|
16
|
14.25
|
3
|
Peaking Lights -
936 (Not Not Fun)
|
222
|
17
|
13.06
|
4
|
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
(HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS)
|
167
|
11
|
15.18
|
5
|
tUnE-yArDs -
W H O K I L L (4AD)
|
150
|
9
|
16.67
|
6
|
Kurt Vile-Smoke Rings for my Halo (Matador)
|
143
|
10
|
14.3
|
7
|
Ami Dang -
Hukam (Ehse)
|
138
|
9
|
15.33
|
8
|
Mantana Roberts –
Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres (CONSTELLATION)
|
129
|
9
|
14.33
|
9
|
Oneotrhix Point Never -
Replica (Mexican Summer/Software Records)
|
128
|
11
|
11.64
|
10
|
James Blake -
James Blake (Atlas / Universal)
|
126
|
9
|
14
|
11
|
Big K.R.I.T-
Return of 4eva (self-released)
|
98
|
7
|
14
|
12
|
Fucked Up—David Comes to Life (Matador)
|
96
|
8
|
12
|
13
|
John Maus –
We Must Become The Pitiless Censor’s of Ourselves (UPSET! THE RHYTHM)
|
93
|
7
|
13.29
|
14
|
Zomes –
Earth Grid (THRILL JOCKEY)
|
89
|
9
|
9.89
|
15
|
Destroyer –
Kaputt (MERGE)
|
88
|
8
|
11
|
15
|
Radiohead—King of Limbs (self-released)
|
88
|
7
|
12.57
|
17
|
Beach Boys—Smile Sessions (CAPITOL)
|
86
|
5
|
17.2
|
18
|
Hiss Golden Messenger –
Bad Debt (Black Maps)
|
84
|
6
|
14
|
19
|
Gang Gang Dance—Eye Contact (4AD)
|
82
|
8
|
10.25
|
20
|
Jay Z/Kanye West-
Watch The Throne (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)
|
80
|
5
|
16
|
21
|
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread (Drag City)
|
77
|
6
|
12.83
|
22
|
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
|
73
|
6
|
12.17
|
23
|
Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
|
70
|
6
|
11.67
|
24
|
ASAP Rocky – LiveLoveASAP
(self-released)
|
68
|
4
|
17
|
24
|
Alvarius B. - Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village/Abduction)
|
68
|
5
|
13.6
|
26
|
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
|
64
|
5
|
12.8
|
27
|
Hiss Golden Messenger – Poor Moon (Paradise of Bachelors)
|
63
|
5
|
12.6
|
28
|
St. Vincent-Strange Mercy (4AD)
|
62
|
5
|
12.4
|
28
|
William Tyler – Behold the Spirit (Tompkins Square)
|
62
|
4
|
15.5
|
30
|
Real Estate - Days
|
61
|
4
|
15.25
|
31
|
Village of Spaces – Alchemy and Trust (Turned Word)
|
60
|
5
|
12
|
32
|
Wild Flag-s/t (Merge)
|
59
|
4
|
14.75
|
33
|
Beyonce - 4
|
58
|
4
|
14.5
|
33
|
People Like Us – Welcome Abroad
(ILLEGAL ART)
|
58
|
6
|
9.67
|
35
|
Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run
|
57
|
4
|
14.25
|
36
|
Des Ark - Don't Rock The Boat, Sink the Fucker (Lovitt)
|
55
|
4
|
13.75
|
36
|
The Roots - Undun
|
55
|
4
|
13.75
|
38
|
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (Siltbreeze)
|
52
|
5
|
10.4
|
39
|
Danny Brown - XXX (Fools Gold)
|
51
|
5
|
10.2
|
39
|
Whatever Brains - s/t
|
51
|
5
|
10.2
|
41
|
Drake—Take Care
|
50
|
3
|
16.67
|
41
|
Gil Scott - Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here (Young Turks/XL)
|
50
|
4
|
12.5
|
43
|
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (KYE)
|
48
|
3
|
16
|
44
|
Panda Bear – Tomboy
|
47
|
4
|
11.75
|
45
|
UV Race – Homo (In the Red)
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
45
|
Metal Mountains - Golden Trees (Amish)
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
45
|
War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
48
|
Das Racist—Relax
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
decemberists- the king is dead
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/t
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
Tinariwen - Tassili (ANTI)
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
52
|
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
|
43
|
4
|
10.75
|
52
|
africa hitech – 93 million miles (warp)
|
43
|
5
|
8.6
|
54
|
John Tejada - Parabolas (Kompakt)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
54
|
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico
(SPECTRUM SPOOLS)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
54
|
Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
|
42
|
3
|
14
|
54
|
Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop
(Kranky)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
58
|
Jeff the Brotherhood - We are the Champions (Infinity Cat)
|
40
|
2
|
20
|
58
|
LV & josh idehen – routes (keysound)
|
40
|
2
|
20
|
60
|
Brain F/ - Sleep Rough (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)
|
39
|
3
|
13
|
61
|
Girls - Father, Son & Holy Ghost
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
61
|
Zomby—Dedication (4AD)
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
61
|
Big Blood and the Wicked Hex - Big Blood
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
64
|
Battles – Gloss Drop (Warp Records)
|
37
|
2
|
18.5
|
64
|
Glenn Jones – The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
|
37
|
4
|
9.25
|
64
|
Curren$y- Covert Coup/ Weekend at Burnies
|
37
|
3
|
12.33
|
64
|
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain (Drag City)
|
37
|
4
|
9.25
|
64
|
Mi Ami - Dolphins (Thrill Jockey)
|
37
|
2
|
18.5
|
69
|
Lupe Fiasco- Lasers
|
36
|
2
|
18
|
70
|
The Magic I.D. - I'm So Awake/Sleepless I Feel
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Akira Sakata with Jim O’Rourke & Chikamorachi – And That’s the Story of Jazz… (Family Vineyard)
|
35
|
3
|
11.67
|
70
|
Feeling of Love - Dissolve Me (Kill Shaman)
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Death Grips – Exmilitary (Third Worlds)
|
35
|
3
|
11.67
|
75
|
Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magick (Giraffes? Giraffes!)
|
34
|
2
|
17
|
75
|
Unicorn Hard-On / Container - Split (Hot Releases/More)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
75
|
Machinedrum-Room(s)
|
34
|
2
|
17
|
75
|
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8 (RVNG INTL)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
75
|
Octa Octa - Let Me See You (100% Silk)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
80
|
The Bats-Free All Monsters
|
33
|
2
|
16.5
|
80
|
Frank Fairfield – Out on the Open West (Tompkins Square)
|
33
|
2
|
16.5
|
80
|
Atlas Sound—Parallax
|
33
|
3
|
11
|
83
|
Sully - Carrier
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Natural Child - 1971 (Infinity Cat)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Phil Cook and his Feat - Hungry Mother Blues (Trekky)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In the Red)
|
32
|
3
|
10.67
|
83
|
Tom Waits - Bad as Me (ANTI)
|
32
|
4
|
8
|
83
|
Maikotron Unit- Ex- Voto (Rant)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
90
|
Demdike Stare - Tryptych
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Liquor Store - Yeah Buddy (Almost Ready)
|
31
|
3
|
10.33
|
90
|
kuedo – severant (planet mu)
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes (Night Slugs)
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Human Eye - They Came from the Sky (Sacred Bones)
|
31
|
3
|
10.33
|
95
|
Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Ghostly Int’l)
|
30
|
2
|
15
|
95
|
raphael saadiq – stone rollin (columbia)
|
30
|
3
|
10
|
95
|
Megafaun- Megafaun (Home Tapes)
|
30
|
4
|
7.5
|
98
|
Sean McCann - The Capital (Aguirre)
|
29
|
4
|
7.25
|
98
|
Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All The Time (We Are Free)
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
98
|
Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
98
|
PG Six - Starry Mind (Drag City)
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
102
|
Samiyam-Sam Baker's Album
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Meager Sunlight / Skeleton Warrior - Seasons Of Nudity 12" (Hot Releases / More etc)
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Future Islands – On the Water
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Neon Indian- Era Extrana
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Mount Moriah - Mount Moriah (HOLIDAYS FOR QUINCE)
|
28
|
3
|
9.33
|
102
|
Washed Out - Within and Without
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Religious Knives - Smokescreen (Sacred Bones)
|
28
|
3
|
9.33
|
110
|
Liturgy—Aesthethica
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Double Negative-Hardcore Confusion vols. 1 & 2
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Matthew Shipp Trio – The Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Yuck-Yuck
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
V/A - Worth The Weight - Bristol Dubstep Classics
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest (Acony)
|
27
|
3
|
9
|
110
|
Call Back the Giants - The Rising
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
DJ Rashad – Just A Taste
(GHETTOPHILES)
|
27
|
3
|
9
|
118
|
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
My Morning Jacket- Circuital
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Sich Mang tape (Priority Male)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
The Weekend- House of Balloons/Thursday
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi - Teatro Assente (erstwhile)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
124
|
Seefeel - Seefeel (Warp)
|
25
|
3
|
8.33
|
124
|
Storm Queen - It Goes On 12" (Environ)
|
25
|
2
|
12.5
|
126
|
The Field - Looping State of Mind
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Cave - Neverendless
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Clams Casino-Instrumentals
|
24
|
3
|
8
|
126
|
V/A - Thai? Dai!
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
131
|
Skull Defekts- Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)
|
23
|
2
|
11.5
|
131
|
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
|
23
|
2
|
11.5
|
133
|
Kingdom - Dreama (Night Slugs)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence (XO)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
White Hills -- H-p1 (THRILL JOCKEY)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
137
|
Burial - Street Halo (Hyperdub)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Wale- Ambition
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
giles corey - giles corey
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Ital - Only For Tonight (100% Silk)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Deerhoof- Deerhoof vs. Evil
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (Kimberly Dawn)
|
21
|
3
|
7
|
137
|
Wye Oak – Civilian (Merge)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Psychic Paramount--II
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
145
|
V/a
- AfroCubism Afrocubismo
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (Domino)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
smoke fairies- through low light and trees
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Marianne Pousseur – Only
(SUB ROSA)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Sandwell District – s/t
(SANDWELL DISTRICT)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Rustie-Glass Swords
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Levon Vincent - Impressions Of A Rainstorm EP (Novel Sound)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Brain F≠ - So Dim 7-inch (GRAVE MISTAKE)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
DB tha General - I Invented Gas (THIZZLER.COM)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Meg Baird- Seasons on Earth (Drag City)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Lucas Santtana – Sem Nostalgia
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
HONEY HEADS - CANDY CROSSES (self-released)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Psychic Reality - Vibrant New Age (NOT NOT FUN)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Sacred Harp - Apparitions of the Kenmore Plantation
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Des Ark - WXDU V.3 (Paramnesia Records)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Mikal Cronin - s/t - (Trouble in mind)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Heresy of the Free Spirit -- A Prayer For Light (INCUNABULUM)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Rene Hell – The terminal Symphony
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Jam CIty – Waterworx EP
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Morning Teleportation - Expanding Anyway
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (ANTI/Fish People/EMI)
|
20
|
3
|
6.67
|
145
|
Prince Rama - Trust now (Paw Tracks)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Thee Oh Sees - castlemania
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Julie Holter - “Tragedy”
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
