Top 50

1. Dirty Projectors - ''Bitte Orca'' *[Domino]*
2. The Clientele - ''Bonfires on the Heath'' *[Merge]*
3. Bill Callahan - ''Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle'' *[Drag City]*
4. Mount Eerie - ''Wind's Poem'' *[P.W. Elverum & Sun]*
5. Fever Ray - ''Fever Ray'' *[Mute]*
6. Baroness - ''The Blue Record'' *[Relapse]*
7. Antony & The Johnsons - ''The Crying Light'' *[Secretly Canadian]*
8. Sunset Rubdown - ''Dragonslayer'' *[Jagjaguwar]*
9. Atlas Sound - ''Logos'' *[Kranky]*
10. Isis - ''Wavering Radiant'' *[Ipecac]*
11. Sunn O))) - ''Monoliths & Dimensions'' *[Southern Lord]*
12. Talibam! - ''Boogie in the Breeze Blocks'' *[ESP-Disk]*
13. The Juan Maclean - ''The Future Will Come'' *[DFA]*
14. Ducktails - ''Landscapes'' *[Olde English Spelling Bee]*
15. Richard Youngs - ''Under Stellar Stream'' *[Jagjaguwar]*
16. Grizzly Bear - ''Veckatimest'' *[Warp]*
17. Zu - ''Carboniferous'' *[Ipecac]*
18. The Shadow Ring - ''Life Review: 1993-2003'' *[KYE]*
19. The Antlers - ''Hospice'' *[Frenchkiss]*
20. Filastine - ''Dirty Bomb'' *[Soot]*
21. Sir Richard Bishop - ''The Freak of Araby'' *[Drag City]*
22. St. Vincent - ''Actor'' *[4AD]*
23. Buraka Som Sistema - ''Black Diamond'' *[Fabric]*
24. Marissa Nadler - ''Little Hells'' *[Kemado]*
25. Fuck Buttons - ''Tarot Sport'' *[ATP Recordings]*
26. Pissed Jeans - ''King of Jeans'' *[Sub Pop]*
27. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - ''The Pains of Being Pure at Heart'' *[Slumberland]*
28. Lotus Plaza - ''The Floodlight Collective'' *[Kranky]*
29. HEALTH - ''Get Color'' *[Lovepump United]*
30. Mattress - ''Low Blows'' *[Malt Duck]*
31. The Field - ''Yesterday and Today'' *[Anti-]*
32. The Horrors - ''Primary Colours'' *[XL]*
33. Alasdair Roberts - ''Spoils'' *[Drag City]*
34. Thee Oh Sees - ''Help'' *[In the Red]*
35. Cass McCombs - ''Catacombs'' *[Domino]*
36. Mastodon - ''Crack the Skye'' *[Reprise]*
37. OOIOO - ''Armonico Hewa'' *[Thrill Jockey]*
38. Lightning Bolt - ''Earthly Delights'' *[Load]*
39. Kurt Vile - ''Childish Prodigy'' *[Matador]*
40. Kuupuu - ''Lumen Taden'' *[Time-Lag]*
41. Jandek - ''Portland Thursday'' *[Corwood Industries]*
42. James Blackshaw - ''The Glass Bead Game'' *[Young God]*
43. Faunts - ''Feel Love Thinking Of'' *[Friendly Fire]*
44. Major Lazer - ''Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do'' *[Downtown]*
45. Current 93 - ''Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain'' *[Coptic Cat]*
46. Kevin Blechdom - ''Gentlemania'' *[Sonig]*
47. Various Artists - ''Tallahassee Compilation Vol. 2'' *[Gaines St.]*
48. Wold - ''Stratification'' *[Profound Lore]*
49. Samandtheplants - ''The Eft'' *[B-Music]*
50. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - ''Volume Two-Echoes Hypnotiques'' *[Analog Africa]*

Superlatives

1. Best 7" Release: Joey Casio - "Debtor's Prism" *[K]*
1. Best Punk Release: Pissed Jeans - "King of Jeans" *[Sub Pop]*
1. Best Electronic Release: Gui Boratto - "Take My Breath Away" *[Kompact]*
1. Best Local Release: (Tie) Jane Jane Pollock - "TAR" *[Flea Ridden Kitten]*
1. Best Singer-Songwriter/Folk Release: Bill Callahan - "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle" *[Drag City]*
1. Best Metal Release: Baroness - "The Blue Record" *[Relapse]*
1. Best Soul/Funk/R&B Release: Lee Fields & The Expressions - "My World" *[Truth & Soul]*
1. Best Latin Release: Various Artists - "Panama! 2" *[Soundway]*
1. Best Obscuro Release: Various Artists - "Plantation Gold" *[Omni]*
1. Best Experimental Release: Sunn O))) - "Monoliths & Dimensions" *[Southern Lord]*
1. Best Jazz Release: Steve Lehman Octet - "Travail, Transformation, and Flow" *[Pi]*
1. Best Blues Release: Elder Utah Smith & COGIC Friends - "I Got Two Wings" *[Casequarter]*
1. Best Re-Issue: The Shadow Ring - "Life Review: 1993-2003" *[KYE]*
1. Best Hip-Hip Release: Anti-Pop Consortium - "Fluorescent Black" *[Big Dada]*
1. Best Reggae Release: Major Lazer - "Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do" *[Downtown]*
1. Best World Music Release: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Vol. 2 - "Echoes Hypnotiques" *[Analog Africa]*
1. Best Compilation:
1. Various Artists - "The Sound of Wonder!" *[B-Music]*
2. Various Artists - "Well Hung" *[B-Music]*
3. Various Artists - "Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2" *[Sublime Frequencies]*
1. Best Debut Release: Hudson Mohawke - "Butter" *[Warp]*
1. Best EP Release: Julianna Barwick - "Florine" *[Florid]*
1. Most Annoying Release: Animal Collective - "Merriweather Post Pavillion" *[Domino]*
1. Most Disappointing Release: Sonic Youth - "The Eternal" *[Matador]*
1. Best Album Art:Portugal. The Man - "The Satanic Satanist" *[Equal vision]*
1. Worst Band Name: Pants Yell!
1. Best/Most Consistent Record Label: B-Music/Finders Keepersk
1. Best Specialty Show: Sonic Safari
1. Best Region for Music: California/Los Angeles
1. Best Local Show of the Year: Low @ Club Downunder
1. Best WVFS In-Studio Performance: Jack Rose
1. Best Deejay: Alexey O.

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