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Top 50

1. Todd Terje - "It's Album Time" [Olsen]
2. FKA Twigs - "LP1" [Young Turks]
3. Chet Faker - "Built On Glass" [Downtown]
4. Run The Jewels - "Run The Jewels 2" [Mass Appeal]
5. The War On Drugs - "Lost In The Dream" [Secretly Canadian]
6. Aphex Twin - "Syro" [Warp]
7. Cymbals Eat Guitars - "Lose" [Barsuk]
8. Cloud Nothings - "Here And Nowhere Else" [Carpark]
9. Real Estate - "Atlas" [Domino]
10. Caribou - "Our Love" [Merge]
11. Hundred Waters - "The Moon Rang Like A Bell" [OWSLA]
12. Sun Kil Moon - "Benji" [Caldo Verde]
13. White Lung - "Deep Fantasy" [Domino]
14. Mac DeMarco - "Salad Days" [Captured Tracks]
15. Alvvays - "Alvvays" [Polyvinyl]
16. Flying Lotus - "You're Dead!" [Warp]
17. Foxing - "The Albatross" [Triple Crown-Count Your Lucky Stars]
18. Against Me - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" [Total Treble]
18. Thou - "Heathen" [Gilead Media]
20. Grouper - "Ruins" [Kranky]
21. Death From Above 1979 - "The Physical World" [Last Gang]
22. Sylvan Esso - "Sylvan Esso" [Partisan]
23. Swans - "To Be Kind" [Young God]
24. Alt-J - "This Is All Yours" [Infectious]
25. Shabazz Palaces - "Lese Majesty" [Sub Pop]
26. Buffalo Buffalo - "Coping System" [Self-Released]
27. Spoon - "They Want My Soul" [Loma Vista]
28. Arca - "Xen" [Mute]
29. Tobacco - "Ultima II Massage" [Ghostly International]
30. Goat - "Commune" [Sub Pop]
31. Ex-Breathers - "ExBx" [Texas Is Funny]
32. Alex G - "DSU" [Orchid Tapes]
33. Ariel Pink - "Pom Pom" [4AD]
34. Ben Varian - "Real Domestic Scene" [Patient Sounds]
35. Future Islands - "Singles" [4AD]
35. Ought - "More Than Any Other Day" [Constellation]
37. The Coathangers - "Suck My Shirt" [Suicide Squeeze]
37. Ex Hex - "Rips" [Merge]
37. St. Vincent - "St. Vincent" [Loma Vista]
40. Ty Segall - "Manipulator" [Drag City]
41. TV On The Radio - "Seeds" [Harvest]
42. Gardens & Villa - "Dunes" [Secretly Canadian]
42. Iceage - "Plowing Through The Field" [Matador]
44. Melt Channel - "Magic Is Real" [Self-Released]
45. Parquet Courts - "Sunbathing Animal" [What's Your Rupture?]
46. Merchandise - "After The End" [4AD]
47. Teebs - "E S T A R A" [Brainfeeder]
48. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - "Sea When Absent" [Lefse]
49. Tune-Yards - "Nikki Nack" [4AD]
50. Kishi Bashi - "Lighght" [Joyful Noise]

Superlatives

Best 7" Release: Ex-Breathers - "ExBx" [Texas Is Funny]
Best Punk Release: White Lung - "Deep Fantasy" [Domino]
Best Electronic Release: Aphex Twin - "Syro" [Warp]
Best Local Release: Ex-Breathers - "ExBx" [Texas Is Funny]
Best Singer-Songwriter/Folk Release: [Tie] Sharon Van Etten - "Are We There" [Jagjaguwar]; Sun Kil Moon - "Benji" [Caldo Verde]
Best Metal Release: Thou - "Heathen" [Gilead Media]
Best Soul/Funk/R&B Release: Lee Fields - "Emma Jean" [Truth And Soul]
Best Latin Release: Rodrigo Y Gabriela - "9 Dead Alive" [Rubyworks]
Best Obscuro Release: Pink Martini and the Von Trapps - "Dream A Little Dream" [Heinz]
Best Experimental Release: Ricky Eat Acid - "Three Love Songs" [Orchid Tapes]
Best Jazz Release: Darius Jones and Matthew Shipp - "Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid Recital" [AUM Fidelity]
Best Blues Release: Various Artists - "The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records, Vol. 2" (Sampler) [Third Man]
Best Reissue: [Tie] Fugazi - "First Demo" [Dischord]; Songs: Ohia - "Magnolia Electric Co." [Secretly Canadian]
Best Hip Hop Release: Run The Jewels - "Run The Jewels 2" [Mass Appeal]
Best Reggae Release: Natural Numbers - "Natural Numbers In Dub" [Stones Throw]
Best World Release: Tinariwen - "Emmaar" [Anti-/Wedge]
Best Compilation Release: Hyperdub 10.1-4 [Hyperdub]
Best Debut Release: FKA Twigs - "LP1" [Young Turks]
Best EP Release: [Tie] Ex-Breathers - "ExBx" [Texas Is Funny]; SALES - "SALES" [Self-Released]; Speedy Ortiz - "Real Hair" [Carpark]
Most Annoying Release: The Black Keys - "Turn Blue" [Nonesuch]
Most Disappointing Release: Wolves In The Throne Room - "Celestite" [Artemisia]
Best Album Art: Jake Tobin - "Torment" [Chill Mega Chill]
Worst Band Name: [Tie] Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate); Oozing Wound
Best/Most Consisten Record Label: Orchid Tapes
Best Specialty Show: [Tie] The Undaground Railroad; Sonic Safari; Club Convergence
Best Region For Music: California
Best Local Show: Russian Circles, Inter Arma, KEN Mode and Ex-Breathers @ Rehab
Best WVFS In-Studio: Thou
Best DJ: Kayla J.

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