Rank Artist Recording Label 1 MEGAFAUN Gather, Form, And Fly Hometapes 2 BIBIO Ambivalance Avenue Warp 3 ROYALCHORD The Good Fight Supply And Demand 4 GOD HELP THE GIRL God Help The Girl Matador 5 BIRDS OF AVALON Uncanny Valley 6 CHOO CHOO LA ROUGE Black Clouds Kiam 7 FALCAO AND MONASHEE Falcao And Monashee Borne 8 FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band SUB POP 9 YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS I Think This Is Yep Roc 10 VERBS Trip Jay-Vee 11 MOBY Wait For Me Mute 12 SOULSAVERS Broken Columbia 13 BLACK DRUMSET The Black Drumset Self-Released 14 DEERHUNTER Rainwater Cassette Exchange Kranky 15 YPPAH They Know What Ghost Know Ninja Tune 16 THESE UNITED STATES Everything Touches Everything United Interests 17 SIAN ALICE GROUP Troubled, Shaken Etc. The Social Registry 18 WAND Hard Knox Ecstatic Peace 19 RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE Hometowns Saddle Creek 20 THOSE DARLINS Those Darlins Oh Wow Dang 21 SAMARA LUBELSKI Future Slip Ecstatic Peace 22 DINOSAUR JR. Farm Jagjaguwar 23 BOWERBIRDS Upper Air Dead Oceans 24 BRONZED CHORUS I'm The Spring Hello Sir 25 VARIOUS ARTISTS Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary Vol. 1 B Music 26 FOREST FIRE Survival Infinite Best 27 HELADO NEGRO Awe Owe Asthmatic Kitty 28 NURSES Apple's Acre Dead Oceans 29 TIMBER TIMBRE Timber Timbre Arts And Crafts 30 HISTORICS Strategies For Apprehension Metropolitan Indian
Jazz
Rank Artist Recording Label 1 CHARNETT MOFFETT The Art Of Improvisation Motema 2 DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL-STAR BIG BAND I'm BeBoppin' Too halfnote 3 MATT WILSON QUARTET That's Gonna Leave A Mark Palmetto 4 CORY WEEDS QUINTET Everything Is Coming Up Weeds Cellar 5 TESSA SOUTER Obsession Motema Music 6 REUBEN WILSON Azure Te 18th & Vine 7 ROBERT GLASPER Double Booked Blue Note 8 STEFON HARRIS AND BLACKOUT Urbanus Concord-Concord Jazz 9 NEW ORLEANS MOONSHINERS New Orleans Moonshiners Self-Released 10 BILL BANFIELD BAND Spring Forward Innova
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