1. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
2. M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
3. The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient
4. James Blake, James Blake
5. Yuck, Yuck
6. Beyonce, 4
7. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
8. EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
9. Cut Copy, Zonoscope
10. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel
11. Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation
12. Nicolas Jaar, Space Is Only Noise
13. John Maus, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
14. Dum Dum Girls, Only in Dreams
15. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
16. Drake, Take Care
17. Liturgy, Aesthetica
18. Tom Waits, Bad As Me
19. Zola Jesus, Conatus
20. We Are Augustines, Rise Ye Sunken Ships
21. Yellow Ostrich, The Mistress
22. Real Estate, Days
23. DJ Quik, The Book of David
24. Vijay Iyer w Prasanna & Nitin Mitta, Tirtha
25. Krallice, Diotima
26. The Field, Looping State of Mind
27. Wilco, The Whole Love
28. Kendrick Lamar, Section.80
29. The Roots, Undun
30. Killer Mike, Pl3dge
31. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found
32. TV on the Radio, Nine Types of Light
33. Laura Marling, A Creature I Don’t Know
34. G-Side, The One…Cohesive
35. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Belong
36. Adele, 21
37. Katy B, On a Mission
38. Toby Twining, Eurydice
39. Iceage, New Brigade
40. Jay-Z & Kanye West, Watch the Throne
41. Gillian Welch, The Harrow and the Harvest
42. Hilary Hahn, Charles Ives: Four Sonatas
43. Cass McCombs, WIT’S END
44. The Weather Station, All Of It Was Mine
45. Low, C’mon
46. Mike Watt, hyphenated-man
47. The Antlers, Burst Apart
48. Sepalcure, Sepalcure
49. Other Lives, Tamer Animals
50. The Joy Formidable, Big Roar
51. Peaking Lights, 936
52. Megafaun, Megafaun
53. Generationals, Actor Caster
54. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction
55. Charles Bradley, No Time For Dreaming
56. Army Navy, The Last Place
57. Radiohead, The King of Limbs
58. Onehotrix Point Never, Replica
59. Dirty Beaches, Badlands
60. Hollie Cook, Hollie Cook
61. Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
62. 3 Cohens, Family
63. Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials
64. Dave Douglas & So Percussion, GPS, Vol. 3: Bad Mango
65. Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
66. The Men, Leave Home
67. Widowspeak, Widowspeak
68. Aram Shelton’s Arrive, There Was…
69. Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
70. Washed Out, Within and Without
71. Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
72. Tim Berne, Insomnia
73. Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What
74. The Black Keys, El Camino
75. Portugal. The Man., In the Mountain in the Cloud
76. Skeletonwitch, Forever Abomination
77. Chelsea Wolfe, Apokalypsis
78. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn
79. Okkervil River, I Am Very Far
80. Crystal Stilts, In Love With Oblivion
81. Trap Them, Darker Handcraft
82. Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow
83. Future Islands, On the Water
84. Conquering Animal Sound, Kammerspiel
85. Curren$y, Weekend at Burnie’s
86. Subrosa, No Help for the Mighty Ones
87. Cults, Cults
88. Jessica Lea Mayfield, Tell Me
89. Sleeper Agent, Celebrasion
90. Kekko Fornarelli, Room of Mirrors
91. Veronica Falls, Veronica Falls
92. WU LYF, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
93. CANT, Dreams Come True
94. Panda Bear, Tomboy
95. Holy Ghost!, Holy Ghost!
96. NewVillager, NewVillager
97. The Vaccines, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
98. Tunnel Six, Lake Superior
99. Britney Spears, Femme Fatale
100. The Decemberists, The King Is Dead
