Top Album: Mohawk by Lee Harvey Osmond (Photo: Artist Website)
Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
Altameda: Time Hasn’t Changed You (Pheromone)
- Beirut: Gallipoli (4AD)
Dan Mangan: More Or Less (Arts & Crafts)
Jim Brenan: 50/50 (Death Defying)
- Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone)
- Emily King: Scenery (ATO)
- Deer Tick: Mayonnaise (Partisan)
- Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls (Ba Da Bing)
- The Specials: Encore (Island)
- Jeff Tweedy: WARM (dBpm)
Matt Mays: Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time (Beachfire)
- Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
- Mavis Staples: Live In London (ANTI-)
- Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever (British Grove / Blue Note)
nêhiyawak: Starlight (Arts & Crafts)
- Sarah Louise: Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (Independent)
Ben Sures: Live At The Yardbird Suite (Independent)
The Mbira Renaissance Band: Famba (Independent)
- Guster: Look Alive (Nettwerk)
Kid Koala: Music to Draw To: Io (Arts & Crafts)
King Of Foxes: Salt & Honey (Independent)
- Gurf Morlix: Impossible Blue (Independent)
Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson: Amour (Stony Plain)
Michael Jerome Browne: That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Sarah MacDougall: All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything (Label in Between)
J. Solemn: Always Good (Independent)
- Yutaka Hirasaka: Day By Day (Independent)
- Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc (Naive)
- Charley Crockett: Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza (Son Of Davy)