Top Album: The Northern South Vol. 2 by Whitehorse (Image: Artist Website)
Whitehorse: The Northern Soul Vol. 2 (Six Shooter)
- Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
Lee Harvey Osmond: Mohawk (Latent)
- Jeff Tweedy: WARM (dBpm)
Various Artists: The Al Purdy Songbook (Borealis)
- Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever (British Grove/Blue Note)
Altameda: Time Hasn’t Changed You (Pheromone)
Foxwarren: Foxwarren (Arts & Crafts)
Kate Blechinger: Under A Dancing Sky (Bent River)
Ariel Posen: How Long (Independent)
Baby Jey: Someday Cowboy (Maintenance)
- Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians: Rocket (Verve)
The Denim Daddies: Thinkin’ (EP) (Independent)
- The Daktaris: Soul Explosion [Remastered] (Desco / Daptone)
Dan Mangan: More or Less (Arts & Crafts)
- Kurt Vile: Bottle It In (Matador)
- Van Morrison: The Prophet Speaks (Caroline)
Sarah MacDougall: All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything (Label in Between)
- The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra: Naming & Blaming (Hope Street)
- Amos Lee: My New Moon (Dualtone)
- Yutaka Hirasaka: Day By Day (Inner Ocean)
Ryan Timoffee: Cuban Safari (Independent)
- Maggie Rogers: Heard It In A Past Life (Capitol)
- Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc (Naive)
- Robert Ellis: The Texas Pianoman (New West)
- Steve Gunn: The Unseen In Between (Matador)
- Watermelon Slim: Church of the Blues (Northern Blues)
- Liz Brasher: Painted Image (Fat Possum)
- William Tyler: Goes West (Merge)
- The Nude Party: The Nude Party (New West)