* indicates Canadian artist. ^ indicates local Windsor/Detroit artist
1 KANDLE* Set the Fire (Self-Released)
2 LES MOONTUNES* Les Moontunes (Self-Released)
3 THE LUVMENAUTS* In Space (Do Right!)
4 ROCHELLE JORDAN* Play With The Changes (Young Art)
5 CHRISTONE ‘KINGFISH’ INGRAM 662 (Alligator)
6 JAPANESE BREAKFAST Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
7 PEACH & QUIET* Just Beyond the Shine (Self-Released)
8 JESSE FELLOWS*^ The Four Oranges (Self-Released)
9 SOUL BROTHER MIKE*^ Headspace (Soul City Music Co-op)
10 PONY*^ TV Baby (Take This To The Heart Records)
11 THE ARMED^ Ultrapop (Sargent House)
12 SHAWNA CASPI* Hurricane Coming (Self-Released)
13 DUSTED* III (Self-Released)
14 GOLDEN CINEMA* Reels (2016-2020) (Self-Released)
15 JABBOUR* Carling Lake (Self-Released)
16 NOA* Honeymoon (Self-Released)
17 NICK FERRIO* Television of Roses (Self-Released)
18 ANYBODYS* Acts of Endurance (Self-Released)
19 BETABOYS* So Shy EP (Self-Released)
20 THE HALLUCI NATION* One More Saturday Night (Radicalized
Records)
21 THE EFFENS* Eventually EP (Hidden Pony)
22 AASIVA* Niriunniq (Aakuluk)
23 JANETTE KING* What We Lost (Hot Tramp)
24 FUCKED UP* Year Of The Horse (Self-Released)
25 PACKS* Take The Cake (Royal Mountain)
26 THE ZOLAS* Come Back to Life (Light Organ)
27 CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON* Alpha (Stone Woman)
28 NAP EYES* When I Come Around (EP) (Jagjaguwar)
29 ART D’ECCO* In Standard Definition (Paper Bag)
30 SOOK-YIN LEE & ADAM LITOVITZ* jooj two (Mint)
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Loud
1 THE ARMED^ Ultrapop (Sargent House)
2 ANYBODYS* Acts of Endurance (Self-Released)
3 FUCKED UP* Year Of The Horse (Self-Released)
4 BLOCK PARENT* Sick year, Bro! (Glue Gun)
5 TURNSTILE Turnstile Love Connection
(Roadrunner)
6 STAGNANCE*^ Misanthropy (Self-Released)
7 THE DESCENDENTS 9th & Walnut (Epitaph)
8 REBEL PRIEST* Lost in Tokyo (Self-Released)
9 WORMWITCH Wolf Hex (Prosthetic)
10 SHY, LOW Snake Behind the Sun (Pelagic Records)
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Folk/Roots/Blues
1 PEACH & QUIET* Just Beyond the Shine (Self-Released)
2 CHRISTONE ‘KINGFISH’ INGRAM 662 (Alligator)
3 SHAWNA CASPI* Hurricane Coming (Self-Released)
4 JABBOUR* Carling Lake (Self-Released)
5 MICHAEL FEUERSTACK* Harmonize the Moon (Forward Music
Group)
6 MELISSA CARPER Daddy’s Country Gold (Self-Released)
7 INDIGO DE SOUZA I Love My Mom (Saddle Creek)
8 BRENDAN SCOTT FRIEL*^ Summer Moons (Soul City Music Co-op)
9 VALERIE JUNE The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For
Dreamers (Fantasy)
10 GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS* Live At The Redeemer 2007 (Weewerk)
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Top Electronic/R&B/Hip Hop Albums
ROCHELLE JORDAN* Play With the Changes
DAWN RICHARD Second Line
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Top Jazz? Album
JOSEPH SHABASON* The Fellowship
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Top World Album
VARIOUS Changui: The Sound of Guantanamo