* indicates Canadian artist
1 BORN RUFFIANS* – Juice (Yep Roc Records)
2 JOHNNY WEST* – Year Of The Sleepwalk (Tosteestostas)
3 SHIMMER DEMOLITION* – Stain Inn (Self-Released)
4 BORDER PATROL* – The Worst Excuses (Self-Released)
5 THE BISHOP BOYS* – Pelee Island EP (Self-Released)
6 THE GREEDY ECHOES* – Early Reflections (Self-Released)
7 TROUT* – Nectar EP (Self-Released)
8 GUM COUNTRY* – Somewhere (Self-Released)
9 SHOOBIES* – Open For Business (Self-Released)
10 NAP EYES* – Snapshot Of A Beginner (Royal Mountain)
11 U.S. GIRLS* – Heavy Light (Royal Mountain)
12 ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD AND ADRIAN YOUNGE – Jazz is Dead (Self-Released)
13 HAILU MERGIA – Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
14 GIL SCOTT-HERON & MAKAYA MCCRAVEN – We’re New Again : A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (XL Recordings)
15 SORRY – 925 (Domino)
16 WAXAHATCHEE – Saint Cloud (Merge)
17 PSYCHIC VOID* – Skeleton Paradise (Kaiser Sound Productions)
18 CRISSI COCHRANE* – Heirloom (Soul City Music Co-op)
19 ZARASUTRA* – Arriving Forever (Self-Released)
20 ANNA BURCH – If You’re Dreaming (Polyvinyl)
21 DOGLEG – Melee (Triple Crown Records)
22 TOPS* – I Feel Alive (Musique TOPS)
23 DANIEL ROMANO* – Visions of the Higher Dream (Self-Released)
24 SULTANS OF STRING* – Refuge (Self-Released)
25 HEATHER VALLEY* – Desert Message (Self-Released)
26 PETER HUM* – Ordinary Heroes (Self-Released)
27 SPILTMILK* – Funk Side of a Moon (Self-Released)
28 GORD SINCLAIR* – Taxi Dancers (Pheromone Recordings)
29 ELEPHANT STONE* – Hollow (Elephants On Parade)
30 THE MARIACHI GHOST – Puro Dolor (Sugar Gator Records)