* indicates Canadian artist. ^ indicates local Windsor/Detroit artist

1    IDLES     Crawler (Partisan)

2    FLEECE*     Stunning & Atrocious (Self-Released)

3    TALKING VIOLET*^     Tell Your Friends You Love Them (Self-Released)

4    SATE*     The Fool (CLK Creative Works)

5    JULIE DOIRON*     I Thought of You (You’ve Changed)

6    COEUR DE PIRATE     Impossible à aimer (Bravo)

7    THE GARRYS*     Get Thee to a Nunnery (Grey)

8    KILL BIRDS     Married (Royal Mountain)

9    BEACH HOUSE     Once Twice Melody: Chapter 1 (Sub Pop)

10   SNAIL MAIL     Valentine (Matador)

11   WINE LIPS*     Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party (Stomp)

12   KARLOFF*     Karloff (No Funeral)

13   ASTROCOLOR*     Paradise (Amelia Recordings)

14   CEDRIC NOEL*     Hang Time (Forward Music Group / Joyful Noise)

15   KEYS N KRATES*     Original Classic (Last Gang)

16   BONNUIT*     Bonnuit (Off White House)

17   JULIA DAIGLE*     Un Single Sur L’epaule (Lisbon Lux)

18   SILLA + RISE*     Silarjuaq (Balanced)

19   BONE TOWER*     We All Will Die One Day (No Funeral)

20   ACTORS*     Acts of Worship (Artoffact)

21   SHAD*     TAO (Secret City)

22   ADA LEA*     one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden (Next Door)

23   LEX LEOSIS     Terracotta (Fontana North)

24   CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON*     Alpha (Stone Woman)

25   MOOR MOTHER     Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Self-Released)

26   DAMON ALBARN     The Nearer the Fountain More Pure the Stream Flows (Transgressive/PIAS)

27   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS     Book (Idlewild)

28   NNAMDÏ     Are You Happy (Sooper Records)

29   PARQUET COURTS     Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)

30   LALA LALA     I Want The Door To Open (Hardly Art)

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