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

1    METZ*     Atlas Vending (Sub Pop)

2    JEFF ROSENSTOCK     2020 DUMP (Self-Released)

3    VARIOUS*     EVER NEW (Ever New)

4    POTTERY*     Welcome to Bobby’s Motel (Royal Mountain)

5    THE BETHS     Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)

6    ROBIN HATCH*     Noise (Self-Released)

7    KICKSIE*     All My Friends (Self-Released)

8    FIVE ALARM FUNK*     Big Smoke (Self-Released)

9    LYSANDRE*     Maison-Dieu (Chivi Chivi)

10   KATHLEEN EDWARDS*     Total Freedom (Dualtone)

11   NEIL SWAINSON QUINTET*     49th Parallel (Reissue) (Reel To Real)

12   DANIEL ROMANO’S OUTFIT*     How Ill Thy World Is Ordered (You’ve Changed)

13   JW JONES*     Sonic Departures (Solid Blues)

14   VANESSA COLLIER     Heart on the Line (Self-Released)

15   GERARDO FRISINA     Moving Ahead (Schema)

16   THE ELECTRIC MUD     Burn the Ships (Small Stone)

17   AYALEW MESFIN     Che Belew! (March Again!) (Now Again)

18   CHROME WAVES     Where We Live (Disorder)

19   TIM HEIDECKER     Fear Of Death (Spacebomb)

20   BIGGABUSH     Biggabush in Dub (Tru Thoughts)

21   KILL LINCOLN     Can’t Complain (Bad Time)

22   DEHD     Flower Of Devotion (Fire Talk)

23   FLEET FOXES     Shore (Anti-)

24   WORKING MEN’S CLUB     Working Men’s Club (Heavenly/PIAS)

25   INTO IT. OVER IT.     Figure (Triple Crown)

26   PEKOE CAT*     Menace (Light Organ)

27   L.A. WITCH     Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)

28   SUFJAN STEVENS     The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty)

29   ARTEMIS     Artemis (Blue Note)

30   BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB     Two Lives (Arts & Crafts)

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