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

1    THE FAST ROMANTICS*     Pick It Up (Postwar)

2    PROTOMARTYR^     Ultimate Success Today (Domino)

3    TERRITORIES*     When The Day Is Done (Pirate’s Press)

4    DIZZY*     The Sun and Her Scorch (Royal Mountain)

5    THROTTLE ELEVATOR MUSIC     Emergency Exit (Wide Hive)

6    WASHED OUT     Purple Noon (SubPop)

7    TOUGH AGE*     Which Way Am I? (Mint)

8    MULATU ASTATKE & BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE     To Know Without Knowing (Agogo)

9    THE REAL MCKENZIES*     Beer and Loathing (Fat Wreck Chords)

10   DAYS N DAZE     Show Me The Blueprints (Fat Wreck Chords)

11   ORVILLE PECK*     Show Pony (Columbia)

12   YOUNG RJ AND MEGA RAN     2HANDSUP (Ne’Astra Music Group)

13   JR JR     August and Everything Prior (Love Is EZ)

14   STARPAINTER*     Bury Me By My Family (Self-Released)

15   ALEX MOXON QUARTET*     Self Titled (Self-Released)

16   DANA GAVANSKI*     Wind Songs (Self-Released)

17   ALVARO ROJAS     Gran Kasa (Self-Released)

18   REV HANK*     El Camino (Self-Released)

19   MOUTHFEEL*     Mouthfeel (Self-Released)

20   SHERMAN DOWNEY*     New Beautiful (Self-Released)

21   CRACK CLOUD*     Pain Olympics (Self-Released)

22   CAMILLE DELEAN*     Cold House Burning (E-Tron)

23   THE JERRY CANS*     Echos (Aakuluk)

24   SKINNY DYCK*     Get To Know Lonesome (Self-Released)

25   TIMBUKTU & OLLIE TEEBA*     Million Pound Note (Urbnet)

26   HILARIO DURAN*     The Cuban OST (Alma)

27   CORY WEEDS QUARTET*     Day By Day (Cellar Music)

28   LAND OF TALK*     Indistinct Conversations (Dine Alone)

29   BRAIDS*     Shadow Offering (Secret City)

30   FORREST BEES     Self-titled (Self-Released)

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