Pitchfork
1. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
2. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
3. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel
4. Tame Impala – Lonerism
5. Swans – The Seer
6. Grimes – Visions
7. Beach House – Bloom
8. Chromatics – Kill for Love
9. Death Grips – The Money Store
10. Grizzly Bear – Shields
11. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
13. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
14. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
15. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
16. Burial – Kindred EP
17. Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
18. Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall & White Fence – Slaughterhouse/Hair
19. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
20. Jessie Ware – Devotion
21. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
22. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes
23. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
24. Purity Ring – Shrines
25. Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
26. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
27. John Talabot – ƒIN
28. How to Dress Well – Total Loss
29. Cat Power – Sun
30. The Men – Open Your Heart
31. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
32. Action Bronson/Party Supplies – Blue Chips
33. Actress – R.I.P.
34. Chairlift – Something
35. TNGHT – TNGHT
36. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
37. Future – Pluto
38. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
39. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
40. DIIV – Oshin
41. Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze EP
42. Rick Ross – Rich Forever
43. Mac DeMarco – 2
44. Metz – Metz
45. El-P – Cancer for Cure
46. Rustie – Essential Mix
47. Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
48. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
49. Crystal Castles – III
50. Lambchop – Mr. M
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