Think of the first bracket as a "Top Ten" (though there are more than ten albums). The second bracket is a list of good albums that, for various reasons, didn't make it into the top selection. Unlike in past years, I've cut the "Honorable Mention" bracket, not because there weren't notable albums but because lists need some constraints.
+ In Order +
- Mary Bell ~ Mary Bell
- Girl Ray ~ Earl Grey
- Jane Weaver ~ Modern Kosmology
- Oh Sees ~ Orc
- UV-TV ~ Glass
- Land of Talk ~ Life After Youth
- Panda Riot ~ Infinity Maps
- Charms ~ Human Error
- Power Trip ~ Nightmare Logic
- Mountain Movers ~ Mountain Movers
- The Como Mamas ~ Move Upstairs
- St Vincent ~ Masseduction
- Ulrika Spacek ~ Modern English Decoration
- Ted Leo ~ The Hanged Man
- Jen Cloher ~ Jen Cloher
- Shannon Wright ~ Division
- Melkbelly ~ Nothing Valley
- Dr Dog ~ Abandoned Mansion
- Lo Tom ~ Lo Tom
- Saint Cecillia ~ Entrance
+ Alphabetical +
- A Giant Dog ~ Toy
- Algiers ~ The Underside of Power
- Alvvays ~ Antisocialites
- Beach Fossils ~ Somersault
- Bleached ~ Can You Deal?
- Blonde Redhead ~ 3 O’Clock EP
- Bully ~ Losing
- Daniel Caesar ~ Freudian
- Chastity Belt ~ I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
- Diet Cig ~ Swear I’m Good at This
- Downtown Boys ~ Cost of Living
- Steve Earle & The Dukes ~ So You Wannabe an Outlaw
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Luciferian Towers
- Nick Hakim ~ Green Twins
- Hexis ~ Tando Ashanti
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings ~ Soul of a Woman
- Julie & the Wrong Guys ~ Julie & the Wrong Guys
- LCD Soundsystem ~ American Dream
- Aimee Mann ~ Mental Illness
- Meat Wave ~ The Incessant
- Pontiak ~ Dialectic of Ignorance
- Pool Holograms ~ Transparent World
- Queens of the Stone Age ~ Villains
- Rat Cage ~ Caged Like Rats EP
- The Horrors ~ V
- The Octopus Project ~ Memory Mirror
- Wand ~ Plum