- Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
- The Mark Lomax Trio: The State of Black America (Inarhyme Records)
- No Age: Everything In Between (Sub Pop)
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
- Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella)
- Elizabeth Cook: Welder (31 Tigers)
- Dual Identity (Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman): Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
- The Roots: How I Got Over (Def Jam)
- Robyn: Body Talk (Konichiwa)
- Everybody Was In the French Resistance...Now!: Fixing the Charts, Volume 1 (Cooking Vinyl)
- Angles: Epileptical West - Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
- Pernice Brothers: Goodbye Killer (Ashmont Records)
- Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
- M.I.A: Maya (Interscope)
- Mary Halvorson Trio & Quintet: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
- Off!: The First Four EPs (Vice Records)
- Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (Merge)
- Mike Reed's Loose Assembly: Empathetic Parts (482)
- Vampire Weekend: Contra (XL)
- David S. Ware: Onecept (Aum Fidelity)
- William Hooker: Earth's Orbit (2xLP, NoBusiness Records)
- LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening (DFA)
- Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To, vol. 2 (Pi Recordings)
- Tarbaby: The End Of Fear (Posi-Tone Records)
- The National: High Violet (4AD)
- Whitefield Brothers: Earthology (Stones Throw)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain (Kabell, rec. 1986)
- The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
- Steve Reich: Double Sextet/2x5 (Nonesuch)
- Allo Darlin': Allo Darlin' (Fortuna Pop!)
- The Apples In Stereo: Travellers In Space and Time (Yep Rock)
- Pierre de Gaillande: Bad Reputation: Pierre de Gaillande Sings Georges Brassens(Barbes Records)
- Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories and Negotiations (482)
- Girl Talk: All Day (Illegal Art download)
- Eskmo: Eskmo (Ninja Tune)
- Of Montreal: False Priest (Polyvinyl)
- Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Big Machine)
- Vandermark 5 Special Edition: The Horse Jumps & The Ship Is Gone (Not Two)
- Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup!)
- Titus Andronicus: The Monitor (XL)
- Steve Swell Slammin' the Infinite: 5000 Poems (Not Two)
- Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma (Warp)
- Les Savy Fav: Root for Ruin (Frenchkiss)
- Spoon: Transference (Merge)
- Gold Panda: Lucky Shiner (Ghost International)
- Kris Davis / Ingrid Laubrock / Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
- Superchunk: Majesty Shredding (Merge)
- The So So Glos: Low Back Chain Lift EP (Green Owl Records)
- Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft (Porter)
- The-Dream: Love King (Def Jam)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi Recordings)
- Sleigh Bells: Treats (Mom + Pop Music)
- Johnny & Jenny: I'm Having Fun Now (Warner Bros.)
- Best Coast: Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
- Yelawolf: Trunk Muzik (Mixtape)
- Field Music: Field Music (Meassure) (Memphies Industries)
- Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor: Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po(Playscape)
- Tokyo Police Club: Champ (Mom + Pop Music)
- Juxtaposed: Tsar Bomba (Bolage)
- Dessa: A Badly Broken Code (Doomtree Records)
- The Corin Tucker Band: 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
- Old 97's: The Grand Theatre Volume One (New West)
- Gabriel Johnson: Fra_ctured (Elctronfone/Tune Core)
- Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of the Ankh)(Universal Motown)
- Soft Pack: Soft Pack (Heavenly)
- Lars Vaular: Helt Om Natten, Helt Om Dagen(Bonnier/Cosmos)
- Against Me!: White Crosses (Sire)
Singles/songs:
- Big Boi: "Shutterbug" (Def Jam)
- Against Me!: "Because Of the Shame" (Sire)
- Robyn: "Dancing On My Own" (Konichiwa)
- Titus Andronicus: "A More Perfect Union" (XL)
- Spoon: "Who Makes Your Money" (Merge)
- Katy B.: "Katy On a Mission" (Rinse, download)
- Sunny Sweeney: "From A Table Away" (Republic Nashville)
- Wiley & Chew Fu: "Take That" (Island)
- Superchunk: "Digging For Something" (Merge)
- The So So Glos: "Lindy Hop" (Green Owl)
- DJ Zinc feat. Ms. Dynamite: "Wile Out" (Zinc Music)
- Lars Vaular: "Klokken Fem Om Natten" (Bonnier)
- The Thermals: "I Don't Believe You" (Kill Rock Stars)
- Freedy Johnston: "Rain On the City" (Bar None Records)
- Joy Orbison: "The Shrew Would Have Softened the Blow" (Simple Records)
- Lindstrøm & Christabelle: "Lovesick" (Smaaltown Supersound)
- Lady Antebellum: "Need You Now" (Capitol Nashville)
- Sade: "Soldier of Love" (RCA, Epic)
- Gil Scott-Heron: "I'm New Here" (XL)
- Roisin Murphy: "Momma's Place" (AWAL)
Reissues/vault:
- Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic)
- Amalgam: Prayer For Peace (No Bussiness)
- D. O. Misiani & Shirati Jazz: The King Of History - Classic 1970s Benga Beats From Kenya (Sterns)
- Arthur Rubinstein: Icon: The Chopin Recordings: Concertos - Nocturnes - Waltzes - Mazurkas - Polonaises (EMI)
- Air: Air Raid (Why Not/Candid)
- Raincoats: The Raincoats (We Three)
- Marion Brown: Why Not? (ESP Disk)
- Hunx & His Punx: Gay Singles (Matador)