- Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold (Dull Tools/What's Your Rupture? [2012/2013])
- Eric Revis Trio feat. Kris Davis & Andrew Cyrille: City of Asylum (Clean Feed)
- The Julie Ruin: Run Fast (TJR / Dischord)
- Barry Altschul: The 3dom Factor (TUM Records)
- Superchunk: I Hate Music (Merge Records)
- Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias (Pi Recordings)
- Neko Case: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I FIght, The More I Love You (Anti-)
- Adam Lane Trio: Absolute Horizon (NoBusiness Rcords)
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock (Hot Cup Records)
- Billy Martin's Wicked Knee: Heels Over Head (Amulet Records)
- Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hébert & Gerald Cleaver/Book of Three: Continuum (2012) (Relative Pitch)
- Ralph Alessi: Baida (ECM)
- Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL Recordings)
- Ceramic Dog: Your Turn (Northern Spy)
- Dismemberment Plan: Uncanney Valley (Partisan)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko (Out Here Records)
- Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap (self-released)
- Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury)
- M.I.A.: Matangi (N.E.E.T./Interscope)
- Nate Wooley Sextet: (Sit In the Throne) of Friendship (Clean Feed)
- Lydia Loveless: Boy Crazy EP (Bloodshot)
- Sleigh Bells: Bitter Rivals (Mom & Pop)
- Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter 2: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation)
- Peter Evans Trio: Zebulon (More Is More)
- Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band: Hey Hey It's ... The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band (Self released)
- Fear of Men: Early Fragments (Kanine Records)
- Rachid Taha: Zoom (Naive)
- Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt (Don Giovanni Records)
- Polvo: Siberia (Merge)
- Atomic: There's a Hole in the Mountain (Jazzland)
- Yo La Tengo: Fade (Matador)
- Paramore: Paramore (Fueled by Ramen)
- Dr. Kay & His Interstellar Tone Scientists: Dr. Kay and the Search for True Happines (Bangles & Brass Records)
- Tarbaby: The Ballad of Sam Langford (Hipnotic Records)
- Max Johnson: Quartet (Not Two [2012])
- Scott Neuman Neu3 Trio: Blessed (Origin Records)
- No Age: An Object (Sub Pop)
- The Necks: Open (Northern Spy)
- Brandi Clark: 12 Stories (Slate Creek Records)
- Dawn of Midi: Dysnomia (Thirsty Ear)
- Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob (Warner Bros.)
- Rilo Kiley: RKives (Little Record Company)
- Digital Primitives: Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin' (HopScotch Records)
- Kris Davis: Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed)
- The Cannanes: Small Batch EP (exro.fm & Lamingtone Music)
- Fat Tony: Smart Ass Black Boy (Young One Records)
- Michael Pride's From Bacteria to Men: Birthing Days (AUM Fidelity)
- Brian Settles Trio: Folk (Engine Studios)
- Mark Dresser Quintet: Nourishments (Clean Feed)
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot (Hot Cup)
- Omar Souleyman: Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)
- Danny Brown: Old (Fool's Gold/Warner Bros.)
- Shopping: Consumer Complaints (MÏLK Records)
- They Might Be Giants: Nanobots (Idlewild)
- The Mavericks: In Time (Valory Music)
- Bombino: Nomad (Nonesuch)
- Pet Shop Boys: Electric (x2)
- Barbara Morrison: A Sunday Kind of Love (Savant)
- My Bloody Valentine: m b v (self-released)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: Gamak (ACT Recordings)
- Adam Lane: Oh Freedom (CIMP)
- Ashley Monroe: Like a Rose (Warner Bros.)
- Ches Smith & These Arches: Hammered (Clean Feed)
- William Hooker Quintet: Channels of Consciousness (NoBusiness [2012])
- Eric Revis: Parallax (Clean Feed [2012])
- Dawn Richard: Goldenheart (Altavoz)
Songs/Singles:
Note: While some of the tracks here appear on albums I do like
(see the album list), truly great records usually have so many strong
tracks that singling out one and adding it to this list seems redundant,
if not also difficult.
- Paramore: "Still into You" (Fueled By Ramen)
- Sharaya J: "Smash Up the Place" (The Goldmine)
- Lydia Loveless: "Boy Crazy (Bloodshot)
- The Preatures: "Is This How You Feel"
- Haim: "Falling" (Polydor)
- Katy B ft. Geeneus & Jessie Ware: "Aaliyah" (mixtape [2012])
- Phoenix: "Entertainment" (Loyaute/Warner)
- Lightning Bolt: "Barbarian Boy" (Williams Street Records)
- Local H: "Another February"
- Assata Jones: "I Can Love You Better" (self-released)
- Earl Sweatshirt: "Whoa" (Columbia / Tan Cressida)
Reissues/Vault:
Note: Listed here are re-issues, compilations and, unlike the rules for Rhapsody's Jazz Critic's Poll, newly issued previously unreleased material of older vintage.
- Ornette Coleman: Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street (Beat Goes Public [Flying Dutchman, 1970])
- The Group: Live (NoBusiness, 2012)
- Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969 (Columbia Legacy)
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