Rock/Misc. — Top
The Antlers - (together) [EP] (Frenchkiss)
Ashtar Command - American Sunshine (Militia Group)
Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
A Band of Bees - Every Step's a Yes (US release) (ATO)
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions Box Set [9 CD box set] (Capitol)
Björk - Biophilia (One Little Indian / Nonesuch)
Black Francis & Reid Paley - Paley & Francis (Sonic Unyon)
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (Fish People)
Calexico - Road Atlas 1998-2011 (Quarterstick)
Caveman - Coco Beware (Original)
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (Capitol)
Coliseum - aparasites (Temporary Residence)
Comet Gain - Howl of the Lonely Crowd (What's Your Rupture?)
Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness (Relapse)
Chris Cornell - Songbook (Universal)
Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart (Rocket Science)
Crooked Fingers - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Kimya Dawson - Thunder Thighs (Great Crap Factory)
Caithlin De Marrais (ex-Rainer Maria) - Red Coats (End Up)
Death Cab for Cutie - Keys and Codes Remix EP (Atlantic)
The Decemberists - Long Live the King [EP] (Capitol)
Deer Tick - Divine Providence (Partisan)
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs (One Little Indian)
Dntel - Life is Full of Possibilities [remastered w. bonus tracks] (Sub Pop)
Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City (Lost Toy People)
Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials (Republic)
Ben Folds - The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective [3 CDs] (Sony)
Noel Gallagher - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Sour Mash / Mercury)
Girl in a Coma - Exits & All the Rest (Blackheart)
Gym Class Heroes - The Papercut Chronicles II (Fueled By Ramen)
Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)
Joe Henry - Reverie (Anti)
Etta James - The Dreamer (Verve)
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist (Capitol)
Joker - The Vision (4AD)
The Knack - Get the Knack [remastered] (101)
Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)
Miranda Lambert - Four the Record (Epic)
Arto Lindsay, Seb El Zin, Marc Ribot, Mike Ladd, Sensational - Anarchist Republic of Bzzzz (Important)
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts)
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time (PIAS)
Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road (Everso)
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
Magazine - No Thyself (Wire-Sound)
Cass McCombs - Humor Risk (Domino)
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers (reissue) (Hungry Mouse)
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind (Red)
My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather (Naive)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Discography Box Set (Self-Released)
Odonis Odonis - Hollandaze (FatCat)
Owen - Ghost Town (Polyvinyl)
Panda Bear - Tomboy [4 LP box set] (Paw Tracks)
Gram Parsons - The Early Years [4 CD box set] (Sierra)
Mike Patton - Music From The Film and Inspired By the Book The Solitude of Prime Numbers (La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi (Ipecac)
John Prine - The Singing Mailman Delivers (Oh Boy)
Pterodactyl - Spills Out (Jagjaguwar)
R.E.M. - Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 - 2011 [2 CDs] (Warner Bros. )
Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567 (remixes) [2 CDs] (TBD)
Real Estate - Days (Domino)
Rhett Miller - The Interpreter: Live At Largo (Maximum Sunshine)
Luke Roberts - Big Bells and Dime Songs (Thrill Jockey)
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls: Deluxe Ed. (Universal)
Rush - Sector 1; Sector 2; Sector 3 [6 CD box sets] (Mercury)
Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed (No Quarter)
Sea Lions - Everything You Wanted To Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask (Slumberland)
She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
Sigur Ros - Inni (live) [CD/DVD] (XL)
Spectrals - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
Mark Sultan - Whatever I Want (In The Red)
Surfer Blood - Tarot Classics [EP] (Kanine)
Carter Tanton - Freeclouds (Western Vinyl)
Tegan & Sara - Get Along (live) [CD+DVD] (Warner Bros.)
The Smiths - The Smiths Complete [8 CD box set] (Rhino)
The Spits - The Spits (5th Album) (In the Red)
Thirteenth Assembly - Station Direct (Important)
This Mortal Coil - This Mortal Coil [4 CD box set] (4AD)
U2 - Achtung Baby: Deluxe Ed. [2 CDs] (Island)
Various Artists - Fac Dance (Factory Records comp) (Strut)
Various Artists - The Warm December Volume 2: A Brushfire Holiday (Brushfire)
Laura Veirs - Tumble Bee (folk songs for children) (Raven Marching Band)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Rings for My Halo: Deluxe Ed. (Matador)
Kurt Vile - So Outta Reach EP [vinyl] (Matador)
Tom Waits - Bad as Me (Anti-)
Betty Wright & The Roots - Betty Wright: The Movie (S-Curve)
Zambri - Glossolalia EP (Kanine)
Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School [remastered] (Friday)
Electronic/Dance — Top
Gui Boratto - III [import] (Kompakt)
Harold Budd - In the Mist (Darla)
DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, the Better (Verve Forecast)
Brian Eno - Panic of Looking (Warp)
The Field - Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
Matthew Herbert - One Pig (Accidental Records)
Justice - Audio, Video, Disco (Elektra)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (Software)
Skinny Puppy - HanDover (Synthetic Symphony)
Tycho - Dive (Ghostly International)
Hip Hop — Top
Alias - Fever Dream (Anticon)
Common - The Dream, The Believer (G.O.O.D. Music)
Das Racist - Relax (Greedhead)
Drake - Take Care (Young Money)
Idle Warship (Talib Kweli & Res) - Habits of the Heart (Fontana)
Lateef the Truthspeaker - Firewire (Quannum)
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV (Young Money)
Murs - Love & Rockets 1: The Transformation (DD172)
Pusha T (of Clipse) - Fear of God II: Let Us Pray (Decon)
Wale - Ambition (Warner Bros.)
Yelawolf - Radioactive (Ghet-O-Vision/Shady/DGC/Interscope)
Metal — Top
Absu - Abzu (Candlelight)
Antediluvian - Through the Cervix of Hawwah (Profound Lore)
Arckanum - Helvitismyrkr (Season of Mist)
Ascension - Consolamentum (Season of Mist)
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack (CD reissue) (Peaceville)
Aura Noir - The Merciless (CD reissue) (Peaceville)
Black Cobra - Invernal (Southern Lord)
Cathedral - Anniversary (Metal Blade)
Craft - Void (Southern Lord)
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (Season of Mist)
Giant Squid - Cenotes (Translation Loss)
Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (Metal Blade)
Iced Earth - Dystopia (Century Media)
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore (Profound Lore)
Manilla Road - Playground of the Damned (Shadow Kingdom)
Megadeth - Th1rt3en (Roadrunner)
Midnight - Satanic Royalty (Hell's Headbangers)
Mournful Congregation - Book of Kings (20 Buck Spin)
Nightbringer - Hierophany of the Open Grave (Season of Mist)
Nunfuck Ritual - In Bondage to the Serpent (Season of Mist)
Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu (Warner Bros.)
Root - Heritage of Satan (Agonia)
Rwake - Rest (Relapse)
Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination (Prosthetic)
Slipknot - Iowa: 10th Anniversary Ed. [2 CDs + DVD] (Roadrunner)
Taake - Noregs Vaapen (Candlelight)
Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich (Nuclear Blast)
Wolvhammer - The Obsidian Plains (Profound Lore)
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December 13— Top
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper (Because Music / Elektra)
Jonsi - We Bought a Zoo (soundtrack) (Columbia)
January 17— Top
Ani DiFranco - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (Domino)
January 24— Top
Cardinal (Eric Matthews and Richard Davies) - Hymns (Fire)
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory (Carpark)
Craig Finn (of The Hold Steady) - Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant)
Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE (Warp)
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat The Factory (GBV)
Nada Surg - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian)
January 31— Top
The Big Sleep - Nature Experiments (Frenchkiss)
Grimes - Visions (Arbutus Records)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Form & Control (Tummy Touch)
February 7— Top
A Place to Bury Strangers - Onwards to the Wall [EP] (Dead Oceans)
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (4AD)
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
February 14— Top
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti)
Shearwater - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
Tennis - Young and Old (Fat Possum)
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