- Animal Collective | Fall Be Kind (Domino)
- Marta Kubisova | Ne! The Soul of Marta Kubisova (Vampi Soul)
- Dolly Parton | Dolly (Sony Music Entertainment)
- Neon Indian | Psychic Chasms (Lefse Rocords)
- Tom Waits | Glitter and Doom Live (Anti-)
- Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited | Spooky Sounds Sessions (Dionysus)
- Matias Aguayo | Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt)
- Various Artists | DAPTONE GOLD (Daptone)
- Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Contonou | Echos Hypnotiques (Analog Africa)
- Devendra Banhart | What Will We Be (Warner Bros)
- The Growlers | Are you in or out? (everloving)
- Gogol Bordello | Live From Axis Mundi (Side One Dummy)
- Tegan and Sara | Sainthood (Sire)
- Leonard Cohen | Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 (Columbia Records)
- Various Artists | GHANA SPECIAL (Sound Way)
- King Kong Ding Dong | Youth Culture Index (S/R)
- Cold Cave | Love Comes Close (Matador)
- Clare & the Reasons | Arrow (Frog Stand)
- Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band | Between My Head And The Sky (Chimera Music)
- Beat Circus | Boy From Black Mountain (Cuneiform)
- tUnE-yArDs | BiRd-BrAiNs (4AD)
- King Khan & BBQ Show | Invisible Girl (In the Red)
- Owen Pallett | Heartland (Domino)
- Family of the Year | Songbook (Washashore)
- Vampire Weekend | Contra (XL)
- CFCF | Continent (Paper Bag)
- Talk Normal | Sugarland (Rare Book Room)
- Brilliant Colors | Introducing (Slumberland)
- Beach House | Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
- Girls | Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Gemma ray | Lights Out zoltar (Bronzerat Records)
- Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle | Let?s Just Stay Here (Mint Records Inc.)
- James Hand | Shadow On The Ground (Rounder)
- Brimstone Howl | Big Deal, What's He Done Lately? (Alive)
- Luis Bonilla | I Talking Now! (Planet Arts)
- Various Artists | SLUMBERLAND RECORDS THE FIRST 20 YEARS (Slumberland)
- Norah Jones | The Fall (Blue Note)
- Wadada Leo Smith | Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)
- Sounds of Liberation | S/T (Porter)
- Madeleine Peyroux | Bare Bones (Rounder)
- Fela Kuti | The Best of the Black President (Knitting Factory)
- Gift of Gab | Escape 2 Mars (Cornrstone Recording Arts Society)
- Fela Kuti | The Best of the Black President (Knitting Factory)
- Creepy Creeps | Fink About it (Dionysus)
- Olof Arnalds | Vio og Vio (One Little Indian)
- Fuck Buttons | Tarot Sport (ATP/R)
- Pink Martini | Splendor in the Grass (Heinz Records)
- Jean-Pierre Massiera | Midnight Massiera (Finders Keepers)
- His & Her Vanities | The Mighty Lunge (Science of Sound)
- Syntaks | Ylajali (Ghostly International)
- Espers | III (gonedarkside)
- Lightning Bolt | Earthly Delights (Load)
- Spider Bags | Teen-Age Eyes (Odessa)
- Flaming Lips | Embryonic (Warner Bros)
- Mark Growden | Saint Judas (Portofranco Records)
- Grass Widow | S/T (Captured Tracks)
- Federico Aubele | Amatoria (ESL)
- Florence + the Machine | Lungs (Universal Island)
- Big Pink | A Brief History of Love (4AD)
- Kitty, Daisy & Lewis | S/T (DH Records)
- Happy Hollows | Spells (S/R)
- Elisa Luu | Chromatic sigh (A hidden Shoal)
- God's Gift | Pathology (Hyped 2 Death)
- Luther Dickinson & the Sons of Mudboy | Onward and Upward (Memphis International)
- Art of Flying | Though the Light Seem Small (Discobolus)
- Freda Payne | Band of Gold (Edsel)
- Anthony Coleman | Freakish (Tzadik)
- Rykarda Parasol | For Blood and Wine (S/R)
- Themselves | CrownsDown (Anticon)
- Brilliant Colors | Introducing (Slumberland)
- Various Artists | CRAZY HEART (New West)
- Barbarellatones | The Break Up Ghost (S/R)
- Parties | Cryin' Shame (Rainbow Quartz)
- Best Coast | When I?m With You (Black Iris)
- Lucero | 1372 Overton Park (Universal Republic)
- Various Artists | PANAMA! 3 (Sound Way)
- Shannon & the Clams | I Wanna Go Home (1-2-3-4-Go!)
- Ray Davies | The Kinks Choral Collectoin (Decca)
- Nneka | The Uncomfortable Truth (A Dope Kid/Decon/Epic)
- The Slew | 100% (Puget Sound)
- Josh Berman | Old Idea (Delmark)
- Earth and Fire | Atlantis (Esoteric)
- Very Best | Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl)
- La Colectiva | Gente Morena (S/R)
- Vitalic | Flashmob (Pias)
- Temper Trap | Conditions (Glassnote Records)
- Joolie Wood | Tales of Colour and White (10 to 1)
- Timber Timbre | S/T (Arts & Crafts)
- Circulatory System | Signal Morning (Cloud Recordings)
- The Clean | Mister Pop (Merge)
- Apples in Stereo | #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- Tyondai Braxton | Central market (Warp)
- Pastels/Tenniscoats | Two Sunsets (Domino)
- Castanets | Texas rose, the thaw & the beasts (Asthmatic kitty)
- Postmarks | Memoirs At The End Of The World (Unfiltered)
- Turbo Fruits | Echo Kid (Fat Possum)
- Clientele | Bonfires on the Heath (Merge)
- XX | S/T (XL)
- Pains of Being Pure of Heart | Higher Than the Stars EP (Slumberland)
- Vampire Weekend | Cousins (XL)
September 2009
- Mayer Hawthorne | A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um/Mingus Dynasty (Columbia)
- Tito Puente | Dance Mania (RCA)
- Madness | The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
- Circulatory System | Signal Morning (Cloud)
- Dodos | Time to Die (French Kiss)
- Butterly Bones | Pretty Feelings (S/R)
- Major Lazer | Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do (Downtown)
- Health | Get Color (Lovepump United)
- Timber Timbre | S/T (Arts & Crafts)
- Fool's Gold | S/T (IAmSound)
- Box Elders | Alice and Friends (Goner)
- Baaba Maal | Television (Palm Pictures)
- Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Babatunde Olatunji | Drums of Passion (Columbia)
- Hawkwind | Quark, Strangeness and charm (Cherry Red)
- The Clean | Mister Pop (Merge)
- Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions | Through the Devil Softly (Nettwerk)
- Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs (Matador)
- Amanda Blank | I Love You (Downtown)
- Dry Spells | Too Soon for Flowers (Antenna Farm)
- YACHT | See Mystery Lights (DFA)
- Simian Mobile Disco | Temporary Pleasure (Wichita)
- Mumlers | Don't Throw Me Away (Galaxia)
- Laurel Aitken | The High Priest of Reggae (Pressure Drop)
- Tinted Windows | S/T (S-Curve)
- Deviants | Ptooff (Esoteric)
- Hawkwind | PXR 5 (Cherry Red)
- Bomba Estereo | Blow Up (Nacional)
- Fruit Bats | The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
- Monsters of Folk | S/T (Shangri-la)
- Antlers | Hospice (French Kiss)
- Passion Pit | Manners (French Kiss)
- Jack Penate | Everything is New (XL)
- Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs | Under the Covers Vol. 2 (Shourt)
- Speech Debelle | Speech Therapy (Big Dada)
- Blitzen Trapper | Black River Killer (Sub Pop)
- Os Mutantes | Haih Or Amortecedor (Anti-)
- Darling | Yeah I Know (Famous Class)
- Fresh & Onlys | Grey-Eyed Girls (Woodsist)
- Rantouls | Little Green Hat (Chocolate Covered Records)
- Sondre Lerche | Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
- Eric Burdon | Mirage (Esoteric)
- Lou Barlow | Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
- Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains (S/R)
- Raveonettes | In and Out of Control (Vice)
- John Zorn | Film Works XXI (Tzadik)
- Shonen Knife | Super Group (Good Charamel)
- Various Artists | HONEY AND WINE: ANOTHER GERRY GOFFIN & CAROLE KING SONG COLLECTION (Ace)
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | Up From Below (community)
- Francoiz Breut | A L'aveuglette (Le Pop Musik)
- Los York's | El Viaje 1966-71 (Munster)
- William R. Strickland | Is Only the Name (Esoteric)
- Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
- Bjork | Songs from the Volta Tour (Nonesuch)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks | These Four Walls (Fatcat)
- Or, The Whale | S/T (S/R)
- Mount Eerie | Wind's Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
- Sally Shapiro | My Guilty Pleasure (Paper Bag)
- Coralie Clement | Toystore (Discograph)
- Plastiscines | About Love (Nylon)
- Mew | No More Stories (Columbia)
- Zee Avi | S/T (Brushfire)
- Bottle Rockets | Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
- Medeski Martin & Wood | Radiolarians III (Indirecto)
- Deviants | Disposable (Esoteric)
- Ganglians | Monster Head Room (Woodsist)
- Felix Da Housecat | He Was King (Nettwerk)
- Belly of the Whale | Escapade (Deep Pony)
- Viva Voca | Rosecity (Barsuk)
- Wallpaper | Doodoo Face (Eenie Meenie)
- D.I.'s | Rare Cuts! (Hepcat)
- Modest Mouse | No One's First and You're Next (Epic)
- Dinosaur Jr. | Farm (Jagjaguwar)
- Riceboy Sleeps | S/T (XL)
- Choir of Young Believers | This is for the White in Your Eyes (Ghostly)
- Eugene McGuiness | S/T (Domino)
- Moore Brothers | Aptos (American Dust)
- Tyondai Braxton | Central Market (Warp)
- Deerhunter | Rainwater Cassette Exchange (4AD + Kranky)
- Apples in Stereo | #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- Megafauna | Yoga (Holy Mountain)
- BLK JKS | After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
- Regina Spektor | Far (Sire)
- Arctic Monkeys | Humbug (Domino)
- Apostle of Hustle | Eats Darkness (Arts & Crafts)
- Wu Fei | Yuan (Tzadik)
- A.A. Bondy | When the Devil's Loose (Fat Possum)
- Pastels/Tenniscoats | Two Sunsets (Domino)
- Castanets | Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Postmarks | Memoirs at the End of the World (Unfiltered)
- Turbo Fruits | Echo Kid (Fat Possum)
- Big Pink | A Brief History of Love (4AD)
- Clientele | Bonfire on the Heath (Merge)
- The XX | S/T (XL)
- Dutchess & the Duke | Sunset/Sunrise (Hardly Art)
- Pains of Being Pure of Heart | Higher Than the Stars (Slumberland)
- Various Artists | MOJO PRESENTS I CAN SEE FOR MILES (Mojo)
- Nodzzz | S/T (What's Your Rupture?)
October 2009
- Monsters of Folk | S/T (Shangri-La)
- XX | S/T (XL)
- Karen O and the Kids | Where the Wild Things Are (Interscope)
- Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs (Matador)
- Raveonettes | In And Out of Control (Vice)
- Felix Da Housecat | He Was King (Nettwerk)
- Flight of the Conchords | I Told You I Was Freaky (SubPop)
- Fool's Gold | S/T (IAmSound)
- Big Pink | A Brief History of Love (4AD)
- Mayer Hawthorne | A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- Dead Man's Bones | S/T (Anti-)
- Air | Love 2 (Astralwerks)
- Postmarks | Memoirs At The End Of The World (Unfiltered)
- Boys Noize | Power (Last Gang)
- Butterfly Bones | Pretty Feelings (S/R)
- Girls | Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Blitzen Trapper | Black River Killer-EP (Sub Pop)
- Major Lazer | Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do (Downtown)
- Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One | Parallel Uni-verses (Gold Dust)
- Francoiz Breut | A L'aveuglette (Le Pop Musik)
- Karl Blau | Zebra (K)
- Jack Penate | Everything Is New (XL)
- Tito Puente | Dance mania (RCA)
- Amy Millan | Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
- Rosanne Cash | The List (EMI)
- Mumlers | Don't Throw Me Away (Galaxia)
- Almighty Defenders | S/T (Vice)
- Islands | Vapours (Anti-)
- Infected Mushroom | Legend Of The Black Shawarma (Perfecto)
- Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)
- Forro in the Dark | Light a Candle (Nublu)
- Health | Get Color (Lovepump United)
- Wallpaper | Doodoo Face (Eenie Meenie)
- Ray Davies | The Kinks Choral Collectoin (Decca)
- Anti-pop Consortium | Flourescent Black (Big Dada)
- Gossip | Music for Men (Columbia Records)
- Slavic Soul Party | Taketron (Barbes)
- Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um/Mingus Dynasty (Columbia)
- The Mountain Goats | The Life Of The World To Come (4AD)
- Darlings | Yeah I Know (Famous Class)
- Nudge | As Good As Gone (Kranky)
- Arctic Monkeys | Humbug (Domino)
- Bare Wires | Artificial Clouds (Tic Tac Totally)
- Atlas Sound | Logos (Kranky LTD)
- Fuck Buttons | Tarot Sport (ATP/R)
- Exene Cervenka | Somewhere gone (Bloodshot Records)
- Timber Timbre | S/T (Arts & Crafts)
- Simian Mobile Disco | Temporary Pleasure (Wichita)
- Various Artists | MOJO PRESENTS: I CAN SEE FOR MILES (MOJO)
- Gayle Lynn And The Hired Hands | Just CAme Around (S/R)
- Slits | Trapped Animal (Narnack Records)
- Pax Nicholas & The Nettey Family | Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef (Daptone Recording)
- Dutchess & the Duke | Sunset/Sunrise (Hardly Art)
- Pains of Being Pure of Heart | Higher Than the Stars EP (Slumberland)
- The Moore Brothers | Aptos (American Dust)
- Mum | Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (Euphono)
- Crown City Rockers | The Day After Forever (Gold Dust)
- Clientele | Bonfires on the Heath (Merge)
- Units | history of the Units (Community library)
- Circulatory System | Signal Morning (Cloud Recordings)
- Elliot Brood | Mountain Meadows (Six Shooter)
- D.I.'s | Rare Cuts! (Hepcat)
- Black Heart Procession | Six (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
- Barbara Lynn | Here Is Barbara Lynn (Water)
- Foreign Cinema | Non-Synchronous Sound (S/R)
- Tim Buckley | Live At The Folklore Center – NYC, March 6, 1967 (Tompkins Square)
- Brother Ali | Us (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- Madness | The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
- Stone Roses | S/T (Silvertone)
- Echo and the Bunnymen | The Fountain (Ocean Rain Records)
- Richard Hawley | Truelove's Gutter (Mute)
- Starless and Bible Black | Shape of the Shape (Static Caravan)
- Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine | The Audacity of Hype (Alternative Tentacles)
- Why? | Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
- Kid Cudi | Man on the Moon: The End of Day (Universal Motown)
- Horrors | Primary Colours (XL)
- No Age | Losing Feeling EP (S/R)
- Box Elders | Alice and Friends (Goner)
- My Little Pony | Think Too Much (Quince)
- Sondre Lerche | Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow | Ashes Grammar (Mis Ojos Discos)
- Avett Brothers | I And Love And You (American)
- The Clean | Mister Pop (Merge)
- Turbo Fruits | Echo Kid (Fat Possum)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains (S/R)
- Hawklords | Live '78 (Esoteric Recordings)
- Taken By Trees | East Of Eden (Rough Trade)
- A Place To Bury Strangers | In Your Heart (Mute)
- Sellassie | I'm Tryin' to Make a Livin' Not a Killin' (Scrilla Scratch)
- Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary (Sub Pop)
- Fresh & Onlys | Grey-Eyed Girls (Woodsist)
- Puerto Plata | Casita de Campo (iASO)
- Lhasa | S/T (Nettwerk)
- Apples in Stereo | #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- Tyondai Braxton | Central market (Warp)
- Pastels/Tenniscoats | Two Sunsets (Domino)
- Castanets | Texas rose, the thaw & the beasts (Asthmatic kitty)
- Nodzzz | S/T (What's Your Rupture?)
- Tickley Feather | Hors D'Oeuvres (Paw Tracks)
August 2009
- Coralie Clement | Toystore (Discograph)
- YACHT | See Mystery Lights (S/R)
- Battlehooch | Piecechow (S/R)
- Major Lazer | Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do (Downtown)
- Brwn Bflo | S/T (S/R)
- Box Elders | Alice and Friends (Goner)
- Dead Weather | Horehound (Third Man)
- Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros | Up From Below (Community Records)
- Doom | Born Like This (Lex)
- Bomba Est'reo | Blow Up (Nacional)
- Deviants | Disposable (Esoteric)
- Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de cotonou | The Vodoun Effect (Analog Africa)
- Sonic Youth | The Eternal (Matador)
- Sugar Pie DeSanto | Go Go Power (Kent)
- Bill Frisell | Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
- Antlers | Hospice (French Kiss)
- Nino Moschella | Boomshadow (Ubiquity)
- Man | Revelation (Esoteric)
- Madness | The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
- Shad | The old Prince (Black Box recordings)
- Oumou Sangare | Seya (Nonesuch)
- Misty Roses | Villainess (Frog Man Jake 26)
- Phenomenal Handclap Band | S/T (Friendly Fire)
- Deviants | S/T (Esoteric)
- Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- The Fiery Furnaces | I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
- Tinted Windows | S/T (S-Curve)
- Saicos | S/T (Resychled)
- Peggy Sue | Lover Gone (Yep Roc)
- Zee Avi | S/T (Brushfire)
- John Zorn | Film Works XXI (Tzadik)
- Hawkwind | Quark, strangeness and charm (Cherry records)
- Dry Spells | Too Soon for Flowers (Antenna Farm)
- Darlings | Yeah I Know (Famous Class)
- Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca (Domino)
- Hawkwind | PXR 5 (Cherry Red)
- Madou Sidiki Diabate | Traditional Kora Music from Mali (S/R)
- Cluster | Qua (Nepenthemusic)
- Portland Cello Project | The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)
- Cave Weddings | Bring Your Love b/w Let's Drive (HoZac)
- Mount Eerie | Wind's Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
- Passion Pit | Manners (frenchkiss)
- Davila 666 | Primero Muerta b/w Sabes Que Quiero (Hozac)
- Bachelorette | My Electric Family (Drag City)
- Fruit Bats | The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
- Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
- Dinosaur Jr. | Farm (JagJaguwar)
- Julian Plenti | Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper (Matador)
- Miles Davis | Sketches of Spain (Columbia)
- Eugene McGuinness | S/T (Domino Recording)
- Chancha Via Circuito | Rodante (ZZK)
- Mamoru Fujieda | Patterns of Plants II (Tzadik)
- Mos Def | The Ecstatic (Downtown)
- Bowerbirds | Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
- Os Mutantes | Haih Or Amortecedor (Anti-)
- Elephant Man | Energy God (VP)
- Spits | S/T (Recess Records)
- A Hawk and A Hacksaw | Delivrance (The Leaf Label)
- Brian Glaze | Green Living (World Famous in SF)
- Deer Tick | Born On Flag Day (Partisan)
- Good Asian Drivers | Drive Away Home (S/R)
- Summer Cats | Songs For Tuesdays (Slumberland)
- Japandroids | Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)
- Devine's Jug Band | S/T (Caman)
- Amanda Blank | I Love You (Downtown)
- Diplo | Blow Your Head (Mad Decent)
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble | S/T (Honest Jons)
- Hugo Filho | Paraib' (Normal)
- Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
- Eels | Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (Vagrant)
- Regina Spektor | Far (Sire)
- Plastiscines | About Love (Nylon Records)
- Scott H Biram | Something's Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot)
- The Mars Volta | Octahedron (Warner Bros.)
- Portugal. The Man | The Satanic Santanist (Planetary)
- Yppah | They Know What Ghost Know (Ninja tune)
- Moby | Wait For Me (Little Idiot)
- Oneida | Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
- Little Claw | Human Taste (Ecstatic Peace!)
- Modest Mouse | No One's First, And You're Next (Epic)
- Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesasada | Coconut Rock (ESL)
- Jessie Evans | Is it Fire? (Fantomette)
- Luluc | Dear Hamlyn (Shock)
- The Liverpool Scene | The Amazing Adventures of… (Esoteric Recordings)
- Kero one | Early Believers (Plug)
- Foreign born | Person to Person (Secretely Canadian)
- Daevid Allen | Now is the happiest Time of your Life (Esoteric)
- Choir of Young Believers | This is for the White in Your Eyes (Ghostly)
- Apostle of Hustle | Eats Darkness (Arts & Crafts)
- Headdress | Luaes (No Quarter)
- Cowlicks | Hey, Hey We're the Cowlicks (Tres Payasos)
- Wu Fei | Yuan (Tzadik)
- Fresh & Onlys | S/T (S/R)
- Juan MacLean | The Future Will Some (DFA)
- Roberto Rodriguez | Timba Talmud (Tzadik)
- Timber Timbre | S/T (Arts & Crafts)
- Circulatory System | Signal Morning (Cloud Recordings)
- The Clean | Mister Pop (Merge)
- Apples in Stereo | #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
- Tyondai Braxton | Central market (Warp)