1. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
3. MAKING – HIGHLIFE
4. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle
5. Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
6. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
7. Royal Headache – High
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
9. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
10. The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ
11. Title Fight – Hyperview
12. Silversun Pickups – Better Nature
13. Citizen – Everybody is Going to Heaven
14. Grenadiers – Summer
15. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
16. Northlane – Node
17. Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
18. Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi
19. Carb on Carb – Carb on Carb
20. The Hard Aches – Pheromones
21. Jess Locke – Words That Seem to Slip Away
22. CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
23. Best Coast – California Nights
24. Tanned Christ – Antipodean Sickness
25. Kissing Booth – Never Settle
26. José González – Vestiges and Claws
27. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
28. Jeff Rosenstock – We Cool?
29. High Tension – Bully
30. War on Women – War on Women
31. Wavves – V
32. Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
33. Jamie xx – In Colour
34. Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down…
35. Worriers – Imaginary Life
36. Miguel – Wildheart
37. Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
38. The Front Bottoms – Back On Top
39. Refused – Freedom
40. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
41. Joanna Newsom – Divers
42. Hop Along – Painted Shut
43. Low – Ones and Sixes
44. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes – Blossom
45. Adventures – Supersonic Home
46. Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
47. Rolo Tomassi – Grievances
48. The Go! Team – The Scene Between
49. Marduk – Frontschwein
50. Marina and the Diamonds – FROOT
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Baroness, Björk, City of Ships, Fourteen Nights at Sea, The Front Bottoms, Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, Grimes, Jamie xx, Joanna Gruesome, Lou Barlow, Make Do and Mend, Miles Away, Rosetta, We Lost the Sea, White Walls.
David James Young 