Albums:

1. Other Dimensions in Music feat. Fay Victor: Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
2. Todd Snider: Live - The Storyteller (Aimless Records)
3. The Weeknd: House of Balloons (mixtape)
4. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizon Ensemble: The Praire Prophet (Delmark)
5. The Baseball Project: Volume 2: High & Inside (Yep Rock)
6. E-40: Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift (Heavy On the Grind)
7. Paul Simon: So Beautiful, So What (Hear Music)
8. Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Oscar Noriega & Chris Speed: Endangered Blood (Skirl)
9. Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra (frankocean.tumblr.com/mixtape)
10. Honey Ear Trio: Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven Records)
11. Poly Styrene: Generation Indigo (Future Noise Music)
12. E-40: Revenue Retrieving: Overtime Shift (Heavy On the Grind)
13. Tune-Yards: W H O K I L L (4AD)
14. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)
15. Gang of Four: Content (Yep Roc)
16. Stein Torleif Bjella: Vonde Visu (oh yeah! records)
17. Mike Watt & the Missingmen: Hyphenated-Man (Clenched Wrench)
18. Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots (ATO)
19. Raphael Saadiq: Stone Rollin' (Columbia)
20. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (Island)
21. Sigbjørn Apeland: Glossolalia (Hubro)
22. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong (Slumberland)

Singles/Songs:

1. Frank Ocean: "We All Try"
2. Kreayshawn: "Gucci Gucci" (n/a)
3. Adele: "Someone Like You" (XL)

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.