Okay, I wasn't sure if I could do it this year but, here it is...no particular order.

Best New Releases of the Year:

1. Juana Molina - Son
2. Stuart Staples - Leaving Songs
3. J Dilla - Donuts
4. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth, in the Mouth of a Beast
5. Arab Strap - Last Romance
6. Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening
7. Dudley Perkins - Expressions 2012 a.u.
8. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
9. Matthew Herbert - Scale
10. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

Best Reissues/Comps of the Year:

1. Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room rarities and b-sides
2. Susan Christie - Paint a Lady
3. Jarvis Cocker/Steve Mackey - The Trip
4. De La Soul - Impossible: Mission
5. Glaxo Babies - Dreams Interrupted
6. Arthur Russell - Another Thought
7. V/A - The Kings of Diggin' (Kon & Amir)
8 V/A - Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon
9. V/A - Chrome Children
10. Broadcast - The Future Crayon