I didn't feel like I could put together a solid list for any other individual genre besides hip hop and jazz, plus a lot of stuff was hard to define, so I took the easy way out and lumped everything into an "other" category. I didn't do too much of my own searching for good music outside of hip hop and jazz so far this year. I relied heavily on AllMusic and Pitchfork telling what was worth checking out. Fortunately I still managed to hear a lot of great albums, particularly by female vocalists. Four of my top five albums have female vocalists. For the hip hop fans, I'd recommend the Bibio, Platenum Pied Pipers, Shawn Lee, The Dream, Squarepusher, Mochipet, Paul Dateh, and Georgia Anne Muldrow albums.
- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
- Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
- Little Boots - Hands
- Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
- Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
- Alvin Jett & The Phat Noiz Blues Band - Honey Bowl
- Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
- Brian Blade - Mama Rosa
- Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
- Platinum Pied Pipers - Abundance
- Mastodon - Crack The Skye
- Shawn Lee - Soul In The Hole
- Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
- The Dream - Love Vs Money
- Regina Spektor - Far
- Maia Hirasawa - GBG vs. STHLM
- Squarepusher - Numbers Lucent
- Lightning Seeds - Four Winds
- Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy
- Ben Harper and Relentless7 - White Lies for Dark Times
- Mochipet - Bunnies & Muffins
- Paul Dateh - Paul Dateh
- Buju Banton - Rasta Got Soul
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
- Metric - Fantasies EP
- Neil Young - Fork in the Road
- IAMX - Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction
- Zu - Carboniferous
- Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
- Georgia Anne Muldrow Presents... Ms. One & The Gang
