Originally Posted by Frownland

Most definitely, it's the best hip hop record of the year hands down.

1. Billy Woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing
2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
3. Jesus the Carpenter - The Oblique Perspective
4. Africa Express Presents: Terry Riley In C Mali
5. Wolves in Sheepskin - How Your Mother Cried Last Night
6. Zu - Cortar Todo
7. Death Grips - Powers That B
8. The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie
9. Peter Brötzmann, Keiji Haino, and Jim O'Rourke - Two City Blues 2
10. The Body/Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated
11. Monkey Plot - Angående Omstendigheter Som Ikke Lar Seg Nedtegne
12. Liturgy - The Ark Work
13. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
14. Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - Behold
15. John Zorn - Hen to Pan

I'd say that the top five are the only ones that are in order. The rest could be switched around a bit.