Albums: “not a hobby, it’s my life”
Ghana Special: Modern Highlife Afro-sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81
Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox
Big Boi, Sir Lucious Leftfoot… The Son of Chico Dusty
Franco & Tout Puissant OK Jazz, Francophonic Vol. 2: 1980-1989
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, I Speak Fula
Sean McCann, Open Resolve
Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me
Shabazz Palaces, Shabazz Palaces
Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz
Kurt Weisman, Orange
Songs: “your favorite MC’s favorite MC”
Erykah Badu, Jump Up in the Air and Stay There (feat. Lil Wayne & Bilal)
Lloyd Banks, Beamer, Benz, or Bentley (feat. Fabolous)
Big Boi, Shutterbugg (feat. Cutty), Lookin’ for Ya (feat. Andre 3000), Hustle Blood (feat. Jaime Foxx)
Chromatics, Circled Sun
Cloud Nothings, Leave You Forever
E-40, All I Need
Earth, Divine and Bright (feat. Kurt Cobain)
Jay Electronica, Exhibit C and Shiny Suit Theory (feat. Jay-Z)
Flying Lotus, Do the Astral Plane
Jeff Mangum, Sign the Dotted Line
Janelle Monae, Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)
The Mint Chicks, Crush
Joanna Newsom, ’81, Does Not Suffice
OFF!, Upside Down
of Montreal, Like a Tourist
Doug Paisley, Don’t Make Me Wait
Robyn, Cry When You Get Older and Fembot
Guilty Simpson, Drums
Spoon, Out Go the Lights
Marnie Stern, For Ash
Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz
Superchunk, My Gap Feels Weird
Laura Veirs, July Flame
Kurt Vile, In My Time
Kurt Weisman, New Blueberry Song
Kanye West, Monster (feat. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)
Xiu Xiu, Dear God, I Hate Myself
Yellow Swans, Limited Space
Signed, sealed—
Jay Aquinas Thompson 