CFBX Top Specialty Albums for Early May 2012


* indicates Canadian Content
** indicates a local artist

Top Ten Jazz Albums

1 Shirley Eikhard* Dream of a Perfect Day (Independent)
2 Peter Appleyard* The Lost 1974 Sessions (Linus)
3 Amy Cervini* Digging Me, Digging You (Anzic)
4 Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society (Heads Up)
5 Thea Neumann* Lady and the Tramps (Independent)
6 Jane Bunnett* Mundo: The World of Jane Bunnett (EMI)
7 Stephane Grappelli/Toots Theilemans Bringing it Together (LiSem)
8 Lynette Washington Live at the X (GuavaJamm)
9 Melissa Lauren* The Other Side (Independent)
10 Sachal Jazz Orchestra Sachal Jazz (E1)

Top Ten World Albums

1 Sachal Jazz Orchestra Sachal Jazz (E1)
2 Jane Bunnett* Mundo: The World of Jane Bunnett (EMI)
3 Amadou and Mariam Folila (Because)
4 Toure-Raichel Project Live in Tel Aviv (Cumbancha)
5 Caetano Veloso and David Byrne Live at Carnegie Hall (Nonesuch)
6 Dulra Ecstasy (Heresy)
7 Gilles Peterson Havana Cultura: The Search Continues (Brownswood)
8 Anna Borges and Bill Ward Recieta di Samba (Independent)
9 Ensemble Polaris* Uncharted Waters (Pipistrelle)
10 Northern Cree* Drum Boy (Canyon)

Top Ten Metal/Punk Albums

1 The Ketamines* Spaced Out (Mammoth Cave)
2 The Famines* The Complete Collected Singles (Mammoth Cave)
3 The Best Revenge* Young Nihilist's Gun Club (Independent)
4 Talk-Sick* Genetics (Independent)
5 The Real McKenzies* Westwinds (Stomp)
6 Streets of Hastings* Three Streets to the Wind (Independent)
7 The Lucky Ones* Heartbreak, Hangovers and Punk Rock (Stumble)
8 Derelict* Perpetuation (Independent)
9 Outofsight* Outofsight EP (Independent)
10 Gorgon Horde* Year of the Gorgon (Independent)

Top Ten Electronic Albums

1 Paradise Animals* Paradise Animals (Independent)
2 Trust* TRST (Arts and Crafts)
3 Slove Le Danse (Pschent)
4 Lotropic* Fractions EP (Digital Zen)
5 Beta Frontiers* Beta Frontiers EP (Daps)
6 Steve Aoki Wonderland (Ultra)
7 LAL* LAL (Urbnet)
8 House of Daggers* Lightning Swords of Death EP (Independent)
9 Kytami* Kytami (Independent)
10 Deadly Blvd.* Giallo EP (Independent)

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums

1 Odd Future The OF Tape Vol. 2 (OF)
2 The Vibonics* The Vibonics EP (Independent)
3 Various Artists* Urbnet Certified Vol. 2 (Urbnet)
4 Philly Moves* How to Drink Yourself Famous (Independent)
5 Hilltop Hoods Drinking from the Sun (Golden Era)
6 Various Artists* Camobear Green (Camobear)
7 Madchild* The EP Collection (Suburban Noize)
8 Dynamic* When I Cut a Record EP (Independent)
9 Alex Silas* Catania EP (Independent)
10 Chiddy Bang Breakfast (IRS)

Top Ten Roots/Country Albums

1 Zaac Pick* Whitewater EP (Independent)
2 Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
3 Sweet Alibi* Sweet Alibi (Independent)
4 Red Moon Road* Red Moon Road (Independent)
5 David Newberry* No One Will Remember You (Independent)
6 Milkwood Dreamers* Hellfire and Bone (Buffalo Zeb)
7 Steve Gates* A Bee in Her Mouth (Independent)
8 Mariel Vandersteel Hickory (Independent)
9 The Empty Standards* Waiting for the Flood (Independent)
10 Rose Cousins*/td> We Have Made a Spark (Outside)

Top Ten Blues Albums

1 Mike Goudreau and the Boppin' Blues Band* 20 Years of Bop and Blues (Independent)
2 Peter Karp and Sue Foley* Beyond the Crossroads (Blind Pig)
3 Al Lerman* Crowe River Blues (Independent)
4 Dan Sinasac* Goin' Back (Independent)
5 Various Artists Soundtrack for a Revolution OST (E1)
6 Janiva Magness Stronger For It (Alligator)
7 JW-Jones* Seventh Hour (Independent)
8 Joe Louis Walker Hellfire (Alligator)
9 Danny Sansone The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too (Shortstack)
10 Hayden Sayers Hard Dollar - (Blue Corn)