Carlos D. Memorial Award for Sickest Bass Playing on a Rock Album: Tame Impala, Innerspeaker
Runner Up: Ariel Pink, Before Today
Sickest Bass Playing on a Non Rock Album: Cosmogramma
The Steven Ellison Genius Grant for Releasing Not One but Two Mindblowing Next Level Releases in One Year Because He’s Just Like That: Flying Lotus
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| Ice Cold Award for Good Album Intractably Marred by Questionable Vocal Affectations: Baths, Cerulean |
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| Post-Dilla Postal Service Runner up: Salem, King Knight |
Most Rewarding Questionable Vocal Affectation: Sam Herring, Future Islands
Ryan Adams Award for Free Download That Is Somehow Still a Waste of Money and Space: Girl Talk, All Day
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| This Asshole... |
Best Apotheosis of Self Via Disjointed Paranoid Confessional Ramblings From an Artist Emerging from Self-Imposed Exile After a Previous Full Length’s Lukewarm Critical Reception and Amidst Talk of Said Artist Becoming a Parody of Himself: Destroyer, Archer on the Beach
A cosmonaut in a breadline, etc.
Runner Up: Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Best Jump to Relative Hifi: Beach House, Teen Dream
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| Deep blue pools of sexy melancholy |
Worst Jump Back to Relative Lofi: Spoon, Transference
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| The less said the better |
Best Production on a Lofi Release: Tie, Women, Public Strain and Ariel Pink, Before Today
The Wayne Coyne “If I was going to do shrooms, I’d want to do it with this guy” Award: Dustin Wong
Best Chillwave Album Not Classified As or Affiliated With Chillwave: Javelin, No Mas
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| Slept on Stephen Malkmus Award for Best Song Imbued With a Humble Tossed-Off Perfection That’s Almost Infuriating Because You’re Pretty Sure It Was Written on the Spot: Kurt Vile, I Got Religion |
Best Moment to Be Justin Vernon, Or It Would Be if This Was All Recorded at Once: Monster
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| Nobody knew I was a muthafuckn monstah, nobody but Ye |
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