| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Erase Errata | Other Animals | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2 | Quasi | Sword of God | Touch and Go |
| 3 | Pretty Girls Make Graves | s/t | Dim mak |
| 4 | Holly Golightly | Singles Round Up | Damaged Goods |
| 5 | American Analog Set | Know By Heart | Tigerstyle |
| 6 | Peter Brotzmann Group | Fuck De Boere | Atavistic |
| 7 | Various Artists | Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown | Blood and Fire |
| 8 | Arab on Radar | Yahweh or the Highway | Skin Graft |
| 9 | Slumber Party | Psychedelicate | Kill Rock Stars |
| 10 | Phantom Limbs | Applied Ignorance | Alternative Tentacles |
| 11 | Royal Fingers | Wild Eleki Deluxe | Del-fi |
| 12 | Clinic | Internal Wrangler | Domino |
| 13 | Four Corners | Say You're a Scream | Kindercore |
| 14 | Kill Sadie | Experiments in Expectation | Dim mak |
| 15 | Microphones | The Glow: Pt. 2 | K |
| 16 | IfIHadAHiFi | Ones and Zeros | No Karma/Tape Engine |
| 17 | Various Artists | Tigerbeat6 Inc. | Tigerbeat6 |
| 18 | Rechenzentrum | The John Peel Session | Kitty-yo |
| 19 | Various Artists | Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo | Motel |
| 20 | Navy | Get Your Sea Legs | Navy |
| 21 | Trumans Water | s/t | Emperor Jones |
| 22 | Rilo Kiley | Take Offs and Landings | Barsuk |
| 23 | Patsy | In a Briefcase | self-released |
| 24 | Black Dice | Peace in the Valley 7" | GSL |
| 25 | Sianspheric | The Sound of the Colour of the Sun | Sonic Unyon |
| 26 | Various Artists | Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957 | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 27 | 14 Iced Bears | In the Beginning | Slumberland |
| 28 | Various Artists | RKK13CD | Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge |
| 29 | Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick | Sound Proof | Camera Obscura |
| 30 | Fitts | I Can't Break Away 7" | Contaminated |
| 31 | Walkmen | s/t | Star Time |
| 32 | Clean | Getaway | Merge |
| 33 | Matty and Mossy | Fraimers Hamey | Fleece |
| 34 | Raya Wrath of Fancan | s/t | Dark Piglet |
| 35 | Man or Astro-man? | Beyond the Black Hole | Estrus |
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