| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Butthole Surfers | Humpty Dumpty LSD | Latino Bugger Veil |
| 2 | Gossip | Arkansas Heat | Kill Rock Stars |
| 3 | Takagi Masakatsu | Opus Pia | Carpark |
| 4 | Circle | Raunio | Ektro |
| 5 | Kills | Black Rooster | Dim mak |
| 6 | Ruins | 1986-1992 | Skin Graft |
| 7 | Various Artists | Disco not Disco 2 | Strut |
| 8 | Deerhoof | Reveille | Kill Rock Stars/5RC |
| 9 | Registrators | Rare Tracks | Rip-Off |
| 10 | Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Dap-Dippin' with... | Daptone |
| 11 | Various Artists | Life is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself | Delirium |
| 12 | Crimson Sweet | So Electric 7" | Self-Released |
| 13 | Cul De Sac | Immortality Lessons | Strange Attractors Audio House |
| 14 | Young People | s/t | 5RC |
| 15 | Pete Aves | Fidelity | Little Brother |
| 16 | Milky Wimpshake | Lovers not Fighters | Troubleman |
| 17 | Various Artists | Psychedelic States: Florida | Gear Fab/Comet |
| 18 | Tino Corp | Tino's Breaks Vol. 1 & 2 | Tino Corp |
| 19 | Epoxies | s/t | Dirtnap |
| 20 | Sharron Kraus | Beautiful Twisted | Camera Obscura |
| 21 | Various Artists | 156 Strings | Cuneiform |
| 22 | David Ivar Herman Dune and El Boy Die | Di-Die Live | Shrimper |
| 23 | Utopic Sporadic Orchestra | Nancy 75 | Utopic/Musea |
| 24 | Soul Junk | 1957 | Sounds Are Active |
| 25 | Skepticism | The Process of Fermakon | Red Stream |
| 26 | Radio Afghanistan | Ultimate Hardware | Self-Released |
| 27 | Rhys Chatham | A Rhys Chatham Compendium | Table of Elements |
| 28 | Nod | Good Night Sleep | Smells Like Records |
| 29 | Various Artists | Deeper Polka | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 30 | John Butcher and Dylan van der Schyff | Points, Snags, and Windings | Meniscus |
| 31 | Sadis Euphoria | Frigid Silence Spilling | Willowtip |
| 32 | Yo La Tengo | The Sounds of the Sounds of Science | Egon |
| 33 | Sutekh | Fell | Orthlorng Musork |
| 34 | David Grubbs | Act Five, Scene One | Blue Chopsticks |
| 35 | Japancakes | Belmondo | Darla |