| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Comets on Fire | Field Recordings From the Sun | Ba Da Bing |
| 2 | Gold Chains | Straight From Your Radio | Tigerbeat6 |
| 3 | Radar Secret Service | Stop Communication | On/On Switch |
| 4 | Spaceheads | Low Pressure | Merge |
| 5 | 4tRECk | No. 1 | 4track |
| 6 | Warlocks | Rise and Fall | Bomp |
| 7 | Various Artists | | Mondrian Sound |
| 8 | AM Radio | s/t | Viola/Social Registry |
| 9 | Numbers | Life | Tigerbeat6 |
| 10 | 400 Blows | Black Rainbow | Tone Capsule |
| 11 | Sharp Ease | s/t | Soft Spot |
| 12 | Tino Corp | Tino's Breaks 5:Dub | Tino Corp |
| 13 | Dntel | (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan | Plug Research |
| 14 | Cockroach Huxtable | Maidmosell Disco Technique | We're Twins |
| 15 | Go-Betweens | Spring Hill Fair | Jetset |
| 16 | Various Artists | Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau | Ghostly International |
| 17 | Ludicra | Hollow Psalms | Life is Abuse |
| 18 | Chromatics/Monitr Bats | Split 7" | GSL |
| 19 | Kazumoto Endo | While You Were Out | Philosophy Shop/Boxmedia |
| 20 | Troy Gregory | Sybil | Fall of Rome |
| 21 | Cheater Slicks | Yer Last Record | In the Red |
| 22 | Service Anxiety | The Persistent Inversion of Solution... | Dead CEO |
| 23 | Wire | Read and Burn | Pinkflag |
| 24 | Black Keys | The Big Come Up | Alive |
| 25 | Dabrye | Instrmntl | Eastern Developments |
| 26 | Quix*o*tic | Mortal Mirror | Kill Rock Stars |
| 27 | DJ Spooky | Optometry | Thirsty Ear |
| 28 | Various Artists | Geist Sampler | Geist |
| 29 | Cererbus Shoal/Herman Dune | The Hows and Whys of Herman Dune and Cerebus Shoal | North East Indie |
| 30 | Fenn O'Berg | Return of Fenn O'Berg | Mego |
| 31 | Ben Vida | Mpls | BOXmedia |
| 32 | Deerhoof | C | Cool Beans |
| 33 | Meta-Matics | Complete Discography | Troubleman |
| 34 | Piranahs | untitled | On/On Switch |
| 35 | Bastard Noise | Mutant | Manufracture |