| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | The Apes | Street Warz | Planasia |
| 2 | Various Artists | Classic Mountain Songs | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 3 | Daedalus | The Quiet Party | Plug Research |
| 4 | Lyrics Born | Hello | One Session/Quannum |
| 5 | Atom and His Package | Attention! Blah, Blah, Blah | Hopeless |
| 6 | Moving Units | Moving Units | Palm Pictures |
| 7 | The Orphans | The Orphans 7" | Malo |
| 8 | The Scene Creamers | Suck On That Emotion | Drag City |
| 9 | The Mae Shi | To Hit Armor Class Zero | Self-Released |
| 10 | Various Artists | Mollie's Mix | Kill Rock Stars |
| 11 | Intima | Peril and Panic | Slowdance |
| 12 | Glass Candy | Love Love Love | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 13 | Machine Drum | Urban Biology | Merck |
| 14 | Devendra Banhart | Oh Me Oh My | Young God |
| 15 | Nicolai Dunger | Tranquil Isolation | Overcoat |
| 16 | Jello Biafra | Machine Gun... | Alternative Tentacles |
| 17 | Paper Lions | The Symptom and the Sick | Kindercore |
| 18 | Meanest Man Contest | Merit | Plug Research |
| 19 | Midstates | Shadowing Ghosts | Mental Monkey |
| 20 | Eleni Mandell | Country for True Lovers | Zedtone |
| 21 | Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!! | Carbon Copy | Half a Brick |
| 22 | Various Artists | Black and Proud Vol. 1 | Trikont |
| 23 | Encre | Encre | Clapping Music |
| 24 | Morticia's Lover | R n R Overdose | Zaxxon |
| 25 | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists/K. | Split 7" | Tigerstyle |
| 26 | Amon Tobin | Out From Out Where | Ninja Tune |
| 27 | Rye Coalition | Jersey Girls | Tigerstyle |
| 28 | Dance Disaster Movement | We Are From Nowhere | Dim Mak |
| 29 | Pas/Cal | The Handbag Memoirs | Le Gran Magistery |
| 30 | Xiu Xiu | A Promise | 5RC |
| 31 | Ruins | Tzomborgha | Ipecac |
| 32 | Songs: Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co. | Secretly Canadian |
| 33 | Loose Fur | Loose Fur | Drag City |
| 34 | Calexico | Feast of Wire | Quarterstick |
| 35 | Various Artists | Wire Tapper 09 | Wire |
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