| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Moving Units | Moving Units | Palm Pictures |
| 2 | El Guapo | Fake French | Dischord |
| 3 | The Scene Creamers | I Suck on That Emotion | Drag City |
| 4 | The Mae Shi | To Hit Armor Class Zero | Self-Released |
| 5 | Various Artists | We're Twins Sampler 2003 | We're Twins |
| 6 | The Aislers Set | How I Learned to Write Backwards | Suicide Squeeze |
| 7 | Daniel Johnston | Fear Yourself | Gammon |
| 8 | Daedalus | The Quiet Party | Plug Research |
| 9 | The Chromatics | Chrome Rats Vs. Basement Ruts | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 10 | The Deadly Snakes | Ode to Joy | In the Red |
| 11 | Dear Nora/Mates of State | Split 7" | Polyvinyl |
| 12 | The Apes | Street Warz | Planasia |
| 13 | Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter | Reckless Burning | Burn Burn Burn |
| 14 | Panthers | Let's Get Serious | Dim Mak |
| 15 | Boxing | Way Down East | Self-Released |
| 16 | North of America | Brothers, Sisters | Level Plane |
| 17 | Damien Jurado | Where Shall You Take Me? | Secretly Canadian |
| 18 | Smog | Supper | Drag City |
| 19 | Amon Tobin | Out From Out Where | Ninja Tune |
| 20 | Various Artists | Don't Know When I'll Be Back | Exotic Fever |
| 21 | Last Days of May | Inner System Blues | Squealer |
| 22 | Friends in the Mountains | EP | Self-Released |
| 23 | The Rogers Sisters | Purely Evil | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 24 | Triple Creme | Lucid | Self-Released |
| 25 | Califone | Quicksand and Cradlesnakes | Thrill Jockey |
| 26 | Various Artists | Black and Proud Vol. 1 | Trikont |
| 27 | Set Fire to Flames | Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static | Alien 8 |
| 28 | The Orphans | The Orphans 7" | Malo |
| 29 | Audion/Cinema Eye | Split CD | Sound Virus |
| 30 | Bentwax | The Unhuman Life Project | Self-Released |
| 31 | Languis | Unithematic 12" | Pehr |
| 32 | Black Eyes | Black Eyes | Dischord |
| 33 | Abunai! | Two Brothers | Camera Lucida |
| 34 | Lyrics Born | Hello | One Session/Quannum |
| 35 | Jaga Jazzist | Animal Chin | Gold Standard Laboratories |