| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Various Artists | Ragazza Pop | S.H.A.D.O. |
| 2 | Von Bondies | Raw and Rare | Dim Mak |
| 3 | Sweet Trip | Velocity: Design: Comfort | Darla |
| 4 | Wildchild | Secondary Protocol | Stones Throw |
| 5 | Sufjan Stevens | Michigan | Sounds Familyre/Asthmatic Kitty |
| 6 | Ex Models | Zoo Psychology | French Kiss |
| 7 | Herman Dune | Metal Mushroom | Shrimper |
| 8 | The Abstractions | Ars Vivende | Edgetone/Pax |
| 9 | HiM | Many In High Places Are Not Well | Bubble Core |
| 10 | The Vanishing | Songs for Psychotic Children | GSL |
| 11 | Culper Ring | 355 | Neurot |
| 12 | The Stolen Stars | An Anaphorian Dance Drama | Anaphoria |
| 13 | Sentridoh | Wasted Pieces | Shrimper |
| 14 | Wives/K.I.T. | Wives/K.I.T. | Zum/Post Present Medium |
| 15 | Curse of The Golden Vampire | Mass Destruction | Ipecac |
| 16 | Rev. Gary Davis | Early Home Recordings of Reverend Gary Davis | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 17 | Bonobo | Dial 'M' for Monkey | Ninja Tune |
| 18 | John Thill | The E'Tudes | Nightpass |
| 19 | Die Monitr Batss | Youth Controllers | Dim Mak |
| 20 | Mr. David Viner | Mr. David Viner | Dim Mak/In The Act |
| 21 | A Frames | A Frames | S-S/Dragnet |
| 22 | Nudge | Elaborate Devices for Filtering Crisis | |
| 23 | The Rip Off Artist | In Through The Out Door | Tigerbeat 6 |
| 24 | Various Artists | Hardcore America [The Reagan Years-1st Term] | Borderless Countries Tapes/Schizophrenic |
| 25 | Sin Ropas | Trickboxes On The Pony Line | Sad Robot |
| 26 | The Sick Lipstick | Sting Sting Sting | Tigerstyle |
| 27 | Various Artists | Variable Resistance | 23five |
| 28 | Sole | Selling Live Water | Anticon |
| 29 | The Hospitals | The Hospitals | In The Red |
| 30 | Vytear | The Great Rubber Audio | G25 |
| 31 | Various Artists | Ju-Jikan | 23five |
| 32 | Nobukazu Takemura | Songbook | Bubble Core |
| 33 | Blanketship | Threeps | Stiff Eels |
| 34 | Fatal Flying Guillotines | Get Knifed | Estrus |
| 35 | Monobox | Molecule | Logistic |