| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Le Pepes | All Fun Things End | Kittridge |
| 2 | The Barmitzfah Brothers | The Night Of The Party | Robosapien |
| 3 | Popular Shapes | Bikini Style | On / On Switch |
| 4 | A Frames | 2 | S-S Records |
| 5 | Hrududu Factory | Songs From The Burrow EP | Shmat |
| 6 | Casinotone For The Painfully Alone | Twinkle Echo | Tomlab |
| 7 | Ludella Black and the Masonics | 7" | Smart Guy |
| 8 | The Handsome Family | Singing Bones | Carrot Top |
| 9 | Kill Me Tomorrow | Skin's Getting Weird | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 10 | Town and Country | 5 | Thrill Jockey |
| 11 | Vervein | Vast Low Cities | Angry Moose |
| 12 | The Gossip | Night School 7" | Kill Rock Stars |
| 13 | The English Softhearts | Double Platinum | The Magic Spot |
| 14 | The Organ | Sinking Hearts | Global Symphonie |
| 15 | Earliamart | Burning the Cow 7" | Palm |
| 16 | The Quails | The Song Of Love | Mr. Lady |
| 17 | Stars As Eyes | Loud New Shit | Tigerbeat 6 |
| 18 | Desert Fathers | The Spirituality | 3 Spheres |
| 19 | Various | Classic Blues 2 | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 20 | Hans Fjellestad | 33 | Accretions |
| 21 | Neurosis and Jarboe | Neurosis and Jarboe Split CD | Neurot |
| 22 | 9Lazy9 | Sweet Jones | Ninjatune |
| 23 | Crime and Judy | Vendetta Chants | Latest Flame Records |
| 24 | 31 Knots | It Was High Time To Escape | Fifty Four Fourty or FIght |
| 25 | Dead Science | Submariner | Kosher |
| 26 | Electroputas | 12'' | Social Registery |
| 27 | The Caseworker | These Weeks Should Be Remembered | Manifesto |
| 28 | The Bronx | Bats! | Tarantula |
| 29 | Listener | Whisperman | Mush |
| 30 | The Minders | Tearaway 7'' | Omnibus |
| 31 | Villian Accelerate | Maid Of Gold | Mush |
| 32 | Band Of Blacky Ranchette | Still Lookin' Good To Me | Thrill Jockey |
| 33 | Experimental Dental School | Hideous Dance Attack | Self-Released |
| 34 | Reverend Charlie Jackson | God's Got It | Case Quarter Records |
| 35 | The Movies | In One Era Out The Other | Gern Blandsten |