| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Alias | Muted | Anticon |
| 2 | Various | Global Indie Clubpop | Eenie Meenie |
| 3 | USA is a Monster | Tasheyana Compost | Load |
| 4 | Shy Child | Humanity EP | Grenadine |
| 5 | The Dagons | Teeth for Pearls | Dead Sea Captain |
| 6 | Japanther | Dump the Body in Rikki Lake | Menlo Park |
| 7 | Nervous Cop | s/t | 5RC |
| 8 | The Organ | Sinking Hearts | Global Symphonic |
| 9 | Crescent | By the Roads and the Fields | Fat Cat |
| 10 | Innocence Mission | Befriended | Badman |
| 11 | Soul Junk | 1958 | Sounds Are Active/Sounds Familyre |
| 12 | The Vexers | Gangland Ballads and the Death Sex Set | Ace Fu |
| 13 | Vaz | Dying to Meet You | GSL |
| 14 | Neurosis + Jarboe | s/t | Neurot |
| 15 | Colleen | Everyone Alive Wants Answers | Leaf |
| 16 | Village of Savoonga | 14-09-01 | Hausmusik |
| 17 | The Fuse! | The Fisherman's Wife | In the Red |
| 18 | Carolyn Yarnell | Sonic Vision | Tzadik |
| 19 | A Frames | 2 | S-S Records |
| 20 | Robert Wyatt | Solar Flares Burn for You | Cuneiform |
| 21 | I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness | s/t | Emperor Jones |
| 22 | The Books | Lemon of Pink | Tomlab |
| 23 | The Unicorns | Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | Alien8 |
| 24 | The Chinese Stars | Turbo Mattress EP | Skin Graft |
| 25 | X27 | 7" | Show and Tell |
| 26 | The Curtains | Flybys | This Wrist |
| 27 | Infinite Number of Sounds | Time Wants a Skeleton | Self-Released |
| 28 | Bonobo | Flutter | Ninja Tune |
| 29 | J.D. Robb | Rhythmania | Locust |
| 30 | The Dishes | 3 | File13 |
| 31 | Cafe Jew Zoo | s/t | Naxos World |
| 32 | Societa Anonima | s/t | Self-Released |
| 33 | Semi-Automatic | Wolf-Centric | 5RC |
| 34 | Feller Quentin | A Cat in a Tree with a Mouse in his Teeth | Quellus |
| 35 | Young and Sexy | Life Through One Speaker | |