| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Various | Global Indie Clubpop | Eenie Meenie |
| 2 | The Innocence Mission | Befriended | Badman |
| 3 | I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness | s/t | Emperor James |
| 4 | Japanther | Dump The Body In Rikki Lake | Menlo Park |
| 5 | The Buttless Chaps | Love This Time | Mint |
| 6 | The Wrens | The Meadowlands | Absolutely Kosher |
| 7 | The Unicorns | Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | Alien 8 |
| 8 | Young People | War Prayers | Dim Mak |
| 9 | Various | S.H.A.D.O. Electro | S.H.A.D.O. |
| 10 | Various | A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan | Desoto |
| 11 | Books On Tape | Books On Tape SingsThe Blues | Greyday |
| 12 | The Organ | Sinking Hearts | Global Symphonie |
| 13 | US Maple | Purple On Time | Drag City |
| 14 | USAisaMonster | Tasheyana Compost | Load |
| 15 | Liz James, Bunky and Castanets | Split EP | Sr |
| 16 | Young And Sexy | Life Through One Speaker | Mint |
| 17 | Various | The Wiretapper 10 | Wire |
| 18 | The Vexers | Gangland Ballads and the Death Sex Set EP | Ace Fu |
| 19 | Trachtenburg Family Slidehsow | Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle Vol. 1 | Bar None |
| 20 | Shy Child | Humanity EP | Grenadine |
| 21 | System and Station | If You Find Me Let Me Know | Crustacean REcords |
| 22 | So | s/t | Thrill Jockey |
| 23 | The Proles | Index | The Americans Are Coming |
| 24 | Midwest Project | World Series Of Love | Ghostly |
| 25 | Dirt Bombs | Dangerous Magical Noise | In The Red |
| 26 | The Books | Lemon Of Pink | Tomlab |
| 27 | Cansecos | Cansecos | Upperclass |
| 28 | Colleen | Everyone Alive Wants Answers | Leaf |
| 29 | The Fuse! | The Fisherman's Wife | In The REd |
| 30 | Explosions In The Sky | Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Planet | Latest Flame / Crustacean |
| 31 | Alias | Muted | Anticon |
| 32 | Carla Bozulich | Red-Headed Stranger | DiCristina Stair Builder |
| 33 | The Dishes | 3 | File 13 |
| 34 | The Frames | The Roads Outgrown | Overcoat |
| 35 | Ms. John Soda | While Talking | Morr Music |