| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Xiu Xiu | Fabulous Muscles | 5RC |
| 2 | Deerhoof | Milkman | Kill Rock Stars |
| 3 | Clouddead | Ten | Mush |
| 4 | Trans Am | Liberation | Thrill Jockey |
| 5 | Volcano I'm Still Excited | Self-Titled | Polyvinyl |
| 6 | Chromatics | Plaster Hounds | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 7 | John Vanderslice | Cellar Door | Barsuk |
| 8 | Mixel Pixel | Rainbow Panda | Mental Monkey |
| 9 | The Double | Palm Fronds | Catsup Plate |
| 10 | Metal Boys | Tokio Airport | Acute |
| 11 | Grey Delisle | Graceful Ghost | Sugarhill |
| 12 | Aesop Rock | Bazooka Tooth | Def Jux |
| 13 | Mahjongg | Machinegong EP | Cold Crush |
| 14 | T.V. On The Radio | Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes | Touch and Go |
| 15 | Rochester Fosgate | Self-Titled | Smooth Excavator |
| 16 | Dios | Los Arboles EP | Dim Mak |
| 17 | Cerebrus Shoal | Bastion Of Itchy Preeves | North East Indie |
| 18 | Music A.M. | Heart and Two Stars | Quartermass |
| 19 | Joanna Newson | The Milk Eyed Mender | Drag City |
| 20 | Old Time Relijun | Lost Light | K |
| 21 | Cyann and Ben | Spring | Locust |
| 22 | No. 9 | Mushi-no-ne | Locust |
| 23 | Coco Rosie | La Maison De Mon Reve | Touch and Go |
| 24 | Simon Joyner | Lost With The Lights On | Secretly Canadian |
| 25 | The Flashbulb | Red Extension Of Me | Sublight |
| 26 | Kites | Royal Paint with the Metallic Gardener from the United States of America Helped into an Open Field by Women and Children | Load |
| 27 | Proem | Socially Inept | Merck |
| 28 | Skygreen Leopards | One Thousand Bird Ceremony | Soft Abuse |
| 29 | Le Scrawl | Eagar To Please | Life Is Abuse |
| 30 | Flattbrush | Smash The Octopus! | Kool Arrow |
| 31 | Various | Swallowed By Machinery | Fort Hazel |
| 32 | No Doctors | Hunting Season | Go Johnny Go |
| 33 | 2nd Gen | Flicknives | Quartermass |
| 34 | Madame De Soucie | MMMMMMMM-bbaa | No Sides |
| 35 | Susanna and the Magical Orchestra | List of Lights and Buoys | Rune Grammofon |