| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | White Magic | Through The Sun Door | Drag City |
| 2 | Gilles Gobeil and Rene Lussier | Le Contrat | Empreintes Digitales |
| 3 | Glenn Branca | Lesson No. 1 | Acute |
| 4 | Sound Providers | An Evening With The Sound Providers | Quarternote |
| 5 | Language Computer | Mouseback Riding | Quatermass |
| 6 | Lux Nova Umbra Est | Light Is The New Dark | Lux Nova Umbra Est |
| 7 | Skygreen Leopards | One Thousand Bird Ceremony | Soft Abuse |
| 8 | Various Artists | Infiltrate 5.0 -- 5 Years of Resistance | RL66 |
| 9 | Acid Mother's Temple | Mantra Of Love | Alien 8 |
| 10 | Mirah | C'Mon Miracle | K |
| 11 | Breaker! Breaker! | Where All The Birds Yell | Velocirecords |
| 12 | Midnite Snake | Midnite Snake | Birdman |
| 13 | Rosy Parlane | Iris | Touch |
| 14 | Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing In The Hands | Yound God |
| 15 | Mr. Projectile | Sinking | Merck |
| 16 | Strange Fruit | Luv Is | Black Son |
| 17 | Azita | Life On The Fly | Drag City |
| 18 | DJ Signify | Sleep No More | Lex |
| 19 | Tangle Eye | Alan Lomax's Southern Journey | Zoe |
| 20 | Radel Esca | Echoing Badu | Echelon |
| 21 | Dios | Los Arboles EP | Dimmak |
| 22 | Chops | What's Fuckin' Wit Us | Goodvibe |
| 23 | COCO Rosie | Las Maison de Mon Revue | Touch and Go |
| 24 | Amy Blaschke | Amy Blaschke | Lucky Horse Industries |
| 25 | Cheval de Frise | Fresques Sur Les Parois Secretes Du Crane | Frenetic |
| 26 | Gene Estribou and Jean-Paul Pickens | Intensifications | Locust |
| 27 | Soddamn Inssein | War On Drugs | Post Present Medium |
| 28 | Various Artists | Secrets and Sounds | Animal Disguise |
| 29 | Camping | Suburban Shore | Plug Research |
| 30 | Faun Fables | Family Album | Drag City |