| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | The George W. Bush Singers | Songs in the key of W | True Believer |
| 2 | DJ Rupture | Special Gunpowder | Tigerbeat6 |
| 3 | Spalding Rockwell | Kate | self |
| 4 | Dosh | Pure Trash | Anticon |
| 5 | Diplo | Florida | Big Dada |
| 6 | V/A | Late Great Daniel Johnson: Discovered, Covered | Gammon |
| 7 | Julie Doiron | Goodnight Nobody | Jagujaguwar |
| 8 | Little Wings | Magic Wand | K |
| 9 | Desolation Radio | The Losing Streak | Self |
| 10 | Wagon Christ | Sorry I Make You Lush | Ninja Tune |
| 11 | Railroad Earth | The Good life | Sugar Hill |
| 12 | The Hot Snakes | Audit In Progress | Swami |
| 13 | Bill Laswell | Version 2 Version | Reachout International |
| 14 | Jens Lekman | When I said I wanted to be your dog | Secretly Canadian |
| 15 | Pinback | Summer in Abaddon | Touch and Go |
| 16 | Books on Tape | The Business End | Greyday |
| 17 | Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo | Young God |
| 18 | Frog Eyes | The Folded Palm | Absolutely Kosher |
| 19 | Earlimart | Treble and Tremble | Palm Pictures |
| 20 | Alexander Rishaug | Possible Landscape | Asphodel |
| 21 | Cattle Decapitation | Humanure | Metal Blade |
| 22 | Brian and Chris | Crossing | Dielectric |
| 23 | Andy Furgeson and the Boys Howdy | Listen: | Boy Howdy |
| 24 | The San Quentin 7 | Folk Singers and Friend | Self |
| 25 | Tinariwen | Amassakoul | World Village |
| 26 | Hominid | All Accidental All the Time | Hominid |
| 27 | Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | The Big Eyeball in the Sky | Prawnsong |
| 28 | David Nzoma Trio | The Sweet Soul of Kenya | Latitude |
| 29 | Clever | Offshore Presents Troubled Waters | Offshore |
| 30 | Tapes n' Tapes | s/t | Ibid |