| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Totally Radd!! | Shark Attack Day Camp | Retard Disco |
| 2 | Earlimart | Treble and Tremble | Palm Pictures |
| 3 | The Organ | Grab That Gun | Mint |
| 4 | Hominid | All Accidental All the Time | Self |
| 5 | Kimya Dawson | Hidden Vagenda | K |
| 6 | Call Me Lightning | The Trouble We're In | Revelation |
| 7 | Jon Sheffield | Something Left is Never Far | Notenuf |
| 8 | The Othas | For your Listening Pleasure | Self |
| 9 | V/A | Fourth City | Fourth City |
| 10 | Sixteens | Fendi | Hungry Eyes |
| 11 | Shoplifting | s/t EP | Kill Rock Stars |
| 12 | Branches | S/t | Contraphonic |
| 13 | Hot Snakes | Audit in Progress | Swami |
| 14 | Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo | Young God |
| 15 | V/A | The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered, Covered | Gammon |
| 16 | Robyn Hitchcock | Spooked | Yep Roc |
| 17 | The Red Krayola | Singles | Drag City |
| 18 | Pinback | Summer in Abaddon | Touch and Go |
| 19 | The Go Find | Miami | Morr |
| 20 | The Six Parts Seven | Everywhere and Right Here | Suicide Squeeze |
| 21 | Notekillers | s/t | Ecstatic Peace |
| 22 | Pig Destroyer | Terrrifyer | Relapse |
| 23 | V/A | WTUL Songs from the Basement 2 | WTUL |
| 24 | Keef Baker | The Widnes Years | n5MD |
| 25 | Dosh | Pure Trash | Anticon |
| 26 | Gasoline Fight | Useless Piece of Weaponry | Thick |
| 27 | Tsk Tsk | s/t | self |
| 28 | Tinariwen | Amassakoul | World Village |
| 29 | Tim Hecker | Mirages | Alien 8 |
| 30 | Andy Furgeson and the Boys Howdy | Listen: | Boy Howdy |