| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Les Georges Leningrad | Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo | Alien 8 |
| 2 | Totally Radd! | Shark Attack Day Camp | Retard Disco |
| 3 | V/A | 91.7 KVRX It Came from the Basement | KVRX |
| 4 | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of Natural History | Web of Mimicry |
| 5 | Efterklang | Tripper | Leaf |
| 6 | The Red Krayola | Singles | Drag City |
| 7 | The Ex | Turn | Touch and Go |
| 8 | Giant Sand | Is All over the Map | Thrill Jockey |
| 9 | Sixteens | Fendi | Hungry Eye |
| 10 | Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo | Young God |
| 11 | Kimya Dawson | Hidden Vagenda | K |
| 12 | Branches | S/t | Contraphonic |
| 13 | Apogee | Unconscious Ruckus | Kanpai |
| 14 | Jon Sheffield | Something left is never far | Notenuf |
| 15 | Lonely Hearts | Make Yourself at Home | DIY or Else |
| 16 | Man Man | S/t | Ace Fu |
| 17 | Tara Jane O'Neil | You Sound Reflect | Quaterstick |
| 18 | The Organ | Grab that Gun | Mint |
| 19 | V/A | WTUL Songs from the Basement 2 | WTUL |
| 20 | The Thin Man | HMS Mondegreen | Skin and Bones |
| 21 | Tim Hecker | Mirages | Alien 8 |
| 22 | S | Puking and Crying | Suicide Squeeze |
| 23 | Sound Imperium | Preemptive Dub Attack | Near and Far |
| 24 | Dosh | Pure Trash | Anticon |
| 25 | Earlimart | Treble and Tremble | Palm Pictures |
| 26 | Lucky Dube | The Other Side | Heartbeat |
| 27 | Notekillers | S/t | Ecstatic Peace |
| 28 | Cyrus Rex | All.ofMeHyde | Negative3 |
| 29 | Dead Letters Spell out Dead Words | 11 Instances of Dead letters and words | Ideal |
| 30 | Pinback | Summer in Abaddon | Touch and Go |