| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | The Organ | Grab That Gun | Mint |
| 2 | Les Georges Leningrad | Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo | Alien 8 |
| 3 | The Red Krayola | Singles | Drag City |
| 4 | Kimya Dawson | Hidden Vagenda | K |
| 5 | Signer | The New Face of Smiling | Carpark |
| 6 | Totally Radd | Shark Attack Day Camp | Retard Disco |
| 7 | The Lonely Hearts | Make Your Self at Home | DIY or Else |
| 8 | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of Natural History | Web of Mimicry |
| 9 | Keef Baker | The Widnes Years | n5md |
| 10 | V/A | An Anthology of Noise and Electronica | Subrosa |
| 11 | Calamalka | Shredders Dub | Plug Research |
| 12 | Railroad Earth | The Good Life | Sugar Hill |
| 13 | S | Puking and Crying | Suicide Squeeze |
| 14 | Cyrus Rex | All.ofMeHyde | Negative3 |
| 15 | Dosh | Pure Trash | Anticon |
| 16 | V/A | 91.7 KVRX vol. 8: It came from the basement | KVRX |
| 17 | V/A | Detroit Underground vol. 3 | Detroit Underground |
| 18 | Shoplifting | S/t | Kill Rock Stars |
| 19 | Branches | s/t | Contraphonic |
| 20 | Drive-By Truckers | Dirty South | New West |
| 21 | Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo | Young God |
| 22 | V/A | WTUL Songs from the Basement 2 | WTUL |
| 23 | The Thin man | HMS Mondegreen | Skin and Bones |
| 24 | Hominid | All Accidental All the Time | self |
| 25 | Giant Sand | Is All over the Map | Thrill Jockey |
| 26 | Man Man | S/t | Ace Fu |
| 27 | Wagon Christ | Sorry I Make You Lush | Ninja Tune |
| 28 | The Go Find | Miami | Morr |
| 29 | Efterklang | Tripper | Leaf |
| 30 | Mixmaster Mike | Bangzilla | Scratch |