| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Early Day Miners | All Harm Ends Here | Secretly Canadian |
| 2 | Blue Silk Sutures/Silver Daggers | Split 7" | Killshaman |
| 3 | Les Georges Leningrad | Sur Les Traces de Black | Alien8 |
| 4 | People Like Us | Abridged Too Far | Self |
| 5 | Soft Pink Truth | Do you Want New Wave or do you want The Soft Pink Truth? | Tigerbeat6 |
| 6 | V/A | 4 Bands in LA 2004 | Deathbomb Arc |
| 7 | V/A | But Then Again... | Scape |
| 8 | My Robot Friend | Hot Action! | Proptronix |
| 9 | Dan Friel | Sunburn | Velocirecords |
| 10 | Mob Stereo | Too Young To Go Steady | Dollar Record |
| 11 | The Sharpease | Going Modern | Soft Spot |
| 12 | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Of Natural History | Web of Mimicry |
| 13 | Quintron | The Frog Tape | Skin Graft |
| 14 | V/A | Reinterpretations inspired by the works of Kitaro | Kanpai |
| 15 | Tara Jane O'Neil | You Sound Reflect | Quarterstick |
| 16 | V/A | Tales from the Oxygen Den | Radical Turf |
| 17 | V/A | Art Rocker Sampler | Art Rocker |
| 18 | Ian Yeager | Music for Guitar and Computers | Pax |
| 19 | Uncle Woody Sullender | Nothing is Certain but Death | Dead CEO |
| 20 | Okkervil River | Sleep and Wake Up Songs | Jagjaguwar |
| 21 | Upsilon Acrux | Volucris Avis Dirae Arum | Planaria |
| 22 | Yuma Nora | Red Train Graphing the Sunset of All | Deathbomb Arc |
| 23 | Man Man | The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face | Ace Fu |
| 24 | Appogee | Unconscious Ruckus | Kanpai |
| 25 | Little Tempo | Fireblender | M |
| 26 | Ammon Contact | One in an Infinity of Stars | Plug Research |
| 27 | The Organ | Grab that Gun | Mint |
| 28 | The Firebird Band | The City at Night | Lucid |
| 29 | Jon Sheffield | Something Left is Never Far | Notenuf |
| 30 | Lesbians on Ecstasy | S/t | Alien8 |