| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Daedelus | A Gent Agent | Laboratory Instincts |
| 2 | The Gossip/Tracy and the Plastics | Real Damage EP | Dim Mak |
| 3 | The Violettes | s/t | Self |
| 4 | Jacob Smigel | Full Grown and Talking about Fountains | Not Not Fun |
| 5 | The Weepies | Happiness | Self |
| 6 | Fembots | Small Town Murder Scene | Paper Bag |
| 7 | Finesse and Runway | S/t | Schematic |
| 8 | Sir Richard Bishop | Improvika | Locust |
| 9 | Gold Chains and Sue Cie | When the World Was Our Friend | Kill Rock Stars |
| 10 | David Ivar and Herman Dune | Ya Ya | Shrimper |
| 11 | Hot Troche | Yopaakuyu with me | Illegal Art |
| 12 | Japanther | Master of Pigeons | Menlo Park |
| 13 | Die Monitr Batss | Girls of War | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 14 | This Song is a Mess But So Am I | Church Point LA | Mattress |
| 15 | Matthew Shaw | Ghosts in the Concrete | Burning Building |
| 16 | Wives | Erect the Youth Problem | Cold Sweat |
| 17 | Tussle | Kling Klung | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 18 | Matt Pond PA | Winter Songs | Altitude |
| 19 | Devotchka | Queen of the Surface Streets EP | Cicero |
| 20 | Lost Sounds | S/t | In the Red |
| 21 | Deru | Trying to Remember | Merck |
| 22 | The Bellrays | Red White and Black | Alternative Tentacles |
| 23 | Dino Felipe | I'm You | Schematic |
| 24 | The Televangelist and the Architect | Mass Exodus from California | Undetected Plagiarism |
| 25 | Kristin Mooney | s/t | Sin City |
| 26 | Psapp | Tiger My Friend | Leaf |
| 27 | The Flatlanders | Live '72 | New West |
| 28 | No. 9 | Micro Films | Locust |
| 29 | Air Formation | Stay inside feel everything | Clairecords |
| 30 | Styrofoam | Nothing's Lost | Morr |