| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Quem Quaeritis | Tv! Tv! Happy! | Night Pass |
| 2 | Tracy + the Plastics/The Gossip | Real Damage EP | Dim Mak |
| 3 | Die Monitr Batss | Girls of War | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 4 | Wrangler Brutes | ZULU | Kill Rock Stars |
| 5 | David Ivar and Herman Dune | Ya-Ya | Shrimper |
| 6 | Wives | Erect the Youth Problem | Cold Sweat |
| 7 | Gold Chains and Sue Cie | When the World Was Our Friend | Kill Rock Stars |
| 8 | Daedelus | A Gent Agent | Laboratory Instincts |
| 9 | The Bellrays | Red, White and Black | Alternative Tentacles |
| 10 | Hot Troche | Yopaakuyu with Me | Illegal Art |
| 11 | Skates | Lord of the Rinks | Unschooled |
| 12 | Elizabeth Cotten | Shake Sugaree | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 13 | Mates of State | All Day | Polyvinyl |
| 14 | Devotchka | Queen of the Surface Streets | Cicero |
| 15 | Japanther | Master of Pigeons | Menlo Park |
| 16 | Weirdo Begeirdo | So I'm Dude in this Equation | Not Not Fun |
| 17 | Lost Sounds | S/t | In the Red |
| 18 | Hungry Mind Review | S/t | CS |
| 19 | This Song is a Mess But So Am I | Church Point, LA | Mattress |
| 20 | Finesse and Runway | S/t | Schematic |
| 21 | Jacob Smigel | Full Grown and Talking about Fountains | Not Not Fun |
| 22 | Hood | Outside Closer | Domino |
| 23 | Aproximation | Disknextnext | Megadolkadot |
| 24 | Ochre | A Midsummer Nice Dream | Toytronic |
| 25 | Donna the Buffalo | Rockin the Weary Land | Sugar Hill |
| 26 | Sir Richard Bishop | Improvika | Locust |
| 27 | Ilkae | Bovine Rearrangement | Merck |
| 28 | Matmos/Die Monitr Batss | split 7" | Ache |
| 29 | Bardo Pond | Cypher Documents 1 | 3 Lobed |
| 30 | The Violettes | S/t | Self |