| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Colleen | Golden Morning Breaks | Leaf |
| 2 | Los Camperos De Valles | El Ave De Mi Sonar | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 3 | Mohd. Rafi | Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Mohd. Rafi | World Music Network |
| 4 | Antony and the Johnsons | Hope There's Someone | Secretly Canadian |
| 5 | Freeform | Outside In | Skam |
| 6 | Helios | Unomia | Merck |
| 7 | V/A | Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia | World Music Network |
| 8 | Earth | Legacy of Dissolution | No Quarter |
| 9 | Drop the Lime | This Means Forever | Tigerbeat6 |
| 10 | V/A | Rough Guide to Gypsy Swing | World Music Network |
| 11 | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Darkness at Noon | Leaf |
| 12 | Efterklang | Springer | Leaf |
| 13 | Fantomas | Suspended Animation | Ipecac |
| 14 | Felipe and Forte | Shaggy Black | Soft Abuse |
| 15 | The Mae Shi | Heartbeeps | 5RC/Kill Rock Stars |
| 16 | Subtitle | Young Dangerous Heart | GSL |
| 17 | Red Sparowes | At the Soundless Dawn | Neurot |
| 18 | The Old Haunts | Fallow Field | Kill Rock Stars |
| 19 | Negativland | No Business | Seeland |
| 20 | Medications | Your Favorite People, All in One Place | Dischord |
| 21 | Telephone Jim Jesus | A Point Too Far to Astronaut | Anticon |
| 22 | The Go-Betweens | Oceans Apart | Yep Roc |
| 23 | Populous | Queue For Love | Morr Music |
| 24 | Animal Collective with Vashti Bunyan | Prospect Hummer EP | FatCat |
| 25 | Bleeding Kansas | 1859 | Abacus |
| 26 | Jaga Jazzist | What We Must | Ninja Tune |
| 27 | Yasushi Miura | Circus | KP |
| 28 | The Apes | Baba's Mountain | Birdman |
| 29 | Group XEX | S/t | Smack Shire |
| 30 | Modern Life is War | Witness | Deathwish |