| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Boy Robot | Rotten Cocktails | City Centre Offices |
| 2 | Colleen | The Golden Morning Breaks | Leaf |
| 3 | The Old Haunts | Fallow Field | Kill Rock Stars |
| 4 | Gowns | Dangers of Intimacy | Folk Tale |
| 5 | Red Sparowes | At the Soundless Dawn | Neurot |
| 6 | Isis | Oceanic Remixes/ReInterpretations | Hydra Head |
| 7 | V/A | Rough Guide to Celtic Music | World Music Network |
| 8 | Keith Fullterton Whitman and Greg Davis | Yearlong | Carpark |
| 9 | Catch a Wave | S/t | We're Twins |
| 10 | Antarcticans/Haircut Mountain Transit | Split | The New Black |
| 11 | Antony and the Johnsons | Hope There's Someone | Secretly Canadian |
| 12 | Mitchell Akiyama | Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep | Sub Rosa |
| 13 | Mohd. Rafi | Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Mohd. Rafi | World Music Network |
| 14 | The Mae Shi | Heartbeeps | 5RC/Kill Rock Stars |
| 15 | DJ Olive | Bodega | The Agriculture |
| 16 | Chris and Thomas | Vista St. Sessions | Self |
| 17 | My Morning Jacket | Ch. 1: The Sandworm Cometh | Darla |
| 18 | Pelican | March into The Sea | Hydra Head |
| 19 | Populous | Queue for Love | Morr |
| 20 | Wevie Stonder | The Wooden Horse of Troy | Skam |
| 21 | Guapo | Black Oni | Ipecac |
| 22 | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Darkness at Noon | Leaf |
| 23 | Chris Brokaw | "I Was Born, But" Original Film Score | Atavistic |
| 24 | Earth | Legacy of Dissolution | No Quarter |
| 25 | Ellen Allien | Thrills | Bpitch Control |
| 26 | Fog | 10th Avenue Freakout | Lex |
| 27 | Group XEX | S/t | Smack shire |
| 28 | Odd Nosdam | Burner | Anticon |
| 29 | The Pope | Society of Friends | Satellite City |
| 30 | V/A | Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia | World Music Network |