| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Q and not U | On Play Patterns | Dischord |
| 2 | Rattlesnakes | I, Explosion | Self-Released |
| 3 | Microwaves | System 2 | Cenotaph Audio/Version City |
| 4 | Heart of Snow | Endure or More EP | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 5 | Sun City Girls | High Asia Lo Pacific | Abduction |
| 6 | +/- | s/t | Teenbeat |
| 7 | National Splits | s/t | Kittridge |
| 8 | Delta Waves, the | Dream in Real Time | Burnt Hair/Top Quality Rock and Roll |
| 9 | Anti-pop Consortium | Arrhythmia | Warp |
| 10 | DJ/Rupture | Gold Teeth Theif | Soot |
| 11 | Selby Tigers | The Curse of the Selby Tigers | Hopeless |
| 12 | Cave Catt Sammy | Love Me Like Crazy | Rubric |
| 13 | Mum | Green Grass of Tunnel | Fat Cat |
| 14 | Box the Compass | Run the Easting Down | Substandard |
| 15 | Denali | s/t | Jade Tree |
| 16 | Gary Wilson | You Think You Really Know Me | Motel |
| 17 | Herbaliser | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ninja Tune |
| 18 | Various Artists | Ten Years of Noise Pop | Amazing Grease |
| 19 | Loess | s/t | Nonresponse |
| 20 | Fauves, the | Raw Heart Sounds | Redwood |
| 21 | Eleni Mandell | Snake Bite | Space Baby |
| 22 | Faust | Freispiel | Klangbad |
| 23 | Smokey and Miho | s/t | Afro Sambas |
| 24 | Parlour | Octopus Off-Broadway | Temporary Residence |
| 25 | Constantines, the | The Modern SInner Nervous Man | Suicide Squeeze |
| 26 | Whitefield Brothers | In the Raw | Soul Fire |
| 27 | Various Artists | Reality Part #4 | Deep Six |
| 28 | Daedelus | Invention | Plug Research |
| 29 | Joanna MacGregor | Play | Sound Circus |
| 30 | Sunburned Hand of the Man | Jaybird | Manhand |
| 31 | Various Artists | Compilation | Pet Set |
| 32 | USAISAMONSTER | Citizens of the Universe | Infrasound |
| 33 | King Kong | The Big Bang | Drag City |
| 34 | Sightings | s/t | Load |
| 35 | Forstella Ford | Quietus | Level Plane |