| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | The Clientele | The Adrian EP | Acuarela |
| 2 | Headset | Space Settings | Plug Research |
| 3 | Bardo Pond + Tom Carter | 4/23/03 | Three-Lobed |
| 4 | Bill Horist | Lyric/Suite | Accretions |
| 5 | GutBucket | Dry Humping the American Dream | Cantaloupe |
| 6 | Tracy + The Plastics | Culture for Pigeon | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 7 | Gift of Gab | Fourth-Dimensional Rocketships Going Up | Quannum |
| 8 | Secret Mommy | Hawaii 5.0 | Ache |
| 9 | Nina Nastasia | Dogs | Touch and Go |
| 10 | Various Artists | Homemade Hits vol.1 | Kittridge |
| 11 | Grey Day Eggs | Grey Day Eggs | Grey Day Eggs |
| 12 | Eleni Mandell | Afternoon | Zedtone |
| 13 | Pencilgrass | Pencilgrass EP | Pencilgrass |
| 14 | Adult/Dirtbombs | Split/Split/Split 7" | Ersatz Audio |
| 15 | Salvatore | Tempo | Racing Junior |
| 16 | Various Artists | Homework #10 | Hyped to Death |
| 17 | Vladislav Delay | Demo(n) Tracks | Huume |
| 18 | The Fall | The Real New Fall LP | Narnack |
| 19 | Sunshine Fix | Green Imagination | SpinArt |
| 20 | Dead Moon | Dead Ahead | Music Maniac |
| 21 | Tiger Saw | Gimme Danger/Gimme Sweetness | Kimchee |
| 22 | Pan American | Quiet City | Kranky |
| 23 | the Hells | The Hells | Art Rocker |
| 24 | Dr Mix and the Remix | Wall of Noise | Acute |
| 25 | Metalux | Waiting for Armadillo | Load |
| 26 | Boom Box 2000 | Hits and Giggles | Orange Twin |
| 27 | Kim Hiorthoy | Live Shet | Small Town Supersound |
| 28 | New Black | New Black | Thick Records |
| 29 | Atomic 7 | En Hillbilly Caliente | Mint |
| 30 | The Vibration | Ear To The Ground | BC |
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