| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Die Monitr Batss | Girls of War | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2 | Mob Stereo | Too Young to Go Steady | Dollar |
| 3 | Blue Silk Sutures/Silver Daggers | 7 inch split | Killshaman |
| 4 | V/A | Artrocker Sampler | Artrocker |
| 5 | The Orphans | Everybody Loves you When You're Dead | Unity Sound |
| 6 | The Soft Pink Truth | Do you Want New Wave or do you want the Soft Pink Truth | Tigerbeat6 |
| 7 | People Like Us | Abridged Too Far | Self |
| 8 | The Sharp Ease | Going Modern | Soft Spot/Ol Factory |
| 9 | My Robot Friend | Hot Action! | Proptronix |
| 10 | Man Man | S/t | Ace Fu |
| 11 | The Sermon | Volume | Alternative Tentacles |
| 12 | Ulrich Schnauss | City Centre Offices | Domino |
| 13 | Dan Friel | Sunburn | Velocirecords |
| 14 | Uncle Woody Sullender | Nothing is Certain but Death | Dead Ceo |
| 15 | Okkervil River | Sleep and Wake Up Songs | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | Little Tempo | Fireblender | M |
| 17 | The Shivers | Charades | Whiskey and Apples |
| 18 | Early Day Miners | All Harm Ends Here | Secretly Canadian |
| 19 | The Firebird Band | The City at Night | Lucid |
| 20 | The Flatlanders | Live '72 | New West |
| 21 | Jukeboxer | In The Food Chain | Absolutely Kosher |
| 22 | Bonk | S/t | Racing Jr. |
| 23 | Boom Bip | Corymb | Lex |
| 24 | Grimble Grumble | Leaves Leader | Pehr |
| 25 | Ammon Contact | One in an infinity of stars | Plug Research |
| 26 | V/A | Little Darla has a Treat for You Vol. 22 | Darla |
| 27 | Gwendolyn | Dew | Whisperquish |
| 28 | Lena | Floating Roots | Quatermass |
| 29 | V/A | But then again... | Scape |
| 30 | Mare | S/t | Hydrahead |