| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Les Savy Fav | Go Forth | French Kiss |
| 2 | Fast Forward | s/t | Vermiform |
| 3 | Langley Schools Music Project | Innocence and Despair | Bar-None |
| 4 | Radio Berlin | The Selection Drone | Your Best Guess |
| 5 | Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston | The Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous | Jagjaguwar |
| 6 | Refrigerator | Comedy Minus One | Shrimper |
| 7 | Furtips | When My Baby Smiles at Me, I Go to Rio | Animal World |
| 8 | Electric Eels | The Eyeball of Hell | Scat |
| 9 | Katie the Pest | Rhythm and Wait | Self-Released |
| 10 | Heavenly | Heavenly Versus Satan | K |
| 11 | Various Artists | There is no Eye: Music for Photographs | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 12 | Centimeters | The Lifetime Achievement Awards | Space Baby |
| 13 | Dougher, Sara | The Bluff | Mr. Lady |
| 14 | Lost Sounds | Black Wave | Empty U.S. |
| 15 | Liars | They Threw Us All in a Trench... | Gern Blandsten |
| 16 | Volta Do Mar | At the Speed of Light of Day | Arborvitae |
| 17 | Converge | Jane Doe | Equal Vision |
| 18 | Cavity | On the Lam | Hydra Head |
| 19 | Various Artists | Songs for Cassavetes | Better Looking |
| 20 | Vitesse | What Cannot Be, But is... | Acuarela |
| 21 | Red Monkey | Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot | Troubleman |
| 22 | Silver Jews | Bright Flight | Drag City |
| 23 | Jim Shepard and Charles Cicirella | The Dispossessed | Shrimper |
| 24 | Various Artists | Friday at the Hideout | Norton |
| 25 | From Autumn to Ashes | Too Bad You're Beautiful | Ferret |
| 26 | Hood | Cold House | Aesthetics |
| 27 | Amps for Christ | The Oak in the Ashes | Shrimper |
| 28 | Various Artists | Nart Nibbles | Kitchen Motors |
| 29 | Various Artists | Better than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shaggs | Animal World |
| 30 | Saturnine | Pleasure of Ruins | Motorcoat |
| 31 | Various Artists | Mutated Christmas | Illegal Art |
| 32 | James Kochalka Superstar | Don't Trust Whitey | Tarquin |
| 33 | Various Artists | DJ Food and DK: Solid Steel-Now Listen! | Ninja Tune |
| 34 | Seaworthy | The Ride | Jetset |
| 35 | Heroine Sheiks | Best Enemies/Oucha | Rubric |