| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Vitesse | What Cannot Be, But is | Acuarela |
| 2 | Langley Schools Music Project | Innocence and Despair | Bar-None |
| 3 | O'Rourke, Jim | Insignificance | Drag City |
| 4 | Various Artists | Songs for Cassavetes | Better Looking |
| 5 | Fast Forward | s/t | Vermiform |
| 6 | Western Expanse | s/t | Self-Released |
| 7 | Del Rey | Speak it not Aloud | My Pal God |
| 8 | Silver Jews | Bright Flight | Drag City |
| 9 | Most Precious Blood | Nothing in Vain | Trustkill |
| 10 | Soeza | Founded By Sportsmen and Outlaws | Prohibited |
| 11 | Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston | The Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous | Jagjaguwar |
| 12 | Various Artists | U.S. Pop Life Vol. 12 | Contact |
| 13 | Katie the Pest | Rhythm and Wait | Self-Released |
| 14 | Electric Eels | The Eyeball of Hell | Scat |
| 15 | Lost Sounds | Black Wave | Empty U.S. |
| 16 | Radio Berlin | The Selection Drone | Your Best Guess |
| 17 | Viza Noir | s/t | Flameshovel |
| 18 | Various Artists | Colapsus | Sound-Ink |
| 19 | Primordial Undermind | Beings of Game P-U | Camera Obscura |
| 20 | Furtips | When My Baby Smiles at Me, I Go to Rio | Animal World |
| 21 | Liars | They Threw Us All in a Trench | Gern Blandsten |
| 22 | Ninja Death Squad | | Heartcore |
| 23 | Dougher, Sarah | The Bluff | Mr. Lady |
| 24 | Mandell, Eleni | Turn on the Lights 7" | Heart of a Champion |
| 25 | Phiiliip | Pet Cancer | American Patchwork |
| 26 | Dolden, Paul | L'ivresse de la Vitesse | Empreintes Digitales |
| 27 | Hood | Cold House | Aesthetics |
| 28 | Various Artists | Better than the Beatles: A Tribute to the Shags | Animal World |
| 29 | Saturnine | Pleasure of Ruins | Motorcoat |
| 30 | Refrigerator | Comedy Minus One | Shrimper |
| 31 | Cavity | On the Lam | Hydra Head |
| 32 | Volta Do Mar | At the Speed of Light of Day | Arborvitae |
| 33 | Seaworthy | The Ride | Jetset |
| 34 | Jim Shepard and Charles Cicirella | The Dispossessed | Shrimper |
| 35 | Various Artists | Mutated Christmas | Illegal Art |
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