| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Slumber Party | Psychedelicate | Kill Rock Stars |
| 2 | Holly Golightly | Singles Round Up | Damaged Goods |
| 3 | American Analog Set | Know By Heart | Tigerstyle |
| 4 | Pretty Girls Make Graves | s/t | Dim mak |
| 5 | Clinic | Internal Wrangler | Domino |
| 6 | Various Artists | Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo | Motel |
| 7 | Metrovavan | Retrofitting | Darla |
| 8 | Rechenzentrum | The John Peel Session | Kitty-Yo |
| 9 | Peter Brotzmann Group | Fuck De Boere | Atavistic |
| 10 | Zeni Geva | 10,000 Light Years | Neurot |
| 11 | Rilo Kiley | Take Off and Landings | Barsuk |
| 12 | Phantom Limbs | Applied Ignorance | Alternative Tentacles |
| 13 | Various Artists | Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957 | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 14 | 14 Iced Bears | In the Beginning | Slumberland |
| 15 | A-Frames | Neutron Bomb | Dragnet |
| 16 | IfIHadAHiFi | Ones and Zeros | No Karma/Tape Engine |
| 17 | Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick | Sound Proof | Camera Obscura |
| 18 | Angels of Light | How I Loved You | Young God |
| 19 | Pullman | Viewfinder | Thrill Jockey |
| 20 | Royal Fingers | Wild Eleki Deluxe | Del-fi |
| 21 | Stars as Eyes | Freedom Rock | Tigerbeat6 |
| 22 | Red Planet | Let's Degenerate | Gearhead |
| 23 | Dr:op:fr:am+e | The Rule of Capture | Monotremata |
| 24 | Man or Astro-Man? | Beyond the Black Hole | Estrus |
| 25 | Faint | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek |
| 26 | Pram | Somniloquy | Domino/Merge |
| 27 | Walkmen | s/t | Star Time |
| 28 | Matty and Mossy | Fraimers Hamey | Fleece |
| 29 | Lost Kids | Belle Isle Is On Fire | GSL |
| 30 | Owls | s/t | Jade Tree |
| 31 | Patsy | In a Briefcase | Self-released |
| 32 | Various Artists | Tigerbeat6 Inc. | Tigerbeat6 |
| 33 | X | Aspirations | Rocknroll Blitzkrieg |
| 34 | Four Corners | Say You're a Scream | Kindercore |
| 35 | Black Dice | Peace in the Valley 7" | GSL |
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