| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Rattlesnakes, The | I, Explosion | self-released |
| 2 | Means, The | Vil/Viol | Double Plus Good |
| 3 | Mirah | Advisory Committee | K |
| 4 | Radio 4 | Gotham! | Gern Blandsten |
| 5 | Heart of Snow | Endure Or More | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 6 | National Splits, The | s/t | Kittridge |
| 7 | Mooney Suzuki | Electric Sweat | Gammon |
| 8 | Various Artists | Sweet Sweet Casio | North of January/Blackbean And Placenta |
| 9 | XIII PFP | Words Left Unsaid | self-released |
| 10 | Brother JT3 | Spirituals | Drag City |
| 11 | Ill Lit | Show Them Where You Come From | WAC |
| 12 | Engine Down | Demure | Lovitt |
| 13 | Coachwhips | Hands On The Controls | Black Apple |
| 14 | Zodiac Killers, The | Have A Blast | Rip Off |
| 15 | Saturday Looks Good To Me | s/t | Ypsilanti |
| 16 | Nels Cline Singers | Instrumentals | Cryptogramophone |
| 17 | Need New Body | s/t | File 13 |
| 18 | Do Make Say Think | &yel&yet | Constellation |
| 19 | DJ/Rupture | Nettlephonics | Soot |
| 20 | Blectum From Blechdom | The Messy Jesse Fiesta | Deluxe |
| 21 | Seconds, The | Y | 5 Rue Christine |
| 22 | Hart, Tami | What Passed Between Us | Mr. Lady |
| 23 | Various Artists | For Friends | Audio Dregs-Tomlab |
| 24 | Aspera | Birds of Fly | Suicide Squeeze |
| 25 | Toshiro Mifune | s/t 7" | Deep Six |
| 26 | Matt Pond PA | The Green Fury | Polyvinyl |
| 27 | Wilson, Gary | You Think You Really Know Me | Motel |
| 28 | Drekka | Take Care To Fall | BlueSanct |
| 29 | Mars Volta, The | Tremulant EP | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 30 | Lassie Foundation, The | El Dorado | Arisette |
| 31 | Lunch, Lydia & Anubian Lights | Champagne, Cocaine, and Nicotine Stains | Crippled Dick Hot Wax |
| 32 | Biddy Biddy Biddy | Logic Makes Us Look Good | Atarms Mechanics |
| 33 | Melvins | Hostile Ambient Takeover | Ipecac |
| 34 | Iranach/Structure of Lies | split | Deep Six |
| 35 | Various Artists | Songs for The End of The World | Silber |
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