| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Smokey and Miho | s/t | Afro Sambas |
| 2 | Marmoset | Mishawaka | Secretly Canadian |
| 3 | Loess | s/t | Nonresponse |
| 4 | Q and not U | On Play Patterns | Dischord |
| 5 | Palomar | II | Self-Starter Foundation |
| 6 | Microwaves | System 2 | Cenotaph Audio/Version City |
| 7 | Daedelus | Invention | Plug Research |
| 8 | I Am The World Trade Center/ Phofo | split 7" | Little Shirley Beans |
| 9 | Various Artists | Compilation | Pet Set |
| 10 | An Albatross | s/t | Bloodlink |
| 11 | Ono Sedai | Ono Sendai is starving | Self-Released |
| 12 | Various Artists | Global Turntables | Hip-Hop Slam |
| 13 | Peppermints/Firefighters For Christ | split 7" | Pet Set |
| 14 | Box the Compass | Run the Easting Down | Substandard |
| 15 | Sun City Girls | High Asia Lo Pacific | Abduction |
| 16 | USAISAMONSTER | Citizens of the Universe | Infrasound |
| 17 | Various Artists | Sing Catalogue II | Dark Beloved Cloud |
| 18 | DJ/Rupture | Gold Teeth Theif | Soot |
| 19 | Sufjan Stevens | Enjoy Your Rabbit | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 20 | +/- | s/t | Teenbeat |
| 21 | Crooked Fingers | Reservoir Songs | Merge |
| 22 | Sunn 0))) | Flight of the Behemoth | Southern Lord |
| 23 | Sightings | s/t | Load |
| 24 | Neal Pollack | Anthology of American Literature | Bloodshot |
| 25 | Eleni Mandell | Snake Bite | Space Baby |
| 26 | Various Artists | MUSH Sampler | MUSH |
| 27 | Iditarod | The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel | Blue Sanct |
| 28 | Ko-Wreck Technique | Ko-Wrecktion Remixes | Chocolate Industries |
| 29 | Whitefield Brothers | In the Raw | Soul Fire |
| 30 | Fauves | Raw Heart Sounds | Redwood |
| 31 | King Kong | The Big Bang | Drag City |
| 32 | Delateurs | New Town Animals | Zaxxon Virile Action |
| 33 | Festival of Dead Deer | The Many Faces of Mental Illness | Three One G |
| 34 | Tidal | Moment | Ape Must Not Kill Ape |
| 35 | Japancakes | Belmondo | Darla |