| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Peppermints | Sweet Tooth Abortion | NGWTT/Ivy Oh! |
| 2 | Dabrye | Instrmntl | Eastern Developments |
| 3 | Big Tex | Authentic Songs of the Old West | Crunch Pod Media |
| 4 | Spaceheads | Low Pressure | Merge |
| 5 | Various Artists | Dark Transmissions | Force of Nature Productions |
| 6 | Various Artists | The Beat Goes Off! | Tigerbeat6/WIRE |
| 7 | Mum | Finally We Are No One | Fat Cat |
| 8 | Atom and His Package | Hamburgers EP | File 13 |
| 9 | Numbers | Life | Tigerbeat6 |
| 10 | Secret Frequency Crew | The Underwater Adventure Hop Secret Adventure | Counterflow |
| 11 | Various Artists | Dynamite with a Laserbeam | Three.One.G |
| 12 | Am Radio | Am Radio | Viola/Social Registry |
| 13 | Uncalledfor | Tower of Treats | Uncalledfor |
| 14 | Wire | Read and Burn | Pinkflag |
| 15 | Pirahnas | Untitled | On/On Switch |
| 16 | Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast | Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast | Fleece/Wholly Other |
| 17 | Niels Van Hoorn and Mark Spybey | De Klaverland Klompen Voetbal Club | Soleilmoon |
| 18 | Subtonix | Tarantism | Troubleman |
| 19 | Nels Cline Trio | Snak Systems | Ecstatic Yod |
| 20 | Dntel | (This is) the Dream of Evan and Chan | Plug Research |
| 21 | Oxes | Oxxxes | Monitor |
| 22 | Various Artists | Geist Sampler 1 | Geist |
| 23 | Various Artists | Angels and Insects | Mondrian Sound |
| 24 | Inkblot | Love Your Mother | Audio Dregs |
| 25 | Floating Flower | 1st and 2nd | Black Plastic Sound |
| 26 | Deerhoof | C | Cool Beans |
| 27 | Reynols | No Reynols | Freedom From |
| 28 | Tony Scherr | Come Around | Smells Like Records |
| 29 | Randy Weston | Ancient Future/Blue | Mutable |
| 30 | Country Teasers | Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire | In the Red |
| 31 | Go-Betweens | Spring Hill Fair | Jetset |
| 32 | Chromatics/Monitr Bats | Split 7" | GSL |
| 33 | Starvations | One Longe Night | Kapow |
| 34 | Violent Ramp | 7" | Freedom From |
| 35 | Service Anxiety | The Persistent Inversion of Solution By Protective... | Dead CEO |