| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Antony and the Johnsons | Hope There's Someone | Secretly Canadian |
| 2 | Animal Collective w/ Vashti Bunyan | Prospect Hummer EP | Fat Cat |
| 3 | Populous | Queue for Love | Morr Music |
| 4 | Los Camperos de Valles | El Ave de mi Sonar | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 5 | The Mae Shi | Heartbeeps | 5RC/Kill Rock Stars |
| 6 | Ellen Allien | Thrills | BPitch Control |
| 7 | V/A | Rough Guide to Gypsy Swing | World Music Network |
| 8 | Fantomas | Suspended Animation | Ipecac |
| 9 | Red Sparowes | At the Soundless Dawn | Neurot |
| 10 | Oneida | The Wedding | Jagjaguwar |
| 11 | Solvent | Elevators and Oscillators | Ghostly International |
| 12 | Sole | Live in Rome | Anticon |
| 13 | Great Lake Swimmers | S/t | Misra |
| 14 | Signaldrift | Girl | Audraglint |
| 15 | Four Tet | Everything Ecstatic | Domino |
| 16 | Negativland | No Business | Seeland |
| 17 | Hot Snakes | Peel Sessions | Swami |
| 18 | V/A | Rough Guide to the Music of the Andes: Bolivia | World Music Network |
| 19 | Ruins | Vrresto | Skin Graft |
| 20 | Catch a Wave | S/t | We're Twins |
| 21 | Bleeding Kansas | 1859 | Abacus |
| 22 | The Pope | Society of Friends | Satellite City |
| 23 | V/A | Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara | World Music Network |
| 24 | !!! | Take Ecstasy with Me/Get Up | Touch and Go |
| 25 | Caribou | The Milk of Human Kindness | Domino/Leaf |
| 26 | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Darkness at Noon | Leaf |
| 27 | The Locust | Safety Second, Body Last | Ipecac |
| 28 | Langhorne Slim | When the Sun's Gone Down | Narnack |
| 29 | Schwabinggrad Ballett | S/t | Staubgold |
| 30 | Subtitle | Young Dangerous Heart | GSL |