| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | Domino |
| 2 | Dinosaur Jr | Farm | Jagjaguwar |
| 3 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Glassnote |
| 4 | Nomo | Invisible Cities | Ubiquity |
| 5 | Woods | Songs of Shame | Shrimper |
| 6 | monarchs | those words, those frames | S/R |
| 7 | Deer Tick | Born on Flag Day | Partisan Records |
| 8 | Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones | The Lonely Ones | Decon |
| 9 | Ear Pwr | Super Animal Brothers III | Carpark |
| 10 | Various Artists | Local Live Volume 13: Stimulus Package | KVRX |
| 11 | The Aggrolites | IV | Hellcat |
| 12 | Au Revoir Simone | Still Night, Still Light | Our Secret Record Company |
| 13 | Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens | What Have you Done, My Brother? | Daptone Records |
| 14 | Little Joe Washington | Texas Fire Line | Dialtone Records |
| 15 | Black Dice | Repo | Paw Tracks |
| 16 | Bosque Brown | Baby | Burnt Toast Vinyl |
| 17 | Magic Suprise | If I Were A Man | S/R |
| 18 | Daniel Francis Doyle | We Bet Our Money On You | We Shot J.R. Records |
| 19 | Illyas Ahmed | Vertigo of Dawn | Time-Lag 2008 |
| 20 | lemonade | lemonade | true panther sounds |
| 21 | The Grouch and Eligh | Say G&E! | Legendary Music |
| 22 | dave herrero | austin to chicago | s/r |
| 23 | School Police | Circles | nonrecords |
| 24 | The Plastic Cloud | The Plastic Cloud | Pacemaker |
| 25 | Hanne Hukkelberg | Blood From A Stone | Nettwerk |
| 26 | Black Moth Super Rainbow | Eating Us | Graveface |
| 27 | Pterodactyl | Worldwide | Jagjaguwar |
| 28 | Freddie Hubbard | without a song: live in europe 1969 | Blue Note |
| 29 | New York Electric Piano | King Mystery | Buffalo Puppy |
| 30 | P.O.S. | Never Better | Rhymesayers Entertainment |
| 31 | Seth Walker | Leap of Faith | Hyena Records |
| 32 | Junior Boys | Begone Dull Care | Domino |
| 33 | Anavan | Cover Story | Slanty Shanty |
| 34 | Papermoons | New Tales | Team Science |
| 35 | Great Lake Swimmers | Lost Channels | Nettwerk |
| 36 | Mika Miko | We Xuxa | Post Present Medium |
| 37 | Wau y los arrrghs!!! | ˇˇˇViven!!! | Slovenly |
| 38 | Total Abuse | Self-Titled+Demo+Sex Pigs | Deranged |
| 39 | Liechtenstein | Survival Strategies in A Modern World | Slumberland |