| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | A Faulty Chromosome | Craving to Be Coddled... | s/r |
| 2 | V/A | Ghana Special: Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981 | Soundway |
| 3 | Sunset | Gold Dissolves to Gray | Autobus |
| 4 | Toro y Moi | Causers of This | Carpark Records |
| 5 | Mother Falcon | Still Life EP | Mother Falcon |
| 6 | Javelin | No Mas | Luakabop |
| 7 | Four Tet | There is Love in You | Domino |
| 8 | Wave Hands Like Clouds | The End of the Earth and the Corner of the Sea | s/r |
| 9 | Beach House | Teen Dream | Sub Pop |
| 10 | The Ruby Suns | Fight Softly | Sub Pop |
| 11 | Rumel Fuentes | Coridos of the Chicano Movement | Arhoolie |
| 12 | Various Artists | Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 | Matador |
| 13 | Various Artists | Denton Denton USA! | Play Pinball! |
| 14 | Loch Lomond | Night Bats EP | Hush Records |
| 15 | Freeway and Jake One | The Stimulus Package | Rhymesayers |
| 16 | Various Artists | Local Live Volume 13: Stimulus Package | KVRX |
| 17 | Nneka | Concrete Jungle | Decon/ Epic |
| 18 | Yeasayer | Odd Blood | Secretly Canadian |
| 19 | Sleep Whale | Houseboat | Western Vinyl |
| 20 | Theophilus London | Humdrum Town | Green Label Sound |
| 21 | Brown Bird | The Devil Dancing | Peapod |
| 22 | Felt | Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez | Rhymesayers |
| 23 | Various Artists | Panama! 3 | Soundway |
| 24 | Jaga Jazzist | One Armed Bandit | Ninja Tune |
| 25 | Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou | Echos Hypnotiques, Vol 2 | Analog Africa |
| 26 | Mulatu Astatke | New York- Addis - London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965 - 1975 | Young Tree |
| 27 | Manc Lipscomb | The Best of | Arhoolie |
| 28 | The Magnetic Fields | Realism | Nonesuch |
| 29 | Jet Horns | Onward Space Hologram | s/r |
| 30 | Brownout | Aguilas and Cobras | Six Degrees |
| 31 | Waking Lights | The Rabbit Hole | s/r |
| 32 | Solid Gold | Synchronize EP | Solid Gold Music |
| 33 | Dinowalrus | % | Kanine |
| 34 | The Splinters | Kick | Double Negative |
| 35 | MV+EE | Barn Nova | Ecstatic Peace! |
| 36 | The Show is the Rainbow | Wet Fist | Retard Disco |
| 37 | The Laughing | Fever | s/r |
| 38 | Drug Mountain | s/t | s/r |
| 39 | Allison Weiss | Was Right All Along | s/r |