| Rank |
Artist |
Recording |
Label |
| 1 |
Battles |
Gloss Drop |
Warp |
| 2 |
Sebadoh |
Bake Sale |
Sub Pop |
| 3 |
Black Lips |
Arabia Mountain |
Vice |
| 4 |
Paleo |
Fruit of the Spirit |
Partisan |
| 5 |
Woods |
Sun and Shade |
Woodsist |
| 6 |
Sondre Lerche |
Sondre Lerche |
Mona |
| 7 |
Art Brut |
Brilliant! Tragic! |
The End/Cooking Vinyl |
| 8 |
Fleet Foxes |
Helplessness Blues |
Sub Pop |
| 9 |
Making Friendz |
Social Life |
Last Bummer |
| 10 |
Balkans |
Balkans |
Double Phantom |
| 11 |
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. |
It’s A Corporate World |
Quite Scientific |
| 12 |
EMA |
Past Life Martyred Saints |
Souterrain Transmissions |
| 13 |
Rosebuds |
Loud Planes Fly Low |
Merge |
| 14 |
Reatards |
Teenage Hate |
Goner |
| 15 |
Vetiver |
The Errant Cub |
Sub Pop |
| 16 |
Marissa Nadler |
Marissa Nadler |
Box of Cedar |
| 17 |
Man Man |
Life Fantastic |
Anti |
| 18 |
Sea Pony |
Go With Me |
Hardly Art |
| 19 |
City and Colour |
Little Hell |
Vagrant |
| 20 |
Wooden Birds |
Two Matchsticks |
Barsuk |
| 21 |
Dark Mean |
Dark Mean |
Self-Released |
| 22 |
Chad VanGaalen |
Diaper Island |
Sub Pop |
| 23 |
Tiger Darrow |
You Know Who You Are |
Self-Released |
| 24 |
Starscream |
Future, Towards The Edge Of Forever |
Self-Released |
| 25 |
Fucked Up |
David Comes To Life |
Matador |
| 26 |
They Might Be Giants |
Join Us (Four Advance Tracks) |
Idlewild-Rounder |
| 27 |
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi |
Rome |
EMI |
| 28 |
Cass McCombs |
Wit’s End |
Domino |
| 29 |
Amor de DiasAMOR DE DIAS |
Street Of The Love Of Days |
Merge |
| 30 |
Colourmusic |
My ____ Is Pink |
Memphis Industries |
