| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | BLACK KEYS | El Camino | Nonesuch | |
| 2 | CLOUD NOTHINGS | Attack On Memory | Carpark | |
| 3 | GUIDED BY VOICES | Let’s Go Eat The Factory | GBV | |
| 4 | SHEARWATER | Animal Joy | Sub Pop | |
| 5 | CURSIVE | I Am Gemini | Saddle Creek | |
| 6 | DR. DOG | Be The Void | Anti | |
| 7 | ISLANDS | A Sleep And A Forgetting | Anti | |
| 8 | PONTIAK | Echo Ono | Thrill Jockey | |
| 9 | BIG DEAL | Lights Out | Mute | |
| 10 | TENNIS | Young And Old | Fat Possum | |
| 11 | FIRST AID KIT | The Lion’s Roar | Wichita | |
| 12 | OF MONTREAL | Paralytic Stalks | Polyvinyl | |
| 13 | BUXTON | Nothing Here Seems Strange | New West | |
| 14 | ROYAL BATHS | Better Luck Next Life | Kanine | |
| 15 | TWILIGHT SAD | No One Can Ever Know | FatCat | |
| 16 | JEZABELS | Prisoner | Mom And Pop | |
| 17 | AIR | Le Voyage Dans La Lune | EMI | |
| 18 | BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA | Sunkissed | Family Tree | |
| 19 | DIRTY GHOSTS | Metal Moon | ||
| 20 | LANA DEL REY | Born To Die | Stranger | |
| 21 | COMET GAIN | Howl Of The Lonely Crowd | What’s Your Rupture | |
| 22 | HEARTLESS BASTARDS | Arrow | Partisan | |
| 23 | BIG PINK | Future This | 4AD | |
| 24 | BEN KWELLER | Go Fly A Kite | Noise Company | |
| 25 | BLONDES | Blondes | RVNG | |
| 26 | HOSPITALITY | Hospitality | Merge | |
| 27 | LOS CAMPESINOS! | Hello Sadness | Arts And Crafts | |
| 28 | CRAIG FINN | Clear Heart Full Eyes | Vagrant | |
| 29 | IMPERIAL TEEN | Feel The Sound | Merge | |
| 30 | FRANKIE ROSE | Interstellar | Slumberland |
Top 30: 2/20/12
