| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | DIRTY PROJECTORS | Swing Lo Magellan | Domino | |
| 2 | PASSION PIT | Gossamer | Columbia | |
| 3 | FANG ISLAND | Major | Sargent House | |
| 4 | WET HAIR | Spill Into Atmosphere | De Stijl | |
| 5 | FIONA APPLE | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do | Epic | |
| 6 | HOT CHIP | In Our Heads | Domino | |
| 7 | ICKY BLOSSOMS | Icky Blossoms | Saddle Creek | |
| 8 | DELICATE STEVE | Positive Force | Luaka Bop | |
| 9 | ANTLERS | Undersea | Anti | |
| 10 | PEAKING LIGHTS | Lucifer | Mexican Summer | |
| 11 | DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT | The Nature Of Things | File Under: Music | |
| 12 | ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI | Mature Themes | 4AD | |
| 13 | PURITY RING | Shrines | 4AD | |
| 14 | TWIN SHADOW | Confess | 4AD | |
| 15 | DIIV | Oshin | Captured Tracks | |
| 16 | BARONESS | Yellow And Green | Relapse | |
| 17 | JAPANDROIDS | Celebration Rock | Polyvinyl | |
| 18 | WHITE VIOLET | Hiding, Mingling | Normaltown | |
| 19 | DIAMOND RUGS | Diamond Rugs | Partisan | |
| 20 | MYNABIRDS | Generals | Saddle Creek | |
| 21 | WILDLIFE CONTROL | Wildlife Control | Self-Released | |
| 22 | JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD | Hypnotic Nights | Warner Brothers-Infinity Cat | |
| 23 | A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS | Worship | Dead Oceans | |
| 24 | JAILL | Traps | SUB POP | |
| 25 | STEPDAD | Wildlife Pop | Black Bell | |
| 26 | ECHO LAKE | Wild Peace | Slumberland | |
| 27 | MISSION OF BURMA | Unsound | Fire | |
| 28 | DEEP TIME | Deep Time | Hardly Art | |
| 29 | ROYAL HEADACHE | Royal Headache | What’s Your Rupture | |
| 30 | JOHN MAUS | A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material | Domino |