| Rank |
Artist |
Recording |
Label |
|
| 1 |
PASSION PIT |
Gossamer |
Columbia |
|
| 2 |
ANTLERS |
Undersea |
Anti |
|
| 3 |
DIRTY PROJECTORS |
Swing Lo Magellan |
Domino |
|
| 4 |
FANG ISLAND |
Major |
Sargent House |
|
| 5 |
PURITY RING |
Shrines |
4AD |
|
| 6 |
JAPANDROIDS |
Celebration Rock |
Polyvinyl |
|
| 7 |
DEEP TIME |
Deep Time |
Hardly Art |
|
| 8 |
FERGUS AND GERONIMO |
Funky Was The State Of Affairs |
Hardly Art |
|
| 9 |
METRIC |
Synthetica |
MMI-Mom And Pop |
|
| 10 |
TWIN SHADOW |
Confess |
4AD |
|
| 11 |
PEAKING LIGHTS |
Lucifer |
Mexican Summer |
|
| 12 |
DIIV |
Oshin |
Captured Tracks |
|
| 13 |
AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA |
Theatre Is Evil |
8 Ft. |
|
| 14 |
DEAD CAN DANCE |
Anastasis |
Pias |
|
| 15 |
WET HAIR |
Spill Into Atmosphere |
De Stijl |
|
| 16 |
JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD |
Hypnotic Nights |
Infinity Cat-Warner Brothers |
|
| 17 |
ROYAL HEADACHE |
Royal Headache |
What’s Your Rupture |
|
| 18 |
PUJOL |
United States Of Being |
Saddle Creek |
|
| 19 |
FLAMING LIPS |
The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends |
Warner Brothers |
|
| 20 |
YEASAYER |
Fragrant World |
Secretly Canadian |
|
| 21 |
BEACH HOUSE |
Bloom |
SUB POP |
|
| 22 |
AESOP ROCK |
Skelethon |
Rhymesayers |
|
| 23 |
CROCODILES |
Endless Flowers |
Frenchkiss |
|
| 24 |
OPOSSOM |
Electric Hawaii |
Fire |
|
| 25 |
TWO GALLANTS |
The Bloom And The Blight |
ATO |
|
| 26 |
BIRDS AND BATTERIES |
Stray Light |
Eightmaps |
|
| 27 |
DAN DEACON |
America |
Domino |
|
| 28 |
GUIDED BY VOICES |
Class Clown Spots A UFO |
GBV |
|
| 29 |
WILDLIFE CONTROL |
Wildlife Control |
Self-Released |
|
| 30 |
BEACHWOOD SPARKS |
The Tarnished Gold |
SUB POP |
|
