| 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 |