| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label |
| 1 | Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | True Spirit |
| 2 | Laura Marling | A Creature I Don’t Know | Ribbon |
| 3 | Iceage | New Brigade | Dais-What’s Your Rupture |
| 4 | Can’t | Dreams Come True | Terrible |
| 5 | Dum Dum Girls | Only In Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 6 | Toro Y Moi | Freaking Out [EP] | Carpark |
| 7 | Mikal Cronin | Mikal Cronin | Trouble In Mind |
| 8 | Tammar | Visits | Suicide Squeeze |
| 9 | Tallahassee | Jealous Hands | Self-Released |
| 10 | Male Bonding | Endless Now | Sub Pop |
| 11 | Wild Flag | Wild Flag | Merge |
| 12 | Milagres | Glowing Mouth | Kill Rock Stars |
| 13 | Pepper Rabbit | Red Velvet Snowball | Kanine |
| 14 | Mates of State | Mountaintops | Barsuk |
| 15 | Mister Heavenly | Out of Love | Sub Pop |
| 16 | Southerly | Youth | Greyday |
| 17 | Wild Beasts | Smother | Domino |
| 18 | My Morning Jacket | Circuital | Domino |
| 19 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| 20 | Dom | Family of Love | Astral Werks |
| 21 | Jonathan Wilson | Bella Union | Gentle Spirit |
| 22 | Fool’s Gold | Leave No Trace | Iamsound |
| 23 | Pieta Brown | Mercury | Red House |
| 24 | Lotus | Lotus (2011) | SCI Fidelity |
| 25 | Drums | Portamento | Frenchkiss |
| 26 | Halloween, Alaska | All Night The Calls Came In | Amble Down |
| 27 | Megafaun | Megafaun | Hometapes |
| 28 | Cut Off Your Hands | Hollow | Frenchkiss |
| 29 | Hella | Tripper | Sargent House |
| 30 | Blitzen Trapper | American Goldwing | Sub Pop |
Top 30: 9/26/11
