| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label |
| 1 | MIDDLE CLASS FASHION | Girl Talk | Blip Blap! |
| 2 | VONDRUKES | Runaway, Goodbye Love | Self-Released |
| 3 | GUIDED BY VOICES | Let's Go Eat The Factory | GBV |
| 4 | NADA SURF | The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy | Barsuk |
| 5 | RETROS | Inner City Rockers | BDR |
| 6 | KATHLEEN EDWARDS | Voyageur | Rounder |
| 7 | BLACK KEYS | El Camino | Nonesuch |
| 8 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International | Amnesty International |
| 9 | NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Island |
| 10 | HOWLER | America Give Up | Rough Trade |
| 11 | FIRST AID KIT | The Lion's Roar | Wichita |
| 12 | HOSPITALITY | Hospitality | Merge |
| 13 | CALEB TRAVERS * | Ain't No Jukebox * | Self-Released * |
| 14 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | Mute |
| 15 | TOM WAITS | Bad As Me | Anti |
| 16 | THE DO | Both Ways Open Jaws | Six Degrees |
| 17 | PORCELAIN RAFT | Strange Weekend | Secretly Canadian |
| 18 | SOUL REBELS BRASS BAND | Unlock Your Mind | Rounder |
| 19 | NIKI AND THE DOVE | The Drummer [EP] | Sub Pop |
| 20 | YAMANTAKA/SONIC TITAN | Yt//st | Psychic Handshake |
| 21 | AMY WINEHOUSE | Lioness: Hidden Treasures | Universal Republic |
| 22 | WHITEHORSE | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 23 | WUSSY | Strawberry | |
| 24 | JOHN K. SAMSON | Provincial | Epitaph |
| 25 | GOOD NATURED | Skeleton | Astralwerks |
| 26 | WILCO | The Whole Love | Anti |
| 27 | CHARLES BRADLEY | "Heartaches And Pain" [Single] | Dunham |
| 28 | JC BROOKS AND THE UPTOWN SOUND | Want More | Bloodshot |
| 29 | ANI DIFRANCO | Which Side Are You On | Righteous Babe |
| 30 | DAVID LYNCH | Crazy Clown Time | Sunday Best-Pias |




