| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label |
| 1 | JUMP STARTS | What Hides Inside | Loud |
| 2 | TAME IMPALA | Lonerism | Modular |
| 3 | NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE | Psychedelic Pill | Reprise |
| 4 | GARY CLARK JR. | Blak And Blu | Warner Brothers |
| 5 | HALF KNOTS | Proof | Self-Released |
| 6 | CODY CHESNUTT | Landing On A Hundred | Vibration Vineyard |
| 7 | CALEXICO | Algiers | Anti |
| 8 | AIMEE MANN | "Charmer" [Single] | Superego |
| 9 | BAND OF HORSES | Mirage Rock | Brown-Columbia |
| 10 | IRIS DEMENT | Sing The Delta | Flariella |
| 11 | MIKE DOUGHTY | The Flip Is Another Honey | |
| 12 | JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT | Live From Alabama | |
| 13 | DOMENICO | Cine Prive | Plug Research |
| 14 | TY SEGALL | Twins | Drag City |
| 15 | BAT FOR LASHES | The Haunted Man | EMI |
| 16 | BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW | Cobra Juicy | Rad Cult |
| 17 | RAH RAH | The Poet's Dead | Hidden Pony |
| 18 | DANA FALCONBERRY | Leelanau | Antenna Farm |
| 19 | TAMARYN | Tender New Signs | Mexican Summer |
| 20 | ROSIE FLORES | Working Girl’s Guitar | Bloodshot |
| 21 | MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO | Pour Une Ame Souveraine: A Dedication To Nina Simone | |
| 22 | TITUS ANDRONICUS | Local Business | XL |
| 23 | DJANGO DJANGO | Django Django | Ribbon |
| 24 | BOB MOULD | Silver Age | Merge |
| 25 | ROYAL SMOKESTACKS | Royal Smokestacks | Self-Released |
| 26 | CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION | An Introduction To Crime And The City Solution/A History Of Crime - Berlin 1987-1991 | Mute |
| 27 | SPECTATOR | In The Brick | Self-Released |
| 28 | THEE OH SEES | Putrifiers II | In The Red |
| 29 | WILD NOTHING | "Paradise" [Single] | Captured Tracks |
| 30 | JAPANDROIDS | Celebration Rock | Polyvinyl |
