| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE | Psychedelic Pill | Reprise | |
| 2 | RAH RAH | The Poet's Dead | Hidden Pony | |
| 3 | TAME IMPALA | Lonerism | Modular | |
| 4 | CALEXICO | Algiers | Anti | |
| 5 | DAVID BYRNE AND ST. VINCENT | Love This Giant | 4AD | |
| 6 | JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT | Live From Alabama | ||
| 7 | AIMEE MANN | "Charmer" [Single] | Superego | |
| 8 | CLINIC | Free Reign | Domino | |
| 9 | IRIS DEMENT | Sing The Delta | Flariella | |
| 10 | DIRTY PROJECTORS | About To Die | Domino | |
| 11 | CODY CHESNUTT | Landing On A Hundred | Vibration Vineyard | |
| 12 | DEVOTCHKA | DeVotchKa Live With The Colorado Symphony | Cicero | |
| 13 | FIELD REPORT | Field Report | Partisan | |
| 14 | ANDREW BIRD | Hands Of Glory | Mom And Pop | |
| 15 | BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW | Cobra Juicy | Rad Cult | |
| 16 | OF MONTREAL | Daughter Of Cloud | Polyvinyl | |
| 17 | JUMP STARTS | What Hides Inside | Loud | |
| 18 | BOYS NOIZE | Out Of The Black | Boysnoize | |
| 19 | MEDICAL TOURISTS | Demo | Self-Released | |
| 20 | SHIVERING TIMBERS | Shivering Timbers | Self-Released | |
| 21 | TALK NORMAL | Sunshine | Joyful Noise | |
| 22 | GARY CLARK JR. | Blak And Blu | Warner Brothers | |
| 23 | TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB | Beacon | Glassnote | |
| 24 | BETTYE LAVETTE | Thankful N' Thoughtful | Anti | |
| 25 | DJANGO DJANGO | Django Django | Ribbon | |
| 26 | WANDA JACKSON | The Party Ain't Over | Nonesuch | |
| 27 | CAT POWER | Sun | Matador | |
| 28 | LOCAL H | Hallelujah! I'm A Bum | Slimstyle | |
| 29 | JENS LEKMAN | I Know What Love Isn't | Secretly Canadian | |
| 30 | GASLIGHT ANTHEM | Handwritten | Mercury |
