Rank Artist Recording Label 1 WYE OAK Shriek Merge 2 MAC DEMARCO Salad Days Captured Tracks 3 EMA The Future’s Void Matador 4 JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Make My Head Sing ATO 5 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Cope Loma Vista 6 YOUNG AND SICK Young And Sick Harvest 7 TWEENS Tweens Frenchkiss 8 WHITE HINTERLAND Baby Dead Oceans 9 THESE NEW PURITANS Field Of Reeds Infectious 10 YOUR FRIEND Jekyll/Hyde Domino 11 SEPTEMBER GIRLS Cursing The Sea Fortuna Pop 12 DE LUX Voyage Innovative Leisure 13 ALDEN PENNER Exegesis Self-Released 14 CHERRY GLAZERR Haxel Princess Burger 15 CHAD VANGAALEN Shrink Dust SUB POP 16 PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Get Back Jagjaguwar 17 KELIS Food Ninja Tune 18 THUS OWLS Turning Rocks Secret City 19 JOLIE HOLLAND Wine Dark Sea Anti 20 BLACK ANGELS Clear Lake Forest Blue Horizon 21 SYLVAN ESSO Sylvan Esso Partisan 22 S. CAREY Range Of Light Jagjaguwar 23 THEE OH SEES Drop Castleface 24 NOTWIST Close To The Glass SUB POP 25 REAL ESTATE Atlas Domino 26 AVEY TARE’S SLASHER FLICKS Enter The Slasher House Domino 27 ST. VINCENT St. Vincent Loma Vista 28 BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow Vice 29 TENSNAKE Glow Astralwerks 30 PERFECT PUSSY Say Yes To Love Captured Tracks