| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | HOW TO DRESS WELL | What Is This Heart? | Weird World | |
| 2 | A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW | Sea When Absent | Lefse | |
| 3 | WHITE LUNG | Deep Fantasy | Domino | |
| 4 | DONOVAN BLANC | Donovan Blanc | Captured Tracks | |
| 5 | 1, 2, 3 | Big Weather | Self-Released | |
| 6 | ARMAND MARGJEKA | Hummingbird | Communicating Vessels | |
| 7 | HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER | A Real Fine Mess | Tonic | |
| 8 | TOTAL CONTROL | Typical System | Iron Lung | |
| 9 | JACK WHITE | Lazaretto | Third Man | |
| 10 | OWEN PALLETT | In Conflict | Domino | |
| 11 | ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT | Party Jail | Infinity Cat | |
| 12 | LITTLE DRAGON | Nabuma Rubberband | Loma Vista | |
| 13 | CONOR OBERST | Upside Down Mountain | Nonesuch | |
| 14 | BLACK KEYS | Turn Blue | Nonesuch | |
| 15 | STU LARSEN | Vagabond | Nettwerk | |
| 16 | WHITE REAPER | White Reaper | Polyvinyl | |
| 17 | GREYS | If Anything | Carpark | |
| 18 | DEAR FREDERIC | Outlast | Cult Nation | |
| 19 | OBN IIIS | Third Time To Harm | Tic Tac Totally | |
| 20 | OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW | Remedy | ATO | |
| 21 | DEATH HAS NO DOMINION | Death Has No Dominion | SQE | |
| 22 | DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE | Hunger | Castle Face | |
| 23 | TEARJERKER | Hiding | SQE | |
| 24 | DONKEYS | Ride The Black Wave | Easy Sound | |
| 25 | MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO | Comet, Come To Me | Naive | |
| 26 | CRAFT SPELLS | Nausea | Captured Tracks | |
| 27 | TINY VICTORIES | Haunts | The Sleepover Party | |
| 28 | DUST MOTH | Dragon Mouth | Mylene Sheath | |
| 29 | HUNDRED WATERS | The Moon Rang Like A Bell | Owsla | |
| 30 | RUSH MIDNIGHT | Rush Midnight | Last Gang |
