| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | LITTLE DRAGON | Nabuma Rubberband | Loma Vista | |
| 2 | CONOR OBERST | Upside Down Mountain | Nonesuch | |
| 3 | BLACK KEYS | Turn Blue | Nonesuch | |
| 4 | LA SERA | Hour Of The Dawn | Hardly Art | |
| 5 | HUNDRED WATERS | The Moon Rang Like A Bell | Owsla | |
| 6 | ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT | Party Jail | Infinity Cat | |
| 7 | RUSH MIDNIGHT | Rush Midnight | Last Gang | |
| 8 | SHARON VAN ETTEN | Are We There | Jagjaguwar | |
| 9 | MIRAH | Changing Light | K-Absolute Magnitude | |
| 10 | IN THE VALLEY BELOW | Man Girl [EP] | Capitol-Caroline | |
| 11 | YANN TIERSEN | Infinity | Mute | |
| 12 | THROWING SNOW | Mosaic | Houndstooth | |
| 13 | MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO | Comet, Come To Me | Naive | |
| 14 | TEARJERKER | Hiding | SQE | |
| 15 | CRAFT SPELLS | Nausea | Captured Tracks | |
| 16 | DONKEYS | Ride The Black Wave | Easy Sound | |
| 17 | TINY VICTORIES | Haunts | The Sleepover Party | |
| 18 | DUST MOTH | Dragon Mouth | Mylene Sheath | |
| 19 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | France Rocks | Bureau Music Export | |
| 20 | JENNY GILLESPIE | Chamma | Narooma | |
| 21 | KITE PARTY | Come On Wandering | Animal Style | |
| 22 | LYKKE LI | I Never Learn | Atlantic | |
| 23 | TUNE-YARDS | Nikki Nack | 4AD | |
| 24 | TEEN | The Way And Color | Carpark | |
| 25 | YOUNG MAGIC | Breathing Statues | Carpark | |
| 26 | TOBACCO | Ultima II Massage | Ghostly | |
| 27 | STEFFALOO | Heart Beats | Mush | |
| 28 | RICH HANDS | Out Of My Head | Burger-Fountain | |
| 29 | SYLVAN ESSO | Sylvan Esso | Partisan | |
| 30 | EMA | The Future’s Void | Matador |
