| 1 Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself | Mom & Pop |
| 2 Bad Weather California | Sunkissed | Family Tree |
| 3 Lost In The Trees | A Church That Fits Our Needs | Anti |
| 4 Heartless Bastards | Arrow | Partisan |
| 5 Islands | A Sleep and a Forgetting | Anti |
| 6 Magnetic Fields | Love At The Bottom of the Sea | Merge |
| 7 Tennis | Young & Old | Fat Possum |
| 8 The Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral | 4AD |
| 9 Howler | America Give Up | Rough Trade |
| 10 Kishi Bashi | 151a | Joyful Noise |
| 11 Lee Fields & The Expressions | Faithful Man | Truth & Soul |
| 12 Bowerbirds | The Clearing | Dead Oceas |
| 13 Pond | Beard, Wives, Denim | Modular |
| 14 Zeus | Busting Visions | Arts & Crafts |
| 15 Ane Bruhn | It All Starst With One | |
| 16 John Wesley Coleman III | The Donkey Show | Goner |
| 17 Said The Whale | Little Mountain | Hidden Pony |
| 18 Paul McCartney | Kisses on the Bottom | Hear |
| 19 Beth Jeans Houghton & the... | Yours Truly, Celophane Nose | Mute |
| 20 Daniel Rosen | Silent Hour/Golden Mile | Warp |
| 21 The Shins | Part of Morrow | Warp |
| 22 Bahamas | Barchords | Brushfire |
| 23 Mind Spiders | Meltdown | Dirtnap |
| 24 Achille Lauro | Flight or Flight | |
| 25 Hunx | Hairdresser Blues | Hardly Art |
| 26 Plants & Animals | The End of That | Secret City |
| 27 Fanfarlo | Rooms Filled With Light | Canvasback |
| 28 Sharon Van Etten | Tramp | Jagjaguwar |
| 29 Balue | Worry Toobs | |
| 30 Geographer | Myth | Modern Art |
