| 1 Tame Impala | Lonerism | Modular |
| 2 Mountain Goats | Transcendental Youth | Merge |
| 3 Avett Brothers | The Carpenter | Universal |
| 4 Benjamin Gibbard | Former Lives | Barsuk |
| 5 A.C. Newman | Shut Down The Streets | Matador |
| 6 Mumford And Sons | Babel | Glassnote |
| 7 Divine Fits | A Thing Called Divine Fits | Merge |
| 8 Dinosaur Jr. | I Bet On Sky | Jagjaguwar |
| 9 New Beard | New Beard City | Shoulder Tap |
| 10 Wax Tailor | Dusty Rainbow From The Dark | Le Plan |
| 11 Matt And Kim | Lightning | Fader |
| 12 David Byrne And St. Vincent | Love This Giant | 4AD |
| 13 Artichoke | Etchy Sketchy Skies | Self |
| 14 The XX | Coexist | XL |
| 15 Dum Dum Girls | End Of Daze | Sub Pop |
| 16 Esme Patterson | All Princes, I | |
| 17 Django Django | Django Django | Ribbon |
| 18 Flobots | The Circle Between The Square | |
| 19 Alt-J | An Awesome Wave | Canvasback |
| 20 Dark Dark Dark | Who Needs Who | Supply and Demand |
| 21 Band Of Horses | Mirage Rock | Brown-Columbia |
| 22 Freelance Whales | Diluvia | Mom and Pop |
| 23 Lord Huron | Lonesome Dreams | Iamsound |
| 24 Tilly And The Wall | Heavy Mood | Team Love |
| 25 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes | 4AD |
| 26 Grizzly Bear | Shields | Warp |
| 27 Helio Sequence | Negotiations | Sub Pop |
| 28 Cody Chessnutt | Landing Oh A Hundred | Vibration Vinyard |
| 29 Sera Cahoone | Deer Creek Canyon | Sub Pop |
| 30 Stars | The North | ATO |
