| 1 Eels | Wonderful, Glorious | Vagrant |
| 2 Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite | Get Up! | Stax-Conchord |
| 3 Jim James | Regions of Light and Sound of God | ATO |
| 4 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | We The Common | Ribbon |
| 5 Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside | Untamed Beast | Partisan |
| 6 Heidi Happy | On The Hills | |
| 7 Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell | Old Yellow Moon | Nonesuch |
| 8 Yo La Tengo | Fade | Matador |
| 9 Poet's Row | Poet's Row | |
| 10 Tegan And Sara | Heartthrob | Warner Brothers |
| 11 Foxygen | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic | Jagjaguwar |
| 12 Adam Green And Binki Shapiro | Adam Green And Binki Shapiro | Rounder-Concord |
| 13 Beach Fossils | Clash The Truth | Captured Tracks |
| 14 Veronica Falls | Waiting For Something To Happen | Slumberland |
| 15 Sin Fang | Flowers | Morr Music |
| 16 Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love | Dunham |
| 17 My Bloody Valentine | MBV | Self-Released |
| 18 Indians | Somewhere Else | 4AD |
| 19 Pillowfight | Pillowfight | EMI-Bulk |
| 20 Robyn Hitchcock | Love From London | Yep Roc |
| 21 Unknown Mortal Orchestra | II | Jagjaguwar |
| 22 Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | Self |
| 23 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Push The Sky Away | Bad Seed |
| 24 Water Liars | Wyoming | Fat Possum |
| 25 Kate Nash | Girl Talk | Have 10p |
| 26 Lady Lamb The Beekeeper | Ripely Pine | Ba Da Bing |
| 27 Eric Burdon | Til Your River Runs Dry | |
| 28 Frightened Rabbit | Pedestrian Verse | Canvasback-Atlantic |
| 29 Foals | Holy Fire | Warner Brothers |
| 30 Local Natives | Hummingbird | Frenchkiss |
