| 1 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires Of The City | XL |
| 2 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 3 She & Him | Volume 3 | Merge |
| 4 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 5 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 6 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 7 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 8 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 9 Yo La Tengo | Fade | Matador |
| 10 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Downtown |
| 11 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 12 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 13 Youth Lagoon | Wondrous Bughouse | Fat Possum |
| 14 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 15 Iggy & the Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 16 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 17 Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 18 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 19 Guided By Voices | English Little League | GBV |
| 20 Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 21 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 22 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 23 A. Tom Collins | Stick & Poke | |
| 24 Shady Elders | No Favors [EP] | |
| 25 Alessi's Ark | The Still Life | Bella Union |
| 26 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 27 Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop |
| 28 Wavves | Afraid of Heights | Warner Brothers |
| 29 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 30 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
