| 1 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 2 Gregory Alan Isakov | The Weatherman | |
| 3 Steve Earle | The Low Highway | New West |
| 4 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 6 Queens of the Stone Age | Like Clockwork | Matador |
| 7 National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 8 Iron & Wine | Ghost on Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 9 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 10 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 11 Shannon & The Clams | Dreams in the Rat House | Hardly Art |
| 12 Sigur Ros | Kveikur | XL |
| 13 Iggy and the Stooges | Ready to Die | Fat Possum |
| 14 Divine Fits | "Chained To Love" [Single] | Merge |
| 15 Mavis Staples | One True Love | Anit |
| 16 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 17 Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Columbia |
| 18 Colfax Speed Queen | Satisfaction Intended | |
| 19 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 20 Light Heat | Light Heat | Domino-Ribbon |
| 21 Lorde | The Love Club [EP] | Republic-Lava |
| 22 Portugal The Man | Evil Friends | Atlantic |
| 23 Mudhoney | Vanishing Point | Sub Pop |
| 24 Surfer Blood | Pythons | Warner Brothers |
| 25 Baptist Generals | Jackleg Devotional to the Heart | Sub Pop |
| 26 Tullycraft | Lost in Light | Rotation Magic |
| 27 Big Deal | June Gloom | Mute |
| 28 CSS | Planta | SQE |
| 29 Yellowbirds | Song From the Vanished Frontier | Royal Potato Family |
| 30 Hooded Fang | Gravez | Full Time Hobby |
