| 1 Neko Case | The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You | Anti |
| 2 Bob Dylan | Another Portrait Series (1969-1971) | |
| 3 Polyphonic Spree | Yes, It's True | Kirtland |
| 4 Blue Rider | Blue Rider [EP] | |
| 5 Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros | Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros | Vagrant |
| 6 Deer Tick | Negativity | Partisan |
| 7 Artic Monkeys | AM | Domino |
| 8 MGMT | MGMT | Columbia |
| 9 Portugal. The Man | Evil Friends | Atlantic |
| 10 Okkervil River | The Silver Gymnasium | ATO |
| 11 King Khan and The Shrines | Idle No More | Merge |
| 12 Superchunk | I Hate Music | Merge |
| 13 Washed Out | Paracosm | Sub Pop |
| 14 Nathaniel Rateliff | Falling Faster Than You Can Run | |
| 15 Volcano Choir | Repave | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 Ginkgo | Manopause | Ibid |
| 17 Navy | Spirit Groove | |
| 18 J. Roddy Walston and the Business | Essential Tremors | ATO |
| 19 Varlet | American Hymns | |
| 20 Typhoon | White Lighter | Roll Call |
| 21 Saint Rich | Beyond The Drone | Merge |
| 22 Joanna Gruesome | Weird Sister | Slumberland |
| 23 Jackson and his Computer Band | Glow Warp | |
| 24 Crocodiles | Crimes Of Passion | Frenchkiss |
| 25 Black Joe Lewis | Electric Slave | Vagrant |
| 26 Smith Westerns | Soft Will | Mom and Pop |
| 27 Man Man | On Oni Pond | Anti |
| 28 Johnathan Rice | Good Graces | SQE |
| 29 Au Revoir Simone | Move In Spectrums | Instant |
| 30 Elephant Revival | These Changing Skies | Thirty Tigers |
