| 1 She & Him | Volume 3 | Merge |
| 2 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 3 Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 4 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 5 Iron & Wine | Ghost On Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 6 Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 7 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 8 Cold War Kids | Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Downtown |
| 9 Paper Bird | Rooms | |
| 10 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 11 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 12 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 13 Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 14 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 15 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 16 Iggy And The Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 17 Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 18 Wild Belle | Isles | Columbia |
| 19 Alessi's Ark | The Still Life | Bella Union |
| 20 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 21 Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 22 Cayucas | Bigfoot | Secretly Canadian |
| 23 Jake Bugg | Two Fingers [EP] | Island |
| 24 Mudhoney | Vanshing Point | Sub Pop |
| 25 Flaming Lips | The Terror | Warner Brothers |
| 26 Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop |
| 27 Youth Lagoon | Wondrous Bughouse | Fat Possum |
| 28 John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 29 Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 30 Heidi Happy | Oh The Hills | Silent Mode |
