|
Rank
|
Artist
|
Album
|
Label
|
|---|
| 1.
|  Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 2.
| Savages | Silence Yourself | Matador |
| 3.
| Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 4.
| Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 5.
| Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 6.
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 7.
| Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 8.
| Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 9.
| !!! | Thr!!!er | Warp |
| 10.
| Small Black | Limites of Desire | Jagjaguwar |
| 11.
| Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 12.
| Alice Russel | To Dust | Tru Thoughts |
| 13.
| Major Lazer | Free the Universe | Secretly Canadian/Mad Decent |
| 14.
| Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin | Castle Face |
| 15.
| Daughter | If You Leave | Glassnote |
| 16.
| Wavves | Afraid of Heights | Rodeo/Mom+Pop/Warner Bros. |
| 17.
| Bleached | Ride Your Heart | Dead Oceans |
| 18.
| Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 19.
| Bonobo | The North Borders | Ninja Tune |
| 20.
| The Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 21.
| Caveman | Caveman | Fat Possum |
| 22.
| Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop |
| 23.
| The Cave Singers | Naomi | Jagjaguwar |
| 24.
| The Knife | Shaking The Habitual | Mute |
| 25.
| The Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 26.
| Classixx | Hanging Gardens | Innovative Leisure |
| 27.
| Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 28.
| James Blake | Overgrown | Republic |
| 29.
| Femi Kuti | No Place For My Dream | Knitting Factory |
| 30.
| DJ Koze | Amygdala | Pampa |
| 31.
| Steve Mason | Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time | Double Six |
| 32.
| John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 33.
| Tullycraft | Lost In Light Rotation | Magic Marker |
| 34.
| The So So Glos | Blowout | Shea Stadium |
| 35.
| Young Fathers | Tape Two | Anticon |
| 36.
| Shuggie Otis | Inspiration Information + Wings of Love | Epic/Legacy |
| 37.
| The Flaming Lips | The Terror | Warner Bros. |
| 38.
| Hanni El Khatib | Head In The Dirt | Innovative Leisure |
| 39.
| Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 40.
| IO Echo | Ministry Of Love | IAMSOUND |
| 41.
| AM & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique | Park The Van |
| 42.
| Iron and Wine | Ghost on Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 43.
| Cayucas | Bigfoot | Secretly Canadian |
| 44.
| Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | self-released |
| 45.
| The Child of Lov | The Child of Lov | Double Six |
| 46.
| Wolf People | Fain | Jagjaguwar |
| 47.
| (Various) | Sub Pop 1000 | Sub Pop |
| 48.
| Wax Idols | Discipline + Desire | Slumberland |
| 49.
| JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound | Howl | Bloodshot |
| 50.
| No Joy | Wait To Pleasure | Mexican Summer |
| 51.
| Foals | Holy Fire | Warner Bros. |
| 52.
| Mudhoney | Vanishing Point | Sub Pop |
| 53.
| IG88 | Breathing Suit | Nueva Forma |
| 54.
| Vondelpark | Seabed | R&S |
| 55.
| Footprintz | Escape Yourself | Visionquest |
| 56.
| Colleen Green | Sock It To Me | Hardly Art |
| 57.
| Merchandise | Totale Nite | Night-People |
| 58.
| Chico Mann | Magical Thinking | Soundway |
| 59.
| Beacon | The Ways We Separate | Ghostly |
| 60.
| Local Natives | Hummingbird | Frenchkiss |
| 61.
| Charles Bradley | Victim of Love | Daptone |
| 62.
| The Joy Formidable | Wolf's Law | Atlantic |
| 63.
| Atoms for Peace | Amok | XL |
| 64.
| Kinski | Cosy Moments | Kill Rock Stars |
| 65.
| Don't Talk To The Cops! | Champions Of Breakfast | self-released |
| 66.
| Jetman Jet Team | We Will Live The Space Age | Saint Marie |
| 67.
| The Kingsbury Manx | Bronze Age | Odessa |
| 68.
| Bombino | Nomad | Nonesuch |
| 69.
| Futurebirds | Baba Yaga | Fat Possum |
| 70.
| The Veils | Time Stays, We Go | Pitched Beast |
| 71.
| Lapalux | Nostalchic | Brainfeeder |
| 72.
| The London Suede | Bloodsports | Suede Limited/Fontana |
| 73.
| Frank Turner | Tape Deck Heart | Interscope |
| 74.
| The Replacements | Songs For Slim EP | New West |
| 75.
| La Yegros | Viene de Mi | ZZK |
| 76.
| Har Mar Superstar | Bye Bye 17 | Cult |
| 77.
| Born Ruffians | Birthmarks | Yep Roc |
| 78.
| Devandra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 79.
| Generationals | Heza | Polyvinyl |
| 80.
| Steve Earle & The Dukes (and Duchesses) | The Low Highway | New West |
| 81.
| Rilo Kiley | RKives | Little Record Company |
| 82.
| We Are Loud Whispers | Suchness | Hardly Art |
| 83.
| Parquet Courts | Light Up Gold | What's Your Rupture? |
| 84.
| Yo La Tengo | Fade | Matador |
| 85.
| Frightened Rabbit | Pedestrian Verse | Canvasback |
| 86.
| Chvrches | Recover | Glassnote |
| 87.
| The Postal Service | Give Up (Delux 10th Anniversary Edition) | Sub Pop |
| 88.
| BOAT | Pretend To Be Brave | Magic Marker |
| 89.
| Laura Stevenson | Wheel | Don Giovanni |
| 90.
| Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Jama Ko | Outhere |
