|
Rank
|
Artist
|
Album
|
Label
|
|---|
| 1.
|  Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | Warp |
| 2.
| Wilco | (the album) | Nonesuch |
| 3.
| The Dead Weather | Horehound | Third Man/Warner Bros. |
| 4.
| Rubik | Dada Bandits | Paper Tiger AV/Fullsteam |
| 5.
| Dyme Def | EP-1: Panic | 800LB. |
| 6.
| Discovery | LP | XL |
| 7.
| Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | Domino |
| 8.
| Dinosaur Jr. | Farm | Jagjaguwar |
| 9.
| Fresh Espresso | Glamour | Out For Stardom |
| 10.
| Sonic Youth | The Eternal | Matador |
| 11.
| We Were Promised Jetpacks | These Four Walls | Fatcat |
| 12.
| Future of the Left | Travels With Myself and Another | 4AD |
| 13.
| Mos Def | The Ecstatic | Downtown |
| 14.
| Japandroids | Post-Nothing | Unfamiliar |
| 15.
| Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer | Jagjaguwar |
| 16.
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Glassnote |
| 17.
| Major Lazer | Guns Don't Kill People… Lazers Do | Downtown |
| 18.
| Delorean | Ayrton Senna EP | Fool House |
| 19.
| Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara | Tell No Lies | Real World |
| 20.
| Capsula | Rising Mountains | BCore |
| 21.
| Miike Snow | Miike Snow | Downtown |
| 22.
| Ceu | Vagarosa | Six Degrees |
| 23.
| The Nightgowns | Sing Something | Self-released |
| 24.
| Spoon | Got Nuffin | Merge |
| 25.
| Moby | Wait For Me | Mute/Little Idiot |
| 26.
| The Physics | High Society | Self-released |
| 27.
| Grynch | Chemistry EP | Self-released |
| 28.
| So Many Dynamos | The Loud Wars | Vagrant |
| 29.
| Bibio | Ambivalence Avenue | Warp |
| 30.
| Phantogram | EP | CD |
| 31.
| Throw Me the Statue | Creaturesque | Secretly Canadian |
| 32.
| Bomba Estereo | Blow Up | Nacional |
| 33.
| The SA-RA Creative Partners | Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love | Ubiquity |
| 34.
| Soft Black | The Earth Is Black | Plays With Dolls |
| 35.
| The Rural Alberta Advantage | Hometowns | Saddle Creek |
| 36.
| The Fiery Furnaces | I'm Going Away | Thrill Jockey |
| 37.
| Regina Spektor | Far | Sire |
| 38.
| Black Moth Super Rainbow | Eating Us | Graveface |
| 39.
| Deastro | Moondagger | Ghostly International |
| 40.
| The Legends | Over and Over | Labrador |
| 41.
| Eels | Hombre Lobo | Vagrant |
| 42.
| Tortoise | Beacons of Ancestorship | Thrill Jockey |
| 43.
| Passion Pit | Manners | Columbia |
| 44.
| Cats on Fire | Our Temperance Movement | Matinee |
| 45.
| Au Revoir Simone | Still Night, Still Light | Our Secret Record Company |
| 46.
| Nickodemus | Sun People | ESL |
| 47.
| Clark | Totems Flare | Warp |
| 48.
| The Maldives | Tequila/Someday EP | Mt. Fuji |
| 49.
| Final Spins | This Is Then/That Was Now | Self-released |
| 50.
| Maktub | Five | Kufala |
| 51.
| The Revelations featuring Tre Williams | Deep Soul | Decision |
| 52.
| Patterson Hood | Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) | Ruth St. |
| 53.
| Rancid | Let the Dominoes Fall | Epitaph |
| 54.
| Nino Moschella | Boom Shadow | Ubiquity |
| 55.
| Magnolia Electric Co. | Josephine | Secretly Canadian |
| 56.
| Nurses | Apple's Acre | Dead Oceans |
| 57.
| Foreign Born | Person to Person | Secretly Canadian |
| 58.
| Deerhunter | Rainwater Cassette Exchange | Kranky/4AD |
| 59.
| (Various) | Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary Volume 1 | B-Music |
| 60.
| The Heavy | Sixteen/No Time | Counter |
| 61.
| (Various) | PDX Pop Now! 2009 | PDX Pop Now! |
| 62.
| The Field | Yesterday and Today | Kompakt/Anti- |
| 63.
| St. Vincent | Actor | 4AD |
| 64.
| The Thermals | Now We Can See | Kill Rock Stars |
| 65.
| Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | Domino |
| 66.
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Slumberland |
| 67.
| Star Lake Drownings | Star Lake Drownings | Self-released |
| 68.
| Talbot Tagora | Lessons in the Woods or a City | Hardly Art |
| 69.
| Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers | Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers | Self-released |
| 70.
| Those Darlins | Those Darlins | Oh Wow Dang |
| 71.
| God Help the Girl | God Help the Girl | Matador |
| 72.
| Scott H. Biram | Something's Wrong/Lost Forever | Bloodshot |
| 73.
| Zwicker | Songs of Lucid Dreamers | Compost |
| 74.
| Deer Tick | Born On Flag Day | Partisan |
| 75.
| The Phenomenal Handclap Band | The Phenomenal Handclap Band | Friendly Fire |
| 76.
| Son Volt | American Central Dust | Rounder |
| 77.
| Magic Magic | Magic Magic | Self-released |
| 78.
| Chali 2na | Fish Outta Water | Decon |
| 79.
| Ha Ha Tonka | Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South | Bloodshot |
| 80.
| Viva Voce | Rose City | Barsuk |
| 81.
| The Juan MacLean | The Future Will Come | DFA |
| 82.
| Bill Callahan | Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | Drag City |
| 83.
| The Horrors | Primary Colours | XL |
| 84.
| Shane Tutmarc | Shouting at a Silent Sky | Inverness |
| 85.
| Khingz | From Slaveships to Spaceships | Self-released |
| 86.
| The Lonely H | Concrete Class | The Control Group |
| 87.
| Born Anchors | Sprezzatura | Steer Clear |
| 88.
| Young Fresh Fellows | I Think This Is | Yep Roc |
| 89.
| The Builders and the Butchers | Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well | Gigantic |
| 90.
| Levon Helm | Electric Dirt | Dirt Farmer/Vanguard |
