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| Rank |
 |
Artist |
|
Album |
|
Label |
|
| 1. |
|
 Surfer Blood |
|
Astro Coast |
|
Kanine |
|
| 2. |
|
Neon Indian |
|
Psychic Chasms |
|
Lefse |
|
| 3. |
|
The Big Pink |
|
A Brief History of Love |
|
4AD |
|
| 4. |
|
(Various) |
|
Live at KEXP Volume Five |
|
KEXP |
|
| 5. |
|
The xx |
|
xx |
|
Young Turks |
|
| 6. |
|
Girls |
|
Album |
|
Fantasy Trashcan/True Panther |
|
| 7. |
|
The Cave Singers |
|
Welcome Joy |
|
Matador |
|
| 8. |
|
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down |
|
Know Better Learn Faster |
|
Kill Rock Stars |
|
| 9. |
|
The Heavy |
|
The House That Dirt Built |
|
Counter |
|
| 10. |
|
Julian Casablancas |
|
Phrazes For the Young |
|
RCA |
|
| 11. |
|
Yo La Tengo |
|
Popular Songs |
|
Matador |
|
| 12. |
|
The Avett Brothers |
|
I and Love and You |
|
American |
|
| 13. |
|
Twilight Sad |
|
Forget the Night Ahead |
|
Fatcat |
|
| 14. |
|
The Flaming Lips |
|
Embryonic |
|
Warner Bros |
|
| 15. |
|
Atlas Sound |
|
Logos |
|
Kranky |
|
| 16. |
|
Lusine |
|
A Certain Distance |
|
Ghostly International |
|
| 17. |
|
Slender Means |
|
Adrf |
|
Self-released |
|
| 18. |
|
BOAT |
|
Setting the Paces |
|
Magic Marker |
|
| 19. |
|
Built to Spill |
|
There Is No Enemy |
|
Warner Bros |
|
| 20. |
|
The King Khan & BBQ Show |
|
Invisible Girl |
|
In the Red |
|
| 21. |
|
The Blakes |
|
Souvenir |
|
We Are OK |
|
| 22. |
|
Visqueen |
|
Message to Garcia |
|
Local 638 |
|
| 23. |
|
The Tripwires |
|
House to House |
|
Spark & Shine |
|
| 24. |
|
Fresh Espresso |
|
Glamour |
|
Out For Stardom |
|
| 25. |
|
Kurt Vile |
|
Childish Prodigy |
|
Matador |
|
| 26. |
|
Crayon Fields |
|
All the Pleasures of the World |
|
Chapter Music |
|
| 27. |
|
Brother Ali |
|
Us |
|
Rhymesayers |
|
| 28. |
|
Islands |
|
Vapours |
|
Anti- |
|
| 29. |
|
The Raveonettes |
|
In and Out of Control |
|
Vice |
|
| 30. |
|
(Soundtrack) |
|
New Moon |
|
Summit Ent/Chop Shop/Atlantic |
|
| 31. |
|
Keith Canisius |
|
Waves |
|
Quince |
|
| 32. |
|
The Dutchess & the Duke |
|
Sunset/Sunrise |
|
Hardly Art |
|
| 33. |
|
Virgin Islands |
|
The Age of Anxiety EP |
|
Mt. Fuji |
|
| 34. |
|
The Fucking Eagles |
|
Midnight Sour |
|
Gaptooth Jukebox |
|
| 35. |
|
Breakestra |
|
Dusk Till Dawn |
|
Strut |
|
| 36. |
|
The Clientele |
|
Bonfires on the Heath |
|
Merge |
|
| 37. |
|
Fungi Girls |
|
Seafaring Pyramids |
|
Play Pinball |
|
| 38. |
|
The Mary Onettes |
|
Islands |
|
Labrador |
|
| 39. |
|
Nirvana |
|
Bleach (Deluxe Edition) |
|
Sub Pop |
|
| 40. |
|
Betty Davis |
|
Is It Love Or Desire |
|
Light in the Attic |
|
| 41. |
|
A Place to Bury Strangers |
|
Exploding Head |
|
Mute |
|
| 42. |
|
The Drums |
|
Summertime! |
|
TwentySeven |
|
| 43. |
|
BK-One with Benzilla |
|
Radio Do Canibal |
|
Rhymesayers |
|
| 44. |
|
ZAZA |
|
Cameo |
|
Kanine |
|
| 45. |
|
Helladope |
|
Return to Planet Rock |
|
Self-released |
|
| 46. |
|
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir |
|
…and the horse you rode in on |
|
Bloodshot |
|
| 47. |
|
Tegan and Sara |
|
Sainthood |
|
Vapor/Sire |
|
| 48. |
|
Spider Bags |
|
Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World |
|
Birdman |
|
| 49. |
|
Vitalic |
|
Flashmob |
|
Different/PIAS |
|
| 50. |
|
Gospel Gossip |
|
Dreamland |
|
Guilt Ridden Pop |
|
| 51. |
|
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard |
|
One Fast Move or I'm Gone |
|
F-Stop/Atlantic |
|
| 52. |
|
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
|
Higher Than the Stars |
|
Slumberland |
|
| 53. |
|
Califone |
|
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers |
|
Dead Oceans |
|
| 54. |
|
The Gift of Gab |
|
Escape 2 Mars |
|
Cornerstone RAS |
|
| 55. |
|
Bassnectar |
|
Cozza Frenzy |
|
Amorphous Music/Child's Play |
|
| 56. |
|
Florence and the Machine |
|
Lungs |
|
Island |
|
| 57. |
|
Grayskul |
|
GrayMaker |
|
Taxidermy |
|
| 58. |
|
Black Whales |
|
Origins |
|
Mt. Fuji |
|
| 59. |
|
Alec Ounsworth |
|
Mo Beauty |
|
Anti- |
|
| 60. |
|
Brilliant Colors |
|
Introducing Brilliant Colors |
|
Slumberland |
|
| 61. |
|
Soulico |
|
Exotic on the Speaker |
|
Jdub |
|
| 62. |
|
Monsters of Folk |
|
Monsters of Folk |
|
Shangri-La |
|
| 63. |
|
Simian Mobile Disco |
|
Temporary Pleasure |
|
Wichita |
|
| 64. |
|
Diamond District |
|
In the Ruff |
|
Mello Music Group/Oddisee Music |
|
| 65. |
|
Fuck Buttons |
|
Tarot Sport |
|
ATP / R |
|
| 66. |
|
Devendra Banhart |
|
What Will We Be |
|
Warner Bros |
|
| 67. |
|
Espers |
|
III |
|
Drag City |
|
| 68. |
|
Betsy Olson |
|
Lonely Woman Blues |
|
Self-released |
|
| 69. |
|
Pufferfish |
|
Swell |
|
Self-released |
|
| 70. |
|
Spiral Stairs |
|
The Real Feel |
|
Matador |
|
| 71. |
|
Dopkwe |
|
Dopkwe |
|
Self-released |
|
| 72. |
|
Turbo Fruits |
|
Echo Kid |
|
Fat Possum |
|
| 73. |
|
Mason Jennings |
|
Blood of Man |
|
Brushfire |
|
| 74. |
|
Vivian Girls |
|
Everything Goes Wrong |
|
In the Red |
|
| 75. |
|
Port O'Brien |
|
Threadbare |
|
tbd |
|
| 76. |
|
Mission of Burma |
|
The Sound The Speed The Light |
|
Matador |
|
| 77. |
|
Annie |
|
Don't Stop |
|
Smalltown Supersound |
|
| 78. |
|
Wax Tailor |
|
In the Mood for Life |
|
Le Plan |
|
| 79. |
|
No Age |
|
Losing Feeling |
|
Sub Pop |
|
| 80. |
|
The Ettes |
|
Do You Want Power |
|
Take Root |
|
| 81. |
|
Boston Spaceships |
|
Zero to 99 |
|
Guided By Voices Inc. |
|
| 82. |
|
The Ghost Is Dancing |
|
Battles On |
|
Sonic Unyon |
|
| 83. |
|
Who Knew |
|
Bits and Pieces of a Major Spectacle |
|
Self-released |
|
| 84. |
|
Forro in the Dark |
|
Light a Candle |
|
Nublu/National Geographic |
|
| 85. |
|
Thomas Function |
|
In the Valley of Sickness |
|
Fat Possum |
|
| 86. |
|
Etienne Jaumet |
|
Night Music |
|
Domino |
|
| 87. |
|
Kings of Convenience |
|
Declaration of Dependence |
|
Astralwerks |
|
| 88. |
|
Danny Barnes |
|
Pizza Box |
|
ATO |
|
| 89. |
|
Spanish for 100 |
|
Jezebel |
|
Self-released |
|
| 90. |
|
Big Spider's Back |
|
Warped EP |
|
Disco Earth/Circle Into Square |
|
