|
Rank
|
Artist
|
Album
|
Label
|
|---|
| 1.
| (Various) | Live at KEXP Volume Four | KEXP |
| 2.
| TV on the Radio | Dear Science | Interscope |
| 3.
| Jake One | White Van Music | Rhymesayers |
| 4.
| Bob Dylan | Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 | Columbia |
| 5.
| The Moondoggies | Don't be a Stranger | Hardly Art |
| 6.
| Common Market | Tobacco Road | Hyena |
| 7.
| The Vivian Girls | The Vivian Girls | In the Red |
| 8.
| Helms Alee | Night Terror | Hydra Head |
| 9.
| Friendly Fires | Friendly Fires | XL |
| 10.
| Point Juncture WA | Heart to Elk | Self-Released |
| 11.
| Deerhunter | Microcastle | Kranky |
| 12.
| Fujiya & Miyagi | Lightbulbs | Deaf Dumb + Blind |
| 13.
| All the Saints | Fire on Corridor X | Touch and Go |
| 14.
| Of Montreal | Skeletal Lamping | Polyvinyl |
| 15.
| The Walkmen | You & Me | Gigantic |
| 16.
| Stereolab | Chemical Chords | 4AD |
| 17.
| Kings of Leon | Only By the Night | RCA |
| 18.
| XX Teens | Welcome to Goon Island | Mute |
| 19.
| Mogwai | The Hawk is Howling | Matador |
| 20.
| Thievery Corporation | Radio Retaliation | Eighteenth Street Lounge |
| 21.
| Mercury Rev | Snowflake Midnight | Yep Roc |
| 22.
| El Guincho | Alegranza | XL |
| 23.
| Love Is All | A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night | What's Your Rapture? |
| 24.
| Zuco 103 | After the Carnaval | Six Degrees |
| 25.
| Larytta | Difficult Fun | Creaked |
| 26.
| The Sea and Cake | Car Alarm | Thrill Jockey |
| 27.
| Fort Knox Five | Radio Free DC | Fort Knox Recordings |
| 28.
| Johnny Foreigner | Waited Up Til It Was Light | Nettwerk |
| 29.
| Lykke Li | Youth Novels | Atlantic |
| 30.
| The Pica Beats | Beating Back the Claws of the Cold | Hardly Art |
| 31.
| Wallpaper | On the Chewing Gum Ground | K |
| 32.
| Fucked Up | The Chemistry of Common Life | Matador |
| 33.
| Jessica Lea Mayfield | With Blasphemy So Heartfelt | Polymer |
| 34.
| Curumin | Japan Pop Show | Vice |
| 35.
| Japanese Motors | Japanese Motors | Vice |
| 36.
| (Various) | You Don't Know | Ninja Tune |
| 37.
| Starfucker | Starfucker | Badman |
| 38.
| All Girl Summer Fun Band | Looking Into It | AGSFB |
| 39.
| The Clash | Live at Shea Stadium | Epic/ Legacy |
| 40.
| Tricky | Knowle West Boy | Domino |
| 41.
| Antony & the Johnsons | Another World | Secretly Canadian |
| 42.
| Jay Reatard | Matador Singles '08 | Matador |
| 43.
| See Me River | Time Machine | Don't Stop Believin'/Aviation |
| 44.
| The Mighty Underdogs | Droppin' Science Fiction | Definitive Jux |
| 45.
| Deerhoof | Offend Maggie | Kill Rock Stars |
| 46.
| Rapheal Saadiq | The Way I See It | Columbia |
| 47.
| Blitzen Trapper | Furr | Sub Pop |
| 48.
| High Places | High Places | Thrill Jockey |
| 49.
| Lady Dottie and the Diamonds | Lady Dottie and the Diamonds | Hi-Speed Soul |
| 50.
| The Rosebuds | Life Like | Merge |
| 51.
| Calexico | Carried to Dust | Quarterstick |
| 52.
| The High Decibels | HD | Rolling Jack |
| 53.
| Bomb the Bass | Future Chaos | !K7 |
| 54.
| Department of Eagles | In Ear Park | 4AD |
| 55.
| The Broken West | Now or Heaven | Merge |
| 56.
| Tobacco | Fucked Up Friends | Anticon |
| 57.
| Giant Sand | Provisions | Yep Roc |
| 58.
| These Arms Are Snakes | Tail Swallower and Dove | Suicide Squeeze |
| 59.
| Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | Sub Pop |
| 60.
| The Riffbrokers | Weight of Line and Intersection | Unsmashable |
| 61.
| Davila 666 | Davila 666 | In the Red |
| 62.
| The Gaslight Anthem | The '59 Sound | Side One Dummy |
| 63.
| Jenny Lewis | Acid Tongue | Warner Brothers |
| 64.
| Ten Kens | Ten Kens | Fatcat |
| 65.
| Dead Confederate | Wrecking Ball | TAO |
| 66.
| Okkervil River | The Stand Ins | Jagjaguwar |
| 67.
| These United States | Crimes | United Interests |
| 68.
| Juana Molina | Un Dia | Domino |
| 69.
| Crooked Fingers | Forfeit/ Fortune | Red Pig |
| 70.
| Nikka Costa | Pebble to a Pearl | Stax |
| 71.
| Passion Pit | Chunk of Change | Frenchkiss |
| 72.
| Alias | Resurgam | Anticon |
| 73.
| Cold War Kids | Loyalty to Loyalty | Downtown |
| 74.
| Santogold | Santogold | Downtown |
| 75.
| Brazilian Girls | New York City | Verve Forecast |
| 76.
| Cut Copy | In Ghost Colours | Modular |
| 77.
| The Dutchess and the Duke | She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke | Hardly Art |
| 78.
| TacocaT | Shame Spiral | Don't Stop Believin' |
| 79.
| Karl Blau | Nature's Got Away | K |
| 80.
| Man Plus | Remixed Songbook | Self-Released |
| 81.
| Conor Oberst | Conor Oberst | Merge |
| 82.
| Pete & the Pirates | Little Death | Stolen |
| 83.
| Jolie Holland | The Living and the Dead | Anti- |
| 84.
| Celestial | Crystal Heights | Music Is My Girlfriend |
| 85.
| Mavis Staples | Live: Hope at the Hideout | Anti- |
| 86.
| Boston Spaceships | Brown Submarine | Guided By Voices |
| 87.
| Monareta | Picotero | Nacional |
| 88.
| Catfish Haven | Devastator | Secretly Canadian |
| 89.
| Daniel Martin Moore | Stray Age | Sub Pop |
| 90.
| Terry Lynn | Kingstonlogic 2.0 | Last Gang |