|
Rank
|
Artist
|
Album
|
Label
|
|---|
| 1.
|  (Various) | Live at KEXP Volume Six | KEXP |
| 2.
| Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest | 4AD |
| 3.
| Charles Bradley | No Time For Dreaming | Daptone |
| 4.
| The Parting Gifts | Stychnine Dandelion | In the Red |
| 5.
| Surf City | Kudos | Fire |
| 6.
| Girls | Broken Dreams Club EP | True Panther Sounds/Matador |
| 7.
| Sun Airway | Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier | Dead Oceans |
| 8.
| Tamaryn | The Waves | Mexican Summer |
| 9.
| The Fresh & Onlys | Play It Strange | In the Red |
| 10.
| No Joy | Ghost Blonde | Mexican Summer |
| 11.
| The Young Evils | Enchanted Chapel | Self-released |
| 12.
| Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 13.
| Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Def Jam |
| 14.
| Weekend | Sports | Slumberland |
| 15.
| Glasser | Ring | True Panther |
| 16.
| LCD Soundsystem | London Sessions | DFA |
| 17.
| Houses | All Night | Lefse |
| 18.
| Cee Lo Green | The Lady Killer | Elektra |
| 19.
| Dark Party | Light Years | Old Tacoma |
| 20.
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow | Autumn, Again | Self-released |
| 21.
| Belle and Sebastian | Write About Love | Matador |
| 22.
| Tame Impala | InnerSpeaker | Modular |
| 23.
| Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground | Introducing Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground | Bombs Over Bellevue |
| 24.
| THEESatisfaction | Transitions | Self-released |
| 25.
| The Head and the Heart | The Head and the Heart | Self-released |
| 26.
| Das Racist | Sit Down, Man | Mad Decent/Greedhead/Mishka |
| 27.
| The Greenhornes | **** | Third Man |
| 28.
| How to Dress Well | Love Remains | Lefse |
| 29.
| The Black Angels | Phosphene Dream | Blue Horizon |
| 30.
| Mad Rad | The Youth Die Young | Out For Stardom |
| 31.
| Velella Velella | Atlantis Massif | Self-released |
| 32.
| Sports | Sports | Self-released |
| 33.
| Kisses | The Heart of the Nightlife | This Is Music |
| 34.
| Wild Wild Geese | Sorry, Earth | Odessa |
| 35.
| Diamond Rings | Special Affections | Secret City |
| 36.
| Belleruche | 270 Stories | Tru Thoughts |
| 37.
| The High Dials | Anthems For Doomed Youth | Rainbow Quartz |
| 38.
| Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 | Northern Aggression | Yep Roc |
| 39.
| Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | Merge |
| 40.
| Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts | Risk | Burning Building |
| 41.
| See Me River | Where Did We Go Wrong | Aviation/Don't Stop Believin' |
| 42.
| Warpaint | The Fool | Rough Trade |
| 43.
| Salem | King Night | IAMSOUND |
| 44.
| Eux Autres | Broken Bow | Bon Mots |
| 45.
| Hollerado | Record in a Bag | Royal Mountain |
| 46.
| Shit Robot | From the Cradle to the Rave | DFA |
| 47.
| Afrocubism | Afrocubism | World Circuit/Nonesuch |
| 48.
| Phil Wilson | God Bless Jim Kennedy | Slumberland |
| 49.
| Small Black | New Chain | Jagjaguwar |
| 50.
| The Drums | The Drums | Downtown |
| 51.
| Stag | These Times Are Made For All Of Us | Self-released |
| 52.
| Beat Connection | Surf Noir EP | Self-released |
| 53.
| Sun City Girls | Funeral Mariachi | Abduction |
| 54.
| Head Like A Kite | Dreams Suspend Night | Roll Call |
| 55.
| Cloud Nothings | Turning On | Carpark |
| 56.
| Gold Panda | Lucky Shiner | Ghostly |
| 57.
| P.S. I Love You | Meet Me at the Muster Station | Paper Bag |
| 58.
| Buddy Guy | Living Proof | Silvertone/Jive |
| 59.
| Sub Swara | Triggers | Low Motion |
| 60.
| Bob Dylan | The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9) | Columbia/Legacy |
| 61.
| Chad Valley | EP | Cascine |
| 62.
| (Various) | Tradi-Mods vs Rockers | Crammed Discs |
| 63.
| Games | That We Can Play | Hippos in Tanks |
| 64.
| Tristeza | Paisajes | Sanity Muffin |
| 65.
| Chico Mann | Analog Drift | Wax Poetics |
| 66.
| The Sails | A Headful of Stars | Rainbow Quartz |
| 67.
| El Ten Eleven | It's Still Like A Secret | Fake Record Label |
| 68.
| Olof Arnalds | Innundir Skinni | One Little Indian |
| 69.
| Suuns | Zeroes QC | Secretly Canadian |
| 70.
| No Age | Everything In Between | Sub Pop |
| 71.
| The Walkmen | Lisbon | Fat Possum |
| 72.
| Best Coast | Crazy For You | Mexican Summer |
| 73.
| Solvents | Forgive Yr. Blood | Bee Resin |
| 74.
| Joseph Giant | Joseph Giant | Self-released |
| 75.
| Macklemore x Ryan Lewis | The Vs. Re-Release | Self-released |
| 76.
| Wesafari | Sea Survivors | Self-released |
| 77.
| The Moondoggies | Tidelands | Hardly Art |
| 78.
| The Russian Futurists | The Weight's on the Wheels | Upper Class |
| 79.
| Giant Sand | Blurry Blue Mountain | Fire |
| 80.
| Tyvek | Nothing Fits | In the Red |
| 81.
| Sleepover | The Sun EP | Circuitree |
| 82.
| (Various) | The Reconstruction of Fives | n5MD |
| 83.
| Tony Cook | Back to Reality | Stones Throw |
| 84.
| British Sea Power | Zeus EP | Rough Trade |
| 85.
| Thunderball | 12 Mile High | ESL |
| 86.
| Maximum Balloon | Maximum Balloon | DGC |
| 87.
| Aloe Blacc | Good Things | Stones Throw |
| 88.
| Junip | Fields | Mute |
| 89.
| Two Cow Garage | Sweet Saint Me | Suburban Home |
| 90.
| Kelley Stoltz | To Dreamers | Sub Pop |
