| Rank | Artist | Album | Buy |
|---|
| 1 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | The Heist |  |
| 2 | Alt-J | An Awesome Wave |  |
| 3 | Beach House | Bloom |  |
| 4 | Tame Impala | Lonerism |  |
| 5 | Alabama Shakes | Boys and Girls |  |
| 6 | Grizzly Bear | Shields |  |
| 7 | Lumineers, The | The Lumineers |  |
| 8 | Father John Misty | Fear Fun |  |
| 9 | Grimes | Visions |  |
| 10 | Of Monsters And Men | My Head Is An Animal |  |
| 11 | Jack White | Blunderbuss |  |
| 12 | First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar |  |
| 13 | The xx | Coexist |  |
| 14 | Japandroids | Celebration Rock |  |
| 15 | Cat Power | Sun |  |
| 16 | Django Django | Django Django |  |
| 17 | The Shins | Port of Morrow |  |
| 18 | Passion Pit | Gossamer |  |
| 19 | The Tallest Man on Earth | There's No Leaving Now |  |
| 20 | Purity Ring | Shrines |  |
| 21 | Frank Ocean | channel ORANGE |  |
| 22 | Sharon Van Etten | Tramp |  |
| 23 | The Helio Sequence | Negotiations |  |
| 24 | Divine Fits | A Thing Called Divine Fits |  |
| 25 | David Byrne & St. Vincent | Love This Giant |  |
| 26 | Dirty Projectors | Swing Lo Magellan |  |
| 27 | Sigur Ros | Valtari |  |
| 28 | Yeasayer | Fragrant World |  |
| 29 | Damien Jurado | Maraqopa |  |
| 30 | Shovels & Rope | O Be Joyful |  |
| 31 | THEESatisfaction | awE naturalE |  |
| 32 | Mumford & Sons | Babel |  |
| 33 | Dinosaur Jr. | I Bet On Sky |  |
| 34 | Lord Huron | Lonesome Dreams |  |
| 35 | Chromatics | Kill for Love |  |
| 36 | Santigold | Master of My Make-Believe |  |
| 37 | Sera Cahoone | Deer Creek Canyon |  |
| 38 | Hot Chip | In Our Heads |  |
| 39 | Cloud Nothings | Attack on Memory |  |
| 40 | Bob Mould | Silver Age |  |
| 41 | Bat for Lashes | The Haunted Man |  |
| 42 | Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel... |  |
| 43 | Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself |  |
| 44 | Crystal Castles | III |  |
| 45 | The Walkmen | Heaven |  |
| 46 | Best Coast | The Only Place |  |
| 47 | The Avett Brothers | The Carpenter |  |
| 48 | Deep Sea Diver | History Speaks |  |
| 49 | Lemolo | The Kaleidoscope |  |
| 50 | Sleigh Bells | Reign of Terror |  |
| 51 | Twin Shadow | Confess |  |
| 52 | Dum Dum Girls | End of Daze |  |
| 53 | Band Of Horses | Mirage Rock |  |
| 54 | Firewater | International Orange! |  |
| 55 | Wild Nothing | Nocturne |  |
| 56 | Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Here |  |
| 57 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d city |  |
| 58 | Shearwater | Animal Joy |  |
| 59 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Psychedelic Pill |  |
| 60 | Nada Surf | The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy |  |
| 61 | Mark Lanegan | Blues Funeral |  |
| 62 | Animal Collective | Centipede Hz |  |
| 63 | Dr. Dog | Be the Void |  |
| 64 | Metric | Synthetica |  |
| 65 | Polica | Give You the Ghost |  |
| 66 | Spiritualized | Sweet Heart, Sweet Light |  |
| 67 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |  |
| 68 | Miike Snow | Happy to You |  |
| 69 | Calexico | Algiers |  |
| 70 | The Maldives | Muscle for the Wing |  |
| 71 | Mountain Goats | Transcendental Youth |  |
| 72 | Benjamin Gibbard | Former Lives |  |
| 73 | Flying Lotus | Until the Quiet Comes |  |
| 74 | Bob Dylan | Tempest |  |
| 75 | Pinback | Information Retrieved |  |
| 76 | The Raveonettes | Observator |  |
| 77 | Dr. John | Locked Down |  |
| 78 | Thee Oh Sees | Putrifiers II |  |
| 79 | METZ | METZ |  |
| 80 | Tanlines | Mixed Emotions |  |
| 81 | Lana Del Rey | Born to Die |  |
| 82 | Beat Connection | Palace Garden |  |
| 83 | Stars | The North |  |
| 84 | The Young Evils | Foreign Spells |  |
| 85 | Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas |  |
| 86 | Moon Duo | Circles |  |
| 87 | The Decemberists | We All Raise Our Voices to the Air |  |
| 88 | The Antlers | Undersea |  |
| 89 | Yppah | Eighty One |  |
| 90 | Swans | The Seer |  |
| 91 | Segall, Ty | Twins |  |
| 92 | Silversun Pickups | Neck of the Woods |  |
| 93 | Porcelain Raft | Strange Weekend |  |
| 94 | Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea |  |
| 95 | Kishi Bashi | 151a |  |
| 96 | Menomena | Moms |  |
| 97 | Shabazz Palaces | Live at KEXP 12" |  |
| 98 | Titus Andronicus | Local Business |  |
| 99 | Lower Dens | Nootropics |  |
| 100 | School of Seven Bells | Ghostory |  |
| 101 | Ty Segall Band | Slaughterhouse |  |
| 102 | King Tuff | King Tuff |  |
| 103 | Bruce Springsteen | Wrecking Ball |  |
| 104 | Gary Clark, Jr. | Blak and Blu |  |
| 105 | Regina Spektor | What We Saw From the Cheap Seats |  |
| 106 | Perfume Genius | Put Your Back N 2 It |  |
| 107 | Frightened Rabbit | State Hospital EP |  |
| 108 | St. Paul de Vence | St. Paul de Vence |  |
| 109 | Tennis | Young & Old |  |
| 110 | Soundgarden | King Animal |  |
| 111 | Absolute Monarchs | - 1 - |  |
| 112 | Yellow Ostrich | Strange Land |  |
| 113 | M Ward | A Wasteland Companion |  |
| 114 | Patti Smith | Banga |  |
| 115 | John Talabot | Fin |  |
| 116 | Erik Blood | Touch Screens |  |
| 117 | Reptar | Body Faucet |  |
| 118 | Justin Townes Earle | Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me |  |
| 119 | JD McPherson | Signs & Signifiers |  |
| 120 | DIIV | Oshin |  |