Rank Artist Album
1 Arcade Fire Reflektor
2 The National Trouble Will Find Me
3 Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
4 Daft Punk Random Access Memories
5 Chvrches The Bones of What You Believe
6 Phosphorescent Muchacho
7 Arctic Monkeys AM
8 Foals Holy Fire
9 Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
10 Portugal. The Man Evil Friends
11 Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
12 Kurt Vile Wakin On a Pretty Daze
13 The Head and The Heart Let's Be Still
14 HAIM Days Are Gone
15 Lorde Pure Heroine
16 Daughter If You Leave
17 Jagwar Ma Howlin
18 Pickwick Can't Talk Medicine
19 Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt
20 Savages Silence Yourself
21 Parquet Courts Light Up Gold
22 Kanye West Yeezus
23 Atoms for Peace Amok
24 Volcano Choir Repave
25 Disclosure Settle
26 David Bowie The Next Day
27 Sigur Ros Kveikur
28 Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
29 Local Natives Hummingbird
30 Washed Out Paracosm
31 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away
32 My Bloody Valentine mbv
33 Yo La Tengo Fade
34 Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
35 Lucius Wildewoman
36 Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
37 Frightened Rabbit Pedestrial Verse
38 James Blake Overgrown
39 Phoenix Bankrupt!
40 Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks
41 Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
42 La Luz It's Alive
43 Darkside Pychic
44 Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day
45 Bill Callahan Dream River
46 Deerhunter Monomania
47 London Grammar If You Wait
48 Typhoon White Lighter
49 Deltron 3030 Event 2
50 Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest
51 Wavves Afraid of Heights
52 Jason Isbell Southeaster
53 Telekinesis Dormarion
54 Bonobo The North Borders
55 Junip Junip
56 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
57 M.I.A. Matangi
58 Phantogram Phantogram EP
59 The Moondoggies Adios, I'm a Ghost
60 Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin
61 The Veils Time Stays, We Go
62 Unknown Mortal Orchestra II
63 Mikal Cronin MCii
64 Sean Nelson Make Good Choices
65 Polica Shulamith
66 The Black Angels Indigo Meadow
67 Best Coast Fade Away
68 Haerts Hemiplegia
69 Elvis Costello and the Roots Wise Up Ghost
70 Iron and Wine Ghost on Ghost
71 Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle
72 Superchunk I Hate Music
73 Toro Y Moi Anything in Return
74 Cut Copy Free Your Mind
75 Moby Innocents
76 Jake Bugg Jake Bugg
77 The Ocean Blue Ultramarine
78 Cloud Control Dream Cave
79 MS MR Secondhand Rapture
80 Youth Lagoon Wonderous Bughouse
81 Hey Marseilles Lines We Trace
82 Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just a Dream
83 Moderat II
84 Palma Violets 180
85 The Flaming Lips The Terror
86 The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law
87 Wooden Shjips Back To Land
88 Los Campesinos! No Blues
89 Rhye Woman
90 Shelby Earl Swift Arrows
91 The Cave Singers Naomi
