| Rank | Artist | Record | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LA LUZ | La Luz | Hardly Art |
| 2 | JORDANA AND TV GIRL | Summer's Over [EP] | Grand Jury |
| 3 | LALA LALA | I Want The Door To Open | Hardly Art |
| 4 | WAR ON DRUGS, THE | I Don't Live Here Anymore | Atlantic |
| 5 | SPOON | "The Hardest Cut" [Single] | Matador |
| 6 | ANGEL DUST | YAK: A Collection Of Truck Songs | Roadrunner |
| 7 | TECHNICOLORS | Cinema Sublimina | OneRPM |
| 8 | GENERATIONALS | ILEANA [EP] | Polyvinyl |
| 9 | MUNYA | Voyage To Mars | Luminelle |
| 10 | SEA OF LETTUCE | Sun/Moon [EP] | Self-Released |
| 11 | GOODBYE HONOLULU | Goodbye Honolulu | Stray Dog |
| 12 | GOLD AND YOUTH | Dream Baby | Paper Bag |
| 13 | PRETTY EMBERS | Under | Self-Released |
| 14 | PINKPANTHERESS | To Hell With It | Parlophone |
| 15 | ILLUMINATI HOTTIES | Let Me Do One More | Snack Shack Tracks/Hopeless |
| 16 | TOGETHER PANGEA | DYE | Nettwerk |
| 17 | MY MORNING JACKET | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 18 | AMERICAN SIGH | Honor System | Self-Released |
| 19 | PARROTS, THE | Dos | Heavenly/PIAS |
| 20 | NAYTRONIX | Other Possibilities | OAR |
| 21 | GOWNS | Revelations | Self-Released |
| 22 | ROYEL OTIS | Campus [EP] | House Anxiety/Ourness |
| 23 | JULIA SHAPIRO | Zorked | Suicide Squeeze |
| 24 | NATION OF LANGUAGE | A Way Forward | Play It Again Sam |
| 25 | SITCOM | Smoothie | Terrible |
| 26 | HOVVDY | True Love | Grand Jury |
| 27 | CONVENIENCE, THE | Accelerator | Winspear |
| 28 | MEDIOCRE | Microdose Singles | Dangerbird |
| 29 | SMALLPOOLS | Life In A Simulation | OneRPM |
| 30 | WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE, THE | Illusory Walls | Epitaph |
| Rank | Artist | Record | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RICHARD OROFINO | Chimaera [EP] | Downtown |
| 2 | EMPATH | "Diamond Eyelids" [Single] | Fat Possum |
| 3 | WHY BONNIE | "Galveston" [Single] | Fat Possum |
| 4 | DAKOTA THEIM | Tangled Heart | Self-Released |
| 5 | EKKSTACY | Negative | UnitedMasters |
| 6 | KILLS BIRDS | "Glisten" b/w "Rabbit" [Single] | KRO |
| 7 | ANDREW ST JAMES | Light After Darkness | War Chant/Peaches |
| 8 | LOUIE SHORT | OMW 4EV | 444% |
| 9 | PAPERCUTS | Baxter's Bliss [EP] | Psychic Friends |
| 10 | SIV DISA | Dreamhouse | Trapped Animal |
