| 1 Tame Impala | Lonerism | Modular |
| 2 Benjamin Gibbard | Former Lives | Barsuk |
| 3 Ty Segall | Twins | Drag City |
| 4 Mumford And Sons | Babel | Glassnote |
| 5 David Byrne & St. Vincent | Love This Giant | 4AD |
| 6 Dirty Projectors | About To Die | Domino |
| 7 Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Psychedelic Pill | Reprise |
| 8 Band of Horses | Mirage Rock | Columbia-Brown |
| 9 Babies | Our House On The Hill | Woodsist |
| 10 Guided By Voices | The Bears For Lunch | GBV Inc. |
| 11 Pinback | Information Retrieved | Temporary Residence |
| 12 Helio Sequence | Negotiations | Sub Pop |
| 13 Esme Patterson | All Princes, I | |
| 14 The XX | Coexist | XL |
| 15 Tilly and The Wall | Heavy Mood | Team Love |
| 16 A.C. Newman | Shut Down The Streets | Matador |
| 17 Slam Dunk | Welcome To Miami | File Under: Music |
| 18 Woods | Bend Beyond | Woodsist |
| 19 Mac Demarco | 2 | Captured Tracks |
| 20 New Beard | New Beard City | Shoulder Tap |
| 21 ZZ Ward | Til The Casket Drops | Boardwalk |
| 22 Cody Chesnutt | Landing On A Hundred | Vibration Vinyard |
| 23 Bob Dylan | Tempest | Columbia |
| 24 Paul Banks | Banks | Matador |
| 25 Bat For Lashes | The Haunted Man | EMI |
| 26 Beth Orton | Sugaring Season | Anti |
| 27 Dana Falconberry | Leelanau | Antenna Farm |
| 28 Avett Brothers | The Carpenter | Universal |
| 29 Evens | The Odds | Dischord |
| 30 Sufjan Stevens | Silver and Gold | Asthmatic Kitty |
